Actually, I'm rather bad at role-playing as such, as I cannot do that; I only have one identity, and act with shallow emotions when other things are needed. Role-playing to me is thus more akin to writing, because if I project the character onto myself, I can only be me.
In the 4ed Shadowrun setting computing and wireless communications are ubiquitous, and every legal person has to have a "commlink", a small personal computer broadcasting his/her personal ID at all times. Nonpersons, such as the player characters, has to have a fake ID or be arrested on the spot. Due to the large amount of computing power available, the only real use for personal high-performance computing is breaching computer security (it makes more sense in the fluff...) - the most popular solution is thus to have one cheap commlink with a fake ID, and one illegal either hidden on the PCs person or implanted in the skull as cyberware.
My point is, false information that concerns serious political matters (grave slander, etc...) will be quickly outed as such. Censorship, in this case, is counterproductive because the most efficient counter to false information is a steady flow of *more* information.
The point being, did anyone listen? If I put up a page saying that the US VP died in a freak accident involving a pie-eating contest and a pair of suspenders, nobody but the most psychotically credulous would even think about taking it seriously. Even if I had established some reputation regarding accurate news. People cross-check their facts, even simple-minded people.
Keeping them indoors wouldn't be an option? Wire fencing them is a pragmatic solution, but besides sending a really, really wrong message to the other children (and the autistic kids themselves, if they are able to reflect upon their social standing towards other people, which might not be the case) it seems very boring.
I agree with the police investigation part, but outside of the current conference circuit and networks (by "professionals", for "professionals", sans employer involvement) is any real networking going to happen on "issues like this", ever? If you limit it to people with sufficient security clearance and trusted representatives from private industry, your reference pool will be uselessly small, meanwhile, non-affliated security researchers, criminals and other "interested people" will be running rings around you.
Keeping the lid on it. Hushin' up. Givin' the witnesses and squealers a pair of new boots and a free tour of the Hudson river. Withholding incident information from the public for PR reasons on penance of firing. The issue at hand is not the technical side of security, but sharing information between organizations and professionals for everyones benefit, being especially important in this case because of it being the government and not a private organization.
I agree partially, but as a state employee you should only do so if you believe that your actions would benefit the overall organization/the people. The (perceived) narcissism of the managers above you does not factor into it; if they are so destructive, you have a civic duty to do something about it before getting fired. Just dumping "any and every item" is, well, treason if it's not just childish and useless shit-flinging. And I can't believe someone competent would willingly work in public sector security outside three-letter-agencies and not have this mindset.
But to understand that realistic risk assessment requires organizations to huddle together, you need to understand the technical reasons and dynamics of the situation. "Lockdown" seems like a reasonable thing to do, if you have no idea or realistic capacity to learn what you're doing in that dimension, and no money to hire someone for advice.
Amoral people wanting to boost their careers (depending on your view), versus amoral people who want to sell exploits to the botnet herders in the malware economy hierarchy, amongst other scum. Pick one (or suggest a third option!).
When non-security geeks nag about metasploit lowering the threshold for malicious behavior, it's like watching someone complain about gun laws in a warlord-ruled third world hellhole. It doesn't matter, and you're being silly. Besides, metasploit is geared a lot more towards rapid exploit prototyping, and is clearly designed with this in mind; only the already skilled can use it in this manner because you already need to be able to do it "manually" to take advantage of the framework. Hell, it's even harder to use the (ruby) framework than to code perl exploits; but you can do it faster and the shellcode part of the framework allows you to make complicated shellcode in a reliable fashion. It's not like one of those make-your-own-malware kits.
More specifically, parts of America?
Also, with the right mindset, the whole world is a warzone. There's terms for it: PTSD/subthreshold PTSD. Not to disparage it of course, I think I seem to have the subthreshold variant myself.
Personally, i find things that simulate a "person" which you are supposed to use your "real emotions" towards without having an actual person inside, such as datings sims or even games with dating minigames when the player "is the character", abhorrent to the point of nausea. I can't be the only one feeling this?
