As to the American control complex... it is because we are responsible for global peace. Your country isn't.
We are a super power. We have responsibilities. If we drop the ball, billions might die. We have more responsibility every day then your culture has probably had in the last thousand years combined.
You REALLY are that stupid, eh?
You are responsible for the whole mess that is causing all the trouble now.
1. You disposed of the elected laicistic Iranian president and installed the Shah. Consequence of his brutality, your country condoned: Khomeni and the problems caused. 2. You made Saddam start a war with Iran. And your country knew of the gassings of innocent people. And you gave him weapons. 3. In order to get rid of the USSR in Afghanistan, you supported the Taliban. Consequence: 9-11. 4. Because of 9-11, you invaded Afghanistan. But before you finished the Job, you invaded Ira with no plan what so ever hat will become of this country when you left. With made up WMD. And lies about babies ripped out of their incubators.
And you even had the chuzpa to call french fries "freedom fries" because the french and the german government called out your bullshit. Consequences after you pulled out prematurely: Instable Irak and instable Afghanistan.
5. You supported even the crazies in order to get rid of Assad. And now you have the crazies invading Irak and Syria.
What about Vietnam? Burning women and children in order to free them from communism. I am shure they felt free while being burned alive.
You made a mess out of the whole world. You alone are responsible.
Until WW 2, your records are quite clean. The records of my country weren't. I am German. I am thankful for the allies that forced us into democracy. I really am.
But from that time on, except for the fact that you kept the USSR in europe at bay, you made every mistake possible. You made your own foes and built up your own nightmares. And the Ukraine? The NATO promised Russia it would not come nearer to russian soil. And did exactly that. And when Putin stopped you right before you could assimilate the haven were they keep their marine, you cried foul. And started another civil war.
The list goes on and on and on. Thank you for protecting us from the USSR and for getting rid of the Nazis. But you are NOT beneficial to this world any longer. You are a menace. So stop being so full of yourself. The IS is your problem. And you expect Turks to solve the problems you have caused. This is not a reasonable position.
The correct procedure to dispose of the IS would be to get a UN mandate. You did'nt even bother. Russia does not trust you, because you already overstepped the UN Mandate in Irak. Who could trust a liar?
You have the chief of the NSA lie to congress without any consequences.
Start looking around. The hatred against america has its reasons. Ignoring them like you do is a dangerous thing.
Yes. Sadly, this is true. Our secret services traded intelligence for US intelligence and collaborated in the mass surveillance on my country. I can only hope they did not collaborate in the manipulation of our infrastructure.
But your original lie was that my government spies on the US. And that is simply that: A lie to deflect the fact that the USA are overstepping every bound. And that is not OK.
They know how to pass crypto that is just good enough for German use but is open to the US and UK as used and is kept degraded over decades.
Crypto at an international and US domestic level seems to be favoured front companies, tame staff, turned staff or have staff trained to a mid or top level over years.
It is difficult to compromise open source crypto. True Crypt works. PGP works. Snowdens leaks show us exactly that. Being angry is one thing. Freaking out or not using crypto is not the way to deal with the leaks. Even iMessage is safe. Or red phone. Or Signal. There are many options. If people simply use crypto mass surveillance would at least be more difficult.
For example you could sign up to an voip-provider with nomadic use like easybell and use linphone with zrtp for everyday calls with friends. And for more secret conversations, use redphone / signals.
Getting more paranoid than the Snowden leaks suggest does not help. One time pads are not usable on a daily basis. Not using encryption even though Snowdens leaks suggest that it works makes it easier and cheaper to spy on us.
Are you the same Anonymous Coward as above? Being paranoid does not mean that they're not after you. They might. But it makes ongoing discussions very annoying. 9-11 was an inside job in your opinion, yes?
You Sir are insane. Stop posting as "Anonymous Coward" and come forward with your real ID. I risked some Karma to tell " Karmashock" that he is an uninformed idiot and why.
You are proposing that Germany should "rise up" again and spread fear on the american and russian people. This opinion is a neclectable minority in Germany, and rightfully so.
