Soooooo, what would stop a 'coalition' of the US and the UK from abusing this to their hearts content? All the UK as to do is set up a datacenter in the UK embassy in the US, and the US to ask telcos and ISPs to route traffic through it. Just like that, two democracies that can spy on it's citizens at will and completely 'legal'.
I have read a brief article on it but I haven't watched a video of the talk. I'd sincerely like to know the details of why it wouldn't work, such as the type of oxidizer used, stoichiometry of the reaction tested, etc. as this idea is not new and it's been tested and shown to, with the right ratio of chemicals, turn the hard drive bays and anything in them to slag. I'll look for the article and reply to this post with it if someone is interested, or if someone kindly posts the Defcon talk refuting this method.
Thermite isn't explosive on its own, it's just a high temperature redox reaction. Arson would probably stick in court if it were law enforcement attempting to seize it, along with at a minimum destruction of evidence and some type of assault charge. But the data is destroyed and it's low cost and low tech. Putting the whole thing in a fireproof enclosure (a safe, concrete/center blocks, etc) and it lowers the odds of torching the average house; depending on the person and the data that might be an acceptable compromise.
Realistically all one would need is a 3.5" hard drive with the guts replaced by Thermite. Installed above the storage medium and RAM and wired to a pressure switch so when the PC is lifted it ignites, it's hard to see how this can be countered unless the ne'er-do-wells know about it ahead of time. And it's cheap.
I'm assuming based on the described environment that these could be random people that aren't full trusted since there was concern about allowing people to edit and mark up documents.
Pick up a $30 access point that supports WPA-PSK, put it in the middle of the table and only power it on during the meeting. Unless you have a specific need for net access it doesn't even need to connect to a WAN.
You can buy $50 off brand tablets running Android from most Chinese manufacturers, pile them up and hand them out like coasters preloaded with the wireless key and Screenshare or Splashtop.
Any content you've purchased on one Wii is stuck there forever in most cases. Nintendo won't transfer digital purchases unless you have documentation showing your original Wii was stolen, and that's iffy. Why people keep paying for the same, tired rehash of their game catalog and obvious abuse of the platform is beyond me.
I'd hardly call it irrelevant, think about it for a moment. Let's say the authorities (pick your country) decided that anyone installing a specific application (for example, the Bitcoin wallet app, or even a specific political party app if you're more inclined to believe in conspiracies) is a 'person of interest'. It doesn't take a huge leap of imagination to picture what a little data mining could do from there.
TFA just says they aren't doing anything with the information... for now. That doesn't mean the FBI or whatever 3 letter agency can't put a shunt between the Internet and their SmartScreen servers. It's a sniffing vector.
After all of the newspaper headlines reading 'MARS IS DEAD, NO LIFE FOUND!' killed public interest of Mars back during the 70s after the Viking probes' questionable experiments, I'm not sure firing six small static probes at a sizable planet to look for DNA is a good idea. If history is any indicator it seems like a big risk to the entire exploration effort.
I agree 100% about the ending, but honestly I had problems with the whole thing. The writing in Mass Effect 3 with the Crucible was one big Deus Ex Machina (the plot device, not the game of the same name) and the ending was a tacked on, rushed out, last minute hack job similar to Deus Ex:Revolution (the game this time, not the plot device).
I'm a little shocked more people didn't have issues with the ME3 storyline considering the whole Crucible plot device was never alluded to or foreshadowed in the previous games. Bioware has fallen from where they once were in the pantheon of gaming development companies that would consistently produce tightly written, well thought out stories. Perhaps EA is to blame and based on what came out of Bioware after Dragon Age 2 was shoved out the door that's not a bad theory.
BioWare strongly believes in the team’s artistic vision for the end of this arc of the Mass Effect franchise. The extended cut DLC will expand on the existing endings, but no further ending DLC is planned.
Translation:
EA believes we've spent enough money on an ending. We're getting dinged on fan review sites like Metacritic so we're going to throw another bandaid on it for as little cost as possible.
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Soooooo, what would stop a 'coalition' of the US and the UK from abusing this to their hearts content? All the UK as to do is set up a datacenter in the UK embassy in the US, and the US to ask telcos and ISPs to route traffic through it. Just like that, two democracies that can spy on it's citizens at will and completely 'legal'.
