Good read, that ID's the hype around cyber crime/terror:
NYT: The Cybercrime Wave That Wasn't
In less than 15 years, cybercrime has moved from obscurity to the spotlight of consumer, corporate and national security concerns. Popular accounts suggest that cybercrime is large, rapidly growing, profitable and highly evolved; annual loss estimates range from billions to nearly $1 trillion. While other industries stagger under the weight of recession, in cybercrime, business is apparently booming.
Yet in terms of economics, there's something very wrong with this picture. Generally the demand for easy money outstrips supply. Is cybercrime an exception? If getting rich were as simple as downloading and running software, wouldn't more people do it, and thus drive down returns?
Here, the entire "plot" is woven, whole cloth by the "investigative" agency. Dupes are recruited from the targeted population to execute the plot, under the continuous supervision and motivation by agency operatives. Ultimately, the "plotters" are intercepted for their stage-managed arrest and exposure.
In Iran? Well, they first apprehend someone who has a detectable pattern of contact with hostile, foreign governments and provable omissions in record and testimony.
Someday, when the whole world of technology is balkanized, where premium code contributions are walled of into proprietary software owned by Apple, Google and Facebook, we will wonder how "open source" became a form of virtual date rape.
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Maybe I should have included a :-) ?
No. My playing the game for subtle black humor. I'm like AliG in ASCII.
Probably more "American" than someone named "Rahm Emmanuel" or "Barack Obama".
No.
Thank you. Next question?
DreamHammer - terrifying name.
No doubt.
I hate 'em both.
I shit on Google, too. They once had the world's best search for the www.
Now? Let us both laugh and cry.
You got the BEST handle....
SHUT DOWN THE NET! FOR NATIONAL SECURITY!
The psyop seems to be working - but tell that to MLB. They post their WEP passphrase on national TV!
Good read, that ID's the hype around cyber crime/terror:
NYT: The Cybercrime Wave That Wasn't
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/opinion/sunday/the-cybercrime-wave-that-wasnt.html
Wipe that schnierer off your face, Bruce.
Don't worry. I've picked up a tail on /.
Might be run-of-the-mill hasbara or one of the various MISO/Psyop members of the Chairforce that are sent to "police" public forums.
Here, the entire "plot" is woven, whole cloth by the "investigative" agency. Dupes are recruited from the targeted population to execute the plot, under the continuous supervision and motivation by agency operatives. Ultimately, the "plotters" are intercepted for their stage-managed arrest and exposure.
In Iran? Well, they first apprehend someone who has a detectable pattern of contact with hostile, foreign governments and provable omissions in record and testimony.
After that? They are both foregone conclusions.
In all things, including being evil and in being "worst", Microsoft is banal.
Prisoner of Microsoft.
not
Project Object Model. :-)
Everything else is fake, why not your wedding and graduation?
I was a POM for 6 of the Ballmer years.
It was like being in the bowels of the Politburo.
That's not "my solution".
Merely an observation.
I leave conclusions to those with an actual need.
How many copies of webkit do you want on your phone/pad. ;-)
Count the number of gekko/webkit links and bundles you find on a well-augmented Ubuntu or Fedora box.
I've seen this gag before.
I think it starts with "Recursion (n): See..."
Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it.
-- Werner Heisenberg
Computing redefined for people who REALLY like glossy magazines and coffee table books.
Four thousand dollars, you say?
Remind me again, where do you live and what time do you leave each morning?
Ideology.
Libertarians hate GNU.
Someday, when the whole world of technology is balkanized, where premium code contributions are walled of into proprietary software owned by Apple, Google and Facebook, we will wonder how "open source" became a form of virtual date rape.
Engineer designs starship in spare time. Here's another man who needs to get laid...
+1 Rawkz.