No, it's not. It's kind of like landing on the moon only if they claimed they "landed" on the moon 1000km from the surface, and kept reporting that once again they've "landed" on the moon (officially now!) every 5km thereafter.
They have been cleared for use by the US Government for Top-Secret clearance documents; surely the government wouldn't backdoor itself right?...Right?
So the NSA most likely knows what kinds of backdoors they could insert that can't be exploited by other nation-states. So yes, they most certainly could backdoor it.
Apple built the fingerprint reader right into a button that a user can't avoid pressing simply to use this device. So even if a user doesn't want to use the fingerprint feature, doesn't want their computer to be able to scan their fingerprint, it can. We know that the NSA can spy on data from smart phones, and we know that the NSA is sharing data they collect with law-enforcement agencies---law enforcement agencies that maintain massive fingerprint databases on everyone they can.
Go ahead and call it paranoid. All of the above stories would've been dismissed as paranoid two years ago, too.
"Predators" are animals that seek out and kill one another. These bots sound like they're simply competing with one another. But if I were to use that word, I wouldn't be able to make these things sound as evil and horrible and nasty as the author of this article wanted to.
More on this. I remember back when SELinux came out, some people were speculating that the bugs they did find were actually inserted there intentionally by the NSA. Sounded paranoid back in 2000, but who knows now?
You're basing this on a browser made by one of the companies known to have been cooperating with the NSA every step of the way, including the latest revelations about said companies inserting backdoors into their products?
If the content itself has been taken down, e.g., what happened recently with Freedom Hosting, a 5xx code would make sense. But perhaps also, if you are being blocked but the content is still available, e.g., a porn site in the U.K., a 4xx code would make sense.
There is a large and growing movement in New Hampshire of libertarian types who engage in civil disobedience basically as a lifestyle. As long as you're not hurting anyone, do what you want, regardless of the "law." Many of us are involved in things such as Free Keene and the Shire Society. You can read about a lot of the stuff going on here on Free Keene's blog. There are dozens of other links to sites set up by people in the N.H. liberty movement in the sidebar on this site, too.
See also the Free State Project, which is where most such people have come from.
As seen on Slashdot. And if they're helping a much less powerful and reaching government than the U.S., what do you think the odds are of them helping the U.S. too?
Not a bad idea. This is similar to the anonymity system used by Bitcoin---all the transactions are completely out in the open, posted to this one big file called the "block chain," but also encrypted. Each user has a wallet containing the private keys that identify the Bitcoin transactions that were for them.
One problem with this though is the eventual amount of data involved. For your method to be effective at protecting people, it would have to be used by more than a few dozen people---hundreds or thousands, so each individual gets "lost in the crowd." But then we're talking about a datastore even bigger than the Bitcoin blockchain, which is already multiple GiBs.
BitMessage and TOR are outside anyone's control. (Before you say it, the recent attack on TOR was not an attack on TOR but on a single, centralized hosting provider for TOR websites.)
That said, why does anyone actually care about the NRA anymore? They are about as valid as AARP, nothing more than a self-interested lobby group that really doesn't care about their members being using them to fun what their masters want to force on everyone. That isn't a screed against gun ownership, or owners, my feelings toward the NRA is irrelevant towards my stance on guns. The NRA should die, and be replaced with a better group that actually represents their members, and minimizes their actual bigger impact to only things that protect their members rights.
The JavaScript snippet wasn't used to get those values. The JavaScript was used to download a piece of malware which then ran directly on the machine and fetched those values straight from the OS.
JavaScript itself is quite well-sandboxed. But if there are vulnerabilities in its implementation in a specific browser that allow code execution on the host system, it doesn't matter.
More like, "using this brand of tires reveals a safety issue with that brand of car. As do a few hundred other products combined with that brand of car. Even safe products combined with that brand of car. So stop using that brand of car."
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Because if the last line of those 1000 lines is "make: *** Error 1", suddenly the one right above it is not so pointless.
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Of course it would. How very convenient.
So why aren't you out there getting rich and famous with this ability of yours? You could make $1,000,000 if you demonstrated your powers to this guy.
My guess is you won't make $1,000,000.
