That's not quite the ultimate solution that many believe it to be. There are firewalls and routers on the market now that have man in the middle programming right in the hardware, and decryption is a basic part of the DPI system.
That's not really the point. Consider a Tier-1 router. That machine will NEVER be able to handle the load of MitM-ing the connections going through it. A Tier-2 router will also be overwhelmed by the sheer amount of traffic going through it. It's about selectively enabling DPIs on very specific connection pairs... once you know who to monitor! That is a far cry from the generalized DPI infrastructure for everyone that some politicians and content companies are dreaming about.
Because.gov predates the geographical domains like.us.
That's the reason. Yet... considering how the US Gov't thinks US laws apply worldwide (DMCA e.g.), it is only fitting that they own.gov at the gTLD and not ccTLD level.
"We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene."
-- Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, Francis Ford Copolla's Apocalypse Now!
Mod parent up please! "Make love, not war" ceased to be a popular slogan a long time ago. One wonders why?
If the kid robs anything and is caught with whatever he robbed he is forced to give it back and that is about it.
If the kid is caught with the only one copy of an MP3 that doesn't exist elsewhere in the world, I guess he will have stolen it and will eventually be forced to give it back.
We need to crack down on piracy w/o being stupid about it.
No, we don't. There's no reason to criminalize an activity that is practiced by 90%+ of the population. Rules that run against human nature will only stay on paper and open the door for abuse. They won't change peoples' ways. The only thing we need to crack down on is commercial piracy and rogue publishers that take works, modify then and release them in such a way that it harms authors' reputation.
Well, downloading illegal music is a criminal offense. Illegally downloading (legal) music is a civil offense. Illegal music in Germany would e.g. be Nazi songs etc...
Disqus is one of the things I positively hate on websites. I stopped posting comments on major news outlets once they've switched to Discus. The problem with it is that it is a huge invasion of privacy, allowing everyone with access to discus servers to follow all your commenting habits across many websites. That's a pretty disturbing trend that I won't encourage.
The UUCP analogy is wrong anyway. The point is that even in UUCP days, we connected two modems, which transmitted data with X, Y or Z protocol. And that protocol was even more sensitive to propagation delays, because acks had to be sent much more frequently. Try set up UUCP to a mars probe, and you'll see that the layer 2 protocols will probably break down pretty badly. That's why DTN is really important and an entirely different kind of beast.
Yup. It sounds like a BOFH episode... but reality sometimes beats fiction.
First, there's the delay. Most people aren't cold-blooded and thick-skinned enough to wait that long for their revenge, they'll go for it while the incident's fresh and they're good and mad.
Considering the nature of the incriminating material, it would've been unwise NOT to wait a couple of years before letting the trap snap shut. Otherwise, it would have been too obvious and would have incriminated the guy they fired.
You may be attempting to make a joke, but in the US you are strongly encouraged to get a Social Security Number at birth.
What's wrong with SSNs? Many people outside the US would love the ability to register one of those, and even pay for them. Why? Because without the mark of the Beast, you're excluded from using many US-based services, be they private or public.
Forget the newfangled programming language of the day, forget hip and cool, go for the "boring", yet essential stuff that requires experience only older IT guys have. Stuff like, say, quality assurance (auditing software and business processes), penetration testing,... heck, even Big Iron and Cobol are still in use. All these areas are in desperate need of skilled professionals, and can't find them in the the younger 20-35 age bracket. Or, alternatively, explore less popular areas, like, e.g. hardware/software co-design, development of custom solutions for specific industries (e.g. medical, military, industrial,...). Your skills, if you have kept current, are more valuable than you think.
The MB was not the ones responsible for the attack on our ambassador.
But their core ideology certainly is. You seem to be totally unaware of the deeply anti-US sentiment in their midst; starting from their very first founder Hassan al Banna.. In fact, it was hatred for the US where he stayed for a while that made him found the MB in Egypt. His followers are not different.
Nor did "we put them in power" or "give them two countries".
Without military intervention of NATO, those guys wouldn't be in power there right now. They would be either dead or subjugated.
Fact is: we are helping our worst enemies, and nobody really seems to care. This temporary eclipse of reason and logical thinking among western policy makers is downright scary. I don't hold the general populace responsible for cheering the wrong team: thanks to mass media, they don't know any better. But those in the know should really summon up the courage to finally speak up and insert some sanity into the current debate.
But the Libyan "rebels" were Al Qaeda imports, too.
Well, karma's a bitch, isn't she? The very same US Ambassador that were murdered by those thugs in Benghazi was decisive in swaying the US administration's opinion into helping them militarily to seize power and grab that country. The US had to learn the hard way the ways of their newly found "friends." Did I say "learn"? Oh wait...
