They actually look at the PERSON and have their airports setup such that they don't all freak out when an issue occurs. Oh and when someone manages to conduct an attack they get ANGRY instead of bleating and running into the corner of the pen. WTF happened to this country?
You do actually take more radiation when flying than you do on the ground - you don't lose the protection but it is diminished. It's also a cumulative issue so the less you get the better if you can avoid it and I will by receiving a groping that would land someone in jail were it not done by an authority:-(
Between his legs?! Hell if he hides it UP his ass he gets past THESE machines! Cell phones and dope get past screenings more intense than this, how is this a solution?:-(
I'm about to take a flight that's a few K miles roundtrip - it's costing me less than $200. I couldn't drive for that. Frankly I wouldn't fly for it either but it's work related. Right now I'm not happy about flying and I WILL opt-out. I don't care if it upsets TSA or others, this is unreasonable search.
I've said much the same many times - I wish I had mod points for you. 911 occurred because of weak cockpit doors and complacent passengers along with crew trained to not provoke. Even then a few crew died before the aircraft crashed. When the last planeload of people figured out what was in store - something we ALL now know today - they rose up and fought back. They died for that and I have little doubt others would too in order to prevent another 911, I know I would. Doors are now armored instead of cardboard jokes and are equipped with decent latches - what a concept! 911 won't happen again, at least not the way it did before. Perhaps they will pop a plane but more likely they will detonate a TSA backlog while everyone stands around like cows to the slaughter. You know damned well there are security experts screaming bloody murder at our folly and yet we're doing this stupidity. It's sick...
The ONLY part of this article that seems difficult is getting the public to be angry instead of frightened and to place trust in the people protecting us. Oh and getting the people who protect us the training and skills instead of spending a bazillion on equipment that Govt. officials have a vested interest in seeing sold.
I guess we're screwed? I mean really who's a bigger target the Israeli people or us? I realize that the margin is shrinking but still they've been FAR more secure than us for a good long time. Their reaction to a possible bomb in luggage is pretty telling - here's we paralyze an airport and evac everyone into a nice tight target group. Over there they're prepared and drop the luggage into a container to contain the blast while calling for help - they evac like a dozen people to our thousands. What a concept!
Well, I saw a guy with a holstered handgun in HomeDepot the other day and I didn't freak - he didn't shoot anyone either but then I guess that lumber he was buying might have slowed him. Do you somehow think that a law banning guns from schools keeps someone who would like to use one for evil from bringing it in and doing so? Frankly, THAT is retarded. We don't need a law to tell folks that if they see someone with a gun in a school that perhaps it's "not good".
I also see no reason to mandate seat belts and some people still don't wear them. That's their issue, I started wearing mine the day after our driver's ed instructor showed us some vids and gave us some stats - probably before you were born though. Why do we need laws for common sense things? We have laws for distracted driving now...
I can think of about 5 DWI drivers I've called in over the years that wouldn't have gotten nailed had I not been able to call - expecting me to pull over while they drive away is damned stupid. Being able to stay on the line and inform police as to their whereabouts proved invaluable in getting them off the road. By contrast the number of accidents I've been personally involved in either as victim or as driver that I can attribute to a cell phone is 1 possible although frankly I attribute that one to the other driver's plain stupidity. Considering I watched one of those DWI drivers swerve at a pedestrian and HIT more than one car while I followed at a distance I think having the ability to make that call wins hands down.
I've seen drivers distracted by all manner of things to include reading books\newspapers, shaving (electric), sleeping (I woke him at about 50mph), makeup application, sex (I assume), arguments, and once even a bowl of cereal balanced on the steering wheel (bumper to bumper but still!). We already have laws that cover ALL of that and cell phones too, why do we need new laws or technology to solve the issue of distracted driving?
Eh? Removing power from the EPROM only resets settings which are, in essence, programming FLAGS not executable code. Flashing an EPROM actually rewrites the executable code. No virus that has rewritten any of that (all what one of them?) is going to be effected by removal of power that simply resets volatile memory flags. You do not have two chips storing initial boot code on your motherboard, you have an EPROM that can be flash updated and some limited volatile storage. There's no PROM that gets fallen back to when complete power is removed, what's flashed stays there until reflashed.
A "bad update" will trash the executable code and removal of power does NOT in any way fix this unless the BIOS has methods specific to it to allow a secondary BIOS to boot - these are NOT common. If you flash badly 99% of the time you brick the system requiring you to obtain a replacement EPROM with good code or boot to a secondary. Yes, I have done this - most EPROM are socketed and it used to be common to piggyback one chip on another to get a good boot and reflash but the new sockets make this near impossible. Yeah, I'm pretty familiar with this (lol).
Also a secondary BIOS doesn't protect against virus infection to the primary BIOS, it just gives you something to fall back upon and is primarily designed as a fail safe for bad flashes, it's not there to do anything for viruses. Mind you threat from BIOS viruses (lol) is pretty much ZERO.
