An organization that specializes in betrayal of trust by insiders is complaining of the same. Not sure if serious.....
Getting real, I would imagine every intelligence service worth their weight has multiple moles planted in wikileaks. You would be incompetent as hell to run an intelligence service and not plant moles in wikileaks.
Hell, for that matter I'm sure more than a few corporations have their own agents planted. With the sheer commercial value of the material they get I would imagine organized crime has quite the presence as well. Wikileaks insiders could do well with insider trading. The better question is who doesn't have agents in wikileaks?
The internet, where 14 year-old girls are FBI agents and FBI agents are 14 year-old boys.
We have a deal. You keep DRM from infesting the web and the studios can refuse to put their movies on. The public wins, the studios think they win and the internet avoids becoming a private corporate fiefdom. Anyone else up for accepting this deal?
The thing that people need to think about is that data is an asset. Like any asset it has a date of acquisition, a period of usefulness and a time that it should be removed from service. Just like you would have a retention policy for your corporate email or payroll records, you should have a retention policy for all other data.
The key is to define the lifecycle of your data ahead of time - before there are any legal actions against it and within legal compliance requirements. Once you have defined your requirements and useful period of retention you need to purge it and destroy all backups - all as a matter of policy. As long as this is your normal course of business your butt is covered in court.
Government owned data like license plate data should be treated the same way. Since it is publicly owned data the public should have a say in how long it is retained. My suggestion is to simply define a policy with a very short retention period. Normal data would be kept for a week and data that matches up to a criminal investigation (stolen car etc) could be retained per legal requirements.
The balance of the thing between big brother / police state and a bonafide crime fighting tool (these things are really good at catching stolen cars for example) is to define your data retention policy as short as possible and zealously enforce it.
Tying the keystone pipeline to emissions does nothing more than give the Canadian government an excuse to sell to China. Your entire comment is based on the flawed assumption that there are no other markets. A pipeline to the US would be far safer than rail or truck and the fuel here would be cleaned to a far higher standard than would ever be seen in China.
I suggest you study a chap by the name of Henry David Thoreau and come back when you can understand the historical implications of those that followed his foot steps. I'll name a few that were inspired by him and feel on that proverbial sword, perhaps you might have heard of a couple chaps with names like Martin Luther King and Ghandi?
Going to prison for the cause you believe in and refusing to flee was/very/ much part of their plan. They took ownership of their actions and they refused to back down. They went to jail, at points they flooded the jails, and more to the point they got the public to change their perception by refusing to run as a common criminal would.
These are people that actually got the changes they wanted implemented by their society. Snowden would have have been far more effective at getting the changes he wanted by going to prison as an actual conscientious objector than fleeing. Study your history, if Snowden was an actual conscientious objector he would have fallen on his sword instead of playing international attention whore while damaging his country and allies to the greatest extent possible.
The man is a traitor and an attention whore trying to inflict maximum damage on his country. If he were honestly a simple consciousness objector as claimed he would have never fled to begin with.
History has a proud tradition of actual consciousness objectors willingly going to prison when they feel they need to make a point and stand up for something. More than a few such objectors later became judged by history as heroes (MLK etc).
Most people have too much stuff, and we don't even realize it. Get rid of half your stuff and you will find it incredibly liberating. You will discover that you your residence is less cluttered, it's easier to focus, it takes less time to clean and it's easier to spend time at your residence. Donate it, sell it, give it away, loan it, just plain get rid of it. You'll thank yourself for long afterwords.
Anytime someone reads Disney creates they should substitute the word "copies" until proven otherwise. Disney has a long and storied history of intellectual property theft when it was in their best interest. They are arguably the greatest hypocrites in the world about IP, even more so than Hollywood themselves. They are always the ones that hold the most radical of views in the MPAA and are very quick to hold condemn anyone else and take away their rights. They have also been stealing from the public domain and other individuals for ideas for decades. A quick Google search can find example upon example of their bad behavior.
We do, every few years, in a special process called a vote. Every geographic area gets it's own lobbyists to represent them in to the government. Problem is the damn politicians tend to forget who they work for...
No doubt you can do exactly that, I've done it for creating Hardware Independent Images over the years. Perhaps I should clarify my point to one of does it support Windows 7?
Having official support can be a deal breaker for many business that wants to exercise downgrade rights from Windows 8 to Windows 7. This affects support as well as making it easier to get warranty coverage. Without Windows 7 support this laptop is dead on arrival for anything other than the consumer market.
