Tails doesn't store any data locally,' writes Finley. 'This makes it virtually immune to malicious software, and prevents someone from performing effective forensics on the computer after the fact. That protects both the journalists, and often more importantly, their sources.'
Traffic sniffing does not require files on the target and this is the biggest source of data for agencies like the NSA. It may protect you from key loggers being installed (unless they were inserted ahead of time).
All traffic sniffing will do is show they are talking to a TOR entree node. Everything is wrapped in multiple layeres of encryption between you and each of the nodes in between. Maybe they could tell from traffic analysis what type of traffic it is based on traffic profiling, streaming your pr0n over to will have a different profile than browseing a webpage wich will in tun be different than ssh, but they still won't know the end point and what the content is.
I'm pretty sure that part of Snowden's leaked information showed that exploits are occurring at the hardware level as well as software. Entry points like LOM modules were explicitly called out in the leaked presentations.
Yes but they would have to have had access to your computer to insert the hardware bugs. If you say pick up a cheap laptop at walmart paid for with cash they won't know who has it, and would not have inserted the bugs as they could not have known who would end up wih the computer.
I'd agree that forensics becomes extremely difficult, if not impossible (memory analysis can still occur).
if they are doing memory analysis thy have the computer in their posesion already and you probably have a much larger issues to worry over.
I don't agree that the systems are immune to malicious software at least in a general sense. Immunity would require a lot of control for the hardware running the OS, and monitoring to make sure things have not been tampered with.
Technically true. However you have to trust something, and as long as there has been know oppertunity to tamper with the computer you can assume your safe for most things.
Relying on a repository build of an OS imaged is still a target for potential a MITM attack feeding a user a kitted image.
That is why we have cryptographic signatures on repositories and iso images. If they can break a 4092 bit key in polynomial time we are f***ed anyway
Incognito Linux did not impress me. You can be more anonymous using Backtrack.
ah no.
Backtrack is for cracking not staying anonamous. Tails routes all of your traffic through TOR and keeps you anonymous as long as you don't share anything reveling.
But you are not responsible for crimes committed by your parents, we for example do not require children of convicts to finish out their parents sentence if their parents die in prison. That however is exactly the principle that is applied here.
As a taxpayer, I don't want people getting free money for the government at my expense. They need to pay it up in today's dollars - with interest. If your parent or grandparent abused the system, I'm sorry but it's time for you to pay up.
This is about taking money "back" when the government made an accounting error (not people that cheated or lied mind you) but not taking it back from the people they gave it to but rather taking it out of another persons return. If the government accidentally gave me $500 thirty years ago and I died after five years ago long after I spent it, would you be OK with them deducting $500 (plus interest and adjusted for inflation) from your return, simply because you happen to be a relative?
What we really need is for the federal government to step up buy the land put its foot down and say protest all you want we are building this fucker one way or the other. Anyone caught on the construction site will be shot for for trespassing in a secure location.
Cut the population from ~7 billion to ~3 billion. Start with ebola and work up a good one. That eliminates the problem of selection. Random chance will take care of it.
if the clothing isn't stored properly, it won't last as long. Before air conditioning and modern insulation, cedar chests were the bees knees in providing protection for clothing and papers. so all is not lost and it won't be all that bad.
that may be true, thank god then that much of our clothes are synthetic those not eaten by creepy crawlies.
The post-apocalyptic world would also need blacksmiths, potters, carpenters, farmers and so on. Not to mention someone capable of swinging a sword and lopping the heads off marauders intent on dragging off the young women and torching the village. The challenge is that scientists and engineers do not necessarily have the skills most critically.
Says the man that has never seen a trebuchet cannon or a ballista.
no they would of been killed by the mad maxian rednecks, we will only come out of our basements after we have run out of d&d campaigns and eaten the last of out twinkies which will take a while.
In either a sudden collapse, or gradual decay, much will be lost. Let me remind you that when the Roman civilization decayed, technologies as simple as the making of cement were lost.
Cement.