Yes, jumpers used to be needed to be set in order to flash and some systems still have this option. Some of them even have software locks on them to prevent this but not many.
My statement stands - resetting the BIOS via removal of power to clear volatile CMOS flags is useless as a means of "cleaning up" a virus and is poor advice to say the least....
Anything stored in the BIOS as executable code isn't going to be removed via a jumper or removal of battery. Reflashing the BIOS maybe but not simply clearing volatile BIOS flags.
But did modifying this one test to near impossible speed make that much of a difference? It was obviously anomalous right? What about the other test results? If tweaked do things get screwy and if so what about the other browsers? So far I'm not convinced although certainly it's posisble. Frankly if who they are trying to woo to their browser is Joe Average user then this benchmark, commented on in a blog no Joe Average likely reads, seems silly IMO.
Thanks for someone pointing this out. I mean really, if they were going to throw this test why would they throw it quite this much? And is this the ONLY portion of this test that seems to act this way? If so then why in the world would they throw only this portion and why this much? The original result was uber fast, the result on the modified test pretty slow - if they were going to try and hide something why make it uber fast and not just slightly better?
Something is weird, possibly hinky, but to outright declare cheating based just on this? Really? O_o
Nope, I don't think so. If you attempt to load up an unsigned driver on 64bit Win7 or Vista 64 and do not specifically go through the F key function to turn on the mode that disables signed drivers - at every single boot - you will get a nasty text message that HALTS the boot process, shows you the name of the unsigned driver, and shows you the registry key that called it (as I recall, been awhile).
Unsigned drivers on 64bit Windows are NOT the same as the unsigned code box you're talking about. Attempts to load unsigned drivers on the OS that requires it halts the boot process. You can go into a mode to load them - which I think even has visual indicators - or use a test cert - indicators here too I believe - but it's most certainly not the trivial thing to get aorund you've just described, sorry.
I use x.264, no issues. I buy MP3 from Amazon - no issues. Heck even iTunes stuff isn't Microsoft although I don't buy that. What exactly have they locked me into on a 64bit Win7 platform that I cannot take elsewhere? All of the MSFT DRM stuff that's supposed to be around hasn't effected me so please, seriously, tell me what lock in has occurred? Signed drivers - okay yes I run those but much of my hardware has drivers on Linux too. Signed code, yup run that too although not all of what I run is signed - some of the OpenSource stuff I run isn't for instance and I have to click a box when it runs. So how have I been locked into anything exactly? Yes, MSFT markets their OS to media vendors and I guess they feel more secure but it sure does seem like all of the sky is falling crap hasn't panned out - I run ripped BD video with no issue for instance. Remember when everyone used to say the OS would halt if it saw that or would degrade it? Yeah... I called BullShit then too.
Yes that explains why it's on all of their released OS since implementation... Oh wait it's not! Sorry, if this were the case then 32bit would have it as well. I'm afraid I'm not persuaded. Much malware is in fact implemented via driver - things like keyboard sniffers etc. so yeah this does raise the bar although obviously not impossibly high and sadly not on 32bit yet either.
Sorry, I wouldn't want a model where others tell me what I can and cannot run - for the same reason it pisses me off installing new AV software and then having to change a bunch of settings so it won't flag\delete all of the fun "security" products I keep around that are useful like port scanners. The vast amount of software out there would be pretty tough to cover too and as Apple and Android both have found it's tough to stop a programmer from building a program that does one thing while also doing some less friendly or allowed things. I don't want to have to rely on a third party to be honest but then I'm also not quite Joe Average computer user.
I honestly do not see a great solution for all of this but from a Windows standpoint I think they have made good progress and continue to slowly tune up the OS as attacks like this go after it. Not perfect for sure but it continues to improve I think. The signed drivers, DEP, ASLR, canaries, and other things raise the bar for sure.
I read one or two of those until I couldn't stand how angsty it was, I swear the plot kept repeating. I read all sorts of things including stuff like Lightning Thief when a friend's kid raved about how good it was and I wanted to have something to talk to him about. All the Harry Potter stuff, many of the Clive Cussler books - his non-fiction search for missing ships is pretty fascinating. I'd love to be buying more of these books but the publishers got greedy. They're going to very quickly get the lesson the music industry got only worse. A full length book is only a few hundred k! As book readers get common they're going to have some real issues...
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Do you understand how Israel conducts their security? It has nothing to do with length of flight. See this -> http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/744199---israelification-high-security-little-bother
They actually look at the PERSON and have their airports setup such that they don't all freak out when an issue occurs. Oh and when someone manages to conduct an attack they get ANGRY instead of bleating and running into the corner of the pen. WTF happened to this country?
