Fact A can be Secret
Fact B can be Top Secret and
Fact C can be confidential
Sometimes taking C and then correlating to something with A+B (with the B removed) will then result in TS (same as B). So, I'd think it's a touchy area. In the 90s a similar "classification by association," was commonly referred to as Elements of Essential Friendly Information (EEFIs), such as a recall roster and leave schedules. If the enemy has the recall roster and suddenly one particular part of a unit gets a 3-ring recall to report for duty, you've got a tip off and good information on what's likely to happen. For example, I knew when the 2nd Gulf War was going to start (within a small window) when I saw something I'd never seen before: A large number of stealth bombers out of their hangars, and taking off in Missouri. You'll notice we now keep some deployed overseas so there's not as easy of a single telling point. With intel, it's the same.
However, getting back to the article, I'm 100% supporting them. I'm a Defense Contractor and I'm tired of incompetent retired mid-/senior officers who get a paycheck for their former rank and do nothing to really make an acquisition program work. On the same note, you've got officers in Program Offices as a PM who will never be held accountable or benefit from his decisions. I could go on with examples, but I think this company has a hard battle ahead but likely brings a great, fresh, greatly needed new perspective. Our government is hurting badly in many areas, and this is a small step to help make a small part of it better. If we can just get more of these going...
For the most part, AT&T is ok in San Diego. I use gig's a month, so I can attest to the articles citing of huge data loads by iPhones. It's hard for me to believe it, but I see it everymonth on my bill. I stream Pandora and videos a lot. I don't get many dropped calls, although I got an email from them saying a new cell tower went up by my house recently. I had 6 dropped calls in one conversation wtih my mom last weekend...that's more than I've had the 2 years I've been with AT&T. I plan on switching, but we'll see. I suspect the slowness issues are more the phone. I've maxed my 16gigs on my iPhone 3G and have about 7 "pages" of apps. I think it's more the phone because it changes with software updates.
I have had several generations of iPods, with the iVideo being the last one, and now just carry an iPhone. I use both streaming and storing.
When I go running, I often go through areas with bad coverage, plus I have a "Running/Workout" Playlist with music of the right tempo, aggression, etc. So I'm using music stored on my iPhone in those cases.
At home and in the car, I use a combination. Sometimes I want to listen to specific tracks and so it's my list (or MP3 downloaded on iTunes and ripped to CD) from a stored format. About half the time, I also stream Pandora. I stream Pandora in the car through my iPhone and then through my music distribution system at home.
When I'm gaming, I turn my Samsung BDP-1960 (on sale for $218 at Walmart now) on and stream Pandora on an aggressive alt/techno channel, while pwning noobs in Halo3 on the 360 (playing on the TV, but lately I don't really have the TV on where I can hear it).
Right, there is no perfect protection. Security in any realm is just a series of barriers. Yes, I was alluding to the fact that crimes of chance happen and are frequent. Asking for an ID is an easy way to give the thug a humble out such as "oh, I left it in the van." It keeps the honest man honest, sorta like your spin-dial lock at the gym locker. A thug who's gonna just punch you and come in won't likely follow a van, but my point was that it is a simple measure to take. Most people are adverse to conflict, even thugs. The bombers who targeted an East Coast US Army base passed on a nearby US Air Force base for the simple fact they checked IDs and other very simple measures that they (the US thugs, I don't like calling them terrorists because they're not scaring anyone, least of which the US military) could have spent probably a couple hundred $$ and some time to defeat. However, they didn't. Most won't. Same with network security, or admin security for a message board. You add that extra step and most thugs will pass and go to the next door.
As well as the fact that the company said no one would be coming inside. How hard would it be for a thug to follow a service van, watch him pull up, see the unit # for the NIU he's working on, and then go to that door. KNOCK KNOCK. Let me in I'm with "insert name here". Customer knows tech should be there. Voila, door opened. Distract customer, or send him to another room, grab something valuable, and then make an excuse to go back to the van. You're in and out in about 2 minutes. I'd ID too. Regardless.
