Politicians have to make a name for themselves, often with stupid or frivolous legislation. So they introduce "Won't anyone consider the CHILDREN?" laws, because they are often the easiest to get ratified.
If the company you are suing is incorporated in one state, and you, the plaintiff, is in another - can you sue in a third state that has no party resident within it, just because it's a "paradise", full of hang-em-high judges?
I have a greenlight from Hollywood to film the Jack Tramiel Story. Starring Jack Black as Tramiel. It's a heartwarming story of him escaping the Warsaw Ghetto and Nazi oppression (cameo by Ralph Fiennes as Josef Menegele) and headed to the Bronx to repair office machines.
The film ends in Triumph as he founds Commodore and wins over Bill Shatner (played by Bill Shatner of course) to be his spokesperson.
The only thing holding back production was that nobody in Hollywood could get an old C64 to look fresh again.
Note that I didn't say they could "look at it". I said they should be able to decrypt it.
The government has the ability to perform warrantless wiretapping and they use voice recognition software on the entirety of every major US carrier's cellphone network. Don't be naive.
A control channel is a control channel. The Chinese are looking to place rootkits in powerplants, water treatment facilities, etc. These places don't have the sophistication necessary to IDP their systems against well constructed keystroke loggers. The risk mandates finding these control channels, and cleaning up the US infrastructure and defending it. Your privacy is entirely a secondary matter, and has been for a long long long time.
Obama's campaign was approached in the fall of 2008 by the NSA, to let him and Axelrod know that either the Chinese or the Russians hacked his campaign systems.
So, he knows what he's up against. If you run any sort of port knocker or ssh logging at a target IP range, you know that near round the clock brute forcing is going on by Chinese networks. They now are distributing the problem into botnets to prevent being blackholed, but they continue at it.
Obama has Janet Napolitano to run this group. They will work with US-CERT, but their mandate should be defense, not offense. They could start by approaching the US Tier-1 providers and saying, in essence, we want to use tools from companies like Arbor Networks and others that track botnets to isolate better signatures and reject them at the national perimeter, sort of an IDP at the edge of major networks.
The NSA probably has access to all domestic US websites encryption keys, at least the ones that come from Verisign. So, inspect all encrypted traffic headed back to Chinese networks, on any port. If you can't decrypt it, consider it hostile. Shunt it.
I may get modded down as flamebait, probably by Chinese slashdot readers - but the fact is, we are at war with the Chinese.
The MOST critical thing you can achieve is a recording of them stating the threat.
Visit your local spy shop, or order the gear on the web. Wear a wire. If you know how to record the phone unobtrusively, even if you must use an acoustic coupler, do so.
Once you, or ANYBODY, sees an employer doing this - arm yourself with the gear you will need, or you will be defenseless. Then, get an attorney and give them copies of the recordings AS SOON as you finish making them. Do not wait, do not stay home for a week, do it RIGHT AWAY.
I know all of you won't hesitate to state the obvious, but I've become sort of reliant on Google Docs.
I conduct personal business using it. I have PDFs up there that I only back up to DVD.
Gmail is fine, but if Google Docs had an extended loss of service, I would have to drive 100 miles and go fish out DVDs to restore the docs - and some docs I only have there, and maybe my HD.
The fact that Google Docs won't let me put my files up there in AXCrypt format bothers me. If there was another online storage company I trusted more, and supported all file types - I would switch.
Exactly. I don't think Schneier has a published position on DNS security, and is area of expertise is crypto (although he positions himself as all things security, it's clear he's really just about crypto).
So Kaminsky is someone whose opinion is worth something.
They will archive transfers you make, for years and years. Imagine if they are in litigation, all they do is look up the company officers of the company they are in court with and start reviewing the logs of all the files they have ever transferred.
I bet buried in the EULA is some really obtuse language that says there is no right to privacy for any document sent via the service. PDFs are indexed for keywords, etc.
I was going to say MediaWiki is the bomb, but nobody says that anymore...
Our company set up MediaWiki. If you link FCKEditor to it, you can enable your entire organization to do things otherwise impossible without rich media. If you want to get really good with it, link an Adobe Flash Media server with it, and embed videos as well as diagrams using Visio.
We've gone the whole nine yards and set up LDAP authentication with it, so some pages can be restricted. Some pages generate dynamic output with Perl scripts.
Then, you can get really creative and have command output actually framed around instructions.
I would also like to point out that just because you have control over an 800 #, that doesn't mean the carrier will send you ANI for everyone who dials it. That part is a fallacy.
The carrier will block ANI for anyone who requests it, and often just provide you 4-digit DNIS. You have to provision the TF service with the carrier to connect to the trunk-id directly, most carriers require that you map the toll-free # to a local DID. Doing it the former way is the magic that TelTech has weaved.
It also doesn't stop against spoofed CLID. I can inject any CLID I want into my outbound calls on the PRI, and the carrier will carry that and send it to any other carrier via SS7, and there is no trust involved.