The issue at hand is not really whether to build in a kill switch into surface to air missiles, but that we're supporting the wrong guys there: al Qaida and islamists, a.k.a. the Syrian "rebels." They may not get their hands on dangerous equipment now, if this equipment is DRMed, but once they overthrow the current secular government there, they'll establish their theocracy, and that theocracy is guaranteed to be just as bad, or likely worse towards the US than the current secular Syrian government has ever been. And, as a state actor, this future theocracy (about to be brought to us courtesy of the current US shortsightedness) will acquire non-DRMed weapons. And then? How do you plan to put that malevolent genie back in the bottle? This whole direction the remodeling of the Middle East has been taken since the so called "Arab Spring" isn't going according to our interests: quite the opposite is true. It's so sad we don't have a First Directive yet, as in the Star Trek Universe! It would have prevented quite a lot of blunders in this region of the world that our leaders totally misunderstand, yet claim to model.
On one hand, I could imagine that some developers may want to unionize, if there are way too many of them and if they feel like they are being easily replaced. Like, say, HTML, PHP, JavaScript and perhaps even Java... code monkeys whose jobs are being outsourced to India (no offense please). On the other hand, I can't imagine specialized and highly specialized developers whose skills are in high demand to unionize. That would effectively reduce their marketability.
How to tell a crap sec pro from a good one, and at least I believe the answer isn't on paper.
You can tell the difference by subjecting the applicants to creative tests. If they manage to break in, they're more likely to be able to switch hats and guard the other side of the fence.
What the heck do you suppose a "geek", someone who by their very nature has issues with authority, probably has personal issues around justice, and has tendencies towards just about every "ism" that your average government puts people on watchlists for, is going to do when they see/hear/read something that they think is wrong????
Speaking of geeks tending towards "isms"... even Robert Oppenheimer was being closely watched for his "communist" tendencies, but the real spy Klaus Fuchs went undetected for way too long.
Then again fewer and fewer people with technical skills want to work in the US, so the remaining companies will eventually have to move out in order to get workers.
In this day and age of teleworking in the IT sector, does it really matter where some company's headquarters are located?
The problem with every law enforcement agency, FBI included, is that they have an extremely geek-hostile culture. Could you imagine any red-blooded hacker doing work for and at the FBI, while at the same time being forced to wear those ugly black suits, tie, etc., and bow to the will of seriously brain dead lawyers higher up in the hierarchy? Sure, with some serious pay, the FBI could attract some average security professionals, but the real hackers, those with the required skills and mentality, would stay light years away of any bureaucratic organization, unless temporarily for the purpose of penetrating its internal structures for fun and profit.
There was NO reason to stop him getting on that plane.
People have been stopped and questioned for far less than merely stating their opinions. Like, say, having a Arabic-sounding name or so. You may even own a high security clearance in the US and be working for the US government in sensible areas, yet with the "wrong" name, you'll be harassed by DHS anyway... until they find you on their whitelist, which always happens AFTER they've made you miss your initial flight. That's the way it is nowadays.
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That's not really the point. Consider a Tier-1 router. That machine will NEVER be able to handle the load of MitM-ing the connections going through it. A Tier-2 router will also be overwhelmed by the sheer amount of traffic going through it. It's about selectively enabling DPIs on very specific connection pairs... once you know who to monitor! That is a far cry from the generalized DPI infrastructure for everyone that some politicians and content companies are dreaming about.
That's the reason. Yet... considering how the US Gov't thinks US laws apply worldwide (DMCA e.g.), it is only fitting that they own .gov at the gTLD and not ccTLD level.
Mod parent up please! "Make love, not war" ceased to be a popular slogan a long time ago. One wonders why?
I guess their main problem is rather one of (bad) internal management.
Looks like a German version of Maxwell Smart, driving his desk.
Tell that to the Israelis currently under fire by Hamas, which the Egyptian MB demonstratively back...
If the kid is caught with the only one copy of an MP3 that doesn't exist elsewhere in the world, I guess he will have stolen it and will eventually be forced to give it back.
No, we don't. There's no reason to criminalize an activity that is practiced by 90%+ of the population. Rules that run against human nature will only stay on paper and open the door for abuse. They won't change peoples' ways. The only thing we need to crack down on is commercial piracy and rogue publishers that take works, modify then and release them in such a way that it harms authors' reputation.
Well, downloading illegal music is a criminal offense. Illegally downloading (legal) music is a civil offense. Illegal music in Germany would e.g. be Nazi songs etc...
Loose Microsoft tiles eventually peel off, and break. Welcome to the hardware edition to Windows 8!
Disqus is one of the things I positively hate on websites. I stopped posting comments on major news outlets once they've switched to Discus. The problem with it is that it is a huge invasion of privacy, allowing everyone with access to discus servers to follow all your commenting habits across many websites. That's a pretty disturbing trend that I won't encourage.
