Yeah, like the Jews screwed up by not holding enough candlelight vigils.
Watts was in a position I refuse to put myself into, dealing with the Homoland Stasi butches. They are there specifically to hassle, harrass and humiliate US citizens. Send the good old boys from Georgia up to Maine to frig with the Mainers born across the border and send the Mainers to the southwest to get freaked out by the skin colors. Standard imperial practice.
Watts went wrong crossing the border in the first place. Those of us with a "bad attitude" should know better than to put ourselves in a position where we have to stand up or wimp out. Existential is the right word, I think.
And yeah, there are good cops. And good soldiers. But fewer and fewer every day - so few it's already too late.
Can't be anonymous; at least in Maine it is tied to your driver's license (with biometric data) and now with HAVA, even to your voter registration. One stop shop at your local Secretary of State for all the data corporate world needs for gerrymandering or selling hamburgers. Even the Borg had it better.
Most people seem to think it makes sense. It's company truck, so company can do it, it's state highway, so state DOT can do it. Perfect sense. Wouldn't it be easier and more reliable to make employees wear GPS bracelets? If it's an issue of getting paid, don't make them punch in codes; trust the company to get it right. If one is going to look up who is near something and then radio them, why not just radio all trucks; it's usually a common repeater channel.
I was involved in planning such a project. The plows were going to appear on a website so residents could see where they were. Somehow the talk kept coming around to how to deal with people calling in and demanding the plow come to them.
If you want to build in a callback for dispute then you cannot do micropayments because the police costs are too high.
E-Z Pass is not micropayment. It tracks everything and ties to your whole CAPS II and terrorist profile. Good morning Number 2. We know where you buy your hamburgers.
I would dearly love digital cash. Sometimes I want to be anonymous. I want the transaction done and never to return because the police costs themselves make the transaction not worthwhile.
And as a matter of course I do not want to leave a trail; that is my business, not my bank's business, not Ashcroft's business. Nor do I want RFID tags in my tires or an E-Z pass transponder feeding my digital persona to everyone I pass.
For the various key employees, I'd like to see full disclosure of history, whom they have represented in past, other family members and relatives in office. I'm sure there is some standard way of disclosing.
I'd like to feel the DOJ is working for the public interest, not just the protection of existing business. This goes to legitimacy.
From 2001-12, William Grieder writes A New Giant Sucking Sound where China defines the bottom in "the race to the bottom".
(This is not per se about China, but globalization policies and who benefits.)
As industries around you shut down in the face of $1.00/day competition from overseas, your local economy turns into a *extraction* industry, where what you make at your $7.50 an hour job at McD's goes via WalMart to child labor in China. Until McD's shuts down too.
It's not simply about ROI or how it sucks to be the one affected, because everyone on the street is affected when anyone on the street suffers. ROI talks about things on the balance sheet and income statement; if the business can dump poison, murder employees and corrupt the government, none of that shows up on the balance sheet and none of that is reflected in ROI. Except maybe positively because of the private benefit from public cost. Eg the costs are externalized. Like power plants in midwest dump crap into the air that makes the air in Maine some of the most polluted in country. Doesn't show up on their balance sheets/ROI, just in our ozone days and health stats.
I live in Maine, and I'm watching the demise of the local dairy, fishing and wood products industries. When Monsanto is done with the local dairy industry, there will be none and we will be forced to the GM/antibiotic trough. Some people might say that is "choice". Not my choice.
It's not a rising of the bottom but a ripping of the top of the *labor* market. The CEO won't take a cut, but he will get x $millions more for exporting American jobs to China.
If the CEO only earned ten or even 100 times more than the lowest paid worker, that might be ok.
ROI my ass. (BTW I am a CEO)
And the Daily Word from sfgate.com 2003-01-31
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>This pithy gem from sfgate: > > == The Daily Word == > > It's almost like learning something > > gimcrack \'jim-'krak\ noun [origin unknown] (1676) > A showy object of little use or value - a gewgaw > gimcrack - adjective; gimcrackery - noun > > Usage example: And with that, Lynne Cheney ran off into > the woods yet again, cackling and hissing and dangling > Ashcroft's testes from her scaly neck like a gimcrack.
Seems to me this would work just like a cookie. All it would take is one cross reference to tie you to the tire, either the initial purchase, a visit to ATM or whatever.
