Start with the beginning of the modern show, then sample previous eras here an there as you go. The discs of the old shows usually have entire story arcs on them, so you can treat it like a buffet.
"When an attacker has root access, they will get your passwords, salt, and the code that you use to verify the passwords."
While better password encryption is certainly a good thing, if your attacker has root access already, it's only a matter of time until he has the whole enchilada.
OTOH, you don't want rooting of one box quickly leading to compromise of a dozen others due to the amount of lazy password reuse that goes on.
Subpoenas for all sorts of physical records and correspondence are par for the course. How is this any different than a subpoena for your diary or letters?
They may not have seized the servers, but the government effectively DoS'ed them for 90%+ of their users at the behest of the ip cartels without due process. If they can do it to these guys with no repercussions or oversight, they can do it to some sight you do care about.
Any chance this is some kind of garage rocket? I recall seeing some several-feet-long hobby-designs as a lad. Would it be beyond belief for three or four big stages to be lugged down to the beach in the back of a pickup in the pre-dawn hours and snapped together on-site? You'd need to get it upright for launch, but your pickup could to that too with a winch and/or the right tackle. Getting large amounts of perchlorate without attracting attention is tricky, but you could crack your own (less stable) fuel from water in the garage if you were crazy enough. Could someone with basic machine tools and some off the shelf flow-control parts implement one of Goddard's kerosene-burning designs?
Am I missing something? Do those with more learned eyes see something that means this has to be some kind of military hardware?
Only some of Jobs's reasons for banishing Flash are crap. That software rendering of video in a browser plug-in whose performance is at best mediocre makes for a sub-par experience is not one of them, especially when most of the video wrapped in those Flash containers are already in a format that could otherwise benefit from hardware acceleration.
Let's not focus on the wrong question. Which is the greater risk to lives, both those in our services and those of innocent civilians, and to the health and standing of our republic: that posed by information released in these files or that posed by the state of the war being mis-represented to the body politic?
If some informants die or similar because wikileaks didn't scrub the data well enough, that is a tragedy. However, the magnitude of that loss is much less than that implicit in hiding the poor execution of an ongoing war effort.
Which is the more applicable truism in this case, "Loose ips sink ships." or "Democracy dies behind closed doors."? Comparing the lack of sudden tactical reversals and the upsurge in authoritarian posturing since this development, it seems to me that the latter is more apropos.
Madoff got away with it for so long, despite warnings to the SEC, because he was quite literally beyond reproach. His respected standing and reputation as a financial mastermind from his heyday as a NASDAQ bigwig inclined those with oversight to write off the occasional warning bell as the complainer (or the regulator himself) being unable to fathom the financial kung-fu of the master. Of course, in his later years he only looked so good because he was cheating. I sometimes wonder if he started down that road to fill a void left after the tech bust deflated the NASDAQ, that he still needed to feel and be treated like the captain of finance he once was.
That being said the resources, tools, and staff of the SEC have not kept pace with the growth of their mandated realm of oversight. This is true of many regulators, but the SEC especially so.
I can think of few worse things for our shiny new CYCOM to tackle in its first public operation than a game of whack-a-mole with a well-financed international cadre of all-grown-up professional cypherpunks. Oh, they have friends in high places in European governments that don't take kindly to US hegemonism? Even better. I'm sure Chinese intelligence and the Russian mobs will quake in their boots after watching the US waste thousands of man-hours trying to un-ravel whatever preparations wikileaks have undoubtedly made for such an assault.
Cyber-warfare against a non-state actor is even more asymmetric than a guerrilla conflict.
Slashdot Mirror
Start with the beginning of the modern show, then sample previous eras here an there as you go. The discs of the old shows usually have entire story arcs on them, so you can treat it like a buffet.
Offtopic? Bad pun perhaps, but really? It was down for a gross (144) of hours.
I blame myself for the joke requiring an explanation.
It's not like this stuff is rocket science.
Oh, wait.
That was gross.
"When an attacker has root access, they will get your passwords, salt, and the code that you use to verify the passwords."
While better password encryption is certainly a good thing, if your attacker has root access already, it's only a matter of time until he has the whole enchilada.
