A small handful of e-mails (in comparison to the bulk sent from that server). I would personally attribute that to her being stupid and not remembering which account she was sending from.
You know how many high ranking federal officials use Yahoo, Hotmail and Gmail accounts?? Guess how many of them send CLASSIFIED info through them? Guess how many of them are pwned by Russian hackers?
My primary beef with Trump is that HE HAS NO EXPERIENCE. Just as you wouldn't hire a lead programmer for a multimillion dollar software project that hasn't done, "Hello, world!" before, Trump is in way over his head. It shows through his actions, his cabinet choices, their actions, and generally his lack of a personality fit for being a president. No wonder he's bankrupted so many businesses. No wonder he's golfing every weekend. I'm surprised he hasn't had a heart attack yet.
Listen, the government is fucked up and corrupt. Probably always will be. That doesn't mean you intentionally try to destroy it by hiring a n00b that already hates everything about the job he's about to take.
Getting involved with an open source project will help swing the pendulum back away from money being the sole factor in getting involved with technology. There is money in making open source software, maybe not as much as being a commercial startup billionaire, but that's akin to starting a band for the sheer love of playing music instead of becoming a "rock star". What's more worth it in the end?
As I sit here next to my Commodore 64 and Double Dragon arcade cabinet, remembering the days of being a teenager calling local BBSes to chat with friends, dreading the next school day where I'd be away from my computer for a good 8 hours, having to deal with real-life social situations like avoiding jocks wanting to push me in the hallway.
At least we have Linux, it seems that the golden age of computing has all but turned into commercialism and dominant players squashing the little guys who actually care about the technology first, and money second.
I was heavy into LTSP back in the Hardy days. Ubuntu was seemingly 100% behind making the project thrive. And then one day, they simply went on to something else. They left our community out in the cold, trying to scavenge for any kind of real long-term support for LTSP networks. It became a real mess. I went (back) to Debian. What a relief that was.
Seems like that's what they're doing the same thing with Unity now. They've lost interest, so they're simply looking at the next new shiny thing. I admittedly know very little about Mir, but I'm not surprised at some of the hate people in the community have for it. Personally it seems like Canonical likes to announce huge projects, push at them for a while, then simply turn around and go push something else.
Also, I don't like how he tries to classify an entire software ecosystem as a monolithic thing. Canonical might be a monolith, but it's one monolith in a billion monoliths in the lith-o-garden. Yep. I just said that.
I've thought a few times that some kind of disconnected RPi / Wi-Fi BBS solution would be cool. Like at a coffee shop, a standardized SSID ("BBS" ?) that people would connect to whose only purpose would be to serve the BBS. It would purposefully not have Internet access, but would be a local-only social platform for brick-and-mortar places that may even help draw patrons in.
I wrote this circa 2012, on the relevance and missing community aspect of BBSes these days..
--- Over the past months I have thought a lot about how social networking websites such as Myspace and Facebook (and the newer Google+) always seem to have their “golden age” of popularity – and then steadily decline.
I’ve thought about when I switched from Myspace to Facebook. There just seemed to be a specific point where it would have been more productive to invest my time in my (newly created) Facebook profile – and a majority of my flock of friends and family I had connected with had migrated as well.
And then I’ve thought about my transition from Friendster to Myspace. Friendster was one of the very first generalized social networking websites. It was great in its own regard, though it was primitive compared to what Facebook and Google+ are today. At its core, though, it was a beautiful creation and a great idea to bring casual conversation to a worldwide audience.
Going back further, I reminisce about the rise of the Internet and the subsequent decline of dial-up Bulletin Board Systems. Anyone who knows me personally from the mid-90’s and earlier knows how nostalgiac I am about BBSes even today. There has always been something about them that Internet-based social networking websites today can’t seem to hold a candle to – something I could never put my finger on.
Just the other night I was reading a paper called “The Temporary Autonomous Zone”, which describes communities of past and present – all different types from 18th century pirate utopias to the (then) modern computerized communities of Bulletin Board Systems. It described the social aspects of these communities and their decentralized (some would say anarchy-based) nature. Though most of them hold no place in history books, their ideals were always the cornerstone of their purpose. Many of them were actually meant to be temporary; the lifespan of the community was inherent to its validity.
