I heard the same discussion on reddit. Their conclusion was that some kind of psyops operation is going on to game reddit's moderation but it's only partially successful due to the number of genuine viewers.
In all seriousness, how should the technical and geek community deal with this sort of sabotage? Is it sufficient to respond,or is proactive behavior called for? What would Sun Tzu have to say about this situation?
Replace IPsec with an open and non-pathological standard.
I'm sure you have used OpenSSH and/or OpenVPN, they are simple, elegant, cross platform, and come with mountains of features. IPsec is a confused nightmare in comparison.
Only if you left everything on it. if you even did a single wipe with all 0's on the hard drive even the best NSA computer spooks cant recover anything at all off of that drive.
IIt's not just the NSA spooks that can do that, many hard disk recovery companies can. Overwrite the disk multiple times with random data, then zeros, then format and use. The shred command makes this easy but it still takes some time.
Zero out your hard disks, or at least any unused parts of them. Don't fill them with random data because they could think they are encrypted and try to extract the decryption key from you.
If I want to clean a hard drive I overwrite it 3 to 6 times with random data then overwrite it with zeros. It gives the drive a good test too. That's for magnetic disks, it's harder to know what SSDs are doing.
There are exceptions in really bad weather. It really should be up to the driver, however most drivers are not up to the task of driving safely in unusual conditions like heavy rain or snow.
Plus cars have to read their speed high, or rather it's illegal for them to read their speed low so they over estimate. BMW are notorious for this.
They read speed cameras? So I can print out a 20MPH sign and hold it out of my window whenever I feel like making someone else's car slam on the brakes. Or put one of these signs next to a trunk road and cause traffic chaos.
Genghis Khan understood war. You don't. Enjoy your time in the play pen of life. War is war, there are no fucking rules. If the liberals in the west understood that, the middle east would be civilized by now. Grow up.
If there are no rules then why pretend to be offended by chemical weapons?
I thought depleted uranium was used for its mass, not specifically for its long-term toxic effects.
But it does have long term toxic effects. These are well known to the people who ordered the use of depleted uranium weapons so they can't pretend it's news to them.
What's going on here? I never said the anti-Bush tirade was wrong or that it didn't deserve a +4. When I said 'tirade' I didn't mean lies. What I was doing was complaining that the post above mine was at -1.
I'm no fan of Bush, never have been. But then I'm no fan of Obama since he started with the Bush style warmongering.
The anti-bush tirade is at +4 and this is at -1? Come on mods, you might well think the above is wrong but at least someone is thinking here.
The "I doubt Muslims took over those planes, stupid media" conspiracy bullshit should be enough to put it at -1. I would consider that definite Flamebait, if not outright trolling.
He never said that though. He said he didn't know and didn't trust the media.
Agree, but it's rarely the stupidity of the admin who created the system, it's the stupidity of the PHB who screwed up what that admin was allowed to do.
I agree. He probably has a record of doing this activity and stumbled accross it, otherwise how would he have known. The real messed up thing is that no one else in the NSA came forward as a whistleblower about these activities; this shows either how indoctrinated or how well profiled there employees are in the org.
Or how scared of retaliation they are. After all the NSA knows everything about them.
I know the answer to this one. Capability based systems. Sadly UNIX isn't a capability based system. I think the last one that actually ran was KeyKOS.
It would be nice if the NSA would fund coyotos instead of burning billions tapping everything to look for ghosts.
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I heard the same discussion on reddit. Their conclusion was that some kind of psyops operation is going on to game reddit's moderation but it's only partially successful due to the number of genuine viewers.
In all seriousness, how should the technical and geek community deal with this sort of sabotage? Is it sufficient to respond,or is proactive behavior called for? What would Sun Tzu have to say about this situation?
Replace IPsec with an open and non-pathological standard.
I'm sure you have used OpenSSH and/or OpenVPN, they are simple, elegant, cross platform, and come with mountains of features. IPsec is a confused nightmare in comparison.
Microsoft Research proves that top notch talent is for sale too. Top researchers are blinded by greed just like the rest of us.
The risk of this vulnerability is 2.5 Snowdens.
2.5 Snowdens is what? Nuking a major population center or creating a virus that wipes out a fifth of the world's population?
Normal businesses deal with risk of at most 0.01 Snowden, and that would be accidental death of their entire work force.
