Unless you have some external name for your home connection (i.e. using dyndns or similar if your IP is dynamic), it is probably something you have in your network, like being part of a botnet node, having a misconfigured p2p client, or something that from inside announces itself to be accessed by others. Disable all the services that you know that access by itself outside (i.e. checking for software updates), and try to track all that you don't know that access outside by itself when the ip changes.
They could find you also because you have an easy to detect service that is exploitable. Knowing where they access and connect could be useful, even having a ip camera accessible from outside with a fixed admin password could be enough to cause that kind of behaviour. Considering that scanning the entire internet takes less than an hour, a lot could be doing so all the time so anything exposed you have could be easily detected.
Having antivirus is no guarantee of safety, some malware could be active for years before is even hinted that something could be there by AV companies (and probably US based security products will have hardcoded to not report anything that could look as NSA backdoor or malware). If well is not a guarantee of not catching malware, lower a lot the odds of it using Linux or even Mac OS X.
Books, songs, movies, comics, oral tradition, news, all of that brings a story with them, one were you can identify with it, recognize as a pattern, and use that pattern to seek a guidance for our actions to get a better outcome. They also draws a picture in how other people (should) think, the more clear is that picture, the better the concept is assimilated by us, and books usually have a bigger extent on showing how characters think and feel, but is not something exclusive of them. But books probably have the bigger set of good ones with different stories and good character exploration , even if copyrights are making a big portion of them almost invisible (and is important to see the vision of the world of previous cultures)
With all the respect that surely deserves OPCW, this prize,in this moment, only makes more evident how low has fallen the institution of the Nobel Prize and how much is sold the committee to the powers that be. It was used to promote the US "intervention" in Syria business, while they wont ever destroy their own chemical, biological, or nuclear arsenal, for something that probably where rebel chemical weapons given by foreing powers.
In the other hand, the biggest event in this decade that is surely is making a dent for mankind as a whole, that are Snowden leaks, have less chance than a snowball in hell. Manning, suffering years of prison and torture for his original leaks that also had its own big influence in the world as a whole, also was easily dismissed. About the other 250 nominees, not sure which ones did something that trascended frontiers like what those two did, or are as known as them.
then you should have nothing to hide. That they make such big efforts to actively hide everything (even to the point of rerouting the president of Bolivia plane just for suspecting that Snowden may be there) means that they did, and probably keep doing, something very wrong. And it must be far bigger than anything we know they are doing (not mass snooping or subverting internet security protocols, not favoring big corporations, no giving chemical weapons to syrian rebels to blame the government, etc), and at difference of the current situation, should be something that if disclosed it really would have most of the population very upset.
If you were asked to only choose between Kang and Kodos you may had a point. There were more alternatives, like voting for other of the candidates (no matter if won or not, what matter is that you didnt choose Kang nor Kodos) or voting for no candidate where is allowed. Not going to vote is to say that let the others decide, going to vote but somewhat telling that you don't like those 2 main options is another kind of message, and if most expressed it it could had lead to some change.
BTW, for the next election if a third candidate appears with a big campaing behind, dont bite, in all 3 cases the ones that puts the money are the same people, and the same rulers as of today.
Is with DRM is that nobody will use it. Having DRM is not about being free or not, is the companies controlling how, when and where people could use the content they bought. Is about renting, not selling, and probably in the process getting ownership of the client hardware, own data, and competition content (and is not something hypotetic, Sony already used DRM to install a rootkit in the past ). This always was about punishing and abusing your customers, the ones that actually pay, not the ones trying to get a free ride.
And doing this, in this very moment that the intelligence agencies try to make cracks to get their backdoors inserted in every computer, is not just stupid, is criminal. Internet is getting physically broken into pieces thanks to US intervention, and will be in logical pieces thanks to this DRMd shoot in the foot.
Probably could include also the people that worries about their own privacy. While is not failsafe, is better than most commonly used alternatives (cyanogenmod+fdroid, ubuntu touch, and maybe tizen could be others)
Cars will have a brain (the "brains" that they have inside causes too much deaths when i.e. drunk, distracted, etc), you can't avoid that, and markets will push a lot in that direction.
Now, want that the same people that made stuxnet to sabotage nuclear plants be able to put backdoors in cars? What you can try to avoid is that that brain can be controlled by others, and open source is a good starting approach.
What are the other costs that are specific for the internet version that is not nenligible for each book sold? In the other hand, the factors i put above are measurable for each physical book, probably the biggest ones are the profit of the book store (must pay salaries and keep working with it, and most don't sell millons a month) and the media (paper, nice, colorful cover, etc), and somewhere must be some costs implied on not selling all the copies.