Myspace, Facebook and Google+ all have the same idea – connecting and socializing with people you know in real life. What seems to be the common decline with these sites in general is quite simply that once your userbase reaches a certain threshold, the communal foundation itself starts to wobble and eventually comes tumbling down on top of itself. More specifically, once your “friends” list becomes more than you can handle, you start to question the validity and value of the people you have connected with as well as the community as a whole.
For me, it started with a “friend sweep” – going through my list and removing the friends who I didn’t find completely necessary to communicate with. My first sweep list consisted people I knew in school and past jobs, but never really conversed with anyway. Then came the ones who I did genuinely care about, but just couldn’t stand to see one more post about their political stance/life story/band/business happenings. After many months and multiple sweeps, however, the stale smell of wasted time still hung in the air for me. This resulted in me leaving the site for a time, declaring my independence and recaptured freedom and liberty. (Dramatic, aren’t I?) Of course, I have come back and left a few times, repeating the same shenanigans. The desire to communicate with those I care about draws me back. The feeling of distance, the feeling that people are screaming through a bullhorn at a ginormous crowd (i.e. their friends list) makes me leave because I feel like I have no real connection with them.
With all of this back and forth came a realization to me that old-school dialup Bulletin Board Systems rarely encountered these kinds of issues. For the most part, BBSes always seemed to hold a small, passionate community that kept themselves on target with what they were trying to accomplish (which was the same goal as modern social networks – informal human to human
I had a client a few years back that accidentally deleted 10 years worth of personal photos because they thought they were only deleting them from iCloud, not knowing it would delete it from their computer as well.
I say, if people are fucking stupid enough to entrust a third party with their data and not back it up independently, they get what they deserve.
Back up your shit, and back it up to YOUR OWN MEDIA.
Obviously Hillary can NOT run a private email server without a lot of negative publicity and essentially costing her the election. But oh, SHE did it, so anyone else who does it shouldn't have the same negative publicity?
There should be a phone-lock app with 2 different unlock codes - one for normal every-day use and the other which, when used, automatically activates the camera + mic and livestreams/records not only from the camera but a screencast - so those searching the phones will be exposed to what they're actually searching for. Should have ability to disable turning off data/wi-fi so it can be ensured that it streams. I bet there'd be a sizable market for something like that.
I'm sick of the generalization that all Wireless access points are "routers".
They're ROUTERS if they ROUTE between two different networks. If they are simply an access point to which you connect your wireless device to a wired network, they are referred to "ACCESS POINTS". Yes, some WAPs have routing functionality as well, along with a built-in switch, firewalling ability, blah blah blah. Doesn't make all WAPs "Wireless Routers" though.
I guess that kind of thing doesn't matter these days anymore though. Get the fuck off my lawn. Now you LOOK AT ME WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU!
God, it's not like "eliminate" means KILL. Stop being such a pussy. The constitution has a purpose in this context and it means REMOVE FROM OFFICE. Stop being such a chicken shit and stand up for the law of the land. I hate feeling like I can't talk about problems because of fear I'll be targeted. This isn't America anymore if you can't stand up for yourself and the documents of the founding fathers. No president will EVER take the constitution away from the people, no matter how hard they try.
Anyone can have their hands photographed and fingerprints stolen. Who the fuck came up with the fearmongering scare tactic that singles out making the peace sign as a way of stealing fingerprint data? That's so fucking lame.
FTFA: "The anti-censorship feature is currently present in the latest version of Signal for Android. It’s also included in a beta version of the app for iOS that will be released in production soon. The developers also plan future improvements that will allow the app to detect censorship automatically and switch to domain fronting even if the user has a phone number from a country where censorship is not normally present. This is intended to cover those cases where users travel to other countries where the app is blocked."
I reside in a country that doesn't (yet) block Signal. But will my app automatically use domain fronting anyway? I'd rather not use the feature unless absolutely necessary, to protect the integrity and privacy of my communications.
