Slashdot Mirror

The flaw was exposed in February 2011 by an undercover TSA agent. He tested a known, unpatched, exploit.

Here's more links to stories.

    They've done the right thing by carrying this story.

    On my site, http://freeinternetpress.com/ , we've redirected our home page and every article to our SOPA page http://freeinternetpress.com/sopa.php.

    It's up to the owners of each site to make their own decisions on how to support it. It could be a simple warning. Google chose to censor their logo and link to an information page. We chose to replace the site with a warning, and are carrying stories and links related to SOPA. Some may consider us "not blacked out", but as we've censored almost 9 years worth of articles, we are "blacked out".

    Many sites need to support their users, and can't simply shut down. Unfortunately, if SOPA does become law, their users will find out the hard way that the blackout can become a reality.

    They've done the right thing by carrying this story.

    On my site, http://freeinternetpress.com/ , we've redirected our home page and every article to our SOPA page http://freeinternetpress.com/sopa.php.

    It's up to the owners of each site to make their own decisions on how to support it. It could be a simple warning. Google chose to censor their logo and link to an information page. We chose to replace the site with a warning, and are carrying stories and links related to SOPA. Some may consider us "not blacked out", but as we've censored almost 9 years worth of articles, we are "blacked out".

    Many sites need to support their users, and can't simply shut down. Unfortunately, if SOPA does become law, their users will find out the hard way that the blackout can become a reality.

    Look over their site carefully, or contact them.

    I couldn't find the really really slim version of Slashdot, so I asked Cmdr Taco... he replied with...

for palm pilots and very simple browsers:

http://slashdot.org/palm

for people on slow net connections

http://slashdot.org/index.pl?lowbandwidth=1

for people who desire a more minimal UI

http://slashdot.org/index.pl?simpledesign=1

for people who want both

http://slashdot.org/index.pl?simpledesign=1&lowbandwidth=1

An awful lot of people use the m. subdomain. For example http://www.weatherunderground.com has http://m.wund.com/.

I made http://m.freeinternetpress.com for my mobile users (namely me). It's great for WML enabled browsers. I haven't really used it in a while, since I have my android now. The full size page loads fine on it, and the users haven't asked for a light version. I suspect if the page is too heavy, they go for the RSS feeds, since they contain the same content.

    You're right. And he's demonstrated that he *can* remember the password, as he uses it every time there is a power loss.

    Your mention of legal representation is absolutely correct. I tell people to watch this video, so they will understand why saying anything is a bad thing, until your legal counsel is there to assist you.

    Even a question as simple as this is dangerous to answer.

    Them: [pointing to a computer on a table] "Is that your computer?"
    You: [looking at the computer and realizing it looks like yours] "yes".

    My computer is pretty unique. It has a stylized case, a better heatsink visible through the side, etc. Is that *my* computer? I can't answer that. It could be my computer. It could be my computer that someone replaced the hard drive in. It could be another computer that looks just like it picked up while busting a pedophile and child pornographer, and accidentally swapped in the evidence locker. I'm not going to prison for what someone else did, based on the evidence that I affirmed it to be my computer. In another room of my house, I have enough pieces to build an almost identical computer. I also have hard drives from various sources. One company was throwing out a box full of drives. I took them, tested them, and half were still working. Those particular drives were then formatted, and the working ones sold on eBay. There are others floating around my house, from computers I upgraded for people. Do I believe the people who I've upgraded their equipment wouldn't do bad things? Probably. Do I know 100% positively? No. Could they have assumed I dismantled a computer I was doing bad things with, so they "reassembled" it, and found the bad things? Possibly.

    The burden of proof is on the state (police, states attorney, etc). Is it my computer? Prove that it is or isn't. Prove that the data on the drive is mine. Prove that it hasn't been tampered with since I last had control over it. Prove that I put whatever they found on it, and that *I* had knowledge of it. Maybe anything they found was placed by malware. Demanding that proof isn't my responsibility. My attorney will use those and more to prove my innocence. Providing them with *any* evidence can ruin you, regardless if you are innocent or guilty. You can be compelled to provide evidence. Your attorney will advise you when to open your mouth.

