This is the part I have problems with: How is it possible THAT he screws up?
I'm in IT security. And sometimes we need to use VPN services so it doesn't spook the admins when they see unusual traffic from a range they know well (because it would lead to "quick, ramp up the defenses, we're being audited"). And even we, "hacking" systems that we ARE ALLOWED TO hack because the owner of the systems hires us, set up an infrastructure that takes the whole VPN problem out of our hands so we CANNOT fuck up. It is simply impossible that we start to attack the servers in such a way that our IP addresses show up with the server logs.
And we're hardly a government agency, let alone a secret service.
What you want to do here is convince me that we're ahead in security of the Russian government. I feel flattered, but at the same time not too convinced.
I don't know what constitutes this "proof" of the Russian IP address. If it's a lengthy session over a connection based protocol like TCP, I'd be amazed if someone can pull a spoof of. I could maybe fake a handshake, but anything that requires a lengthy exchange is probably out of my league. Then again, my expertise is not in faking my IP source. If it's important to you, I'll ask around at work whether someone had to do something like that before.
The more I need to know from the answer the server gives, the more complicated it gets.
Without going into detail: I actually cannot "forget" to turn the VPN on when I'm working. Case in point, I can't even deliberately circumvent it if I wanted. And I would be incredibly surprised if something like the Russian secret service doesn't have something like this in place if even our rather insignificant outfit has these security precautions in place.
Depends on the protocol used. DNS reflection DDoS attacks are based on the fact that UDP is connectionless and it's trivially easy to make the server answer the wrong IP. TCP is far more tricky since you have to spoof the handshake without knowing when and how the answers come, but even that's doable (depending on how well the server is hardened).
I have to give you that it's nontrivial to fake a lengthy transaction because your chance of not fucking up sink with every challenge-response pair, but it's doable, provided the other end isn't too well hardened against me flooding it with guesses for the "right" answer and doesn't use impossible to guess tokens.
It really depends on the traffic involved. The more it depends on me knowing what the server sends to the one I want to blame (i.e. traffic I won't see), the harder it gets to pull off.
Governments have processes. Twice so if Russian. "The average Ruskie, son, don't take a dump without a plan." isn't just a quote from a movie, it's reality. For some people, process is what should be followed. For some, something that must be followed. But I haven't seen a Russian for whom it isn't just something that IS BEING followed because IT IS BEING FOLLOWED. There is no can, should, may or must. There is only IS. No option. No question. No discussion. This is how it is done if it is done or it isn't done.
I would be highly surprised if it was different in their secret service, of all the organizations in Russia...
Every newbie hacker knows how to reroute his traffic or even (in some cases) make it appear to come from somewhere else. You just claim a "professional hacker" can't pull off what any scriptkiddy manages to do? Masking your IP address is hacking 101.
Please. Give me better evidence than that. Quite bluntly, if I wanted to send you on a wild goose chase, I'd make sure to include one such "blunder".
Guns are beautiful tools. Crafted with precision and with mechanisms that make clockworks look like toys. Have you seen a P90 fire? Whoever invented this thing is either a genius or a nutjob.
But you don't have to go for modern guns to find beautifully crafted designs, just look at wheellock guns (actually the first guns to be outlawed, at the court of Maximilian I of Austria, because they could be used for assassination since it was the first kind of gun that could be stored in garment, ready to shoot). Beautiful mechanics and sure a highlight for any gun nerd.
Fun part, I'm not even that interested in firing guns. I'm just fascinated by the various designs and mechanics that human minds came up with.
Actually, it is. Think of the implication: As Facebook (and other social media sites) are "banning" certain topics, these topics will migrate to other platforms or, like in this example, a new platform for this topic will emerge.
The established social media platforms will have to decide between losing customers to "special interest" platforms, and in turn lose influence and money, or they will have to stop caving in every time someone whines about a huwt widdle feeling because someone was allowed to talk about something.
Capitalism dictates how they'll have to decide. This could become quite interesting quite soon.
Let's be sensible here. We are talking about a very faint star, faint enough that we didn't bother to or even couldn't measure its path until now. Passing our solar system at the distance of a light year. Remember the "family portrait" Voyager took? Now, that's about 19 lightHOURS out. Or roughly 500 times closer.
Do you really think a human 70,000 years ago without any astronomic tools would have noticed? Or even cared?
Military strength means jack shit if attacking would hurt you more than it hurts your enemy. Going to war with countries like Afghanistan that don't even get noticed on the foreign trade statistics is one thing. Going to war with the likes of Europe or China, even if they were military extremely inferior, would put a dent into the US foreign trade that it would affect the bottom line of so many corporations that your politicians would never get the ok to go forward with something like this.
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Sunshine is RADIATION! Are you crazy? Or just want to give everyone cancer?
This is the part I have problems with: How is it possible THAT he screws up?
I'm in IT security. And sometimes we need to use VPN services so it doesn't spook the admins when they see unusual traffic from a range they know well (because it would lead to "quick, ramp up the defenses, we're being audited"). And even we, "hacking" systems that we ARE ALLOWED TO hack because the owner of the systems hires us, set up an infrastructure that takes the whole VPN problem out of our hands so we CANNOT fuck up. It is simply impossible that we start to attack the servers in such a way that our IP addresses show up with the server logs.
And we're hardly a government agency, let alone a secret service.
