I've been thinking of the reverse - a cover for the license plate that incorporates a bunch high-powered infra-red LEDs. Almost all of the ANPR cameras are IR sensitive to help them work at night. So you can blind them or at least obfuscate the plate in a way that a normal human won't notice but will affect the camera.
What happens when an antivirus scanner "pre-scans" the page at link to the Ad, in case the user clicks on it, in order to speed up their browsing experience?
Technically, it's not a bot causing the page to be requested, it can just as well be a real person's user agent
The question isn't whether or not a "bot" clicked the ad, the question is if a real person saw the ad. Your hypothetical scenario doesn't change the answer.
It makes no sense to tell the story in installments.
It makes business sense. Just like rebooting Spiderman was all about the business - in Spiderman's case the studio had to (re)make the movie if they wanted to keep the options on two more spiderman movies, else it would have reverted back to the studio that made the avengers. A similar thing is almost certainly going on here - the studio has the options to make at least three movies out of the hobbit, so that's what they are going to do.
Should make it easier for security forces to track down those fomenting sedition, apostasy, gayness, etc.
How does one foment gayness? After all, fomenting straightness is a laughable idea, Unless you are talking about throwing a party and then I could see them wanting to track people down, like the kids in Project X.
I am all for the people who are willing and able to put their freedom on the line for the cause - they deserve lots of respect for taking that route. I'm just not willing to disqualify other, perhaps less dedicated, protestors as well.
Because there's no way this is going to work 100% - not every pedestrian is carrying a device with Wi-Fi eneabled - so what do you do when you're relying on it and it fails?
The enemy of good is perfect.
It isn't like people are going to start driving with their eyes closed.
It seems to me the damage is actually worse. Real hackers wouldn't make the information as widely available for any two-bit crook to use.
"Real" hackers wouldn't let the victims know they are victims. Widespread publication essentially nulls out the value of this data to any two-bit crook.
In times past the primary purpose of a business was "get and keep a customer". Nowadays it's "make money in any way possible".
It isn't about "the good old days" it is about monopoly and oligopoly. If ATT pisses off a customer and they leave for a "competitor," it is no big deal because there will be someone just as equally pissed off at Verizon or one of the other oligopolists who will come on over to ATT and take their place. Customers in that market only have the illusion of choice, all the players are roughly equal because that's the natural state of an oligopoly. For most customers, the only way to win is not to play the game.
30-50 years ago the Ma Bell monopoly was at least as bad until MCI's anti-trust lawsuit broke them up. Since then, the telecoms have been doing everything they can to restablish what was lost.
wahwahwah. Do you realize that the post the first whiner is complaining was "modded to hell" is now at +5? If people like yourself and that whiner are the remaining nugget of "old slashdot," then good riddance.
I've long thought that NFC was a disaster waiting to happen - or really a never-ending series of disasters, just as each one is patched-over a new one will appear.
The problem is that NFC's functionallity is all out of proportion to the problem it is intended to solve. It's kind of like adding a video display when all you need is an LED indicator light. NFC is supposed to handle short and fast communications between devices that are in very close proximity. Stuff like exchanging v-cards, electronic payments at the register, kickstarting ad-hoc wifi connections, etc.
None of that stuff requires radio communications and even though NFC is designed for broadcast ranges of a couple of centimeters, that never stops the bad guy from using high-powered transmitters and ultra-sensitive antennas to do their dirty work from a more comfortable and non-obvious location.
I believe that almost everything that NFC is likely to ever be useful for could also be done with no extra hardware. Just use the camera already built into every smart-phone to take a picture of a 2d-barcode displayed by the other device. That gets you physical access controls limited by line of site and a window of opportunity limited to the second or so that the user explicitly presses the camera button.
They are just more highly trained in the area of law enforcement. Citizens and police should be held to the same standards of conduct.
As they are more highly trained - on the tax payer's dollar - they should be held to higher standards. And that's before we even begin talking about all the special privileges afforded to the police in the name of being more effective at their job.
True, but we are now outside the scope of a single sign-on.
The OP said "looks like SSO" (he even bolded it) and in practice it really is a single sign on - you "sign in" by giving your browser a password that decrypts all of the private keys.
