Inciting internal conflicts, causing disintegration of whole countries, that kind of crime.
Specifics, do you have them? Once again, all I see are vague "back room dealings were happening", no mention of what was actually done wrong. Cite your source (ie, one of the leaked wires), or stop spouting nonsense.
Or someone made a mistake? Geez, I see no indication that anyone actually tried to contact Appnor (despite the summary implying it), and people are labeling them as monsters (MPAA comparisons? Really?)
How about a polite "You guys might be violating the GPL, any chance we can discuss?" email, or something? You dont have to fire off a lawsuit immediately, and generally the places that help with enforcement (ie EFF) tend to NOT want to cram a lawsuit down someones throat until all other avenues have been tried.
Perhaps before going in with guns ablazing, some tact would be helpful. Their webpage doesnt exactly scream "hostile", as they are still offering the utility free (provided you sign up for a newsletter). They may be violating the GPL, but it may be entirely unintentional or out of ignorance-- could the author of MTR simply email them, informing them of the situation? He will eventually have to contact them anyways, I believe-- wouldnt any eventual lawsuit have to come from an author of MTR anyways?
I mean, its GOOD that someone is updating this utility; going after them with a lawsuit right off the bat doesnt exactly make "lets update abandoned GPL software" look like a good idea.
Wait, we're allowed to declare things to be human rights? How does one determine what a fundamental human right is? Somehow I had never heard of this one before.
Many crimes committed...were well-revealed by the leaked cables...
Maybe, but so far noone has actually been able to say what those crimes ARE. Care to elaborate?
And am I to understand that you dont think that private meetings are sometimes necessary? Should all government employees be told weeks before they are to be let go? Should every foreign country know exactly what we think about them at all times?
If you dont understand that sometimes diplomatic relations requires saying things off the record (ie, "we dont really trust X government, even though publicly we are working with them"), then you dont understand the real world.
See, for example, the recent slashdot article on how Zimbabwe's potential for reform was just badly hurt by this leak.
Could someone please explain to me what terrible crime was committed that was exposed by this latest leak?
I dont want to hear about the war, or about whatever other issues you may have with the government-- what crimes were specifically exposed by the embassy wire leak?
I should also note that you wouldnt even need to-- you could simply insert javascript into the HTTPS login page, as such pages are usually comprised of both HTTP and HTTPS components. You could rewrite the page with javascript so that parts are indeed HTTPS, but the actual submission is HTTP.
If you are intercepting all pages before they hit the computer, the process is simple. Person requests hxxps://www.mybank.com/login.htm. Infected bot intercepts it, makes the connection to the bank itself, decodes the page, and presents a "fake" version of the page, sans SSL. What ends up happening is the bot acts like a caching proxy, decoding each page as it comes in and providing a non-HTTPS version to the client.
Now, I dont think you could fake the SSL lock icon in the browser-- you may be able to fake the DNS, but you cant fake the SSL cert authority's signature, so attempting to fake the SSL would trip the self-signed alarm bells on the browser, but theres no reason you cant simply strip out the SSL altogether. The only browser that complains about THAT is IE, and most people click through it because it complains every time you do a google search.
If they are running linux, even if they only have 16mb of ram, 4mb of flash space, and a 216 mhz processor, you would be absolutely astonished at how much you could do.
FWIW most routers out there meet those specs, and can be flashed with DDWRT. They wouldnt use BIND, but they support cron, ssh, dnsmasq, dhcp, and quite a bit more. With double or triple the flash space, you start being able to really have some fun.
... in the US government's life of doing whatever the hell they want without a court involved
This was a court order; in fact the first link in the summary was to the court order. Page 2 basically states "This is a court order".
I am at a loss for words sometimes when people can assert things in direct contradiction with the article, and get modded up for it. Real "interesting", i suppose.
Freedom is not unlimited anywhere, hate to break it to you. US is a heck of a lot better than many other places in this regard, and Im not just talking about places like China. We dont have net filtering, we dont have CCTVs everywhere, we are free to ridicule the president, burn our flag, etc.
But yea, we have no freedoms at all, keep believing that. Im sure the man will be around shortly to cart you off for breaking that illusion.
Additionally, he has limited power as the President, he's been trying to close GITMO, but without the ability to move at least some of the inmates to US courts
Then perhaps he shouldnt have made that promise, eh?
This is a court order; I fail to see how civil liberties are impinged when, in the course of an investigation, court orders are issued in support of said investigation.
