It don't just move it, but makes it wider. More connecting infrastructure that could be outside their control, more points where a fake certificate could be used to gain access, provide ways to do MITM attacks, or just inspect traffic. In internal networks you must check traffic, the ultimate vulnerability is always the user and carrying inside a trojan without knowing should be common enough (and if not, taking advantage of a 0-day exploit in acrobat or flash definately is), but the physical location provides some security for some kinds of attacks.
Of course, they could assume that the added security would be marginal compared with other benefits.
In places where is common to talk about killing thousands, sabotaging/bombing, fantasy names and even fantasy sex, a lot of people should have by now a big red marker on them, ended in no fly lists, rejected credits or got other real-life consequences of role playing chats with friends.
Is a bit different than that. They are complaining now because the revelation of this is making their paid users to stop using their services. They may or may not be worried about their users privacy, but for sure they are worried about their profits.
In the other hand, tif well they knew the cut of the cake they were getting, they didn't know about all the other companies into the same and how wide and deep were this. Also, the revelation on how the NSA infiltrated their internal network without their knowledge or consent could had raised some alarms.
In any case, if the NSA head can lie to the congress without consequences after that being found out, why can't they tell all of them that it is over while keep doing it (and keeping the backdoors in their internal networks to keep doing the dirty work) or force them in a way or another to tell the world that all is over when is not, or even plant a fake whiteblower that confirms that the NSA stopped their programs ? By now trust is deeply broken in all that surrounds the NSA, if tomorrow they say that 2+2=4 you should bet that they are doing math in base 3.
Could take thousands of years to get to the next star system at the speed we manage to reach now, and we can face problems that could not be solved for very long trips in space for humans. Odds are pretty high that of the known universe, the only solar system that we will ever be is this one. If we not manage to preserve this planet, we won't be around for long, in no other alternative we would survive to technological failures.
Is all related to volume. If those reserves and the spill are big enough, it could make a measurable change in ocean salinity.
Also, the water that come from rivers, came from rain, and in the end came from the ocean, water evaporated, salt remained and later the same water returned, in global scale things keeps being more or less the same. But what if you add enough "new" fresh water to the cycle?
In both cases, that maybe shows that very deep inside them, there is still a human being trying to confess the crimes that even they realize that are doing. "I was just following orders" don't cut the pain anymore.
... in a keepassx database with a strong but easy to remember master password. In general if you believe an encryption is good enough you could put your password db in a public area, but usually the weakest link is the computer from where you decrypt it, that is usually online exposed in a way or another to malware that could try to intercept that key.
Both technical and political solutions should be taken, developed and adopted if we want to get back our privacy. There are several countries that are in bed with NSA (that will do everything in their hand to prevent people to try to keep their privacy, including the ability to have home servers), and several that not. And if well things could be out of hope in US, england, australia, sweden and some more, in others meaninful actions could be taken.
The point is doing what is within our possiblities. If we know for sure that the data in the US cloud will be inspectioned by the NSA and even passed to potential competitors then is not wise to store things there. We can work in protecting countries or home networks, things that should be under our control, if we are not up to the challenge at least we tried.
This. They seem to not take into account that part of the reason that companies want servers it to put private information there. And some countries have strong privacy policies for protecting their citizens information. That should ban a lot of companies for storing their servers into US based clouds at the very least.
My prediction would go into the opposite direction of cloud servers, toward personal/home servers, increasing the use of p2p/mesh encrypted networks and services, at least in the countries not actively cooperating with the NSA. That should be bigger than emerging country specific clouds.
The FBI has been able to covertly activate a computer’s camera — without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording — for several years, and has used that technique mainly in terrorism cases or the most serious criminal investigations
... and in LoveINT cases too. If noone watches the watchers they will become stalkers too.
The eye of Sauron is in Washington (or Utah). Anyway the dark lord residing there had no problem if the climate of Final Earth turns far hotter than the Texas one. Who wants Shire's climate after all?
When they lied even to the congress without consequences they crossed the line. Anything they say could be a lie without consequences, More words won't fix it. Fireworks should not fool anyone. "Whisteblowers" confirming this could be fake. We got lucky with Snowden doing something that they didn't imagined and warned us, but that won't happen again, and they could keep making things worse.
