"How far past the foundation?" I was standing in the middle of thie highway that has run for 25 years between Vientiane and the bridge, passing in front of where the new Embassy was built.
It was just one increment in the continuing saga of American government arrogance. The previous example was FATCA, in which the U.S. is trying to regulate the behavior of non-US banks. My Thai bank now refuses to open any new account for any US citizen because of FATCA, and I don't blame them. My existing account was grandfathered in; their computer doesn't know that I am a US citizen.
AFAIK no other country in the world attempts to regulate it's citizen's behavior when they are outside the country. I live in Thailand. While here I am obediant to Thai law, same as my friends who are Germans and Swedes and French. I feel no obligation to obey US laws. I haven't set foot in the USA for twenty years.
I have four living Thai children. Uncle Sam only knows about one of them. I figure they're better off without US passports.
Americans are not aware of this crap. The NSA is accused of "logging the metadata" of your phone calls. The NSA admits to RECORDING the content of every phone call I make. But Americans don't care. Today Uncle Sam thinks he owns the me; tomorrow he will think he owns you. Well, he doesn't own me, yesterday or today or tomorrow..
I tried to use my tablet to take a picture of the new American Embassy building outside Vientiane, Laos. I was told by the guards that this is prohibited. I went out to the street and took a picture from a public road on Lao territory, but they again told me to delete the picture. I figure they had no right to prohibit the picture, but I deleted it anyway. Then they had the paradox that they were insisting that I delete the picture, but they could not touch my tablet and I could not delete the picture because it was already gone.
So two days later, while I was in a taxi driving from downtown Vientiane to the Thai bridge, I pulled out my tablet and shot a video as we went past the new Embassy building. As soon as I got home I posted the video on my web site at
http://www.andycanfield.com/Th... So far the idiots in the U.S. State Department haven't contacted me. Is it an act of treason for you to look at it? Ask your lawyer.
There are people you dislike lining the side of the road. You, and your friends, are standing on the other side of the road. There is a line of police down the middle of the highway, with their guns pointing away from you, protecting you. No problem, you feel safe and secure. Except that, someday, those policemen will turn and point their guns towards you.
I've seen it happen. Every defender you hire is a potential enemy. Every threat to others is a threat to you. Every bodyguard is a potential killer. As long as the Supreme Court agrees with your lawyer, you can laugh at the losers, but the day the gavel stikes you, your laywers will hide and your ass is grass.
It is better to not have enemies; to incite hatred and defy the world is foolish.
15.04 is not an "LTS" (Long Term Support). So we will continue to run 14.04 LTS on our servers, and on my workstation. I guess we will stick to it for another year, until April 2016. Ah well. Good Luck, gang, and thank you for the good job, Ubuntu.
Reliance upon the government to protect you after you have insulted someone is not freedom
What exactly is it that you think Government does?
Because collective security is the most basic function of Government.
As an example, if you insult the King of Thailand, the only thing keeping the Thai government from crossing borders to take you in for prosecution is your government.
Or do you think you can defend yourself against the resources of a nation state?
I live in Thailand. They don't need to cross any borders to get me. Thailand IS my government. We Thais learn to get along with everybody. Can you name one national / ethnic / racial group on Earth that hates Thai? Well, maybe the dogmatic fundamentalist Pennsylvania Christians hate our dancing ladies. If they bring money, they're welcome too.
Thomas Jefferson said "A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have." I warn you - A government big enough to protect you is strong enough to destroy you.
Reliance upon the government to protect you after you have insulted someone is not freedom. Freedom requires courage, and sometimes the price of courage is high. Ed Snowden is my hero - he paid the price.
I used to test compatability between Chrome, Opera, Firefox, and Internet Explorer, as a desktop browser. But now we have one PC and two phones and a tablet, and Chrome is native on all the mobile devices. That's where Firefox is losing to Chrome. Personally I installed Firefox on my Android Tablet, but Chrome still lurks in the background.