But nevermind that, lets get back to mindlessly railing against the government, democracy, the courts, etc-- NOTHING they do can EVER be right.
1) Set up ssh and dynamic dns on compromised TV, or perhaps a cron job to do a reverse SSH tunnel every so often (to bypass firewall). Now you know where this connection is, at all times, and have full control, at any time. 2) Set up BIND DNS, set to forward to whatever malicious DNS server you want. 3) Either set up a phony DHCP server, and/or do some arp poisoning so that all traffic to the internet is routed thru the TV. 4) Control the entire household's internet connection -- rewriting HTTP pages, sending whatever DNS responses you want (Google? SURE, its this IP here in china!), capturing passwords (redirecting HTTPS to HTTP so that cert errors dont occur, or inserting non HTTPS javascript to capture the password), etc.
ANY smart device on a home network has the potential to wreak massive havok on that network.
Not entirely sure such wordings are really kosher in Wikipedia; that doesnt really scream "NPOV" to me. (When's the last time you saw an encyclopedia use "quackery", or speculate on what would have happened?)
In my 4 year old desktop (E6300 processor; 4x1GB ram; nVidia 9500 GT; 2x HDD), total power draw goes between 150watts and 220 (full load) watts, as measured by an in-line watt meter.
Laptops tend to use quite a bit less power; 15-60watts is what I found from some quick googling, and the last laptop I had was around 18 watts as measured with laptop-tools under linux.
This indicates 10 watts for DDR2, vs 4 watts for DDR3, vs (presumably) 4*.6= 2.4 watts for DDR4. Not sure whether that link is accurate, or whether that is accurate for laptops; take it with a grain of salt.
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Inciting internal conflicts, causing disintegration of whole countries, that kind of crime.
Specifics, do you have them? Once again, all I see are vague "back room dealings were happening", no mention of what was actually done wrong. Cite your source (ie, one of the leaked wires), or stop spouting nonsense.
The fact that Appnor's page explicitly mentions that it was an update to the original MTR?
People are wildly speculating on something that is explicitly stated in both summary AND links? Really?
Im not sure it works like that; it might even then be derivative software.
Or someone made a mistake? Geez, I see no indication that anyone actually tried to contact Appnor (despite the summary implying it), and people are labeling them as monsters (MPAA comparisons? Really?)
How about a polite "You guys might be violating the GPL, any chance we can discuss?" email, or something? You dont have to fire off a lawsuit immediately, and generally the places that help with enforcement (ie EFF) tend to NOT want to cram a lawsuit down someones throat until all other avenues have been tried.
Guys, on the WinMTR page (linked in summary), it explicitly states that it is an update to a 10 year old abandoned linux/unix utility called MTR.
The summary isnt SUPPOSED to be complete, youre supposed to man up and "read".
Perhaps before going in with guns ablazing, some tact would be helpful. Their webpage doesnt exactly scream "hostile", as they are still offering the utility free (provided you sign up for a newsletter). They may be violating the GPL, but it may be entirely unintentional or out of ignorance-- could the author of MTR simply email them, informing them of the situation? He will eventually have to contact them anyways, I believe-- wouldnt any eventual lawsuit have to come from an author of MTR anyways?
I mean, its GOOD that someone is updating this utility; going after them with a lawsuit right off the bat doesnt exactly make "lets update abandoned GPL software" look like a good idea.
Wait, we're allowed to declare things to be human rights? How does one determine what a fundamental human right is? Somehow I had never heard of this one before.
Many crimes committed...were well-revealed by the leaked cables...
Maybe, but so far noone has actually been able to say what those crimes ARE. Care to elaborate?
And am I to understand that you dont think that private meetings are sometimes necessary? Should all government employees be told weeks before they are to be let go? Should every foreign country know exactly what we think about them at all times?
If you dont understand that sometimes diplomatic relations requires saying things off the record (ie, "we dont really trust X government, even though publicly we are working with them"), then you dont understand the real world.
See, for example, the recent slashdot article on how Zimbabwe's potential for reform was just badly hurt by this leak.
Could someone please explain to me what terrible crime was committed that was exposed by this latest leak?
I dont want to hear about the war, or about whatever other issues you may have with the government-- what crimes were specifically exposed by the embassy wire leak?
I should also note that you wouldnt even need to-- you could simply insert javascript into the HTTPS login page, as such pages are usually comprised of both HTTP and HTTPS components. You could rewrite the page with javascript so that parts are indeed HTTPS, but the actual submission is HTTP.
