You need up to date software, a decent OS like OpenBSD with a good admin. Your users can be dumb as hell as long as you don't give them unecessary privileges.
Yes, it is socially very difficult to make a company accept the constraints to have a secure network, but I suspect it will become increasingly acceptable as high profiles lose millions in security flaws.
There is a difference between thinking that a task is difficult but achievable and thinking it is not worth even giving it a try.
Reading pre-1958 science fiction is really enlightening about the mindset of the time. No man, no animal had ever gone to this very strange place where the stars always shine, where the air is not there, where gravity takes a break. At this time, no one ever saw a picture of the earth as a blue marble. Space was not the place around earth, it was the place above the clouds, the place from which God and gods had recently been chased in the intellectual pictures of the days.
In one novel, they were imagining that so far from Earth, human minds can not hold. Various craziness appearing. The only way to travel would be to be in a form of coma, half dead.
It is right, they did not know many things about how it was, but their imagination was working at full speed and they surely expected unexpected things. Sending a mammal to be sure that it doesn't get instantly fried by some then unknown effects was a really reasonable step.
Oh it can be made worse : there was a plan to replace the "first to invent" rule by the "first to file for a patent". I'm not even making this up. I don't know how this could be considered a good idea.
You miss the point. The GP said it is good to catch these, but these are not the instigators. The fact that these "useful idiots" will be caught will allow the starters who understand why it is important to hide one's identity to be unworried by aithorities.
Early adopter miner. He never spent money on that except for the electricity paid, of course. He had 25,000 BTCs, three months ago, this was worth ~ $20,000, which is enough to start getting worried, sure. But it reached the current heights very quickly, and you can't sell such an amount without damaging the prices.
The moron thing to do is not to keep 500,000$ in BTCs, it is to store them on an insecure computer. Consider it like having 500,000$ in cash, and as a publicly known fact. Normally you would take some minimum steps to have some security around that.
There is a saying that you can't trade freedom for security. Can you trade justice for wealth ? They are not rioting over money, they are rioting over corrupt policemen doing crimes with impunity.
Wouldn't it be ironic if the inspection of the shuttle revealed damage making it unsafe for reentry, making the crew take the russian capsule to come back ? Then the shuttle would become the new permanent module of the ISS.
Actually this email was provided by lulzboat to show that this employee (who is not the CEO of anything) of a government contracting firm was ready to give access to sensitive data and to a bot network in exchange of not publicizing the leak.
I think it means 25% of the hackers they have contacted, which doesn't seem overwhelming. 25% of people ceding to legal blackmailing doesn't seem such a high proportion to me...
That is the nasty look of revenge. Sony unfairly used its weight against an innocent person, knowing very well that an individual cannot stand in front of an army of lawyers, and these hackers unfairly attack Sony causing as much disruption as they can. Two wrongs do not make a good, but this was not totally uncalled for. I can't help to see a bit of Robin Hood spirit there : "Trying to bankrupt someone to win in tribunal ? Let's let that cause you some comparable financial damages as well".
These sources (which may also not be reliable) have claimed that the vast majority of the population (~90%) supports the current government and a natural flow of reform.
Heh, that's why you want elections and democracy. If he had just resigned and made a nationwide election, he could have been elected with a nice score apparently.
The fact he didn't probably means that the current leadership do not believe these numbers.
I still think that short patents can be a positive force. It IS true that research do not bear immediate benefits and that it is more profitable to be a copycat than an innovator. The cost of research in software is so low that such a protection is ridiculous, but I can see why some other fields would like to enjoy some kind of protection. Also note that a patent mandates to explain how a given process works and means that after a period (currently 20 years, we should shorten that) imitation becomes fair game.
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It went from $18 to $17, that is not a crash. That will probably have an impact, but more on MtGox reputation than on the BTC price.
So does that convince you to contact your Representative about the AIA?
Hell yeah but they answered "This is an American thing, stupid geek, you are living in Europe."
You need up to date software, a decent OS like OpenBSD with a good admin. Your users can be dumb as hell as long as you don't give them unecessary privileges.
Yes, it is socially very difficult to make a company accept the constraints to have a secure network, but I suspect it will become increasingly acceptable as high profiles lose millions in security flaws.