Bear in mind that federal law makes driver's license information available to toll collectors, law enforcement and "security" businesses.
This IDs you and tracks you better than a cell phone. I'd worry about the government of course, but first to take advantage of this will be the clickshare equivalents embedding scanners in every drive through. But they wouldn't sell or use this information.
Of course, if you have nothing to hide, then who needs privacy.
There is no way to stop this; the forces of commerce are way bigger than the forces of the government. One might, however, work to make it "fairer". There is still a fighting chance of that and small interventions might change the direction positively.
The 1974 Privacy Act requires agencies publish database descriptions and audit policies. Open the source and publish it. Get a catalog of all the databases and their audit proceedures (who can query, how authenticated, etc...) for your state. You cannot expect to discuss your rights online without knowing WHAT data is being collected and HOW it is being used. All you can expect otherwise, is compromise, compromise and compromise. Just what "expectation of privacy" will remain?
Open up the system, publish what is being collected and how it is used.
Just because the Act says so does not mean you can get this information easily - I've been denied recently because 1) it would "compromise security" and 2) computer records are not written documents, hence exempt from Maine's FAA. And after a process carried out entirely by email, my denial arrived by snail mail, giving me one day to appeal, Friday before Christmas.:-)
Don't think it will be easy. You will need to use the courts. Recruit a techie lawyer to help and build a small group.
And after you get the government to open up, on to the private industries where the real abuse is happening.
to tax the messages, the authorities are going to have to log (long term) the messages and control the infrastructure over which they travel. That includes more regulation of the ISPs at each end, etc....
Instead of.02 per message they could charge $5.00 per month (eg FCC access charge in US). Most likely, they **want** the messages.
EPIC has the system description here: http://www.epic.org/privacy/profiling/tia/t iasyste mdescription.pdf
It doesn't look like rocket science to me. Nor does it look like "just an idea". This is as good a blueprint as could be.
What do people (esp ISP's and ecommerce types) think about the infrastructure? Anything look familiar?
Bear in mind that if DARPA does not build it, then the various marketing groups will. It's only a matter of time and it probably cannot be stopped.
It might, however, be possible to influence the degree of "fairness" with which it is applied. Will it only watch immigrants, felons, sex offenders, arabs, blacks, jews and poor women or will Rich White Men be watched too?
Different kinds of justice, what works efficiently and what is "fair". If there is an issue for the/. community, that NO ONE ELSE UNDERSTANDS, this database surveillance is it.
They note 'bin laden' and just 'American Citizen'?
As the FBI agents crash the door, "Down on the floor American Citizen; we have a warrant for your arrest".
If there is a number and a time it can be traced, and it WILL be. Sooner or later, someone is going to have to justify what this costs, so let's start looking for joe criminal, hmmm, even joe maybe criminal... Sounds like a copyrighted tone on that cell phone! Not just to you, but then back to everyone else that called that number and every number it called, and your ISP and their system logs. Ashcroft's wet dream; in service to corporate interests.
Our only hope is that these snoops keep running Microsoft (There, worked in the obligatory bash)
Why don't you get your employer to sue HP to fix it? They won't release the details? Well, then it must be REALLY BIG. That is a huge product defect. Are they still selling that **known defective** product? That's probably legal, though ignorant folk like me would call it fraud.
What is YOUR company's exposure from running a system with security flaws that the vendor knows exist but has not fixed and will not reveal so you can implement a workaround or fix of your own?
DMCA won't let you get the details? Fine, TAKE THE CASH. They still have product liability and if they use it to hide flaws, use that. If that doesn't work, roll over and die.
The first application is military, the second one is marketing. How warm and fuzzy.
I wonder what happens if one cranks up the power? Is that like the poodle in the microwave?
I suppose taking actions to defeat someone's ability to use these things on you will mark you as a terrorist. That will be supported by judges noting that such use by marketers is protected "Free Speech".
Yes, boss, I'm a damn fool; I know you wanted that hole over there.
That job figure is the expansion of the resellers and certified beanie wearers that make up the typical Microsoft infrastructure.
It's just standard MLM (multi level marketing), like tupperware and herbalife.
It's a big gravy train.
Reminds me of the Yale vs Princeton "hack"
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A Princeton admin officer is on the hook for breaking in when the real criminal is the IT department and the organization yelling "victim" was so ignorant as to put up a web site that apparently used some obvious combination of name, birthday and social security number.
