This. You know how much harassed travelers should had written to their "representatives" by now? How big are the odds that they get ever get replaced by people that actually fix this, the NSA, bank/corp abuses and things like that? Maybe it helps you to feel good for a while, but things will only get worse, and people will keep accepting it as the new normal. Don't play boiling frog.
Don't dismiss so easily the plumbing tools as minor, good part of the magic on everything happens there, a lot of things have command line interface (even destop programs like openoffice, or gimp), of course a lot of servers can be accessed by commands (mysql, wget/curl) or even for pure graphical tools, you can script a lot with i.e. D-Bus. But something that combines the pieces, like, don't know, extracting urls from a mysql table, obtaining the images from there, making a collage and putting it as background on your desktop, requires just a few lines (if indented) in bash, where the small tools connecting the dots plays an essential role there.
People is more opposed to google glass not because it gives augmented reality (or at least a sort of HUD) to their users, but because could be recording everything they see. But what about more discrete (and cheaper) lifelogging devices like Narrative or uCorder which only goal is to record everything you see? And that is just about video, any smartphone user can record audio without being noticed. And yes, the ones watchiing the video stream could be the NSA or similar ones, but how you know that you are not the carrier right now of the spying device with your phone? Or the camera in your pc/laptop?
Recording or not, probably is inevitable some sort of augumented vision in the future, something that would be as visible in your face as Google Glass for several years still. Will it be the future? Not sure, but the future will look like it in the essentials for sure.
My suggestion too. But make sure that laptop runs linux before buying it (and don't get bricked like some samsung laptops, you are at risk even using only windows). And check that the hardware is supported even if you install Linux on it, some vendors don't (at least the local Samsung representative here don't give support/replace defective ones if you install something else).
And remember, all the antivirus that you put on it won't stop the backdoors that the NSA is installing on them. Installing Linux (reinstalling it if is one of the cases that come preinstalled) is a must if you care at all about your privacy or your data.
The password encryption must be reversible to be used, is not the computer that runs linux the one that must do the validation so can have the luxury of doing one-way encryption, the original password must be provided. The source code already includes how to decrypt that password, and if is salted or uses another information, all the needed information is stored there already. At most, you can do what is already being done by most if not all network managers, only giving access to it to the root user. If someone else have access to your computer with root access and the ability to see files/run programs, then would be easy to obtain it even if is encrypted, but capturing your wifi password won't be the worst that will happen in that scenario.
More than that, it creates a network effect, fans in places where it would be none, some of which getting the paid content, and there is, also, associated revenues (dvd/extended versions, merchandising, being first in the queue for the next release/season).
Your business don't exist in a vacuum, must take into account current reality and technology. Use that it can be copied and shared as an advantage, like Iron Maiden. After all, a good part of what defines us as humans is spreading memes, if you want to create a culture you must let it be distributed/copied/imitated/etc freely.
What is doing is like putting claymore mines in all the city, and inside your house to protect it, yes, could be effective, or you or your children could hit one of your own claymore mines, or some thieves instead of stepping on one of them, just throw a pebble to it to make it explode and hurt you and your family. And don't forget that the people that installed the mines can dodge them and enter with no problem at your house anytime. Eventually your wife and children will leave you to not be with such risk for every step they take, you saved the pawn but lost the king.
If internet was US daugther, with this is literally fucking her, you are saying that the father have the right to do so?
Is like building some of the roads, then claiming ownership of your car (and as your car goes to your house, to your house, and your clothes, and you). Internet is more than its infrastructure as you are more than dumb flesh and bone.
Yes, they can do it. A bank can take your money too, they are there for profit and taking your money is a fast way to do it, but they should? More than regulations there is a matter of trust, once you break it you should never again put your money (and data) there.
That you or at least normal people can't install Windows in Chromebooks means that that 25% is not a get around to avoid windows tax, but proper linux sales from the ground up, somewhat the "market share" of linux, at least for the laptop area, jumped to 25% with that alone.