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/744199---israelification-high-security-little-bother
GL organizing the sheep into any sort of mass protest. People aka individuals tend to be smart, masses not so much.
You do actually take more radiation when flying than you do on the ground - you don't lose the protection but it is diminished. It's also a cumulative issue so the less you get the better if you can avoid it and I will by receiving a groping that would land someone in jail were it not done by an authority :-(
Between his legs?! Hell if he hides it UP his ass he gets past THESE machines! Cell phones and dope get past screenings more intense than this, how is this a solution? :-(
They're already skirting State laws on operation of a medical imaging device without training - they would simply skirt this too.
I'm about to take a flight that's a few K miles roundtrip - it's costing me less than $200. I couldn't drive for that. Frankly I wouldn't fly for it either but it's work related. Right now I'm not happy about flying and I WILL opt-out. I don't care if it upsets TSA or others, this is unreasonable search.
I've said much the same many times - I wish I had mod points for you. 911 occurred because of weak cockpit doors and complacent passengers along with crew trained to not provoke. Even then a few crew died before the aircraft crashed. When the last planeload of people figured out what was in store - something we ALL now know today - they rose up and fought back. They died for that and I have little doubt others would too in order to prevent another 911, I know I would. Doors are now armored instead of cardboard jokes and are equipped with decent latches - what a concept! 911 won't happen again, at least not the way it did before. Perhaps they will pop a plane but more likely they will detonate a TSA backlog while everyone stands around like cows to the slaughter. You know damned well there are security experts screaming bloody murder at our folly and yet we're doing this stupidity. It's sick...
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/744199---israelification-high-security-little-bother
The ONLY part of this article that seems difficult is getting the public to be angry instead of frightened and to place trust in the people protecting us. Oh and getting the people who protect us the training and skills instead of spending a bazillion on equipment that Govt. officials have a vested interest in seeing sold.
I guess we're screwed? I mean really who's a bigger target the Israeli people or us? I realize that the margin is shrinking but still they've been FAR more secure than us for a good long time. Their reaction to a possible bomb in luggage is pretty telling - here's we paralyze an airport and evac everyone into a nice tight target group. Over there they're prepared and drop the luggage into a container to contain the blast while calling for help - they evac like a dozen people to our thousands. What a concept!
Well, I saw a guy with a holstered handgun in HomeDepot the other day and I didn't freak - he didn't shoot anyone either but then I guess that lumber he was buying might have slowed him. Do you somehow think that a law banning guns from schools keeps someone who would like to use one for evil from bringing it in and doing so? Frankly, THAT is retarded. We don't need a law to tell folks that if they see someone with a gun in a school that perhaps it's "not good".
I also see no reason to mandate seat belts and some people still don't wear them. That's their issue, I started wearing mine the day after our driver's ed instructor showed us some vids and gave us some stats - probably before you were born though. Why do we need laws for common sense things? We have laws for distracted driving now...
I can think of about 5 DWI drivers I've called in over the years that wouldn't have gotten nailed had I not been able to call - expecting me to pull over while they drive away is damned stupid. Being able to stay on the line and inform police as to their whereabouts proved invaluable in getting them off the road. By contrast the number of accidents I've been personally involved in either as victim or as driver that I can attribute to a cell phone is 1 possible although frankly I attribute that one to the other driver's plain stupidity. Considering I watched one of those DWI drivers swerve at a pedestrian and HIT more than one car while I followed at a distance I think having the ability to make that call wins hands down.
I've seen drivers distracted by all manner of things to include reading books\newspapers, shaving (electric), sleeping (I woke him at about 50mph), makeup application, sex (I assume), arguments, and once even a bowl of cereal balanced on the steering wheel (bumper to bumper but still!). We already have laws that cover ALL of that and cell phones too, why do we need new laws or technology to solve the issue of distracted driving?
Yes, that explains their market position. Troll indeed...
Eh? Removing power from the EPROM only resets settings which are, in essence, programming FLAGS not executable code. Flashing an EPROM actually rewrites the executable code. No virus that has rewritten any of that (all what one of them?) is going to be effected by removal of power that simply resets volatile memory flags. You do not have two chips storing initial boot code on your motherboard, you have an EPROM that can be flash updated and some limited volatile storage. There's no PROM that gets fallen back to when complete power is removed, what's flashed stays there until reflashed.
A "bad update" will trash the executable code and removal of power does NOT in any way fix this unless the BIOS has methods specific to it to allow a secondary BIOS to boot - these are NOT common. If you flash badly 99% of the time you brick the system requiring you to obtain a replacement EPROM with good code or boot to a secondary. Yes, I have done this - most EPROM are socketed and it used to be common to piggyback one chip on another to get a good boot and reflash but the new sockets make this near impossible. Yeah, I'm pretty familiar with this (lol).