IT would love to, but upper management doesn't want to hear it.
I find management don't understand these things and will either ignore what they are told or go off the deep end and demand ridiculous fixes.
It's always been up to IT to refuse to do anything that comes with a huge security risk and to compromise on the small security risks.
You what? Man pages may not easily teach you how to use the tool but they are an excellent reference once you have some clue.
What do you do to get information about the tools on your system? Google everything and get the answers for some other version of the same tool?
A casual search finds no-one offering that service. You may be right.
I'll keep doing multiple overwrites with random data then zeroing the drive just out of blind paranoia.
TrueCrypt is nice but the U.S. or other governments will simply order to you give them the passphrase under pain of very nasty punishments.
If you want to keep a secret don't carry that secret though airports in any form.
Only if you left everything on it. if you even did a single wipe with all 0's on the hard drive even the best NSA computer spooks cant recover anything at all off of that drive.
IIt's not just the NSA spooks that can do that, many hard disk recovery companies can. Overwrite the disk multiple times with random data, then zeros, then format and use. The shred command makes this easy but it still takes some time.
Zero out your hard disks, or at least any unused parts of them. Don't fill them with random data because they could think they are encrypted and try to extract the decryption key from you.
If I want to clean a hard drive I overwrite it 3 to 6 times with random data then overwrite it with zeros. It gives the drive a good test too. That's for magnetic disks, it's harder to know what SSDs are doing.
But first off, don't be stupid. Sanitize/Sterilize ALL of your data PRIOR to starting your trip.
They cannot find what you are not carrying.
Good advice. But they can still do you quite a bit of harm looking for what you are not carrying.
"America may be the land of the free"
Must be some kind of joke story. I'll stop reading there.
The shock-jock of newspapers. We can stop worrying about that then.
What's with your font? It's horrible!
There are exceptions in really bad weather. It really should be up to the driver, however most drivers are not up to the task of driving safely in unusual conditions like heavy rain or snow.
Plus cars have to read their speed high, or rather it's illegal for them to read their speed low so they over estimate. BMW are notorious for this.
There are no easy answers.
Man, I so wanna steal a residential speed sign and hang it out my back window on the highway. It applies to police cars as well, right?
Police cars don't have to obey any of the normal traffic rules. I've seen police drivers do some monumentally dumb things in the UK.
They read speed cameras? So I can print out a 20MPH sign and hold it out of my window whenever I feel like making someone else's car slam on the brakes. Or put one of these signs next to a trunk road and cause traffic chaos.
Genghis Khan understood war. You don't. Enjoy your time in the play pen of life. War is war, there are no fucking rules. If the liberals in the west understood that, the middle east would be civilized by now. Grow up.
If there are no rules then why pretend to be offended by chemical weapons?
I thought depleted uranium was used for its mass, not specifically for its long-term toxic effects.
But it does have long term toxic effects. These are well known to the people who ordered the use of depleted uranium weapons so they can't pretend it's news to them.
What's going on here? I never said the anti-Bush tirade was wrong or that it didn't deserve a +4. When I said 'tirade' I didn't mean lies. What I was doing was complaining that the post above mine was at -1.
I'm no fan of Bush, never have been. But then I'm no fan of Obama since he started with the Bush style warmongering.
The anti-bush tirade is at +4 and this is at -1? Come on mods, you might well think the above is wrong but at least someone is thinking here.
The "I doubt Muslims took over those planes, stupid media" conspiracy bullshit should be enough to put it at -1. I would consider that definite Flamebait, if not outright trolling.
He never said that though. He said he didn't know and didn't trust the media.
But they don't want brilliant people anymore, only dumb ones that fit in better and cause less problems.
Agree, but it's rarely the stupidity of the admin who created the system, it's the stupidity of the PHB who screwed up what that admin was allowed to do.
I agree. He probably has a record of doing this activity and stumbled accross it, otherwise how would he have known.
The real messed up thing is that no one else in the NSA came forward as a whistleblower about these activities; this shows either how indoctrinated or how well profiled there employees are in the org.
Or how scared of retaliation they are. After all the NSA knows everything about them.
I know the answer to this one. Capability based systems. Sadly UNIX isn't a capability based system.
I think the last one that actually ran was KeyKOS.
It would be nice if the NSA would fund coyotos instead of burning billions tapping everything to look for ghosts.