A simple KVM box with one of those low powered credit card PC's fitted inside, stick in a rechargeable battery and wire it to draw power from the usb input, It sits there day after day recording key strokes and mouse movements with the odd screen grab. the on board PC then compresses it in to manageable chunks of zips, rars or tar's and waits for one of the gang to walk into the Bank at a busy time of the day. Then it sends it to a receiver via wifi in the crooks bag/pocket in the 10-20 mins he is waiting to get served. If one visit is not enough then they hand it over to another member who gets in line and waits for it to finish.
Or the power companies buy it by the truckload and "rent" it out to local consumers in areas they think is too costly for a proper infrastructure (Large Gas Pressure tank + Cube = lot cheaper than laying gas pipelines to backwood / middle of nowhere locations!) for inflated prices!
Think it's like the UK's "Super Injunction" where not only would you be breaking the law to talk about the case behind the court order but it would also be illegal to say you've actually received a court order in the first place. It can cover individuals or entire companies depends on how it's worded.
True but you just need a few organisations to jump on it with Pro Bono Lawyers to make it difficult for the government to walk over individual businesses.
They don't have to fight each and every order, just enough for the Judges to get annoyed at the Government overreach and to slap down the entire job lot!
If it was for 10,000 for specific conversation between specific address at a specific date/time then It's reasonable to comply.
But bureaucracy is not as fluid as you might imagine! Their is a reason places like the NSA and CIA go for specific or blanket warrants / Court orders rather than mass individual ones.
Partly because they don't KNOW who to target apart from a few isolated people already on their radar, unless they go for John Doe #1 all the way to John Doe #10,000 which would cause another 10,000 or so new court orders required once they get the actual names, then you'd be correct in thinking that Civil Liberties groups / EFF and other like mined organisations would have a field day tying them up in red tape, challenging each and every individual order.
Oh and i think Judges are beginning to hate mass John Doe#1 to # Court Orders anyway because of their over use by Copyright Trolls to gather User information from IP addresses.
If it was for specific conversation between specific address at a specific date/time then It's reasonable to comply. But if it was for Everything since the service started or between 2 dates (i.e. 1st Jan 2011 to 31 Dec 2012) or from that point onwards, then it's a fishing expedition and its reasonable NOT to comply without further legal council and possible injunction (if that's possible with this kind of court order!)
All the Lawyer needs to do is send a letter asking 3 questions.
1) Between what dates did the OP work (Person A) for the client ? 2) Between what dates did the new developer (Person B) take over work for the client ? 3) When was the first use by the company (in-house or commercial) of the specified code ?
If the answer to Q3 is in the range of Person A's time at the company and outside the range of Person B then matter solved. If not then hard luck unless you have corroborating evidence that you created it (work emails / memos / Letters about the code from your boss to you.)...... Then in that case only winner is the lawyer...
Pass a law requiring incumbent ISP's (if they run a monopoly in the region) to provide competitors with access to their copper/fibre network at wholesale cost. Also tag on an addition that each incoming ISP has to give the ISP they are buying from the same ability to buy bandwidth at cost from them as well. Stopping a single big player taking over multiple markets and force others out by sheer financial weight.
So competition and the ability to provide better/ value for money services in other area outside their usual network means less stagnation and fewer "single entity monopolies" in the country and the users win ^_^
Iran has just started supplying them in the past month or so with longer range rockets. That's why their has been a MASSIVE call up of reservists in Israel.
Think it would be great in Search and rescue operations as well as basic emergency services, Like Ambulance staff, they can use them to relay direct visuals to an A+E (ER for you yanks) Doctor, with the patients vital readouts being displayed on the medic's heads-up as well as in the ER for the doctor to advise and be fully prepared for when the patient gets there.
Thinks like that have already been tried and usually the equipment is bulky and not that user friendly, a small unit like this might be a great innovation to the emergency services.
Wonder if you can control the heads-up with hand gestures picked up by the webcam ??
technically it does NOT need to be a Ecuadorian plane! any plane that can make the trip could be used. All they need to do is stick him in a crate (So it's a diplomatic pouch!) and they can take him on any aircraft that is heading in that direction. (imagine the SH!tStorm if an diplomatic pouch was illegally opened by the police of a foreign nation)
So what would you do? put up in a small stuffy crate for a few hours or possible imprisonment for an undisclosed and non-specified length time in an American prison?
..from the viewpoint of an outsider (here in Sunny Scotland) that is...
The constant bashing of Science over Religion in K-12 (?) is producing a generation of sheep rather than a generation of Sheppard's.