I'm not familiar with mac development, but the "SDK" in question would basically be kernel internal functions docs/unreleased API docs, yes? There may be other reasons besides appstore control freakery that they don't want to release and/or license that out? And even if Kaspersky would reverse-engineer the necessary parts of the kernel, which they obviously could (and their employees probably already partially have, unofficially) they would be sued to hell and back if they used that data in a product (which would be obvious, since there's no other way besides the official channels to get at it)?
...dumped in the bad end of a red light district. That's about how easy it is for users to learn how to judge such things for themselves. You may think they are just idiots, but try to ponder how many factors really go into determining the suspiciousness of data/apps/sites on the web; it's more factors than the simple gut feeling would suggest.
So what would happen if this region was destroyed? Would you be unable to assemble any information at all? The mechanism of assembling information from disparate parts seems to me like a fundamental feature of consciousness, so would such a person be basically reduced to a parrot, only capable of following orders?
My little sisters boyfriend actually took the money he should have used to travel over to her, and wasted it on this instead, then pretended to be sick to be able to play it. This stuff really is addictive.:/
Oh, and if you're reading this: the CS undergrad guys thinks you're one awesome sonofabitch.
My childhood dream of being a digital bounty hunter is possible at last!:D
Seriously, more bounties on internet crime (even if this specific incident sounds like an inside job). The feds are way to slow on the ball. Private actors could resolve things like this much better, with the caveats of not having access to mass-surveillance, and probably committing crimes themselves to investigate people, eg. pretexting. Private investigators and "physical" bounty hunters are rumored to do this all the time, though, or lease it out to database services who do, and so far very few people complain. It takes one to catch one, and when it comes to hacking, i personally believe this to be literally true, no matter what the whitehat movement with it's silly middle-class hysteria claims.
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Actually, I'm rather bad at role-playing as such, as I cannot do that; I only have one identity, and act with shallow emotions when other things are needed. Role-playing to me is thus more akin to writing, because if I project the character onto myself, I can only be me.
In the 4ed Shadowrun setting computing and wireless communications are ubiquitous, and every legal person has to have a "commlink", a small personal computer broadcasting his/her personal ID at all times. Nonpersons, such as the player characters, has to have a fake ID or be arrested on the spot. Due to the large amount of computing power available, the only real use for personal high-performance computing is breaching computer security (it makes more sense in the fluff...) - the most popular solution is thus to have one cheap commlink with a fake ID, and one illegal either hidden on the PCs person or implanted in the skull as cyberware.
My point is, false information that concerns serious political matters (grave slander, etc...) will be quickly outed as such. Censorship, in this case, is counterproductive because the most efficient counter to false information is a steady flow of *more* information.
The point being, did anyone listen? If I put up a page saying that the US VP died in a freak accident involving a pie-eating contest and a pair of suspenders, nobody but the most psychotically credulous would even think about taking it seriously. Even if I had established some reputation regarding accurate news. People cross-check their facts, even simple-minded people.
Keeping them indoors wouldn't be an option? Wire fencing them is a pragmatic solution, but besides sending a really, really wrong message to the other children (and the autistic kids themselves, if they are able to reflect upon their social standing towards other people, which might not be the case) it seems very boring.
I agree with the police investigation part, but outside of the current conference circuit and networks (by "professionals", for "professionals", sans employer involvement) is any real networking going to happen on "issues like this", ever? If you limit it to people with sufficient security clearance and trusted representatives from private industry, your reference pool will be uselessly small, meanwhile, non-affliated security researchers, criminals and other "interested people" will be running rings around you.
Keeping the lid on it. Hushin' up. Givin' the witnesses and squealers a pair of new boots and a free tour of the Hudson river. Withholding incident information from the public for PR reasons on penance of firing. The issue at hand is not the technical side of security, but sharing information between organizations and professionals for everyones benefit, being especially important in this case because of it being the government and not a private organization.
