"Bruce Schneier.. points out, quite rightly, that the U.S. needs to secure its electronic voting machines, and we need to do it in a hurry lest outside interests hack the result"
Well then, you shouldn't have handed the contract to Diebold *, who ran the voting machines on Microsoft Windows with no full irrevocable paper audit, so anyone and his dog could delete ballots.
* "I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.", Walden O'Dell CEO Diebold
The Windows 10 laptop is free but to use it, you have to allow it to send all your activity back to the mothership and the basic free apps require paying a yearly subscription to enable full functionality.
On Tuesday, the law enforcement agency issued an alert that "all Symantec and Norton branded antivirus products" could allow hackers "to take control" of a computer. link
"There has never been a single confirmed case of a negative health outcome for humans or animals from their consumption"
"Here we document that modified Bt toxins are not inert on human cells, but can exert toxicity, at least under certain in vitro conditions. In vivo implications should now be assessed. Our results raise new questions in risk assessment of food and feed derived from genetically engineered plants."
ref
Murders Spies And Voting Lies: The Clint Curtis Story is an incredible documentary which tells the story of a computer programmer who was contacted by a private company' with ties to convicted Chinese spies, to write a program that could be used to rig elections...what follows is the breaking of a massive conspiracy in which there would be hard evidence of vote manipulation via electronic voting machines-whether using Curtis's program or the twenty year old bootloader hack which, as show by students at Princeton University, could be loaded onto any of these machines in less than a minute; the sketchy firing of two employees-one being Curtis himself- from the Florida Dept of Transportation; corrupt ties to leading members of Diebold-one of two companies responsible for vote counting in the US; and a dead Florida DOT investigator- Raymond Lemme RIP- who was privately investigating the claims made by Curtis...who conveniently committed suicide in Georgia, where autopsies are not done on suicide victims, as opposed to Florida where an autopsy would have been automatic. What really happened in 2000 to Al Gore and Ohio & Florida, and again in 2004.....now you can finally know the truth, and it ain't pretty!
@Coren22: "Yes, conspiracy theories surely explain why he had sex with a woman while she was asleep after she told him no."
Except she couldn't decide what really happened until she discussed it with her friend the police interrogator and the very next day she appeared at a press conference as Assanges press secretary.
It's understandable why you would post that character assasination anonymously:
Ok, so here's my Jacob story. I'm going to post as AC despite having an account here with excellent karma. I stand by what I say but I don't wish to have any conversations with those who might want to know more, as will become obvious below. So mod it as you see fit.
Everything I'm telling you would have to already be known to the relevant authorities. (Which is the point.)
I liked Jacob Appelbaum, he had done some really good things. I admired him.
I had a conversation with Jacob a few years ago. This is a direct one-on-one in-person conversation. We were talking about teaching hardware hacking and at some point the subject came up of his hacker outreach work. He got to talking about a trip he had taken to Iraq to teach hardware hacking and stuff. This was while there was still a big U.S. presence there and a lot of fighting. That sounded cool at first. Maybe generous and kind of daring. But as he went on it turned out he was teaching teenagers how to hack remote controls, like garage door openers and stuff. Not bombs or anything, but just how to hack remotes, ya know, and rig them to things.
I was stunned. I mean, these are basically young men of fighting age, in a war zone. What do you think they might do with this new skill?
I didn't know what to say. I asked, "Don't you think that's a bit irresponsible, under the circumstances?"
He said something that I can't remember verbatim about knowledge being generally good. I was annoyed, I pressed him on it. Like, what if they blow up some poor kid from Oakland? Eventually he got annoyed and went on a long rant about how it's their country and we have no right to be there and so whatever happens happens, and related things, etc.
I didn't even respond. At best this is completely idiotic. At worst, he just admitted a very serious crime.
Ok, so I am against the Iraq war. I'll say so and put a sticker on my car and vote accordingly on election day. But WHAT. THE. FUCK. To actually go there and share your abilities in a way that contributes to their own sectarian violence AND gets people from your own country killed is in an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT FUCKING UNIVERSE. I can't express the feeling I get thinking about this. It's like it's just too offensive to even qualify as STUPID. It comes to STUPID's door and is turned away on grounds of extreme repulsiveness. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? This is so beyond the pale that my mind is unable to properly categorize it. Holy fucking shit.
I was and still am completely amazed and the irresponsibility and sheer narcissism of this kind of thinking. I have secretly considered him to be a dangerous monster ever since. The rest of the community now agrees. There is no happiness in this, but there is relief.
Now people talk about how he gets harassed by the authorities. It might be because he has done important and valuable work for privacy, which is true, and they don't like that and so they're messing with him. I believe this is probably true. It could ALSO be because he POKES THEM IN THE FUCKING EYE until they come after him, because he is a narcissist and if they are hounding him it will confirm his own sense of importance. That must feel good to a narcissist, being important like that.
