Well the story cited is equally confusing. How did he hack into hundreds of on line accounts from Facebook Skype, and then find enough to blackmail them?
Seems these women were already posting pictures online in many cases.
But left unexplained is how he hacked into at least three different services in the first place.
Then too, there is a whole mash of what passes for "code" that is written, which is specific to which particular machines you have in your lab, and how you have to extract data from those machines, followed by a lot more code that is off-the-cuff stuff to check some wild idea the researchers thought up over lunch.
On one lab we worked for there were several types of "software" being developed. One is automated data extraction from machines, some of which we had to sign NDAs to enable use access to their internals, another area was the cataloging of results, and a third was actual data manipulation.
For cataloging, we simply used an off the shelf database system. But even the full list of elements in the database revealed more than the researchers were willing to share, so that had to remain under NDA as well.
The actual data manipulation was more often than not simply database extractions (primary data reduction), feeding somewhat less monstrous spread sheets ("hunch" analysis, and "what-if" queries), finally filtered into a few specialized runs thru off the shelf statistical packages (for the rigorous analysis).
The only thing that made it into their publication was the input & output of the standard stat package, plus the data sets used there in.
What else was there that would be if interest to any other researcher?
It was all pretty site specific, device specific, field specific (virology) etc. Its amazing how little code was actually written, it was mostly lashing packages together. We ended up licensing some of the machine code back to the equipment suppliers. They now "give" *cough* it away when you buy their equipment.
How many came out of the computer room sweating on their run to the fridge, uncommunicative, distracted, and wild eyed. Then crawled into bed late to a cold shoulder and a turned back.
Then having to go to work/school the next day and not be able to explain it to anyone because, nobody would understand, and all the raised eyebrows, and looking askance, and rolling of eyes between workmates.
Private little daydreams must be problematic when shared with 3000 other basement dwellers.
Why were they not on before? I was just looking at NK last weak and found in no time the buildings where NK and SK face each other ! And I couldent find that place after looking for 30 min a year ago !
They face each other with guard towers all along their border. There is no ONE place. You were probably looking for the famous place where peace talks were/are held. see: http://goo.gl/maps/KTRtC
However, if you look along the border there are dozens of places where there are military establishments on either side of the DMZ. Many of these face each other. They are usually on every high hill,
Except that nobody wants to exchange vine recordings with all their "friends" on facebook, most of which most people hardly know.
People want to send Vine movies to a FEW people, who you ALREADY have in your phone's contacts and address book. Nobody wants to receive vine movies from just anyone.
The thing is, there was never a need for Voxer or Vine to tie into facebook in the first place. Facebook provides nothing to either app. I've seen this a sort of mentality a hundred times on apps in the Android Play store. Diet apps, health apps, personal finance apps, all tying into Facebook, which is arguably the last place you want apps sharing private information.
These developers just arbitrarily toss that crap in to be part of the in-crowd.
Go look at the videos. Choppers flying over high density civilian areas at less then 1200 feet AGL does not look like a legal order to me. Any private pilot flying that low would lose their license.
Did any of those pilots say, Look, captain, this is dangerous! These things crash often enough in normal use that we have no business flying them between buildings at tree top level just to practice shooting at civilians.
I'm betting not one soldier questioned this entire exercise.
So the question stands then: If these soldiers are so well trained that they can tell right from wrong, what self respecting soldier is flying choppers over a US city practicing firing on civilians?
Train Like You Fight Fight Like You Train. Isn't that the motto?
I know that's just a regurgitated statement, but Florida is strongly in the R camp. We have an R governor, and have for a long time. Miami might be in the D category though. Anyway, thinking placing an R in office would change anything is pretty misguided.
Another point of interest here is that the founders and the citizenry of the time that the constitution was created understood that the average citizen had the right to keep and bear arms on par with what the typical soldier had.
It was understood that what might be called up as a militia to repel an invasion one day, could also become a bulwark against tyrants the next, and weapons on par with military side arms were necessary for this.
Breaking my rule responding but how many in the military do you think will carry out orders to attack and kill American citizens? I know the oath they and I took says to defend the constitution not trample all over it.
If it came down to that I think a lot would develop a backbone and "just say no" as it is their families and friends in the kill zones also.
90% would follow those orders, and imprison the other 10%.
