Perhaps while NSA was powning Huawei routers they discovered they were already compromised.
It's time for some nice plug-in mechanism for such routers. So each government can write their own eavesdropping plug-in and the manufacturer can put them all in. Yay.
I partly agree with you (with 1 and 2), in theory.
The point is that it's hypocritical to call a country evil and meanwhile make money on selling them software that allows them to be evil (and knowing in advance it will be used as such).
Also, even though I might have knowledge on how mass censorship works, that doesn't mean I can apply that knowledge. I know how pizzas are made, still I prefer to buy pizza ready made because it's easier, faster or cheaper. By selling mass surveillance or mass censorship software to regimes know to be suppressing their citizens, you help them do it. It's a bad thing.
This law might not work as intended, but to call it the dumbest populist idea ever goes a bit too far. ThisMEP does not fall into the category of populist politicians and she is also not dumb, but rather wel-informed.
She is a MEP who is concerned about human rights (especially in the Middle East). She blames Western technology for internet censorship in e.g. Middle Eastern states. The software that is used most for this happens to be mostly American and Italian.
That my mom and dad don't encrypt their email, fine. But when you are a president of a country and using your email for presidential things, why don't you use encryption?
I see Git and SVN mentioned a lot, in positive and negative sense. I would suggest Mercurial, but is better than SVN (i.e. distributed) but easier to use for most SVN people than Git.
The sad thing is that the difference between "good" government (USA, UK, Sweden, etc), "bad" government (China, Russia, Iran), cybercriminals is about nothing. They are al the same to me and they are all prepared to screw me over.
What if some botnet is using Tor. Maybe it has being rolled out in the last few days, weeks or months and is now being activated and communicating to it's c&c server over Tor? It would explain the massiveness and the suddenness. I don't believe this sudden rise can be explained ordinary people all using Tor at the same time.
Why would my ISP need to firewall my connection? I pay them for access and routing. Not for firewalling and especially not for unfirewalling. They could offer firewalling as an opt-in service (as my ISP does). This is meant for dummy users who tend to be open mail relays without their knowledge etc.
I was a part of the internet when it started and was the wild wild west. Everyone had nearly unlimited ip addresses and NOBODY used them for several reasons. First nobody put everything on the internet.
That was then. Now is now. The billion people on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr don't put anything online? Sure, it's all crap, but it sure is not nothing.
It's just Dumb to put workstations on the internet... Sally in accounting does not need a public IP and all it does is make her computer easier to target and attack. Hiding behind that router on a separate private network is far more secure. Plus it is easier to defend a single point of entry than it is to defend a 255.255.0.0 address space from the world.
Bullshit. If in IPv4 your internal network would be 192.168.10.0/24, you can define an IPv6 range for that as well, e.g. 2001:db8:1234:10::/72. And then you put in your firewall:
2001:db8:1234:10::/72 Inbound: DENY ALL
Done. Hard? No. Harder than IPv4? No. Easier? Yes. Sally needs direct connection to Tom in the other branch (for file transfer, video conference, etc):
2001:db8:1234:10::5411/128 Inbound: ALLOW ALL FROM 2001:db8:1234:11::703/128
Good luck telling your IPv4 CGN ISP you need a port forwarded.
Second I have yet to have someone give me a real need for having everything on the internet with a direct address. you have zero need to have your toaster accessible from the internet.
Oh yeah? Sally might need that 30 GB Powerpoint presentation of her coworker in the other branch. Or that 100 MB customer database. Well, you know, this. How much easier would that be with a very simple app that even you could hack together that sends a file from one IP address to the other. Simple and fast, with IPv6. Try it with IPv4.
When you get a 404 you will angrily send an email to webmaster@thesite.com and tell them to fix the damn site. When you get get a 451, you will probably send email to president@whitehouse.gov, legal@universal.com, etc and tell them to stop fucking with the internet.
Often when I sent out a tweet, I get a reply by some random vague twitter account with some obfuscated URL. I considered this to be spam (usually I don't click on it), but could it be some automated system run by some government to collect IP-addresses of people who post critical tweets?
