He knew the exact time he made the transaction. He knew the amount. He knew other details.
So, really, wtf?
I am not going to read the article. This is some sort of fear mongering.
Ya stupid article (I didn't read it either). They purchase something safe like marijuana then have the balls to say they purchased drugs. Buy some Adderall I've seen lots of that for sale on the silk road.
The entire link inadvertently explains why cloud storage shouldn't be used, and that mobile devices are your worst enemy.
The only mention of TrueCrypt is this sentence:
"Currently available for major software - Microsoft bitlocker,
FileVault, BestCrypt, TrueCrypt, Etc" (sic)
It does have these gems
"The Patriot Act allows for the use of backdoors for counter terrorist investigations"
The use of backdoors cannot be detected or proven.
Vendors are legally and commercially prevented from acknowledging their backdoors.
Defense will not be able to prove their existence.
The files can be described as "forensically obtained"
Users of mobile devices and cloud storage sign off on their rights to data scanning. There is no opt our option.
quoting Ken Thompson
I would like to criticize the press in its handling of the "hackers," the 414 gang
God I guess...
The 414s gained notoriety in the early 1980s as a group of friends and computer hackers who broke into dozens of high-profile computer systems, including ones at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and Security Pacific Bank.
They were eventually identified as six teenagers, taking their name after the area code of their hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Ranging in age from 16 to 22, they met as members of a local Explorer Scout troop. The 414s were investigated and identified by the FBI in 1983. There was widespread media coverage of them at the time, and 17-year-old Neal Patrick, a student at Rufus King High School, emerged as spokesman and "instant celebrity" during the brief frenzy of interest, which included Patrick appearing on the September 5, 1983 cover of Newsweek.
The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself..... A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.
This is because "the country" is really an empire, not a country. Would you find it odd that people in places under the US's imperial control (either formally or informally) don't always speak English?
I don't know if it counts but the Philippines. -It used to be under US control formally if for only a little while, informally a long time.
They have the same problem China does and it's a smaller area, The most spoken language is Tagalog and even then so many distance regional differences many can't talk to each other.
That's the way it was when I lived there; hitting the wikipedia it's much worse than I thought, as Tagalog has been replaced with Filipino and English
Official status Filipino is constitutionally designated as the national language of the Philippines and, along with English, one of two official languages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipino_language
It's a little known fact, but diamond has the highest thermal conductivity of any substance you're ever likely to encounter, beating silver by a whopping 350%. The only reason it's never used for thermal applications is that forming it into arbitrary shapes is almost beyond mankind's capability, and even if we did manage to do it, the cost would be astronomical. However, if it could somehow be done, and done cheaply, it would be the ultimate heat sink material.
But seriously, I use the stock fan/heatsink that comes with the CPU and even with video encoding pushing all 6 cores to almost 100% I have no problems. "High End CPU Cooler" is as much of a scam as "High End Bottled Water".
Ever read the booklet (Installation instructions) that comes with the Intel CPUs? I did cause I wanted to know just what temperature the chip should run at? For my i7-950 the "internal ambient temperature should be at or below 38 C, this is maintained with the integration of of a Thermally Advantaged Chassis".:}
(The ambient temperature is measured at the inlet to the processor thermal solution) -From my booklet, it's been changed and that entry removed so I can't link to it..
The stock Intel CPU cooler can't come close to maintaining that limit.
"High End CPU Cooler" is as much of a scam as "High End Bottled Water".
No, it really isn't. Besides having quantifiably better cooling capabilities, these high-end coolers are often much quieter. I have a Noctua NH-D14, and while it's not as pretty as, say, the Thermaltake FioOCK from TFA, I find it far superior to any stock solution I've ever used. I can't even hear the thing, despite it having two 120mm fans.
So you have 2.4 pounds, that extends 5" above the mother board, then more than likely it sits sideways. That's a lot of stress on anything over a period of time. Moving your system at all increase the chance of spider cracks.
They are small, light weight and can remove a lot of heat Using a CORSAIR H50 (no longer being sold), i7-950 chip at 4.4Ghz running OCCT for a hour and never got above 65 C
I now use a Thermaltake CLW0217 It keeps my system very cool. But I wouldn't recommend it to anybody, as it takes up an entire USB header and requires Windows software to operate it (fan control). I just want it full on, so soon to be rewiring it that way.
Ah but the feds have blinked and said what is planned is good with them.
