In an interview, Assange claimed to have knowledge of a hacked satellite that was used to provide Egypt with an internet access during the internet black-out of the country. And indeed, one ISP (used by about 10% of the population ) stayed online when Mubarak pulled the plug. Medias explained it was because it was providing internet access to the stock exchange and several big companies, but it sounds like it should not have been up at all.
Well, just use the same scorecard as the one you would use for any scoop-hunting journalist : one brought to light many sensitive informations that were kept secret despite their interest for the general public, while another has willingly destroyed informations that could have led to successful criminal investigations.
You support charging them for corruption and tax evasion, maybe by supporting Lessig's Fix Congress First initiative.
You donate to wikileaks.
You support bitcoin.
These sentences have a common point : they all begin with you.
He was #2 in the organization and was heavily trusted. When manipulating non-anonymized data, you have to find a balance between redundancy of backups and protection of sources. Keeping this balance when #1 is in jail and #2 is a traitor is really difficult.
What we should all do in light of this is to give some love to bitcoin. That's the only solution to prevent this kind of attack.
But having the ability to authorize a closed-source software to send screencaps of military computers to a remote location is such a gooooood idea. Absolutely nothing can go wrong there.
Oh, btw, stuxnet 2 has been spotted, gathering intelligence about various networks vulnerabilities, just saying...
I love how you claim it is overly simplified to say we can turn AS back on but do not wish to discuss the details to prove your claim. Indeed, it is the second time you make a useless ellipsis about physical switches in space, instead of explaining what a physical switch has to do with something that looks like a software flag and why turning it off was easier to turn it back on. I think that indeed we are at the end of the conversation.
So what do you mean ? The switches to turn AS back on (I am amazed that this is a physical switch rather than a software flag) are broken right now ? Or will they eventually break if we use them too often ?
Call the Perry scenario a fairytale but you can't deny the fact that you elected, twice, a nutjob who went to war relying on god's plans and tried to convince my president to go into Iraq thanks to biblical prophecies. You can't deny that 4 of the republican candidates (including the top 2 in the polls) think they are endorsed by God. You can't deny that US and EU views on some territorial issues like Israel are diametrically opposed, even under the Obama administration.
If I were a strategist in EU, I would not trust America to keep that channel open.
Stop thinking that this has anything to do with porn. Stop thinking that the promoters of such laws care at all about pedophilia and fighting it. If they really cared, they would listen to the policemen and non-profits fighting it that censorship would be counter-productive.
They just hate internet. It is the #2 media behind TV and is still gaining importance. They want to be able to control it. They want to be able to shut down websites. They need to tackle protests.
The plan is simple : first, put a mechanism to fight against pedophilia. Then extend it to fight terrorism. Then, using the vague definitions of terrorism, use these tools to squash any kind of protest, because disturbing traffic is akin to terrorism.
There is a difference between "non trivial" and "impossible". If you end up electing Rick Perry and that God tells him to not let non-US heathen use GPS, it is technically feasible on a small budget.
The fact that doing it too often may eventually break it isn't a reassuring feature either.
I understand that GWB proposition may have been silly, but I do not know what are the ability of the ground stations to do firmware updates on satellites. I doubt that it is impossible.
Turning SA on is technically feasible and I doubt that this would be a very difficult or costly feat. Electing a crazy-enough leader to decide to do so is something US has proven to be capable of. These are good enough reasons for EU to have their own system.
GPS includes a (currently disabled) feature called Selective Availability (SA) that adds intentional, time varying errors of up to 100 meters (328 ft) to the publicly available navigation signals. This was intended to deny an enemy the use of civilian GPS receivers for precision weapon guidance.
President Bush has ordered plans for temporarily disabling the U.S. network of global positioning satellites during a national crisis to prevent terrorists from using the navigational technology, the White House said Wednesday.
So from what I understand, the accuracy of GPS can be degraded for civilians whenever the US government wishes to do it, and GWB tried to make it possible to switch off the network whenever a terrorist attack hits U.S. You have to admit that this doesn't make non-US users of the system feel very secure. I guess that in case of a terrorist attack, the US would not be very concerned about an ongoing French military operation in Ivory Coast for instance, and would switch off or degrade the system without a second thought.
Before Galileo was decided, US did not give the ability to use the full precision of the GPS to non military US units. It also has the capacity to unilateraly switch off GPS on a zone. Galileo will be a civilian system, for anyone to use. Presumably always on.
It used to be 20 years during the Roman empire. You had to serve the army 20 years before being recognized as a full citizen. Today several nations make it optional and voluntary despite having far
more powerful armies and longer life expectancy. This was made possible through the mechanization of warfare.
Nowadays, in most countries, you have to work 40-50 years to enjoy retirement. And workers tend to actively oppose mechanization.
What are the reason of the "jobless recovery" ? Simple maths prove that outsourcing is not the sole cause, far from it. Most jobs are simply not necessary anymore for the good functioning of society. Extending the working time would just amplify this problem. There is a need for a new societal model right now.
