Question is: How do you handle the data on a customers computer?
Here is how I handle it:
When I need to reinstall a computer:
1.) Before I do the installation or data gathering I generate a 1:1 hard drive image and I store that on an encrypted drive. (checksumming of origin and copy included)
This is why I take the computers mostly to my lab to return with a fully prepared, clean and backed up computer.
2.) The backup is then bzip2-ed for space saving.
3.) Then the target hard drive is zero-ed out.
4.) Prior to this backup I gathered the data that needs saving - together with the customer.
5.) Only operate on a need to know basis, before I open a folder I ask the customer, and I only ask and do when it is really neccessary.
6.) I do only copy "blindly" and let the customer know beforehand what I'm going to do next and why - on a non-technical level.
7.) The encypted backup is afterwards stored on a lended hard drive I give over to the customer and I get that drive back after two months and tell the customer - when he remembers anything that needs to be looked up, to call me, and I let them have the drive for longer time when they aren't sure.
The first thing I do when getting a drive back - sure zero-ing it out.
I have a sufficient collection of smaller and larger checked hard drives that my former customers donate to me for deletion and for keeping.
Prior to the hard drive solution I longterm stored the data on LTO-5 tapes and gave these to the customer - I got a bunch cheap for 3-5 EUR per 1.5Tbyte tape - but the prices grew to much.
Yes, I have nice customers and I let them exactly know what I do with this donated drives. The compression from 2. comes in handy there.
8.) The encryption passphrase is later changed to be known to the customer only or directly when I do "on-site" work. - yes I do train my customers to remember the phrase and I let them test it several times.
Why: - I do only know what I need to know (when I don't know I'm not required to act - like I would need to do, if get to know about the presence of anything criminal on the computer)
- I have generated a backup and can revert data to that state but at the earliest possible point in time I surrender that data and the knowledge about the encryption key to the customer
- the amount of unencrypted or "only-deleted" data is minimized, by zero-ing out the hard drive prior to reuse or even disposal
- the customer is aware and in control of all my actions because I'm laying them out transparently before I act
- My customers are satisfied and I get recommended to their family members and friends - and yes its still a hobby I do not do advertisement
Ok, people pointed out the complete bullshit number about the actual - inflation corrected worth.
But there is another vector that needs to be taken into consideration, that has a devastating effect on bigger space mining undertakings.
To make it short if done on a big scale space mining could change the earths orbit and rotation period.
And this is what most fly-highs do not take into consideration.
1.) every planetary body in our solar system is there and "does" that because it has a mass, and a certain kinetic energy
a.) also mass distribution plays a role (moon tide = earth has changing mass distribution, "wobble, wobble")
2.).. and interacts with other bodies through the "mystic and largely unkown" force of gravitation - its so unkown many people just jump and do other silly things and consider to survive..
3.) these properties make the planetary bodies move in such elliptecal shapes as they do.
From 3.) change them by mass and the momentum/energy that is "glued" to the mass, you change how the planetary bodies will behave.
Yes, this happens contiously. Earth is loosing as well as gaining mass - naturally. Helium can escape the atmosphere, but meteors are hitting the earth, transfering mass and energy.
And the Apollo missions transfered mass to the moon.
The key point is the scale you'd do that and when thinking in "deathstar" categories you can predict a big change.
If you can't imaging it, go ice skating and do a pierotte and pull your arms to your body.
What in consequence might happen I can only guess , however I know something will happen.
Because you change the system on a big scale... our planets relative distance to the sun has considerable effect on our climate... the day/night cycle has considerable effect on our life.
1.) Because the test is a blood test, testing for prions present in the blood and multiplying them. Also do the prions accumulate in the tonsils and so on.
Meaning: you will ingest prions and they can/will accumulate in you.
2.) even by todays slaughtering standards, like separating the brain early out and sucking away the spinal mass. It cannot be excluded to contaminate the meat.
Because to get to the spinal mass you need to cut it open. Also is the carcass split into halves by a chainsaw, does cut bones open to the marrow.
And many industrial slaugthering houses do not adhere fully to the standards, its a very rough business.
