Whoever did the write up is 180* out.. EM is the shorter wave ( hence the terms shortwave and microwave radio) and audio are the shorter waves.. but interesting concept
make that: Audio is the Longer wave (more physical distance between peaks).
Whoever did the write up is 180* out.. EM is the shorter wave ( hence the terms shortwave and microwave radio) and audio are the shorter waves.. but interesting concept
The notion that any government whistle blower from any country would not be in contact with the intelligence services of their new home is absurd.. with or without their consent or knowledge.
There is no way the US government doesn't have the most specialized computing power dedicated to cracking encryption that exists anywhere. If Apple has a chance of getting into that phone then they have left themselves a backdoor already at least in theory which means right now that Apple may actually not have the best change of developing an exploit for it. Others have been working on it for as long as they have had access to the latest IOS. The order is instructing Apple to use the firmware upgrade or recovery mode to load and run a specialized operating system in RAM to somehow tell the installed IOS to allow access to the stored data. If it is that easy, then the encryption was not implemented correctly. Missing the pass code should make it absolutely impossible to derive the needed decryption key.
Actually, the leaked information on stingray and other similar IMSI capture devices say they can snoop on the communications by becoming the most powerful cell in the area which cell phones will attach to and then basically proxying all calls to a legitimate tower. A true man-in-the-middle attack.
Then, although 3G and 4G offer sufficient cryptographic protection from eavesdropping, that stronger encryption can be downgraded to the insecure A5/1 algorithm or completely disabled by forcing a mobile device into 2G mode.
There is a lot of info on these devices collected at the Android IMSI-Catcher Detector (AIMSICD) project page on github. https://secupwn.github.io/Andr...
You will not find any federal government agencies with licenses with the FCC. Contrary to what most people think, the FCC does not control spectrum allocation in the U.S., the National Telecommunications and information administration (NTIA) does. All federal government agencies , including the FCC, is allocated the spectrum they manage by NTIA.
Metaphorical war not actual Congressional declarations of war... I was thinking: War on drugs, poverty, terrorism, cars, gangs, graffiti... off the top of my head.
AOL was easy to cancel service back in the day but they financed their build out with interest free loans ( and shall we call them grants?) obtained by "forgetting" to stop charging your credit card for a few more months.
So... why is it the people who upload and host this stuff do not have consequences? Why is it people who are actively crappy to others do not have this same mantra associated with them?
Because the actively crappy people often don't have enough cash or earning potential to make it worth suing them.
I was hit with a baseball bat made from wood harvested from a tree that grew from a seedling planted by an earth-day participant. Earth-day organizers conspired to grow trees in an obvious conspiracy that must have included the 7 year-old at a little league game who lost his grip and threw said wooden bat. Sounds like a RICO case to me.
Actually, he also exposed a bug in the bug reporting system that prevents it from responding to and or acknowledging the exact type of vulnerabilities it was designed to find.
It was obviously repeatable since the vulnerability was reported twice and was ignored both times.
He should be paid for that one as well.
Unfortunately, if the insurance companies find out about that, they may no longer pay claims for the insured patients of those doctors. According to the doctors I know, they are not allowed to discount the bills for the uninsured. The insurance company enjoys a discounted rate and never pays the billed price yet they contractually bind Doctors to have to make more money treating an uninsured patient with the ability to pay than an insured one. Billing at a discount for an uninsured patient is considered breach of contract with the insurance companies.
They won't need to do that much any more, our government just handed them exactly what they wanted. Everyone now has to pay insurance companies and they have control over everyone's care. Insurance companies are absolutely the only ones that will be getting any good out of Obamacare in the long run. It was a bad idea when republicans brought it up and just because insurance companies now endorse democratic candidates it is still a bad idea.
