Having enough juice to keep the clock ticking over is one thing, having enough to power a transmitter or recording circuit is a whole different level. I love my cell phone, it lives with me 24/7, do I worry that it is watching me? Nope. I'm an ex 'them' (I don't change my IMSI and IMEI regularly just for fun though)
I don't much like the new tab format, the functionality is fine, but the loss of that little X on the right side has annoyed me somewhat. I do think the preference window has become less logical and more difficult to find relevant options. It used to have a "downloads" tab, now it's in "general", the proxy settings took me a while to find. I'm no expert but I don't think things are really where they should be. I think 1.5 had it better in that regard.
GSM uses TDMA, transmission timing prevents distances beyond a little over 30 kilometres. The transmission itself can be received over much greater distances obviously.
All the three letter agencies across the world have finite resources. Supposing you had a box on every backbone, it's still not practical. Logically you need to have knowledge of your target beforehand, otherwise it's needle in the haystack stuff.
There are very few viable solutions, one might have 'the next terror act (tm)' sitting somewhere on a collection system, though how would an analyst ever know what that snapshot actually means without additional information? Hindsight doesn't help much.
There's an awful lot of noise out there to hide behind, and it's only ever going to get worse.
Mostly you just need to push the reset button in while connecting the power - the power light will flash slowly on and off - tftp mode, simply upload a new firmware and away they go again. I've not (yet) had one that was impossible to unbrick.
This type service has been available in the Philippines for about 3 years or so now (maybe a little more). Surprised you are just getting it now! They market it in much the same way - 'save the children' It's a little too easy to set up - if I 'borrow' someones phone for a few moments I can add them to my list forever without their knowledge. I guess if you are the insecure type, you might use it to 'track the people you are supposed to love and trust unconditionally'... but then, you can go out and buy a new sim card for less than US $2 which renders it useless. (I do change my IMEI and IMSI regularly - this may be illegal in some parts of the world though)
You can set the service up to track by time interval, it can send you an MMS with map... Can also track people on your list when they go overseas (roaming) A bunch of local celebrities have opted in and allow anyone to track them as well. (I suspect the phone companies manufacture the results though - little more than a money making scam)
Like the guy above said, it's not very accurate though. Comparing the results with a GPS, it's usually about 1 kilometer from where I really am.
IE 7 puts up a big warning message basically convincing people that they should not trust self signed certificates. I'm not certain how you could convince the average user base that they should click 'accept anyway'
The future seems to be more of the same old money grubbing.
I got one from Go-daddy for $19.99 - works in all recent browsers. No idea why you would pay $69 if all you want is to stop confusing people with the self signed pop-up thingy.
Foreigner living in the Philippines, splitting hairs I know, the average wage is a little lower than that - between 7 and 9 thousand peso per month, around US $150 - entry level IT jobs pay basic, mid-level management pays a couple of thousand peso more. Most management positions of any type earn between (Php) 15 and 25 thousand. There is huge wealth in this country, hanging around places like ortigas you'll have to dodge the BMW's and Mercs when crossing the street.
There is much poverty here as well, though most people have live-in house maids (domestic slaves basically) regardless of income range.
Kind of back on topic - there are massive numbers of call centers here for US based industry - Americans mostly never know since the filipino english accent = US. I'd say it's not that companies are pulling out of India and going home, just moving their operations to countries where you can't tell the difference.
Maybe you are right... Though how hard is it to just go and drill holes through the thing in the first place? If that was the store policy then perhaps people rightfully should have no need to fear what they may have left on their hard drives.
Pretty sad society when you can't trust anyone around you not to be so hell bent on greed that they'll sell anything they can unbolt from under you.
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I'm not quite certain what you mean in your last paragraph - though having worked for the Defence Signals Directorate, I can assure you that hard drives are definitely physically destroyed, as well as monitors, all types of RAM, pretty much every circuit board that has an IC on it. (You may be in agreement, I just didn't understand your wording)
You are right, the drive density is so tight these days that it is pretty much impractical to get any useful data by reading along the edges (though not impossible) Under Australian policies in which any classified material is involved, the hardware is fully destroyed. (Either shredded, crushed, furnace, or the myriad of other ways they take a sledge hammer to things)
When doing tactical exercises that involve anyone not allied, there is always some means present to destroy any sensitive equipment should the need arise. This might involve small explosive charges, an axe, fire hose, etc...
