Why should that matter, their front lines have as little access to information as the sites and people they attack. 90% of the frontliners recieve their orders from a 4chan fire lazars post, or a general IRC channel. I'm sure there's no shortage of moles inside the IRC channels, wasn't hard for HBGary to get in, he just couldn't get crap and then opened himself up to get completely destroyed.
Gah it's one of those anti-stereotype people. You shouldn't reject humor, even mediocre or bad humor, under the grounds of playing at stereotypes. The thing with Stereotypes is only an idiot would think they are 100% accurate, but it's equally silly to not to note and laugh at things when they do tend to cover 60% or more of a particular race/profession etc... There's a few tigers that are rather friendly around humans, but it isn't insensitive to the creatures to run like hell if you see one, nor is it insensitive to joke about it.
*some guys getting tracked down*, knowing history of anon my money would say the people caught are more likely then not just idiots that booted up LOIC, odds are the ones that did any actual skilled work and actually captured any information on any group, are unidentified. That is always how anon has worked, throw out a huge mob of random people to the front lines, handful of actual skilled people sneak in the back door. The random mob is expendable, and yes there will be more of them when they get picked off.
I honestly don't get why anyone even begins to compare wave and google plus. I used wave, I liked wave, but it was not even pretending to be a social network. It was a tool designed for collaborating projects just looking at the plugins tools etc within it it was designed to share medium amounts of information with a small group of people, allowing tools like maps etc that all members could mark and edit in real time, it should be looked at as a failed companion to google docs. If you want to compare G+ to a failed google social network, buzz would be your target there, and yes buzz failed due to one huge mistake in privacy at day 1, fixed roughly by day 3, but the damage was already done (kind of rediculous IMO, I admit it's a huge flaw that people could see your contacts, but facebook had a bug that you could flat out evesdrop on peoples chat logs that was there almost as long and didn't get half the attention)
Honestly it's a 50/50 mix on that, some of it is Microsoft's failure to secure their OS, but not all of it. Botnets can and will happen on any OS, security holes can and will happen on any OS. I do find Microsoft response time to many threats downright horrific, due to a lack of proactive response. Many times security holes are announced to them, then 5 months later after they are being exploited, Microsoft begins to work on patching them. What I do find ironic here though, is Microsoft pretty much mocks Mozilla and Google for bug bounties, and here they are finding the re-active equivalent to the proactive solution. Why pay someone to solve the problem before it hurts users, lets pay them after users are being hurt.
Good for you, not all schools provide the option however, and very often actually upgrade the version of the book to obsolete it within a year, Telling students they absolutely must buy the 5th edition of the book to take the first class, then next year the follow up class has shifted the requirement to 6th edition. Or perhaps it's just a extra course completely out of the field that colleges like to put you through for the sake of keeping you well rounded, and you have no need to ever look back at again after you pass. it isn't always the case, but it is sometimes, and it never hurts to have the option to rent rather then spend the ridiculous prices some of these books can run.
It is a game of probability, lets say securing your wifi point decreases your odds of someone using your connection and bringing the police to your door by 90% (I'd say it's safe to assume 90% of potential trouble makers don't know how to nor have the time to break WPA). Now lets assume the police that show up have a 50% chance of listening to reason and doing a fair investigation before putting all the flags on your name that can ruin your life forever. Both cases are gambles, there is no 100% chance of having wifi and not getting falsely accused, but now we are looking at a 50% chance of them listening to reason before accusing, vs a 90% chance of them not coming by at all and a 10% chance of them listening to reason after they start investigating.
Yeah it's a minor flaw, you are perfectly safe as long as you don't talk with people. I mean who skypes with someone without getting a long detailed background check and ensuring that they don't currently and won't ever have anything against you.
It did only take 2 to flatten japan, but you do have to compare the square mileage of japan vs Russia or china.