Adobe password breach was about 40-100 millon passwords,a lot reused in other services. But the method was different, instead of hacking into a single server with a very bad password policy, this went right to the desktops of people in that botnet. So no matter how safe you were using your password or picking a complex one, if your desktop security is not good enough (and there are a lot of cases of widespread malware avoiding antivirus detection for years) your carefully built password policy could be defeated at the moment of using them.
About common passwords used, is almost predictable to find them having millons of passwords, but the strenght of the password is not the problem here.
This looks like taken from the plot of A Clockwork Orange. Or Farenheit 451, with music instead of books.
Anyway, probably a lot of people would agree that the fans of certain music styles and groups should be put in jail or in a mental institution, but which music depend on each person and culture.
If we start with the asumption that that passwords must be memorized somewhat, we are better remembering things with an attached meaning than something random, and those meanings make usually bad passwords. But, we don't need to remember all passwords, there are password managers for making and storing a bunch of meaningless, secure passwords, and for the keys you must remember (the password manager one at the very least) there are some mnemonic tricks that can help to have safe enough passwords.
If well it may be pretty hard or near impossible to get 100% privacy, trying to get as close as possible (or at least, at the point you draw the line) worth it. And that is a process, not a static destination.
The problem in both PC and phones are drivers, not all are open, or not all are available. But as Android phones must have them, you can build other linux based OSs on top of android/cyanogenmod base system, and thats what are doing Ubuntu Touch, Firefox OS, and apparently Sailfish.
If Tor were closed source you could had some reason. But the NSA hates to put their access codes in plain sight, and that it is open source, with everyone using/implementing it free to inspect and check if there is any vulnerability in its design makes pretty hard that it be compromised at that level, no matter who developed it.
that is the key to understand both. One printed trillions keeping the same value of everything, the other raised 100 times its value in few months. If people lose faith in any of them, they could lose value. And, at difference with he bitcoin, US is doing everything to make people lose faith in the dollar, and abandon it as international standard.
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It don't just move it, but makes it wider. More connecting infrastructure that could be outside their control, more points where a fake certificate could be used to gain access, provide ways to do MITM attacks, or just inspect traffic. In internal networks you must check traffic, the ultimate vulnerability is always the user and carrying inside a trojan without knowing should be common enough (and if not, taking advantage of a 0-day exploit in acrobat or flash definately is), but the physical location provides some security for some kinds of attacks.
Of course, they could assume that the added security would be marginal compared with other benefits.
In places where is common to talk about killing thousands, sabotaging/bombing, fantasy names and even fantasy sex, a lot of people should have by now a big red marker on them, ended in no fly lists, rejected credits or got other real-life consequences of role playing chats with friends.
Is a bit different than that. They are complaining now because the revelation of this is making their paid users to stop using their services. They may or may not be worried about their users privacy, but for sure they are worried about their profits.
In the other hand, tif well they knew the cut of the cake they were getting, they didn't know about all the other companies into the same and how wide and deep were this. Also, the revelation on how the NSA infiltrated their internal network without their knowledge or consent could had raised some alarms.
In any case, if the NSA head can lie to the congress without consequences after that being found out, why can't they tell all of them that it is over while keep doing it (and keeping the backdoors in their internal networks to keep doing the dirty work) or force them in a way or another to tell the world that all is over when is not, or even plant a fake whiteblower that confirms that the NSA stopped their programs ? By now trust is deeply broken in all that surrounds the NSA, if tomorrow they say that 2+2=4 you should bet that they are doing math in base 3.
Could take thousands of years to get to the next star system at the speed we manage to reach now, and we can face problems that could not be solved for very long trips in space for humans. Odds are pretty high that of the known universe, the only solar system that we will ever be is this one. If we not manage to preserve this planet, we won't be around for long, in no other alternative we would survive to technological failures.
Is all related to volume. If those reserves and the spill are big enough, it could make a measurable change in ocean salinity.
Also, the water that come from rivers, came from rain, and in the end came from the ocean, water evaporated, salt remained and later the same water returned, in global scale things keeps being more or less the same. But what if you add enough "new" fresh water to the cycle?
Some doctors are upset for not getting support after they helped torturing detained suspects.
In both cases, that maybe shows that very deep inside them, there is still a human being trying to confess the crimes that even they realize that are doing. "I was just following orders" don't cut the pain anymore.
