I wonder if these fights are just disinformation to try to convince criminals/terrorists that they can use iMessage. The government lets a criminal get away with it in a case they don't really care about or can convict them without it anyways and makes a lot of press, and then has access to it in all the cases they do care about.
iMessage is designed with warrants in mind if you read over the protocol documentation. Each device has its own key and is tied to your Apple Id. If you have a iPhone, a Macbook, and an iPad each device has its own encryption key. When someone sends you an iMessage, Apples sends them the public key for each of the 3 devices and then the encrypted message is sent to each device which uses its private key to decrypt the message.
When a warrant is issued, all Apple has to do is add a 4th, "FBI device" to your Apple Id and anyone sending you an iMessage also gets encrypted with that key.
As Apple controls the user interface and they provide no way to view how many keys an iMessage is being encrypted with, there is no easy way to see if an extra key for ease-dropping is being used. There may be ways if one monitored the size of the traffic, but I am not aware of that work being done. Anyone who had the need to make sure they weren't being spied on by the government, wouldn't use iMessage.
It looks like it gets everything that is currently known about, but no idea how much spyware is hidden in Windows 10 that isn't known about yet.
The link above actually contains 0 trackers according to Privacy Badger, one of the few Web sites where that has been the case.
There is a tool that was mentioned on Fox News (I don't watch, but I heard about it), DoNotSpy10 by pxc-coding, that is supposed to make it easy. Of course DoNotSpy10's installer itself contains spyware (OpenCandy), so using a tool to remove spyware that installs spyware is just lame.
ISPs are like all you can eat restaurants. In your example it would be like an all you can eat restaurant making enough food for one person and letting 1 million through the door. They have to estimate what the average person eats and make sure there is enough food for everyone they let through the door.
The difference is that most all you can eat restaurants will start turning people away at the door when they know they are going to run out of food. ISPs just keep selling to more customers even when they know they don't have enough bandwidth.
Anyone else getting "This is probably not the site you are looking for" at the top of the page, and at the bottom of the page after the blog it says:
"You attempted to reach stribika.github.io, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as a shape shifter humanoid reptile alien. This may be caused by a misconfiguration on the server or something more serious. An attacker on your network could be trying to get you to visit a fake (and definitely harmful) version of stribika.github.io. You should not proceed."
The SSL certificate matches stribika.github.io so according to my browser I am going to the correct site. I am not sure if this is meant to be humor or if there is some sort of additional interception detection. I have no idea what it would be doing beyond the SSL checks?
It is my understanding that retinal scans can be effected by health conditions. Pregnancy, diabetes, glaucoma, retinal degenerative disorder, AIDS, syphilis, malaria, chicken pox, lyme disease, leukemia, lympoma, sickle cell, congestive heart failure, atherosclerosis, and significant cholesterol change can all apparently cause a retinal scan to change. While some employees may find detection of these conditions as a good thing, other employees may find it invasive.
Research seems to indicate that iris scans change over time. Companies that use Iris scanners need to rescan everyone every year or they get false negatives, which may or may not be an issue.
I think using an ID card scan like was mentioned above, makes the most sense.
What we know about GMOs is that there are no known examples of harm caused by them that can be reproduced by scientific peers.
You mean like Monsanto's Newleaf Potatoes?
There was first the Dr. Arpad Pusztai study that showed it caused "damage to the intestines and immune systems of rats fed the genetically modified potatoes." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81rp%C3%A1d_Pusztai
Industry and the Royal Society of Medicine declared Dr. Arpad's study flawed and his study was considered discredited.
Then it turns out the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences had conducted a similar study that found similar results. Except this study had been suppressed by Monsanto for 8 years.
Major US food companies, like McDonald's and Frito-Lay, used Newleaf Potatoes for a few years before consumers complained about GMO "frankenfries."
It would be one thing if GMOs were being developed to taste better, grow larger, etc. However, most GMOs that are being developed either seem to be for either producing their own pesticides or to allow more pesticides to be used on them. It's not complex logic that putting new and more poisons on our food could cause us harm. Especially, when so many studies are coming out linking various diseases to pesticide use. Slashdot just recently an article linking Parkinson's to pesticide (http://slashdot.org/story/13/11/26/1956243/how-heroin-addicts-helped-scientists-link-pesticides-and-parkinsons). Pesticides have been linked to being a cause of Autism (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3404662/) and other diseases.
