"Leaks from Edward Snowden earlier this year have lead to hundreds of stories by the Guardian and other news outlets that examine the tension between personal privacy and national security. Our reporting has sparked a global debate about the full extent of the NSA's actions to collect personal data. Our latest story, published Monday, is about MARINA, an NSA application that stores the metadata of millions of web users for up to a year. Read through the full NSA Files archive here." ref
"The CIA's internal watchdog is investigating allegations that the agency improperly spied on Senate staffers probing secret details of a now-defunct interrogation program.
Senator Dianne Feinstein acknowledged Wednesday the existence of the probe, which highlights a rare public clash between lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee she chairs and the US espionage community it oversees." ref
http://news.yahoo.com/cia-unde...
"A new commercial tool designed to allow cybercriminals to easily transform legitimate Android applications into malicious software has hit the underground market.. Symantec said Wednesday in a blog post"
"Even Hyatt said he's not sure whether he would replicate the shock of getting a patent in 1990 on a "single chip integrated circuit computer architecture" a ruling that effectively gave him a financial claim to most microprocessors, the digital backbone of every personal computer in the world
Did he actually devise methods to overcome the technical obstacles before an actual chip could be fabricated. I'm thinking laminar flow etc. If not then he's just another patent troll. ps.The US patent system is fucked, you do know that already ?
"ASD Vershbow reaffirmed the Administration's message of support for Ukraine, underscored Ukraine's importance as a strategic partner, and commended the defense relationship, highlighting Ukraine's contributions to NATO and coalition operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo. ASD Vershbow stressed the need for Ukraine to stay on track with defense reform efforts"
The reality is, and that goes for the other former Soviet republics, that NATO (USA) is not going to go to war to defend the Ukraine. Your prime function is as a forward missile platform used to threaten the Russian Federation. In the event that either the US or Russia launch an attack on each others territory, you'll give the Americans prior warning. As such you'll have to be taken out first by the Russian military.
"The foam strike was not observed live. Only after the shuttle was orbiting Earth did NASA's launch imagery review reveal that the wing had been hit. Foam strikes during launch were not uncommon events, and shuttle program managers elected not to take on-orbit images of Columbia to visually assess any potential damage. Instead, NASA's Debris Assessment Team mathematically modeled the foam strike but could not reach any definitive conclusions about the state of the shuttle's wing. The mission continued"
NASA management choose to ignore reports of a foam strike, as they ignored previous problems with the O-Rings..
'NASA engineer, Rodney Rocha.. said he tried at least half a dozen times to get the space agency to make the requests. There were two similar efforts by other engineers. All were turned aside. Mr. Rocha (pronounced ROE-cha) said a manager told him that he refused to be a "Chicken Little." The Columbia's flight director, LeRoy Cain, wrote a curt e-mail message that concluded, "I consider it to be a dead issue"`
"This attack replaces the firmware of an existing AP and masquerades the outward facing credentials."
What mechanism does the attack us to keep the current configuration while replacing the firmware. Does the attack work by cracking WPA passwords. Would this attack work against the maximum length of sixty three character passwords.
I assume this entire piece is a work of fiction, but I would never work for a software house that had its IT department divided into architects and developers.
@bloodhawk: "EMET is not a cure all, nor is it pushed as one. EMET is about standard best practises to mitigate many exploits (not all) and is still an excellent toolkit for what it offers, that doesn't mean you should rely on only it. And as usual the Slashdot summary comes across as far more negative than the actual article itself"
“The impact of this study shows that technologies that operate on the same plane of execution as potentially malicious code, offer little lasting protection,.. This is true of EMET and other similar userland protections”
I find it highly suspect that the most damage being done to Assanges reputation is by his erstwhile friends and colleges.
