How can the legal system push on this. Facebook can't comply with the order. A refusal in USA law (and I think virtually all other law) requires that you be able to do something. This isn't a question of law it is a question of fact. Enforcement agencies and much of the legal profession simply disbelieve that encryption is based upon mathematical principles that technology companies have no way of breaking. They will lose because the math of encryption is well known and well understood.
The legal system can force FB (et. al.) to introduce a mechanism for intercepting traffic in the same way that telcos are required to have 'lawful intercept' capabilities and forbid them from providing services without such a mechanism in place.
I mean, if the legal system pushes too hard at FB, they should just move off shore. That will be interesting to watch. In fact, FB could easily move [all] their infrastructure offshore, but still remain relevant to its US users.
That way, they can claim not to be an American company and still be able to reap the benefits of being one. How about that?
This is deliberate so that businesses will pay business rates. If you want fast upload, you have to buy a business package.
Maybe so but I live in a residential neighborhood and have tried to get a business connection and I still can't and even if I could, this doesn't help the average internet user. There are probably quite a few new or potential technologies that are being hampered by this, not to mention would-be entrepreneurs. I think upload speeds should be part of net neutrality as limiting upload speeds stifles innovation. We would also all be better off if there were more creators instead of the average internet user being restricted to being only a consumer of bits.
Oh I don't disagree with you - just saying why the telcos make it so.
I wonder how useful it would be to keep a "Ransomware canary" around. I'm thinking of, say, a Word.doc file on a network drive. A process on some separate computer then checks its entropy every few minutes to make sure it has not grown huge.
The idea fails for local files because (as I recall) the more sophisticated ransomware inserts itself as a filesystem driver.
It tries but fails. Time Machine Backups are are read-only to everyone except the backupd process (which runs as root). The malware doesn't run as admin.
Depends on how long the encryption is happening before you realize it vs. how much space you have on your time machine before older backups get erased and encrypted files are stored instead.
The FASTED upload speed I can currently get is 512k and it takes multiple calls to tech support to even find out what your upload speed it. The upload speed also barely changes, if at all, whether you go with the 1M package or the 10M package. Even if they just opened up the upload speed at night, this would help the average user have access to better online backups.
This is deliberate so that businesses will pay business rates. If you want fast upload, you have to buy a business package.
They'd make more money by patenting (and then actively trolling and/or comercializing) this revolutionary technology that can encrypt off-site backups.
Because your backups are off-site... right?
Off site doesn't help if the backup files/drive remain accessible from the infected computer.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/sep/11/minnesota-woman-songs-illegally-downloaded $220,000 for copying 24 songs
or In 2009, a jury ordered Tenenbaum – who graduated from Boston University with a doctorate in statistical physics in May – to pay $675,000 in damages fro copying 30 songs.
Maybe its about time that corporations started getting fines of 10-20 times their income
So long as politicians, lawyers and judges hold stock in said companies there will be no possibility of justice being done.
So, if you find your important file encrypted by ransomware, how difficult is it to just restore it from a Time Machine backup?
After all, once it was encrypted, you can use it anymore, so it is simple to just get the version before the last update time.
Timemachine is network attached storage and, as such, is reachable by the malware.
From the article: "...it seems the malware is also attempting to encrypt Time Machine backup files to prevent victims from recovering their back-up data."
Also, as the attack is over time you will be backing up encrypted files and if you don't have enough space on your time machine to keep backups for a looong time, you may end up with your entire set of backups encrypted.
How is an encrypted drive different from a failed drive, other than that if it's only encrypted you don't even have to buy a new one - just wipe it and restore your backup, maybe reinstall your OS first.
Because cryptolocker type attacks also encrypt any backup drives that are connected (either directly or over the network). You may even be backing up malware encrypted files, overwriting unencrypted files, for some time before the malware notice flashes up on your screen.
Keep in mind that the malware process runs encryption in the background for some time (i.e. until some target percentage of what the malware considers to be 'interesting files' has been encrypted) so you don't generally know that you're under attack until most of your files have been made useless to you.
The only reasonably certain defense is having a lot of one off backups that you make and then store offline. As USB keys are cheap I've been making weekly backups of the data that's really important and just throwing the keys in a drawer.
Reading the public reports, there is ample reason to conclude that Hillary mishandled official. emails while Secretary of State. Whether intentional or not doesn't shield her from prosecution.
Her reputation is already tainted, but does it matter to her supporters?
The point is that politicians can and are attacked using this methodology all the time whether they are guilty or not - not whether this particular politician in this particular incident is guilty or not (I tend to think she is but that's beside the point).
That question has obviously been discussed between US and China and I am quite sure that there is procedures to use to tell China that they will strike North Korea.
