even older news! I saw the anglo-dutch company Logica demonstrate this at a PSV Eindhoven football (soccer) match where it picked a dozen volunteers (who were photo'd before the match) out of the 20,000 strong crowd using the stadiums own crappy cctv footage - this was in the early to mid 2000's. It wasn't perfect but was above 90%.
Sadly, the UK is way ahead when it comes to CCTV technology.
I used to be a tech interviewer at a large UK technical consultancy in the 2000's and we frequently received CV's from Indian nationals that you could hold up to the light and see that the CV's were exactly the same and had exactly the same cut 'n paste text. This led to a pretty massive review of the recruitment process.
We also discovered fake UK companies setup purely to "employ" young middle class Indian graduates so they could get their Visa and then jump over to a large UK firm. These firms were on their CV's with faked up job roles - it was a total abuse of the visa system.
I suspect that as a result, the rest of the world is going to be deeply suspicious of the US in the future, and it is going to be much more difficult to maintain control of the Internet's key systems and keep them inside US borders as much as is possible. I
That's definitely true. A UK political programme on TV last night that was focussed on the thorny issue of Scottish independence ended up talking about the US and their spying intentions. Even the politically mixed audience, who had been arguing from different positions all through the programme, joined in condemnation of the US for unwarranted spying on personal communications.
The ECU is usually on the passenger side of the car near the glove box. There's well known augmentations to the ECU (or replacement ECU) attacks in order to drive a car away. Even BMW had a flaw in their ECU that allowed an unauthenticated person to create a key (from a blank) in the car. That attack (if you look at the CCTV images on the link at pistonheads) had attackers using the passenger door to enter.
my thought was that the ECU is usually in the passenger footwell and perhaps they are able to open the doors but not start the engine without an ECU mod; either a piggyback board or indeed complete replacement ECU.
I'd struggle to see how the owner of the rootkit could disclaim responsibility in a corporate scenario - especially if lives were lost (e.g. a member of staff, not knowingly, installs a rootkit-installing version of Greys Anatomy into a hospital Citrix system). There's quite a cultural and legal difference between consuming media using devices and installing software that intends to change the behaviour of the end user device.
Also, the sheer volume of test-case and conditions could have hard to predict outcomes (e.g. watching a rootkit-installing DVD on a car infotainment system). Whilst I would think that some software organisations would be daft enough to produce software like this on behalf of the large media organisations I can't see how the business case could stack up given the huge amount of risk of doing this given that there is no way on most legal frameworks that responsibility could be disclaimed.
you can get married at all sorts of locations in Scotland - some really cool like the vaults under Edinburgh and in all sorts of buildings. As it happens we got married at Stirling Castle and had full run of the place which was a great laugh, she didn't like the idea of getting wedding photos straddling the huge cannons. I thought it would be funny. she not.
You may be aware - Scotland is due to have a referendum in 2014 to become an independent country and leave the rest of the UK. Whilst Scotland has it's own parliament and is a "country" - it is still controlled by a "union of parliaments" by Westminster, London. If Scotland votes yes then Scotland will be able to finance herself and make her own decisions. One of the key plans is to have a written constitution, although we helped write the USA's constitution, we were never allowed to have one by the UK. Scottish attitudes towards the human rights convention and the EU in general are quite different to that of the UK.
It is worth noting that there is a massive campaign of hate from the Unionist (i.e. "British") entities in Scotland which includes the state broadcaster. Scotland gets endless documentaries on "why Britain is great" etc and the BBC is heavily biased towards the Union.
here in Scotland, I always have a handful of Huawei USB 3g modems. Useful for home-office broadband as a backup (plugs directly into the Vigor Draytek router); I have one in a battery backed portable wifi hotspot (which is great for camping or whilst on the road) and usually a few in my bag when I'm out on client site. I use them with Fedora Linux; they work very well out of the box through networkmanager.
Top tip, use an external antenna and you'll get much better performance.
Newbies. My account on mono.org is over 20 years old! Before IP was widespread I used X.25 to connect. It pre-dated a lot of web phenomena and was the first, or nearly first to use forums, diaries, voting, talk/IM...
A large UK based multi-national org that I've worked for has the exact problem of hosting all its data centres in the USA. The big problem is that there are USA laws that apply that there is no equivalent in the UK/EU and there are contradictory laws where a lawyer would just choose the best jurisdiction. With-holding keys would be an offence under UK law (RIPA) but not under USA law.
e.g. in the UK, Freedom of Information only applies to government entities.
