It's no longer about sawn-offs and balaclavas, its about constant probing, ddos, threat testing, malware, social engineering etc. The cat and mouse game continues but its now done with faceless teams from far away countries.
At least I now have a reason as to why Farnell pushed my date back from April to mid May. All they did was inform me of the date and not provide a reason for the delay.
That's sort of my point. It would have been easy to do him if he'd done it to their face using a megaphone. Instead they've had to resort to the telecoms act to catch him. I guess ultimately it doesn't matter as they rightly got him.
"He was charged under the Communications Act 2003, for sending malicious communications that were grossly offensive." So if he'd used a megaphone and said to their faces they wouldn't have been able to charge him? Crazy laws.
What I see here is the fact that it's written rather than verbal is how they got him. Does it make a difference to the offended families involved how the trolling was done? I bet not, it's just another example of how free-speech laws have diverged from today's technology.
Coming from the UK, I can understand how people can be extradited on US federal law charges. I'd be surprised if state laws apply too.
For that matter how does this affect US citizens in say NY if the law is broken in CA?
I always assumed the reason behind.org,.net,.com and country TLDs was to keep things organized and consistent. Why have they decided to do what appears to me as simply going back on themselves?
I always assumed the reason behind.org,.net,.com and country TLDs was to keep things organized and consistent. Why have they decided to do what appears to me as simply going back on themselves?
it looks like they could not resist the cash call of going from a tidy, organised vertical hierarchy to a flat, horizontal fuck-up of a system, devolving control and allowing any old pleb to set up a tld at the right price.
So where does this stop? 10 tld, 100ltd.
TLD for ALL
!!!1
So what Microsoft is really saying is that because we didn't block ODF (as there was nothing wrong with it anyway) you should not block OpenXML accordingly (irrespective of any reasons)
If there is a known defect that Apple is aware of that could conceivably hit its financial outlook, are they not bound by data retention laws to NOT delete said communications? Otherwise would they not be fooling investors by not disclosing product failures etc.
This might be a stretch but surely they cannot just delete the data if it concerns a potential investor issue?
None of the above are crimes in the criminal sense. I am more worried about the info being used for decriminalised offences. Such as speeding and parking offences and the like. In fact the parking/traffic enforcement system is already using cctv and point to point camera/number plate recognition.
The worry is how the government protects this (our) information.
Can anybody provide any pointers to information regarding the underlying infrastructure? What it is based on etc. (I presume it is not VMware).
Churz
Bogster
You know this is nothing new. From a purely personal perspective, when I had 2.4Kb I waited ages to get stuff. When I went 128K ISDN mp3 and went realtime (I mean the time to download versus the time to listen). When I got 512Kb ADSL video downloads were then a viable proposition, a 43 minute episode was a 2hr download (for a 350MB file). Now I find that my 10Mb cable is good for multiple mp4/DVD ISOs, but HDTV TS in not quite there.
Its all a case of media volumes increasing and infrastructure playing catch-up, at least for the UK last mile anyway. As for the links between me and my sources, I see no bandwidth problems and I'm connecting to some pretty popular sites. I think the key here is that where p2p is concerned, apart from the university connections, its the home user's upload speed which is key.
If the population of Iraq is indeed used for this under an experimental basis shouldn't the US be hauled up infront of a War Crimes tribunal for breaching some sort of convention. After all it could be deemed that they are doing mass experiments on humans to find the effects of said gun etc.
Big up to the BBC tech dept for keeping the streaming video working throughout this. I wondered if the servers for this (and www) would hold up and they have.
I think that real threat is to this is yet to come. In the not to far off future (2-5 years) I can well imagine that as the amount of cores on a single CPU die increase AMD/Intel will add this functionality at the hardware level (how do IBM manage LPARS at present anyone?) with BIOS type hooks etc.
As an aside I would be very interested in the pro's and con's of the Xen type virtualisation method versus the VMware ESX type method, especially regarding inter-image security.
So should I rename all of my files with a prefix "for private use only - not for public use"? I sometimes connect remotely and load onto my laptop when I am away - I believe that is fair use.
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It's no longer about sawn-offs and balaclavas, its about constant probing, ddos, threat testing, malware, social engineering etc. The cat and mouse game continues but its now done with faceless teams from far away countries.
'cos the weather is shit round here.
At least I now have a reason as to why Farnell pushed my date back from April to mid May. All they did was inform me of the date and not provide a reason for the delay.
That should be *unless* proven otherwise - big distinction there.
That's sort of my point. It would have been easy to do him if he'd done it to their face using a megaphone. Instead they've had to resort to the telecoms act to catch him. I guess ultimately it doesn't matter as they rightly got him.
