Is there any large company (ie. more then one building) which doesn't need secure communications?
Today it's the VOIP and VPNs, next week it will be the encrypted email or whatever else is preventing them from snooping. If you're doing any kind of corporate business in India you should be planning to leave before your competitors figure out who to bribe.
The article (heck, even the summary) says they're going after VPNs as well. If you set up your own encryption then expect them to come knocking on the door.
Given that the NSA snooped on Airbus here in Europe to give Boeing an advantage in negotiations, I'm not sure I want any government to be able to snoop on anything.
I can't see this being worse than the existing system under any scenario. In the existing system you automatically go to prison. In the new system you only end up prison if a whole chain of events go wrong.
* Obviously the "automated" justice won't be administered by ED 209 robots.
* All data uploaded obviously needs to be digitally signed by the device to prevent forgery or mistaken ID.
* The device could beep a warning if you're outside your allowed limits. eg. If your car breaks down it might beep and you get twenty minutes to get to a phone and explain yourself. Maybe even wait for a cop to pass by and check out your story.
* People making fake transmitters to fake being somewhere else probably isn't going to happen. If it does then random phone calls to check up on you will probably work. This cartoon seems appropriate.
* Use your imagination...
Remember: You're a criminal, the tag is there to limit your freedom. If you're tagged and getting repeated tagging violations you're doing it wrong...
The technology now exists to totally automate the tracking process - the tags record all movements and upload them every time you're in range of a base station, ie. at your house, at designated shopping centers and at various points around town, including known criminal hotspots.
Justice for those who break the rules needs to be swift and certain. You go to a crime hotspot or go out of signal range for more than an hour (ie. enough time to drive to Walmart) then it's automatic arrest warrant, extension of sentence and maybe some jail time. Repeat offenders end up in the slammer.
Some prisoners have enough contacts/money to bribe guards and/or threaten their families, these guards turn a blind eye to their activities.
The only answer is individual cells and total lockdown, but that'll get all the human rights people in a tizz.
I believe that only violent people and repeat offenders should be locked up. Everybody else needs to be doing social work, cleaning up the streets, and restricted movements/curfew. Tags like those in the article could help a lot with this.
prison SHOULD be an unpleasant experience for someone who has committed a crime.
Thing is, most of the really nasty people don't have too bad of a time in prison. The people who really suffer are the minor offenders who end up as Bubba's bitch (and Bubba quite enjoys breaking in his bitches, making them suffer helps him relieve the boredom and he gets free sex whenever he wants it).
Maybe they could, I dunno, put a small radio transmitter in their own house so the unit always knows when you're home even if you live in an underground bunker.
Why does a system have to be completely infallible before it's useful?
Maybe that's why they won't put *everybody* on this system. The article says: "we should be sending to prison the people we are afraid of, or who won’t stop stealing.”
Also where's the punishment in this?
What would be punishment for you? No Internet? Most criminals wouldn't see that as punishment at all. Being banned from their favorite haunts and having all their movements tracked to the nearest meter 24/7, OTOH...
Also, for most first time offenders prison is too much punishment (eg. 20% will be raped, many will catch AIDS, etc.).
That's old style tags (with no GPS to track where you go during the day), and if you'll read your own article... it explains most of the fail is by the people who are supposed to administer the tags (but don't do a very good job).
Oh, yeah, people should learn algebra before they're allowed to buy a car...
I think what we need is big colored stickers so that when you're looking at ten cars in a showroom it's obvious from a distance which ones are economical without having to get out a calculator and reading some small print.
You think people know what those stickers mean anyway?
The only thing that counts is the logo, people see the adverts on TV then see the blue Intel logo and something goes 'click' (in theory). A extra red AMD Radeon sticker is just background noise, something else they don't understand.
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What does American law have to do with Wikileaks?
You think they never heard of S/MIME? You think they can't demand those keys too?
Is there any large company (ie. more then one building) which doesn't need secure communications?
Today it's the VOIP and VPNs, next week it will be the encrypted email or whatever else is preventing them from snooping. If you're doing any kind of corporate business in India you should be planning to leave before your competitors figure out who to bribe.
The article (heck, even the summary) says they're going after VPNs as well. If you set up your own encryption then expect them to come knocking on the door.
Given that the NSA snooped on Airbus here in Europe to give Boeing an advantage in negotiations, I'm not sure I want any government to be able to snoop on anything.
