You have a point, apart from using the inflammatory word "peaceful". Minorities are oft used as scapegoats for societies problems,and once stigmatised to the level people are afraid to speak out on their behalf then they become a useful weapon. We saw it with Hitler and the Jews, McCarthy and the Communists, Mugabe and the white farmers, and now with the use of pedophiles. The latest one, 'terrorists', is the best one yet for governments because the threat is mostly made up and non-existent people are hardly going to complain.
Will the blanket power for one man to censor any web site in the world at his whim cut down the number of pedophiles? Of course not. Will it cut down on people coming across pedophile material? I use the Internet all day long, and have done most of my adult life, but have never come across any. It is a political tool, and the French political elite is a hotbed of corruption. Say anything against the President, described in Cablegate as "vain and arrogant", and it will probably end up on that list.
Not the same problem at all. Nobody should have a copy of your bank card number, so that can be seen as part of the 'secret' number in addition to the PIN code. So you need the card as well as the PIN. If somebody steals the card number, and fakes a bank card, you have already reduced the number of people that can do this as well as increased the cost of doing it. Then you only get 3 tries before your card is locked. The best way of capturing the PIN is a fake ATM with camera to capture your pin number, and with this attack the length of password or character range becomes irrelevant.
Why is a password manager not a good answer? I use KeePassX and generate a random string for each and every login. It's even easier than trying to remember more than one password. Simply copy and paste the password each time (also defeating any keylogger you may have installed).
It's much the same as when some old fart posts "You Linux fan-bois are only putting people off Linux". At the end of the day you can't pick and choose which people decide to publicly like you. You just keep your head down and get on with doing the best job possible, not what-ever will make you the most popular with the 'right' people.
First of all what you are saying is not true. He offered the State department the chance to redact the documents, which they declined, then worked in conjunction with respectable papers such as the Guardian and New York Times to publish them.
Secondly, the job of a journalist is to find stories in the public interest and publish them. They aren't all caped crusaders. At least Wikileaks is only publishing information that is anonymously sent to them. In the UK journalists are quite happy to break the law, hack into people's private information, and do whatever it takes to get a story. News of The World in the UK hacked into the voicemail of celebrities, politicians and royal family to get stories (list of victims here).
I would trust Julian Assange to be more apolitical than Michael Moore.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but things have changed. Sweden have now decided they want to appeal against the bail, but have declined to provide any evidence as to any crimes committed. It looks like a vindictive attack is in process to keep him in jail and incommunicado as long as possible. Also the courts aren't taking cheques as they take 7 days to clear, so $380,000 has to be found in used pound notes. Looks like restaurant designer Sarah Saunders, who is putting up $237,000 of bail money, is going to be making a large withdrawal.
In addition to conditions above, curfew from 10am-2pm and 10pm-2am according to the BBC. What a coincidence these are the hours that cover the prime-time news slots.
Journalist John Pilger and socialite Jemima Khan are putting up $31,600 surety each, with bail set at $380,000. It looks like enough people like Michael Moore have guaranteed the bail money as he has been bailed pending appeal (the prosecutors have 2 hours to appeal). He should be released by the end of the day.
He has had his passport confiscated, been electronically tagged, is under curfew and house arrest during the evenings, and must report to the police station every day. This is fair enough, it is no different to any other offender afaik. Certainly not the Guantamo Bay scenario he has had the past week, with "absolutely no access to any electronic equipment, no access to the outside world, no access to outside media" and no correspondence allowed.
The fast tracking through political influence, and the imprisonment for an as yet unfounded allegation in a foreign country, is a blot on our country's record, but it's good to see our strong and mostly fair legal system reassert itself after a short delay.
Same system I used when I was younger. Nowhere near as good as using KeePassX, which will run on nearly every OS, from USB, and on mobile phones. Each and every site login has a unique password, like "xY5C=r%|yH`", and when I want to log in I just select "copy password to clipboard" over the entry and paste in. Also helps avoid keyloggers. You have one master password, and simply make sure you back up your encrypted password file.
This way, if a site is compromised then it has no damage outside of that account.
Is your public image a problem? Do you want to be seen turning up to the board via the right brand 'Sportster' 14k4 modem? And who other than yourself brought up terrorists?? Just do your own thing on your own board, and stop telling others what they can and cannot do.
It has raised the issue of Paypal, Visa, etc, in every single major news outlet including the BBC. They've had their quotes published in every major news outlet. It appears you are completely and utterly wrong.
