Cisco is not mentioned because Iran would not have bought there 1990s implementation of DPI. Nokia and Siemens are leaders at this, Cisco routes and tells it board that it does all things. We all know otherwise, Cisco routes, oh yeah and they can switch. Iran could not control the (Iranian) internet without Nokia.
I agree about the topic being poison and it being a little too early for the administration to risk any poison. Obama has the chance to change the worlds view of America, but he must have political capital to do so. Yes, legalizing pot would gain him capital from some, but they would be people who buy,sell or smoke it and for the most part do not even pay taxes on it. Touching that issue would be to squander his ability to affect change, I for one am glad that he does not touch it at this time.
As last weeks story pointed out, the Iranians have created a single choke point for traffic. TOR traffic can be recognized by flows and even easier by an application aware firewall/IDS. The points where the TOR traffic comes into the country, each of those nodes risks physical detection. It is not known how much monitoring of internal traffic goes on, so perhaps it is safe for this but not for traffic outside the country.
The worst thing about this is that if internal traffic is well monitored they can map networks of TOR operators. The government creates an event worth mass twittering and watches the traffic going to the egress TOR routers, that helps them identify 1 layer away from the border. They then repeat that with each new host found until they have an accurate map of the TORosphere.
To discourage pranksters and law-enforcement officials from flooding the system with bogus locations, users can rate others on the accuracy of their contributions, and those getting better ratings will carry more weight.
Eventually, they will have a full on mod system. I envision:
Speed trap: 8 miles w. of old barn by elm tree (Score:2), funny)
Speed trap: Police Station (score: -1, troll)
Send excess population out into space to found colonies that will eventually trade with Mother Earth.
Isn't that sort of the "starblazers" cartoon?... We're lost in outer space protecting Mother Earth. To save the human race. Our star blazers. If ony we could find Iscandar.
How do you propose to reconcile those conflicts and establish your organization with any semblance of 'geek cred' to get the real talent you sound interested in attracting? What sorts of 'carrots' will you wave to attract people?
They will accomplish this in a manner that serves two purposes: First, they will attract the people they want and second, only the people that they want. This is easy to accomplish. They will announce a cyber warfare division and they will recruit. The recruits will go through basic training and they will learn to abide by strict discipline. Those that are uninterested in that are probably not mature enough to handle the job anyway. Military is tough, but I know several geeks (myself included) that handled it just fine. The military has no need to drop its standards just to get a couple bright, though socially dysfunctional hacker.
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Awesome image choice.
Cisco is not mentioned because Iran would not have bought there 1990s implementation of DPI. Nokia and Siemens are leaders at this, Cisco routes and tells it board that it does all things. We all know otherwise, Cisco routes, oh yeah and they can switch. Iran could not control the (Iranian) internet without Nokia.
the harder it's wound, the more likely it is to snap.
I thought it was "The more you tighten your' grip, the more Star Systems will slip through your' fingers."
A quick google search for "Big, Monopolistic Search Engines who crush competition" comes up with one response:
www.bing.com
My iPhone is obsolete again.... sigh
I agree about the topic being poison and it being a little too early for the administration to risk any poison. Obama has the chance to change the worlds view of America, but he must have political capital to do so. Yes, legalizing pot would gain him capital from some, but they would be people who buy,sell or smoke it and for the most part do not even pay taxes on it. Touching that issue would be to squander his ability to affect change, I for one am glad that he does not touch it at this time.
As last weeks story pointed out, the Iranians have created a single choke point for traffic. TOR traffic can be recognized by flows and even easier by an application aware firewall/IDS. The points where the TOR traffic comes into the country, each of those nodes risks physical detection. It is not known how much monitoring of internal traffic goes on, so perhaps it is safe for this but not for traffic outside the country.
The worst thing about this is that if internal traffic is well monitored they can map networks of TOR operators. The government creates an event worth mass twittering and watches the traffic going to the egress TOR routers, that helps them identify 1 layer away from the border. They then repeat that with each new host found until they have an accurate map of the TORosphere.
Now if I could only find a way to get management to read it.
Get it published in e-Week or some other "respected" trade publication.
My first cool computer job involved BBx code and gourmet food. One tasted really good, the other was over processed :-)
An engineer could easily turn bad...
Exactly. Especially if the bad guys tell us that they can save our wife from dying or that only violence can save the crumbling republic.
To discourage pranksters and law-enforcement officials from flooding the system with bogus locations, users can rate others on the accuracy of their contributions, and those getting better ratings will carry more weight.
Eventually, they will have a full on mod system. I envision:
Speed trap: 8 miles w. of old barn by elm tree (Score:2), funny)
Speed trap: Police Station (score: -1, troll)
why are these moons hot on the inside
That's no moon....
Send excess population out into space to found colonies that will eventually trade with Mother Earth.
... We're lost in outer space protecting Mother Earth. To save the human race. Our star blazers. If ony we could find Iscandar.
Isn't that sort of the "starblazers" cartoon?
How do you propose to reconcile those conflicts and establish your organization with any semblance of 'geek cred' to get the real talent you sound interested in attracting? What sorts of 'carrots' will you wave to attract people?
They will accomplish this in a manner that serves two purposes: First, they will attract the people they want and second, only the people that they want. This is easy to accomplish. They will announce a cyber warfare division and they will recruit. The recruits will go through basic training and they will learn to abide by strict discipline. Those that are uninterested in that are probably not mature enough to handle the job anyway. Military is tough, but I know several geeks (myself included) that handled it just fine. The military has no need to drop its standards just to get a couple bright, though socially dysfunctional hacker.