There are no "occupants" any more since the 2+4 treaty. The NATO covered our ass for the last 60 years and the allies brought us the little freedom we had since WW 2.
Beyond doubt they are taking away this freedom and try to implement an orwellian surveillance state of unbelievable proportions, just like they did in the US und GB. And yes, the problems in Irak, Iran und Syria are direct results of american interventions.
But "getting rid of them" is no realistic option. The German reunion was granted only if Germany stays in the NATO. Whether we like that or not.
But being allies does not mean that we could not demand the end of this surveillance or threaten them to leave the NATO. But neither Merkel nor Steinmeier will do that. You might not have noticed, but they are collaborators. And concerning our freedom and privacy, they are collaborating with enemies of our constitutional rights. But in order to stop that, there needs to be a change in government first.
It will take time for an election that does not result in "Social Demokrats" (neither social nor democrats) or "Christian Demokrats" (not being democrats) in the government.
First things first. As long as the traitors that collaborate with the five eyes against our constitutional rights are in the government, there won't be a chance to convince the members of the five eyes that we are serious about the demands to stop spying on each and every German citizen.
Spying on the Government is one thing. But this is mass surveillance. Every system in our countries might be compromised. Every router might be sending the information to the NSA. How to flash a fritzbox so that everyting is deleted? How could this be done with a mandatory router from the ISP?
The Chilling Effect is the problem here. Every second of every day is recorded and our Government conspires with the NSA to get the job (mass surveillance) done.
Spying on our Government is bad enough, but it does not effect NGOs, citizens and the the freedom of the press or the privcacy of 80 million people.
But these leak prove that there is no limit to our "allies" - and to our lapdog government. Mister Steinmeier is a Collaborator. And the US seem to be the enemy he is collaborating with.
If it bordered war then we've all been guilty for it for as long as we've been allies.
It doesn't. You just weren't aware of it. Countries spy on each other all the time.
Repeating that lie does not make it true. The German Government declared the US off limits. They accidently taped Ms. Clinton while she flew across fucking Afghanistan. They did not delete her conversations immediately and YOUR government used that as an example that Germany spied on the US too. Look it up for fuck's sake.
You think that Mass Surveillance on this level is OK?
F..k you! F..k you! F..k you!
Our human rights include privacy too. And we are no second class humans just because we happen to be Germans. I am so angry about your uninformed stupidity and I have some karma to spend on you, you uninformed, stupid, a...ole.
Everyday 7000 Firearms are shown or used in self defence. This means that every citizen will use its firearm every 122 years. In this one case the fingerprintreader with an accuracy of 99.99 per cent will fail. Such a device should never exist!
If I were an responsible US gun owner, I would have used that weapon quite regulary to maximise my ability to hit the right person in any situation. By doing so I would look after the battery life at least once a year, which is sufficient I guess for a device that usually does not neeed any power. If the finger print reader would have reliability problems, I would know from my training and from other customers and sue the hell out of the manufacturer, AFTER I bought a stupid gun.
I understand that tigger happy people do not like such a gun in their house. But the arguments here against a smart gun as an option are astroturfed. You know if a device is reliable from your own experience and from others. The only thing to decide is if one prefers the danger of children or other persons misusing the weapon to the danger of the device stopped working just the one time it is needed in statistically 122 years.
Wrong. The 32bit-part did not prevent any Software to take down the whole OS. The NT line however did that, because they were completely 32 bit. Win9x had only parts that were in 32 bit. And those were no parts that improved stability. Win9x was more unstable than Windows 3.x. And NT 4 or w2k beat the shit out of win9x or me every time of the day. Pirating these versions over paid 9x versions was self defense.
yes. Because windows nt4 or w2k would only crash the app, not the whole f...ing OS, like Windows 9x or Windows Me did. To me, the list goes like:
win 3.1 - OK win9x - crap. Bad crap that would crash the system judt because of a random game. The NT line did not do that. Normally it would only crash the game, the rest was working fine. Even the game, when you started it again.a win NT 4 - major improvement win me - shittiest crap ever, the mother of all shitty Windows OS. Boy, was that bad. Even worse than 9.x and this one was so bad it did not make it through the presentation before bluescreening. win2k - loved it win xp - unusable until SP 3, but OK, as it was possible to turn off that ugly GUI back to 2k vista - quite nice on a decent setup except for the UAC, on dated or cheap hardware pretty annoying windows 7 - loved it, still do Windows 8.0 is as bad as Windows 9x was. A major step down from what was accomplished. Simply annoying for desktop users. Windows 8.1 is just getting there, but it is still crap without a touchscreen.