I think you'd be surprised how long the military holds on to things anyway, it's not at all uncommon to see or use functional equipment dating back to the 60's and 70's
I'm in the Philippines, the problem is pretty big here. It's restricted to bluetooth in so far as I've had any experience with it. Little more than a trivial annoyance, and pretty much exclusively limited to the Nokia brand (running symbian), maybe a few sonyericsson models in the P series. (I'm ignoring phones or PDA's that run Microsoft or Linux, since I don't own any)
If I switch on bluetooth (SE K750i) and wander out on the balcony, usually in less than a minute or two I'll start receiving virus files. I say it's a trivial problem since the vast majority of phones newer than about 3 years require user interaction before they will save the file, let alone execute it.
Most phones have a restriction on the size of an MMS, the networks (here anyway) also have a limit, somewhere around 300 kilobytes. Big enough for a virus, though I should think if any holes were present, they'd have been exploited fairly early on.
They will be led on a pony show and baffled with flashing lights, o-scopes, and spectrum analysers. Told about an infinite array of checks and balances that ensure 'bad things' could never happen. They will be spoon fed all the rhetoric they need for their final reports, then sent on their way.
I have spent a large chunk of my life working in and around the Defence Signals Directorate. I've seen it happen more than once.
Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) is a technique used to allow multiple radio transmissions to be used within a single piece of allocated radio spectrum. It is not a tower, nor is it a type of telephone. TDMA is a method in which each radio transmitter is given a specific length of time to transmit. In the case of GSM, the result is that many mobile (cellular) telephones can use the same frequency at discrete timing intervals. Not at all implying that GSM is in any way compatible with other types of cellular systems.
Again, not to be an arsehole, GSM uses TDMA - between the handset and the cell station specifically. My statement is correct. (Slightly unqualified in my last message, but correct)
I have worked more than 10 years along side the defence signals directorate as both a direct employee and in the Navy (Electronic warfare) so I do hope I am still able to speak with a little knowledge on the subject.
I've owned a lot of video capture cards over the years, all of those had Philips manufactured chips in them for the video component - is it the same in the TV world as well?
It might not actually be quite so easy to avoid Philips and their stupid forced advert viewing....
CSS requires more than a little bit of skill to get it right across all browsers. The amount of time one needs to spend buried in their search engine of choice looking for work-arounds or fixes to get internet explorer working; it is far beyond the time most people have available to them.
Even when web designers use CSS properly, Microsoft go and screw it all up. (Not only limited to Microsoft, though they sure are the worst in my tiny little opinion)
To simplify things for you, GSM uses TDMA - I think you're getting the underlying technology of the acronyms all messed up. AMPS uses FDMA, an analogue beast from the not so distant past, FDMA is still in reasonably common use, particularly in the satellite world. CDMA makes use of a spread spectrum transmission.
The problem is indeed a result of the modulation method used by GSM, though the relationship to bandwidth is not so relevant.
The ATM's do not, though the smarter criminal will simply be the man (or woman) in the middle of the bank and the machine communication path. No need to go gun swinging at all. Depending where you live, the comms link is usually either over satellite, microwave link, telephone, or fiber.
Information that you could use to defraud someone is not often sent between the ATM and bank, but the smarter criminal would simply go for bigger inter-bank networks anyway.
I've not seen many that use encryption, though I'm not a 'smarter criminal' either.
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Having enough juice to keep the clock ticking over is one thing, having enough to power a transmitter or recording circuit is a whole different level. I love my cell phone, it lives with me 24/7, do I worry that it is watching me? Nope. I'm an ex 'them' (I don't change my IMSI and IMEI regularly just for fun though)
A simple firewall would solve that problem, though the paranoid I guess would wonder if their firewall was bugged as well.
Greylisting and DSPAM work for me. The odd spam still gets through, though the majority of those can be rejected with various postfix settings.
I don't much like the new tab format, the functionality is fine, but the loss of that little X on the right side has annoyed me somewhat. I do think the preference window has become less logical and more difficult to find relevant options. It used to have a "downloads" tab, now it's in "general", the proxy settings took me a while to find. I'm no expert but I don't think things are really where they should be. I think 1.5 had it better in that regard.
GSM uses TDMA, transmission timing prevents distances beyond a little over 30 kilometres. The transmission itself can be received over much greater distances obviously.
WAAS is emitted from geostationary birds. I'm sure the parent is aware that GPS is comprised of LEO's
www.gov.cm doesn't exist.
All the three letter agencies across the world have finite resources. Supposing you had a box on every backbone, it's still not practical. Logically you need to have knowledge of your target beforehand, otherwise it's needle in the haystack stuff.
There are very few viable solutions, one might have 'the next terror act (tm)' sitting somewhere on a collection system, though how would an analyst ever know what that snapshot actually means without additional information? Hindsight doesn't help much.
There's an awful lot of noise out there to hide behind, and it's only ever going to get worse.
Signed.
Ex 3 letter agency drone.
Mostly you just need to push the reset button in while connecting the power - the power light will flash slowly on and off - tftp mode, simply upload a new firmware and away they go again. I've not (yet) had one that was impossible to unbrick.
Where is the kaboom? There was meant to be an earth shattering kaboom....
Cell tower triangulation.
This type service has been available in the Philippines for about 3 years or so now (maybe a little more). Surprised you are just getting it now! They market it in much the same way - 'save the children' It's a little too easy to set up - if I 'borrow' someones phone for a few moments I can add them to my list forever without their knowledge. I guess if you are the insecure type, you might use it to 'track the people you are supposed to love and trust unconditionally'... but then, you can go out and buy a new sim card for less than US $2 which renders it useless. (I do change my IMEI and IMSI regularly - this may be illegal in some parts of the world though)
You can set the service up to track by time interval, it can send you an MMS with map... Can also track people on your list when they go overseas (roaming) A bunch of local celebrities have opted in and allow anyone to track them as well. (I suspect the phone companies manufacture the results though - little more than a money making scam)
Like the guy above said, it's not very accurate though. Comparing the results with a GPS, it's usually about 1 kilometer from where I really am.
IE 7 puts up a big warning message basically convincing people that they should not trust self signed certificates. I'm not certain how you could convince the average user base that they should click 'accept anyway'
The future seems to be more of the same old money grubbing.
I got one from Go-daddy for $19.99 - works in all recent browsers. No idea why you would pay $69 if all you want is to stop confusing people with the self signed pop-up thingy.
Foreigner living in the Philippines, splitting hairs I know, the average wage is a little lower than that - between 7 and 9 thousand peso per month, around US $150 - entry level IT jobs pay basic, mid-level management pays a couple of thousand peso more. Most management positions of any type earn between (Php) 15 and 25 thousand. There is huge wealth in this country, hanging around places like ortigas you'll have to dodge the BMW's and Mercs when crossing the street.
There is much poverty here as well, though most people have live-in house maids (domestic slaves basically) regardless of income range.
Kind of back on topic - there are massive numbers of call centers here for US based industry - Americans mostly never know since the filipino english accent = US. I'd say it's not that companies are pulling out of India and going home, just moving their operations to countries where you can't tell the difference.
Maybe you are right... Though how hard is it to just go and drill holes through the thing in the first place? If that was the store policy then perhaps people rightfully should have no need to fear what they may have left on their hard drives.
Pretty sad society when you can't trust anyone around you not to be so hell bent on greed that they'll sell anything they can unbolt from under you.
I'm not quite certain what you mean in your last paragraph - though having worked for the Defence Signals Directorate, I can assure you that hard drives are definitely physically destroyed, as well as monitors, all types of RAM, pretty much every circuit board that has an IC on it. (You may be in agreement, I just didn't understand your wording)
You are right, the drive density is so tight these days that it is pretty much impractical to get any useful data by reading along the edges (though not impossible) Under Australian policies in which any classified material is involved, the hardware is fully destroyed. (Either shredded, crushed, furnace, or the myriad of other ways they take a sledge hammer to things)
When doing tactical exercises that involve anyone not allied, there is always some means present to destroy any sensitive equipment should the need arise. This might involve small explosive charges, an axe, fire hose, etc...
I think you'd be surprised how long the military holds on to things anyway, it's not at all uncommon to see or use functional equipment dating back to the 60's and 70's
I'm in the Philippines, the problem is pretty big here. It's restricted to bluetooth in so far as I've had any experience with it. Little more than a trivial annoyance, and pretty much exclusively limited to the Nokia brand (running symbian), maybe a few sonyericsson models in the P series. (I'm ignoring phones or PDA's that run Microsoft or Linux, since I don't own any)
If I switch on bluetooth (SE K750i) and wander out on the balcony, usually in less than a minute or two I'll start receiving virus files. I say it's a trivial problem since the vast majority of phones newer than about 3 years require user interaction before they will save the file, let alone execute it.
Most phones have a restriction on the size of an MMS, the networks (here anyway) also have a limit, somewhere around 300 kilobytes. Big enough for a virus, though I should think if any holes were present, they'd have been exploited fairly early on.
Independent reviews don't work.
They will be led on a pony show and baffled with flashing lights, o-scopes, and spectrum analysers. Told about an infinite array of checks and balances that ensure 'bad things' could never happen. They will be spoon fed all the rhetoric they need for their final reports, then sent on their way.
I have spent a large chunk of my life working in and around the Defence Signals Directorate. I've seen it happen more than once.
Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) is a technique used to allow multiple radio transmissions to be used within a single piece of allocated radio spectrum. It is not a tower, nor is it a type of telephone. TDMA is a method in which each radio transmitter is given a specific length of time to transmit. In the case of GSM, the result is that many mobile (cellular) telephones can use the same frequency at discrete timing intervals. Not at all implying that GSM is in any way compatible with other types of cellular systems.
Again, not to be an arsehole, GSM uses TDMA - between the handset and the cell station specifically. My statement is correct. (Slightly unqualified in my last message, but correct)
I have worked more than 10 years along side the defence signals directorate as both a direct employee and in the Navy (Electronic warfare) so I do hope I am still able to speak with a little knowledge on the subject.
Cheers, no offence intended.
GSM uses TDMA. Converting from TDMA to TDMA?
I've owned a lot of video capture cards over the years, all of those had Philips manufactured chips in them for the video component - is it the same in the TV world as well?
It might not actually be quite so easy to avoid Philips and their stupid forced advert viewing....
CSS requires more than a little bit of skill to get it right across all browsers. The amount of time one needs to spend buried in their search engine of choice looking for work-arounds or fixes to get internet explorer working; it is far beyond the time most people have available to them.
Even when web designers use CSS properly, Microsoft go and screw it all up. (Not only limited to Microsoft, though they sure are the worst in my tiny little opinion)
To simplify things for you, GSM uses TDMA - I think you're getting the underlying technology of the acronyms all messed up. AMPS uses FDMA, an analogue beast from the not so distant past, FDMA is still in reasonably common use, particularly in the satellite world. CDMA makes use of a spread spectrum transmission.
The problem is indeed a result of the modulation method used by GSM, though the relationship to bandwidth is not so relevant.
The ATM's do not, though the smarter criminal will simply be the man (or woman) in the middle of the bank and the machine communication path. No need to go gun swinging at all. Depending where you live, the comms link is usually either over satellite, microwave link, telephone, or fiber.
Information that you could use to defraud someone is not often sent between the ATM and bank, but the smarter criminal would simply go for bigger inter-bank networks anyway.
I've not seen many that use encryption, though I'm not a 'smarter criminal' either.
Royal Australian Navy Tactical Electronic Warfare Support Section (RANTEWSS)
That is my claim to profession, as well as 10 years or so with the defence signals directorate (DSD).
Malaysian Mig 29 up close, to name one example.