3.) the cases of vCJD in the UK cannot simply be explained to be only have been transmitted through brain tissue, because these people ate meat but perhaps they ate hamburger meat where you'd cannot really tell or taste if there was a brain among.
The problem with prions is that they need to multiply over time.
Having a very early onset means you'd likely had ingested huge amounts of prion contaminated beef. But even if you have ingested some amount you might get hit later on, this is what they meant with "decades".
So his conclusion is correct.
Because he reduces the prion ingestion - there are still cows getting diagnosed, but the diagnoses is only done on older cows and on cows that show symptoms!
And because the symptoms show up lately the unsymptomatic cows might have also infected you before.
I have a feeling that many cannot remember the "mad cow crisis" in the 90s. Because after the crises var-CJD/MCD has not gotten much attention lately.
Background: The interesting thing was, that there was some evidence that MCD was being transmitted onto cows by feeding them carcass meal (pulverized dead leftovers from slaugther - everything not sold.. like brain, eyes, bone, spinal matter,..) which was then restricted.
There were secondary hints, that the initial prion mutation could be the effect of a chemical agent used some years before in agriculture.
Note: those prions could really multiply every generation through this kind of "recycling".
However that crises took shape in england where it was observed that a higher than usual incident rate of CJD in humans occured and a conclusion was finally drawn between MCD and vCJD. Hint: "piri piri"
Which finally lead to carcas meal ban in Summer 1996.
The UK was at the center of the outbreak with very high incident rates. Public was kept in the dark for some time.
Stastics: Now the interesting fact is in [1] which tells us, that there was a peak in 1992 contrary to the ban of 1996 I cannot explain that drop, it could be that using brain and spine for carcas meal production was forbidden.
For a long time there was an import ban on bovine meat from UK in the EU.
Interstingly there was a test developed for live cattle[2], which is not being used.
The "walking dead" moment: Now the interesting point is that MCD-crisis is not really over, and this testing method explains that we might be infected by prions from cows with MCD, and even if a cow is not diagnosed with MCD - only cows older than 24 months are tested. A normal cow could carry those prions and we ingest those prions. However those cows never get diagnosed because not reaching the age where they'd show symptoms.
And yes the sad moment is "some might be infected" the question who is infected?
Sometimes it is only good to know for others (blood donation recipients) but not for you ?!
Another conclusion can be drawn, that when having still cows with MCD it is likely that even now people get infected by MCD-prions, as of now.
sorry to correct you in this point... and even so late..
(me: working in that industry in germany, and I'm working hands-on as well as at the desk - offshore/onshore - development & fixing).
Growian The Growian was a pitch regulated, 100m rotor diameter, two blade, downwind turbine with steel body fiber glas reinforced profile rotor blades and an asynchronous generator. The growian had only 420 productive hrs.
Smith-Putnam: pitch & cone regulated, single profile steel only blades - downwind - asynchronous generator The smith putnam had 1000 productive hrs.
The german wind turbine development took their ideas mostly from the danish designs of the 80s - many turbines were build under OEM contracts
The "modern" wind turbine of the revolution: Three blades - stall regulated - asynchronous generator - up wind type - with "tip brake" - fiber glass reinforced blades
the blades tip could be rotated 90Â by a spring loaded mechanism triggered by the turbine control system.
the historic main companies active in Germany - Nordtank (later part of Vestas) (DK) - Micon (later part of Vestas) (DK) - later NEG Micon (later part of Vestas) (DK) - AN Bonus (DK) (now Siemens(DE)) - Nordex (DE) - Adler/Koester (DE) - Jacobs (later part of REpower) (DE) - HSW (later part of REpower) (DE) - Aerodyn (DE) - Lagerwey (NL)
And some even had a wind driven yawing system like the AeroMANn a two blade upwind turbine.. with a mere 33 kW.
The "current" motern wind turbine: pitch regulated - Doubly fed generator or full converter - three blade - upwind windturbine with fiber glass reinforced blades - 100+ m rotor diameter - 2-3 Megawatt.
conclusion: The current three blade state of the art turbine has much more in common with the danes simple turbines than with the Growian.