Area of china: 9,596,960 sq km. Area of japan 377,835. To do comparable damage to the same amount of area, as 2 nukes to japan, would be 50 nukes to china (ignoring of course the potential advance in technology potency etc of the nukes themselves). Admitted I would say 1,000 nukes should be enough, we have over 5k and are still working on making more which seems a bit obsessive, we should instead be spending money on say a technology to nueturalize nukes. Imagine the technical advantage of something the equivelent of an EMP field, but rather then eliminating electronics, it renders nukes coming at us inert. May be above our technology range now, but if we took 300 bil out of our nuke production, we could probably do it.
I believe rwven is pretty clear that he's talking about for the people who own/maintain the pipes, IE comcast/TWcable/netflix themselves are paying less to maintain their pipes, the article you are sending is just showing that rather then sending those savings as discounts to the customer, they are charging the customer more to raise the profit margins farther.
Umm I fail to see the logic in the statements. I opened a Google account yesterday, I shared a picture, it asked me, which circles do you want to share this with, pretty certain on Facebook were I to upload that same picture it would automatically assume everyone on my friends list is free game unless I went much deeper into the settings and tweaked things.
EA has generally had a consistant formula over time. Buy out a company with a hugely succesful game. Change the development style of the sequal, ensure nothing new is released in it, just keep the generic formula, exact same game, maybe keep a few levels, spend most of the money for development costs on DRM, raising the importance of DLC. Now because most of the origional team is still there, occasionally some good features do slip through to the next sequel, but in general it's pretty clear that when EA buys a new company, the best result you can hope for is "a bit worse then if the company weren't bought out", and never "a significant improvement now that it has financial backing".
The only passwords I'm seeing that this guy stole in TFA was the WEP key. Apart from that it looks like he just used the persons connection to create new accounts to frame him for anything and everything he could get away with.
You know there's a difference between white listing one application, and granting every java applet that your web browser might scroll over administrative access to your entire system right?
There's certainly legitimate uses for the 3rd party app stores still, such as google has to remove emulators and such to avoid getting their asses sued into oblivion. I do have to say though I am not even slightly concerned about the infected apps from obscure chinese marketplaces, but I do think there is legitimate concern about the ones that have slipped into the marketplace. I do think google needs to step up and add a few layers of QC to the official marketplace. The best of both worlds scenario would be a fairly well audited for quality of apps official market place, or even maybe a certain sticker of "Google approved" applications, something simply to confirm that things are absolutely safe, for the average non-techie user, just as long as there are no warantee voiding/risking hurdles added for fairly competent users to get the unverified apps that they may want.
Indeed, I am curious on this, but not crazy enough to Google the names while on my monitored work network, anyone able to list what the programs actually do?
Well if that part were easy I would imagine grey hats/vigilantes would have done that by now. Though it would depend largely on what self destructing would entail. Self destructing as in the botnet removes itself from the infected computers, or self destructing as in having the botnet completely format infected systems.
Removing the botnets from individual systems was never the quote or discussion to begin with. It's a known fact that with enough time an energy any infected system can be cleaned, though it is very difficult to be positive of when everything has been found. The greater issue is behind the quote however, the discussion was never about taking out individual machines on a one at a time basis, but if they can do like they did to similar botnets as far as decapitating the controller to stop the botnet from spreading. While technically possible to take every single machine in and clean them all on an individual process, I don't think there are enough groups on earth that can advocate eliminating a botnet by taking every single machine connected to the internet in and running a program on every computer to prevent it from spreading. Even if removing the infection was as simple as running a 1KB batch file, actually identifying the infected and getting each user to execute it, would be impossible.
It's perfectly legal to change your feelings and separate from your significant other, you just have to divorce before you shack up with your neighbor. Pretty fair IMO, it's a perfectly reasonable contract of exclusivity. Personally I find more of an issue with the idea of say a girl leaching off of my money, living under my roof, using a car I paid for, then sleeping with someone else.
All perfectly legal to do, with the exception of bathrooms etc... there is not reasonable expectation of privacy in a home owned by someone other then yourself, or jointly owned. My fiance has no more right to expect privacy in our living room, then I have right to expect privacy at the local gas station. You have a right to know what you're property was used for. If your friend borrows your phone to make a call, do you think it is illegal to request the bill that shows where the phone called? If I request a log from my cellphone company, do they need consent of everyone who has a phone on my plan? Nope they require consent of the person who's paying the bill, everyone else is on borrowed property and has no right to privacy, if they don't like it, they can get their own phone and plan.