    If the cops raided your house, and you had 10 kilos of heroin on the table in front of you, the right answer is still "I have nothing to say without my attorney present.", and when he's there, he will tell you to STFU. It's the difference between "We found 10 kilos of heroin in his residence" and "he confessed to possessing 10 kilos of heroin". ... and for those wondering, no I don't have illegal drugs, data, or anything else that would make me an interesting target for a raid. The only thing interesting are my phone calls, and it's only because most of my phone conversations end up sounding like a strange mix of George Carlin, Jon Stewart, and Penn Jillette.

Check the memo on the FBI site.

    Mr. [redacted] informant was an investigator for the USAF. Not just some random civilian, or someone who thought they knew something.

    There would have been no further investigation necessary, as the USAF was already investigating, and any further investigation would be done by them, and any information necessary would be reported back to the FBI.

    Pretty much, another agency had control and jurisdiction on the case, and possession of all materials relating to the case. There was nothing for the FBI to do. What were their options? Demand access to now (as of the minute the military touched it) classified materials? Good luck there. I'm surprised the FBI was provided with as much detail as they were given.

    If that were to happen today, it may be something more like "We found something, and are investigating." Or as was provided to the public "Nothing to see here. Just a weather balloon. Move on." Use tthe official USAF aircraft identification chart for identifying unknown flying objects.

You do see the problem with that, right?

    There are quite likely pictures of you on the Internet somewhere. If I knew you, I could try to associate a few friends that I'm confident that you know. Continuing, those friends would seem to be enough to verify your identity.

    The "real" friends could be another matter all together. Just because you've spoofed one target, why can't you spoof an entire cadre of spoofed profiles. With enough "friends", the spoof profile may seen more legitimate than the real profile (if it exists).

    Unfortunately, there isn't a good or right solution to this. They could require emailed or faxed copies of your identification (drivers license, passport, etc). Doctoring up identity papers isn't very hard, especially where the examiner won't have physical access to the original. Have a look at my United States Passport.

    Needless to say, it's not my real passport. It did start out as the real one, which I then modified carefully. Under close examination, you would notice the lamination coming up on edges. In reality, the lamination isn't perfect because I carried that all around the world in my pocket. Under practical examination, you'll realize the photo and details probably aren't mine. :)

    So where do you go from there? Credit card validation sometimes works, except for the fact that you can buy a prepaid credit card with cash, and have it issued to almost any name you'd like.

    The only real solution would be an in-person interview and verification. That isn't foolproof though.

    So, we'll have to get over it. People lie. I would assume the secretary general of Interpol really wouldn't be lurking on Slashdot, and if he did, he wouldn't do it by title. And as others have mentioned, what kind of fucking idiot would provide confidential information to a contact via Facebook? Confidential data over a service run by a 3rd party entity, where no one in the organization is required to have any sort of clearance.

Nah, we could date it really easily. There's radioactive carbon dating. Oh, won't work. Well, you can look at the sedimentation layers. Oh, won't work. Well, there's always guesswork. :)

    Really, the dating itself isn't as important as if water was or was not there.

    I'm still biased towards the idea that there was and still is water there. Well, as NASA said, "The way the surface has responded is bizarre. I don't understand it. I don't know anybody on my team who understands it. It looks like mud, but it can't be mud."

    If it looks like mud, and acts like mud, it must be a new state of solid that isn't mud. :) Or it's just dirt and water, despite how they may describe it.

    It's very likely there is an awful lot of water there. As the climate cycles slowed, the water became more stagnant, ending up in rather comfortable resting spots like the ice caps and muddy plains.

Nah, we could date it really easily. There's radioactive carbon dating. Oh, won't work. Well, you can look at the sedimentation layers. Oh, won't work. Well, there's always guesswork. :)

    Really, the dating itself isn't as important as if water was or was not there.

    I'm still biased towards the idea that there was and still is water there. Well, as NASA said, "The way the surface has responded is bizarre. I don't understand it. I don't know anybody on my team who understands it. It looks like mud, but it can't be mud."

    If it looks like mud, and acts like mud, it must be a new state of solid that isn't mud. :) Or it's just dirt and water, despite how they may describe it.

    It's very likely there is an awful lot of water there. As the climate cycles slowed, the water became more stagnant, ending up in rather comfortable resting spots like the ice caps and muddy plains.