I agree partially, but as a state employee you should only do so if you believe that your actions would benefit the overall organization/the people. The (perceived) narcissism of the managers above you does not factor into it; if they are so destructive, you have a civic duty to do something about it before getting fired. Just dumping "any and every item" is, well, treason if it's not just childish and useless shit-flinging. And I can't believe someone competent would willingly work in public sector security outside three-letter-agencies and not have this mindset.
But to understand that realistic risk assessment requires organizations to huddle together, you need to understand the technical reasons and dynamics of the situation. "Lockdown" seems like a reasonable thing to do, if you have no idea or realistic capacity to learn what you're doing in that dimension, and no money to hire someone for advice.
From http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/05/shatner-shills-myouterspace-sci-fi/ it looks more like a collaboration/project recruitment system with a cute twist for professionals/semi-professionals/weird people with cameras and rubber suits?
Amoral people wanting to boost their careers (depending on your view), versus amoral people who want to sell exploits to the botnet herders in the malware economy hierarchy, amongst other scum. Pick one (or suggest a third option!).
When non-security geeks nag about metasploit lowering the threshold for malicious behavior, it's like watching someone complain about gun laws in a warlord-ruled third world hellhole. It doesn't matter, and you're being silly. Besides, metasploit is geared a lot more towards rapid exploit prototyping, and is clearly designed with this in mind; only the already skilled can use it in this manner because you already need to be able to do it "manually" to take advantage of the framework. Hell, it's even harder to use the (ruby) framework than to code perl exploits; but you can do it faster and the shellcode part of the framework allows you to make complicated shellcode in a reliable fashion. It's not like one of those make-your-own-malware kits.
More specifically, parts of America? Also, with the right mindset, the whole world is a warzone. There's terms for it: PTSD/subthreshold PTSD. Not to disparage it of course, I think I seem to have the subthreshold variant myself.
Personally, i find things that simulate a "person" which you are supposed to use your "real emotions" towards without having an actual person inside, such as datings sims or even games with dating minigames when the player "is the character", abhorrent to the point of nausea. I can't be the only one feeling this?
I'm not familiar with mac development, but the "SDK" in question would basically be kernel internal functions docs/unreleased API docs, yes? There may be other reasons besides appstore control freakery that they don't want to release and/or license that out? And even if Kaspersky would reverse-engineer the necessary parts of the kernel, which they obviously could (and their employees probably already partially have, unofficially) they would be sued to hell and back if they used that data in a product (which would be obvious, since there's no other way besides the official channels to get at it)?
...dumped in the bad end of a red light district. That's about how easy it is for users to learn how to judge such things for themselves. You may think they are just idiots, but try to ponder how many factors really go into determining the suspiciousness of data/apps/sites on the web; it's more factors than the simple gut feeling would suggest.
So what would happen if this region was destroyed? Would you be unable to assemble any information at all? The mechanism of assembling information from disparate parts seems to me like a fundamental feature of consciousness, so would such a person be basically reduced to a parrot, only capable of following orders?
My little sisters boyfriend actually took the money he should have used to travel over to her, and wasted it on this instead, then pretended to be sick to be able to play it. This stuff really is addictive. :/
Oh, and if you're reading this: the CS undergrad guys thinks you're one awesome sonofabitch.
My childhood dream of being a digital bounty hunter is possible at last! :D
Seriously, more bounties on internet crime (even if this specific incident sounds like an inside job). The feds are way to slow on the ball. Private actors could resolve things like this much better, with the caveats of not having access to mass-surveillance, and probably committing crimes themselves to investigate people, eg. pretexting. Private investigators and "physical" bounty hunters are rumored to do this all the time, though, or lease it out to database services who do, and so far very few people complain. It takes one to catch one, and when it comes to hacking, i personally believe this to be literally true, no matter what the whitehat movement with it's silly middle-class hysteria claims.