When the NSA tried to sneak a back door into an optional random number generator specified in a recent NIST specification, they were almost immediately caught by academics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
They probably should have taken lessons from Xerox if they wanted to embed random numbers in documents.
If DARPA really wants to figure out where security leaks could originate from big data, I would start by trying to figure out attack vectors into Canada or China thru big data. Thinking you have the NSA big data set might lull you into a false sense that you've scanned all the security vectors;-)
According to the Wired article on the huge Utah data center, its purpose is to store encrypted messages from foreign embassies and eventually, some time in the future, decrypt them and gain insight into how the 'enemy' (any foreigner) thinks. That time is now exponentially closer.
I don't believe it's a problem.
Why do you want all that data? So we can fight the last battle better?
I know it seems 'obvious' that keeping all that data--and then analyzing it repeatedly--seems useful. But it probably isn't.
First off, it probably isn't 'data' so much as anecdote--a bunch of personal ideas from a limited perspective on what to do next. Do you really think there is 'data' on those click drives or is it more like ones and zeroes mostly attached to personal e-mails and off-color jokes?
That means you have to first sort the data, then correlate it to real events and real decisions. Mostly what you'll find is that people making decisions didn't have the 'information' they needed.
How that will be interpreted is to send more data up the chain and hope that somehow, somewhere, it gets transformed into useful information next time. Thus the end result of any study will be more data and less information. You don't have time to analyze it all.
We'd be better off, if we really want to spend the time and effort searching the 'data' to first outline ways to identify useless data from the field and ignore it. That cuts down on the rest of the processing but I don't think that _could_ happen given normal human incentives and the way orders are read and interpreted.
order: "Analyze the old data from the last war in order to use data more effectively." Good idea, in theory.
Wrong. An ICE SHELF sits above the water.
I had a marine geology prof say if the Ross Ice Shelf fell, sea level would rise by 6 inches.
That was back in the 80s when we weren't sure about global warming.
Now that we are, it's not if the shelf falls, it is merely when it falls.
Any locksmith worth his/her salt already has key machines that could reproduce them onto a chunk of brass
That's sort of the point here. Any Locksmith using some accumulated skill, training and specialized equipment can do this easily.
Now ANYONE, with no specialized skills, some basic office equipment and a credit card can do the same thing.
You seem to ignore the joys of a market economy.
Now Anyone with an internet connection and credit card (or reasonable facsimile thereof) can do the same thing.
Don't even need my own office equipment.Maybe Kinkos/FedEx will do it for me while I surf slashdot;-)
Or just go to a place like yelp to find locksmiths that don't care.
Or just spend a couple hundred dollars and become your own locksmith.
It's not like it's hard to buy the equipment or learn how to use it.
In fact, I suspect most of the training is on how to read "Do Not Duplicate.";-)
I was in Wal*Mart today and they have a vending machine now that cuts keys for you.
I'm sure it has no access to the special blanks but it ain't too hard to turn a 3D printer into a vending machine for anything.
That's what I was wondering--no iframes.
And for the folks who hate javascript for whatever reason, apparently they think they can substitute an UNBREAKABLE software for it.
Clue for the clueless--software is only unbreakable when it remains unpopular.
The Spanish flu of 1917 killed more people, young healthy people, than WWI did.
That's why looking for disease is important.
And the Spanish flu started in a barracks in Kansas.They had another outbreak of H7N2 (I think) in a barracks in America that scared the crap out of everyone because it was so infectious but later on, they realized part of the issue was the living situation itself.
I like that 'THEY' are monitoring the health of our species.
According to the Wired article, the data center is for storing encrypted communications between foreign governments.
The plan is that those can eventually be decrypted within a year and while out of date, the conversations should still provide some insight into how the decisions are being made.
You could also just ask your bank to give you cards that don't have RFID in them... My bank gave me no argument or pushback at all when I asked them to do that.
Did you 'see' them take away the RFID?
Just made me laugh, like the NSA providing a little checkbox if you want your name taken off the surveillance list (when it actually promotes your name on the list).
Yeah this story sounds real. I am not seeing an accompanying article or evidence. Not saying it's not real, but it sounds like one of those government conspiracy theories like the government faked 9-11. Competent enough to stage 9-11 in front of cameras and people, with no one leaking it, then incompetent, for instance Snowden leaking information about the NSA. Who knows...
I suspect it is a very real FOIA excuse. Whether the excuse is valid or not is hard to say.
Within the bureaucracy, you can tell the FOIA officer your limitations and s/he sends them back to the requester.