What about ebooks at the same price as the content but with making a big stock with expected losses, stocking, transporting, the physical media (paper, ink, printing, human labor) and all the chains of intermediaries with their corresponding profits? What about the same, but for music? What about movies, where you also must count too the big chunk that takes each theater?
We are more than brains. A good part of what makes us humans is our culture, the meanings we have, and the associations (in particular, emotional, pain/pleasure associations, and even hormonal fueled ones), and the semantics derived from all of that. Is more software than hardware. Dolphins could be as "smart" as us, but you won't put one to control industrial machinery.
But dedicated expert systems for one task? that don't need to be "human" for doing its job well or better than us.
I just sit watching the stories eating popcorn seeing another try to power grab at the government. It won't have a happy ending (that would be default in 10 days), so no matter how much noise and blame they spill everywhere, nor the government care about it (the 5 billons they spent the night before show how much they really care), nor the opposition, and while that circus happens still more will be invested in what affects me more, like snooping/infiltrating/sabotaging everyone/everything through internet.
And there is just no risk of default (unless they intend to reach it to do an even bigger power grab) because the legislators that don't agree yet will, or else some delicate information around him be disclosed, spying on everyone, even in legislators, have this kind of consequences.
That won't help if tomorrow someone finds a vulnerability in the openssh server that enables to bypass that (maybe something like this one from 2011). And that someone instead of announcing it worldwide (i.e. the NSA) start to use it to deploy their own backdoors in your server. Not having access to the service in the first place will avoid potential future exploits on it. Of course, could be exploits for the portknocker daemon, but as is simpler than the sshd (or any other service you have published that is not meant for the world) should be easier to check/audit it (only 2 vulnerabilities were found so far that im aware of, and implies or already being logged in the system, or being successfully authenticated.)
And, btw, the Single Packet Authentication uses a certificate too to open the port for your IP. And then you can use your own ssh certificate or password to login.
Sometimes you have to access from other IPs, or don't have a known, fixed IP from where you could have to connect, or you could have to fix something when in a trip.
I'd suggest a mix of several of those (no root access, non standard port, explicitely enabling in fw just the IPs you know that must enter by that service) but adding portknocking for the rest of the world (only if you could need to access from elsewhere), specially using Single Packet Authorization to prevent the chance of someone (specially 3-letters agencies) capturing/replaying how you entered there. And not just for ssh, every service that is not meant for the whole internet shouldn't be even visible for the rest of the world.
What about 5 millons, if you count private sector and not top security clearance? And of those 2 millons with top security clearance, half a millon are from the private sector. No matter what numbers have China, US ones are far bigger, and with less population.
And, of course, is not that most international internet traffic passes through China, nor most internationally used internet companies are based on that country and have to follow their laws giving all the information of their customers.
People have no clue on risks. There are far higher chances to die from alcohol (not just driving), accidents, or gun shots than from "they must be regulated!" technologies. But still alcohol and tobacco are things accepted and promoted, and having a gun and a car are practically requirements to feel like a citizen.
Guns (that are only meant to kill) should be far more regulated than drones. And use and abuse of addictive substances like tobacco and alcohol should be something with campaigns against them (not prohibition, but no promotion neither)... and probably sugary drinks should fit in that set there too.
This is not about monitoring anymore, probably neverwas
...giving the agency opportunity to launch prepared attacks against their systems
They are actively attacking Tor nodes and clients, be or not outside US, being used for criminal activities or just someone worried about his own privacy.
This is not about defending against terrorists, they are attacking the US citizens that dares to try to have some privacy. Along with foreing citizens worried about the same.
And they are not just forcing everyone to be unsafe, they are too, so others (foreing countries, private companies wanting to get rid of competitors, hacking groups, old-style criminal organizations, even terrorist groups) can use the same tools/backdoors/exploits as them, being either provided by leaks (not just Snowdens unknown predecessors, there are a lot of private companies with high security clearance with access to all of that that could have their own agenda (Snowden worked for one of them), or just plain hacking (like yesterday's Adobe one that could had leaked where Acrobat or Flash have NSA backdoors).
More laws regulating the internet to empower the NSA efforts will lead to countries (not just Brazil) leaving internet, or setting walled gardens, you can get out (by approved and monitored paths), you can use what is inside, but people from outside can't get in, and maybe the use of commercial US software could have some penalization (less access/tighly controlled). Is not a win-win, is an all-lose scenario but with someone yelling that we won.
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Unless you have some external name for your home connection (i.e. using dyndns or similar if your IP is dynamic), it is probably something you have in your network, like being part of a botnet node, having a misconfigured p2p client, or something that from inside announces itself to be accessed by others. Disable all the services that you know that access by itself outside (i.e. checking for software updates), and try to track all that you don't know that access outside by itself when the ip changes.