There is a reason enlisted people are usually transferred away from their home states and have very little ties to the community they live in.
Why do you think they willingly undertake these war drills against american cities? (Hint: its not to practice for foreign deployments.) Why do you think local police are so eager to help them out?
20 years ago this sort of exercise would get top brass court marshaled. Today anything is possible in the name of homeland security.
How would you know a proxy was a honeypot? You would have exactly zero clue about who owns that ip. If you did know, that would defeat the whole point of proxies since one arrested person could be forced into giving up the entire chain.
Have you seen those small "Share" and "Like" buttons all over the web?
Thats right, Facebook, Google, and others, see every time a browser downloads those buttons and which URL it was loaded from. It the user happens to be logged on to their service, they also see the user's identity.
In otherwords, Facebook, Google can track almost every user and page load on the web!
Hospitals have ways to deal with this. There are, after all, power outages and disasters frequent enough to cause them to plan ahead, and they can run for over a month with zero funding, and several months once the government steps in.
Yes you might be able to cause a few deaths by killing all power. You could cause a few more by setting all intersections to ALL Ways Green.
But so what? People will quickly figure it out, cities will simply unplug the stop-lights reverting every intersection into take-your-turn.
You can't do any significant damage to a country, and render them in-capable of responding in kind, or with tomahawk missiles. This is fear-mongering, plain and simple.
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True he will never get the max.
But would you have even bothered to read the story if the poster hadn't hype the ridiculous theoretical maximums?
Well the story cited is equally confusing.
How did he hack into hundreds of on line accounts from Facebook Skype, and then find enough to blackmail them?
Seems these women were already posting pictures online in many cases.
But left unexplained is how he hacked into at least three different services in the first place.
Then too, there is a whole mash of what passes for "code" that is written, which is specific to which particular machines you have in your lab, and how you have
to extract data from those machines, followed by a lot more code that is off-the-cuff stuff to check some wild idea the researchers thought up over lunch.
On one lab we worked for there were several types of "software" being developed. One is automated data extraction from machines, some of which we had to sign NDAs to enable use access to their internals, another area was the cataloging of results, and a third was actual data manipulation.
For cataloging, we simply used an off the shelf database system. But even the full list of elements in the database revealed more than the researchers were willing to share, so that had to remain under NDA as well.
The actual data manipulation was more often than not simply database extractions (primary data reduction), feeding somewhat less monstrous spread sheets ("hunch" analysis, and "what-if" queries), finally filtered into a few specialized runs thru off the shelf statistical packages (for the rigorous analysis).
The only thing that made it into their publication was the input & output of the standard stat package, plus the data sets used there in.
What else was there that would be if interest to any other researcher?
It was all pretty site specific, device specific, field specific (virology) etc. Its amazing how little code was actually written, it was mostly lashing packages together. We ended up licensing some of the machine code back to the equipment suppliers. They now "give" *cough* it away when you buy their equipment.
I had a facebook account for 15 minutes years back when it started. I quickly decided it was not for me.
But I too know people with hundreds of friends, some of which they have no recollection of ever meeting.
Yeah, that was my thought too.
How many came out of the computer room sweating on their run to the fridge, uncommunicative, distracted, and wild eyed. Then crawled into bed late to a cold shoulder and a turned back.
Then having to go to work/school the next day and not be able to explain it to anyone because, nobody would understand, and all the raised eyebrows, and looking askance, and rolling of eyes between workmates.
Private little daydreams must be problematic when shared with 3000 other basement dwellers.
Well, he couldn't very well publicize this before his visit could he. Presumably he wanted to come back some time soon.
Vines is a Twitter service. Surely you are following these friends on twitter already, right?
Why were they not on before? I was just looking at NK last weak and found in no time the buildings where NK and SK face each other ! And I couldent find that place after looking for 30 min a year ago !
They face each other with guard towers all along their border. There is no ONE place.
You were probably looking for the famous place where peace talks were/are held. see: http://goo.gl/maps/KTRtC
However, if you look along the border there are dozens of places where there are military establishments on either side
of the DMZ. Many of these face each other. They are usually on every high hill,
Except that nobody wants to exchange vine recordings with all their "friends" on facebook, most of which most people hardly know.
