You have to think more subtly than that. A more realistic response would be for the organization to be infiltrated secretly, the leadership identified, and those few people would be the ones take from their homes in the middle of the night. After that, you'd have to be pretty ballsy to stay around trying to flush out the rat and, recover and start all over again.
Even Blizzard will have to compete with WoW at this point. There's not a lot of history with mega-hit MMOs, but judging from the still ongoing success of Everquest (no, not EQ2, I mean EQ1), the game won't be going anywhere soon. I think a trend, at least for the foreseeable future, is for MMOs to be slow-moving behemoths that people just wont move from. There's a lot of reasons for this. One is the time and money already invested. This is something that affects mostly casual players, but also medium and hard core. Also, there's a resistance to taking on major new game mechanics that feel strongly different than what you're used to. They have to be integrated carefully and properly, like WoW's skill tree system. I don't see a big shift from being accepted that anytime soon. Companies simply won't put up big bucks for something innovative but risky.
We got games like Wurm online (from the makers of Minecraft) and other games that are all about crafting and you can dig and build on a massive scale and there's still combat and wars and duels and everything else normally associated with an MMO. But they won't go mainstream until someone throws a bunch of money at it and turns it into something completely different than it is now -mostly competitive, repetative and highly rewarding to some degree.
LOL That's the first thing I thought of. Why don't they just let us stick our dicks in it already and get it over with. er ummm... or the other, um way around in the case of um... ladies.
Why did the Wii get practically ignored, but Kinect gets all the attention. I mean aside from the badonkadonk-sized Microsoft PR/hype machine. I'm guessing the simplicity of the device with regard to how similar the 360 is to a standard PC, but there has to be more to it than that.
The analogy falls apart because it's not green and red jellybeans. It's truth that's being dealt with. Truth that happens to mean the life or death of quite a few people somewhere in this world.
"There is someone somewhere who wants access to something on my laptop or my phone and they can't just come and ask me for it. And they can't get a warrant without suspicion. So, they wait for me to travel internationally because at the border they can do anything they want."
It's not about the hassle of it all. it's not about having the "peace of mind" that privacy as we often refer to it brings, and it's not about sheer rebellion. We want to keep our freedom at the borders for simple reasons like this one. The possibility that ridiculously strict flight checks could have much wider impact that what is currently purported. Just like how a company recalls defective products for the small possibility that someone could get hurt. Why aren't our laws as reasonable as that? Because it's much easier to use fear and lack of knowledge in a shot-gun approach to looking capable at security while getting some gravy on the top in the form of a social surveillance mechanism. So far, it's working.
I've been talking about this possibility for a long time and it has fallen largely on deaf ears. Here, now, we have a proof of concept (or at least practically a POC) for a irremovable attack vector. I've stopped using 2nd hand hardware because I saw the possibility for these sort of shenanigans. I also remember reading a forum where people were attempting to "repair" bad DIMMS by overwriting the firmware with different revisions. If that is the case, then could this method be extended to utilize a SO-DIMM of DDR3 or similar? That's a scary thought, indeed.
And there we have it. Social networking and the conditioning of the masses. Average users don't know much more than how to log onto Facebook and give away their privacy for a giggle, so they will miss out on what happening in the real world. This is the new television, but unlike television you can reach out and touch. You can respond. If this sort of closing-off of our media channels continues it won't matter if The New York Times releases an article. There will be no one reading. It wont matter if it's on the evening news cause no one will be watching. Everyone will be glued to the net, feeding off what's being fed to them through the only channels they've been taught to come to.
We think the internet will save us when it wont because we don't control the channels our links are routed through. It doesn't matter what life-saving messages may be on the other side of those links when they can't be reached by the ones who need saving. Maybe having the site in orbit will keep information free for a little bit longer, but how much longer? How long until the links stop appearing altogether?
That's actually happened already. We went from two-man shifts to one-man shifts between two remotely-connected data centers. Incident rate went up significantly there-after. Coincidence, I think not. Still, cause of the bad economy, management decided to take the risk and I think they bet right, even though I regret loosing the talent we lost.
