Is different attacking persons, over what could be moral or cultural tabus, than attacking a government. But both can cause revolts, picking the right persons. And there are other ways to desestabilize (i.e. faking a recording of Chavez saying that is actually kidnapped instead of dead) that could be enhanced manipulating or releasing partial information to the public.
Putting in the very fabric of the web a point of obscurity, just when we have to figure how to deal with security after the death of trust=. We are in the risk of breaking internet into country-sized pieces, and with this W3C is hitting it with a big hammer to see if it stands.
Do what you have at your hands, you can improve a lot your security in the points where you control. And let the rest of the world figure the missing pieces, with open source software you also have portability, when an alternative comes in that area (i.e. moving to ARM) you will be able to take a step forward. Just don't get too tied to a solution that you can't control.
98% of the ones that actually voted (in countries where the vote is obligatory the government is choosen by everyone, not the specially motivated, paid to go to vote or partial by definition). And the electoral process have some flaws, only Lesters can say for who you can vote, in (most?) places you can't vote for no candidate, and of course, the opponent did a bad enough campaign to make sure that the people voted for Obama if were for make sure that he wasnt elected, and as the only way to get even noticed that you exist is a expensive, big corporations funded, and totally legal campaign, no matter who you choose, the same real rulers are elected each time.
Is not just monitoring. Your lack of security will be used against you. If you have something critical enough in another country, you probably have a logical bomb running on your infrastructure. Stuxnet is an obsolete example by now.
But even without logical bombs, information means control, if they have all your information they could control you, or your population. If your country don't lick the boots of the USA overlords, they could spill secrets about your government that could put it in trouble, or make the population revolt. Even just stealing money of banks of enough people could trigger that revolt. And the killer secret could be just a grandmother telling in facebook to her contacts that she saw certain politic in a place where he shouldn't be. And the revolt will be pretty useful to put a puppet in power, is not that we didn't see that in the past years, and how well it went for the local population, during and after all got "solved".
In this scenario won't be surprised if most still independent countries just close ties with US and US companies, puts protective monitoring in all communications and restrict what can access citizens and foreigners. Probably the ones that in a year still didn't do it are not truly independent.
If in 2008 the NSA people had no problem sharing the conversations of soldiers with their girlfriends between them just imagine how they would be sharing now whatever digital you take with your girlfriend now. So just label it "national security" instead of revenge and should be ok. Or stop taking any digital media that is not meant for sharing with other people, no matter how good or bad are going your relations with your girlfriend, with no privacy that is the first thing that will be misused.
With media controlled, social networks manipulated and the by far big majority of people buying their speech, the people will keep voting what they say, yes, you are free to vote, but most are not free to think. In last election the trend was pretty obvious that were coming in this direction. In fact, was already obvious that in the previous election choosing another person, another party, another speech, even another skin color, and a big "change" written everywhere kept the same trends that the previous administration, so the real government is behind both choices. And the vote was nenligible for any third option. What make you think that they will change this time? I bet majority of people is supporting Obama now over the other party because the government shutdown, even they are shutting down everything except "critical programs" like NSA or some late night shopping.
With the control they have over what people think democracy is just an illusion. They won't be voted out. And they are exporting their power over media and social networks everywhere, firing revolutions and promoting discontent into the population, so democracy elsewhere could be in danger. And, at difference with the americans, they don't deserve the government americans people choose.
The watchers themselves, of course. And by the fifth amendment (they like the respect amendments when it serves to their pourposes), they won't incriminate themselves, so the outcome is predictable. Seems that the "ideological crusade" is in this side too.
Maybe this TED talk of James Flynn about why we could have higher IQ than our grandparents is relevant. What about the financial decisions of those old people when they were young?
Because they are "sure" that they are the only ones that could exploit it. And backdoor could mean only in place access, as they having a machine in that network with privileged acces to everywhere. Also, probably the government uses plenty of Windows in their desktops, with backdoor or not.
Hint: if they are making a "credible" effort, that means that they have big money backing them (and picking them will keep the country in the same trend as today). Pick any that don't make a credible effort, or expressely pick no one.
