How do you think managed mail scanning services work? They continually gather data on ip addresses, email accounts, url links, attachments, body and subject verbage, and probably many more data points to build profiles. Barracuda can start marking things as zero-hour-intent even before it knows the attachment or url is malicious because they saw patterns in data gathered from thousands of Barracuda boxes around the world. Each device is also a sensor. And Barracuda isn't the only game in town.
Never underestimate a beowulf cluster of libraries of congress filled with martian soil and hot grits flying down the road on the back of a NASA rover.
"legal" is a false concept between countries. they are only agreements, often not even agreed to by all the nations that supposedly fall under "International Law" as pronounced with a British Accent. Spying isn't legal. War isn't legal. These things exist above the reach of laws as we think of them while speeding. If you get caught in the target country, you are in trouble, no doubt. Misdeeds? There are no countries in heaven. Countries don't get rewarded for "doing nice things", they get rewarded for doing what is necessary to maintain their survival. Their reward is their survival. The US spying on Brazil isn't a misdeed. Brazil spying on the US isn't a misdeed. And either side can punish spies as they decide their laws should dictate.
It's like you guys are living in a naive fantasy land, and every time to try to make real life reflect this sissy idealism, all you really do is vote for your own destruction.
1. The US was never a democracy. 2. You have absolutely no data to support your claim. 3. There is nothing "bad" about spying on other countries.
don't like domestic spying? good, fight that. what i hear from most of you is "i want to dismantle our ability to spy on other countries because it sounds sooo punk rock!"
Cut the bullshit. Every country with any international dealings has an espionage agency.
It seems NSA is the most popular buzzword for people to bitch about when 90% of the nerds posting here would actually secretly give their left net to get a job at. Websites like this LOVE NSA stories for the keyword-whoring.
Mad about domestic spying? Good. Jumping on the Fuck The NSA bandwagon cause Brazil is mad and that just makes more people on the bandwaggon? Lame.
Mostly because social mores reflected our fear of being murdered and were embodied in religious edicts not to murder... and the lack of fatal traffic accidents in our hunter-gatherer days.
Oh.... recidivism you say? Compare DUI repeat offenders vs murder.
DUI: 21-47% depending on the state. National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, 1995. Homicide: 1.2% averaged over 3 years. Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1994.
The "reasons" you speak of, while they might have been considered the Big O(n) improvement at one time (getting people to stop smashing each-other with rocks) is barely 0.4 (white) - 2.7 (black) percent of the total deaths in the US per year.
The difference NOW is we have all these whiny entitled people who can't possible do anything without a gadget to paw at 24/7, and liberals saying everything is a disease and therefore no one is ever responsible for anything.
I am such a self-absorbed and entitled bitch that I have lost all concept of my personal responsibility while in control of a motor vehicle, and furthermore, rather than addressing the law with my law-makers, I shall keyboard my anger about the police because I am still mad about something from Jr. High. There is no facet of the human existence more important that my own personal convenience and if i want to play with my electronic toys, no one is the boss of me!
Ask a horse, "Why the long face?" Recognize a request for a Double Entendre, then Give it to her! Talk to the duck instead of the pig. Ask a man, "Why the short face?" Tell the Gorilla he can stay but the Goat in the Pope hat that he has to go. Give a neutron free beer.
The funny thing about disasters is that they are disastrous.
Know what else is disastrous? Public outcry from people who have no idea what it might take to respond to a large scale disaster.
No one REALLY wants to pay for emergency preparation. How many people do you know who have no appreciable food / water / emergency supplies, emergency plans in place, and conduct any kind of training or rehersals with their families? Most people have no real will to prepare themselves, and that mentality shows in government funding choices.
So few people pay any kind of mind to preparing themselves for emergencies, it gets tiresom hearing people bitch about the government not being as ready as their extensive movie-watching has led them to believe is reasonable.
The problem with the libertarian movement is the predominance of shitbag no-account pottheads, sour-grapes cop-haters who are still mad about some shit that happened in jr high, and batshit insane conspiracy true believers.
Somewhere in that mix are a handful of people who believe that government should be limited. But its hard to hear them sometimes.
You enlisted, you march to the sound of guns. We fight where we are told, and we win where we fight. We don't cry about it on the internets in front of the public.
This is where you figure out there world isn't here for you, and we don't have a military JUST to give you college money.
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How do you think managed mail scanning services work?
They continually gather data on ip addresses, email accounts, url links, attachments, body and subject verbage, and probably many more data points to build profiles.
Barracuda can start marking things as zero-hour-intent even before it knows the attachment or url is malicious because they saw patterns in data gathered from thousands of Barracuda boxes around the world. Each device is also a sensor. And Barracuda isn't the only game in town.
Somehow I doubt "federal wiretapping laws" take into account how much the person being tapped does or does not enjoy the results.
By this logic, all mail virus scanners are also guilty.
Barracuda should be worries about that.
Never underestimate a beowulf cluster of libraries of congress filled with martian soil and hot grits flying down the road on the back of a NASA rover.