If I were a Yale student, I'd be suing Yale for willful negligence (IANAL). Isn't this what got the Interior Dept pulled offline regarding Indian Affairs?
And here we go again, why doesn't the courthouse just hand out all its correspondance on the street? I'd think anyone with a case more serious than a parking ticket could go after the court itself.
Maybe rather than disclosing vulnerabilities, a more fruitful approach would be to help those affected initiate lawsuits. eg, if you find a security hole at a bank, don't go to the bank, but set up a meeting with a bunch of account holders and a lawyer on percentage. Put their feet to the fire. Get paid for it too.:-)
Let's assume the police got the password and account right off the user's computer. Serves him right, if you ask me, but that is all intra-Italian. His web service provider can only know the user by password and id.
If, OTOH, they ran some sort of cracking routine against the web site here in US, then it would be a whole different matter. Would they run afoul of the Patriot Act? Would they claim immunity like the RIAA wants for hacking anyones machine?
Would US administration and justice dept have the skills and inclination to take it up? Get real, they'd take the side of the Italian police, and make up some nonsense here, enough to pull the plug on the ISP if he whimpers. That takes just about nothing now.
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Yeah, like the Jews screwed up by not holding enough candlelight vigils.
Watts was in a position I refuse to put myself into, dealing with the Homoland Stasi butches. They are there specifically to hassle, harrass and humiliate US citizens. Send the good old boys from Georgia up to Maine to frig with the Mainers born across the border and send the Mainers to the southwest to get freaked out by the skin colors. Standard imperial practice.
Watts went wrong crossing the border in the first place. Those of us with a "bad attitude" should know better than to put ourselves in a position where we have to stand up or wimp out. Existential is the right word, I think.
And yeah, there are good cops. And good soldiers. But fewer and fewer every day - so few it's already too late.
Can't be anonymous; at least in Maine it is
tied to your driver's license (with biometric
data) and now with HAVA, even to your voter
registration. One stop shop at your local
Secretary of State for all the data corporate
world needs for gerrymandering or selling hamburgers. Even the Borg had it better.
Most people seem to think it makes sense. It's
company truck, so company can do it, it's state
highway, so state DOT can do it. Perfect sense.
Wouldn't it be easier and more reliable to make
employees wear GPS bracelets? If it's an issue
of getting paid, don't make them punch in codes;
trust the company to get it right. If one is
going to look up who is near something and then
radio them, why not just radio all trucks; it's
usually a common repeater channel.
I was involved in planning such a project. The
plows were going to appear on a website so
residents could see where they were. Somehow
the talk kept coming around to how to deal with
people calling in and demanding the plow come
to them.
And then there were the "stealth" plows.
see prwatch.org
If you want to build in a callback for dispute
then you cannot do micropayments because
the police costs are too high.
E-Z Pass is not micropayment. It tracks everything
and ties to your whole CAPS II and terrorist
profile. Good morning Number 2. We know
where you buy your hamburgers.
I would dearly love digital cash. Sometimes
I want to be anonymous. I want the transaction
done and never to return because the police
costs themselves make the transaction not
worthwhile.
And as a matter of course I do not want to
leave a trail; that is my business, not my
bank's business, not Ashcroft's business. Nor
do I want RFID tags in my tires or an E-Z pass
transponder feeding my digital persona to
everyone I pass.
For the various key employees, I'd like to
see full disclosure of history, whom they
have represented in past, other family members
and relatives in office. I'm sure there is
some standard way of disclosing.
I'd like to feel the DOJ is working for the
public interest, not just the protection of
existing business. This goes to legitimacy.
The whole point of copyright FOR A LIMITED TIME
is that works fall into the public domain after
that.
That was the deal set out in our Constitution for
the advancement of all.
7, 14, 100+ years. Seems to me that "limited" might
be **less** now than it was 200+ years ago.
The obvious question no one seems to ask
is *how* Groove software will be used in
TIA.
If DOD uses linux, linux is still open source
and auditable. It's not going to collaborate
automatically with DOD/TIA/DOJ.
If DOD/DOJ/TIA uses Groove, will it be
the copies in the Pentagon or the copies in
**your** office?
Sure, you can be sure they WILL NOT SHARE the
results. Poindexter says so.
