Does anyone honestly believe that LulzSec is anything other that some government agency. They're clearly trying to piss off the general public... and to what purpose? Support for some key upcoming regulatory changes to the internet?
Agreed. But does a profit driven company have the right to determine if they are of sound mind in making that choice, then profit off administering their suicide? Shouldn't the the consent forms and counseling be performed by a registered, unbiased 3rd party for a fixed fee regardless of the outcome? I agree that the government should stay out of it. But this situation is just waiting to be exploited in the most horrific way possible.
"So what was it, anyway? Something completely unknown and unexpected, Denisov said, which is what prompted Fermilab to drop everything and assign its top scientists to uncover an unfortunate truth: Someone forgot to carry a zero."
Everyones spouting off how easy it would be... You're not thinking it through. You can either "select all > Print" or... Export them all... ok... and put them where? Ok, we need a website, we'll need to get bids, we're the government after all. How much traffic should we estimate? Lets see, the private emails from one of the most divisive politicians in the country... and news agencies are likely to link directly to the source... Or we could just print them out and let the news agencies host them... It's really a no-brainer.
"That report laid most of the blame on the district's IT staff for the excessive photo taking using its LANrev software."
Excessive? Adults taking any number of photos of teenagers alone in their bedrooms without their knowledge is acceptable? How is this different than the school sitting outside their room with a camera? How often was the IT staff logging in from home and "reviewing" the photos? How many photos were transferred to USB sticks? Has ANYONE been fired yet?
My banks security is: Username is a 12 digit random number, provided by the bank. Password is 12 characters at least 2 numbers and 1 special character. 3 unsuccessful attempts locks the account. Unlocking the account requires a call to customer service who then hangs up and calls me back. At that point they ask me what my pass code is. I had to provide the pass code, in person, in writing at the bank when I opened the account. If I log in from a new IP address, the bank auto-dials my house... I then have to punch my pin code into the phone.
It's friggen ridiculous. I wasn't even looking for this much security. Like I said, if your bank is isn't secure enough for you, switch. There are literally thousands of them.
Seriously, everyone calm down. If your banks security sucks, switch. It's really easy. I switched banks on monday... it took me all of about an hour. Imagine if the judge had came down with a verdict like: True security is a 30+ character alpha-numeric password that is at least half capitals or special characters. The same password can never be reused. The user name must be a randomized 10 digit numeric sequence. Both user name and password can not be valid for longer than 30 days at which point both must be mail separately to the user on different dates. Users can not reset passwords without being in-person and present 2 forms of ID at a branch office. Lastly login periods can not last for more that 5min upon which the user must log in again.
What banks really need to do is give you options to lock down your online account. I want online banking, but I only want to transfer money between my accounts with that bank and 1 other account. Why can I not pre-approve those accounts and disable everything else unless I go down to the bank? Seems like a simple concept. Even if I were to get hacked, they could only move money around in my own account!
When the Internet, phones, TV and power all go out at once... and don't back up for a month or more because all the equipment is fried and there's not enough spare equipment to replace everything on the sun-side of the planet at once... you may think differently as you stare at the empty shelves of your local grocery store while your stomach gurgles.
I've worked in the NOC for 2 major telcos. Neither has any plan for solar flare events. When I brought it up I was literally laughed at. When I pulled down NASA's space weather data that rates solar flares effects on earth, correlated it with our network alarms and was able to show that given a certain size flare we were almost guaranteed to have a 10% increase in network alarms... a Huge spike only eclipsed by major Thunderstorms and hurricanes, I was laughed at even harder.
It's not profitable to plan for rare events. It's profitable to plan for common events and let the insurance cover the catastrophes. The public interest be damned.
Since when is the founder of paypal a geek? Just because it involves computers no longer makes it geeky. In the 80s and 90s yes... but now computers are a profit vehicle and attract more non-geeks than geeks. Geeks want to do things because they haven't been done before. They want to know how stuff works, and will work very hard to figure it out even if the result is useless. Would Peter Theil have founded paypal if it wasn't going to be profitable? No... not a geek.
That being said... Formal education has nothing to do with being a geek either. It can be a tool to be used to further their goals though... and often you'll find the people getting the worthless degrees that never make you any money are the geeks.
Charge time isn't the problem. We have capacitors that can take millions of volts in milliseconds after all. The problem is Getting enough power to the refilling station to top off 20 cars at once. We're talking kilowatts here. And the cable going from the station to the vehicle would be the size of a tree trunk unless we get super conductors involved.
