Not as much ignoring as in maybe preoccupied in other things, like that Sukhoi chasing him and SAMs firing big explodey things at him... at those points in time even fighter pilots might not realize that he's headed to a big fat mountain real fast.
Ehm, wouldn't that still enable identification via fingerprint? Get the prints off a drinking glass, measure the points, input the data, and see if the hash matches one stored in the database?
Ah, xrandr... the GUI version of it in Kubuntu doesn't let me stretch my desktop, only mirror it. It doesn't let me choose 85Hz for 1280x1024 in the GUI, although that works in Windows. Solution? Edit xorg.conf to manually add a modeline, and after learning the syntax for xrandr, I have to invoke it to activate the ext. monitor at that mode, and then to do a stretch, and then to make the built-in LCD my primary screen (because the ext. monitor is the 1st listed interface, and some component (probably xrandr) thinks it means it has to move the taskbar there.
Well, making the downloads fail is a bit dumb, they should just intercept the HTTP-download request for the original torrent file, parse the file, and serve up the rick_roll.avi.torrent with the filename replaced with the file the downloader wanted (so it'll be called family.guy.s8e12.avi, but only 50MB big and contain Rick Astley). And maybe a readme.txt if you want to scare them...
Also, presumably people can't jot down their notes or use a highlighter (the real world kind) on this fancy paper, because the printer wouldn't be able to erase them?
Hmm, maybe they can invent a heat-pen.. and use different temperatures for different pixels (of differing colors). That would be a neat, although useless, invention.
I used Aardvark for a few weeks, and the majority of the questions were of the type that could be answered with lmgtfy.com/... ("let me google that for you..."). The amount of clueless morons on the internet is...
Reminds me of a great anecdote from Opera, the other great browser maker. For some reason they also have a blog and gallery hosting services, and they needed to get more servers. So they asked a few big server-selling hardware companies to make their bids. Testing one test server from one of those companies involved logging into a web interface, so one higher-up loaded up the web interface URL, and since this is Opera, of course they used their in-house browser... which the web interface promptly rejected with a "This browser is not supported" message.
Anyway, GHz and MB/s are cheap and fast nowadays, I wonder what's preventing people from downloading and installing Firefox/Firefox Portable, and for website makers to offer such links...
Presumably a good physical firewall would detect such strange connections. Except when the spy chip in your computer says to the firewall, "I work for the Chinese Govt [or whomever], let me through", and the spy-chip in the firewall would then reply, "Go right ahead!". Your ISP's router might detect such traffic though -- except when it's also involved. Alternatively, your WiFi chip is telling you it's deactivated, but how would you know if it's being honest?:) -- maybe it goes looking for spy-friendly access points that says it has WPA2, but when it sees traffic from particular MACs (which is of course not the same MAC as the one being displayed by your OS), it lets such traffic through. Or even simpler, maybe they all have Power Line Ethernet, hahaha. (Doesn't the USA need to upgrade its power distribution system, and when it does that, can you guess which country's chips will be a part of the new system?)
At this point I'd say that's just tin-foil hat stuff, no way they've managed to do something like this without any word of it getting out...
Google has always been able to use the things people are looking up for evil: if someone using Apple's IP googles a particular microchip's specs, you might infer from that that they might be thinking of using that chip soon.
How about a Chinese IP googling "openssl 0.9.6 exploit".. especially if that IP was just visiting www.$SOMESITE.gov, where the HTTP-headers mention it's using "openssl-0.9.6". Or a Saudi Arabian IP googling for flight info inside the US, and a few seconds later, a Yemeni IP opening up the same URL (hmm, although without that site's cooperation, the NSA won't be able to see that, or are they..?)
Such powers would be interesting, for the wielder. Not so much for victims of its inevitable abuse.
Annoying design trade-off, fetching all images specified in CSS will waste a lot of bandwidth, sure for a lot of desktop people bandwidth is fast and cheap, but mobile and modem users might not like the idea that much. (In Australia they still have x GB monthly limits on broadband!).
Also, I can foresee another trick: ok, the browser fetches all images, rendering my log examination useless. So now I can write a Javascript function that checks whether a particular element has this particular background image, and if so make an AJAX request to my log recording script. Boom, problem (from the marketer's point of view) solved!
