Manning walked in with a Lady Gaga CD; wiped it and burned documents to it, so air gap is no substitute for common sense like disabling CD and USB hardware entry points.
With today's BYOD, security is much harder to deal with.
I'm with you: I'm retired out of systems administration and don't miss the paranoia of intrusion fears.
Shortly after I left, the Firm was hit with ransomware.
The whole problem is with ASCAP and BMI (and equivalent in other IP megacorps).
Those greedy bastards don't want to spend their own goddam money chasing violators and attempts to embed copyright blocks into the digital IP code fails due to CaptainDork's 3rd corollary:
For every mother fucker out there with a computer, there's another mother fucker out there with a computer.
So, the big houses tried to get the ISPs to track, trace, invoke the three-strike rule, and the ISPs said, "Great! How much is it worth to you?"
Those outfits backed off and tried to legislate ISP watch-dogging.
That didn't work, so now it's time to get the federal government in on the protection racket.
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The undeniable reality is that when IP went digital, the former paradigm was totally lost.
The entertainment IP protectors are chasing a fucking goddam unicorn.
The same logic blows up conversations regarding smart guns.
- What if the batteries die? (don't use batteries, and even then... what if the round stovepipes? You'll run out of bullets first)) - Someone will hack the WiFi and disable or discharge the weapon ("smart" = phone?) - What about the documented failure of (insert pilot here)? (the pilot programs were killed)
As for statistics, I point out that gun owners will most likely kill themselves (suicide, accidental discharge) or be killed by their own gun (familial homicide, accidental discharge) or they will kill someone else (familial homicide, accidental discharge).
I am the only one who can use iPhone, but anyone can shoot my gun.
Doesn't make a lot of sense.
Technology needs to reduce human error, in guns and cars.
1.) WikiLeaks was a depository, only. They stated, clearly, that they had no way of knowing who had left leaks on their doorstep, and they had no way of tracing material back to the source.
Additionally, WikiLeaks assured the courts that they, themselves, were not hackers.
This was true, and it kept them out of court because they could prove they could not comply with requests to reveal its sources.
2.) WikiLeaks never published material. They gave stuff to the press (I listed in a previous post) so the material could be vetted and poured over for redaction to protect the innocent.
This, too, kept them out of court because they could correctly point out that they were not the press (the press, listed above, was hounded... but that comes with the territory).
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Assange and WikiLeaks asserted that Assange was simply the spokesperson and was in no other way an active participant in WikiLeaks. This kept him out of court.
Manning released material to WikiLeaks, but he had already exposed himself as the source after communicating with, and trying to impress, a real hacker who played ball with the US government.
Realizing the US wanted his ass, Assange began claiming that HE was an editor.
His theory is that if he's ever extradited to the US, he will have 1st amendment protections.
... El País (Spain), Der Spiegel (Germany), Le Monde (France), The Guardian (United Kingdom) and The New York Times (United States).
Then WikiLeaks folded due to inattention and gave leaks from DNC to the public. Assange stepped forward for the photo-op because he, too had become irrelevant.
... we just have to do a little bit of planning ahead.
That's what I said. We have to fight the problem of speed if we stick to the current paradigm.
We need to change the rules so computers can't play.
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TRUE STORY
I got a chess game for my Tandy 2000 back in the very early 80s. I had a hard time beating it because it would make a test move; predict my next move; make a test move based on that; rinse repeat,
I won a lot after I figured out what was going on.
My friends thought I was really good at chess.
Not true.
I fucked that computer over by making illogical moves and when it got to be very unpredictable in response, I spanked it like I was competing with a three year old.
I am shielded from within the browser so much that I have to grant temporary permission to take one step forward.
Looking at the stuff that's trying to load, the browser is doing some heavy lifting.
In the old days (think Netscape) the browser loaded and just sat there with no home page, even.
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Please allow me to step outside the lane here and poise to ponder how much faster and cleaner DOS would be if we had modern technology running a character-based system with no ads. In fact, Netscape had that feature.
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So you are thinking of being interviewed by Eliza.
Do you like Eliza?
It works with Bluetooth and NFC, as well.
Manning walked in with a Lady Gaga CD; wiped it and burned documents to it, so air gap is no substitute for common sense like disabling CD and USB hardware entry points.
With today's BYOD, security is much harder to deal with.
I'm with you: I'm retired out of systems administration and don't miss the paranoia of intrusion fears.
Shortly after I left, the Firm was hit with ransomware.
Not my problem.
... each of us should have at least two (2) accounts.
The first is "real," and contains normal chatter about kitty cats and memes to "Share if you love Jesus."
The second should be totally fake and we can let significant others know who we are.
I do that for all my social media and email.
I also have a spare iPhone I use for taking video and shit.
I'm a photographer and when I'm (rarely) asked the phone I use to take photos and videos, I hand over that one.
It can only work on WiFi and has very little crap loaded on it.
When they ask for my cell phone, I ask for probable cause regarding a phone I was not using at the time.
I recall two incidents: one at the local port where cameras are not allowed, but no signage, and the same when I was shooting a local oil refinery.
My thought, at the time, as well.
I get into a brawl with pseudo Anonymous now and then.
One threatened to take me down with Low Orbit Ion Cannon.
Really rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?
smh
The whole problem is with ASCAP and BMI (and equivalent in other IP megacorps).
Those greedy bastards don't want to spend their own goddam money chasing violators and attempts to embed copyright blocks into the digital IP code fails due to CaptainDork's 3rd corollary:
For every mother fucker out there with a computer, there's another mother fucker out there with a computer.
So, the big houses tried to get the ISPs to track, trace, invoke the three-strike rule, and the ISPs said, "Great! How much is it worth to you?"