Growian and Smith-Putnam are quite well comparable as they share certain similar design features as well as their structural mode of failiure- just that Growian was shutdown before it would've thrown a blade.
But when you'd want to take a look at the history of the small steps you can read the "Windkraftanlagen - Grundlagen, Technik, Einsatz, Wirtschaftlichkeit" from Erich Hau.
You will then realize that virtually no research from the Growian could be used on that small step path.
(Remark: we do not mill with these turbines, we just visit the "Windmuehle" or the "Muehle" which does not mill - normally)
The Trump 1 is many times more dangerous than the Satan 2.
While the Satan 2 can wipe out only Texas, the Trump 1 in contrast can wipe out the USA including Hawai and Alaska not harming Canada but harming Mexico.
"at a power output proportional to the CUBE of the windspeed"
Basically true, but in respect to modern wind turbines its a bit off(1) due to pitch control.
This does not take into account that you can pitch the blade angle out of the wind when reaching the nominal windspeed of the turbine (which every pitch controlled turbine does). Meaning when the nominal wind speed has been reached the power output will remain mostly steady.
Todays turbine development is going into the direction of increased rotorsize(look at the formula at (1) thats quadratic ) to reach the nominal wind speed much earlier.
But generally speaking that control can be configured to pitch their blades much earlier - this is done for certain sound reduction modes, not using as much energy as would be availible much earlier would give you a usable power reserve.
but: more power = more load = more material = more cost
The U.S. were once pioneers of wind power(4) in size not only in space but in wind turbines (you might think that the danes were the only pioneers?).
You need to take a look at the good old west. Water pumps powered by wind turbines. Offgrid farms getting their first electricity from wind turbines.
Wind power plants are indeed smaller production unit than a big coal or even a nuclear power plant, that needed to be manufactured as well as their parts (also done in the US). While manufacturing solar panels got outsourced like chip manufacturing.
Meaning! you can employ more people with wind power than with coal power, coal power and nuclear power destroys much more jobs that it generates!
It is different with wind turbines, they need good old american craftsmanship to build a solid turbine that sustains harsh conditions.
Some american wind power history:
1941 American visionary Palmer Putnam built a 1.25 Megawatt! turbine(1) in 1941.
Indeed after some time it threw a blade. But before that it produced more energy and ran longer than the german multi million dollar 1980s disaster called Growian.
Whiners fall down and never try again. Pioneers stand up shake the dust off, don't mind their bruises and climb that horse again, and again till they succeed.
1982-1988 MOD-2 a 2.5 Megawatt turbine with 91m (~275 ft.) diameter rotor. (2) and so on..
Pioneers can and will fail, but as Kennedy said, that you don't go to the moon because its easy, but because its hard! And generating power from wind is hard but in the recent 30 years we got quite a good understanding how to do it and how to size up the turbines!
Can you feel the changing wind right now? Do you got faith of the heart or fraid of the trump? (3)
This is what made america great, having faith of the heart and this is what can make america great again.
SARKASM ALERT, if you would dare to shoot in the woods or anywhere else on a bipedal creature just4fun or "proof", the only legal way you should use a gun is: a.) on yourself b.) to compete for the darwin award.
When you stopped telling everyone that the earth is flat, because if it would be round you would fall over and the useable area would be small.
"Climatedepot" that is a nice name: If you use the deposed liquid and solid hydrocarbons and react them to CO2, do you really think that nothing will happen, as CO2 has a certain spectral property?
- If you free & release these files into the general public, you are a - and my - hero. - If you extort these files for a fee, you are just a criminal.
It is simple as that.
And the "non-interested" people seem not to be dumb:
No refunds.. paying for something that you most likely won't get. Hahahahahahahha.. and they call it crowd funding.. ok crowdfunding sounds like that, but if a crowd funds something the funding crowd gets a piece. Or nobody gets a piece and is ripped off.
Not here. Two get a piece (Winner & Shadowbrokers) and the others are ripped-off.
This would be the only good choice a real hero would take: Put it up on many many many many many many OCHs and Freenet. And post the link & get the fame for fighting evil.
Ok, people my point is we have too long relied on companies protecting those that can pay (Brian cannot) the hefty fee from DDOS.
