Protection against crime is not an issue "the market should regulate". Basically paying for bugs -to protect yourself or your customers from illegal actions- is privatizing justice and a deeply undemocratic thing. To be protected from crime is what all the "security" measures by governments claim to be about and it is not a matter of weath how much or how good individual protection is.
I happen to have attended a class at univeristy where the prof turned out to be a nuclear security expert (prof. chem. and expert in transactinides, not the kind of "expert" you are likely to see on TV) who had examined the first incident in Kruemmel. He told us that the crew of a freighter had alarmed the fire brigade via radio when the saw "the roof on fire". Natrium leaking from the cooling system was reacting with oxygen and moisture in the air. Nobody in the control room or anywhere inside the plant had even noticed there was something unusual going on.
He further said some very drastic things about the plant and the guys who ran it...
Like the germans? Alles ist vollkommen sicher, hier!
Except our reactors. Most of them where scheduled for shutdown but had their permissions prolonged just last year. The rest has emergency cooling systems very similar to those which failed in Fukushima - without all the extra safety for reqions with higher seismic activities, of course, which means -among other thinngs- without extended backup power supplies. And after all I have heard our security standards are relatively safe compared to the rest of the world.
If there's anything to be found that might count as "evidence" or remotely useful to single out "terrorists" there will be spied on it. It doesn't need to be the same agency which is providing e-mail services to you. Most probably local police authirities would be the first to look through their citizens' mailboxes as soon as there's any series of unsolved offence.
There's one sure thing: If there is data, there will be someone who wants them.
Sure there are cases that may warrant a full on raid (expected high power weapons, drugs, etc.)
Why should drugs warrant a heavily armed raid? Because the evil guys might shoot Heroin at the cops? Hit them with a bong? Oh, of course - the cops might get stoned. They really have to defend themselves.
You name it: more CPU intensitive, which means more power consumption. After all you blow a lot more CO2 in the air for what? To encrypt mostly *public* content. What's the point, encrypting documents that were deliberately put online for everyone too see? If it's the governement, you are afraid of - they only need to record the URI you were reading and spider it later, if necessary. HTTPS won't be of no use here. Tor would be.
And HTTPS not only means security by encryption, but also (and that's the primary reason for HTTPS) authorization or better identifcation of your peer which means the owner of the site also has to request, pay and install a certificate. Much hassle for a free site or a hosted blog, compared to the benefits, which are in 99% of all cases just not existent.
Basically, a CD is a -pretty useless- physical carrier for a 16bit/44kHz PCM (AKA.wav) file. You can encode and play a FLAC file in any quality you want, i.e. 24bit 44.1kHz (which provides much more dynamics for a relatively small increase in file size) or even 32bit 96kHz. You are also completely free to chose how to store it physically, as you are not bound to the plastic disc. If you really want to put it into a conventional CD player, you can still transcode and/or burn it without any loss.
No, the reason Linux does not have a large desktop market share is because you are too fscking stupid to use it.
Look at today's internet - user are even too bloody stupid for FTP or real email. Right now systems without even keyboards are the big dead - because the main target group are lazy idiots too fat and silly to even write.
It is, however, not a war against legitimate MX but against trojan-infected dial-up machines spamming legitimate MXs. If you're in a 'dial-up' (or 'dynamic') netblock you most probably do not have a valid MX record. At least not one that will be resolved reversely. So you can not provide a reasonable HELO/ELHO string (see RFC 821) and any MX insisting on a correct HELO dialogue will reject SMTP access. Unfortunately not all do. Mostly due to bugs in W2k mailservers (some of them are still alive and still unpatched and never ones are less buggy, but still run by morons. This is one of the main reasons why spam has become what it is today and why some ISP have been blocking in/outgoing SMTP traffic on their nets. IIRC AOL started doing so almost ten years ago others followed blocking port 25 at least between their dynamic address pools and from foreign dialup ranges.
A digital-rights-"managed" web is not an open web. So it's essential to keep the common web DRM-free. DRM Is ok for deliberate use in payed communities or the like, but the general web is not vendor specific (as DRM for online content generally is).
Yeah, I think we're all pretty bored buying the same airplanes over and over again.
Do you, by any chance, know a reliable supplier of golden water taps, old chap? I am tired of those Philippe Starck ones.
Has anyone bothered reading the linked story? Sounds like pure bullshit to me. Obviously made up to keep the more gullible script-kiddies from causing trouble during Assange's trial in London.
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The funniest part is that it was pecause of a publicly availaple EtherPad...
Protection against crime is not an issue "the market should regulate". Basically paying for bugs -to protect yourself or your customers from illegal actions- is privatizing justice and a deeply undemocratic thing. To be protected from crime is what all the "security" measures by governments claim to be about and it is not a matter of weath how much or how good individual protection is.