"Wikileaks.org uses trust as a center of gravity by assuring insiders, leakers, and whistleblowers who pass information to Wikileaks.org personnel or who post information to the Web site that they will remain anonymous. The identification, exposure, or termination of employment of or legal actions against current or former insiders, leakers, or whistleblowers could damage or destroy this center of gravity and deter others from using Wikileaks.org to make such information public." ref
"Some enemies of WikiLeaks are not afraid to play dirty. Pro-WikiLeaks hackers (but not the organization itself) gained access to internal e-mails from HBGary Federal, a California-based security company that was allegedly offering to help companies like Bank of America (the rumored target of the next WikiLeaks dump) discredit the organization through falsified documents.. The e-mails also suggested that the company could pressure some of WikiLeaks' more public and vocal supporters (primarily journalists) by threatening to sabotage their careers." ref
"Microsoft DOS was designed per IBM's specification to run exclusively on IBM's PC hardware platforms. Phoenix Technologies employed software developers it nicknamed 'virgins,' who hadn't been exposed to IBM's systems, to create a software layer between Microsoft's DOS system and PCs built by IBM's competitors"
That's a novel revision of the actual historical facts which are: Microsoft bought DOS from Seattle Computer Products and hired on Tim Paterson rewrite it for the IBM PC. IBM owned the copyright to the original BIOS as such anyone who tried to make and sell a PC CLONE would have to use the IBM BIOS and pay IBM for the privelage. Columbia Data Products were the first company to clean-room the BIOS enabling them to sell their own PC CLONE without violating IBM claims. Subsequently Compaq and others went into the PC CLONE market. Because of a clause in the Microsoft-IBM agreement, Microsoft were allowed to sell versions of DOS to third parties. IBM tried and failed to claw back contol of the PC market with OS/2 and hired on Microsoft to write the code. Microsoft instead ivested most of the effort in writing Windows NT. Subseqently IBM sold its PC business to Lenovo..
@anonymous: "Apart from the intelligent life that wrote our simulation, if this simulation behaves according to the laws of mathematics, including statistics, then I presume it's safe to conclude that there must be other intelligent life here in our simu-verse."
There is no simu-verse per se. This planet is simulated to a high degree of resolution, but the star fields we see `out there' are actually point sources on a 2-D plane mapped onto a very big distance. This allows the simulation to expend less processing resources on rendering the rest of the `universe'. When we see a close up of a galaxy group such as is produced by the Hubble, the simulation is temporarily creating the high-res image in the telescope.
What kind of hardware would these simulations run on...
Morpheus: "Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?"
"Max first came to shoot The Color Run because we granted his school class non-commercial access to come shoot the race in Miami where the photos in question were taken. After this, Max actually ended up working our events over the next year as a non-photographer and traveling and setting up with our traveling teams."
"About a year later, Max first initiated questions about the use of some of the Miami photos. We sat down and genuinely tried to reach an amicable solution, including offering financial compensation and exposure through our networks. Our offers were declined, and met with the following demands:(language taken from legal filings)."
`-"$100,000.00 US deposited into my business bank account" (This amount went on to be raised by Max to $300,000).'
`-"To be named the Official Photography Sponsor of The Color Run (Globally) for the remainder of its existence."'
`-"Max Jackson Logo to be added in sponsors section on the bottom of all web pages"'
`-"My name to read at the bottom of any TCR photo's used in legible print from the next print run forward as, Photograph by Max Jackson"'
`-"if no efforts are made within 15 days, to contact me I will be forced to take further action"'..
.. "when Max said he was planning to sue rather than continue a dialogue, there was little option left but to defend our rights through the legal system."...
@King_TJ: "I was just trying to wrap my head around how this college student could have gotten himself into this predicament. My first suspicion was he didn't read the terms and conditions carefully enough when he was asked for permission to share some of his photos."
Winn contacted Jackson and was asked if the Color Run web site could use some of his (Jacksons) images on the Color Run website. Jackson was given an undertaking that Winn would receive full credit for his own images on the the Color Run web site: eg and quoting: "We'll link back to your work in the album". This Winn failed to do. Not only that, Jacksons images also started to appear on flyers and on other sites such as U.S. News, Baltimore Sun Times, and Coca-Cola. When Jackson contacted the company seeking compensation, the Color Run promptly sued him in a court of law.
Slashdot Mirror
"Leaks from Edward Snowden earlier this year have lead to hundreds of stories by the Guardian and other news outlets that examine the tension between personal privacy and national security. Our reporting has sparked a global debate about the full extent of the NSA's actions to collect personal data. Our latest story, published Monday, is about MARINA, an NSA application that stores the metadata of millions of web users for up to a year. Read through the full NSA Files archive here." ref
I guess you've been getting your news from Fox News too long, for this not to bother you ...