They could find you also because you have an easy to detect service that is exploitable. Knowing where they access and connect could be useful, even having a ip camera accessible from outside with a fixed admin password could be enough to cause that kind of behaviour. Considering that scanning the entire internet takes less than an hour, a lot could be doing so all the time so anything exposed you have could be easily detected.
Having antivirus is no guarantee of safety, some malware could be active for years before is even hinted that something could be there by AV companies (and probably US based security products will have hardcoded to not report anything that could look as NSA backdoor or malware). If well is not a guarantee of not catching malware, lower a lot the odds of it using Linux or even Mac OS X.
Books, songs, movies, comics, oral tradition, news, all of that brings a story with them, one were you can identify with it, recognize as a pattern, and use that pattern to seek a guidance for our actions to get a better outcome. They also draws a picture in how other people (should) think, the more clear is that picture, the better the concept is assimilated by us, and books usually have a bigger extent on showing how characters think and feel, but is not something exclusive of them. But books probably have the bigger set of good ones with different stories and good character exploration , even if copyrights are making a big portion of them almost invisible (and is important to see the vision of the world of previous cultures)
With all the respect that surely deserves OPCW, this prize,in this moment, only makes more evident how low has fallen the institution of the Nobel Prize and how much is sold the committee to the powers that be. It was used to promote the US "intervention" in Syria business, while they wont ever destroy their own chemical, biological, or nuclear arsenal, for something that probably where rebel chemical weapons given by foreing powers.
In the other hand, the biggest event in this decade that is surely is making a dent for mankind as a whole, that are Snowden leaks, have less chance than a snowball in hell. Manning, suffering years of prison and torture for his original leaks that also had its own big influence in the world as a whole, also was easily dismissed. About the other 250 nominees, not sure which ones did something that trascended frontiers like what those two did, or are as known as them.
And put also diamonds there. But in the other hand, god definately didn't liked Uranus.
If the government does it, then it should not be so wrong.
then you should have nothing to hide. That they make such big efforts to actively hide everything (even to the point of rerouting the president of Bolivia plane just for suspecting that Snowden may be there) means that they did, and probably keep doing, something very wrong. And it must be far bigger than anything we know they are doing (not mass snooping or subverting internet security protocols, not favoring big corporations, no giving chemical weapons to syrian rebels to blame the government, etc), and at difference of the current situation, should be something that if disclosed it really would have most of the population very upset.
If you were asked to only choose between Kang and Kodos you may had a point. There were more alternatives, like voting for other of the candidates (no matter if won or not, what matter is that you didnt choose Kang nor Kodos) or voting for no candidate where is allowed. Not going to vote is to say that let the others decide, going to vote but somewhat telling that you don't like those 2 main options is another kind of message, and if most expressed it it could had lead to some change.
BTW, for the next election if a third candidate appears with a big campaing behind, dont bite, in all 3 cases the ones that puts the money are the same people, and the same rulers as of today.
Is with DRM is that nobody will use it. Having DRM is not about being free or not, is the companies controlling how, when and where people could use the content they bought. Is about renting, not selling, and probably in the process getting ownership of the client hardware, own data, and competition content (and is not something hypotetic, Sony already used DRM to install a rootkit in the past ). This always was about punishing and abusing your customers, the ones that actually pay, not the ones trying to get a free ride.
And doing this, in this very moment that the intelligence agencies try to make cracks to get their backdoors inserted in every computer, is not just stupid, is criminal. Internet is getting physically broken into pieces thanks to US intervention, and will be in logical pieces thanks to this DRMd shoot in the foot.
And where is the sharing of that information with Israel? And where is the part where this is not surveillance, but directly hacking into personal machines and servers planting backdoors on them? Also, if your private data have some corporation interested on it, would it go there?
Probably could include also the people that worries about their own privacy. While is not failsafe, is better than most commonly used alternatives (cyanogenmod+fdroid, ubuntu touch, and maybe tizen could be others)
If the government don't worry about it (spent 5 billons in the eve of the shutdown in defense, that is really a priority), why should you?
Cars will have a brain (the "brains" that they have inside causes too much deaths when i.e. drunk, distracted, etc), you can't avoid that, and markets will push a lot in that direction.
Now, want that the same people that made stuxnet to sabotage nuclear plants be able to put backdoors in cars? What you can try to avoid is that that brain can be controlled by others, and open source is a good starting approach.
What are the other costs that are specific for the internet version that is not nenligible for each book sold? In the other hand, the factors i put above are measurable for each physical book, probably the biggest ones are the profit of the book store (must pay salaries and keep working with it, and most don't sell millons a month) and the media (paper, nice, colorful cover, etc), and somewhere must be some costs implied on not selling all the copies.