Seconded, there are extremely few cultures or societies of any religion that do not have marriage as a key structure in society, and in almost all cases that involves commitment and monogamy, and the rules seem to be more or less the same regardless of whether the culture believes in the judeo christian god, Allah, Buddha and yes even atheists. That being said I don't think it's fair to blame the service on any relationship failing, A relationship based on your partner not finding something out, is the security by obscurity equivalent, if your spouse isn't going to trip over it by accident, suspect it her/himself, there's about 500 other ways it will eventually be known and tripped over, rather then blaming the 500 ways to get busted, perhaps if you aren't able to honor a committed relationship, you shouldn't be in one. Plenty of ways to get in an open relationship if that's how you want to go.
The general concept of a social network isn't to mindlessly broadcast the same thing to everyone, and well 95% or more of what you have to say isn't appropriate to everyone you know (which these days everyone thinks they should be on your facebook). You come home from work, you want to complain to your friends about your boss, posting publicly you can't do that, your boss and/or co-workers are on facebook and that could come back to bite you. You think of a funny PG-13 or R rated joke, can't post that, don't want your grandma to see it, you hear news about your aunt's cancer your friends don't give a crap about that, but your family does. There is rarely 3 events in a year that are good enough to think everyone who knows you cares. I would rather have a network where when I post something it prompts and says, do you want to send this to
friends
family
co-workers
Everyone.
Before it goes out, rather then oh you didn't completely spend 2 hours fine tuning and setting up groups, I can safely assume that you want to tell everyone about it. Sure there are occasions where what you say are good to say to everyone who at least pretends to have interest in you (say a wedding, childbirth etc...) but I would imagine those are an extreme minority.
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Why should that matter, their front lines have as little access to information as the sites and people they attack. 90% of the frontliners recieve their orders from a 4chan fire lazars post, or a general IRC channel. I'm sure there's no shortage of moles inside the IRC channels, wasn't hard for HBGary to get in, he just couldn't get crap and then opened himself up to get completely destroyed.
Gah it's one of those anti-stereotype people. You shouldn't reject humor, even mediocre or bad humor, under the grounds of playing at stereotypes. The thing with Stereotypes is only an idiot would think they are 100% accurate, but it's equally silly to not to note and laugh at things when they do tend to cover 60% or more of a particular race/profession etc... There's a few tigers that are rather friendly around humans, but it isn't insensitive to the creatures to run like hell if you see one, nor is it insensitive to joke about it.
*some guys getting tracked down*, knowing history of anon my money would say the people caught are more likely then not just idiots that booted up LOIC, odds are the ones that did any actual skilled work and actually captured any information on any group, are unidentified. That is always how anon has worked, throw out a huge mob of random people to the front lines, handful of actual skilled people sneak in the back door. The random mob is expendable, and yes there will be more of them when they get picked off.
I honestly don't get why anyone even begins to compare wave and google plus. I used wave, I liked wave, but it was not even pretending to be a social network. It was a tool designed for collaborating projects just looking at the plugins tools etc within it it was designed to share medium amounts of information with a small group of people, allowing tools like maps etc that all members could mark and edit in real time, it should be looked at as a failed companion to google docs. If you want to compare G+ to a failed google social network, buzz would be your target there, and yes buzz failed due to one huge mistake in privacy at day 1, fixed roughly by day 3, but the damage was already done (kind of rediculous IMO, I admit it's a huge flaw that people could see your contacts, but facebook had a bug that you could flat out evesdrop on peoples chat logs that was there almost as long and didn't get half the attention)
Honestly it's a 50/50 mix on that, some of it is Microsoft's failure to secure their OS, but not all of it. Botnets can and will happen on any OS, security holes can and will happen on any OS. I do find Microsoft response time to many threats downright horrific, due to a lack of proactive response. Many times security holes are announced to them, then 5 months later after they are being exploited, Microsoft begins to work on patching them. What I do find ironic here though, is Microsoft pretty much mocks Mozilla and Google for bug bounties, and here they are finding the re-active equivalent to the proactive solution. Why pay someone to solve the problem before it hurts users, lets pay them after users are being hurt.