Last time I saw this proposal, the idea was to give a five years extension if you paid for a small fee (if you are not ready to pay 100â then it is probably better to just put it in the public domain) and there was 2 sets of rights I do not remember that you could give to users of your works, each adding 5 years. I think it was something like "authorization of derivative works" and "authorization of commercial uses".
I don't know in your country but in mine (France) if a journalist publishes pictures that are staged like this one and passes them as depicting a real event, he would probably be fired.
I think that whet he depicts, are not photojournalists but people selling propaganda pictures. On a given event you will not just see journalists taking picture but also commercial photographers that make images for arts and profit but not necessarily for information.
Who are these photographers ? journalists looking for information or photographers looking for good images ?
More precisely, RFID isn't secure against cloning. It has roughly the security of a good mechanical key, except it can't be lockpicked, it needs a cloned key.
I know one should'nt attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence but I can't prevent myself to think that if I wanted to leak fake informations, I would use exactly that kind of procedures.
Western governments jumped late in the infowar bandwagon but they are going there. Fake leaks are doomed to happen.
Believe it or not, this is to follow a proposition originally made by Stallman. He said that one must be careful if you want to preserve free software while limiting copyright.
The proposal is therefore that an author gets a minimum of 5 years of exclusive commercial exploitation of his work but can get 10 or 20 years if he authorizes (from the start) derivative works under a free license.
In the absolute I think it is a good idea, and politically it gives room for negotiation, which is always a good thing. Anyway, even during the 5 years period, non-commercial filesharing would be perfectly legal.
Stop thinking Steve Jobs had ideas. He recognized good ideas when he saw one and he spent a lot of time hunting for good ideas, but he did not come up with them first :
Anyway, without a proportional vote like in Germany and with such a high barrier to get reimbursed in your election costs (To get public funding you need 5% of votes vs 0.7% in Germany) there is no chance at all that the pirate party gets a good score ever.
In France, the way to fame is through the presidential election : candidates have to be given equal time in the media. But the PP decided not to go.
Sarkozy will probably not be reelected. Polls are very bad for him. his party has tried to seduce the internet crowd a bit last year but apparently decided that it is definitely lost to them (and rightly so). They simply do not understand this network of tube through which computers communicate with each other.
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In an interview, Assange claimed to have knowledge of a hacked satellite that was used to provide Egypt with an internet access during the internet black-out of the country. And indeed, one ISP (used by about 10% of the population ) stayed online when Mubarak pulled the plug. Medias explained it was because it was providing internet access to the stock exchange and several big companies, but it sounds like it should not have been up at all.
Well, just use the same scorecard as the one you would use for any scoop-hunting journalist : one brought to light many sensitive informations that were kept secret despite their interest for the general public, while another has willingly destroyed informations that could have led to successful criminal investigations.
I'll let you do the sort.
You support charging them for corruption and tax evasion, maybe by supporting Lessig's Fix Congress First initiative.
You donate to wikileaks.
You support bitcoin.
These sentences have a common point : they all begin with you.
It is suspected that these data are not in their possession any more and were deleted when Daniel Domscheit-Berg defected from wikileaks with a copy :
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/22/wikileaks_data_lost/
He was #2 in the organization and was heavily trusted. When manipulating non-anonymized data, you have to find a balance between redundancy of backups and protection of sources. Keeping this balance when #1 is in jail and #2 is a traitor is really difficult.
What we should all do in light of this is to give some love to bitcoin. That's the only solution to prevent this kind of attack.
But having the ability to authorize a closed-source software to send screencaps of military computers to a remote location is such a gooooood idea. Absolutely nothing can go wrong there.
Oh, btw, stuxnet 2 has been spotted, gathering intelligence about various networks vulnerabilities, just saying...
No, Bush did not convince Blair to go to war with Biblical stories.
I was refering to Chirac : http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2009/aug/10/religion-george-bush
I have some French sources for that as well.
I love how you claim it is overly simplified to say we can turn AS back on but do not wish to discuss the details to prove your claim. Indeed, it is the second time you make a useless ellipsis about physical switches in space, instead of explaining what a physical switch has to do with something that looks like a software flag and why turning it off was easier to turn it back on. I think that indeed we are at the end of the conversation.
So what do you mean ? The switches to turn AS back on (I am amazed that this is a physical switch rather than a software flag) are broken right now ? Or will they eventually break if we use them too often ?
Call the Perry scenario a fairytale but you can't deny the fact that you elected, twice, a nutjob who went to war relying on god's plans and tried to convince my president to go into Iraq thanks to biblical prophecies. You can't deny that 4 of the republican candidates (including the top 2 in the polls) think they are endorsed by God. You can't deny that US and EU views on some territorial issues like Israel are diametrically opposed, even under the Obama administration.
If I were a strategist in EU, I would not trust America to keep that channel open.
Stop thinking that this has anything to do with porn. Stop thinking that the promoters of such laws care at all about pedophilia and fighting it. If they really cared, they would listen to the policemen and non-profits fighting it that censorship would be counter-productive.
They just hate internet. It is the #2 media behind TV and is still gaining importance. They want to be able to control it. They want to be able to shut down websites. They need to tackle protests.
The plan is simple : first, put a mechanism to fight against pedophilia. Then extend it to fight terrorism. Then, using the vague definitions of terrorism, use these tools to squash any kind of protest, because disturbing traffic is akin to terrorism.