And when I introduced this thought with "one fat.. target" I meant even Akamai with its big - but limited - bandwidth is condensed to just one target when that bandwidth is exhausted.
My point: Mittigation for this scale of attack is to counter it with a "borg collective" of an even or bigger scale.
The vulnerability for Brian, us and everyone is, that the fight is one against an army. Now one could argue that going on the offensive(attacking the bots, identifying the bots) would be a favourable cause. However this would end up in many little scrimishes that drain energy and end in a victory for that bad guys, because they have more energy.
So I don't think that such an offensive would be a meaningful course of action. The best course of action would be to first weaken those DDOS attacks and then rendering them uneffective because there is not even a single target.
So todays sites are a single sitting fat target, Akamai is just a thick wall, but every wall can be shot to pieces with a big army.
But there are two known and working mittigations
a.) freenet / freesite - with its hash keys and asymetric encryption a site is even "signed", also everyone who connects to a freesite will store it in the cache/storage.
b.) bit-torrent example: It is still active and thriving till today, under attack and not just holding up but thriving.
Idea: torrent(ify) the web
But the secondary - offensive - measure is to identify the unwilling bots of these bot nets and work on this front - long long way to go.
Slashdot Mirror
Because those geek-squad FBI moles were trained by the FBI and could be considered a direct part of the operation.
If so the evidence could be obtained illegally.
And this is different than narcotic informats - except the geek-squad-moles are considered criminals ;)
Question is: How do you handle the data on a customers computer?
Here is how I handle it:
When I need to reinstall a computer:
1.) Before I do the installation or data gathering I generate a 1:1 hard drive image and I store that on an encrypted drive.
(checksumming of origin and copy included)
This is why I take the computers mostly to my lab to return with a fully prepared, clean and backed up computer.
2.) The backup is then bzip2-ed for space saving.
3.) Then the target hard drive is zero-ed out.
4.) Prior to this backup I gathered the data that needs saving - together with the customer.
5.) Only operate on a need to know basis, before I open a folder I ask the customer, and I only ask and do when it is really neccessary.
6.) I do only copy "blindly" and let the customer know beforehand what I'm going to do next and why - on a non-technical level.
7.) The encypted backup is afterwards stored on a lended hard drive I give over to the customer and I get that drive back after two months and tell the customer - when he remembers anything that needs to be looked up, to call me, and I let them have the drive for longer time when they aren't sure.
The first thing I do when getting a drive back - sure zero-ing it out.
I have a sufficient collection of smaller and larger checked hard drives that my former customers donate to me for deletion and for keeping.
Prior to the hard drive solution I longterm stored the data on LTO-5 tapes and gave these to the customer - I got a bunch cheap for 3-5 EUR per 1.5Tbyte tape - but the prices grew to much.
Yes, I have nice customers and I let them exactly know what I do with this donated drives. The compression from 2. comes in handy there.
8.) The encryption passphrase is later changed to be known to the customer only or directly when I do "on-site" work.
- yes I do train my customers to remember the phrase and I let them test it several times.
Why:
- I do only know what I need to know (when I don't know I'm not required to act - like I would need to do, if get to know about the presence of anything criminal on the computer)
- I have generated a backup and can revert data to that state
but at the earliest possible point in time I surrender that data and the knowledge about the encryption key to the customer
- the amount of unencrypted or "only-deleted" data is minimized, by zero-ing out the hard drive prior to reuse or even disposal
- the customer is aware and in control of all my actions because I'm laying them out transparently before I act
- My customers are satisfied and I get recommended to their family members and friends - and yes its still a hobby I do not do advertisement
Ok, people pointed out the complete bullshit number about the actual - inflation corrected worth.
But there is another vector that needs to be taken into consideration, that has a devastating effect on bigger space mining undertakings.
To make it short if done on a big scale space mining could change the earths orbit and rotation period.
And this is what most fly-highs do not take into consideration.
1.) every planetary body in our solar system is there and "does" that because it has a mass, and a certain kinetic energy
a.) also mass distribution plays a role (moon tide = earth has changing mass distribution, "wobble, wobble")
2.) .. and interacts with other bodies through the "mystic and largely unkown" force of gravitation - its so unkown many people just jump and do other silly things and consider to survive ..
