This one goes beyond the bad category, is not the same falling from a chair than falling from the top of a building. We are getting a hint on how bad could be "extreme" weather, much stronger than Sandy and Katrina. You really don't want any of this "bad weather" hit any place near you, and it could become the new normal.
As far i know, you can see the history of each bitcoin in the blockchain, each wallet that have and had it, each transaction that it had been involved into. If those bitcoins where moved to a particular wallet, any participant in the bitcoin network can see to which wallet it went it all, and what that person did after that. Maybe the name of that person is not known yet, but the people that will receive some of those bitcoins in exchange of something may have a hint on who they are or where they are living.
Unless, of course, the private key got erased instead of copied, or used to transfer them to somewhere else. Then the bitcoins will vanish in practice, but won't be a robbery in that case.
This. Cyanogenmod and derivatives are probably the best way to get rid of crapware and get really in control of what is in your phone. And you can even install F-Droid on it as market replacement to have a fully open source android OS and apps.
Our (written) history goes back to 10k years ago. What make you think we will survive as a civilization as we have now (or more advanced) for a long time? You are talking about millon years from now. *IF* we don't get setbacks, we probably won't be humans in 200-500 years. But knowing what happened every time we got something that could be used as weapon, from fire to internet, including possibly damaging for all the planet like nuclear ones, The most immediate threat to our survival is in us, not in climate/volcanos/meteorites/biology/etc.
But besides our own idiocy, could be several practical problems on having very long trips on space, specially for something in the colonization expedition size, from radiation, obstacles, effects on body/metabolism of having no gravity, required amount of energy and so on. Those problems could be general for any civilization. We maybe could send bots, or a very small crew, but getting stable colonies could be out of reach or impractical given required time and potential risks.
If Microsoft follows links shown in "private" skype conversations (and probably several NSA programs too) they could be used to attack sites this way. Could be pretty ironic to have government sites with their DBs wiped from a SQL attack coming from an NSA server.
If the speed of light is the absolute max speed in the universe, with no shortcuts in practice, getting somewhere outside of local star group won't be ever possible, and the same will be for everyone else, no matter how advanced they are, and how much similarities are between their culture and ours (at least, our culture willingness to go to space and communicate with others). And, of course, there is time, they should be at the right stage of their civilization, of the 4.5billon years of this planet just in the last 100 we were sending and trying to hear signals to/from somewhere else, and not sure for how much time we will be around. And if well could be earth-like planets "close", sending an expedition even to the closest solar system to just plant a flag is outside our reach, maybe for centuries (and getting there and back will take even more centuries)
The universe may be full of life and advanced civilizations, and we probably won't ever know that someone else is out there. Nor them.
All released Linux versions tried to be bug free, that should be nothing as big to deserve a whole new version for 4.0. But probably this "bug fix" goes beyond the normal scope. It must not just work, but work in an hostile environment where governments with plenty of resources try to exploit any "more or less work" vulnerability to plant backdoors and snoop, where hardware, firmwares (the methods that could use #badBIOS to spread could be an example), internet protocols or encryption algorythms are not so trustable, and could had been malicious commits in the past, not just work, but work even with a legion of high profile attackers trying to find some potential hole to sneak in.
Math is nice, let you build models, make predictions and so on, but it could describe anything possible or impossible in any potential universe, To be sure that it fits in our universe, you must contrast it with reality. Einstein's theory was a bunch of complex equations, but was matching those equations predictions with reality that gave them validity.
In this particular case, observing it could tell that our guesses had some ground, or that were more or less severe of what is really happening, because maybe some factors we aren't measuring or aren't fully understood yet.
The US hasn't used this data to physically harm anyone. There are plenty of allegations that the US used the data for economic advantage, but no examples of specific operations that did so. And if such operations existed Snowden would have exposed them.
Even if you don't consider planting backdoors and weakening crypto damage, Presidential Policy Directive 20 is about having ready for using those intrusions, backdoors and so on to harm. And Petrobras is an example of specific operation of using that data for economic advantage. But even snooping with other intentions than detect that is a terrorist there is damaging enough, even if it is just to find how to access and plant backdoors in a otherwise secure network (i.e. Tor users)
That Snowden didn't won the Nobel Peace Prize (but did the organization that aligned closely with current US message) gives you a hint that at least some parts of europe are just following US orders, so no chance for president of european parliament neither.
And they are now realizing that that submission don't saves them from being victims of the US spying/sabotaging machine too.
Suppose that you have friends, one of them is particulary nice with you, you let him pass the weekends in your house, go with him and your family on vacations, and so on. Then this guy tells (and proves) you that your "friend" is stealing you, banging your wife, that was him the one that broke your windows not your son, poisoning your food, and plotting to make your boss fire you. So, your reaction is (a) put in jail the guy that warned you, calling him traitor, killer or whatever, while keeping in close touch with your friend as nothing has happened (b) thank that guy, get rid or apart of your "friend" or try to put him in jail ?