Now he gets arrested, and sent to jail, and tried, and convicted, and goes to prison for a few years. By the time he gets out, he'll know a LOT about hacking computers. Getting an education the hard way.
Thanks./tmp is not mounted; it is part of the / file partition on/dev/sda1. As of now there are no executable files in it at all. So I guess, for now, we're safe.
Just for reference, just because you have some raspberry pi's running Linux, doesn't really mean you should be saying you run some servers.
Second, if you don't know how to detect this, you shouldn't be running servers.
Third, if you don't know how to prevent this from being useful, OR you don't take those actions be default, you shouldn't be running anything other than Windows.
The server brand names I'm not sure of; generic 80386 boxes. They are owned by a company I work for. I set up these machines myself; they paid me for it. Two are in Bangkok, Thailand, the other one is 1000 kilometers North of there. Plus my own Lenovo notebook. They run information management software what I wrote, plus the OS and Apache and MySQL of course. I update all four every weekend using apt via ssh. Other than outgoing connections to certain IP addresses, I saw nothing in the paper that showed how to detect Mumblehard. (PS: You sound very snotty. I did say "Please".)
I've got three servers that I maintain; four if you count my workstation. They all run Ubuntu Linux 14.04.
What is top in my mind is DETECTION. How to tell if Mublehard has infected us. If it has I must can go in person and re-install all the systems from scratch. But I'm not going to spend several nights on the bus until I get a YES or NO. Perhaps Yellsoft sells a Mumblehard detector, ha ha?
To send e-mail to ThisIdiot@andycanfield.com you have to send it to ThatIdiot@yandex.com. There is no e-mail service at andycanfield.com because all of the worlds SMTP servers are interconnected by mandatory certification.
There there is no e-mail server on my web site. Your e-mail client connects to SMTP.alpha.com and it talks to SMTP.beta.com which talks to SMTP.gamma.com on down the line until the message gets to SMTP.target.com and delivers the message where he can pick up the message from POP3.target.com. All the world's SMTP servers are inconnected by a web of paid-for certificates. Unlike HTTPS, there is no human involved, so nobody can say "Yes, go ahead and accept that certificate". Your certificate is either signed by a recognized organisation, or you're out of the chain.
I have my own personal web site. It uses HTTP. Several years ago I looked into upgrading it to HTTPS. No thanks. Why not? Because [a] I had to shell out my own money to by a certificate to vouch for my domain name, and [b] It seemed wrong to me to have somebody else to voucth for me. Maybe Mozilla can solve the first problem. But if you go to my domain name, why do you need anybody else to swear that that really is me? Seems wrong, somehow.
- Andy Canfield
www.andycanfield.com
Ahah! Do you believe what I posted? Did I sign it with my PGP key? Do you believe that this is me typing this? Who will you believe if you don't believe me? Answer: don't trust anybody, including me.
I was at U.C. Berkeley in 1968. We forced the US out of Vietnam, we brought down Richard Nixon. We can do it again; we can bring down the US NSA.
How? The same way we did it before - by teaching everyone we meet. What did we teach them in the 1960's? "The government MIGHT be lying to you." Once they learned that, they began thinking and checking, and they saw that very often the government WAS lying. When Richard Nixon denied the accusations, noboty believed him.
What do we need to teach people today? Perhaps it is "The government does not TRUST you." The constitution says that Barack Obama is the boss of the NSA, and that the AMERICAN PEOPLE are the boss of Obama. So how can an organization not trust the boss? Keith Alexander has admitted to Congress that the NSA has lied to the American people, who are his boss. You lie to the boss you get your ass kicked. This posted message is part of that education.
The question is not whether Ed Snowden can get a fair trial. The question is whether Keith Alexander can get a fair trial. So far he hasn't had a trial at all, depite his confession that his agency broke the law.
