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  1. Re:Why does the website already show "TM"? by ThreeGigs · · Score: 1 · on Groklaw Explains the Cyberlaw "Trademark"

    So... what if someone else stuck a TM after Cyberlaw?

    Like this:
    http://www.swcp.com/~zialink/patent.htm

    or this...
    http://www.sjgames.com/SS/cyberlaw.html ...and seems the term has been leveraged before, in court:
    http://www.oss.net/dynamaster/file_archive/040320/c378876cc036a94572ec64d1b6f1258f/OSS1993-01-29.pdf

  2. Bush is teh ghey ! by Adolf+Hitroll · · Score: -1, Troll · on Interactive Fiction Then and Now
    Bush to bury the dollar.

    Article also features the following revelation:
    A major European intelligence service is absolutely convinced that when George Bush was a drunken teen-ager in Beijing with his father the Ambassador, the Chinese were able to arrange extraordinarily compromising photographs, including homosexual photographs with his Chinese male tennis teacher (the boy may have been so drunk he had no idea was what happending).
  3. Re:again.. by Phreakiture · · Score: 1 · on U.S. Gov To Spider Internet

    I would like to suggest looking up Robert Steele and open source intelligence. He gave a four-plus-hour presentation on the topic at The Fifth Hope, the audio of which can be found on the Fifth Hope site in five parts.

    I would like to suggest that you listen to his ideas before discarding this idea as a waste of time and effort. Then, if you still want to discard the idea, at least you are making an informed decision.

  4. zerg by Lord+Omlette · · Score: 1 · on Fifth HOPE Conference Underway

    Totally f-ing awesome. I wonder how many people took up the "kiss for a dollar" offer from that chick standing by the merchandise tables. It seemed that all of the girls were taken, but the ones that were there (and there were many more than I expected!) were exquisitely hawt and listening in on their conversations, I could tell they were hardcore.

    Keven Mitnick was there and it was awesome. The room was jam packed, look at the photos and realize that from the middle of the room, Kevin on the video screen was a single pixel speck that we could kinda sorta barely make out. Took him 10 years to get there, but he finally made it and got a standing ovation for it. Here's what I learned: Kevin Mitnick was able to literally outrun the Feds. How? Stair Master! It was so inspirational that I'm gonna pwn the gym every goddamned day from now til the day I die.

    Here's something the rest of you may be interested in: Open Source Intelligence. When the populace is educated, the govt. can't pull the wool over the people's eyes. Robert Steele took a good long look at how badly the CIA got pwn3d, put together his extensive personal experience in govt. service, examined at the way Denmark, England, and Sweden conduct their intelligence gathering and decided that the OSS model was the best. Check it out, it's fascinating, even if the guy behind me during the Capt. Crunch presentation on spam enumerated evidence that Steele's presentation was a carefully set up recruitment effort for the Feds.

    And who got owned? Some fucker owned my cell phone, but that's what I get for being a goddamned llama. Also, Bruce Schneier seemed unaware that TIPS hasn't really been eliminated... But unlike me, he's pretty goddamned cool, so I'm sure he'll get up to speed fairly quickly. One of the guys sitting next to me commented (and I agreed) that Schneier's panel was the best all day.

    Another poster here on /. commented that 2600 was too damn political and anti-Bush. I agree that it was anti-Bush, but it's because Bush is in the White House today. The next HOPE will either be more virulently anti-Bush OR it will be decidedly anti-Kerry. So if you skipped today, please, just relax and come on down and spend Saturday/Sunday w/ us. Guarantee you walk away knowing more than before you got there.

  5. Re:Open Source Intelligence? by johnlenin1 · · Score: 3, Informative · on Open Source Intelligence

    You're right. Open source intelligence, also known as OSINT, has been around since at least the 1930's.

    Here's more information.

  6. Re:Source? by Broadcatch · · Score: 3, Informative · on Bazaars in the Government Cathedral
    About ten years ago at a Hackers conference at Lake Tahoe I met a CIA agent named Robert Steele who regularly spent huge amounts of tax dollars to buy proprietary information from closed sources and provide it to various government intelligence agencies. I told him about the Internet and for several hours toured him though many open, free resources that I had come to know using FTP, Gopher, etc. (Not much was yet available by web.) He was blown away and spent most of the rest of the conference surfing the 'net.

    Not too long after that quit his government intelligence gathering job to create Open Source Solution which provides most of the same data to the same agencies at a much lower price point, saving taxpayers millions of dollars a year.

    I don't like most of those three-letter-acronym agencies, but I think this is a Good Thing.

  7. Listening to public broadcasts by Animats · · Score: 4 · on Data Mining And The CIA
    Much of what the CIA does consists of collecting publicly available information. Some of this they now distribute to the public. The CIA World Factbook is the best known example.

    Less well known is their Foreign Broadcast Monitoring Service, for which generations of linguists have listened to the hype output of governments worldwide. (FBIS refers to this as "open source" material.)

    They've been hoping for years to automate some of this stuff, and apparently they've succeeded. It doesn't require particularly good speech recognition, since the basic goal is to pull out the interesting stuff from the endless drivel.

    This sort of info is used to answer questions like "Is country X changing their policy on Y", and "Who is speaking for country X on subject Y?" This is basic political intelligence information.

  8. I agree, but stand by my words. by isaac · · Score: 2 · on Nasty Bad Men Are Using Encryption
    You're making my point - cryptanalysis is neither cheap nor fast, and hence is only used where out-of-band attacks are unfeasable.

    My sources are a special agent from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement with whom I worked on a computer crime case in 1998, and Robert D. Steele, former CIA case officer, founder of OSS Inc., and author of On Intelligence: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World. Good enough for me.

    Incidentally, Mr. Steele's excellent talk at H2K is online in MP3 form here.

    -Isaac