OK, Adobe kills Flash 11.3 on Linux for non-Google Chromium browsers, but now they are killing Android support? Trying to wrap my head around the logic here that doesn't involve money...
Jake Davis aka Topiary was one ofones who also was involved with cracking one of Westboro Baptist Church's website during a live interview with the Phelps on the David Pakman show. He was more than the average click-and-run an automated DDoS client.
If I were an Iranian, I would be scared shitless. Would you be if your country's SCADA systems were being attacked and your computers were being infected to do everything from sabotage equipment to capture keystrokes, audio, webcams and screenshots, and your scientists were being blown up in car bombs (not cyber terrorism, but certainly terrorism)? What if the government thinks you were involved in either case and comes knocking? The definition of terrorism is widely disputed and varies from everything from mass casualties to inciting mass fear. I would be very afraid if it were happening in my country -- anybody with advanced skills in computers and/or security should be.
How is this different from say, bioterrorism? Some guy releases some really bad shit into the atmosphere. Nobody notices until a few days later. People get infected, doctors warn the public, the news issues warnings, mass fear and panic. How is having a closed-source OS that has been exploited with a piece of malware sophisitcated beyond anything ever seen before not fear inducing? All computers are officially not off limits to governments for whatever they please. That is fucking scary.
Iran is trying its best to be recognized by the international community as a modern Islamic democracy,
Oh for fuck's sake, give it a rest. There should be a -1 "Naive" mod for this.
I'm no apologist for the US government, they can do and continue to do terrible things, but to pretend that things in Iran are better for the average citizen than they are for the average US citizen is ridiculous.
You really should watch this video. They had things pretty good for them until we and Britian got involved. . Iran has not attacked a nation since 1946. In addition, they are considered a very liberal "democracy" when compared to Saudi Arabia. Likewise, do you think we truly live in a such a perfect democracy in the US? Indefinite detention, torture, civil rights abuses, constant acts of aggression against foreign countries now both virtual and physical, poverty, no health care system, domestic spying, censorship, etc... If you removed religion from the equation, are they really that much worse than us? They are far from perfect, but we aren't that much better.
Of course, it doesn't take into account what happens in the criminal justice system - they make sure to get you right with Jesus/Yaweh/Allah. I refuse to believe that Buddhist countries have worse violent crime rates. What defines a crime? The moral code of the country, often built upon these religions that believe in Hell.
"I believe in two things: discipline and the Bible. Here you'll receive both. Put your trust in the Lord; your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank."
I didn't intend that to be anything but the straw that broke the camel's back. All I'm suggesting is that he himself is now a victim, not just his constituents. Yes, I know better that both Pauls have been anti-TSA as long as they've been lawmakers.
Hire Kevin Mitnick. He's the most dangerous hacker in the world. All he has to do is call up Iran and whistle into the phone, and they nuke themselves!
The key here is user identifiable. If someone compromises a respirator, I doubt it has the patient's name in the embedded OS. Most hospitals employ VLANs and keep medical data off those segmets -- I'm sure there's stories of patients or guests dumb enough to plug in to the ethernet jack in a hospital room for free internet.
However, shutting one of these life support devices off remotely or preventing them from operating properly is certain death. That's likely the biggest concern.
There probably are ways, but typically if they are aware of any new blocking methods, they find new ways to get around it. It's really a game of wac-a-mole. Either that, or they might as well pull the plug.
Not at all. The solution to this is OBFSProxy which rides the protocol on other application layer protocols. The Tor project always has tricks up their sleeves.
Am I missing something, or is this roughly the equivalent of people saying "I want to be a fireman when I grow up!"?
Still, I suppose it's encouraging that software dev is seen as reasonably classy. Even just a few years ago it was all "but I'm not a sweaty nerd!"
Sort of, they see the potential fun in a career and say "I want to be a fireman because I just want to play with the siren and drive a big red truck." They have no idea of what it fully involves (pun intended).
Exactly, the whole "video game programmer" craze that started years back from the various online colleges fell flat on its face. All the gamers expected they could just walk in and land a job making up and designing games without any idea of what was really involved, or that they would actually have to learn a thing about development. The only best possible scenario for the 99th percentile was being doing grunt work for EA working long, stressful hours on someone else's project.
Notice how those degree programs are rarely advertised anymore.
Yes, but when customers search on Google and see the sponsored links that advertisers put up, Google doesn't get paid if they can't charge the advertisers. Same thing for Youtube or any other ad-supported service. No users = No customers.
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From what I hear they are made up of several CIA agents.
I came here for a comment/joke about Gentoo Linux, left disappointed.
OK, Adobe kills Flash 11.3 on Linux for non-Google Chromium browsers, but now they are killing Android support?
Trying to wrap my head around the logic here that doesn't involve money...
Now I can't even take a piss in the woods without the government keeping track of the stream?
Jake Davis aka Topiary was one ofones who also was involved with cracking one of Westboro Baptist Church's website during a live interview with the Phelps on the David Pakman show. He was more than the average click-and-run an automated DDoS client.
Yeah.. give corporations the same rights as governments. That always works out for the best.
No, restrain governments to the same rights as corporations, as intended and written in the constitution.