If the twits were ever respected you won't have the NSA on your back. No matter what (normal) people said, they do what they (or the 0.1%, or the Lesters) want.
You don't want that that amount of people with privileged access to virtually anything digital in the entire world (for a starters, your credit cards and all your bank accounts or all your secrets to blackmail or sell) feel that their salary could be at risk and have to figure out how to make money.
You give them that amount of power, now you can't take it back without consequences
Forbidding providers to put clausules in your contract that don't let you do that, in example. There are places where a dynamic IP is given to full time home connection, to specifically avoid setting fixed IP servers there. Is not mandating to put servers in each home, but not putting an extra cost if a person want to do so. Is not exactly rocket science by now, at least for doing it at personal level.
I take anytime a government spying in their own people over a government spying and controlling other countries people, sometimes even is a reaction for their own protection, to avoid the dangers implied of other government controlling your own people. Also, using Russia, China and a few more as all the 200+ governments is a good generalization to support that it must be good because others do it, there are thousands of people that steal, so everyone steals, so is ok that you do it, no?
I just hope that the other countries realize that all the intellectual property agreements with US worths nothing in the actual situation, NSA are free to roam their internal networks and private mails, steal any intellectual property they want to give to big corporations to patent/copyright them so the original inventors don't have it, anywhere.
So no manufacturing, no services, and no intellectual property. Just a big bully sitting there.
Yeah, we must jail the witnesses and leave free the assassins so they keep killing. You are sure that you won't be the next target, no? Or is just too deep into the culture to be too big to jail?
The americans were the ones that put the entire world into this. It had some time into making, and still were elected people controlled by the same pupeteers each time. It was pretty clear in previous election that worrying trends were just increase if Obama get reelected, and he did (and people were happy because the "other option" wasnt elected, even if both options would had the same people in control, and there actually were other options, if even were expressely voting for noone).
And you are just starting to realize how deep the rabbit hole goes, your private information is shared with Israel so any limitation US intelligence still have to access all your information it can be dodged using that proxy. And is not just privacy what is in danger, intellectual property if you are not one of the big players could be worthless, objectors are muted in a way or another, and press is tighly controlled. You don't have a democracy anymore, and your country is taking care that there is no democracy in practice anywhere else.
Countries should give facilities to people to have their own servers in their own home connections, the cloud should be not obligatory to host my own mail/web server, some personal services for my cellphones, or descentralized services like Diaspora. It may not do a lot of difference in US, but in other countries could not force their information to go through points of NSA control. That, and adding/supporting some optional anonimization layers for more or less anonymous browsing (proxies, Tor, Hyperboria, etc) as in some points you must reach the monitored internet.
As something for gaming and learning it could be useful, and could provide a way of contact with the right app. But please, that it won't be his only toy, a lot if learned by touching and feeling things and textures, and using and abusing devices with a flat cold surface could harm his development, no matter how attractive are for them.
robots.txt tells the good guys that you don't want your system scanned, but that don't stop the bad ones, the ones that the means and motivations to try to hack your system. Want to keep being hacked and not letting anyone to warn you about that? Ignorance is bliss, until it becomes hell.
That you can download the data mean that is the opposite of NSA, is public, no deep secret, and is revealing what is there, not putting your own vulnerabilities. Is not just for few, selected, IT security companies, is for everyone, you can get and interpret it, at least if it makes sense to you,
It could also be used by low level hackers to easy their work (the high level ones already should had collected that info by themselves or be available in the dark nets), but also could be used by ISPs, countries and IT departments to be aware and warn the people in charge of those systems about this. In fact, is good to force them to act in front of this public information, not making it public wasn't stopping the hackers (and the NSA) to exploit them.
Meaning of words, and their translations, vary with time and location. Infering meanings from texts from 20 years ago or another country, state or even region inside a state, even if the language is the "same", could be risky. There had been a lot of marketing problems thanks to this kind of bad translation
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Is different attacking persons, over what could be moral or cultural tabus, than attacking a government. But both can cause revolts, picking the right persons. And there are other ways to desestabilize (i.e. faking a recording of Chavez saying that is actually kidnapped instead of dead) that could be enhanced manipulating or releasing partial information to the public.