Seems these days you'd get a cease and desist letter and have feds break down your door with a federal search warrant. I was good at Defender, but loved Robotron like no other. Asteroids was cool, but I could play Robotron and Galaxian forever. I've got Robotron on my XBOX360 and play it periodically.
I remember from my Sun Solaris 8 network or sys admin class that they said the system will automatically configure itself as a gateway between two network cards. When my son gets old enough to start surfing on his own, it's what I intend to do. I've got an old Solaris 8 machine on an Ultra 10. I can put it out in the garage (next to the cable modem) and have it be a physical hop between the cable modem and Dual Band WiFi router.
Ahhh, that makes sense. Unfortunately, nothing of much value goes on Twitter, so I guess I'll leave others to the analysis. Now, I'm not saying Twitter isn't useful. I use it to keep in touch with what friends are doing (e.g. riding their motorcycle on a local twisty, hitting the beach, etc) which is hard to do otherwise when you live in SoCal, where you can be doing 1000 different things any day. It's cut down on the, "Hey what'd you do yesterday?" "I hit Palomar mountain." "*SIGH* I would have gone if I'd known..."
Thanks for explaining. I guess it's a bit hypocritical of me to not see the hilarity. I can appreciate a good teabagging and taunting during/after a game, but doing a DDoS just seems pointless against a social networking site. OK, so all these people are nuts about nothing. OK...so? Which is more retarded? You spent the time to do it, or that they spent the time complaining? You mention if it was you, you'd use it to get a laugh. Me, if I'm going to be doing illegal malicious acts, it's going to be for something productive (profit$). To use the overused analogy, it's the equiv to stealing a car to joy ride two blocks.
It's always ironic when these articles pop up on Slashdot. These are movements largely brought about by anti-social geeks, so they detest the technology they bore. What's the point in DDoS twitter? Did your ex- tweet what a small sausage you had? Are you angry at the technology gods or think, "A) DDoS Twitter B) Make the news C) PROFIT!!!$$$"?
Twitter works just fine for me, unlike the new format of updating/. as I scroll down the page.
great points, but nothing North Korea does makes much sense from a military standpoint. I constantly read their words, first hand account of their actions, and am constantly left scratching my head thinking, "This guy's about as dumb as Saddam." You can only be an idiot, and an idiot leading a nuclear power at that, for so long before someone gets tired of your games.
I can't really go into specific details, but let's just say I've been cleared, trained, and worked at some of the systems he's speculating about. The giveaway is on page 8, "This chapter is by no means comprehensive, However it sheds some light on the
operations of nuclear command and control and the difficulties in defending those
systems from cyber terrorism. Many of the details of nuclear command and control
are classified, so the information provided below may be outdated. However it points
towards a pattern, and there is no certainty these systems and procedures have been
updated since entering open source knowledge." No data on a nuclear C2, C3 or supporting system/procedure/etc will EVER...E V E R.. see the light of day, aka open source. And if it does, it will immediately be changed. The only mistakes that I could have made (in uniform) that would have sent me to jail are related to security. So back to the quote, he's never seen the levels of protection, his sources have never been able to give specifics, etc, so it's the same as me guessing IPv6 with nothing but a Banyard Vines (sp?) networking background from the 80s.
Pure rubbish. I can't believe this passed as a research paper, then again, with the level of professionalism I see now considered acceptable, it shouldn't. Maybe this guy should move to New Jersey.
Publik educashun, didn't you lissen? The word slime has a silent e, so you can omit the letter!
You wouldn't want to think he was saying slim-ee (spelled slimey, a completely different word which crosses over from a noun to adjective!!)
A company didn't just dream up an idea and then the government bought it. Acquisitions in the US Department of Defense don't operate that way. The services (US Army, Air Force, whoever) had a need for the capability, or to replace a system that wasn't sustainable (for whatever reason) and went through an analysis of what needed to be done and how current systems can or can't fulfill that role. When there's no system and the needs are there, then the DoD moves forward with a Request for Proposal. The economy is hurting so although I'm not familiar with this program, I'm somewhat certain there had to to be multiple defense companies that bid on it. The bidders go through a technical analysis in the Contracts shop, who work with the Program Office to rate the proposals. I could go on, but just google JCIDS if you're interested.
