Agreements can also be for the PR (Public Relations). Many (including me) are cynical about this and believe that this is an insult to the paper that it is written on; however some will take it at face value and believe that their respective leaders are making the world a better place. Not everything that governments do is done with you in mind.
I think that they are caught up in their own bullshit that they have forgotten how ''the man in the street'' thinks. Ie - they don't get out enough. They think that we all forget their 'little lies' and really believe that they are acting in our best interests. They talk mainly to each other, if you don't talk up the reality of the persistent threat to fellow NSA/.... people - then will you be looked on with suspicion or passed over for promotion ? The corporate 'yes' men will always tell their bosses what they think the bosses want to hear - many a large company has gone bankrupt or empire been overrun because of that.
I do believe that many of them are honourable people, but their viewpoint has become so skewed by the corporate culture that they have lost touch with reality; not that much different from those embedded in a religious community who end up thinking that the myths are true.
It is always possible that they are right and I am wrong - but I don't think so.
is not that they were running Apache as root - although that it a stupid thing to do, it could have been an oversight (just about). What is of major concern is how they try to hide their mistake by abuse of legal system - this abuse is not an oversight and only makes me wonder what else FireEye is hiding -- I would think 3 times before hiring them.
I am also disgusted at the German judge who gave an ex-parte order without having a return date so that the defendant (security researcher) could present his side of the argument. It does happen often in spite of heads of courts saying that it must not happen (in some UK court divisions anyway).
for 15+ years, after elm and before that mush. Not having to find and wiggle the mouse makes it fast, as does it being a CHUI (CHaracter UI) - especially when ssh-ed in from somewhere.
I did not realise that this was available for free use to Oracle executives to help them reduce the stress induced by pesky customers who are trying to obtain a good service.
This suggests less heat which means that chips could be packed in more densely, need smaller heat sinks. This could also remove some of the heat issues associated with multi layer chips.
The trouble with FM static is that your ''enemy'' could also observe what you observe and thus have a good idea of what you are basing your random numbers on.
In which case they will have to release the code that corresponds to binaries - would be useful for checking that there is not some little tweaks to help the NSA -- but if they have already put those into the system DLLs (eg for encryption) we would not really know. Maybe I am too cynical but I am very suspicious of what they did to skype.
Should not be that hard, slashdot HTTP headers contain: Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 and the HTML header contains the line: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
for arranging this. It might be largely symbolic, but I heartily approve of what he has done. Something bright & positive, better than the trials of ancient concentration camp officials.
To make this work you take your open source Firefox and download the Adobe Content Decryption Module (CDM) - a closed source ''black box''. Who knows what is in there, maybe Adobe took some dollars from the NSA and put some spyware in there -- you can't tell because the channel to download the video is encrypted. Maybe they have also taken some rubles and inserted some code from the FSB (KGB successor) and maybe from elsewhere ?
One right that should be absolute is to criticise a politician for their public actions. We elect them and if we don't like what they do we must be able to say so in clear terms. This includes saying that if think they are being stupid or duplicitous.
As regards personal insults: they should have the same protections and rights of redress for ad hominem attacks as the rest of us have - no more, no less.
it was the sales droid who lied - it is him who should be castigated for lieing - presumably to earn a few extra $ commission or bonus. All those who were conned into paying for something that they did not need should be able to seek compensation from the sales droid - the fine NOT to be paid by Verison.
The droid's manager and managers all the way up should have to pay in proportion to their take home pay.
Unless there are consequences it will happen again. Not much different from the bankers who caused the rest of us so much pain and, by & large, have escaped personal penalties.
Slashdot Mirror
Article says "carded consumer goods from America to Eastern Europe — primarily Russia".
I don't think that Putin would like Russia to be seen as part of Europe. Look at the fuss that he made when Ukraine was getting too close to Europe.
Agreements can also be for the PR (Public Relations). Many (including me) are cynical about this and believe that this is an insult to the paper that it is written on; however some will take it at face value and believe that their respective leaders are making the world a better place. Not everything that governments do is done with you in mind.
or perhaps just measuring it!
