1) Plant a bomb
Who needs a complicated hack when you can use thermite on key interconnections?
2) Lure an insider
Ancient methods that the CIA is still using to gather foreign "intelligence" from their euphemistically called "Agents" (in their respective countries these Agents would be called traitors).
Who can stop a trusted and authorized user with the right privileges from opening ports from behind the enemy lines (aka. firewalls)... when the "bad guys" get him the proper incentive or coersion?
3) Creative Social Engineering
Are they also be implementing policies to ensure that people are not plugging randomly dispersed usb drives with malware? The guy who delivers the mail, the fedex guy, the cleaning personnel, the cable guy, the Verizon guy. Those are valid strategies for everyday black hat hacking.
Now, that is a realistic scenario. Are they really prepared for that?
If I was planning a full-scale attack to the US infrastructures, the old methods would be the first choices.
I can imagine the following happening:
"Sir, when are they gonna start attacking us? We aren't getting any suspicious traffic" "Ahem, you already have been hacked, training is over".
ACTUALLY that is EXACTLY WHAT IS GONNA HAPPEN. And it already happened with the seat belt. Paradoxically security measures makes driving more dangerous, because of the perception of security. People WILL behave more recklessly because they feel that there is no danger at all. If they realize that crashing at 28mph feels like 5mph, they will be driving at 200mph.
Think, imagine that exoskeletons existed capable of absorbing thousands of kinetic energy and were cheap and efficient, wouldn't you be jumping to the snowboard and try the most risky stuff you always dreamed of doing but never did? or just jump from a plane without parachutes, because you won't be harmed? I would totally do it. That is happening with the car security. The more secure it is felt, the more reckless behavior will incentive.
When the seat belt became a policy and then a law, much more car accidents were registered (although less fatalities).
In another galaxy, a frustrated physics professor is in charge in a project equivalent to SETI:
"Stultz, I wonder if there is actually life out there. We've been centuries monitoring the neno-kurflichsk time-fabric disturbance detector that any technologically advanced civilization should be sending out if...if... they sentients do exist. I mean, it is third grade stuff, anybody knows that time-fabric can be disturbed instantly, we keep doing it simultaneously to all the atoms of the universe, and still nothing for CENTURIES. Can you believe it?"
"Professor, I wonder... I have this crazy idea... maybe other other advanced civilizations use... radiowaves?"
"Stultz, you are an idiot or what?"
"I...I am just saying, maybe some less advanced civilizations..."
"Pluuhlease, that is enough! Are you serious? You should go back to elementary school. Have you forgot that radiowaves travel at the speed of light??, it is more than obvious that it is not the most convenient way to communicate with other civilizations... unless you want to wait another lifetime to send your response, and to where should we point the antennas, huh?. Have you forgot that we are talking about ASTRONOMICAL DISTANCES??
It would take centuries! Or even worse, those electromagnetic waves would be absorbed by black holes, bounced, even hit by the breshanistok matter! We would get nothing or everything scrambled, indistinguishable from white noise! Your question is simply retarded. We are trying to contact sentients, not idiots!"
And professor Breshanistok stood up upset and the graduate student Stultz watched the glowing monitoring holoscreen scratching his head.
I think we are all missing the point. If a civilization is capable of making a portal to teleport instantly to any place in the universe and having ships with crazy advanced technology, wouldn't be logical that they are capable and have enough dominion over the physical realm? Then, it wouldn't be that hard for them to transmute matter and make water from any other atomic element, or air, or whatever they want or need.
We are in the XXI century just are beginning to see the Fusion Reactor (literally having a little sun in our cities), an era of limitless and cheap electricity, a very promising limitless future for all our energy needs. And I am certain I will die seeing one working efficiently.
Don't you think it would be plausible that an highly advanced civilization that is capable of "instant" teleportation will be able to create full blown suns, in principle it will be scaling up to what we are going to have in this century. Even our human scientists, with our current XXI century "rudimentary knowledge" would be capable of theorizing such a device TODAY.
I imagine that such an advanced civilization would have mastered principles that we CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE.
In such an advanced civilization, economic needs are past of their prehistory.
WTF, Seriously... following your logic you saying that the glans only has 10% of the nerve endings on the penis?
So under your supposition, then if I ablate my glans and keep my foreskin I can still achieve orgasms?