If I were an Iranian, I would be scared shitless. Would you be if your country's SCADA systems were being attacked and your computers were being infected to do everything from sabotage equipment to capture keystrokes, audio, webcams and screenshots, and your scientists were being blown up in car bombs (not cyber terrorism, but certainly terrorism)? What if the government thinks you were involved in either case and comes knocking? The definition of terrorism is widely disputed and varies from everything from mass casualties to inciting mass fear. I would be very afraid if it were happening in my country -- anybody with advanced skills in computers and/or security should be.
How is this different from say, bioterrorism? Some guy releases some really bad shit into the atmosphere. Nobody notices until a few days later. People get infected, doctors warn the public, the news issues warnings, mass fear and panic. How is having a closed-source OS that has been exploited with a piece of malware sophisitcated beyond anything ever seen before not fear inducing? All computers are officially not off limits to governments for whatever they please. That is fucking scary.
Iran is trying its best to be recognized by the international community as a modern Islamic democracy,
Oh for fuck's sake, give it a rest. There should be a -1 "Naive" mod for this.
I'm no apologist for the US government, they can do and continue to do terrible things, but to pretend that things in Iran are better for the average citizen than they are for the average US citizen is ridiculous.
You really should watch this video. They had things pretty good for them until we and Britian got involved.
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Iran has not attacked a nation since 1946. In addition, they are considered a very liberal "democracy" when compared to Saudi Arabia. Likewise, do you think we truly live in a such a perfect democracy in the US? Indefinite detention, torture, civil rights abuses, constant acts of aggression against foreign countries now both virtual and physical, poverty, no health care system, domestic spying, censorship, etc... If you removed religion from the equation, are they really that much worse than us? They are far from perfect, but we aren't that much better.
Off topic, but a common misconception is that Iran is a barren desert wasteland out of Star Wars, so i'll throw this out there. http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=39048
I think nuclear centrifuges are some pretty serious pieces of equipment to be messing with, partner.
Sabotage: yes. Cyber terrorism? No. Warfare, yes, but not terrorism.
Explain to me what piece of code that destroys itself from existence after receiving a SUICIDE command isn't the definition of terrorism.
Of course, it doesn't take into account what happens in the criminal justice system - they make sure to get you right with Jesus/Yaweh/Allah. I refuse to believe that Buddhist countries have worse violent crime rates. What defines a crime? The moral code of the country, often built upon these religions that believe in Hell.
"I believe in two things: discipline and the Bible. Here you'll receive both. Put your trust in the Lord; your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank."
I didn't intend that to be anything but the straw that broke the camel's back. All I'm suggesting is that he himself is now a victim, not just his constituents. Yes, I know better that both Pauls have been anti-TSA as long as they've been lawmakers.
Hire Kevin Mitnick. He's the most dangerous hacker in the world. All he has to do is call up Iran and whistle into the phone, and they nuke themselves!
The key here is user identifiable.
If someone compromises a respirator, I doubt it has the patient's name in the embedded OS.
Most hospitals employ VLANs and keep medical data off those segmets -- I'm sure there's stories of patients or guests dumb enough to plug in to the ethernet jack in a hospital room for free internet.
However, shutting one of these life support devices off remotely or preventing them from operating properly is certain death. That's likely the biggest concern.
Likewise, it's easy to spot Arabs in foreign airports. They're the ones taking off their shoes to throw at the Americans!
This is Rand Paul, not Ron.
Damn that Ron Paul!!
He should have named his kid Judas Paul, or Anti Paul, to make it easy for voters.
Then how would he pay homage to Ayn Rand by naming his son after a female?
Except he doesn't support Ron Paul anymore, he endorsed Romney.
Ah, then it becomes an intranet.
This is why you don't piss off a Senator if you're a government agency.
http://www.homeescapade.com/senator-rand-paul-in-body-scan-mishap-with-tsa-in-nashville/
There probably are ways, but typically if they are aware of any new blocking methods, they find new ways to get around it. It's really a game of wac-a-mole. Either that, or they might as well pull the plug.
Not at all. The solution to this is OBFSProxy which rides the protocol on other application layer protocols. The Tor project always has tricks up their sleeves.
Am I missing something, or is this roughly the equivalent of people saying "I want to be a fireman when I grow up!"?
Still, I suppose it's encouraging that software dev is seen as reasonably classy. Even just a few years ago it was all "but I'm not a sweaty nerd!"
Sort of, they see the potential fun in a career and say "I want to be a fireman because I just want to play with the siren and drive a big red truck."
They have no idea of what it fully involves (pun intended).
Exactly, the whole "video game programmer" craze that started years back from the various online colleges fell flat on its face.
All the gamers expected they could just walk in and land a job making up and designing games without any idea of what was really involved, or that they would actually have to learn a thing about development. The only best possible scenario for the 99th percentile was being doing grunt work for EA working long, stressful hours on someone else's project.
Notice how those degree programs are rarely advertised anymore.
Yes, but when customers search on Google and see the sponsored links that advertisers put up, Google doesn't get paid if they can't charge the advertisers.
Same thing for Youtube or any other ad-supported service. No users = No customers.