Not exactly what we'd consider "high tech." It demonstrates just how fragile our scientific advancements are. They can be wiped out by a few generations of relative illiteracy for the great mass of survivors. In three generations, electric lights are a distant legend and those ubiquitous round copper disks find their most frequent use as quick, easily made arrowheads.
Yeah they were knocked back a couple hundred years you knock us back a to 1800 and we would still be able to make electricity Ben franklin was playing with it a decent part of his life. Beyond that the average person in the roman era was illiterate and there has very little written down as apposed to today where every town has at least one public library, the elementary and middle school libraries have a set of one set of encyclopedias each at least, then there is you high schools with chemistry, biology, physics labs and a often a auto shop each with all of the information and much of the equipment need to to bootstrap your way into the early 1900s. Then there are the community colleges which would bring you up to say the 1950 level of tech. Anywhere with a state college or descent sized privet college could probably push you back up to the 1970s if not mid 80s. We despite all of our educations systems failing have at least enough literate people and redundant copies of most enough knowledge to boot strap our tech fairly quickly. Hell anyone with a couple of TB hdd and a few solar cells could mirror more then info information to preserve at elast our access to knowledge.
Well lights after dark would be one great reason for electricity as would radio so as to communicate with others. Motors would be another great use. security camera or alarm systems. Using preexisting power tools would be another great one. And as for transmitting power over a distance I would far rather use electricity it is much easier to splice a cable than repair a couple hundred yards of mechanical linkages.
I agree a surgeon would be way more useful than an md l, as for me a comp-sci IT person like most of slashdot we could still make electronics with our trusty soddaring iron so not completely useless
Besides GIMP there is Krita and Cinepaint, and GIMPshop provides a Photoshop like interface. GIMP does have plugins if one needs CMYK. Inkscape does Vector Graphics. Scribus is more of a replacement for Illustrator.
There were some lack of features years ago. The options have matured since then.
and dont forget to throw blender in there for 3d modeling.
You'd have to prepare the meal before hand and hope there's only one cooking step. Fine if you're doing boxed dinners, but useless if you want to actually cook anything.
A smart fridge won't know when milk's gone sour before the date or when yogurt and cheese are still good a month after the date. Nor will they have a way to read the damned date on any of the brands I like. I sure as hell am not typing (or touching, or speaking) that shit in to the fridge. Nor would such a smart fridge need to be connected to the internet
As to it not being able to know what is in it without you manually entering the data have you.ever heard of bar codes? You can put a hell of a lot of stuff in qr codes. As for knowing that something went bad soon just mark it as bad or gone if something isn't bad at experation click the not bad button that adds a week
What exactly are the upsides of having my fridge, toaster, microwave oven, sock drawer or fork connected to the internet?
Well a smart oven can be set to cook your meal when you hit a button on an app before you head home. A smart fridge can keep track of what food you have when it expires what you use then compile meal plans and grocery lists add to it a link to your smart bathroom scale, and smart shoes to measue the amount of physical activity you have throughout the day and it it opens up dynamic dieting meal plans. A houses light and sound system could detect what room you are in and turn on and off lights and speakers as you enter/leave. Given time I could come up with more applications but those were just the first ones to pop into my head.
For one, you need an FTP _server_ to exchange files (or your desktops need to be always-on, with public IP addresses). The same with rsync or ssh. I have one and I'm fine without these cloud services, but the point here is that people don't have to set up their own.
(A service that would allow an end-user to easily roll their own VPS or buy preconfigured RPi/whatever with pre-configured mail server, webmail client, file sharing etc. would be awesome. Some are in the works, none are ready yet. Which is why cloud services matter for users.)
You don't need to install a ftp server as most distros come with ssh out of the box use that with scp. As for a public IP address no you don't need that either just use a dynamic dns service that's what I use on my server.
Few manager/executive type people say things like this. Their choice is either keep it a trade secret or patent it... unless the stuff you're creating is not very important to the business. Most companies' existence is based on various secrets they possess.
Which effectively meant, it a competitor saw our system at work, copied it and patented it we'd probably be willing to pay them a license fee just to get off our backs - shocking, but probably the case.
So generous, maybe you should copy your product's source code tree to a usb drive and hand it over to your competitors to save them the trouble.
