Yes, Devuan is a systemd free option and I see this suggestion all the time. Better though is to use Debian without systemd because there are no hard dependencies to systemd (except maybe gnome). All you need to do is use sysvinit instead and place an entry in/etc/apt/preferences: Package: systemd* Pin: version * Pin-Priority: -1 and your debian linux will be systemd free.
Use the Firefox Trackmenot extension to dilute your searches with random ones. Or even better have a daemon program performing searches in background all the time. The program could work by fetching a random page from a google query; then parsing the page and making a new query based on somne words found in that page. The longer the search strings the better because that's more storing space for the UK ISPs.
Slashdot disrupted again my habits of reading this site with this redesign. You can't even get all the slashdot stories of a single day from the front page without clicking 3-4 times. I have solved this problem for now by using a script in crontab which grabs several pages of news once a day and reformats them to plain HTML. (look here if you want to do the same http://uglyduck.ath.cx/slashdot/). You can then open this minimalistic HTML file in any browser and read comments from there.
Unfortunatelly there is absolutely no way to get more than 50 comments from a story unless you log in. All the 'commentlimit' 'bytelimit' 'startat' parameters are ignored in D1 mode without a login (logins and cookies in lynx are just annoying). You may get the first 50 comments by passing the few recognized parameters like this: comments.pl?sid=nnnnnn&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=flat&no_d2=1&pid=0
I'll see how I can live with this 50 comments limit in the future (because there's no way I'll login every time I want to read/.) and if I find it unbearable I'll just give up on slashdot.
HP has secure chips in every cartridge as well. They use a processor from Infineon which is EAL5 security certified (the highest security certification). These are the same chips you may have in your banking cards. The last metal layer of this chip is a mesh of wires covering the whole surface transmitting random signals at one end and comparing the phase of this signals at the other end. This prevents you to edit the chip with a FIB. Then every bus in the chip is scrambled, variable number of wait states are inserted in I/O operations and during these wait states random signals are send on the CPU bus. They have light sensors, voltage sensors and clock domain sensors which erase keys if they are triggered. All of the above and some more anti-hacking measures make the reverse engineering extremely difficult. And you get all of the above for the cost of 0.30$ per chip (in quantities).
These secure processors do 2 things: they authenticate to the printer with full handshake using strong encryption and they watch the level of ink in the cartridge (they record the transparency of each ink when the cartridge passes in front of a reflective light sensor) and they stop the moment they see more ink that is was before.
You can see how the economics works here: let's put a 30 cents chip in every cartridge and then have a markup price of 20$ or more. Multiply that with the number of cartridges you need to change simultaneously and you'll get the idea.
Is anyone else thinking this "crack" surfaced because Israel (a country which is not even part of Europe) was a partner in the Galileo project? It's a known fact they are in bed with the americans and since USA didn't like so much the Galileo project...
I think you can elude their detection if you use one of those plastic sealing machine to wrap your "device" then wash the outside of the sealed bag and seal it in a second bag then wash again and seal it one more time. With 10 minutes of preparation and a 50$ sealed bags machine you can remove all the volatility of your explosives.
Turning off GPS availability for a specific area involves more than just "switching off" the satellite when it's "overhead". It's simple orbital mechanics. Their orbital period is about 11hrs 58mins, and they remain visible from any given terrestrial point for 6-7 hours. Therefore, unless you're shutting off GPS service for an area comprising approximately half the earth's surface centered on the spot you want to black out (and that is clearly not the case), obviously there is some degree of directional selectivity from individual satellites.
There isn't much directivity from the satellites (only to radiate the energy towards the earth). That is exactly how they are achieving blackout ares by turning the L1 frequency off. That won't affect "half the world" as you say because there are several satellites above your head at any given time so in the blackout areas you'll only be able to receive from one or two of them.
They're not "just beacons" in the sense that any receiver with line of sight gets the same signal. They can and do use multiple antennas and interferometry tricks to affect availability. The only questions that then remain are how small an area can they black out, and can they perhaps choose to instead introduce a much worse version of the old Selective Availability random error factor to that area.
Interferometry at the size of a satellite ? At 1.57Ghz you need to control the signal phase with sub picoseconds accuracy. You can't do interferometry with multiple satellites either because you need to control distance between them with precision better than lamba/4. Actually phased arrays antennas are used only in shortwaves or with fixed telescope arrays. The only way to improve directionality in space is by using a higher gain antenna.
Let's say you have a very directional antenna with a 3deg solid angle (no such thing exists though). The satellites are cruising at 12600 miles from the surface. At that distance 3 degrees is a spot of 660 miles on the earth surface (which I think is a little more than the Pentagon surface).
It's of no use that the GPS satellites know where the Capitol and Pentagon are. These satellites are just beacons and the only way you can adjust their accuracy is based on their own position. It's true you can alter precision over Afganistan but you can't select small areas. It all has to do with the satellite visibility from the ground. It takes hundreds of miles on the ground to lose visibility.
The jumping around sensitive areas is done by ground jamming; it has nothing to do with the GPS satellites. The jammers on the ground have only enough power to overcome the satellite signal in the area of interest. All what these jammers do is sync with an incoming GPS satellite transmision and insert advanced/delayed position pulses.
I've been able to use the ODH Dual Bootable 128M USB pen from NETAC to run RUNT.
The main advantage of this pen is that it has a FD/HD switch and in the FD mode it emulates perfectly a USB floppy while making available only 1.4M of the flash memory. In the HD mode the rest of the flash (128 - 1.4) is available.
The trick is to toggle the FD/HD switch once the kernel has booted and voila you have the full RUNT system on a single USB pen.
