I'm pretty sure it's illegal to advocate assassinating an elected official.
Who cares? It's not as if they'd go to Slashdot and subpoena their IP records, only to find out that I don't even live in the States...
Not particularly funny either.
I dunno. For me, considering that this judge was sufficiently smart to remember about the statute of limitations, but at the same time dumb enough to forget that he lives in Texas is pretty funny...
Seeing where you aim is only half the game. At these distances, there is also the issue of keeping your hand steady enough to hit such a "small" target.
But what if something go Wong or some get's sick and the fake fireman can't help just thing about the LAW SUITS.
Or, more plausible, what if the fake fireman gives bad advice (because he doesn't know his shit, as mentioned in story), people act on the advice, but doing so make things much worse in the event of a real fire...
I'm sure that he didn't tell the fire brigade that he would "keep walking around rooms, giving them advice on keeping their facility fire safe, even though I really have no idea what I'm talking about. I make stuff up and probably give the worst advice ever. I'll pull out cords and say 'This looks a little bit dangerous.' I'll comment on space heaters. I'm completely winging it. "
one can theorize about a backdoor in a TPM, but that would require a lot of international cooperation, a lot more than just using an "official" keylogger.
So, it might make the German users safer against these shenanigans, but what about the US users?
And if well done, the TPM could actually be abused to seamlessly hide any Trojans, so the NSA might even entrust the German authorities with the secret, without fear of the CCC discovering it...
And I have still this one simple question: How are the infecting the systems
In this case, the software was probably installed during a "check" at customs when the victim came home from an international trip.
But the article also mentioned that in other cases it was installed using "black bag" operations (i.e. "legal" burglaries).
and is it cross-platform?
probably not. And the fact that the CCC learned about so many cases of use seems to indicate to me that even a moderately intelligent windows user would notice that something is amiss...
An employee had the audacity to harrass her (a paying customer, no less), block the exit, and intimidate her into deleting the photos from her phone in front of him.
Next time, look around, especially at the ceiling, near the corners, spot the security cameras, demand to see the footage about you, and demand that they erase it in front of you. If they refuse, walk away with your phone, and photos still undeleted.
When told that photographing is forbidden, act all astonished, "oh, is it?", apologize, and that's it. Usually they won't press the issue any further, not even asking you to delete the photo.
If they do ask to delete it, pretend to do so (or pretend to not know how). And in any case, you can still recover the photo from the smart card using photorec at home.
Plus, count friends and families of those who received letters. You can bet this conversation will come up during lots of meals and drinks. If you personally know somebody who got struck by this asinine law, it's much easier to get worked up against it than if you just read in an anonymous blog about it.
Why not just block visitors from Italy (meaning: show them the message that it's the fault of that law that Wikipedia can't work in Italy)?
Why not just physically host Wikipedia outside of Italy, and then simply ignore this stupid law... all the while firing nuisance corrections against random Italian sites.
Even better: it.wikipedia.org is already hosted outside of Italy, namely at the Wikimedia's Amsterdam cluster in the Netherlands.
More to the point, anybody can be offended about anything, so we best swamp all major italian websites (news papers, government websites,...) with complaints. Make them as silly as possible. Make them as offensive to further 3rd parties as possible. By law, they are forced to publish them. Do this for a couple of weeks, and watch the Italian web grind to a painful halt.
Btw, to which address should the request be sent? Many websites have no obvious webmaster address, and often the addresses in whois are unmanned...
if I plan to get really drunk. That way I don't lose my actual phone:-)
Yeah, but that's not what your marketing department expects you to do... they actually want you to lose your actual phone. Or how else would the papers be able to write about it?
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Italy makes it clear that Europa is female. It's clearly a woman's boot.
Never seen a cross-dresser?
Or do you think that Sweden and Finland are just a strap-on? :-)
Yes, Europe wears Italy, but such outside signs can be misleading :-)
The US has Florida, so it's male.
And we Europeans have Sweden.
And we've got Finland :-)
I'm pretty sure it's illegal to advocate assassinating an elected official.
Who cares? It's not as if they'd go to Slashdot and subpoena their IP records, only to find out that I don't even live in the States...
Not particularly funny either.
I dunno. For me, considering that this judge was sufficiently smart to remember about the statute of limitations, but at the same time dumb enough to forget that he lives in Texas is pretty funny...