Or find out the hard way why our neighboring stars aren't teeming with advanced civilizations. "Congrats! We just created element 120 and it appears stable! Yay! What do you mean the sensors aren't working anymore? Ok who's messing with the clock and making the hands run backwards? How'd my underwear get on my head and why did Fred just turn into a polar bear?"
This happened to me but it was about a year ago. I went to check my gmail and it said it had recently been accessed from China. I immediately reset my password on every account that I had everywhere. Not that my passwords are the same, but with access to my gmail the attacker could change or find out my password for almost every site I visit. I have no idea how they figured out my password, I didn't use it elsewhere, it was a made up word, 9 digits long, with 2 numbers and a symbol in it. If they could guess that... well, I just dunno.
Because they are un-American for not wanting to force their customers to hand over money to the government? There is nothing patriotic about paying taxes. I applaud all of the online retailers for doing everything in their power to help the American people with-hold money from our corrupt and wasteful government. The more California collects, the more they'll throw down the sewer pipe of a system they've setup. They have no sovereign right to our money and if experience shows us anything they are woefully unqualified to manage what they already steal from us much less billions more.
What's California going to say when Amazon just up and moves off-shore and they not only lose sales tax revenue but also income tax revenue as all their employees are laid off?
We're making an assumption that because it worked this way here, it can work this way elsewhere and the likelihood of life arriving under other conditions is unknown at best, and probably rather difficult. We have no basis for this assumption. It's in fact, equally likely that life arriving on earth was an extremely rare occurrence and that in most other situations it could have arrived much much earlier. For all we know even the planets in our own solar system could be swimming with life and we just haven't seen it yet. The only planet we've even scratched the surface of is Mars and we've literally only scratched the surface of an exceedingly small area.
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http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/06/16/cia.website.hacker/index.html?hpt=te_bn3+
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/06/hackers-break-into-senategov-web-site.html
http://techland.time.com/2011/06/15/hackers-claim-to-sting-cia-website-attack-senate-site-again/
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/sc-dc-0616-cia-hacker-20110616,0,3833205.story
http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/06/15/testing-the-limits-lulzsec-takes-down-cias-website/
Does anyone honestly believe that LulzSec is anything other that some government agency. They're clearly trying to piss off the general public... and to what purpose? Support for some key upcoming regulatory changes to the internet?
Agreed. But does a profit driven company have the right to determine if they are of sound mind in making that choice, then profit off administering their suicide?
Shouldn't the the consent forms and counseling be performed by a registered, unbiased 3rd party for a fixed fee regardless of the outcome?
I agree that the government should stay out of it. But this situation is just waiting to be exploited in the most horrific way possible.
Wouldn't this be the ultimate vector for malware?
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"So what was it, anyway? Something completely unknown and unexpected, Denisov said, which is what prompted Fermilab to drop everything and assign its top scientists to uncover an unfortunate truth: Someone forgot to carry a zero."
Everyones spouting off how easy it would be... You're not thinking it through. You can either "select all > Print" or... Export them all... ok... and put them where? Ok, we need a website, we'll need to get bids, we're the government after all. How much traffic should we estimate? Lets see, the private emails from one of the most divisive politicians in the country... and news agencies are likely to link directly to the source... Or we could just print them out and let the news agencies host them... It's really a no-brainer.
But there would be OTHER evidence. And no one was robbed or shot, this is about a minor traffic offense.
"That report laid most of the blame on the district's IT staff for the excessive photo taking using its LANrev software."
Excessive? Adults taking any number of photos of teenagers alone in their bedrooms without their knowledge is acceptable? How is this different than the school sitting outside their room with a camera? How often was the IT staff logging in from home and "reviewing" the photos? How many photos were transferred to USB sticks? Has ANYONE been fired yet?
My banks security is:
Username is a 12 digit random number, provided by the bank.
Password is 12 characters at least 2 numbers and 1 special character.
3 unsuccessful attempts locks the account.
Unlocking the account requires a call to customer service who then hangs up and calls me back.
At that point they ask me what my pass code is.
I had to provide the pass code, in person, in writing at the bank when I opened the account.
If I log in from a new IP address, the bank auto-dials my house... I then have to punch my pin code into the phone.
It's friggen ridiculous. I wasn't even looking for this much security.
Like I said, if your bank is isn't secure enough for you, switch. There are literally thousands of them.