There is a difference between thinking that a task is difficult but achievable and thinking it is not worth even giving it a try.
Reading pre-1958 science fiction is really enlightening about the mindset of the time. No man, no animal had ever gone to this very strange place where the stars always shine, where the air is not there, where gravity takes a break. At this time, no one ever saw a picture of the earth as a blue marble. Space was not the place around earth, it was the place above the clouds, the place from which God and gods had recently been chased in the intellectual pictures of the days.
In one novel, they were imagining that so far from Earth, human minds can not hold. Various craziness appearing. The only way to travel would be to be in a form of coma, half dead.
It is right, they did not know many things about how it was, but their imagination was working at full speed and they surely expected unexpected things. Sending a mammal to be sure that it doesn't get instantly fried by some then unknown effects was a really reasonable step.
Oh it can be made worse : there was a plan to replace the "first to invent" rule by the "first to file for a patent". I'm not even making this up. I don't know how this could be considered a good idea.
Fusion reactor is within reach of a hobbyist. It consumes energy but produces fusion. It is not a power generator.
The idea that you can't secure a computer to make it impervious to non-physical attacks is the biggest fraud of the 21st century.
Just as bas as printing this money on paper. What a ludicrous idea.
You miss the point. The GP said it is good to catch these, but these are not the instigators. The fact that these "useful idiots" will be caught will allow the starters who understand why it is important to hide one's identity to be unworried by aithorities.
Early adopter miner. He never spent money on that except for the electricity paid, of course. He had 25,000 BTCs, three months ago, this was worth ~ $20,000, which is enough to start getting worried, sure. But it reached the current heights very quickly, and you can't sell such an amount without damaging the prices.
The moron thing to do is not to keep 500,000$ in BTCs, it is to store them on an insecure computer. Consider it like having 500,000$ in cash, and as a publicly known fact. Normally you would take some minimum steps to have some security around that.
There is a saying that you can't trade freedom for security. Can you trade justice for wealth ? They are not rioting over money, they are rioting over corrupt policemen doing crimes with impunity.
Does anyone else think that lulzsec might be a false flag operation aiming exactly at spreading FUD to spend billions in "cyber defense" ?
More well fed, more education, and more opportunity.
More rioting too...
And a few years ago saying the same thing could land you to Guantanamo without a trial.
Yep, you should use bittorrent instead, youtube uses private technologies.
The law is unclear but the police moves just in case. I fucking love copyright laws.
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Fixed that for you
Wouldn't it be ironic if the inspection of the shuttle revealed damage making it unsafe for reentry, making the crew take the russian capsule to come back ? Then the shuttle would become the new permanent module of the ISS.
You should look at Sony stocks prices since the beginning of the attacks. They have been badly hurt.
Actually this email was provided by lulzboat to show that this employee (who is not the CEO of anything) of a government contracting firm was ready to give access to sensitive data and to a bot network in exchange of not publicizing the leak.
I think it means 25% of the hackers they have contacted, which doesn't seem overwhelming. 25% of people ceding to legal blackmailing doesn't seem such a high proportion to me...
That is the nasty look of revenge. Sony unfairly used its weight against an innocent person, knowing very well that an individual cannot stand in front of an army of lawyers, and these hackers unfairly attack Sony causing as much disruption as they can. Two wrongs do not make a good, but this was not totally uncalled for. I can't help to see a bit of Robin Hood spirit there : "Trying to bankrupt someone to win in tribunal ? Let's let that cause you some comparable financial damages as well".
These sources (which may also not be reliable) have claimed that the vast majority of the population (~90%) supports the current government and a natural flow of reform.
Heh, that's why you want elections and democracy. If he had just resigned and made a nationwide election, he could have been elected with a nice score apparently.
The fact he didn't probably means that the current leadership do not believe these numbers.
I still think that short patents can be a positive force. It IS true that research do not bear immediate benefits and that it is more profitable to be a copycat than an innovator. The cost of research in software is so low that such a protection is ridiculous, but I can see why some other fields would like to enjoy some kind of protection. Also note that a patent mandates to explain how a given process works and means that after a period (currently 20 years, we should shorten that) imitation becomes fair game.