Assuming I only witness an incident and have done nothing wrong in the sense of the law. And provided that I live in a country that still respect the rule of law, I know that excluding the US but am Canadian anyway. I would contact my lawyers and bring down the wrath of god on whatever agency feel they can investigate or harass me. My statement would likely be charge me with something or back the fuck away! In a more polite form but you get the gist. You have no idea how fast the threats of lawsuits get some peoples to leave you alone. After further consulting with my lawyers we will provide a carefully written statement on the incident to show that we are more than willing to offer any lawful cooperation but that any further communication would be through my lawyer. You do all that and they might hate your guts but they usually leave you alone. Off course expect your tax return to be audited for the next five years and don't ever drive even slightly above the speed limit.
Pretty much what happened with the Canadian dollar who was at around 60 cent US more than a decade ago but has been at parity or a bit higher for a while now. We had to make some bloody noise to get retailers to adjust their prices because the bastards were perfectly fine with ignoring reality and cashing in the difference!
For a criminal what the point of getting a disposable phone if you keep it long enough for the cops to learn your number?
Seriously folks the rules of clandestine operation are simple incoming call goes to one phone outgoing from another! You switch them off when not in use and you discard them often! And pay phone are really useful to muddy the water even more. Also if you keep nothing in them you don't leave any data to be seized by anyone!
Yeah if IBM or Gates had any inkling of how big the PC market would become you bet your ass they would have done thing differently starting with a lock on the BIOS. Just look at all the effort made by the same actors later to push out BIOS in favours of other "solution". Not to mention all the new computer like device that now have a locked bootloader. (Smartphones, Tablets, Windows 8 ARM device...)
The most likely scenario for a thermonuclear war is between one or two smaller states with long running hatred
and religious fanatical governments.
The big players are likely to stay out of it. It will be far from a global event, and won't even fully destroy the
states involved.
Lets say Pakistan and India have a go, or Iran and Israel: I don't see any other state too interested
to jump into that mix on any of the sides. The participants get stung hard, exhaust their arsenals
and beg for humanitarian aid.
Contrary to popular belief a few tens of warheads going off is not going to affect life on earth
that much from a biological stand point.
Not a bad analysis to prevent that we likely need something like the great convention. "You drop one nuke and everybody else in the world gang up on you!"
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind.
Don't worry. We should not expect that our future robot helpers will immediately be perfect, i.e. better than us at the things that we do best, but at least they will not be burdened with our many weaknesses, including dogmatic behavior stemming from an irrational belief in the supernatural.
loll Damn peoples only remember the "Fear is the mind-killer." line from Dune!
The Walmart cashier won't give fuck who you are or what you use your Ipad for. By the way it just a fucking tablet Apple get over yourself nobody making Nuke out of an Ipad!
That usually how new wealth become old wealth. Set-up a foundation to make sure you get more good publicity in your later years for what you do with part of your money instead of how you acquired it. If you keep out of the limelight your heirs get to enjoy the wealth and none of the stigma coming from how your family got this rich.
Yeah we been broadcasting our location for more than 100 years now. We may well be alone in our local cluster at least we can sleep safe that no scary super advanced alien civilisation in need of food, water is living next door. Off course wait a few century and we might very well become that hungry alien invader to some poor green less advanced bastard!
In my opinion, Us, European, and Russian security firms should ALL be looking the other way and keeping their mouths shut. Once it's reasonably clear that a piece of malware is an espionage tool directed at our mutual targets of intelligence interest, and that it doesn't pose a general threat to our own information security, they should keep it to themselves. There's nothing patriotic, altruistic, laudable, or beneficial about screwing up legitimate national intelligence projects. This ain't a scandal, corruption, or anything of the sort.
Except that Suxtnet was reverse engineered almost in less time it took for you to write that post above. When you dump a rabid dog on your neighbour yard if he dump it back on yours is it his fault if you get bitten?
And don't forget that the research shop that discovered it is headed by a guy who is a vocal proponent of having an Internet Police and absolutely no anonymity. Don't get me wrong, Kaspersky is a really good malware research team with a really good product, but I stopped buying their products as soon as I heard the CEO make those ridiculous statements.
Plus I been wondering for a while if all those "malware expert shop" don't have a black room to create treat when and where none exist after all you got to keep the business going.
because the average cyber criminal is gonna go after a large target because like all criminals they are lazy and want the most bang for their time, whereas these things are HIGHLY specialized, with Stux it was specialized to the point of absurdity, so while your average or even smart cyber criminal isn't gonna bother attacking a system with such a small target area and which takes more work than say...ohh...fooling someone with an SMS scam nations on the other hand that want to fuck something specific up without going to war will spend the bux to build something like this.
It would be a solution unfortunately you don't get a CD anymore with Windows 7 OEM computer. You get a restore partition with all the crapware included.
It a new rich kind of thing. Most peoples who been wealthy for a while realise that money is just a fucking number on a bank account and that it what you use it for that define you. Also it a really good PR move to be known as the wealthy old guy who donated a lot to some cause like curing cancer.
The last line of the post leave me perplexes. "strategic, tactical, or other". What the hell does "other" mean in that context? Are we talking railgun shooting nukes on top of bipedal tanks or maybe orbital bomb that look and behave like satellites. Or Super Doomsday Nuke capable of seeding the whole atmosphere with cobalt-60.