Indeed, this is a nightmare. Perhaps a browser can ask "This website would like to gain access to your visited links information. Allow this? [Yes/No/Always/Never]", argh I'd hate to be the one who has to implement a feature that asks this question without nagging the user too much...
Hear hear! I was disappointed that it was basically an iPhone with a bigger screen, with most of the presentation showing off the GUI of the apps they made... yeah, umm, multi-touch was neat 2 years ago? And still no task-switcher, i.e. no visible signs of multi-tasking capabilities? Screw that.
Let's see if the jailbreak community manages to fix that, although first we have to see if the hackerscan find a usable exploit on the device. Newer models of the 3GS still doesn't have the untethered jailbreak; if they get switched off, you have to plug them into a computer and send them a "boot!" command before they will boot up properly...
Actually I'm quite amazed at Steve Jobs. He brought the era of desktop computing to the masses, and when they kicked him out of his own company, he founded NeXT and built an OS so good there that the company that kicked him out asked him to return, with said OS in hand, that would be further developed as OS X. How did he not suffer second system syndrome and still manage to ship something so polished? It's more of a management skill I guess, and perhaps of designing a system so forward-looking, it is simple to improve.
But Systems 8 and 9 were quite the pain for end-users, and perhaps an expulsion of a good team from Apple, plus money, to make whatever they want, was the best idea, because otherwise they would be stuck trying to make their legacy OSes modern.
There's a few ISS tour videos on YouTube, and you can see they have dozens (!) of Lenovo ThinkPad laptops up there. Presumably they can just simply run a mail server on one of them, if not in native Linux then on CoLinux or a VM. They even have a W-LAN Access Point.
Ah, then again, there's no room for an IT expert up there is there, so someone on the planet still has to do troubleshooting for regular users who just happen to be astronauts, so they'd want to make it as simple as possible for them. (Hmm if that's the case, wouldn't SSH be the best answer?)
Maybe it's the hyper-clean parents that's made weak pussy-assed children.
Or maybe back in the day, children just died earlier from peanut allergies without parents knowing why and that's why you never met such kids at school.
Since the idea of the hardware fob is that it's hard to reverse-engineer, why are they providing the same solution as software for phones? What's stopping a good enough hacker to run gdb on the iPhone or a J2ME simulator and to reverse-engineer the authenticator algorithm?
Interestingly my local (German) bank introduced one-time cards for money withdrawal from their ATMs, it's for large withdrawals that might go over the normal card limit; the way it works is the cashier encodes the amount of money the card will spit out (taken from your account) and probably your account number onto the magnetic stripe*, then you take the card to one of the machines, stick it in, and it spits out the money. You then get the card back and you can throw it away or put it in a collection box. Presumably they are reusable; just put new data and the next customer can use the card.
Unfortunately the stupidly paranoid users think they have to destroy the card, lest some other person take the card and put it in the machine and get the account holder's money. How dumb do you think the banks are, of course such a transaction is not possible!
Thus, the end result is reusable cards (for one-time transactions) end up becoming one-time use cards.
Just thought I'd share an anecdote about how the new way is being used incorrectly.
* or maybe the cashier just associates the card-id with your account and an amount, when the ATM sees the ID it queries the system "from what account shall I withdraw what amount?"
Hah, but you sort of can: set up your own DNS server on your router, resolve the server's name to your own server, and give it whatever feed you want.:)
OK that's more steps than "buy a frame that simply displays a.RSS on the internet", but... it would be a neat hack.
Because before about 9 AM EST on 9/11/2001, no one expected that terrorists would use fuel-filled planes as missiles, all hijackings before that usually end with the plane landing somewhere and the passengers being used as hostages.
But now we know what can happen when a plane is hijacked, so hopefully the SAMs are ready. But they will not be necessary anyway, the 9/11 hijackers succeeded in 3 out of 4 flights because the passengers remained subdued thinking they'll get out of it alive. Nowadays, the passengers' belief that they'll most likely die anyway will turn them into an angry mob ready to stop the terrorists at any cost, as you can see indeed this has already happened with Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania.
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Not as much ignoring as in maybe preoccupied in other things, like that Sukhoi chasing him and SAMs firing big explodey things at him... at those points in time even fighter pilots might not realize that he's headed to a big fat mountain real fast.
Presumably they will deny his claims not just for this particular bug, but for anything he wants to claim!
Ehm, wouldn't that still enable identification via fingerprint? Get the prints off a drinking glass, measure the points, input the data, and see if the hash matches one stored in the database?
