Sure, it was possible to listen in but the important bit was that you could direct it to a specific person and have them receive it when they weren't actively listening for you. Making a phone call instead of sitting in front of a radio set and hoping they turned theirs on.
The foundation of Federalism is that the levers of power must remain as close to the people as possible, with the Federal government handling issues between States, with other Nations, and with the Native Americans that can only be dealt with at a national level. Matters of public health, safety and education belong to the States, which are "closer" and more responsive to the voters.
It's not anti-democratic in this case, it's anti-Federalism. In the opposite direction from the original anti-federalists, who wanted an even weaker Federal government.
There's also an element of laziness. It's easier to get one government to change policies than 50.
If you work for a government agency they should be able to detect installations. Which should result in an instant termination and a thorough investigation.
All those resources are dedicated to filing paperwork or paying for the shiny, new, hi-tech, connected medical equipment that now has to be updated or replaced at no small cost. To patients.
It's a powershell macro that does the dirty work. Is it subject to the computer's powershell execution policy? I really wish they would have mentioned that somewhere.
PowerPoint is available on Macs and mobile devices. PowerShell is not. That's the Power* that indicates Windows. Though not really because it's also available on Macs and Linux. I"ve never seen anyone with PowerShell on their Mac though.
My point is that an attacker wouldn't know that the response time of the LED has been changed. They told it to blink 10 times in one second, but instead it just stayed on the entire time. They tell it to flash once, and it's not enough to actually light the LED. They'd have to carefully and manually analyse the response to their commands to work out how to get around the delay. If, of course, they figure out that's where their problem is instead of thinking the hack failed, and they don't spend so much time on it that they get caught.
Well, she will be formally allowed to testify, but her lawyer probably won't want her to.
You're absolutely right that it won't be an easy argument to make. Mainly because she won't even be able to show that the information wasn't handed over to the investigations already, let alone that it wouldn't be, or that it wouldn't have been made public by time the investigations released their findings. To have any justification for her actions, all three of those would have to be true and she could not know if it was. Though hardly conclusive, I haven't heard anybody from any of the investigative committees say that they weren't aware of this (I may have just not heard about an interview or press conference).
Winner is a moron, as her parents clearly are (only an idiot names a child "Reality Winner"). But more importantly, Snowden is just plain wrong about the law. The jury can consider intent.
Seems to depend greatly on how the prosecution defines "injury to the United States". In Winner's case, she unnecessarily (there are investigations she could have turned it over to, if it hadn't been already, which she wouldn't know) released classified information, thereby undermining the ongoing investigations which could be argued as intentional injury.
That applies to Snowden, not Winner. He revealed unconstitutional actions by the NSA. She prejudged the outcomes of at least five ongoing agency and legislative investigations, and ignored all the legal options she had.
Uh huh. Except almost all authoritarian countries are "Rightist", as you can count the number of "Leftist" authoritarian countries on one hand.
Care to back that up? Keep in mind that Right and Left are relative, not absolute, terms. Further complicated by the fact that they are applied differently to social, political and economic systems.
And even then all "Leftist" authoritarianism is the direct result of elitist and capitalist shitbags who oppressed the proles until the proles revolted and broke out the guillotines.
This is not true. You appear to lack a sufficient grounding in the relevant concepts to be making such claims. Read Hegel, Smith, Locke, Nietzsche, and Foucault to start.
is that using 2FA to verify your login doesn't help much if the authentication device is what you're logging in. So if you only have an iPhone, there isn't much point.
Ah-ha! You just taught me the right term for what we're talking about! Signal conditioning.
Soldering components into everything with an LED is not something I'd want to do, but if manufacturers put in caps with wide variations in capacitance - instead of buying parts that deviate from the expected values by.001%, they vary by 10% - then the frequency of the flicker would be too unpredictable to be exploited.
Well, if the expected response time for the LED (first emission of light to last) is 100ms, but you slow that down to 1s with a capacitor (and or resistor or whatever), then instead of an attacker sending 10 bits/sec, they send none.
The downside being that it can't be done by the manufacturer unless they use low-spec parts so there is significant variation in response time between individual devices.
It wasn't really whistle blowing though. She didn't expose any wrongdoing by the government, she released evidence tied to an ongoing investigation. That's bad for the investigation.
What Snowden did was reveal ongoing, unconstitutional, secret surveillance - wrongdoing. This turd released information on something being investigated by the FBI and a half-dozen congressional committees. She had avenues available to get this directly to them, but gave it to the press instead.
Her intent and the effect of her actions was to circumvent the investigatory process before giving it a chance. If, after the investigations concluded and the findings made public, no mention was made of this evidence then she might have had some justification. But she acted out of her own personal biases and jumped the gun.
Think about this - low pay often means low quality employees, but more importantly, it gives them an incentive to take bribes. Good pay disincentivizes taking bribes.