No, no they haven't, and if you think they have, you are only fooling yourself. Until the law is actually changed, or the drug rescheduled, it continues to be a violation of federal law to put THC into your body by any means. That means that you're confessing to a federal crime on the internet. Good plan!
Nothing they could do to me would come close, anywhere near what could of happened to me 40 years ago over marijuana in Texas. After that anything is better.
I've been able admit it once before, I lived in Fairbanks Alaska when marijuana was legalized, nothing changed just an an option to alcohol for many. Then to the lower 48 where it was illegal again.
So I've gone through the U.S legal swing on this marijuana thing,
It's something I wouldn't want asked, I've worked for the DOE before and didn't smoke as I could of lost my job, which payed well and enjoyable work. I haven't smoked marijuana for a long time for that reason, I smoke the evil weed now, I eat the evil weed in cookies, I can enjoy marijuana once again.
Every account I have in under a different handle, each piece of mobile equipment is under a different persona http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/ I don't do social sites only because I don't care for them.
I've nothing to hide, it's just what I do. I was security conscious long before Gore gave the public access to the Internet.
Forte Agent mail reader lets you have multiple personalities, POP3ing Email from your other accounts. -I don't care for online e-mail.
Google will catch up with you if you have multiple Gmail accounts; asking if you would like to combine them and use your real full name Mr. Micky Mouse . I see this as an IP match and where the weak link is.
It's what I do, but not a fanatic about it, I know there are key phrases, and statements I'm prone to use no matter the account.
Just use a HOSTS file it blocks most of your tracking and spam online, it's your E-mail address that screws you (spam wise), I use https://spamgourmet.com/ for disposable Email addresses, many filter that address and don't allow it. -A HOSTS file block tracking ie if you don't touch their site they don't know about you or your surfing habits.
Root (jailbreak) your mobile equipment so you can use a HOSTS file cause your phone/tablet has conversations with the trackers. Google Play Store put a halt to programs that stopped that conversation, so you have to find your blockers elsewhere.
And always read ToS's and Privacy Policies, while they may not be telling you the truth they do list sites you need to block if you use their service (tracking). Also one's with a hardcore we collect everything policy I've no use for (Angy Birds (rovio.com)).
The NSA can crack 4096-bit PGP keys? I doubt it. Seems like FUD to dissuade people from even attempting to use encryption
Doesn't say they cracked a PGP Key, they "acquired" them.
FTA:
by getting their voluntary collaboration, forcing their cooperation with court orders or surreptitiously stealing their encryption keys or altering their software or hardware.
To get a key, you give it to them, they take you to court, they install malware. or mechanical key logger.
A PGP message has been cracked by using Distributed computing (think Folding@home) and lots of time.
But just that one message you would have to do the same thing all over again to another message even if from the same person.
Security is a strong PGP key kept safe and away from your PC, using a spare computer running DOS PGP version 2.6.Xg. PGP commercial versions of course are useless.
This site has changed since I last visited (years?), it used to have a large list of companies you could select to opt out from. Now it just reads your cookies, 33 companies are listed that "honor" your opt-outs.
I use a rather large HOSTS file and delete my cookies when my browser closes, so this site does me little good. my results: "These 0 member companies have enabled Online Behavioral Ads for this web browser."
I had a security clearance in the military. All it meant was basically that I hadn't been caught doing anything illegal, and that I wasn't old enough to have had to file bankruptcy because of family medical emergencies and mortgages. Nor was I old enough to have pissed off any neighbors enough for them to bad mouth me:)
Being young can be an advantage for security clearances...
I agree, being young has many advantages as opposed to being out of school and on your on for any length of time.
Many years ago my job required a Q clearance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_clearance (civilian equivalent of top secret with access to nuclear material) as did everyone that worked there. While the plant had it's older operators it was a young group, many just out of high school and their first job, managers still in their 20's.
I on the other hand had been around the block and had a history, it took me longer than most to get my clearance.
BTW: through the freedom of information act you can get what the FBI has on you, it's interesting to read what others had to say about you.
The book "The Hubble Wars" mentions all material one gets from using the Hubble can be held for a year before being released. (So they can find the next big thing and not some computer geek using Photoshop, abbreviated term:/.'er)
This event is two/three years old, Guess different craft, different contracts for release.
To be "crapped up" is to have radiation of some sort on you (which you just wash off in a special area). I'm sure it came from having $hit on you and it stuck.