I'm not in defense (and never will), but isn't (public key) encryption not invented to keep something secure in a unsecure enviroment (i.e. internet). Encrypt your files with very decent encryption, such as PGP/GPG, and upload to dropbox or whatever. Manage keys well.
Movies used to be a form of art, not a form of science. And the science is not there to make a good movie, but how to extract as much money as possible.
I don't think I ever want a payment system to be in the hands of one single company. In the Netherlands (Europe even) all banks adopted the same standard for electronic debit payments and this works fine. Credit cards are basically in the hands of two companies, MasterCard and Visa, and this sucks because they behave as monopolists.
IMHO an electronic payment system can only starts as a co-operation between many banks/governments or... bottom up, with some open specification invented by people like you.
Hackers from China != China, just as hackers from USA != USA. So, can you now please prove that China (meaning the government of China) is behind the majority of real world hacking?
And stop using this stupid term "intellectual property" which could mean just about everything (which is why it is used usually). If I download a mp3 without paying it's called stealing intellectual property. If I hack a defense contractor and steal the design docs of their new bunker busting laser canon it's also called stealing intellectual property.
Maybe no evidence was giving each time the comment was made. I myself are also fail to see any evidence to back these claims up. Until then, it's all propaganda to me. I'm not saying China isn't spying, because I'm pretty sure they do. But still, it's all assumptions, no evidence. It's important to note this, because not too far in the future, all these "facts" will be used to justify something bad.
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Perhaps while NSA was powning Huawei routers they discovered they were already compromised.
It's time for some nice plug-in mechanism for such routers. So each government can write their own eavesdropping plug-in and the manufacturer can put them all in. Yay.
I partly agree with you (with 1 and 2), in theory.
The point is that it's hypocritical to call a country evil and meanwhile make money on selling them software that allows them to be evil (and knowing in advance it will be used as such).
Also, even though I might have knowledge on how mass censorship works, that doesn't mean I can apply that knowledge. I know how pizzas are made, still I prefer to buy pizza ready made because it's easier, faster or cheaper. By selling mass surveillance or mass censorship software to regimes know to be suppressing their citizens, you help them do it. It's a bad thing.
It's Member of European Parliament.
I wish more authors/websites would use the tag.
http://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/Elements/abbr
This law might not work as intended, but to call it the dumbest populist idea ever goes a bit too far. ThisMEP does not fall into the category of populist politicians and she is also not dumb, but rather wel-informed.
Check this:
http://www.marietjeschaake.eu/2013/09/media-eu-should-stop-the-spread-of-digital-arms-vieuws/
She is a MEP who is concerned about human rights (especially in the Middle East). She blames Western technology for internet censorship in e.g. Middle Eastern states. The software that is used most for this happens to be mostly American and Italian.
http://www.marietjeschaake.eu/2011/12/media-radio-free-europe-marietje-schaake-its-high-time-this-digital-weapons-trade-stops/
Not sure why I would trust a cloud-based encryption. In case of encryption software, it's open source or nothing for me. Call me paranoid.
That my mom and dad don't encrypt their email, fine. But when you are a president of a country and using your email for presidential things, why don't you use encryption?
I think you meant http://www.baidu.com/.
I see Git and SVN mentioned a lot, in positive and negative sense. I would suggest Mercurial, but is better than SVN (i.e. distributed) but easier to use for most SVN people than Git.
The sad thing is that the difference between "good" government (USA, UK, Sweden, etc), "bad" government (China, Russia, Iran), cybercriminals is about nothing. They are al the same to me and they are all prepared to screw me over.
What if some botnet is using Tor. Maybe it has being rolled out in the last few days, weeks or months and is now being activated and communicating to it's c&c server over Tor? It would explain the massiveness and the suddenness. I don't believe this sudden rise can be explained ordinary people all using Tor at the same time.
