Speaking of politics, could somebody locate Ruth Bader Ginsburg's phone and see if it's at home, in the hospital, or already in the morgue. Inquiring minds would like to know.
You perhaps meant it as a joke. However, recently the NY Times posted a map of everywhere the mayor of NYC had traveled during the previous day, as a way of showing the risks of this technology. They did it by tracking an aide who travels everywhere with him.
I turn the radios OFF to conserve power. I need the power to log a 10h trip to a mountaintop and back. If the phone looks for wifi (or cell coverage) it depletes the batteries in 3h or so.
Absolute nonsense. WiFi uses no power when not connected. Yes, it looks for WiFi every 10 seconds or so, but that is a receiver only, and uses unmeasurably small amounts of energy. Cell coverage is a different story; if you don't have a connection it uses huge amounts of energy. The weaker the cell signals, the more energy.
Just wait until a plane "crashes-ish" from wireless interference.
Umm, where have you been for the past few years? Airlines now ENCOURAGE passengers to use WiFi on the plane, as part of their entertainment systems. And to access their overpriced in-flight Internet access. Up in the cockpit (where you would think there is a real chance of interference, if it wasn't a myth) the pilot and co-pilot use tablets (usually iPads) with WiFi connectivity on all the time. There never was an interference problem.
Yes, he is responsible for Jones Beach. But he also designed the highways to get to it for cars only, with underpasses too low for buses. Intentionally, to keep anyone who couldn't afford a car out. He intended it for middle class only, not "poor people".
No that's called farming STDs. These kids got off so easy, they made 600k in 2 years so it isn't hard to see how they made that whimsy 10k bond. And 30 day ban from the net. Just LOLs for these kids, now they have more street cred.
They haven't gotten off. They were arrested, posted bail, and had restrictions placed on them including the 30 day ban, lifting their passports and house arrest, presumably pending the next court appearance. There's more to come.
And he didn't consider that his AOL account was at risk, and didn't ask for guidance from the CIA's IT infrastructure? Then it's Brennan who is incompetent, and should resign.
While it is always worthwhile to prosecute the hacker, the real question is how is it possible that the Director of the CIA was hacked? Massive incompetence in the CIA is the only possible explanation.
US Navy ships (and most commercial ships) have multiple backup systems. One is the shipboard inertial navigation system (SINS), which is entirely self contained once you tell it your current location. It is accurate enough to find Tokyo after leaving San Francisco if you lost GPS, LORAN and all other forms of electronic navigation. I recall reading that the current generation would be off by no more than a mile on this voyage. Since the 1940's there is the DRT (Ded Reckoning Tracer) [No, "ded" is not misspelled - it is a shortening of "deductive"]. This device was on US Navy ships during WW II; like SINS it needs a starting location, but it then monitors ship's motion to project the course on a chart. It is still carried as backup. The "ded reckoning" part is because it cannot account for currents, so errors will accumulate, and it needs to be recalibrated using either landmarks or celestial navigation. It also needs to be recalibrated when you go off the edge of the current map. There are also classified VLF systems, used mostly by submarines. The point is any military service needs multiple backups. In spite of sophisticated telephone and data systems on modern ships, they all still have point-to-point sound powered phones and voice tubes.
I guess we will have to write apps that modify the userAgent string. I assume there is a way to do that in ios...I don't develop for ios since I am a cheap bastard who doesn't want to pay for their developer license and tools.
You can't modify the userAgent string in the built-in Safari. But there are several browser apps in the App Store that give you control over it. The only issue is that Safari is always the default browser if you click on a link in an app, email or text.
I'd rather think of them as the arms dealer who sells to both sides.
Good analogy. Time to see or re-read George Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara."
Except it's selling to all three sides. The consumer. The advertizer. The cellular carrier you pay for the bandwidth to download the ads. It's as bad as paying for incoming calls on a cell phone.
Maybe he's hoping the emails would be inadmissible in court because they were stolen, and possibly also intending to claim that they might have been tampered with or falsified. I don't like his chances of making that work, but that's the play, isn't it? Deny everything, speak to your lawyer, consider your options.
