Encryption isn't enough - encrypted communications stand out like a sore thumb as a sign you are hiding something, and the metadata alone can still be powerful if abused. To be truly effective, the encryption needs to be universal - so easy to use that even people who have no idea what encryption is still use it by default. When all the pictures of cats are encrypted, then it'll be all but impossible for any government to extract usable intelligence from the overwhelming flow of trivial noise.
Depends what you mean by 'truck.' I assumed they were going to use a large work van, not a giant container-moving vehicle. Those are harder to get, and generally (I'm not sure how it works in the US, but over here they do) need a specialist license. The obvious plan is to find a sizeable gathering of targets - some sort of festival or queue, perhaps - then park nearby with the Death Ray pointed at them. That way you can potentially get a few hours of exposure in. That done, move on to another city - travel the country, leaving a trail of cancer in your wake.
That works if you're only supporting technical staff. It's not much good when you're running a Helldesk in a non-IT-focused sector. The rest of the organisation may be the best in the world at whatever they are hired to do, but that doesn't mean they can work out which way up a DVD goes.
The time issue could be solved by planning. Watch the local mosques. Are there any which routinely have a queue outside? You don't want to just irradiate people to death, that gets you caught in short order, you just want to dose them enough that they come down with six types of cancer in a couple of years.
As for power, a quick google finds most portable generators are around two kilowatts. A death-ray-truck devoting half the space to the x-ray machine and HV power supply would still have room to cram in, say, a 2x2x3 stack - that gives you 24KW of power. Would that be sufficient? The team had engineering knowledge, so they could handle the task of bodging twelve out-of-phase generators together into one useable power source.
That, and 'the enemy of my enemy.' The religious aspect of the conflict around Israel comes down to Muslims vs Jews. Even if the conservatives aren't big fans of Jews, they detest Muslims - and that makes Jews their allies.
Why do you assume I had any particular example in mind? The world isn't as simple as the 'free world' vs 'oppressive dictatorships.' There's a bit of oppression in every government - they just vary in how much, and who it is pointed at.
That would only work if wikileaks were the 'official' reason he was wanted. Officially, he is a suspect in a rape(ish) investigation. Assange claims that this is really just a pretext, but what he claims doesn't matter: He'd need to get a judge to agree, and that's a big gamble.
Fugitive, yes. But remember that every oppressive dictatorship in history has carried out their purges and atrocities in the name of 'justice.' It is a very flexible concept. What one country considered justice, another may well consider crimes against humanity - and often the same is true with the roles reversed. He isn't hiding from the rape accusation* - he he hiding from the US (He believes Sweden to be acting as their proxy), and given their treatment of other people involved in high-profile leaks** it could certainly be argued that any paranoia he feels is justified.
If I believed the US were trying to extradite me in connection with a major leak, I'd be packing my bags and buying a train ticket as far as I could go by cash.
*It isn't rape exactly, but there is no precise equivilent in UK or US law, so 'rape' is close enough. A better translation might be 'sex by deception.'
**Manning, kept in solitary confinement for years without trial, then being tried at a secret court in which he isn't permitted to see the evidence presented against him.
No. The standard embassy deal covers only embassy ground and certain agreed-upon diplomatic staff (ie, if war breaks out, both sides agree to let the ambassadors for the other go home safely). Assange is not diplomatic staff, and thus cannot be transported. Even if he was, good luck getting clearance to fly. Right now the situation is stalemate: Assange cannot leave, and the UK government cannot enter.
I just looked up some Fortran code. It doesn't look very C-like. No semicolons, no curly braces, some functions take bracketed paramaters while others do not, and the example code on Wikipedia contains a lot of things that just make no sense to me. Like 'IF (IA) 777, 777, 701' - What does that do? There is no variable I can find called IA. It may be a good language once you've learned it, but it doesn't look remotely like C. If anything, I'd say it shows some simularity to BASIC.
I doubt they'd go for something so obvious. I've only heard of one specific case (on a documentary TV program), and their example as a phantom cul-de-sac on the map that didn't actually exist. Cul-de-sacs are ideal, as no-one is going to plot a route that passes through one.
Alternatively, you could write a piece of malware that snatches the books from all those it infects and sends back to your piracy collective. You get the books, someone else gets the blame, at least until the publisher realises what is going on.
