I am not sure what you mean about "physical control", since in most countries (including the Soviet Union) most citizens were not chained or imprisoned or otherwise physically controlled. But you are certainly wrong about
in the old Soviet Union, the ruling class there didn't develop mind-twisting distortions of reality
Now, if it had been a friend or two that e-mailed the judge, he might have just warned them off with a "that's not appropriate." But when enough people e-mail to fill his Inbox, it's quite clearly an attempt to influence the judge, and that's not OK.
Well, maybe judges need to be sequestered away from society like juries if they're so easily influenced.
It's not that a judge is easily influenced, it's that he cannot prove to the other party that he was not influenced.
I'd be curious to see how much actual "patient" or "bank customer" data is revealed in "log files."/var/log/maillog on my servers would certainly reveal "business-related email communications" in the sense of senders and recipients. Mail logs might also contain some entries for mail between providers and patients or between banks and their customers. Apache logs wouldn't be so useful, though they do contain the usernames when Basic Authentication is used. But none of those logs would reveal much about the content of those communications. I don't know anything about Outlook so I have no idea how its logs might reveal "captured Outlook accounts containing email communication."
You are assuming that the discovered log files are logs copied verbatim from the victim machines. It is more likely that these are logs of collected data (e.g., keystrokes, mouse clicks, screen snapshots, actual emails) captured using spyware or keyloggers.
If that is the case (and the story does not make it clear), then such logs certainly contain credentials and other identifying information to allow anyone to access bank accounts, private patient data, and so on.
And of course, a desktop application would NEVER have a bug that caused you to lose information or settings. Yes, but on a desktop you control the backup schedule, if you want.
They could probably increase the database of connected items by extracting links from Wikipedia as well as various online dictionaries. This brings up the issue of inaccuries in online sources, but it could slowly corrected over time.
if a crime was committed the criminal has no right to privacy
That's exactly right. The criminal has no right to privacy. But in this case the police were inquiring about a person suspected to be a criminal, not about a proven criminal. The police have to prove to a judge that a certain person is criminal, then they can get a warrant, and then they can get the info on that person's library habits.
Otherwise, if you do not follow this procedure, you might as well throw out the presumption of innocence and assume everybody is a criminal.
The software our company writes uses the registry to store settings. However, the customers that buy our software like to lock down their users to where they have to 'write' access to ANYTHING, especially the registry.
The Windows registry has access control built-in. In XP, in the registry editor (regedit), look for the Permissions entry in the Edit menu.
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Amazon has never made a profit, I don't think. If they did, it was a small sector within the overall company.
That's certainly not true. Amazon has shown profit overall for the last 3 years in a row: https://ycharts.com/companies/...
Link to article: https://www.technologyreview.c...
US incarnation complex
Wow, things have evolved in strange ways since I last learned about the US government.
in the old Soviet Union, the ruling class there didn't develop mind-twisting distortions of reality
Simply read about propaganda in the Soviet Union: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Please remind me how their is no corruption in your country again.
Please remind me why it matters what goes on in another country. Unless of course you see humanity as a race to the bottom.
Hear hear
... so ergo ...
Nice touch there.
Now, if it had been a friend or two that e-mailed the judge, he might have just warned them off with a "that's not appropriate." But when enough people e-mail to fill his Inbox, it's quite clearly an attempt to influence the judge, and that's not OK .
Well, maybe judges need to be sequestered away from society like juries if they're so easily influenced.
It's not that a judge is easily influenced, it's that he cannot prove to the other party that he was not influenced.
From the article: "We dragged 16 people", I'm no stats engineer but isn't that far too low ?
Actually that's a typo. The original article mentioned that "[they] drugged 16 people."
You are assuming that the discovered log files are logs copied verbatim from the victim machines. It is more likely that these are logs of collected data (e.g., keystrokes, mouse clicks, screen snapshots, actual emails) captured using spyware or keyloggers.
If that is the case (and the story does not make it clear), then such logs certainly contain credentials and other identifying information to allow anyone to access bank accounts, private patient data, and so on.
story on one page, without 10 millions ads
And you have only 15 minutes.
I saw enough!
They could probably increase the database of connected items by extracting links from Wikipedia as well as various online dictionaries. This brings up the issue of inaccuries in online sources, but it could slowly corrected over time.
That's exactly right. The criminal has no right to privacy. But in this case the police were inquiring about a person suspected to be a criminal, not about a proven criminal. The police have to prove to a judge that a certain person is criminal, then they can get a warrant, and then they can get the info on that person's library habits.
Otherwise, if you do not follow this procedure, you might as well throw out the presumption of innocence and assume everybody is a criminal.
No worries, it is fixed in CVS.
If you guys hate milk so much, why do you insist on creating nondairy cheese? Come up with your own derivative food, stop copying existing stuff.
When does Cowboy Neal shoot?
Don't forget "Hasta la Vista" with Terminator DRM!