3.) these properties make the planetary bodies move in such elliptecal shapes as they do.
From 3.) change them by mass and the momentum/energy that is "glued" to the mass, you change how the planetary bodies will behave.
Yes, this happens contiously. Earth is loosing as well as gaining mass - naturally. Helium can escape the atmosphere, but meteors are hitting the earth, transfering mass and energy.
And the Apollo missions transfered mass to the moon.
The key point is the scale you'd do that and when thinking in "deathstar" categories you can predict a big change.
If you can't imaging it, go ice skating and do a pierotte and pull your arms to your body.
What in consequence might happen I can only guess , however I know something will happen.
Because you change the system on a big scale. .. our planets relative distance to the sun has considerable effect on our climate. .. the day/night cycle has considerable effect on our life.
I call this the real "masseffect"
The inevitable X-Files reference!
The next reference is "Star Gate - Antarctica"
From what is known this cannot be correct.
1.) Because the test is a blood test, testing for prions present in the blood and multiplying them. Also do the prions accumulate in the tonsils and so on.
Meaning: you will ingest prions and they can/will accumulate in you.
2.) even by todays slaughtering standards, like separating the brain early out and sucking away the spinal mass. It cannot be excluded to contaminate the meat.
Because to get to the spinal mass you need to cut it open. Also is the carcass split into halves by a chainsaw,
does cut bones open to the marrow.
And many industrial slaugthering houses do not adhere fully to the standards, its a very rough business.
3.) the cases of vCJD in the UK cannot simply be explained to be only have been transmitted through brain tissue, because these people ate meat but perhaps they ate hamburger meat where you'd cannot really tell or taste if there was a brain among.
The problem with prions is that they need to multiply over time.
Having a very early onset means you'd likely had ingested huge amounts of prion contaminated beef. But even if you have ingested some amount you might get hit later on, this is what they meant with "decades".
So his conclusion is correct.
Because he reduces the prion ingestion - there are still cows getting diagnosed, but the diagnoses is only done on older cows and on cows that show symptoms!
And because the symptoms show up lately the unsymptomatic cows might have also infected you before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I have a feeling that many cannot remember the "mad cow crisis" in the 90s. Because after the crises var-CJD/MCD has not gotten much attention lately.
Background: .. like brain, eyes, bone, spinal matter, ..) which was then restricted.
The interesting thing was, that there was some evidence that MCD was being transmitted onto cows by feeding them carcass meal (pulverized dead leftovers from slaugther - everything not sold
There were secondary hints, that the initial prion mutation could be the effect of a chemical agent used some years before in agriculture.
Note: those prions could really multiply every generation through this kind of "recycling".
However that crises took shape in england where it was observed that a higher than usual incident rate of CJD in humans occured and a conclusion was finally drawn between MCD and vCJD. Hint: "piri piri"
Which finally lead to carcas meal ban in Summer 1996.
The UK was at the center of the outbreak with very high incident rates. Public was kept in the dark for some time.
Stastics:
Now the interesting fact is in [1] which tells us, that there was a peak in 1992 contrary to the ban of 1996 I cannot explain that drop, it could be that using brain and spine for carcas meal production was forbidden.
For a long time there was an import ban on bovine meat from UK in the EU.
Interstingly there was a test developed for live cattle[2],
which is not being used.
The "walking dead" moment:
Now the interesting point is that MCD-crisis is not really over, and this testing method explains that we might be infected by prions from cows with MCD, and even if a cow is not diagnosed with MCD - only cows older than 24 months are tested. A normal cow could carry those prions and we ingest those prions. However those cows never get diagnosed because not reaching the age where they'd show symptoms.
And yes the sad moment is "some might be infected"
the question who is infected?
Sometimes it is only good to know for others (blood donation recipients) but not for you ?!
Another conclusion can be drawn, that when having still cows with MCD it is likely that even now people get infected by MCD-prions, as of now.
[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/w/ind...
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
.. it's so secure it can only run a very stripped down version of hello world.
Among the popular security features are the TKA and M.A.M.
