Honest question: I am curious about how much (sensitive) data they were able to capture. It seems to me that a car driving through neighborhoods and past businesses will only capture a very small amount of the traffic from some fraction of the access points which have no (or weak) encryption), and "sensitive" traffic (e.g. unencrypted logins) would be a very small fraction of that. So a fraction of a fraction of a fraction diminishes the value quickly - though I suppose they make it back on scale.
Capturing HTTP "remember me" cookies for seems like it would be dangerous since they might be reused back in the lab to access all the data stored at the social or webmail site.
It would be helpful on this issue to understand the magnitude and makeup of the data, and how much of it is actually valuable / dangerous.
Mr. Lowery eviscerated every single one of the usual Slashdot rationalizations, so it's not much of a surprise that either one of you can't muster an argument beyond "what a stupid post" and "definitely some kind of RIAA shill."
It's kinda fun to see all of the typical dodges and rationalizations so totally and utterly obliterated, and the apologists sitting there in a daze, with nothing better to say.
One of my favorite sayings is, "The more you own, the more you are owned."
It's definitely a liberating feeling to not have to own and manage stuff, physical and virtual.
From a manufacturer's point of view, I can't say I blame them for having this stance.
Letting manufacturers dictate end user actions by threatening their hardware warranty is the nasty, nasty direction the computing world is taking. Just accepting it is probably the worst of all possible courses of action.
Interesting point, but a reasonable person will recognize that manufacturers can only guarantee a product as tested. Trying to think of a car analogy here...:) What would you say if you sold your smooth-running car on Craigslist, but the buyer comes back to you a few days later and says the car is running rough and he wants his money back, and you should just ignore the performance tweaks he made to the engine control module because they don't matter?
Modern commercial passenger aircraft are barely flown by the pilot anyway.
Old joke.
In the future the cockpit will have a pilot and a dog. The pilot's job is to feed the dog, and the dog's job is to bite the pilot if he tries to touch anything.
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It's not just a compiler, it's also a worldwide political movement.
What if the US or UK (or any other country for that matter) issued digital cash? We would suddenly have an anonymous currency that can be kept on credit chips (or smartphones) and traded, just like paper money.
The one and only question I have is what would be the motivation for the US or UK to create anonymous digital cash?
Not trying to be (too much) of a wise guy here, but could you fill in the missing steps below? What is the magic in steps 2 through 4 that cause the illogical conclusion in step 5?
1. Enact a "socialist" health care law modeled on any of a couple dozen successful systems
2. ???
3. ???
4. ???
5. 50,000 new businesses show up seemingly out of no-where
and of course,
Sketchy merchants backed up by the full force of collection of super sized phone companies: What could possibly go wrong?
"What's that charge on the bill? I don't know, you'll have to take that up with the merchant. We are just required to perform the billing function. Oh by the way, you'd better pay or else we'll have to send it to our collections department with negative credit implications. Have a nice day. Thank you for calling SuperCo Wireless."
You are partially right in that is there no credit card attached to your phone only in the case of using a pre-paid cell phone. But if you are in the U.S. and using a smart phone (iPhone, BB, Android), it is highly likely you are on a regular carrier plan, not a pre-paid plan, which tends to cater to lower-end phones and voice / texting plans. Therefore in signing up for your carrier plan, you will have provided your social security number so that the carrier can perform a credit check, and you may have provided either a valid credit card or authorization for direct withdrawal from checking account.
In any case, you are now on the hook for any charges, however they are made to appear on your bill. If a scammer can just get ahold of your phone number, he can sign you up for dubious "services" for which he receives payment, and also for which he gets the big carrier to do the heavy lifting of both billing and collection.
If the bad guy can compromise the phone, then the sky's the limit. Key logger can log passwords, so items can be purchased programatically.
Although iOS has a lot of security going on underneath the hood, its safety could be due in large part to the fact that attackers have not focused on compromising the devices because there is no economic incentive to attack them, says Lookout's Mahaffey.
Really? No economic incentive?
Unlike PCs and Macs, every cell phone is directly associated with a credit card. Essentially a cell phone IS money. Bad actors can - and do - monetize this with malware that places calls to sketchy and high-cost phone numbers, or send texts to subscribe to "information services," resulting in (fraudulent) charges showing up each month. And good luck trying to dispute charges with your cellular provider on those. They will just tell you that their hands are tied by federal law and that they can't help you, but nonetheless will turn around and threaten you with collection if you don't pay.
