You can be certain that they are already peeking. If you have a country run by wacky kooks next door, who are playing around with nukes and missiles, you might just want to know what they are up to.
Russia most likely has their own USS Jimmy Carter.
Or they have just bribed or blackmailed some network operator folks to get access. People always think about yet even more higher tech when they hear about spying. No, the older methods are more effective. A bribe is cheaper than hiring a band of hackers.
Cellphones smuggled into prisons -- enabling inmates to order murders, plan escapes, deal drugs and extort money -- have become a scourge in a bloc of states where corrections officers anally confiscate as many as one for every three inmates.
n/t
"Inmates call their mothers like most of us do on holidays"
Call their mothers what . . . ? And what do inmates say about the Mamas of other inmates . . . ?
Meth rings operated by prisoners with cellphones, some with ties to prison gangs like the Aryan Brotherhood, the Irish Mob Gang and the United Blood Nation
Ok, Aryan Brotherhood . . . probably some folks who have no fucking clue about what Hitler, Goebbels and their retinue were squawking about.
Irish Mob Gang: Isn't that title kinda a sorta reduntant . . . ?
"We called our first operation, "The Gang" . . . however, we have now upgraded ourselves to be a "Mob Gang"
The "United Blood Nation": a friend of mine has O+ and donates regularly. Can she apply do be a member . . . ? She told me that she doesn't donate to help other folks, but feels healthier after donating blood. Apparently, the folks who run blood banks love to have folks with blood type O+ waltz in.
"Georgia inmates used phones to take photos of themselves tying up or beating other prisoners, then texted the horrifying images to the victim's family and demanded cash.
Wasn't that what all the fuss about the book and business model, of "The Many Shades of Grey" was all about . . . ?
Nothing about this "sonic attack" story makes any sense whatsoever from a physics point of view.
This is Slashdot . . . making sense has never been high up on the priorities here.
This is not the answer that I was looking for . . . I expected a few Slashdotters to chime in that they are building "sonic attackers" in their mom's basement . . . 3D printed, IoT enabled . . . in a Blockchain!
Why are they comparing 2017 to 2015? Did anyone else notice they skipped 2016?
I guess someone read the how to lie with statistics book.
Why should we believe what Apple is reporting . . . ? Maybe the true number is 4,000 % . . . would Apple tell us the truth, if the government did not want us to know . . . ?
Not saying his transactions are or aren't overtly suspicious, but significant profits amidst potentially massive losses for so many make one look like a complete douche.
But that's the gag with totally royal douchebags . . . they don't really care if they look like one.
See Darl McBride for an excellent example. If Microsoft pays you a pile of cash in the Cayman Islands, what do you care what other folks think of you . . . ?
Well, I guess there are some folks who claim that they would die if they didn't have Facebook.
But I doubt if the lack of Facebook would sink the EU.
However, this spat is just one of politicians being posers. It's like Donald Trump causing a fuss with the NFL to distract folks from the real problems.
Now Facebook can claim high moral ground with "Free Speech" while the EU politicians can claim that they are fighting Yet Another Evil US Internet Company.
. . . so what will the weather be like tomorrow . . . ?
It's an open secret that Mark Zuckerberg wants to be the next President of the USA. The whole world will get a lot stranger when he has his fingers on the nuke buttons, and the EU is attacking his company.
Well apart from the fact that India has been an ally of the west for hundreds of years, the math has already been done.
Well apart from the fact that India has been a colony of the west for hundreds of years, the math has already been done.
You had a minor typo there, which I have fixed for you.
Now that the folks in the UK want a Brexit from the EU, they are chucking out low-paid, unskilled workers from Eastern Europe, mostly Poles.
The Brexit crew wants to "return England to its former glory" . . . which means they will be colonizing again. They need a new source of low-paid, unskilled workers.
However, an angry, scrawny old man wearing a diaper India chased them out, so some of the folks in potential colonies might get kind of uppity. I'm thinking that some third world countries without oil would be good candidates. Expect to see UK diplomats on "shopping sprees" in Africa soon . . .