I've always found it sadly ironic that people vote, who very much wants to keep democracy alive, are doing more than anyone to destroy it. Their antics of often voting for the party that isn't currently in Government gives the established politicians reason to clamp down on voting. Way to go, idiots!
Keeping your head below the parapet, and crossing your fingers and praying the next victim isn't you, hasn't proven the best course of action for society from the history I have read. Politicians are your paid representatives, and if they aren't looking after your interests then they aren't doing their job. In the case of anonymous, they are going after organisations that have elevated themselves above the law and so they have decided direct action is the only way to raise awareness. I am not condoning DDoS attacks, no matter whether I sympathise or not, but your speech would only go down well at a Vichy government reunion.
Poor article. It claims that Wikileaks isn't revealing anything we couldn't infer already. This point was made by the FT weeks ago but the journalist has since back-tracked on this. The author is plainly wrong. The leaks have given us plenty of new material.
He thinks that all security vulnerabilities in computer software should be kept secret, apart from for a select few. The fact that Assange believes that security flaws in publicly downloadable software should be published if not fixed by the vendor in a timely fashion, much like most Slashdot readers, is hardly anything to do with Wikileaks. The next few paragraphs are also completely irrelevant.
The final paragraph flies in the face of all the facts and is such poor journalism I'll simply say read every other Wikileaks thread on Slashdot.
In one film, I don't remember which, the chief editor of the newspaper says to his staff "Our job isn't to break the story first. We're never going to beat the television. Our job is to give the story behind the story."
A good journalist will always have his place. He's prepared to do the legwork that the armchair pundit isn't, checking facts and talking to people to find their motivations. Here on Slashdot people are quite happy to paste from Wikipedia as 'evidence'. A good journalist will spot an anomaly, and if necessary jump in the car and trawl through paper archives to see if the digital one is actually correct or has been altered.
Of course there will be bad journalists, like Gizmondo who can't tell the difference between and EveryDNS and EasyDNS, but the good ones are worth their weight in gold. It's the reason people will happily subscribe to the FT and the Economist, yet The Times has died an online death.
Raw data has become more readily available to the public, but hopefully it will inspire more people to write quality articles as well as add to the armory of those already in the business.
The whole DNS thing is a red herring. First of all EveryDNS is a free DNS service that survives on donations. They don't have the capacity to survive a cyber attack from the US government. From their page, they have 490m domains that rely on their free service. It's a shame they they didn't hold out and ask for help and donations rather than fold so quickly, but they did have to think about their other users. They aren't the bad guys
Let's assume journalistic incompetence rather than third party malice, but ire is redirected to EasyDNS who are actually one of Wikileaks main supporters. The irony would have been for a Wikileaks.ch provider to be knocked off by its own supporters, but EasyDNS seem to have handled the situation well.
All in all, no harm done. EasyDNS reputation remains intact, Wikileaks remains up.
The same cannot be said for Amazon, Paypal, Visa, and Mastercard.
It is very interesting, much more than the cables themselves. The UK coming out strongly against is unsurprising as they will always toe the American line. However, why have France and Canada come out so vociferously against? Sarkozy may be unpopular but he's not as politically unstable as Berlusconi, yet the former government went mad and the latter just laughed it off. Russia had the opportunity to release embarrassing tidbits about the US yet did a total television blank-out of the affair. Why did Sweden fake the Assanger Interpol warrant around the same time, despite the fact it would damage their reputation so badly?
I think the discrepancy between the strength of rhetoric and the level of embarrassment is a good point to start looking for interesting information.
Idiot. Why on earth would he want to release information on a non-existent sexual assault? What people are worried Wikileaks is backing a rapist? (answer: none, you made that up) Why would he want to try to prove his innocence to a nobody like you instead of clearing his name in a court of law? Plus ditto to points by unity100 below.
Since the Nexus S is just a re-badged Galaxy S, why not wait for the re-badged Galaxy S Pro? It should be exactly what you are looking for. It is also the phone I am waiting for.
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We need to protect our children from pedophiles and from a totalitarian society. The latter is a far more realistic threat.
Phillip.
You have a point, apart from using the inflammatory word "peaceful". Minorities are oft used as scapegoats for societies problems,and once stigmatised to the level people are afraid to speak out on their behalf then they become a useful weapon. We saw it with Hitler and the Jews, McCarthy and the Communists, Mugabe and the white farmers, and now with the use of pedophiles. The latest one, 'terrorists', is the best one yet for governments because the threat is mostly made up and non-existent people are hardly going to complain.