"The CIA's internal watchdog is investigating allegations that the agency improperly spied on Senate staffers probing secret details of a now-defunct interrogation program.
Senator Dianne Feinstein acknowledged Wednesday the existence of the probe, which highlights a rare public clash between lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee she chairs and the US espionage community it oversees." ref http://news.yahoo.com/cia-unde...
"A new commercial tool designed to allow cybercriminals to easily transform legitimate Android applications into malicious software has hit the underground market .. Symantec said Wednesday in a blog post"
Since none of this malware can get onto the devices without explicit user action, this F-Secure Threat Report is totally bogus ..
"Even Hyatt said he's not sure whether he would replicate the shock of getting a patent in 1990 on a "single chip integrated circuit computer architecture" a ruling that effectively gave him a financial claim to most microprocessors, the digital backbone of every personal computer in the world
Did he actually devise methods to overcome the technical obstacles before an actual chip could be fabricated. I'm thinking laminar flow etc. If not then he's just another patent troll. ps.The US patent system is fucked, you do know that already ?
"ASD Vershbow reaffirmed the Administration's message of support for Ukraine, underscored Ukraine's importance as a strategic partner, and commended the defense relationship, highlighting Ukraine's contributions to NATO and coalition operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo. ASD Vershbow stressed the need for Ukraine to stay on track with defense reform efforts"
The reality is, and that goes for the other former Soviet republics, that NATO (USA) is not going to go to war to defend the Ukraine. Your prime function is as a forward missile platform used to threaten the Russian Federation. In the event that either the US or Russia launch an attack on each others territory, you'll give the Americans prior warning. As such you'll have to be taken out first by the Russian military.
It's the American way of debt, get them into debt with student loans, then with housing loans and finally at end-of-live with health insurance.
"The foam strike was not observed live. Only after the shuttle was orbiting Earth did NASA's launch imagery review reveal that the wing had been hit. Foam strikes during launch were not uncommon events, and shuttle program managers elected not to take on-orbit images of Columbia to visually assess any potential damage. Instead, NASA's Debris Assessment Team mathematically modeled the foam strike but could not reach any definitive conclusions about the state of the shuttle's wing. The mission continued"
..
.. said he tried at least half a dozen times to get the space agency to make the requests. There were two similar efforts by other engineers. All were turned aside. Mr. Rocha (pronounced ROE-cha) said a manager told him that he refused to be a "Chicken Little." The Columbia's flight director, LeRoy Cain, wrote a curt e-mail message that concluded, "I consider it to be a dead issue"`
NASA management choose to ignore reports of a foam strike, as they ignored previous problems with the O-Rings
'NASA engineer, Rodney Rocha
"This attack replaces the firmware of an existing AP and masquerades the outward facing credentials."
What mechanism does the attack us to keep the current configuration while replacing the firmware. Does the attack work by cracking WPA passwords. Would this attack work against the maximum length of sixty three character passwords.
I assume this entire piece is a work of fiction, but I would never work for a software house that had its IT department divided into architects and developers.
01. Download malware ..
02. Install malware ...
03. Get infected ....
Borland Sidekick
How dare you criticise MICROS~1 ..
@bloodhawk: "EMET is not a cure all, nor is it pushed as one. EMET is about standard best practises to mitigate many exploits (not all) and is still an excellent toolkit for what it offers, that doesn't mean you should rely on only it. And as usual the Slashdot summary comes across as far more negative than the actual article itself"
.. This is true of EMET and other similar userland protections”
“The impact of this study shows that technologies that operate on the same plane of execution as potentially malicious code, offer little lasting protection,
I find it highly suspect that the most damage being done to Assanges reputation is by his erstwhile friends and colleges.