It's called consolidation. Strengthen browser vendors, weaken individuals. With Rust, this can be done imperceptibly over time.
. . . so if it really is "imperceptible" . . . maybe it's already been done, and we just haven't noticed it yet . . . ?
If you can see it, and it's there . . . it's real.
If you can see it, and it's not there . . . it's virtual.
If you can't see it, and not there . . . it's gone.
. . . now when the film star and assassin James Earl Ray Jones shot John F. Kennedy, which led to our "Operation Paperclip" German scientists at Area 51 combining his DNA with the DNA of Martin Luther King to create Barack Obama (which explains why he has no birth certificate; he was grown in a very large test tube), Stanley Kubrick, who was filming the fake Apollo Moon landings in Area 51 filmed the process, which was used as the birth of the "Star Child" scene in "2001: A Space Odyssey" (Obama is not list in the credits), Jones further went on to star in the film with Australian body builder Lou Ferrigno, "Conan, The Librarian"), which led to Ferrigno's failed transgendered Vice-Presidential campaign as "Geraldine Ferrigno" . . .
. . . and then the conspiracy got super suspicious when . . .
I was interested in Ham Radio back in the US in the 70's. Unfortunately, back then, I don't know how it is now, in order to even get started, you needed to be able to type Morse, which, for some folks is a kinda sorta no go from a physical challenges standpoint.
I took it as more as a social snub: if your have enough money to spend on equipment, you will get your license, otherwise, you don't belong in our exclusive golf club. Not surprisingly . . . a lot of doctors in my town had Ham licenses . . . but they could not Morse themselves out of a paper bag.
So, sure . . . Ham operators could be useful in times of emergency. Of course, it might be a wee bit better if emergency services could use Ham tech themselves. Oh, but I forgot . . . it's an exclusive club.
No it is fucking awful. way too much touchy feely Janeway type crap
Back in the Captain Kirk days, Star Trek was always touchy feely; albeit, in the Donald Trump kind of touchy feely way with women. Kirk's onscreen, campy womanizing would incite screams of outrage if filmed today. Even Bill Clinton would blush when watching that.
The only remotely likeable characters are the klingons
Well, are the Klingons the modern heavy metal African-American Klingons, or the original Hispanic ones? The producers could save a fortune in make up costs by just going back to Klingon actors that you can pick up off the street in L.A., and start filming, without any expensive make up. It would be better if they invested that money elsewhere in the show.
Oh, have they started on Holodeck episodes yet? That's a sure sign that the series is spinning the wrong way around down the shitter in Australia.
TFA seems to imply that someone misused an email administrator id and password. Not really a "hack", in any sense of the word.
Whenever you have any information stored anywhere . . . the loosest link in the security chain will be human. Read up about Markus Wolf, the former East German Secret Police spy chief, also known as, "the man without a face."
Wolf managed to use "Romeos" to enchant bored secretaries of top West German politicians. This disclosure by Deloitte is nothing more than an admission of "pillow talk" . . . someone entrusted with an account and password misused it or passed it on to someone not authorized.
There's nothing really "tech" about this story . . . just plain simple industrial espionage, as usual.
Just bribe the sysadmins . . . it's a lot easier than trying to do any hacking.
That said, how the hell do you access an encrypted storage area without the key?
. . . oh . . . with the right National Security Letter . . . you would be surprised at what all you can access, with the friendly help of the company that produced the device.
If a company does not cooperate (collaborate) with the US spooks . . . the CEO wakes up with a bloody horse head in bed.
So if the spooks have ways of accessing "inaccessible" stuff . . . it will eventually get leaked, and someone else can do it, as well.
This reminds me of the time the BBC aired the logo for the fictional United Nations Space Command (from the Halo series) instead of the real logo for the real organization United Nations Security Council.
