Google needs to put in a hard-wired LED that's on when recording. Yes, you'll look like a Borg when you're recording, but that's a small price to pay for others' comfort.
Can people still obscure it? Yes... but if I see someone walking around with a Google Glass *and* a bit of black electrical tape over the front, I know I'm dealing with a complete d-bag and can treat them accordingly.
Finally we know why the terminators have red eyes!
Google with their insistence on a camera-based social-media augmented-reality creepy-invasive experience is going to set back the cause of direct human-computer interaction by years.
Honestly I don't want a camera in my "glass". I want a link to something like my desktop computing resources. It's an intimate experience between me and the computer, not between my computer and the environment around me. Sure there are some cute apps you can do with the camera, but the creepy factor is going to make people as self-conscious and obvious as a Segway rider (and we know how that turned out).
When I can PAY for a device that has MY interests at heart rather than the latest data power grab by Google then I'll be interested.
Connect me with the Internet then get the fuck out of the way. I don't need you to mediate every interaction I have, not only with information from the net but with the real world around me.
G.
If it weren't Google it would be some other company because while you don't want this functionality there are no doubt many who do.
I would like the functionality that you describe - but I have no compunction whatsoever about recording with the same device, my son playing sports, for example.
The technology is there and like any other technology there are good uses and bad.
This is far more troublesome for people who *do* run servers... If you are getting abusive users from a mobile ISP, how do you ban those users? Block the IP and you block every customer of that isp.
Just to note that this problem is going to increase exponentially as we move to 4G due to the increased bandwidth.
Carriers are usually required to log who has which IP at which time but this isn't foolproof either, especially regarding pre-paid cards.
After having been harassed a few times during business trips to London after having worked for two London-based companies, I decided to never fly into London again if I can help it. Instead, I fly into Paris from either Moscow or the US, have a nice lunch somewhere near Gare du Nord, then take the Eurostar into London (about a 2-hour ride). The UK immigration officials at the rail station are way nicer and more polite, the process is much faster, and in general the suckage is much lower.
Cheers!
pr3d
For similar reasons I no longer fly into NY. I'd rather fly into Boston and drive to NY then deal with the mess at JFK.
I weekly travel between countries due to my current consultancy work. In my limited experience, the border guards really aren't there waiting for you in arrivals for European or common-wealth countries.
I've been stopped at the border and hassled by a dim border gard. He was clearly trying to catch me in a lie and asked a question about somewhere I was living. He didn't like my (correct) answer and insisted I must be wrong, repeatedly.
I've never had personal details questioned by UK border control.
What the hell are you supposed to say to an obnoxious border guard who won't accept the legal, legitimate truth as an answer?
I wouldn't know, I have yet to encounter it.
Can't tell you how it is from a EU resident perspective, but I definitely get asked about where I am coming from, going to, and sometimes where I am staying when going to the EU from the US and returning to the US from the EU. The US people don't always ask many questions, but sometimes they ask me more as a citizen than the EU guards ask. I probably was hassled the least coming from a certain South American country shortly after 9/11, which is surprising.
I'm American.
My own personal favorite border fun time was coming from France, where I live after having married a French woman, back to the US to visit my family. It was during the 'Freedom Fries' idiotic times (which I won't get into for fear of being called a troll) and I was questioned for more than an hour by the border guards who wanted to find something to use against me for having become a traitor, evidently, by residing outside of the the US of motherfucking A.
It was really a wakeup call realizing that being a US citizen doesn't actually guarantee entry into the US.
All right. How about we go back to the perfectly reasonable pre 9/11 security procedures, minus the lax "it could never happen here" mentality, and otherwise just trust folks not to be complete assholes? And accept that every now and then someone will do something terrible and people will die. It's life, shit happens. Most of it doesn't happen on airplanes. How many planes would have to blow up just to compete with the number of deaths due to drunk driving*? And yet we don't jump all over ourselves to throw away human dignity and vital liberties to stamp that out.
*Estimated 10,000+ U.S. drunk driving deaths in 2010. Most commercial airliners seat 200-500, let's call it 350 average. So, we need to average about three fully-loaded planes being destroyed every month just to be competitive with drunk driving, which itself doesn't actually rank all that high as a cause of death. Provided they keep the cabin door locked there's not much worse that a terrorist can do, and if we're getting three successful suicide bombings a month that's probably a symptom of far worse problems than lax airport security.
