Personally, I'm semi-excited about the idea of a Windows 8 transformer tablet (similar to the other asus transformers) running on an ivy bridge CPU. It could be a solid daily driver when paired with a remotely accessable desktop for the heavy lifting.
That said, a windows 7 tablet running an atom CPU with no keyboard is rediculious. It's not a computer and it's not a tablet. It's a still-born bastard.
Ultimately though, I'm not convinced that an iPad plus a solid Windows 8 ivy bridge laptop next year won't be the best of all worlds.
Is it just me, or did Symantec take a normal spear phishing attack, by the usual suspects, with the usual tools, and turn it into an advertisement? They gave it a name, wrote a paper on it, made sure it was clear CHEMICALS were involved, and then sent it to the news outlets. I guess this is only to be expected given how much publicity they got from their stuxnet and duqu analysis. Oh well. *sigh*
I've always felt redbox was overpriced. I could get DVDs for a dollar a day at blockbuster who actually maintained a full store with employees. The $1/day was a simple formula which is why I tolerated it. But, considering I can't get my wife to return a movie in anything under a few days. I think I'm probably better off just getting a 48hr streaming license from amazon or waiting for the in-mail DVD from netflix.
Seems pretty even keeled to me. It's not demanding a lot. It simply reflects a few things he's passionate about and then helps people understand him. Can't fault a guy for saying he gets hot at night and is alergic to cat.
This made me think of Charlie Miller's Talk at Defcon 18. Basically, he sends out lots of remote access tools, but ensures redundance because he expects an amount of his code to get caught. I assume the Duqu writers did the same thing. So what if 1 RAT gets caught. Your sister malware lived on.
They aren't thinking of how their job fits into the workings of the world. They're trying to find something they can get a lot of money for thats fun to do.
Along that line, I'd touch on ways they can start working on their own on programming. You could cover different areas each time:
Game programming. Find them a simple environment for programming (preferably Drag and Drop with a bit of coding to glue it together) and show them how they can get into it.
Mobile Programming. Show them what it takes to build a mobile app. Show them how they could build a mobile app that will send obfuscated text messages, (say ROT13 or such).
Security: Show them how to use a toolkit to create an exploit. Show them how you can now make emberassing popups show up. Now show them how to patch the program or detect the attack and pop up something like "we're being attacked!".
embedded programming. Show them how to build a motion sensor that tweets to them when someone is coming up the stairs or such. (IR sensor, wifi, and some arduino code.)
There's more than enough time for them to learn about the realities of life. Right now the goal is to show them that they can enjoy and show off their STEM work. Hopefully some of them will take it to heart and enter the field.
To be honest, I think this bothered me before when it came up a few years ago. The idea, locking down code from boot through apps, is a good idea from a security standpoint. But, as pointed out elsewhere in this thread, thats not necessarily how it ends up being used (vendor lockin) and it ends up being compromised anyway (console rooting).
Still, with the advent of dirt cheap computing, (rasberry pi), a plethora of cell phones, and virtualization, I think there is more than enough opportunity to run the OS and programs of your choice. Computing platforms are simply so readily available, no-one will be able to lock everyting out.
Does that mean the next windows computer you buy may not be rootable to linux? Maybe. If you wanted linux on it, why'd you buy the non-rootable windows computer anyway? Alternately, why don't you just install vmware and virtualize. (Virtualization is a clear winner over dual booting now adays.)
Ultimately, it's just another product differentiator to shop for. But there's no way it can restrict your access to capabilities. And that's how it should be. Trade security for flexibility at your discression.
Skype quality is extremely dependent on hardware and room acoustics. If we can compress, stream, and decode MP3s in real time, the technology is likely not the problem. Instead, I think people simply are unwilling to pay real money for a simple microphone. However, a lot of nicer webcams seem to come with very nice Mics.
I normally buy used rackable systems (from somewhere like unixsurplus.com). For $400 you can get 4 cores ( a couple years old) and 8GB of ram. That should be enough to run a small lab at very little cost.
Could convergence be implemented for DNS resolution as well? Could you resolve a domain through the standard DNS hierarchy, through a p2p net, and through another means then take the most likely value from what you get back? Seems it would offer graceful degridation.
If you can upload a script, how hard can it be to place it in an auto-run location or to replace something commonly run?
Btw, after thinking about this, I'm seriously tempted to install a meterpreter shell on my laptop that dials back to a metasploit instance running either on my home VM servers or in the cloud. I could turn the VM on when needed but otherwise leave it off. But man, if I ever lost my laptop, I'd have all the access I'd ever need!
This is the right technology, but the wrong setting. Also, I don't think it's that revolutionary. Really it's just using the voice system of dragon to pipe questions into Wolfram alpha (which is a very unique product).
