Damage is done... privacy is no more... They have your info after 3 days.
I think your privacy was gone as soon as you put it in there.
The rule is simple, don't put your personal details into something where they are not needed. I have a facebook account to keep in touch with some friends, and I don't care about most of the privacy violations they try to do. Because there is nothing about me in there. 1 photo, my name, spam email address, and that's it. The only websites that know my home address are the ones that need to physically send me stuff.
The real weird thing is that the bots registered but never spammed my site. Odd.
Most likely the bots failed to detect that the registration worked, or failed to parse the actual post pages. I once had a home grown wiki which was totally messed up by bots because they couldn't make heads or tails from it.
Wouldn't be so hard to defeat by a script. But the reason why your spam dropped to zero is because your "one of a kind" system wasn't targeted. I have a even simpler system that just requires the same sentence every time you sign up. But the field name in code is gibberish and because my site is low volume spammers don't target my script directly.
And that's what I would suggest for everyone, the sollution is not to have 1 super captcha system that rules it all. Have 1.000.000 of them, once they are cracked they are easy replaced, and it makes it god damn difficulty to target lots of small sites in 1 go.
As a dutch person I'm offended by this. It's perfectly possible to live in areas that flood easily or are even below sea level. You just need to prepare for it, and respect the water.
Also, flood areas of rivers are very fertile, you want to build food on those lands, or keep cattle on it.
It's quite simple to stop that, implement a small none-standard part in your signup process. I put in an extra input text field named "askldjwla" with the text: [Enter "I am not a bot" here (without quotes)] and my spam has reduced to 0. Spammers target the large and easy, just don't be a part of that group.
Doesn't solve the stupid admin from logging in to my server and entering "reboot". Which is more of a problem in my case then configuration files (they won't even touch those with a 10 foot pole)
Cameras are a lot cheaper, that's why they are switching.
Loops can be very reliable, but it depends on the tech used, and not all manufacturers got it right. (Company I work for has)
Placing a loop is just a cut in the road, putting some cables in. However, this cut makes the asphalt wear out faster. Not to forget all the troubles when one breaks.
You assume that trafficlights are to speed up the flow of traffic. This is common misunderstanding, 90% of the time the traffic flows better unregulated. This is a known fact.
Trafficlights are placed for safety, because as soon as you do have an incident on an intersection then traffic grinds to a halt very fast. Not to forget the cost of human life and all.
And then you have the busy road with a very low density turn, traffic coming from that turn has no chance to get on the busy road safely without trafficlights.
(I notice that more cities here start to disable the trafficlights at night, because of the low amounts of traffic and headlights they are not needed at those times)
I work in this exact field (trafficlight manufacturer and we also deliver wireless GSM network features)
And it's simply not something we have time for. I try to warn for the biggest flaws, but security is not high on the priority list. If you want abuse? I could turn a whole city to chaos by turning all lights red. Remotely. They are not connected to the internet (thank god for that, they where that smart) but if you open up 1 cabinet you have access to the network.
You cannot hide the antenna in a steel cabinet. No reception in there. But a small black circle on top does the job. (I work in this exact field, trafficlights and the traffic light side of remote management)
If you can see the loops in the road, then put you motor bike on the edges, it's more sensitive on the edges then on the center. Also, heaver bikes help, and complaining at the local authorities, because 90% of the time it's just a sensitivity setting that needs to be tweaked a bit.
The costs of GSM data compared to the cost of the rest of a trafficlight is almost 0, even if you use expensive dataplans.
An intersection, with everything, pavement, inductor loops, lights, everything you need for a busy intersection, sets you back about a million.
Gridlock because of a broken light? Expensive.
And when we are talking about fault reports, it's not just "I'm not working!", it's "light X is broken now" if a direction has no working red lights anymore then the whole intersection needs to go into fault state as it can no longer maintain safety. So you want to replace broken red lights BEFORE the whole thing enters fault state.
In "the italian job" they didn't use physical access. They remotely set all the lights to green, while all green is impossible, all red is a feature! Where I live most lights in a single city are on 1 network, just get physical access to 1 light and you pwn them all so to say.
Security in the world of road side traffic systems is almost none existent. It's simply not a priority. You cannot pull of a "all green chaos attack" as in "the italian job" (safety systems protect unsafe situations), but you can cause major gridlock with ease if you know what you are doing.
We fit a lot of our systems with wireless GSM, it's pretty cheap but not that reliable. However, we arrange it so you cannot use those sims for calling, only GPRS/UMTS/3G connections to a private network.
(I could tell a thing or 2 about the speed camera's we produce, but that would break my NDA I guess)
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Did you view the 27C3 talk about the PS3? The first keys ARE in hardware, fixed. It's the first keys used to check anything, and they are set in stone so no hacker can touch them, but also no update can touch them. Also changing them would break everything out there. You might be able to get around those with huge whitelists. But that's not practical in the end at all.
