You can kind of use the foxyproxy add-on in firefox to get what you want - it is a bit fiddly to set up, but once it is running, it is very easy to switch on and off.
You seem to be missing quite a few planned attacks there. Also, I wouldn't look for the intelligence services to do much bragging. It isn't their way, they prefer to avoid their role being know when they can. That includes any assistance to the police doing the "bragging," and perhaps some of the happy "accidents" that have foiled some of the plots.
Testifying before the Senate on Wednesday, National Security Agency Deputy Director John Inglis conceded that the bulk collection of phone records of millions of Americans under Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act has been key in stopping only one terror plot — not the dozens officials had previously said.
That's right, after all the fear-mongering and hype about risk, after all the billions of dollars, after the complete and ongoing invasion of privacy, the NSA's S.215 surveillance program stopped one plot. Maybe.
This is the NSA deputy director testifying in front of congress, not some internet loudmouth.
So tell me again how all that money wouldn't be better off spent on trying to cure cancer.
Go peddle your fear somewhere else - tonight I'll lose more sleep over being struck by lightning than I will being afraid of the vanishingly few terrorists who are insane enough to suicide bomb, but competent enough to carry it out.
It has been known for some time that the various intelligence agencies of the Anglosphere cooperated on various projects. Common enemies make for common cause. The annual support doesn't appear to be that significant - equivalent to about 10-15% the cost of a Eurofighter Typhoon per year.
My goodness, so your justification of a hideous waste of money is to point to an even greater hideous waste of money?
You say that common enemies make for a common cause, but the truth is that the terrorist threat is so tiny as to barely exist. Only 52 people lost their lives in the 7/7 events that you point to, and you had to go back 8 years to find that many. Whilst tragic, the number of people dying from terrorism in western countries over the last 20 years is much, much less than those dying from any one of either the road toll, heart disease, or cancer over the same period. But the money allocated to defense keeps ballooning because department heads over-exaggerate the terrorist threat so that they can stampede politicians into letting them keep or expand their budget.
100 million pounds is significant because it is still over $US1 per taxpayer. Anyone who understands statistics or risk analysis can easily see how far the defense spend has grown beyond the point of diminishing returns. As far as I'm concerned, it is now actively causing the death of far more people than it saves, purely by virtue of the fact that the money could have been far better spent finding cures for diseases, building self-driving cars, or funding research into any number of technologies which would have actual societal benefits.
I know from your previous posts that you seem to think it is patriotic to support the actions of all the TLA organizations without question, but I disagree. In a democracy, it is of vital importance and far more patriotic to question this sort of rampant waste of taxpayer dollars.
Wonder what they priced the caliper at? This is gonna to print one similar to the ones in the bargain bin not the Snap-on truck, right? I think mine was $5 for a big one and a little one.
They priced the caliper at $7.88.
Article should get an award for fluff and puff journalism or something! The AVERAGE household is probably not buying EVERYTHING at the HIGHEST price possible (and rounded up)...not really the idea behind AVERAGE now is it folks.
Tell me about it. My main gripe is that this was published in Mechatronics- a journal with an impact factor of 1.65, which is not too bad for an engineering journal. The conclusions they draw is that the payback time for a RepRap will be between 4 months to 2 years for an average family, and that "The results show that the RepRap is already an economically attractive investment for the average US household." Which just is not supported by the data that they provide. The peer review process certainly failed on this one. Another mark against Elsevier publishing.
Since you have access to the study itself, can you tell if they included the cost of materials for the printer to make these items? I have no idea how much the "ink" costs for these 3d printers.
Yeah - the $18 cost that they quote for printing all the items comes from the cost of the plastic ($17.80) + the cost of the electricity ($0.31).
The way they get the cost of the electricity so low is that they are only measuring the energy use of the reprap, and not the cost of the computer driving it - although they semi-justify this by saying that theoretically a raspberry pi could be used to drive the reprap, and being low power ARM, that would consume very little power.