I RTFA and didn't catch whether this supposed review is going to include a formal forensics analysis of voting machines, at least in swing states where something of this nature would have been beneficial and anomalies in exit polls vs. actual numbers on machines happened. There were states that flat out denied Stein's request of forensics on the machines, which I think is completely ridiculous. If you're gonna punch the same commands into possibly pwned machines, of COURSE you're gonna get the same numbers (both on memory card and internal "redundant" memory). That is *not* a "recount".
You must *assume* carriers aren't honest. You don't know everyone who has access to the data that profiles you. You don't know their intentions, their contacts, their back-room deals. Do you really *want* to know? Do you think it would make a bit of difference?
Use strong encryption wherever you can. Encrypt your phone storage. Use anonymous VPNs and Tor. Be vigilant. Do whatever defensive measures you can do to protect yourself and the privacy of you and those you care about. Laws are meant to be broken. They're broken much more often than technological defenses are.
The fact that so many publicly facing, completely insecure devices ripe for hacking were able to be assembled in the first place is one of the biggest things we should be looking at moving forward.
I think there should be a common, open-source framework for building secure IoT device firmware. Obviously people are going to be buying these things more and more as time progresses. Why not make it simple for them to implement something secure instead of leaving them to reinvent the wheel? Obviously they're concerned mostly about convenience otherwise they would have built better security in. Maybe they don't have the skill to do it correctly. Maybe they're not being paid enough. Point is that I think there should be efforts in the open-source ecosystem to help make these things easy and plug-n-play when developing a new baby monitor/security camera/etc.
And, we should publicly shame the companies most to blame for these insecure devices being used in an attack of this magnitude. Paste their names all over and make sure people KNOW that they're buying utter insecure shit that may be used to attack others. Not to mention your own privacy and security regarding cameras/microphones/security devices, anything even semi-critical really.
Slashdot Mirror
A small handful of e-mails (in comparison to the bulk sent from that server). I would personally attribute that to her being stupid and not remembering which account she was sending from.
You know how many high ranking federal officials use Yahoo, Hotmail and Gmail accounts?? Guess how many of them send CLASSIFIED info through them? Guess how many of them are pwned by Russian hackers?
My primary beef with Trump is that HE HAS NO EXPERIENCE. Just as you wouldn't hire a lead programmer for a multimillion dollar software project that hasn't done, "Hello, world!" before, Trump is in way over his head. It shows through his actions, his cabinet choices, their actions, and generally his lack of a personality fit for being a president. No wonder he's bankrupted so many businesses. No wonder he's golfing every weekend. I'm surprised he hasn't had a heart attack yet.
Listen, the government is fucked up and corrupt. Probably always will be. That doesn't mean you intentionally try to destroy it by hiring a n00b that already hates everything about the job he's about to take.
Getting involved with an open source project will help swing the pendulum back away from money being the sole factor in getting involved with technology. There is money in making open source software, maybe not as much as being a commercial startup billionaire, but that's akin to starting a band for the sheer love of playing music instead of becoming a "rock star". What's more worth it in the end?
As I sit here next to my Commodore 64 and Double Dragon arcade cabinet, remembering the days of being a teenager calling local BBSes to chat with friends, dreading the next school day where I'd be away from my computer for a good 8 hours, having to deal with real-life social situations like avoiding jocks wanting to push me in the hallway.
At least we have Linux, it seems that the golden age of computing has all but turned into commercialism and dominant players squashing the little guys who actually care about the technology first, and money second.
I was heavy into LTSP back in the Hardy days. Ubuntu was seemingly 100% behind making the project thrive. And then one day, they simply went on to something else. They left our community out in the cold, trying to scavenge for any kind of real long-term support for LTSP networks. It became a real mess. I went (back) to Debian. What a relief that was.
Seems like that's what they're doing the same thing with Unity now. They've lost interest, so they're simply looking at the next new shiny thing. I admittedly know very little about Mir, but I'm not surprised at some of the hate people in the community have for it. Personally it seems like Canonical likes to announce huge projects, push at them for a while, then simply turn around and go push something else.
Also, I don't like how he tries to classify an entire software ecosystem as a monolithic thing. Canonical might be a monolith, but it's one monolith in a billion monoliths in the lith-o-garden. Yep. I just said that.
