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Re:Better article
Summary's links are fact-free ads. I found this one, that has the merit to link to the arXiv article about the process.
Fromarticle at TheStack:
It seems here that RAISR has added fur detail – and it invites speculation as to what the algorithm would consider an accurate reconstruction of a person’s skin or other significant details.
I suspect the result is the addition of fur tothe photo of a humanforehead.
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Better article
Summary's links are fact-free ads.
I found this one, that has the merit to link to the arXiv article about the process. -
It's been audited by a respected security pro
Who hosts + recommends it proven safe @ VirusTotal (all in my post - learn to read). I won't release my code to be abused as Google Chrome was https://thestack.com/security/2015/10/20/efast-malware-hijacks-browser-with-chrome-clone/ &
APK
P.S.=> I've got good code others like + use. You don't. You wouldn't know how to code much less audit it & I see you can't prove my points wrong on hosts' superiority to adblock either... apk
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Re:Death to publishers
Well, thats easy to solve:
When we get the right to demand money for whatever we deem is our interlectual property, the next step is to demand that companies like google are not allowed to make their own decisions in regard to what they return as search results. We'll put that under something like "no discrimination" or something.Sounds like Spain tried to do this almost verbatim:
The Spanish Newspapers Publishersâ(TM) Association (AEDE) is now asking that the Spanish government and EU competition authorities stop Google News from shutting down its operations in the country, âoeto protect the rights of citizens and businesses.â
The media lobby group announced that an end to Spanish Google News would represent âoenot just the closure of another service given its dominant market position,â identifying that the closure would âoeundoubtedly have a negative impact on citizens and Spanish businesses.âsource: [thestack.com]
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Re:Good
Why, just look how well it worked for the likes of Forbes and Wired!
Are you sure about the correct cause/effect. I almost made the comment that I wonder if this isn't a sign that facebook is starting to hurt. It seems to me like the companies that try the hardest to block ad blockers are companies that are declining and slowly failing. This could also be said for companies that start using more and more intrusive ads (that pay slightly better per view). It's seem like many times it is a failed attempt to stop the bleeding that is happening for other reasons.
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Re:Good
Why would anyone who dislikes ads even use facebook?
The irony here, 99% of the time I go to Facebook, I go there specifically for ads.
Except... Not the ads Facebook wants me to see. I go there for things like menus and hours and contact info for local small businesses (because apparently controlling your online presence by having your own website has become passe).
That said - Challenge accepted, Zuckmeister! Let's see how effective you can block ads (or block those who try). Why, just look how well it worked for the likes of Forbes and Wired! -
Ah, the shifted goalposts
To respond to "Edge uses less power than Chrome", they compare Edge to Opera and declare Microsoft's statement false. Despite the fact that looking at the link shows that Edge does beat Chrome. That this build of Opera beats both should be the half-story, but no one is pointing out the reality of the test.
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ROUTER/MODEM DNS SECURITY ISSUES
http://hardware.slashdot.org/s...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...
http://thestack.com/zyxeltech-...
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.c...
http://www.itworld.com/article...
http://www.eweek.com/security/...
http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
https://threatpost.com/exploit...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
http://www.zdnet.com/linkedin-...
http://www.bing.com/search?q=r...APK
P.S.=> See subject & now more specific attacks on DNS by malware's next... apk
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Re:Tor exit node
What if I told you that over 81% of all Tor traffic could be deanonymized easily because the exit and entry run over the same network.
Tor is a lie, designed to pull the wool over your eyes and imprison you in a false sense of anonymity. Tor was created to turn a human being into a tool for the (military industrial) machine to feed off of. Your Tor node bandwidth promotes the illusion of a grass roots reality, while neutering any attempt to create an alternative service though market saturation and intellectual brain-drain.