What you want to do here is convince me that we're ahead in security of the Russian government. I feel flattered, but at the same time not too convinced.
I don't know what constitutes this "proof" of the Russian IP address. If it's a lengthy session over a connection based protocol like TCP, I'd be amazed if someone can pull a spoof of. I could maybe fake a handshake, but anything that requires a lengthy exchange is probably out of my league. Then again, my expertise is not in faking my IP source. If it's important to you, I'll ask around at work whether someone had to do something like that before.
The more I need to know from the answer the server gives, the more complicated it gets.
It's a question more than a defense. I question the stupidity of the Russian secret service implied here.
Without going into detail: I actually cannot "forget" to turn the VPN on when I'm working. Case in point, I can't even deliberately circumvent it if I wanted. And I would be incredibly surprised if something like the Russian secret service doesn't have something like this in place if even our rather insignificant outfit has these security precautions in place.
Depends on the protocol used. DNS reflection DDoS attacks are based on the fact that UDP is connectionless and it's trivially easy to make the server answer the wrong IP. TCP is far more tricky since you have to spoof the handshake without knowing when and how the answers come, but even that's doable (depending on how well the server is hardened).
I have to give you that it's nontrivial to fake a lengthy transaction because your chance of not fucking up sink with every challenge-response pair, but it's doable, provided the other end isn't too well hardened against me flooding it with guesses for the "right" answer and doesn't use impossible to guess tokens.
It really depends on the traffic involved. The more it depends on me knowing what the server sends to the one I want to blame (i.e. traffic I won't see), the harder it gets to pull off.
Governments have processes. Twice so if Russian. "The average Ruskie, son, don't take a dump without a plan." isn't just a quote from a movie, it's reality. For some people, process is what should be followed. For some, something that must be followed. But I haven't seen a Russian for whom it isn't just something that IS BEING followed because IT IS BEING FOLLOWED. There is no can, should, may or must. There is only IS. No option. No question. No discussion. This is how it is done if it is done or it isn't done.
I would be highly surprised if it was different in their secret service, of all the organizations in Russia...
Every newbie hacker knows how to reroute his traffic or even (in some cases) make it appear to come from somewhere else. You just claim a "professional hacker" can't pull off what any scriptkiddy manages to do? Masking your IP address is hacking 101.
Please. Give me better evidence than that. Quite bluntly, if I wanted to send you on a wild goose chase, I'd make sure to include one such "blunder".
There's plenty of porn on the internet. Can't throw a dead link over your shoulder without hitting a porn site.
Guns on the other hand are hard to get through those damn DSL pipes.
What kind of bag of holding does his wife have to stow a S&W Model 500???
Guerrilla. Please. One is a small war. One is a large ape. Notice the difference.
Guns are beautiful tools. Crafted with precision and with mechanisms that make clockworks look like toys. Have you seen a P90 fire? Whoever invented this thing is either a genius or a nutjob.
But you don't have to go for modern guns to find beautifully crafted designs, just look at wheellock guns (actually the first guns to be outlawed, at the court of Maximilian I of Austria, because they could be used for assassination since it was the first kind of gun that could be stored in garment, ready to shoot). Beautiful mechanics and sure a highlight for any gun nerd.
Fun part, I'm not even that interested in firing guns. I'm just fascinated by the various designs and mechanics that human minds came up with.
So using a YouTube adblocker is now the American thing to do?
Actually, it is. Think of the implication: As Facebook (and other social media sites) are "banning" certain topics, these topics will migrate to other platforms or, like in this example, a new platform for this topic will emerge.
The established social media platforms will have to decide between losing customers to "special interest" platforms, and in turn lose influence and money, or they will have to stop caving in every time someone whines about a huwt widdle feeling because someone was allowed to talk about something.
Capitalism dictates how they'll have to decide. This could become quite interesting quite soon.
Is that available in English?
I can understand why your country wants the data. I just don't understand why my country should give a fuck.
Why should Country A give data of their citizens to Country B?
Let's be sensible here. We are talking about a very faint star, faint enough that we didn't bother to or even couldn't measure its path until now. Passing our solar system at the distance of a light year. Remember the "family portrait" Voyager took? Now, that's about 19 lightHOURS out. Or roughly 500 times closer.
Do you really think a human 70,000 years ago without any astronomic tools would have noticed? Or even cared?
Eliminating the competition of the CIA was an added bonus.
Mine are backed with a trade statistics that would make your corporations rip your politicians a new one and then some if they fired those nukes.
And I'm a single national living in Europe and the IRS can suck my massive Eurowang rather than look at my accounts.
Military strength means jack shit if attacking would hurt you more than it hurts your enemy. Going to war with countries like Afghanistan that don't even get noticed on the foreign trade statistics is one thing. Going to war with the likes of Europe or China, even if they were military extremely inferior, would put a dent into the US foreign trade that it would affect the bottom line of so many corporations that your politicians would never get the ok to go forward with something like this.
Or, for anyone who has a brain and hence has none, "Short, Short, Short!!!!!!"
3 would be "finding a way to make the business profitable".
Twitter is still one of those "could one of the big players FINALLY buy me?????" companies.
that just sunk a few millions into bitcoins.
Does that qualify as a business model? Lots of churches are doing the same...
Churches are basically made up of a few con artists and a lot of dupes.
So... yeah, it is a business model. A pretty evil one, but hey, whatever makes the moolah roll.