Are you in elementary school? Or you cheated on the male anatomy exam? (lol)
You would be impressed. Actually Opus Dei members don't have a secluded living, they are neither monks nor hermits.
You wouldn't be able to differentiate them from common laymen at a glance, especially if they are supernumerary members (those who don't live in Opus Dei centers and can get married)
They are just common people out in the world, with the only difference that they are very spiritual and have a very disciplined life, and they are really committed to it.
The recipe of success, proceed the following filtering process and you will get a "pure" sample:
1) Go to Opus Dei (Ultra orthodox catholics) universities such as: University of Navarra (Spain), Austral University (Argentina), IESE Business School (Spain), Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (Italy), Panamerican University (Mexico), etc...
2) Find all the numerary Opus Dei members (both Students and Professors, numerary members can't get married, oh yeah, and they are really serious about it.)
3) Select only the Engineering majors from each university
4) Among those students and professors select all those regular Slashdot users.
I figured that finding ET would have a greater impact on society that a cure for cancer. Who knows, maybe ET will be able to help us cure diseases while curing diseases will not help us find ET
Or maybe they will be offering us the cure of all diseases so we taste better, after all they probable would have USDA-like standards for their meat...
The logical explanation Mr. watson is that today kids are defacing websites thanks to the Internet, in 2017 this kid may hacking the time and space fabric thanks to LHC.
"a platform they call IC-CRIME (interdisciplinary, cyber-enabled crime reconstruction through innovative methodology and engagement)"
Seriously? c'mon....
Who really cares about the real story, certainly not Hollywhooowhood, it will end up making Swordfish 2, with flying skateboards "interfaces" in "cyberspace"... with mysterious "Hydra" servers, uncrackeable government codes cracked with "keyloggers" (sic, seriously, wtf?!) while getting a blowjob. As long as there is a blowjob I don't really care about the story, it is good to go. (Now thinking of it, maybe the Blowjob was a reference to Blowfish?... nah, I am probably thinking too hard.)
Like Sendmail, right? People tend to forget the good old days. They also forget that those days aren't that different now, what is different is the perception and the interest.
Slashdot Mirror
Bush: "hehe, for some of this question you got to be a rocket surgeon" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P52bmJXYQPQ
Unless he is doing pet scans travelling at light speed, I don't think it is within his field.
Maybe it has the same odds of a town landing on a meteorite of the same name
Who needs a complicated hack when you can use thermite on key interconnections?
2) Lure an insider
Ancient methods that the CIA is still using to gather foreign "intelligence" from their euphemistically called "Agents" (in their respective countries these Agents would be called traitors).
Who can stop a trusted and authorized user with the right privileges from opening ports from behind the enemy lines (aka. firewalls)... when the "bad guys" get him the proper incentive or coersion?
3) Creative Social Engineering
Are they also be implementing policies to ensure that people are not plugging randomly dispersed usb drives with malware? The guy who delivers the mail, the fedex guy, the cleaning personnel, the cable guy, the Verizon guy. Those are valid strategies for everyday black hat hacking.
Now, that is a realistic scenario. Are they really prepared for that?
If I was planning a full-scale attack to the US infrastructures, the old methods would be the first choices.
I can imagine the following happening:
"Sir, when are they gonna start attacking us? We aren't getting any suspicious traffic"
"Ahem, you already have been hacked, training is over".
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Imagine all the stalactites under the table and the sticky keyboard...
And it already happened with the seat belt. Paradoxically security measures makes driving more dangerous, because of the perception of security. People WILL behave more recklessly because they feel that there is no danger at all. If they realize that crashing at 28mph feels like 5mph, they will be driving at 200mph.
Think, imagine that exoskeletons existed capable of absorbing thousands of kinetic energy and were cheap and efficient, wouldn't you be jumping to the snowboard and try the most risky stuff you always dreamed of doing but never did? or just jump from a plane without parachutes, because you won't be harmed? I would totally do it. That is happening with the car security. The more secure it is felt, the more reckless behavior will incentive.
When the seat belt became a policy and then a law, much more car accidents were registered (although less fatalities).
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The original story is even better!
