One point would be that they are trying to work their investigation up the organization's structure. Human nature controls most organizations and since the Roman Army it's been units of 11 men per firstline leader and 3 to 5 units per leader, so moving up just 2 rungs, reduces the effectivness of 90 to 150 people. Take off the head and the whole organization can fall apart.
Manning had social difficulties in the Army, which were attributed to the problems of being homosexual under the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.[11] Before being arrested, Manning had been demoted from Specialist to Private First Class for assaulting another soldier and was scheduled to be discharged early.[5][13] Bradley Manning
an INTEL analyst who was demoted for assault and scheduled for an early discharge should have had his SIPRNET access terminated.
the point is the author wasn't a journalist, he was a low level Canadian Attaches, a member of the Canadian Diplomatic Mission who then passed the documents up the chain to the people who could apply leverage. With the American cables released informants are going to be much less confident that their information will be held in confidence. Now the people with the power to turn on the lights will not know which room the cockroaches are hiding in.
Once the students left and the office door closed, the teacher would open her desk drawer and with a shaking hand give me horrifying photos of disinterred bodies. The Timorese resistance would dig up the fresh graves of torture victims, take photos for evidence, and pass them through their underground networks to this teacher, who would then get them out of the country through me and other diplomats.... The third most common topic in the WikiLeaks cables is human rights, with American diplomats doing the same thing we were trying to do in Indonesia: Make the world a little better.
That’s hard to swallow for the cyber mob that is celebrating the embarrassment being inflicted on the U.S. government this week. But the damage done to Washington is nothing compared to the pain that is about to be inflicted on the confidential sources in Russia, China and Sudan. WikiLeaks just made the world more repressive
Those informants are real people, many actually doing what wikileaks is supposed to be doing.
Then you get a Katrina. Sorry but I still vote for the Thorium fuel cycle, much more difficult to react so it's much less likely to run-away on you, and much more proliferation resistance.
Well in the wikileaks, the greatest vulnerability is in copyright violations, all it takes is one cable trash-talking Rush Limbaugh with a quote or an email from somebody like Michael Yon to somebody in the State Deptment and we're off to the courts for infringement. and what most people don't realize is
3.1.7 Does the Government have copyright protection in U.S. Government works in other countries?
Yes, the copyright exclusion for works of the U.S. Government is not intended to have any impact on protection of these works abroad (S. REP. NO. 473, 94th Cong., 2d Sess. 56 (1976)). Therefore, the U.S. Government may obtain protection in other countries depending on the treatment of government works by the national copyright law of the particular country. Copyright is sometimes asserted by U.S. Government agencies outside the United States. Frequently Asked Questions About Copyright
Well for example look at Assange, an Australian publishing US Classified documents from Sweden, OOPs, Sweden is a NATO country like the US so whats secret in the US is secret in Sweden. Also you say that like the US hasn't just grabbed people we really wanted off the street and brought them to the US for trial; you'll notice that the picture of Manuel Noriega, the once president of Panama on wikipedia is a US Marshal's mug shoot and he was tried and convicted on eight counts of drug trafficking, racketeering, and money laundering, in the US and money laundering in France; we literaly invaded Panama overthrew the existing government and disolve it's defense forces to get Noriega.
doah and your correct also, I have in the past hand editied my hosts file so wikileaks would resolve when governments were playing games with its DNS also. I believe windows still uses an editable hosts file and I know *nix does.
1) The money supply is limited. So the more the rich guys have, the less YOU have
For love of God that is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard, there has to be a million websites devoted to exposing (take your pick) the John Burch Society/Illuminati/Trilateral Commission/KKK/The Communist Party/Zionists-Caballists/Free Masons/Knights of Columbus/The Templars (sorry if I forgot your favorite conspiracy group) conspiracy to move the world from a floating money system to a fixed or gold standard money system that they will control. If there really wasn't enough money to support our economic activity, people would start using barter more than they do now. That means the government loses track of the income and therefore income taxes, so they'll just increase the money supply to drive the economy above-ground. If we have a problem it's more likely along the lines of too much money in the system.
Under US law it's illegal to transfer classified documents to persons wiithout a clearence for that information, which is exactly what wikileaks did. It's pretty safe to assume every country has a such a law and that the law applies to non-citzens located both inside and outside the countries traditional boundries. Violating this law is what is popularly known as espionage or spying.
