just a final layer. if my some insanely remote chance it's traced back to the network you used and not enough people have been using it to flush you out of the logs by then there's still nothing that can be tied to you. I know macs can be changed but if your factory default mac address turns up that's ever so sightly worse than some random MAC. A mac address alone is still as close to worthless as it's possible to get but it's best to cover all posibilities.
I was assuming that the person involved wasn't retarded. All bets are off if after doing all this you log into your myspace and update your name and address.
Hah! unless the NSA or magical imps are after you then complete anonymity can be gained by a few simple steps.
1: Find 3 or more VPN/proxy services located in different countries. Look for ones which claim to not keep any logs. 2: Change your MAC address. 3: Drive out to some random carpark with your laptop and hop on an open network/WEP network. 4: Connect through proxies/VPN's. 5: Do whatever the fuck you want.
Anyone who can trace you at this point has magical powers or already knows who you are and has cameras in your shower.
I've run into enough of those damned "think of the children" crowd to know that there are people out there who think that anyone ever accused of being a pedophile should be put on the sex offenders register/killed without trial even if found completely and totally innocent because "nothing is too much to make sure our children are safe!!!!!"
changing it for the size of the corp seems unfair and making the fee too large would be bad for the small companies. I'm betting if they made it a 1$ fee every 5 years for each copyrighted work then we'd see a torrent of material entering the public domain where companies have gone bust and the ownership of such things has been given to some company which or person who doesn't know or care that they hold the copyright.
And yet somehow he fails to understand the Streisand effect... and the fact that any Joe Slob can post anything on the net with complete anonymity if they so wish.
I agree, I'm just bothered by the fact that the other forms of media didn't suffer a similar ban, tabloids can bring on witch hunts more easily than the internet.
"the public should be able to discover what their public officials are doing" I assume you mean if some public official is taken to court. Keep in mind that until they're found guiltly it must be assumed that they've done nothing wrong but give the accused the ability to waive their right to anonymity if they want media attention and have the right to contact a reporter be similar to the right to contact a lawyer.
Oh I agree, either ban the mainstream media from publishing that kind of thing altogether on the basis of "innocent until proven guilty" or require that they publish an innocent verdict in a case in the same manner that they publish that the person is accused. Think in terms of if they have 5 front page headlines and 3 2 page spreads about how someone is accused of killing little Maddie then when that person is found guilty or the charges dropped they have to have at least 5 front page headlines and 3 2 page spreads about how they're not accused in issues on the same days of the week and similar print numbers.
I think we need to liscence who gets access to this "internet" you speak of since it's clearly dangerous. Bets that this judge is some OAP who was shown by his grandson how you could "google" someone...
yes, I'm all for copywrite for a decade or 2 and perhaps after that giving the holders the choice to register their intent to keep the copyright for longer by paying a small fee but really things stat under copyright for a stupid ammount of time. Companies rarely look more than 10 or 15 years ahead to work out how much money they can make off something so making copyrights last until the end of time isn't going to seriously increase the ammount of money the artists get for setting their work.
yes but it shouldn't treat a self signed cert worse than no cert unless it has changed since your last visit and if this is your first visit then it shouldn't be more creepy than simple http(no warning at all so your average mom and pop won't even think they're being scammed).
They could do with a red-yellow-green warning system.
Red- sites with self signed certs which have changed since the last time you have visited them(keeping a record of all certs accepted to this point would be a good idea to help with this) Yellow- Self signed cert. Warning first time you go to the site with accept/reject. Green- Signed and verified by trusted 3rd party.
Sites which have a signed and verified cert and which have marked themselves as "should always be HTTPS" but which you are visiting with HTTP -should be red as well. This way if some phisher sent you a link to http:\\paypal.com and paypal had registered with the trusted 3rd party that their site should always be using HTTPS then you get a red warning. Yes I know this would mean traffic to the trusted 3rd party whenever you visit any http site.
It's for when you want to get something off your pen drive and don't want to bother plugging it in! Or when someone standing beside you wants to get something off your pen drive without bothering to plug it in!
I go the easier route. I just don't buy them. Plus slashdot has so many engineers reading it that they're more likely to see it than if I email some companies customer care department.
Yes this is great but have any controls along the lines of "trusted computing" been slipped in to these devices. I ask only because it seems to be the fashion now days to try to put as many controls into new technology as possible.
the point isn't that whoever you replace him with will have magical "fix everything" powers. It's because the guys at the top are the only ones with any real power to make much difference and they need to fear for their jobs. If there's no chance of getting fired for not making sure the people bellow you follow security procedures then why bother?
Telling the other directors "Do a better job or be fired like that guy." will make a hell of a lot more difference than the mere act of replacing one man.
So even if a director is doing an excellent job he should be fired because some guy lost a USB stick which is most probably behind the back of some filing cabinet?
odd... whenever I get into a converstion about why directors get paid such insane ammounts the argument is always "because they have to take responsibility for everything that happens below them" but when it comes to the excrement hitting the rotary air impeller and it's sugested that the directors should take the responsibility and be fired it becomes "oh but you can't actually hold them responsible for what some low paid twat did, just fire the low paid twat"
Slashdot Mirror
"the plan is to replicate the disk promiscuously and distribute them around the world"
just a final layer.
if my some insanely remote chance it's traced back to the network you used and not enough people have been using it to flush you out of the logs by then there's still nothing that can be tied to you. I know macs can be changed but if your factory default mac address turns up that's ever so sightly worse than some random MAC. A mac address alone is still as close to worthless as it's possible to get but it's best to cover all posibilities.
