That is actually a very good point... though not a slam dunk. Is a "cyber warrior" carrying their weapons openly and acting in accordance to international law? If not, Geneva may not apply.
Even if a physical attack is very unlikely, the costs of the lawsuits which would occurs afterwards would make proceeding a rather risky thing either way.
Don't believe me? The lawsuit against the theater which didn't prevent the Aurora theater shooting continues: http://deadline.com/2014/08/ci...
On the one side we have the entrenched and largely ubiquitous gasoline infrastructure trying to keep electricity from becoming the dominant (good luck)... the recent upstart of hydrogen which requires you to rather carefully plan your commute... and LNG sitting there in the corner saying "Don't forget about me guys!"
It's like Verizon vs ATT on pay-per-view side and Sprint in it's own ring waiting for T-Mobile to arrive on PBS.
It's pretty easy to guess which is going to get the bigger numbers in terms of revenue.
I said "not suddenly reach"... the victim in this turned rather quickly and reached.
I'm not excusing the shooting, I just am recognizing how the actions could be misconstrued by an officer... who as your article points out has been (rightly) fired & charged).
So your solution to lawful violence is... lawless violence?
I'm sorry, but assaulting a cop tends not to be a good way to avoid getting shot... just as Michael Brown.
Resisting arrest... even over the allegation of selling untaxed cigarettes is not a good way to avoid being held on the with multiple bodies attempting to restrain you... just ask Eric Garner.
Waving and aiming what looks like a real gun around in a park, then reaching for your waist when police come to the scene is not going to getting shot... just ask Tamir Rice.
Now, when the cop sticks his hands inside of the vehicle and gets it caught in the steering wheel, and fearing that the driver is going to drive away shoots the driver... that's a great way to get yourself charged with murder... just ask Richard Combs.
Why do you assume that the job of a solider or cop is to die?
Patton would also disagree:“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.”
Even with a physical drivers license, they always try to grab your entire wallet before you can pull out the driver license from it.
Always? I've never had that experience, they have always waited for me to collect and hand over the requested items... granted I've not been pulled over that many times.
If true, I'd suggest finding a lawyer filing a report (and perhaps a lawsuit) about such incidences as their unwarranted entry into your vehicle would constitute trespass, taking your wallet from you would be theft, and any examination of the inside contents that are not in clear view without your permission would be an unlawful search (assuming there are no other circumstances that warranted such actions).
If freed... wouldn't a stolen bit of food here or there (as presumably it wouldn't be able to grow or buy it's own) or some public defecation get it arrested? If it dared resist arrest might get some additional charges of assault on a police officer and result in some jail time?
So... you don't see any chance that the grand jury reached their decision without KKK involvement? What about aliens? or the Illuminati? Maybe the Trilateral Commission?
Correct, though career choice is also a major factor.
Back in college I'd noticed that my Computer Science program was probably 90% male... while the Elementary Education program was probably 90% female. While many will claim that teachers should be paid more, I don't hear many arguing they should be paid as well as your average developer.
The powers that be like to tout how background checks have prevented some untold number of bad guys from getting guns... often left out is the woefully small # of prosecutions of said people for their illegal attempts to acquire a firearm.
When the penalty on the books is rarely enforced, it quite easy to look for other ways to do what you want to do and know that you probably aren't going to get caught... a problem that has existed in the voting world for years: http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Give me a single solid example - voter validation leaves a paper trail, so the evidence should be easy to come by.
Utter BS!
What paper trail? You walk in, say you are Joe Blow, live at a given street, make your mark and you get a ballot... the only way you know that this was done fraudulently is if the real Joe Blow comes in later to vote and told that he already did... which mathematically wouldn't always happen depending on how well a fraudulent voter picked their targets.
At the end of the day, so long as you keep your mouth shut (unlike this woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ) you probably aren't going to get caught: http://www.wcpo.com/news/local... as you don't exactly see many cameras in polling stations synced up to when given names are scratches off as having voted.
Validate that the person registering is who they say they are and eligible to vote... and again at the polling place to ensure that someone isn't trying to vote in the name of another?
A bit of upfront coding, a few stolen credit card numbers and spinning up a few hundred instances in AWS to scan for exploitable routers seems rather cheap to me.
We have a system today where we are told it's just too hard to come up with a photo id and show up to the polling station on election day.
Given the degree of laziness and helplessness that the electorate is told it has... is it no wonder that some think that voting from the comfort of your home and on your own PC might be a good thing?
Gimme a old school paper ballot and an oval to fill in after showing my id any day.
You don't need to know the specifics of each and every router... just one or two which there are enough of that you can identify and exploit remotely.
Coming up with a single fake drivers license and voting gets you only a single vote... exploiting say... the standard ISP provided router may be a bit harder... it will get you far more votes and less visibility.
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This was also covered at Defcon 22... and not just for AWS keys: http://youtu.be/nBR7Kru6JX0?t=...
That is actually a very good point... though not a slam dunk. Is a "cyber warrior" carrying their weapons openly and acting in accordance to international law? If not, Geneva may not apply.
Lizard Squad != GOP... or do you have additional information?
Care to cite a single case where that 'twas the sole provocation and the related result?
You are forgetting the implications of tort law.
Even if a physical attack is very unlikely, the costs of the lawsuits which would occurs afterwards would make proceeding a rather risky thing either way.