I have exceptional insurance but I choose to pay $30k to see a specialist my insurance company didn't think I needed. I would pay 10 times that for what I have gotten. Being free to make my own health care decisions and allowing the doctors to treat as they see best for this particular situation rather than try to make everything fit into a billing code has ended up giving me much better outcome at a far cheaper price than the insurance company would have paid in the end. Insurance was making me suffer needlessly by tying the hands of good doctors. When I said i would pay cash, I got help in 6 months for something that has been maintained at a "good enough" level for which my insurance was billed over $200,000 just in prescription drugs since 2000. Yet, me putting $30k up front fixed the problem.
I understand many people don't have the luxury of being able to afford to fix their own problems and they need a solution too but not one that makes us all get "good enough" care. I wasn't making it living paycheck to paycheck just 3 years ago myself but I worked very hard in spite of my illness to be able to afford treatment that didn't fit neatly on an insurance form.
Contrary to popular belief, twinkies DO have an expiration date....
Just because one was printed on the package for the last few years does not mean it has any validity or basis.
What no one knows yet is that the last Twinkie was baked in 1976. Recently, the supply that has been repackaged time and time again since then with fresh expiration dates ran out.
Um... When exactly did computers evolve more "digits" ?
I bet there is some conspiracy that is hiding evidence of some error in DNA sequencing when the ExEightySixious was brought back from extinction and became ExEightySixious MultiCoreious
It is possible - it is also possible that there is a self perpetuating cycle of cold and hot periods that we are far from able to influence.
additional clue: There is a source of heat under our feet: earth's molten core. Ever go into a deep mine?
Nail in what coffin?
No one can deny our climate is changing. But neither can anyone deny that anything that could conceivably change our lives is a really good thing for politicians who can use that shred of truth to gather supporters.
Science observes that the climate is changing but only has observations from a statistically insignificant amount of time over the earth's existence. We can infer things from archeological evidence such as ice cores and tree rings and sediments but it is not direct observation and other processes that we may not even know exist could account for the CO2 levels in ice layers or the amount and type of vegetation in a layer of sediment etc. Ice cores show about the same CO2 levels as now existed about 20 million years ago yet composition of plant leaf waxes in marine sediments in the antarctic seem to suggest temperatures more than 20 degrees F hotter than today and we don't have any other evidence that explains why. While evidence seems to suggest such high temperatures, current models show a steady growth of polar ice at that same time period. The current models for the earth's systems can't produce an accurate 10 day weather forecast and suddenly we can predict our effect on the weather will cause global catastrophe hundreds of years into the future?
Politicians have rung alarm bells whenever science comes up with a possible interpretation of observed data that could change our lives. In the 1960's acid rain was going to melt our buildings and kill our crops and send us into a global famine. It was a real thing and our industry did contribute some of the sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide which makes the rain acidic. Areas around major industry did see dangerous acidity increases but on a global scale rain acidity was almost normal, the vast majority of nitrogen oxides are produced naturally by lightning and sulfur dioxide is produced by volcanic eruptions. We did have a problem to be sure but it was not that acid rain would end the world. We breath easier in our cities because of the regulations on the emissions we imposed in response the impending global doom. The problem is that the average person doesn't care if someone who lives near a bunch of factories is sick all the time. But they do care if those far off factories are reaching out and melting their backyard bird bath and killing their vegetable garden. Politicians used the earliest and most alarmist of predictions they could make sound plausible to gain voter support to fix a real but different problem they could not have gotten enough support for.