As for safety razors, what about the blades? Last time I checked, you couldn't 3D print those.
They set the retail price for the safety razor at $78!!! I'm pretty sure that for $78 in the store you'll get razors included, but the rep-rap certainly won't print any.
but I seriously doubt a working iPhone dock could be made. Last time I checked, you had to get all of those connectors to be able to plug into your iPhone..
The iphone 5 dock is priced at $30, and the iPhone 4 dock $40. I don't know what they are printing that they think is comparable to those, but it certainly won't be functional.
Exactly. The actual paper is behind a paywall that I have access to. So below I'll include a list of their 20 items. I can't imagine buying any of these annually. The bulk of the $2000 claim comes from two items which significantly skew the statistics.
The first is a medical orthotic, the retail price of which they set at $800, and which the majority of people in the world without fallen arches/foot problems will never need.
The second is a shower head which they price at $437.22. Again, you don't buy a shower head every year, the $400+ ones will have a 10-year warranty and are going to be of significantly better quality than what comes out of a 3-D printer.
Additionally, in a clear attempt to boost costs, 6 out of the 20 items are overpriced Apple accessories: iPhone 5 dock, iPhone 4 dock, iPhone 5 case, iPad stand, Nano watchband, and an iPhone tripod.
The full list of 20 items:
iPhone 5 dock
iPhone 4 dock
iPhone 5 case
Jewelry organizer
Garlic press
Caliper
Wall plate
12 x Shower curtain rings
Shower head
Key hanger (3 hooks)
iPad stand
Orthotic
Safety razor
Pickup
Train track toy
Nano watchband
iPhone tripod
Paper towel holder
Pierogi mold
Spoon holder
In a country where insulting the king carries a 10 year penalty, as far as the king is concerned, the concept of Rule of Law essentially means: I rule, you follow the law.
I sure as fuck watch what I say online, now. I don't make the assumption that anyone would understand (or care) that even my most absurd comments are for humor, satire, or even just the sake of absurdity.
It's embarrassing that it has gone this far. I sent myself an email the other day which contained the string "Letterbomb 1:30". I did that because I've been thinking about the playlist for a marathon that I'm running, decided that I wanted the Green Day song Letterbomb to start playing about one and a half hours into the race, and didn't want to forget by the time I got home.
Now I wonder if I've put myself on a watch list. I also wonder if explaining this on an online forum using the words "marathon" and "bomb" with something that looks like a time in the same post has put me on another watch list.
No it's about finding ways to increase M.I.C. spending by creating friction between rival states.
Mod this guy up, he has hit it on the head.
It seems to be that any escalation of tension that doesn't result in actual war is the preferred foreign policy outcome. US politicians don't want a war with Russia or China or any country who's soldiers have equipment more advanced than rifles.
But they do want a climate of exaggerated fear which justifies increased spending to the companies that their mates run, or to allow public servants who are their cronies to build their little empires.
Take this whole NSA spying on email/voice communications thing. They don't really care what the general public are saying to each other. And any terrorist who is serious at all can set up their own linux postfix/asterisk email/voip server for about $100 in about an hour, and which can't really be spied on if done properly. They can even install a torrent client on it and start downloading episodes of "Game Of Thrones", so that encrypted peer-to-peer traffic hitting that server is from all over the world, and any communication they do via it is lost in the noise. For all the money the NSA is spending, their spying program won't pick this up at all, and the terrorists are safe.
So why are the NSA building huge data centers to store innocuous traffic? So a bunch of public servants can feather their nests, increase their operating budgets and build little empires. So a bunch of politician's mates can charge ludicrous contracting fees to build it all.
Of course, the unfortunate side effect is that if the US ever really does end up with an authoritarian dictator some time in the future, he is going to have all the tools need to subjugate the american people pre-built.
You try all possible inputs at a rate of 180 billion combinations per second.
Thus the attack knows precisely what the original password was in only 26 minutes, which fits the definition of "reversing" the hash in no more than 26 minutes.