So, If a UK consumer (who knew the data was hosted in the USA) wished to find out information that extends further than a DSIR they could get a US Attorney to do a FOI request at the US host and get information that normally they could not get at an EU host.
not in the UK! carrying a leatherman on your belt is an offence under the 1996 offencive weapons act and these cannot be carried in public. Hard to believe but there are now mandatory sentences in place for carrying a knife (even a leatherman or swiss army knife). I was arrested because I had one in my car toolkit since a car is considered a "public place". Never been in trouble with the police before, it was a random stop & search (which they can do here).
in the UK, the CAP readers are totally standalone and powered by batteries - i.e. need no host computer. Given that i use Linux myself, there was no way I was building in OS restrictions.
The Telegraph on Friday have made accusations that Lord McAlpine's brother (who ran the huge building company) lived close by the care home and had a huge collection of expensive cars (noted by witnesses at the time). There are some theories that this was a simple mix-up by a key journalist/the police and fingered (bad expression) the wrong brother which has now caused the BBC to go into melt-down.
What's odd is that The Telepgraph published another article which seems to downplay the idea that Jimmie was in any way involved.
I wonder whether this is an orchestrated plot to reduce the power of the very-Labour-focussed BBC by the government (Conservative/liberal coalition) which will also play well for Scotland (led by the SNP) that has it's own BBC problems etc
Not so, if an individual does not reveal during their vetting procedure then that individual can be compromised. Usually it's OK to retain clearance if you have affairs or browse goatse.CX so long as its declared during vetting. I imaging that he did not come clean during vetting, hence the dismissal/resignation.
compare and contrast to the MegaUpload case where the US prosecuting legal team are claiming that the digital assets, even if they have copyright of the owner or are confidential, are not the property of the owner if stored on third party systems. interesting times.
it's called CAP, Chip Authentication Programme. I was the designer of the system that used by a big UK bank. It requires a self powered sleeve reader (that looks alike a calulator) and it's an open standard so that all EMV cards can use any branded reader device (they don't tell you that). Some of the readers have a "MENU" button and you can read off the transaction counter etc on your card. A handy way to tell if someone close has been using the card while you're not looking. if you do muck around with your card, be careful. I changed my PIN to be 6 digits on some test gear and ended up having to get a new bank card because the UK ATM network is hard coded to 4 digits. EMV cards support 6 digits.
TFA is way out. The was a more valuable Roman find of Roman Torcs 3 miles to the west of Stirling in Scotland which netted around £4m which he had a share of £500k
What's interesting is that the Romans didn't last long in Scotland but there are still visible signs of our italian pals from 2000 years ago, such as the Fendoch fort in the Sma Glen north of Crieff and the fort at Braco some 5 miles south of Crieff.
We found some tunic broaches with a metal detector in my parents field a few miles away. Still looking for the pot of Roman gold. There are legends that Fendoch had a large stash of gold but there just legends and no one has ever found them plus metal detecting is illegal on recognised Roman forts which is a bit of a set back!
The BBC are hardly any better. Whilst the BBC for generations has had a good reputation - in Scotland, the BBC are showing themselves to be a state broadcaster and at every opportunity take the unionist cause (which incidently is way off their charter). Over the last year, Scots have been subjected to TV shows about "how good it is to be British" and "why the UK is great for Scotland" which are not shown south of the border.
It's incredible since the BBC is also paid for by Scots (though a mandatory tax called the TV Licence). Scotland is hoping to be the first country to become independent without a drop of blood being spilt.
sounds like a modern day re-run of the supply problems of the Terra Nova Expedition in 1920 that ended up killing Scott and his team on the return journey from the pole.
Just completed an entirely unscientific look at the data - I checked the UDID's of the iPads we have registered here (at a large financial company in the UK) and none are in the list. Given that this is 1m of 12m records, what ratio is 12m of the total population size for iphones and ipads?
i.e. if I checked 20 UDIDs, none of the came up, can we say that (allbeit with a low degree of confidence) the sample does not include UK registered devices? is it just USA registered devices? has anyone outside of the USA seen their iPad/iPhone on the list?
(usual EU mobile coverage disclaimer) but I have a 3G booster antenna on the roof of my van that I use at mountain bike races. I then bridge it to wifi and the whole lot works off the van's leisure battery (a second battery) topped-up with some solar panels. it quite often will bump up to 3G if you are on the edge of 3G reception where a phone/3G dongle can't.
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even older news! I saw the anglo-dutch company Logica demonstrate this at a PSV Eindhoven football (soccer) match where it picked a dozen volunteers (who were photo'd before the match) out of the 20,000 strong crowd using the stadiums own crappy cctv footage - this was in the early to mid 2000's. It wasn't perfect but was above 90%.
