The only passwords your ISP should have are the ones to need to access their network and of course your email account
nah, I believe the objective is slightly more distracting. The combination of two sentences in the article ("service providers in India provide facilities for [..] monitoring of [..] communications from social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter" and "service providers are required to provide government security agencies with information [..] including passwords") sounds suspiciously like a permanent DPI with tapping of all user/password combinations.
the BBC article has some more depth (and the site is _much_ faster...). the most interesting sentence is "The memory stick was handed into the police on the weekend of the 5th March and safely retrieved." (emphasis added)
Facebook actually block accounts when someone (or the software) believe the name is fake.
Social networks are great tools for organising protests, with the big advantage of openness and the big disadvantage of openness. The currents uproars (North Africa, Middle East, Belarus,...) are driven by the masses; the demonstrations are successful because a notable percentage of the citizens are participating. Using of pseudonyms would slow down the information flow, and this would (arguable) the end of the protests: The strength of the movement are the people on the street.
as VKontakte is a clone/rip-off of Facebook I would imagine that the EULA regarding real names are similar instructed and enforced. (can't prove my point, I don't speak/read Russian)
it is kind of senseless using an anonymizing network to write something with your real name attached...
this article is interesting (I'm not able to check the validity).
some highlights: - Sweden tried to implement a neutral Scandinavian block but failed ultimately as Denmark and Norway joined the NATO. - Finland signed a treaty of friendship with the Soviet Union and regarded itself as strictly neutral. The US used the status of Finland as example for a successful co-existence with the SU while still remaining independent and neutral. - While exporting of strategic goods and technology to neutral states was forbidden the US included the neutral countries in the economical import/export network
A Wikipedia article claims that "the U.S. promised to provide military force in aid of Sweden in case of Soviet aggression. Knowledge of this guarantee was by the Swedish governments kept from the Swedish public until 1994, when a Swedish research commission found evidence for it" - unfortunately without source.
and I think the US has digital mercaneries working in a gray area - think of all the private IT security companies working for the government (anonymous/lulzsec targets are sufficient examples: ManTech, HBGary)
today it's more like "No one ever got fired for blaming China" - it may be possible (even likely to some extent), but those rumours and speculations are IMO mostly based on political bias/reasons.
It's kind of funny that The People(tm) argue about the Internet as if it is completely unrelated to the real world. no one (I hope..) would say "I think anonymity on the streets has to go away. People behave a lot better when they are tagged with their real names."
I'm cool with using my real name in the web (see my account at/.), but I would never accept regulations that ban pseudonyms.
I'm ignorant about UK laws, do you have some kind of breaking-encryption-is-verboten-law?
Even circumventing completly useless "encryptions" like CSS is afaik not allowed under DMCA, copy prevention systems for audio CDs like intentionally corrupt data are imo similar protected.
Does the format shifting law explicitly include that the original has to be unencrypted?
he asked the Swedish authorities if it is allowed to build a nuclear reactor
What was their answer?
probably something like "AAAARGH!"
[According to Swedish Radiation Safety Authority Regulatory Code 2008:6 page 3: A permit is required for construction and a licence for ownership and operation of a nuclear facility. A licence to operate a nuclear facility is thus issued to a specific owner.]
He ordered some radioactive material from overseas
Which was evidently delivered without any of the authorities being notified
it was most likely a Radium preperation like this one (or a similar product for scholastic purposes), more intensive radiation sources are strictly controlled.
he was questioned by the police because he apparently violated some Swedish nuclear material laws.
the story in short: - he invested $950 - he bought radioactive material and dismantled one domestic fire alarm - he blogged about his expirements - he asked the Swedish authorities if it is allowed to build a nuclear reactor - some official accompanied by police offices visited his flat and found no radiation problem - he was questioned at a police stations and was afterwards released - all the nuclear stuff was confiscated
hopefully never. at the moment I can get rid of unwanted shiny bling-bling with flashblock. as soon as everything is html I'll have to use more sophisticated/complicated countermeasures...
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The only passwords your ISP should have are the ones to need to access their network and of course your email account
nah, I believe the objective is slightly more distracting. The combination of two sentences in the article ("service providers in India provide facilities for [..] monitoring of [..] communications from social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter" and "service providers are required to provide government security agencies with information [..] including passwords") sounds suspiciously like a permanent DPI with tapping of all user/password combinations.
out of the head one quite recent example (okay, I had to google a link...): Michael Anti/Zhao Jing
Wallace, the guy with a $5M fine in 2006... something's rotten with the legislation/judicature if he is able to ignore the penalties
the BBC article has some more depth (and the site is _much_ faster...). the most interesting sentence is "The memory stick was handed into the police on the weekend of the 5th March and safely retrieved." (emphasis added)
why took it 5 months to disclose the data breach?
oops, I thought it would be an ongoing block. And not only friday is not wednesday, but additionally the post on charter97 is wednesday, July 20.