As single event upsets (SEU) are caused by cosmic particles which create alpha particles. It makes sense that equipment higher in the rack would absorb more of the alpha particles and block them from systems lower in the rack, but I am not a physicist. Alpha particles are relatively easy to block with shielding.
This isn't news. Companies that make supercomputers have known this for decades. The one I worked for 15 years ago used a high elevation test environment in Colorado to verify error correcting capabilities. Even the article says that the results were not a surprise.
I had been holding off on installing AdBlock Plus as ads are how most Web sites make their money, but I stopped watching this commercial at the 1 min mark and installed Adblock Plus. I plan on just disabling on sites with annoying ads though. No more youtube ads for me.
I would word it "any legal content." You wouldn't want to word it "ANY" as that would mean they wouldn't be allowed to block malware or DoS attacks and such. If ISPs weren't allowed to block DoS attacks that would be crippling.
USA basically confirmed and said it was not a joint operation with Israel.
If Israel wasn't involved they would have denied israeli involvement.
The Israeli office of the Prime Minister denied and the USA said it wasn't a join operation. I'm not sure what more you want.
I don't know how you can argue that lack of proof that Israel was involved proves that they were.
As far as reputable sources for the Le Monde being found guilty, google "Le Monde found guilty racist defamation". There are dozens of other places that provided the news. Pick whichever ones you do find reputable. Wall Street Journal has it behind its pay wall, but I didn't want to link to a pay wall.
As a poster below pointed out, the NSA practically confessed to the spying:
The American authorities noted that the activities of the intelligence service "were carried out according to law."
And the documents in the article stated that the NSA said it wasn't a joint operation with the Israelis. The Israeli prime minister's office made an official statement claiming they were not involved.
All evidence points to the NSA with no Israeli involvement.
This article is nothing but antisemitism and has no place on Slashdot.
If it was the Guardian making this claim, it would have some bearing. They have some authority in the leaks and have the source material to find this information.
French media just likes to blame Israel and Jews for everything, so I find little credibility to this article.
Unless I missed something in the article, everything basically says the US and Israel both deny having any involvement in spying on the French. The Guardian printed that it was the NSA that was spying on the French. While I wouldn't be surprised if Israel also spied on the French, I have not seen any such evidence provided.
The French article seems to take Israel's denial and that because Israel wasn't mentioned in the leaked NSA documents as the responsible party that obviously they must be involved.
These kind of Israeli/Jewish conspiracy theories appear regularly in French media, but they don't belong on Slashdot. My Dad's family is from France and Belgium and it is amazing some of the stuff I've seen my grandparents read in French mainstream newspapers. Antisemitism is apparently so bad in France today that Jews that had left France pre-WWII and moved back have been leaving again because they don't feel safe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_France#Post-World_War_II:_North_African_Jewish_migration - See the "Antisemitism and Immigration" section).
Sherman Austin admitted to defacing corporate web sites and leaving behind a program that attempted access to military computers. His political views and linking to instructions on making bombs are only part of the case. It is pretty clear that he was involved in illegal activities.
I read over the patent, but I am not a lawyer. It is difficult to read over patents as an engineer. It looks like the specific claim is for a specific implementation of an accelerator board. I seriously doubt Intel is using that identical implementation.
The more general claims in the patent seems to be for a clock multiplier. There is plenty of prior art there, and if that is where they are claiming Intel is infringing then they hopefully lose the case and those general claims in there patent may be thrown out. They may still be left with the specific claims in the patent, but that will give them less room to file infringement cases in the future.
Sure. I based it off all those old ROT13 jokes. It's an Open-Sig:) I'm not really sure the GNU FDL (Free Documentation License) works.
If you're feeling nice you can cite me, but I really don't care. I'd rather more people see how stupid the DMCA act is. I've noticed John Bartley use a slightly different version of it, I have no idea if he based it off mine or came up with it independently:
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:57:17 PST From: John Bartley or K7AAY@ARRL.NET "This post is quad-ROT13 encrypted. Reading it violates the DMCA."
I believe that I've been using it since the DMCA came out, although the oldest post Slashdot has for me is Mar 16, 2003. But the signature is there.