It'd only be a criminal matter if someone tried to get the DMCA anti-circumvention measures or the NET act involved. Your basic copyright infringement is a civil matter, so the burden of proof is lower.
It'd be easy to make minor alterations to the text itsself. Perhaps a character can be described as dark-haired and wearing a red shirt in one version, but wearing a red shirt and dark-haired in another. Find 32 such places and you can identify four billion unique versions.
I've heard wonderful things about h265, but I consider it too immature just yet. Once it's ready, I'm sure the pirates will be among the first to adopt - they are always ahead of the curve when it comes to compression, and I'm sure the thought of 720p action movies in under two gig is going to make them very happy.
You'd need a distributed caching system too, otherwise you're going to find yourself inadvertently DDoSed if your pics go viral.
The real power of facebook isn't the hosting, it's the promotion. Simply putting the files up on a webserver somewhere isn't going to do any good if people don't go to look at them. Facebook makes that happen, alerting all of your friends (who may be far too numerous to email manually) of the new pics.
I recently tried to watch someone playing a game on a video streaming site. I tried to say something in the chat - and the site required I log in with Facebook.
I do not have a facebook account, I do not want a facebook account, and I plan never to have a facebook account. But it grows increasingly frustrating when every site on the internet seems to demand a facebook account for the most basic of functions.
Likewise for h264. I was thinking more archival purposes, where speed isn't important but storage is expensive. Once the film is made, you'll still want to keep all layers and masks around in case it needs altering in future for any reason, or to re-use in future projects and hope no-one notices.
That term is from the Declaration of Independance. While an important historical document, it doesn't have any legal power at all.
It's basically just a few influential people in the colony saying 'Fuck you, we're leaving' to the English government. In the impolitest possible manner.
The x64 Phi cards are a lot easier to program then GPUs. No need to jump through hoops with memory mapping, keep things in sync for SIMD processing or worry about running out of stack space when doing recursion.
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Pickup truck is no good - you couldn't conceal the Death Ray in an open-backed truck. A large van with PTO should be workable.
Also, hello NSA!
Encryption isn't enough - encrypted communications stand out like a sore thumb as a sign you are hiding something, and the metadata alone can still be powerful if abused. To be truly effective, the encryption needs to be universal - so easy to use that even people who have no idea what encryption is still use it by default. When all the pictures of cats are encrypted, then it'll be all but impossible for any government to extract usable intelligence from the overwhelming flow of trivial noise.
Depends what you mean by 'truck.' I assumed they were going to use a large work van, not a giant container-moving vehicle. Those are harder to get, and generally (I'm not sure how it works in the US, but over here they do) need a specialist license. The obvious plan is to find a sizeable gathering of targets - some sort of festival or queue, perhaps - then park nearby with the Death Ray pointed at them. That way you can potentially get a few hours of exposure in. That done, move on to another city - travel the country, leaving a trail of cancer in your wake.
That works if you're only supporting technical staff. It's not much good when you're running a Helldesk in a non-IT-focused sector. The rest of the organisation may be the best in the world at whatever they are hired to do, but that doesn't mean they can work out which way up a DVD goes.
The time issue could be solved by planning. Watch the local mosques. Are there any which routinely have a queue outside? You don't want to just irradiate people to death, that gets you caught in short order, you just want to dose them enough that they come down with six types of cancer in a couple of years.
As for power, a quick google finds most portable generators are around two kilowatts. A death-ray-truck devoting half the space to the x-ray machine and HV power supply would still have room to cram in, say, a 2x2x3 stack - that gives you 24KW of power. Would that be sufficient? The team had engineering knowledge, so they could handle the task of bodging twelve out-of-phase generators together into one useable power source.
That, and 'the enemy of my enemy.' The religious aspect of the conflict around Israel comes down to Muslims vs Jews. Even if the conservatives aren't big fans of Jews, they detest Muslims - and that makes Jews their allies.
Here in the UK, most of our terrorists for a long time were Irish.
Why do you assume I had any particular example in mind? The world isn't as simple as the 'free world' vs 'oppressive dictatorships.' There's a bit of oppression in every government - they just vary in how much, and who it is pointed at.
That would only work if wikileaks were the 'official' reason he was wanted. Officially, he is a suspect in a rape(ish) investigation. Assange claims that this is really just a pretext, but what he claims doesn't matter: He'd need to get a judge to agree, and that's a big gamble.