I was assuming that the person involved wasn't retarded.
All bets are off if after doing all this you log into your myspace and update your name and address.
But he hasn't banned their names from appearing in traditional media and anyone at all who sees those other forms of media can post things on the net.
Hah!
unless the NSA or magical imps are after you then complete anonymity can be gained by a few simple steps.
1: Find 3 or more VPN/proxy services located in different countries. Look for ones which claim to not keep any logs.
2: Change your MAC address.
3: Drive out to some random carpark with your laptop and hop on an open network/WEP network.
4: Connect through proxies/VPN's.
5: Do whatever the fuck you want.
Anyone who can trace you at this point has magical powers or already knows who you are and has cameras in your shower.
You're right.
I've run into enough of those damned "think of the children" crowd to know that there are people out there who think that anyone ever accused of being a pedophile should be put on the sex offenders register/killed without trial even if found completely and totally innocent because "nothing is too much to make sure our children are safe!!!!!"
changing it for the size of the corp seems unfair and making the fee too large would be bad for the small companies. I'm betting if they made it a 1$ fee every 5 years for each copyrighted work then we'd see a torrent of material entering the public domain where companies have gone bust and the ownership of such things has been given to some company which or person who doesn't know or care that they hold the copyright.
And yet somehow he fails to understand the Streisand effect... and the fact that any Joe Slob can post anything on the net with complete anonymity if they so wish.
I agree, I'm just bothered by the fact that the other forms of media didn't suffer a similar ban, tabloids can bring on witch hunts more easily than the internet.
"the public should be able to discover what their public officials are doing"
I assume you mean if some public official is taken to court. Keep in mind that until they're found guiltly it must be assumed that they've done nothing wrong but give the accused the ability to waive their right to anonymity if they want media attention and have the right to contact a reporter be similar to the right to contact a lawyer.
*when that person is found not guilty or the charges dropped
what is it with me and typing today...
Oh I agree, either ban the mainstream media from publishing that kind of thing altogether on the basis of "innocent until proven guilty" or require that they publish an innocent verdict in a case in the same manner that they publish that the person is accused.
Think in terms of if they have 5 front page headlines and 3 2 page spreads about how someone is accused of killing little Maddie then when that person is found guilty or the charges dropped they have to have at least 5 front page headlines and 3 2 page spreads about how they're not accused in issues on the same days of the week and similar print numbers.
I think we need to liscence who gets access to this "internet" you speak of since it's clearly dangerous.
Bets that this judge is some OAP who was shown by his grandson how you could "google" someone...
the internet is scary.
bah! damn my awful spelling
*copyright not copywright
*stay not stat
*amount not ammount
yes, I'm all for copywrite for a decade or 2 and perhaps after that giving the holders the choice to register their intent to keep the copyright for longer by paying a small fee but really things stat under copyright for a stupid ammount of time.
Companies rarely look more than 10 or 15 years ahead to work out how much money they can make off something so making copyrights last until the end of time isn't going to seriously increase the ammount of money the artists get for setting their work.
yes but it shouldn't treat a self signed cert worse than no cert unless it has changed since your last visit and if this is your first visit then it shouldn't be more creepy than simple http(no warning at all so your average mom and pop won't even think they're being scammed).
They could do with a red-yellow-green warning system.
Red- sites with self signed certs which have changed since the last time you have visited them(keeping a record of all certs accepted to this point would be a good idea to help with this)
Yellow- Self signed cert. Warning first time you go to the site with accept/reject.
Green- Signed and verified by trusted 3rd party.
Sites which have a signed and verified cert and which have marked themselves as "should always be HTTPS" but which you are visiting with HTTP -should be red as well.
This way if some phisher sent you a link to http:\\paypal.com and paypal had registered with the trusted 3rd party that their site should always be using HTTPS then you get a red warning. Yes I know this would mean traffic to the trusted 3rd party whenever you visit any http site.
It's for when you want to get something off your pen drive and don't want to bother plugging it in!
Or when someone standing beside you wants to get something off your pen drive without bothering to plug it in!
I go the easier route. I just don't buy them.
Plus slashdot has so many engineers reading it that they're more likely to see it than if I email some companies customer care department.
Unnecessary speed!
compared to old connecters USB sockets seem to deal pretty well with this kind of thing.
Any ideas for how they could make the sockets more durable?
Yes this is great but have any controls along the lines of "trusted computing" been slipped in to these devices. I ask only because it seems to be the fashion now days to try to put as many controls into new technology as possible.
the point isn't that whoever you replace him with will have magical "fix everything" powers.
It's because the guys at the top are the only ones with any real power to make much difference and they need to fear for their jobs.
If there's no chance of getting fired for not making sure the people bellow you follow security procedures then why bother?
Telling the other directors "Do a better job or be fired like that guy." will make a hell of a lot more difference than the mere act of replacing one man.
So even if a director is doing an excellent job he should be fired because some guy lost a USB stick which is most probably behind the back of some filing cabinet?
odd...
whenever I get into a converstion about why directors get paid such insane ammounts the argument is always "because they have to take responsibility for everything that happens below them" but when it comes to the excrement hitting the rotary air impeller and it's sugested that the directors should take the responsibility and be fired it becomes "oh but you can't actually hold them responsible for what some low paid twat did, just fire the low paid twat"
I think you're not allowed to discriminate based on experience these days.
Please god let that be a joke...