I happen to have attended a class at univeristy where the prof turned out to be a nuclear security expert (prof. chem. and expert in transactinides, not the kind of "expert" you are likely to see on TV) who had examined the first incident in Kruemmel. He told us that the crew of a freighter had alarmed the fire brigade via radio when the saw "the roof on fire". Natrium leaking from the cooling system was reacting with oxygen and moisture in the air. Nobody in the control room or anywhere inside the plant had even noticed there was something unusual going on. He further said some very drastic things about the plant and the guys who ran it...
Like the germans? Alles ist vollkommen sicher, hier! Except our reactors. Most of them where scheduled for shutdown but had their permissions prolonged just last year. The rest has emergency cooling systems very similar to those which failed in Fukushima - without all the extra safety for reqions with higher seismic activities, of course, which means -among other thinngs- without extended backup power supplies. And after all I have heard our security standards are relatively safe compared to the rest of the world.
at least the Geocities part: http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=2&music=2&url=tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/14/0235237/Telehack-Re-Creates-the-Internet-of-25-Years-Ago
what first looked like a good deal in promiting his own blog might well put his site out of...
You're probably right ...whatever it was, that you wrote.
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YES! A white one! Isn't it e x c i t i n g ?
and there has not been a WHITE IPHONE before!! OMG! What will be next ...blue? Red?
If there's anything to be found that might count as "evidence" or remotely useful to single out "terrorists" there will be spied on it. It doesn't need to be the same agency which is providing e-mail services to you. Most probably local police authirities would be the first to look through their citizens' mailboxes as soon as there's any series of unsolved offence. There's one sure thing: If there is data, there will be someone who wants them.
There's one thing you are mssing: the avarage person does not have a business model, based on crying "wolf".
Sure there are cases that may warrant a full on raid (expected high power weapons, drugs, etc.)
Why should drugs warrant a heavily armed raid? Because the evil guys might shoot Heroin at the cops? Hit them with a bong? Oh, of course - the cops might get stoned. They really have to defend themselves.
According to SANS: http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=10642&rss , only sites running MS SQL Server 2003/05 (and PHP, obviously) are targeted.
You name it: more CPU intensitive, which means more power consumption. After all you blow a lot more CO2 in the air for what? To encrypt mostly *public* content. What's the point, encrypting documents that were deliberately put online for everyone too see? If it's the governement, you are afraid of - they only need to record the URI you were reading and spider it later, if necessary. HTTPS won't be of no use here. Tor would be. And HTTPS not only means security by encryption, but also (and that's the primary reason for HTTPS) authorization or better identifcation of your peer which means the owner of the site also has to request, pay and install a certificate. Much hassle for a free site or a hosted blog, compared to the benefits, which are in 99% of all cases just not existent.
Basically, a CD is a -pretty useless- physical carrier for a 16bit/44kHz PCM (AKA .wav) file. You can encode and play a FLAC file in any quality you want, i.e. 24bit 44.1kHz (which provides much more dynamics for a relatively small increase in file size) or even 32bit 96kHz. You are also completely free to chose how to store it physically, as you are not bound to the plastic disc. If you really want to put it into a conventional CD player, you can still transcode and/or burn it without any loss.
No, the reason Linux does not have a large desktop market share is because you are too fscking stupid to use it. Look at today's internet - user are even too bloody stupid for FTP or real email. Right now systems without even keyboards are the big dead - because the main target group are lazy idiots too fat and silly to even write.
I am from Germany. I don't say anything at all. I just remind you that we have ways to make you talk.
It is, however, not a war against legitimate MX but against trojan-infected dial-up machines spamming legitimate MXs. If you're in a 'dial-up' (or 'dynamic') netblock you most probably do not have a valid MX record. At least not one that will be resolved reversely. So you can not provide a reasonable HELO/ELHO string (see RFC 821) and any MX insisting on a correct HELO dialogue will reject SMTP access. Unfortunately not all do. Mostly due to bugs in W2k mailservers (some of them are still alive and still unpatched and never ones are less buggy, but still run by morons. This is one of the main reasons why spam has become what it is today and why some ISP have been blocking in/outgoing SMTP traffic on their nets. IIRC AOL started doing so almost ten years ago others followed blocking port 25 at least between their dynamic address pools and from foreign dialup ranges.
A digital-rights-"managed" web is not an open web. So it's essential to keep the common web DRM-free. DRM Is ok for deliberate use in payed communities or the like, but the general web is not vendor specific (as DRM for online content generally is).
They are obviously black hats doing the dirty work for gov and major coorps. I think the correct term in this case is "ass hat",
So we really are doomed! I knew it when I read that story yesterday..
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At last, It's entertainment, isn't it?
Yeah, I think we're all pretty bored buying the same airplanes over and over again. Do you, by any chance, know a reliable supplier of golden water taps, old chap? I am tired of those Philippe Starck ones.
Has anyone bothered reading the linked story? Sounds like pure bullshit to me. Obviously made up to keep the more gullible script-kiddies from causing trouble during Assange's trial in London.