Hey, some of us are geeks and proud of it. I have no problem with someone calling me a geek when it isn't done in an insulting manner. Even then I often take it as a compliment.
This is a good thread. My gf has a hard time shopping for me sometimes. I maintain a list of DVDs I want, and she often snags something off that list. A lot of geeks maintain a wish list somewhere. Other times, it is just something I've mentioned I've wanted.
Although, one time I had been mentioning wanting an umbrella for a while, but hadn't gotten my butt to go shopping for one. So she hands me this blue-purple umbrella. For some reason, women seem to think purple works for guys. I had to be careful not to offend her, but I ended up going to the store and returning it for a nicer black one.
I do have some male friends that like purple, but most of them are gay. The general advice about shopping for men, still applies to most geeks.
The difference for geeks is they like cool toys and often care a lot about quality. If you get something that normally comes in a cheap plastic, but they make a nice shiny metal one. Most people might not care, but a lot of geeks will like the nice shiny metal one. I wish I had an example, but I hope I got the idea accross.
There was a program on TV about their involvement in the Spirit. They were used in some of the systems controlling the landing. They also control some of the wheels, steering, arms, and cameras.
They supposedly are not involved in any of the communications systems that could cause the problem the Spirit is experiencing.
Slashdot Mirror
I wonder if these fights are just disinformation to try to convince criminals/terrorists that they can use iMessage. The government lets a criminal get away with it in a case they don't really care about or can convict them without it anyways and makes a lot of press, and then has access to it in all the cases they do care about.
iMessage is designed with warrants in mind if you read over the protocol documentation. Each device has its own key and is tied to your Apple Id. If you have a iPhone, a Macbook, and an iPad each device has its own encryption key. When someone sends you an iMessage, Apples sends them the public key for each of the 3 devices and then the encrypted message is sent to each device which uses its private key to decrypt the message.
When a warrant is issued, all Apple has to do is add a 4th, "FBI device" to your Apple Id and anyone sending you an iMessage also gets encrypted with that key.
As Apple controls the user interface and they provide no way to view how many keys an iMessage is being encrypted with, there is no easy way to see if an extra key for ease-dropping is being used. There may be ways if one monitored the size of the traffic, but I am not aware of that work being done. Anyone who had the need to make sure they weren't being spied on by the government, wouldn't use iMessage.
I found the following instructions:
https://fix10.isleaked.com/#12
It looks like it gets everything that is currently known about, but no idea how much spyware is hidden in Windows 10 that isn't known about yet.
The link above actually contains 0 trackers according to Privacy Badger, one of the few Web sites where that has been the case.
There is a tool that was mentioned on Fox News (I don't watch, but I heard about it), DoNotSpy10 by pxc-coding, that is supposed to make it easy. Of course DoNotSpy10's installer itself contains spyware (OpenCandy), so using a tool to remove spyware that installs spyware is just lame.
And of course, some people are saying that DoNotSpy10 itself contains spyware in its installer (OpenCandy):
http://www.wilderssecurity.com...
It is not open source, and does not appear to be trustworthy.
I think it is probably much safer to just follow instructions for oneself, like these:
https://fix10.isleaked.com/#12
Even the paid version of AVG now spams pop-up advertisements. Definitely do not go with that.
I tend to use AV comparatives as one place to compare how anti-virus products are stacking up:
http://www.av-comparatives.org...
ISPs are like all you can eat restaurants. In your example it would be like an all you can eat restaurant making enough food for one person and letting 1 million through the door. They have to estimate what the average person eats and make sure there is enough food for everyone they let through the door.
The difference is that most all you can eat restaurants will start turning people away at the door when they know they are going to run out of food. ISPs just keep selling to more customers even when they know they don't have enough bandwidth.
Anyone else getting "This is probably not the site you are looking for" at the top of the page, and at the bottom of the page after the blog it says:
"You attempted to reach stribika.github.io, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as a shape shifter humanoid reptile alien. This may be caused by a misconfiguration on the server or something more serious. An attacker on your network could be trying to get you to visit a fake (and definitely harmful) version of stribika.github.io. You should not proceed."
The SSL certificate matches stribika.github.io so according to my browser I am going to the correct site. I am not sure if this is meant to be humor or if there is some sort of additional interception detection. I have no idea what it would be doing beyond the SSL checks?