If anyone's old enough to remember Gerry Anderson's "U.F.O." television series . . . I always thought that CNN could have generated more interest with the American public for the Space Shuttle Program, if they had "unintentionally mixed up" live coverage of Mission Control in Houston with scenes of SHADO command centers on the Earth and Moonbase.
If we had seen more female space flight technicians with purple hair in tinfoil miniskirts and bikinis, the Space Shuttle would still be flying today!
. . . also cause a bit of a fuss when found showing The Prophet doing Tequila Slammers with The Very Late King Faisal at a sleazy Nevada Lap & Pole Dance dive . . . but it's nothing that you would want to lose your head over . . .
The Very Late King Faisal still enjoys his round of bridge on Thursday afternoons with Elvis, Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix on their island in the South Pacific . . .
I'm even thinking a bit further . . . now if Amazon could surgically integrate our torsos and heads with combined "Kiva" robots and RVs . . . into something like "Captain Pike" from the really old Star Trek . . . all in one unit . . .
. . . then we all can just scoot around from one job to the next . . . no RV park even necessary . . .
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Trump became president due to Russian influence in our election,
Nope. Trump became president because a lot of folks detest Hillary Clinton. She still hasn't realize this. It reminds me of celebrity who cries:
"What?!?! There are people who don't like me!?!?! I'm so great that everyone must absolutely love me!"
In the election folk did not vote for the better candidate. They voted for the least worse.
A lot of folks held their noses while voting.
It's quite sad actually.
Having a brain behind the camera that isn't yours (the brain not the camera) lends itself to all sorts of interesting possibilities.
. . . hmmm . . . that reminds me of females comments on males who have another brain that is constantly out of control.
It would be interesting to see what photos that brain would snap.
Surely they won't peek?
You can be certain that they are already peeking. If you have a country run by wacky kooks next door, who are playing around with nukes and missiles, you might just want to know what they are up to.
Russia most likely has their own USS Jimmy Carter.
Or they have just bribed or blackmailed some network operator folks to get access. People always think about yet even more higher tech when they hear about spying. No, the older methods are more effective. A bribe is cheaper than hiring a band of hackers.
I tried that stick on my Linux deskop and nothing happened.
The year 2007 was the year of "Linux on the Desktop". Sorry, you're a bit late.
Who knows what is on it, but I'll plug it in to my computer anyway!
. . . but Google would never be lackeys, henchmen and hoodlums for the US government . . . and plant NSA spyware on the sticks . . .
. . . would they . . . ?
Jam?! Way too much overkill. Just take a stroll through the scenic grounds of the prison with a laptop with Kismet.
You'll find plenty of phones of folks who never turn their Wifi/WLAN off.
Cellphones smuggled into prisons -- enabling inmates to order murders, plan escapes, deal drugs and extort money -- have become a scourge in a bloc of states where corrections officers anally confiscate as many as one for every three inmates.
n/t
"Inmates call their mothers like most of us do on holidays"
Call their mothers what . . . ? And what do inmates say about the Mamas of other inmates . . . ?
Meth rings operated by prisoners with cellphones, some with ties to prison gangs like the Aryan Brotherhood, the Irish Mob Gang and the United Blood Nation
Ok, Aryan Brotherhood . . . probably some folks who have no fucking clue about what Hitler, Goebbels and their retinue were squawking about.
Irish Mob Gang: Isn't that title kinda a sorta reduntant . . . ?
"We called our first operation, "The Gang" . . . however, we have now upgraded ourselves to be a "Mob Gang"
The "United Blood Nation": a friend of mine has O+ and donates regularly. Can she apply do be a member . . . ? She told me that she doesn't donate to help other folks, but feels healthier after donating blood. Apparently, the folks who run blood banks love to have folks with blood type O+ waltz in.
"Georgia inmates used phones to take photos of themselves tying up or beating other prisoners, then texted the horrifying images to the victim's family and demanded cash.
Wasn't that what all the fuss about the book and business model, of "The Many Shades of Grey" was all about . . . ?
Why wouldn't they?
Maybe . . . because they lie like rugs on a host of other things . . . ?
