Clear your browser including flash cookies and cache, clear temp folders, uninstall and wipe the folders of any chat apps you may have been using, and that's good enough unless you think they're going to use a file recovery app on your hard disk.
Won't work unless you are working in a really small shop. Your profile should be stored on the network for quick recovery, or otherwise backed up, so whatever you do on your computer you can't undo what is already backed up. Just change your passwords and be done with it.
I kind of agree, but what's the alternative? And I don't mean some idealistic alternative that you think should happen, I mean in an alternate universe where anonymous didn't exist, what would have happened instead? Would we have been better or worse off?
As I see it, the alternative's are: . Our universe. A bunch of self righteous idiots break in and steal data from AAPT to prove how easy it is. . Alternate universe possibility 1 - nothing happens. AAPT is insecure but nobody wiggles the door handle. . Alternate universe possibility 2 - someone with a brain and malicious intent steals data from AAPT and nobody finds out until much, much later.
It makes perfect sense in the realm of popular statistics... thousands of reports come out saying smoking/chocolate/coffee/alcohol/etc is bad for you. Then one comes out saying that there are some positive aspects of <product>, and the world thinks "Ah. So <product> is not so bad for you after all!".
Still... in the scale of the galaxy, spotting another such system in the galaxy proves that earth isn't the _only_ one, and the chance that we've seen the only other well-aligned solar system in the galaxy is pretty small so it's fair to say there are others, probably millions of others. So it doesn't prove it's common, but at least it's probably not uncommon.
Soon you'll be walking down the street only to be approached by an unwashed person waving a USB cord in your face... "hey man... can fix me up with some juice?"
I bet you're glad that's behind you! I've seen a few cases where 4 weeks notice was given and the employer opted to just pay out the remaining 4 weeks (or force leave to be taken) because of a perceived risk (employee moving to another job etc), but this option was in the employment contract. 3 months is a bit of a stretch though, especially as you thought you were giving them plenty of notice.
You do realise the Chinese mains socket is compatible with the Australian mains plug? The only difference is that the Australian pins are slightly thinker, so may make it a little hard to push into the socket, (oh and they are upside down).
Never knew that. You got that my post was sarcastic though, right?
I hope "almost certainly" is droll understatement.
It certainly is. On the other hand, assume you can send SMSes in a way which is not traceable and comparatively cheap. Assume you want the entire police force of some place - say, New South Wales - to be too busy and way less effective. Assume you want to commit some other crime which would greatly benefit from the police force in that place being too busy chasing phantoms.
T-mobile USA calls their prepaid plans "Pay-as-you-go", so it might also mean the service is prepaid (like you buy a certain number of GBs in advance)
Sounds about right. In Australia the telco's have something called a "capped plan". One would think that a "cap" is something that reflects the maximum amount you spend each month, but it's actually the minimum you spend each month.
In retrospect though, "pay-as-you-go" does sound like it is more likely to be a prepaid plan... my bad.
Google is just giving the masses what they want. When someone googles for sex party, they want to see a party with a whole load of sex going on, not a political advert.
Most people, most of the time, don't want to be made to think about sex when they're not actively thinking about it themselves.
Nicely put. Certainly those who, most of the time, _do_ want to be made to think about sex when they're not actively thinking about it themselves, don't need google to remind them.
Sure I know about such things, and I was using 'cookies' as a generic term for anything a website leaves on your computer. But how does facebook track you? It's cookies isn't it? If facebook are using covert tracking strategies, it would have come to the attention of the people who pay attention of these things, and would have been discussed profusely on Slashdot. They aren't that clever.
And sure, facebook is evil, but they are a known quantity of evil, and one that is easy enough to work around by being careful with your cookies. It's the rest of the internet you need to watch out for. I mean they don't even make any attempt to try and work around adblock... how much more benign can you get?
Facebook can spy on every website you ever visit that has a Facebook "like" button. They then sell the information about what you view online, combined with who you interact with on facebook, who lists you as a relative on Facebook, who names you in photos... and YOUR IMAGE if someone tags you in a Facebook photo using their face recognition software.
Which they package and sell.
Happy privacy.
Yes all that can happen if you don't handle your cookies properly.