Sadly, the UK is way ahead when it comes to CCTV technology.
I used to be a tech interviewer at a large UK technical consultancy in the 2000's and we frequently received CV's from Indian nationals that you could hold up to the light and see that the CV's were exactly the same and had exactly the same cut 'n paste text. This led to a pretty massive review of the recruitment process.
We also discovered fake UK companies setup purely to "employ" young middle class Indian graduates so they could get their Visa and then jump over to a large UK firm. These firms were on their CV's with faked up job roles - it was a total abuse of the visa system.
I suspect that as a result, the rest of the world is going to be deeply suspicious of the US in the future, and it is going to be much more difficult to maintain control of the Internet's key systems and keep them inside US borders as much as is possible. I
That's definitely true. A UK political programme on TV last night that was focussed on the thorny issue of Scottish independence ended up talking about the US and their spying intentions. Even the politically mixed audience, who had been arguing from different positions all through the programme, joined in condemnation of the US for unwarranted spying on personal communications.
The ECU is usually on the passenger side of the car near the glove box. There's well known augmentations to the ECU (or replacement ECU) attacks in order to drive a car away. Even BMW had a flaw in their ECU that allowed an unauthenticated person to create a key (from a blank) in the car. That attack (if you look at the CCTV images on the link at pistonheads) had attackers using the passenger door to enter.
my thought was that the ECU is usually in the passenger footwell and perhaps they are able to open the doors but not start the engine without an ECU mod; either a piggyback board or indeed complete replacement ECU.
I'd struggle to see how the owner of the rootkit could disclaim responsibility in a corporate scenario - especially if lives were lost (e.g. a member of staff, not knowingly, installs a rootkit-installing version of Greys Anatomy into a hospital Citrix system). There's quite a cultural and legal difference between consuming media using devices and installing software that intends to change the behaviour of the end user device.
Also, the sheer volume of test-case and conditions could have hard to predict outcomes (e.g. watching a rootkit-installing DVD on a car infotainment system). Whilst I would think that some software organisations would be daft enough to produce software like this on behalf of the large media organisations I can't see how the business case could stack up given the huge amount of risk of doing this given that there is no way on most legal frameworks that responsibility could be disclaimed.
you can get married at all sorts of locations in Scotland - some really cool like the vaults under Edinburgh and in all sorts of buildings. As it happens we got married at Stirling Castle and had full run of the place which was a great laugh, she didn't like the idea of getting wedding photos straddling the huge cannons. I thought it would be funny. she not.
You may be aware - Scotland is due to have a referendum in 2014 to become an independent country and leave the rest of the UK. Whilst Scotland has it's own parliament and is a "country" - it is still controlled by a "union of parliaments" by Westminster, London. If Scotland votes yes then Scotland will be able to finance herself and make her own decisions. One of the key plans is to have a written constitution, although we helped write the USA's constitution, we were never allowed to have one by the UK. Scottish attitudes towards the human rights convention and the EU in general are quite different to that of the UK.
It is worth noting that there is a massive campaign of hate from the Unionist (i.e. "British") entities in Scotland which includes the state broadcaster. Scotland gets endless documentaries on "why Britain is great" etc and the BBC is heavily biased towards the Union.
here in Scotland, I always have a handful of Huawei USB 3g modems. Useful for home-office broadband as a backup (plugs directly into the Vigor Draytek router); I have one in a battery backed portable wifi hotspot (which is great for camping or whilst on the road) and usually a few in my bag when I'm out on client site. I use them with Fedora Linux; they work very well out of the box through networkmanager.
Top tip, use an external antenna and you'll get much better performance.
And then watch prices rise and choice narrowed as the homebuild market is eventually extinguished due to uefi non-compliance. It's what monopolies do.
Newbies. My account on mono.org is over 20 years old! Before IP was widespread I used X.25 to connect. It pre-dated a lot of web phenomena and was the first, or nearly first to use forums, diaries, voting, talk/IM ...
A large UK based multi-national org that I've worked for has the exact problem of hosting all its data centres in the USA. The big problem is that there are USA laws that apply that there is no equivalent in the UK/EU and there are contradictory laws where a lawyer would just choose the best jurisdiction. With-holding keys would be an offence under UK law (RIPA) but not under USA law.
e.g. in the UK, Freedom of Information only applies to government entities.
