If it's on the hard drive, and it's not encrypted, one should not expect it to be secret unless you can limit who touches that data. There's tools like those put out Access Data, and some other ones I can't remember cuz I haven't used them in class.. but they make the process of carving data out of a hard drive pretty darn easy.
FTK (or is it PRTK? I ain't no expert, dawgs) even goes through the hard drive, looks at phrases and words on the disk in some fashion, and creates a dictionary you can use to try to start cracking at any encryption there is:D Lots of money to be made if you want to be a Forensic Investigator, though I'm looking more towards playing with servers in the future..
I've been thinking about doing something similar in my dorm room, just haven't had the time between random internet surfing and classes. Hadn't looked into privoxy before.:)
Mind if I ask what OS you're using for your web browsing VM?
If you read the page you linked to, you'd see "New in version 2.0: Ads are actually blocked from downloading now, instead of just being removed after the fact!"
Okay, so it's still a feature that's in beta and isn't quite finished.. but I'm a chrome fanboy, and I can't help it.
It seems odd, at least to me (I only really started getting into this when I started college 3 years ago) that this took so long to become 'main stream' news. I of course heard that you shouldn't always trust things that sounded like free public wifi, but I don't recall hearing as much about how wide spread these ad hoc networks are.
So, they both increased security AND increased work privileges? This could get interpreted so many different way.. I mean, is it a case of the employees now get to eat lunch and if they're extra good not have to get their daily 20 lashes? Are there prostitute dispensing vending machines in the staff lounges? What kind of worker privileges are we talking about?
"While Internet access is believed to be available to small group of elite members of the ruling party, the rest of the country is not permitted access to outside sources of news.":(
I think the AC above has it right. Codes have some advantages over encryption. If fishsticks stands for grab the secret CIA kiddy porn and post it to wikileaks, there's not a way to bruteforce (well, there is, but only if you're a chimpanzee with a keyboard) or math your way to figure out what fishsticks stands for. It just relies on keeping your secrets secret, so you getting some risk mitigation there.
Until the government takes out the middle man and starts sticking antennae into the heads of the psychics they're training at the NSA.
One of the ideas of what the hell this thing is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76: "UVB-76 is widely believed to be used to transmit encoded messages to spies, as is generally assumed for the many numbers stations that populate shortwave frequencies. Transmitter sites for some numbers stations have been triangulated to military and/or intelligence installations in several countries,[citation needed] although no nation's government will confirm or deny the existence of the stations or their purpose."
Could this be related to the recent case of the 10 (with one on the run, right?) kinda-sorta-russian-spies news fest? It could be the Russians talking to other operatives they have lurking about.
Or maybe It's just some Russian dudes spending government money to boost their shares in tin & aluminum foil.
"The increasing scope of foreign attacks comes as college students around the world are focusing heavily on technology degrees only to emerge into a difficult job market with low pay, officials said."
If you're coming out of college right now with a degree in some form Information or Computer security, then that's probably not going to be the case. From what I've heard, job placement for graduates at my university is pretty good.
I like it. I have a fairly good connection, so I don't mind the downloads, which I much prefer to managing a bunch of game disks. They also have some very good sales every so often, even with the more popular titles.
You can install games on up to 5 computers, and from what I've heard, you can have that reset if you're the type of person who reinstalls their OS every so often.
Can I ask how often you give out your address/how long you've had your account? I had my account for 3 or 4 years and usually don't get more than 30 spam messages accumulated in my spam box.
There are plenty of businesses that would go out of business if they had all their data stolen.. There's too much of a benefit for them to not store it electronically.
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If it's on the hard drive, and it's not encrypted, one should not expect it to be secret unless you can limit who touches that data. There's tools like those put out Access Data, and some other ones I can't remember cuz I haven't used them in class.. but they make the process of carving data out of a hard drive pretty darn easy.
FTK (or is it PRTK? I ain't no expert, dawgs) even goes through the hard drive, looks at phrases and words on the disk in some fashion, and creates a dictionary you can use to try to start cracking at any encryption there is :D Lots of money to be made if you want to be a Forensic Investigator, though I'm looking more towards playing with servers in the future..