You nailed it. I was saying something similar to collegues, but you made the point far clearer than I had. That is the thing that annoyed me the most.
The lack of discoverability. The rest - includig the extra clicks neccessary just to do a real shutdown - were annoying, but the lack of a place were everything could be done SOMEHOW made me scream. I had to use skills just to get basic jobs done. Things that I found out years ago in a few minutes not took a very damn long time.
Thanks again for clearing my thoughts about the major issue.
Don't give up! Google! I can only point you to German guides, but I am shure that there are guides in english as well. In order to install Windows 8.1 over 8.0 on my gf laptop, I had to download the iso from the windows app store, burn it and do a complete install.
It is possible, it is legal, it is just annoyingly diificult and awkward to get it done. German version here, you may succeed if you use google translate or you may find the description in english elsewhere: http://www.pcwelt.de/tipps/Set...
And if you do succeed - please feel obliged to share it here. Windows 8.0 is an ungly mess, Windows 8.1 is slightly better, so people should know how to do it, if oss is no solution.
Living in a surveillance state like china or the US is one thing. Denying it and accusing only the other country of being a fascistic surveillance state is ridiculous.
Yes. And there is one major point: Hiding backdoors like the ones implemented in the consoles and Windows is not as easy on linux. After NSA, even though I am gamer, there is no way in hell that I'll be running a closed source OS on my machines in a year or so except for dual boot from time to time. Starting steam could unmount the drives with my data on linux, the reast is more or less open, so a backdoor is harder to hide.
To me, that counts. A closed source device that listens to every word spoken in my room and looks for the number of people and what they are doing? You got to be kidding me. I do not care why Gabe does it. I want it. On my own machine, built by myself. Able to play current games (half life 3! Now!) and do serious stuff on a platform I could trust considerable more than any NSA-infested closed source system?
From what I've read, you can install any software you want on the SteamBox, or even run the OS on your own hardware. It's not the same model as consoles, iOS, or what Microsoft is heading for. It's the same model as Linux, Android, and what traditional Windows is.
I agree. Plus: As it is Linux, it is pretty damn hard to ship it with backdoors nobody finds. To me, the main reason for still using windows are games. If current games come to Linux, dual boot becomes an option. Working and most games on steam OS, a virtual box for some applications and dual boot as a fallback for some games.
I don't know about you, but after we know (!) that MS really builds backdoors into its products, I will swith. Gamer or not.
You have no fucking idea how true crypts hidden operating system and "plausible deniability" work, do you? The free space, when booting the decoy system, ist the whole free space, including the space of the real operating system. So you have a secret limit of data you could store in the decoy system.
This space is defined at the beginning of the encryption process. It is only possible to delete all data be exceeding the data limit on the decoy or overwriting the free space by zeros. But there is no evidence that you have a second OS with hidden files.
this. Use the whole system encryption and carefully use the plausible deniability feature to dual boot. The decoy system must be reasonable. Add some files, especially if you need them on your trip, browse the web, do searches for holidays in the US and add some porn. Seriously: You are suspicious if you're male and there is no porn on the private laptop. Combine algorithms when doing the whole system encryption, just in case.
So. At the border, give them the password for the decoy system. It should be reanonable complex password. If they take away the laptop for one minute, consider it to be compromised. Do not use it anymore or only use the decoy while being aware that your activity is closely monitored. Do not get your into your more private emailaccount abroad, only use the garbage account provided by an american company. Do not login to anything remotely security related, just as you would on a public terminal.
