I've been to Adobe's campus in San Jose and seen the place. There are many, many Indian engineers there, as is common throughout Silicon Valley. Ignorant fuck.
Neither the video nor any other piece of "evidence" I have seen yet gives any sort of indication that any data is being sent anywhere. Period. Show me a network trace with packets containing keystrokes, and I'll believe it's happening. It's a simple requirement.
I have watched the video. I don't see anything at all suspicious about it. Events which occur on your phone are processed and dispatched through some central service, and it's possible to monitor these things as they happen. Wow, that's a shocker.
In other news, the Windows OS intercepts all your keystrokes and processes all your packets. Keep your head down, the sky is falling.
Carrier IQ has admitted that it records URLs of every web site you visit on your mobile device, and sends it to the carrier.
In other news, Netgear admits that sometimes malicious packets travel through routers made by Netgear, and Intel concedes that it enables x86-based malware by continuing to produce microprocessors. The software was paid for and installed by the carriers. Carrier IQ is a solution provider.
TV is too much of a linear experience. You sit down, show plays beginning to end, and you watch it. You can't interact with the content. A lot of people will say "So what." These people are old. They'll die eventually. The younger people who remain are going to want more from the experience. My four year old almost never watches TV, but he uses the Internet every day for fifteen minutes or so. The times when he does watch TV, he is confused why it seems like such an inert experience. He wants to make it "do something" and is frustrated by the fact that it just sits there and plays.
So show me the clean energy research and development that Green Peace does.
Clean energy would be unnecessary, because as far as I've been able to figure, Greenpeace wants the human race to simply all die. No energy required after that.
If there was an island of stability why do we not find even a single atom of such an element in 300 years of searching for new elements? If such elements cannot be produced even by supernova processes why should we expect to create them with a particle accelerator?
Hacker: "A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and stretching their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary."
You tell me. To me it sounds like he explored some details and stretched some capabilities, and is unlike most users. Any speculation as to the legality of his actions is just that -- speculation.
For all we know he figured out how to log into his own account without using the password. Innocent until proven guilty people.
Are you implying that security related research is not legitimate? Or that this guy's attempts to warn the company about their problems are a black-hat thing? Because it sure sounds like you just called this guy a "cracker" for analyzing and then disclosing a security vulnerability. Is that really what you meant?
That'd cause a car to stop dead in the middle of the intersection and make a bloody mess of traffic.
Fine the driver $100 per minute for blocking traffic. We'll fuck up your car and then charge you for blocking traffic. It's great incentive to not drive like a fuckstick.
In all cases a driver must operate his/her vehicle reasonably, according to current road conditions. You can be ticketed for speed even if you're under the speed limit, if road conditions are such that your speed was unsafe at the time. This is the same thing. I have absolutely no problem with ticketing drivers who operate their vehicles unsafely, even if they are technically within bounds of certain numerical parameters (such as vehicle speed).
If you're worried about pre-crime, make it a real crime instead of a pre-crime, i.e. it is specifically an offense to operate your vehicle within these parameters. Would that make you feel better? Seriously, if 85% of vehicles which operate a certain way are about to violate a red light, I have NO PROBLEM making that a ticketable offense.
Some of those are good points, but several of them seem to be logically equivalent to "use a longer root password." You can argue that logging in as a user, then su'ing to root requires more information, but I can just cat those three bits of info together and use that as the root password. You might as well just pick a longer password.
No, it is not. The registers aren't even the same. You can run 32-bit code on it by flipping into the right mode, but that doesn't make it a subset of 64-bit mode.
It's not skin effect, it's the fact that P = VI. If the machine draws 500 watts at 12 volts, the current in the conductor must be 42 amps. The power dissipated in the conductor is I^2*R. Suppose you're willing to dissipate 10 watts in the conductor. That means 10 watt = (42 amp)^2*R, which implies the conductor resistance must be 0.005 ohms.
Suppose that instead you supply the power at 380 volts. The current is now only 1.3 amps. 10 watt = (1.3 amp)^2*R, which means a conductor resistance of 6 ohms, which is over *1000 times* greater than at 12 volts. What this means is you don't need a huge freakin' wire.
Seriously, why is this even a problem? Why doesn't the FDA just shut him down? He's claiming to be able to cure cancer and is instead bilking people who are dying. Wasn't the whole point of the FDA to eliminate problems like this? Where has the system broken down here exactly?
Why would you take the toy from the first child and give it to the second, only to then take it from both when the first does what you just rewarded the second for?
Where did I say I take the toy and give it to the other one?
So rather than responding by acknowledging that they were wrong in taking the address away from the German Merck, they act like they're in the wrong for complaining.
As parent of a two- and four-year-old, I agree with the strategy. Complaining makes you a baby. I don't care which one of them did it/started it/took it/broke it, they work it out between themselves. When I hear screaming from the other room over a toy that toy is gone for the rest of the day, no questions no interrogations no "getting to the bottom of it." I don't give a shit what happened. Screaming == toys are gone.
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I've been to Adobe's campus in San Jose and seen the place. There are many, many Indian engineers there, as is common throughout Silicon Valley. Ignorant fuck.
Neither the video nor any other piece of "evidence" I have seen yet gives any sort of indication that any data is being sent anywhere. Period. Show me a network trace with packets containing keystrokes, and I'll believe it's happening. It's a simple requirement.
I have watched the video. I don't see anything at all suspicious about it. Events which occur on your phone are processed and dispatched through some central service, and it's possible to monitor these things as they happen. Wow, that's a shocker.