I've thought a few times that some kind of disconnected RPi / Wi-Fi BBS solution would be cool. Like at a coffee shop, a standardized SSID ("BBS" ?) that people would connect to whose only purpose would be to serve the BBS. It would purposefully not have Internet access, but would be a local-only social platform for brick-and-mortar places that may even help draw patrons in.
IIRC DORINFO.DAT was a more stable solution. At least on Renegade.
I wrote this circa 2012, on the relevance and missing community aspect of BBSes these days..
---
Over the past months I have thought a lot about how social networking websites such as Myspace and Facebook (and the newer Google+) always seem to have their “golden age” of popularity – and then steadily decline.
I’ve thought about when I switched from Myspace to Facebook. There just seemed to be a specific point where it would have been more productive to invest my time in my (newly created) Facebook profile – and a majority of my flock of friends and family I had connected with had migrated as well.
And then I’ve thought about my transition from Friendster to Myspace. Friendster was one of the very first generalized social networking websites. It was great in its own regard, though it was primitive compared to what Facebook and Google+ are today. At its core, though, it was a beautiful creation and a great idea to bring casual conversation to a worldwide audience.
Going back further, I reminisce about the rise of the Internet and the subsequent decline of dial-up Bulletin Board Systems. Anyone who knows me personally from the mid-90’s and earlier knows how nostalgiac I am about BBSes even today. There has always been something about them that Internet-based social networking websites today can’t seem to hold a candle to – something I could never put my finger on.
Just the other night I was reading a paper called “The Temporary Autonomous Zone”, which describes communities of past and present – all different types from 18th century pirate utopias to the (then) modern computerized communities of Bulletin Board Systems. It described the social aspects of these communities and their decentralized (some would say anarchy-based) nature. Though most of them hold no place in history books, their ideals were always the cornerstone of their purpose. Many of them were actually meant to be temporary; the lifespan of the community was inherent to its validity.
Myspace, Facebook and Google+ all have the same idea – connecting and socializing with people you know in real life. What seems to be the common decline with these sites in general is quite simply that once your userbase reaches a certain threshold, the communal foundation itself starts to wobble and eventually comes tumbling down on top of itself. More specifically, once your “friends” list becomes more than you can handle, you start to question the validity and value of the people you have connected with as well as the community as a whole.
For me, it started with a “friend sweep” – going through my list and removing the friends who I didn’t find completely necessary to communicate with. My first sweep list consisted people I knew in school and past jobs, but never really conversed with anyway. Then came the ones who I did genuinely care about, but just couldn’t stand to see one more post about their political stance/life story/band/business happenings. After many months and multiple sweeps, however, the stale smell of wasted time still hung in the air for me. This resulted in me leaving the site for a time, declaring my independence and recaptured freedom and liberty. (Dramatic, aren’t I?) Of course, I have come back and left a few times, repeating the same shenanigans. The desire to communicate with those I care about draws me back. The feeling of distance, the feeling that people are screaming through a bullhorn at a ginormous crowd (i.e. their friends list) makes me leave because I feel like I have no real connection with them.
With all of this back and forth came a realization to me that old-school dialup Bulletin Board Systems rarely encountered these kinds of issues. For the most part, BBSes always seemed to hold a small, passionate community that kept themselves on target with what they were trying to accomplish (which was the same goal as modern social networks – informal human to human
Meh.
Thinking of iCloud as a "backup" is akin to thinking that having 2 broadband modems will help when your ISP goes down.
Who said anything about keeping backups on site?
I had a client a few years back that accidentally deleted 10 years worth of personal photos because they thought they were only deleting them from iCloud, not knowing it would delete it from their computer as well.
I say, if people are fucking stupid enough to entrust a third party with their data and not back it up independently, they get what they deserve.
Back up your shit, and back it up to YOUR OWN MEDIA.
...allowing, e.g., the use of Adobe Flash Player 24.
Lol.
Obviously Hillary can NOT run a private email server without a lot of negative publicity and essentially costing her the election. But oh, SHE did it, so anyone else who does it shouldn't have the same negative publicity?
You're fucking stupid.
Someone will finally be able to get real-world evidence for impeachment via his phone. The guy is a tool, has no clue what he's doing.
I mean I know the article came from USA Today but other than that, there was no indication that these bridges all resided in the United States.