Ok. That is fast. Still - there are two md5 hashes with a salt added - so it would likely take 52 minutes - although I think you could call that a distinction without a difference.
Which is flatly total crap. The system should simply mirror the display of an iphone to the infotainment system. That way when you get a newer device or OS update it also updates. Instead you are stuck with a system that will not get updated nor support.
We don't need brains in the car, just a simple display system.
I disagree. Your suggestion is only useful if either (a) you are the only person who ever drives your car, or (b) everyone who drives your car owns either an iPhone or a smartphone, and also has it on their person at all times.
If I pop out for a drive somewhere and don't have my phone, the last thing I want is to not be able to have any music playing because my phone is in my other pants.
It's literally one step up from plaintext. You can recover those passwords in very little time. You SHOULD assume the passwords are compromised.
Really? Can you explain how this is done? My understanding is that MD5 is a one way hash function. I know of no real way to reverse an MD5 hash. I know there are MD5 databases that can do a reverse lookup, but they are only limited to dictionaries the common strings they contain. Surely that is only really useful if your password was something stupid like a dictionary word, or some lame leetified word like "l0ve". How do you reverse an MD5 hash if it is not?
You exaggerate the difficulties of setting up a printer using CUPS and a modern Linux distribution.;-)
I removed the cloth, powered up the printer, and then plugged the USB lead into my laptop. About 10 seconds later a dialogue box appeared on my desktop saying, "A new printer has come into existence. Do you want to use this driver?". I answered yes. It then said, "Do you want to print a test page?" Again I said yes, and shortly afterwards there appeared a perfectly formatted colour test page.
I'm not sure it can be made much easier than this.
John
Ok - even I didn't know things had progressed that far! In my defence, the only USB-only printer I own is plugged into my router so that it can pretend to be a network printer. It's probably been years since I last configured a USB printer on a linux desktop distro:-)
There is an app in the play store that does this Let's Print Droid (lpd:-) ).
From the description:
If you have a business grade laser or print server (CUPS,LPR,SAMBA, etc) , the app will talk directly to them without any off-site conversion. No print data leaves your local network unless you choose the GCP (Google Cloud Print) option. (This app is not NSA approved;-)
Only because Apple made it work properly and added a GUI instead of text files that bomb with a misplaced comma or tab.
Wow - you really haven't used linux in the last decade or so, have you?
Find a computer with an install of any of the major linux distributions, fire up a web browser, and point it to http://localhost:631/
You'll find local and network printer search and configuration, default paper and printer settings, print queues, pretty much everything you need, all in a nice pretty gui.
The not unreasonable assumption is that if a child can find porn, then an ISP can automate the process of finding it and blocking it. To the layperson, the idea that all these clever people can come up with a way to search the internet and classify content and even rate the quality of that content but are suddenly flummoxed by coming up with a way of reliably blocking porn that kids can find sounds more like "well, we don't want to block porn, so we'll tell you it's impossible and tell you that you don't understand the internet".
Ok, this will sound pretty cynical, but imho the current crop of politicians don't care if legislation is difficult or even impossible. And they know how difficult this task is, in fact, the more difficult, the better. All they really care about is whether a new law means that they can funnel money through parliament to one of their mates.
This sort of thing is perfect for that. A never-ending task whereby they can pay some private company run by one of their cronies an obscene amount of cash to continually search the web looking for new porn to block.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah but you need 16 of the 64GB ones to make 1TB
You can kind of use the foxyproxy add-on in firefox to get what you want - it is a bit fiddly to set up, but once it is running, it is very easy to switch on and off.
A rough guide to setting it up is here.
That is asking too much of him - maybe if he just looked at the pictures in the article?
I thought that was androids...
I'm going to call this more of a stunt than anything else, sorry.
A stunt? Not at all. This is obviously how skynet gets control of all the weapons satellites.
Ask yourself this - what do robots do when all the humans are sleeping?