The problem is that in the lawyer letter he acknowledges sending the email. Not the brightest lawyer in the world.
I don't know if we ever will receive the precise details of this NSA operation, but I would still like to know:
1) How was the integrity of the shipping chain tainted? At which point NSA grabbed the devices and who allowed them to do this?
2) What does this "spyware" do, and does this mean a modified system firmware or something else?
Most of that is covered in Greenwald's book, and also in the NSA documents that have been released. The specific physical interception point is not described, but the modified firmware is. Once the router goes into service it "phones home" periodically and allows NSA to send monitoring instructions.
I just received a private communication from the moderator of a Google Group. He says that mail from Yahoo members is being blocked by Comcast and Yahoo. Now that it's Google's ox being gored perhaps something will be done about it.
The thing to do here is to fix the MLM software to use the correct additional headers, rather than rewriting the headers the DMARC policy feels are important; in addition, this would allow the DMARC policy to "whitelist" based on the attached headers, assuming everything else wasn't a black mark, and avoid the "greylisting" that would happen ordinarily with most SPAM filtering systems in "medium posture" rather than "low posture" (i.e. the ones that have the concept of "suspect email" as a middle ground).
I think you will find that most MLM software uses correct additional headers. At least listserv and mailman (for the lists that I manage) do. We've been playing nicely with ISPs for years on our lists, we create no spam (once we fixed the bounceback spam problem 3 years ago) and generally are among the more well-behaved email users around. The problem is that Yahoo's implementation of DMARC is not using the additional headers. All it looks at is From.
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Not anymore. The $29.00 battery deal was only for 2018.
Correct. The 2019 price is $49.00.
Speaking of politics, could somebody locate Ruth Bader Ginsburg's phone and see if it's at home, in the hospital, or already in the morgue. Inquiring minds would like to know.
You perhaps meant it as a joke. However, recently the NY Times posted a map of everywhere the mayor of NYC had traveled during the previous day, as a way of showing the risks of this technology. They did it by tracking an aide who travels everywhere with him.
Bullshit.
You are not that important. Unless you are a criminal, on the run from the police, there are no bounty hunters looking for you.
Bounty hunters aren't the only potential users of this "service." How about abusive spouses? Stalkers? terrorists?
I turn the radios OFF to conserve power. I need the power to log a 10h trip to a mountaintop and back. If the phone looks for wifi (or cell coverage) it depletes the batteries in 3h or so.
Absolute nonsense. WiFi uses no power when not connected. Yes, it looks for WiFi every 10 seconds or so, but that is a receiver only, and uses unmeasurably small amounts of energy. Cell coverage is a different story; if you don't have a connection it uses huge amounts of energy. The weaker the cell signals, the more energy.
You can turn it "off-ish".
Just wait until a plane "crashes-ish" from wireless interference.
Umm, where have you been for the past few years? Airlines now ENCOURAGE passengers to use WiFi on the plane, as part of their entertainment systems. And to access their overpriced in-flight Internet access. Up in the cockpit (where you would think there is a real chance of interference, if it wasn't a myth) the pilot and co-pilot use tablets (usually iPads) with WiFi connectivity on all the time. There never was an interference problem.
Yes, he is responsible for Jones Beach. But he also designed the highways to get to it for cars only, with underpasses too low for buses. Intentionally, to keep anyone who couldn't afford a car out. He intended it for middle class only, not "poor people".
Apparently it WAS off when it caught fire.
No that's called farming STDs.
These kids got off so easy, they made 600k in 2 years so it isn't hard to see how they made that whimsy 10k bond. And 30 day ban from the net. Just LOLs for these kids, now they have more street cred.
They haven't gotten off. They were arrested, posted bail, and had restrictions placed on them including the 30 day ban, lifting their passports and house arrest, presumably pending the next court appearance. There's more to come.
And he didn't consider that his AOL account was at risk, and didn't ask for guidance from the CIA's IT infrastructure? Then it's Brennan who is incompetent, and should resign.
While it is always worthwhile to prosecute the hacker, the real question is how is it possible that the Director of the CIA was hacked? Massive incompetence in the CIA is the only possible explanation.