No, we're acting like the world has come to an end because one lunatic committed a heinous crime. We need to stop living in a climate of unnecessary fear. I've read stuff on twitter today where people are saying things like "Who knew there were so many crazies out there?" There aren't so many. There was one. In a country with 300 million people. One. Others saying what a terrible world it is where you can't even go to the movies in safety. You can. Nearly everyone did. Nearly everyone does, every day.
This is not to say this wasn't a heinous crime. It was. It's not to say this isn't a horrible tragedy for anyone who knew the victims. It was. It's not to say we don't all share their sadness. We do. Well, most of us do. I do. I considered seeing this movie last night. I've taken my kids to midnight shows. As they say, there but for the grace of God go I.
It is to say we need to continue living our lives.
For sure. When stuff like this stops being a major story then we'll have a problem. Even in countries i'd be too terrified to visit mass shootings still make the news. I think the fact that this stuff happens so rarely means we are doing something right.
It's entirely inappropriate to make jokes about the shooting. It's fine to like the movie, and it's fine to talk about the movie.
It's a terrible thing that happened. Making jokes is one way that people deal with it. Making the joke in front of someone directly affected by the issue would be inappropriate, but otherwise it's just one of the ways people cope with stuff like this and stop the unnecessary worry that could drive further people insane.
Yes you have to remember that for the most part these comic book superhero's live in a very black and white world with nobody who is "basically a good guy but..."[1]. You don't have someone who likes a puff of weed occasionally, anyone into drugs is a major drug dealer. Nobody just speeds occasionally, you either stay under the limit or you are running a car racket. Unless there is a "bad guy of the week" on the scene, the cops have pretty much nothing to do. And even then they just waste their time until the superhero arrives.
I wrote off all social media long ago, I don't even keep track. No thanks, spy on someone else.
You're missing the point. Facebook is a tool that _you_ use to spy on and stalk _other_ people. As long as you don't post anything any more revealing that "omg wtf my dog just farted!!1!!!1" then you don't have a problem. It's not like anyone can spy on anything other than what you post there.
it can't be obtained via coercion or torture â" i.e. rubber-hose cryptanalysis
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I fail to see how that could be true. How could you NOT be forced to play the authentication "game" by torture or coercion? wtf?
How are you going to type your password... if you have no fingers?
Of course it can, just in the same way that all the current variations of flu can mix and match if you catch more than one of them at once. On the balance I assume it's safer to vaccinate and minimise the possibility of this happening.
The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) is Australia's national security service, which is responsible for the protection of the country and its citizens from espionage, sabotage, acts of foreign interference, politically motivated violence, attacks on the Australian defence system, and terrorism.[2][3]
ASIO is comparable with the United Kingdom Security Service (MI5) and the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). As with MI5 officers, ASIO officers have no police powers of arrest and are not armed.[4][5] ASIO operations requiring police powers are co-ordinated with the Australian Federal Police and/or with State and Territory police forces.
It comes bundled in a nice single downloadable package now. You get Vidalia, TOR, and Firefox, all preconfigured and ready to go. Use it ALL THE TIME, not just when (if) you're doing something squirrelly.
Privacy is not a crime.
(heh, and the capcha this time was "despots")
That's fine if everyone else is doing it, but if you are the only one and the feds ask the ISP to provide data on anyone using TOR, you'll stand out and draw attention to yourself.
If you are planning on doing something "squirrelly", I strongly suggest that you encourage everyone else to use encryption... that's what i'd be doing if I was a "drug lord" or something. Hell I'd even finance development of an easy to use encryption setup.
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Clear your browser including flash cookies and cache, clear temp folders, uninstall and wipe the folders of any chat apps you may have been using, and that's good enough unless you think they're going to use a file recovery app on your hard disk.
Won't work unless you are working in a really small shop. Your profile should be stored on the network for quick recovery, or otherwise backed up, so whatever you do on your computer you can't undo what is already backed up. Just change your passwords and be done with it.
I kind of agree, but what's the alternative? And I don't mean some idealistic alternative that you think should happen, I mean in an alternate universe where anonymous didn't exist, what would have happened instead? Would we have been better or worse off?
As I see it, the alternative's are:
. Our universe. A bunch of self righteous idiots break in and steal data from AAPT to prove how easy it is.