"He was charged under the Communications Act 2003, for sending malicious communications that were grossly offensive." So if he'd used a megaphone and said to their faces they wouldn't have been able to charge him? Crazy laws. What I see here is the fact that it's written rather than verbal is how they got him. Does it make a difference to the offended families involved how the trolling was done? I bet not, it's just another example of how free-speech laws have diverged from today's technology.
Coming from the UK, I can understand how people can be extradited on US federal law charges. I'd be surprised if state laws apply too. For that matter how does this affect US citizens in say NY if the law is broken in CA?
They went the same way as typewriters.
I always assumed the reason behind .org, .net, .com and country TLDs was to keep things organized and consistent. Why have they decided to do what appears to me as simply going back on themselves?
I always assumed the reason behind .org, .net, .com and country TLDs was to keep things organized and consistent. Why have they decided to do what appears to me as simply going back on themselves?
it looks like they could not resist the cash call of going from a tidy, organised vertical hierarchy to a flat, horizontal fuck-up of a system, devolving control and allowing any old pleb to set up a tld at the right price. So where does this stop? 10 tld, 100ltd. TLD for ALL !!!1
So what Microsoft is really saying is that because we didn't block ODF (as there was nothing wrong with it anyway) you should not block OpenXML accordingly (irrespective of any reasons)
Boring Boring Boring. More posturing as per usual
Be alert the world need more lerts
If there is a known defect that Apple is aware of that could conceivably hit its financial outlook, are they not bound by data retention laws to NOT delete said communications? Otherwise would they not be fooling investors by not disclosing product failures etc.
This might be a stretch but surely they cannot just delete the data if it concerns a potential investor issue?
Be alert, the world needs more lerts.
None of the above are crimes in the criminal sense. I am more worried about the info being used for decriminalised offences. Such as speeding and parking offences and the like. In fact the parking/traffic enforcement system is already using cctv and point to point camera/number plate recognition. The worry is how the government protects this (our) information.
try wedging a piece of a business card or something like that between the battery and the phone. This is a common fix for a known problem.
Well I guess the Coca-Cola Corp now know where they stand should they wish to persue a line in "other" products called coke....
Of course the problems start when a US court has juristriction over the organisation (ICANN) that can do things to a foreigh organisation....
Yep its up, until ICANN pull the .uk tld....
you mean spamhaus.org.uk
Can anybody provide any pointers to information regarding the underlying infrastructure? What it is based on etc. (I presume it is not VMware). Churz Bogster
You know this is nothing new. From a purely personal perspective, when I had 2.4Kb I waited ages to get stuff. When I went 128K ISDN mp3 and went realtime (I mean the time to download versus the time to listen). When I got 512Kb ADSL video downloads were then a viable proposition, a 43 minute episode was a 2hr download (for a 350MB file). Now I find that my 10Mb cable is good for multiple mp4/DVD ISOs, but HDTV TS in not quite there.
Its all a case of media volumes increasing and infrastructure playing catch-up, at least for the UK last mile anyway. As for the links between me and my sources, I see no bandwidth problems and I'm connecting to some pretty popular sites. I think the key here is that where p2p is concerned, apart from the university connections, its the home user's upload speed which is key.
There is stacks of unused bandwidth out there.
Be alert, the world need more lerts
I note that under the section "what you need" one of the requirements is a BT phone line....
Be alert, the world needs more lerts
If the population of Iraq is indeed used for this under an experimental basis shouldn't the US be hauled up infront of a War Crimes tribunal for breaching some sort of convention. After all it could be deemed that they are doing mass experiments on humans to find the effects of said gun etc.
Be alert, the world needs more lerts
Big up to the BBC tech dept for keeping the streaming video working throughout this. I wondered if the servers for this (and www) would hold up and they have.
Be alert, the world needs more lerts
Without knowing all of the details behind how cell phones are expected to work on planes, I would have gone down the following route:
picocell on a plane, radio transmission via mux/compression over rf link (or plane to sat).
Before implementing, announce your plans (without giving away the intellectual property) and check that you are not going to cross someones wires
We have had in-plane calls for quite a while. Combine this with air to ground (or even sat) multiplexing and there you go.
I think the real "moral of the story" is don't forget to inform the neighbours before having a party
Be alert, the world needs more lerts
I think that real threat is to this is yet to come. In the not to far off future (2-5 years) I can well imagine that as the amount of cores on a single CPU die increase AMD/Intel will add this functionality at the hardware level (how do IBM manage LPARS at present anyone?) with BIOS type hooks etc.
As an aside I would be very interested in the pro's and con's of the Xen type virtualisation method versus the VMware ESX type method, especially regarding inter-image security.
Be alert, the world needs more lerts
So should I rename all of my files with a prefix "for private use only - not for public use"? I sometimes connect remotely and load onto my laptop when I am away - I believe that is fair use.
~Bogster