If there were no BitCoins and physical money had to be used, the hackers could have set up a "dead man's switch" system that would release the info if the hackers didn't intervene and told this to Romney. That way setting a trap would be self-defeating. Send in an anonymously-contacted intermediary with a wire to do the physical collection for a cut.
You can't really do this with a kidnapping though so maybe it could make kidnapping easier...
Or better yet just avoid keeping your money in Bitcoins since the value of them could crash hard at any time as has happened numerous times in the past.
Mod parent Interesting...it's completely possible. Even if the owners checked that the individual coins they have don't match the ones they had before, with careful laundering it could still be pulled off.
I don't think a single download of less than a meg of repo data will overwrite a hard disk even once...and liveCDs never write to the hard disk by default anyways.
And then there's Debian. Ever tried installing that on a computer with slow storage? You have to fucking sit in front of it for an hour because it can't take all the user inputs up front, it asks a question whenever it damn well feels like, so if you leave it the install process will pause at the next prompt. Could be 5 minutes away, could be half an hour away...
Most government owned computers aren't any better-secured than your average office PC. Only computers used in military/espionage-related departments and maybe the very high levels of government will have "serious" security.
Serious question: Could there be some kind of mis-branding going on here? Foxconn products being labelled as "made in Taiwan" because either the company is headquartered there or the place where the plant is located could be reasonably spelled the same way?
If I was rich I'd park in a supercar somewhere near Area 51 and launch an FPV RC at it and fly around the buildings until it gets shot down. If the spooks show up then I'd tell the driver to gun it:D
RC aircraft are illegal to fly outside of certain designated airspaces in most places. Flying RCs out of visual range, which is basically part of FPV flying, is categorically illegal almost everywhere. That what a lot of the new laws about UAVs are addressing.
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If there were no BitCoins and physical money had to be used, the hackers could have set up a "dead man's switch" system that would release the info if the hackers didn't intervene and told this to Romney. That way setting a trap would be self-defeating. Send in an anonymously-contacted intermediary with a wire to do the physical collection for a cut.
You can't really do this with a kidnapping though so maybe it could make kidnapping easier...
It's true that "Coins" are only a unit of measurement in the BitCoin system, but transactions can be tracked just the same:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=241.0
Yes, the anonymity lies in throwaway email addresses that have no association with your real name.
ButtCoin victim spotted.
Or better yet just avoid keeping your money in Bitcoins since the value of them could crash hard at any time as has happened numerous times in the past.
Mod parent Interesting...it's completely possible. Even if the owners checked that the individual coins they have don't match the ones they had before, with careful laundering it could still be pulled off.
They'll have to generate/acquire new ones at their own expense, that's for sure.
An apology is just so great compared to the "fuck you, deal with it" that we've all come to expect.
Maybe he really is a robot. That seems like something a robot would do right?
"CAGE ITEM SECURED TO ROOF OF VEHICLE, INITIATE TRANSPORT. OBJECTIVE COMPLETED. UPDATED OBJECTIVES LIST: 1 - DRIVE TO ONTARIO. 2 - SIMULATE FAMILY ENJOYMENT. 3 - ACQUIRE CURRENCY."
I only have open computers, how do I set up an account?
Yeah but with SIP instead of XMPP (FaceTime).
Or if you don't actually need to do a git clone, just hit the ZIP download button in the top left.
He hated Windows too. Open a command prompt and you can see a depiction of Mohammed with a quizzical look on his face.
What killed him?
I don't think a single download of less than a meg of repo data will overwrite a hard disk even once...and liveCDs never write to the hard disk by default anyways.
And the beauty of it is, when winter comes, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
And then there's Debian. Ever tried installing that on a computer with slow storage? You have to fucking sit in front of it for an hour because it can't take all the user inputs up front, it asks a question whenever it damn well feels like, so if you leave it the install process will pause at the next prompt. Could be 5 minutes away, could be half an hour away...
Most government owned computers aren't any better-secured than your average office PC. Only computers used in military/espionage-related departments and maybe the very high levels of government will have "serious" security.
It won't get that far because it will require an app for some proprietary long-dead OS first. Apps are the future ya know!
I just imagined a cross between CHiPS and TRON.
Maybe they've switched to a bounty system.
Serious question: Could there be some kind of mis-branding going on here? Foxconn products being labelled as "made in Taiwan" because either the company is headquartered there or the place where the plant is located could be reasonably spelled the same way?
Before anyone yells about it I should mention that in many countries that "designated airspace" includes all airspace below a low ceiling.
If I was rich I'd park in a supercar somewhere near Area 51 and launch an FPV RC at it and fly around the buildings until it gets shot down. If the spooks show up then I'd tell the driver to gun it :D
RC aircraft are illegal to fly outside of certain designated airspaces in most places. Flying RCs out of visual range, which is basically part of FPV flying, is categorically illegal almost everywhere. That what a lot of the new laws about UAVs are addressing.