Morning is all relative. I woke up at 2pm local time, realized how early it was, and went back to bed until 4:30pm local. So now that 3am local has come by, I'm still working (and reading a little Slashdot).

That was an excellent speech. I ran it as a news story a few months ago.

    Actually, you don't have to answer anything. It's fair enough to answer, like you said, name, rank, serial number. When they look at your drivers license and say "Mr. Smythe", I can answer "yes". Well, and other tidbits, like "is this your car?" "yes". "do you have insurance?" "yes"

    Outside of that, it is strongly suggested that you don't answer anything.

    I REALLY upset a police officer once. I answered simply and honestly. I did not elaborate, to avoid making mistakes that could be used against me. I swear to god, this was the conversation.

    "Do you know how fast you were going!?"

    "Yes sir. To the best of my knowledge, I was doing the speed limit, the same as all the other vehicles around me?"

    "NO! How fast were you going a few miles back when I saw you?!"

    "I don't know where you saw me sir, but to the best of my knowledge I've been doing the speed limit, except when driving slower."

    "NO! I saw you doing at least 85! You were flying past the other cars like they were standing still!"

    "Sir, I don't know what you are referencing."

    "You're really starting to piss me off. I'm going to walk away for a second, and then come back up here. When I come back, I want you to tell me the truth!"

    "Yes sir."

    [takes my license, walks to his car, walks back]

    "Ok, how fast were you going?!"

    "Sir, to the best of my knowledge, I was doing the speed limit, the same as the other cars around me."

    He then proceeded to tell me to get out of the car, walked me to the back of my car, had me spread, patted me down, and told me "You're going to jail!" It was all a tactic to get me to confess.

    He continued for a few more minutes, all the while I'm thinking "This sucks, I'm late to work now."

    He had nothing on me. No evidence I was speeding. My testimony that I was doing the speed limit. Even if I was wrong, it was "to the best of my knowledge". Not a lie, just a misperception. Maybe my speedometer was wrong. Maybe the other cars were going faster than the speed limit. Maybe I didn't really care. The truth was, for the last two or three miles, I had been doing just under the speed limit. Traffic had slowed to well under the speed limit, and then back up to about 5mph under the speed limit. I was following traffic. He was bored, and wanted an easy ticket. I was in a convertible with the top down. Maybe I was busy listening to the radio, and hadn't paid any attention to my speed.

    After he realized I wasn't going to confess to anything, he calmed down a lot, and we had a nice chat. Of course, his lights were on, on the side of a busy road, so other drivers saw this and slowed down. Having a car pulled over does more for traffic control than writing hundreds of tickets.

    There's a good video from a defense attorney, who says never say anything. You'll screw up. If I were to tell him this story, I'm sure he'd say I was just lucky. Watch the video, and you'll understand. Name, rank, serial. That's all that you say. Otherwise, use your 5th amendment rights, regardless if you're innocent or not.

I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with that archaic term.

    You either live in the urban area, the metro area, or the suburban area. Otherwise, there is no civilization. I hear the zombies roam free out there. People could never survive outside of the cities, unless they stay inside their cars.

    I've recently been here. It wasn't what you would normally expect either.

    My step son died on February 10, 2008. He was 13. You can read about what happened here. It was natural, but totally unexpected. One minute, he's fine. The next, he's dead. It wasn't something with blame.

    http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=15307

    The school was great about notifying the student body, and all of his immediate friends were already told by us. I wanted to let his online friends know what happened. He played a few games online (ok, several), and had friends there. This was the hard part. His accounts were "hacked", because he had used simple passwords. I wanted to teach him everything I could, and part of that is network security. Use good passwords. Combinations of letters, numbers, and characters that make nonsensical words, but have meaning to him. He listened.

    Some of the games, I was able to get in through cookies they had left behind that stored his passwords in plain text. Bad security, but helpful. Some at least gave me the userid's. I made a list of the sites he visited that were games, and all the usernames and passwords I could find. I got into most of them, but the one that he played the most I never managed to get into. I wrote to the administrator of the site, told them the situation, and asked for them for help notifying his online friends. I never received a response. They probably thought I was actually up to something bad.