In the 1970's science found the hole in the Ozone layer above the poles was expanding. The prediction was that we would all have to be Mylar coated to survive the wrath of the sun's unfiltered UV rays. Scientists theorized that chlorofluorocarbon compounds broken down by UV light from the sun both reacted with and catalyzed reactions with the ozone causing it's depletion. Those reactions do happen and it is now the generally accepted ( does not mean is considered fact ) to be the mechanism that widens the hole in summer but others point out that we can't support any of the dire predictions of the results of those reactions. We have no observational data of the actual effect over time on surface UV levels and no data at all on what the pre-industrial ozone layer looked like: Science didn't have a clue it existed . UV light is needed for the reaction we believe depletes ozone but is also the creator of ozone as well. As more light passes the "ozone layer", more ozone is created. What that means and if there are any consequences for us or the planet is still hotly debated. Some argue that the altitude of the creation vs depletion reactions are different and that changes the UV filtering effect of the ozone as well as many other factors. There is circumstantial evidence that actually suggests that DuPont Chemical may have had a hand publicizing this scare. "In spite" of a rather lackluster opposition by DuPont, the U.S. banned CFCs as an aerosol propellant in 1
Seriously, the cost of powering a piece of equipment that can only deal with classfull addresses should be more than the cost to replace it. At some point, there will not be a choice but everyone will be suffering by then. The world has always been a place where if you cant keep up with the times, you cease to exist. There will be many sad tales of how the internet migration killed this and that... just like when things moved to the internet in the first place. Have you seen a 4 inch thick Sears catalog lately or a 10 pound Computer Shopper? Find a paper magazine or newspaper in a few more years. This is the first situation where I think a monopoly on internet access would be a good thing. Of course, that monopoly would have resisted any changes to a successful revenue stream so we would not have innovated ourselves into depleting the IPv4 addresses in the first place. But faced with running out of a zero cost product like a publicly routeable address (that we would by no be paying dearly for) they would force whatever change they needed to. Cable companies have no competition so they do what is most profitable. In America at least, all cable channels used to be commercial free - until over the air programming was no longer competition. Got an analog TV?......
I have never had anything to do with surveys or statistical analysis but it seems to me that the data they gathered is invalid because they only got the telemetry from people who opted in to the Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program. I would guess a very large percentage of those users didn't have a clue that they were opting in. Assuming there is no correlation between willingness to opt in and the computer literacy of the user, the sample group looks to me like it is skewed towards those users who are less computer savvy. If there is a correlation between computer literacy and the willingness to opt in ( which would be my guess ) then the sample group would be even more skewed. My guess is that the more literate you are and the more history you know about a company like Microsoft, the less likely you would be to share anything you don't have to with them. Wouldn't you need a representative cross section of users to make the claim that the start button isn't being used?
I guess I wouldn't know if it was a fake or not but it wouldn't matter. The individual would be lying to cover him or her self and I still wouldn't want them.
If I was interviewing a candidate for an IT position and that candidate freely gave me his passwords when I asked, there is no way I would hire him or her. In fact, if I was hiring for any position where the candidate would have access to sensitive corporate data or anything else that a company would not want disclosed to the public or competitors, I wouldn't hire an individual who gave up their password. If they offered to provide me with screen shots or print outs of their social networking pages, fine. But to hand over control of their account under any circumstances would automatically disqualify the individual for the job in my eyes. People like that are how users with just enough knowledge to be dangerous (or worse, someone with bad intent on a fishing expedition) end up with domain admin rights.
All calls will be routed thru the Great Firewall Of China for inspection but bypass our own unamed version that the NSA uses to listen for "terrorist" activity
Actually nothing could be further from the truth. From experience within the IT world of the Military from pre network days with standalone Z-100 dual floppy to full blown modern data centers. Innovation on the part of the IT workers is continuously encouraged and greatly rewarded. In my experience, IT professionals at least in the Air Force that are not passionate about keeping up with technology and finding better ways to do things and learn as many different aspects of IT are not in the IT world for long.
There are really 3 types of IT people in the military.
Those who get as many certs as possible so they can fill their resume and get out
Those who are passionate about what they do and what they can learn
Those on their way out of the field or the military.
If someone has IT experience in the military from early in their career then they ended up with a less technical job or if they were in the military for a short time after getting into the IT field without collecting certs or an IT degree, then maybe you are right. But someone like me who spent 22 years from token ring, Banyon Vines and AUI transceivers to the latest modern data centers had to continuously improve or find work elsewhere.