Maybe it could explain statene
... in a keepassx database with a strong but easy to remember master password. In general if you believe an encryption is good enough you could put your password db in a public area, but usually the weakest link is the computer from where you decrypt it, that is usually online exposed in a way or another to malware that could try to intercept that key.
Both technical and political solutions should be taken, developed and adopted if we want to get back our privacy. There are several countries that are in bed with NSA (that will do everything in their hand to prevent people to try to keep their privacy, including the ability to have home servers), and several that not. And if well things could be out of hope in US, england, australia, sweden and some more, in others meaninful actions could be taken.
The point is doing what is within our possiblities. If we know for sure that the data in the US cloud will be inspectioned by the NSA and even passed to potential competitors then is not wise to store things there. We can work in protecting countries or home networks, things that should be under our control, if we are not up to the challenge at least we tried.
This. They seem to not take into account that part of the reason that companies want servers it to put private information there. And some countries have strong privacy policies for protecting their citizens information. That should ban a lot of companies for storing their servers into US based clouds at the very least.
My prediction would go into the opposite direction of cloud servers, toward personal/home servers, increasing the use of p2p/mesh encrypted networks and services, at least in the countries not actively cooperating with the NSA. That should be bigger than emerging country specific clouds.
The FBI has been able to covertly activate a computer’s camera — without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording — for several years, and has used that technique mainly in terrorism cases or the most serious criminal investigations
... and in LoveINT cases too. If noone watches the watchers they will become stalkers too.
The eye of Sauron is in Washington (or Utah). Anyway the dark lord residing there had no problem if the climate of Final Earth turns far hotter than the Texas one. Who wants Shire's climate after all?
When they lied even to the congress without consequences they crossed the line. Anything they say could be a lie without consequences, More words won't fix it. Fireworks should not fool anyone. "Whisteblowers" confirming this could be fake. We got lucky with Snowden doing something that they didn't imagined and warned us, but that won't happen again, and they could keep making things worse.
Don't matter what they say If they can lie even to the congress with no consequences.
So if there are more thieves is ok for you to steal?
Adobe password breach was about 40-100 millon passwords,a lot reused in other services. But the method was different, instead of hacking into a single server with a very bad password policy, this went right to the desktops of people in that botnet. So no matter how safe you were using your password or picking a complex one, if your desktop security is not good enough (and there are a lot of cases of widespread malware avoiding antivirus detection for years) your carefully built password policy could be defeated at the moment of using them.
About common passwords used, is almost predictable to find them having millons of passwords, but the strenght of the password is not the problem here.
This looks like taken from the plot of A Clockwork Orange. Or Farenheit 451, with music instead of books.
Anyway, probably a lot of people would agree that the fans of certain music styles and groups should be put in jail or in a mental institution, but which music depend on each person and culture.
make jokes about Australia being a country governed by dim-witted criminals
FTFY
Oh, wait, thats no joke.
If we start with the asumption that that passwords must be memorized somewhat, we are better remembering things with an attached meaning than something random, and those meanings make usually bad passwords. But, we don't need to remember all passwords, there are password managers for making and storing a bunch of meaningless, secure passwords, and for the keys you must remember (the password manager one at the very least) there are some mnemonic tricks that can help to have safe enough passwords.
If well it may be pretty hard or near impossible to get 100% privacy, trying to get as close as possible (or at least, at the point you draw the line) worth it. And that is a process, not a static destination.
The problem in both PC and phones are drivers, not all are open, or not all are available. But as Android phones must have them, you can build other linux based OSs on top of android/cyanogenmod base system, and thats what are doing Ubuntu Touch, Firefox OS, and apparently Sailfish.
Is not about money neither. Is about who is in control, who really owns your data.
If Tor were closed source you could had some reason. But the NSA hates to put their access codes in plain sight, and that it is open source, with everyone using/implementing it free to inspect and check if there is any vulnerability in its design makes pretty hard that it be compromised at that level, no matter who developed it.
that is the key to understand both. One printed trillions keeping the same value of everything, the other raised 100 times its value in few months. If people lose faith in any of them, they could lose value. And, at difference with he bitcoin, US is doing everything to make people lose faith in the dollar, and abandon it as international standard.
Unauditable. A simple match enables them to deny everything.