The crap put in place since 911 isn't to protect the people in the airliners but was put in place by and for the protection of the politicians and wealthy business people who are the would be high value targets.
That it's inconvenient for the rest of us doesn't matter to them a whit.
The best way to combat such government behavior is a real life DDOS. Everyone should report at Heathrow claiming to know Snowden, Assange and de Miranda. Carry encrypted thumb drives with you (chockfull with vile porn ofcourse). Refuse to decrypt without a court order. This will overload the system within 24 hours. It would be even funnier if millions of ordinary citizens would end up on the no fly list. Report all government personnel and officials for spying! After all, they are part of a government with a broad illegal spying program targeted against their own population. So report them at home and overseas so they end up on no fly lists. Once a critical mass of people disallowed to fly has been reached, especially public servants, these programs will quickly get a review.
And just like a DDOS they would start filtering and dropping packets (ie refusing people entry).
Thugs have no authority. The are responsible for the crimes they commit and should be jailed immediately.
...unless they have guns and governmental backing. In this case, they're more properly classified as goons.:(
Usually, the best way to deal with a goon is by one of two methods, depending on governmental status:
1) publicity and shaming of their superiors. You do it hard and heavy enough to generate outrage, and force change to a positive direction (change in policies, fire the SOBs who performed the violations, etc.) When appropriate, a loud and messy lawsuit can provide the same results, and simultaneously enrich you a bit for your time and trouble.
2) subterfuge and quiet resistance. In the case when a government has begun its descent into fascism, your best bet is hide what you must hide, find workarounds to the obstacles, and quietly help remove the fascist elements of the government. As an addendum, carefully probe the possibility of bribery and other methods.
Sadly, we're fast becoming forced to go with #2 - in most of the EU and in the US. In the above case, I suggest that the lady in this story continue to scream bloody murder, and perhaps launch a lawsuit for any credible reason (she's a lawyer, it wouldn't be hard for her to figure out some reason) but meanwhile use the Chunnel next time, and then leave/arrive from a French (or possibly Spanish or German) airport.
*sigh*... if only the population at large would get their eyeballs off the TV and celebrity gossip for long enough to realize just how far down the shitter we're all heading...
"but meanwhile use the Chunnel next time, and then leave/arrive from a French (or possibly Spanish or German) airport."
The UK still does border controls on those arriving from European locations.
According to this theory, some highly advanced computer programmer of the future has devised this simulation, and we are unknowingly part of it.
Wouldn't he have to be a computer programmer of the present, if he wrote this simulation and we're in it RIGHT NOW?
-jcr
Not if we're in a simulation of the past of the programmer's timeline.
i.e. If you wrote a simulation super accurately modeling life in 5000 B.C. the sims would be in their present but the programmer - you - would be in their future.
Yeah...ask the Soviets or Cuba how that worked. (Or Venezuela if you need a more recent example.) Hell,. just ask Europe how that's going. (Looking at you, France.)
Filtering ingress packets with RFC1918 source IPs may be useful in some circumstances, but it doesn't help in amplified attacks.
The source in these cases will always be a legitimate uninfected machine that is just doing its job (such as a DNS or NTP server). The source IP will be whatever IP the requester expects to see, such as the destination IP of the initial request.
In amplified attacks, the forgery occurs in the initial request packets, all of which have the source IP of the DoS target, which must always be an actual external IP. This is where egress filtering is useful, because none of these requests should have an IP outside of the subnet serviced by the egress filter.
Agreed except that egress filtering is not practical for inter provider transit traffic and not all SPs filter their customers' traffic.
You don't understand the problem, it isn't about being nice, or anything wrong you might have done to them. They are ultimately going to come after New Zealand because New Zealand doesn't conform to the rules they demand you live under. Do you know anything about the age of Islamic conquest, such as when they invaded Europe or took Constantinople? That is what they are about, their goal is a Muslim world even if it takes force of arms. You don't want them to get stronger.
Because it is VERY difficult to ascertain whether the source of an inbound packet is forged unless it is very obvious (like an IP that should be inside your network or on a private subnet). Outbound traffic on the other hand should almost always have a source IP that belongs to your assigned ranges (or configured private subnets).
On the Internet there should also never be traffic with RFC1918 source IP addressing, which is easily filtered on ingress.
"The lawsuits against the oil companies allege fraud or other civil, not criminal, claims, which have a lower burden of proof and do not lead to jail time."
Perhaps if there were more criminal claims there would be less corporate fraud (etc).
