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  1. Get some cheap commercial stuff. Dont hacktogether on Ask Slashdot: Can You Install a Wifi Mesh Network in a Barn? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not sure one your budget but - You will need access points that will seamlessly move clients to one another (Aruba IAP105's are cheap - forget the fancy newer HT80+ stuff) or something similar from a competitor. Checkout Aruba, Aerohive, Ubiquit, Rukus, etc. Do a search for Aruba HAT - "home agent table" to get an idea of the idea of how a user is moved around between nodes. Mikrotik also has some cool stuff. Havent check them in a while. Think DD-WRT just does relay which is pretty nasty.

    If it were me, i'd grab a bunch of ebayed IAP105's, or 205's if they had the cash, and link them via EoP (ethernet over power) so no backhaul wireless needed. You can stick em anywhere on that phase of the power. (check if three phase power and design accordingly)

     

  2. So bad it looks intentional on Police Bodycams Can Be Hacked To Doctor Footage, Install Malware (boingboing.net) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I find it interesting that important, critical even, systems such as police bodycams and election voting machines in this age appear to have almost an intentional absence of any sort of integrity mechanisms. And can quite literally be manipulated in minutes with next to no effort. These flaws are not complex. They are things that should be picked up by even the technically absent as just looking at the system overviews - no encryption, no signing, ineffective and easily bypassible authentication (if any) as obvious caveats to a resilient system. I just don't buy this as simple and frighting negligence. And where are the pen tests? I call shenanigans!

  3. Fact check this Mark on Facebook Begins 'Fact-Checking' Photos, Videos (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Fact check this Mark -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?... :)

  4. Zuckered - "We will never sell your data" video on Facebook Tweaks Privacy Tools To Ease Discontent Over Data Leak (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If you haven't seen this, watch it. Then decide if you trust Mark

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  5. "1,000 current college students that have student loan debt were surveyed on the single question discussed in this article. Pollfish conducted this survey on behalf of The Student Loan Report. The survey began on March 16, 2018 and finished collecting results on March 20, 2018. "

    Probably the worst time to trade at the moment. If you are going to do it, do it on an up-trend :)

  6. Re:One seriously stupid woman on 'How I Went Dark In Australia's Surveillance State For 2 Years' (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Card credit expires in 30 days from memory

  7. Correct me if i'm wrong. But shouldn't a main stream browser like firefox be using something that actually could be considered even remotely secure for the mother password of all your other passwords? It sounds almost intentional, if not exceedingly negligent. And after nine years and it's now only coming to light? Something doesn't sound right.

  8. If facebook wanted to stop messing with elections, they would just ban election advertising.

  9. You need to explain your purpose on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Isolate a Network And Allow Data Transfer? · · Score: 1

    There are many solutions each with its own pros and cons. But without understanding what it is you are doing you are really wasting everyones time. Go into the details and help us understand the purpose and situation to what it is you wish to achieve and /. will do it's best to help you.

  10. Parachutes on Chinese Tourist's Drone Crashes Into Taipei 101 Skyscraper · · Score: 1

    I was going to ask if this was viable but looks like it is already a product - http://www.fruitychutes.com/

    Should be mandatory in built up areas as a minimum requirement along with a license and possibly a permit if flown in or around the centre of town. This should include everyone - even government departments.

  11. Not good for government credibility on Silk Road Investigators Charged With Stealing Bitcoin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not very reassuring when the investigators in such a case are themselves blatantly breaking the law to serve themselves. It makes you wonder about the other government agencies and employees looking at things such as all the mass collected survelance materials and wondering how they can use their position to their own personal benefit. Contrary of course to what the government says will never happen. I don't feel like there is much integrity. Having said that at least they got caught even though after the fact.

  12. Re:Because so much content is made in Aus on Australian Government Outlines Website-Blocking Scheme · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "Funny how the goverment wants to slash their funding" -> Sadly Rupert gets what Rupert wants. Far too much of the current policy comes from a handfull of extemely wealthy business men/women. Gina Rinehart, a close friend to Tony, is another classic example and now the current government is kicking the indigenous (aboriginals, etc) off their own land and forcedly shutting down their communities for the mining companies. It's truely shocking. It's like Australia has gone back 200 years to when it was first colonised by the Europians. Fitting since Tony Abbott is actually English!

  13. Because so much content is made in Aus on Australian Government Outlines Website-Blocking Scheme · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've never understood why the Aus goverment would care given that almost all the content pirated is from overseas giving no financial benefits to the country. But I guess with the current governments relationship with media mogul Murdock who practically got them elected they must continue dance for the man (reference: image search "lets kick this mob out").

    I see this only meaning the goverments popularity (24% in Feb) will continue to slide down while VPN services skyrocket. Sounds like a winning plan.

  14. I'm confused on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 1

    Why is this story posted on a tech news website exactly?

  15. Re:Follow the money... on Internet Censorship Back On Australian Agenda · · Score: 1

    No!! surely not? Not this Rupert - http://www.businessinsider.com...

    And Gina? - http://www.smh.com.au/federal-...

    Surely they wouldn't be doing back room deals with Abbott for personal interests in the media and mining sectors?

  16. Supposedly, "non-US" data is removed on NSA Collects 200 Million Text Messages Per Day · · Score: 5, Informative

    Supposedly, "non-US" data is removed

    No, you have that round the wrong way -

    "Communications from US phone numbers, the documents suggest, were removed (or “minimized”) from the database – but those of other countries, including the UK, were retained."