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Plus weed is so cheap stoners really don't need to steal to get some! lolll
Assuming I only witness an incident and have done nothing wrong in the sense of the law. And provided that I live in a country that still respect the rule of law, I know that excluding the US but am Canadian anyway. I would contact my lawyers and bring down the wrath of god on whatever agency feel they can investigate or harass me. My statement would likely be charge me with something or back the fuck away! In a more polite form but you get the gist. You have no idea how fast the threats of lawsuits get some peoples to leave you alone. After further consulting with my lawyers we will provide a carefully written statement on the incident to show that we are more than willing to offer any lawful cooperation but that any further communication would be through my lawyer. You do all that and they might hate your guts but they usually leave you alone. Off course expect your tax return to be audited for the next five years and don't ever drive even slightly above the speed limit.
Pretty much what happened with the Canadian dollar who was at around 60 cent US more than a decade ago but has been at parity or a bit higher for a while now. We had to make some bloody noise to get retailers to adjust their prices because the bastards were perfectly fine with ignoring reality and cashing in the difference!
For a criminal what the point of getting a disposable phone if you keep it long enough for the cops to learn your number? Seriously folks the rules of clandestine operation are simple incoming call goes to one phone outgoing from another! You switch them off when not in use and you discard them often! And pay phone are really useful to muddy the water even more. Also if you keep nothing in them you don't leave any data to be seized by anyone!
Yeah if IBM or Gates had any inkling of how big the PC market would become you bet your ass they would have done thing differently starting with a lock on the BIOS. Just look at all the effort made by the same actors later to push out BIOS in favours of other "solution". Not to mention all the new computer like device that now have a locked bootloader. (Smartphones, Tablets, Windows 8 ARM device...)
Not likely to happen that way.
The most likely scenario for a thermonuclear war is between one or two smaller states with long running hatred and religious fanatical governments. The big players are likely to stay out of it. It will be far from a global event, and won't even fully destroy the states involved.
Lets say Pakistan and India have a go, or Iran and Israel: I don't see any other state too interested to jump into that mix on any of the sides. The participants get stung hard, exhaust their arsenals and beg for humanitarian aid.
Contrary to popular belief a few tens of warheads going off is not going to affect life on earth that much from a biological stand point.
Not a bad analysis to prevent that we likely need something like the great convention. "You drop one nuke and everybody else in the world gang up on you!"
Wong he understood too well that sound like a Brits to me! Show him your paper mate!
Don't be ridiculous Arizona does not have tourist they scared them all away with all that bullshit a long time ago.
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind.
Don't worry. We should not expect that our future robot helpers will immediately be perfect, i.e. better than us at the things that we do best, but at least they will not be burdened with our many weaknesses, including dogmatic behavior stemming from an irrational belief in the supernatural.
loll Damn peoples only remember the "Fear is the mind-killer." line from Dune!
The Walmart cashier won't give fuck who you are or what you use your Ipad for. By the way it just a fucking tablet Apple get over yourself nobody making Nuke out of an Ipad!
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind.
That usually how new wealth become old wealth. Set-up a foundation to make sure you get more good publicity in your later years for what you do with part of your money instead of how you acquired it. If you keep out of the limelight your heirs get to enjoy the wealth and none of the stigma coming from how your family got this rich.
Or Alfred Nobel.
Yeah we been broadcasting our location for more than 100 years now. We may well be alone in our local cluster at least we can sleep safe that no scary super advanced alien civilisation in need of food, water is living next door. Off course wait a few century and we might very well become that hungry alien invader to some poor green less advanced bastard!
In my opinion, Us, European, and Russian security firms should ALL be looking the other way and keeping their mouths shut. Once it's reasonably clear that a piece of malware is an espionage tool directed at our mutual targets of intelligence interest, and that it doesn't pose a general threat to our own information security, they should keep it to themselves. There's nothing patriotic, altruistic, laudable, or beneficial about screwing up legitimate national intelligence projects. This ain't a scandal, corruption, or anything of the sort.
Except that Suxtnet was reverse engineered almost in less time it took for you to write that post above. When you dump a rabid dog on your neighbour yard if he dump it back on yours is it his fault if you get bitten?
And don't forget that the research shop that discovered it is headed by a guy who is a vocal proponent of having an Internet Police and absolutely no anonymity. Don't get me wrong, Kaspersky is a really good malware research team with a really good product, but I stopped buying their products as soon as I heard the CEO make those ridiculous statements.
Plus I been wondering for a while if all those "malware expert shop" don't have a black room to create treat when and where none exist after all you got to keep the business going.
because the average cyber criminal is gonna go after a large target because like all criminals they are lazy and want the most bang for their time, whereas these things are HIGHLY specialized, with Stux it was specialized to the point of absurdity, so while your average or even smart cyber criminal isn't gonna bother attacking a system with such a small target area and which takes more work than say...ohh...fooling someone with an SMS scam nations on the other hand that want to fuck something specific up without going to war will spend the bux to build something like this.
Or they hire a freelancer to do the job for them.
Or Zuck is going to get screwed worse than he screwed the Douchebag Twin!
It would be a solution unfortunately you don't get a CD anymore with Windows 7 OEM computer. You get a restore partition with all the crapware included.
It a new rich kind of thing. Most peoples who been wealthy for a while realise that money is just a fucking number on a bank account and that it what you use it for that define you. Also it a really good PR move to be known as the wealthy old guy who donated a lot to some cause like curing cancer.
So better abort than have your ass blown up all over the place.
The last line of the post leave me perplexes. "strategic, tactical, or other". What the hell does "other" mean in that context? Are we talking railgun shooting nukes on top of bipedal tanks or maybe orbital bomb that look and behave like satellites. Or Super Doomsday Nuke capable of seeding the whole atmosphere with cobalt-60.
Hell at that price if I was stuck in the Jury box I wrote the check myself! loll
Not really position do matter so does the numbers of keywords you get better result by trimming down your search to the bare essential words.
Yeah just did the search and Firefox won. Can't complain since I been using it for more than half a decade now. (Since early 2.0)