Yes, but it's tranparent, it's a really nice feature.
Shut the lid, it goes to sleep, but not until it's dumped the RAM contents to a disk file invisibly in the background. Open it up, it wakes from sleep ignoring the hibernation file. Leave it asleep until the battery goes flat: it uses the hibernation file to come out of hibernation. Really good user interaction design.
I'm pretty sure any decent keylogger does just that: it logs keystrokes, irrespective of whether it's goign into a VM or the host OS. The host OS has to pass keyboard presses to the VM: I'd assume that it could log them and screencap just as well as if running on the host.
No, it's a consumer electronics device. I know if my TV goes on the fritz I should call a TV repairman, but I don't expect through normal use for someone to use my TV to steal my online banking passwords and clean me out.
You can't protect a user against everything, but the default should offer more protection. If you have a device aimed at consumers where a significant proportion of those users have problems, it's not a well-designed device.
...and next the app store. Think about it, if you buy your apps from your OS vendor's walled garden, then it acts very similarly - e.g. on the iPhone, you get push notifications for any new updates and an "update all" button.
...and if it means telling the sales guy that he can't sync his personal smartphone up to the corporate network because IT have no mechanism of enforcing a password or remote wipe on that device, and the company doesn't want to lose control of its data, then that's also what you have to do. Seriously, every week some compnay in the UK is getting crucified for admitting losing a laptop with confidential details on it - as smartphones become the norm, expect to see measures put in place to stop this happening with personal smartphones.
I'm a bit of an enthusiast of the Mazda MX5/Eunos/Miata. We've lost loads of future little classics due to the scrappage scheme - perfectly functional cars in excellent condition that went to the crusher so that someone could get a discount they could have negotiated themselves off the price of some new car...
Why not apply it to cars, too? Removing tax from car repairs would make a big difference to the environment (less new cars wasting resources, older cars kept in good condition and polluting less, less stuff going to landfill) and also encourage skilled workers.
Oh wait. Last year the UK government brought in the scrappage scheme that incentivised you to scrap your car for up to £2000 off the price of a brand new one, which has led to a huge number of perfectly adequate, working and environmental-impact-ammortised cars getting crushed, and loads of energy wasted in building, shipping and selling new cars - on the grounds that it'd help the economy.
The point is that she is an official in the Labour government that has changed drivign laws to make it an offence not only to use your phone, but also to eat an apple in a car. Whilst on my lunch today, I saw a black and white Smart car with "CCTV" logos all over it with a Google-Streetview-style camera apparatus on its roof. Turns out that these are CCTV cameras designed to catch motorists talking on their phones, smoking, eating, etc with a view to prosecuting them.
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7994449.stm as an example. "Anyone seen driving while distracted - eating at the wheel, playing with the radio or applying make-up for instance - is filmed by the cameras.
Later, a letter is sent to the owner of the car, in many cases along with a fine.
Anyone caught using their mobile will be asked to pay £60 and have three points added to their licence. Fines could also be handed out to anyone who is thought to be driving without due care and attention, or similar offences. "
Whilst I appreciate that you shouldn't drive dangerously I'm hugely against the potential criminalisation of everybody by the Labour party.
* Detect if suddenly dropped/gone horizontal and no further movement - e.g. a lone worker alarm, that flags if someone might have tripped or fainted etc
* Detect if a driver has been driving for over x hours and suggest they pull in for a break
* Track a security guard on his roudns so that if anything happens, they know where he is and where he's been - alternative to the manual punch-in waypoint stations they have in industrial settings
* Use for automatic clock in/clock out so you get paid the hours you work
* Locate someone in a building where everyone hotdesks
* Automatically pay someone's mileage expenses based on their journeys in office hours
there's a lot of scary uses, too, but it's not all bad.
It's not that no-one cares enough, it's just that there's a bigger picture. Countries benefit from international trading, and internet connectivity is part of that. The geopolitics here are bigger than just stopping spam. The US government isn't going to put a virtual trade embargo on a country just for spam, as the beenfits (either to the country or to the rulers of that country) outweighs the negatives by quite some margin.
a lot of the iphone capabilities aren't new: the new thing they're bringing is huge market penetration to the degree that it's worth other manufacturer's designing products to work with it. Apple's sheer volume could make it commercially viable to make, say, an add-on for car alarms that unlocks based on proximity with the device - which is technically possible now but hasnt' really taken off.
Runaway diesels are terrifying - had this on a 1987 VW campervan. Started it up in the drive, got a *massive* continous clous of white smoke out of the back of it, racing engine that went up to the redline, took keys out of ignition and it still carried on. The shock meant it took a good couple of seconds before I thought of just whacking it in a high gear and dropping the clutch to stall it - I hadn't heard that it was possible, and it took me a good 4-5 seconds of "WTF?" as I took the ignition key out and it carried on. In the VW rear engine config I wouldn't have dared try blocking the intake in case something grenaded.