    For myself, I have a trusted friend who knows my passwords, and even the PIN's for my ATM cards. If the worst should happen, they can notify everyone I know via email (log in, send to all, big deal). That friend even has the passwords for my servers, so they can update my web sites to let people know what happened to me. My cell phone logs have everyone I talk to in the real world.

    Myself, I don't expect a lot after I die. 3 people will show up to the funeral, if it doesn't impose on their schedule. My previously mentioned friend will pull my $200 life savings out of the bank, and share it with my friends. I've already asked my friends to drink heavily and be happy at my funeral. That is unless I'm in an alcohol involved car accident or something. Then it's just tasteless, unless they really want to. :)

    Sadly enough, I've already given away the rest of my life, so I have nothing else worth having. Someone will want my car, but that's the last of my prized possessions.

This is old news, but still interesting.

Several years ago, I was living in Los Angeles. My day job was IT work, and my hobby was (and still is) running a new site. I very frequently (3-4 days per week) worked in downtown LA, and would drive home between 7pm to 3am.

One night, I came out of downtown onto the 110 North, and moved over to the inside lanes fairly quickly, so I could be prepared to take I-5 North. I came up behind a car with a website name on the back. I didn't really think anything about it, until I saw the driver hold a video camera backwards and was filming me. Ok, weird people. I noted the name, and went to the web site, electronicharassment.com. Check archive.org on or about July 2004, the site is now just a links page.

Here's a snippet from the site.

---
Since I started my research on this topic, when the harassment
commenced the number of websites on this topic has doubled, and the level
and the intensity of the harassment have quadrupled. I'm now followed
everywhere, even out of town. Once they followed me to the airport and I
wondering when I go visit family will they follow me there as well? They
laser and microwave me in class, at the theater, driving, even at the
funeral of a friend, they stung me during services. There is no respect,
and they endanger the lives of others, especially when chasing me on the
freeways.
I lived in 5 different places and that's not including hotels. Within days
they are set up in an apartment or homes adjacent to where I was residing and
the harassment resumes.
When I go out of town I'm followed by a convoy of vehicles, SUV, sports
cars, and lastly the old and new white vans, although they are occasionally a
different color.
---

There was more information on the site and linked from there about how to document the harassment, which included photos and videos of the harassment. Recording all the people following you. It really read of some insanity, but if you were really the target of some weird military psyop, wouldn't you seem insane?

In following the links on the site, it became obvious that this was paranoia being reinforced by other nutjobs on web sites (excuse my professional headshrinker terminology).

Since I run a news site, I thought it could make an interesting story if there was really a story there. I didn't want a story about another nutjob in California. There's a million nuts, and twice as many stories. Maybe there was some wild conspiracy. Hey, it could happen. I sent off the following email looking for further information. It was never answered. I guess crazy people don't need help from the press, even if it could stop the mystery agency from harassing them.

--- begin email
From: "Editor - Free Internet Press"
To: [censored]
Subject: surveillance
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 00:30:52 -0700 (PDT)

Good evening,

I was behind what I believe was your car on the 110 in downtown LA this
evening. The red [censored]. I noticed you were filming my car. I thought
this was a bit odd, and I noted the site name on the bumper
(http://electronicharassment.com/), so I could see if it explained why
you were filming. Apparently it does.

If it makes you feel better, the [censored] that was behind you
wasn't following you. I was leaving a work site, going to where I'm
currently staying. I may have pulled in quickly behind you, but I
assure you, it wasn't to follow you, it was because I needed to get over
to that side, to catch the 5.

If you don't mind, I'd like to ask you some questions. I'm asking, with
the possible intention of running a story on you on our site,
http://freeinternetpress.com/ .

We will run your story completely anonymously. It's not necessary for
you to tell us your name, or an

Flight 93 was shot down. Read about it here:

    http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=1737

    Based on the information available, he had to make a tough decision. Regardless if the whole 9/11 scenario was a choreographed work of fiction, that F-16 pilot had a tough decision to make, and he did what was right, again by the information available.

    If it was a choreographed scenario, that plane was to crash into another building, not fall into a field in pieces.

  No one in the government will ever admit to it though.