Good for you, not all schools provide the option however, and very often actually upgrade the version of the book to obsolete it within a year, Telling students they absolutely must buy the 5th edition of the book to take the first class, then next year the follow up class has shifted the requirement to 6th edition. Or perhaps it's just a extra course completely out of the field that colleges like to put you through for the sake of keeping you well rounded, and you have no need to ever look back at again after you pass. it isn't always the case, but it is sometimes, and it never hurts to have the option to rent rather then spend the ridiculous prices some of these books can run.
It is a game of probability, lets say securing your wifi point decreases your odds of someone using your connection and bringing the police to your door by 90% (I'd say it's safe to assume 90% of potential trouble makers don't know how to nor have the time to break WPA). Now lets assume the police that show up have a 50% chance of listening to reason and doing a fair investigation before putting all the flags on your name that can ruin your life forever. Both cases are gambles, there is no 100% chance of having wifi and not getting falsely accused, but now we are looking at a 50% chance of them listening to reason before accusing, vs a 90% chance of them not coming by at all and a 10% chance of them listening to reason after they start investigating.
Yeah it's a minor flaw, you are perfectly safe as long as you don't talk with people. I mean who skypes with someone without getting a long detailed background check and ensuring that they don't currently and won't ever have anything against you.
It did only take 2 to flatten japan, but you do have to compare the square mileage of japan vs Russia or china.
Area of china: 9,596,960 sq km. Area of japan 377,835. To do comparable damage to the same amount of area, as 2 nukes to japan, would be 50 nukes to china (ignoring of course the potential advance in technology potency etc of the nukes themselves). Admitted I would say 1,000 nukes should be enough, we have over 5k and are still working on making more which seems a bit obsessive, we should instead be spending money on say a technology to nueturalize nukes. Imagine the technical advantage of something the equivelent of an EMP field, but rather then eliminating electronics, it renders nukes coming at us inert. May be above our technology range now, but if we took 300 bil out of our nuke production, we could probably do it.
I believe rwven is pretty clear that he's talking about for the people who own/maintain the pipes, IE comcast/TWcable/netflix themselves are paying less to maintain their pipes, the article you are sending is just showing that rather then sending those savings as discounts to the customer, they are charging the customer more to raise the profit margins farther.
Umm I fail to see the logic in the statements. I opened a Google account yesterday, I shared a picture, it asked me, which circles do you want to share this with, pretty certain on Facebook were I to upload that same picture it would automatically assume everyone on my friends list is free game unless I went much deeper into the settings and tweaked things.
EA has generally had a consistant formula over time. Buy out a company with a hugely succesful game. Change the development style of the sequal, ensure nothing new is released in it, just keep the generic formula, exact same game, maybe keep a few levels, spend most of the money for development costs on DRM, raising the importance of DLC. Now because most of the origional team is still there, occasionally some good features do slip through to the next sequel, but in general it's pretty clear that when EA buys a new company, the best result you can hope for is "a bit worse then if the company weren't bought out", and never "a significant improvement now that it has financial backing".
The only passwords I'm seeing that this guy stole in TFA was the WEP key. Apart from that it looks like he just used the persons connection to create new accounts to frame him for anything and everything he could get away with.
You know there's a difference between white listing one application, and granting every java applet that your web browser might scroll over administrative access to your entire system right?
Indeed invite would be great, patrickjhogan (at) Gmail (Dawt) com
There's certainly legitimate uses for the 3rd party app stores still, such as google has to remove emulators and such to avoid getting their asses sued into oblivion. I do have to say though I am not even slightly concerned about the infected apps from obscure chinese marketplaces, but I do think there is legitimate concern about the ones that have slipped into the marketplace. I do think google needs to step up and add a few layers of QC to the official marketplace. The best of both worlds scenario would be a fairly well audited for quality of apps official market place, or even maybe a certain sticker of "Google approved" applications, something simply to confirm that things are absolutely safe, for the average non-techie user, just as long as there are no warantee voiding/risking hurdles added for fairly competent users to get the unverified apps that they may want.