The most notable debris creation in recent days was China blowing up their own satellite. It's the equiv in my book to taking a huge dump in your own frontyard and parking old, inoperable cars in the middle of your own driveway. It's dumb, not necessary and creates many potential problems down the road.
RichardAtWork nailed most of the response, but the OP never cites an article. With Google, I found an article here that explains it's L-5 that's causing the problems. L-5 is being turned on so they have first rights to the new frequency and to meet the deadline associated. GPS still works fine on L1 and L2. I have a feeling there might be some co-site interference that is the issue, although I'd think simple RF issues would have been caught in testing.
The satellites are not identical by any means. Rockwell built the originals and they were rock solid R&D birds. SVN3 was nearly 13 years old when I (and the crew I was on duty with) turned off the payload back in the early 90s. I used to joke with the Rockwell engineers that if requirements could be stopped, a Block 1 payload/chassis, with Block 2 electrical system would last decades (plural). Instead, we've got L1, L2, M-Code, L-5, NUDET territary sensors, and there's some boxes that only 3 letters now know about... Too much crap on something that's basically just transmitting, "HERE I AM!! (at this time)"
I had to laugh when I read, "they're becoming more conservative" because that's what Bush was for the last 8 years. It's a little late to be saying you don't like it. He might as well come on the record and say we shouldn't invade Iraq....oops, late on that one too. Switching primaries is an interesting approach. I guess his voting record can or will sink him.
I told Verizon, as I kissed them goodbye, that I was tired of having 4 different phones over the years with 4 chargers. Even going from the LG enV to the enV2, I had a new charger (and new memory card... micro to miniSD). I already had an iPod, so no new car charger, wall charger, anything was required. As I write this my iPhone charges on my radio which has an iPod dock. I don't care if it's Firewire, USB (4, 6, mini), or iPod...just make it a standard connector someone might have another use for or from. Having 1 charger that ONLY works with 1 model of phone is the stupidest thing I've seen survive contact with oxygen and sunlight.
Really? It isn't well-known to me, among others. You see, when you make a claim like that you need to be able to prove your case.
This is an odd comment to be making here. 10 seconds on Google looking through any real IT informational site (say, like/.) or DoD site will give you plenty of examples of China using malicious network activities to their political, and military use. Here, I'll give you a head start
BBC News | AMERICAS | US under Chinese hack attack
Inside the Chinese Hack Attack - TIME
ABC News: Hackers Launch Cyberattack on Federal Labs
Can the BBC, Time Magazine, and ABC all be making it up? Since countries have been doing this for centuries, it's not surprising or even unplausible. My favorite one is when we fed the Soviets bogus Space Shuttle plans to copy, which detailed systems that would never work, then again, we never really went to the moon, so that's probably made up too:)
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Where are the stats kept on the phone? I found it once by mistake but haven't found it lately.
Fact B can be Top Secret and
Fact C can be confidential
Sometimes taking C and then correlating to something with A+B (with the B removed) will then result in TS (same as B). So, I'd think it's a touchy area. In the 90s a similar "classification by association," was commonly referred to as Elements of Essential Friendly Information (EEFIs), such as a recall roster and leave schedules. If the enemy has the recall roster and suddenly one particular part of a unit gets a 3-ring recall to report for duty, you've got a tip off and good information on what's likely to happen. For example, I knew when the 2nd Gulf War was going to start (within a small window) when I saw something I'd never seen before: A large number of stealth bombers out of their hangars, and taking off in Missouri. You'll notice we now keep some deployed overseas so there's not as easy of a single telling point. With intel, it's the same.