Not only you(Americans) started it( i had to get a new passport so i could suit your requirements ), but as i read in this article http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=15272 you are going to tighten rules even more.
  I loved my trip to U.S.A. and would like to return there in the near future, but it really spoils the experience when i'm treated like a criminal who has to answer a form with such ridiculous question as "Are you making your trip with any intent of committing a crime in the United States?" or "Do you carry any illegal substances?" kind of questions.WTF??
  Don't get me wrong though, it's not just TSA guys that like to annoy people our customs guys are annoying too, but we don't make such a fuss about it, perhaps wrongfully.

  PS: If you were in charge what would you choose? Security or convenience?

Please refer to the following chart, to avoid misidentification of "unidentified" flying objects.

https://freeinternetpress.com/mirrors/usaf/airforce-id-chart.jpg

There are two big things with this.

First, any provider can and will give in to pressures. Just because they're not "in" the United States doesn't mean that they won't be leaned on by the United States.

Every provider connects to someone else. Otherwise, you being on your residential Cable/DSL/whatever wouldn't be able to reach Rajhed's IndiaPorn. :)

Being that it is true, the gov't could simply lean on American held companies, or companies with American interests, to find out who you are, find out what's on your servers, or simply get you unplugged. Just because you host at Sealand, in central Siberia, or whereever, you still run the risk of provider A strongly encouraging provider B to do something about it.

Been there. Done that. Got the Federal agent sitting in my office about it. Of course, I played stupid until I found out what the hell he was talking about, and then made some phone calls to find out the rest of the story. :) (short story, our customer handed over an exploited server. It was only because it was exploited, it had nothing to do with the content. They had already put a new machine up with restored content, as good exploit protocol suggests.)

Second, what the hell do you think you're going to say, that will get the feds knocking on your door, on the hosting facility's door, etc, etc?

I run http://freeinternetpress.com/ . If you read what we say, and have said for years, by all the legend of the National Security letters, we quite likely should have our phones tapped, servers confiscated, and been visiting Southeastern Cuba for more than a few days.

In reality though, we've had every (like, EVERY) intelligence agency in the world read our news. That was scary at first, but I made some friends (through other means) who had worked in intelligence, and they broke the bad news to me. The feds aren't watching us because they're interested in getting us. They're watching us because we are a good news source. Even though we've NEVER had a single contact regarding Free Internet Press, we're read every day. Above that, you'd be surprised to find out how many intelligence agencies there are out there. It took us quite a while to decode a lot of the hostnames, even when we ran them up and down a few of our grapevines. My favorite that I still like to brag about is eop.gov . They were monthly visitors.

I haven't bothered to re-check our logs to see what odd hostnames come in any more. It's entertaining, but serves no other purpose.

I'm VERY close with my hosting company. (like, VERY). I'd know the moment they were sniffing around, mostly because I'd be the one to open the cabinet door for them. :)

If it came down to it though, we'd just dump the hostname off to another server (I have a few spare hosting accounts in my pocket, all under different people's names, at different facilities), and put it right back online with a big notice "WE GOT SHUT DOWN BY THE FEDS, Here's the documents!"

If I didn't do it, there are a dozen or so other people with enough access to do it for me. Like, if I ended up in Southeastern Cuba, with an orange jumpsuit, a blanket, and a copy of the Koran (they issue 'em to everyone, from what I understand).

So, what's going to keep you from landing in hot water?

1) Don't say you're going to kill someone.

2) Don't threaten to blow something up.

3) Don't make claims above and beyond anything you're really willing to do.

For example (EXAMPLE!) if you were to say, "I'm going to blow up the Whitehouse tomorrow", if you're not serious, you're stupid for saying it. If you are serious, you deserve to get beaten down and thrown in jail for a long time. While I'll disagree with

http://www.ucnuclearfree.org/blog/bidforbomb.html

I've been talking this up the past month... it's pretty outrageous to think that our Nuclear Weapons are now made by a for-profit company.

Of course, right now, when GE wants more money to build props for Nuclear Subs.... they just leak the blueprints to a foreign company and our subs become obsolete and trackable. So the government shells out more money to GE for new props. Everybody wins!