. Alternate universe possibility 1 - nothing happens. AAPT is insecure but nobody wiggles the door handle.
. Alternate universe possibility 2 - someone with a brain and malicious intent steals data from AAPT and nobody finds out until much, much later.
I'm not sure which is worse.
It makes perfect sense in the realm of popular statistics... thousands of reports come out saying smoking/chocolate/coffee/alcohol/etc is bad for you. Then one comes out saying that there are some positive aspects of <product>, and the world thinks "Ah. So <product> is not so bad for you after all!".
Still... in the scale of the galaxy, spotting another such system in the galaxy proves that earth isn't the _only_ one, and the chance that we've seen the only other well-aligned solar system in the galaxy is pretty small so it's fair to say there are others, probably millions of others. So it doesn't prove it's common, but at least it's probably not uncommon.
Soon you'll be walking down the street only to be approached by an unwashed person waving a USB cord in your face... "hey man... can fix me up with some juice?"
I bet you're glad that's behind you! I've seen a few cases where 4 weeks notice was given and the employer opted to just pay out the remaining 4 weeks (or force leave to be taken) because of a perceived risk (employee moving to another job etc), but this option was in the employment contract. 3 months is a bit of a stretch though, especially as you thought you were giving them plenty of notice.
You do realise the Chinese mains socket is compatible with the Australian mains plug? The only difference is that the Australian pins are slightly thinker, so may make it a little hard to push into the socket, (oh and they are upside down).
Never knew that. You got that my post was sarcastic though, right?
It certainly is. On the other hand, assume you can send SMSes in a way which is not traceable and comparatively cheap. Assume you want the entire police force of some place - say, New South Wales - to be too busy and way less effective. Assume you want to commit some other crime which would greatly benefit from the police force in that place being too busy chasing phantoms.
What would you do?
Mod you -1, Droll.
T-mobile USA calls their prepaid plans "Pay-as-you-go", so it might also mean the service is prepaid (like you buy a certain number of GBs in advance)
Sounds about right. In Australia the telco's have something called a "capped plan". One would think that a "cap" is something that reflects the maximum amount you spend each month, but it's actually the minimum you spend each month.
In retrospect though, "pay-as-you-go" does sound like it is more likely to be a prepaid plan... my bad.
Conspicuously missing: the actual price
Can't you read? It's "Pay-as-you-go". That means they don't tell you the price until the end of the month.
Only in the USA, because large parts of the world use other outlets and voltages....
Yep. The development effort to retool for 240v and Australian power sockets would be prohibitive. I guess we don't need to worry about them over here.
If you find cleaning products or buying a new car more distracting than sex then any explanation of what I wrote is lost on you.
Google is just giving the masses what they want. When someone googles for sex party, they want to see a party with a whole load of sex going on, not a political advert.
Most people, most of the time, don't want to be made to think about sex when they're not actively thinking about it themselves.
Nicely put. Certainly those who, most of the time, _do_ want to be made to think about sex when they're not actively thinking about it themselves, don't need google to remind them.
Yes all that can happen if you don't handle your cookies properly.
You seem to have missed the last ten years worth of advances in systemic internet tracking systems.
Sure I know about such things, and I was using 'cookies' as a generic term for anything a website leaves on your computer. But how does facebook track you? It's cookies isn't it? If facebook are using covert tracking strategies, it would have come to the attention of the people who pay attention of these things, and would have been discussed profusely on Slashdot. They aren't that clever.
And sure, facebook is evil, but they are a known quantity of evil, and one that is easy enough to work around by being careful with your cookies. It's the rest of the internet you need to watch out for. I mean they don't even make any attempt to try and work around adblock... how much more benign can you get?
Facebook can spy on every website you ever visit that has a Facebook "like" button. They then sell the information about what you view online, combined with who you interact with on facebook, who lists you as a relative on Facebook, who names you in photos... and YOUR IMAGE if someone tags you in a Facebook photo using their face recognition software.
Which they package and sell.
Happy privacy.
Yes all that can happen if you don't handle your cookies properly.