So, If a UK consumer (who knew the data was hosted in the USA) wished to find out information that extends further than a DSIR they could get a US Attorney to do a FOI request at the US host and get information that normally they could not get at an EU host.
not in the UK! carrying a leatherman on your belt is an offence under the 1996 offencive weapons act and these cannot be carried in public. Hard to believe but there are now mandatory sentences in place for carrying a knife (even a leatherman or swiss army knife). I was arrested because I had one in my car toolkit since a car is considered a "public place". Never been in trouble with the police before, it was a random stop & search (which they can do here).
in the UK, the CAP readers are totally standalone and powered by batteries - i.e. need no host computer. Given that i use Linux myself, there was no way I was building in OS restrictions.
The Telegraph on Friday have made accusations that Lord McAlpine's brother (who ran the huge building company) lived close by the care home and had a huge collection of expensive cars (noted by witnesses at the time). There are some theories that this was a simple mix-up by a key journalist/the police and fingered (bad expression) the wrong brother which has now caused the BBC to go into melt-down.
What's odd is that The Telepgraph published another article which seems to downplay the idea that Jimmie was in any way involved.
I wonder whether this is an orchestrated plot to reduce the power of the very-Labour-focussed BBC by the government (Conservative/liberal coalition) which will also play well for Scotland (led by the SNP) that has it's own BBC problems etc
Not so, if an individual does not reveal during their vetting procedure then that individual can be compromised. Usually it's OK to retain clearance if you have affairs or browse goatse.CX so long as its declared during vetting. I imaging that he did not come clean during vetting, hence the dismissal/resignation.
compare and contrast to the MegaUpload case where the US prosecuting legal team are claiming that the digital assets, even if they have copyright of the owner or are confidential, are not the property of the owner if stored on third party systems. interesting times.
Yes, we have the same thing here in the UK.
it's called CAP, Chip Authentication Programme. I was the designer of the system that used by a big UK bank. It requires a self powered sleeve reader (that looks alike a calulator) and it's an open standard so that all EMV cards can use any branded reader device (they don't tell you that). Some of the readers have a "MENU" button and you can read off the transaction counter etc on your card. A handy way to tell if someone close has been using the card while you're not looking. if you do muck around with your card, be careful. I changed my PIN to be 6 digits on some test gear and ended up having to get a new bank card because the UK ATM network is hard coded to 4 digits. EMV cards support 6 digits.
The modern RAST tests for Cobalt allergy using patches that are (usually) stuck to the patients back for a period of 96 hours.
no - just take a photograph of behind you and then hang it on your front.
TFA is way out. The was a more valuable Roman find of Roman Torcs 3 miles to the west of Stirling in Scotland which netted around £4m which he had a share of £500k
What's interesting is that the Romans didn't last long in Scotland but there are still visible signs of our italian pals from 2000 years ago, such as the Fendoch fort in the Sma Glen north of Crieff and the fort at Braco some 5 miles south of Crieff.
We found some tunic broaches with a metal detector in my parents field a few miles away. Still looking for the pot of Roman gold. There are legends that Fendoch had a large stash of gold but there just legends and no one has ever found them plus metal detecting is illegal on recognised Roman forts which is a bit of a set back!
The BBC are hardly any better. Whilst the BBC for generations has had a good reputation - in Scotland, the BBC are showing themselves to be a state broadcaster and at every opportunity take the unionist cause (which incidently is way off their charter). Over the last year, Scots have been subjected to TV shows about "how good it is to be British" and "why the UK is great for Scotland" which are not shown south of the border.
They have been cutting back coverage of the Scottish referendum for independence and have been accused of dirty tricks and biased reporting in the lead up to the 2014 referendum.
It's incredible since the BBC is also paid for by Scots (though a mandatory tax called the TV Licence). Scotland is hoping to be the first country to become independent without a drop of blood being spilt.
Unless he was a real motherfucker
or indeed an uncle-fucker etc, ad nausiem
sounds like a modern day re-run of the supply problems of the Terra Nova Expedition in 1920 that ended up killing Scott and his team on the return journey from the pole.
Just completed an entirely unscientific look at the data - I checked the UDID's of the iPads we have registered here (at a large financial company in the UK) and none are in the list. Given that this is 1m of 12m records, what ratio is 12m of the total population size for iphones and ipads?
i.e. if I checked 20 UDIDs, none of the came up, can we say that (allbeit with a low degree of confidence) the sample does not include UK registered devices? is it just USA registered devices? has anyone outside of the USA seen their iPad/iPhone on the list?
(usual EU mobile coverage disclaimer) but I have a 3G booster antenna on the roof of my van that I use at mountain bike races. I then bridge it to wifi and the whole lot works off the van's leisure battery (a second battery) topped-up with some solar panels. it quite often will bump up to 3G if you are on the edge of 3G reception where a phone/3G dongle can't.