The UUCP analogy is wrong anyway. The point is that even in UUCP days, we connected two modems, which transmitted data with X, Y or Z protocol. And that protocol was even more sensitive to propagation delays, because acks had to be sent much more frequently. Try set up UUCP to a mars probe, and you'll see that the layer 2 protocols will probably break down pretty badly. That's why DTN is really important and an entirely different kind of beast.
Yup. It sounds like a BOFH episode... but reality sometimes beats fiction.
Considering the nature of the incriminating material, it would've been unwise NOT to wait a couple of years before letting the trap snap shut. Otherwise, it would have been too obvious and would have incriminated the guy they fired.
What's wrong with SSNs? Many people outside the US would love the ability to register one of those, and even pay for them. Why? Because without the mark of the Beast, you're excluded from using many US-based services, be they private or public.
Forget the newfangled programming language of the day, forget hip and cool, go for the "boring", yet essential stuff that requires experience only older IT guys have. Stuff like, say, quality assurance (auditing software and business processes), penetration testing, ... heck, even Big Iron and Cobol are still in use. All these areas are in desperate need of skilled professionals, and can't find them in the the younger 20-35 age bracket. Or, alternatively, explore less popular areas, like, e.g. hardware/software co-design, development of custom solutions for specific industries (e.g. medical, military, industrial, ...). Your skills, if you have kept current, are more valuable than you think.
Why not use something like Qubes: run each browser session inside its own throw-away, cleanly insulated VM?
But their core ideology certainly is. You seem to be totally unaware of the deeply anti-US sentiment in their midst; starting from their very first founder Hassan al Banna.. In fact, it was hatred for the US where he stayed for a while that made him found the MB in Egypt. His followers are not different.
Without military intervention of NATO, those guys wouldn't be in power there right now. They would be either dead or subjugated. Fact is: we are helping our worst enemies, and nobody really seems to care. This temporary eclipse of reason and logical thinking among western policy makers is downright scary. I don't hold the general populace responsible for cheering the wrong team: thanks to mass media, they don't know any better. But those in the know should really summon up the courage to finally speak up and insert some sanity into the current debate.
Well, karma's a bitch, isn't she? The very same US Ambassador that were murdered by those thugs in Benghazi was decisive in swaying the US administration's opinion into helping them militarily to seize power and grab that country. The US had to learn the hard way the ways of their newly found "friends." Did I say "learn"? Oh wait...
The issue at hand is not really whether to build in a kill switch into surface to air missiles, but that we're supporting the wrong guys there: al Qaida and islamists, a.k.a. the Syrian "rebels." They may not get their hands on dangerous equipment now, if this equipment is DRMed, but once they overthrow the current secular government there, they'll establish their theocracy, and that theocracy is guaranteed to be just as bad, or likely worse towards the US than the current secular Syrian government has ever been. And, as a state actor, this future theocracy (about to be brought to us courtesy of the current US shortsightedness) will acquire non-DRMed weapons. And then? How do you plan to put that malevolent genie back in the bottle? This whole direction the remodeling of the Middle East has been taken since the so called "Arab Spring" isn't going according to our interests: quite the opposite is true. It's so sad we don't have a First Directive yet, as in the Star Trek Universe! It would have prevented quite a lot of blunders in this region of the world that our leaders totally misunderstand, yet claim to model.
On one hand, I could imagine that some developers may want to unionize, if there are way too many of them and if they feel like they are being easily replaced. Like, say, HTML, PHP, JavaScript and perhaps even Java... code monkeys whose jobs are being outsourced to India (no offense please). On the other hand, I can't imagine specialized and highly specialized developers whose skills are in high demand to unionize. That would effectively reduce their marketability.
You can tell the difference by subjecting the applicants to creative tests. If they manage to break in, they're more likely to be able to switch hats and guard the other side of the fence.
Speaking of geeks tending towards "isms"... even Robert Oppenheimer was being closely watched for his "communist" tendencies, but the real spy Klaus Fuchs went undetected for way too long.
In this day and age of teleworking in the IT sector, does it really matter where some company's headquarters are located?
The problem with every law enforcement agency, FBI included, is that they have an extremely geek-hostile culture. Could you imagine any red-blooded hacker doing work for and at the FBI, while at the same time being forced to wear those ugly black suits, tie, etc., and bow to the will of seriously brain dead lawyers higher up in the hierarchy? Sure, with some serious pay, the FBI could attract some average security professionals, but the real hackers, those with the required skills and mentality, would stay light years away of any bureaucratic organization, unless temporarily for the purpose of penetrating its internal structures for fun and profit.
People have been stopped and questioned for far less than merely stating their opinions. Like, say, having a Arabic-sounding name or so. You may even own a high security clearance in the US and be working for the US government in sensible areas, yet with the "wrong" name, you'll be harassed by DHS anyway... until they find you on their whitelist, which always happens AFTER they've made you miss your initial flight. That's the way it is nowadays.