Bradley Manning is acused of downloading the files over a secure military network and transferring them to his personal laptop and then uploading the files to an unnamed site everybody assumes is wikileaks. The downloads over the secure military net was surely logged, there was certainly forensicaly visable traces of the classified files left on his laptop and at least normal logging at the ISP Manning connected to would have how much data he uploaded; so it's really not that hard to connect those dots. All of this would have happened before the wikileaks submission process. When I was in the Army I had lost a classified document and for months the phones I talked on were tapped and I was followed everywhere I went, and they were blatant about it; I sure was glad when I found the document under the bottom drawer of the file cabinet inside the security vault!
If you were a Judge and had to listen to the silly Bullshit people and lawyers slung around the courtroom day in and day out, you probably blow a nut every once in a while too. Besides he lambasted the Prosecutor, do sub-humans like a lawyers who is a fellow public servant and officers of the court, count as bodies as in People?
Considering the computerized engine-drivetrain management systems and the Microsoft Sync system, I'm, not sure I see the difference either; that's why cases like this can be much more far-reaching that they first appear.
Better in Swedish prison than just disapear. This asshat has pissed off just about every country in the world, and out of the few that aren't POed only one will grant asylum. Imagine investigating his murder, the typical question is "Would anyone want the vic' harmed or murdered" and the answer would be "Well yeah, just about everybody!"
Well lets see the video showed that the sighting device had a laser range finder, a compass, I didn't see anything that looked like a GPS but once you have the other expensive stuff why scrimp on the chump change. The weapon system had a total of 6 different rounds, so I bet the weapon differentiates automatically between them, and since they can train a gunner to hit +-1 m at 800m range pretty quickly, the site is probably computing wind-age and super-elevation for the existing conditions. The Computer also has to set the timer on the airburst round as it's fired. The article is comparing the system to an assault rifle but the reality is the systems looks more like a shoulder fire tank turret to me. I know the $35-25K seems like a lot but this system will allow us to shoot less Hellfire missiles at $68K a pop, and do it over and over. I rather expect we should worry more about the price of the ammo, than the weapon.
This is really disruptive technology, it's effect on land battle tactics will be like the introduction of the bow and arrow over the javelin or the musket over Knight's armor.
It's not going to replace an assault rifle, it niche is between a grenade launcher, a howitzer and an anti-tank guided missile. For example in Afghanistan, the rock/adobe walls are exceedingly difficult to punch a reasonable size hole through, everything either is ineffective or levels the whole compound, the HEHB round for the XM25 goes over the wall and airbursts slightly past the wall, and is only one of six rounds for the system. With this, We'll now be able to frag the one "bad-guy" shooting from behind a wall rather than calling in a hellfire attack or an artillery barrage that will not only get the bad-guy but the owners family too.
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One point would be that they are trying to work their investigation up the organization's structure. Human nature controls most organizations and since the Roman Army it's been units of 11 men per firstline leader and 3 to 5 units per leader, so moving up just 2 rungs, reduces the effectivness of 90 to 150 people. Take off the head and the whole organization can fall apart.
Where the system really fell apart was
an INTEL analyst who was demoted for assault and scheduled for an early discharge should have had his SIPRNET access terminated.
the point is the author wasn't a journalist, he was a low level Canadian Attaches, a member of the Canadian Diplomatic Mission who then passed the documents up the chain to the people who could apply leverage. With the American cables released informants are going to be much less confident that their information will be held in confidence. Now the people with the power to turn on the lights will not know which room the cockroaches are hiding in.
Those informants are real people, many actually doing what wikileaks is supposed to be doing.
Then you get a Katrina. Sorry but I still vote for the Thorium fuel cycle, much more difficult to react so it's much less likely to run-away on you, and much more proliferation resistance.
Well in the wikileaks, the greatest vulnerability is in copyright violations, all it takes is one cable trash-talking Rush Limbaugh with a quote or an email from somebody like Michael Yon to somebody in the State Deptment and we're off to the courts for infringement. and what most people don't realize is
so even the USG could easily get into the fray.
he was refering to bug as in a bugged telephone not faulty software
Well for example look at Assange, an Australian publishing US Classified documents from Sweden, OOPs, Sweden is a NATO country like the US so whats secret in the US is secret in Sweden. Also you say that like the US hasn't just grabbed people we really wanted off the street and brought them to the US for trial; you'll notice that the picture of Manuel Noriega, the once president of Panama on wikipedia is a US Marshal's mug shoot and he was tried and convicted on eight counts of drug trafficking, racketeering, and money laundering, in the US and money laundering in France; we literaly invaded Panama overthrew the existing government and disolve it's defense forces to get Noriega.
doah and your correct also, I have in the past hand editied my hosts file so wikileaks would resolve when governments were playing games with its DNS also. I believe windows still uses an editable hosts file and I know *nix does.