Nothing about this "sonic attack" story makes any sense whatsoever from a physics point of view.
This is Slashdot . . . making sense has never been high up on the priorities here.
This is not the answer that I was looking for . . . I expected a few Slashdotters to chime in that they are building "sonic attackers" in their mom's basement . . . 3D printed, IoT enabled . . . in a Blockchain!
Why are they comparing 2017 to 2015? Did anyone else notice they skipped 2016?
I guess someone read the how to lie with statistics book.
Why should we believe what Apple is reporting . . . ? Maybe the true number is 4,000 % . . . would Apple tell us the truth, if the government did not want us to know . . . ?
Based on the symptoms, it's entirely possible that these attacks are using microwaves, not sound.
Good guess. A lot of younger folks these days don't remember this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Now, when microwaving diplomats, like popcorn, if there are more than two full seconds in-between pops, it's time to stop.
. . . the Spanish Inquisition!
Their main weapons are fear, surprise, and a Catalonia's High Court order for Google to delete an application!
Yes, "High" Court, indeed.
Not saying his transactions are or aren't overtly suspicious, but significant profits amidst potentially massive losses for so many make one look like a complete douche.
But that's the gag with totally royal douchebags . . . they don't really care if they look like one.
See Darl McBride for an excellent example. If Microsoft pays you a pile of cash in the Cayman Islands, what do you care what other folks think of you . . . ?
In the USA, we value freedom so fuck off EU.
In the USA, we value Uber so fuck off EU.
You are doomed to fail anyway.
Well, I guess there are some folks who claim that they would die if they didn't have Facebook.
But I doubt if the lack of Facebook would sink the EU.
However, this spat is just one of politicians being posers. It's like Donald Trump causing a fuss with the NFL to distract folks from the real problems.
Now Facebook can claim high moral ground with "Free Speech" while the EU politicians can claim that they are fighting Yet Another Evil US Internet Company.
. . . so what will the weather be like tomorrow . . . ?
Slashdot is a strange place.
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It's an open secret that Mark Zuckerberg wants to be the next President of the USA. The whole world will get a lot stranger when he has his fingers on the nuke buttons, and the EU is attacking his company.
Well apart from the fact that India has been an ally of the west for hundreds of years, the math has already been done.
Well apart from the fact that India has been a colony of the west for hundreds of years, the math has already been done.
You had a minor typo there, which I have fixed for you.
Now that the folks in the UK want a Brexit from the EU, they are chucking out low-paid, unskilled workers from Eastern Europe, mostly Poles.
The Brexit crew wants to "return England to its former glory" . . . which means they will be colonizing again. They need a new source of low-paid, unskilled workers.
However, an angry, scrawny old man wearing a diaper India chased them out, so some of the folks in potential colonies might get kind of uppity. I'm thinking that some third world countries without oil would be good candidates. Expect to see UK diplomats on "shopping sprees" in Africa soon . . .
It's called consolidation. Strengthen browser vendors, weaken individuals. With Rust, this can be done imperceptibly over time.
. . . so if it really is "imperceptible" . . . maybe it's already been done, and we just haven't noticed it yet . . . ?
If you can see it, and it's there . . . it's real.
If you can see it, and it's not there . . . it's virtual.
If you can't see it, and not there . . . it's gone.
. . . now when the film star and assassin James Earl Ray Jones shot John F. Kennedy, which led to our "Operation Paperclip" German scientists at Area 51 combining his DNA with the DNA of Martin Luther King to create Barack Obama (which explains why he has no birth certificate; he was grown in a very large test tube), Stanley Kubrick, who was filming the fake Apollo Moon landings in Area 51 filmed the process, which was used as the birth of the "Star Child" scene in "2001: A Space Odyssey" (Obama is not list in the credits), Jones further went on to star in the film with Australian body builder Lou Ferrigno, "Conan, The Librarian"), which led to Ferrigno's failed transgendered Vice-Presidential campaign as "Geraldine Ferrigno" . . .