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Whoever did the write up is 180* out.. EM is the shorter wave ( hence the terms shortwave and microwave radio) and audio are the shorter waves .. but interesting concept
make that: Audio is the Longer wave (more physical distance between peaks).
Whoever did the write up is 180* out.. EM is the shorter wave ( hence the terms shortwave and microwave radio) and audio are the shorter waves .. but interesting concept
The notion that any government whistle blower from any country would not be in contact with the intelligence services of their new home is absurd.. with or without their consent or knowledge.
https://www.fbi.gov/sacramento... How about that for president from last year? This guy just took some work home...
There is no way the US government doesn't have the most specialized computing power dedicated to cracking encryption that exists anywhere. If Apple has a chance of getting into that phone then they have left themselves a backdoor already at least in theory which means right now that Apple may actually not have the best change of developing an exploit for it. Others have been working on it for as long as they have had access to the latest IOS. The order is instructing Apple to use the firmware upgrade or recovery mode to load and run a specialized operating system in RAM to somehow tell the installed IOS to allow access to the stored data. If it is that easy, then the encryption was not implemented correctly. Missing the pass code should make it absolutely impossible to derive the needed decryption key.
Actually, the leaked information on stingray and other similar IMSI capture devices say they can snoop on the communications by becoming the most powerful cell in the area which cell phones will attach to and then basically proxying all calls to a legitimate tower. A true man-in-the-middle attack. Then, although 3G and 4G offer sufficient cryptographic protection from eavesdropping, that stronger encryption can be downgraded to the insecure A5/1 algorithm or completely disabled by forcing a mobile device into 2G mode. There is a lot of info on these devices collected at the Android IMSI-Catcher Detector (AIMSICD) project page on github. https://secupwn.github.io/Andr...
You will not find any federal government agencies with licenses with the FCC. Contrary to what most people think, the FCC does not control spectrum allocation in the U.S., the National Telecommunications and information administration (NTIA) does. All federal government agencies , including the FCC, is allocated the spectrum they manage by NTIA.
Metaphorical war not actual Congressional declarations of war ... I was thinking: War on drugs, poverty, terrorism, cars, gangs, graffiti... off the top of my head.
AOL was easy to cancel service back in the day but they financed their build out with interest free loans ( and shall we call them grants?) obtained by "forgetting" to stop charging your credit card for a few more months.
That will ensure their success. Anything we declare war on thrives like never before.
So... why is it the people who upload and host this stuff do not have consequences? Why is it people who are actively crappy to others do not have this same mantra associated with them?
Because the actively crappy people often don't have enough cash or earning potential to make it worth suing them.
I was hit with a baseball bat made from wood harvested from a tree that grew from a seedling planted by an earth-day participant. Earth-day organizers conspired to grow trees in an obvious conspiracy that must have included the 7 year-old at a little league game who lost his grip and threw said wooden bat. Sounds like a RICO case to me.
Actually, he also exposed a bug in the bug reporting system that prevents it from responding to and or acknowledging the exact type of vulnerabilities it was designed to find. It was obviously repeatable since the vulnerability was reported twice and was ignored both times. He should be paid for that one as well.
Unfortunately, if the insurance companies find out about that, they may no longer pay claims for the insured patients of those doctors. According to the doctors I know, they are not allowed to discount the bills for the uninsured. The insurance company enjoys a discounted rate and never pays the billed price yet they contractually bind Doctors to have to make more money treating an uninsured patient with the ability to pay than an insured one. Billing at a discount for an uninsured patient is considered breach of contract with the insurance companies. They won't need to do that much any more, our government just handed them exactly what they wanted. Everyone now has to pay insurance companies and they have control over everyone's care. Insurance companies are absolutely the only ones that will be getting any good out of Obamacare in the long run. It was a bad idea when republicans brought it up and just because insurance companies now endorse democratic candidates it is still a bad idea. I have exceptional insurance but I choose to pay $30k to see a specialist my insurance company didn't think I needed. I would pay 10 times that for what I have gotten. Being free to make my own health care decisions and allowing the doctors to treat as they see best for this particular situation rather than try to make everything fit into a billing code has ended up giving me much better outcome at a far cheaper price than the insurance company would have paid in the end. Insurance was making me suffer needlessly by tying the hands of good doctors. When I said i would pay cash, I got help in 6 months for something that has been maintained at a "good enough" level for which my insurance was billed over $200,000 just in prescription drugs since 2000. Yet, me putting $30k up front fixed the problem. I understand many people don't have the luxury of being able to afford to fix their own problems and they need a solution too but not one that makes us all get "good enough" care. I wasn't making it living paycheck to paycheck just 3 years ago myself but I worked very hard in spite of my illness to be able to afford treatment that didn't fit neatly on an insurance form.