  17. Looks like Aruba mesh network with Airwave on Seattle PD Mum On Tracking By Its New Wi-Fi Mesh Network · · Score: 4, Informative

    This just looks likely to be an out of the box Aruba Airwave (tracking) install on an Aruba MSR4000 mesh network. So just turn your wifi off when your not using it?

  18. Well on NSA Director Keith Alexander Is Reportedly Stepping Down · · Score: 0

    I'm sure they saw it coming.

  19. Re:CoS is a cult ... on Former Scientologist: CoS Told Brin It Wanted Only "Good" Search Results · · Score: 2

    "You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion"

    * L Ron's response to a question from the audience during a meeting of the Eastern Science Fiction Association on (7 November 1948), as quoted in a 1994 affidavit by Sam Moskowitz

  20. Re:Not in the land of the Free on Saudi Arabia Set To Ban WhatsApp, Skype · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What is this land you speak of?

  21. Does anyone remember room 641A in AT&T's basem on The NSA: Never Not Watching · · Score: 4, Informative

    This has been going on at least since 2005 and its more than just phone call records - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

    "Room 641A is located in the SBC Communications building at 611 Folsom Street, San Francisco, three floors of which were occupied by AT&T before SBC purchased AT&T.[1] The room was referred to in internal AT&T documents as the SG3 [Study Group 3] Secure Room. It is fed by fiber optic lines from beam splitters installed in fiber optic trunks carrying Internet backbone traffic[3] and, as analyzed by J. Scott Marcus, a former CTO for GTE and a former adviser to the FCC, has access to all Internet traffic that passes through the building, and therefore "the capability to enable surveillance and analysis of internet content on a massive scale, including both overseas and purely domestic traffic. Former director of the NSA’s World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group, William Binney, has estimated that 10 to 20 such facilities have been installed throughout the United States.[2]"

  22. This all looks to now be resolved on CyanogenMod Domain Hijacked · · Score: 5, Informative

    This all looks to now be resolved - http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/domain-situation-has-been-resolved

    From the cyanogenmod blog -

    (ciwrl wrote this, I’m just posting on his behalf so this is resolved)

    So earlier today we put up a post on what prompted us to transition to our new CyanogenMod.org domain. We refrained from identifying the ex-member out of respect for his privacy and career outside of CM. Suffice it to say you guys aren’t slouches, and figured it out on your own.

    With that said, the ex-member in question contacted us and has agreed to hand over control of the CyanogenMod.com domain. This was done as amicably as these things can be, and CM did not pay the fee he requested.

    We will still be using CyanogenMod.org as our primary domain, and the .com address will simply redirect to this new domain. Ironically enough, ‘.org’ is better than ‘.com’ as we are not a commercial entity, and is far more in line with how CyanogenMod is structured.

    We received a common question, that we’d like to take a moment to answer. Some of you contacted us mentioning that you had previously donated to a different address. When the forum began, up until about 3 months ago, the forum utilized this other address as the mechanism for forum donations and establishment of the ‘Donator’ badge. Donations made to this address prior to three months ago were used for the CyanogenMod forum IPB licence and forum related costs and were not misappropriated.

    On a side note, we have also gone through internal restructuring to make sure that this sort of thing doesn’t happen again. Nobody has control over everything, and there is no longer such a large single-point of failure. Our lessons have been learned.

    We ask that you please not perform any vigilante actions, we do not condone any such thing; just let this fade.

    We want to move on, get you the builds you expect from us, and not mess around with distractions.

  23. lives in Texas, is of Asian descent on Actress Sues IMDb For Revealing Her Age · · Score: 1

    "The actress - referred to in court documents by the placeholder name Jane Doe - lives in Texas, is of Asian descent and has an Americanised stage name."

    Lucy Liu perhaps though she is already 40+ - She is shown on IMDB as DOB 2/12/1968 making her 43 I think. I cant think of any other actresses matching that so she must not be that much of a "well-known" big name star. Perhaps a wannabe big name star who is on the way out and is desperately holding on to the hope someone will hire her.

    No surprise on the Texan origin though. That state must be one big court house! I wonder what the golden girls would think of this case. I know they are still getting gigs and they are like almost 100 years old. And what about the girls from Sex and the City?? They must be claiming senior discount by now!

  24. Police report is pretty darn damning on Collar-Bomber Tracked By Gmail Accesses · · Score: 2

    Reading through the police report pdf the guy appears to be a complete moron. Using his own credit card, car, public internet spots surrounded by CCTV, wearing/keeping the same clothes. Not real smart if you ask me. "A lawyer for Mr Peters said his client would fight the charges against him." - Why bother even trying given the evidence? Save your money or whats left of it for buying your way out of inevitable ass-rapage in jail.

  25. I think he may be in for an ass kicking on Spam King Wallace Indicted For Facebook Spam · · Score: 2

    I think he may be in for an ass kicking -

    "Wallace has also been sued by Facebook, which won a $711 million civil judgement against him. As part of that judgement, he was banned from Facebook, and the criminal indictment accuses Wallace of contempt of court for allegedly logging onto the social network during an April 2009 Virgin Airlines flight from Las Vegas to New York. Wallace also allegedly set up a Facebook profile in January of this year under the user name David Sinful-Saturdays Fredericks."

    Either way he should be banned forever from the interwebs for all our sakes. If ever there was a case to throw the book at someone, this would be it.