Humm, no, that is not it at all. And I, and I'm 100% anti-PT (the political party), think you are being overly paranoid and oversimplifying things. Please, there are better things to copy from the USA than their fascination with conspiracy theories.
The main problem our president has (besides being a joke, that is), is that she, somehow, manages to surround herself with the most incompetent people in the country. See Itamar Franco, one of our former presidents. He was stupid and incompetent himself, but managed to surround himself with competent people, and thus got good results.
When I see people like Mercadante in the government, someone whose incompetence is legendary, I have to question more than her competence. I question her common sense.
Unfortunately, we are a people who think we all understand democracy, when ours is barely out of its cradle and didn't even start walking. No one bothers to read the constitution, or to understand how our constitutional democracy works. And that is how the power groups manipulate our democracy, though our ignorance.
As a Brazilian, I have to say this is just the typical "full of hot air" attitude of the current government. I don't expect anything more than some noise and a couple news flashes to come out of this. And a lot of wasted public money, probably being spent on companies owned by political cronies.
This is the same president that published an executive order (has force of law) that changed our language to include a female inflection for the word "president" (which was a non gender specific word, to begin with)
- Hey, anyone can make computer programs at home. All programers will starve - Anyone can make movies at home, movie makers - Anyone can make theater plays are home. The Royal Shakespearean Company actors will starve - Anyone can make coffee at home. Starbucks will go broke - Anyone can invent a god at home (Ron Hubbard proved it). All religions will run out of money
You can sleep soundly if your computer is off and/or unplugged. Otherwise, you should always be on your guard.
Keep your confidential data behind multiple levels of protection, and preferentially disconnected when you are not using it. Never trust anything that is marketed at 100% safe. There will always be bugs to be exploited, if nothing else.
A healthy level of paranoia is the best security tool...
I don't think a DOS can be stealthy......if it's denying service, are people going to notice?
A stealthy DOS is when the attack looks like a normal occurrence, and not an attack. It is not the DOS that is stealthy, it is the attack or, rather, the reason for the lack of service.
It is a very neat thing, actually. Say you have a very long, segmented fence. There are 1000000 segments, and every day 1 of those will break and stay broken for 10 seconds. You can't explore that, because it is random, and you can't try all 1000000 segments in 10 seconds. However, if you can force the dice and make a specific segment tail, you can be there and exploit it, because you know which one and when. To the external observer, however, it was just a normal, run of the mill segment fail.
It is the same concept. The failure is there, they notice it, but it is done in such a way they don't notice it is an attack.
If their "mission" is openness - and the info is that damning - shouldn't they be publishing it? I mean, isn't that sort of the point of Wikileaks? Or just attention whoring?
Or they are worried about responsible disclosure? It is one thing to show the USA is spying. It is another thing to provide names e description of the spies themselves.
It was more than that. It was the books being replaced by the people own volition. The people allowed it, let it happen, and even condoned it. Which one could argued it exactly what is happening.
Neither. 3) Partial panopticians do not work much better than minimal surveillance, and no matter how hard or diligently people work to stop destructive assholes, a few are always going to slip through. Honestly, the effectiveness of even a hypothetical full panopticon is dubious.
You do not need these hyperbolic, extreme scenarios to explain reality.
^^^^^^^ Stupidity and Incompetence. Your #3 is just an extrapolation of my #2.
They needed the Boston bombing to justify the surveillance. They probably let it happen just like they let happen the 9/11 attacks.
Which is more likely:
1) They are evil and secretly let these attacks happen, which could costs the lives of people they know and people from their families (something can always go wrong...) 2) They are stupid and incompetent
Yeah, just like the copyright is temporary... What is it these days, 50 years AFTER the death of the creator? I stopped checking because, for all practical purposes, you can just consider it "forever" and it will work...
As an Exchange administrator, I can say that searching across an entire mail database is absolutely possible, and also very simple to do from the Management Shell. They're either lying, or just don't want to do it.
It is also possible on Notes, any Unix mailbox format (maildir, mbox, maildir+, w/e), and any other e-mail system I can think of.
No, of course not. I mean, if such possibility existed, even remotely, they wouldn't do it, right? It is not like people have a history of exploiting this kind of dumb shit.
The only real question left is: how can people be this stupid?
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Humm, no, that is not it at all. And I, and I'm 100% anti-PT (the political party), think you are being overly paranoid and oversimplifying things.
Please, there are better things to copy from the USA than their fascination with conspiracy theories.
The main problem our president has (besides being a joke, that is), is that she, somehow, manages to surround herself with the most incompetent people in the country. See Itamar Franco, one of our former presidents. He was stupid and incompetent himself, but managed to surround himself with competent people, and thus got good results.
When I see people like Mercadante in the government, someone whose incompetence is legendary, I have to question more than her competence. I question her common sense.
Unfortunately, we are a people who think we all understand democracy, when ours is barely out of its cradle and didn't even start walking. No one bothers to read the constitution, or to understand how our constitutional democracy works. And that is how the power groups manipulate our democracy, though our ignorance.
So she might not appreciate the phrase "ballsy move" being applied to her?
Hummm, in her case... well, come people will say it actually applies :D
As a Brazilian, I have to say this is just the typical "full of hot air" attitude of the current government.
I don't expect anything more than some noise and a couple news flashes to come out of this. And a lot of wasted public money, probably being spent on companies owned by political cronies.