Or you do a clean install and take a HDD with your backup in a hidden container on the hdd.
Oh. And your iPhone or Android MUST be factory reset before entering the US border. Once they have physical access to it, they can extract the information, including important password stored on the phone. The backup could be on your laptop, the cloud is obviously not an option for a backup.
In most cases, nothing will happen. But be aware that you are entering a police state that is only a few years ahead of europe. So you came prepared.
To the FUD-spreaders in this thread: Snowden himself trusts true crypt enough to use it. Some enryption is compromised, but not all. If you combine different algorithms, chances are high that the decryption might take enough time for a mortal being to have it decrypted when it doesn't matter anymore.
Spreading FUD leaves Joe Average, who might get the whole system encryption installed with some help with nothing he can do. And that is not the case.
Yes, the tin foil hats were right. But even if everything is pretty much fucked, all is not lost. Personally, I prefer fighting back instead of doing nothing because the others have already won. Because they haven't - quite yet.
If you are a target, you're screwed. That is true. But at least the peeking into your whole privacy at a random custom search like this is deflectable.
After returning from the US, either throw away the compromised laptop if the laptop was taken away even for a short time or flash the BIOS, repartition the HDD, reinstall the operating system and hope for the best (that the bug was only planted in the BIOS and the mbr, not in other firmwares and that the bug in the BIOS was overwritten by the flashing).
If the laptop was not seized, simply decrypt the right system and repeat the steps above with a more perfomant combination of algorithms. Of course, all these steps are moot if you are a target.
BTW: Consider all closed source operating systems to be compromised big time. Only a few people need windows as the first operating system anymore. Most people will be fine with a restricted virtual machine within a Open Source OS.
Gamers could do a dual boot to play and reboot for work and browsing, but that is very inconvinient. At least until newer games are brought to linux by steam. And here is the problem of the closed source steamclient and the closed source driver for the graphic card, but my guess is that strange behaviour would be easier to find by the community on linux than on windows, so the attack vector is still smaller.
But still, if you are a target, you are screwed. The russian secret service has ordered hundreds of type writers recently for a reason.
Like preventing adults from viewing porn without having to register as a pervert by british authorities first. And of course now they extend these laws to any inconvenient webcontent whatsoever. The Guardian left its co.uk domain because of the pressure of the fascist government reigning in the UK.
But all is well. My government wants to become one of the five eyes to spy on other countries citizens and send the information to the other states that are not allowed to spy on their own people because they have (lesser by every day that goes by, but still) something called "human rights". And vice versa getting all the forbidden fruits of surveillance on my countrymen. Oh wait, we are already doing this and much worse, even without being part of the five eyes.
It is sad. England brought us the freedom of press and human rights after WW II. And now they are the first to throw everything away with the governements of continental Europe trying everything from legal to illegal to keep up with them to ensure that Eurasia is just as bad as Ozeania.
George Orwell was so damn right. He just did not see that people would pay money to get a better bugging device and that even the small time the couple in 1984 had together is impossible because every citizen wears a portable televisor, leaving out no space and time in any privacy. Apple takes your fingerprints and kinect gets your home and everything you say and do covered.
Impressive. George Orwell just hadn't enough imagination for 2014.
They refused to give the child to other members of her family because they were not related by blood. Interesting point of view. And they did send her back to italy but are giving the child free for adoption in UK. No matter the circumstances, this is not acceptable under no circumstances. They are taking the child out of his culture and are forcing it to live in a fascist surveillance state with no more human rights left whatsoever. It is bad enough as it is in continental europe, but Oceania?
She was there for a training, not to live there. And now she did not only lose her child, she lost it to a state were noone within his right state of mind EVER wants to live unless this person is really, really rich.
There is no possible backgroundstory whatsoever to make it any better.
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As to the American control complex... it is because we are responsible for global peace. Your country isn't.
We are a super power. We have responsibilities. If we drop the ball, billions might die. We have more responsibility every day then your culture has probably had in the last thousand years combined.
You REALLY are that stupid, eh?
You are responsible for the whole mess that is causing all the trouble now.
