"There is insufficient evidence available to allow independent observers to state reliably whether the results declared in the May 2008 elections for the Mayor of London and the London Assembly are an accurate representation of voters’ intentions. Given these findings, the Open Rights Group (ORG) remains opposed to the introduction of e-counting in the United Kingdom, unless adopting ORG’s recommendations for increasing the transparency around e-counting can be proved cost effective."
"When it comes to fighting cybercrime, few companies can claim to have done as much as Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft"
Despite how much effort Microsoft retrospectively put into trying to change the historical facts. When it comes to causing cybercrime, few companies can claim to have done as much damage as Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft.
"Windows NT and its successors.. were not initially designed with Internet security" ref
@engun: "The tone of this post is insane. It makes it sound like Americans are the only people on this planet with a right to privacy. What about the rest of the world? So the NSA's only crime is that it spied on US citizens? Is it perfectly ok to undermine those same rights for other human beings?"
Well yea, if your not American you have no right to privacy..
1990: "The purpose of announcing early like this is to freeze the market at the OEM and ISV level.. One might worry that this will help Sun because we will just have vaporware": Nathan Myhrvold to Bill Gates..
1995: "Given that we are looking at the Internet destroying our position as the setter of standards and APIs do you see things we should be doing to use ACT assets to avoid this?": Biill Gates to Nathan Myhrvold..
“On the C&C server we detected there was no information as to which specific malware program was used in this campaign. However, many existing Zeus variations (Citadel, SpyEye, IceIX, etc.) – have that necessary capability. We believe the malware used in this campaign could be a Zeus flavor using sophisticated web injects on the victims” ref
"A few months ago researchers announced they had discovered proof of the big bang"
They were actually looking for evidence of cosmic inflation, as this would account for how the universe is isotropic, or the same over vast distances, something big bang doesn't account for.
@schnell: 'All treaties are negotiated in secret. Furthermore, at least in the US, no treaty is in effect until it is ratified by the Senate, at which point all the elements of the treaty will be public and heavily debated down to the last comma.'
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"The cover sheet records that the draft text will not be declassified until 5 years after the TISA comes into force or the negotiations are otherwise closed. Presumably this also applies to other documents aside from the final text. This exceeds the 4 years in the super-secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA)! It also contradicts the hard-won transparency at the WTO, which has published documents relating to negotiations online for a number of years."
"Secrecy during the negotiation of a binding and enforceable commercial treaty is objectionable and undemocratic, and invites poorly informed and biased decisions. Secrecy after the fact is patently designed to prevent the governments from being held accountable by their legislatures and citizens."
"The suppression of background documents (travaux preparatoires) also creates legal problems. The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties recognises they are an essential tool for interpreting legal texts. Non-disclosure makes it impossible for policy-makers, regulators, non-government supervisory agencies, opposition political parties, financial services firms, academics and other commentators to understand the intended meaning or apply the text with confidence."
"To help make it easier to understand what an app will have access to, the Play Store has recently made improvements to how permissions are displayed. Permissions are organized into permissions groups, easily identified by icons (example: Location Location) to help clarify the most important information and capabilities an app can access on your device. This information can help you make an informed decision more easily on whether you would like to install the app."..
Permissions groups
"Permissions groups are designed to show what an app will be able to access on your device. With permissions groups, you can quickly see what capabilities or information an app may use before downloading it. Also, you can review individual permissions at any time using the Google Play Store Play Store app."
"It's a good idea to review permissions groups before downloading an app. Once you've allowed an app to access a permissions group, the app may use any of the individual permissions that are part of that group. You won't need to manually approve individual permissions updates that belong to a permissions group you've already accepted."
"The signs allowed telnet and were secured with weak or default passwords"
Perhaps they should thank this "malicious actor" for drawing attention to such weak security. What moron connected these systems to the Internet using telnet and default passwords?
"When an HbbTV application is downloaded from the Internet via URL, the origin of the web content is clearly defined by the URL, appropriately isolating HbbTV applications to their own domain and preventing them from interfering with Internet at large. However, when the content is embedded in the broadcast data stream it is not linked to any web server and, as such, has no implicitly defined origin.
The HbbTV specification suggests that in this case the broadcast stream should explicitly define its own web origin by setting the simple_application_boundary_descriptor property in the AIT to any desired domain name. The security implications of this design decision are staggering. Allowing the broadcast provider control over the purported origin of the embedded web content effectively lets a malicious broadcaster inject any script of his choice into any website of his choice."
"Microcode is a layer of hardware-level instructions or data structures involved in the implementation of higher level machine code instructions in central processing units" ref.
"Inspired by the natural resistance offered to pathogens by genetically diverse host populations, Dr Michael Franz at UCI suggests that common software be similarly hardened against attack by generating a unique executable for each install."
What a good idea, isn't this what they did with the Space Shuttle..
"Law enforcement around the world has teamed-up to arrest 97 for buying/using Blackshades malware, which can remotely seize control of a victim's computer"
What Operating System does this malware run on, or aren't we allowed to mention Microsoft Windows. ref
Slashdot Mirror
Executive Summary
"There is insufficient evidence available to allow independent observers to state reliably whether the results declared in the May 2008 elections for the Mayor of London and the London Assembly are an accurate representation of voters’ intentions. Given these findings, the Open Rights Group (ORG) remains opposed to the introduction of e-counting in the United Kingdom, unless adopting ORG’s recommendations for increasing the transparency around e-counting can be proved cost effective."
@DerekLyon: "Regular readers are also well aware of the extreme and longstanding bias .. of the Bulletin's editors against missile defense" ..
"Poisoning The Wells: discrediting the sources used by your opponent. This is a variation of Ad Hominem."