To perform the analysis, the team had to sift through millions of letters of genetic code using a computer program developed to calculate the probability of convergent changes occurring by chance, so they could reliably identify ‘odd-man-out’ genes.
I was following a different train of thought; trying to support it came across this:
0.0.0.0 is invalid, so should cause an immediate fail without attempting to connect. If you run a webserver on your computer, a loopback address may actually hit the webserver and require a response.
0.0.0.0 is linux format, 127.0.0.1 is another format and the one I use; the top of the HOSTS file determines which is used 0.0.0.0. LocalHost or 127.0.0.1 localHost
So 0.0.0.0 www.login.facebook.com would go to LocalHost or you -satisfying the request be it you or a link from a web page.
The HOSTS file is a routing file. you can also use for shortcuts like 74.125.235.33 findnow - typing findnow in the address bar would take you to Google.
A HOSTS file is simple tracking, malware protection that even speeds up page loadings by removing the non article stuff.
Are you sure you did it right in your hosts file? You should go ask APK just to make sure, nobody knows hosts files better than he does.
Yes, thanks for that. I do run APK once in a while to update my HOSTS file (sits at 4.377 MB now) but this was at the Router level, blocked sites (I have a HotSpot available to whoever).
After the reply I went and added it to the HOSTS file itself and it's blocked. I just reinstalled Windows 7 this last week so still tweaking it.
The post is pretty bad without a link to the actual updates../ has fallen a bit.
Poor Sarah Rose and the rest that posted they will not allow that, they are posting under that ToS
so of course they do.
I want nothing to do with facebook, I don't trust Mark Zuckerberg and want no part of him.
I made mention on/. that I disabled my account 4 years ago but it wasn't, I went through the motions
but it claimed I could revive my account by logging in again. Someone replied to me how to really delete your facebook account.
I logged in with my old info and there it was -my account I closed out ages ago; hopefully it's gone now.
I have blocked Facebook at the router level but still able to read that ToS, many lines in my HOSTS file
deal with facebook yet I still get through. Recently I've hit facebook pages which shortly claim I need to log
in to read, ain't going to happen; nut I figure it's too late my info has been posted, Not sure what I posted,
I'd never give a real name, address or any real info, but I did post a picture.
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He knew the exact time he made the transaction. He knew the amount. He knew other details.
So, really, wtf?
I am not going to read the article. This is some sort of fear mongering.
Ya stupid article (I didn't read it either). They purchase something safe like marijuana then have the balls to say they purchased drugs.
Buy some Adderall I've seen lots of that for sale on the silk road.
Digitial Forensics for Prosecutors presentation suggests Truecrypt has a backdoor.
http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=770&pgno=0
The entire link inadvertently explains why cloud storage shouldn't be used, and that mobile devices are your worst enemy.
The only mention of TrueCrypt is this sentence:
"Currently available for major software - Microsoft bitlocker,
FileVault, BestCrypt, TrueCrypt, Etc" (sic)
It does have these gems
"The Patriot Act allows for the use of backdoors for counter terrorist investigations"
The use of backdoors cannot be detected or proven.
Vendors are legally and commercially prevented from acknowledging their backdoors.
Defense will not be able to prove their existence.
The files can be described as "forensically obtained"
Users of mobile devices and cloud storage sign off on their rights to data scanning.
There is no opt our option.
Lots more...
PDF can be downloaded here:
http://www.techarp.com/article/LEA/Encryption_Backdoor/Computer_Forensics_for_Prosecutors_(2013)_Part_1.pdf
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html">http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
quoting Ken Thompson
I would like to criticize the press in its handling of the "hackers," the 414 gang
God I guess...
The 414s gained notoriety in the early 1980s as a group of friends and computer hackers who broke into dozens of high-profile computer systems, including ones at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and Security Pacific Bank.
They were eventually identified as six teenagers, taking their name after the area code of their hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Ranging in age from 16 to 22, they met as members of a local Explorer Scout troop. The 414s were investigated and identified by the FBI in 1983. There was widespread media coverage of them at the time, and 17-year-old Neal Patrick, a student at Rufus King High School, emerged as spokesman and "instant celebrity" during the brief frenzy of interest, which included Patrick appearing on the September 5, 1983 cover of Newsweek.
September 5, 1983 cover of Newsweek
http://mimg.ugo.com/201102/0/6/5/175560/cuts/4c6de9daa1c16-23680n_480x480.jpg
Text from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_414s
Moral
The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself..... A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
You and the submitter in on this one? As the answer is a resounding NO.