I just noticed the URL in the screenshot: www.browserchoice.eu, and the site is already online!
On the first load, it gave me the choices in the order similar to the screenshot, interestingly enough.
Ah, xrandr... the GUI version of it in Kubuntu doesn't let me stretch my desktop, only mirror it. It doesn't let me choose 85Hz for 1280x1024 in the GUI, although that works in Windows. Solution? Edit xorg.conf to manually add a modeline, and after learning the syntax for xrandr, I have to invoke it to activate the ext. monitor at that mode, and then to do a stretch, and then to make the built-in LCD my primary screen (because the ext. monitor is the 1st listed interface, and some component (probably xrandr) thinks it means it has to move the taskbar there.
Well, making the downloads fail is a bit dumb, they should just intercept the HTTP-download request for the original torrent file, parse the file, and serve up the rick_roll.avi.torrent with the filename replaced with the file the downloader wanted (so it'll be called family.guy.s8e12.avi, but only 50MB big and contain Rick Astley). And maybe a readme.txt if you want to scare them...
Nowadays it's institutions who own them.
Are you seriously asking office workers of the USA to use their brains? I think you'll hear from their union, that was never in their contract!
Also, presumably people can't jot down their notes or use a highlighter (the real world kind) on this fancy paper, because the printer wouldn't be able to erase them?
Hmm, maybe they can invent a heat-pen.. and use different temperatures for different pixels (of differing colors). That would be a neat, although useless, invention.
I used Aardvark for a few weeks, and the majority of the questions were of the type that could be answered with lmgtfy.com/... ("let me google that for you..."). The amount of clueless morons on the internet is...
Ah, Danger, the company that all the competent people abandoned, and ended messing up the storage/backup for all of T-Mobile Sidekick users' data?
How did that go anyway, I heard they managed to find a way to recover most of it?
Reminds me of a great anecdote from Opera, the other great browser maker. For some reason they also have a blog and gallery hosting services, and they needed to get more servers. So they asked a few big server-selling hardware companies to make their bids. Testing one test server from one of those companies involved logging into a web interface, so one higher-up loaded up the web interface URL, and since this is Opera, of course they used their in-house browser... which the web interface promptly rejected with a "This browser is not supported" message.
Anyway, GHz and MB/s are cheap and fast nowadays, I wonder what's preventing people from downloading and installing Firefox/Firefox Portable, and for website makers to offer such links...
Presumably a good physical firewall would detect such strange connections. Except when the spy chip in your computer says to the firewall, "I work for the Chinese Govt [or whomever], let me through", and the spy-chip in the firewall would then reply, "Go right ahead!". Your ISP's router might detect such traffic though -- except when it's also involved. Alternatively, your WiFi chip is telling you it's deactivated, but how would you know if it's being honest? :) -- maybe it goes looking for spy-friendly access points that says it has WPA2, but when it sees traffic from particular MACs (which is of course not the same MAC as the one being displayed by your OS), it lets such traffic through. Or even simpler, maybe they all have Power Line Ethernet, hahaha. (Doesn't the USA need to upgrade its power distribution system, and when it does that, can you guess which country's chips will be a part of the new system?)
At this point I'd say that's just tin-foil hat stuff, no way they've managed to do something like this without any word of it getting out...
Google has always been able to use the things people are looking up for evil: if someone using Apple's IP googles a particular microchip's specs, you might infer from that that they might be thinking of using that chip soon.
How about a Chinese IP googling "openssl 0.9.6 exploit".. especially if that IP was just visiting www.$SOMESITE.gov, where the HTTP-headers mention it's using "openssl-0.9.6". Or a Saudi Arabian IP googling for flight info inside the US, and a few seconds later, a Yemeni IP opening up the same URL (hmm, although without that site's cooperation, the NSA won't be able to see that, or are they..?)
Such powers would be interesting, for the wielder. Not so much for victims of its inevitable abuse.
Annoying design trade-off, fetching all images specified in CSS will waste a lot of bandwidth, sure for a lot of desktop people bandwidth is fast and cheap, but mobile and modem users might not like the idea that much. (In Australia they still have x GB monthly limits on broadband!).
Also, I can foresee another trick: ok, the browser fetches all images, rendering my log examination useless. So now I can write a Javascript function that checks whether a particular element has this particular background image, and if so make an AJAX request to my log recording script. Boom, problem (from the marketer's point of view) solved!