1. You disposed of the elected laicistic Iranian president and installed the Shah. Consequence of his brutality, your country condoned: Khomeni and the problems caused.
2. You made Saddam start a war with Iran. And your country knew of the gassings of innocent people. And you gave him weapons.
3. In order to get rid of the USSR in Afghanistan, you supported the Taliban. Consequence: 9-11.
4. Because of 9-11, you invaded Afghanistan. But before you finished the Job, you invaded Ira with no plan what so ever hat will become of this country when you left. With made up WMD. And lies about babies ripped out of their incubators.
And you even had the chuzpa to call french fries "freedom fries" because the french and the german government called out your bullshit. Consequences after you pulled out prematurely: Instable Irak and instable Afghanistan.
5. You supported even the crazies in order to get rid of Assad. And now you have the crazies invading Irak and Syria.
What about Vietnam? Burning women and children in order to free them from communism. I am shure they felt free while being burned alive.
You made a mess out of the whole world. You alone are responsible.
Until WW 2, your records are quite clean. The records of my country weren't. I am German. I am thankful for the allies that forced us into democracy. I really am.
But from that time on, except for the fact that you kept the USSR in europe at bay, you made every mistake possible. You made your own foes and built up your own nightmares. And the Ukraine? The NATO promised Russia it would not come nearer to russian soil. And did exactly that. And when Putin stopped you right before you could assimilate the haven were they keep their marine, you cried foul. And started another civil war.
The list goes on and on and on. Thank you for protecting us from the USSR and for getting rid of the Nazis. But you are NOT beneficial to this world any longer. You are a menace. So stop being so full of yourself. The IS is your problem. And you expect Turks to solve the problems you have caused. This is not a reasonable position.
The correct procedure to dispose of the IS would be to get a UN mandate. You did'nt even bother. Russia does not trust you, because you already overstepped the UN Mandate in Irak. Who could trust a liar?
You have the chief of the NSA lie to congress without any consequences.
Start looking around. The hatred against america has its reasons. Ignoring them like you do is a dangerous thing.
Yes. Sadly, this is true. Our secret services traded intelligence for US intelligence and collaborated in the mass surveillance on my country. I can only hope they did not collaborate in the manipulation of our infrastructure.
But your original lie was that my government spies on the US. And that is simply that: A lie to deflect the fact that the USA are overstepping every bound. And that is not OK.
They know how to pass crypto that is just good enough for German use but is open to the US and UK as used and is kept degraded over decades.
Crypto at an international and US domestic level seems to be favoured front companies, tame staff, turned staff or have staff trained to a mid or top level over years.
It is difficult to compromise open source crypto. True Crypt works. PGP works. Snowdens leaks show us exactly that. Being angry is one thing. Freaking out or not using crypto is not the way to deal with the leaks. Even iMessage is safe. Or red phone. Or Signal. There are many options. If people simply use crypto mass surveillance would at least be more difficult.
For example you could sign up to an voip-provider with nomadic use like easybell and use linphone with zrtp for everyday calls with friends. And for more secret conversations, use redphone / signals.
Getting more paranoid than the Snowden leaks suggest does not help. One time pads are not usable on a daily basis. Not using encryption even though Snowdens leaks suggest that it works makes it easier and cheaper to spy on us.
Are you the same Anonymous Coward as above? Being paranoid does not mean that they're not after you. They might. But it makes ongoing discussions very annoying. 9-11 was an inside job in your opinion, yes?
You Sir are insane. Stop posting as "Anonymous Coward" and come forward with your real ID. I risked some Karma to tell " Karmashock" that he is an uninformed idiot and why.
You are proposing that Germany should "rise up" again and spread fear on the american and russian people. This opinion is a neclectable minority in Germany, and rightfully so.
You learned nothing from our history. EOT.
There are no "occupants" any more since the 2+4 treaty. The NATO covered our ass for the last 60 years and the allies brought us the little freedom we had since WW 2.
Beyond doubt they are taking away this freedom and try to implement an orwellian surveillance state of unbelievable proportions, just like they did in the US und GB. And yes, the problems in Irak, Iran und Syria are direct results of american interventions.
But "getting rid of them" is no realistic option. The German reunion was granted only if Germany stays in the NATO. Whether we like that or not.
But being allies does not mean that we could not demand the end of this surveillance or threaten them to leave the NATO. But neither Merkel nor Steinmeier will do that. You might not have noticed, but they are collaborators. And concerning our freedom and privacy, they are collaborating with enemies of our constitutional rights. But in order to stop that, there needs to be a change in government first.
It will take time for an election that does not result in "Social Demokrats" (neither social nor democrats) or "Christian Demokrats" (not being democrats) in the government.
First things first. As long as the traitors that collaborate with the five eyes against our constitutional rights are in the government, there won't be a chance to convince the members of the five eyes that we are serious about the demands to stop spying on each and every German citizen.
Spying on the Government is one thing. But this is mass surveillance. Every system in our countries might be compromised. Every router might be sending the information to the NSA. How to flash a fritzbox so that everyting is deleted? How could this be done with a mandatory router from the ISP?
The Chilling Effect is the problem here. Every second of every day is recorded and our Government conspires with the NSA to get the job (mass surveillance) done.
Spying on our Government is bad enough, but it does not effect NGOs, citizens and the the freedom of the press or the privcacy of 80 million people.
But these leak prove that there is no limit to our "allies" - and to our lapdog government. Mister Steinmeier is a Collaborator. And the US seem to be the enemy he is collaborating with.
Mass surveillance on every German citizen? Very nice.
If it bordered war then we've all been guilty for it for as long as we've been allies.
It doesn't. You just weren't aware of it. Countries spy on each other all the time.
Repeating that lie does not make it true. The German Government declared the US off limits. They accidently taped Ms. Clinton while she flew across fucking Afghanistan. They did not delete her conversations immediately and YOUR government used that as an example that Germany spied on the US too. Look it up for fuck's sake.
You think that Mass Surveillance on this level is OK?
F..k you! F..k you! F..k you!
Our human rights include privacy too. And we are no second class humans just because we happen to be Germans. I am so angry about your uninformed stupidity and I have some karma to spend on you, you uninformed, stupid, a...ole.
So what the US citizens here are saying is this:
Everyday 7000 Firearms are shown or used in self defence. This means that every citizen will use its firearm every 122 years. In this one case the fingerprintreader with an accuracy of 99.99 per cent will fail. Such a device should never exist!
If I were an responsible US gun owner, I would have used that weapon quite regulary to maximise my ability to hit the right person in any situation. By doing so I would look after the battery life at least once a year, which is sufficient I guess for a device that usually does not neeed any power. If the finger print reader would have reliability problems, I would know from my training and from other customers and sue the hell out of the manufacturer, AFTER I bought a stupid gun.
I understand that tigger happy people do not like such a gun in their house. But the arguments here against a smart gun as an option are astroturfed. You know if a device is reliable from your own experience and from others. The only thing to decide is if one prefers the danger of children or other persons misusing the weapon to the danger of the device stopped working just the one time it is needed in statistically 122 years.
yup. Not shure about the SP, but in general, the list is sidentical to my experiences.
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Wrong. The 32bit-part did not prevent any Software to take down the whole OS. The NT line however did that, because they were completely 32 bit. Win9x had only parts that were in 32 bit. And those were no parts that improved stability. Win9x was more unstable than Windows 3.x. And NT 4 or w2k beat the shit out of win9x or me every time of the day. Pirating these versions over paid 9x versions was self defense.
yes. Because windows nt4 or w2k would only crash the app, not the whole f...ing OS, like Windows 9x or Windows Me did. To me, the list goes like:
win 3.1 - OK
win9x - crap. Bad crap that would crash the system judt because of a random game. The NT line did not do that. Normally it would only crash the game, the rest was working fine. Even the game, when you started it again.a
win NT 4 - major improvement
win me - shittiest crap ever, the mother of all shitty Windows OS. Boy, was that bad. Even worse than 9.x and this one was so bad it did not make it through the presentation before bluescreening.
win2k - loved it
win xp - unusable until SP 3, but OK, as it was possible to turn off that ugly GUI back to 2k
vista - quite nice on a decent setup except for the UAC, on dated or cheap hardware pretty annoying
windows 7 - loved it, still do
Windows 8.0 is as bad as Windows 9x was. A major step down from what was accomplished. Simply annoying for desktop users. Windows 8.1 is just getting there, but it is still crap without a touchscreen.
You nailed it. I was saying something similar to collegues, but you made the point far clearer than I had. That is the thing that annoyed me the most.
The lack of discoverability. The rest - includig the extra clicks neccessary just to do a real shutdown - were annoying, but the lack of a place were everything could be done SOMEHOW made me scream. I had to use skills just to get basic jobs done. Things that I found out years ago in a few minutes not took a very damn long time.
Thanks again for clearing my thoughts about the major issue.
Don't give up! Google! I can only point you to German guides, but I am shure that there are guides in english as well. In order to install Windows 8.1 over 8.0 on my gf laptop, I had to download the iso from the windows app store, burn it and do a complete install.
It is possible, it is legal, it is just annoyingly diificult and awkward to get it done. German version here, you may succeed if you use google translate or you may find the description in english elsewhere: http://www.pcwelt.de/tipps/Set...
And if you do succeed - please feel obliged to share it here. Windows 8.0 is an ungly mess, Windows 8.1 is slightly better, so people should know how to do it, if oss is no solution.
The link from the other guy was not in a reply to your outrageous lies, so here it goes:
http://www.wired.com/wiredente...
Living in a surveillance state like china or the US is one thing. Denying it and accusing only the other country of being a fascistic surveillance state is ridiculous.
Yes. And there is one major point: Hiding backdoors like the ones implemented in the consoles and Windows is not as easy on linux. After NSA, even though I am gamer, there is no way in hell that I'll be running a closed source OS on my machines in a year or so except for dual boot from time to time. Starting steam could unmount the drives with my data on linux, the reast is more or less open, so a backdoor is harder to hide.
To me, that counts. A closed source device that listens to every word spoken in my room and looks for the number of people and what they are doing? You got to be kidding me. I do not care why Gabe does it. I want it. On my own machine, built by myself. Able to play current games (half life 3! Now!) and do serious stuff on a platform I could trust considerable more than any NSA-infested closed source system?
This is a nobrainer.
From what I've read, you can install any software you want on the SteamBox, or even run the OS on your own hardware. It's not the same model as consoles, iOS, or what Microsoft is heading for. It's the same model as Linux, Android, and what traditional Windows is.
I agree. Plus: As it is Linux, it is pretty damn hard to ship it with backdoors nobody finds. To me, the main reason for still using windows are games. If current games come to Linux, dual boot becomes an option. Working and most games on steam OS, a virtual box for some applications and dual boot as a fallback for some games.
I don't know about you, but after we know (!) that MS really builds backdoors into its products, I will swith. Gamer or not.
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You have no fucking idea how true crypts hidden operating system and "plausible deniability" work, do you? The free space, when booting the decoy system, ist the whole free space, including the space of the real operating system. So you have a secret limit of data you could store in the decoy system.
This space is defined at the beginning of the encryption process. It is only possible to delete all data be exceeding the data limit on the decoy or overwriting the free space by zeros. But there is no evidence that you have a second OS with hidden files.
It's called 'plausible deniability' for a reason.
Insightful? You are ignoring the plausible deniability feature. Otherwise, true crypt would not be an option.
this. Use the whole system encryption and carefully use the plausible deniability feature to dual boot. The decoy system must be reasonable. Add some files, especially if you need them on your trip, browse the web, do searches for holidays in the US and add some porn. Seriously: You are suspicious if you're male and there is no porn on the private laptop. Combine algorithms when doing the whole system encryption, just in case.
