i'm not saying this is a good idea at all.. as much as i wish people would hang up and drive.. jammers or any other active method to prevent their use isn't good in my book.
But i will say that every time someone is in an accident.. the person who is at fault - they should have their phone records pulled for the time of the accident - if they where texting/talking/what ever on it.. they should get the same punishment as a drunk driver.
well with the inclusion of GPS tech in all phones thanks to laws past 9 years ago.. no jamming is needed.. just require the phone to not function if it detects it is moving faster than 5-10mph
when she said she wanted a video camera for xmass - i hunted and ended up getting her a Flip.. why? because it is the simplest thing out there - all she wanted to do i was press recored and replay..
this phone is perfect for her really.. and personally if i didn't have e-mail on my phone for work.. i could see my self using this.. much less likely to have problems..
More than likely they aren't going to bother trying to send it to a number.. but rather have the towers in the effected area send out the broadcast message to all associated radios
the ability to do this exists already - your phone would get it and accept it because text blocking is done at the exchange level not the phone (it could be done at the phone but 99.999% of the time it isn't)
i'm sure wouldn't be billed because if they send it at a tower level and not exchange level their normal billing message counting system would not be in place and would have to be changed to support it - which i doubt would happen as this would be just yet another government mandated thing.
while i like the idea - and i completely understand and agree with the need for something like this..
i'm more concerned with it's use as security theater abuse (have it only send to radios in air ports? can we have some fun with that?)
Also.. all the dumb asses on the road yapping on their phone - texting their friends - doing everything but driving..
now just imagine.. your going down the road and EVERYONE - EVERYONE gets a message at the same time - and they all check their phones at the same time.. this could cause some serious accidents.
i wouldn't expect it to be shipped in consumer browsers.. but the person i replied to implied that when military is cross browsing they don't have the right root cert and there for get warnings which will cause them to ignore them when they are important.
what they are talking about with DNS and TLD and SSL.
is if i control the traffic - i control the traffic
If i can get all the traffic for a subnet to come to me i can spoof it and act as if i was it.
as for the SSL - say you have a domain name in that subnet and are using SSL to secure things.. if i have a root CA i can make a fake but still valid functional Cert for that domain - sure if you look at the path it will show me as the head CA.. but people have enough trouble with real sites with warning.. let alone one that wouldn't cause.
basically they could use an intentional mis-configured BGP route to snatch specific traffic and use their root CA and servers to spoof the intended destination (or just play a MiM) with the certs so that they can see all the traffic that normally would not go through them and would also be encrypted.
the article didn't bother mentioning things like BGP or AS numbers or routes because most of the people who will see it have zero idea what it is and why they should care - but SSL and TLD's they might.. and as for the people that know how this works.. well - we aren't surprised, except that it doesn't happen more often.
with BGP if I advertise my self as a route to a subnet others around me will try to send me that traffic IF they trust me.
now with a small company like mine.. my telco doesn't accept any routes other than my own subnets so instead i would just black hole my self.
now take a large telco or backbone provider.. say Level 3.. if they started advertising a route to my subnets then everyone who is closer to them then me (basically everyone) they will send L3 the traffic..
this type of attack/what ever you want to call it - only works if you are a big enough player for your neighbors to believe what you are advertising.
with my L3 example.. not every telco (or any really) would review that route change.. as for all they know i got a leased line from L3 or set up a peering agreement..
the cardinal sin of BGP is to advertise a route that isn't yours. but that is all it is.. and advertisement.
you know - i knew a lot of mil sites used self signed but i ASSUMED it was a government CA they where using.. not just server self signed..
If i was the US government i would fix that.. make a US Government CA.. force all government sites to use it.. and to make sure that all computers belonging to me do not accept the China CA..
you know i just had that conversation with my general manager.
except it was about shredding documents - they couldn't imagine someone going though a bag of strip shredded paper trying to find something.
my comment was - it takes effort and a reason.. important info that shouldn't be public is a good reason.. and if you only shred important things it makes the effort all that much easier..
needless to say we will be investing in a large capacity cross cut shredder - with hopes to put all our outgoing paper through it.