Those outfits backed off and tried to legislate ISP watch-dogging.
That didn't work, so now it's time to get the federal government in on the protection racket.
--
The undeniable reality is that when IP went digital, the former paradigm was totally lost.
The entertainment IP protectors are chasing a fucking goddam unicorn.
... times the same volume of water so maybe the site has simply cooled off into a puddle of condensate.
The "Anonymous" asshats are all in jail.
Now, whenever something fabulously clever happens, "Anonymous," which consists of wannabe script kiddies, steps forward to take credit.
Also, "Anonymous," often threatens to to DDoS someone (as if that really is effective) because it sounds cool.
Real hackers are too smart to be "Anonymous."
... are going to be spent doing the entertainment business' work?
The RIAA and MPAA can get off their asses and spend their own goddam money protecting their shit.
When digitization hit, all was lost for them.
That's the way it is.
Private property is not a goddam taxpayer issue.
He sexually assaulted a woman.
A statement like that is true if/when we read the verdict of a court/jury.
You can't provide a citation of that finding because due process has not been applied.
Therefore, you are in error.
Yes it does.
This.
The same logic blows up conversations regarding smart guns.
- What if the batteries die? (don't use batteries, and even then ... what if the round stovepipes? You'll run out of bullets first))
- Someone will hack the WiFi and disable or discharge the weapon ("smart" = phone?)
- What about the documented failure of (insert pilot here)? (the pilot programs were killed)
As for statistics, I point out that gun owners will most likely kill themselves (suicide, accidental discharge) or be killed by their own gun (familial homicide, accidental discharge) or they will kill someone else (familial homicide, accidental discharge).
I am the only one who can use iPhone, but anyone can shoot my gun.
Doesn't make a lot of sense.
Technology needs to reduce human error, in guns and cars.
One fatal flaw in that logic:
No smart phone is smarter than a human.
WikiLeaks did not start out editing content.
In the beginning:
1.) WikiLeaks was a depository, only. They stated, clearly, that they had no way of knowing who had left leaks on their doorstep, and they had no way of tracing material back to the source.
Additionally, WikiLeaks assured the courts that they, themselves, were not hackers.
This was true, and it kept them out of court because they could prove they could not comply with requests to reveal its sources.
2.) WikiLeaks never published material. They gave stuff to the press (I listed in a previous post) so the material could be vetted and poured over for redaction to protect the innocent.
This, too, kept them out of court because they could correctly point out that they were not the press (the press, listed above, was hounded ... but that comes with the territory).
--
Assange and WikiLeaks asserted that Assange was simply the spokesperson and was in no other way an active participant in WikiLeaks. This kept him out of court.
Manning released material to WikiLeaks, but he had already exposed himself as the source after communicating with, and trying to impress, a real hacker who played ball with the US government.
Realizing the US wanted his ass, Assange began claiming that HE was an editor.
His theory is that if he's ever extradited to the US, he will have 1st amendment protections.
--
WikiLeaks fell off the radar a couple of years ago and donations crapped out.
That explains the recent change in tactics where WikiLeaks abandoned 1.) and 2.) above.
Now it's a media whore and useless as tits on a boar.
He worked with reporters and asked them to use their discretion in publishing only what was newsworthy.
Which is similar to what WikiLeaks used to do.
They used
... El País (Spain), Der Spiegel (Germany), Le Monde (France), The Guardian (United Kingdom) and The New York Times (United States).
Then WikiLeaks folded due to inattention and gave leaks from DNC to the public. Assange stepped forward for the photo-op because he, too had become irrelevant.
I never met a phor I didn't like.
You are not an editor, so I'm sorry you missed the digression markup, "--" that signals a change of subject.
My bad.
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I've been in this business since Moby Dick was a minnow and I also grok quantum theory and the emergence of the computers.
I also understand that when a problem is solved, a way to sabotage the process is to change the problem but not the solution.
That, in a nutshell, is encryption.
The NIST is looking for an elephant gun to kill a piss ant.
Instead, we need to provide a solution where piss ants are no longer a target.
That's what I said. We have to fight the problem of speed if we stick to the current paradigm.
We need to change the rules so computers can't play.
--
TRUE STORY
I got a chess game for my Tandy 2000 back in the very early 80s. I had a hard time beating it because it would make a test move; predict my next move; make a test move based on that; rinse repeat,
I won a lot after I figured out what was going on.
My friends thought I was really good at chess.
Not true.
I fucked that computer over by making illogical moves and when it got to be very unpredictable in response, I spanked it like I was competing with a three year old.
You are correct. Thank you for the correction.
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play." ~ War Games - 1983
Encryption is not the solution; it's the problem.
Quantum computers can't do a goddam thing better than what we already do except faster.
The best new approach is to change paradigms.
I'm not 16 anymore and I don't have enough time left to figure it out.
That's the way to go, though.
The problem with security today is the fucking DNA of the first computer ever built.
The first automobile should have had seat belts.
I downloaded Brave; tried to upload a photo to Facebook and it just sat there.
GODDAMIT! I'M TALKING ABOUT FACEBOOK!!!!
This.
I am shielded from within the browser so much that I have to grant temporary permission to take one step forward.
Looking at the stuff that's trying to load, the browser is doing some heavy lifting.
In the old days (think Netscape) the browser loaded and just sat there with no home page, even.
-
Please allow me to step outside the lane here and poise to ponder how much faster and cleaner DOS would be if we had modern technology running a character-based system with no ads. In fact, Netscape had that feature.
Thank you.
I did not experience the Note 7 and your post is informative.
The other comments in this thread we closely related to
to which I can relate.
Perhaps this will help. It's serious business.
Apple not solicited.