Some people do something good, and because it is good, they are considered heroes. And some people really really want to be heroes. So they look for things that are undeniably good to do so they can become heroes. There is a pretty big difference between these two kinds of people. The very noble fight for rights and freedom attracts both. The second type attaches themselves to noble causes and when their true motivations are known, those causes are diminished.
The Mannings and the Snowdens are shadowed by the Assanges and Appelbaums. They are diminished by them. And yet, good work of the former could not have been done without the undeniably good work of the latter, done for both the right and wrong reasons.
'“Forest” writes that she woke up one night while platonically sharing a bed with Appelbaum to find her pants unzipped, his hands in her underwear and touching her vagina.'
The only time a male would share a bed "platonically" with a women is when the male is deceased. At the risk of looking a little paranoid, this is precisely the same way they discredited Assange, having two women come forward with accusations, who turned out later on worked for a CIA front organization.
'The FBI and Homeland Security are working with the campaigns to tighten security and prevent cyber intruders from penetrating their defenses'
"The Department of Homeland Security today appointed a senior Microsoft Corp. executive to head a section charged with protecting the federal government's computer networks from cyber attacks." ref
"Overall, we identified 1,085 instances of high-risk vulnerabilities on the MOE [Mission Operating Environment]" ref
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How to prevent a Cyber Weapon Arms Race, then don't use Microsoft Windows on Intel hardware anywhere on your network.
"Bruce Schneier .. points out, quite rightly, that the U.S. needs to secure its electronic voting machines, and we need to do it in a hurry lest outside interests hack the result"
Well then, you shouldn't have handed the contract to Diebold *, who ran the voting machines on Microsoft Windows with no full irrevocable paper audit, so anyone and his dog could delete ballots.
* "I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.", Walden O'Dell CEO Diebold
How To Rig An Election In The United States
"I came here for news for nerds, not to read the latest press release from the Clinton campaign"
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'Slashdot reader blottsie quotes an article which argues the DNC hack "may simply be the icing on the cyberwar cake"'
There is no evidence that the DNC hack was carried out by the 'Russians'.
Title corrected for accuracy :)
Is this the best you can find to post on slashdot, the technology site?
The Windows 10 laptop is free but to use it, you have to allow it to send all your activity back to the mothership and the basic free apps require paying a yearly subscription to enable full functionality.
Who is going to protect our critical infrastructure from these no good commie atheist salo eaters.
On Tuesday, the law enforcement agency issued an alert that "all Symantec and Norton branded antivirus products" could allow hackers "to take control" of a computer. link
"There has never been a single confirmed case of a negative health outcome for humans or animals from their consumption"
"Here we document that modified Bt toxins are not inert on human cells, but can exert toxicity, at least under certain in vitro conditions. In vivo implications should now be assessed. Our results raise new questions in risk assessment of food and feed derived from genetically engineered plants." ref
Murders Spies And Voting Lies: The Clint Curtis Story is an incredible documentary which tells the story of a computer programmer who was contacted by a private company' with ties to convicted Chinese spies, to write a program that could be used to rig elections...what follows is the breaking of a massive conspiracy in which there would be hard evidence of vote manipulation via electronic voting machines-whether using Curtis's program or the twenty year old bootloader hack which, as show by students at Princeton University, could be loaded onto any of these machines in less than a minute; the sketchy firing of two employees-one being Curtis himself- from the Florida Dept of Transportation; corrupt ties to leading members of Diebold-one of two companies responsible for vote counting in the US; and a dead Florida DOT investigator- Raymond Lemme RIP- who was privately investigating the claims made by Curtis...who conveniently committed suicide in Georgia, where autopsies are not done on suicide victims, as opposed to Florida where an autopsy would have been automatic. What really happened in 2000 to Al Gore and Ohio & Florida, and again in 2004.....now you can finally know the truth, and it ain't pretty!
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Pinterest to bolster its revenue, it that the best you can find to post on slashdot, the technology site?
How I welcomed an immigrant family with a Linux laptop
@Coren22: "Yes, conspiracy theories surely explain why he had sex with a woman while she was asleep after she told him no."
Except she couldn't decide what really happened until she discussed it with her friend the police interrogator and the very next day she appeared at a press conference as Assanges press secretary.
Interrogator in the Assange case friend with woman accusing Wikileaks founder.
'Anna Ardin deletes a blog entry on how to get revenge on unfaithful lovers.'