The average American kid probably knows better what a pint is better than what a gym is, or what kind of bottle you'd bring to one.
Only stormtoopers are so precise.
Unlike the noble persuit of high-end graphics cards to build a totally bitchin' mining rig.
"legal" is a false concept between countries. they are only agreements, often not even agreed to by all the nations that supposedly fall under "International Law" as pronounced with a British Accent.
Spying isn't legal. War isn't legal.
These things exist above the reach of laws as we think of them while speeding.
If you get caught in the target country, you are in trouble, no doubt.
Misdeeds? There are no countries in heaven. Countries don't get rewarded for "doing nice things", they get rewarded for doing what is necessary to maintain their survival. Their reward is their survival.
The US spying on Brazil isn't a misdeed. Brazil spying on the US isn't a misdeed. And either side can punish spies as they decide their laws should dictate.
It's like you guys are living in a naive fantasy land, and every time to try to make real life reflect this sissy idealism, all you really do is vote for your own destruction.
They were driving it wrong.
1. The US was never a democracy.
2. You have absolutely no data to support your claim.
3. There is nothing "bad" about spying on other countries.
don't like domestic spying? good, fight that.
what i hear from most of you is "i want to dismantle our ability to spy on other countries because it sounds sooo punk rock!"
Oh, well then, please tell us what these rules are? And where did they come from?
What am I saying?
Cut the bullshit. Every country with any international dealings has an espionage agency.
It seems NSA is the most popular buzzword for people to bitch about when 90% of the nerds posting here would actually secretly give their left net to get a job at. Websites like this LOVE NSA stories for the keyword-whoring.
Mad about domestic spying? Good. Jumping on the Fuck The NSA bandwagon cause Brazil is mad and that just makes more people on the bandwaggon? Lame.
countries spy on countries.
quit being a little bitch.
Mostly because social mores reflected our fear of being murdered and were embodied in religious edicts not to murder... and the lack of fatal traffic accidents in our hunter-gatherer days.
Oh.... recidivism you say? Compare DUI repeat offenders vs murder.
DUI: 21-47% depending on the state. National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, 1995.
Homicide: 1.2% averaged over 3 years. Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1994.
The "reasons" you speak of, while they might have been considered the Big O(n) improvement at one time (getting people to stop smashing each-other with rocks) is barely 0.4 (white) - 2.7 (black) percent of the total deaths in the US per year.
The difference NOW is we have all these whiny entitled people who can't possible do anything without a gadget to paw at 24/7, and liberals saying everything is a disease and therefore no one is ever responsible for anything.
Translation:
I am such a self-absorbed and entitled bitch that I have lost all concept of my personal responsibility while in control of a motor vehicle, and furthermore, rather than addressing the law with my law-makers, I shall keyboard my anger about the police because I am still mad about something from Jr. High. There is no facet of the human existence more important that my own personal convenience and if i want to play with my electronic toys, no one is the boss of me!
Considering how many people are killed in traffic accidents compared to say, murderers, then he is doing it right.
If he were a computer scientist, we would say he is going for Big O(n) improvements and pat him on the back.
Then maybe they should be outsourcing the power-supply wing of the utility instead of the IT guys.
I'll be impressed when the robot can:
Ask a horse, "Why the long face?"
Recognize a request for a Double Entendre, then Give it to her!
Talk to the duck instead of the pig.
Ask a man, "Why the short face?"
Tell the Gorilla he can stay but the Goat in the Pope hat that he has to go.
Give a neutron free beer.
The rest could be made with 1.5 bicycles, and whatever electric motor and batteries you could scavenge from a junk yard.
That could make a really fun class.
The man page clearly states that it in fact pronounced "butterface".
Funny thing happens when everyone is dependant on their government for every facet of thier lives.
Never need your government more than your government needs you.
The funny thing about disasters is that they are disastrous.
Know what else is disastrous? Public outcry from people who have no idea what it might take to respond to a large scale disaster.
No one REALLY wants to pay for emergency preparation. How many people do you know who have no appreciable food / water / emergency supplies, emergency plans in place, and conduct any kind of training or rehersals with their families? Most people have no real will to prepare themselves, and that mentality shows in government funding choices.
So few people pay any kind of mind to preparing themselves for emergencies, it gets tiresom hearing people bitch about the government not being as ready as their extensive movie-watching has led them to believe is reasonable.
The best way to clear airspace is to... clear the airspace.
No one wants a UAV thru their helecopter windscreen.
The problem with the libertarian movement is the predominance of shitbag no-account pottheads, sour-grapes cop-haters who are still mad about some shit that happened in jr high, and batshit insane conspiracy true believers.
Somewhere in that mix are a handful of people who believe that government should be limited. But its hard to hear them sometimes.
Well then GTFO you goddamn shitbag.
You enlisted, you march to the sound of guns. We fight where we are told, and we win where we fight. We don't cry about it on the internets in front of the public.
This is where you figure out there world isn't here for you, and we don't have a military JUST to give you college money.