I've been thinking about doing something similar in my dorm room, just haven't had the time between random internet surfing and classes. Hadn't looked into privoxy before. :)
Mind if I ask what OS you're using for your web browsing VM?
If you read the page you linked to, you'd see "New in version 2.0: Ads are actually blocked from downloading now, instead of just being removed after the fact!"
Okay, so it's still a feature that's in beta and isn't quite finished.. but I'm a chrome fanboy, and I can't help it.
It seems odd, at least to me (I only really started getting into this when I started college 3 years ago) that this took so long to become 'main stream' news. I of course heard that you shouldn't always trust things that sounded like free public wifi, but I don't recall hearing as much about how wide spread these ad hoc networks are.
So, they both increased security AND increased work privileges? This could get interpreted so many different way.. I mean, is it a case of the employees now get to eat lunch and if they're extra good not have to get their daily 20 lashes? Are there prostitute dispensing vending machines in the staff lounges? What kind of worker privileges are we talking about?
From the effin' article:
"While Internet access is believed to be available to small group of elite members of the ruling party, the rest of the country is not permitted access to outside sources of news." :(
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!
You said misuse the line. I presume by misuse you mean attempting to do malicious things other than peer to peer?
Still more paranoia, but,
I think the AC above has it right. Codes have some advantages over encryption. If fishsticks stands for grab the secret CIA kiddy porn and post it to wikileaks, there's not a way to bruteforce (well, there is, but only if you're a chimpanzee with a keyboard) or math your way to figure out what fishsticks stands for. It just relies on keeping your secrets secret, so you getting some risk mitigation there.
Until the government takes out the middle man and starts sticking antennae into the heads of the psychics they're training at the NSA.
One of the ideas of what the hell this thing is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76:
"UVB-76 is widely believed to be used to transmit encoded messages to spies, as is generally assumed for the many numbers stations that populate shortwave frequencies. Transmitter sites for some numbers stations have been triangulated to military and/or intelligence installations in several countries,[citation needed] although no nation's government will confirm or deny the existence of the stations or their purpose."
Could this be related to the recent case of the 10 (with one on the run, right?) kinda-sorta-russian-spies news fest? It could be the Russians talking to other operatives they have lurking about.
Or maybe It's just some Russian dudes spending government money to boost their shares in tin & aluminum foil.
This is slashdot, and if there is not a regular quota of things to be outraged about, well.. bad things will happen.
"The increasing scope of foreign attacks comes as college students around the world are focusing heavily on technology degrees only to emerge into a difficult job market with low pay, officials said."
If you're coming out of college right now with a degree in some form Information or Computer security, then that's probably not going to be the case. From what I've heard, job placement for graduates at my university is pretty good.
guess I could be wrong.. that was just my understanding.
I like it. I have a fairly good connection, so I don't mind the downloads, which I much prefer to managing a bunch of game disks. They also have some very good sales every so often, even with the more popular titles.
You can install games on up to 5 computers, and from what I've heard, you can have that reset if you're the type of person who reinstalls their OS every so often.
I like pie.
Nuclear winter.
Just use more nukes to keep warm, DUUUHH!!!
You can already get stuff to do this for free. Is this stuff that's getting sold made for the less technical crowd or something?
naw aw! They're only supposed to be tubes and nothing else.
Doesn't have to be a non-reputable host necessarily, could just be a host that happens to have a lot of botnet members.
Can I ask how often you give out your address/how long you've had your account? I had my account for 3 or 4 years and usually don't get more than 30 spam messages accumulated in my spam box.
sudo shutdown -r now doesn't work, though :(
Too bad my university doesn't keep logs =]
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Yeah, if anything, the NSA has made things LESS secure! I mean, look at SELinux. It's a load of crap!!
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There are plenty of businesses that would go out of business if they had all their data stolen.. There's too much of a benefit for them to not store it electronically.
Come on? How the fuck does Anonymous Coward not want to elaborate on the NT KERNEL!!??!?!?!?
I really know very little about the NT kernel.. could you elaborate?