Google must have more than a few basic patents too, just all of block them in most of their products on internet/mobile and bring the whole industry to an halt until the legal system regarding patents stop being so badly screwed.
to show how commited (or honest) are in the push against chemical weapons, must destroy its own chemical (and biological, and so on) weapons factories and stockpiles. And of course, private owned companies in US should do the same.
For starters, SMIME don't hide metadata, with SMIME you encrypt the content, not headers. And if well there is TLS for securing the communication between servers, afaik is not very strong as protection or avoiding MITM attacks. But using SMIME and TLS is a start that should be used while no better solution is implemented.
If is standard and interception proof will be the required "mail" protocol in a lot of governments, organizations and companies. If the first implementation is not easy enough to use it will be shortly improved.
The US plugged the leak, no new documents has been leaked lately, just been releasing the June documents in a timely rate. And while there are no new leakers, the government keep promising that they did not ever, is not doing, and will stop doing whatever is in this leaks, hoping that there are people with lower IQ than body temperature (in celsius) that believes them, while now there is no way to truly verify that (they probably will even release their own "leaks" to keep the illusion of that all will be legal from now on).
Anyway, for what Snowden did, (if i owned a big enough company) i would give him a good salary even for doing nothing. And if can do something useful, something that he would enjoy doing, the better.
Knowing that there is a ticking bomb under your feet don't automatically disable it, you are not safer than before. But let you take measures to try to be safe in the future, before it explodes in your face. For making the world better you must know where it is broken.
This one with security/encryption built in from the ground up this time. Would be more interesting that instead of the comments of Microsoft (with deepties with the NSA), yahoo and google (both may not be very happy with the NSA, but still must give them their users accounts info by law) the article focused on comments from people from i.e. the IETF for implementing it as an standard in a more worldwide (even personal) way.
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The problem with that UDP proposal is that the IETF may not get it.
Let's put Windows in the line of fire
This one goes beyond the bad category, is not the same falling from a chair than falling from the top of a building. We are getting a hint on how bad could be "extreme" weather, much stronger than Sandy and Katrina. You really don't want any of this "bad weather" hit any place near you, and it could become the new normal.
As far i know, you can see the history of each bitcoin in the blockchain, each wallet that have and had it, each transaction that it had been involved into. If those bitcoins where moved to a particular wallet, any participant in the bitcoin network can see to which wallet it went it all, and what that person did after that. Maybe the name of that person is not known yet, but the people that will receive some of those bitcoins in exchange of something may have a hint on who they are or where they are living.
Unless, of course, the private key got erased instead of copied, or used to transfer them to somewhere else. Then the bitcoins will vanish in practice, but won't be a robbery in that case.
Give a more profitable use to jellyfish (even if it is for making glow-in-the-dark ice cream, or other uses) better than "normal" fishes and the balance could be reached again... before is too late.
This. Cyanogenmod and derivatives are probably the best way to get rid of crapware and get really in control of what is in your phone. And you can even install F-Droid on it as market replacement to have a fully open source android OS and apps.
Our (written) history goes back to 10k years ago. What make you think we will survive as a civilization as we have now (or more advanced) for a long time? You are talking about millon years from now. *IF* we don't get setbacks, we probably won't be humans in 200-500 years. But knowing what happened every time we got something that could be used as weapon, from fire to internet, including possibly damaging for all the planet like nuclear ones, The most immediate threat to our survival is in us, not in climate/volcanos/meteorites/biology/etc.
But besides our own idiocy, could be several practical problems on having very long trips on space, specially for something in the colonization expedition size, from radiation, obstacles, effects on body/metabolism of having no gravity, required amount of energy and so on. Those problems could be general for any civilization. We maybe could send bots, or a very small crew, but getting stable colonies could be out of reach or impractical given required time and potential risks.
NSA agents have been busy last month sending Word documents to the critical staff of major foreing companies.
If Microsoft follows links shown in "private" skype conversations (and probably several NSA programs too) they could be used to attack sites this way. Could be pretty ironic to have government sites with their DBs wiped from a SQL attack coming from an NSA server.
If the speed of light is the absolute max speed in the universe, with no shortcuts in practice, getting somewhere outside of local star group won't be ever possible, and the same will be for everyone else, no matter how advanced they are, and how much similarities are between their culture and ours (at least, our culture willingness to go to space and communicate with others). And, of course, there is time, they should be at the right stage of their civilization, of the 4.5billon years of this planet just in the last 100 we were sending and trying to hear signals to/from somewhere else, and not sure for how much time we will be around. And if well could be earth-like planets "close", sending an expedition even to the closest solar system to just plant a flag is outside our reach, maybe for centuries (and getting there and back will take even more centuries)
The universe may be full of life and advanced civilizations, and we probably won't ever know that someone else is out there. Nor them.