A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.
For people like me that didn't know, microcode can also be known as firmware, bios update
or "code in a device" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcode
Ken Thompson's Acknowledgment
I first read of the possibility of such a Trojan horse in an Air Force critique (4) of the security of an early implementation of Multics.
(4.) Karger, P.A., and Schell, R.R. Multics Security Evaluation: Vulnerability Analysis. ESD-TR-74-193, Vol II, June 1974, p 52.
So in theory you can't even trust the code you write as your video card could change it.
--
If you aren't paranoid yet, just wait
This is because "the country" is really an empire, not a country. Would you find it odd that people in places under the US's imperial control (either formally or informally) don't always speak English?
I don't know if it counts but the Philippines. -It used to be under US control formally if for only a little while, informally a long time.
They have the same problem China does and it's a smaller area, The most spoken language is Tagalog and even then
so many distance regional differences many can't talk to each other.
That's the way it was when I lived there; hitting the wikipedia it's much worse than I thought, as Tagalog has been replaced
with Filipino and English
Official status
Filipino is constitutionally designated as the national language of the Philippines and, along with English, one of two official languages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipino_language
I heard it as well...
When the culling comes I figure we're safe as we can "play the game".
If they were really high-end they would be Gold.
It's a little known fact, but diamond has the highest thermal conductivity of any substance you're ever likely to encounter, beating silver by a whopping 350%. The only reason it's never used for thermal applications is that forming it into arbitrary shapes is almost beyond mankind's capability, and even if we did manage to do it, the cost would be astronomical. However, if it could somehow be done, and done cheaply, it would be the ultimate heat sink material.
Thanks for that!
Just recently saw a thermal compound with diamonds http://www.amazon.com/Innovation-Cooling-Diamond-Thermal-Compound/dp/B0042IEVD8 I didn't give it a second thought as someones always pushing a newer better compound. Guess I'll pick some up and give it a try.
If they were really high-end they would be Gold.
But seriously, I use the stock fan/heatsink that comes with the CPU and even with video encoding pushing all 6 cores to almost 100% I have no problems. "High End CPU Cooler" is as much of a scam as "High End Bottled Water".
Ever read the booklet (Installation instructions) that comes with the Intel CPUs? I did cause I wanted to know just what temperature the chip should run at? For my i7-950 the "internal ambient temperature should be at or below 38 C, this is maintained with the integration of of a Thermally Advantaged Chassis". :}
(The ambient temperature is measured at the inlet to the processor thermal solution)
-From my booklet, it's been changed and that entry removed so I can't link to it..
The stock Intel CPU cooler can't come close to maintaining that limit.
"High End CPU Cooler" is as much of a scam as "High End Bottled Water".
No, it really isn't. Besides having quantifiably better cooling capabilities, these high-end coolers are often much quieter. I have a Noctua NH-D14, and while it's not as pretty as, say, the Thermaltake FioOCK from TFA, I find it far superior to any stock solution I've ever used. I can't even hear the thing, despite it having two 120mm fans.
So you have 2.4 pounds, that extends 5" above the mother board, then more than likely it sits sideways.
That's a lot of stress on anything over a period of time. Moving your system at all increase the chance of spider cracks.
And my feelings over these type of coolers, I've always gone with an enclosed water cooling system
http://www.newegg.com/Water-Liquid-Cooling/SubCategory/ID-575?Tpk=water%20coolers
They are small, light weight and can remove a lot of heat Using a CORSAIR H50 (no longer being sold),
i7-950 chip at 4.4Ghz running OCCT for a hour and never got above 65 C
I now use a Thermaltake CLW0217 It keeps my system very cool. But I wouldn't recommend it to anybody, as it takes up
an entire USB header and requires Windows software to operate it (fan control). I just want it full on, so soon to be rewiring it that way.
Ah but the feds have blinked and said what is planned is good with them.
No, no they haven't, and if you think they have, you are only fooling yourself. Until the law is actually changed, or the drug rescheduled, it continues to be a violation of federal law to put THC into your body by any means. That means that you're confessing to a federal crime on the internet. Good plan!
Nothing they could do to me would come close, anywhere near what could of happened to me 40 years ago over marijuana in Texas.
After that anything is better.
I've been able admit it once before, I lived in Fairbanks Alaska when marijuana was legalized, nothing changed just an an option to alcohol for many.
Then to the lower 48 where it was illegal again.