As for Microsoft and Zynga, they're both standing on the shoulders of giants
Read MS-DOS' history. You'll find that MS bought Q-DOS (aka 86-DOS) which was created by Paterson. According to DR-DOS creator, Kildall, Paterson pretty much cloned the entire interface of CP/M to create Q-DOS. The lack of software patents at the time meant he could legally do this. Back then microprocessors were rare and software for them rarer. Do you want to remove s/w patents and promote this type of lawlessness?
Yes because the same process that allowed qdos to rip off cpm also allowed the BSD's minix Linux sun and more to reimpliment AT&T Unix which in turn had reimplemented many things from Multics
I know I'm in the minority on this one, but I really don't see a problem with this. People voluntarily hand over every detail of their personal lives to Facebook, Apple and Google every single day. Why are they shocked that the NSA uses this same data for tracking? I'd be a lot more worried about private companies having access to data.
Because the people using these algorithoms arn't the ones handing out all of their information and often the information isn't theirs to hand out, for example medical institutes use them to store your information they need it you need them to have it but it is not suposed to be public or shared knowledge.
Additionally just because many people do throw all of their info at facebbok and google does not mean everyone does or that anyone should. I for example use encryption wherever possible, I use pgp to sign nearly all of my email and enrypt with others that uses it, I uses ssh to proxy much of my traffic to secure it and to keep my location privet to me. I don't share my every detail of life with every corpration on the planet. they have no right to my privet data and neither does the government. As for being woried more about the corps than government why? Can corperations arrest and imprison you? If not then you really have screwed up threat assesment abilities.
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Tails doesn't store any data locally,' writes Finley. 'This makes it virtually immune to malicious software, and prevents someone from performing effective forensics on the computer after the fact. That protects both the journalists, and often more importantly, their sources.'
Traffic sniffing does not require files on the target and this is the biggest source of data for agencies like the NSA. It may protect you from key loggers being installed (unless they were inserted ahead of time).
All traffic sniffing will do is show they are talking to a TOR entree node. Everything is wrapped in multiple layeres of encryption between you and each of the nodes in between. Maybe they could tell from traffic analysis what type of traffic it is based on traffic profiling, streaming your pr0n over to will have a different profile than browseing a webpage wich will in tun be different than ssh, but they still won't know the end point and what the content is.
I'm pretty sure that part of Snowden's leaked information showed that exploits are occurring at the hardware level as well as software. Entry points like LOM modules were explicitly called out in the leaked presentations.
Yes but they would have to have had access to your computer to insert the hardware bugs. If you say pick up a cheap laptop at walmart paid for with cash they won't know who has it, and would not have inserted the bugs as they could not have known who would end up wih the computer.
I'd agree that forensics becomes extremely difficult, if not impossible (memory analysis can still occur).
if they are doing memory analysis thy have the computer in their posesion already and you probably have a much larger issues to worry over.
I don't agree that the systems are immune to malicious software at least in a general sense. Immunity would require a lot of control for the hardware running the OS, and monitoring to make sure things have not been tampered with.
Technically true. However you have to trust something, and as long as there has been know oppertunity to tamper with the computer you can assume your safe for most things.
Relying on a repository build of an OS imaged is still a target for potential a MITM attack feeding a user a kitted image.
That is why we have cryptographic signatures on repositories and iso images. If they can break a 4092 bit key in polynomial time we are f***ed anyway
Incognito Linux did not impress me. You can be more anonymous using Backtrack.
ah no.
Backtrack is for cracking not staying anonamous.
Tails routes all of your traffic through TOR and keeps you anonymous as long as you don't share anything reveling.
But you are not responsible for crimes committed by your parents, we for example do not require children of convicts to finish out their parents sentence if their parents die in prison. That however is exactly the principle that is applied here.
As a taxpayer, I don't want people getting free money for the government at my expense. They need to pay it up in today's dollars - with interest. If your parent or grandparent abused the system, I'm sorry but it's time for you to pay up.