So. At the border, give them the password for the decoy system. It should be reanonable complex password. If they take away the laptop for one minute, consider it to be compromised. Do not use it anymore or only use the decoy while being aware that your activity is closely monitored. Do not get your into your more private emailaccount abroad, only use the garbage account provided by an american company. Do not login to anything remotely security related, just as you would on a public terminal.
Or you do a clean install and take a HDD with your backup in a hidden container on the hdd.
Oh. And your iPhone or Android MUST be factory reset before entering the US border. Once they have physical access to it, they can extract the information, including important password stored on the phone. The backup could be on your laptop, the cloud is obviously not an option for a backup.
In most cases, nothing will happen. But be aware that you are entering a police state that is only a few years ahead of europe. So you came prepared.
To the FUD-spreaders in this thread: Snowden himself trusts true crypt enough to use it. Some enryption is compromised, but not all. If you combine different algorithms, chances are high that the decryption might take enough time for a mortal being to have it decrypted when it doesn't matter anymore.
Spreading FUD leaves Joe Average, who might get the whole system encryption installed with some help with nothing he can do. And that is not the case.
Yes, the tin foil hats were right. But even if everything is pretty much fucked, all is not lost. Personally, I prefer fighting back instead of doing nothing because the others have already won. Because they haven't - quite yet.
If you are a target, you're screwed. That is true. But at least the peeking into your whole privacy at a random custom search like this is deflectable.
After returning from the US, either throw away the compromised laptop if the laptop was taken away even for a short time or flash the BIOS, repartition the HDD, reinstall the operating system and hope for the best (that the bug was only planted in the BIOS and the mbr, not in other firmwares and that the bug in the BIOS was overwritten by the flashing).
If the laptop was not seized, simply decrypt the right system and repeat the steps above with a more perfomant combination of algorithms. Of course, all these steps are moot if you are a target.
BTW: Consider all closed source operating systems to be compromised big time. Only a few people need windows as the first operating system anymore. Most people will be fine with a restricted virtual machine within a Open Source OS.
Gamers could do a dual boot to play and reboot for work and browsing, but that is very inconvinient. At least until newer games are brought to linux by steam. And here is the problem of the closed source steamclient and the closed source driver for the graphic card, but my guess is that strange behaviour would be easier to find by the community on linux than on windows, so the attack vector is still smaller.
But still, if you are a target, you are screwed. The russian secret service has ordered hundreds of type writers recently for a reason.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_adoption_in_the_United_Kingdom Nuff said. "Think about the children!!!" justifies anything.
Like preventing adults from viewing porn without having to register as a pervert by british authorities first. And of course now they extend these laws to any inconvenient webcontent whatsoever. The Guardian left its co.uk domain because of the pressure of the fascist government reigning in the UK.
But all is well. My government wants to become one of the five eyes to spy on other countries citizens and send the information to the other states that are not allowed to spy on their own people because they have (lesser by every day that goes by, but still) something called "human rights". And vice versa getting all the forbidden fruits of surveillance on my countrymen. Oh wait, we are already doing this and much worse, even without being part of the five eyes.
It is sad. England brought us the freedom of press and human rights after WW II. And now they are the first to throw everything away with the governements of continental Europe trying everything from legal to illegal to keep up with them to ensure that Eurasia is just as bad as Ozeania.
George Orwell was so damn right. He just did not see that people would pay money to get a better bugging device and that even the small time the couple in 1984 had together is impossible because every citizen wears a portable televisor, leaving out no space and time in any privacy. Apple takes your fingerprints and kinect gets your home and everything you say and do covered.
Impressive. George Orwell just hadn't enough imagination for 2014.
They refused to give the child to other members of her family because they were not related by blood. Interesting point of view. And they did send her back to italy but are giving the child free for adoption in UK. No matter the circumstances, this is not acceptable under no circumstances. They are taking the child out of his culture and are forcing it to live in a fascist surveillance state with no more human rights left whatsoever. It is bad enough as it is in continental europe, but Oceania?
She was there for a training, not to live there. And now she did not only lose her child, she lost it to a state were noone within his right state of mind EVER wants to live unless this person is really, really rich.
There is no possible backgroundstory whatsoever to make it any better.