People want to send Vine movies to a FEW people, who you ALREADY have in your phone's contacts and address book. Nobody wants to receive vine movies from just anyone.
There is no value in that linkage.
The thing is, there was never a need for Voxer or Vine to tie into facebook in the first place. Facebook provides nothing to either app.
I've seen this a sort of mentality a hundred times on apps in the Android Play store. Diet apps, health apps, personal finance apps, all tying into Facebook, which is arguably the last place you want apps sharing private information.
These developers just arbitrarily toss that crap in to be part of the in-crowd.
Go look at the videos.
Choppers flying over high density civilian areas at less then 1200 feet AGL does not look like a legal order to me. Any private pilot flying that low would lose their license.
Did any of those pilots say, Look, captain, this is dangerous! These things crash often enough in normal use that we have no business flying them between buildings at tree top level just to practice shooting at civilians.
I'm betting not one soldier questioned this entire exercise.
So the question stands then: If these soldiers are so well trained that they can tell right from wrong, what self respecting soldier is flying choppers over a US city practicing firing on civilians?
Train Like You Fight Fight Like You Train. Isn't that the motto?
What you expect to be in the barrel of a military machine gun?
Why would you have to clean it before EACH round?
I know that's just a regurgitated statement, but Florida is strongly in the R camp. We have an R governor, and have for a long time. Miami might be in the D category though. Anyway, thinking placing an R in office would change anything is pretty misguided.
Which is exactly why Obama practices there.
Anonymous is about to disclose their warheads and they should be prepared if people finds that information disturbing.
Anonymous has nothing that is even vaguely interesting.
Another point of interest here is that the founders and the citizenry of the time that the constitution was created understood that the average citizen had the right to keep and bear arms on par with what the typical soldier had.
It was understood that what might be called up as a militia to repel an invasion one day, could also become a bulwark against tyrants the next, and weapons on par with military side arms were necessary for this.
Yup, just like the Military fell to hell after Kent State.
You sir, are a delusional fool, who refuses to learn from history.
Breaking my rule responding but how many in the military do you think will carry out orders to attack and kill American citizens?
I know the oath they and I took says to defend the constitution not trample all over it.
If it came down to that I think a lot would develop a backbone and "just say no" as it is their families and friends in the kill zones also.
90% would follow those orders, and imprison the other 10%.
There is a reason enlisted people are usually transferred away from their home states and have very little ties to the community they live in.
Why do you think they willingly undertake these war drills against american cities? (Hint: its not to practice for foreign deployments.)
Why do you think local police are so eager to help them out?
20 years ago this sort of exercise would get top brass court marshaled. Today anything is possible in the name of homeland security.
How would you know a proxy was a honeypot?
You would have exactly zero clue about who owns that ip. If you did know, that would defeat the whole point of proxies since one arrested person could be forced into giving up the entire chain.
Have you seen those small "Share" and "Like" buttons all over the web?
Thats right, Facebook, Google, and others, see every time a browser downloads those buttons and which URL it was loaded from. It the user happens to be logged on to their service, they also see the user's identity.
In otherwords, Facebook, Google can track almost every user and page load on the web!
"Apple users: Only Apple can track us! Not Google" was the headline that The Register used to describe this story in their usually thinly veiled laughing up their sleeve sort of way.
Allegedly these clowns are suing for damages. Let them prove damages.
Perhaps you are unaware that Apple does not allow Apps that serve porn to last very long in the AppStore?
Its an app that posts short little movies. That's all it does. You can make a movie about anything, or nothing at all.
Apple doesn't removed every app that could send or receive porn. There are dozens of such apps.
What about if you erased every US citizen's bank account?
Two words:
Backup Tapes
Great strategy. Its kept Israel out of so many wars.....
Oh, wait...
Hospitals have ways to deal with this. There are, after all, power outages and disasters frequent enough to cause them to plan ahead, and they can run for over a month with zero funding, and several months once the government steps in.
Yes you might be able to cause a few deaths by killing all power. You could cause a few more by setting all intersections to ALL Ways Green.
But so what? People will quickly figure it out, cities will simply unplug the stop-lights reverting every intersection into take-your-turn.
You can't do any significant damage to a country, and render them in-capable of responding in kind, or with tomahawk missiles.
This is fear-mongering, plain and simple.