But this has to top the list of Greedy+Stupid;
https://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=11373
2007-04-17
More than 500 security guards at the United States' only nuclear weapons assembly plant walked off the job just after midnight Monday to protest what they said is a steep deterioration in job and retirement security since the government changed fitness standards for weapons-plant guards in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The contractor at the plant, BWXT Pantex in Carson County, Texas, replaced the striking guards with a contingency force that it says will secure the plant's weapons, nuclear materials and explosives as long as necessary. The issue is not confined to Pantex because guard union leaders at other weapons plants also are raising concerns about the new security requirements, which they say will force many older guards out of their jobs.

Congressional Democrats criticized the Energy Department for not acting to resolve the guards' concerns in time to avert a strike.

"This employment instability not only raises the potential for significant costs to the American taxpayer, but also raises serious nuclear security concerns," said U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Michigan), who chairs the oversight subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.


>> The whole point of the "Privatization better known as Crony Capitalism" is to limit research and to privatize science. At the EPA, they were selling off the shelves for all the research labs. Much of the private repositories of environmental data are now gone -- and it is a lot of work for even scientists working at the EPA to find out; "what was the level of lead in the Savannah river in 1980?"

For instance, if the only repository for Lung cancer data, were at Phillip Morris, do you think they would have had to suffer all those lawsuits for knowingly sellining an addictive and cancerous product?

>> The other part of this that really sucks, is that it's for patents. The ban on Stem Cell Research, doesn't mean that private industry has stopped researching -- it just means that the research isn't done by the government, and available to everyone -- including Universities. So the argument about snow flake babies, that gets people all excited has nothing to do with it -- it's so Johnson & Johnson will OWN the next patent on a stem cell treatment as soon as they can find a way to make it proprietary.

When was the last time we had a CURE for anything? All we get now is treatments that cost just enough that we will cough up the bucks so that we don't have to deal with the misery of going without. Any cheap birth control or Asthma treatments?

They are going to keep doing this until some really, really bad disaster befalls us. But we won't know how it happened, because a company like BWXT Pantex won't be required to keep records of who they sell weapons to. I know that sounds far-fetched, but how many times have we heard well-dressed men running agencies for this government stand before the public and say; "My dog ate it... it could happen to anyone... nobody could have anticipated a breach of the levies." Yes, and people were screaming that the levies were 18" below sea level and the government stopped paying for the project years ago -- but hey, who reports that sort of information anymore when Paris Hilton might have to lose her driver's license?

The potential danger comes from the fact that explosions of massive stars generally emit jets of intense gamma radiation, among the most powerful and harmful forces in the universe. If Eta Carinae did explode and a jet was pointed in the general direction of the solar system, Livio said, Earth could be endangered. But because the gamma-ray jets tend to be relatively narrow, like the beam of a lighthouse, the odds are that the jet would miss Earth.

:-/

But hey, I'm just a dazed onlooker - what would I know about the law.

Yeah well, I just came across this: Eubanks, who served for 22 years as a lawyer at Justice:

"Political interference is happening at Justice across the department," she said. "When decisions are made now in the Bush attorney general's office, politics is the primary consideration. ... The rule of law goes out the window."

So, whatever we think we know, there's always someone who knows better...

Hehe. I made a similiar comment on my site when I ran the story.

"...and only very occasionally do birds get hit by the windmill blades. More small birds are killed by getting hit by moving cars, caught by house cats, or flying into glass windows."

https isn't all that, but I support it on my own site, https://freeinternetpress.com/ , and I put a little reminder image on the top left. It's pretty trivial to do, and if you believe https makes you that much more secure, go for it.

    https is decryptable. The question would be, are they interested in doing it? Most people are sending the majority of their stuff in the clear. Most people assume that because they may have a secure connection to their mail server, that it's encrypted going to another server. That's far from the truth. SMTP is unecrypted, as are most implementations of POP and IMAP. Your IM messages are also unencrypted, or at least can be intercepted at the server. I picked my VoIP carrier, because their data is encrypted, but it's only that way until it has to go over traditional transports. If I call another VoIP customer on my provider, it's (as advertised) encrypted. If I call a POTS line, there goes my security.

    Is it worth their while to decrypt encrypted stuff? Probably not. But, if they believe a target is worth while, they'll crack your communication like it's nothing. I'm sure plenty of people will respond with the "it would take a..." messages. It would use a (whatever), if YOU, the casual user were to do it. If they had a dedicated cluster set up for figuring out keys, then it's trivial. They can crack your encryption faster than a kid with a copy of airsnort can crack your WEP encryption.