Fugitive, yes. But remember that every oppressive dictatorship in history has carried out their purges and atrocities in the name of 'justice.' It is a very flexible concept. What one country considered justice, another may well consider crimes against humanity - and often the same is true with the roles reversed. He isn't hiding from the rape accusation* - he he hiding from the US (He believes Sweden to be acting as their proxy), and given their treatment of other people involved in high-profile leaks** it could certainly be argued that any paranoia he feels is justified.
If I believed the US were trying to extradite me in connection with a major leak, I'd be packing my bags and buying a train ticket as far as I could go by cash.
*It isn't rape exactly, but there is no precise equivilent in UK or US law, so 'rape' is close enough. A better translation might be 'sex by deception.'
**Manning, kept in solitary confinement for years without trial, then being tried at a secret court in which he isn't permitted to see the evidence presented against him.
No. The standard embassy deal covers only embassy ground and certain agreed-upon diplomatic staff (ie, if war breaks out, both sides agree to let the ambassadors for the other go home safely). Assange is not diplomatic staff, and thus cannot be transported. Even if he was, good luck getting clearance to fly. Right now the situation is stalemate: Assange cannot leave, and the UK government cannot enter.
" like having baked in hardware crypto support"
I was very disappointed indeed to learn the Atom in my router does not have this.
I just looked up some Fortran code. It doesn't look very C-like. No semicolons, no curly braces, some functions take bracketed paramaters while others do not, and the example code on Wikipedia contains a lot of things that just make no sense to me. Like 'IF (IA) 777, 777, 701' - What does that do? There is no variable I can find called IA. It may be a good language once you've learned it, but it doesn't look remotely like C. If anything, I'd say it shows some simularity to BASIC.
I doubt they'd go for something so obvious. I've only heard of one specific case (on a documentary TV program), and their example as a phantom cul-de-sac on the map that didn't actually exist. Cul-de-sacs are ideal, as no-one is going to plot a route that passes through one.
So much like music, a tiny fraction of superstars gain fame and fortune while the vast majority toil away in relative obscurity.
Alternatively, you could write a piece of malware that snatches the books from all those it infects and sends back to your piracy collective. You get the books, someone else gets the blame, at least until the publisher realises what is going on.
We've had a perfect programming language since C.
That's why everything since has copied the syntax and half the operators.
It'd only be a criminal matter if someone tried to get the DMCA anti-circumvention measures or the NET act involved. Your basic copyright infringement is a civil matter, so the burden of proof is lower.
It'd be easy to make minor alterations to the text itsself. Perhaps a character can be described as dark-haired and wearing a red shirt in one version, but wearing a red shirt and dark-haired in another. Find 32 such places and you can identify four billion unique versions.
I've heard wonderful things about h265, but I consider it too immature just yet. Once it's ready, I'm sure the pirates will be among the first to adopt - they are always ahead of the curve when it comes to compression, and I'm sure the thought of 720p action movies in under two gig is going to make them very happy.
You'd need a distributed caching system too, otherwise you're going to find yourself inadvertently DDoSed if your pics go viral.
The real power of facebook isn't the hosting, it's the promotion. Simply putting the files up on a webserver somewhere isn't going to do any good if people don't go to look at them. Facebook makes that happen, alerting all of your friends (who may be far too numerous to email manually) of the new pics.
I recently tried to watch someone playing a game on a video streaming site. I tried to say something in the chat - and the site required I log in with Facebook.
I do not have a facebook account, I do not want a facebook account, and I plan never to have a facebook account. But it grows increasingly frustrating when every site on the internet seems to demand a facebook account for the most basic of functions.
Likewise for h264. I was thinking more archival purposes, where speed isn't important but storage is expensive. Once the film is made, you'll still want to keep all layers and masks around in case it needs altering in future for any reason, or to re-use in future projects and hope no-one notices.
That term is from the Declaration of Independance. While an important historical document, it doesn't have any legal power at all.
It's basically just a few influential people in the colony saying 'Fuck you, we're leaving' to the English government. In the impolitest possible manner.
The x64 Phi cards are a lot easier to program then GPUs. No need to jump through hoops with memory mapping, keep things in sync for SIMD processing or worry about running out of stack space when doing recursion.