The Education system is too busy spoon-feeding test answers that in effect stunt creative and enquiring minds, But you need minds that can think creatively (i.e. Out-side-the-box) in the fast paced society we have today...
It's starting to hurt us now especially in the UK where a generation of children have not had the IT experience of us older generation that built PC's from scratch (or at lest got a BBC Micro / Atari ST / Commodore / Sinclair Spectrum) and actually got hands on programming, rather than just moving boxes in a GUI. Europe and soon America will see a shortage of competent programmers and system engineers you'll end up off shoring all of your IT to places like India where they HAVE been actively pushing IT skills in schools.
Even If we act now, it will take 10-20 years for the problem to be fixed as that's how long it takes to get a child through the Education system to the level required for our future needs.
The Google Turing machine a few days ago is a prime example! How many of you's in your 30+ could do it, and how many younger than 30 managed it? In my non-scientific survey of an IT forum it was 60% of over 30's managed it while less than 30% of Under 30's could only do it without cheating.
And if more ISP's jump on the 2-week "band-waggon" you'll quickly see one of the next "Defence Appropriations Bill" (or something like that) have a little addition sneaked in by someone in Homeland Security to legally require ISP's to hold 12 months of Logs/Emails.
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It's probably more like a glorified "keylogger"
A simple KVM box with one of those low powered credit card PC's fitted inside, stick in a rechargeable battery and wire it to draw power from the usb input, It sits there day after day recording key strokes and mouse movements with the odd screen grab. the on board PC then compresses it in to manageable chunks of zips, rars or tar's and waits for one of the gang to walk into the Bank at a busy time of the day. Then it sends it to a receiver via wifi in the crooks bag/pocket in the 10-20 mins he is waiting to get served. If one visit is not enough then they hand it over to another member who gets in line and waits for it to finish.
Or the power companies buy it by the truckload and "rent" it out to local consumers in areas they think is too costly for a proper infrastructure (Large Gas Pressure tank + Cube = lot cheaper than laying gas pipelines to backwood / middle of nowhere locations!) for inflated prices!
I forgot to add that I think only council already on retainer or on staff can be informed and advise the client/company regarding the court order.
But I'm not sure IANAL!
Think it's like the UK's "Super Injunction" where not only would you be breaking the law to talk about the case behind the court order but it would also be illegal to say you've actually received a court order in the first place. It can cover individuals or entire companies depends on how it's worded.
True but you just need a few organisations to jump on it with Pro Bono Lawyers to make it difficult for the government to walk over individual businesses.
They don't have to fight each and every order, just enough for the Judges to get annoyed at the Government overreach and to slap down the entire job lot!
If it was for 10,000 for specific conversation between specific address at a specific date/time then It's reasonable to comply.
But bureaucracy is not as fluid as you might imagine! Their is a reason places like the NSA and CIA go for specific or blanket warrants / Court orders rather than mass individual ones.
Partly because they don't KNOW who to target apart from a few isolated people already on their radar, unless they go for John Doe #1 all the way to John Doe #10,000 which would cause another 10,000 or so new court orders required once they get the actual names, then you'd be correct in thinking that Civil Liberties groups / EFF and other like mined organisations would have a field day tying them up in red tape, challenging each and every individual order.
Oh and i think Judges are beginning to hate mass John Doe#1 to # Court Orders anyway because of their over use by Copyright Trolls to gather User information from IP addresses.
Depends on what the Court order was for.
If it was for specific conversation between specific address at a specific date/time then It's reasonable to comply.
But if it was for Everything since the service started or between 2 dates (i.e. 1st Jan 2011 to 31 Dec 2012) or from that point onwards, then it's a fishing expedition and its reasonable NOT to comply without further legal council and possible injunction (if that's possible with this kind of court order!)
All the Lawyer needs to do is send a letter asking 3 questions.
1) Between what dates did the OP work (Person A) for the client ?
2) Between what dates did the new developer (Person B) take over work for the client ?
3) When was the first use by the company (in-house or commercial) of the specified code ?
If the answer to Q3 is in the range of Person A's time at the company and outside the range of Person B then matter solved. ... ...
If not then hard luck unless you have corroborating evidence that you created it (work emails / memos / Letters about the code from your boss to you.)
Then in that case only winner is the lawyer...
Where's Blue Thunder when you need it!!
Guess you didn't watch the video on the site then???
2:50+ into the video you get the offending statements
Here I made it easy for you:
http://youtu.be/jJN0B2RIIMI?t=2m50s
ermm... didn't a Town/city in the USofA a few years back try that once and was nearly sued out of existence by the local Telco?