If you did nothing wrong, then you have nothing to hide. Why not embrace that culture of transparency giving the example?
Putting in the very fabric of the web a point of obscurity, just when we have to figure how to deal with security after the death of trust=. We are in the risk of breaking internet into country-sized pieces, and with this W3C is hitting it with a big hammer to see if it stands.
Like Intel embedding 3g radios in the vPro processors? Putting trojan in FPGAs? If i can't walk to the next continent, why worry to start walking?
Do what you have at your hands, you can improve a lot your security in the points where you control. And let the rest of the world figure the missing pieces, with open source software you also have portability, when an alternative comes in that area (i.e. moving to ARM) you will be able to take a step forward. Just don't get too tied to a solution that you can't control.
98% of the ones that actually voted (in countries where the vote is obligatory the government is choosen by everyone, not the specially motivated, paid to go to vote or partial by definition). And the electoral process have some flaws, only Lesters can say for who you can vote, in (most?) places you can't vote for no candidate, and of course, the opponent did a bad enough campaign to make sure that the people voted for Obama if were for make sure that he wasnt elected, and as the only way to get even noticed that you exist is a expensive, big corporations funded, and totally legal campaign, no matter who you choose, the same real rulers are elected each time.
I suppose that you mean economically harmful for US corporations, having competition is definately not what is capitalism about.
Is not just monitoring. Your lack of security will be used against you. If you have something critical enough in another country, you probably have a logical bomb running on your infrastructure. Stuxnet is an obsolete example by now.
But even without logical bombs, information means control, if they have all your information they could control you, or your population. If your country don't lick the boots of the USA overlords, they could spill secrets about your government that could put it in trouble, or make the population revolt. Even just stealing money of banks of enough people could trigger that revolt. And the killer secret could be just a grandmother telling in facebook to her contacts that she saw certain politic in a place where he shouldn't be. And the revolt will be pretty useful to put a puppet in power, is not that we didn't see that in the past years, and how well it went for the local population, during and after all got "solved".
In this scenario won't be surprised if most still independent countries just close ties with US and US companies, puts protective monitoring in all communications and restrict what can access citizens and foreigners. Probably the ones that in a year still didn't do it are not truly independent.
If in 2008 the NSA people had no problem sharing the conversations of soldiers with their girlfriends between them just imagine how they would be sharing now whatever digital you take with your girlfriend now. So just label it "national security" instead of revenge and should be ok. Or stop taking any digital media that is not meant for sharing with other people, no matter how good or bad are going your relations with your girlfriend, with no privacy that is the first thing that will be misused.
I hope that Voyager finished to leave the solar system by the time it reaches Andromeda.
With media controlled, social networks manipulated and the by far big majority of people buying their speech, the people will keep voting what they say, yes, you are free to vote, but most are not free to think. In last election the trend was pretty obvious that were coming in this direction. In fact, was already obvious that in the previous election choosing another person, another party, another speech, even another skin color, and a big "change" written everywhere kept the same trends that the previous administration, so the real government is behind both choices. And the vote was nenligible for any third option. What make you think that they will change this time? I bet majority of people is supporting Obama now over the other party because the government shutdown, even they are shutting down everything except "critical programs" like NSA or some late night shopping.
With the control they have over what people think democracy is just an illusion. They won't be voted out. And they are exporting their power over media and social networks everywhere, firing revolutions and promoting discontent into the population, so democracy elsewhere could be in danger. And, at difference with the americans, they don't deserve the government americans people choose.
The watchers themselves, of course. And by the fifth amendment (they like the respect amendments when it serves to their pourposes), they won't incriminate themselves, so the outcome is predictable. Seems that the "ideological crusade" is in this side too.
Maybe this TED talk of James Flynn about why we could have higher IQ than our grandparents is relevant. What about the financial decisions of those old people when they were young?
Because they are "sure" that they are the only ones that could exploit it. And backdoor could mean only in place access, as they having a machine in that network with privileged acces to everywhere. Also, probably the government uses plenty of Windows in their desktops, with backdoor or not.