I was at the U.S. Embassy in Laos monday morning. It was a horrible experience. A brand new embassy building staffed with paranoid idiots. When I got home to Thailand I described the experience at http://www.andycanfield.com/Th...
I may be 66 years old, but Ed Snowden is my hero. He can sleep on my floor any time. He could sleep on my sofa if I had a sofa.
I have a low-security password that I use all over the Internet, like Slashdot. I have a medium security password I use for Linux logins, and a high security password I use for bank accounts. Notice the security reference standard: money.
I hate it when my low-security password is rejected by some ego-driven web site that thinks I should memorize a special password just for them. FYI my low-security password has 7 lower-case letters and one special character in the middle. No digits! If you won't take that, your web site just isn't worh it, and I will not have an account there. Your loss, not mine.
Oh, and my PGP secret key has a 30-40 character passphrase, the first line of a song I made up and used to sing to my daughter, who died in 1994. The passphrase includes capitalization and punctuation, but it's easy for me to rememember. You turkeys who want high-security passwords, why don't you hash a pass phrase?
Water provudes lots of clean (i.e. solar) electric power. Maybe not as much as New York City wants, but when half the people are dead, the rest can rebuild without coal or oil. Yeah, we can do it.
Oh, and actually, I don't much care what your twit president says and does. I live on the other side of the planet, about as far away from Washington D.C. as one can get (12 hours before EST). But it's nice that you finally have a black president; maybe a women next time?
Don't have a sofa. Have several bedrooms, some with mattresses, some with people, many pillows. blankets, towells, hot water, electricity, Intrenet wifi. No air condiioning. Motorcycle, no car.I live like a Thai farmer.
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"How far past the foundation?" I was standing in the middle of thie highway that has run for 25 years between Vientiane and the bridge, passing in front of where the new Embassy was built.
It was just one increment in the continuing saga of American government arrogance. The previous example was FATCA, in which the U.S. is trying to regulate the behavior of non-US banks. My Thai bank now refuses to open any new account for any US citizen because of FATCA, and I don't blame them. My existing account was grandfathered in; their computer doesn't know that I am a US citizen.
AFAIK no other country in the world attempts to regulate it's citizen's behavior when they are outside the country. I live in Thailand. While here I am obediant to Thai law, same as my friends who are Germans and Swedes and French. I feel no obligation to obey US laws. I haven't set foot in the USA for twenty years.
I have four living Thai children. Uncle Sam only knows about one of them. I figure they're better off without US passports.
Americans are not aware of this crap. The NSA is accused of "logging the metadata" of your phone calls. The NSA admits to RECORDING the content of every phone call I make. But Americans don't care. Today Uncle Sam thinks he owns the me; tomorrow he will think he owns you. Well, he doesn't own me, yesterday or today or tomorrow..
I tried to use my tablet to take a picture of the new American Embassy building outside Vientiane, Laos. I was told by the guards that this is prohibited. I went out to the street and took a picture from a public road on Lao territory, but they again told me to delete the picture. I figure they had no right to prohibit the picture, but I deleted it anyway. Then they had the paradox that they were insisting that I delete the picture, but they could not touch my tablet and I could not delete the picture because it was already gone.
So two days later, while I was in a taxi driving from downtown Vientiane to the Thai bridge, I pulled out my tablet and shot a video as we went past the new Embassy building. As soon as I got home I posted the video on my web site at
http://www.andycanfield.com/Th...
So far the idiots in the U.S. State Department haven't contacted me. Is it an act of treason for you to look at it? Ask your lawyer.
There are people you dislike lining the side of the road. You, and your friends, are standing on the other side of the road. There is a line of police down the middle of the highway, with their guns pointing away from you, protecting you. No problem, you feel safe and secure. Except that, someday, those policemen will turn and point their guns towards you.
I've seen it happen. Every defender you hire is a potential enemy. Every threat to others is a threat to you. Every bodyguard is a potential killer. As long as the Supreme Court agrees with your lawyer, you can laugh at the losers, but the day the gavel stikes you, your laywers will hide and your ass is grass.