Then it's on to step two: Natl Geog calling them full of congress and demanding information about their e-mail system (probably already available on a Chinese site).
And I'll bet the NSA is not lying.
I'll bet they have multiple different e-mail systems, all of them installed by different contractors at different times under different contracts and no easy way to search thru them all, especially with the additional security overlays.
That's just a guess based on normal corporate behavior in groups that grow fast and have money to burn.
Iodine in salt, like fluoride in water, is simply a convenient, low cost method of disposing of an industrial waste product! We are being deliberately poisoned!
And if you weren't being deliberately poisoned with stuff that makes you smarter, you'd be too stupid to catch on to the massive interstellar conspiracy that is _really_ controlling Elvis. Thank God for aliens.
You are not convinced because you have lousy expectations.
It isn't whether Reality TV is bad or not, the real question, undecidable for now, is how much worse would reality TV be today if we hadn't improved our IQ 90 years ago?
Just imagine, that crap you see on uToob could smell a whole lot worse.
It's kind of funny or perhaps sad, but when she was in the underground(aka smuggling from west to east), one of the highest in-demand items besides music, was salt and sugar.
It's kind of interesting that salt and sugar (and music) was what most caravans carried overland in ancient times.
Here I thought it was for flavoring but if your tribe didn't eat salt/iodine, it probably wasn't able to stay a tribe for multiple generations.
The 'evidence' isn't (although I agree FG is a cult, your evidence is just garbage).
IF I accepted it as evidence, then Billy Graham would not be a real preacher because he had his own TV shows and asked for donations.
That would mean the Pope isn't actually in charge of a 'real' church because they have their own Catholic bank.
Opinion, even when I agree with it, isn't the same as evidence or fact.
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When the NSA tried to sneak a back door into an optional random number generator specified in a recent NIST specification, they were almost immediately caught by academics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
They probably should have taken lessons from Xerox if they wanted to embed random numbers in documents.
If DARPA really wants to figure out where security leaks could originate from big data, I would start by trying to figure out attack vectors into Canada or China thru big data. Thinking you have the NSA big data set might lull you into a false sense that you've scanned all the security vectors ;-)
According to the Wired article on the huge Utah data center, its purpose is to store encrypted messages from foreign embassies and eventually, some time in the future, decrypt them and gain insight into how the 'enemy' (any foreigner) thinks. That time is now exponentially closer.
Which is exactly why Microsoft isnt getting a sale from me. You dont forgive the abusive boyfriend just because he promises to stop beating you.
What if he sweet talks you with promises of kewl games in the future and exciting new graphical jewels? It has happened before.
I don't believe it's a problem.
Why do you want all that data? So we can fight the last battle better?
I know it seems 'obvious' that keeping all that data--and then analyzing it repeatedly--seems useful. But it probably isn't.
First off, it probably isn't 'data' so much as anecdote--a bunch of personal ideas from a limited perspective on what to do next. Do you really think there is 'data' on those click drives or is it more like ones and zeroes mostly attached to personal e-mails and off-color jokes?
That means you have to first sort the data, then correlate it to real events and real decisions. Mostly what you'll find is that people making decisions didn't have the 'information' they needed.
How that will be interpreted is to send more data up the chain and hope that somehow, somewhere, it gets transformed into useful information next time. Thus the end result of any study will be more data and less information. You don't have time to analyze it all.
We'd be better off, if we really want to spend the time and effort searching the 'data' to first outline ways to identify useless data from the field and ignore it. That cuts down on the rest of the processing but I don't think that _could_ happen given normal human incentives and the way orders are read and interpreted.
order: "Analyze the old data from the last war in order to use data more effectively."
Good idea, in theory.
Wrong. An ICE SHELF sits above the water.
I had a marine geology prof say if the Ross Ice Shelf fell, sea level would rise by 6 inches.
That was back in the 80s when we weren't sure about global warming.
Now that we are, it's not if the shelf falls, it is merely when it falls.
I for one would like to know when i can 3d print a buggy whip.
Sorry dude, you're too late. the last O/S to let you print buggy whips was Windows XP.
Oh wait, maybe you're not too late.
Any locksmith worth his/her salt already has key machines that could reproduce them onto a chunk of brass
That's sort of the point here. Any Locksmith using some accumulated skill, training and specialized equipment can do this easily. Now ANYONE, with no specialized skills, some basic office equipment and a credit card can do the same thing.
You seem to ignore the joys of a market economy. ;-)
Now Anyone with an internet connection and credit card (or reasonable facsimile thereof) can do the same thing.