The core principle of Tor, "onion routing", was developed in the mid-1990s by United States Naval Research Laboratory employees, mathematician Paul Syverson and computer scientists Michael G. Reed and David Goldschlag, with the purpose of protecting U.S. intelligence communications online. Onion routing was further developed by DARPA in 1997.[17][18][19]
The alpha version of Tor, developed by Syverson and computer scientists Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson[20] and then called The Onion Routing project, or TOR project, launched on 20 September 2002.[1][21] On 13 August 2004, Syverson, Dingledine and Mathewson presented "Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router" at the 13th USENIX Security Symposium.[22] In 2004, the Naval Research Laboratory released the code for Tor under a free licence, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) began funding Dingledine and Mathewson to continue its development.[20]
In December 2006, Dingledine, Mathewson and five others founded The Tor Project, a Massachusetts-based 501(c)(3) research-education nonprofit organization responsible for maintaining Tor.[23] The EFF acted as The Tor Project's fiscal sponsor in its early years, and early financial supporters of The Tor Project included the U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau, Internews, Human Rights Watch, the University of Cambridge, Google, and Netherlands-based Stichting NLnet.[24][25][26][27][28]
From this period onwards, the majority of funding sources came from the U.S. government.[20]
The US machine created Tor to allow people in other countries to communicate anonymously and bypass other governmental firewalls. Of course they have ways to remove the anonymity of the traffic for themselves, that's why they created and funded it. If you don't think so then you're living in a dream world.
Time to wake up, Copper Top.
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Security services
VPNs not mentioned once in UK’s terrifying new internet powers draft bill (4 Nov 2015)
https://thestack.com/security/...
".. force UK ISPs to keep an Internet Connection Record (now jargonised into ‘ICR’) for the previous 12 months for all of its customers, and also for the fact that it begins to deliver on prime minister David Cameron’s frequently-aired misgivings about zero-knowledge consumer-level encryption
Why the disinterest in VPN's when all other network encryption will be under total gov and mil scrutiny until weakened, designed with a gov backdoor, trapdoored or keys are handed over? -
Routers alone = shit (here's proof #6/15)
http://www.bing.com/search?q=r...
http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
http://thestack.com/root-comma...
http://thestack.com/zyxeltech-...
http://threatpost.com/12-milli...
http://threatpost.com/dns-base...
http://threatpost.com/internet...
http://voices.washingtonpost.c...
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/s...
http://www.dshield.org/diary/+...
http://www.dshield.org/diary/2...
http://www.dshield.org/diary/5...
http://tools.cisco.com/securit...
http://tools.cisco.com/securit...
http://tools.cisco.com/securit...APK
P.S.=> So much for your faith in routers alone stupid (225 in total, 15 posts with 15 items each)... apk
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Routers alone = shit (here's proof #6/15)
http://www.bing.com/search?q=r...
http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
http://thestack.com/root-comma...
http://thestack.com/zyxeltech-...
http://threatpost.com/12-milli...
http://threatpost.com/dns-base...
http://threatpost.com/internet...
http://voices.washingtonpost.c...
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/s...
http://www.dshield.org/diary/+...
http://www.dshield.org/diary/2...
http://www.dshield.org/diary/5...
http://tools.cisco.com/securit...
http://tools.cisco.com/securit...
http://tools.cisco.com/securit...APK
P.S.=> So much for your faith in routers alone stupid (225 in total, 15 posts with 15 items each)... apk
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7 and 8 are just guesses, but here is evidence:
A few of the many stories about backdoors in U.S. hardware:
D-Link: Reverse Engineering a D-Link Backdoor (Oct. 12, 2013)
Arris: 600,000 Arris cable modems have 'backdoors in backdoors', researcher claims (Nov. 20, 2015)
Juniper Networks: Juniper drops NSA-developed code following new backdoor revelations (Jan. 10, 2016)
Cisco: Snowden: The NSA planted backdoors in Cisco products (May 15, 2014)
Netgear: Netgear Patch Said to Leave Backdoor Problem in Router (April 23, 2014)
Windows 8: NSA Backdoor Exploit in Windows 8 Uncovered (Aug. 22, 2013)
Windows: NSA "backdoor" mandates lead to a computer-security FREAK show Quote: "Microsoft Windows OS vulnerable to hackers, thanks to National Security Agency requirements." (March 6, 2015)
Windows: NSA Built Back Door In All Windows Software by 1999 (June 7, 2013)
Hard drives: Breaking: Kaspersky Exposes NSA's Worldwide, Backdoor Hacking of Virtually All Hard-Drive Firmware (Feb. 17, 2015)
Is every backdoor the work of the NSA? There is no way of knowing. -
Want safe equipment? Buy outside the U.S.