However, where this WILL be useful is in the house. If I could take my old phone system and plug a dongle into each plug and a computer on the back end with this, I'd be ALL FOR IT. Same for a car. I may not want to talk to my phone in the office or on a sidewalk, but when I'm home or in my car, it would be the prefered method of interaction.
Along those lines, Kinect is the closest thing so far. Microsoft needs to cut a few deals and do a bit of coding. If they did, could you imagine it? Say "xbox, add kitty litter to the shopping list" and BAM, it's there for you to access from your cell phone the next time you're in the store. Wifi or the phone cables in our houses could easily be used to extend this to every room. THAT would make life better!
I live in Huntsville, AL and our sprint coverage has actually been getting worse. I don't know what they're doing, maybe upgrading the towers. (The local store said that they'd been enabling wimax which may be true as I can get it in my house, and no-where else.) Ultimately though, the strength of 3G has decreased horribly. I'm at the point where I'm seriously considering replacing my cell plan witha verizon mifi (4G and great coverage) and a VOIP subscription.
To be honest, the best way to deal with WBC has been counter protests. It emberasses them emmensely when they protest something like Comicon and the counter protest is Bender, Buddy Jesus and the cast of firefly. They like being reviled. They're not as keen on being mocked. If they protest and the mocking counter-protest gets just as much coverage, they tend to back off.
I used to live in Topeka KS (where they are from). People used to get upset. However, in HS all the students took to holding hands with someone of the same sex when they walked infront of the WBC protestors.
Thats what I want to see. Gay orgy infront of every WBC protest. Ignore the WBC protester's yelling at them and just make out. Better yet, copy the signs and have a bunch of flamboyantly gay guys protest homosexuals right along with the WBC. Don't revile them, MOCK THEM.
On Tech News Today yesterday or the day before, a BoA employee in their chat room indicated it was an issue associated with end-of-quarter processing. I think it's rediculious to assume that just because a website experiences issues, it's an attack. Mine are all database issues personally.
To be honest, Sony's approach has pushed me to buy an xbox 360. Now I tend to prefer xbox games over ps3 ones. It might not cost them all the games I buy, but when there's an option, you can bet it'll be xbox first.
No No No! We're looking at this completely wrong! Facebook isn't patenting ways to invade our privacy. They're pattenting cross site scripting so that they can stop it! See, facebook is on OUR side!
The article says nothing. After reading it I am no more aware of how a programmable microcontroller could be used in attacks than I was before. While I would love to either think of or read about how microcontrollers could directly benefit pen testing (as opposed to the current method of using them to control a quadcopter or UAV plane), I still don't have the answer.
P.S. Of course there have been examples. The malicious mouse which contained a mass storage device and a HID emulator to run malware from the storage was pretty cool.
My wife and I take the Christmas solution:
Over the years, we have given multiple of our family digital picture frames. Then, every year, we go through our pictures, find the decent ones, and copy them on to a dozen SD Cards and distribute.
Not only are all the receivers very appreciative, but they also are our backup. If we lose photos, we can always go get them. Also, because storage is ever increasing, we can, many times, include the back photos on the SD card as well. The recipients appreciate it because they don't have to swap cards, we get the benefit of keeping the pictures on modern media.
Ultimately, you do lose some photos. Your family doesn't care about that picture you took of that tree while on vacation in Florida. But the pictures that matter will always be there for you.
Oh, and at home I'd keep them on a RAID 1 array. Have software back them up to a dedicated USB drive regularly, and sync them with a cloud storage service regularly. After that you're simply going to have to transfer them from media to media as technology progresses.
Wholy agree with this. I can't imagine a situation where a tablet is where I'm productive. My wife even puts down hers to write emails. I think Amazon has hit the nail on the head. A tablet is just a portable media consumption screen. People should have a real computer to 'do' things.
I think intel is right that there is a hole in the market. I think people are looking for the ability to carry a 'real computer' with them everywhere for productivity. However, right now, the only options are underpowered or hampered tablets. Hopefully the combination of windows 8 and newer intel chips will provide the combination of power and portability that would let it be with us everywhere.
Dear Microsoft,
Please include the requirement for secure boot. I know how to download vmware player to run the things I want to run in a virtual machine and I greatly desire to have a secure underpinning to my OS. Thanks.
Gabe
I always thought Microsoft could be unique from the likes of google, etc by doing just that. Take all the services google offers and provide them as microsoft server Apps. That way a business could have it's cake (all the cool web apps) and eat it too (have them hosted locally). I personally run an internal Windows SBS because I like all the capabilities exchange and a DC provide but I don't want them provided by some external service.
