It's a perfect time to launch my new line of biodegradable network cards.
You do realize that I was offering up a hypothetical scenario. I don't see any valid reason why someone would go through those lengths to remain anonymous.
Yes, SMAC is a good example. But MAC addresses are only one way to figure out how you connected. Physically removing and discarding the wireless subsystem is the only way to make sure there's no way to trace back to you.
ANYBODY in the neighborhood can get on their computer, set their browser to "anonymous" mode (so that no records are kept), and access whatever. The IP address and ISP account don't mean squat.
Until the people with guns show up, lock you up and start scanning MAC addresses, traffic and signal strength. Then they find the computer, lock the other person up and retrieve the data from "anonymous mode" in about 20 minutes.
This of course depends on what they're doing. Transferring music and movies, not going to happen. Trying to do something more serious, is going to happen.
Unless you bought your laptop from a major vendor and the WiFi operator gets your MAC address.
You want to be completely anonymous? Get an old laptop, a live DVD and an old WiFi card, pay cash. Remove the HDD, throw it out. Use the live DVD for your OS. Never connect to the Internet anywhere unless you are on a random open WiFi connection that isn't near a camera, a hiking trail might be a good place. Use anonymous proxies through that connection for all your Internet access.
Then do whatever it is you really need to be anonymous for, throw the WiFi card into a river and shred the DVD.
If you need to repeat, burn a new DVD and buy another WiFi card.
That's as close as you can get to being completely anonymous on the Internet.
While the day may come when CPU and GPU fuse, that day is not now.
They are currently interdependent, design a 6 core system with 8GB RAM, put a Rage 3d card in it, then run something modern, not a game, just a browser or a spreadsheet and tell me if the GPU doesn't improve the system.
Can't tech futurists find a better spokesman than Ray Kurzweil?
Sure, I've always wanted to be a futurist.
In the future, things will be similar, but different in interesting ways. $5, pay up.
Ok, on a serious note, evolutionary, not revolutionary changes. The average Slashdot style website is a BBS without the modems. We don't get flying cars because that's not where cars need to be, we get faster cars, more fuel efficient cars, more luxury cars and cheaper cars.
Also, in the future, Slashdot.org car analogies will be replaced with.Slashdot flying car analogies.
The reason why public fears nuclear power is because of the nuclear companies' and industry's carelessness. So there's a lot to improve before trust is gained back (if ever).
This will never happen as long as a for-profit group runs something this dangerous. They always look for ways to get more money and cut corners. Eventually something goes wrong and we go wailing about the dangers of nuclear power.
Take the profits out of the energy business and you'll have a safer system.
If you're still concerned at that point, you have much more to worry about than someone getting your password, you will either need psychiatric help or you will need to talk to your NSA handler.
Seriously, randomly shaving and modifying a 100 character (pseudo) random string down to 29 characters and expecting to find a pattern is nearly impossible.
[As for breaking into the vault, it's tied to a keyfile and a large password.]
Use your generator to make a 100 character password, then cut out chunks of it wherever you feel like and add a number or letter here and there until you have a password near the maximum password length for the site.
You don't need a truly random source to be unpredictable.
Wireless is ludicrously insecure, to the point where any busyness today should be shot for even giving a 100% corporate wireless network more than 10 seconds worth of thought, unless they live in a sealed lead bunker. If you don't agree, please go work for a competitor.
A pPoorly designed wireless is ludicrously insecure. I can design a secure wireless network that would be insanely hard to break. However, it wouldn't be as easy to configure.
WPA2, IPSec,a proxy server, VPN, no DHCP, MAC locked, NLA, etc etc..
As far as I can tell, nobody's trying to do that, though.
Because it's really not needed. Why are you mapping countries onto an international entity?
Instead, have ICANN declare itself a completely international body, independent of the UN but protected by them, and build fail-safes into the system so no one country or group can influence them. Do something extreme, like require groups from several conflicting countries to agree on major policy changes.