A few of the many stories about backdoors in U.S. hardware (Copied from another comment.):
D-Link: Reverse Engineering a D-Link Backdoor (Oct. 12, 2013)
Arris: 600,000 Arris cable modems have 'backdoors in backdoors', researcher claims (Nov. 20, 2015)
Juniper Networks: Juniper drops NSA-developed code following new backdoor revelations (Jan. 10, 2016)
Cisco: Snowden: The NSA planted backdoors in Cisco products (May 15, 2014)
Netgear: Netgear Patch Said to Leave Backdoor Problem in Router (April 23, 2014)
Windows 8: NSA Backdoor Exploit in Windows 8 Uncovered (Aug. 22, 2013)
Windows: NSA "backdoor" mandates lead to a computer-security FREAK show Quote: "Microsoft Windows OS vulnerable to hackers, thanks to National Security Agency requirements." (March 6, 2015)
Windows: NSA Built Back Door In All Windows Software by 1999 (June 7, 2013)
Hard drives: Breaking: Kaspersky Exposes NSA's Worldwide, Backdoor Hacking of Virtually All Hard-Drive Firmware (Feb. 17, 2015)
Is every backdoor the work of the NSA? There is no way of knowing. -
NOT "purely political"! Secret gov. is not healthy
That is certainly NOT a "purely political" story; although I can understand why someone would make that mistake. It's a story about the decline of technology in the United States caused by those who make money favoring secret actions by secret U.S. government organizations.
NSA = No Sales for America.
Boeing Might Lose $4B Brazil Deal For F-18 Jets After NSA Surveillance Scandal; Analysts Say Politics Won't Trump Business (09/12/13)
Three months later: President Dilma Rousseff Announces Brazil Is Buying Sweden's Saab Gripen Jet Fighters (12/18/13)
NSA = Not a Sensible Arrangement.
The NSA does not provide "Security". Instead, the secrecy makes everyone feel insecure. Anyone can claim that a secret organization did something destructive; that's an easy sale when a small group wants violence. Suppose an NSA manager wants a promotion. The manager can arrange something likely to cause violence; there is no outside review; new violence can be used as a reason for new authority.
Consider the Culture of fear. Nazi leader Hermann Goring: "The people don't want war, but they can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."
Quote from that same Wikipedia page: 'Former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski argues that the use of the term War on Terror was intended to generate a culture of fear deliberately because it "obscures reason, intensifies emotions and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue." '
Another quote: "... journalist Adam Curtis argues that politicians have used our fears to increase their power and control over society."
NSA = No Structural Authority.
There are complicated problems in running ANY organization. Managing secret organizations sensibly is impossible. Each manager of a secret organization has an excuse to hide his or her mistakes. There can be no outside ideas to fix problems because no outsiders are allowed to know what is happening.
Backdoors:
The U.S. government allows secret government agencies to go to any executive in any company, make demands for "security", and threaten the executive with prison if he or she doesn't do what the secret agency wants. Is that the reason that U.S. computer equipment has backdoors? We are not allowed to know. Secret agencies are allowed to lie, so even if an agency says it didn't force a backdoor, no one can know if the statement is true.
A few of the many stories about backdoors in U.S. hardware:
D-Link: Reverse Engineering a D-Link Backdoor (Oct. 12, 2013)
Arris: 600,000 Arris cable modems have 'backdoors in backdoors', researcher claims (Nov. 20, 2015)
Juniper Networks: Juniper drops NSA-developed code following new backdoor revelations (Jan. 10, 2016)
Cisco: Snowden: The NSA planted backdoors in Cisco products (May 15, 2014)
Netgear -
Routers alone = shit (here's proof #6/15)
http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
http://thestack.com/root-comma...
http://thestack.com/zyxeltech-...
http://threatpost.com/12-milli...
http://threatpost.com/dns-base...
http://threatpost.com/internet...
http://tools.cisco.com/securit...
http://tools.cisco.com/securit...
http://tools.cisco.com/securit...
http://voices.washingtonpost.c...
http://www.bing.com/search?q=r...
