This will look quite obvious as hard drive slackspace will have a recognizable pattern on it. You'd probably be better to dban it, then zero out the drive...however, that is pretty damn obvious too. What you really need is to dban, zero out, then copy a bunch of typical files into place and delete, many times.
This isn't easy to do.
Instead, if you have an encrypted filesystem placed within another encrypted filesystem you'll have a much easier time hiding the presence of particular data. (there is no detectable difference between the second encrypted filesystem and the randomized slackspace of the first filesystem).
I really think Voyager I and II will be retrieved and end up in the Smithsonian. I'd even be willing to bet this will occur sometime in my lifetime. (I'm 31). I'm looking forward the exibit.
If that doesn't work, smash the shit out of it with a baseball bat. This is the approach I'd take as I tend to have a really short fuse when it comes to noise issues.
There is some asshole with one of these devices that about kills me when I ride my bike past it on the way to work. I've thought about this just having to pass it...I'd be dead serious about it if it were my next door neighbor. It fucking hurts.
If you get caught and end up in court, you've got an excellent defense of temporary insanity due to the device. Have your attorney insist use a hearing test to find potential jurors.
The USPO is the most overworked, underpaid, and un-qualified group around to evaluate patent claims. They are only concerned with crossing the t's and dotting the i's and cannot actually evaluate content. If you fill out the right paperwork, you can patent anything, perhaps even a method for pulling in air to extract oxygen and disperse extra CO2 in the bloodstream called breathing.
What this means is that, much like the court system challenging bad laws, it will take someone to challenge a patent to render its validity. If nobody challenges it, the bad patent stands.
This is the same company that recently acquired WebCT, which was probably their biggest commercial competitor. They have plans to "merge" the Blackboard and WebCT product line, but they're so different I suspect they're just going to kill one off and concentrate on the other.
I've just lost a lot of respect for these guys with this patent BS. Long live Moodle!
Regardless of the fact it is a work-owned machine, it will indeed give micro-managers more crap to hang their otherwise good employees with. I've seen some micro-managing types over the years set up cameras, install remote desktop monitoring software and even record employee's phone calls.
If you treat your employees like s*** insist on finding stuff to hang your employees with, you're going to find it. Reward a job well done give your employees enough trust and autonomy to do their jobs. If feel you can't give your employees this trust and autonomy, learn to hire better.
Micromanaging your employees will _NOT_ improve quality, production, nor morale, but it will almost certainly make them resent you for it.
While they offer great thermal resistance, space shuttle tiles really don't offer much impact resistance. This is a duty for a combination of my asbestos underwear and my titanium cup.
You know, there is a ham band that shares the 2.4 ghz spectrum. Specifically, it covers 2300-2310 and 2390-2450 Mhz. It wouldn't be out of the question for someone with an interest in ATV to slap an amplifier (and filter, and ID system, of course) on one of these off-the-shelf TV senders and be running as much as 1 to 5 watts. There would little if anything you do about it, and it could wipe out your entire office's wireless network if it were located in an adjecent building or rooftop tower.
I can't emphasize this enough: Don't put critical services on shared-spectrum unlicensed wireless.
> And you better hope nobody sets up a 2.4Ghz video sender for their security system in the vicinity.
Some years ago a company came out with a product called "minddrive", and an assortment of computer games / tools. While not directly detecting brainwaves, it did detect skin resistance changes (due to sweat I suppose)...something that some people were evidently actually learning to control.
Ticketmaster's day is over. They are greedy bastards. Check out http://www.thundertix.com/ for an alternative. (ok, I actually know these guys so admit to making a shameless plug for them, however it is nice to know there are other options)
Ok, first of all for a bugged machine to communicate with its makers it would need some conduit to send its data. Since China is on the other side of the world any RF emissions can probably be ruled out, besides, the machine has got to be FCC certified to be sold here and if it were really RF-noisy, it wouldn't pass compliance.
This leaves network traffic. Now I really hope there aren't many machines that stradle classified networks and unclassified networks. Real, physical separation could guarantee no crosstalk between classified and non-classified systems. A while back I recall some discussion that VMWare was being used to virtualize systems of different classifications, so maybe this is not the case anymore. Nevertheless, a firmware bugged system would have to report home, and any self-resperting network admin _should_ be able to notice periodic network connection attempts to its destination, especially in a very controlled enviroment where arbitrary tcp/ip connections just aren't the norm.
