Yeah, for reference, look at the wonderful consequences of the US-induced Arab Spring and the lack of stability in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iran, Turkey... and the success of ISIS and al-Qaeda..
... a utility like water, electricity and gas (US here).
A house equipped with all of these can support a meth lab but that doesn't mean that the city water department "participated," legally, in the meth lab.
The terrorists have the same capabilities as governments and Anonymous.
Hell, you and I have the same stuff.
It's all the same computers, operating systems, Internet, etc.
All that mass snooping by governments give LEOs an excellent bag of evidence after the fact but, as you point out, governments don't have anything in the way of prediction for the purposes of prevention.
Sites are smart enough to detect that I am using evasive tactics so they simply don't allow access or make the site non-functional WITH the admonition that I have either blocked some of their stuff or I don't have the necessary stuff on board.
If I uninstall Java, Flash, and disable cookies, my goddam computer makes a nice fucking screen saver, and that's about it.
Here in the states, we get this kind of shit all the time.
Being grown-up Internet users, we just put up with the bullshit and ignore it.
We get IRS scams (you owe us or we take all your money), phishing scams (your email has been compromised, sign on using our link), the UPS package you (didn't even) sent has an invoice problem; open the attached invoice...
Lots of companies pretend to be legitimate and we've learned to tell the difference.
You don't need to bring down a goddam ISP for this shit.
All it takes is a little education on the part of the people who are the targets of scams.
I don't know what that means, but the point is stated in TFS and TFA:
Microsoft is working to make warrants served on Microsoft impotent by way of, "Oh, sorry. You'll have to take your silly-ass problem down the hall because we are the party responsible for the creation of data, but we are not the custodians of the data. We do have a Keurig 2.0 and some adorable K-cups if you like, and the restroom is the first door on your right."
Your use of a buzzword, having nothing to do with the problem, reveals that you have a non-zero chance in hell of knowing anything about probabilities other than a buzzword. This is slashdot. Nerds visit this place, including statisticians.
Actually, my working theory is that the general public HAS figured it out.
You and I have the same tools as the big guys. One thing we have that they don't is a sense of paranoia. This guy had a non-government email and either jumped a phishing link or had predictable two-level secret questions guarding the gate.
Having hacked into the "freemail," the hacker examined the contents for clues and hit pay dirt on an exploit or took advantage of reused passwords.
I am not a hacker and neither are you, but we could be. It's not hard work to move from where we are, technically, to that skill level.
There are many more people outside any governments than there are on the inside.
The theory of probability and statistics implies that there are smarter people among the masses than there are smart people working for the government.
We're all using the same machinery, the same skills, the same software... it's a level playing field and everyone has a gun.
You're missing the point of the whole goddam event.
Hackers hit a "freemail" and, from there, wormed their way to important shit.
The government (and businesses, and you, and me) are not competent enough to stop phishing schemes or plug all the goddam holes in the crapware tech vendors have been handing out for years.
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This.
Do you really want the Trump crowd impulsively voting on anything?
Hell, on most surveys that have a blank for "Sex _______" we get answers like, "Not recently," and stuff.
Also, the federal government has failed to provide Internet security, as demonstrated by the many breaches. Ballots are private and anonymous.
The Internet is designed for unintended transparency.
So, no online voting.
... goddam Anonymous turds and get off our lawn.
Stop it. You're gonna make me cry.
... bullshit from wild honey.
That crap was teleprompted to her by non-techies and it comes out as a null.
She's against encryption but she appreciates that Americans value their privacy???
Which is it?
Also, I'm Silicon Valley-ish in that I'm tech.
Is she green-lighting for me to do some hacking?
"I was just trying to bring down ISIS for Hillary Clinton and stuff."
Yeah, for reference, look at the wonderful consequences of the US-induced Arab Spring and the lack of stability in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iran, Turkey ... and the success of ISIS and al-Qaeda..
... is a meeting going to do any fucking good?
Google and Israel can censor until they are blue in the face, but the workarounds will bypass that.
What's the REAL reason behind this shit?
... a utility like water, electricity and gas (US here).