Will it run Windows 7? The hardware looks brilliant and the screen looks incredible. Samsung has ratcheted their game up considerably over the last several years. Unfortunately Microsoft has ratcheted theirs down just as far. The computer comes with Windows 8 and that is a deal breaker if it can't be replace with Windows 7.
It's really about the appropriate allocation of resources and the avoidance of waste. If person A makes $100,000 a year and person B makes $35,000 a year you have a significant cost savings from having person B perform a given task. This logic is why we have Secretaries and teams at work sites are typically composed of a mix of experience and skill levels.
It's a little bit like asking a master mechanic to change your oil, they are perfectly capable of doing the job, but you should really have the high school drop out at Jiffy Lube do the work. Take your 'paycheck' example as it is a good one to make the point. If the sys-admin has a problem with their paycheck they should be calling the HR helpdesk instead of going directly to the supervisor.
Remember a sys-admin spends their day trying to properly allocate and utilize resources. When your bypassing the helpdesk your wasting the most important resource a sys-admin has - their own time.
What about the towers and the lines from the towers to the network? Charging stations will do no good if the towers aren't running and can't reach/their/ destination. The only thing wireless about your cell phone is the proverbial last mile between you and the tower.
Yup, their right about noodles being a Chinese invention. Every time your eating Italian your eating a knock off of a Chinese original. Thus the true revelation that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is actually Chinese....
I can't argue your point about the need to care about security and raising awareness. However the idea that locking down your box could stop the government is naive. If they can convince a judge they can get a warrant. With a warrant you simply enter the residence and install something like a hardware keylogger (that's a commercial one, they come much smaller) or a pinhole camera.
Your TrueCyrpt secured hard drive hosting your locked down Operating System behind the firewall of doom that only ever connects to the outside world through a VPN and random proxies means jack when a keyboard logger records your keystrokes or the camera watches you put them in. You can't secure against a warrant and direct physical access in that type of situation. The only thing that you can do is to focus on having a tamper evident system that alerts you.
Resources would be better spent on shoring up Tripwire like tools for everyday users so that they can know they have been compromised in the first place. There are open source versions of trip wire and I would encourage anyone concerned about these types of issues to work on maturing what is there and bringing it to the masses in a form that they everyday person can effectively use.
I did a bunch of work a number of years back where we had critical (financial services not medical) computers that we absolutely were not allowed to patch. The solution I implemented was to treat any computer that can't be patched as a mini-DMZ.
The computer is firewalled from the rest of the network, put on a locked down VLAN and given only specific destinations, ports and so on as required in order to function. The concept of least privilege can and should be used for computers like this just as you would use it for a user.
You can use this concept for medical devices and it would work just as well. There is work involved and it is a pain in the ass to do. That being said this balances the risk of systems that you are highly unlikely to be able to patch with the need to secure your environment. Once completed your system is allowed to work and your network is mitigated from the risk of having that system in the first place.
Going to the moon is one of the greatest things the United States ever did. The impact in terms of net benefits for science, technology and any number of things is amongst the best in history. However that has all been done decades ago and we have largely reaped the benefits from doing so. I'm not sure what real benefit we could gain by sending manned missions back to the moon at this time. Remember there are good reasons the Apollo program wrapped up.
Taking things to the next step, asteroids, and tackling everything involved, from science to mining needs to be the next great step. Working through the technological challenges involved in doing this would have tremendous benefit to society. The bottom line is there is far more to gain from taking things to the asteroids than the moon.
The moon, we've been there, nice place, time to move on to the next big thing.
Marx himself wrote about the need for violent revolution and suppression of the masses at a world wide scale in order to achieve his theoretical state. Have you actually ready what he wrote?
If you cant implement something without declaring war on the world, the death of millions and suppression of any who dare to dissent than it's evil. It's a bit like saying we could eliminate poverty if we simply slaughtered the poor (something that Vlad the Impaler actually did by the way).
Hi, glad to meet you. You can now say you have met someone that thinks the basic idea of communism is evil. It's a system that requires war for expansion, suppression of the populace and has killed 100 million people in an effort to expunge human nature.
Can you provide an example of something that the Soviets did that the United States has not done?
Slaughtering 20 million of their own citizens, and that's just under Stalin.
While you're formulating your answer, consider that the United States is the only country to nuke another country.