You are right, but I also spend a great deal of my time monitoring, waiting for an incident to occur. We have a very low incident rate, leaving me with a lot of free time on the clock (hence the/. browsing that brought me to this article int he first place). It can be done. We're expected to repair enterprise-grade servers, so there should be no problems with our entire staff learning how to build a simple workstation within a few hours of time that would otherwise be spent surfing the net.
It's easily that much buying from a manufacturer. These are equivalent to 3ghz. Core 2 duos with 4 gigs of DDR 2. Not at all your powerhouse system. Factoring in that these machines cost about $700 before discount as well as the amount of time and investment that goes into making the purchasing decisions I'd say that a grand per machine is a conservative estimate.
I raised this proposition to my managers as well, and got laughed at. Well, not really, but it wasn't taken with very much consideration at all. You have to remember that these are people who have been trained to believe in the free-market economy and capitalism and that it is their duty to conduct their business to support other businesses, otherwise the market as a whole is harmed. This, of course, is until there is a profit to be had from not supporting another business. They are loathe to cut out a middle man unless it means a substantial guaranteed return on investment. Building your own workstations doesn't guarantee a return on investment. At least not in the reality of office-land it doesn't. Maybe a small shop could do it, but it actually has more potential to lower the ROI.
The only religious organizations that go door-to-door are Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses. Neither of these say thing such as what you quoted, but perhaps you merely paraphrased it. If your house sits at the end of a street, they were probably waiting for another group to catch up to them, or perhaps just resting. Did you note if they went to any other houses besides yours? It would indeed be strange if they visited you exclusively.
All I have to do now is infect the (probably windows-based) servers that host the scanning software and scan the memory for patterns resembling SSN#'s, ets. and make off with potentially an entire university's personal information? I say memory, cause I know no one would be dumb enough to search for that sort of sensitive information and then actually just log it into a centralized location for no reason. Right? Right?
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...ck. That about sums up my thoughts.
You have to think more subtly than that. A more realistic response would be for the organization to be infiltrated secretly, the leadership identified, and those few people would be the ones take from their homes in the middle of the night. After that, you'd have to be pretty ballsy to stay around trying to flush out the rat and, recover and start all over again.
Even Blizzard will have to compete with WoW at this point. There's not a lot of history with mega-hit MMOs, but judging from the still ongoing success of Everquest (no, not EQ2, I mean EQ1), the game won't be going anywhere soon. I think a trend, at least for the foreseeable future, is for MMOs to be slow-moving behemoths that people just wont move from. There's a lot of reasons for this. One is the time and money already invested. This is something that affects mostly casual players, but also medium and hard core. Also, there's a resistance to taking on major new game mechanics that feel strongly different than what you're used to. They have to be integrated carefully and properly, like WoW's skill tree system. I don't see a big shift from being accepted that anytime soon. Companies simply won't put up big bucks for something innovative but risky.
We got games like Wurm online (from the makers of Minecraft) and other games that are all about crafting and you can dig and build on a massive scale and there's still combat and wars and duels and everything else normally associated with an MMO. But they won't go mainstream until someone throws a bunch of money at it and turns it into something completely different than it is now -mostly competitive, repetative and highly rewarding to some degree.
LOL That's the first thing I thought of. Why don't they just let us stick our dicks in it already and get it over with. er ummm... or the other, um way around in the case of um... ladies.
Exactly, this shit is a weapon now.
You don't get it do you? Rich people get treated better. Duuuuhhh.
I never knew that, and now I have the answer I was looking for. Thanks. I must acquire one of these now.
Why did the Wii get practically ignored, but Kinect gets all the attention. I mean aside from the badonkadonk-sized Microsoft PR/hype machine. I'm guessing the simplicity of the device with regard to how similar the 360 is to a standard PC, but there has to be more to it than that.
Oh, so NOW there's gold in our money.
The analogy falls apart because it's not green and red jellybeans. It's truth that's being dealt with. Truth that happens to mean the life or death of quite a few people somewhere in this world.
Wikileaks can't be shut down legally or realistically.
This guy may have something to say about that. So would these guys. Neither of whom would I want to be messing with.
Totally read the title as Code-Stealing DROID Vendor Settles With Devs. Thought to myself "fuck, they're even taking Jawas to court these days"?