"Stultz, I wonder if there is actually life out there. We've been centuries monitoring the neno-kurflichsk time-fabric disturbance detector that any technologically advanced civilization should be sending out if...if... they sentients do exist. I mean, it is third grade stuff, anybody knows that time-fabric can be disturbed instantly, we keep doing it simultaneously to all the atoms of the universe, and still nothing for CENTURIES. Can you believe it?"
"Professor, I wonder... I have this crazy idea... maybe other other advanced civilizations use... radiowaves?"
"Stultz, you are an idiot or what?"
"I...I am just saying, maybe some less advanced civilizations..."
"Pluuhlease, that is enough! Are you serious? You should go back to elementary school. Have you forgot that radiowaves travel at the speed of light??, it is more than obvious that it is not the most convenient way to communicate with other civilizations... unless you want to wait another lifetime to send your response, and to where should we point the antennas, huh?. Have you forgot that we are talking about ASTRONOMICAL DISTANCES?? It would take centuries! Or even worse, those electromagnetic waves would be absorbed by black holes, bounced, even hit by the breshanistok matter! We would get nothing or everything scrambled, indistinguishable from white noise! Your question is simply retarded. We are trying to contact sentients, not idiots!"
And professor Breshanistok stood up upset and the graduate student Stultz watched the glowing monitoring holoscreen scratching his head.
We are in the XXI century just are beginning to see the Fusion Reactor (literally having a little sun in our cities), an era of limitless and cheap electricity, a very promising limitless future for all our energy needs. And I am certain I will die seeing one working efficiently.
Don't you think it would be plausible that an highly advanced civilization that is capable of "instant" teleportation will be able to create full blown suns, in principle it will be scaling up to what we are going to have in this century. Even our human scientists, with our current XXI century "rudimentary knowledge" would be capable of theorizing such a device TODAY. I imagine that such an advanced civilization would have mastered principles that we CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE.
In such an advanced civilization, economic needs are past of their prehistory.
WTF, Seriously... following your logic you saying that the glans only has 10% of the nerve endings on the penis? So under your supposition, then if I ablate my glans and keep my foreskin I can still achieve orgasms? Are you in elementary school? Or you cheated on the male anatomy exam? (lol)
Well, according to quantum physics, that may be true, you might be wrong or you both could be wrong and right at the same time.
My social studies professor would say that "black" matter is implicitly racist!
You would be impressed. Actually Opus Dei members don't have a secluded living, they are neither monks nor hermits. You wouldn't be able to differentiate them from common laymen at a glance, especially if they are supernumerary members (those who don't live in Opus Dei centers and can get married) They are just common people out in the world, with the only difference that they are very spiritual and have a very disciplined life, and they are really committed to it.
1) Go to Opus Dei (Ultra orthodox catholics) universities such as: University of Navarra (Spain), Austral University (Argentina), IESE Business School (Spain), Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (Italy), Panamerican University (Mexico), etc...
2) Find all the numerary Opus Dei members (both Students and Professors, numerary members can't get married, oh yeah, and they are really serious about it.) 3) Select only the Engineering majors from each university 4) Among those students and professors select all those regular Slashdot users.
Tadá, now you have a "pure" sample.
I figured that finding ET would have a greater impact on society that a cure for cancer. Who knows, maybe ET will be able to help us cure diseases while curing diseases will not help us find ET
Or maybe they will be offering us the cure of all diseases so we taste better, after all they probable would have USDA-like standards for their meat...
The logical explanation Mr. watson is that today kids are defacing websites thanks to the Internet, in 2017 this kid may hacking the time and space fabric thanks to LHC.
Exactly, thieves steal to SELL it.
Stealing IS a business, although a very shady one.
"a platform they call IC-CRIME (interdisciplinary, cyber-enabled crime reconstruction through innovative methodology and engagement)"
Seriously? c'mon....
Who really cares about the real story, certainly not Hollywhooowhood, it will end up making Swordfish 2, with flying skateboards "interfaces" in "cyberspace"... with mysterious "Hydra" servers, uncrackeable government codes cracked with "keyloggers" (sic, seriously, wtf?!) while getting a blowjob.
As long as there is a blowjob I don't really care about the story, it is good to go. (Now thinking of it, maybe the Blowjob was a reference to Blowfish?... nah, I am probably thinking too hard.)
ROFL, mod up!
Like Sendmail, right?
People tend to forget the good old days. They also forget that those days aren't that different now, what is different is the perception and the interest.
What about spit? Spit always wins.