Contrary to popular belief, twinkies DO have an expiration date....
Just because one was printed on the package for the last few years does not mean it has any validity or basis. What no one knows yet is that the last Twinkie was baked in 1976. Recently, the supply that has been repackaged time and time again since then with fresh expiration dates ran out.
Um... When exactly did computers evolve more "digits" ? I bet there is some conspiracy that is hiding evidence of some error in DNA sequencing when the ExEightySixious was brought back from extinction and became ExEightySixious MultiCoreious
It is possible - it is also possible that there is a self perpetuating cycle of cold and hot periods that we are far from able to influence. additional clue: There is a source of heat under our feet: earth's molten core. Ever go into a deep mine?
Nail in what coffin? No one can deny our climate is changing. But neither can anyone deny that anything that could conceivably change our lives is a really good thing for politicians who can use that shred of truth to gather supporters. Science observes that the climate is changing but only has observations from a statistically insignificant amount of time over the earth's existence. We can infer things from archeological evidence such as ice cores and tree rings and sediments but it is not direct observation and other processes that we may not even know exist could account for the CO2 levels in ice layers or the amount and type of vegetation in a layer of sediment etc. Ice cores show about the same CO2 levels as now existed about 20 million years ago yet composition of plant leaf waxes in marine sediments in the antarctic seem to suggest temperatures more than 20 degrees F hotter than today and we don't have any other evidence that explains why. While evidence seems to suggest such high temperatures, current models show a steady growth of polar ice at that same time period. The current models for the earth's systems can't produce an accurate 10 day weather forecast and suddenly we can predict our effect on the weather will cause global catastrophe hundreds of years into the future? Politicians have rung alarm bells whenever science comes up with a possible interpretation of observed data that could change our lives. In the 1960's acid rain was going to melt our buildings and kill our crops and send us into a global famine. It was a real thing and our industry did contribute some of the sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide which makes the rain acidic. Areas around major industry did see dangerous acidity increases but on a global scale rain acidity was almost normal, the vast majority of nitrogen oxides are produced naturally by lightning and sulfur dioxide is produced by volcanic eruptions. We did have a problem to be sure but it was not that acid rain would end the world. We breath easier in our cities because of the regulations on the emissions we imposed in response the impending global doom. The problem is that the average person doesn't care if someone who lives near a bunch of factories is sick all the time. But they do care if those far off factories are reaching out and melting their backyard bird bath and killing their vegetable garden. Politicians used the earliest and most alarmist of predictions they could make sound plausible to gain voter support to fix a real but different problem they could not have gotten enough support for. In the 1970's science found the hole in the Ozone layer above the poles was expanding. The prediction was that we would all have to be Mylar coated to survive the wrath of the sun's unfiltered UV rays. Scientists theorized that chlorofluorocarbon compounds broken down by UV light from the sun both reacted with and catalyzed reactions with the ozone causing it's depletion. Those reactions do happen and it is now the generally accepted ( does not mean is considered fact ) to be the mechanism that widens the hole in summer but others point out that we can't support any of the dire predictions of the results of those reactions. We have no observational data of the actual effect over time on surface UV levels and no data at all on what the pre-industrial ozone layer looked like: Science didn't have a clue it existed . UV light is needed for the reaction we believe depletes ozone but is also the creator of ozone as well. As more light passes the "ozone layer", more ozone is created. What that means and if there are any consequences for us or the planet is still hotly debated. Some argue that the altitude of the creation vs depletion reactions are different and that changes the UV filtering effect of the ozone as well as many other factors. There is circumstantial evidence that actually suggests that DuPont Chemical may have had a hand publicizing this scare. "In spite" of a rather lackluster opposition by DuPont, the U.S. banned CFCs as an aerosol propellant in 1