Your whole work could always be in question, certainly cases like that crop up in sciences, but it's much harder to steal someone else's work when you have to be doing the work in a lab full of people.
It is plagarism for the liberal arts and falsified data for the sciences.
That will let you have separate profiles within firefox. You'll have separate configurations for each profile which means things like different extensions, different bookmarks and different skins (I use different skins to make it easy to tell what "task" instance of firefox is the current one).
One flaw with both your multiple-browsers and my multiple-profile approach is flash cookies - if you use flash in any browser, they all use the same cookie storage. I work around the problem by using the BetterPrivacy plugin to delete flash cookies after 5 minutes.
while Verizon and AT&T focus primarily on their wireless platforms.
So they don't know who sells FiOS?
Verizon has not done any substantial FIOS build outs since 2009. Since then, they've colluded with comcast. Comcast gets a promise from verizon not to build any more fios plants and verizon gets some wireless frequencies that comcast has been sitting on for like a decade. Hell, verizon is now bundling comcast catv service with their dsl packages.
One might even say that religious institutions provide an outlet for such impulses that is at least somewhat disciplined and much less likely to cause the person damage than simply letting them wander into the flock of someone like jim jones.
In the '80s the United States sent oil pipeline controls with a trojan in it to the Soviet Union....it's not far fetched.
Subtle but important difference - the story is that the russians were known to be stealing control software so the CIA arranged for the copy that they stole to contain sabotaged code.
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I've been thinking of the reverse - a cover for the license plate that incorporates a bunch high-powered infra-red LEDs. Almost all of the ANPR cameras are IR sensitive to help them work at night. So you can blind them or at least obfuscate the plate in a way that a normal human won't notice but will affect the camera.
The difference is if a bot clicked it, the 'click' is non-legitimate; an intentional act of deception.
Deception/intent doesn't matter, eyeballs are all that matter.
What happens when an antivirus scanner "pre-scans" the page at link to the Ad, in case the user clicks on it, in order to speed up their browsing experience?
Technically, it's not a bot causing the page to be requested, it can just as well be a real person's user agent
The question isn't whether or not a "bot" clicked the ad, the question is if a real person saw the ad. Your hypothetical scenario doesn't change the answer.
It makes no sense to tell the story in installments.
It makes business sense. Just like rebooting Spiderman was all about the business - in Spiderman's case the studio had to (re)make the movie if they wanted to keep the options on two more spiderman movies, else it would have reverted back to the studio that made the avengers. A similar thing is almost certainly going on here - the studio has the options to make at least three movies out of the hobbit, so that's what they are going to do.
Should make it easier for security forces to track down those fomenting sedition, apostasy, gayness, etc.
How does one foment gayness? After all, fomenting straightness is a laughable idea, Unless you are talking about throwing a party and then I could see them wanting to track people down, like the kids in Project X.
I am all for the people who are willing and able to put their freedom on the line for the cause - they deserve lots of respect for taking that route. I'm just not willing to disqualify other, perhaps less dedicated, protestors as well.
Because there's no way this is going to work 100% - not every pedestrian is carrying a device with Wi-Fi eneabled - so what do you do when you're relying on it and it fails?
The enemy of good is perfect.
It isn't like people are going to start driving with their eyes closed.
Please, people didn't switch to SUVs because their cars were too small, they switched because their dicks were too small.
Which explains why roughly 40% of SUV owners are women.
It seems to me the damage is actually worse. Real hackers wouldn't make the information as widely available for any two-bit crook to use.
"Real" hackers wouldn't let the victims know they are victims. Widespread publication essentially nulls out the value of this data to any two-bit crook.
Civil Disobedience means that you break some law openly and are prepared to take the consequences.
No it does not. Prominent counter examples are that of people sheltering jews in Nazi Germany and participating in the underground railroad.
In times past the primary purpose of a business was "get and keep a customer". Nowadays it's "make money in any way possible".
It isn't about "the good old days" it is about monopoly and oligopoly. If ATT pisses off a customer and they leave for a "competitor," it is no big deal because there will be someone just as equally pissed off at Verizon or one of the other oligopolists who will come on over to ATT and take their place. Customers in that market only have the illusion of choice, all the players are roughly equal because that's the natural state of an oligopoly. For most customers, the only way to win is not to play the game.