There is a difference between "non trivial" and "impossible". If you end up electing Rick Perry and that God tells him to not let non-US heathen use GPS, it is technically feasible on a small budget.
The fact that doing it too often may eventually break it isn't a reassuring feature either.
And people who ever had to exchange money internationally. You won't believe the prehistoric state in which it is unless you really try it.
I understand that GWB proposition may have been silly, but I do not know what are the ability of the ground stations to do firmware updates on satellites. I doubt that it is impossible.
Turning SA on is technically feasible and I doubt that this would be a very difficult or costly feat. Electing a crazy-enough leader to decide to do so is something US has proven to be capable of. These are good enough reasons for EU to have their own system.
GPS includes a (currently disabled) feature called Selective Availability (SA) that adds intentional, time varying errors of up to 100 meters (328 ft) to the publicly available navigation signals. This was intended to deny an enemy the use of civilian GPS receivers for precision weapon guidance.
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/10140
President Bush has ordered plans for temporarily disabling the U.S. network of global positioning satellites during a national crisis to prevent terrorists from using the navigational technology, the White House said Wednesday.
So from what I understand, the accuracy of GPS can be degraded for civilians whenever the US government wishes to do it, and GWB tried to make it possible to switch off the network whenever a terrorist attack hits U.S. You have to admit that this doesn't make non-US users of the system feel very secure. I guess that in case of a terrorist attack, the US would not be very concerned about an ongoing French military operation in Ivory Coast for instance, and would switch off or degrade the system without a second thought.
Before Galileo was decided, US did not give the ability to use the full precision of the GPS to non military US units. It also has the capacity to unilateraly switch off GPS on a zone. Galileo will be a civilian system, for anyone to use. Presumably always on.
About redundancy, note that 2 other positioning systems are currently deployed :
Chinese Beidou : https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Beidou_navigation_system
Russian GLONASS : https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/GLONASS
I also have a problem on that, they could be dumb enough to prevent the database to be used by GPL software...
It used to be 20 years during the Roman empire. You had to serve the army 20 years before being recognized as a full citizen. Today several nations make it optional and voluntary despite having far more powerful armies and longer life expectancy. This was made possible through the mechanization of warfare.
Nowadays, in most countries, you have to work 40-50 years to enjoy retirement. And workers tend to actively oppose mechanization.
What are the reason of the "jobless recovery" ? Simple maths prove that outsourcing is not the sole cause, far from it. Most jobs are simply not necessary anymore for the good functioning of society. Extending the working time would just amplify this problem. There is a need for a new societal model right now.
We now know that in nazi Germany, there was less than 50 000 resistants. The population support of nazism was not fanatic, but it was through apathy.
Last time I saw this proposal, the idea was to give a five years extension if you paid for a small fee (if you are not ready to pay 100â then it is probably better to just put it in the public domain) and there was 2 sets of rights I do not remember that you could give to users of your works, each adding 5 years. I think it was something like "authorization of derivative works" and "authorization of commercial uses".
I don't know in your country but in mine (France) if a journalist publishes pictures that are staged like this one and passes them as depicting a real event, he would probably be fired.
I think that whet he depicts, are not photojournalists but people selling propaganda pictures. On a given event you will not just see journalists taking picture but also commercial photographers that make images for arts and profit but not necessarily for information.
Who are these photographers ? journalists looking for information or photographers looking for good images ?
More precisely, RFID isn't secure against cloning. It has roughly the security of a good mechanical key, except it can't be lockpicked, it needs a cloned key.
I know one should'nt attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence but I can't prevent myself to think that if I wanted to leak fake informations, I would use exactly that kind of procedures.
Western governments jumped late in the infowar bandwagon but they are going there. Fake leaks are doomed to happen.
Believe it or not, this is to follow a proposition originally made by Stallman. He said that one must be careful if you want to preserve free software while limiting copyright.
The proposal is therefore that an author gets a minimum of 5 years of exclusive commercial exploitation of his work but can get 10 or 20 years if he authorizes (from the start) derivative works under a free license.
In the absolute I think it is a good idea, and politically it gives room for negotiation, which is always a good thing. Anyway, even during the 5 years period, non-commercial filesharing would be perfectly legal.
The BSD license authorize anyone to change the license to GPL or proprietary, so it is totally possible.
Stop thinking Steve Jobs had ideas. He recognized good ideas when he saw one and he spent a lot of time hunting for good ideas, but he did not come up with them first :
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
You can find similar stuff behind most "genius idea" of Apple.
Anyway, without a proportional vote like in Germany and with such a high barrier to get reimbursed in your election costs (To get public funding you need 5% of votes vs 0.7% in Germany) there is no chance at all that the pirate party gets a good score ever.
In France, the way to fame is through the presidential election : candidates have to be given equal time in the media. But the PP decided not to go.
Sarkozy will probably not be reelected. Polls are very bad for him. his party has tried to seduce the internet crowd a bit last year but apparently decided that it is definitely lost to them (and rightly so). They simply do not understand this network of tube through which computers communicate with each other.