This guy built a laser which tracks mosquitoes in a room and zaps them. Surely the technology can be adapted...
I can't see this being worse than the existing system under any scenario. In the existing system you automatically go to prison. In the new system you only end up prison if a whole chain of events go wrong.
* Obviously the "automated" justice won't be administered by ED 209 robots.
* All data uploaded obviously needs to be digitally signed by the device to prevent forgery or mistaken ID.
* The device could beep a warning if you're outside your allowed limits. eg. If your car breaks down it might beep and you get twenty minutes to get to a phone and explain yourself. Maybe even wait for a cop to pass by and check out your story.
* People making fake transmitters to fake being somewhere else probably isn't going to happen. If it does then random phone calls to check up on you will probably work. This cartoon seems appropriate.
* Use your imagination...
Remember: You're a criminal, the tag is there to limit your freedom. If you're tagged and getting repeated tagging violations you're doing it wrong...
We might never find out what caused those 'planes to crash...
That is enough.
The technology now exists to totally automate the tracking process - the tags record all movements and upload them every time you're in range of a base station, ie. at your house, at designated shopping centers and at various points around town, including known criminal hotspots.
Justice for those who break the rules needs to be swift and certain. You go to a crime hotspot or go out of signal range for more than an hour (ie. enough time to drive to Walmart) then it's automatic arrest warrant, extension of sentence and maybe some jail time. Repeat offenders end up in the slammer.
Some prisoners have enough contacts/money to bribe guards and/or threaten their families, these guards turn a blind eye to their activities.
The only answer is individual cells and total lockdown, but that'll get all the human rights people in a tizz.
I believe that only violent people and repeat offenders should be locked up. Everybody else needs to be doing social work, cleaning up the streets, and restricted movements/curfew. Tags like those in the article could help a lot with this.
prison SHOULD be an unpleasant experience for someone who has committed a crime.
Thing is, most of the really nasty people don't have too bad of a time in prison. The people who really suffer are the minor offenders who end up as Bubba's bitch (and Bubba quite enjoys breaking in his bitches, making them suffer helps him relieve the boredom and he gets free sex whenever he wants it).
Maybe they could, I dunno, put a small radio transmitter in their own house so the unit always knows when you're home even if you live in an underground bunker.
Why does a system have to be completely infallible before it's useful?
Maybe that's why they won't put *everybody* on this system. The article says: "we should be sending to prison the people we are afraid of, or who won’t stop stealing.”
Also where's the punishment in this?
What would be punishment for you? No Internet? Most criminals wouldn't see that as punishment at all. Being banned from their favorite haunts and having all their movements tracked to the nearest meter 24/7, OTOH...
Also, for most first time offenders prison is too much punishment (eg. 20% will be raped, many will catch AIDS, etc.).
That's old style tags (with no GPS to track where you go during the day), and if you'll read your own article ... it explains most of the fail is by the people who are supposed to administer the tags (but don't do a very good job).
Violent offenders would still be locked up.
(Obviously, I thought... why do geeks have to be so "all or nothing"?)
Oh, yeah, people should learn algebra before they're allowed to buy a car...
I think what we need is big colored stickers so that when you're looking at ten cars in a showroom it's obvious from a distance which ones are economical without having to get out a calculator and reading some small print.
They're at information overload
A big colored letter is information overload? To me it seems about right.
Um, so the problem is management, not the programmers? I'm sure that's what the article was saying.
You think people know what those stickers mean anyway?
The only thing that counts is the logo, people see the adverts on TV then see the blue Intel logo and something goes 'click' (in theory). A extra red AMD Radeon sticker is just background noise, something else they don't understand.
Come back with next week's numbers and we'll see if this was a "success" or not...
That's what you think...but how do you know for sure?
I"m pretty sure they'd check it out first...this isn't DMCA we're talking about here.
"Make the eight ball, corner pocket..."
I'm just reading this doc and the whole thing seems to be an exercise in fail on the part of Windows and antivirus programs:
* Detection of this is as easy as looking for a file "Rs32net.exe" in the Windows system folder.
* Subverting Windows' "safe mode" is as simple as writing registry values to "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Safeboot\Minimal\[EXEFILENAME]"
* Making sure you load into memory *before* the antivirus is as simple as this (yet somehow the antivirus programs can't use this technique??)
etc.