'Swedish chief prosecutor Eva Finné dismisses all charges'
Sweden’s affairs in Cuba: a U.S. proxy and Julian Assange
Assange Case: Evidence Destroyed Over and Over Again
Assange Case: Ny Knows the Girls Made it Up but Doesn't Care
@Anonymous Coward: "Edward Snowden talked about the fourteen eyes .. I'm free to criticize Obama heavily without fear of government retribution"
Tell that to Julian Assange. Getting framed in a honeypot sting can hardly be called no government retribution.
"The fourteen eyes aren't actively cracking down on human rights and political dissidents."
Since the Cold War is over, what do you think they spend their time doing?
Indymedia server seized in raid
"British police have admitted that undercover officers have infiltrated at least 460 political groups since 1968"
See here, the state security apparatus framing an environmental group: Activists walk free as undercover officer prompts collapse of case
Ok, so here's my Jacob story. I'm going to post as AC despite having an account here with excellent karma. I stand by what I say but I don't wish to have any conversations with those who might want to know more, as will become obvious below. So mod it as you see fit.
Everything I'm telling you would have to already be known to the relevant authorities. (Which is the point.)
I liked Jacob Appelbaum, he had done some really good things. I admired him. I had a conversation with Jacob a few years ago. This is a direct one-on-one in-person conversation. We were talking about teaching hardware hacking and at some point the subject came up of his hacker outreach work. He got to talking about a trip he had taken to Iraq to teach hardware hacking and stuff. This was while there was still a big U.S. presence there and a lot of fighting. That sounded cool at first. Maybe generous and kind of daring. But as he went on it turned out he was teaching teenagers how to hack remote controls, like garage door openers and stuff. Not bombs or anything, but just how to hack remotes, ya know, and rig them to things.
I was stunned. I mean, these are basically young men of fighting age, in a war zone. What do you think they might do with this new skill? I didn't know what to say. I asked, "Don't you think that's a bit irresponsible, under the circumstances?" He said something that I can't remember verbatim about knowledge being generally good. I was annoyed, I pressed him on it. Like, what if they blow up some poor kid from Oakland? Eventually he got annoyed and went on a long rant about how it's their country and we have no right to be there and so whatever happens happens, and related things, etc.
I didn't even respond. At best this is completely idiotic. At worst, he just admitted a very serious crime.
Ok, so I am against the Iraq war. I'll say so and put a sticker on my car and vote accordingly on election day. But WHAT. THE. FUCK. To actually go there and share your abilities in a way that contributes to their own sectarian violence AND gets people from your own country killed is in an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT FUCKING UNIVERSE. I can't express the feeling I get thinking about this. It's like it's just too offensive to even qualify as STUPID. It comes to STUPID's door and is turned away on grounds of extreme repulsiveness. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? This is so beyond the pale that my mind is unable to properly categorize it. Holy fucking shit.
I was and still am completely amazed and the irresponsibility and sheer narcissism of this kind of thinking. I have secretly considered him to be a dangerous monster ever since. The rest of the community now agrees. There is no happiness in this, but there is relief.
Now people talk about how he gets harassed by the authorities. It might be because he has done important and valuable work for privacy, which is true, and they don't like that and so they're messing with him. I believe this is probably true. It could ALSO be because he POKES THEM IN THE FUCKING EYE until they come after him, because he is a narcissist and if they are hounding him it will confirm his own sense of importance. That must feel good to a narcissist, being important like that.
Some people do something good, and because it is good, they are considered heroes. And some people really really want to be heroes. So they look for things that are undeniably good to do so they can become heroes. There is a pretty big difference between these two kinds of people. The very noble fight for rights and freedom attracts both. The second type attaches themselves to noble causes and when their true motivations are known, those causes are diminished.
The Mannings and the Snowdens are shadowed by the Assanges and Appelbaums. They are diminished by them. And yet, good work of the former could not have been done without the undeniably good work of the latter, done for both the right and wrong reasons.
'“Forest” writes that she woke up one night while platonically sharing a bed with Appelbaum to find her pants unzipped, his hands in her underwear and touching her vagina.'
The only time a male would share a bed "platonically" with a women is when the male is deceased. At the risk of looking a little paranoid, this is precisely the same way they discredited Assange, having two women come forward with accusations, who turned out later on worked for a CIA front organization.
Why does this fact need a whole article on slashdot. Max path length has been 4096 on Linux for ages.
Nice one, Idiocracy (2006)
Just who types this bullshit?
Can't help but reminds me of Peter Gregory from Silicon Valley :)
Didn't you leave out the most important bit?
'The FBI and Homeland Security are working with the campaigns to tighten security and prevent cyber intruders from penetrating their defenses'
"The Department of Homeland Security today appointed a senior Microsoft Corp. executive to head a section charged with protecting the federal government's computer networks from cyber attacks." ref
"Overall, we identified 1,085 instances of high-risk vulnerabilities on the MOE [Mission Operating Environment]" ref
I see there's a lot of this fake neocon propaganda on here lately.