Does anyone else find it hilarious that in the movie World War Z, he had a role where he was billed as a W. H. O. doctor?
First they came for the wget users,
and I didn't speak out because I didn't use wget
Then they came for the curl users,
and I didn't speak out because I didn't use curl
Then they came for the safari users,
and Apple made enough campaign contributions to get the government to leave them alone.
You seem to be missing quite a few planned attacks there. Also, I wouldn't look for the intelligence services to do much bragging. It isn't their way, they prefer to avoid their role being know when they can. That includes any assistance to the police doing the "bragging," and perhaps some of the happy "accidents" that have foiled some of the plots.
Mate, you are full of it. Have a read of this:
Testifying before the Senate on Wednesday, National Security Agency Deputy Director John Inglis conceded that the bulk collection of phone records of millions of Americans under Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act has been key in stopping only one terror plot — not the dozens officials had previously said.
That's right, after all the fear-mongering and hype about risk, after all the billions of dollars, after the complete and ongoing invasion of privacy, the NSA's S.215 surveillance program stopped one plot. Maybe.
This is the NSA deputy director testifying in front of congress, not some internet loudmouth.
So tell me again how all that money wouldn't be better off spent on trying to cure cancer.
Go peddle your fear somewhere else - tonight I'll lose more sleep over being struck by lightning than I will being afraid of the vanishingly few terrorists who are insane enough to suicide bomb, but competent enough to carry it out.
It has been known for some time that the various intelligence agencies of the Anglosphere cooperated on various projects. Common enemies make for common cause. The annual support doesn't appear to be that significant - equivalent to about 10-15% the cost of a Eurofighter Typhoon per year.
My goodness, so your justification of a hideous waste of money is to point to an even greater hideous waste of money?
You say that common enemies make for a common cause, but the truth is that the terrorist threat is so tiny as to barely exist. Only 52 people lost their lives in the 7/7 events that you point to, and you had to go back 8 years to find that many. Whilst tragic, the number of people dying from terrorism in western countries over the last 20 years is much, much less than those dying from any one of either the road toll, heart disease, or cancer over the same period. But the money allocated to defense keeps ballooning because department heads over-exaggerate the terrorist threat so that they can stampede politicians into letting them keep or expand their budget.
100 million pounds is significant because it is still over $US1 per taxpayer. Anyone who understands statistics or risk analysis can easily see how far the defense spend has grown beyond the point of diminishing returns. As far as I'm concerned, it is now actively causing the death of far more people than it saves, purely by virtue of the fact that the money could have been far better spent finding cures for diseases, building self-driving cars, or funding research into any number of technologies which would have actual societal benefits.
I know from your previous posts that you seem to think it is patriotic to support the actions of all the TLA organizations without question, but I disagree. In a democracy, it is of vital importance and far more patriotic to question this sort of rampant waste of taxpayer dollars.
Wonder what they priced the caliper at? This is gonna to print one similar to the ones in the bargain bin not the Snap-on truck, right? I think mine was $5 for a big one and a little one.
They priced the caliper at $7.88.
Article should get an award for fluff and puff journalism or something! The AVERAGE household is probably not buying EVERYTHING at the HIGHEST price possible (and rounded up)...not really the idea behind AVERAGE now is it folks.
Tell me about it. My main gripe is that this was published in Mechatronics- a journal with an impact factor of 1.65, which is not too bad for an engineering journal. The conclusions they draw is that the payback time for a RepRap will be between 4 months to 2 years for an average family, and that "The results show that the RepRap is already an economically attractive investment for the average US household." Which just is not supported by the data that they provide. The peer review process certainly failed on this one. Another mark against Elsevier publishing.
Since you have access to the study itself, can you tell if they included the cost of materials for the printer to make these items? I have no idea how much the "ink" costs for these 3d printers.
Yeah - the $18 cost that they quote for printing all the items comes from the cost of the plastic ($17.80) + the cost of the electricity ($0.31).
The way they get the cost of the electricity so low is that they are only measuring the energy use of the reprap, and not the cost of the computer driving it - although they semi-justify this by saying that theoretically a raspberry pi could be used to drive the reprap, and being low power ARM, that would consume very little power.
As for safety razors, what about the blades? Last time I checked, you couldn't 3D print those.
They set the retail price for the safety razor at $78!!! I'm pretty sure that for $78 in the store you'll get razors included, but the rep-rap certainly won't print any.
but I seriously doubt a working iPhone dock could be made. Last time I checked, you had to get all of those connectors to be able to plug into your iPhone..
The iphone 5 dock is priced at $30, and the iPhone 4 dock $40. I don't know what they are printing that they think is comparable to those, but it certainly won't be functional.
Exactly. The actual paper is behind a paywall that I have access to. So below I'll include a list of their 20 items. I can't imagine buying any of these annually. The bulk of the $2000 claim comes from two items which significantly skew the statistics.
The first is a medical orthotic, the retail price of which they set at $800, and which the majority of people in the world without fallen arches/foot problems will never need.
The second is a shower head which they price at $437.22. Again, you don't buy a shower head every year, the $400+ ones will have a 10-year warranty and are going to be of significantly better quality than what comes out of a 3-D printer.
Additionally, in a clear attempt to boost costs, 6 out of the 20 items are overpriced Apple accessories: iPhone 5 dock, iPhone 4 dock, iPhone 5 case, iPad stand, Nano watchband, and an iPhone tripod.
The full list of 20 items:
iPhone 5 dock
iPhone 4 dock
iPhone 5 case
Jewelry organizer
Garlic press
Caliper
Wall plate
12 x Shower curtain rings
Shower head
Key hanger (3 hooks)
iPad stand
Orthotic
Safety razor
Pickup
Train track toy
Nano watchband
iPhone tripod
Paper towel holder
Pierogi mold
Spoon holder
In a country where insulting the king carries a 10 year penalty, as far as the king is concerned, the concept of Rule of Law essentially means: I rule, you follow the law.
I sure as fuck watch what I say online, now. I don't make the assumption that anyone would understand (or care) that even my most absurd comments are for humor, satire, or even just the sake of absurdity.
It's embarrassing that it has gone this far. I sent myself an email the other day which contained the string "Letterbomb 1:30". I did that because I've been thinking about the playlist for a marathon that I'm running, decided that I wanted the Green Day song Letterbomb to start playing about one and a half hours into the race, and didn't want to forget by the time I got home.
Now I wonder if I've put myself on a watch list. I also wonder if explaining this on an online forum using the words "marathon" and "bomb" with something that looks like a time in the same post has put me on another watch list.
This is not what liberty feels like.
No it's about finding ways to increase M.I.C. spending by creating friction between rival states.
Mod this guy up, he has hit it on the head.
It seems to be that any escalation of tension that doesn't result in actual war is the preferred foreign policy outcome. US politicians don't want a war with Russia or China or any country who's soldiers have equipment more advanced than rifles.
But they do want a climate of exaggerated fear which justifies increased spending to the companies that their mates run, or to allow public servants who are their cronies to build their little empires.
Take this whole NSA spying on email/voice communications thing. They don't really care what the general public are saying to each other. And any terrorist who is serious at all can set up their own linux postfix/asterisk email/voip server for about $100 in about an hour, and which can't really be spied on if done properly. They can even install a torrent client on it and start downloading episodes of "Game Of Thrones", so that encrypted peer-to-peer traffic hitting that server is from all over the world, and any communication they do via it is lost in the noise. For all the money the NSA is spending, their spying program won't pick this up at all, and the terrorists are safe.
So why are the NSA building huge data centers to store innocuous traffic? So a bunch of public servants can feather their nests, increase their operating budgets and build little empires. So a bunch of politician's mates can charge ludicrous contracting fees to build it all.
Of course, the unfortunate side effect is that if the US ever really does end up with an authoritarian dictator some time in the future, he is going to have all the tools need to subjugate the american people pre-built.
You try all possible inputs at a rate of 180 billion combinations per second. Thus the attack knows precisely what the original password was in only 26 minutes, which fits the definition of "reversing" the hash in no more than 26 minutes.
Ok. That is fast. Still - there are two md5 hashes with a salt added - so it would likely take 52 minutes - although I think you could call that a distinction without a difference.
Which is flatly total crap. The system should simply mirror the display of an iphone to the infotainment system. That way when you get a newer device or OS update it also updates. Instead you are stuck with a system that will not get updated nor support.
We don't need brains in the car, just a simple display system.
I disagree. Your suggestion is only useful if either (a) you are the only person who ever drives your car, or (b) everyone who drives your car owns either an iPhone or a smartphone, and also has it on their person at all times.
If I pop out for a drive somewhere and don't have my phone, the last thing I want is to not be able to have any music playing because my phone is in my other pants.
It's literally one step up from plaintext. You can recover those passwords in very little time. You SHOULD assume the passwords are compromised.
Really? Can you explain how this is done? My understanding is that MD5 is a one way hash function. I know of no real way to reverse an MD5 hash. I know there are MD5 databases that can do a reverse lookup, but they are only limited to dictionaries the common strings they contain. Surely that is only really useful if your password was something stupid like a dictionary word, or some lame leetified word like "l0ve". How do you reverse an MD5 hash if it is not?
I am genuinely interested.
The link you supplied is for a UHF (~900 MHz) RFID reader. The researcher is presenting a device for a low freq (125 kHz) RFID reader.
I agree specifying that it uses an arduino is a bit redundant.
You exaggerate the difficulties of setting up a printer using CUPS and a modern Linux distribution. ;-)
I removed the cloth, powered up the printer, and then plugged the USB lead into my laptop. About 10 seconds later a dialogue box appeared on my desktop saying, "A new printer has come into existence. Do you want to use this driver?". I answered yes. It then said, "Do you want to print a test page?" Again I said yes, and shortly afterwards there appeared a perfectly formatted colour test page.
I'm not sure it can be made much easier than this.
John
Ok - even I didn't know things had progressed that far! In my defence, the only USB-only printer I own is plugged into my router so that it can pretend to be a network printer. It's probably been years since I last configured a USB printer on a linux desktop distro :-)
If you have a business grade laser or print server (CUPS,LPR,SAMBA, etc) , the app will talk directly to them without any off-site conversion. No print data leaves your local network unless you choose the GCP (Google Cloud Print) option. (This app is not NSA approved ;-)
Only because Apple made it work properly and added a GUI instead of text files that bomb with a misplaced comma or tab.
Wow - you really haven't used linux in the last decade or so, have you?
Find a computer with an install of any of the major linux distributions, fire up a web browser, and point it to http://localhost:631/
You'll find local and network printer search and configuration, default paper and printer settings, print queues, pretty much everything you need, all in a nice pretty gui.
The not unreasonable assumption is that if a child can find porn, then an ISP can automate the process of finding it and blocking it. To the layperson, the idea that all these clever people can come up with a way to search the internet and classify content and even rate the quality of that content but are suddenly flummoxed by coming up with a way of reliably blocking porn that kids can find sounds more like "well, we don't want to block porn, so we'll tell you it's impossible and tell you that you don't understand the internet".
Ok, this will sound pretty cynical, but imho the current crop of politicians don't care if legislation is difficult or even impossible. And they know how difficult this task is, in fact, the more difficult, the better. All they really care about is whether a new law means that they can funnel money through parliament to one of their mates.
This sort of thing is perfect for that. A never-ending task whereby they can pay some private company run by one of their cronies an obscene amount of cash to continually search the web looking for new porn to block.
Everyone wins except the taxpayer.
I also feel entitled to $450 million for doing nothing.
Gimmee!