Microsoft, if you're reading this, provide a real note app too al-la springpad. It could be onenote based. As long as it runs on everything (andriod, ios, browser, windows, tablets), and syncs across a network I'll be happy. I don't like having all my ideas and thoughts in some data center somewhere.
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Personally, I'm semi-excited about the idea of a Windows 8 transformer tablet (similar to the other asus transformers) running on an ivy bridge CPU. It could be a solid daily driver when paired with a remotely accessable desktop for the heavy lifting.
That said, a windows 7 tablet running an atom CPU with no keyboard is rediculious. It's not a computer and it's not a tablet. It's a still-born bastard.
Ultimately though, I'm not convinced that an iPad plus a solid Windows 8 ivy bridge laptop next year won't be the best of all worlds.
Is it just me, or did Symantec take a normal spear phishing attack, by the usual suspects, with the usual tools, and turn it into an advertisement? They gave it a name, wrote a paper on it, made sure it was clear CHEMICALS were involved, and then sent it to the news outlets. I guess this is only to be expected given how much publicity they got from their stuxnet and duqu analysis. Oh well. *sigh*
I've always felt redbox was overpriced. I could get DVDs for a dollar a day at blockbuster who actually maintained a full store with employees. The $1/day was a simple formula which is why I tolerated it. But, considering I can't get my wife to return a movie in anything under a few days. I think I'm probably better off just getting a 48hr streaming license from amazon or waiting for the in-mail DVD from netflix.
Seems pretty even keeled to me. It's not demanding a lot. It simply reflects a few things he's passionate about and then helps people understand him. Can't fault a guy for saying he gets hot at night and is alergic to cat.
This made me think of Charlie Miller's Talk at Defcon 18. Basically, he sends out lots of remote access tools, but ensures redundance because he expects an amount of his code to get caught. I assume the Duqu writers did the same thing. So what if 1 RAT gets caught. Your sister malware lived on.
Along that line, I'd touch on ways they can start working on their own on programming. You could cover different areas each time:
There's more than enough time for them to learn about the realities of life. Right now the goal is to show them that they can enjoy and show off their STEM work. Hopefully some of them will take it to heart and enter the field.
To be honest, I think this bothered me before when it came up a few years ago. The idea, locking down code from boot through apps, is a good idea from a security standpoint. But, as pointed out elsewhere in this thread, thats not necessarily how it ends up being used (vendor lockin) and it ends up being compromised anyway (console rooting).
Still, with the advent of dirt cheap computing, (rasberry pi), a plethora of cell phones, and virtualization, I think there is more than enough opportunity to run the OS and programs of your choice. Computing platforms are simply so readily available, no-one will be able to lock everyting out.
Does that mean the next windows computer you buy may not be rootable to linux? Maybe. If you wanted linux on it, why'd you buy the non-rootable windows computer anyway? Alternately, why don't you just install vmware and virtualize. (Virtualization is a clear winner over dual booting now adays.)
Ultimately, it's just another product differentiator to shop for. But there's no way it can restrict your access to capabilities. And that's how it should be. Trade security for flexibility at your discression.
Skype quality is extremely dependent on hardware and room acoustics. If we can compress, stream, and decode MP3s in real time, the technology is likely not the problem. Instead, I think people simply are unwilling to pay real money for a simple microphone. However, a lot of nicer webcams seem to come with very nice Mics.
I normally buy used rackable systems (from somewhere like unixsurplus.com). For $400 you can get 4 cores ( a couple years old) and 8GB of ram. That should be enough to run a small lab at very little cost.
Agree. FUD. If it doesn't pass pre-existing AV, its either old or poorly done. The A team hackers don't forget to check their code against antivirus.
Could convergence be implemented for DNS resolution as well? Could you resolve a domain through the standard DNS hierarchy, through a p2p net, and through another means then take the most likely value from what you get back? Seems it would offer graceful degridation.
If you can upload a script, how hard can it be to place it in an auto-run location or to replace something commonly run?
Btw, after thinking about this, I'm seriously tempted to install a meterpreter shell on my laptop that dials back to a metasploit instance running either on my home VM servers or in the cloud. I could turn the VM on when needed but otherwise leave it off. But man, if I ever lost my laptop, I'd have all the access I'd ever need!
This is the right technology, but the wrong setting. Also, I don't think it's that revolutionary. Really it's just using the voice system of dragon to pipe questions into Wolfram alpha (which is a very unique product).
However, where this WILL be useful is in the house. If I could take my old phone system and plug a dongle into each plug and a computer on the back end with this, I'd be ALL FOR IT. Same for a car. I may not want to talk to my phone in the office or on a sidewalk, but when I'm home or in my car, it would be the prefered method of interaction.