No large amounts of plastic to be found in real RC planes.
Cheaper ones are made of balsa wood, expensive ones of carbon fiber.
Look at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0zpvckToZ0 The distance they fly is 150 meter, 4 times, speed at which they fly, well over 100km/h. Weight of the plane, around a kilo. If you would get hit by these on it's final run you would end up in the hospital, if you are lucky. There are strict rules during these competitions, and getting to close to the crowd during these runs is instant disqualification.
You might call them toys, but you can kill someone with them if you are not careful (or willing). There is no problem with these planes in experienced hands, but don't see them as toys.
You seem to know what you're talking about. And yes, no danger to society, but it is a danger to people. Don't let people think they can just fly model planes in population dense areas. Without thinking about it.
I fly model glides myself, balsa wood is found in the cheaper range (that I fly). But in the 'sport' range you have carbon fiber planes, which can reach speeds well over 100km/h. And these are gliders we are talking about, you won't hear them till they hit you. With 2kg of carbon going at 100km you can hospitalize someone with ease.
Also, I envy you Americans at this point. They regulated the hell out of the model flying sport here, making photographing a city like that most likely illegal.
I spend about the same time playing SC2 as I did playing SuperMeatBoy. Guess which was better value for my money?
About 50% of the titles I own (not pirated titles that is) are indie games. They just seem to bring better value for money, and buying indie games gives me a better warm fuzzy feeling that I give money to people that can use it better then the large studios.
You don't use your ears as the only system, but you use it as an early warning system for cars. You still need to look. If you want experience with how this works then get your bike to Arnhem and bike trough the city. Soon you'll start to notice something is "off", there are these big ass buses that don't make much noise. They aren't as silent as small electric vehicles, but they are also electric and don't make the noise you expect from something that large. Even after years of biking there I they still managed to scare the crap out of me, and I got almost hit by one once.
It's large, blue and creeps on you: The god damn Arnhem trolleybus.
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Damage is done... privacy is no more... They have your info after 3 days.
I think your privacy was gone as soon as you put it in there.
The rule is simple, don't put your personal details into something where they are not needed. I have a facebook account to keep in touch with some friends, and I don't care about most of the privacy violations they try to do. Because there is nothing about me in there. 1 photo, my name, spam email address, and that's it. The only websites that know my home address are the ones that need to physically send me stuff.
No, what I ment is that it's perfectly acceptable, and even great to grow food on areas that flood once every 5-10 years.
The real weird thing is that the bots registered but never spammed my site. Odd.
Most likely the bots failed to detect that the registration worked, or failed to parse the actual post pages. I once had a home grown wiki which was totally messed up by bots because they couldn't make heads or tails from it.
Wouldn't be so hard to defeat by a script. But the reason why your spam dropped to zero is because your "one of a kind" system wasn't targeted. I have a even simpler system that just requires the same sentence every time you sign up. But the field name in code is gibberish and because my site is low volume spammers don't target my script directly.
And that's what I would suggest for everyone, the sollution is not to have 1 super captcha system that rules it all. Have 1.000.000 of them, once they are cracked they are easy replaced, and it makes it god damn difficulty to target lots of small sites in 1 go.
Keeping the regular citizen from getting himself killed because of a stupid decision
Not a fan of the Darwin awards I guess?
As a dutch person I'm offended by this. It's perfectly possible to live in areas that flood easily or are even below sea level. You just need to prepare for it, and respect the water.
Also, flood areas of rivers are very fertile, you want to build food on those lands, or keep cattle on it.
It's quite simple to stop that, implement a small none-standard part in your signup process. I put in an extra input text field named "askldjwla" with the text: [Enter "I am not a bot" here (without quotes)] and my spam has reduced to 0. Spammers target the large and easy, just don't be a part of that group.
Doesn't solve the stupid admin from logging in to my server and entering "reboot". Which is more of a problem in my case then configuration files (they won't even touch those with a 10 foot pole)
In that case. Thanks for your money. And don't forget to keep wearing your tinfoil hat.
Cameras are a lot cheaper, that's why they are switching.
Loops can be very reliable, but it depends on the tech used, and not all manufacturers got it right. (Company I work for has)
Placing a loop is just a cut in the road, putting some cables in. However, this cut makes the asphalt wear out faster. Not to forget all the troubles when one breaks.
You assume that trafficlights are to speed up the flow of traffic. This is common misunderstanding, 90% of the time the traffic flows better unregulated. This is a known fact.
Trafficlights are placed for safety, because as soon as you do have an incident on an intersection then traffic grinds to a halt very fast. Not to forget the cost of human life and all.
And then you have the busy road with a very low density turn, traffic coming from that turn has no chance to get on the busy road safely without trafficlights.
