If you can tap into/analyze the internet backbones (as the NSA can) then Tor isn't very anonymous. They can track packets and figure out who's really connected to who even though the packets are relayed.
I don't know if this can easily be fixed, but now would be the time to do it.
They can't identify EVERYONE, and they cannot identify anyone in real time.
The names of informants in foreign governments - especially dictatorships like North Korea.
Unlikely, Snowden only has access to NSA documents, and the NSA being a SIGINT and COMINT service probably doesn't have "informers".
Specific individuals that we know are terrorists, and who the U.S. is tracking right now (hoping to catch bigger fish).
Also unlikely, cases where names are specifcally mentioned will under most circumstances be so highly compatmentalized that it's highly unlikely that it would even be possible to get those names easily. Even more unlikely that someone like Snowden could get his hands on them without it being known the moment he tried to access them.
Technologies now considered "safe" for foreign spies, terrorists, and criminals to use - but have actually been hacked.
Profound vulnerabilities in our embassy/military-base defenses that penetration testing found but are too expensive to fix.
Anything that would otherwise cause people to die.
This one I buy, this sounds more like the kinda thing someone like Snowden would be able to get his hands on.
No matter what you think about who it was who killed Kennedy, one thing for sure is that there was a conspiracy to obfuscate all of the facts about the assassination.
Oswald may well have acted alone, on his own initiative. In that case, the real conspiracy happened over the course of the next twenty years. The question is, why was there such an effort to confuse the whole story? To create confusion and doubt in the minds of Americans?
Actually, there's a fair deal of evidece coming out of now open or leaked KGB documents that the KGB (amongst others, probably) were all fairly interested in feeding the conspiracy, they had a whole department whose task it was to create and disemminate false documents; everything from fake intelligence documents to fake news stories like this one.
I have the actual source references at home, but I don'thave access to them at the point of writing, but you should be able to dig them up. Fun fact the KGB were also interested in UFO stories, mainly cus' back in the cold war stories of flying saucers could tie up airforce resources like nothing else. You kinda have to take "there is something in the skies" quite serious when you're living in a world where "surprise nuclear air/missile strike" is a real possible occurance.
**my comment was about the reality of what Silk Road is and how pretending its anything else hurts our profession!!!!!**
Who is pretending Silk Road didn't sell drugs? Haven't seen anyone say "Silk Road didn't sell drugs". At best I've seen people say "Silk Road sold OTHER stuff too."
You, and whoever modded me as "-1 Flamebait" is putting words in my mouth
I said Silk Road was for drugs and Bitcoin is how you pay for them....**THATS TRUE**
Aight...yes Silk Road Was a place for buying drugs and bitcoins were how you paid for them, that is true. Noone ever said that Silk Road didn't sell drugs or that you didn't pay for said drugs with BTC, so, what's your point?
I mean saying that you buy drugs on SR and pay with BTC is just stating already known facts you aren't really making any point.
I don't think that anyone thinks that Silk Road was innocent, I mean the admin was obviously raking in tons of cash on commisons from the illegal transactions going through SR and there is no way in hell that he wasn't aware what his site was being used for.
However, I fail to see how what SR was using BTC for says anything about Bitcoin other than "it was used". If you are trying to make it seem like Bitcoin is somehow inherently bad because it was used to pay for drugs, that same logic sould apply to any other currency curretly in use.
Yes, you paid for drugs with BTC when you used SR, that's just stating the obvious.
tl;dr: Silk Road is for illegal drugs & Bitcoin is how you pay for them
So the fact you can pay for drugs and other illegal things means we should ban it or at the very least treat it as extremely suspect?
Alright.
Let's do the same to the dollar, the Euro and ruple. I am fairly certain that more drugs and illegal things get bought for those in an hour than gets bought with BTC for an entire day.
Let's ban the dollar, c'mon, seriously, let's do it.
First off, how do you know my ancestors weren't nazis?
Second off, it's cute how you Americans still think you and not the whole "War on two fronts"-thing Hitler pulled won the war.
You guys do realize that without the Eastern front and The Germans throwing away most of their airforce on The battle of Britain, chances are that The Nazis would have kicked everyone's ass, right?
I'm quite certain the Native Americans would love to have their country back and see all the descendants of those assholes who slaughtered their people and took their land deported. I wouldn't hold my breath on that readmission line moving too fast, though.
Problem with that is: We Europeans don't want all those Americans coming over here.
Not everyone who gets addicted to opiates start out with the needle or choosing they want to take the drug for fun. There are people who get prescribed opiate based painkillers, get hooked while in treatment, then continue using after the prescription runs out. They then have to source their opiates from a street dealer who might at one point offer heroin as an alternative to oxy-whatever.
BIOS password would still improve security. It would take more time for the attacker to open the case, find the location of the reset pins and then reset the CMOS settings and close the case. If the attacker is only after the low-hanging fruit, he might not bother to even do open the machine and go away. Or maybe the attacker does not even know that you could reset the p/w by shorting out a couple of pins.