. . . and then the conspiracy got super suspicious when . . .
I was interested in Ham Radio back in the US in the 70's. Unfortunately, back then, I don't know how it is now, in order to even get started, you needed to be able to type Morse, which, for some folks is a kinda sorta no go from a physical challenges standpoint.
I took it as more as a social snub: if your have enough money to spend on equipment, you will get your license, otherwise, you don't belong in our exclusive golf club. Not surprisingly . . . a lot of doctors in my town had Ham licenses . . . but they could not Morse themselves out of a paper bag.
So, sure . . . Ham operators could be useful in times of emergency. Of course, it might be a wee bit better if emergency services could use Ham tech themselves. Oh, but I forgot . . . it's an exclusive club.
No it is fucking awful. way too much touchy feely Janeway type crap
Back in the Captain Kirk days, Star Trek was always touchy feely; albeit, in the Donald Trump kind of touchy feely way with women. Kirk's onscreen, campy womanizing would incite screams of outrage if filmed today. Even Bill Clinton would blush when watching that.
The only remotely likeable characters are the klingons
Well, are the Klingons the modern heavy metal African-American Klingons, or the original Hispanic ones? The producers could save a fortune in make up costs by just going back to Klingon actors that you can pick up off the street in L.A., and start filming, without any expensive make up. It would be better if they invested that money elsewhere in the show.
Oh, have they started on Holodeck episodes yet? That's a sure sign that the series is spinning the wrong way around down the shitter in Australia.
USA, around 1984: Where's the beef . . . ?"
Today: Where's the hack . . . ?"
TFA seems to imply that someone misused an email administrator id and password. Not really a "hack", in any sense of the word.
Whenever you have any information stored anywhere . . . the loosest link in the security chain will be human. Read up about Markus Wolf, the former East German Secret Police spy chief, also known as, "the man without a face."
Wolf managed to use "Romeos" to enchant bored secretaries of top West German politicians. This disclosure by Deloitte is nothing more than an admission of "pillow talk" . . . someone entrusted with an account and password misused it or passed it on to someone not authorized.
There's nothing really "tech" about this story . . . just plain simple industrial espionage, as usual.
Just bribe the sysadmins . . . it's a lot easier than trying to do any hacking.
That said, how the hell do you access an encrypted storage area without the key?
. . . oh . . . with the right National Security Letter . . . you would be surprised at what all you can access, with the friendly help of the company that produced the device.
If a company does not cooperate (collaborate) with the US spooks . . . the CEO wakes up with a bloody horse head in bed.
So if the spooks have ways of accessing "inaccessible" stuff . . . it will eventually get leaked, and someone else can do it, as well.
This reminds me of the time the BBC aired the logo for the fictional United Nations Space Command (from the Halo series) instead of the real logo for the real organization United Nations Security Council.
If anyone's old enough to remember Gerry Anderson's "U.F.O." television series . . . I always thought that CNN could have generated more interest with the American public for the Space Shuttle Program, if they had "unintentionally mixed up" live coverage of Mission Control in Houston with scenes of SHADO command centers on the Earth and Moonbase.
If we had seen more female space flight technicians with purple hair in tinfoil miniskirts and bikinis, the Space Shuttle would still be flying today!
. . . also cause a bit of a fuss when found showing The Prophet doing Tequila Slammers with The Very Late King Faisal at a sleazy Nevada Lap & Pole Dance dive . . . but it's nothing that you would want to lose your head over . . .
The Very Late King Faisal still enjoys his round of bridge on Thursday afternoons with Elvis, Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix on their island in the South Pacific . . .
It's a Quantum Mechanics type question:
Schrödinger's Ocean is Atlantic and Pacific at the same time . . .
I'm even thinking a bit further . . . now if Amazon could surgically integrate our torsos and heads with combined "Kiva" robots and RVs . . . into something like "Captain Pike" from the really old Star Trek . . . all in one unit . . .
. . . then we all can just scoot around from one job to the next . . . no RV park even necessary . . .