Seriously, everyone calm down. If your banks security sucks, switch. It's really easy. I switched banks on monday... it took me all of about an hour. Imagine if the judge had came down with a verdict like: True security is a 30+ character alpha-numeric password that is at least half capitals or special characters. The same password can never be reused. The user name must be a randomized 10 digit numeric sequence. Both user name and password can not be valid for longer than 30 days at which point both must be mail separately to the user on different dates. Users can not reset passwords without being in-person and present 2 forms of ID at a branch office. Lastly login periods can not last for more that 5min upon which the user must log in again.
What banks really need to do is give you options to lock down your online account. I want online banking, but I only want to transfer money between my accounts with that bank and 1 other account. Why can I not pre-approve those accounts and disable everything else unless I go down to the bank? Seems like a simple concept. Even if I were to get hacked, they could only move money around in my own account!
When the Internet, phones, TV and power all go out at once... and don't back up for a month or more because all the equipment is fried and there's not enough spare equipment to replace everything on the sun-side of the planet at once... you may think differently as you stare at the empty shelves of your local grocery store while your stomach gurgles.
I've worked in the NOC for 2 major telcos. Neither has any plan for solar flare events. When I brought it up I was literally laughed at. When I pulled down NASA's space weather data that rates solar flares effects on earth, correlated it with our network alarms and was able to show that given a certain size flare we were almost guaranteed to have a 10% increase in network alarms... a Huge spike only eclipsed by major Thunderstorms and hurricanes, I was laughed at even harder.
It's not profitable to plan for rare events. It's profitable to plan for common events and let the insurance cover the catastrophes. The public interest be damned.
Since when is the founder of paypal a geek? Just because it involves computers no longer makes it geeky. In the 80s and 90s yes... but now computers are a profit vehicle and attract more non-geeks than geeks. Geeks want to do things because they haven't been done before. They want to know how stuff works, and will work very hard to figure it out even if the result is useless. Would Peter Theil have founded paypal if it wasn't going to be profitable? No... not a geek.
That being said... Formal education has nothing to do with being a geek either. It can be a tool to be used to further their goals though... and often you'll find the people getting the worthless degrees that never make you any money are the geeks.
It's good to know that if someone does steal my identity, all I'll have to do to reset my password is have a cornea transplant.
Charge time isn't the problem. We have capacitors that can take millions of volts in milliseconds after all. The problem is Getting enough power to the refilling station to top off 20 cars at once. We're talking kilowatts here. And the cable going from the station to the vehicle would be the size of a tree trunk unless we get super conductors involved.
Or find out the hard way why our neighboring stars aren't teeming with advanced civilizations.
"Congrats! We just created element 120 and it appears stable! Yay! What do you mean the sensors aren't working anymore? Ok who's messing with the clock and making the hands run backwards? How'd my underwear get on my head and why did Fred just turn into a polar bear?"
Anyone have any tips or add-ons that block sending some of this information to make us less identifiable?
Lets just say that the hacking community has exactly the same sense of morality that Sony does.
If something is supposed to stay up reliably, I wouldn't put a browser on it in the first place.
This happened to me but it was about a year ago. I went to check my gmail and it said it had recently been accessed from China. I immediately reset my password on every account that I had everywhere. Not that my passwords are the same, but with access to my gmail the attacker could change or find out my password for almost every site I visit. I have no idea how they figured out my password, I didn't use it elsewhere, it was a made up word, 9 digits long, with 2 numbers and a symbol in it. If they could guess that... well, I just dunno.
Because they are un-American for not wanting to force their customers to hand over money to the government? There is nothing patriotic about paying taxes. I applaud all of the online retailers for doing everything in their power to help the American people with-hold money from our corrupt and wasteful government. The more California collects, the more they'll throw down the sewer pipe of a system they've setup. They have no sovereign right to our money and if experience shows us anything they are woefully unqualified to manage what they already steal from us much less billions more.
What's California going to say when Amazon just up and moves off-shore and they not only lose sales tax revenue but also income tax revenue as all their employees are laid off?
We're making an assumption that because it worked this way here, it can work this way elsewhere and the likelihood of life arriving under other conditions is unknown at best, and probably rather difficult. We have no basis for this assumption. It's in fact, equally likely that life arriving on earth was an extremely rare occurrence and that in most other situations it could have arrived much much earlier. For all we know even the planets in our own solar system could be swimming with life and we just haven't seen it yet. The only planet we've even scratched the surface of is Mars and we've literally only scratched the surface of an exceedingly small area.