Don't even need my own office equipment.Maybe Kinkos/FedEx will do it for me while I surf slashdot
Or you could answer the ad on a matchbook and become a locksmith.
Or just go to a place like yelp to find locksmiths that don't care.
Or just spend a couple hundred dollars and become your own locksmith. ;-)
It's not like it's hard to buy the equipment or learn how to use it.
In fact, I suspect most of the training is on how to read "Do Not Duplicate."
I was in Wal*Mart today and they have a vending machine now that cuts keys for you.
I'm sure it has no access to the special blanks but it ain't too hard to turn a 3D printer into a vending machine for anything.
What if I just change the css so visited and unvisited links are identical?
Would js then redraw anything at all?
That's what I was wondering--no iframes.
And for the folks who hate javascript for whatever reason, apparently they think they can substitute an UNBREAKABLE software for it.
Clue for the clueless--software is only unbreakable when it remains unpopular.
Apple trusts their own employee's less than it trusts its consumers.
I disagree. Apple can't DRM their own employees.
DRM isn't trust.
The Spanish flu of 1917 killed more people, young healthy people, than WWI did.
That's why looking for disease is important.
And the Spanish flu started in a barracks in Kansas.They had another outbreak of H7N2 (I think) in a barracks in America that scared the crap out of everyone because it was so infectious but later on, they realized part of the issue was the living situation itself.
I like that 'THEY' are monitoring the health of our species.
According to the Wired article, the data center is for storing encrypted communications between foreign governments.
The plan is that those can eventually be decrypted within a year and while out of date, the conversations should still provide some insight into how the decisions are being made.
You could also just ask your bank to give you cards that don't have RFID in them... My bank gave me no argument or pushback at all when I asked them to do that.
Did you 'see' them take away the RFID?
Just made me laugh, like the NSA providing a little checkbox if you want your name taken off the surveillance list (when it actually promotes your name on the list).
Yeah this story sounds real. I am not seeing an accompanying article or evidence. Not saying it's not real, but it sounds like one of those government conspiracy theories like the government faked 9-11. Competent enough to stage 9-11 in front of cameras and people, with no one leaking it, then incompetent, for instance Snowden leaking information about the NSA. Who knows...
I suspect it is a very real FOIA excuse. Whether the excuse is valid or not is hard to say.
Within the bureaucracy, you can tell the FOIA officer your limitations and s/he sends them back to the requester.
Then it's on to step two: Natl Geog calling them full of congress and demanding information about their e-mail system (probably already available on a Chinese site).
And I'll bet the NSA is not lying.
I'll bet they have multiple different e-mail systems, all of them installed by different contractors at different times under different contracts and no easy way to search thru them all, especially with the additional security overlays.
That's just a guess based on normal corporate behavior in groups that grow fast and have money to burn.
Iodine in salt, like fluoride in water, is simply a convenient, low cost method of disposing of an industrial waste product! We are being deliberately poisoned!
And if you weren't being deliberately poisoned with stuff that makes you smarter, you'd be too stupid to catch on to the massive interstellar conspiracy that is _really_ controlling Elvis. Thank God for aliens.
You are not convinced because you have lousy expectations.
It isn't whether Reality TV is bad or not, the real question, undecidable for now, is how much worse would reality TV be today if we hadn't improved our IQ 90 years ago?
Just imagine, that crap you see on uToob could smell a whole lot worse.
It's kind of funny or perhaps sad, but when she was in the underground(aka smuggling from west to east), one of the highest in-demand items besides music, was salt and sugar.
It's kind of interesting that salt and sugar (and music) was what most caravans carried overland in ancient times.
Here I thought it was for flavoring but if your tribe didn't eat salt/iodine, it probably wasn't able to stay a tribe for multiple generations.
The trolls actually _are_ the smart ones. Y'all just can't figure it out being in your uniodinized state ;-)
My cardiologist told me to add a little salt to my diet.
But maybe he just wanted you to come in for checkups more often ;-)
The 'evidence' isn't (although I agree FG is a cult, your evidence is just garbage).
IF I accepted it as evidence, then Billy Graham would not be a real preacher because he had his own TV shows and asked for donations.
That would mean the Pope isn't actually in charge of a 'real' church because they have their own Catholic bank.
Opinion, even when I agree with it, isn't the same as evidence or fact.
Say what you will about Chinese government & private sector computer crime, at least they're not reading my email and logging all my net traffic.
How do you know that? Maybe they've hacked into the USA's NSA and stolen all our data already;-)