So, even if some security feature isn't perfect, it might add some extra obstacles to the attacker, which is a still good thing.
You don't really need to find the CMOS reset jumper, just yank the battery from the mobo and the thing will reset as well. Sure, the computer will throw up a warning next time you boot it, but many computers will do that too if you reset the BIOS via the switch.
You kind of hit on it, but altitude has little-to-nothing to do with it (except if it's high enough, you will never hear it).
it.
But it kind of does, remember that the speed of sound (depending on temperature, pressure and moisture in the air, of course) is about 340.29 m/s, so if the plane is, let's say, 680.58 meters up in the air, the sound will take 2 seconds to reach you, now if the plane is moving, let's say, 300 m/s it'll have passed you before the sound actually makes it to you, despite not actually being supersonic.
In some cases if a plane is high enough and fast enough, the sound from it wont have time to travel that far ahead of it and thus it and the sound of it arrive pretty close together.
I've seen it with fighter jets, it's completely silent, then just as the thing passes over or near you you get that awesome engine sound. Not a sonic boom, mind you, but still loud as fuck if they're low enough.
And what has it been doing for the last 20 years? then again i didnt RTFA
F-117, B-2, remote sensing gear for arms control/inspection, The Predator and global hawk drones, NERVA Rockets and probably those fancy stealth modified Black Hawks from Neptune Spear and comms and radar gear.
Just your average run-of-the-mill secret aerospace stuff.
As you can see their very few terroristic attacks to Russia or china.
First of all: "there're" not "their"
Secondly: Just 'cause you don't hear about them doesn't mean there there aren't any of those happening. Try looking up the Dubrovka Theater, tell me there isn't terror in Russia. Thing is Russia and China just like to hush up stuff like this, makes it much easier to respond with insane force.
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If you can tap into/analyze the internet backbones (as the NSA can) then Tor isn't very anonymous. They can track packets and figure out who's really connected to who even though the packets are relayed.
I don't know if this can easily be fixed, but now would be the time to do it.
They can't identify EVERYONE, and they cannot identify anyone in real time.
Apparently also pushed white supremacist groups, believing that the US was on the brink of a race war.
Yup, you can do all sortsa things if you're a little clever about your black (no pun intended) propaganda.
It doesn't matter. Signals intelligence is useless except against the little people.
Make that SPECIFIC people and I agree.
SIGINT on a huge scale and for predictive purposes is basically useless.
The names of informants in foreign governments - especially dictatorships like North Korea.
Unlikely, Snowden only has access to NSA documents, and the NSA being a SIGINT and COMINT service probably doesn't have "informers".
Specific individuals that we know are terrorists, and who the U.S. is tracking right now (hoping to catch bigger fish).
Also unlikely, cases where names are specifcally mentioned will under most circumstances be so highly compatmentalized that it's highly unlikely that it would even be possible to get those names easily. Even more unlikely that someone like Snowden could get his hands on them without it being known the moment he tried to access them.
Technologies now considered "safe" for foreign spies, terrorists, and criminals to use - but have actually been hacked.
Profound vulnerabilities in our embassy/military-base defenses that penetration testing found but are too expensive to fix.
Anything that would otherwise cause people to die.
This one I buy, this sounds more like the kinda thing someone like Snowden would be able to get his hands on.
Where did he [Oswald] train?
The military.
No matter what you think about who it was who killed Kennedy, one thing for sure is that there was a conspiracy to obfuscate all of the facts about the assassination.
Oswald may well have acted alone, on his own initiative. In that case, the real conspiracy happened over the course of the next twenty years. The question is, why was there such an effort to confuse the whole story? To create confusion and doubt in the minds of Americans?
Actually, there's a fair deal of evidece coming out of now open or leaked KGB documents that the KGB (amongst others, probably) were all fairly interested in feeding the conspiracy, they had a whole department whose task it was to create and disemminate false documents; everything from fake intelligence documents to fake news stories like this one.
I have the actual source references at home, but I don'thave access to them at the point of writing, but you should be able to dig them up. Fun fact the KGB were also interested in UFO stories, mainly cus' back in the cold war stories of flying saucers could tie up airforce resources like nothing else. You kinda have to take "there is something in the skies" quite serious when you're living in a world where "surprise nuclear air/missile strike" is a real possible occurance.
**my comment was about the reality of what Silk Road is and how pretending its anything else hurts our profession!!!!!**
Who is pretending Silk Road didn't sell drugs? Haven't seen anyone say "Silk Road didn't sell drugs". At best I've seen people say "Silk Road sold OTHER stuff too."
Also: What proffession?
You, and whoever modded me as "-1 Flamebait" is putting words in my mouth
I said Silk Road was for drugs and Bitcoin is how you pay for them....**THATS TRUE**
Aight...yes Silk Road Was a place for buying drugs and bitcoins were how you paid for them, that is true. Noone ever said that Silk Road didn't sell drugs or that you didn't pay for said drugs with BTC, so, what's your point?
I mean saying that you buy drugs on SR and pay with BTC is just stating already known facts you aren't really making any point.