Courses will simply revert back to 100% final exams.
i would have preferred that when i was in school..
my favorite part of doing classes by distance ed (even as i was taking others on campus) was that all the course work was put out ahead of time.. i would take 1-2 weeks and every night just sit down and crunch it out.. at the end of that the class was over for me except the exam..
honestly the slow pace of classes is what i hated the most.. i would much rather get them over with - summer classes where easier and more informative than normal semester classes.
if they would have had 100% finals i would just read and learn on my own and stop by to ask questions and then show up for basically any special lab/review sessions and the final - and i would have been much happier that way.
of all of them pharmacology is the one that bothers me.. that is a subject that can get people killed.
the other? eh let the people who cheated pass and then fail in real life.. but i don't want their lack of understanding the subject to get others hurt.
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i never said it's a good idea.. was just saying jammers aren't the only option.
hell they could require car makers to line the cars with copper mesh to reduce RF quality..
remember these are lawmakers.. if they can make it work in a single select case it must work for all of them.. or so they think.
yea but this is the US.. we are all used to calls dropping.. hell going under the bridge alone might do it..
yea but "think of the children"
i'm not saying this is a good idea at all.. as much as i wish people would hang up and drive.. jammers or any other active method to prevent their use isn't good in my book.
But i will say that every time someone is in an accident.. the person who is at fault - they should have their phone records pulled for the time of the accident - if they where texting/talking/what ever on it.. they should get the same punishment as a drunk driver.
you may turn off that GPS.. except when you go to place a call it turns on.. your phone does alot of things you don't realize it does.
it's a better option than putting jammers in cars..
well with the inclusion of GPS tech in all phones thanks to laws past 9 years ago.. no jamming is needed.. just require the phone to not function if it detects it is moving faster than 5-10mph
i'm tempted to buy one for my wife..
when she said she wanted a video camera for xmass - i hunted and ended up getting her a Flip.. why? because it is the simplest thing out there - all she wanted to do i was press recored and replay..
this phone is perfect for her really.. and personally if i didn't have e-mail on my phone for work.. i could see my self using this.. much less likely to have problems..
simplistic is good or reliability..
i miss my old starTac..
More than likely they aren't going to bother trying to send it to a number.. but rather have the towers in the effected area send out the broadcast message to all associated radios
the ability to do this exists already - your phone would get it and accept it because text blocking is done at the exchange level not the phone (it could be done at the phone but 99.999% of the time it isn't)
i'm sure wouldn't be billed because if they send it at a tower level and not exchange level their normal billing message counting system would not be in place and would have to be changed to support it - which i doubt would happen as this would be just yet another government mandated thing.
while i like the idea - and i completely understand and agree with the need for something like this..
i'm more concerned with it's use as security theater abuse (have it only send to radios in air ports? can we have some fun with that?)
Also.. all the dumb asses on the road yapping on their phone - texting their friends - doing everything but driving..
now just imagine.. your going down the road and EVERYONE - EVERYONE gets a message at the same time - and they all check their phones at the same time.. this could cause some serious accidents.
RTP - one of the larger tech places on the east cost is less than 4 hours from these places.
While it is rural - a lot of people don't mind it.