It was the year of the Linux tablet and smartphone, that by now is a market bigger than the desktop one. Maybe 2014 or 2015 would be the year of a proper linux (as in not android) tablet, if Ubuntu touch and others adaptations over android kernel succeed.
Adobe security breach, with millions of passwords recovered in plain text (and published) could be pretty close to Target's one, a lot uses the same password everywhere (or a trivial modification of a base password like adding site name), so wasn't just adobe account hacked, was that a good percent of those people got every major site they use hacked.
That happened NSA leak was not the fall by itself, but that we learnt that most hardware and software is backdoored already or in the process to be, and that any expectation of privacy for anything that resides or goes through US should be discarded. What failed is internet security as a whole, badly. And, of course, any trust that you may had on US government, but that is not tech.
The Idiocracy that we are getting into is explained by natural selection. Evolution don't need to mean "improvement" for every criteria, and of course, not becoming smarter.
That is only 33% is a good thing in a country like US, but the question asked wasn't exactly evolution, but "humans and other living things have evolved over time", not sure if that rules out creationism or intelligent design, my idiocracy example could be compatible with those (as in change after design/creation)
You may be not outraged that your country have weapons. But you should be very outraged that they are using them, in all the world to every innocent people (stripping basically every human of a fundamentan human right), in all the country, and in particular, in you.
If you think that what they are doing is not a crime, try to do the same and get caught, the sun will be a white dwarf by the time you can get out of jail, considering how they are punishing minor ofenses. If any other country would be doing the same to US, at the same level and deepness, probably a lot of nukes would be flying right now.
Network effect works. They would hate to put an encryption key in plain text or the channel they use to send the data, or the destination name/address, so putting in a souce code that anyone could eventually see is a big no. Regarding binary packages, if well some distributions could be compromised by secret laws (RedHat at least resides in US) the code release that they must do ensures that other projects can pick the source, recompile it and use them instead (i.e. Centos), and if you trust the distributions packages are signed so is harder (maybe not NSA-level harder, but harder anyway) to do some MITM work to install touched binaries.
Also, some projects like Tor are adding deterministic builds to validate that the binaries really are what the author says.
Hopely never will get back to it. The position before disclosures were happily attacking, installing backdoors, infiltrating into private encrypted channels/vpns and networks, stripping everyone in the world of any hope of privacy (and enjoying it). Getting back means that even with this revelations they will continue to perpetrate those crimes and that the governments of the world didn't learnt anything from this event.
There had already been cases like a student being expelled from school and arrested because an experiment caused an small explosion (a bit of smoke and the top of the bottle to pop up). That is what is been teached in schools, where you are supposed to learn science, try it by yourself and you are risking to go to jail.
Don't think on it as a worldwide, new social network, but for deploying it as a collaboration/documentation platform inside a company. In that area could be pretty useful.
Even the delusionals that thinks of this is ok because "it is the NSA after all", it means that more people and agencies have access to those backdoors too, and more chances that it end in the hands of the guys with bad intentions, wherever they are or work for, using them for fun, profit or whatever.
I wonder what will do companies where their first line of "protection" is tools and hardware from cisco, juniper, dell or IBM (or engineers certified on them), now that is official that they are remote access tools for others, bury their heads on the sand or try something else.
What is idiocy is to consider that this is about terrorism, defending from it in particular (because the state doing terrorism is not even questioned). If US would be so worried and invested so much to protect the life of every and each US citizens, would had i.e. stopped/banned or at least muted tobacco companies that kills more than 5 millon people every year, to put an example of deaths caused by what should be criminal behaviour.
You should be even more outraged if you live outside USA. This is about if US citizens have any kind of right, but what is not even considered is that foreigners have human rights at all for them, outside borders is free hunting area.
Is amazing how easy is for them to dodge those safeguards, even if there is no relation in 3th grade with anyone foreigner (what is already pretty hard).