Seriously, the cost of powering a piece of equipment that can only deal with classfull addresses should be more than the cost to replace it. At some point, there will not be a choice but everyone will be suffering by then. The world has always been a place where if you cant keep up with the times, you cease to exist. There will be many sad tales of how the internet migration killed this and that... just like when things moved to the internet in the first place. Have you seen a 4 inch thick Sears catalog lately or a 10 pound Computer Shopper? Find a paper magazine or newspaper in a few more years. This is the first situation where I think a monopoly on internet access would be a good thing. Of course, that monopoly would have resisted any changes to a successful revenue stream so we would not have innovated ourselves into depleting the IPv4 addresses in the first place. But faced with running out of a zero cost product like a publicly routeable address (that we would by no be paying dearly for) they would force whatever change they needed to. Cable companies have no competition so they do what is most profitable. In America at least, all cable channels used to be commercial free - until over the air programming was no longer competition. Got an analog TV?......
I have never had anything to do with surveys or statistical analysis but it seems to me that the data they gathered is invalid because they only got the telemetry from people who opted in to the Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program. I would guess a very large percentage of those users didn't have a clue that they were opting in. Assuming there is no correlation between willingness to opt in and the computer literacy of the user, the sample group looks to me like it is skewed towards those users who are less computer savvy. If there is a correlation between computer literacy and the willingness to opt in ( which would be my guess ) then the sample group would be even more skewed. My guess is that the more literate you are and the more history you know about a company like Microsoft, the less likely you would be to share anything you don't have to with them. Wouldn't you need a representative cross section of users to make the claim that the start button isn't being used?
I guess I wouldn't know if it was a fake or not but it wouldn't matter. The individual would be lying to cover him or her self and I still wouldn't want them.
If I was interviewing a candidate for an IT position and that candidate freely gave me his passwords when I asked, there is no way I would hire him or her. In fact, if I was hiring for any position where the candidate would have access to sensitive corporate data or anything else that a company would not want disclosed to the public or competitors, I wouldn't hire an individual who gave up their password. If they offered to provide me with screen shots or print outs of their social networking pages, fine. But to hand over control of their account under any circumstances would automatically disqualify the individual for the job in my eyes. People like that are how users with just enough knowledge to be dangerous (or worse, someone with bad intent on a fishing expedition) end up with domain admin rights.
If it is lighter than air per cm^3 then make it in a vacuum and lets build a flying saucer
All calls will be routed thru the Great Firewall Of China for inspection but bypass our own unamed version that the NSA uses to listen for "terrorist" activity
Actually nothing could be further from the truth. From experience within the IT world of the Military from pre network days with standalone Z-100 dual floppy to full blown modern data centers. Innovation on the part of the IT workers is continuously encouraged and greatly rewarded. In my experience, IT professionals at least in the Air Force that are not passionate about keeping up with technology and finding better ways to do things and learn as many different aspects of IT are not in the IT world for long. There are really 3 types of IT people in the military. Those who get as many certs as possible so they can fill their resume and get out Those who are passionate about what they do and what they can learn Those on their way out of the field or the military. If someone has IT experience in the military from early in their career then they ended up with a less technical job or if they were in the military for a short time after getting into the IT field without collecting certs or an IT degree, then maybe you are right. But someone like me who spent 22 years from token ring, Banyon Vines and AUI transceivers to the latest modern data centers had to continuously improve or find work elsewhere.