I'm sure changing the screen on an OLPC is nice and easy. Problem is, TFA states you should do this to your netbook.
For every laptop I've changed a screen on, it's been a fairly complex operation with significant risk of breaking something - levering off the bezel without snapping anything, taking the keyboard and rest of the top plastics off to get at the video connector on the motherboard, threading the resulting ribbon cable back through the hinge, and removing the screen from the lid. It's non trivial. Unless it turns out most common Netbooks are constructed otherwise, I can't see this being all that easy. Also, the ribbon connector to the motherboard isn't a standard, it varies and so again, unless all netbooks use the same interface (and I guess given the majority are Intel/Atom chipset this is more likely) I don't think one screen would fit all.
I'd do it to my own if I owned a netbook (they should do one with a touchscreen built in!) but I wouldn't recommend someone not used to dismantling laptops tried it.
you're just arguing parameters. Say you start trawling for:
1) people who appear to be exchanging keys over email, or encrypt their traffic
2) similar IPs who make purchases or enquiries online into ordering fertiliser, or activator ingredients, or GSM SIM cards etc
3) people who are already on watch lists etc
It'll eb down to intelligence analysts to set the parameters, but this looks like a very clever and very scary tool to bring together bits of evidence that woulnd't be worth much in isolation into a profile.
People doing Bad Stuff don't have perfect security. Everyone makes slips sometime...
it's NARUS. i.e. it's Israeli tech, aimed at governments who want to do smart intercepts. They sell the equipment that the US government installs into ISPs for monitoring.
It's not just tranceiver strength, it's also antennae design and any shielding within the handset. You probably want it to shield in the direction of your head, yet have an uninterrupted signal on the side facing out, for example. SAR is a metric for measuring how much energy your body will be exposed to in normal use.
can you route externally to a virgin home IP address now? You didn't use to be able to when it was NTL, which meant running any server services wasn't possible.
that's because it's going to be variable, as the last mile isn't fibre optic. See also ADSL connections that promise up to 8MB - your ISP can't guarantee the signal quality between exchange and your house. they can average it out over multiple subscribers and give you an indication by your postcode, but that isn't going to tell them if you have a dodgy cable run from telegraph post to your house that reduces the speed slightly.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, but it's tranparent, it's a really nice feature. Shut the lid, it goes to sleep, but not until it's dumped the RAM contents to a disk file invisibly in the background. Open it up, it wakes from sleep ignoring the hibernation file. Leave it asleep until the battery goes flat: it uses the hibernation file to come out of hibernation. Really good user interaction design.
I'm pretty sure any decent keylogger does just that: it logs keystrokes, irrespective of whether it's goign into a VM or the host OS. The host OS has to pass keyboard presses to the VM: I'd assume that it could log them and screencap just as well as if running on the host.
...as they pointedly do NOT mention MySpace. Hmm. Wonder why that could be, NewsCorp?
No, I don't. I'm suggesting that MS might, though
No, it's a consumer electronics device. I know if my TV goes on the fritz I should call a TV repairman, but I don't expect through normal use for someone to use my TV to steal my online banking passwords and clean me out.
You can't protect a user against everything, but the default should offer more protection. If you have a device aimed at consumers where a significant proportion of those users have problems, it's not a well-designed device.
...and next the app store. Think about it, if you buy your apps from your OS vendor's walled garden, then it acts very similarly - e.g. on the iPhone, you get push notifications for any new updates and an "update all" button.
...and if it means telling the sales guy that he can't sync his personal smartphone up to the corporate network because IT have no mechanism of enforcing a password or remote wipe on that device, and the company doesn't want to lose control of its data, then that's also what you have to do. Seriously, every week some compnay in the UK is getting crucified for admitting losing a laptop with confidential details on it - as smartphones become the norm, expect to see measures put in place to stop this happening with personal smartphones.
I'm a bit of an enthusiast of the Mazda MX5/Eunos/Miata. We've lost loads of future little classics due to the scrappage scheme - perfectly functional cars in excellent condition that went to the crusher so that someone could get a discount they could have negotiated themselves off the price of some new car...
Why not apply it to cars, too? Removing tax from car repairs would make a big difference to the environment (less new cars wasting resources, older cars kept in good condition and polluting less, less stuff going to landfill) and also encourage skilled workers.
Oh wait. Last year the UK government brought in the scrappage scheme that incentivised you to scrap your car for up to £2000 off the price of a brand new one, which has led to a huge number of perfectly adequate, working and environmental-impact-ammortised cars getting crushed, and loads of energy wasted in building, shipping and selling new cars - on the grounds that it'd help the economy.
The point is that she is an official in the Labour government that has changed drivign laws to make it an offence not only to use your phone, but also to eat an apple in a car. Whilst on my lunch today, I saw a black and white Smart car with "CCTV" logos all over it with a Google-Streetview-style camera apparatus on its roof. Turns out that these are CCTV cameras designed to catch motorists talking on their phones, smoking, eating, etc with a view to prosecuting them.