It is my understanding that retinal scans can be effected by health conditions. Pregnancy, diabetes, glaucoma, retinal degenerative disorder, AIDS, syphilis, malaria, chicken pox, lyme disease, leukemia, lympoma, sickle cell, congestive heart failure, atherosclerosis, and significant cholesterol change can all apparently cause a retinal scan to change. While some employees may find detection of these conditions as a good thing, other employees may find it invasive.
Research seems to indicate that iris scans change over time. Companies that use Iris scanners need to rescan everyone every year or they get false negatives, which may or may not be an issue.
I think using an ID card scan like was mentioned above, makes the most sense.
Does this apply to the TSA who regularly searches laptops and cell phones?
What we know about GMOs is that there are no known examples of harm caused by them that can be reproduced by scientific peers.
You mean like Monsanto's Newleaf Potatoes?
There was first the Dr. Arpad Pusztai study that showed it caused "damage to the intestines and immune systems of rats fed the genetically modified potatoes."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81rp%C3%A1d_Pusztai
Industry and the Royal Society of Medicine declared Dr. Arpad's study flawed and his study was considered discredited.
Then it turns out the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences had conducted a similar study that found similar results. Except this study had been suppressed by Monsanto for 8 years.
Major US food companies, like McDonald's and Frito-Lay, used Newleaf Potatoes for a few years before consumers complained about GMO "frankenfries."
It would be one thing if GMOs were being developed to taste better, grow larger, etc. However, most GMOs that are being developed either seem to be for either producing their own pesticides or to allow more pesticides to be used on them. It's not complex logic that putting new and more poisons on our food could cause us harm. Especially, when so many studies are coming out linking various diseases to pesticide use. Slashdot just recently an article linking Parkinson's to pesticide (http://slashdot.org/story/13/11/26/1956243/how-heroin-addicts-helped-scientists-link-pesticides-and-parkinsons). Pesticides have been linked to being a cause of Autism (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3404662/) and other diseases.
As single event upsets (SEU) are caused by cosmic particles which create alpha particles. It makes sense that equipment higher in the rack would absorb more of the alpha particles and block them from systems lower in the rack, but I am not a physicist. Alpha particles are relatively easy to block with shielding.
http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/Single_event-upset
As the link said, this was first theorized in 1978 and supercomputer companies have been designing systems with this in mind for decades.
This isn't news. Companies that make supercomputers have known this for decades. The one I worked for 15 years ago used a high elevation test environment in Colorado to verify error correcting capabilities. Even the article says that the results were not a surprise.
I had been holding off on installing AdBlock Plus as ads are how most Web sites make their money, but I stopped watching this commercial at the 1 min mark and installed Adblock Plus. I plan on just disabling on sites with annoying ads though. No more youtube ads for me.
Ya, I stopped watching after 1 min. Even that was excessive. This ad is enough to make me look into youtube ad blocking.
I would word it "any legal content." You wouldn't want to word it "ANY" as that would mean they wouldn't be allowed to block malware or DoS attacks and such. If ISPs weren't allowed to block DoS attacks that would be crippling.
USA basically confirmed and said it was not a joint operation with Israel.
If Israel wasn't involved they would have denied israeli involvement.
The Israeli office of the Prime Minister denied and the USA said it wasn't a join operation. I'm not sure what more you want.
I don't know how you can argue that lack of proof that Israel was involved proves that they were.
As far as reputable sources for the Le Monde being found guilty, google "Le Monde found guilty racist defamation". There are dozens of other places that provided the news. Pick whichever ones you do find reputable. Wall Street Journal has it behind its pay wall, but I didn't want to link to a pay wall.
In fact, this newspaper has even been found guilty by a French court for "racist defamation" against Israel and the Jewish people in the past.
Sources:
http://rense.com/general65/aanit.htm
http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/000375.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1415355/posts
As a poster below pointed out, the NSA practically confessed to the spying:
The American authorities noted that the activities of the intelligence service "were carried out according to law."
And the documents in the article stated that the NSA said it wasn't a joint operation with the Israelis. The Israeli prime minister's office made an official statement claiming they were not involved.
All evidence points to the NSA with no Israeli involvement.
This article is nothing but antisemitism and has no place on Slashdot.