It's not about the hassle of it all. it's not about having the "peace of mind" that privacy as we often refer to it brings, and it's not about sheer rebellion. We want to keep our freedom at the borders for simple reasons like this one. The possibility that ridiculously strict flight checks could have much wider impact that what is currently purported. Just like how a company recalls defective products for the small possibility that someone could get hurt. Why aren't our laws as reasonable as that? Because it's much easier to use fear and lack of knowledge in a shot-gun approach to looking capable at security while getting some gravy on the top in the form of a social surveillance mechanism. So far, it's working.
Nerd overload. I feel tired after your nerdgasm, jeez.
Maybe you're new here in G-town...
Well just about anything is better than a swift knife in the back.
Walk up into Paypal HQ and be all like "Yo, gimme my account back!"
I've been talking about this possibility for a long time and it has fallen largely on deaf ears. Here, now, we have a proof of concept (or at least practically a POC) for a irremovable attack vector. I've stopped using 2nd hand hardware because I saw the possibility for these sort of shenanigans. I also remember reading a forum where people were attempting to "repair" bad DIMMS by overwriting the firmware with different revisions. If that is the case, then could this method be extended to utilize a SO-DIMM of DDR3 or similar? That's a scary thought, indeed.
And there we have it. Social networking and the conditioning of the masses. Average users don't know much more than how to log onto Facebook and give away their privacy for a giggle, so they will miss out on what happening in the real world. This is the new television, but unlike television you can reach out and touch. You can respond. If this sort of closing-off of our media channels continues it won't matter if The New York Times releases an article. There will be no one reading. It wont matter if it's on the evening news cause no one will be watching. Everyone will be glued to the net, feeding off what's being fed to them through the only channels they've been taught to come to.
We think the internet will save us when it wont because we don't control the channels our links are routed through. It doesn't matter what life-saving messages may be on the other side of those links when they can't be reached by the ones who need saving. Maybe having the site in orbit will keep information free for a little bit longer, but how much longer? How long until the links stop appearing altogether?
That's actually happened already. We went from two-man shifts to one-man shifts between two remotely-connected data centers. Incident rate went up significantly there-after. Coincidence, I think not. Still, cause of the bad economy, management decided to take the risk and I think they bet right, even though I regret loosing the talent we lost.
You are right, but I also spend a great deal of my time monitoring, waiting for an incident to occur. We have a very low incident rate, leaving me with a lot of free time on the clock (hence the /. browsing that brought me to this article int he first place). It can be done. We're expected to repair enterprise-grade servers, so there should be no problems with our entire staff learning how to build a simple workstation within a few hours of time that would otherwise be spent surfing the net.
It's easily that much buying from a manufacturer. These are equivalent to 3ghz. Core 2 duos with 4 gigs of DDR 2. Not at all your powerhouse system. Factoring in that these machines cost about $700 before discount as well as the amount of time and investment that goes into making the purchasing decisions I'd say that a grand per machine is a conservative estimate.
I raised this proposition to my managers as well, and got laughed at. Well, not really, but it wasn't taken with very much consideration at all. You have to remember that these are people who have been trained to believe in the free-market economy and capitalism and that it is their duty to conduct their business to support other businesses, otherwise the market as a whole is harmed. This, of course, is until there is a profit to be had from not supporting another business. They are loathe to cut out a middle man unless it means a substantial guaranteed return on investment. Building your own workstations doesn't guarantee a return on investment. At least not in the reality of office-land it doesn't. Maybe a small shop could do it, but it actually has more potential to lower the ROI.
The only religious organizations that go door-to-door are Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses. Neither of these say thing such as what you quoted, but perhaps you merely paraphrased it. If your house sits at the end of a street, they were probably waiting for another group to catch up to them, or perhaps just resting. Did you note if they went to any other houses besides yours? It would indeed be strange if they visited you exclusively.
All I have to do now is infect the (probably windows-based) servers that host the scanning software and scan the memory for patterns resembling SSN#'s, ets. and make off with potentially an entire university's personal information? I say memory, cause I know no one would be dumb enough to search for that sort of sensitive information and then actually just log it into a centralized location for no reason. Right? Right?