What about a capacitor? Wouldn't that slow down the LED response time enough to make high frequency flashes impossible? I'm not an electrical engineer, could be totally wrong.
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Sure, it was possible to listen in but the important bit was that you could direct it to a specific person and have them receive it when they weren't actively listening for you. Making a phone call instead of sitting in front of a radio set and hoping they turned theirs on.
The foundation of Federalism is that the levers of power must remain as close to the people as possible, with the Federal government handling issues between States, with other Nations, and with the Native Americans that can only be dealt with at a national level. Matters of public health, safety and education belong to the States, which are "closer" and more responsive to the voters.
There's also an element of laziness. It's easier to get one government to change policies than 50.
If you work for a government agency they should be able to detect installations. Which should result in an instant termination and a thorough investigation.
All those resources are dedicated to filing paperwork or paying for the shiny, new, hi-tech, connected medical equipment that now has to be updated or replaced at no small cost. To patients.
It's a powershell macro that does the dirty work. Is it subject to the computer's powershell execution policy? I really wish they would have mentioned that somewhere.
PowerPoint is available on Macs and mobile devices. PowerShell is not. That's the Power* that indicates Windows. Though not really because it's also available on Macs and Linux. I"ve never seen anyone with PowerShell on their Mac though.
somebody on the other side of the planet with a potentially unintelligible accent. So much better than being in the same building.
My point is that an attacker wouldn't know that the response time of the LED has been changed. They told it to blink 10 times in one second, but instead it just stayed on the entire time. They tell it to flash once, and it's not enough to actually light the LED. They'd have to carefully and manually analyse the response to their commands to work out how to get around the delay. If, of course, they figure out that's where their problem is instead of thinking the hack failed, and they don't spend so much time on it that they get caught.
You're absolutely right that it won't be an easy argument to make. Mainly because she won't even be able to show that the information wasn't handed over to the investigations already, let alone that it wouldn't be, or that it wouldn't have been made public by time the investigations released their findings. To have any justification for her actions, all three of those would have to be true and she could not know if it was. Though hardly conclusive, I haven't heard anybody from any of the investigative committees say that they weren't aware of this (I may have just not heard about an interview or press conference).
Winner is a moron, as her parents clearly are (only an idiot names a child "Reality Winner"). But more importantly, Snowden is just plain wrong about the law. The jury can consider intent.
Seems to depend greatly on how the prosecution defines "injury to the United States". In Winner's case, she unnecessarily (there are investigations she could have turned it over to, if it hadn't been already, which she wouldn't know) released classified information, thereby undermining the ongoing investigations which could be argued as intentional injury.
Nice.
That applies to Snowden, not Winner. He revealed unconstitutional actions by the NSA. She prejudged the outcomes of at least five ongoing agency and legislative investigations, and ignored all the legal options she had.
Uh huh. Except almost all authoritarian countries are "Rightist", as you can count the number of "Leftist" authoritarian countries on one hand.
Care to back that up? Keep in mind that Right and Left are relative, not absolute, terms. Further complicated by the fact that they are applied differently to social, political and economic systems.
And even then all "Leftist" authoritarianism is the direct result of elitist and capitalist shitbags who oppressed the proles until the proles revolted and broke out the guillotines.
This is not true. You appear to lack a sufficient grounding in the relevant concepts to be making such claims. Read Hegel, Smith, Locke, Nietzsche, and Foucault to start.
is that using 2FA to verify your login doesn't help much if the authentication device is what you're logging in. So if you only have an iPhone, there isn't much point.
Jealous?
Soldering components into everything with an LED is not something I'd want to do, but if manufacturers put in caps with wide variations in capacitance - instead of buying parts that deviate from the expected values by .001%, they vary by 10% - then the frequency of the flicker would be too unpredictable to be exploited.
Hah! Good one.
The downside being that it can't be done by the manufacturer unless they use low-spec parts so there is significant variation in response time between individual devices.
As would British counselors, so it still comes down to social norms.
What Snowden did was reveal ongoing, unconstitutional, secret surveillance - wrongdoing. This turd released information on something being investigated by the FBI and a half-dozen congressional committees. She had avenues available to get this directly to them, but gave it to the press instead.
Her intent and the effect of her actions was to circumvent the investigatory process before giving it a chance. If, after the investigations concluded and the findings made public, no mention was made of this evidence then she might have had some justification. But she acted out of her own personal biases and jumped the gun.
Think about this - low pay often means low quality employees, but more importantly, it gives them an incentive to take bribes. Good pay disincentivizes taking bribes.
What about a capacitor? Wouldn't that slow down the LED response time enough to make high frequency flashes impossible? I'm not an electrical engineer, could be totally wrong.
By American standards (social baselines, not the toilets), Brits are alcoholics.