The rise of TOR-based botnets
Why would my ISP need to firewall my connection? I pay them for access and routing. Not for firewalling and especially not for unfirewalling. They could offer firewalling as an opt-in service (as my ISP does). This is meant for dummy users who tend to be open mail relays without their knowledge etc.
I was a part of the internet when it started and was the wild wild west. Everyone had nearly unlimited ip addresses and NOBODY used them for several reasons. First nobody put everything on the internet.
That was then. Now is now. The billion people on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr don't put anything online? Sure, it's all crap, but it sure is not nothing.
It's just Dumb to put workstations on the internet... Sally in accounting does not need a public IP and all it does is make her computer easier to target and attack. Hiding behind that router on a separate private network is far more secure. Plus it is easier to defend a single point of entry than it is to defend a 255.255.0.0 address space from the world.
Bullshit. If in IPv4 your internal network would be 192.168.10.0/24, you can define an IPv6 range for that as well, e.g. 2001:db8:1234:10::/72. And then you put in your firewall:
2001:db8:1234:10::/72 Inbound: DENY ALL
Done. Hard? No. Harder than IPv4? No. Easier? Yes. Sally needs direct connection to Tom in the other branch (for file transfer, video conference, etc):
2001:db8:1234:10::5411/128 Inbound: ALLOW ALL FROM 2001:db8:1234:11::703/128
Good luck telling your IPv4 CGN ISP you need a port forwarded.
Second I have yet to have someone give me a real need for having everything on the internet with a direct address. you have zero need to have your toaster accessible from the internet.
Oh yeah? Sally might need that 30 GB Powerpoint presentation of her coworker in the other branch. Or that 100 MB customer database. Well, you know, this. How much easier would that be with a very simple app that even you could hack together that sends a file from one IP address to the other. Simple and fast, with IPv6. Try it with IPv4.
I'm not allowed to tell you.
When you get a 404 you will angrily send an email to webmaster@thesite.com and tell them to fix the damn site. When you get get a 451, you will probably send email to president@whitehouse.gov, legal@universal.com, etc and tell them to stop fucking with the internet.
... I invite the NRA staff to stand in front of that wall and let me try shooting with lead for the first and last time in my life.
Often when I sent out a tweet, I get a reply by some random vague twitter account with some obfuscated URL. I considered this to be spam (usually I don't click on it), but could it be some automated system run by some government to collect IP-addresses of people who post critical tweets?
I'm not in defense (and never will), but isn't (public key) encryption not invented to keep something secure in a unsecure enviroment (i.e. internet). Encrypt your files with very decent encryption, such as PGP/GPG, and upload to dropbox or whatever. Manage keys well.
Movies used to be a form of art, not a form of science. And the science is not there to make a good movie, but how to extract as much money as possible.
I don't think I ever want a payment system to be in the hands of one single company. In the Netherlands (Europe even) all banks adopted the same standard for electronic debit payments and this works fine. Credit cards are basically in the hands of two companies, MasterCard and Visa, and this sucks because they behave as monopolists.
IMHO an electronic payment system can only starts as a co-operation between many banks/governments or... bottom up, with some open specification invented by people like you.
Why is switching to IPv6 very expensive compared to implementing CGNAT (and having to move to IPv6 sooner or later anyway)?
Can you back that up?
Hackers from China != China, just as hackers from USA != USA. So, can you now please prove that China (meaning the government of China) is behind the majority of real world hacking?
And stop using this stupid term "intellectual property" which could mean just about everything (which is why it is used usually). If I download a mp3 without paying it's called stealing intellectual property. If I hack a defense contractor and steal the design docs of their new bunker busting laser canon it's also called stealing intellectual property.
Note to self: use preview to catch typos.
Maybe no evidence was giving each time the comment was made. I myself are also fail to see any evidence to back these claims up. Until then, it's all propaganda to me. I'm not saying China isn't spying, because I'm pretty sure they do. But still, it's all assumptions, no evidence. It's important to note this, because not too far in the future, all these "facts" will be used to justify something bad.