Also, since China really isn't expecting a nuclear strike from US or any one else (this isn't the cold war), they probably wouldn't push the "world destroy" button if they saw a missile without first checking it.
Not sure how valid your assumptions are but I am quite sure that America would not accept for any reason anyone nuking Mexico or Canada because they are so close to the US border as there would be, if nothing else, great concern over radiation and fallout, water tables, etc.
So no, I don't agree with you. If the US launched on NK, there would be hell to pay - which is no doubt why the US hasn't done jack shit about a country with known nuclear capabilities threatening to nuke US interests.
My point is China intentionally cut out companies like Google and Facebook where in France's case it would be an unintended consequence.
Your point does not invalidate my point. France does not need the economic pull of the US or China to be able to create a search engine to fill the gap that would briefly be left.
There was already a search engine widely in use in France before the web ever took off, the predominance of which was a major reason that the web wasn't adopted as quickly in France as elsewhere as people already had much of the functionality offered by the nascent Internet. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... for details.
Rumors that Hillary will face questioning by investigators in a few weeks.
This should be a familiar timeline:
- Rumors that the FBI is interviewing lots of people. - upcoming elections trigger - Immunity granted to a key person of interest. - Grand Jury empaneled - reputation attack on politician - Interview the subject of the investigation. - reputation attack on politician - Compare the interviews. - reputation attack on politician - Give your results to the Grand Jury - reputation attack on politician - elections finish - Indictments or case dropped.
Whether a prosecution is forthcoming is an open question of course. And plenty of opportunity to fiddle with the interviews to get the outcome you want.
So, we should race to the bottom then? Cooperate with whatever crass demands those other shitty nations decide we should oppress with? Or actually act like an enlightened democracy and say we won't help you do your shit?
I didn't say anything about giving in - I just said that leaving doesn't leave the hole in services that was stated or at least not for very long as that hole will be quickly filled by some other company who will give in.
In the case of China I think they do it quite deliberately so that Chinese companies can take the market once the western company has been pushed out.
Stop asking yourself how you can stop them from getting it and how we can get it for everybody else. All crap like this story does is get people yelling about govt waste. And all that happens when you try to cut it is your education budget for your kid's school gets cut.
The education budget for our kids schools is being cut anyway and if we don't complain about mis-allocation of taxpayer money like this blatant misuse of public funds then nothing will change.
Maybe nothing will change anyway but if we don't complain it is certain not to.
I mean really - half a million dollars of taxpayer money going to a private school for the rich?
there has been several of these kind of stories here about chinese devices secretly phoning home to an ip addresses (easily found to be chinese) . but doesn't lot of other devices do that, regardless of origin of company that makes, designs, or markets, them ( esp device that are much hyped and costs lot more than this)? so why select obscure presentations targeting chinese ones? btw what are the past accomplishments of michael raggo and mobileIron in this field?
There have been plenty of articles about other companies (mostly lately Microsoft) for exactly this sort of thing so no, Chinese ones are not being singled out for any special attention.
They deliberately use the argument of public freedoms to make money knowing full well that the encryption used to drug traffickers, to serious [criminals] and especially to terrorists.
The same argument applies to cars, guns, knives, shoes... all used by drug traffickers, criminals, and terrorists. Knife companies should be required to install a failsafe so that the blades can be remotely deactivated at the government's request.
The difference being the level of control that the government has over cars, guns, knives, shoes, etc., all of which are physical items.
I would hope that corporations faced with these unreasonable demands simply close up shop in the country. Google CEO going to go to jail? Well, Google pulls out of France and has no presence. Good luck French people with your search queries. If a corporation caves to one country then it will just embolden then next country. Better to draw a line in the sand and tell them to fuck off.
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Do you see no other political solution to your grievance than buying a gun?
Sure there are lots of other solutions... until the day those break down. Hopefully that will never happen. Hopefully.
And in that case do you really think that your modified AR15 is going to be of any use against whatever the government chooses to throw at you?
Technology two hundred years ago made this a winning proposition. Things have changed.
If things get so bad that you have to rely on your gun rights then you've already lost.
How can the legal system push on this. Facebook can't comply with the order. A refusal in USA law (and I think virtually all other law) requires that you be able to do something. This isn't a question of law it is a question of fact. Enforcement agencies and much of the legal profession simply disbelieve that encryption is based upon mathematical principles that technology companies have no way of breaking. They will lose because the math of encryption is well known and well understood.
The legal system can force FB (et. al.) to introduce a mechanism for intercepting traffic in the same way that telcos are required to have 'lawful intercept' capabilities and forbid them from providing services without such a mechanism in place.