    Of course, the more encryption you use, the more suspicious you look. What are you trying to hide? Will it be faster to pick you up, seize all of your electronics, and interrogate you for the next two years?

    What do you have to hide anyways? Chances are, nothing that interesting.

    I've given up on the thought that anything I say or do is that interesting to them. If it was, I would have the black van still parked in front of my house, or I'd be lounging around in Southeastern Cuba. I don't do anything all that subversive. I report the news, which is already publically available.

    My biggest concerns are that some wannabe agent, like a TSA agent, or local rookie cop, will harass me over things I carry. I have a laptop. I have miles of cables and adapters. I have books on security. Oddly enough, I use them for perfectly legal work. I get harassed occasionally. For quite a while, I'd be selected for secondary searches at airports, because the wire for my WiFi antenna was stuck to the top of my laptop. I'd tell them what it was. They'd half-ass search my bag, and ask questions about why I was traveling. 15 minutes later, I'd go and get on the plane. They'd miss obvious things, like my bag smelled of gunpowder, or there was a lighter in the bottom of my bag.

    BTW, the gunpowder smell wasn't anything illegal. I was at the shooting range one day, and at the airport later. No gun, no ammo, but plenty of residual stink that their sniffer didn't pick up. I don't feel any safer because of the searches. I just feel delayed and violated. Why should I have to explain every device I carry with me, when they're all commercially available (and legal) products?

    It still sucks that I can't carry a screwdriver. I *HAVE* to check a bag everywhere I go, because I can't carry a #2 phillips with me. It makes it very hard for me to work, if I don't have at least that.

    For some reason, last time I flew, several pairs of jeans were seized. They forgot the extensive electronics and hand tools, and stole my jeans. {sigh} I'm happy they didn't take any of the electronics or tools. Those are more expensive to replace.

This seems a bit disturbing.

"Sorry Bob, you died in a car accident last week, but you're fine now. Did you have a nice vacation in heaven?"

"I wasn't in heaven"

That's a silly question. Several of our servers reach 2Gb of logs in 12 hours with normal access.

There are a set of 15 mirrored servers, which serve one site, where each server would collect 2Gb of log files in approximately 6 hours. I won't link to the site itself (adult), but Here is the Alexa reference. It's rough hosting a site that's one of the largest on the Internet.

If we need the logs on a temporary basis (like for abuse monitoring), we 'cat /dev/null > logfile' every couple hours. Otherwise, we don't even keep the logs at all.

I like the sites, where we have the luxury of keeping logs, and it doesn't take forever to grep them for interesting things. My own site is frequented by interesting agencies daily. That's all I read the logs for any more. The NSA and CIA visited on Feb 9th. We have a few regular readers at the Department of Homeland Security. It's no secret, We say "Hi" once in a while. :)

That's a silly question. Several of our servers reach 2Gb of logs in 12 hours with normal access.

There are a set of 15 mirrored servers, which serve one site, where each server would collect 2Gb of log files in approximately 6 hours. I won't link to the site itself (adult), but Here is the Alexa reference. It's rough hosting a site that's one of the largest on the Internet.

If we need the logs on a temporary basis (like for abuse monitoring), we 'cat /dev/null > logfile' every couple hours. Otherwise, we don't even keep the logs at all.

I like the sites, where we have the luxury of keeping logs, and it doesn't take forever to grep them for interesting things. My own site is frequented by interesting agencies daily. That's all I read the logs for any more. The NSA and CIA visited on Feb 9th. We have a few regular readers at the Department of Homeland Security. It's no secret, We say "Hi" once in a while. :)

Presidential Timeline:

Year 1: Relax and recover from campaign. Bring the family to the new mansion. Party with contributors.
Year 2: Contemplate doing work, or simply visit Camp David, play with his *nix GBA (ha, thought this was off-topic!)
Year 3: Do a few things (blow something up), start working on campaign
Year 4: Brag about the previous three years, shake babies, kiss constituents hands.
Year 4.5: Talk bad about the opponent, read uncensored news and wonder why people hate him, get drunk frequently at "fund raisers", travel the country on the taxpayers money, fly around in his own private 747-200B
Year 4.9: Celebrate winning, or start packing up his personal effects from the Whitehouse and Camp David.