I wonder if one can get around being a "linking site" by simply removing the HREF's, leaving just the text of the links.
Actually, yes, they can. When 2600 lost the DeCSS case they converted the links to text. The courts had no issue with this, as the order was to remove the links. Removing hyper-links are easy, it takes a lot more to get a court to remove text.
Simply? Not everyone will do it, and you'll have a mishmash of people going to work earlier and some going to work later.
In late June, NYC would wind up with a 4:20 am sunrise and 7:30pm sunset. Yet events will still have to happen at their regular time, due to the mix of people with Summer and Winter hours. So you'll see no benefit reducing electrical use for large venues. (Baseball, for example, the lights will be on for more of the game).
Sorry, this is one of those things where the government should be making a change.
A one line quip designed to make a point by using humor are not supposed to be dissected for 100% accuracy either. I'm going to assume, that unless you're a complete idiot, you knew what I meant in the first place.
I'm sorry I didn't go into exact details on illegal gun use when trying to make a point that just because something is illegal doesn't mean people don't have and use them.
Do you spend hours researching the lives of road crossing chickens in your spare time?
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It's a perfect time to launch my new line of biodegradable network cards.
You do realize that I was offering up a hypothetical scenario. I don't see any valid reason why someone would go through those lengths to remain anonymous.
Yes, SMAC is a good example. But MAC addresses are only one way to figure out how you connected. Physically removing and discarding the wireless subsystem is the only way to make sure there's no way to trace back to you.
ANYBODY in the neighborhood can get on their computer, set their browser to "anonymous" mode (so that no records are kept), and access whatever. The IP address and ISP account don't mean squat.
Until the people with guns show up, lock you up and start scanning MAC addresses, traffic and signal strength. Then they find the computer, lock the other person up and retrieve the data from "anonymous mode" in about 20 minutes.
This of course depends on what they're doing. Transferring music and movies, not going to happen. Trying to do something more serious, is going to happen.
Also, you might want to contact your NSA handler and properly adjust your tin foil hat before doing this.
Except (for now) with open wifi.
Unless you bought your laptop from a major vendor and the WiFi operator gets your MAC address.
You want to be completely anonymous? Get an old laptop, a live DVD and an old WiFi card, pay cash. Remove the HDD, throw it out. Use the live DVD for your OS. Never connect to the Internet anywhere unless you are on a random open WiFi connection that isn't near a camera, a hiking trail might be a good place. Use anonymous proxies through that connection for all your Internet access.
Then do whatever it is you really need to be anonymous for, throw the WiFi card into a river and shred the DVD.
If you need to repeat, burn a new DVD and buy another WiFi card.
That's as close as you can get to being completely anonymous on the Internet.
While the day may come when CPU and GPU fuse, that day is not now.
They are currently interdependent, design a 6 core system with 8GB RAM, put a Rage 3d card in it, then run something modern, not a game, just a browser or a spreadsheet and tell me if the GPU doesn't improve the system.
Can't tech futurists find a better spokesman than Ray Kurzweil?
Sure, I've always wanted to be a futurist.
In the future, things will be similar, but different in interesting ways. $5, pay up.
Ok, on a serious note, evolutionary, not revolutionary changes. The average Slashdot style website is a BBS without the modems. We don't get flying cars because that's not where cars need to be, we get faster cars, more fuel efficient cars, more luxury cars and cheaper cars.
Also, in the future, Slashdot.org car analogies will be replaced with .Slashdot flying car analogies.
The reason why public fears nuclear power is because of the nuclear companies' and industry's carelessness. So there's a lot to improve before trust is gained back (if ever).
This will never happen as long as a for-profit group runs something this dangerous. They always look for ways to get more money and cut corners. Eventually something goes wrong and we go wailing about the dangers of nuclear power.
Take the profits out of the energy business and you'll have a safer system.