From 2001-12, William Grieder writes A
New Giant Sucking Sound where China defines the bottom in "the race to the bottom".
(This is not per se about China, but globalization
policies and who benefits.)
As industries around you shut down in the face of
$1.00/day competition from overseas, your local economy turns into a *extraction* industry, where
what you make at your $7.50 an hour job at McD's
goes via WalMart to child labor in China. Until
McD's shuts down too.
It's not simply about ROI or how it sucks to be
the one affected, because everyone on the street
is affected when anyone on the street suffers.
ROI talks about things on the balance sheet and
income statement; if the business can dump poison,
murder employees and corrupt the government, none
of that shows up on the balance sheet and none of
that is reflected in ROI. Except maybe positively
because of the private benefit from public cost.
Eg the costs are externalized. Like power plants
in midwest dump crap into the air that makes the
air in Maine some of the most polluted in country.
Doesn't show up on their balance sheets/ROI, just
in our ozone days and health stats.
I live in Maine, and I'm watching the demise of
the local dairy, fishing and wood products
industries. When Monsanto is done with the local
dairy industry, there will be none and we will be
forced to the GM/antibiotic trough. Some people
might say that is "choice". Not my choice.
It's not a rising of the bottom but a ripping of
the top of the *labor* market. The CEO won't
take a cut, but he will get x $millions more for
exporting American jobs to China.
If the CEO only earned ten or even 100 times more
than the lowest paid worker, that might be ok.
ROI my ass. (BTW I am a CEO)
>This pithy gem from sfgate:
>
> == The Daily Word ==
>
> It's almost like learning something
>
> gimcrack \'jim-'krak\ noun [origin unknown] (1676)
> A showy object of little use or value - a gewgaw
> gimcrack - adjective; gimcrackery - noun
>
> Usage example: And with that, Lynne Cheney ran off into
> the woods yet again, cackling and hissing and dangling
> Ashcroft's testes from her scaly neck like a gimcrack.
HOW DID THAT GET PAST THE CENSORS????
Seems to me this would work just like a
cookie. All it would take is one cross
reference to tie you to the tire, either
the initial purchase, a visit to ATM
or whatever.
Bear in mind that federal law makes driver's
license information available to toll collectors,
law enforcement and "security" businesses.
This IDs you and tracks you better than a cell
phone. I'd worry about the government of
course, but first to take advantage of this
will be the clickshare equivalents embedding
scanners in every drive through. But they
wouldn't sell or use this information.
Of course, if you have nothing to hide,
then who needs privacy.
In 1765 American's response was to dump the
tea in the harbor and tell King George to shove
it.
Nowadays that would be a terrorist act.
There is no way to stop this; the forces of
:-)
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commerce are way bigger than the forces of the
government. One might, however, work to make
it "fairer". There is still a fighting chance
of that and small interventions might change
the direction positively.
The 1974 Privacy Act requires agencies publish
database descriptions and audit policies. Open
the source and publish it. Get a catalog of all
the databases and their audit proceedures (who
can query, how authenticated, etc...) for your
state. You cannot expect to discuss your rights
online without knowing WHAT data is being
collected and HOW it is being used. All you can
expect otherwise, is compromise, compromise and
compromise. Just what "expectation of privacy"
will remain?
Open up the system, publish what is being
collected and how it is used.
Just because the Act says so does not mean you
can get this information easily - I've been
denied recently because 1) it would "compromise
security" and 2) computer records are not written
documents, hence exempt from Maine's FAA. And
after a process carried out entirely by email,
my denial arrived by snail mail, giving me one
day to appeal, Friday before Christmas.
Don't think it will be easy. You will need to
use the courts. Recruit a techie lawyer to help
and build a small group.
And after you get the government to open up, on
to the private industries where the real abuse
is happening.
See EPIC.org, their FOIA for TIA.
1974 Privacy Act:
http://www.epic.org/privacy/laws/privacy_ac
And of course, Lessig's CODE.
How censorship will dominate the net:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/23/arts/desi
to tax the messages, the authorities
.02 per message they could charge
are going to have to log (long term)
the messages and control the infrastructure
over which they travel. That includes
more regulation of the ISPs at each end,
etc....
Instead of
$5.00 per month (eg FCC access charge in US).
Most likely, they **want** the messages.
