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  1. Re:They're using it to scare the public on Police Find Paris Attackers Coordinate Via Unencrypted SMS (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    >> You ask most people and they're like, "Nah, that can't be true." But true it is. And not Alex Jones True, but real life true.

    Well, the regularity of atrocities has approached overwhelming proportions - videodrome. ... 1984 wasn't a warning, it was the elites' plan for utopia.

  2. Re:Some basic rules on If You're Not Paranoid About Your Privacy, You're Crazy (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    >> your network card's MAC address would stay the same.

    You could possibly have your MAC "reported" differently on every boot.

    But you don't think they categorize access by site/time/device/other metrics?
    So even if a different machine goes a different place and does similar things,
    hits keys in certain ways, always uses certain words/phrases, always talks to
    certain people ...

    Just turn it all off and get a pen and pad.

  3. Re:Not surprising on Apple Reportedly Disables Its News App In China (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    >> A long serving totalitarian regime, known for suppression of dissent, would invariably condition generations of its populace to avoid confronting the status quo.

    And you are sure that conditioning has not been enacted upon you, US Citizen?

  4. Re:I know how this is going to be fixed... on Google Apologises For Photos App's Racist Blunder · · Score: 1

    Anything that's politically incorrect will be blacklisted from being labeled as a result.

    And considering something to be 'black-listed' in no way negatively reflects on people called 'black' - it is simply coincidence that both terms share the same word.

  5. Re:I'm suspicious. on Windows 10 Will Be Free To Users Who Test It · · Score: 1

    "It will be free for XXXX" they are not showing you the fine print which says "for the first 90 days."

    I'm skeptical.

    Its not quite that - more that "free" in this case means "in exchange for unprecedented amounts of your personal information."

  6. Re:Connected? on Windows 10 Will Be Free To Users Who Test It · · Score: 1

    Is this like Windows 8 where it nags you to sign in with a @msn or @hotmail account?
    Because I'm very much uninterested in having Microsoft follow along with my daily activities.

    More than that; using their browser, their search engine and local search facility,
    their anti-virus, all send copious amounts of information to Megasoft.
    Using the default settings sends numerous types of data over the wire.

  7. Re:Diversity on Google Diversity Report Straight Out of 'How To Lie With Statistics' Playbook · · Score: 3, Informative

    >> many deliberately avoid academic and STEM fields because their own peers disapprove of it.

    Break it down. Where do you get your information from? The addressing of any problems
    requires understanding the framework in which they work, which begs the question.

    Institutional discrimination, impoverishment from colony establishment, obfuscated history,
    and extremely biased education create the problems you speak of.

    In some ways, yes, the black kids you talk of are being told they cannot achieve, in
    wide-scale ways, from their marketed culture, to their lack of family structures, to their
    loss of history, knowledge of who they are in the world, and a myriad of other ways.

    Understanding why these things exist leads to one of two conclusions: 1) that for some
    reason 'these people' can't seem to get it together, either due to genetic or cultural deficiencies
    or that 2) their destruction was systematic, planned, and on-going, in such an extreme way
    that precludes all notions of a segregated society where everyone 'gets along'.

    The only words of wisdom available now are "don't trust a conquerors history, listen to the oppressed."

  8. The theory of genetic basis for intelligence is still alive and well.
    It has been masked and rationalized to an almost imperceptible degree.
    And in other places, it still makes headlines without modification.

  9. Insightful comment, but digging further you will find that that bias effects quite a lot more.
    For instance, when oppressed people are required to put their race on a test, they do worse.
    When children are shown white and black dolls, they invariably consider the white doll 'good'.
    This bias is deeply rooted in American culture, language, and history, to a frightening degree.

    According to other studie(s) a majority of Americans are subconsciously biased against 'black' people.
    Some don't afford the system the possibility of reform, while others don't seem to do enough research.

  10. Re:How does one tell the difference? on Oldest Stone Tools Predate Previous Record Holder By 700,000 Years · · Score: 1

    Doubt they would - they have the market dialed in - plus anyone capable of independent thinking would be intimidating.

  11. A hammer! on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    With a hammer, of course!

  12. Re detecting/creating on New App Detects Government Stingray Cell Phone Trackers · · Score: 1

    The primary methods of detecting IMSI-Catchers and Fake BTS's is described here (pdf), and due to the variety of manufacturers' baseband interfaces, there wasn't an easy way to uniformly detect these devices.

    IMSI-Catcher doesn't seem to work on my old, non-GSM Android, but I've also found OsmocomBB to be interesting; it's an open source GSM broadband implementation that seems to work on some older, cheap phones, like some motorola candy bars; check out Catcher Catcher for more info.