Trump Kernel Api - the only API that strips down logic expression to just "false"
McAffee-Mode - deletes every trace
@Eugene
If you're really serious. Relase the binary to public and bet your whole money on the "not hackable" challenge.
sorry to correct you in this point ... and even so late ..
(me: working in that industry in germany, and I'm working hands-on as well as at the desk - offshore/onshore - development & fixing).
Growian
The Growian was a pitch regulated, 100m rotor diameter, two blade, downwind turbine with steel body fiber glas reinforced profile rotor blades and an asynchronous generator.
The growian had only 420 productive hrs.
Smith-Putnam:
pitch & cone regulated, single profile steel only blades - downwind - asynchronous generator
The smith putnam had 1000 productive hrs.
The german wind turbine development took their ideas mostly from the danish designs of the 80s - many turbines were build under OEM contracts
The "modern" wind turbine of the revolution:
Three blades - stall regulated - asynchronous generator - up wind type - with "tip brake" - fiber glass reinforced blades
the blades tip could be rotated 90Â by a spring loaded mechanism triggered by the turbine control system.
the historic main companies active in Germany
- Nordtank (later part of Vestas) (DK)
- Micon (later part of Vestas) (DK)
- later NEG Micon (later part of Vestas) (DK)
- AN Bonus (DK) (now Siemens(DE))
- Nordex (DE)
- Adler/Koester (DE)
- Jacobs (later part of REpower) (DE)
- HSW (later part of REpower) (DE)
- Aerodyn (DE)
- Lagerwey (NL)
And some even had a wind driven yawing system like the AeroMANn a two blade upwind turbine .. with a mere 33 kW.
The "current" motern wind turbine:
pitch regulated - Doubly fed generator or full converter - three blade - upwind windturbine with fiber glass reinforced blades - 100+ m rotor diameter - 2-3 Megawatt.
conclusion:
The current three blade state of the art turbine has much more in common with the danes simple turbines than with the Growian.
Growian and Smith-Putnam are quite well comparable as they share certain similar design features as well as their structural mode of failiure- just that Growian was shutdown before it would've thrown a blade.
But when you'd want to take a look at the history of the small steps you can read the "Windkraftanlagen - Grundlagen, Technik, Einsatz, Wirtschaftlichkeit"
from Erich Hau.
You will then realize that virtually no research from the Growian could be used on that small step path.
(Remark: we do not mill with these turbines, we just visit the "Windmuehle" or the "Muehle" which does not mill - normally)
AeroMAN
http://www.wind-turbine-models...
The Trump 1 is many times more dangerous than the Satan 2.
While the Satan 2 can wipe out only Texas, the Trump 1 in contrast can wipe out the USA including Hawai and Alaska not harming Canada but harming Mexico.
And its paid for by russian tax payers.
"at a power output proportional to the CUBE of the windspeed"
Basically true, but in respect to modern wind turbines its a bit off(1) due to pitch control.
This does not take into account that you can pitch the blade angle out of the wind when reaching the nominal windspeed of the turbine (which every pitch controlled turbine does). Meaning when the nominal wind speed has been reached the power output will remain mostly steady.
Todays turbine development is going into the direction of increased rotorsize(look at the formula at (1) thats quadratic ) to reach the nominal wind speed much earlier.
But generally speaking that control can be configured to pitch their blades much earlier - this is done for certain sound reduction modes, not using as much energy as would be availible much earlier would give you a usable power reserve.
but: more power = more load = more material = more cost
http://www.wind-power-program....
The U.S. were once pioneers of wind power(4) in size not only in space but in wind turbines (you might think that the danes were the only pioneers?).
You need to take a look at the good old west. Water pumps powered by wind turbines. Offgrid farms getting their first electricity from wind turbines.
Wind power plants are indeed smaller production unit than a big coal or even a nuclear power plant, that needed to be manufactured as well as their parts (also done in the US). While manufacturing solar panels got outsourced like chip manufacturing.
Meaning! you can employ more people with wind power than with coal power, coal power and nuclear power destroys much more jobs that it generates!
It is different with wind turbines, they need good old american craftsmanship to build a solid turbine that sustains harsh conditions.