Will the blanket power for one man to censor any web site in the world at his whim cut down the number of pedophiles? Of course not. Will it cut down on people coming across pedophile material? I use the Internet all day long, and have done most of my adult life, but have never come across any. It is a political tool, and the French political elite is a hotbed of corruption. Say anything against the President, described in Cablegate as "vain and arrogant", and it will probably end up on that list.
Phillip.
Not the same problem at all. Nobody should have a copy of your bank card number, so that can be seen as part of the 'secret' number in addition to the PIN code. So you need the card as well as the PIN. If somebody steals the card number, and fakes a bank card, you have already reduced the number of people that can do this as well as increased the cost of doing it. Then you only get 3 tries before your card is locked. The best way of capturing the PIN is a fake ATM with camera to capture your pin number, and with this attack the length of password or character range becomes irrelevant.
So no, not really same problem.
Phillip.
Anonymous has no leader, and nobody that can be identified.
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Alex Tapanaris
Police are being seen to investigate crimes!
Fixed that for you.
Phillip.
Why is a password manager not a good answer? I use KeePassX and generate a random string for each and every login. It's even easier than trying to remember more than one password. Simply copy and paste the password each time (also defeating any keylogger you may have installed).
Phillip.
I don't understand. Why are they mutually exclusive?
Phillip.
Exactly. If the leaks were of interest then you would have respectable newspapers like the Guardian or New York Times trying to publish them.
btw, what has Wikileaks got to do with some guy's dating profile?
Phillip.
It's much the same as when some old fart posts "You Linux fan-bois are only putting people off Linux". At the end of the day you can't pick and choose which people decide to publicly like you. You just keep your head down and get on with doing the best job possible, not what-ever will make you the most popular with the 'right' people.
Phillip.
First of all what you are saying is not true. He offered the State department the chance to redact the documents, which they declined, then worked in conjunction with respectable papers such as the Guardian and New York Times to publish them.
Secondly, the job of a journalist is to find stories in the public interest and publish them. They aren't all caped crusaders. At least Wikileaks is only publishing information that is anonymously sent to them. In the UK journalists are quite happy to break the law, hack into people's private information, and do whatever it takes to get a story. News of The World in the UK hacked into the voicemail of celebrities, politicians and royal family to get stories (list of victims here).
I would trust Julian Assange to be more apolitical than Michael Moore.
Phillip.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but things have changed. Sweden have now decided they want to appeal against the bail, but have declined to provide any evidence as to any crimes committed. It looks like a vindictive attack is in process to keep him in jail and incommunicado as long as possible. Also the courts aren't taking cheques as they take 7 days to clear, so $380,000 has to be found in used pound notes. Looks like restaurant designer Sarah Saunders, who is putting up $237,000 of bail money, is going to be making a large withdrawal.
In addition to conditions above, curfew from 10am-2pm and 10pm-2am according to the BBC. What a coincidence these are the hours that cover the prime-time news slots.
Phillip.
Journalist John Pilger and socialite Jemima Khan are putting up $31,600 surety each, with bail set at $380,000. It looks like enough people like Michael Moore have guaranteed the bail money as he has been bailed pending appeal (the prosecutors have 2 hours to appeal). He should be released by the end of the day.
He has had his passport confiscated, been electronically tagged, is under curfew and house arrest during the evenings, and must report to the police station every day. This is fair enough, it is no different to any other offender afaik. Certainly not the Guantamo Bay scenario he has had the past week, with "absolutely no access to any electronic equipment, no access to the outside world, no access to outside media" and no correspondence allowed.
The fast tracking through political influence, and the imprisonment for an as yet unfounded allegation in a foreign country, is a blot on our country's record, but it's good to see our strong and mostly fair legal system reassert itself after a short delay.
Phillip.
Same system I used when I was younger. Nowhere near as good as using KeePassX, which will run on nearly every OS, from USB, and on mobile phones. Each and every site login has a unique password, like "xY5C=r%|yH`", and when I want to log in I just select "copy password to clipboard" over the entry and paste in. Also helps avoid keyloggers. You have one master password, and simply make sure you back up your encrypted password file.
This way, if a site is compromised then it has no damage outside of that account.
Phillip.
Stunts, Idiocy, and Hero Hacks
With a title like that, I was sure it was going to be another Wikileaks story.
Phillip.
Why not just fire up the raw materials and plug together the satellites on a dedicated ISS? A shuttle can then place them into orbit.
Phillip.
Membership list?? Did you manage to drag that scroll bar down so quickly you failed to register a single comment before getting to the Reply button?
Phillip.
Q: why do you care?