According to the Selective Service website, these articles are false.

According to the Selective Service website, these articles are false.

But Gore, as Vice President, wasn't part to starting any world wars.

Bush, while not being Vice President, nor starting any wars before getting into office, played (and won) on name value. Well, not really won. More people voted for the other guy

Actual Votes:
Bush: 50,456,002(47.87%)
Gore: 50,999,897 (48.38%)

Electorial Votes:
Bush: 271
Gore: 266

This time around, maybe people will look at the record.

Bush: started two wars, killed lots of people
Kerry: didn't start any wars, wasn't responsible for thousands of deaths.

I spoke with one lady, who said "Bush isn't that bad, I'd vote for him again", who a few weeks later told me "I'm not voting for him again", because her son, a Staff Sergeant in the US Army Reserve with 6 years in, due to end his tour in August, is now being sent to Afghanistan in July for at least a year. This isn't abnormal, it's now policy. Just because you're not in the military now, and have no plans for joining doesn't mean much

From what I've read, Hitler wasn't that bad of a guy, til he started his ethnic cleansing campaigns across Europe, and conquering other countries just because they were there. That became fairly well known after a while. Maybe you heard about it? World War II?

But Gore, as Vice President, wasn't part to starting any world wars.

Bush, while not being Vice President, nor starting any wars before getting into office, played (and won) on name value. Well, not really won. More people voted for the other guy

Actual Votes:
Bush: 50,456,002(47.87%)
Gore: 50,999,897 (48.38%)

Electorial Votes:
Bush: 271
Gore: 266

This time around, maybe people will look at the record.

Bush: started two wars, killed lots of people
Kerry: didn't start any wars, wasn't responsible for thousands of deaths.

I spoke with one lady, who said "Bush isn't that bad, I'd vote for him again", who a few weeks later told me "I'm not voting for him again", because her son, a Staff Sergeant in the US Army Reserve with 6 years in, due to end his tour in August, is now being sent to Afghanistan in July for at least a year. This isn't abnormal, it's now policy. Just because you're not in the military now, and have no plans for joining doesn't mean much

From what I've read, Hitler wasn't that bad of a guy, til he started his ethnic cleansing campaigns across Europe, and conquering other countries just because they were there. That became fairly well known after a while. Maybe you heard about it? World War II?

There is an article here that tells that equipment is already being returned.

Got a judge to OK it? Not really needed anymore, with the PATRIOT and PATRIOT II acts.

They snuck the second PATRIOT act when they caught Hussein. Sneaky, that. Who needs a judge for phone taps, financial records, etc? Maybe in Canada!

Well, the site in my sig is all about freedom of the press. Well, it's a site where anyone is free to post any news they want without censorship.

It's not there to justify my post, it's on all my messages.

In the country I'm writing from, I have the freedom of speech. If you're in the USA, you do too, at least for the time being.

I wasn't trying to justify the theft was right. Just as I won't try to justify a 1st year law student standing in a subway with a law book in his hand saying "you can't hit me, it's against the law" to a bunch of thugs is a good thing. He'll more than likely get bitch slapped. Is there a law against taunting? Not that I'm aware of. It's constitutionally protected as free speech (just as this), but it's probably not a good idea.

When the recent war started, I was where a bunch of protesters were (coincidentally). I was wearing a shirt that said "Greens+" on the front and "Swallow The Leader" on the back. It's an advertisment for health supplements from a store someone I knew worked at. Everyone that has said anything about it reads a sexual reference into it (funny that). A guy walked up to me talking about Green Peace. I smiled and nodded. I guess the peace-nik's can't read. There was also a guy at a piercing shop with a picture of a pistol on his shirt. We're all making our statements. Mine was for oral sex. His was pro-war, and the protesters were obviously anti-government peace-nik's with a cause they didn't understand. :)

(free speech remember? I can saw what I want. {{Pbthhh}})

But I already know your answer.. "Opinions are like assholes.. Everyone has one..." That's fine. You can say it. It's your right.

Want to do something about it? Find some obscure but news-worthy news that you probably won't find on a major news outlet due to censorship, and post it to FreeInternetPress.com .. You can make a difference.