This is the same president that published an executive order (has force of law) that changed our language to include a female inflection for the word "president" (which was a non gender specific word, to begin with)
- Hey, anyone can make computer programs at home. All programers will starve
- Anyone can make movies at home, movie makers
- Anyone can make theater plays are home. The Royal Shakespearean Company actors will starve
- Anyone can make coffee at home. Starbucks will go broke
- Anyone can invent a god at home (Ron Hubbard proved it). All religions will run out of money
Cry... me... a... river....
You can sleep soundly if your computer is off and/or unplugged.
That's the good advice that nobody takes. Putin went one step further and recommended using typewriters for confidential data.
I'm more on the "never sleep soundly" side of things. Trusting you have a secure system is a good part of the problem. Even a typewriter had flaws.
You can sleep soundly if your computer is off and/or unplugged. Otherwise, you should always be on your guard.
Keep your confidential data behind multiple levels of protection, and preferentially disconnected when you are not using it. Never trust anything that is marketed at 100% safe. There will always be bugs to be exploited, if nothing else.
A healthy level of paranoia is the best security tool...
Or make your country so shitty, with so few freedoms left and so much oppression, that no one wants to go there.
Never mind all those billion dollars from tourism. At least no unwanted SOFTWARE will be entering your country.
slow and stealthy denial of service attacks
I don't think a DOS can be stealthy......if it's denying service, are people going to notice?
A stealthy DOS is when the attack looks like a normal occurrence, and not an attack. It is not the DOS that is stealthy, it is the attack or, rather, the reason for the lack of service.
It is a very neat thing, actually. Say you have a very long, segmented fence. There are 1000000 segments, and every day 1 of those will break and stay broken for 10 seconds. You can't explore that, because it is random, and you can't try all 1000000 segments in 10 seconds. However, if you can force the dice and make a specific segment tail, you can be there and exploit it, because you know which one and when. To the external observer, however, it was just a normal, run of the mill segment fail.
It is the same concept. The failure is there, they notice it, but it is done in such a way they don't notice it is an attack.
BSD confirmed Netcraft is dead.
If their "mission" is openness - and the info is that damning - shouldn't they be publishing it? I mean, isn't that sort of the point of Wikileaks? Or just attention whoring?
Or they are worried about responsible disclosure?
It is one thing to show the USA is spying. It is another thing to provide names e description of the spies themselves.
It was more than that. It was the books being replaced by the people own volition. The people allowed it, let it happen, and even condoned it. Which one could argued it exactly what is happening.
451... Nice... Ray Bradbury would be proud :)
And that is exactly the problem.
Say, if you were having a heart attack, would you want to be taken to the best mechanical engineer of the world?
People get to the top because they are have political smart.
Neither. 3) Partial panopticians do not work much better than minimal surveillance, and no matter how hard or diligently people work to stop destructive assholes, a few are always going to slip through. Honestly, the effectiveness of even a hypothetical full panopticon is dubious.
You do not need these hyperbolic, extreme scenarios to explain reality.
^^^^^^^ Stupidity and Incompetence. Your #3 is just an extrapolation of my #2.
They needed the Boston bombing to justify the surveillance. They probably let it happen just like they let happen the 9/11 attacks.
Which is more likely:
1) They are evil and secretly let these attacks happen, which could costs the lives of people they know and people from their families (something can always go wrong...)
2) They are stupid and incompetent
This has nothing to do with encryption, and has everything with software you can't audit and verify yourself is secure.
I mean, do you really think it is that unlikely there are backdoors and/or monitoring hooks in your Cisco router? Or your Linksys AP? Or whatever?
The moment you trust blindly, be it the government or companies in a position to be influenced by others, you are putting yourself at risk.
Saying this is a cryptography issue, and not a "blackbox" issue, makes me wonder about ulterior motives...
I'm conducting a "highly" scientific study of my own.
Please reply here if you are surprised by these news...
Keeping in mind; temporarily banned.(...)
It can only be temporary. (...)
Yeah, just like the copyright is temporary... What is it these days, 50 years AFTER the death of the creator? I stopped checking because, for all practical purposes, you can just consider it "forever" and it will work...
It'll only block cults that are too small to sue in retaliation.
Or to buy and have their own Members of Parliament...
And the practical reason for this is what, exactly?
Do the doctor can tell them they shouldn't have done, something they already did, and already know shouldn't have?
Maybe, just maybe, HMO and insurance companies could benefit from this but, the person? How exactly?
As an Exchange administrator, I can say that searching across an entire mail database is absolutely possible, and also very simple to do from the Management Shell. They're either lying, or just don't want to do it.
It is also possible on Notes, any Unix mailbox format (maildir, mbox, maildir+, w/e), and any other e-mail system I can think of.
Yeah. Don't forget to stop vaccinating children also, while you are at that.
No, of course not. I mean, if such possibility existed, even remotely, they wouldn't do it, right? It is not like people have a history of exploiting this kind of dumb shit.
The only real question left is: how can people be this stupid?
Linus becoming polite on his e-mails is going to happen right after the Linux kernel gets ported entirely to C#.
My standard reply for this kind of issue is, simply linking this 3sec video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmnN3eVMWgA
Clue in creationists using this as "proof" earth is only 9000 years old in 3 ... 2 ...