If you're still concerned at that point, you have much more to worry about than someone getting your password, you will either need psychiatric help or you will need to talk to your NSA handler.
Seriously, randomly shaving and modifying a 100 character (pseudo) random string down to 29 characters and expecting to find a pattern is nearly impossible.
[As for breaking into the vault, it's tied to a keyfile and a large password.]
Use your generator to make a 100 character password, then cut out chunks of it wherever you feel like and add a number or letter here and there until you have a password near the maximum password length for the site.
You don't need a truly random source to be unpredictable.
Short of 3rd party firmware, there's not much going on in that area yet.
I'm guessing they just want people to buy new routers.
I agree 100%.
It's funny when BBC America is doing better Science Fiction.
Wireless is ludicrously insecure, to the point where any busyness today should be shot for even giving a 100% corporate wireless network more than 10 seconds worth of thought, unless they live in a sealed lead bunker. If you don't agree, please go work for a competitor.
A pPoorly designed wireless is ludicrously insecure. I can design a secure wireless network that would be insanely hard to break. However, it wouldn't be as easy to configure.
WPA2, IPSec,a proxy server, VPN, no DHCP, MAC locked, NLA, etc etc..
Evercookie is unstoppable, irrevocable, undeleteable, and it represents a new trend.
A RAMDisk is an emulated disk that uses system memory and is erased completely during shutdown.
Symbolic links and hard links are pointers that let you direct files and directories to other locations, such as RAMdisks.
Reboot. What evercookie?
Takes about 10 mins to set up properly. Using Windows? CCleaner can help you with any missed temp files. Schedule it to run at startup.
What happened to this place?
Since when did we have to dissect Monty Python jokes?
Yes yes, thank you for your input. Please leave your written complaints on the floor by the exit.
In the 90's and early 00's it was the Frontier, where everyone gave everyone else a hand. Now, we need to start walking around with six shooters.
So, do I get to play Wyatt Earp?
Well, except for the other Scott Adams that pretty much started adventure games on computers.
http://www.msadams.com/
If total transparency is in play all crime stops dead in its tracks.
Wishful thinking. People will still do stupid things even if they know they're going to get caught.
As far as I can tell, nobody's trying to do that, though.
Because it's really not needed. Why are you mapping countries onto an international entity?
Instead, have ICANN declare itself a completely international body, independent of the UN but protected by them, and build fail-safes into the system so no one country or group can influence them. Do something extreme, like require groups from several conflicting countries to agree on major policy changes.
This is a different game compared to the round of 'get around the filtering software' usually played in the URL bar.
I usually win more interesting stuff with that game.
I wonder if one can get around being a "linking site" by simply removing the HREF's, leaving just the text of the links.
Actually, yes, they can. When 2600 lost the DeCSS case they converted the links to text. The courts had no issue with this, as the order was to remove the links. Removing hyper-links are easy, it takes a lot more to get a court to remove text.
Simply? Not everyone will do it, and you'll have a mishmash of people going to work earlier and some going to work later.
In late June, NYC would wind up with a 4:20 am sunrise and 7:30pm sunset. Yet events will still have to happen at their regular time, due to the mix of people with Summer and Winter hours. So you'll see no benefit reducing electrical use for large venues. (Baseball, for example, the lights will be on for more of the game).
Sorry, this is one of those things where the government should be making a change.
Ok, there's this chicken crossing a road, and without going into detail on avian thought, most people believe it wanted to get to the other side.
In our upcoming 12 part series on road crossing chickens, we can delve into this in detail.
Guns as a category are NOT illegal as you stated.
A one line quip designed to make a point by using humor are not supposed to be dissected for 100% accuracy either. I'm going to assume, that unless you're a complete idiot, you knew what I meant in the first place.
I'm sorry I didn't go into exact details on illegal gun use when trying to make a point that just because something is illegal doesn't mean people don't have and use them.
Do you spend hours researching the lives of road crossing chickens in your spare time?