So I've gone through the U.S legal swing on this marijuana thing,
That's a dumb thing to say. It's not a hard question. You say no, because it's still federally illegal and the security clearance is a federal matter.
Ah but the feds have blinked and said what is planned is good with them. The local paper said there will be 25 stores within
23 miles of me by next June. http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/09/04/2555938/state-sets-max-of-334-marijuana.html
It's something I wouldn't want asked, I've worked for the DOE before and didn't smoke as I could of lost my job, which payed well and enjoyable work.
I haven't smoked marijuana for a long time for that reason, I smoke the evil weed now, I eat the evil weed in cookies, I can enjoy marijuana once again.
Every account I have in under a different handle, each piece of mobile equipment is under a different
persona http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/ I don't do social sites only because I don't care for them.
I've nothing to hide, it's just what I do. I was security conscious long before Gore gave the public access to the Internet.
Forte Agent mail reader lets you have multiple personalities, POP3ing Email from your other accounts.
-I don't care for online e-mail.
Google will catch up with you if you have multiple Gmail accounts; asking if you would like to combine
them and use your real full name Mr. Micky Mouse . I see this as an IP match and where the weak link is.
It's what I do, but not a fanatic about it, I know there are key phrases, and statements I'm prone to use
no matter the account.
Just use a HOSTS file it blocks most of your tracking and spam online, it's your E-mail address that screws you (spam wise),
I use https://spamgourmet.com/ for disposable Email addresses, many filter that address and don't allow it.
-A HOSTS file block tracking ie if you don't touch their site they don't know about you or your surfing habits.
Root (jailbreak) your mobile equipment so you can use a HOSTS file cause your phone/tablet has conversations with the trackers.
Google Play Store put a halt to programs that stopped that conversation, so you have to find your blockers elsewhere.
And always read ToS's and Privacy Policies, while they may not be telling you the truth they do list sites you need to block
if you use their service (tracking). Also one's with a hardcore we collect everything policy I've no use for (Angy Birds (rovio.com)).
The NSA can crack 4096-bit PGP keys? I doubt it. Seems like FUD to dissuade people from even attempting to use encryption
Doesn't say they cracked a PGP Key, they "acquired" them.
FTA:
by getting their voluntary collaboration, forcing their cooperation with court orders or surreptitiously stealing their encryption keys or
altering their software or hardware.
To get a key, you give it to them, they take you to court, they install malware. or mechanical key logger.
A PGP message has been cracked by using Distributed computing (think Folding@home) and lots of time.
But just that one message you would have to do the same thing all over again to another message even if from the same person.
Security is a strong PGP key kept safe and away from your PC, using a spare computer running DOS PGP version 2.6.Xg.
PGP commercial versions of course are useless.
Never under estimate the power of the press and what "they" want you to know and/or believe. /. breaks - even preview at tinyurl breaks it. (damn weird link)
http://tinyurl.com/lc8znnf links to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_of_the_Spanish–American_War
a link
http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/#completed give you the ablity to opt out of data collection but there's a catch,
you have to keep your cookies.
This site has changed since I last visited (years?), it used to have a large list of companies you could select to opt out from.
Now it just reads your cookies, 33 companies are listed that "honor" your opt-outs.
I use a rather large HOSTS file and delete my cookies when my browser closes, so this site does me little good.
my results: "These 0 member companies have enabled Online Behavioral Ads for this web browser."
Posted in case someone else can make use of it.
Do you smoke marijuana...
Interesting question and such a dilemma; one really doesn't know how to answer that question anymore.
Amazon is out of Washington state, one of two that have legalized marijuana when sold through the state itself (taxed).
Why do you think clearances are so sought after?
{...}
2) relatively few youngsters
Then again ...
I had a security clearance in the military. All it meant was basically that I hadn't been caught doing anything illegal, and that I wasn't old enough to have had to file bankruptcy because of family medical emergencies and mortgages. Nor was I old enough to have pissed off any neighbors enough for them to bad mouth me :)
Being young can be an advantage for security clearances ...
I agree, being young has many advantages as opposed to being out of school and on your on for any length of time.
Many years ago my job required a Q clearance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_clearance (civilian equivalent of top secret with access to
nuclear material) as did everyone that worked there. While the plant had it's older operators it was a young group, many just out of high school
and their first job, managers still in their 20's.
I on the other hand had been around the block and had a history, it took me longer than most to get my clearance.
BTW: through the freedom of information act you can get what the FBI has on you, it's interesting to read what others had to say about you.