Also - they are data centers.. it's not a huge influx of jobs to begin with.
i wouldn't expect it to be shipped in consumer browsers.. but the person i replied to implied that when military is cross browsing they don't have the right root cert and there for get warnings which will cause them to ignore them when they are important.
what they are talking about with DNS and TLD and SSL.
is if i control the traffic - i control the traffic
If i can get all the traffic for a subnet to come to me i can spoof it and act as if i was it.
as for the SSL - say you have a domain name in that subnet and are using SSL to secure things.. if i have a root CA i can make a fake but still valid functional Cert for that domain - sure if you look at the path it will show me as the head CA.. but people have enough trouble with real sites with warning.. let alone one that wouldn't cause.
basically they could use an intentional mis-configured BGP route to snatch specific traffic and use their root CA and servers to spoof the intended destination (or just play a MiM) with the certs so that they can see all the traffic that normally would not go through them and would also be encrypted.
the article didn't bother mentioning things like BGP or AS numbers or routes because most of the people who will see it have zero idea what it is and why they should care - but SSL and TLD's they might.. and as for the people that know how this works.. well - we aren't surprised, except that it doesn't happen more often.
well just complete assumptions based on 2 min of looking around
142,544,498 items in LoC
~100,000 words per Average book
14,254,449,800,000 words per LoC
This font is 500 words per 320x240 = 76,800 pixels
((14,254,449,800,000/500)*76,800) = 2.18948349x10^15 pixels per LoC
a screen with 46,791,917x46,791,916 resolution per LoC
or 516,387,615 count 30in Dell/Apple Displays per LoC
in outgoing i meant trashed.. while we do mail things.. we don't from this location.
with BGP if I advertise my self as a route to a subnet others around me will try to send me that traffic IF they trust me.
now with a small company like mine.. my telco doesn't accept any routes other than my own subnets so instead i would just black hole my self.
now take a large telco or backbone provider .. say Level 3.. if they started advertising a route to my subnets then everyone who is closer to them then me (basically everyone) they will send L3 the traffic..
this type of attack/what ever you want to call it - only works if you are a big enough player for your neighbors to believe what you are advertising.
with my L3 example.. not every telco (or any really) would review that route change.. as for all they know i got a leased line from L3 or set up a peering agreement..
the cardinal sin of BGP is to advertise a route that isn't yours. but that is all it is.. and advertisement.
you know - i knew a lot of mil sites used self signed but i ASSUMED it was a government CA they where using.. not just server self signed..
If i was the US government i would fix that.. make a US Government CA.. force all government sites to use it.. and to make sure that all computers belonging to me do not accept the China CA..
you know i just had that conversation with my general manager.
except it was about shredding documents - they couldn't imagine someone going though a bag of strip shredded paper trying to find something.
my comment was - it takes effort and a reason.. important info that shouldn't be public is a good reason.. and if you only shred important things it makes the effort all that much easier..
needless to say we will be investing in a large capacity cross cut shredder - with hopes to put all our outgoing paper through it.
actually i just cleaned an MBR infection off a windows XP laptop 2 weeks ago.
i'll agree both are worrying..
Courses will simply revert back to 100% final exams.
i would have preferred that when i was in school..
my favorite part of doing classes by distance ed (even as i was taking others on campus) was that all the course work was put out ahead of time.. i would take 1-2 weeks and every night just sit down and crunch it out.. at the end of that the class was over for me except the exam..
honestly the slow pace of classes is what i hated the most.. i would much rather get them over with - summer classes where easier and more informative than normal semester classes.
if they would have had 100% finals i would just read and learn on my own and stop by to ask questions and then show up for basically any special lab/review sessions and the final - and i would have been much happier that way.
of all of them pharmacology is the one that bothers me.. that is a subject that can get people killed.
the other? eh let the people who cheated pass and then fail in real life.. but i don't want their lack of understanding the subject to get others hurt.
we stopped eating lead paint chips as kids?
you find the spammers and i'll bring the rocks..
or
http://www.amazon.com/Maxi-Aids-Footime-Foot-Mouse/dp/B001CH956U
it's amazing.. get the the patent and already have things for sale.
wait.. isn't that prior art?? (i know they filed in 2006 but I've seen these for a lot longer than that).
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i'm calling too soon.. i think some of them are still at it..
the recommendation of junction points was in relation to using 2 drives in a desktop.
trying to do junctions to network shares is just asking for trouble.