At a guess, the building may well have a giant faraday cage. Not for EMP protection, but to prevent spying. A good cage will make it very hard for any bugs inside to get a signal to a listener outside. I used to be possible to spy on computers through their radio emissions too - the CRT monitors put out enough information to reconstruct the image on the screen - but that doesn't work with TFT displays.
It's supposed to block only child pornography websites. There was that incident a while back when it blocked a part of wikipedia due to an overzealous operator deciding one of the images could be considered child porn. The incident also revealed that when Cleanfeed blocks a site, some ISPs return a spoofed 404 message rather than a notice explaining the block, so if they were to block a smaller legitimate site is is likely they would never be caught: Those prevented from accessing it would just assume the site to be down or removed.
Depends on the provider. Some mobile operators will unblock it on request and proof of age, others require you to jump through a few hoops. I'm with Vodaphone, and they allow the block to be removed via their website. I had to jump through only two hoops: Firstly, to dig up my contract papers and some numbers on them (fortunatly I kept those). Secondly, they needed a credit card to prove age, and even though I am over eighteen I posess only a debit card which they deem insufficient. So I had to borrow someone else's card. I've heard stories from others reporting either easier or more difficult experiences, so it does vary.
Like all the best lies, a grain of truth can be found. Mohammed probably did have sex with a ten year old (give or take a year), but by the standards of the time and region that wasn't outragiously young. Eyebrow-raisingly young, yes, but not outragious, and even that was a political marriage, and he put off the consumation for a few years. Similarily, pedophiles tend not to overly care about the gender of their victim (No secondary sexual characteristics, after all) so if you just count any man molesting a boy as a homosexual, it looks on first glance as if homosexuals are inclined to rape children. On further examination though, most of those men molesting boys are completly straight when it comes to their adult relationships: Their victim was chosen based on accessibility.
The fact that MRI machines operate using a crazy-strong magnetic field. If you have a small magnet embedded in you, it's going to exert considerable force in an effort to become de-embedded. If you're lucky it won't tear a hole in anything vital on the way out.
In our case, our menus are only three layers deep. We arrange them like that. All programs->Group->Program. The availability of groups is set by user type.
The menus cause no end of trouble for me in tech support. One of our standard repair procedures is the profile reset, and a side-effect of that is to reset the start menu to default. So often after a reset we get panicked calls along the lines of 'Word isn't installed any more!" Then someone has to go down to show the user in person where it is.
No, I mean it has to be configured into the firewall at both ends. P2P clients just use the system library for TCP connections, so it has to be done at a lower level.
The TPM is an Intel feature. It started off as rather evil - intended to serve as both a crypto accelerator, machine ID and enabler for hardware-based DRM measures like disabling the machine if it detected an unauthorised OS. Same as Microsoft's Secure Boot will. It got watered down in implimentation though, so all that's left is a secret key store and crypto-accelerator. No more cryptographic signing of the OS bootloader. At least not until MS brings it back with Secure Boot.
Windows, linux... doesn't matter much, because the biggest weaknesses aren't in the OS. They are in the user ("This popup says I have a virus! I'd better install this antivirus program it tells me to get.") and in applications. The most the OS can do against those is give a warning when a program tries to alter something not user-specific, but given that the user is the problem they'll just click yes every time.
I read as far as where the article says "Our own Jon Honeyball has argued that it “isn’t reasonable for the majority of PC users to have to put up with unsecured booting, simply because an alternative OS vendor can’t be bothered to go down the same route”."
Then I stopped reading in disgust. Some people just don't get it.
That was the original plan. Microsoft made one player themself, the Zune, as a brand leader but the plan was always for more hardware-orientated companies to take up the technology. Likewise Microsoft set up a music store, but they planned for distributors to license the technology from them in the long term. MS had no intention of turning into a hardware or media company. The big flaw in their plan was Apple: They just couldn't compete with a successful and well-established company with a vast installed base of media players and an existing music store with name recognition.
It's possible to disrupt TCP using only a stateless filter by injecting RST packets (The Great Firewall of China uses this technique to perform keyword-triggered blocking on websites). You still need interception capability, but I'm sure plenty of ISPs would be happy to cooperate on that.
Doing that would require one of two things: A mathematical supergenius, or the most powerful supercomputer ever built. I doubt they have access to either of those. I'm guessing that this is just a refinement and repackaging of some more classic attacks. I doubt anything more sophisticated than a tarpit source.
And with Avengers targeted square at the teens-to-twenties male geek demographic, it should be prime for pirating. If piracy can ruin the success of any film, it should be that one.
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At a guess, the building may well have a giant faraday cage. Not for EMP protection, but to prevent spying. A good cage will make it very hard for any bugs inside to get a signal to a listener outside. I used to be possible to spy on computers through their radio emissions too - the CRT monitors put out enough information to reconstruct the image on the screen - but that doesn't work with TFT displays.
