Thsi is a very good point. Given the difficulties of controlling what people acess over the Internet, perhaps it's easier to just start subtly demonizing the whole thing.
An aquaintance of mine was hit by this today, he only ran Skype ever with his wife and daughter -- it seems hard to imagine how bad guys got ahold of his address, unless perhaps somebody downloaded the whole database. Since the malware sends itself to those on an infected user's contact list, I would imagine that means he got it from either his wife or daughter.
If you were able to make calls from one phone to another without getting routed through the existing cell network, you'd be able to make calls for free, in essence. With many providers, mobile-to-mobile calls within the same network are free. This provider would presumably still be able to track things once they connect through the telco to the outside world, and that's what would need tracking.
If I'm right (which happens occasionally) this would bring us to another point.. how long before someone hacks out how to become a member of this "mesh" without having to leave it, and therefore get charged? This has the pontential to be huge, and the decentralized aspect makes it very attractive. If this becomes worth it, we could suddenly find ourselves surrounded with the means to contact anyone we like without paying anyone a damn thing.
I, for one, really do stil want to buy plastic discs. It's just that I can traipse over to any major shop, and get a used or sale copy of the full album for less than they'd like me to spend on three songs.
An old web host of mine was basically a friend of a friend running a hosting company from his house, but he was honest and good at what he did. Then one day he vanished, and I later found out he had passed away in his home. However, he had done the responsible thing and prepared for such an occurrence, arranging for a friend of his to take over the operation, contact his clients, and give them some time to make other arrangements.
If the person is pretending to be something their not, even by a little bit, that can be greatly magnified online. That's a very good point, it's simply the modern version of the oldest relationship caveat in the book. It's not limited to online relationships by any means, it's just as possible to find someone who can still pretend to be something they're not face-to-face. Like with most of our modern problems and solutions, the Internet just makes it a damn sight easier.
Back in my more active 'zine days, I once wrote an article composed entirely of bits and pieces of personal stuff people were sharing on Kazaa. Fun stuff!
They tried implementing that feature, but due to a bug it kept picking up all sorts of other bit-part Sarah Connors first, giving the good one time to escape.
This would be really cool with some informative readouts along the edges. Battery power remaining, range to John Connor, progressive sequel crappiness quotient, that sort of thing.
Thank you for informing us of this. We at DataDyne had no idea, and we do not wish to be compared to or invite comparison to the evil corporation from "Perfect Dark." To this end we have officially changed our name, and we shall begin large-scale rebranding efforts right away.
He said he had published the list because it would have been too time-consuming to contact all 100 organizations named. Had he handed the list to the Swedish Security Service (Säpo), he would have been guilty of spying. He claimed that by publishing the list he saved himself trouble.
"This rescues me from the shit," he said. Well, I can see how that - huh???
This means they've made double-double sure to delete the hidden minigame where a lady soldier invites the player to come over to her base for some nice hot bubble-shields.
IANAL, but from what I understand you retain the copyright for your content. By uploading it to YouTube, you basically give YouTube the right to use the material in any form that it wants (letting them, for example, stick your video thumbnail on its front page, marketing materials, etc. without asking you) but your work remains yours.
However, my question is: how did they find the IP of a target store?
It's one thing to want to rob a store, but it's another to know this type of sensitive information. IPs are about as sensitive as a street address. Send an email to the store's staff about any stupid thing that would warrant a reply, get an IP back in the headers. Or just give them a web link to click, or an email that takes advantage of crappy Outlook and auto-loads something from your own webspace, and wait for the hit. Either way, you end up with a nice IP range to scan out in exchange for minimal effort.
Back in the early days of cheap three-way calling (or overly-complex beige boxing) a common phone prank was to conference two random numbers and stay quiet, let the targets speak to each other, and revel in the resulting "Who is this?" "You called me!" "No, you called me!" chaos. A variation on this was to three-way a target with movie theater recordings, error message recordings, or the good old speaking clock.
On the off-chance that was me calling your job... ha-ha!
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Thsi is a very good point. Given the difficulties of controlling what people acess over the Internet, perhaps it's easier to just start subtly demonizing the whole thing.
If I'm right (which happens occasionally) this would bring us to another point.. how long before someone hacks out how to become a member of this "mesh" without having to leave it, and therefore get charged? This has the pontential to be huge, and the decentralized aspect makes it very attractive. If this becomes worth it, we could suddenly find ourselves surrounded with the means to contact anyone we like without paying anyone a damn thing.
I, for one, really do stil want to buy plastic discs. It's just that I can traipse over to any major shop, and get a used or sale copy of the full album for less than they'd like me to spend on three songs.
You learn how to tighten up those graphics!
An old web host of mine was basically a friend of a friend running a hosting company from his house, but he was honest and good at what he did. Then one day he vanished, and I later found out he had passed away in his home. However, he had done the responsible thing and prepared for such an occurrence, arranging for a friend of his to take over the operation, contact his clients, and give them some time to make other arrangements.
Amazing! That's the same password I have on my luggage!
Back in my more active 'zine days, I once wrote an article composed entirely of bits and pieces of personal stuff people were sharing on Kazaa. Fun stuff!
They tried implementing that feature, but due to a bug it kept picking up all sorts of other bit-part Sarah Connors first, giving the good one time to escape.
If you appreciate what the ACLU does, it's worth noting that they could always use your support.
This would be really cool with some informative readouts along the edges. Battery power remaining, range to John Connor, progressive sequel crappiness quotient, that sort of thing.
We've got to close the beaches!
While they're at it, they should build mobile phone capabilities into the thing as well. Then they'd have something!
Thank you for informing us of this. We at DataDyne had no idea, and we do not wish to be compared to or invite comparison to the evil corporation from "Perfect Dark." To this end we have officially changed our name, and we shall begin large-scale rebranding efforts right away.
Sincerely,
The Umbrella Corporation
Oh, this is heavy...
It was a trap!
Their security is borked.
"This rescues me from the shit," he said. Well, I can see how that - huh???
This means they've made double-double sure to delete the hidden minigame where a lady soldier invites the player to come over to her base for some nice hot bubble-shields.
IANAL, but from what I understand you retain the copyright for your content. By uploading it to YouTube, you basically give YouTube the right to use the material in any form that it wants (letting them, for example, stick your video thumbnail on its front page, marketing materials, etc. without asking you) but your work remains yours.
Back in the early days of cheap three-way calling (or overly-complex beige boxing) a common phone prank was to conference two random numbers and stay quiet, let the targets speak to each other, and revel in the resulting "Who is this?" "You called me!" "No, you called me!" chaos. A variation on this was to three-way a target with movie theater recordings, error message recordings, or the good old speaking clock.
On the off-chance that was me calling your job... ha-ha!