Indeed. The NSA is not really spying on the public's private conversations or online activities. After all, if the NSA could get at these items, they were not really private in the first place, were they?
As far as I understood, the Mt. Gox' API had a hole, which allowed customers to withdraw money without it showing up in Mt. Gox's books. Some customers noticed, and overdid it so much that no money was left to honour the other (honest) customers' accounts.
If cars on the lower part of the ribbon are pulling it down, this means that slightly less ribbon will be above GEO point, leading to less ribbon available for counterbalancing the lower part. Which means an unstable equilibrium.
So, in order to prevent the whole thing from crashing down, there has to be a safety margin of extra ribbon above GEO, meaning some extra tension in the wire, even at ground level. That barge can't be too light-weight, or else it'll turn into a space-barge...
Think about a foundation strong enough to withstand the pressures of a 100-200 mile high tower pressing down.
Connected to a platform in space, the mass of the platform is to spin with the Earth's rotation. Centrifugal force is actually pulling on the elevator 'cable'.
Actually, pulling up is much worse than pressing down... The cable would just rip the foundation out from the bedrock. So you'd need to drill really deep to suitably anchor this beast.
Years of using MS product GUI's have conditioned people to do a quick click through and accept everything so the default ends up trusting some proxy box as if it is the bank.
If people behave in such a way, they'd be vulnerable anywhere (cybercafé, airport, hotel or even at home (thanks to the many router vulnerabilities)), not just at their place of work. Microsoft, and Microsoft-induced behavior carry security risks. Deal with it.
However, what sets the workplace situation apart from the other scenarios is that if done properly, the employee would see no warning. Because the IT department included the employer's certificate into the list of roots trusted by the browser.
With all the setups of this type I have heard of there is no opt out.
Worse than, the "SSL accelerator" box would now be responsible to check the certificate of the server, in order to be sure that there isn't a second man in the middle further down the road. But the thing is, how would it react if it encountered a bad certificate:
- if it rejects the connection, suddenly lots of low sensitivity sites which just have expired certificates, or which rely on the user to manually verifiy the fingerprint become inaccessible,
- if on the other hand it accepts (or doesn't check in the first place), we have the security issue outlined above.
But a large contributing factor:...the outbreak of a great fire in the heart of the city of Boston on November 9th was a disaster. Firemen were reduced to moving all of the necessary firefighting equipment by hand, and the size of the fire in this particular incident did not allow for such slow movement to be effective. The firefighting sans horse power was so ineffective that the fire raged on to become one of the worst disasters in the history of the city. Reports indicate that the blaze killed 13 people, destroyed 776 buildings, and caused $75 million in damages – the current equivalent of roughly $3.5 billion.
Pickens County deputy Hashe claims that Finley was at the sheriff's office on another matter when the outstanding warrant was discovered.
So neither guns nor cars where involved here, she was already at the sheriff's office for a different, unrelated matter. Btw, that's probably why it took so long to execute that warrant (which actually was issued the same year that she failed to return the movie): the matter was too trivial to send a squad car with armed officers to her home, and police basically ignored it.
Even easier: you can hire friends, or even family members or spouses as "contractors" or "suppliers" to help funnel those profits out of your (state-sponsored) non-profit. Happens commonly here in Luxembourg, and nobody bats an eye...
Hopefully this too will change with the new "Gambia" coalition...
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... then this!
Indeed. The NSA is not really spying on the public's private conversations or online activities. After all, if the NSA could get at these items, they were not really private in the first place, were they?
They were probably thinking of HIV, not syphilis...
... and the other half don't know the difference between average and median.
Gmail already does sufficient damage to email as it is now, it doesn't even need to fail!
As far as I understood, the Mt. Gox' API had a hole, which allowed customers to withdraw money without it showing up in Mt. Gox's books. Some customers noticed, and overdid it so much that no money was left to honour the other (honest) customers' accounts.
So, in order to prevent the whole thing from crashing down, there has to be a safety margin of extra ribbon above GEO, meaning some extra tension in the wire, even at ground level. That barge can't be too light-weight, or else it'll turn into a space-barge...
Think about a foundation strong enough to withstand the pressures of a 100-200 mile high tower pressing down.
Connected to a platform in space, the mass of the platform is to spin with the Earth's rotation. Centrifugal force is actually pulling on the elevator 'cable'.
Actually, pulling up is much worse than pressing down... The cable would just rip the foundation out from the bedrock. So you'd need to drill really deep to suitably anchor this beast.
Don't worry, Monsanto genetic engineers are working on it...
But beta still sucks...
Most of us have cellphones which we can use to make personal calls and even access the internet...
... and in an open plan office, your nosy neighbour on the other side of the cupboard still overhears you call...
Years of using MS product GUI's have conditioned people to do a quick click through and accept everything so the default ends up trusting some proxy box as if it is the bank.
If people behave in such a way, they'd be vulnerable anywhere (cybercafé, airport, hotel or even at home (thanks to the many router vulnerabilities)), not just at their place of work. Microsoft, and Microsoft-induced behavior carry security risks. Deal with it.
However, what sets the workplace situation apart from the other scenarios is that if done properly, the employee would see no warning. Because the IT department included the employer's certificate into the list of roots trusted by the browser.
My entire point is that these devices remove any advantage of using https.
Obviously, if you used the guest Wifi, you'd use your own device, which would not be infested with the fraudulent root certificate of your employer.
With all the setups of this type I have heard of there is no opt out.
Worse than, the "SSL accelerator" box would now be responsible to check the certificate of the server, in order to be sure that there isn't a second man in the middle further down the road. But the thing is, how would it react if it encountered a bad certificate:
- if it rejects the connection, suddenly lots of low sensitivity sites which just have expired certificates, or which rely on the user to manually verifiy the fingerprint become inaccessible,
- if on the other hand it accepts (or doesn't check in the first place), we have the security issue outlined above.
A good thing the fifty Harleys were on tour at that moment, I'd have hated to read the headline "Angry bikers snapped off Google van's camera pole"...
What, are they afraid the video will end up on some underground bear porn site?
You mean if one were to send an email from Munich to Paris, it'd cross the Atlantic and come back?
NSA aside, that's a pretty sucky setup.
Many Europeans have accounts at gmail or hotmail. In this case, the email does indeed cross the Atlantic and back.
O, and "creative" routing, as you outlined, does happen often enough too, unfortunately...
9/11 wasn't the breakpoint of the economy
But a large contributing factor: ...the outbreak of a great fire in the heart of the city of Boston on November 9th was a disaster. Firemen were reduced to moving all of the necessary firefighting equipment by hand, and the size of the fire in this particular incident did not allow for such slow movement to be effective. The firefighting sans horse power was so ineffective that the fire raged on to become one of the worst disasters in the history of the city. Reports indicate that the blaze killed 13 people, destroyed 776 buildings, and caused $75 million in damages – the current equivalent of roughly $3.5 billion.
Symptoms of this mystery illness: they catch fire for no reason...
Why make it so complicated? Why not take the telescope out of the museum, and point it at Jupiter, and directly see what it shows you?
Pickens County deputy Hashe claims that Finley was at the sheriff's office on another matter when the outstanding warrant was discovered.
So neither guns nor cars where involved here, she was already at the sheriff's office for a different, unrelated matter. Btw, that's probably why it took so long to execute that warrant (which actually was issued the same year that she failed to return the movie): the matter was too trivial to send a squad car with armed officers to her home, and police basically ignored it.
... should be jailed too!
Hopefully this too will change with the new "Gambia" coalition...
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... who just assembles chips and boards made by Chinese or US companies. Next try...
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