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/08/09/12/2326251/telco-sues-municipality-for-laying-their-own-fiber
never found out how it ended though... ^_^
Dear sir /madam
I refer you to the reply given in Arkell and Pressdram
sincerely
>
Here's the history about the reply:
http://jackofkent.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/reply-given-in-arkell-v-pressdram.html
A tablet that will cure the raging hangover I'll be having in 12 hours time!!
Happy Hogmanay
Have a great start to 2013!! ^_^
Pass a law requiring incumbent ISP's (if they run a monopoly in the region) to provide competitors with access to their copper/fibre network at wholesale cost.
Also tag on an addition that each incoming ISP has to give the ISP they are buying from the same ability to buy bandwidth at cost from them as well. Stopping a single big player taking over multiple markets and force others out by sheer financial weight.
So competition and the ability to provide better/ value for money services in other area outside their usual network means less stagnation and fewer "single entity monopolies" in the country and the users win ^_^
How many Americans here own or have access to some type of firearm?
I'll take a rough guess of 70% of Americans on this forum have access to a firearm
(Feedback requested: Would you say that is an under or over estimation??)
OK now's the kicker!
How many of you are "PART OF A WELL REGULATED MILITIA"?
I'd guess around 10% (I'm including Ex/army and police as "militia style" entities)
So 60% of Americans here illegally own or have access to a firearm!
Read your 2nd amendment and correct me if i'm wrong...
it's not new laws you need. It's enforcing of current laws around the 2nd amendment!
But Murdoch has them too busy hacking into competitors networks and decoder boxes for them to do any innovation lately...
Iran has just started supplying them in the past month or so with longer range rockets.
That's why their has been a MASSIVE call up of reservists in Israel.
Don't worry!
We'll all be gone anyway by December 22nd....
As an IT guy yourself you do remember what November 8th 2016 will be?
yup it's "Bring your super-electromagnet to work day"
Think it would be great in Search and rescue operations as well as basic emergency services,
Like Ambulance staff, they can use them to relay direct visuals to an A+E (ER for you yanks) Doctor, with the patients vital readouts being displayed on the medic's heads-up as well as in the ER for the doctor to advise and be fully prepared for when the patient gets there.
Thinks like that have already been tried and usually the equipment is bulky and not that user friendly, a small unit like this might be a great innovation to the emergency services.
Wonder if you can control the heads-up with hand gestures picked up by the webcam ??
technically it does NOT need to be a Ecuadorian plane! any plane that can make the trip could be used.
All they need to do is stick him in a crate (So it's a diplomatic pouch!) and they can take him on any aircraft that is heading in that direction.
(imagine the SH!tStorm if an diplomatic pouch was illegally opened by the police of a foreign nation)
So what would you do? put up in a small stuffy crate for a few hours or possible imprisonment for an undisclosed and non-specified length time in an American prison?
...And when has the UK EVER said NO to the US?
They probably have the undated "approve form" stamped and ready to go as soon as the US asks for it...
Oh i'm not "just blindly written off anyone in their mid 20s " Just the American education system they have been exposed to...
Saying that..
I'm too busy having fun in my mid 30's to care about an AC who's stones haven't dropped yet...
..from the viewpoint of an outsider (here in Sunny Scotland) that is...
The constant bashing of Science over Religion in K-12 (?) is producing a generation of sheep rather than a generation of Sheppard's.
The Education system is too busy spoon-feeding test answers that in effect stunt creative and enquiring minds,
But you need minds that can think creatively (i.e. Out-side-the-box) in the fast paced society we have today...
It's starting to hurt us now especially in the UK where a generation of children have not had the IT experience of us older generation that built PC's from scratch (or at lest got a BBC Micro / Atari ST / Commodore / Sinclair Spectrum) and actually got hands on programming, rather than just moving boxes in a GUI. Europe and soon America will see a shortage of competent programmers and system engineers you'll end up off shoring all of your IT to places like India where they HAVE been actively pushing IT skills in schools.
Even If we act now, it will take 10-20 years for the problem to be fixed as that's how long it takes to get a child through the Education system to the level required for our future needs.
The Google Turing machine a few days ago is a prime example! How many of you's in your 30+ could do it, and how many younger than 30 managed it?
In my non-scientific survey of an IT forum it was 60% of over 30's managed it while less than 30% of Under 30's could only do it without cheating.
And if more ISP's jump on the 2-week "band-waggon" you'll quickly see one of the next "Defence Appropriations Bill" (or something like that) have a little addition sneaked in by someone in Homeland Security to legally require ISP's to hold 12 months of Logs/Emails.
Just like what's happening in the UK...