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/s...
http://www.dshield.org/diary/+...
http://www.dshield.org/diary/2...
http://www.dshield.org/diary/5...APK
P.S.=> So much for your faith in routers alone stupid (225 in total, 15 posts with 15 items each)... apk
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Routers alone = shit (here's proof #6/15)
http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
http://thestack.com/root-comma...
http://thestack.com/zyxeltech-...
http://threatpost.com/12-milli...
http://threatpost.com/dns-base...
http://threatpost.com/internet...
http://tools.cisco.com/securit...
http://tools.cisco.com/securit...
http://tools.cisco.com/securit...
http://voices.washingtonpost.c...
http://www.bing.com/search?q=r...
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/s...
http://www.dshield.org/diary/+...
http://www.dshield.org/diary/2...
http://www.dshield.org/diary/5...APK
P.S.=> So much for your faith in routers alone stupid (225 in total, 15 posts with 15 items each)... apk
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Re:Sophisticated malware platform ..
The idea seems to be hinted at in https://thestack.com/security/...
"even EMV/Chip-and-pin are unlikely to protect affected systems. In such cases, the report says ‘ModPOS and other malware with RAM scraping techniques can still gain access to card data. Criminals can then reuse card data, even from EMV cards, to make online (card-not-present) transactions.’" -
Re:Dridex Banking Malware ..
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FireEye wanted to conceal IP ..
"We tried to conceal from the researchers to publish our IP. No company in the world would want their IP revealed. We did that to protect our customers. We openly worked with them to fix the vulnerabilities, and patches have been available for months now. Our Customers are protected." ref
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How hosts defeat this easily in detail
See subject - 1st enter trend's proper hostname to ip address resolution ala
216.104.20.189 trendmicro.com
THEN, block the redirect poisoned DNS entry of:
0.0.0.0 ausameetings.com
* It works to defeat this on BOTH fronts, easily...
(Utterly NULLIFYING this threat, to resolve properly here vs. this threat, per data from the source article -> http://thestack.com/pawn-storm... )
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In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
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APK
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PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
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(Accept NO substitutes!)
...apk
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How hosts defeat this easily in detail
See subject - 1st enter trend's proper hostname to ip address resolution ala
216.104.20.189 trendmicro.com
THEN, block the redirect poisoned DNS entry of:
0.0.0.0 ausameetings.com
* It works to defeat this on BOTH fronts, easily...
(Utterly NULLIFYING this threat, to resolve properly here vs. this threat, per data from the source article -> http://thestack.com/pawn-storm... )
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How to build the BEST hosts file possible with data from 10 reputable sources in the security community vs. threats of this nature + for more speed, reliability, & anonymity as well as security online?
Hey, you know (by "yours truly", of course):
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
FREE & adds speed, security, + reliability, doing more with less, more efficiently vs. browser addons & locally installed DNS servers @ home + fixes DNS' redirect security issues - obtaining its data vs. online threats & adbanner blocking from 10 reputable sites in the security community!
*
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
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"The premise is quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work for the body rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen: "I am legend"...
APK
P.S.=> By "yours truly" - "The Lord of Hosts" so-to-speak:
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
"The image this title brings to mind is of a mighty military commander, one who can at a mere word summon rank upon rank of protective power" from https://answers.yahoo.com/ques... & THAT WORD = hosts!
(Accept NO substitutes!)
...apk
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Re:Air out operation, maybe solar?
These are so-called "lights out" operations because they employ so few employees (relative to the prior residents) that the ultimate benefit to the community is extremely limited.
There's even a new german data center where they scrub out much of the oxygen. Apparently it helps with both security and fire control. No humans can go in.
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To be revealed...
In most cases, no one is quite sure how it happened. The details of such a campaign have yet to be revealed.
Could it have been the Fed's control of the whole network? Or perhaps it was an analysis of router traffic flow records, which supposedly reveals 81% of tor users, according to researchers...