I live in California but I think this really should be addressed. Slashdot isn't a U.S. only tech site.
Cheers,
NowGetOffMyLawn
There should be a phone-lock app with 2 different unlock codes - one for normal every-day use and the other which, when used, automatically activates the camera + mic and livestreams/records not only from the camera but a screencast - so those searching the phones will be exposed to what they're actually searching for. Should have ability to disable turning off data/wi-fi so it can be ensured that it streams. I bet there'd be a sizable market for something like that.
I'm sick of the generalization that all Wireless access points are "routers".
They're ROUTERS if they ROUTE between two different networks. If they are simply an access point to which you connect your wireless device to a wired network, they are referred to "ACCESS POINTS". Yes, some WAPs have routing functionality as well, along with a built-in switch, firewalling ability, blah blah blah. Doesn't make all WAPs "Wireless Routers" though.
I guess that kind of thing doesn't matter these days anymore though. Get the fuck off my lawn. Now you LOOK AT ME WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU!
"GitLab.com, the wannabe GitHub alternative" ... Uhm, is that really accurate?
God, it's not like "eliminate" means KILL. Stop being such a pussy. The constitution has a purpose in this context and it means REMOVE FROM OFFICE. Stop being such a chicken shit and stand up for the law of the land. I hate feeling like I can't talk about problems because of fear I'll be targeted. This isn't America anymore if you can't stand up for yourself and the documents of the founding fathers. No president will EVER take the constitution away from the people, no matter how hard they try.
That kind of talk can get a fellow in trouble.
NOT talking will get us ALL in trouble.
Anyone can have their hands photographed and fingerprints stolen. Who the fuck came up with the fearmongering scare tactic that singles out making the peace sign as a way of stealing fingerprint data? That's so fucking lame.
FTFA: "The anti-censorship feature is currently present in the latest version of Signal for Android. It’s also included in a beta version of the app for iOS that will be released in production soon. The developers also plan future improvements that will allow the app to detect censorship automatically and switch to domain fronting even if the user has a phone number from a country where censorship is not normally present. This is intended to cover those cases where users travel to other countries where the app is blocked."
I reside in a country that doesn't (yet) block Signal. But will my app automatically use domain fronting anyway? I'd rather not use the feature unless absolutely necessary, to protect the integrity and privacy of my communications.
I RTFA and didn't catch whether this supposed review is going to include a formal forensics analysis of voting machines, at least in swing states where something of this nature would have been beneficial and anomalies in exit polls vs. actual numbers on machines happened. There were states that flat out denied Stein's request of forensics on the machines, which I think is completely ridiculous. If you're gonna punch the same commands into possibly pwned machines, of COURSE you're gonna get the same numbers (both on memory card and internal "redundant" memory). That is *not* a "recount".
Just kidding.
You must *assume* carriers aren't honest. You don't know everyone who has access to the data that profiles you. You don't know their intentions, their contacts, their back-room deals. Do you really *want* to know? Do you think it would make a bit of difference?
Use strong encryption wherever you can. Encrypt your phone storage. Use anonymous VPNs and Tor. Be vigilant. Do whatever defensive measures you can do to protect yourself and the privacy of you and those you care about. Laws are meant to be broken. They're broken much more often than technological defenses are.
The fact that so many publicly facing, completely insecure devices ripe for hacking were able to be assembled in the first place is one of the biggest things we should be looking at moving forward.
I think there should be a common, open-source framework for building secure IoT device firmware. Obviously people are going to be buying these things more and more as time progresses. Why not make it simple for them to implement something secure instead of leaving them to reinvent the wheel? Obviously they're concerned mostly about convenience otherwise they would have built better security in. Maybe they don't have the skill to do it correctly. Maybe they're not being paid enough. Point is that I think there should be efforts in the open-source ecosystem to help make these things easy and plug-n-play when developing a new baby monitor/security camera/etc.
And, we should publicly shame the companies most to blame for these insecure devices being used in an attack of this magnitude. Paste their names all over and make sure people KNOW that they're buying utter insecure shit that may be used to attack others. Not to mention your own privacy and security regarding cameras/microphones/security devices, anything even semi-critical really.