The medium is the message
Credit card numbers are not on the Kindle. However, your Amazon user ID and passcode is. Which is actually worse.
The medium is the message
IBM has had a Minecraft admin console for WebSphere for several years.
US Navy ships (and most commercial ships) have multiple backup systems. One is the shipboard inertial navigation system (SINS), which is entirely self contained once you tell it your current location. It is accurate enough to find Tokyo after leaving San Francisco if you lost GPS, LORAN and all other forms of electronic navigation. I recall reading that the current generation would be off by no more than a mile on this voyage. Since the 1940's there is the DRT (Ded Reckoning Tracer) [No, "ded" is not misspelled - it is a shortening of "deductive"]. This device was on US Navy ships during WW II; like SINS it needs a starting location, but it then monitors ship's motion to project the course on a chart. It is still carried as backup. The "ded reckoning" part is because it cannot account for currents, so errors will accumulate, and it needs to be recalibrated using either landmarks or celestial navigation. It also needs to be recalibrated when you go off the edge of the current map. There are also classified VLF systems, used mostly by submarines. The point is any military service needs multiple backups. In spite of sophisticated telephone and data systems on modern ships, they all still have point-to-point sound powered phones and voice tubes.
OR, you can download a 3rd party browser from the app store that offers this feature.
I guess we will have to write apps that modify the userAgent string. I assume there is a way to do that in ios...I don't develop for ios since I am a cheap bastard who doesn't want to pay for their developer license and tools.
You can't modify the userAgent string in the built-in Safari. But there are several browser apps in the App Store that give you control over it. The only issue is that Safari is always the default browser if you click on a link in an app, email or text.
I'd rather think of them as the arms dealer who sells to both sides.
Good analogy. Time to see or re-read George Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara."
Except it's selling to all three sides. The consumer. The advertizer. The cellular carrier you pay for the bandwidth to download the ads. It's as bad as paying for incoming calls on a cell phone.
Maybe he's hoping the emails would be inadmissible in court because they were stolen, and possibly also intending to claim that they might have been tampered with or falsified. I don't like his chances of making that work, but that's the play, isn't it? Deny everything, speak to your lawyer, consider your options.
The problem is that in the lawyer letter he acknowledges sending the email. Not the brightest lawyer in the world.
- "This could happen on Android, Windows and Linux, not just on Apple!"
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Um, It HAS happened on Android also: Critical flaws in Apple & Samsung Devices
The tweet announcing his passing:
— Terry Pratchett (@terryandrob)
March 12, 2015
AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.
Wow, Gmail finally caught up with Hotmail. (That should stir the pot sufficiently.)
Caught up? gmail has offered 2 factor authentication for at least 5 years.
I don't know if we ever will receive the precise details of this NSA operation, but I would still like to know:
1) How was the integrity of the shipping chain tainted? At which point NSA grabbed the devices and who allowed them to do this?
2) What does this "spyware" do, and does this mean a modified system firmware or something else?
Most of that is covered in Greenwald's book, and also in the NSA documents that have been released. The specific physical interception point is not described, but the modified firmware is. Once the router goes into service it "phones home" periodically and allows NSA to send monitoring instructions.
I just received a private communication from the moderator of a Google Group. He says that mail from Yahoo members is being blocked by Comcast and Yahoo. Now that it's Google's ox being gored perhaps something will be done about it.
The thing to do here is to fix the MLM software to use the correct additional headers, rather than rewriting the headers the DMARC policy feels are important; in addition, this would allow the DMARC policy to "whitelist" based on the attached headers, assuming everything else wasn't a black mark, and avoid the "greylisting" that would happen ordinarily with most SPAM filtering systems in "medium posture" rather than "low posture" (i.e. the ones that have the concept of "suspect email" as a middle ground).
I think you will find that most MLM software uses correct additional headers. At least listserv and mailman (for the lists that I manage) do. We've been playing nicely with ISPs for years on our lists, we create no spam (once we fixed the bounceback spam problem 3 years ago) and generally are among the more well-behaved email users around. The problem is that Yahoo's implementation of DMARC is not using the additional headers. All it looks at is From.