1) The money supply is limited. So the more the rich guys have, the less YOU have
For love of God that is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard, there has to be a million websites devoted to exposing (take your pick) the John Burch Society/Illuminati/Trilateral Commission/KKK/The Communist Party/Zionists-Caballists/Free Masons/Knights of Columbus/The Templars (sorry if I forgot your favorite conspiracy group) conspiracy to move the world from a floating money system to a fixed or gold standard money system that they will control.
If there really wasn't enough money to support our economic activity, people would start using barter more than they do now. That means the government loses track of the income and therefore income taxes, so they'll just increase the money supply to drive the economy above-ground. If we have a problem it's more likely along the lines of too much money in the system.
Virtual servers would be beyond your technique, not every site has a unique IP address.
I think your confusing "it's so logistically challenging that it's usually not done" with "can't".
The ones with a phrase like "(1) Prohibitions. It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States - " don't extend past the US, the rest do.
With those nieve notions, I certainly hope you have a very good lawyer and consult with him or her regularly.
Under US law it's illegal to transfer classified documents to persons wiithout a clearence for that information, which is exactly what wikileaks did. It's pretty safe to assume every country has a such a law and that the law applies to non-citzens located both inside and outside the countries traditional boundries. Violating this law is what is popularly known as espionage or spying.
Bradley Manning is acused of downloading the files over a secure military network and transferring them to his personal laptop and then uploading the files to an unnamed site everybody assumes is wikileaks. The downloads over the secure military net was surely logged, there was certainly forensicaly visable traces of the classified files left on his laptop and at least normal logging at the ISP Manning connected to would have how much data he uploaded; so it's really not that hard to connect those dots. All of this would have happened before the wikileaks submission process. When I was in the Army I had lost a classified document and for months the phones I talked on were tapped and I was followed everywhere I went, and they were blatant about it; I sure was glad when I found the document under the bottom drawer of the file cabinet inside the security vault!
I'm not sure than firefly luciferin will glow when exposed to adenosine triarsenate, so at least one method at least has reduce confidence.
If you were a Judge and had to listen to the silly Bullshit people and lawyers slung around the courtroom day in and day out, you probably blow a nut every once in a while too. Besides he lambasted the Prosecutor, do sub-humans like a lawyers who is a fellow public servant and officers of the court, count as bodies as in People?
Considering the computerized engine-drivetrain management systems and the Microsoft Sync system, I'm, not sure I see the difference either; that's why cases like this can be much more far-reaching that they first appear.
Personally I didn't think it was a DDOS, but a slashdotting from diplomats trying to find out what everybody else really thinks about them.
The only thing better than not getting arrested, is being arrested and then having them decide your not the right guy.
I keep thinking of the movie "Smoking Aces" where all of the hitmen are tripping over each other trying to kill Buddy Israel.
Better in Swedish prison than just disapear. This asshat has pissed off just about every country in the world, and out of the few that aren't POed only one will grant asylum. Imagine investigating his murder, the typical question is "Would anyone want the vic' harmed or murdered" and the answer would be "Well yeah, just about everybody!"
Well lets see the video showed that the sighting device had a laser range finder, a compass, I didn't see anything that looked like a GPS but once you have the other expensive stuff why scrimp on the chump change. The weapon system had a total of 6 different rounds, so I bet the weapon differentiates automatically between them, and since they can train a gunner to hit +-1 m at 800m range pretty quickly, the site is probably computing wind-age and super-elevation for the existing conditions. The Computer also has to set the timer on the airburst round as it's fired. The article is comparing the system to an assault rifle but the reality is the systems looks more like a shoulder fire tank turret to me. I know the $35-25K seems like a lot but this system will allow us to shoot less Hellfire missiles at $68K a pop, and do it over and over. I rather expect we should worry more about the price of the ammo, than the weapon.
This is really disruptive technology, it's effect on land battle tactics will be like the introduction of the bow and arrow over the javelin or the musket over Knight's armor.
It's not going to replace an assault rifle, it niche is between a grenade launcher, a howitzer and an anti-tank guided missile. For example in Afghanistan, the rock/adobe walls are exceedingly difficult to punch a reasonable size hole through, everything either is ineffective or levels the whole compound, the HEHB round for the XM25 goes over the wall and airbursts slightly past the wall, and is only one of six rounds for the system. With this, We'll now be able to frag the one "bad-guy" shooting from behind a wall rather than calling in a hellfire attack or an artillery barrage that will not only get the bad-guy but the owners family too.