Is your public image a problem? Do you want to be seen turning up to the board via the right brand 'Sportster' 14k4 modem? And who other than yourself brought up terrorists?? Just do your own thing on your own board, and stop telling others what they can and cannot do.
Phillip.
DDoSing is nothing more than a revenge tactic.
It is a publicity seeking tactic.
It solves NOTHING.
It has raised the issue of Paypal, Visa, etc, in every single major news outlet including the BBC. They've had their quotes published in every major news outlet. It appears you are completely and utterly wrong.
Phillip.
I've always found it sadly ironic that people vote, who very much wants to keep democracy alive, are doing more than anyone to destroy it. Their antics of often voting for the party that isn't currently in Government gives the established politicians reason to clamp down on voting. Way to go, idiots!
Keeping your head below the parapet, and crossing your fingers and praying the next victim isn't you, hasn't proven the best course of action for society from the history I have read. Politicians are your paid representatives, and if they aren't looking after your interests then they aren't doing their job. In the case of anonymous, they are going after organisations that have elevated themselves above the law and so they have decided direct action is the only way to raise awareness. I am not condoning DDoS attacks, no matter whether I sympathise or not, but your speech would only go down well at a Vichy government reunion.
Phillip.
Poor article. It claims that Wikileaks isn't revealing anything we couldn't infer already. This point was made by the FT weeks ago but the journalist has since back-tracked on this. The author is plainly wrong. The leaks have given us plenty of new material.
He thinks that all security vulnerabilities in computer software should be kept secret, apart from for a select few. The fact that Assange believes that security flaws in publicly downloadable software should be published if not fixed by the vendor in a timely fashion, much like most Slashdot readers, is hardly anything to do with Wikileaks. The next few paragraphs are also completely irrelevant.
The final paragraph flies in the face of all the facts and is such poor journalism I'll simply say read every other Wikileaks thread on Slashdot.
Phillip.
In one film, I don't remember which, the chief editor of the newspaper says to his staff "Our job isn't to break the story first. We're never going to beat the television. Our job is to give the story behind the story."
A good journalist will always have his place. He's prepared to do the legwork that the armchair pundit isn't, checking facts and talking to people to find their motivations. Here on Slashdot people are quite happy to paste from Wikipedia as 'evidence'. A good journalist will spot an anomaly, and if necessary jump in the car and trawl through paper archives to see if the digital one is actually correct or has been altered.
Of course there will be bad journalists, like Gizmondo who can't tell the difference between and EveryDNS and EasyDNS, but the good ones are worth their weight in gold. It's the reason people will happily subscribe to the FT and the Economist, yet The Times has died an online death.
Raw data has become more readily available to the public, but hopefully it will inspire more people to write quality articles as well as add to the armory of those already in the business.
Phillip.
The whole DNS thing is a red herring. First of all EveryDNS is a free DNS service that survives on donations. They don't have the capacity to survive a cyber attack from the US government. From their page, they have 490m domains that rely on their free service. It's a shame they they didn't hold out and ask for help and donations rather than fold so quickly, but they did have to think about their other users. They aren't the bad guys
Let's assume journalistic incompetence rather than third party malice, but ire is redirected to EasyDNS who are actually one of Wikileaks main supporters. The irony would have been for a Wikileaks .ch provider to be knocked off by its own supporters, but EasyDNS seem to have handled the situation well.
All in all, no harm done. EasyDNS reputation remains intact, Wikileaks remains up.
The same cannot be said for Amazon, Paypal, Visa, and Mastercard.
Phillip.
It is very interesting, much more than the cables themselves. The UK coming out strongly against is unsurprising as they will always toe the American line. However, why have France and Canada come out so vociferously against? Sarkozy may be unpopular but he's not as politically unstable as Berlusconi, yet the former government went mad and the latter just laughed it off. Russia had the opportunity to release embarrassing tidbits about the US yet did a total television blank-out of the affair. Why did Sweden fake the Assanger Interpol warrant around the same time, despite the fact it would damage their reputation so badly?
I think the discrepancy between the strength of rhetoric and the level of embarrassment is a good point to start looking for interesting information.
Phillip.
Idiot. Why on earth would he want to release information on a non-existent sexual assault? What people are worried Wikileaks is backing a rapist? (answer: none, you made that up) Why would he want to try to prove his innocence to a nobody like you instead of clearing his name in a court of law? Plus ditto to points by unity100 below.
Phillip.
Since the Nexus S is just a re-badged Galaxy S, why not wait for the re-badged Galaxy S Pro? It should be exactly what you are looking for. It is also the phone I am waiting for.
Phillip.