It is better to not have enemies; to incite hatred and defy the world is foolish.
15.04 is not an "LTS" (Long Term Support). So we will continue to run 14.04 LTS on our servers, and on my workstation. I guess we will stick to it for another year, until April 2016. Ah well. Good Luck, gang, and thank you for the good job, Ubuntu.
Reliance upon the government to protect you after you have insulted someone is not freedom
What exactly is it that you think Government does?
Because collective security is the most basic function of Government.
As an example, if you insult the King of Thailand, the only thing keeping the Thai government from crossing borders to take you in for prosecution is your government. Or do you think you can defend yourself against the resources of a nation state?
I live in Thailand. They don't need to cross any borders to get me. Thailand IS my government. We Thais learn to get along with everybody. Can you name one national / ethnic / racial group on Earth that hates Thai? Well, maybe the dogmatic fundamentalist Pennsylvania Christians hate our dancing ladies. If they bring money, they're welcome too.
Thomas Jefferson said "A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have." I warn you - A government big enough to protect you is strong enough to destroy you.
Reliance upon the government to protect you after you have insulted someone is not freedom. Freedom requires courage, and sometimes the price of courage is high. Ed Snowden is my hero - he paid the price.
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers" - Homer Simpson
I used to test compatability between Chrome, Opera, Firefox, and Internet Explorer, as a desktop browser. But now we have one PC and two phones and a tablet, and Chrome is native on all the mobile devices. That's where Firefox is losing to Chrome. Personally I installed Firefox on my Android Tablet, but Chrome still lurks in the background.
Now he gets arrested, and sent to jail, and tried, and convicted, and goes to prison for a few years. By the time he gets out, he'll know a LOT about hacking computers. Getting an education the hard way.
Thanks. /tmp is not mounted; it is part of the / file partition on /dev/sda1. As of now there are no executable files in it at all. So I guess, for now, we're safe.
Just for reference, just because you have some raspberry pi's running Linux, doesn't really mean you should be saying you run some servers.
Second, if you don't know how to detect this, you shouldn't be running servers.
Third, if you don't know how to prevent this from being useful, OR you don't take those actions be default, you shouldn't be running anything other than Windows.
The server brand names I'm not sure of; generic 80386 boxes. They are owned by a company I work for. I set up these machines myself; they paid me for it. Two are in Bangkok, Thailand, the other one is 1000 kilometers North of there. Plus my own Lenovo notebook. They run information management software what I wrote, plus the OS and Apache and MySQL of course. I update all four every weekend using apt via ssh. Other than outgoing connections to certain IP addresses, I saw nothing in the paper that showed how to detect Mumblehard. (PS: You sound very snotty. I did say "Please".)
I've got three servers that I maintain; four if you count my workstation. They all run Ubuntu Linux 14.04.
What is top in my mind is DETECTION. How to tell if Mublehard has infected us. If it has I must can go in person and re-install all the systems from scratch. But I'm not going to spend several nights on the bus until I get a YES or NO. Perhaps Yellsoft sells a Mumblehard detector, ha ha?
To send e-mail to ThisIdiot@andycanfield.com you have to send it to ThatIdiot@yandex.com. There is no e-mail service at andycanfield.com because all of the worlds SMTP servers are interconnected by mandatory certification.
There there is no e-mail server on my web site. Your e-mail client connects to SMTP.alpha.com and it talks to SMTP.beta.com which talks to SMTP.gamma.com on down the line until the message gets to SMTP.target.com and delivers the message where he can pick up the message from POP3.target.com. All the world's SMTP servers are inconnected by a web of paid-for certificates. Unlike HTTPS, there is no human involved, so nobody can say "Yes, go ahead and accept that certificate". Your certificate is either signed by a recognized organisation, or you're out of the chain.