This leaves the approach of using stenographic techniques to attempt to hide important data in files that the Chinese would hope to become declassified and published. Talk about hit and miss, not to mention the processing power and overhead such a scheme would take, but this is about the only way out I can think of this morning before my coffee. The firmware could be looking for keyword triggers, record big blocks of text around the keywords found, then embed in numerous other documents in hopes to leak it. Talk about a crapshot, but maybe it is worth adding to a paranoid agency's list of things to watch for.
I think the time has come to assemble a voip solution that not only encrypts, but uses onion routing to circumvent any attempts at traffic analysis. This big-brother bullshit is quickly getting out of hand. CALEA is going to arse-rape higher education, and may actually require a cleared individual at each institution to work with the spooks in complete secrecy.
On a related spooky note, the department of Immigration and Naturalization already tracks vehicles (via an automated photo matching system) driving both directions at their (highly unconstitutional) "checkpoints". On the way towards the border you drive through an array of cameras over the highway, on the way back you stop at the checkpoint. I'm not talking about crossing the border here...I'm talking about getting within 50 miles of it and getting searched just because you drove to the most southern part of this country.
I wonder how the same folks that are behind CALEA are going to respond to widespread secure VoIP. Will it be clipper-chip revisited with all other crypto outlawed? Why should I care...I'm probably already marked as a "person of interest" because I have unlicenced mp3s, run mplayer on linux to watch encrypted DVDs, love bittorrent and seriously question Bush's I.Q. Maybe this explains all those extra searches at the airport... (j/k, but after this post, who knows...)
Yes, there is a nearly 100% effective way of preventing the skipping of commercials. On the bittorrent networks, it actually results in the trading of the commercials, sometimes without the associated show. This technique is used in many of the more liberal European countries and is very simple. It requires no sophisticated playback software or restrictive DRM crap. It works on all playback technology. It even prevents getting up and leaving the room during commercials, or even just not paying attention to the commercials.
Get out your old physics book and turn to the chapter on resonance and Q. Built a filter. Sell the mundane filter as a new high-tech "Cell-Phone Proof Speaker". Patent something equally as mundane...maybe the color of the wires you use in builting the circuit. Profit.
Ok, seriously...add a little series inductance to the power and audio cables, and some parallel capacitance. You want to allow audio frequencies to pass...but nothing at much higher frequencies. The parallel caps allow high frequency A/C to short across while the inductors look like open circuits to the A/C.
You can try just adding some inductance by wrapping the cords around a metal core. This can work quite well by itself even.
that would be fine, but I wonder if advertisers would go for it due to stuff like adblock, etc... Google doesn't want to be evil, but their advertisers might.
Well, I don't want to have to run some closed, proprietary software that's going to take over my browser to administer these ads. It's not that I would disagree with seeing them, but rather disagree with turning over control of my machine to google. Sorry, but I really don't see a way to impliment this without first 0Wn1Ng the client's box.
I've not been able to get this thing to build on FC3, FC4 or Debian-Stable. In zfone-linux/srtp-ctr some of the test utilities won't build... no big deal because make install still works. The makefile for zfone-linux/libzfone/bnlib references/bin/install instead of/usr/bin/install. No biggie. Fixed. Installed. Lastly (I stopped here), make of zfone-linux/libzfone totally blew chunks in what at first glance looks non-trivial.
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This will look quite obvious as hard drive slackspace will have a recognizable pattern on it. You'd probably be better to dban it, then zero out the drive...however, that is pretty damn obvious too. What you really need is to dban, zero out, then copy a bunch of typical files into place and delete, many times.
This isn't easy to do.
Instead, if you have an encrypted filesystem placed within another encrypted filesystem you'll have a much easier time hiding the presence of particular data. (there is no detectable difference between the second encrypted filesystem and the randomized slackspace of the first filesystem).
I really think Voyager I and II will be retrieved and end up in the Smithsonian. I'd even be willing to bet this will occur sometime in my lifetime. (I'm 31). I'm looking forward the exibit.
If that doesn't work, smash the shit out of it with a baseball bat. This is the approach I'd take as I tend to have a really short fuse when it comes to noise issues.
There is some asshole with one of these devices that about kills me when I ride my bike past it on the way to work. I've thought about this just having to pass it...I'd be dead serious about it if it were my next door neighbor. It fucking hurts.
If you get caught and end up in court, you've got an excellent defense of temporary insanity due to the device. Have your attorney insist use a hearing test to find potential jurors.
Here's a pathetic example of the crap the USPO grants: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6368227.html (a method for swinging)
What this means is that, much like the court system challenging bad laws, it will take someone to challenge a patent to render its validity. If nobody challenges it, the bad patent stands.