EPIC has the system description here:t iasyste mdescription.pdf
/. community, that NO ONE ELSE UNDERSTANDS,
http://www.epic.org/privacy/profiling/tia/
It doesn't look like rocket science to me. Nor does it look like "just an idea".
This is as good a blueprint as could be.
What do people (esp ISP's and ecommerce types)
think about the infrastructure? Anything look familiar?
Bear in mind that if DARPA does not build it, then
the various marketing groups will. It's only a
matter of time and it probably cannot be stopped.
It might, however, be possible to influence the
degree of "fairness" with which it is applied. Will it only watch immigrants, felons, sex
offenders, arabs, blacks, jews and poor women or
will Rich White Men be watched too?
Different kinds of justice, what works efficiently and what is "fair". If there is an issue for
the
this database surveillance is it.
They note 'bin laden' and just 'American Citizen'?
As the FBI agents crash the door, "Down on the
floor American Citizen; we have a warrant for
your arrest".
If there is a number and a time it can be traced,
and it WILL be. Sooner or later, someone is
going to have to justify what this costs, so
let's start looking for joe criminal, hmmm,
even joe maybe criminal... Sounds like a copyrighted tone on that cell
phone! Not just to you, but then back
to everyone else that called that number and
every number it called, and your ISP and their
system logs. Ashcroft's wet dream; in service
to corporate interests.
Our only hope is that these snoops keep running
Microsoft (There, worked in the obligatory bash)
I don't understand.
Why don't you get your employer to sue HP to
fix it? They won't release the details? Well,
then it must be REALLY BIG. That is a huge
product defect. Are they still selling that
**known defective** product? That's probably
legal, though ignorant folk like me would call
it fraud.
What is YOUR company's exposure from running
a system with security flaws that the vendor
knows exist but has not fixed and will not
reveal so you can implement a workaround or
fix of your own?
DMCA won't let you get the details? Fine,
TAKE THE CASH. They still have product liability
and if they use it to hide flaws, use that.
If that doesn't work, roll over and die.
one is marketing. How warm and fuzzy.
I wonder what happens if one cranks up the power?
Is that like the poodle in the microwave?
I suppose taking actions to defeat someone's
ability to use these things on you will mark
you as a terrorist. That will be supported by
judges noting that such use by marketers is
protected "Free Speech".
Yes, boss, I'm a damn fool; I know you wanted
that hole over there.
resellers and certified beanie wearers that
make up the typical Microsoft infrastructure.
It's just standard MLM (multi level marketing),
like tupperware and herbalife.
It's a big gravy train.
breaking in when the real criminal is the IT
department and the organization yelling "victim"
was so ignorant as to put up a web site
that apparently used some obvious combination
of name, birthday and social security number.
If I were a Yale student, I'd be suing Yale for
willful negligence (IANAL). Isn't this what
got the Interior Dept pulled offline regarding
Indian Affairs?
And here we go again, why doesn't the courthouse
just hand out all its correspondance on the
street? I'd think anyone with a case more
serious than a parking ticket could go after
the court itself.
Maybe rather than disclosing vulnerabilities, :-)
a more fruitful approach would be to help those
affected initiate lawsuits. eg, if you find a
security hole at a bank, don't go to the bank,
but set up a meeting with a bunch of account
holders and a lawyer on percentage. Put their
feet to the fire. Get paid for it too.
and account right off the user's computer.
Serves him right, if you ask me, but that is
all intra-Italian. His web service provider
can only know the user by password and id.
If, OTOH, they ran some sort of cracking routine
against the web site here in US, then it would
be a whole different matter. Would they run
afoul of the Patriot Act? Would they claim
immunity like the RIAA wants for hacking anyones machine?
Would US administration and justice dept have
the skills and inclination to take it up? Get
real, they'd take the side of the Italian police,
and make up some nonsense here, enough to
pull the plug on the ISP if he whimpers. That
takes just about nothing now.
years or so there will be
nothing left on this planet
Don't believe that report, don't believe the
next one, be reasonable.
AUSTIN, Texas, Jul 11, 2002...
Is it really true that every poisonous
snake in the US makes its home in Texas?
out Microsoft to fight Terrorism.
Running government just like big business,
if you catch my drift....
Ahh, Symantec pledges to acquiese to FBI backdoor demands
This is a real problem and needs to be addressed.
Has Symantec policy changed with respect to things
like magic lantern and so forth?
bugtraq. Poof.