In other news, the Windows OS intercepts all your keystrokes and processes all your packets. Keep your head down, the sky is falling.
Fact is: They sold you a phone with a rootkit installed that could record and transmit anything without your notice or your consent.
My phone was not purchased from Carrier IQ.
Carrier IQ has admitted that it records URLs of every web site you visit on your mobile device, and sends it to the carrier.
In other news, Netgear admits that sometimes malicious packets travel through routers made by Netgear, and Intel concedes that it enables x86-based malware by continuing to produce microprocessors. The software was paid for and installed by the carriers. Carrier IQ is a solution provider.
This was known days ago. Of course that fucks up your nice little conspiracy theory, so it wasn't posted.
TV is too much of a linear experience. You sit down, show plays beginning to end, and you watch it. You can't interact with the content. A lot of people will say "So what." These people are old. They'll die eventually. The younger people who remain are going to want more from the experience. My four year old almost never watches TV, but he uses the Internet every day for fifteen minutes or so. The times when he does watch TV, he is confused why it seems like such an inert experience. He wants to make it "do something" and is frustrated by the fact that it just sits there and plays.
So show me the clean energy research and development that Green Peace does.
Clean energy would be unnecessary, because as far as I've been able to figure, Greenpeace wants the human race to simply all die. No energy required after that.
If there was an island of stability why do we not find even a single atom of such an element in 300 years of searching for new elements? If such elements cannot be produced even by supernova processes why should we expect to create them with a particle accelerator?
If you break into a safe to get the antidote to save a poisoned baby, is it still not safecracking?
What definition of "hacker" are you using that this guy's activities do not fall under?
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Hacker: "A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and stretching their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary."
You tell me. To me it sounds like he explored some details and stretched some capabilities, and is unlike most users. Any speculation as to the legality of his actions is just that -- speculation.
For all we know he figured out how to log into his own account without using the password. Innocent until proven guilty people.
Are you implying that security related research is not legitimate? Or that this guy's attempts to warn the company about their problems are a black-hat thing? Because it sure sounds like you just called this guy a "cracker" for analyzing and then disclosing a security vulnerability. Is that really what you meant?
That'd cause a car to stop dead in the middle of the intersection and make a bloody mess of traffic.
Fine the driver $100 per minute for blocking traffic. We'll fuck up your car and then charge you for blocking traffic. It's great incentive to not drive like a fuckstick.
In all cases a driver must operate his/her vehicle reasonably, according to current road conditions. You can be ticketed for speed even if you're under the speed limit, if road conditions are such that your speed was unsafe at the time. This is the same thing. I have absolutely no problem with ticketing drivers who operate their vehicles unsafely, even if they are technically within bounds of certain numerical parameters (such as vehicle speed).
If you're worried about pre-crime, make it a real crime instead of a pre-crime, i.e. it is specifically an offense to operate your vehicle within these parameters. Would that make you feel better? Seriously, if 85% of vehicles which operate a certain way are about to violate a red light, I have NO PROBLEM making that a ticketable offense.
Some of those are good points, but several of them seem to be logically equivalent to "use a longer root password." You can argue that logging in as a user, then su'ing to root requires more information, but I can just cat those three bits of info together and use that as the root password. You might as well just pick a longer password.
x86 is a subset of x86_64
No, it is not. The registers aren't even the same. You can run 32-bit code on it by flipping into the right mode, but that doesn't make it a subset of 64-bit mode.
It's not skin effect, it's the fact that P = VI. If the machine draws 500 watts at 12 volts, the current in the conductor must be 42 amps. The power dissipated in the conductor is I^2*R. Suppose you're willing to dissipate 10 watts in the conductor. That means 10 watt = (42 amp)^2*R, which implies the conductor resistance must be 0.005 ohms.
Suppose that instead you supply the power at 380 volts. The current is now only 1.3 amps. 10 watt = (1.3 amp)^2*R, which means a conductor resistance of 6 ohms, which is over *1000 times* greater than at 12 volts. What this means is you don't need a huge freakin' wire.
If you must have remote root access, make them log in as a normal user and su to root.
Can somebody please explain how this is safer than just logging in as root?
In reading everyone's replies though, I have to ask why everyone is so quick to dismiss alternative medicine altogether.
Because if it works it's not alternative medicine, it's medicine. It's like claiming you have a black cat which is white. It's gibberish.
If a difference in a single detail makes the two situations completely dissimilar then I guess you're right.
The only Google hit on the entire Internet for the terms "udw_write_mem" and "udw_srec_upload" are your own post.
Seriously, why is this even a problem? Why doesn't the FDA just shut him down? He's claiming to be able to cure cancer and is instead bilking people who are dying. Wasn't the whole point of the FDA to eliminate problems like this? Where has the system broken down here exactly?
Why would you take the toy from the first child and give it to the second, only to then take it from both when the first does what you just rewarded the second for?
Where did I say I take the toy and give it to the other one?
Well if a scientist makes a statement it must be right. That's the basis for your argument? "He said so?"
So rather than responding by acknowledging that they were wrong in taking the address away from the German Merck, they act like they're in the wrong for complaining.
As parent of a two- and four-year-old, I agree with the strategy. Complaining makes you a baby. I don't care which one of them did it/started it/took it/broke it, they work it out between themselves. When I hear screaming from the other room over a toy that toy is gone for the rest of the day, no questions no interrogations no "getting to the bottom of it." I don't give a shit what happened. Screaming == toys are gone.