There's definitely economic incentive to attack mobile phones.
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Capturing HTTP "remember me" cookies for seems like it would be dangerous since they might be reused back in the lab to access all the data stored at the social or webmail site.
It would be helpful on this issue to understand the magnitude and makeup of the data, and how much of it is actually valuable / dangerous.
It's kinda fun to see all of the typical dodges and rationalizations so totally and utterly obliterated, and the apologists sitting there in a daze, with nothing better to say.
One of my favorite sayings is, "The more you own, the more you are owned." It's definitely a liberating feeling to not have to own and manage stuff, physical and virtual.
Letting manufacturers dictate end user actions by threatening their hardware warranty is the nasty, nasty direction the computing world is taking. Just accepting it is probably the worst of all possible courses of action.
Interesting point, but a reasonable person will recognize that manufacturers can only guarantee a product as tested. Trying to think of a car analogy here... :) What would you say if you sold your smooth-running car on Craigslist, but the buyer comes back to you a few days later and says the car is running rough and he wants his money back, and you should just ignore the performance tweaks he made to the engine control module because they don't matter?
Just testing out that question in the title thing... :)
reCAPTCHA was also undermined by its use of just 58 unique words
I'm really surprised the corpus was so small. Would have expected to be on the order of thousands.
Wish I had mod points for you today.
Moore's Law does not apply to:
1. Bandwidth
2. Battery life
Modern commercial passenger aircraft are barely flown by the pilot anyway.
Old joke.
In the future the cockpit will have a pilot and a dog. The pilot's job is to feed the dog, and the dog's job is to bite the pilot if he tries to touch anything.
It's not just a compiler, it's also a worldwide political movement.
What if the US or UK (or any other country for that matter) issued digital cash? We would suddenly have an anonymous currency that can be kept on credit chips (or smartphones) and traded, just like paper money.
The one and only question I have is what would be the motivation for the US or UK to create anonymous digital cash?
A quarter of an inch is 6.35 mm.
Name the last time a famine occurred in a democracy.
Do you really thing they are for *your* benefit?
Yep. Whenever anything begins with the phrase "For Your Convenience" you can be damned sure that it's for their convenience, not yours.
I agree with you, but let me spin it a slightly different way. I like taxes where I can voluntarily choose my level of participation.
Let me summarize that for you: in war the first casualty is the truth.
Let me summarize for you: war is hell.
In other news, the rest of AOL is expected to go "lights out" any time now.
Remember that you are not Facebook's customer. You are the product. Therefore, you should not expect to see any benefit with increased competition.
1. Enact a "socialist" health care law modeled on any of a couple dozen successful systems
2. ???
3. ???
4. ???
5. 50,000 new businesses show up seemingly out of no-where
and of course,
6. PROFIT!
Kia. Hyundai.
In any case, you are now on the hook for any charges, however they are made to appear on your bill. If a scammer can just get ahold of your phone number, he can sign you up for dubious "services" for which he receives payment, and also for which he gets the big carrier to do the heavy lifting of both billing and collection.
If the bad guy can compromise the phone, then the sky's the limit. Key logger can log passwords, so items can be purchased programatically.
Although iOS has a lot of security going on underneath the hood, its safety could be due in large part to the fact that attackers have not focused on compromising the devices because there is no economic incentive to attack them, says Lookout's Mahaffey.
Really? No economic incentive?
Unlike PCs and Macs, every cell phone is directly associated with a credit card. Essentially a cell phone IS money. Bad actors can - and do - monetize this with malware that places calls to sketchy and high-cost phone numbers, or send texts to subscribe to "information services," resulting in (fraudulent) charges showing up each month. And good luck trying to dispute charges with your cellular provider on those. They will just tell you that their hands are tied by federal law and that they can't help you, but nonetheless will turn around and threaten you with collection if you don't pay.
There's definitely economic incentive to attack mobile phones.
Each user has been delegated a /64 block of approximately 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 (18 quintillion) unique IPv6 addresses.
"18 quintillion unique IPv6 addresses should be enough for anybody." -me