No, it's not. It's kind of like landing on the moon only if they claimed they "landed" on the moon 1000km from the surface, and kept reporting that once again they've "landed" on the moon (officially now!) every 5km thereafter.
So the NSA most likely knows what kinds of backdoors they could insert that can't be exploited by other nation-states. So yes, they most certainly could backdoor it.
Apple built the fingerprint reader right into a button that a user can't avoid pressing simply to use this device. So even if a user doesn't want to use the fingerprint feature, doesn't want their computer to be able to scan their fingerprint, it can. We know that the NSA can spy on data from smart phones, and we know that the NSA is sharing data they collect with law-enforcement agencies---law enforcement agencies that maintain massive fingerprint databases on everyone they can.
Go ahead and call it paranoid. All of the above stories would've been dismissed as paranoid two years ago, too.
"Predators" are animals that seek out and kill one another. These bots sound like they're simply competing with one another. But if I were to use that word, I wouldn't be able to make these things sound as evil and horrible and nasty as the author of this article wanted to.
Has anyone done a complete code audit of the Chromium source, as has been mentioned above as having been done on other pieces of open source software?
More on this. I remember back when SELinux came out, some people were speculating that the bugs they did find were actually inserted there intentionally by the NSA. Sounded paranoid back in 2000, but who knows now?
By "SecureBSD," did you mean this?
You're basing this on a browser made by one of the companies known to have been cooperating with the NSA every step of the way, including the latest revelations about said companies inserting backdoors into their products?
Sounds like a good idea to me.
"That assumes no other growth, no next gen model, nada."
So in other words, this is a non-story. Hey, if I make patently false assumptions, I bet I could come up with some pretty scary "news" stories, too!
martin-manley.eprci.com.
If the content itself has been taken down, e.g., what happened recently with Freedom Hosting, a 5xx code would make sense. But perhaps also, if you are being blocked but the content is still available, e.g., a porn site in the U.K., a 4xx code would make sense.
Non-aggression principle. Voluntaryism. Shire Society declaration. And I am in New Hampshire, not Canada.
Used to be a trustworthy interstitial ad provider. Apparently they no longer are; I switched the link to the direct link now.
There is a large and growing movement in New Hampshire of libertarian types who engage in civil disobedience basically as a lifestyle. As long as you're not hurting anyone, do what you want, regardless of the "law." Many of us are involved in things such as Free Keene and the Shire Society. You can read about a lot of the stuff going on here on Free Keene's blog. There are dozens of other links to sites set up by people in the N.H. liberty movement in the sidebar on this site, too.
See also the Free State Project, which is where most such people have come from.
The likelihood is about 100%.
As seen on Slashdot. And if they're helping a much less powerful and reaching government than the U.S., what do you think the odds are of them helping the U.S. too?
Not a bad idea. This is similar to the anonymity system used by Bitcoin---all the transactions are completely out in the open, posted to this one big file called the "block chain," but also encrypted. Each user has a wallet containing the private keys that identify the Bitcoin transactions that were for them.
One problem with this though is the eventual amount of data involved. For your method to be effective at protecting people, it would have to be used by more than a few dozen people---hundreds or thousands, so each individual gets "lost in the crowd." But then we're talking about a datastore even bigger than the Bitcoin blockchain, which is already multiple GiBs.
BitMessage and TOR are outside anyone's control. (Before you say it, the recent attack on TOR was not an attack on TOR but on a single, centralized hosting provider for TOR websites.)
Gun Owners of America.
To what, DU?
No, if the government passes unjust laws, you break the law. It's called civil disobedience and it's often quite effective.
And now you understand why the government is so interested in banning lead, mm?
The JavaScript snippet wasn't used to get those values. The JavaScript was used to download a piece of malware which then ran directly on the machine and fetched those values straight from the OS.
JavaScript itself is quite well-sandboxed. But if there are vulnerabilities in its implementation in a specific browser that allow code execution on the host system, it doesn't matter.
More like, "using this brand of tires reveals a safety issue with that brand of car. As do a few hundred other products combined with that brand of car. Even safe products combined with that brand of car. So stop using that brand of car."