So right now I have a bootable Linux system including the wireless orinoco drivers and a full bunch of utilities) on a flash pen.
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Yes, Devuan is a systemd free option and I see this suggestion all the time. Better though is to use Debian without systemd because there are no hard dependencies to systemd (except maybe gnome). All you need to do is use sysvinit instead and place an entry in /etc/apt/preferences:
Package: systemd*
Pin: version *
Pin-Priority: -1
and your debian linux will be systemd free.
Use the Firefox Trackmenot extension to dilute your searches with random ones. Or even better have a daemon program performing searches in background all the time. The program could work by fetching a random page from a google query; then parsing the page and making a new query based on somne words found in that page. The longer the search strings the better because that's more storing space for the UK ISPs.
Slashdot disrupted again my habits of reading this site with this redesign. You can't even get all the slashdot stories of a single day from the front page without clicking 3-4 times. I have solved this problem for now by using a script in crontab which grabs several pages of news once a day and reformats them to plain HTML. (look here if you want to do the same http://uglyduck.ath.cx/slashdot/). You can then open this minimalistic HTML file in any browser and read comments from there.
Unfortunatelly there is absolutely no way to get more than 50 comments from a story unless you log in. All the 'commentlimit' 'bytelimit' 'startat' parameters are ignored in D1 mode without a login (logins and cookies in lynx are just annoying). You may get the first 50 comments by passing the few recognized parameters like this: comments.pl?sid=nnnnnn&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=flat&no_d2=1&pid=0
I'll see how I can live with this 50 comments limit in the future (because there's no way I'll login every time I want to read /.) and if I find it unbearable I'll just give up on slashdot.
HP has secure chips in every cartridge as well. They use a processor from Infineon which is EAL5 security certified (the highest security certification). These are the same chips you may have in your banking cards. The last metal layer of this chip is a mesh of wires covering the whole surface transmitting random signals at one end and comparing the phase of this signals at the other end. This prevents you to edit the chip with a FIB. Then every bus in the chip is scrambled, variable number of wait states are inserted in I/O operations and during these wait states random signals are send on the CPU bus. They have light sensors, voltage sensors and clock domain sensors which erase keys if they are triggered. All of the above and some more anti-hacking measures make the reverse engineering extremely difficult. And you get all of the above for the cost of 0.30$ per chip (in quantities).
These secure processors do 2 things: they authenticate to the printer with full handshake using strong encryption and they watch the level of ink in the cartridge (they record the transparency of each ink when the cartridge passes in front of a reflective light sensor) and they stop the moment they see more ink that is was before.
You can see how the economics works here: let's put a 30 cents chip in every cartridge and then have a markup price of 20$ or more. Multiply that with the number of cartridges you need to change simultaneously and you'll get the idea.
Is anyone else thinking this "crack" surfaced because Israel (a country which is not even part of Europe) was a partner in the Galileo project? It's a known fact they are in bed with the americans and since USA didn't like so much the Galileo project ...
I think you can elude their detection if you use one of those plastic sealing machine to wrap your "device" then wash the outside of the sealed bag and seal it in a second bag then wash again and seal it one more time. With 10 minutes of preparation and a 50$ sealed bags machine you can remove all the volatility of your explosives.
There isn't much directivity from the satellites (only to radiate the energy towards the earth). That is exactly how they are achieving blackout ares by turning the L1 frequency off. That won't affect "half the world" as you say because there are several satellites above your head at any given time so in the blackout areas you'll only be able to receive from one or two of them.
They're not "just beacons" in the sense that any receiver with line of sight gets the same signal. They can and do use multiple antennas and interferometry tricks to affect availability. The only questions that then remain are how small an area can they black out, and can they perhaps choose to instead introduce a much worse version of the old Selective Availability random error factor to that area.
Interferometry at the size of a satellite ? At 1.57Ghz you need to control the signal phase with sub picoseconds accuracy. You can't do interferometry with multiple satellites either because you need to control distance between them with precision better than lamba/4. Actually phased arrays antennas are used only in shortwaves or with fixed telescope arrays. The only way to improve directionality in space is by using a higher gain antenna.
Let's say you have a very directional antenna with a 3deg solid angle (no such thing exists though). The satellites are cruising at 12600 miles from the surface. At that distance 3 degrees is a spot of 660 miles on the earth surface (which I think is a little more than the Pentagon surface).
It's of no use that the GPS satellites know where the Capitol and Pentagon are. These satellites are just beacons and the only way you can adjust their accuracy is based on their own position. It's true you can alter precision over Afganistan but you can't select small areas. It all has to do with the satellite visibility from the ground. It takes hundreds of miles on the ground to lose visibility.
The jumping around sensitive areas is done by ground jamming; it has nothing to do with the GPS satellites. The jammers on the ground have only enough power to overcome the satellite signal in the area of interest. All what these jammers do is sync with an incoming GPS satellite transmision and insert advanced/delayed position pulses.
We are manufacturing just that: a CF to memory stick adaptor and you'll be able to buy them in a few weeks time
I've been able to use the ODH Dual Bootable 128M USB pen from NETAC to run RUNT.
The main advantage of this pen is that it has a FD/HD switch and in the FD mode it emulates perfectly a USB floppy while making available only 1.4M of the flash memory. In the HD mode the rest of the flash (128 - 1.4) is available.
The trick is to toggle the FD/HD switch once the kernel has booted and voila you have the full RUNT system on a single USB pen.
So right now I have a bootable Linux system including the wireless orinoco drivers and a full bunch of utilities) on a flash pen.