That's true, it ended WW2 with several million fewer casualties than an invasion of the Japanese mainland would have allowed.
We used our own prisoners and citizens as guinnea pigs to conduct experiments in nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare.
Common practice at the time, as reprehensible as we now view it. We also treated our prisoners significantly better than the Soviets powers did. Also bear in mind that things like the nasty side affects from radiation simply were not known at that time.
We engaged in witch hunts, like McCarthy appearing before Congress to say he "held in his hands" a list of known communist co-conspirators.
This doesn't even count as a pimple on the ass that is known as the Gulag's. Tens of millions of people were sentenced and countless millions were killed for political dissidence.
I'm not sure your claim that the USSR and the USA were significantly different in their propaganda campaigns
They were, and to be frank the US really sucks at propaganda and the Soviets were masters at it.
What a naive fool you are, if you think communism could work if only given the chance to be done the/right/ way. We've had dozens of countries over many decades all try to do communism in one flavor or another. All fell to the fact that communism is an ideal platform for corruption and human nature.
Read your history to learn the efforts that were put into isolation behind the iron curtain to try and keep people from learning any differently. Even with generation upon generation, raised in isolation it could not work. No amount of bloody cleansing can or ever will make communism work because you can't change human nature. 100 million people were slaughtered to the alter of communism in the last century in a futile effort to change human nature. It's the largest and most expensive social experiment in history and the 100 million dead should be more than enough to prove it's failure.
I agree with your point about supercomputers, that isn't what I'm talking about using for decryption.
You don't need a supercomputer to decrypt the contents of a message when you own the network. Automated appliances conduct MITM attacks and are at use in every major corp for things like DLP. One example of a commercial product that you can buy.
Meet the SSL decryption appliance. It works by use of a MITM attack. As I said if you own the network you own anything going through it. When you own the network you can own any corresponding key exchanges.
Here is one such example appliance, there are many others like it.
Wonderful idea, you and a few thousand buddies are all going to crapflood the NSA. The NSA, an organization that is arguably the best in the world at sorting noise from signal. Check your ego at the door and realize your an amateur pretending to play in the big leagues.
Want real change instead of feel good crap that doesn't do a damn thing? Call, or better yet, write your congress critter and demand change.
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An organization that specializes in betrayal of trust by insiders is complaining of the same. Not sure if serious.....
Getting real, I would imagine every intelligence service worth their weight has multiple moles planted in wikileaks. You would be incompetent as hell to run an intelligence service and not plant moles in wikileaks.
Hell, for that matter I'm sure more than a few corporations have their own agents planted. With the sheer commercial value of the material they get I would imagine organized crime has quite the presence as well. Wikileaks insiders could do well with insider trading. The better question is who doesn't have agents in wikileaks?
The internet, where 14 year-old girls are FBI agents and FBI agents are 14 year-old boys.
How long until the first USB / Kinect adapters pop up? Standards are a wonderful thing and should be honored.
We have a deal. You keep DRM from infesting the web and the studios can refuse to put their movies on. The public wins, the studios think they win and the internet avoids becoming a private corporate fiefdom. Anyone else up for accepting this deal?
The thing that people need to think about is that data is an asset. Like any asset it has a date of acquisition, a period of usefulness and a time that it should be removed from service. Just like you would have a retention policy for your corporate email or payroll records, you should have a retention policy for all other data.
The key is to define the lifecycle of your data ahead of time - before there are any legal actions against it and within legal compliance requirements. Once you have defined your requirements and useful period of retention you need to purge it and destroy all backups - all as a matter of policy. As long as this is your normal course of business your butt is covered in court.
Government owned data like license plate data should be treated the same way. Since it is publicly owned data the public should have a say in how long it is retained. My suggestion is to simply define a policy with a very short retention period. Normal data would be kept for a week and data that matches up to a criminal investigation (stolen car etc) could be retained per legal requirements.
The balance of the thing between big brother / police state and a bonafide crime fighting tool (these things are really good at catching stolen cars for example) is to define your data retention policy as short as possible and zealously enforce it.
Tying the keystone pipeline to emissions does nothing more than give the Canadian government an excuse to sell to China. Your entire comment is based on the flawed assumption that there are no other markets. A pipeline to the US would be far safer than rail or truck and the fuel here would be cleaned to a far higher standard than would ever be seen in China.