Facebook actually block accounts when someone (or the software) believe the name is fake.
Social networks are great tools for organising protests, with the big advantage of openness and the big disadvantage of openness. The currents uproars (North Africa, Middle East, Belarus, ...) are driven by the masses; the demonstrations are successful because a notable percentage of the citizens are participating. Using of pseudonyms would slow down the information flow, and this would (arguable) the end of the protests: The strength of the movement are the people on the street.
I just tried it with an open proxy in Belarus (213.184.241.106:3128) and neither vkontakte.ru nor imo.im are blocked...
as VKontakte is a clone/rip-off of Facebook I would imagine that the EULA regarding real names are similar instructed and enforced. (can't prove my point, I don't speak/read Russian)
it is kind of senseless using an anonymizing network to write something with your real name attached...
as I'm myself German I'm allowed to say that this is one of the most irritating attributes. TFA about the easter egg quotes one researcher with:
They weren’t exactly happy. Considering where these devices are deployed, they didn’t think it was very funny.
Easter eggs are cool, the flight simulator was the best feature in Excel 97(?).
this article is interesting (I'm not able to check the validity).
some highlights:
- Sweden tried to implement a neutral Scandinavian block but failed ultimately as Denmark and Norway joined the NATO.
- Finland signed a treaty of friendship with the Soviet Union and regarded itself as strictly neutral. The US used the status of Finland as example for a successful co-existence with the SU while still remaining independent and neutral.
- While exporting of strategic goods and technology to neutral states was forbidden the US included the neutral countries in the economical import/export network
A Wikipedia article claims that "the U.S. promised to provide military force in aid of Sweden in case of Soviet aggression. Knowledge of this guarantee was by the Swedish governments kept from the Swedish public until 1994, when a Swedish research commission found evidence for it" - unfortunately without source.
Software set to track 'net neutrality'
I read the summary and "disastrous NHS National Program for IT" reminds me of UK Taxpayers' Money Getting Wasted On IT Spending.
both sides are to blame here - government agencies are often really bad in project management and contractors are abusing this...
interesting way to describe events like the Blackwater Baghdad shootings...
and I think the US has digital mercaneries working in a gray area - think of all the private IT security companies working for the government (anonymous/lulzsec targets are sufficient examples: ManTech, HBGary)
coming to you soon: Google Instant Pages(tm).
the last trademark owner abandoned the poor little expression :)
as the old saying claims.
today it's more like "No one ever got fired for blaming China" - it may be possible (even likely to some extent), but those rumours and speculations are IMO mostly based on political bias/reasons.
It's kind of funny that The People(tm) argue about the Internet as if it is completely unrelated to the real world. no one (I hope..) would say "I think anonymity on the streets has to go away. People behave a lot better when they are tagged with their real names."
I'm cool with using my real name in the web (see my account at /.), but I would never accept regulations that ban pseudonyms.
as I never heart of VATS (and I'm sure I'm not alone):
VATS is "Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System", where you can pause the game and target specific enemy body parts.
PS the first Googlöe result page is full of articles about lobectomy, in this case the abbreviation means "video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery"
I'm ignorant about UK laws, do you have some kind of breaking-encryption-is-verboten-law?
Even circumventing completly useless "encryptions" like CSS is afaik not allowed under DMCA, copy prevention systems for audio CDs like intentionally corrupt data are imo similar protected.
Does the format shifting law explicitly include that the original has to be unencrypted?
has improved the time it takes to deploy a VM from 45 minutes to 5 minutes
uh, any logical explanation for this? SSDs are snappier and the peak I/O can be faster compared to spindle drives - but not by factor 9, or?
What was their answer?
probably something like "AAAARGH!"
[According to Swedish Radiation Safety Authority Regulatory Code 2008:6 page 3: A permit is required for construction and a licence for ownership and operation of a nuclear facility. A licence to operate a nuclear facility is thus issued to a specific owner.]
TFA is not to blame here. The official press release (German) is similar stupid.
He ordered some radioactive material from overseas
Which was evidently delivered without any of the authorities being notified
it was most likely a Radium preperation like this one (or a similar product for scholastic purposes), more intensive radiation sources are strictly controlled.
he was questioned by the police because he apparently violated some Swedish nuclear material laws.
the story in short:
- he invested $950
- he bought radioactive material and dismantled one domestic fire alarm
- he blogged about his expirements
- he asked the Swedish authorities if it is allowed to build a nuclear reactor
- some official accompanied by police offices visited his flat and found no radiation problem
- he was questioned at a police stations and was afterwards released
- all the nuclear stuff was confiscated
one Sri Chinmoy Library
(1 LoC [= 147M items] / 100000 ~ 1 SCL [~ 1.5K items])
hope this helps,
sincerely yours
hopefully never. at the moment I can get rid of unwanted shiny bling-bling with flashblock. as soon as everything is html I'll have to use more sophisticated/complicated countermeasures...