Along those lines, Kinect is the closest thing so far. Microsoft needs to cut a few deals and do a bit of coding. If they did, could you imagine it? Say "xbox, add kitty litter to the shopping list" and BAM, it's there for you to access from your cell phone the next time you're in the store. Wifi or the phone cables in our houses could easily be used to extend this to every room. THAT would make life better!
I live in Huntsville, AL and our sprint coverage has actually been getting worse. I don't know what they're doing, maybe upgrading the towers. (The local store said that they'd been enabling wimax which may be true as I can get it in my house, and no-where else.) Ultimately though, the strength of 3G has decreased horribly. I'm at the point where I'm seriously considering replacing my cell plan witha verizon mifi (4G and great coverage) and a VOIP subscription.
My understanding was the wimax basestation equipment was software upgradable to LTE....
To be honest, the best way to deal with WBC has been counter protests. It emberasses them emmensely when they protest something like Comicon and the counter protest is Bender, Buddy Jesus and the cast of firefly. They like being reviled. They're not as keen on being mocked. If they protest and the mocking counter-protest gets just as much coverage, they tend to back off.
I used to live in Topeka KS (where they are from). People used to get upset. However, in HS all the students took to holding hands with someone of the same sex when they walked infront of the WBC protestors.
Thats what I want to see. Gay orgy infront of every WBC protest. Ignore the WBC protester's yelling at them and just make out. Better yet, copy the signs and have a bunch of flamboyantly gay guys protest homosexuals right along with the WBC. Don't revile them, MOCK THEM.
On Tech News Today yesterday or the day before, a BoA employee in their chat room indicated it was an issue associated with end-of-quarter processing. I think it's rediculious to assume that just because a website experiences issues, it's an attack. Mine are all database issues personally.
To be honest, Sony's approach has pushed me to buy an xbox 360. Now I tend to prefer xbox games over ps3 ones. It might not cost them all the games I buy, but when there's an option, you can bet it'll be xbox first.
No No No! We're looking at this completely wrong! Facebook isn't patenting ways to invade our privacy. They're pattenting cross site scripting so that they can stop it! See, facebook is on OUR side!
The article says nothing. After reading it I am no more aware of how a programmable microcontroller could be used in attacks than I was before. While I would love to either think of or read about how microcontrollers could directly benefit pen testing (as opposed to the current method of using them to control a quadcopter or UAV plane), I still don't have the answer.
P.S. Of course there have been examples. The malicious mouse which contained a mass storage device and a HID emulator to run malware from the storage was pretty cool.
.. to the wonderful pen testing opportunity!
My wife and I take the Christmas solution:
Over the years, we have given multiple of our family digital picture frames. Then, every year, we go through our pictures, find the decent ones, and copy them on to a dozen SD Cards and distribute.
Not only are all the receivers very appreciative, but they also are our backup. If we lose photos, we can always go get them. Also, because storage is ever increasing, we can, many times, include the back photos on the SD card as well. The recipients appreciate it because they don't have to swap cards, we get the benefit of keeping the pictures on modern media.
Ultimately, you do lose some photos. Your family doesn't care about that picture you took of that tree while on vacation in Florida. But the pictures that matter will always be there for you.
Oh, and at home I'd keep them on a RAID 1 array. Have software back them up to a dedicated USB drive regularly, and sync them with a cloud storage service regularly. After that you're simply going to have to transfer them from media to media as technology progresses.
Wholy agree with this. I can't imagine a situation where a tablet is where I'm productive. My wife even puts down hers to write emails. I think Amazon has hit the nail on the head. A tablet is just a portable media consumption screen. People should have a real computer to 'do' things.
I think intel is right that there is a hole in the market. I think people are looking for the ability to carry a 'real computer' with them everywhere for productivity. However, right now, the only options are underpowered or hampered tablets. Hopefully the combination of windows 8 and newer intel chips will provide the combination of power and portability that would let it be with us everywhere.
Dear Microsoft,
Please include the requirement for secure boot. I know how to download vmware player to run the things I want to run in a virtual machine and I greatly desire to have a secure underpinning to my OS. Thanks.
Gabe
I always thought Microsoft could be unique from the likes of google, etc by doing just that. Take all the services google offers and provide them as microsoft server Apps. That way a business could have it's cake (all the cool web apps) and eat it too (have them hosted locally). I personally run an internal Windows SBS because I like all the capabilities exchange and a DC provide but I don't want them provided by some external service.
Microsoft, if you're reading this, provide a real note app too al-la springpad. It could be onenote based. As long as it runs on everything (andriod, ios, browser, windows, tablets), and syncs across a network I'll be happy. I don't like having all my ideas and thoughts in some data center somewhere.