I have my own personal web site. It uses HTTP. Several years ago I looked into upgrading it to HTTPS. No thanks. Why not? Because [a] I had to shell out my own money to by a certificate to vouch for my domain name, and [b] It seemed wrong to me to have somebody else to voucth for me. Maybe Mozilla can solve the first problem. But if you go to my domain name, why do you need anybody else to swear that that really is me? Seems wrong, somehow.
- Andy Canfield
www.andycanfield.com
Ahah! Do you believe what I posted? Did I sign it with my PGP key? Do you believe that this is me typing this? Who will you believe if you don't believe me? Answer: don't trust anybody, including me.
I was at U.C. Berkeley in 1968. We forced the US out of Vietnam, we brought down Richard Nixon. We can do it again; we can bring down the US NSA.
How? The same way we did it before - by teaching everyone we meet. What did we teach them in the 1960's? "The government MIGHT be lying to you." Once they learned that, they began thinking and checking, and they saw that very often the government WAS lying. When Richard Nixon denied the accusations, noboty believed him.
What do we need to teach people today? Perhaps it is "The government does not TRUST you." The constitution says that Barack Obama is the boss of the NSA, and that the AMERICAN PEOPLE are the boss of Obama. So how can an organization not trust the boss? Keith Alexander has admitted to Congress that the NSA has lied to the American people, who are his boss. You lie to the boss you get your ass kicked. This posted message is part of that education.
The question is not whether Ed Snowden can get a fair trial. The question is whether Keith Alexander can get a fair trial. So far he hasn't had a trial at all, depite his confession that his agency broke the law.
I was at the U.S. Embassy in Laos monday morning. It was a horrible experience. A brand new embassy building staffed with paranoid idiots. When I got home to Thailand I described the experience at
http://www.andycanfield.com/Th...
I may be 66 years old, but Ed Snowden is my hero. He can sleep on my floor any time. He could sleep on my sofa if I had a sofa.
In 1968 I was in U.C. Berkeley; Uncle Sam was in Saigon, scared. We whipped his ass.
Yesterday I was in the new U.S.Embassy in Vientiane; Uncle Sam was hiding in the USNSA. We will win again; those idiots couldn't invade Pittsburg.
We will, we will rock you.
Question: What kind of visa does the U.S. government require for a decapitated head? Maybe an "H1-B" for laboratory staff?
I have a low-security password that I use all over the Internet, like Slashdot. I have a medium security password I use for Linux logins, and a high security password I use for bank accounts. Notice the security reference standard: money.
I hate it when my low-security password is rejected by some ego-driven web site that thinks I should memorize a special password just for them. FYI my low-security password has 7 lower-case letters and one special character in the middle. No digits! If you won't take that, your web site just isn't worh it, and I will not have an account there. Your loss, not mine.
Oh, and my PGP secret key has a 30-40 character passphrase, the first line of a song I made up and used to sing to my daughter, who died in 1994. The passphrase includes capitalization and punctuation, but it's easy for me to rememember. You turkeys who want high-security passwords, why don't you hash a pass phrase?
Water provudes lots of clean (i.e. solar) electric power. Maybe not as much as New York City wants, but when half the people are dead, the rest can rebuild without coal or oil. Yeah, we can do it.
Oh, and actually, I don't much care what your twit president says and does. I live on the other side of the planet, about as far away from Washington D.C. as one can get (12 hours before EST). But it's nice that you finally have a black president; maybe a women next time?
Don't have a sofa. Have several bedrooms, some with mattresses, some with people, many pillows. blankets, towells, hot water, electricity, Intrenet wifi. No air condiioning. Motorcycle, no car.I live like a Thai farmer.
Actually, the lady you refer to works in Bangkok. I live in Isan, where the lady was born and raised and retires once she's caught her tourists.
Ed Snowden is my hero. He can sleep on my floor anytime.
- Andy Canfield (Thailand)
www.andycanfield.com
I love that! Thanks! "Bad English is the most widely spoken language in the world."