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7994449.stm as an example.
"Anyone seen driving while distracted - eating at the wheel, playing with the radio or applying make-up for instance - is filmed by the cameras.
Later, a letter is sent to the owner of the car, in many cases along with a fine.
Anyone caught using their mobile will be asked to pay £60 and have three points added to their licence. Fines could also be handed out to anyone who is thought to be driving without due care and attention, or similar offences. "
Whilst I appreciate that you shouldn't drive dangerously I'm hugely against the potential criminalisation of everybody by the Labour party.
"whiter-than-white"
Racist!
I'll get me coat.
I can think of a couple of good uses:
* Detect if suddenly dropped/gone horizontal and no further movement - e.g. a lone worker alarm, that flags if someone might have tripped or fainted etc
* Detect if a driver has been driving for over x hours and suggest they pull in for a break
* Track a security guard on his roudns so that if anything happens, they know where he is and where he's been - alternative to the manual punch-in waypoint stations they have in industrial settings
* Use for automatic clock in/clock out so you get paid the hours you work
* Locate someone in a building where everyone hotdesks
* Automatically pay someone's mileage expenses based on their journeys in office hours
there's a lot of scary uses, too, but it's not all bad.
It's not that no-one cares enough, it's just that there's a bigger picture. Countries benefit from international trading, and internet connectivity is part of that. The geopolitics here are bigger than just stopping spam. The US government isn't going to put a virtual trade embargo on a country just for spam, as the beenfits (either to the country or to the rulers of that country) outweighs the negatives by quite some margin.
look, man, if you know about this, you've obviously signed the NDA, so just shut up about it until WWC, yeah?
Market forces don't care about long term safety. See melanin in baby milk, Chinese Heparin production, etc.
a lot of the iphone capabilities aren't new: the new thing they're bringing is huge market penetration to the degree that it's worth other manufacturer's designing products to work with it. Apple's sheer volume could make it commercially viable to make, say, an add-on for car alarms that unlocks based on proximity with the device - which is technically possible now but hasnt' really taken off.
Runaway diesels are terrifying - had this on a 1987 VW campervan. Started it up in the drive, got a *massive* continous clous of white smoke out of the back of it, racing engine that went up to the redline, took keys out of ignition and it still carried on. The shock meant it took a good couple of seconds before I thought of just whacking it in a high gear and dropping the clutch to stall it - I hadn't heard that it was possible, and it took me a good 4-5 seconds of "WTF?" as I took the ignition key out and it carried on. In the VW rear engine config I wouldn't have dared try blocking the intake in case something grenaded.
I'm sure changing the screen on an OLPC is nice and easy. Problem is, TFA states you should do this to your netbook. For every laptop I've changed a screen on, it's been a fairly complex operation with significant risk of breaking something - levering off the bezel without snapping anything, taking the keyboard and rest of the top plastics off to get at the video connector on the motherboard, threading the resulting ribbon cable back through the hinge, and removing the screen from the lid. It's non trivial. Unless it turns out most common Netbooks are constructed otherwise, I can't see this being all that easy. Also, the ribbon connector to the motherboard isn't a standard, it varies and so again, unless all netbooks use the same interface (and I guess given the majority are Intel/Atom chipset this is more likely) I don't think one screen would fit all.
I'd do it to my own if I owned a netbook (they should do one with a touchscreen built in!) but I wouldn't recommend someone not used to dismantling laptops tried it.
so long as they're savvy enough to delete the logs when they realise how dumb they've been...
you're just arguing parameters. Say you start trawling for:
1) people who appear to be exchanging keys over email, or encrypt their traffic
2) similar IPs who make purchases or enquiries online into ordering fertiliser, or activator ingredients, or GSM SIM cards etc
3) people who are already on watch lists etc
It'll eb down to intelligence analysts to set the parameters, but this looks like a very clever and very scary tool to bring together bits of evidence that woulnd't be worth much in isolation into a profile.
People doing Bad Stuff don't have perfect security. Everyone makes slips sometime...
it's NARUS. i.e. it's Israeli tech, aimed at governments who want to do smart intercepts. They sell the equipment that the US government installs into ISPs for monitoring.
it's going to cost an arm and a leg to print an arm or a leg
It's not just tranceiver strength, it's also antennae design and any shielding within the handset. You probably want it to shield in the direction of your head, yet have an uninterrupted signal on the side facing out, for example. SAR is a metric for measuring how much energy your body will be exposed to in normal use.
can you route externally to a virgin home IP address now? You didn't use to be able to when it was NTL, which meant running any server services wasn't possible.
that's because it's going to be variable, as the last mile isn't fibre optic. See also ADSL connections that promise up to 8MB - your ISP can't guarantee the signal quality between exchange and your house. they can average it out over multiple subscribers and give you an indication by your postcode, but that isn't going to tell them if you have a dodgy cable run from telegraph post to your house that reduces the speed slightly.