The blame for that lies with the NSA -- they intertwined their domestic and foreign operations like a pair of perverted Siamese twin octopi in order to get around the laws that (somewhat) limited their ability to perform domestic snooping (the NSA spies on the British subjects; GHCQ spies on the American citizens; the two trade files).
They are just making this hubub to throw people off. They have key loggers and ways to view your screens that can not be detected with normal means. Using some other form of network that is hard to spot. Don your tin foil hats cause they can read brain waves too. Who really knows? With all the things I have read on USB and viruses being able to bridge air gaps; I don't know, it could very well be as advanced as I am making fun of. Mosquito sized drones and all.
That's true, and it shows that the ONOZ OMG TERRAISTS!!1! rhetoric is a pack of lies. You've listed (setting aside the facetious "tin foil hats" part) some techniques available to the government for monitoring legitimate targets of suspicion. However, it wants to snoop on everybody, and those techniques don't scale large enough to make that possible.
The point here is that the backdoor could be a second key instead of a way to break your key. Assuming that second key is also resistant to breaking then you haven't introduced any vulnerabilities to an outsider--assuming that the second key is kept secure. And that, it must be admitted, is a pretty damn big if.
That makes it an exercise in futility, easily defeated by hacking the system to substitute some other second key (which could be random gibberish, since it's not actually used, just put in to defeat the backdoor).
Just last week they decided that "threatening" remarks on the Internet weren't no thing in the absence of clear evidence of intent to do more than blow off steam.
Oh. Wait. That was a threat against some nobody, a precedent that clearly does not apply if the aggrieved party is instead a high and mighty judge. [_EMILY_LATELLA_] Never mind. [_/EMILY_LATELLA_]
Indeed. As to the latterr, the raw misogyny of people who dismiss the LOVEINT revelations as trivial make the Gamergate cretins look like Betty Friedan.
Yes. The revelations, and public reactions to them (the real public reaction as expressed in the marketplace, not whatever jaw-flapping occurs in response to some inane telemarkepollster call) have led to securityimprovements. The fact that it has also led to the entertaining spectacle of useless bureaucrats running around pissing and moaning and whining and generally making fools of themselves in public is just a bonus.
You make it sound like it's a good thing. I hate that stuff, and I personnaly don't think that legalizing a substance that distorts reality, that can make you a veggie and slowly destroys your ability to have fun without it is just a way to make a whole generation less intelligent than the one before.
Maybe so, but having a dozen Al Capones and a legion of Al Capone wannabes slinging lead willy-nilly turned out to be a greater evil.
The worst actual "abuse" they found was a couple of people spying on their girlfriends.
Since you regard stalker behavior as acceptable, you really ought to be required to wear a sign expressing this belief so that potential girlfriends will be forewarned.
The problem is that I don't believe his implicit statement about what exactly his job is. He wants us to think that it's all about catching Bad People who are pretty much universally recognized as such; the reality is that it keeps extending to personal and political opponents of the people in power.
Snowden has created an environment where some technology companies are less comfortable working with law reinforcement
No, dickweed, YOU created an environment where some technology companies are less comfortable working with law reinforcement by abusing your privileges.
If you have a global auto-type key set (Ctrl-Alt-A by default), you can get KeePass to autotype your username and password. The details can be fiddly (especially for site where they have some weird notion that forcing you to load a new page between entering username and entering password enhances security somehow), but it generally works if you have the URL field filled out in the individual KeePass entries.
Holding a camera and recording video while in no direct danger does not make someone a hero. I don't think it means what you think it means.
Under these circumstances, it certainly does. The perpetrator cop showed by his behavior that for him the police uniform is just another set of gang colors. Photographing a gang-banger doing something the gang-banger would prefer to be kept secret is dangerous for obvious reasons.
I know what the groupthink around here is, but "...now, because of videos, we are seeing just how systemic and widespread it is" is an expression of a preconceived notion, not a valid inference from data.
It's an inference derived from newly available evidence, which is the exact opposite of a preconceived notion.
The latest versions of VeraCrypt can mount TrueCrypt containers. They also allow you to select the hash algorithm (instead of autodetecting) when mounting disks, which speeds up the process (I've never found it to take more than 15 seconds on a six-year-old computer).
Yep. Government salaries are just hopelessly uncompetitive for any position requiring high-level skills. They try to paper over the problem with flag-pin symbolism, but that doesn't work now that the mystique has been replaced by stench.
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The blame for that lies with the NSA -- they intertwined their domestic and foreign operations like a pair of perverted Siamese twin octopi in order to get around the laws that (somewhat) limited their ability to perform domestic snooping (the NSA spies on the British subjects; GHCQ spies on the American citizens; the two trade files).
They are just making this hubub to throw people off. They have key loggers and ways to view your screens that can not be detected with normal means. Using some other form of network that is hard to spot. Don your tin foil hats cause they can read brain waves too. Who really knows? With all the things I have read on USB and viruses being able to bridge air gaps; I don't know, it could very well be as advanced as I am making fun of. Mosquito sized drones and all.