However, getting back to the article, I'm 100% supporting them. I'm a Defense Contractor and I'm tired of incompetent retired mid-/senior officers who get a paycheck for their former rank and do nothing to really make an acquisition program work. On the same note, you've got officers in Program Offices as a PM who will never be held accountable or benefit from his decisions. I could go on with examples, but I think this company has a hard battle ahead but likely brings a great, fresh, greatly needed new perspective. Our government is hurting badly in many areas, and this is a small step to help make a small part of it better. If we can just get more of these going...
For the most part, AT&T is ok in San Diego. I use gig's a month, so I can attest to the articles citing of huge data loads by iPhones. It's hard for me to believe it, but I see it everymonth on my bill. I stream Pandora and videos a lot. I don't get many dropped calls, although I got an email from them saying a new cell tower went up by my house recently. I had 6 dropped calls in one conversation wtih my mom last weekend...that's more than I've had the 2 years I've been with AT&T. I plan on switching, but we'll see. I suspect the slowness issues are more the phone. I've maxed my 16gigs on my iPhone 3G and have about 7 "pages" of apps. I think it's more the phone because it changes with software updates.
Maybe that was my point.... oh well, last time I post humor here...
In Mother Russia, the mutants are Humans.
When I go running, I often go through areas with bad coverage, plus I have a "Running/Workout" Playlist with music of the right tempo, aggression, etc. So I'm using music stored on my iPhone in those cases.
At home and in the car, I use a combination. Sometimes I want to listen to specific tracks and so it's my list (or MP3 downloaded on iTunes and ripped to CD) from a stored format. About half the time, I also stream Pandora. I stream Pandora in the car through my iPhone and then through my music distribution system at home.
When I'm gaming, I turn my Samsung BDP-1960 (on sale for $218 at Walmart now) on and stream Pandora on an aggressive alt/techno channel, while pwning noobs in Halo3 on the 360 (playing on the TV, but lately I don't really have the TV on where I can hear it).
The lack of evidence of a conspiracy PROVES it's gotta be one!!
Right, there is no perfect protection. Security in any realm is just a series of barriers. Yes, I was alluding to the fact that crimes of chance happen and are frequent. Asking for an ID is an easy way to give the thug a humble out such as "oh, I left it in the van." It keeps the honest man honest, sorta like your spin-dial lock at the gym locker. A thug who's gonna just punch you and come in won't likely follow a van, but my point was that it is a simple measure to take. Most people are adverse to conflict, even thugs. The bombers who targeted an East Coast US Army base passed on a nearby US Air Force base for the simple fact they checked IDs and other very simple measures that they (the US thugs, I don't like calling them terrorists because they're not scaring anyone, least of which the US military) could have spent probably a couple hundred $$ and some time to defeat. However, they didn't. Most won't. Same with network security, or admin security for a message board. You add that extra step and most thugs will pass and go to the next door.
That's funny. You're story is my favorite out of all the comments here. Sometimes TAs can be unintended sources of humor.
LOL, funny. Yeah, in telecom if you're in any job more than 2 years people say, "OK, what's wrong with them."
As well as the fact that the company said no one would be coming inside. How hard would it be for a thug to follow a service van, watch him pull up, see the unit # for the NIU he's working on, and then go to that door. KNOCK KNOCK. Let me in I'm with "insert name here". Customer knows tech should be there. Voila, door opened. Distract customer, or send him to another room, grab something valuable, and then make an excuse to go back to the van. You're in and out in about 2 minutes. I'd ID too. Regardless.
Seems these days you'd get a cease and desist letter and have feds break down your door with a federal search warrant. I was good at Defender, but loved Robotron like no other. Asteroids was cool, but I could play Robotron and Galaxian forever. I've got Robotron on my XBOX360 and play it periodically.
I remember from my Sun Solaris 8 network or sys admin class that they said the system will automatically configure itself as a gateway between two network cards. When my son gets old enough to start surfing on his own, it's what I intend to do. I've got an old Solaris 8 machine on an Ultra 10. I can put it out in the garage (next to the cable modem) and have it be a physical hop between the cable modem and Dual Band WiFi router.
