Ahh, yes, but in the groping line, you can make them feel just as uncomfortable as you are. Just do so subtly, so that you don't get to experience the billy club for a 'perceived threat'.
I'm saying: don't assume it stops at 'public' stuff. That's stuff you could already assume would be consumed by people outside of your obscure circle.
After the whole NSA AT&T traffic sniffing stuff, I assume that anything that goes over the wire that isn't encrypted (and even some that is) can be seen by the government.
Egypt and Libya's uprisings were greatly facilitated by twitter and other social networking sites.
Not to say that we should overthrow the government, but, what about them using it to keep tabs on, say, the Occupiers and then using threatening, but legal, actions to undermine them?
You can already assume that your 'public' posts are being seen by people you wouldn't want to see it, but now you know that it is automatic. Depending on data sharing agreements these companies come up with with the FBI, they might even get access to private information.
Hopefully, the latter isn't an issue and they're just scraping public information, but even then, any hopes of not being carefully monitored are dashed. Assume that everything public (and most things private) will be read by people other than the intended recipients. Privacy? What privacy?
Nope. There is no indication that this guy wrote the botnet as part of his job. A more likely explanation is that he used his employment to gather information about how to avoid antivirus software killing his botnet.
Senior Systems Developer is a pretty high up position. It's not CTO level, but... I'd say that joining just to get access to info at that level is a bit of a stretch. gstoddart's suggestion that he became the very monster he was fighting would have a bit more credence.
Replying to my own comment here. I guess I can see the benefits in some situations. Example would be a distribution that has a major revision number symlinked to the latest minor revision for file distribution. (ie. CentOS5 symlinks to CentOS5.4)
I never saw the benefits of symbolic or hard links, personally? Can anyone explain this to me?.lnk is not the equivalent of a symbolic link, by the by. It's just a reference file.
I use HTM and HTML files interchangeably when I'm working on existing sites (that is, I'll stick to the current naming standard used by the site).
New sites are more likely to end in.php, but if it's a static site, I end it in.html
Yes, PHP is a LOL language, but, I'm what you might call an amateur and PHP is so pervasive that it's about the only thing I can count on a web host supporting 100% of the time.
I would, admittedly, "cheat" for some of the harder equations. I wrote some software that would solve about 50% of a particularly awkward and long type of equation. I would just change the variables. Then again, I could do it by hand, and I obviously understood the problems if I could write a program to do it for me, so I didn't really see the big issue.
...what does this have to do with the fact that there's a considerable amount of people that make too much to qualify for government-assisted medical care, but not enough to afford their own insurance?
And yet, the blue collar worker who works two part time jobs to make ends meet, because neither boss will let him work full-time (too scared of having to shell out for insurance) won't get the care you're receiving. They'll die, leaving major, expensive medical bills in their wake that will bankrupt their spouse.
That would require everyone's routers to have it. All major companies, and operating systems (including Linux), with some pretty heavy suppression to keep it going...
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Perhaps I should have been more clear. I was referring to the sports streaming sites that were shutdown as part of this crackdown.
ICE doing things that aren't in their job description. Again.
Shouldn't they be, I dunno, doing Immigration and Customs Enforcement?
Ahh, yes, but in the groping line, you can make them feel just as uncomfortable as you are. Just do so subtly, so that you don't get to experience the billy club for a 'perceived threat'.
Console versions of games using this model will have it linked to your console account. Distributing that will be problematic.
I'm saying: don't assume it stops at 'public' stuff. That's stuff you could already assume would be consumed by people outside of your obscure circle.
After the whole NSA AT&T traffic sniffing stuff, I assume that anything that goes over the wire that isn't encrypted (and even some that is) can be seen by the government.
Terrorist or Freedom Fighter?
Egypt and Libya's uprisings were greatly facilitated by twitter and other social networking sites.
Not to say that we should overthrow the government, but, what about them using it to keep tabs on, say, the Occupiers and then using threatening, but legal, actions to undermine them?
You can already assume that your 'public' posts are being seen by people you wouldn't want to see it, but now you know that it is automatic. Depending on data sharing agreements these companies come up with with the FBI, they might even get access to private information.
Hopefully, the latter isn't an issue and they're just scraping public information, but even then, any hopes of not being carefully monitored are dashed. Assume that everything public (and most things private) will be read by people other than the intended recipients. Privacy? What privacy?
Senior Systems Developer is a pretty high up position. It's not CTO level, but... I'd say that joining just to get access to info at that level is a bit of a stretch. gstoddart's suggestion that he became the very monster he was fighting would have a bit more credence.
Does this lend credence to the conspiracy theory that antivirus vendors are, in some way, behind the very viruses they're supposed to remove?
Tinfoil over your head is a start. Shape it in a hat shape.
Seriously, though, you'd have to build a faraday cage.
Replying to my own comment here. I guess I can see the benefits in some situations. Example would be a distribution that has a major revision number symlinked to the latest minor revision for file distribution. (ie. CentOS5 symlinks to CentOS5.4)
I never saw the benefits of symbolic or hard links, personally? Can anyone explain this to me? .lnk is not the equivalent of a symbolic link, by the by. It's just a reference file.
Hello, tab completion.
I use HTM and HTML files interchangeably when I'm working on existing sites (that is, I'll stick to the current naming standard used by the site).
New sites are more likely to end in .php, but if it's a static site, I end it in .html
Yes, PHP is a LOL language, but, I'm what you might call an amateur and PHP is so pervasive that it's about the only thing I can count on a web host supporting 100% of the time.
No, plurality voting doesn't represent the will of the people.
People will refrain from voting for those that they fear will not win.
I would, admittedly, "cheat" for some of the harder equations. I wrote some software that would solve about 50% of a particularly awkward and long type of equation. I would just change the variables. Then again, I could do it by hand, and I obviously understood the problems if I could write a program to do it for me, so I didn't really see the big issue.
...what does this have to do with the fact that there's a considerable amount of people that make too much to qualify for government-assisted medical care, but not enough to afford their own insurance?
And yet, the blue collar worker who works two part time jobs to make ends meet, because neither boss will let him work full-time (too scared of having to shell out for insurance) won't get the care you're receiving. They'll die, leaving major, expensive medical bills in their wake that will bankrupt their spouse.
His extensive care began when he was a nobody making no money. As mentioned by the telegraph piece linked several times.
How about... upload your consciousness before your natural death?
"You don't have to use PSN to use a PS3, and you are also free to return the PS3 if you don't like the EULA for its online component."
I do have to use PSN to consume some things I have purchased from the PSN. Which means that I have to agree to the EULA.
Meanwhile, can you tell me where I can return this PS3 "Fat" model?
Nothing to see here:
Government instructs company to break the law. Government then gives company immunity.
What did you expect? For them to take the immunity back away?
Your rights as a citizen are only important in so far as you vote for the right guy or spend money. They could care less otherwise.
That would require everyone's routers to have it. All major companies, and operating systems (including Linux), with some pretty heavy suppression to keep it going...
We can trust that it isn't sending stuff back home without telling us - we can discover that because software not by that vendor is on the router.
What else matters, really? If it's phoning home, we can detect it.
If you're worried about data logging locally, you can always use truecrypt or similar to protect that from falling in anyone else's hands.
We already take aggressive actions willy-nilly, with little oversight. What's another platform to perform it on going to matter?
I suppose I'm a bit cynical.
We, the people, should be finding some way to control some of this unwarranted, aggressiveness from our government. Vote the chickenhawks out.