This is about taking money "back" when the government made an accounting error (not people that cheated or lied mind you) but not taking it back from the people they gave it to but rather taking it out of another persons return. If the government accidentally gave me $500 thirty years ago and I died after five years ago long after I spent it, would you be OK with them deducting $500 (plus interest and adjusted for inflation) from your return, simply because you happen to be a relative?
What we really need is for the federal government to step up buy the land put its foot down and say protest all you want we are building this fucker one way or the other. Anyone caught on the construction site will be shot for for trespassing in a secure location.
Cut the population from ~7 billion to ~3 billion. Start with ebola and work up a good one. That eliminates the problem of selection. Random chance will take care of it.
you first.
blacksmiths need fairly significant infrastructure behind to be of any kind of use.
yeas because there would be no scrap metal form our millions of cars left for a blacksmith to reuse. It would all need to be freshly mined oar.
if the clothing isn't stored properly, it won't last as long. Before air conditioning and modern insulation, cedar chests were the bees knees in providing protection for clothing and papers. so all is not lost and it won't be all that bad.
that may be true, thank god then that much of our clothes are synthetic those not eaten by creepy crawlies.
The post-apocalyptic world would also need blacksmiths, potters, carpenters, farmers and so on. Not to mention someone capable of swinging a sword and lopping the heads off marauders intent on dragging off the young women and torching the village. The challenge is that scientists and engineers do not necessarily have the skills most critically.
Says the man that has never seen a trebuchet cannon or a ballista.
Whos gonna do it if not Slasdotters?
Competent people?
no they would of been killed by the mad maxian rednecks, we will only come out of our basements after we have run out of d&d campaigns and eaten the last of out twinkies which will take a while.
In either a sudden collapse, or gradual decay, much will be lost. Let me remind you that when the Roman civilization decayed, technologies as simple as the making of cement were lost.
Cement.
Not exactly what we'd consider "high tech." It demonstrates just how fragile our scientific advancements are. They can be wiped out by a few generations of relative illiteracy for the great mass of survivors. In three generations, electric lights are a distant legend and those ubiquitous round copper disks find their most frequent use as quick, easily made arrowheads.
Yeah they were knocked back a couple hundred years you knock us back a to 1800 and we would still be able to make electricity Ben franklin was playing with it a decent part of his life. Beyond that the average person in the roman era was illiterate and there has very little written down as apposed to today where every town has at least one public library, the elementary and middle school libraries have a set of one set of encyclopedias each at least, then there is you high schools with chemistry, biology, physics labs and a often a auto shop each with all of the information and much of the equipment need to to bootstrap your way into the early 1900s. Then there are the community colleges which would bring you up to say the 1950 level of tech. Anywhere with a state college or descent sized privet college could probably push you back up to the 1970s if not mid 80s. We despite all of our educations systems failing have at least enough literate people and redundant copies of most enough knowledge to boot strap our tech fairly quickly. Hell anyone with a couple of TB hdd and a few solar cells could mirror more then info information to preserve at elast our access to knowledge.
I don't think that would even stop them form collecting debt.
Well lights after dark would be one great reason for electricity as would radio so as to communicate with others. Motors would be another great use. security camera or alarm systems. Using preexisting power tools would be another great one. And as for transmitting power over a distance I would far rather use electricity it is much easier to splice a cable than repair a couple hundred yards of mechanical linkages.
I agree a surgeon would be way more useful than an md l, as for me a comp-sci IT person like most of slashdot we could still make electronics with our trusty soddaring iron so not completely useless
There are several accounting solutions out there, just a quick search found:
http://www.gnucash.org/
http://turbocash.net/
http://frontaccounting.com/wb3...
http://www.sql-ledger.com/
http://ledgersmb.org/
Her is a list of replacements for AutoCAD:
http://blog.cometdocs.com/10-g...
Besides GIMP there is Krita and Cinepaint, and GIMPshop provides a Photoshop like interface. GIMP does have plugins if one needs CMYK. Inkscape does Vector Graphics. Scribus is more of a replacement for Illustrator.
There were some lack of features years ago. The options have matured since then.
and dont forget to throw blender in there for 3d modeling.
You'd have to prepare the meal before hand and hope there's only one cooking step.
Fine if you're doing boxed dinners, but useless if you want to actually cook anything.