"When it comes to fighting cybercrime, few companies can claim to have done as much as Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft"
.. were not initially designed with Internet security" ref
Despite how much effort Microsoft retrospectively put into trying to change the historical facts. When it comes to causing cybercrime, few companies can claim to have done as much damage as Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft.
"Windows NT and its successors
@engun: "The tone of this post is insane. It makes it sound like Americans are the only people on this planet with a right to privacy. What about the rest of the world? So the NSA's only crime is that it spied on US citizens? Is it perfectly ok to undermine those same rights for other human beings?"
..
Well yea, if your not American you have no right to privacy
@raydobbs: "Why the fsck should we listen to anything this dishonest vulture says or wants?"
"Because we are adults and therefore able to distinguish what is being said from who is saying it?"
Myhrvold is patently a patent troll and extortionist ref
Don't Feed the Super-Troll
.. One might worry that this will help Sun because we will just have vaporware": ..
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1990: "The purpose of announcing early like this is to freeze the market at the OEM and ISV level
Nathan Myhrvold to Bill Gates
1995: "Given that we are looking at the Internet destroying our position as the setter of standards and APIs do you see things we should be doing to use ACT assets to avoid this?":
Biill Gates to Nathan Myhrvold
The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security
Removing The Traffic Lights
“On the C&C server we detected there was no information as to which specific malware program was used in this campaign. However, many existing Zeus variations (Citadel, SpyEye, IceIX, etc.) – have that necessary capability. We believe the malware used in this campaign could be a Zeus flavor using sophisticated web injects on the victims” ref
And this deserves a whole article on slashdot ??
You're welcome, it's understandable why you would want to remain anonymous ..
"A few months ago researchers announced they had discovered proof of the big bang"
They were actually looking for evidence of cosmic inflation, as this would account for how the universe is isotropic, or the same over vast distances, something big bang doesn't account for.
@schnell: 'All treaties are negotiated in secret. Furthermore, at least in the US, no treaty is in effect until it is ratified by the Senate, at which point all the elements of the treaty will be public and heavily debated down to the last comma.'
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"The cover sheet records that the draft text will not be declassified until 5 years after the TISA comes into force or the negotiations are otherwise closed. Presumably this also applies to other documents aside from the final text. This exceeds the 4 years in the super-secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA)! It also contradicts the hard-won transparency at the WTO, which has published documents relating to negotiations online for a number of years."
"Secrecy during the negotiation of a binding and enforceable commercial treaty is objectionable and undemocratic, and invites poorly informed and biased decisions. Secrecy after the fact is patently designed to prevent the governments from being held accountable by their legislatures and citizens."
"The suppression of background documents (travaux preparatoires) also creates legal problems. The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties recognises they are an essential tool for interpreting legal texts. Non-disclosure makes it impossible for policy-makers, regulators, non-government supervisory agencies, opposition political parties, financial services firms, academics and other commentators to understand the intended meaning or apply the text with confidence."
C# is a multi-paradigm object-oriented programming language designed to totally lock you into Microsoft dot.NET ..
ref
"if the NSA doesn't come back with the data that it's asserted they have, then they're in cahoots with Obama"
HAAAA_RR !!
Does this Connected Home of the Future run on Microsoft Windows ©
Simplified permissions on Google Play
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"To help make it easier to understand what an app will have access to, the Play Store has recently made improvements to how permissions are displayed. Permissions are organized into permissions groups, easily identified by icons (example: Location Location) to help clarify the most important information and capabilities an app can access on your device. This information can help you make an informed decision more easily on whether you would like to install the app."
Permissions groups
"Permissions groups are designed to show what an app will be able to access on your device. With permissions groups, you can quickly see what capabilities or information an app may use before downloading it. Also, you can review individual permissions at any time using the Google Play Store Play Store app."
"It's a good idea to review permissions groups before downloading an app. Once you've allowed an app to access a permissions group, the app may use any of the individual permissions that are part of that group. You won't need to manually approve individual permissions updates that belong to a permissions group you've already accepted."
Ex-KGB Major Boris Karpichko and current mouthpiece for MI5 attempts to discredit Edward Snowden .. and the name should be 'Karpichkov'
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PROTHERO: Do you believe this crap, Dascombe?
DASCOMBE: It's not our job to believe it, Lewis. Our job is to tell the people --
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V for Vendetta (2005)
"The signs allowed telnet and were secured with weak or default passwords"
Perhaps they should thank this "malicious actor" for drawing attention to such weak security. What moron connected these systems to the Internet using telnet and default passwords?
"When an HbbTV application is downloaded from the Internet via URL, the origin of the web content is clearly defined by the URL, appropriately isolating HbbTV applications to their own domain and preventing them from interfering with Internet at large. However, when the content is embedded in the broadcast data stream it is not linked to any web server and, as such, has no implicitly defined origin.
The HbbTV specification suggests that in this case the broadcast stream should explicitly define its own web origin by setting the simple_application_boundary_descriptor property in the AIT to any desired domain name. The security implications of this design decision are staggering. Allowing the broadcast provider control over the purported origin of the embedded web content effectively lets a malicious broadcaster inject any script of his choice into any website of his choice."
"Microcode is a layer of hardware-level instructions or data structures involved in the implementation of higher level machine code instructions in central processing units" ref.
"Inspired by the natural resistance offered to pathogens by genetically diverse host populations, Dr Michael Franz at UCI suggests that common software be similarly hardened against attack by generating a unique executable for each install."
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What a good idea, isn't this what they did with the Space Shuttle
"Law enforcement around the world has teamed-up to arrest 97 for buying/using Blackshades malware, which can remotely seize control of a victim's computer"
What Operating System does this malware run on, or aren't we allowed to mention Microsoft Windows. ref
It would be radiation free considering it's in a clean room. A relevant question is do they use the local water.