Ahhh, that makes sense. Unfortunately, nothing of much value goes on Twitter, so I guess I'll leave others to the analysis. Now, I'm not saying Twitter isn't useful. I use it to keep in touch with what friends are doing (e.g. riding their motorcycle on a local twisty, hitting the beach, etc) which is hard to do otherwise when you live in SoCal, where you can be doing 1000 different things any day. It's cut down on the, "Hey what'd you do yesterday?" "I hit Palomar mountain." "*SIGH* I would have gone if I'd known..."
Thanks for explaining. I guess it's a bit hypocritical of me to not see the hilarity. I can appreciate a good teabagging and taunting during/after a game, but doing a DDoS just seems pointless against a social networking site. OK, so all these people are nuts about nothing. OK...so? Which is more retarded? You spent the time to do it, or that they spent the time complaining? You mention if it was you, you'd use it to get a laugh. Me, if I'm going to be doing illegal malicious acts, it's going to be for something productive (profit$). To use the overused analogy, it's the equiv to stealing a car to joy ride two blocks.
Twitter works just fine for me, unlike the new format of updating /. as I scroll down the page.
NM
great points, but nothing North Korea does makes much sense from a military standpoint. I constantly read their words, first hand account of their actions, and am constantly left scratching my head thinking, "This guy's about as dumb as Saddam." You can only be an idiot, and an idiot leading a nuclear power at that, for so long before someone gets tired of your games.
Pure rubbish. I can't believe this passed as a research paper, then again, with the level of professionalism I see now considered acceptable, it shouldn't. Maybe this guy should move to New Jersey.
Publik educashun, didn't you lissen? The word slime has a silent e, so you can omit the letter! You wouldn't want to think he was saying slim-ee (spelled slimey, a completely different word which crosses over from a noun to adjective!!)
The most notable debris creation in recent days was China blowing up their own satellite. It's the equiv in my book to taking a huge dump in your own frontyard and parking old, inoperable cars in the middle of your own driveway. It's dumb, not necessary and creates many potential problems down the road.
The satellites are not identical by any means. Rockwell built the originals and they were rock solid R&D birds. SVN3 was nearly 13 years old when I (and the crew I was on duty with) turned off the payload back in the early 90s. I used to joke with the Rockwell engineers that if requirements could be stopped, a Block 1 payload/chassis, with Block 2 electrical system would last decades (plural). Instead, we've got L1, L2, M-Code, L-5, NUDET territary sensors, and there's some boxes that only 3 letters now know about... Too much crap on something that's basically just transmitting, "HERE I AM!! (at this time)"
I had to laugh when I read, "they're becoming more conservative" because that's what Bush was for the last 8 years. It's a little late to be saying you don't like it. He might as well come on the record and say we shouldn't invade Iraq....oops, late on that one too. Switching primaries is an interesting approach. I guess his voting record can or will sink him.
I told Verizon, as I kissed them goodbye, that I was tired of having 4 different phones over the years with 4 chargers. Even going from the LG enV to the enV2, I had a new charger (and new memory card... micro to miniSD). I already had an iPod, so no new car charger, wall charger, anything was required. As I write this my iPhone charges on my radio which has an iPod dock. I don't care if it's Firewire, USB (4, 6, mini), or iPod...just make it a standard connector someone might have another use for or from. Having 1 charger that ONLY works with 1 model of phone is the stupidest thing I've seen survive contact with oxygen and sunlight.
Really? It isn't well-known to me, among others. You see, when you make a claim like that you need to be able to prove your case.
This is an odd comment to be making here. 10 seconds on Google looking through any real IT informational site (say, like /.) or DoD site will give you plenty of examples of China using malicious network activities to their political, and military use. Here, I'll give you a head start
Can the BBC, Time Magazine, and ABC all be making it up? Since countries have been doing this for centuries, it's not surprising or even unplausible. My favorite one is when we fed the Soviets bogus Space Shuttle plans to copy, which detailed systems that would never work, then again, we never really went to the moon, so that's probably made up too :)