Indeed, I am curious on this, but not crazy enough to Google the names while on my monitored work network, anyone able to list what the programs actually do?
Well if that part were easy I would imagine grey hats/vigilantes would have done that by now. Though it would depend largely on what self destructing would entail. Self destructing as in the botnet removes itself from the infected computers, or self destructing as in having the botnet completely format infected systems.
Removing the botnets from individual systems was never the quote or discussion to begin with. It's a known fact that with enough time an energy any infected system can be cleaned, though it is very difficult to be positive of when everything has been found. The greater issue is behind the quote however, the discussion was never about taking out individual machines on a one at a time basis, but if they can do like they did to similar botnets as far as decapitating the controller to stop the botnet from spreading. While technically possible to take every single machine in and clean them all on an individual process, I don't think there are enough groups on earth that can advocate eliminating a botnet by taking every single machine connected to the internet in and running a program on every computer to prevent it from spreading. Even if removing the infection was as simple as running a 1KB batch file, actually identifying the infected and getting each user to execute it, would be impossible.
It's perfectly legal to change your feelings and separate from your significant other, you just have to divorce before you shack up with your neighbor. Pretty fair IMO, it's a perfectly reasonable contract of exclusivity. Personally I find more of an issue with the idea of say a girl leaching off of my money, living under my roof, using a car I paid for, then sleeping with someone else.
All perfectly legal to do, with the exception of bathrooms etc... there is not reasonable expectation of privacy in a home owned by someone other then yourself, or jointly owned. My fiance has no more right to expect privacy in our living room, then I have right to expect privacy at the local gas station. You have a right to know what you're property was used for. If your friend borrows your phone to make a call, do you think it is illegal to request the bill that shows where the phone called? If I request a log from my cellphone company, do they need consent of everyone who has a phone on my plan? Nope they require consent of the person who's paying the bill, everyone else is on borrowed property and has no right to privacy, if they don't like it, they can get their own phone and plan.
Seconded, there are extremely few cultures or societies of any religion that do not have marriage as a key structure in society, and in almost all cases that involves commitment and monogamy, and the rules seem to be more or less the same regardless of whether the culture believes in the judeo christian god, Allah, Buddha and yes even atheists. That being said I don't think it's fair to blame the service on any relationship failing, A relationship based on your partner not finding something out, is the security by obscurity equivalent, if your spouse isn't going to trip over it by accident, suspect it her/himself, there's about 500 other ways it will eventually be known and tripped over, rather then blaming the 500 ways to get busted, perhaps if you aren't able to honor a committed relationship, you shouldn't be in one. Plenty of ways to get in an open relationship if that's how you want to go.
Twice as awesome, to be replaced by machines, that will have to be supported by IT.
The general concept of a social network isn't to mindlessly broadcast the same thing to everyone, and well 95% or more of what you have to say isn't appropriate to everyone you know (which these days everyone thinks they should be on your facebook). You come home from work, you want to complain to your friends about your boss, posting publicly you can't do that, your boss and/or co-workers are on facebook and that could come back to bite you. You think of a funny PG-13 or R rated joke, can't post that, don't want your grandma to see it, you hear news about your aunt's cancer your friends don't give a crap about that, but your family does. There is rarely 3 events in a year that are good enough to think everyone who knows you cares. I would rather have a network where when I post something it prompts and says, do you want to send this to
friends
family
co-workers
Everyone.
Before it goes out, rather then oh you didn't completely spend 2 hours fine tuning and setting up groups, I can safely assume that you want to tell everyone about it. Sure there are occasions where what you say are good to say to everyone who at least pretends to have interest in you (say a wedding, childbirth etc...) but I would imagine those are an extreme minority.
The Dr. Who Spinoff torchwood did that kind of. Torchwood's base was destroyed by a extremely powerful bomb placed inside of Jack Harkness.