I think that they are caught up in their own bullshit that they have forgotten how ''the man in the street'' thinks. Ie - they don't get out enough. They think that we all forget their 'little lies' and really believe that they are acting in our best interests. They talk mainly to each other, if you don't talk up the reality of the persistent threat to fellow NSA/.... people - then will you be looked on with suspicion or passed over for promotion ? The corporate 'yes' men will always tell their bosses what they think the bosses want to hear - many a large company has gone bankrupt or empire been overrun because of that.
I do believe that many of them are honourable people, but their viewpoint has become so skewed by the corporate culture that they have lost touch with reality; not that much different from those embedded in a religious community who end up thinking that the myths are true.
It is always possible that they are right and I am wrong - but I don't think so.
is not that they were running Apache as root - although that it a stupid thing to do, it could have been an oversight (just about). What is of major concern is how they try to hide their mistake by abuse of legal system - this abuse is not an oversight and only makes me wonder what else FireEye is hiding -- I would think 3 times before hiring them.
I am also disgusted at the German judge who gave an ex-parte order without having a return date so that the defendant (security researcher) could present his side of the argument. It does happen often in spite of heads of courts saying that it must not happen (in some UK court divisions anyway).
it is who you know, who you work for. If laws exist the have got to be applied consistently. I wonder if the RIAA will appeal for a tougher sentence ?
It would be interesting to see those apprehended in the future for piracy use this as part of a plea for clemency.
I am talking about X over broadband connections. Locally I use xterm (well, Gnome terminal), but remotely I use ssh. mutt works well over ssh.
With a GUI latency rather than bandwidth can be the bigger problem.
for 15+ years, after elm and before that mush. Not having to find and wiggle the mouse makes it fast, as does it being a CHUI (CHaracter UI) - especially when ssh-ed in from somewhere.
please shut up about this for another year.
A few words ... encode them as ASCII, divide by 108 years -- what does that come out as a bit rate ?/p?
An interesting long term review of NSG/GCHQ snooping - by Duncan Campbell.
I did not realise that this was available for free use to Oracle executives to help them reduce the stress induced by pesky customers who are trying to obtain a good service.
I seem to remember early transistors being made of germanium - on the row below silicon and one to the right of gallium
This suggests less heat which means that chips could be packed in more densely, need smaller heat sinks. This could also remove some of the heat issues associated with multi layer chips.
A win in many ways!
Install CyanogenMod
The trouble with FM static is that your ''enemy'' could also observe what you observe and thus have a good idea of what you are basing your random numbers on.
In which case they will have to release the code that corresponds to binaries - would be useful for checking that there is not some little tweaks to help the NSA -- but if they have already put those into the system DLLs (eg for encryption) we would not really know. Maybe I am too cynical but I am very suspicious of what they did to skype.
Should not be that hard, slashdot HTTP headers contain: Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 and the HTML header contains the line: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
Evidence please.
for arranging this. It might be largely symbolic, but I heartily approve of what he has done. Something bright & positive, better than the trials of ancient concentration camp officials.
To make this work you take your open source Firefox and download the Adobe Content Decryption Module (CDM) - a closed source ''black box''. Who knows what is in there, maybe Adobe took some dollars from the NSA and put some spyware in there -- you can't tell because the channel to download the video is encrypted. Maybe they have also taken some rubles and inserted some code from the FSB (KGB successor) and maybe from elsewhere ?
Who knows ? I don't -- it is closed source.
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One right that should be absolute is to criticise a politician for their public actions. We elect them and if we don't like what they do we must be able to say so in clear terms. This includes saying that if think they are being stupid or duplicitous.
As regards personal insults: they should have the same protections and rights of redress for ad hominem attacks as the rest of us have - no more, no less.
it was the sales droid who lied - it is him who should be castigated for lieing - presumably to earn a few extra $ commission or bonus. All those who were conned into paying for something that they did not need should be able to seek compensation from the sales droid - the fine NOT to be paid by Verison. The droid's manager and managers all the way up should have to pay in proportion to their take home pay.
Unless there are consequences it will happen again. Not much different from the bankers who caused the rest of us so much pain and, by & large, have escaped personal penalties.
1) Tell us that it is not effective; thus we need not worry about loss of privacy; thus we might we well let them continue ?
2) It is not effective because they have not got enough money for XXX; so: please Mr congress critter - vote them some more money
3) It is not effective; you need not worry about encrypting your communications; hopefully enough idiots will believe that!
Pick one of the above or come out with more suggestions.