I suggest you study a chap by the name of Henry David Thoreau and come back when you can understand the historical implications of those that followed his foot steps. I'll name a few that were inspired by him and feel on that proverbial sword, perhaps you might have heard of a couple chaps with names like Martin Luther King and Ghandi?
Going to prison for the cause you believe in and refusing to flee was /very/ much part of their plan. They took ownership of their actions and they refused to back down. They went to jail, at points they flooded the jails, and more to the point they got the public to change their perception by refusing to run as a common criminal would.
These are people that actually got the changes they wanted implemented by their society. Snowden would have have been far more effective at getting the changes he wanted by going to prison as an actual conscientious objector than fleeing. Study your history, if Snowden was an actual conscientious objector he would have fallen on his sword instead of playing international attention whore while damaging his country and allies to the greatest extent possible.
The man is a traitor and an attention whore trying to inflict maximum damage on his country. If he were honestly a simple consciousness objector as claimed he would have never fled to begin with.
History has a proud tradition of actual consciousness objectors willingly going to prison when they feel they need to make a point and stand up for something. More than a few such objectors later became judged by history as heroes (MLK etc).
Most people have too much stuff, and we don't even realize it. Get rid of half your stuff and you will find it incredibly liberating. You will discover that you your residence is less cluttered, it's easier to focus, it takes less time to clean and it's easier to spend time at your residence. Donate it, sell it, give it away, loan it, just plain get rid of it. You'll thank yourself for long afterwords.
Anytime someone reads Disney creates they should substitute the word "copies" until proven otherwise. Disney has a long and storied history of intellectual property theft when it was in their best interest. They are arguably the greatest hypocrites in the world about IP, even more so than Hollywood themselves. They are always the ones that hold the most radical of views in the MPAA and are very quick to hold condemn anyone else and take away their rights. They have also been stealing from the public domain and other individuals for ideas for decades. A quick Google search can find example upon example of their bad behavior.
We do, every few years, in a special process called a vote. Every geographic area gets it's own lobbyists to represent them in to the government. Problem is the damn politicians tend to forget who they work for...
No doubt you can do exactly that, I've done it for creating Hardware Independent Images over the years. Perhaps I should clarify my point to one of does it support Windows 7?
Having official support can be a deal breaker for many business that wants to exercise downgrade rights from Windows 8 to Windows 7. This affects support as well as making it easier to get warranty coverage. Without Windows 7 support this laptop is dead on arrival for anything other than the consumer market.
Will it run Windows 7? The hardware looks brilliant and the screen looks incredible. Samsung has ratcheted their game up considerably over the last several years. Unfortunately Microsoft has ratcheted theirs down just as far. The computer comes with Windows 8 and that is a deal breaker if it can't be replace with Windows 7.
It's really about the appropriate allocation of resources and the avoidance of waste. If person A makes $100,000 a year and person B makes $35,000 a year you have a significant cost savings from having person B perform a given task. This logic is why we have Secretaries and teams at work sites are typically composed of a mix of experience and skill levels.
It's a little bit like asking a master mechanic to change your oil, they are perfectly capable of doing the job, but you should really have the high school drop out at Jiffy Lube do the work. Take your 'paycheck' example as it is a good one to make the point. If the sys-admin has a problem with their paycheck they should be calling the HR helpdesk instead of going directly to the supervisor.
Remember a sys-admin spends their day trying to properly allocate and utilize resources. When your bypassing the helpdesk your wasting the most important resource a sys-admin has - their own time.
What about the towers and the lines from the towers to the network? Charging stations will do no good if the towers aren't running and can't reach /their/ destination. The only thing wireless about your cell phone is the proverbial last mile between you and the tower.
Yup, their right about noodles being a Chinese invention. Every time your eating Italian your eating a knock off of a Chinese original. Thus the true revelation that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is actually Chinese....
I can't argue your point about the need to care about security and raising awareness. However the idea that locking down your box could stop the government is naive. If they can convince a judge they can get a warrant. With a warrant you simply enter the residence and install something like a hardware keylogger (that's a commercial one, they come much smaller) or a pinhole camera.
Your TrueCyrpt secured hard drive hosting your locked down Operating System behind the firewall of doom that only ever connects to the outside world through a VPN and random proxies means jack when a keyboard logger records your keystrokes or the camera watches you put them in. You can't secure against a warrant and direct physical access in that type of situation. The only thing that you can do is to focus on having a tamper evident system that alerts you.