So, if you live near 717 Magnolia Street Rockport, TX 78382 say hello to him from me!
Why do federal prosecutors have anything to say about it?
Watch the news video, where they interview the father in his car. Apparently the MAFIAA is involved...
You can remove a judge, especially in Texas. That's what the second amendment is for.
Seeing where you aim is only half the game. At these distances, there is also the issue of keeping your hand steady enough to hit such a "small" target.
But what if something go Wong or some get's sick and the fake fireman can't help just thing about the LAW SUITS.
Or, more plausible, what if the fake fireman gives bad advice (because he doesn't know his shit, as mentioned in story), people act on the advice, but doing so make things much worse in the event of a real fire...
I'm sure that he didn't tell the fire brigade that he would "keep walking around rooms, giving them advice on keeping their facility fire safe, even though I really have no idea what I'm talking about. I make stuff up and probably give the worst advice ever. I'll pull out cords and say 'This looks a little bit dangerous.' I'll comment on space heaters. I'm completely winging it. "
And if you want to post the truth anonymously so that those whose crimes you're disclosing can't retaliate, well, sucks to be you apparently.
Then just post under a false or made-up name, rather than anonymously. Problem solved.
That's for the eater's mate.
one can theorize about a backdoor in a TPM, but that would require a lot of international cooperation, a lot more than just using an "official" keylogger.
So, it might make the German users safer against these shenanigans, but what about the US users?
And if well done, the TPM could actually be abused to seamlessly hide any Trojans, so the NSA might even entrust the German authorities with the secret, without fear of the CCC discovering it...
And I have still this one simple question: How are the infecting the systems
In this case, the software was probably installed during a "check" at customs when the victim came home from an international trip.
But the article also mentioned that in other cases it was installed using "black bag" operations (i.e. "legal" burglaries).
and is it cross-platform?
probably not. And the fact that the CCC learned about so many cases of use seems to indicate to me that even a moderately intelligent windows user would notice that something is amiss...
Or, say 'no.' Ask to see the manager. Then use the cell phone to dial 911 and tell them you're being held against your will.
That's if you want to make a stand and have time to waste...
If you just want to keep your photo and peacefully go on with your afternoon, the non-confrontional (but sneaky) approach works best.
The UK laws imply that you have the right to apply lubricant, if you brought it, before they violate your rights.
Do you also have the right to demand that they wear gloves, and please cut their fingernails?
An employee had the audacity to harrass her (a paying customer, no less), block the exit, and intimidate her into deleting the photos from her phone in front of him.
Next time, look around, especially at the ceiling, near the corners, spot the security cameras, demand to see the footage about you, and demand that they erase it in front of you. If they refuse, walk away with your phone, and photos still undeleted.
If they do ask to delete it, pretend to do so (or pretend to not know how). And in any case, you can still recover the photo from the smart card using photorec at home.
(SCNR)
Plus, count friends and families of those who received letters. You can bet this conversation will come up during lots of meals and drinks. If you personally know somebody who got struck by this asinine law, it's much easier to get worked up against it than if you just read in an anonymous blog about it.
Indeed, the French pirate party split in 3 and then merged again. Not exactly the best strategy to convince people to vote for you...
... who misread this as "Film turns Windows Into Solaris"...
With this piece of law, you have to do it immediately (48 hours) and publish whatever the offended party send you to publish.
What if the offended party sends you something to publish which offends yet another party?
Why not just block visitors from Italy (meaning: show them the message that it's the fault of that law that Wikipedia can't work in Italy)?
Why not just physically host Wikipedia outside of Italy, and then simply ignore this stupid law... all the while firing nuisance corrections against random Italian sites.
Even better: it.wikipedia.org is already hosted outside of Italy, namely at the Wikimedia's Amsterdam cluster in the Netherlands.
So, why bother?
Btw, to which address should the request be sent? Many websites have no obvious webmaster address, and often the addresses in whois are unmanned...
if I plan to get really drunk. That way I don't lose my actual phone :-)
Yeah, but that's not what your marketing department expects you to do... they actually want you to lose your actual phone. Or how else would the papers be able to write about it?
The last I checked, Reiserfs had vendor lock-in ;).
I know you're being funny here, but just remember how fast the reiserfs users escaped to ext3/ext4 when the "vendor" was locked in.