(I notice that more cities here start to disable the trafficlights at night, because of the low amounts of traffic and headlights they are not needed at those times)
I work in this exact field (trafficlight manufacturer and we also deliver wireless GSM network features)
And it's simply not something we have time for. I try to warn for the biggest flaws, but security is not high on the priority list. If you want abuse? I could turn a whole city to chaos by turning all lights red. Remotely. They are not connected to the internet (thank god for that, they where that smart) but if you open up 1 cabinet you have access to the network.
Not hidden, but different, like this:
http://www.m2mconnectivity.com.au/sites/default/files/imagecache/product_full/images/ubcart/920142_001.jpg
You cannot hide the antenna in a steel cabinet. No reception in there. But a small black circle on top does the job. (I work in this exact field, trafficlights and the traffic light side of remote management)
The antennas we use on our traffic lights look like this:
http://www.m2mconnectivity.com.au/sites/default/files/imagecache/product_full/images/ubcart/920142_001.jpg
So it's just a black circle on top. Unless you know what you are looking for, nobody would expect this to be an antenna.
A crowbar gives physical access to almost anything ;-)
But more likely they had a master key. Which makes the inside job more likely.
If you can see the loops in the road, then put you motor bike on the edges, it's more sensitive on the edges then on the center. Also, heaver bikes help, and complaining at the local authorities, because 90% of the time it's just a sensitivity setting that needs to be tweaked a bit.
The costs of GSM data compared to the cost of the rest of a trafficlight is almost 0, even if you use expensive dataplans.
An intersection, with everything, pavement, inductor loops, lights, everything you need for a busy intersection, sets you back about a million.
Gridlock because of a broken light? Expensive.
And when we are talking about fault reports, it's not just "I'm not working!", it's "light X is broken now" if a direction has no working red lights anymore then the whole intersection needs to go into fault state as it can no longer maintain safety. So you want to replace broken red lights BEFORE the whole thing enters fault state.
In "the italian job" they didn't use physical access. They remotely set all the lights to green, while all green is impossible, all red is a feature! Where I live most lights in a single city are on 1 network, just get physical access to 1 light and you pwn them all so to say.
Forgot to add, I'm an engineer at a traffic light manufacturer.
Yes. And it works most of the time.
Security in the world of road side traffic systems is almost none existent. It's simply not a priority. You cannot pull of a "all green chaos attack" as in "the italian job" (safety systems protect unsafe situations), but you can cause major gridlock with ease if you know what you are doing.
We fit a lot of our systems with wireless GSM, it's pretty cheap but not that reliable. However, we arrange it so you cannot use those sims for calling, only GPRS/UMTS/3G connections to a private network.
(I could tell a thing or 2 about the speed camera's we produce, but that would break my NDA I guess)
Did you view the 27C3 talk about the PS3? The first keys ARE in hardware, fixed. It's the first keys used to check anything, and they are set in stone so no hacker can touch them, but also no update can touch them. Also changing them would break everything out there. You might be able to get around those with huge whitelists. But that's not practical in the end at all.
No large amounts of plastic to be found in real RC planes.
Cheaper ones are made of balsa wood, expensive ones of carbon fiber.
Look at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0zpvckToZ0
The distance they fly is 150 meter, 4 times, speed at which they fly, well over 100km/h. Weight of the plane, around a kilo. If you would get hit by these on it's final run you would end up in the hospital, if you are lucky. There are strict rules during these competitions, and getting to close to the crowd during these runs is instant disqualification.
You might call them toys, but you can kill someone with them if you are not careful (or willing). There is no problem with these planes in experienced hands, but don't see them as toys.
You seem to know what you're talking about. And yes, no danger to society, but it is a danger to people. Don't let people think they can just fly model planes in population dense areas. Without thinking about it.
I fly model glides myself, balsa wood is found in the cheaper range (that I fly). But in the 'sport' range you have carbon fiber planes, which can reach speeds well over 100km/h. And these are gliders we are talking about, you won't hear them till they hit you. With 2kg of carbon going at 100km you can hospitalize someone with ease.
Also, I envy you Americans at this point. They regulated the hell out of the model flying sport here, making photographing a city like that most likely illegal.
I spend about the same time playing SC2 as I did playing SuperMeatBoy. Guess which was better value for my money?
About 50% of the titles I own (not pirated titles that is) are indie games. They just seem to bring better value for money, and buying indie games gives me a better warm fuzzy feeling that I give money to people that can use it better then the large studios.
Ah, a fellow dutch biker.
You don't use your ears as the only system, but you use it as an early warning system for cars. You still need to look. If you want experience with how this works then get your bike to Arnhem and bike trough the city. Soon you'll start to notice something is "off", there are these big ass buses that don't make much noise. They aren't as silent as small electric vehicles, but they are also electric and don't make the noise you expect from something that large. Even after years of biking there I they still managed to scare the crap out of me, and I got almost hit by one once.
It's large, blue and creeps on you: The god damn Arnhem trolleybus.