It's not always laziness. I added outgoing filters to my routers so that it only allowed source addresses from my network. That was great at stopping DOS attacks, but as I found-out the hard way, several of my customers were sending outbound traffic with source addresses not on my network. That was in 1997. For the next several years, it was a huge hassle to keep adding additional source address ranges for customers. An ISP selling a high speed connection has to allow outgoing traffic from addresses they don't own. That's the entire point of selling transit.
The declaration from China came in the middle of a bubble. In my analysis (yay, random internet guy analysis), it seems as if that drop was not because of any direct impact of the declaration, but simply came because enough people knew it was in a bubble and was simply waiting to sell as soon the bubble seemed to burst. The declaration acted as a signal for the end of the bubble.
Seems to be flattening out now that Mt Gox is allowing withdrawals again. I think it'll come back up now - until the next bad news story, just like any other currency:-)
I'm not sure how one can evaluate whether the bitcoin value is in a bubble or not as there is no way to evaluate how much it should be worth other than current demand, which will fluctuate based on whatever news is happening at the moment rather than on any intrinsic value or economic indicators which might be used to valuate real property or nation based currencies.
For the China adjustment though, I think is more because it had been very recently taking off in China specifically as their currency is very tightly controlled and when the government came down on exchanging it the Chinese have backed off to see what happens. Being as large a country as they are, combined with the currency controls (which is unusual for a large country to have in place) means that the potential demand in China is enormous.
Every single scientist should fight it. Make them execute every single scummy plan they have on the books. If hundreds of thousands of scientists fight back, you'll see just how "unlimited" corp's pockets actually are. When the majority revolts, the corporate overlords quickly discover pushing their agenda gets costly and isn't worth it anymore...
Depends on how many of those scientists can be bought, perhaps with funding for their projects for example.
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Google needs to put in a hard-wired LED that's on when recording. Yes, you'll look like a Borg when you're recording, but that's a small price to pay for others' comfort.
Can people still obscure it? Yes... but if I see someone walking around with a Google Glass *and* a bit of black electrical tape over the front, I know I'm dealing with a complete d-bag and can treat them accordingly.
Finally we know why the terminators have red eyes!
Google with their insistence on a camera-based social-media augmented-reality creepy-invasive experience is going to set back the cause of direct human-computer interaction by years.
Honestly I don't want a camera in my "glass". I want a link to something like my desktop computing resources. It's an intimate experience between me and the computer, not between my computer and the environment around me. Sure there are some cute apps you can do with the camera, but the creepy factor is going to make people as self-conscious and obvious as a Segway rider (and we know how that turned out).
When I can PAY for a device that has MY interests at heart rather than the latest data power grab by Google then I'll be interested.
Connect me with the Internet then get the fuck out of the way. I don't need you to mediate every interaction I have, not only with information from the net but with the real world around me.
G.
If it weren't Google it would be some other company because while you don't want this functionality there are no doubt many who do.
I would like the functionality that you describe - but I have no compunction whatsoever about recording with the same device, my son playing sports, for example.
The technology is there and like any other technology there are good uses and bad.
Creepy and rude nerds are their target market. How's that going to work?
Not to mention every teenage boy that wants x-ray vision...
Chess - the only game that I never get bored with and always come back to.
This is far more troublesome for people who *do* run servers...
If you are getting abusive users from a mobile ISP, how do you ban those users?
Block the IP and you block every customer of that isp.
Just to note that this problem is going to increase exponentially as we move to 4G due to the increased bandwidth.
Carriers are usually required to log who has which IP at which time but this isn't foolproof either, especially regarding pre-paid cards.
Greetings.
After having been harassed a few times during business trips to London after having worked for two London-based companies, I decided to never fly into London again if I can help it. Instead, I fly into Paris from either Moscow or the US, have a nice lunch somewhere near Gare du Nord, then take the Eurostar into London (about a 2-hour ride). The UK immigration officials at the rail station are way nicer and more polite, the process is much faster, and in general the suckage is much lower.
Cheers!
pr3d
For similar reasons I no longer fly into NY. I'd rather fly into Boston and drive to NY then deal with the mess at JFK.
I'm British.
I weekly travel between countries due to my current consultancy work. In my limited experience, the border guards really aren't there waiting for you in arrivals for European or common-wealth countries.
I've never had personal details questioned by UK border control.
I wouldn't know, I have yet to encounter it.