I've just lost a lot of respect for these guys with this patent BS. Long live Moodle!
Regardless of the fact it is a work-owned machine, it will indeed give micro-managers more crap to hang their otherwise good employees with. I've seen some micro-managing types over the years set up cameras, install remote desktop monitoring software and even record employee's phone calls. If you treat your employees like s*** insist on finding stuff to hang your employees with, you're going to find it. Reward a job well done give your employees enough trust and autonomy to do their jobs. If feel you can't give your employees this trust and autonomy, learn to hire better. Micromanaging your employees will _NOT_ improve quality, production, nor morale, but it will almost certainly make them resent you for it.
...and the world's power distribution grids use Edison's DC.
Dude, stay out of the red light district.
While they offer great thermal resistance, space shuttle tiles really don't offer much impact resistance. This is a duty for a combination of my asbestos underwear and my titanium cup.
I can't emphasize this enough: Don't put critical services on shared-spectrum unlicensed wireless.
> And you better hope nobody sets up a 2.4Ghz video sender for their security system in the vicinity.
Pointless and off topic, but FIRST POST!
Uh, over 1/2 of my department is lefthanded. You minority freak northpaw!!!
Here's all I can find of it: http://www.raven1.net/minddriv.htm
Ticketmaster's day is over. They are greedy bastards. Check out http://www.thundertix.com/ for an alternative. (ok, I actually know these guys so admit to making a shameless plug for them, however it is nice to know there are other options)
Wasn't there some GSM "exploit" at blackhat that allowed near-gsm datarate transmission using only acoustic coupling?
This leaves network traffic. Now I really hope there aren't many machines that stradle classified networks and unclassified networks. Real, physical separation could guarantee no crosstalk between classified and non-classified systems. A while back I recall some discussion that VMWare was being used to virtualize systems of different classifications, so maybe this is not the case anymore. Nevertheless, a firmware bugged system would have to report home, and any self-resperting network admin _should_ be able to notice periodic network connection attempts to its destination, especially in a very controlled enviroment where arbitrary tcp/ip connections just aren't the norm.
This leaves the approach of using stenographic techniques to attempt to hide important data in files that the Chinese would hope to become declassified and published. Talk about hit and miss, not to mention the processing power and overhead such a scheme would take, but this is about the only way out I can think of this morning before my coffee. The firmware could be looking for keyword triggers, record big blocks of text around the keywords found, then embed in numerous other documents in hopes to leak it. Talk about a crapshot, but maybe it is worth adding to a paranoid agency's list of things to watch for.
-Michael
On a related spooky note, the department of Immigration and Naturalization already tracks vehicles (via an automated photo matching system) driving both directions at their (highly unconstitutional) "checkpoints". On the way towards the border you drive through an array of cameras over the highway, on the way back you stop at the checkpoint. I'm not talking about crossing the border here...I'm talking about getting within 50 miles of it and getting searched just because you drove to the most southern part of this country.
No, what if their blonde?
I wonder how the same folks that are behind CALEA are going to respond to widespread secure VoIP. Will it be clipper-chip revisited with all other crypto outlawed? Why should I care...I'm probably already marked as a "person of interest" because I have unlicenced mp3s, run mplayer on linux to watch encrypted DVDs, love bittorrent and seriously question Bush's I.Q. Maybe this explains all those extra searches at the airport... (j/k, but after this post, who knows...)
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Ok, seriously...add a little series inductance to the power and audio cables, and some parallel capacitance. You want to allow audio frequencies to pass...but nothing at much higher frequencies. The parallel caps allow high frequency A/C to short across while the inductors look like open circuits to the A/C.
You can try just adding some inductance by wrapping the cords around a metal core. This can work quite well by itself even.
that would be fine, but I wonder if advertisers would go for it due to stuff like adblock, etc... Google doesn't want to be evil, but their advertisers might.
Well, I don't want to have to run some closed, proprietary software that's going to take over my browser to administer these ads. It's not that I would disagree with seeing them, but rather disagree with turning over control of my machine to google. Sorry, but I really don't see a way to impliment this without first 0Wn1Ng the client's box.
aa9ac66a5dce43cff2639787f30e939078b47ebe zfone-linux.tar.gz
c6a47feca0fd5cb5bf72a8f6a1e8f207 zfone-linux.tar.gz
I too am rather disturbed by a lack of a signature on this package...and I suspect by the difficulty I'm having building it that it is a CVS snapshot.
Methinks Phil needs a Linux box!
hehehe j/k.
Has _anyone_ got this thing to build?