Some american wind power history:
1941
American visionary Palmer Putnam built a 1.25 Megawatt! turbine(1) in 1941.
Indeed after some time it threw a blade. But before that it produced more energy and ran longer than the german multi million dollar 1980s disaster called Growian.
Whiners fall down and never try again. Pioneers stand up shake the dust off, don't mind their bruises and climb that horse again, and again till they succeed.
1982-1988 ..
MOD-2 a 2.5 Megawatt turbine with 91m (~275 ft.) diameter rotor. (2) and so on
Pioneers can and will fail, but as Kennedy said, that you don't go to the moon because its easy, but because its hard! And generating power from wind is hard but in the recent 30 years we got quite a good understanding how to do it and how to size up the turbines!
Can you feel the changing wind right now? Do you got faith of the heart or fraid of the trump? (3)
This is what made america great, having faith of the heart and this is what can make america great again.
(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
(3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
(4) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I want proof!
SARKASM ALERT, if you would dare to shoot in the woods or anywhere else on a bipedal creature just4fun or "proof", the only legal way you should use a gun is:
a.) on yourself
b.) to compete for the darwin award.
.. loosing the battle
You missed the point the SoE gives also extended rights for covert operations, normally not found in a gathering crowd but in a data center.
Start reading the backgroundstory we are talking about datacenters and not about public gatherings.
I mean, they have laws giving their secret service similar access to data centers .. and they also have "NSL" equivalent gag orders.
So, this was only the second worst decision.
When you stopped telling everyone that the earth is flat, because if it would be round you would fall over and the useable area would be small.
"Climatedepot" that is a nice name: If you use the deposed liquid and solid hydrocarbons and react them to CO2, do you really think that nothing will happen, as CO2 has a certain spectral property?
Everyone likes heros, no one likes criminals.
- If you free & release these files into the general public, you are a - and my - hero.
- If you extort these files for a fee, you are just a criminal.
It is simple as that.
And the "non-interested" people seem not to be dumb:
No refunds .. paying for something that you most likely won't get. Hahahahahahahha .. and they call it crowd funding .. ok crowdfunding sounds like that, but if a crowd funds something the funding crowd gets a piece.
Or nobody gets a piece and is ripped off.
Not here. Two get a piece (Winner & Shadowbrokers) and the others are ripped-off.
This would be the only good choice a real hero would take:
Put it up on many many many many many many OCHs and Freenet. And post the link & get the fame for fighting evil.
Ok, people my point is we have too long relied on companies protecting those that can pay (Brian cannot) the hefty fee from DDOS.
And when I introduced this thought with "one fat .. target" I meant even Akamai with its big - but limited - bandwidth is condensed to just one target when that bandwidth is exhausted.
My point: Mittigation for this scale of attack is to counter it with a "borg collective" of an even or bigger scale.
The vulnerability for Brian, us and everyone is, that the fight is one against an army. Now one could argue that going on the offensive(attacking the bots, identifying the bots) would be a favourable cause. However this would end up in many little scrimishes that drain energy and end in a victory for that bad guys, because they have more energy.
So I don't think that such an offensive would be a meaningful course of action. The best course of action would be to first weaken those DDOS attacks and then rendering them uneffective because there is not even a single target.
So todays sites are a single sitting fat target, Akamai is just a thick wall, but every wall can be shot to pieces with a big army.
But there are two known and working mittigations
a.) freenet / freesite - with its hash keys and asymetric encryption a site is even "signed", also everyone who connects to a freesite will store it in the cache/storage.
b.) bit-torrent
example: It is still active and thriving till today, under attack and not just holding up but thriving.
Idea: torrent(ify) the web
But the secondary - offensive - measure is to identify the unwilling bots of these bot nets and work on this front - long long way to go.
.. problems with that?
At least it was the topic of the thread.
First the similarities:
Cliff Mclane / James T. Kirk
- good looking
- strong
- black sheep
Now the difference
General Lydia van Dyke (high ranking female) disciplining Cliff Mclane and not getting layed!
I'm guessing that this handle is taken by a guy?
.. nuff nuff ..
Not in Germany, Star Trek was unkown for many years.