Anyway, this is not just about spying, is also about control, in particular of the US citizens.
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This. You know how much harassed travelers should had written to their "representatives" by now? How big are the odds that they get ever get replaced by people that actually fix this, the NSA, bank/corp abuses and things like that? Maybe it helps you to feel good for a while, but things will only get worse, and people will keep accepting it as the new normal. Don't play boiling frog.
Don't dismiss so easily the plumbing tools as minor, good part of the magic on everything happens there, a lot of things have command line interface (even destop programs like openoffice, or gimp), of course a lot of servers can be accessed by commands (mysql, wget/curl) or even for pure graphical tools, you can script a lot with i.e. D-Bus. But something that combines the pieces, like, don't know, extracting urls from a mysql table, obtaining the images from there, making a collage and putting it as background on your desktop, requires just a few lines (if indented) in bash, where the small tools connecting the dots plays an essential role there.
Recording or not, probably is inevitable some sort of augumented vision in the future, something that would be as visible in your face as Google Glass for several years still. Will it be the future? Not sure, but the future will look like it in the essentials for sure.
My suggestion too. But make sure that laptop runs linux before buying it (and don't get bricked like some samsung laptops, you are at risk even using only windows). And check that the hardware is supported even if you install Linux on it, some vendors don't (at least the local Samsung representative here don't give support/replace defective ones if you install something else).
And remember, all the antivirus that you put on it won't stop the backdoors that the NSA is installing on them. Installing Linux (reinstalling it if is one of the cases that come preinstalled) is a must if you care at all about your privacy or your data.
The password encryption must be reversible to be used, is not the computer that runs linux the one that must do the validation so can have the luxury of doing one-way encryption, the original password must be provided. The source code already includes how to decrypt that password, and if is salted or uses another information, all the needed information is stored there already. At most, you can do what is already being done by most if not all network managers, only giving access to it to the root user. If someone else have access to your computer with root access and the ability to see files/run programs, then would be easy to obtain it even if is encrypted, but capturing your wifi password won't be the worst that will happen in that scenario.
More than that, it creates a network effect, fans in places where it would be none, some of which getting the paid content, and there is, also, associated revenues (dvd/extended versions, merchandising, being first in the queue for the next release/season).
Your business don't exist in a vacuum, must take into account current reality and technology. Use that it can be copied and shared as an advantage, like Iron Maiden. After all, a good part of what defines us as humans is spreading memes, if you want to create a culture you must let it be distributed/copied/imitated/etc freely.
What is doing is like putting claymore mines in all the city, and inside your house to protect it, yes, could be effective, or you or your children could hit one of your own claymore mines, or some thieves instead of stepping on one of them, just throw a pebble to it to make it explode and hurt you and your family. And don't forget that the people that installed the mines can dodge them and enter with no problem at your house anytime. Eventually your wife and children will leave you to not be with such risk for every step they take, you saved the pawn but lost the king.
Are you sure that there aren't prisoners for political "offenses"? And that not counting other ways of get rid of people making trouble
To not be behind the times, Slashdot introduced warrantless design.
If internet was US daugther, with this is literally fucking her, you are saying that the father have the right to do so?
Is like building some of the roads, then claiming ownership of your car (and as your car goes to your house, to your house, and your clothes, and you). Internet is more than its infrastructure as you are more than dumb flesh and bone.
Yes, they can do it. A bank can take your money too, they are there for profit and taking your money is a fast way to do it, but they should? More than regulations there is a matter of trust, once you break it you should never again put your money (and data) there.
That you or at least normal people can't install Windows in Chromebooks means that that 25% is not a get around to avoid windows tax, but proper linux sales from the ground up, somewhat the "market share" of linux, at least for the laptop area, jumped to 25% with that alone.
It was the year of the Linux tablet and smartphone, that by now is a market bigger than the desktop one. Maybe 2014 or 2015 would be the year of a proper linux (as in not android) tablet, if Ubuntu touch and others adaptations over android kernel succeed.