A house equipped with all of these can support a meth lab but that doesn't mean that the city water department "participated," legally, in the meth lab.
This, exactly except here's some more and stuff:
The terrorists have the same capabilities as governments and Anonymous.
Hell, you and I have the same stuff.
It's all the same computers, operating systems, Internet, etc.
All that mass snooping by governments give LEOs an excellent bag of evidence after the fact but, as you point out, governments don't have anything in the way of prediction for the purposes of prevention.
So you are an assholian from another planet. How the fuck you gonna know a site has a (Java, Flash) bomb until you light the fuse?
How did you get modded up?
Your other shit was TL;DR, but I can help with this part.
When you have mod points, a heretofore not seen little box appears at the bottom of each comment.
You click on the down arrow associated with mod options, select one, and click on it.
You will be notified when you have mod points.
One major problem:
Sites are smart enough to detect that I am using evasive tactics so they simply don't allow access or make the site non-functional WITH the admonition that I have either blocked some of their stuff or I don't have the necessary stuff on board.
If I uninstall Java, Flash, and disable cookies, my goddam computer makes a nice fucking screen saver, and that's about it.
That's using an elephant gun to kill a pissant.
Here in the states, we get this kind of shit all the time.
Being grown-up Internet users, we just put up with the bullshit and ignore it.
We get IRS scams (you owe us or we take all your money), phishing scams (your email has been compromised, sign on using our link), the UPS package you (didn't even) sent has an invoice problem; open the attached invoice ...
Lots of companies pretend to be legitimate and we've learned to tell the difference.
You don't need to bring down a goddam ISP for this shit.
All it takes is a little education on the part of the people who are the targets of scams.
Fuck you. I just reported you to the List.
You are #103 under "batshit crazy."
I'm number 104.
I don't know what that means, but the point is stated in TFS and TFA:
Microsoft is working to make warrants served on Microsoft impotent by way of, "Oh, sorry. You'll have to take your silly-ass problem down the hall because we are the party responsible for the creation of data, but we are not the custodians of the data. We do have a Keurig 2.0 and some adorable K-cups if you like, and the restroom is the first door on your right."
You really don't understand this shit, do you?
The goddam botnets are smart enough to change IP addresses at random, and often.
It's Whack-a-Mole.
... jobs to move offshore.
I tried phone sex one time, but my phone just wants to be friends.
The legality of illegal spying is not the point.
The point is keeping data out of reach of warrants.
We sure as fuck know which side has literacy going for them.
And it would be nice if it were anonymous and yet safe.
Millions upon millions of BTC have been stolen (lost) and only the assholes who ran off with it knows where it is.
And God.
God knows where the BTC is.
Not that God is an asshole.
He just knows where it is.
The BTC, not the assholes.
Well, the assholes, too.
They are on Santa's Naughty list and stuff.
Your use of a buzzword, having nothing to do with the problem, reveals that you have a non-zero chance in hell of knowing anything about probabilities other than a buzzword. This is slashdot. Nerds visit this place, including statisticians.
Actually, my working theory is that the general public HAS figured it out.
You and I have the same tools as the big guys. One thing we have that they don't is a sense of paranoia. This guy had a non-government email and either jumped a phishing link or had predictable two-level secret questions guarding the gate.
Having hacked into the "freemail," the hacker examined the contents for clues and hit pay dirt on an exploit or took advantage of reused passwords.
I am not a hacker and neither are you, but we could be. It's not hard work to move from where we are, technically, to that skill level.
There are many more people outside any governments than there are on the inside.
The theory of probability and statistics implies that there are smarter people among the masses than there are smart people working for the government.
We're all using the same machinery, the same skills, the same software ... it's a level playing field and everyone has a gun.
Some of us just don't load up.
You're missing the point of the whole goddam event.
Hackers hit a "freemail" and, from there, wormed their way to important shit.
The government (and businesses, and you, and me) are not competent enough to stop phishing schemes or plug all the goddam holes in the crapware tech vendors have been handing out for years.
Kinda like inventing a wheel, but not the wheel?
You're responding to the wrong story?
The digital clock was first invented in 1956.