What about ebooks at the same price as the content but with making a big stock with expected losses, stocking, transporting, the physical media (paper, ink, printing, human labor) and all the chains of intermediaries with their corresponding profits? What about the same, but for music? What about movies, where you also must count too the big chunk that takes each theater?
We are more than brains. A good part of what makes us humans is our culture, the meanings we have, and the associations (in particular, emotional, pain/pleasure associations, and even hormonal fueled ones), and the semantics derived from all of that. Is more software than hardware. Dolphins could be as "smart" as us, but you won't put one to control industrial machinery.
But dedicated expert systems for one task? that don't need to be "human" for doing its job well or better than us.
I just sit watching the stories eating popcorn seeing another try to power grab at the government. It won't have a happy ending (that would be default in 10 days), so no matter how much noise and blame they spill everywhere, nor the government care about it (the 5 billons they spent the night before show how much they really care), nor the opposition, and while that circus happens still more will be invested in what affects me more, like snooping/infiltrating/sabotaging everyone/everything through internet.
And there is just no risk of default (unless they intend to reach it to do an even bigger power grab) because the legislators that don't agree yet will, or else some delicate information around him be disclosed, spying on everyone, even in legislators, have this kind of consequences.
That won't help if tomorrow someone finds a vulnerability in the openssh server that enables to bypass that (maybe something like this one from 2011). And that someone instead of announcing it worldwide (i.e. the NSA) start to use it to deploy their own backdoors in your server. Not having access to the service in the first place will avoid potential future exploits on it. Of course, could be exploits for the portknocker daemon, but as is simpler than the sshd (or any other service you have published that is not meant for the world) should be easier to check/audit it (only 2 vulnerabilities were found so far that im aware of, and implies or already being logged in the system, or being successfully authenticated.)
And, btw, the Single Packet Authentication uses a certificate too to open the port for your IP. And then you can use your own ssh certificate or password to login.
Sometimes you have to access from other IPs, or don't have a known, fixed IP from where you could have to connect, or you could have to fix something when in a trip. I'd suggest a mix of several of those (no root access, non standard port, explicitely enabling in fw just the IPs you know that must enter by that service) but adding portknocking for the rest of the world (only if you could need to access from elsewhere), specially using Single Packet Authorization to prevent the chance of someone (specially 3-letters agencies) capturing/replaying how you entered there. And not just for ssh, every service that is not meant for the whole internet shouldn't be even visible for the rest of the world.
What about 5 millons, if you count private sector and not top security clearance? And of those 2 millons with top security clearance, half a millon are from the private sector. No matter what numbers have China, US ones are far bigger, and with less population.
And, of course, is not that most international internet traffic passes through China, nor most internationally used internet companies are based on that country and have to follow their laws giving all the information of their customers.
People have no clue on risks. There are far higher chances to die from alcohol (not just driving), accidents, or gun shots than from "they must be regulated!" technologies. But still alcohol and tobacco are things accepted and promoted, and having a gun and a car are practically requirements to feel like a citizen.
Guns (that are only meant to kill) should be far more regulated than drones. And use and abuse of addictive substances like tobacco and alcohol should be something with campaigns against them (not prohibition, but no promotion neither)... and probably sugary drinks should fit in that set there too.
Please, don't blow his mind with drones. Terrorists is another overused word.
This is not about monitoring anymore, probably never was
...giving the agency opportunity to launch prepared attacks against their systems
They are actively attacking Tor nodes and clients, be or not outside US, being used for criminal activities or just someone worried about his own privacy.
This is not about defending against terrorists, they are attacking the US citizens that dares to try to have some privacy. Along with foreing citizens worried about the same.
And they are not just forcing everyone to be unsafe, they are too, so others (foreing countries, private companies wanting to get rid of competitors, hacking groups, old-style criminal organizations, even terrorist groups) can use the same tools/backdoors/exploits as them, being either provided by leaks (not just Snowdens unknown predecessors, there are a lot of private companies with high security clearance with access to all of that that could have their own agenda (Snowden worked for one of them), or just plain hacking (like yesterday's Adobe one that could had leaked where Acrobat or Flash have NSA backdoors).
Adobe not only make Photoshop. Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Acrobat Reader rings any bell?
More laws regulating the internet to empower the NSA efforts will lead to countries (not just Brazil) leaving internet, or setting walled gardens, you can get out (by approved and monitored paths), you can use what is inside, but people from outside can't get in, and maybe the use of commercial US software could have some penalization (less access/tighly controlled). Is not a win-win, is an all-lose scenario but with someone yelling that we won.
Worse. The source code included the required NSA backdoor. Now requiring to insert backdoors to manufacturers will lead to the logical consequence