Adobe security breach, with millions of passwords recovered in plain text (and published) could be pretty close to Target's one, a lot uses the same password everywhere (or a trivial modification of a base password like adding site name), so wasn't just adobe account hacked, was that a good percent of those people got every major site they use hacked.
That happened NSA leak was not the fall by itself, but that we learnt that most hardware and software is backdoored already or in the process to be, and that any expectation of privacy for anything that resides or goes through US should be discarded. What failed is internet security as a whole, badly. And, of course, any trust that you may had on US government, but that is not tech.
The Idiocracy that we are getting into is explained by natural selection. Evolution don't need to mean "improvement" for every criteria, and of course, not becoming smarter.
That is only 33% is a good thing in a country like US, but the question asked wasn't exactly evolution, but "humans and other living things have evolved over time", not sure if that rules out creationism or intelligent design, my idiocracy example could be compatible with those (as in change after design/creation)
You may be not outraged that your country have weapons. But you should be very outraged that they are using them, in all the world to every innocent people (stripping basically every human of a fundamentan human right), in all the country, and in particular, in you.
If you think that what they are doing is not a crime, try to do the same and get caught, the sun will be a white dwarf by the time you can get out of jail, considering how they are punishing minor ofenses. If any other country would be doing the same to US, at the same level and deepness, probably a lot of nukes would be flying right now.
Network effect works. They would hate to put an encryption key in plain text or the channel they use to send the data, or the destination name/address, so putting in a souce code that anyone could eventually see is a big no. Regarding binary packages, if well some distributions could be compromised by secret laws (RedHat at least resides in US) the code release that they must do ensures that other projects can pick the source, recompile it and use them instead (i.e. Centos), and if you trust the distributions packages are signed so is harder (maybe not NSA-level harder, but harder anyway) to do some MITM work to install touched binaries.
Also, some projects like Tor are adding deterministic builds to validate that the binaries really are what the author says.
Hopely never will get back to it. The position before disclosures were happily attacking, installing backdoors, infiltrating into private encrypted channels/vpns and networks, stripping everyone in the world of any hope of privacy (and enjoying it). Getting back means that even with this revelations they will continue to perpetrate those crimes and that the governments of the world didn't learnt anything from this event.
The pros of the NSA have a full catalog of nice things for sale, and you can use it to gain access to mostly everything.
There had already been cases like a student being expelled from school and arrested because an experiment caused an small explosion (a bit of smoke and the top of the bottle to pop up). That is what is been teached in schools, where you are supposed to learn science, try it by yourself and you are risking to go to jail.
Don't think on it as a worldwide, new social network, but for deploying it as a collaboration/documentation platform inside a company. In that area could be pretty useful.
Even the delusionals that thinks of this is ok because "it is the NSA after all", it means that more people and agencies have access to those backdoors too, and more chances that it end in the hands of the guys with bad intentions, wherever they are or work for, using them for fun, profit or whatever.
I wonder what will do companies where their first line of "protection" is tools and hardware from cisco, juniper, dell or IBM (or engineers certified on them), now that is official that they are remote access tools for others, bury their heads on the sand or try something else.
What is idiocy is to consider that this is about terrorism, defending from it in particular (because the state doing terrorism is not even questioned). If US would be so worried and invested so much to protect the life of every and each US citizens, would had i.e. stopped/banned or at least muted tobacco companies that kills more than 5 millon people every year, to put an example of deaths caused by what should be criminal behaviour.
You should be even more outraged if you live outside USA. This is about if US citizens have any kind of right, but what is not even considered is that foreigners have human rights at all for them, outside borders is free hunting area.
Is amazing how easy is for them to dodge those safeguards, even if there is no relation in 3th grade with anyone foreigner (what is already pretty hard).
Anyway, this is not just about spying, is also about control, in particular of the US citizens.