The alternative is most people saying "tl;dr", specially here.
All released Linux versions tried to be bug free, that should be nothing as big to deserve a whole new version for 4.0. But probably this "bug fix" goes beyond the normal scope. It must not just work, but work in an hostile environment where governments with plenty of resources try to exploit any "more or less work" vulnerability to plant backdoors and snoop, where hardware, firmwares (the methods that could use #badBIOS to spread could be an example), internet protocols or encryption algorythms are not so trustable, and could had been malicious commits in the past, not just work, but work even with a legion of high profile attackers trying to find some potential hole to sneak in.
Math is nice, let you build models, make predictions and so on, but it could describe anything possible or impossible in any potential universe, To be sure that it fits in our universe, you must contrast it with reality. Einstein's theory was a bunch of complex equations, but was matching those equations predictions with reality that gave them validity.
In this particular case, observing it could tell that our guesses had some ground, or that were more or less severe of what is really happening, because maybe some factors we aren't measuring or aren't fully understood yet.
The US hasn't used this data to physically harm anyone. There are plenty of allegations that the US used the data for economic advantage, but no examples of specific operations that did so. And if such operations existed Snowden would have exposed them.
Even if you don't consider planting backdoors and weakening crypto damage, Presidential Policy Directive 20 is about having ready for using those intrusions, backdoors and so on to harm. And Petrobras is an example of specific operation of using that data for economic advantage. But even snooping with other intentions than detect that is a terrorist there is damaging enough, even if it is just to find how to access and plant backdoors in a otherwise secure network (i.e. Tor users)
Don't need to go so far, James Clapper lied to the congress, was found out, and as "punishment" is be his own auditor.
By now if the government of US says that 2+2=4, you should bet that they are doing math in base 3.
That Snowden didn't won the Nobel Peace Prize (but did the organization that aligned closely with current US message) gives you a hint that at least some parts of europe are just following US orders, so no chance for president of european parliament neither.
And they are now realizing that that submission don't saves them from being victims of the US spying/sabotaging machine too.
Suppose that you have friends, one of them is particulary nice with you, you let him pass the weekends in your house, go with him and your family on vacations, and so on. Then this guy tells (and proves) you that your "friend" is stealing you, banging your wife, that was him the one that broke your windows not your son, poisoning your food, and plotting to make your boss fire you. So, your reaction is (a) put in jail the guy that warned you, calling him traitor, killer or whatever, while keeping in close touch with your friend as nothing has happened (b) thank that guy, get rid or apart of your "friend" or try to put him in jail ?
Seem that you will pick (a)
Google must have more than a few basic patents too, just all of block them in most of their products on internet/mobile and bring the whole industry to an halt until the legal system regarding patents stop being so badly screwed.
to show how commited (or honest) are in the push against chemical weapons, must destroy its own chemical (and biological, and so on) weapons factories and stockpiles. And of course, private owned companies in US should do the same.
What about hardware backdoor activation? There had been rumors of intel putting 3G radios in vPro cpus, and there had been backdoors in FPGAs. There had been a nice presentation in DEFCON17 around this topic.
For starters, SMIME don't hide metadata, with SMIME you encrypt the content, not headers. And if well there is TLS for securing the communication between servers, afaik is not very strong as protection or avoiding MITM attacks. But using SMIME and TLS is a start that should be used while no better solution is implemented.
If is standard and interception proof will be the required "mail" protocol in a lot of governments, organizations and companies. If the first implementation is not easy enough to use it will be shortly improved.
The US plugged the leak, no new documents has been leaked lately, just been releasing the June documents in a timely rate. And while there are no new leakers, the government keep promising that they did not ever, is not doing, and will stop doing whatever is in this leaks, hoping that there are people with lower IQ than body temperature (in celsius) that believes them, while now there is no way to truly verify that (they probably will even release their own "leaks" to keep the illusion of that all will be legal from now on).
Anyway, for what Snowden did, (if i owned a big enough company) i would give him a good salary even for doing nothing. And if can do something useful, something that he would enjoy doing, the better.
Knowing that there is a ticking bomb under your feet don't automatically disable it, you are not safer than before. But let you take measures to try to be safe in the future, before it explodes in your face. For making the world better you must know where it is broken.
This one with security/encryption built in from the ground up this time. Would be more interesting that instead of the comments of Microsoft (with deep ties with the NSA), yahoo and google (both may not be very happy with the NSA, but still must give them their users accounts info by law) the article focused on comments from people from i.e. the IETF for implementing it as an standard in a more worldwide (even personal) way.