    In terms of the IMSI Catcher devices themselves, I've seen estimations of $20 to $1500 to make one, from using cheap RTL-SDR devices to a full SDR (~$400-1500) to run a full fake GSM BTS.

    The legal usage of IMSI-Catchers doesn't seem clear to me. It is essentially a MiTM attack, which at least android devices seem to go out of their way to ignore. The law enforcement usage seems worded in ways that would just confuse 50+ year old judges. And they have to go far out of the way to make sure that you don't notice an interruption in service, by forwarding any on-going communications to their intended recipients and tunneling them back, if they go are run over time and don't disassociate.

    I haven't seen any estimation on how often these things are used. Besides, hacked femtocell's are probably also responsible for a lot of these rogue BTS's; I wonder if that would be discovered with such detection methods?

  13. Re:Take that Educators! on Researchers Forecast the Spread of Diseases Using Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    The teachers might not know about 'Talk Pages', 'Revisions', and 'What Links Here':
    things that make wikipedia much more advanced than traditional encyclopedias.

  14. PDF on Breaching Air-Gap Security With Radio · · Score: 1

    AirHopper: Bridging the Air-Gap between Isolated Networks and Mobile Phones using Radio frequencies - https://cdn.anonfiles.com/1414...

    But now theres an app for that ...

  15. Re:Who cares on Austin Airport Tracks Cell Phones To Measure Security Line Wait · · Score: 1

    Modern IOS versions randomize the MAC used for passive wifi scans. I'd imagine android is also doing the same.

    Its been said that this is how they have changed IOS 8, however
    I've only noticed that they have decreased the number of beacons it sends greatly;
    the same MAC is used for the probes; and given the ability to profile devices passivly [pdf],
    the MAC may not be the only thing to worry about.

    If you have a wireless card that can go into monitor (radio promisc) mode,
    you can see all of the probes constantly travelling around us:

    tshark -i mon0 -R 'wlan.fc.type_subtype eq 4' -T fields -e wlan.sa -e wlan_mgt.ssid -e radiotap.dbm_antsignal -e frame.time -E separator=, -E quote=d

    Thing is the penetration of these monitoring techniques is difficult to
    ascertain, I've been looking for them when I visit big retailers, but
    according to people like Glenn Wilkinson and Brendan O'Connar,
    these may be fairly easy to setup and in wide use surreptitiously.
    (Authors of Snoopy and CreepyDOL)

  16. Sounds good... on DoT Proposes Mandating Vehicle-To-Vehicle Communications · · Score: 1

    But also sounds like the bridge that connects one of the major avenues of exploitation from the movie Dragon Day ...

  17. Re:The problem: on Study: People Are Biased Against Creative Thinking · · Score: 1

    You realise that it is unscientific to prove or disprove a god right? You simply cannot have a scientific concensus on the matter outside of a god isn't needed to explain the world. If it is more then that, it simply isn't scientific because you cannot test supernatural beings or events.

    Yet.

  18. Re:false flag? on Death and the NSA: A Q&A With Bruce Schneier · · Score: 0

    The snowden leaks almost seem like a false flag type situation.

    Obvious troll. Snowden is infallable. We must believe in him.

  19. Re: the children of men on Death and the NSA: A Q&A With Bruce Schneier · · Score: 1

    Totally sent me on a tangent to study Ecclesasties.

  20. WIll Global Catastrophes Spark Religious Belief? on Ask Richard Dawkins About Evolution, Religion, and Science Education · · Score: 1

    Or scientific address and reason?

  21. Not such a good replacement. on Why It's Bad That Smartphones Have Banished Boredom · · Score: 1

    You stare at your Iphone.

    I'll stare at the fire.

    Thanks, though.

  22. Life, the lesson on How Long Do You Want To Live? · · Score: 1

    I'd say getting to see my grand kids would be the ultimate.
    Telling them a few of the things I had seen first hand.

    Beyond that, immortality seems silly, some come here
    to learn lessons, but want to stay in school, apparently.

    Health and longevity have been simple, good thoughts,
    good diet, good exersize, and good company.

  23. In other news. 10,000 bibles were given away ... on National Academies Release Over 4,000 Free Science Books · · Score: 1

    Keeping the opposition about 5,000 leaps of faith ahead.

    --
    New Expletive: IS

  24. Duh on Chinese Military Admits Existence of Cyberwarfare Unit · · Score: 1

    30 units of units..

  25. Re:Note to self: on US Citizen Visiting Thailand Arrested For Blog Posting · · Score: 1

    the revolution where everyone understands that the map is not the territory?