Can't tell you how it is from a EU resident perspective, but I definitely get asked about where I am coming from, going to, and sometimes where I am staying when going to the EU from the US and returning to the US from the EU. The US people don't always ask many questions, but sometimes they ask me more as a citizen than the EU guards ask. I probably was hassled the least coming from a certain South American country shortly after 9/11, which is surprising.
I'm American.
My own personal favorite border fun time was coming from France, where I live after having married a French woman, back to the US to visit my family. It was during the 'Freedom Fries' idiotic times (which I won't get into for fear of being called a troll) and I was questioned for more than an hour by the border guards who wanted to find something to use against me for having become a traitor, evidently, by residing outside of the the US of motherfucking A.
It was really a wakeup call realizing that being a US citizen doesn't actually guarantee entry into the US.
All right. How about we go back to the perfectly reasonable pre 9/11 security procedures, minus the lax "it could never happen here" mentality, and otherwise just trust folks not to be complete assholes? And accept that every now and then someone will do something terrible and people will die. It's life, shit happens. Most of it doesn't happen on airplanes. How many planes would have to blow up just to compete with the number of deaths due to drunk driving*? And yet we don't jump all over ourselves to throw away human dignity and vital liberties to stamp that out.
*Estimated 10,000+ U.S. drunk driving deaths in 2010. Most commercial airliners seat 200-500, let's call it 350 average. So, we need to average about three fully-loaded planes being destroyed every month just to be competitive with drunk driving, which itself doesn't actually rank all that high as a cause of death. Provided they keep the cabin door locked there's not much worse that a terrorist can do, and if we're getting three successful suicide bombings a month that's probably a symptom of far worse problems than lax airport security.
The crap put in place since 911 isn't to protect the people in the airliners but was put in place by and for the protection of the politicians and wealthy business people who are the would be high value targets.
That it's inconvenient for the rest of us doesn't matter to them a whit.
The best way to combat such government behavior is a real life DDOS. Everyone should report at Heathrow claiming to know Snowden, Assange and de Miranda. Carry encrypted thumb drives with you (chockfull with vile porn ofcourse). Refuse to decrypt without a court order. This will overload the system within 24 hours.
It would be even funnier if millions of ordinary citizens would end up on the no fly list. Report all government personnel and officials for spying! After all, they are part of a government with a broad illegal spying program targeted against their own population. So report them at home and overseas so they end up on no fly lists. Once a critical mass of people disallowed to fly has been reached, especially public servants, these programs will quickly get a review.
And just like a DDOS they would start filtering and dropping packets (ie refusing people entry).
Thugs have no authority. The are responsible for the crimes they commit and should be jailed immediately.
...unless they have guns and governmental backing. In this case, they're more properly classified as goons. :(
Usually, the best way to deal with a goon is by one of two methods, depending on governmental status:
1) publicity and shaming of their superiors. You do it hard and heavy enough to generate outrage, and force change to a positive direction (change in policies, fire the SOBs who performed the violations, etc.) When appropriate, a loud and messy lawsuit can provide the same results, and simultaneously enrich you a bit for your time and trouble.
2) subterfuge and quiet resistance. In the case when a government has begun its descent into fascism, your best bet is hide what you must hide, find workarounds to the obstacles, and quietly help remove the fascist elements of the government. As an addendum, carefully probe the possibility of bribery and other methods.
Sadly, we're fast becoming forced to go with #2 - in most of the EU and in the US. In the above case, I suggest that the lady in this story continue to scream bloody murder, and perhaps launch a lawsuit for any credible reason (she's a lawyer, it wouldn't be hard for her to figure out some reason) but meanwhile use the Chunnel next time, and then leave/arrive from a French (or possibly Spanish or German) airport.
*sigh*... if only the population at large would get their eyeballs off the TV and celebrity gossip for long enough to realize just how far down the shitter we're all heading...
"but meanwhile use the Chunnel next time, and then leave/arrive from a French (or possibly Spanish or German) airport."
The UK still does border controls on those arriving from European locations.
He needs a whole new identity to be able to keep wearing the Brian Krebs persona as a modern day Superhero
According to this theory, some highly advanced computer programmer of the future has devised this simulation, and we are unknowingly part of it.
Wouldn't he have to be a computer programmer of the present, if he wrote this simulation and we're in it RIGHT NOW?
-jcr
Not if we're in a simulation of the past of the programmer's timeline.
i.e. If you wrote a simulation super accurately modeling life in 5000 B.C. the sims would be in their present but the programmer - you - would be in their future.