30-50 years ago the Ma Bell monopoly was at least as bad until MCI's anti-trust lawsuit broke them up. Since then, the telecoms have been doing everything they can to restablish what was lost.
Korea had something similar - a requirement for government issued citizen-id numbers before one could post a message on any large website.
That didn't work out so well, not because of activists, but because of actual criminals.
wahwahwah. Do you realize that the post the first whiner is complaining was "modded to hell" is now at +5? If people like yourself and that whiner are the remaining nugget of "old slashdot," then good riddance.
I've long thought that NFC was a disaster waiting to happen - or really a never-ending series of disasters, just as each one is patched-over a new one will appear.
The problem is that NFC's functionallity is all out of proportion to the problem it is intended to solve. It's kind of like adding a video display when all you need is an LED indicator light. NFC is supposed to handle short and fast communications between devices that are in very close proximity. Stuff like exchanging v-cards, electronic payments at the register, kickstarting ad-hoc wifi connections, etc.
None of that stuff requires radio communications and even though NFC is designed for broadcast ranges of a couple of centimeters, that never stops the bad guy from using high-powered transmitters and ultra-sensitive antennas to do their dirty work from a more comfortable and non-obvious location.
I believe that almost everything that NFC is likely to ever be useful for could also be done with no extra hardware. Just use the camera already built into every smart-phone to take a picture of a 2d-barcode displayed by the other device. That gets you physical access controls limited by line of site and a window of opportunity limited to the second or so that the user explicitly presses the camera button.
They are just more highly trained in the area of law enforcement. Citizens and police should be held to the same standards of conduct.
As they are more highly trained - on the tax payer's dollar - they should be held to higher standards. And that's before we even begin talking about all the special privileges afforded to the police in the name of being more effective at their job.
True, but we are now outside the scope of a single sign-on.
The OP said "looks like SSO" (he even bolded it) and in practice it really is a single sign on - you "sign in" by giving your browser a password that decrypts all of the private keys.
Your whole work could always be in question, certainly cases like that crop up in sciences, but it's much harder to steal someone else's work when you have to be doing the work in a lab full of people.
It is plagarism for the liberal arts and falsified data for the sciences.
I don't know what cookie you are talking about. BetterPrivacy claims to delete all of them by default.
Try running firefox with these options:
-ProfileManager -no-remote
That will let you have separate profiles within firefox. You'll have separate configurations for each profile which means things like different extensions, different bookmarks and different skins (I use different skins to make it easy to tell what "task" instance of firefox is the current one).
One flaw with both your multiple-browsers and my multiple-profile approach is flash cookies - if you use flash in any browser, they all use the same cookie storage. I work around the problem by using the BetterPrivacy plugin to delete flash cookies after 5 minutes.
while Verizon and AT&T focus primarily on their wireless platforms.
So they don't know who sells FiOS?
Verizon has not done any substantial FIOS build outs since 2009. Since then, they've colluded with comcast. Comcast gets a promise from verizon not to build any more fios plants and verizon gets some wireless frequencies that comcast has been sitting on for like a decade. Hell, verizon is now bundling comcast catv service with their dsl packages.
Too bad the Geneva Convention disallows assassination of those who wage the wars.
Not true. Such leaders are valid military targets.
He said, she said.
How about a cite instead of a bare assertion?
Sure I know about such things, and I was using 'cookies' as a generic term for anything a website leaves on your computer.
Apparently you do NOT know about such things since browser fingerprinting has nothing to do with what a website might leave on your computer.
One might even say that religious institutions provide an outlet for such impulses that is at least somewhat disciplined and much less likely to cause the person damage than simply letting them wander into the flock of someone like jim jones.
Yes all that can happen if you don't handle your cookies properly.
You seem to have missed the last ten years worth of advances in systemic internet tracking systems.
In the '80s the United States sent oil pipeline controls with a trojan in it to the Soviet Union....it's not far fetched.
Subtle but important difference - the story is that the russians were known to be stealing control software so the CIA arranged for the copy that they stole to contain sabotaged code.