I have read a brief article on it but I haven't watched a video of the talk. I'd sincerely like to know the details of why it wouldn't work, such as the type of oxidizer used, stoichiometry of the reaction tested, etc. as this idea is not new and it's been tested and shown to, with the right ratio of chemicals, turn the hard drive bays and anything in them to slag. I'll look for the article and reply to this post with it if someone is interested, or if someone kindly posts the Defcon talk refuting this method.
Thermite isn't explosive on its own, it's just a high temperature redox reaction. Arson would probably stick in court if it were law enforcement attempting to seize it, along with at a minimum destruction of evidence and some type of assault charge. But the data is destroyed and it's low cost and low tech. Putting the whole thing in a fireproof enclosure (a safe, concrete/center blocks, etc) and it lowers the odds of torching the average house; depending on the person and the data that might be an acceptable compromise.
Realistically all one would need is a 3.5" hard drive with the guts replaced by Thermite. Installed above the storage medium and RAM and wired to a pressure switch so when the PC is lifted it ignites, it's hard to see how this can be countered unless the ne'er-do-wells know about it ahead of time. And it's cheap.
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If you don't think it could happen, history says otherwise.
Slysoft has been around quite awhile, in tech terms it probably could be considered an antique. Doesn't make the summary correct, though.
I have to say your analogy of the public school system to a prison when it comes to social interaction was very insightful, and completely correct.
I'm assuming based on the described environment that these could be random people that aren't full trusted since there was concern about allowing people to edit and mark up documents.
Pick up a $30 access point that supports WPA-PSK, put it in the middle of the table and only power it on during the meeting. Unless you have a specific need for net access it doesn't even need to connect to a WAN. You can buy $50 off brand tablets running Android from most Chinese manufacturers, pile them up and hand them out like coasters preloaded with the wireless key and Screenshare or Splashtop.
Any content you've purchased on one Wii is stuck there forever in most cases. Nintendo won't transfer digital purchases unless you have documentation showing your original Wii was stolen, and that's iffy. Why people keep paying for the same, tired rehash of their game catalog and obvious abuse of the platform is beyond me.
In all fairness, he was busy being one of the men who stared at goats. That book/movie was closer to fact than fiction in many, many areas.
Did this not pan out or something?
Was it? I stand corrected, it's been awhile since I saw it. Surprisingly watchable.
... from the BBC's Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets.
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I came here to mod and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of gum. And mod points. Well done sir.
I'd hardly call it irrelevant, think about it for a moment. Let's say the authorities (pick your country) decided that anyone installing a specific application (for example, the Bitcoin wallet app, or even a specific political party app if you're more inclined to believe in conspiracies) is a 'person of interest'. It doesn't take a huge leap of imagination to picture what a little data mining could do from there.
That's awfully punitive.
TFA just says they aren't doing anything with the information... for now. That doesn't mean the FBI or whatever 3 letter agency can't put a shunt between the Internet and their SmartScreen servers. It's a sniffing vector.
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After all of the newspaper headlines reading 'MARS IS DEAD, NO LIFE FOUND!' killed public interest of Mars back during the 70s after the Viking probes' questionable experiments, I'm not sure firing six small static probes at a sizable planet to look for DNA is a good idea. If history is any indicator it seems like a big risk to the entire exploration effort.
I agree 100% about the ending, but honestly I had problems with the whole thing. The writing in Mass Effect 3 with the Crucible was one big Deus Ex Machina (the plot device, not the game of the same name) and the ending was a tacked on, rushed out, last minute hack job similar to Deus Ex:Revolution (the game this time, not the plot device).
I'm a little shocked more people didn't have issues with the ME3 storyline considering the whole Crucible plot device was never alluded to or foreshadowed in the previous games. Bioware has fallen from where they once were in the pantheon of gaming development companies that would consistently produce tightly written, well thought out stories. Perhaps EA is to blame and based on what came out of Bioware after Dragon Age 2 was shoved out the door that's not a bad theory.
Translation:
EA believes we've spent enough money on an ending. We're getting dinged on fan review sites like Metacritic so we're going to throw another bandaid on it for as little cost as possible.