Yeah...ask the Soviets or Cuba how that worked. (Or Venezuela if you need a more recent example.) Hell,. just ask Europe how that's going. (Looking at you, France.)
It's going fine, thanks :-)
France
(and yes I do live in France)
It was probably on the dark side of the moon looking for Transformers...
No it was about the level of written English in the post. Not really worth discussing.
Rand Paul has open disdain for other amendments of the constitution.
Like what?
The one's about taxation.
But that won't stop simple-minded hatemongers from playing the false equivalence game.
And education perhaps.
How many studies were there that showed that smoking wasn't bad for your health?
It would be interesting to know who funded all the referenced studies, as well.
Filtering ingress packets with RFC1918 source IPs may be useful in some circumstances, but it doesn't help in amplified attacks.
The source in these cases will always be a legitimate uninfected machine that is just doing its job (such as a DNS or NTP server). The source IP will be whatever IP the requester expects to see, such as the destination IP of the initial request.
In amplified attacks, the forgery occurs in the initial request packets, all of which have the source IP of the DoS target, which must always be an actual external IP. This is where egress filtering is useful, because none of these requests should have an IP outside of the subnet serviced by the egress filter.
Agreed except that egress filtering is not practical for inter provider transit traffic and not all SPs filter their customers' traffic.
"Cattle are safe."
I just want to say how much I appreciate this part of your comment. :-)
I'm with you on all the rest as well by the way.
You don't understand the problem, it isn't about being nice, or anything wrong you might have done to them. They are ultimately going to come after New Zealand because New Zealand doesn't conform to the rules they demand you live under. Do you know anything about the age of Islamic conquest, such as when they invaded Europe or took Constantinople? That is what they are about, their goal is a Muslim world even if it takes force of arms. You don't want them to get stronger.
Al Qaeda-Trained Terrorists in New Zealand, Prime Minister Says
Because Europeans have never invaded other countries...
Oh sorry, I forgot that's okay when we do it.
Because it is VERY difficult to ascertain whether the source of an inbound packet is forged unless it is very obvious (like an IP that should be inside your network or on a private subnet). Outbound traffic on the other hand should almost always have a source IP that belongs to your assigned ranges (or configured private subnets).
On the Internet there should also never be traffic with RFC1918 source IP addressing, which is easily filtered on ingress.
"The lawsuits against the oil companies allege fraud or other civil, not criminal, claims, which have a lower burden of proof and do not lead to jail time."
Perhaps if there were more criminal claims there would be less corporate fraud (etc).
It's not always laziness. I added outgoing filters to my routers so that it only allowed source addresses from my network. That was great at stopping DOS attacks, but as I found-out the hard way, several of my customers were sending outbound traffic with source addresses not on my network. That was in 1997. For the next several years, it was a huge hassle to keep adding additional source address ranges for customers. An ISP selling a high speed connection has to allow outgoing traffic from addresses they don't own. That's the entire point of selling transit.
BGP Communities
The declaration from China came in the middle of a bubble. In my analysis (yay, random internet guy analysis), it seems as if that drop was not because of any direct impact of the declaration, but simply came because enough people knew it was in a bubble and was simply waiting to sell as soon the bubble seemed to burst. The declaration acted as a signal for the end of the bubble.
Oh, and it seems to keep dropping.
Seems to be flattening out now that Mt Gox is allowing withdrawals again. I think it'll come back up now - until the next bad news story, just like any other currency :-)
I'm not sure how one can evaluate whether the bitcoin value is in a bubble or not as there is no way to evaluate how much it should be worth other than current demand, which will fluctuate based on whatever news is happening at the moment rather than on any intrinsic value or economic indicators which might be used to valuate real property or nation based currencies.
For the China adjustment though, I think is more because it had been very recently taking off in China specifically as their currency is very tightly controlled and when the government came down on exchanging it the Chinese have backed off to see what happens. Being as large a country as they are, combined with the currency controls (which is unusual for a large country to have in place) means that the potential demand in China is enormous.
Every single scientist should fight it. Make them execute every single scummy plan they have on the books. If hundreds of thousands of scientists fight back, you'll see just how "unlimited" corp's pockets actually are. When the majority revolts, the corporate overlords quickly discover pushing their agenda gets costly and isn't worth it anymore...
Depends on how many of those scientists can be bought, perhaps with funding for their projects for example.