It's supposed to block only child pornography websites. There was that incident a while back when it blocked a part of wikipedia due to an overzealous operator deciding one of the images could be considered child porn. The incident also revealed that when Cleanfeed blocks a site, some ISPs return a spoofed 404 message rather than a notice explaining the block, so if they were to block a smaller legitimate site is is likely they would never be caught: Those prevented from accessing it would just assume the site to be down or removed.
Depends on the provider. Some mobile operators will unblock it on request and proof of age, others require you to jump through a few hoops. I'm with Vodaphone, and they allow the block to be removed via their website. I had to jump through only two hoops: Firstly, to dig up my contract papers and some numbers on them (fortunatly I kept those). Secondly, they needed a credit card to prove age, and even though I am over eighteen I posess only a debit card which they deem insufficient. So I had to borrow someone else's card. I've heard stories from others reporting either easier or more difficult experiences, so it does vary.
Like all the best lies, a grain of truth can be found. Mohammed probably did have sex with a ten year old (give or take a year), but by the standards of the time and region that wasn't outragiously young. Eyebrow-raisingly young, yes, but not outragious, and even that was a political marriage, and he put off the consumation for a few years. Similarily, pedophiles tend not to overly care about the gender of their victim (No secondary sexual characteristics, after all) so if you just count any man molesting a boy as a homosexual, it looks on first glance as if homosexuals are inclined to rape children. On further examination though, most of those men molesting boys are completly straight when it comes to their adult relationships: Their victim was chosen based on accessibility.
The fact that MRI machines operate using a crazy-strong magnetic field. If you have a small magnet embedded in you, it's going to exert considerable force in an effort to become de-embedded. If you're lucky it won't tear a hole in anything vital on the way out.
I've not even heard of one of these bootloader-trapping rootkits ever being used outside of a lab. Proof-of-concepts, yes, but actual attack tools?
In our case, our menus are only three layers deep. We arrange them like that. All programs->Group->Program. The availability of groups is set by user type.
The menus cause no end of trouble for me in tech support. One of our standard repair procedures is the profile reset, and a side-effect of that is to reset the start menu to default. So often after a reset we get panicked calls along the lines of 'Word isn't installed any more!" Then someone has to go down to show the user in person where it is.
No, I mean it has to be configured into the firewall at both ends. P2P clients just use the system library for TCP connections, so it has to be done at a lower level.
The TPM is an Intel feature. It started off as rather evil - intended to serve as both a crypto accelerator, machine ID and enabler for hardware-based DRM measures like disabling the machine if it detected an unauthorised OS. Same as Microsoft's Secure Boot will. It got watered down in implimentation though, so all that's left is a secret key store and crypto-accelerator. No more cryptographic signing of the OS bootloader. At least not until MS brings it back with Secure Boot.
Windows, linux... doesn't matter much, because the biggest weaknesses aren't in the OS. They are in the user ("This popup says I have a virus! I'd better install this antivirus program it tells me to get.") and in applications. The most the OS can do against those is give a warning when a program tries to alter something not user-specific, but given that the user is the problem they'll just click yes every time.
The odd-even rule. Not just for star trek.
I read as far as where the article says "Our own Jon Honeyball has argued that it “isn’t reasonable for the majority of PC users to have to put up with unsecured booting, simply because an alternative OS vendor can’t be bothered to go down the same route”."
Then I stopped reading in disgust. Some people just don't get it.
Easy enough, yes, but it has to be done by both ends.
It's only illegal if you get caught. I'm sure Pirate Pay will keep their customer list strictly confidential.
There is a simple solution to that. It's called 'Russia.' The country is quite well-known for very lax enforcement of computer crime laws.
That was the original plan. Microsoft made one player themself, the Zune, as a brand leader but the plan was always for more hardware-orientated companies to take up the technology. Likewise Microsoft set up a music store, but they planned for distributors to license the technology from them in the long term. MS had no intention of turning into a hardware or media company. The big flaw in their plan was Apple: They just couldn't compete with a successful and well-established company with a vast installed base of media players and an existing music store with name recognition.
This is IP based, not DNS, so you can't use /etc/hosts. Filtering would have to be done using iptables, or whatever the equivilent is on OSX.
It's possible to disrupt TCP using only a stateless filter by injecting RST packets (The Great Firewall of China uses this technique to perform keyword-triggered blocking on websites). You still need interception capability, but I'm sure plenty of ISPs would be happy to cooperate on that.
The introduction of spoofed files was defeated by a switch to link sites. First using ed2k links, and later torrents.
Doing that would require one of two things: A mathematical supergenius, or the most powerful supercomputer ever built. I doubt they have access to either of those. I'm guessing that this is just a refinement and repackaging of some more classic attacks. I doubt anything more sophisticated than a tarpit source.
And with Avengers targeted square at the teens-to-twenties male geek demographic, it should be prime for pirating. If piracy can ruin the success of any film, it should be that one.
For that reason, I'm sure Microsoft would rather people pirate Windows than use a competitor.
IKEA never needs a wrench. It usually needs a hex key.
They don't use that any more, though every now and again I see a story that makes me wish they'd bring it back when appropriate.