Spoofing caller-id is actually as easy as spoofing the From field in an SMTP message. So really, it's not doing much.
jesusjones
basil - for Toni
astley (of course for Rick)
numan - for Gary Numan
vice (for Vanilla Ice)
nena
falco
knack
axelf
buggles
dolby - although I argued that Thomas Dolby was not a one-hit wonder, she blinded me with Science simply was too much to overcome.
Mike is going to need to start selling the acres and acres of land in Kauai that he owns. Land that used to be public. Maybe it's time he gave it back.
Charter is the cable company in rural areas, while Comcast gets the major cities. This is one of those areas that I don't fully understand the legislation at the state level that would allow this. How does Comcast get Ann Arbor, Brighton, most of the Detroit suburbs and Charter has to handle the rural areas of Livingston, Jackson, Washtenaw, Wayne, etc.
What a brilliant deal for Comcast. They get densely populated areas where their return on infrastructure investments are the best, and where more affluent people live, and Charter gets to handle all the heavy lifting of running a cable network in the hard to reach places.
I always wondered how that cherry-pick arrangement came to pass, if any of you know, please respond because that would perhaps enlighten us as to Charter's financial woes.
On the flip side of that, I visited a datacenter for Charter and it was really nice, obvious they spent alot on it.
An Israeli company is saying that Swedes are lying about how easy it is to fool a machine capable of detecting lying. But the Swedes are publishing results that meet the standard of good science: verifiable and repeatable.
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Politicians have to make a name for themselves, often with stupid or frivolous legislation. So they introduce "Won't anyone consider the CHILDREN?" laws, because they are often the easiest to get ratified.
It's low hanging fruit.
His agent assures us that Bill can reach for that "extra something"
If the company you are suing is incorporated in one state, and you, the plaintiff, is in another - can you sue in a third state that has no party resident within it, just because it's a "paradise", full of hang-em-high judges?
IANAL, as you may suspect.
Eric Bina wrote just as much code as Andressen. And Andressen later had help from several other UI students.
Also, nobody thinks Mosaic was the first. If anything, the card these Finns trump is Tim Bruce, who wrote Cello.
This is worse than Bill Gates inventing the personal computer, when all he did was steal CP/M. Let's do a little better at getting history correct.
I have a greenlight from Hollywood to film the Jack Tramiel Story. Starring Jack Black as Tramiel. It's a heartwarming story of him escaping the Warsaw Ghetto and Nazi oppression (cameo by Ralph Fiennes as Josef Menegele) and headed to the Bronx to repair office machines.
The film ends in Triumph as he founds Commodore and wins over Bill Shatner (played by Bill Shatner of course) to be his spokesperson.
The only thing holding back production was that nobody in Hollywood could get an old C64 to look fresh again.
THANK GOD MAN! THANK GOD!
All this over a rat nibbling a couple chocolate eclairs. Rat droppings just look like sprinkles. It's nothing to get upset about.
Note that I didn't say they could "look at it". I said they should be able to decrypt it.
The government has the ability to perform warrantless wiretapping and they use voice recognition software on the entirety of every major US carrier's cellphone network. Don't be naive.
A control channel is a control channel. The Chinese are looking to place rootkits in powerplants, water treatment facilities, etc. These places don't have the sophistication necessary to IDP their systems against well constructed keystroke loggers. The risk mandates finding these control channels, and cleaning up the US infrastructure and defending it. Your privacy is entirely a secondary matter, and has been for a long long long time.
Well, I'd personally like to thank the British.
It's been YOUR journalists who reported that the US Government knows the Chinese have an action plan. In the article published in the UK Times
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article2409865.ece
they go into the details that the Chinese have an action plan to cyberattack a US naval fleet systems.
Thank god you chaps still have a free press over there, and I thank my stars for the Guardian every day.
Obama's campaign was approached in the fall of 2008 by the NSA, to let him and Axelrod know that either the Chinese or the Russians hacked his campaign systems.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5105027.ece
So, he knows what he's up against. If you run any sort of port knocker or ssh logging at a target IP range, you know that near round the clock brute forcing is going on by Chinese networks. They now are distributing the problem into botnets to prevent being blackholed, but they continue at it.
Obama has Janet Napolitano to run this group. They will work with US-CERT, but their mandate should be defense, not offense. They could start by approaching the US Tier-1 providers and saying, in essence, we want to use tools from companies like Arbor Networks and others that track botnets to isolate better signatures and reject them at the national perimeter, sort of an IDP at the edge of major networks.
The NSA probably has access to all domestic US websites encryption keys, at least the ones that come from Verisign. So, inspect all encrypted traffic headed back to Chinese networks, on any port. If you can't decrypt it, consider it hostile. Shunt it.
I may get modded down as flamebait, probably by Chinese slashdot readers - but the fact is, we are at war with the Chinese.
The MOST critical thing you can achieve is a recording of them stating the threat.
Visit your local spy shop, or order the gear on the web. Wear a wire. If you know how to record the phone unobtrusively, even if you must use an acoustic coupler, do so.
Once you, or ANYBODY, sees an employer doing this - arm yourself with the gear you will need, or you will be defenseless. Then, get an attorney and give them copies of the recordings AS SOON as you finish making them. Do not wait, do not stay home for a week, do it RIGHT AWAY.