Resources would be better spent on shoring up Tripwire like tools for everyday users so that they can know they have been compromised in the first place. There are open source versions of trip wire and I would encourage anyone concerned about these types of issues to work on maturing what is there and bringing it to the masses in a form that they everyday person can effectively use.
I did a bunch of work a number of years back where we had critical (financial services not medical) computers that we absolutely were not allowed to patch. The solution I implemented was to treat any computer that can't be patched as a mini-DMZ.
The computer is firewalled from the rest of the network, put on a locked down VLAN and given only specific destinations, ports and so on as required in order to function. The concept of least privilege can and should be used for computers like this just as you would use it for a user.
You can use this concept for medical devices and it would work just as well. There is work involved and it is a pain in the ass to do. That being said this balances the risk of systems that you are highly unlikely to be able to patch with the need to secure your environment. Once completed your system is allowed to work and your network is mitigated from the risk of having that system in the first place.
Going to the moon is one of the greatest things the United States ever did. The impact in terms of net benefits for science, technology and any number of things is amongst the best in history. However that has all been done decades ago and we have largely reaped the benefits from doing so. I'm not sure what real benefit we could gain by sending manned missions back to the moon at this time. Remember there are good reasons the Apollo program wrapped up.
Taking things to the next step, asteroids, and tackling everything involved, from science to mining needs to be the next great step. Working through the technological challenges involved in doing this would have tremendous benefit to society. The bottom line is there is far more to gain from taking things to the asteroids than the moon.
The moon, we've been there, nice place, time to move on to the next big thing.
Marx himself wrote about the need for violent revolution and suppression of the masses at a world wide scale in order to achieve his theoretical state. Have you actually ready what he wrote?
If you cant implement something without declaring war on the world, the death of millions and suppression of any who dare to dissent than it's evil. It's a bit like saying we could eliminate poverty if we simply slaughtered the poor (something that Vlad the Impaler actually did by the way).
Hi, glad to meet you. You can now say you have met someone that thinks the basic idea of communism is evil. It's a system that requires war for expansion, suppression of the populace and has killed 100 million people in an effort to expunge human nature.
Cheers,
onyxrxuby
Slaughtering 20 million of their own citizens, and that's just under Stalin.
That's true, it ended WW2 with several million fewer casualties than an invasion of the Japanese mainland would have allowed.
Common practice at the time, as reprehensible as we now view it. We also treated our prisoners significantly better than the Soviets powers did. Also bear in mind that things like the nasty side affects from radiation simply were not known at that time.
This doesn't even count as a pimple on the ass that is known as the Gulag's. Tens of millions of people were sentenced and countless millions were killed for political dissidence.
They were, and to be frank the US really sucks at propaganda and the Soviets were masters at it.
What a naive fool you are, if you think communism could work if only given the chance to be done the /right/ way. We've had dozens of countries over many decades all try to do communism in one flavor or another. All fell to the fact that communism is an ideal platform for corruption and human nature.
Read your history to learn the efforts that were put into isolation behind the iron curtain to try and keep people from learning any differently. Even with generation upon generation, raised in isolation it could not work. No amount of bloody cleansing can or ever will make communism work because you can't change human nature. 100 million people were slaughtered to the alter of communism in the last century in a futile effort to change human nature. It's the largest and most expensive social experiment in history and the 100 million dead should be more than enough to prove it's failure.
I agree with your point about supercomputers, that isn't what I'm talking about using for decryption.
You don't need a supercomputer to decrypt the contents of a message when you own the network. Automated appliances conduct MITM attacks and are at use in every major corp for things like DLP. One example of a commercial product that you can buy.
http://www.sourcefire.com/security-technologies/network-security/ssl-encryption-decryption
Meet the SSL decryption appliance. It works by use of a MITM attack. As I said if you own the network you own anything going through it. When you own the network you can own any corresponding key exchanges.
Here is one such example appliance, there are many others like it.
http://www.sourcefire.com/security-technologies/network-security/ssl-encryption-decryption
Wonderful idea, you and a few thousand buddies are all going to crapflood the NSA. The NSA, an organization that is arguably the best in the world at sorting noise from signal. Check your ego at the door and realize your an amateur pretending to play in the big leagues.
Want real change instead of feel good crap that doesn't do a damn thing? Call, or better yet, write your congress critter and demand change.