OTOH, you don't want rooting of one box quickly leading to compromise of a dozen others due to the amount of lazy password reuse that goes on.
Subpoenas for all sorts of physical records and correspondence are par for the course. How is this any different than a subpoena for your diary or letters?
In 1994, Word 6 didn't know the word, "Internet." It suggested, "internment."
(Jokes about being held captive by Word are left as an exercise to the reader.)
There is no valid reason for shipping someone to Gitmo. It is an illegal gulag and a shame upon our nation.
As for justification for denying extradition, the way Manning has been treated already is considered inhumane torture by most first-world countries.
At this point, that might be the only way he can receive payment.
...cuz that's hoe I roll.
So wait, a major tech company filed a patent application for a new display technology that's genuinely novel and innovative?
They still do that?
They may not have seized the servers, but the government effectively DoS'ed them for 90%+ of their users at the behest of the ip cartels without due process. If they can do it to these guys with no repercussions or oversight, they can do it to some sight you do care about.
Quick, somebody get confirmation from Netcraft.
Any chance this is some kind of garage rocket? I recall seeing some several-feet-long hobby-designs as a lad. Would it be beyond belief for three or four big stages to be lugged down to the beach in the back of a pickup in the pre-dawn hours and snapped together on-site? You'd need to get it upright for launch, but your pickup could to that too with a winch and/or the right tackle. Getting large amounts of perchlorate without attracting attention is tricky, but you could crack your own (less stable) fuel from water in the garage if you were crazy enough. Could someone with basic machine tools and some off the shelf flow-control parts implement one of Goddard's kerosene-burning designs?
Am I missing something? Do those with more learned eyes see something that means this has to be some kind of military hardware?
Mini-Universe.
Light is provided through sparks of energy
from the mind that travels in rhyme form
Givin sight to the blind
They could take half of that cash and buy Yahoo, Adobe, and Novell. Why mess with Facebook?
Only if the ships have certain specific PLCs.
There is no equivalence there. Stallman's cause is just. Theirs is greed.
Only some of Jobs's reasons for banishing Flash are crap. That software rendering of video in a browser plug-in whose performance is at best mediocre makes for a sub-par experience is not one of them, especially when most of the video wrapped in those Flash containers are already in a format that could otherwise benefit from hardware acceleration.
Make it shiny and you've got one hell of an energy collector.
Solar Cooker
Solar Furnace
Solar Destruction
Let's not focus on the wrong question. Which is the greater risk to lives, both those in our services and those of innocent civilians, and to the health and standing of our republic: that posed by information released in these files or that posed by the state of the war being mis-represented to the body politic?
If some informants die or similar because wikileaks didn't scrub the data well enough, that is a tragedy. However, the magnitude of that loss is much less than that implicit in hiding the poor execution of an ongoing war effort.
Which is the more applicable truism in this case, "Loose ips sink ships." or "Democracy dies behind closed doors."? Comparing the lack of sudden tactical reversals and the upsurge in authoritarian posturing since this development, it seems to me that the latter is more apropos.
Just as soon as it's finished.
Madoff got away with it for so long, despite warnings to the SEC, because he was quite literally beyond reproach. His respected standing and reputation as a financial mastermind from his heyday as a NASDAQ bigwig inclined those with oversight to write off the occasional warning bell as the complainer (or the regulator himself) being unable to fathom the financial kung-fu of the master. Of course, in his later years he only looked so good because he was cheating. I sometimes wonder if he started down that road to fill a void left after the tech bust deflated the NASDAQ, that he still needed to feel and be treated like the captain of finance he once was.
That being said the resources, tools, and staff of the SEC have not kept pace with the growth of their mandated realm of oversight. This is true of many regulators, but the SEC especially so.
I can think of few worse things for our shiny new CYCOM to tackle in its first public operation than a game of whack-a-mole with a well-financed international cadre of all-grown-up professional cypherpunks. Oh, they have friends in high places in European governments that don't take kindly to US hegemonism? Even better. I'm sure Chinese intelligence and the Russian mobs will quake in their boots after watching the US waste thousands of man-hours trying to un-ravel whatever preparations wikileaks have undoubtedly made for such an assault.
Cyber-warfare against a non-state actor is even more asymmetric than a guerrilla conflict.