If you are intercepting all pages before they hit the computer, the process is simple. Person requests hxxps://www.mybank.com/login.htm. Infected bot intercepts it, makes the connection to the bank itself, decodes the page, and presents a "fake" version of the page, sans SSL. What ends up happening is the bot acts like a caching proxy, decoding each page as it comes in and providing a non-HTTPS version to the client.
Now, I dont think you could fake the SSL lock icon in the browser-- you may be able to fake the DNS, but you cant fake the SSL cert authority's signature, so attempting to fake the SSL would trip the self-signed alarm bells on the browser, but theres no reason you cant simply strip out the SSL altogether. The only browser that complains about THAT is IE, and most people click through it because it complains every time you do a google search.
If they are running linux, even if they only have 16mb of ram, 4mb of flash space, and a 216 mhz processor, you would be absolutely astonished at how much you could do.
FWIW most routers out there meet those specs, and can be flashed with DDWRT. They wouldnt use BIND, but they support cron, ssh, dnsmasq, dhcp, and quite a bit more. With double or triple the flash space, you start being able to really have some fun.
Sure, if you dont mind being held in contempt, thats a brilliant idea-- give the finger to the court system.
... in the US government's life of doing whatever the hell they want without a court involved
This was a court order; in fact the first link in the summary was to the court order. Page 2 basically states "This is a court order".
I am at a loss for words sometimes when people can assert things in direct contradiction with the article, and get modded up for it. Real "interesting", i suppose.
If slashdot is to be believed, we shouldnt HAVE foreign policy other than "We are friends with you" and "We are about to invade you".
Freedom is not unlimited anywhere, hate to break it to you. US is a heck of a lot better than many other places in this regard, and Im not just talking about places like China. We dont have net filtering, we dont have CCTVs everywhere, we are free to ridicule the president, burn our flag, etc.
But yea, we have no freedoms at all, keep believing that. Im sure the man will be around shortly to cart you off for breaking that illusion.
Additionally, he has limited power as the President, he's been trying to close GITMO, but without the ability to move at least some of the inmates to US courts
Then perhaps he shouldnt have made that promise, eh?
This is a court order; I fail to see how civil liberties are impinged when, in the course of an investigation, court orders are issued in support of said investigation.
But nevermind that, lets get back to mindlessly railing against the government, democracy, the courts, etc-- NOTHING they do can EVER be right.
1) Set up ssh and dynamic dns on compromised TV, or perhaps a cron job to do a reverse SSH tunnel every so often (to bypass firewall). Now you know where this connection is, at all times, and have full control, at any time.
2) Set up BIND DNS, set to forward to whatever malicious DNS server you want.
3) Either set up a phony DHCP server, and/or do some arp poisoning so that all traffic to the internet is routed thru the TV.
4) Control the entire household's internet connection -- rewriting HTTP pages, sending whatever DNS responses you want (Google? SURE, its this IP here in china!), capturing passwords (redirecting HTTPS to HTTP so that cert errors dont occur, or inserting non HTTPS javascript to capture the password), etc.
ANY smart device on a home network has the potential to wreak massive havok on that network.
The statement "X phenomena is caused by ghosts" may be falsifiable, however, and may be far more relevant to this case.
Not entirely sure such wordings are really kosher in Wikipedia; that doesnt really scream "NPOV" to me. (When's the last time you saw an encyclopedia use "quackery", or speculate on what would have happened?)
In my 4 year old desktop (E6300 processor; 4x1GB ram; nVidia 9500 GT; 2x HDD), total power draw goes between 150watts and 220 (full load) watts, as measured by an in-line watt meter.
Laptops tend to use quite a bit less power; 15-60watts is what I found from some quick googling, and the last laptop I had was around 18 watts as measured with laptop-tools under linux.
This indicates 10 watts for DDR2, vs 4 watts for DDR3, vs (presumably) 4*.6= 2.4 watts for DDR4. Not sure whether that link is accurate, or whether that is accurate for laptops; take it with a grain of salt.
Cyanide gas diffusion rates (to find out how much gas someone would have to use to kill someone in a small room)
Oh, well thats perfectly understandable; nothing to worry about there. Thanks for the clarification...
Check techbargains, they have several DDR3 sets of like 8GB for $65, and 6GB for under $45.
/GB deals from a mere 5 days ago
Those deals may have passed, but here are some under $10/GB deals:
4GB / $39.99
2GB / $18.99
8GB / $74.99
$8
Etc etc, it may fluctuate some, but its been around $8/GB for about a month now.
Google it, search on youtube. Its not hard.