I mean, if the legal system pushes too hard at FB, they should just move off shore. That will be interesting to watch. In fact, FB could easily move [all] their infrastructure offshore, but still remain relevant to its US users.
That way, they can claim not to be an American company and still be able to reap the benefits of being one. How about that?
You mean like they already do in order to avoid paying their taxes?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'll take Missing The Point for 800 Alex!
And the question is "This digital currency is centrally controlled and allows the authorities to monitor every purchase you make."
'What is centralized bitcoin?
You are correct.
Bonus question: These transactions will be "entirely, or partially, anonymous"...
Answer: What are political contributions and government spending?
This is deliberate so that businesses will pay business rates. If you want fast upload, you have to buy a business package.
Maybe so but I live in a residential neighborhood and have tried to get a business connection and I still can't and even if I could, this doesn't help the average internet user. There are probably quite a few new or potential technologies that are being hampered by this, not to mention would-be entrepreneurs. I think upload speeds should be part of net neutrality as limiting upload speeds stifles innovation. We would also all be better off if there were more creators instead of the average internet user being restricted to being only a consumer of bits.
Oh I don't disagree with you - just saying why the telcos make it so.
I wonder how useful it would be to keep a "Ransomware canary" around. I'm thinking of, say, a Word .doc file on a network drive. A process on some separate computer then checks its entropy every few minutes to make sure it has not grown huge.
The idea fails for local files because (as I recall) the more sophisticated ransomware inserts itself as a filesystem driver.
Or tripwire which I think should protect very well against cryptolocker type attacks:
http://hints.macworld.com/arti...
It tries but fails. Time Machine Backups are are read-only to everyone except the backupd process (which runs as root). The malware doesn't run as admin.
Depends on how long the encryption is happening before you realize it vs. how much space you have on your time machine before older backups get erased and encrypted files are stored instead.
The FASTED upload speed I can currently get is 512k and it takes multiple calls to tech support to even find out what your upload speed it. The upload speed also barely changes, if at all, whether you go with the 1M package or the 10M package. Even if they just opened up the upload speed at night, this would help the average user have access to better online backups.
This is deliberate so that businesses will pay business rates. If you want fast upload, you have to buy a business package.
They'd make more money by patenting (and then actively trolling and/or comercializing) this revolutionary technology that can encrypt off-site backups.
Because your backups are off-site... right?
Off site doesn't help if the backup files/drive remain accessible from the infected computer.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/sep/11/minnesota-woman-songs-illegally-downloaded
$220,000 for copying 24 songs
or
In 2009, a jury ordered Tenenbaum – who graduated from Boston University with a doctorate in statistical physics in May – to pay $675,000 in damages fro copying 30 songs.
Maybe its about time that corporations started getting fines of 10-20 times their income
So long as politicians, lawyers and judges hold stock in said companies there will be no possibility of justice being done.
So, if you find your important file encrypted by ransomware, how difficult is it to just restore it from a Time Machine backup?
After all, once it was encrypted, you can use it anymore, so it is simple to just get the version before the last update time.
Timemachine is network attached storage and, as such, is reachable by the malware.
From the article: "...it seems the malware is also attempting to encrypt Time Machine backup files to prevent victims from recovering their back-up data."
Also, as the attack is over time you will be backing up encrypted files and if you don't have enough space on your time machine to keep backups for a looong time, you may end up with your entire set of backups encrypted.
How is an encrypted drive different from a failed drive, other than that if it's only encrypted you don't even have to buy a new one - just wipe it and restore your backup, maybe reinstall your OS first.
Because cryptolocker type attacks also encrypt any backup drives that are connected (either directly or over the network). You may even be backing up malware encrypted files, overwriting unencrypted files, for some time before the malware notice flashes up on your screen.
Keep in mind that the malware process runs encryption in the background for some time (i.e. until some target percentage of what the malware considers to be 'interesting files' has been encrypted) so you don't generally know that you're under attack until most of your files have been made useless to you.
The only reasonably certain defense is having a lot of one off backups that you make and then store offline. As USB keys are cheap I've been making weekly backups of the data that's really important and just throwing the keys in a drawer.
Reading the public reports, there is ample reason to conclude that Hillary mishandled official. emails while Secretary of State. Whether intentional or not doesn't shield her from prosecution.
Her reputation is already tainted, but does it matter to her supporters?
The point is that politicians can and are attacked using this methodology all the time whether they are guilty or not - not whether this particular politician in this particular incident is guilty or not (I tend to think she is but that's beside the point).
That question has obviously been discussed between US and China and I am quite sure that there is procedures to use to tell China that they will strike North Korea.