That's true, and it shows that the ONOZ OMG TERRAISTS!!1! rhetoric is a pack of lies. You've listed (setting aside the facetious "tin foil hats" part) some techniques available to the government for monitoring legitimate targets of suspicion. However, it wants to snoop on everybody, and those techniques don't scale large enough to make that possible.
The point here is that the backdoor could be a second key instead of a way to break your key. Assuming that second key is also resistant to breaking then you haven't introduced any vulnerabilities to an outsider--assuming that the second key is kept secure. And that, it must be admitted, is a pretty damn big if.
That makes it an exercise in futility, easily defeated by hacking the system to substitute some other second key (which could be random gibberish, since it's not actually used, just put in to defeat the backdoor).
Just last week they decided that "threatening" remarks on the Internet weren't no thing in the absence of clear evidence of intent to do more than blow off steam. Oh. Wait. That was a threat against some nobody, a precedent that clearly does not apply if the aggrieved party is instead a high and mighty judge. [_EMILY_LATELLA_] Never mind. [_/EMILY_LATELLA_]
any reference to evolution will also be forbidden
Who knew that the Islamic State was run by the GOP?
..."Have a friend that excels in math and science? Report him!"
Children don't like rules and think that the ends always justify the means.
Time to clean up the Romper Room in Washington DC and put adults in charge.
Indeed. As to the latterr, the raw misogyny of people who dismiss the LOVEINT revelations as trivial make the Gamergate cretins look like Betty Friedan.
No one trusts our software now. This is horrible for our economy.
Well, then, you need to throw out the bastards in government who caused that to happen with their bad policies.
Now we might not get to eat too.
Well, then, you need to do it quickly.
Obviously succeeding generations do not get to be as conservative as their parents -- if they did, we'd still have COLORED ONLY water fountains.
Is the world safer?
Yes. The revelations, and public reactions to them (the real public reaction as expressed in the marketplace, not whatever jaw-flapping occurs in response to some inane telemarkepollster call) have led to security improvements. The fact that it has also led to the entertaining spectacle of useless bureaucrats running around pissing and moaning and whining and generally making fools of themselves in public is just a bonus.
You make it sound like it's a good thing. I hate that stuff, and I personnaly don't think that legalizing a substance that distorts reality, that can make you a veggie and slowly destroys your ability to have fun without it is just a way to make a whole generation less intelligent than the one before.
Maybe so, but having a dozen Al Capones and a legion of Al Capone wannabes slinging lead willy-nilly turned out to be a greater evil.
The worst actual "abuse" they found was a couple of people spying on their girlfriends.
Since you regard stalker behavior as acceptable, you really ought to be required to wear a sign expressing this belief so that potential girlfriends will be forewarned.
The problem is that I don't believe his implicit statement about what exactly his job is. He wants us to think that it's all about catching Bad People who are pretty much universally recognized as such; the reality is that it keeps extending to personal and political opponents of the people in power.
No, dickweed, YOU created an environment where some technology companies are less comfortable working with law reinforcement by abusing your privileges.
If you have a global auto-type key set (Ctrl-Alt-A by default), you can get KeePass to autotype your username and password. The details can be fiddly (especially for site where they have some weird notion that forcing you to load a new page between entering username and entering password enhances security somehow), but it generally works if you have the URL field filled out in the individual KeePass entries.
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Fixed it.
Holding a camera and recording video while in no direct danger does not make someone a hero. I don't think it means what you think it means.
Under these circumstances, it certainly does. The perpetrator cop showed by his behavior that for him the police uniform is just another set of gang colors. Photographing a gang-banger doing something the gang-banger would prefer to be kept secret is dangerous for obvious reasons.
I know what the groupthink around here is, but "...now, because of videos, we are seeing just how systemic and widespread it is" is an expression of a preconceived notion, not a valid inference from data.
It's an inference derived from newly available evidence, which is the exact opposite of a preconceived notion.
The latest versions of VeraCrypt can mount TrueCrypt containers. They also allow you to select the hash algorithm (instead of autodetecting) when mounting disks, which speeds up the process (I've never found it to take more than 15 seconds on a six-year-old computer).
Heck, they could earn some goodwill by using all those resources to shut down the whole "Rachel from Card Services" operation.
Yep. Government salaries are just hopelessly uncompetitive for any position requiring high-level skills. They try to paper over the problem with flag-pin symbolism, but that doesn't work now that the mystique has been replaced by stench.
"Bad news, Ms Fiorina. According to the latest polls, some of the voters still remember who you are...."
It boils down to two simple facts:
1. The default option is a mix of informed choice and lazy inertia.
2. The non-default options are pure informed choice.
The "informed choice" component of the former blunts the contrast, but doesn't eliminate it.
Last time I got one of these calls, it went something like this:
"I need you to open your Windows."
"Can you call me back later when it's not raining?"
*click*