First an 0-16 season and now this. Can Detroit catch a break?
I know all of you won't hesitate to state the obvious, but I've become sort of reliant on Google Docs.
I conduct personal business using it. I have PDFs up there that I only back up to DVD.
Gmail is fine, but if Google Docs had an extended loss of service, I would have to drive 100 miles and go fish out DVDs to restore the docs - and some docs I only have there, and maybe my HD.
The fact that Google Docs won't let me put my files up there in AXCrypt format bothers me. If there was another online storage company I trusted more, and supported all file types - I would switch.
Exactly. I don't think Schneier has a published position on DNS security, and is area of expertise is crypto (although he positions himself as all things security, it's clear he's really just about crypto).
So Kaminsky is someone whose opinion is worth something.
I have visions of the Crimson Permanent Assurance coming alongside the Very Big Corporation of America and hitting it with cannonades, full broadside.
Argh! Call of your dogs, yee scurvy pirates!
Nail. Head. You got it.
They will archive transfers you make, for years and years. Imagine if they are in litigation, all they do is look up the company officers of the company they are in court with and start reviewing the logs of all the files they have ever transferred.
I bet buried in the EULA is some really obtuse language that says there is no right to privacy for any document sent via the service. PDFs are indexed for keywords, etc.
I was going to say MediaWiki is the bomb, but nobody says that anymore...
Our company set up MediaWiki. If you link FCKEditor to it, you can enable your entire organization to do things otherwise impossible without rich media. If you want to get really good with it, link an Adobe Flash Media server with it, and embed videos as well as diagrams using Visio.
We've gone the whole nine yards and set up LDAP authentication with it, so some pages can be restricted. Some pages generate dynamic output with Perl scripts.
Then, you can get really creative and have command output actually framed around instructions.
I would also like to point out that just because you have control over an 800 #, that doesn't mean the carrier will send you ANI for everyone who dials it. That part is a fallacy.
The carrier will block ANI for anyone who requests it, and often just provide you 4-digit DNIS. You have to provision the TF service with the carrier to connect to the trunk-id directly, most carriers require that you map the toll-free # to a local DID. Doing it the former way is the magic that TelTech has weaved.
It also doesn't stop against spoofed CLID. I can inject any CLID I want into my outbound calls on the PRI, and the carrier will carry that and send it to any other carrier via SS7, and there is no trust involved.
Spoofing caller-id is actually as easy as spoofing the From field in an SMTP message. So really, it's not doing much.
Marcus Ranum myself.
This woman helped politic the CNCI into existence.
This editorial says more about the uselessness of that than I ever could:
http://duvet-dayz.com/archives/2008/07/21/805/
One of Obama's weakest appointments, and yes - I voted for him.
That the modem itself was a cartridge that you plugged into the back at 300baud....
That it had 4K of RAM and 8k of ROM.
That the best game for it was UBISOFT's "Spiders of Mars"
That the 5.25 floppy drive was model # 1701, just because... you know... that was cool.
That the disk drive was a huge luxury in itself, and most software shipped on cassette tape.
That the VIC-20 was from the FUTURE, and therefore Commodore's first celebrity spokesperson was Bill Shatner.
Keep 'em coming....
jesusjones
basil - for Toni
astley (of course for Rick)
numan - for Gary Numan
vice (for Vanilla Ice)
nena
falco
knack
axelf
buggles
dolby - although I argued that Thomas Dolby was not a one-hit wonder, she blinded me with Science simply was too much to overcome.
Maybe aliens are everywhere, aware of us, and simply choosing not to communicate.
It's because they saw Bill O'Reilly on tv and presumed de-evolution. I knew it.
Ok, so that was a terrible analogy.
Well, it makes the act of making babies equate to checking in and checking out code.
No matter how fast I check in and check out the code, it doesn't feel as good.
Mike is going to need to start selling the acres and acres of land in Kauai that he owns. Land that used to be public. Maybe it's time he gave it back.
Charter is the cable company in rural areas, while Comcast gets the major cities. This is one of those areas that I don't fully understand the legislation at the state level that would allow this. How does Comcast get Ann Arbor, Brighton, most of the Detroit suburbs and Charter has to handle the rural areas of Livingston, Jackson, Washtenaw, Wayne, etc.
What a brilliant deal for Comcast. They get densely populated areas where their return on infrastructure investments are the best, and where more affluent people live, and Charter gets to handle all the heavy lifting of running a cable network in the hard to reach places.
I always wondered how that cherry-pick arrangement came to pass, if any of you know, please respond because that would perhaps enlighten us as to Charter's financial woes.
On the flip side of that, I visited a datacenter for Charter and it was really nice, obvious they spent alot on it.
Oh, and BTW, Charter filed Chapter 11 yesterday.
An Israeli company is saying that Swedes are lying about how easy it is to fool a machine capable of detecting lying. But the Swedes are publishing results that meet the standard of good science: verifiable and repeatable.
I'm goin with the Swedes on this...