Also, since China really isn't expecting a nuclear strike from US or any one else (this isn't the cold war), they probably wouldn't push the "world destroy" button if they saw a missile without first checking it.
Not sure how valid your assumptions are but I am quite sure that America would not accept for any reason anyone nuking Mexico or Canada because they are so close to the US border as there would be, if nothing else, great concern over radiation and fallout, water tables, etc.
So no, I don't agree with you. If the US launched on NK, there would be hell to pay - which is no doubt why the US hasn't done jack shit about a country with known nuclear capabilities threatening to nuke US interests.
My point is China intentionally cut out companies like Google and Facebook where in France's case it would be an unintended consequence.
Your point does not invalidate my point. France does not need the economic pull of the US or China to be able to create a search engine to fill the gap that would briefly be left.
There was already a search engine widely in use in France before the web ever took off, the predominance of which was a major reason that the web wasn't adopted as quickly in France as elsewhere as people already had much of the functionality offered by the nascent Internet. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... for details.
âoeJust think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!â
- George Carlin
And some percentage of those people are going to resonate very well with Mr. Trump.
And some of that percentage of those people are going to resonate very well with Sanders and Clinton. Gee, so easy...
Agreed :-)
It would be fun to see which percentage went to which candidate -
"Apple isn't to be trusted. Period."
Do you know any companies that are to be trusted?
Rumors that Hillary will face questioning by investigators in a few weeks.
This should be a familiar timeline:
- Rumors that the FBI is interviewing lots of people.
- upcoming elections trigger
- Immunity granted to a key person of interest.
- Grand Jury empaneled
- reputation attack on politician
- Interview the subject of the investigation.
- reputation attack on politician
- Compare the interviews.
- reputation attack on politician
- Give your results to the Grand Jury
- reputation attack on politician
- elections finish
- Indictments or case dropped.
Whether a prosecution is forthcoming is an open question of course. And plenty of opportunity to fiddle with the interviews to get the outcome you want.
So, we should race to the bottom then? Cooperate with whatever crass demands those other shitty nations decide we should oppress with? Or actually act like an enlightened democracy and say we won't help you do your shit?
I didn't say anything about giving in - I just said that leaving doesn't leave the hole in services that was stated or at least not for very long as that hole will be quickly filled by some other company who will give in.
In the case of China I think they do it quite deliberately so that Chinese companies can take the market once the western company has been pushed out.
It's that way for many things. I never took to writing a great novel either although I took English, writing and literature most of my school years.
It's also complete bullshit. As if the President wants his daughters to be programmers. What a crock.
It's an attempted justification for an abuse of taxpayer money.
Stop asking yourself how you can stop them from getting it and how we can get it for everybody else. All crap like this story does is get people yelling about govt waste. And all that happens when you try to cut it is your education budget for your kid's school gets cut.
The education budget for our kids schools is being cut anyway and if we don't complain about mis-allocation of taxpayer money like this blatant misuse of public funds then nothing will change.
Maybe nothing will change anyway but if we don't complain it is certain not to.
I mean really - half a million dollars of taxpayer money going to a private school for the rich?
It's disgusting.
there has been several of these kind of stories here about chinese devices secretly phoning home to an ip addresses (easily found to be chinese) .
but doesn't lot of other devices do that, regardless of origin of company that makes, designs, or markets, them ( esp device that are much hyped and costs lot more than this)?
so why select obscure presentations targeting chinese ones?
btw what are the past accomplishments of michael raggo and mobileIron in this field?
There have been plenty of articles about other companies (mostly lately Microsoft) for exactly this sort of thing so no, Chinese ones are not being singled out for any special attention.
They deliberately use the argument of public freedoms to make money knowing full well that the encryption used to drug traffickers, to serious [criminals] and especially to terrorists.
The same argument applies to cars, guns, knives, shoes... all used by drug traffickers, criminals, and terrorists. Knife companies should be required to install a failsafe so that the blades can be remotely deactivated at the government's request.
The difference being the level of control that the government has over cars, guns, knives, shoes, etc., all of which are physical items.
I would hope that corporations faced with these unreasonable demands simply close up shop in the country. Google CEO going to go to jail? Well, Google pulls out of France and has no presence. Good luck French people with your search queries. If a corporation caves to one country then it will just embolden then next country. Better to draw a line in the sand and tell them to fuck off.
Yeah that worked well in China didn't it.
http://www.baidu.com/
Look at the bright side - the day after a North Korea 1st strike, the problem with North Korea will be solved. Or at least disappear.
Seems doubtful that the west would dare retaliate with nukes given that North Korea is attached to China.
Which is of course why NK gets away with all the bullshit that they get away with to start with.