If it was the Guardian making this claim, it would have some bearing. They have some authority in the leaks and have the source material to find this information.
French media just likes to blame Israel and Jews for everything, so I find little credibility to this article.
Unless I missed something in the article, everything basically says the US and Israel both deny having any involvement in spying on the French. The Guardian printed that it was the NSA that was spying on the French. While I wouldn't be surprised if Israel also spied on the French, I have not seen any such evidence provided.
The French article seems to take Israel's denial and that because Israel wasn't mentioned in the leaked NSA documents as the responsible party that obviously they must be involved.
These kind of Israeli/Jewish conspiracy theories appear regularly in French media, but they don't belong on Slashdot. My Dad's family is from France and Belgium and it is amazing some of the stuff I've seen my grandparents read in French mainstream newspapers. Antisemitism is apparently so bad in France today that Jews that had left France pre-WWII and moved back have been leaving again because they don't feel safe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_France#Post-World_War_II:_North_African_Jewish_migration - See the "Antisemitism and Immigration" section).
The Chinese Telecom That Spooks the Spooks
There are plenty of non-fictional Eureka towns:
Eureka, CA, Eureka, IL, Eureka, KS, Eureka, MO, Eureka, MT
Eureka, SD, Eureka, TN, Eureka, TX, Eureka, UT, Eureka, WV
Sherman Austin admitted to defacing corporate web sites and leaving behind a program that attempted access to military computers. His political views and linking to instructions on making bombs are only part of the case. It is pretty clear that he was involved in illegal activities.
I read over the patent, but I am not a lawyer. It is difficult to read over patents as an engineer. It looks like the specific claim is for a specific implementation of an accelerator board. I seriously doubt Intel is using that identical implementation.
The more general claims in the patent seems to be for a clock multiplier. There is plenty of prior art there, and if that is where they are claiming Intel is infringing then they hopefully lose the case and those general claims in there patent may be thrown out. They may still be left with the specific claims in the patent, but that will give them less room to file infringement cases in the future.
Sure. I based it off all those old ROT13 jokes. :) I'm not really sure the GNU FDL (Free Documentation License) works.
It's an Open-Sig
If you're feeling nice you can cite me, but I really don't care. I'd rather more people see how stupid the DMCA act is. I've noticed John Bartley use a slightly different version of it, I have no idea if he based it off mine or came up with it independently:
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:57:17 PST
From: John Bartley or K7AAY@ARRL.NET
"This post is quad-ROT13 encrypted. Reading it violates the DMCA."
I believe that I've been using it since the DMCA came out, although the oldest post Slashdot has for me is Mar 16, 2003. But the signature is there.
Hey, some of us are geeks and proud of it. I have no problem with someone calling me a geek when it isn't done in an insulting manner. Even then I often take it as a compliment.
This is a good thread. My gf has a hard time shopping for me sometimes. I maintain a list of DVDs I want, and she often snags something off that list. A lot of geeks maintain a wish list somewhere. Other times, it is just something I've mentioned I've wanted.
Although, one time I had been mentioning wanting an umbrella for a while, but hadn't gotten my butt to go shopping for one. So she hands me this blue-purple umbrella. For some reason, women seem to think purple works for guys. I had to be careful not to offend her, but I ended up going to the store and returning it for a nicer black one.
I do have some male friends that like purple, but most of them are gay. The general advice about shopping for men, still applies to most geeks.
The difference for geeks is they like cool toys and often care a lot about quality. If you get something that normally comes in a cheap plastic, but they make a nice shiny metal one. Most people might not care, but a lot of geeks will like the nice shiny metal one. I wish I had an example, but I hope I got the idea accross.
IRIX is much more based on System V than BSD.
Solaris is System V, SunOS was BSD.
HP-UX hasn't been really BSD since 8 as I recall. 9 was System V.3. 10 moved to System V.4. And 11 just added more features.
No one really knows what AIX is. Other than a pain to work with.
SCO is dying (System V).
While not on the list, Linux used to be very BSD but has become much more System V over time.
There was a program on TV about their involvement in the Spirit. They were used in some of the systems controlling the landing. They also control some of the wheels, steering, arms, and cameras.
They supposedly are not involved in any of the communications systems that could cause the problem the Spirit is experiencing.