Also a secondary BIOS doesn't protect against virus infection to the primary BIOS, it just gives you something to fall back upon and is primarily designed as a fail safe for bad flashes, it's not there to do anything for viruses. Mind you threat from BIOS viruses (lol) is pretty much ZERO.
Yes, jumpers used to be needed to be set in order to flash and some systems still have this option. Some of them even have software locks on them to prevent this but not many.
My statement stands - resetting the BIOS via removal of power to clear volatile CMOS flags is useless as a means of "cleaning up" a virus and is poor advice to say the least....
Anything stored in the BIOS as executable code isn't going to be removed via a jumper or removal of battery. Reflashing the BIOS maybe but not simply clearing volatile BIOS flags.
You sure you aren't talking about Apple with that warp comment? ;-)
But did modifying this one test to near impossible speed make that much of a difference? It was obviously anomalous right? What about the other test results? If tweaked do things get screwy and if so what about the other browsers? So far I'm not convinced although certainly it's posisble. Frankly if who they are trying to woo to their browser is Joe Average user then this benchmark, commented on in a blog no Joe Average likely reads, seems silly IMO.
Suspect Benchmark Results by IE9 Being Investigated.
There, how hard was that?
Thanks for someone pointing this out. I mean really, if they were going to throw this test why would they throw it quite this much? And is this the ONLY portion of this test that seems to act this way? If so then why in the world would they throw only this portion and why this much? The original result was uber fast, the result on the modified test pretty slow - if they were going to try and hide something why make it uber fast and not just slightly better?
Something is weird, possibly hinky, but to outright declare cheating based just on this? Really? O_o
Nope, I don't think so. If you attempt to load up an unsigned driver on 64bit Win7 or Vista 64 and do not specifically go through the F key function to turn on the mode that disables signed drivers - at every single boot - you will get a nasty text message that HALTS the boot process, shows you the name of the unsigned driver, and shows you the registry key that called it (as I recall, been awhile).
Unsigned drivers on 64bit Windows are NOT the same as the unsigned code box you're talking about. Attempts to load unsigned drivers on the OS that requires it halts the boot process. You can go into a mode to load them - which I think even has visual indicators - or use a test cert - indicators here too I believe - but it's most certainly not the trivial thing to get aorund you've just described, sorry.
I use x.264, no issues. I buy MP3 from Amazon - no issues. Heck even iTunes stuff isn't Microsoft although I don't buy that. What exactly have they locked me into on a 64bit Win7 platform that I cannot take elsewhere? All of the MSFT DRM stuff that's supposed to be around hasn't effected me so please, seriously, tell me what lock in has occurred? Signed drivers - okay yes I run those but much of my hardware has drivers on Linux too. Signed code, yup run that too although not all of what I run is signed - some of the OpenSource stuff I run isn't for instance and I have to click a box when it runs. So how have I been locked into anything exactly? Yes, MSFT markets their OS to media vendors and I guess they feel more secure but it sure does seem like all of the sky is falling crap hasn't panned out - I run ripped BD video with no issue for instance. Remember when everyone used to say the OS would halt if it saw that or would degrade it? Yeah... I called BullShit then too.
I'd appreciate some citation indicating that they collect a fee for every signed piece of media distributed. thanks!
Since when do they get paid a licensing fee per install? Or are you saying there are a billion or so drivers? O_o
Yes that explains why it's on all of their released OS since implementation... Oh wait it's not! Sorry, if this were the case then 32bit would have it as well. I'm afraid I'm not persuaded. Much malware is in fact implemented via driver - things like keyboard sniffers etc. so yeah this does raise the bar although obviously not impossibly high and sadly not on 32bit yet either.
Sorry, I wouldn't want a model where others tell me what I can and cannot run - for the same reason it pisses me off installing new AV software and then having to change a bunch of settings so it won't flag\delete all of the fun "security" products I keep around that are useful like port scanners. The vast amount of software out there would be pretty tough to cover too and as Apple and Android both have found it's tough to stop a programmer from building a program that does one thing while also doing some less friendly or allowed things. I don't want to have to rely on a third party to be honest but then I'm also not quite Joe Average computer user.
I honestly do not see a great solution for all of this but from a Windows standpoint I think they have made good progress and continue to slowly tune up the OS as attacks like this go after it. Not perfect for sure but it continues to improve I think. The signed drivers, DEP, ASLR, canaries, and other things raise the bar for sure.
I read one or two of those until I couldn't stand how angsty it was, I swear the plot kept repeating. I read all sorts of things including stuff like Lightning Thief when a friend's kid raved about how good it was and I wanted to have something to talk to him about. All the Harry Potter stuff, many of the Clive Cussler books - his non-fiction search for missing ships is pretty fascinating. I'd love to be buying more of these books but the publishers got greedy. They're going to very quickly get the lesson the music industry got only worse. A full length book is only a few hundred k! As book readers get common they're going to have some real issues...