The book "The Hubble Wars" mentions all material one gets from using the Hubble can be held for a year before being released. /.'er)
(So they can find the next big thing and not some computer geek using Photoshop, abbreviated term:
This event is two/three years old, Guess different craft, different contracts for release.
So which bogeyman is it that is shutting these down? Radiation scare, capitalism and greed, 'green marketing', or Cold War fallout?
Well for one it's become a 159,200 year commitment. No place to dispose of nuclear waste; the spent fuel has to be kept on location.
A developing story for the Fukushima nuclear plants are the weakening supports for the storage basins which holds their spent fuel.
In this area they are known as radiation whores.
To be "crapped up" is to have radiation of some sort on you (which you just wash off in a special area).
I'm sure it came from having $hit on you and it stuck.
Different areas, different terms.
To perform the analysis, the team had to sift through millions of letters of genetic code using a computer program developed
to calculate the probability of convergent changes occurring by chance, so they could reliably identify ‘odd-man-out’ genes.
I was following a different train of thought; trying to support it came across this:
"In the traditional approach, the dynamic programming based pair-wise alignment is used for measuring the similarity between two sequences.
This method does not work well in a large data set."
http://link.springer.com/static-content/lookinside/465/chp%253A10.1007%252F3-540-45554-X_47/000.png
Paywall, the above is all there is. Text mining techniques were used in the research.
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F3-540-45554-X_47
Hoang Kiem and Do Phuc (snicker, he said...).
It would be useful if you would detail the steps you took to "really delete" your Facebook account. Others might benefit. ;)
Damn was hoping to avoid that (having to look it up) :}
But your right, it could help others so I did find it.
The reply is here
Facebook's Android App Can Now Retrieve Data About What Apps You Use
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3647639&cid=43456911
The link given http://m.wikihow.com/Permanently-Delete-a-Facebook-Account
And a belated thank you to SternisheFan, it seems to of worked.
0.0.0.0 is invalid, so should cause an immediate fail without attempting to connect. If you run a webserver on your computer, a loopback address may actually hit the webserver and require a response.
0.0.0.0 is linux format, 127.0.0.1 is another format and the one I use; the top of the HOSTS file determines which is used
0.0.0.0. LocalHost
or
127.0.0.1 localHost
There's some who claim "127.0.0.1 on some machines this may run minutely faster" http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero/
So 0.0.0.0 www.login.facebook.com would go to LocalHost or you -satisfying the request be it you or a link from a web page.
The HOSTS file is a routing file. you can also use for shortcuts like 74.125.235.33 findnow - typing findnow in the address bar would take you to Google.
A HOSTS file is simple tracking, malware protection that even speeds up page loadings by removing the non article stuff.
Are you sure you did it right in your hosts file? You should go ask APK just to make sure, nobody knows hosts files better than he does.
Yes, thanks for that. I do run APK once in a while to update my HOSTS file (sits at 4.377 MB now)
but this was at the Router level, blocked sites (I have a HotSpot available to whoever).
After the reply I went and added it to the HOSTS file itself and it's blocked. I just reinstalled Windows 7 this last week so still tweaking it.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-site-governance/section-by-section-summary-of-updates/10153200989785301
The post is pretty bad without a link to the actual updates. ./ has fallen a bit.
Poor Sarah Rose and the rest that posted they will not allow that, they are posting under that ToS so of course they do.
I want nothing to do with facebook, I don't trust Mark Zuckerberg and want no part of him.
I made mention on /. that I disabled my account 4 years ago but it wasn't, I went through the motions
but it claimed I could revive my account by logging in again. Someone replied to me how to really delete your facebook account.
I logged in with my old info and there it was -my account I closed out ages ago; hopefully it's gone now.
I have blocked Facebook at the router level but still able to read that ToS, many lines in my HOSTS file deal with facebook yet I still get through. Recently I've hit facebook pages which shortly claim I need to log in to read, ain't going to happen; nut I figure it's too late my info has been posted, Not sure what I posted, I'd never give a real name, address or any real info, but I did post a picture.
And I wonder what the heck the submitter / article author is smoking?
I read the link from the summery http://www.gamefront.com/mechwarrior-online-forum-ragesplosion/ (how to write an article!) and links from that. One thing I noticed is everybody on the user side is back tracking, this thread http://mwomercs.com/forums/topic/132638-3rd-person-an-update-and-apology-feedback-thread/ while locked after three pages is full of edits.