.. The e-mails also suggested that the company could pressure some of WikiLeaks' more public and vocal supporters (primarily journalists) by threatening to sabotage their careers." ref
"Wikileaks.org uses trust as a center of gravity by assuring insiders, leakers, and whistleblowers who pass information to Wikileaks.org personnel or who post information to the Web site that they will remain anonymous. The identification, exposure, or termination of employment of or legal actions against current or former insiders, leakers, or whistleblowers could damage or destroy this center of gravity and deter others from using Wikileaks.org to make such information public." ref
"Some enemies of WikiLeaks are not afraid to play dirty. Pro-WikiLeaks hackers (but not the organization itself) gained access to internal e-mails from HBGary Federal, a California-based security company that was allegedly offering to help companies like Bank of America (the rumored target of the next WikiLeaks dump) discredit the organization through falsified documents
Do I really want DARPA putting a remote bugging tool in my computer, under the pretext of detecting counterfeit computer gear ..
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"Microsoft DOS was designed per IBM's specification to run exclusively on IBM's PC hardware platforms. Phoenix Technologies employed software developers it nicknamed 'virgins,' who hadn't been exposed to IBM's systems, to create a software layer between Microsoft's DOS system and PCs built by IBM's competitors"
..
That's a novel revision of the actual historical facts which are: Microsoft bought DOS from Seattle Computer Products and hired on Tim Paterson rewrite it for the IBM PC. IBM owned the copyright to the original BIOS as such anyone who tried to make and sell a PC CLONE would have to use the IBM BIOS and pay IBM for the privelage. Columbia Data Products were the first company to clean-room the BIOS enabling them to sell their own PC CLONE without violating IBM claims. Subsequently Compaq and others went into the PC CLONE market. Because of a clause in the Microsoft-IBM agreement, Microsoft were allowed to sell versions of DOS to third parties. IBM tried and failed to claw back contol of the PC market with OS/2 and hired on Microsoft to write the code. Microsoft instead ivested most of the effort in writing Windows NT. Subseqently IBM sold its PC business to Lenovo
How did it take $10M and 4 Months to re-image a Windows desktop ?
Must be true if it's on reddit :)
@anonymous: "Apart from the intelligent life that wrote our simulation, if this simulation behaves according to the laws of mathematics, including statistics, then I presume it's safe to conclude that there must be other intelligent life here in our simu-verse."
There is no simu-verse per se. This planet is simulated to a high degree of resolution, but the star fields we see `out there' are actually point sources on a 2-D plane mapped onto a very big distance. This allows the simulation to expend less processing resources on rendering the rest of the `universe'. When we see a close up of a galaxy group such as is produced by the Hubble, the simulation is temporarily creating the high-res image in the telescope.
What kind of hardware would these simulations run on ...
Morpheus: "Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?"
"Max first came to shoot The Color Run because we granted his school class non-commercial access to come shoot the race in Miami where the photos in question were taken. After this, Max actually ended up working our events over the next year as a non-photographer and traveling and setting up with our traveling teams."
..
.. "when Max said he was planning to sue rather than continue a dialogue, there was little option left but to defend our rights through the legal system." ...
"About a year later, Max first initiated questions about the use of some of the Miami photos. We sat down and genuinely tried to reach an amicable solution, including offering financial compensation and exposure through our networks. Our offers were declined, and met with the following demands:(language taken from legal filings)."
`-"$100,000.00 US deposited into my business bank account" (This amount went on to be raised by Max to $300,000).'
`-"To be named the Official Photography Sponsor of The Color Run (Globally) for the remainder of its existence."'
`-"Max Jackson Logo to be added in sponsors section on the bottom of all web pages"'
`-"My name to read at the bottom of any TCR photo's used in legible print from the next print run forward as, Photograph by Max Jackson"'
`-"if no efforts are made within 15 days, to contact me I will be forced to take further action"'
Response from Color Run
@King_TJ: "I was just trying to wrap my head around how this college student could have gotten himself into this predicament. My first suspicion was he didn't read the terms and conditions carefully enough when he was asked for permission to share some of his photos."
Winn contacted Jackson and was asked if the Color Run web site could use some of his (Jacksons) images on the Color Run website. Jackson was given an undertaking that Winn would receive full credit for his own images on the the Color Run web site: eg and quoting: " We'll link back to your work in the album ". This Winn failed to do. Not only that, Jacksons images also started to appear on flyers and on other sites such as U.S. News, Baltimore Sun Times, and Coca-Cola. When Jackson contacted the company seeking compensation, the Color Run promptly sued him in a court of law.