Don't believe me? The lawsuit against the theater which didn't prevent the Aurora theater shooting continues: http://deadline.com/2014/08/ci...
Do away with the welfare state and fewer people will have a problem with unchecked immigration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
On the one side we have the entrenched and largely ubiquitous gasoline infrastructure trying to keep electricity from becoming the dominant (good luck)... the recent upstart of hydrogen which requires you to rather carefully plan your commute... and LNG sitting there in the corner saying "Don't forget about me guys!"
It's like Verizon vs ATT on pay-per-view side and Sprint in it's own ring waiting for T-Mobile to arrive on PBS.
It's pretty easy to guess which is going to get the bigger numbers in terms of revenue.
I said "not suddenly reach"... the victim in this turned rather quickly and reached.
I'm not excusing the shooting, I just am recognizing how the actions could be misconstrued by an officer... who as your article points out has been (rightly) fired & charged).
So your solution to lawful violence is... lawless violence?
I'm sorry, but assaulting a cop tends not to be a good way to avoid getting shot... just as Michael Brown.
Resisting arrest... even over the allegation of selling untaxed cigarettes is not a good way to avoid being held on the with multiple bodies attempting to restrain you... just ask Eric Garner.
Waving and aiming what looks like a real gun around in a park, then reaching for your waist when police come to the scene is not going to getting shot... just ask Tamir Rice.
Now, when the cop sticks his hands inside of the vehicle and gets it caught in the steering wheel, and fearing that the driver is going to drive away shoots the driver... that's a great way to get yourself charged with murder... just ask Richard Combs.
Why do you assume that the job of a solider or cop is to die?
Patton would also disagree:“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.”
Correct, which is why it is generally good to wait for the officer to request such documents, and not suddenly reach for the glove box.
Always? I've never had that experience, they have always waited for me to collect and hand over the requested items... granted I've not been pulled over that many times.
If true, I'd suggest finding a lawyer filing a report (and perhaps a lawsuit) about such incidences as their unwarranted entry into your vehicle would constitute trespass, taking your wallet from you would be theft, and any examination of the inside contents that are not in clear view without your permission would be an unlawful search (assuming there are no other circumstances that warranted such actions).
Or a Windows Phone fan... both of which have had them for years.
Only now with the iPhone 6 is Apple finally getting on board the NFC party train.
If freed... wouldn't a stolen bit of food here or there (as presumably it wouldn't be able to grow or buy it's own) or some public defecation get it arrested? If it dared resist arrest might get some additional charges of assault on a police officer and result in some jail time?
So... you don't see any chance that the grand jury reached their decision without KKK involvement? What about aliens? or the Illuminati? Maybe the Trilateral Commission?
I think Occam's razor is more likely.
Correct, though career choice is also a major factor.
Back in college I'd noticed that my Computer Science program was probably 90% male... while the Elementary Education program was probably 90% female. While many will claim that teachers should be paid more, I don't hear many arguing they should be paid as well as your average developer.
Damn you for using logic and facts.
The powers that be like to tout how background checks have prevented some untold number of bad guys from getting guns... often left out is the woefully small # of prosecutions of said people for their illegal attempts to acquire a firearm.
When the penalty on the books is rarely enforced, it quite easy to look for other ways to do what you want to do and know that you probably aren't going to get caught... a problem that has existed in the voting world for years: http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Utter BS!
What paper trail? You walk in, say you are Joe Blow, live at a given street, make your mark and you get a ballot... the only way you know that this was done fraudulently is if the real Joe Blow comes in later to vote and told that he already did... which mathematically wouldn't always happen depending on how well a fraudulent voter picked their targets.
Want cases of people who were told they already voted? Here are a couple:
http://www.nbc12.com/story/199...
http://www.examiner.com/articl...
And even from Scotland: http://www.itv.com/news/update...
At the end of the day, so long as you keep your mouth shut (unlike this woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ) you probably aren't going to get caught: http://www.wcpo.com/news/local... as you don't exactly see many cameras in polling stations synced up to when given names are scratches off as having voted.
This all assumes it's hard to get someone else's ballot, (spoiler: it isn't): https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Why not an all of the above solution?
Validate that the person registering is who they say they are and eligible to vote... and again at the polling place to ensure that someone isn't trying to vote in the name of another?
How many polling places do you know that ask for a registration card on election day?
More so, unfortunately plenty of people are accidently registered to vote (as one example): http://jacksonville.com/news/f...
They can easily man in the middle it.
Remember that ISP crapware they installed on your parents PC in order to connect them... did they or you make sure there wasn't a rouge CA in there?
A bit of upfront coding, a few stolen credit card numbers and spinning up a few hundred instances in AWS to scan for exploitable routers seems rather cheap to me.
But... but... but... your toilet might overflow!
We have a system today where we are told it's just too hard to come up with a photo id and show up to the polling station on election day.
Given the degree of laziness and helplessness that the electorate is told it has... is it no wonder that some think that voting from the comfort of your home and on your own PC might be a good thing?
Gimme a old school paper ballot and an oval to fill in after showing my id any day.
You don't need to know the specifics of each and every router... just one or two which there are enough of that you can identify and exploit remotely.
Coming up with a single fake drivers license and voting gets you only a single vote... exploiting say... the standard ISP provided router may be a bit harder... it will get you far more votes and less visibility.