No, we're acting like the world has come to an end because one lunatic committed a heinous crime. We need to stop living in a climate of unnecessary fear. I've read stuff on twitter today where people are saying things like "Who knew there were so many crazies out there?" There aren't so many. There was one. In a country with 300 million people. One. Others saying what a terrible world it is where you can't even go to the movies in safety. You can. Nearly everyone did. Nearly everyone does, every day.
This is not to say this wasn't a heinous crime. It was.
It's not to say this isn't a horrible tragedy for anyone who knew the victims. It was.
It's not to say we don't all share their sadness. We do. Well, most of us do. I do. I considered seeing this movie last night. I've taken my kids to midnight shows. As they say, there but for the grace of God go I.
It is to say we need to continue living our lives.
For sure. When stuff like this stops being a major story then we'll have a problem. Even in countries i'd be too terrified to visit mass shootings still make the news. I think the fact that this stuff happens so rarely means we are doing something right.
It's entirely inappropriate to make jokes about the shooting. It's fine to like the movie, and it's fine to talk about the movie.
It's a terrible thing that happened. Making jokes is one way that people deal with it. Making the joke in front of someone directly affected by the issue would be inappropriate, but otherwise it's just one of the ways people cope with stuff like this and stop the unnecessary worry that could drive further people insane.
Yes you have to remember that for the most part these comic book superhero's live in a very black and white world with nobody who is "basically a good guy but..."[1]. You don't have someone who likes a puff of weed occasionally, anyone into drugs is a major drug dealer. Nobody just speeds occasionally, you either stay under the limit or you are running a car racket. Unless there is a "bad guy of the week" on the scene, the cops have pretty much nothing to do. And even then they just waste their time until the superhero arrives.
[1] Yes I know there are exceptions.
I wrote off all social media long ago, I don't even keep track. No thanks, spy on someone else.
You're missing the point. Facebook is a tool that _you_ use to spy on and stalk _other_ people. As long as you don't post anything any more revealing that "omg wtf my dog just farted!!1!!!1" then you don't have a problem. It's not like anyone can spy on anything other than what you post there.
I've been doing something similar to this for the past 4 years.
I have a password that I can hardly spell (without looking at the keyboard), but I know how to type it fast.
Ditto. My typo's frequently consist of typing completely the wrong word.
it can't be obtained via coercion or torture â" i.e. rubber-hose cryptanalysis
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I fail to see how that could be true. How could you NOT be forced to play the authentication "game" by torture or coercion? wtf?
How are you going to type your password... if you have no fingers?
It also kills everyone within 100 meters of the fire.
But the fire does get extinguished, right? Don't bother us with the minor details.
Line up for your Flu Shots!
Of course it can, just in the same way that all the current variations of flu can mix and match if you catch more than one of them at once. On the balance I assume it's safer to vaccinate and minimise the possibility of this happening.
Should I back up my porn to optical disc? Just curious. Okay, and my financial stuff, too.
Given that porn is being made faster than you can watch it, and is rarely re-watched, there doesn't seem to be much point.
ASIO don't handle domestic intelligence. So the only reason they would crack into someone's computer would be for foreign threats.
Really? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Security_Intelligence_Organisation disagrees with you
The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) is Australia's national security service, which is responsible for the protection of the country and its citizens from espionage, sabotage, acts of foreign interference, politically motivated violence, attacks on the Australian defence system, and terrorism.[2][3]
ASIO is comparable with the United Kingdom Security Service (MI5) and the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). As with MI5 officers, ASIO officers have no police powers of arrest and are not armed.[4][5] ASIO operations requiring police powers are co-ordinated with the Australian Federal Police and/or with State and Territory police forces.
Maybe you have them confused with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Secret_Intelligence_Service... or maybe have the brain capacity of one of these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asio
It comes bundled in a nice single downloadable package now.
You get Vidalia, TOR, and Firefox, all preconfigured and ready to go.
Use it ALL THE TIME, not just when (if) you're doing something squirrelly.
Privacy is not a crime.
(heh, and the capcha this time was "despots")
That's fine if everyone else is doing it, but if you are the only one and the feds ask the ISP to provide data on anyone using TOR, you'll stand out and draw attention to yourself.
If you are planning on doing something "squirrelly", I strongly suggest that you encourage everyone else to use encryption... that's what i'd be doing if I was a "drug lord" or something. Hell I'd even finance development of an easy to use encryption setup.