A smart fridge won't know when milk's gone sour before the date or when yogurt and cheese are still good a month after the date. Nor will they have a way to read the damned date on any of the brands I like. I sure as hell am not typing (or touching, or speaking) that shit in to the fridge. Nor would such a smart fridge need to be connected to the internet
As to it not being able to know what is in it without you manually entering the data have you.ever heard of bar codes? You can put a hell of a lot of stuff in qr codes. As for knowing that something went bad soon just mark it as bad or gone if something isn't bad at experation click the not bad button that adds a week
What exactly are the upsides of having my fridge, toaster, microwave oven, sock drawer or fork connected to the internet?
Well a smart oven can be set to cook your meal when you hit a button on an app before you head home. A smart fridge can keep track of what food you have when it expires what you use then compile meal plans and grocery lists add to it a link to your smart bathroom scale, and smart shoes to measue the amount of physical activity you have throughout the day and it it opens up dynamic dieting meal plans. A houses light and sound system could detect what room you are in and turn on and off lights and speakers as you enter/leave. Given time I could come up with more applications but those were just the first ones to pop into my head.
Are we ever going to see the answeres to the RMS and Theo da Farther interview from February and March?
that was supposed to be "Raddt" stupid auto correcting touchscreen keyboard...
Are we ever going to see the answeres to the RMS and Theo da Farther interview from February and March?
For one, you need an FTP _server_ to exchange files (or your desktops need to be always-on, with public IP addresses). The same with rsync or ssh. I have one and I'm fine without these cloud services, but the point here is that people don't have to set up their own.
(A service that would allow an end-user to easily roll their own VPS or buy preconfigured RPi/whatever with pre-configured mail server, webmail client, file sharing etc. would be awesome. Some are in the works, none are ready yet. Which is why cloud services matter for users.)
You don't need to install a ftp server as most distros come with ssh out of the box use that with scp. As for a public IP address no you don't need that either just use a dynamic dns service that's what I use on my server.
Now that the bandwidth is available, there are a lot easier ways of getting free programming...
But in general less free legal ways
Few manager/executive type people say things like this. Their choice is either keep it a trade secret or patent it... unless the stuff you're creating is not very important to the business. Most companies' existence is based on various secrets they possess.
So generous, maybe you should copy your product's source code tree to a usb drive and hand it over to your competitors to save them the trouble.
Read MS-DOS' history. You'll find that MS bought Q-DOS (aka 86-DOS) which was created by Paterson. According to DR-DOS creator, Kildall, Paterson pretty much cloned the entire interface of CP/M to create Q-DOS. The lack of software patents at the time meant he could legally do this. Back then microprocessors were rare and software for them rarer. Do you want to remove s/w patents and promote this type of lawlessness?
Yes because the same process that allowed qdos to rip off cpm also allowed the BSD's minix Linux sun and more to reimpliment AT&T Unix which in turn had reimplemented many things from Multics
April first: the day to ignore absolutly everything you see on the internet.
Wouldn't it be more efficient simply to memorize the script? Why would a real nerd bother with media he can't control the rate of consumption of?
There is a speed control in vlc so you can watch at any speed you like. A real geek would know that.
I know I'm in the minority on this one, but I really don't see a problem with this. People voluntarily hand over every detail of their personal lives to Facebook, Apple and Google every single day. Why are they shocked that the NSA uses this same data for tracking? I'd be a lot more worried about private companies having access to data.
Because the people using these algorithoms arn't the ones handing out all of their information and often the information isn't theirs to hand out, for example medical institutes use them to store your information they need it you need them to have it but it is not suposed to be public or shared knowledge.
Additionally just because many people do throw all of their info at facebbok and google does not mean everyone does or that anyone should. I for example use encryption wherever possible, I use pgp to sign nearly all of my email and enrypt with others that uses it, I uses ssh to proxy much of my traffic to secure it and to keep my location privet to me. I don't share my every detail of life with every corpration on the planet. they have no right to my privet data and neither does the government. As for being woried more about the corps than government why? Can corperations arrest and imprison you? If not then you really have screwed up threat assesment abilities.