Hint: if they are making a "credible" effort, that means that they have big money backing them (and picking them will keep the country in the same trend as today). Pick any that don't make a credible effort, or expressely pick no one.
If the twits were ever respected you won't have the NSA on your back. No matter what (normal) people said, they do what they (or the 0.1%, or the Lesters) want.
You don't want that that amount of people with privileged access to virtually anything digital in the entire world (for a starters, your credit cards and all your bank accounts or all your secrets to blackmail or sell) feel that their salary could be at risk and have to figure out how to make money.
You give them that amount of power, now you can't take it back without consequences
Forbidding providers to put clausules in your contract that don't let you do that, in example. There are places where a dynamic IP is given to full time home connection, to specifically avoid setting fixed IP servers there. Is not mandating to put servers in each home, but not putting an extra cost if a person want to do so. Is not exactly rocket science by now, at least for doing it at personal level.
I take anytime a government spying in their own people over a government spying and controlling other countries people, sometimes even is a reaction for their own protection, to avoid the dangers implied of other government controlling your own people. Also, using Russia, China and a few more as all the 200+ governments is a good generalization to support that it must be good because others do it, there are thousands of people that steal, so everyone steals, so is ok that you do it, no?
I just hope that the other countries realize that all the intellectual property agreements with US worths nothing in the actual situation, NSA are free to roam their internal networks and private mails, steal any intellectual property they want to give to big corporations to patent/copyright them so the original inventors don't have it, anywhere.
So no manufacturing, no services, and no intellectual property. Just a big bully sitting there.
Yeah, we must jail the witnesses and leave free the assassins so they keep killing. You are sure that you won't be the next target, no? Or is just too deep into the culture to be too big to jail?
The americans were the ones that put the entire world into this. It had some time into making, and still were elected people controlled by the same pupeteers each time. It was pretty clear in previous election that worrying trends were just increase if Obama get reelected, and he did (and people were happy because the "other option" wasnt elected, even if both options would had the same people in control, and there actually were other options, if even were expressely voting for noone).
And you are just starting to realize how deep the rabbit hole goes, your private information is shared with Israel so any limitation US intelligence still have to access all your information it can be dodged using that proxy. And is not just privacy what is in danger, intellectual property if you are not one of the big players could be worthless, objectors are muted in a way or another, and press is tighly controlled. You don't have a democracy anymore, and your country is taking care that there is no democracy in practice anywhere else.
Countries should give facilities to people to have their own servers in their own home connections, the cloud should be not obligatory to host my own mail/web server, some personal services for my cellphones, or descentralized services like Diaspora. It may not do a lot of difference in US, but in other countries could not force their information to go through points of NSA control. That, and adding/supporting some optional anonimization layers for more or less anonymous browsing (proxies, Tor, Hyperboria, etc) as in some points you must reach the monitored internet.
As something for gaming and learning it could be useful, and could provide a way of contact with the right app. But please, that it won't be his only toy, a lot if learned by touching and feeling things and textures, and using and abusing devices with a flat cold surface could harm his development, no matter how attractive are for them.
robots.txt tells the good guys that you don't want your system scanned, but that don't stop the bad ones, the ones that the means and motivations to try to hack your system. Want to keep being hacked and not letting anyone to warn you about that? Ignorance is bliss, until it becomes hell.
That you can download the data mean that is the opposite of NSA, is public, no deep secret, and is revealing what is there, not putting your own vulnerabilities. Is not just for few, selected, IT security companies, is for everyone, you can get and interpret it, at least if it makes sense to you,
It could also be used by low level hackers to easy their work (the high level ones already should had collected that info by themselves or be available in the dark nets), but also could be used by ISPs, countries and IT departments to be aware and warn the people in charge of those systems about this. In fact, is good to force them to act in front of this public information, not making it public wasn't stopping the hackers (and the NSA) to exploit them.
Meaning of words, and their translations, vary with time and location. Infering meanings from texts from 20 years ago or another country, state or even region inside a state, even if the language is the "same", could be risky. There had been a lot of marketing problems thanks to this kind of bad translation