I don't think that anyone thinks that Silk Road was innocent, I mean the admin was obviously raking in tons of cash on commisons from the illegal transactions going through SR and there is no way in hell that he wasn't aware what his site was being used for.
However, I fail to see how what SR was using BTC for says anything about Bitcoin other than "it was used". If you are trying to make it seem like Bitcoin is somehow inherently bad because it was used to pay for drugs, that same logic sould apply to any other currency curretly in use.
Yes, you paid for drugs with BTC when you used SR, that's just stating the obvious.
So make a point.
tl;dr: Silk Road is for illegal drugs & Bitcoin is how you pay for them
So the fact you can pay for drugs and other illegal things means we should ban it or at the very least treat it as extremely suspect?
Alright.
Let's do the same to the dollar, the Euro and ruple. I am fairly certain that more drugs and illegal things get bought for those in an hour than gets bought with BTC for an entire day.
Let's ban the dollar, c'mon, seriously, let's do it.
Surely, there is a very simple method to do something about it.
When the state oversteps its boundary, it is time to replace the state. If not in orderly fashion, then with force. It is called revolution.
Welcome to the NSA watch list.
Seriously...you think my post was informative? You guys are weird...
Indeed. But which one?
Er...The supremest one I guess. I don't know the American Legal system, being not american and all that.
Winning? You'll be hard pressed to find a court that will even accept jurisdiction over the case.
Isn't it technically the job of the Supreme Court to handle cases like these?
Surely, there is a very simple method to do something about it.
When the state oversteps its boundary, it is time to replace the state. If not in orderly fashion, then with force. It is called revolution.
Welcome to the NSA watch list.
Your maternal ancestors didn't say that ~1945.
First off, how do you know my ancestors weren't nazis?
Second off, it's cute how you Americans still think you and not the whole "War on two fronts"-thing Hitler pulled won the war.
You guys do realize that without the Eastern front and The Germans throwing away most of their airforce on The battle of Britain, chances are that The Nazis would have kicked everyone's ass, right?
Great idea!
I'm quite certain the Native Americans would love to have their country back and see all the descendants of those assholes who slaughtered their people and took their land deported. I wouldn't hold my breath on that readmission line moving too fast, though.
Problem with that is: We Europeans don't want all those Americans coming over here.
Huh...
They invented the rat thing.
Though admittedly a huge, noisy, much slower and significantly less radioactive rat thing.
Still though...
Not everyone who gets addicted to opiates start out with the needle or choosing they want to take the drug for fun. There are people who get prescribed opiate based painkillers, get hooked while in treatment, then continue using after the prescription runs out. They then have to source their opiates from a street dealer who might at one point offer heroin as an alternative to oxy-whatever.
Exactly what effect do mass protests even have?
"Mass" has a whole different meaning when you're talking about china, there's a lot of chinese people.
BIOS password would still improve security. It would take more time for the attacker to open the case, find the location of the reset pins and then reset the CMOS settings and close the case. If the attacker is only after the low-hanging fruit, he might not bother to even do open the machine and go away. Or maybe the attacker does not even know that you could reset the p/w by shorting out a couple of pins.
So, even if some security feature isn't perfect, it might add some extra obstacles to the attacker, which is a still good thing.
You don't really need to find the CMOS reset jumper, just yank the battery from the mobo and the thing will reset as well. Sure, the computer will throw up a warning next time you boot it, but many computers will do that too if you reset the BIOS via the switch.
You kind of hit on it, but altitude has little-to-nothing to do with it (except if it's high enough, you will never hear it).
it.
But it kind of does, remember that the speed of sound (depending on temperature, pressure and moisture in the air, of course) is about 340.29 m/s, so if the plane is, let's say, 680.58 meters up in the air, the sound will take 2 seconds to reach you, now if the plane is moving, let's say, 300 m/s it'll have passed you before the sound actually makes it to you, despite not actually being supersonic.
In some cases if a plane is high enough and fast enough, the sound from it wont have time to travel that far ahead of it and thus it and the sound of it arrive pretty close together.
I've seen it with fighter jets, it's completely silent, then just as the thing passes over or near you you get that awesome engine sound. Not a sonic boom, mind you, but still loud as fuck if they're low enough.
And what has it been doing for the last 20 years? then again i didnt RTFA
F-117, B-2, remote sensing gear for arms control/inspection, The Predator and global hawk drones, NERVA Rockets and probably those fancy stealth modified Black Hawks from Neptune Spear and comms and radar gear.
Just your average run-of-the-mill secret aerospace stuff.
If they don't... what's cheaper than Windows 8?
A pirated version of Win8?
Well yeah, but these aren't weapons.
As you can see their very few terroristic attacks to Russia or china.
First of all: "there're" not "their"
Secondly: Just 'cause you don't hear about them doesn't mean there there aren't any of those happening. Try looking up the Dubrovka Theater, tell me there isn't terror in Russia.
Thing is Russia and China just like to hush up stuff like this, makes it much easier to respond with insane force.