Indeed, this is a nightmare. Perhaps a browser can ask "This website would like to gain access to your visited links information. Allow this? [Yes/No/Always/Never]", argh I'd hate to be the one who has to implement a feature that asks this question without nagging the user too much...
You might, but in the real world, the lowest bidder wins..
Hear hear! I was disappointed that it was basically an iPhone with a bigger screen, with most of the presentation showing off the GUI of the apps they made... yeah, umm, multi-touch was neat 2 years ago? And still no task-switcher, i.e. no visible signs of multi-tasking capabilities? Screw that.
Let's see if the jailbreak community manages to fix that, although first we have to see if the hackerscan find a usable exploit on the device. Newer models of the 3GS still doesn't have the untethered jailbreak; if they get switched off, you have to plug them into a computer and send them a "boot!" command before they will boot up properly...
Actually I'm quite amazed at Steve Jobs. He brought the era of desktop computing to the masses, and when they kicked him out of his own company, he founded NeXT and built an OS so good there that the company that kicked him out asked him to return, with said OS in hand, that would be further developed as OS X. How did he not suffer second system syndrome and still manage to ship something so polished? It's more of a management skill I guess, and perhaps of designing a system so forward-looking, it is simple to improve.
But Systems 8 and 9 were quite the pain for end-users, and perhaps an expulsion of a good team from Apple, plus money, to make whatever they want, was the best idea, because otherwise they would be stuck trying to make their legacy OSes modern.
There's a few ISS tour videos on YouTube, and you can see they have dozens (!) of Lenovo ThinkPad laptops up there. Presumably they can just simply run a mail server on one of them, if not in native Linux then on CoLinux or a VM. They even have a W-LAN Access Point.
Ah, then again, there's no room for an IT expert up there is there, so someone on the planet still has to do troubleshooting for regular users who just happen to be astronauts, so they'd want to make it as simple as possible for them. (Hmm if that's the case, wouldn't SSH be the best answer?)
Or use Windows' on-screen keyboard. Interestingly, does the Mac even have that key...
Maybe it's the hyper-clean parents that's made weak pussy-assed children.
Or maybe back in the day, children just died earlier from peanut allergies without parents knowing why and that's why you never met such kids at school.
Or perhaps peanut genes have mutated/evolved?
Somebody want to give me a grant to investigate?
Since the idea of the hardware fob is that it's hard to reverse-engineer, why are they providing the same solution as software for phones? What's stopping a good enough hacker to run gdb on the iPhone or a J2ME simulator and to reverse-engineer the authenticator algorithm?
Interestingly my local (German) bank introduced one-time cards for money withdrawal from their ATMs, it's for large withdrawals that might go over the normal card limit; the way it works is the cashier encodes the amount of money the card will spit out (taken from your account) and probably your account number onto the magnetic stripe*, then you take the card to one of the machines, stick it in, and it spits out the money. You then get the card back and you can throw it away or put it in a collection box. Presumably they are reusable; just put new data and the next customer can use the card.
Unfortunately the stupidly paranoid users think they have to destroy the card, lest some other person take the card and put it in the machine and get the account holder's money. How dumb do you think the banks are, of course such a transaction is not possible!
Thus, the end result is reusable cards (for one-time transactions) end up becoming one-time use cards.
Just thought I'd share an anecdote about how the new way is being used incorrectly.
* or maybe the cashier just associates the card-id with your account and an amount, when the ATM sees the ID it queries the system "from what account shall I withdraw what amount?"
Hah, but you sort of can: set up your own DNS server on your router, resolve the server's name to your own server, and give it whatever feed you want. :)
OK that's more steps than "buy a frame that simply displays a .RSS on the internet", but... it would be a neat hack.
Because before about 9 AM EST on 9/11/2001, no one expected that terrorists would use fuel-filled planes as missiles, all hijackings before that usually end with the plane landing somewhere and the passengers being used as hostages.
But now we know what can happen when a plane is hijacked, so hopefully the SAMs are ready. But they will not be necessary anyway, the 9/11 hijackers succeeded in 3 out of 4 flights because the passengers remained subdued thinking they'll get out of it alive. Nowadays, the passengers' belief that they'll most likely die anyway will turn them into an angry mob ready to stop the terrorists at any cost, as you can see indeed this has already happened with Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania.