People need to understand that it is paramount to the NSA that they are covert.
Indeed. When working for a company that sold telecom and networking IP blocks, we received more than one request for the receive part ONLY of an Ethernet MAC. The companies that enquired did not make test equipment, but were known for secrecy and selling to the US government. What possible reason does such a company have for an Ethernet MAC that receives only?
At one time I was getting unusable Internet connectivity through AT&T after they acquired my local cable modem network from @Home. It took them many months to discover that throttling all aggregate upstream traffic to 128Kbps is a bad idea. As much as people bitch and moan about Comcast, it is lightyears better than anything I got through AT&T.
When AT&T was providing cable Internet to me, there was a time when my IPSEC VPN did not work. The VPN apparently connected, but data traffic never made it though. Other people complained, but AT&T claimed they were doing nothing to VPNs. Using tcpdump at both ends, I could see that the media (udp/500) was not getting though while the AH and ESP packets (required to set up the connection) were getting though. Clearly AT&T was blocking VPNs, but in such a way that it would not be obvious to the average user what was wrong. Pure evil.
If an arabic-looking person cancels their current renting arrangement and immediately after that goes into an airport, refuses to go through the security scanners, then tests positive for explosives, what the fuck do they think is going to happen?
Because suicide bombers bother to cancel their apartment rentals? Yeah, right!
There is no better way to motivate a journalist than to tell them that they aren't allowed to to report on something. I mean, seriously, what do these governments think they are going to accomplish.
Probably about the same as the senior officer of the Met who spent a day travelling to and from the Grauniad's Manchester offices in order to tell an editor that there was nothing in the stories of phone hacking by News International. I mean, how stupid do you have to be to go out of your way to tell a reporter that there is no story and expect the reporter to drop it?
The only science that's been found to be behind it is that people are slightly less likely to lie if they think that a lie detector will call them out on it.
Penn and Teller did an program about lie detectors. Firstly, why are they not being prosecuted, since they explained how to beat them?
They explained that what happens is that the lie detector is a BS machine, but after the test is "over", the interviewer tells them that the lie detector showed that they were lying and that they should come clean. Many people then tell the interviewer the truth.
According to Penn and Teller, fooling the lie detector is simple: spoof the results by contracting and releasing a large muscle (they suggested the sphincter muscles) during the interview. This will destroy the value of any baseline measures.
Which makes the prior house and senate makeup a bunch of weenies. They should have just pushed through what they wanted, ignoring any calls for bi-partisanship.
The electorate gave the prior house and senate a majority: they should have used it, not p*ssed it away.
My son has a private rental apartment that he shares with another student. He could live in a dorm, but: The dorms cost a lot more. In a dorm, he would have to share a room (and the shared room would be smaller than the room that he has for himself alone). Many of the dorms are further from the campus than his apartment.
The dorms are such a bad deal. I assume that there is a large profit margin involved.
What's really sad about this is that the act of frisking anyone without any fact-based suspicion is not considered a violation of the constitution. It's only the racial bias in the ways the stops were performed that makes it illegal.
My WAG is that MS threw a bunch of money at Godaddy, not directly, you understand, but indirectly.
Furthermore, my conjecture is that MS is prepared to throw this money at Godaddy because Microsoft's share of sites was looking rather sad (3rd place for market share of active sites last month).
As I understand it, you can run an unlimited number of VM instances on Win2k12R2, but don't you need a license for each and every one of these VM ? That must cost something, no?
It amazes me that there are people who work as analysts of Microsofts' licensing scemes and pricing, but there are, because the schemes are so complex and wrapped in Microsoft's own language.
In this case, the Datacenter edition allows unlimited "OSEs" to run on the system without having to buy a license for each "OSE". What's an OSE, you ask? Well, that's not defined, but one can infer that it means "Operating System Environment", which I believe means an instance of Windows running in a VM.
Executive Summary: the answer to your question is: No, it doesn't cost anything (beyond the cost of the CALs and good luck figuring out how many of those you need).
Many languages use only one verb for several uses of "make" and "do". English has some odd cases where "make" is used but, from a logical point of view, it would seem that "do" would be more appropriate, making translations more difficult.
Thus, instead of "make up an analysis", one could easily imagine someone with a less than perfect grasp of english meaning "do an analysis"
I'm surprised that Keith's head didn't explode when he said "people who have access to data as part of their missions, if they misuse that trust they can cause huge damage.â
His head did not explode because this is a deliberate tactic of misdirection. If he can just get the public to focus on the leaker, instead of the content of the leak......
This is more of the same: he is trying to say that the problem is leakers, not the core activity of the NSA.
People do not seem to remember that email is sent plain text. Can be read by anyone.
Perhaps your email is, but I use technologies like smtp-tls, encrypted imap sessions, etc., so much of my email is encrypted in transit and it can only be read at the endpoints.
The ability of the internet to educate is only available to those that have already received a basic education.
You know that they have schools in Africa, right? Not all Africans live in the same conditions. Many could benefit from both malaria cures and Internet.
Let's not forget that the US government publicised the fact that it could listen to satellite phones and, specifically Bin Laden's conversations. Was anyone punished for that leak?
Perhaps Nixon was right when he claimed that, "When the president does it, it's not illegal"?
As a European in the USA, I have noticed that there is a stronger tendency to think that "something must be done" for every issue, even if that "something" makes no sense.
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Indeed. When working for a company that sold telecom and networking IP blocks, we received more than one request for the receive part ONLY of an Ethernet MAC. The companies that enquired did not make test equipment, but were known for secrecy and selling to the US government. What possible reason does such a company have for an Ethernet MAC that receives only?
When AT&T was providing cable Internet to me, there was a time when my IPSEC VPN did not work. The VPN apparently connected, but data traffic never made it though. Other people complained, but AT&T claimed they were doing nothing to VPNs. Using tcpdump at both ends, I could see that the media (udp/500) was not getting though while the AH and ESP packets (required to set up the connection) were getting though. Clearly AT&T was blocking VPNs, but in such a way that it would not be obvious to the average user what was wrong. Pure evil.
Because suicide bombers bother to cancel their apartment rentals? Yeah, right!
Black box gave false positive result.
Under-trained and under-educated interrogators were not capable of either asking relevant questions or understanding his answers.
Interrogators resorted to low-level torture (not providing water after multiple hours).
Unconstitutional search of his apartment was conducted.
FTFY
In the advert on /. page for this story:
"Spiceworks, easy to use network monitoring." Post Edward Snowdon, they should rewrite their advert.
You must not be familiar with how the 2-party state really works.
Probably about the same as the senior officer of the Met who spent a day travelling to and from the Grauniad's Manchester offices in order to tell an editor that there was nothing in the stories of phone hacking by News International. I mean, how stupid do you have to be to go out of your way to tell a reporter that there is no story and expect the reporter to drop it?
"when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal." Nixon, 1977.
Went to the drive in in San Jose recently. Already has digital projection.
Penn and Teller did an program about lie detectors. Firstly, why are they not being prosecuted, since they explained how to beat them?
They explained that what happens is that the lie detector is a BS machine, but after the test is "over", the interviewer tells them that the lie detector showed that they were lying and that they should come clean. Many people then tell the interviewer the truth.
According to Penn and Teller, fooling the lie detector is simple: spoof the results by contracting and releasing a large muscle (they suggested the sphincter muscles) during the interview. This will destroy the value of any baseline measures.
Which makes the prior house and senate makeup a bunch of weenies. They should have just pushed through what they wanted, ignoring any calls for bi-partisanship.
The electorate gave the prior house and senate a majority: they should have used it, not p*ssed it away.
Since the main claim to fame for the founder is failure of the Orca system, why hire them?
My son has a private rental apartment that he shares with another student. He could live in a dorm, but:
The dorms cost a lot more.
In a dorm, he would have to share a room (and the shared room would be smaller than the room that he has for himself alone).
Many of the dorms are further from the campus than his apartment.
The dorms are such a bad deal. I assume that there is a large profit margin involved.
The problem is that they are not being accountable. The company is being sued instead of the executives who decided to publish the deficient reports.
What's really sad about this is that the act of frisking anyone without any fact-based suspicion is not considered a violation of the constitution. It's only the racial bias in the ways the stops were performed that makes it illegal.
My WAG is that MS threw a bunch of money at Godaddy, not directly, you understand, but indirectly.
Furthermore, my conjecture is that MS is prepared to throw this money at Godaddy because Microsoft's share of sites was looking rather sad (3rd place for market share of active sites last month).
FTFY
It amazes me that there are people who work as analysts of Microsofts' licensing scemes and pricing, but there are, because the schemes are so complex and wrapped in Microsoft's own language.
In this case, the Datacenter edition allows unlimited "OSEs" to run on the system without having to buy a license for each "OSE". What's an OSE, you ask? Well, that's not defined, but one can infer that it means "Operating System Environment", which I believe means an instance of Windows running in a VM.
Executive Summary: the answer to your question is: No, it doesn't cost anything (beyond the cost of the CALs and good luck figuring out how many of those you need).
Many languages use only one verb for several uses of "make" and "do". English has some odd cases where "make" is used but, from a logical point of view, it would seem that "do" would be more appropriate, making translations more difficult. Thus, instead of "make up an analysis", one could easily imagine someone with a less than perfect grasp of english meaning "do an analysis"
His head did not explode because this is a deliberate tactic of misdirection. If he can just get the public to focus on the leaker, instead of the content of the leak......
This is more of the same: he is trying to say that the problem is leakers, not the core activity of the NSA.
Perhaps your email is, but I use technologies like smtp-tls, encrypted imap sessions, etc., so much of my email is encrypted in transit and it can only be read at the endpoints.
You know that they have schools in Africa, right? Not all Africans live in the same conditions. Many could benefit from both malaria cures and Internet.
Let's not forget that the US government publicised the fact that it could listen to satellite phones and, specifically Bin Laden's conversations. Was anyone punished for that leak?
Perhaps Nixon was right when he claimed that, "When the president does it, it's not illegal"?
As a European in the USA, I have noticed that there is a stronger tendency to think that "something must be done" for every issue, even if that "something" makes no sense.
Amber alters are one of those "somethings"
On my phone, the setting to disable Amber alerts was not in the phone settings, but instead the settings of the messaging app.