My ingdirect.com.au savings account has a login method that would stop any keyloggers.
You type in your account id (keylogger can pick this up obviously), then you are presented with an on screen keypad where you enter your pin number with the mouse. 4 digit pin number ( easy to remember), the numbers are in a different location on the on screen keypad every time. The only way any spyware can capture this would be with screen captures on every mouse click. I am not sure there are many spywares that go to these lengths.
Aren't these search queris part of Googles "payment" for providing the free to use search function?
What is Googles financial motivation for providing its search free of charge to the world? For all the hardware/datacentre/bandwidth to keep those spiders out there working, to rank all those pages and provide the search engine optimised so it gives good results? They dont advertise on the search page so no money there, their benefit comes from knowing what people are searching for and whether they find it or not.
If you don't want Google to know what you are searching for don't search through Google (though if you search through someone else you can bet they are keeping that info as well). You can clear cookies and change IP address etc so that your searches arent traced back to you as an individual (and Google is cool with that), but Google is under no obligation to provide their search free to the world without keeping the search info.
Isn't the search history used to tune their search engine anyway? I was under the assumption this was done to continuously improve Google ranks etc so search results remain/become more relevant.
To answer all the "what about the *Do No Evil*" questions, I don't see keeping this data as being evil. Releasing it to the public is another matter though, but just because AOL screwed up doesnt mean Google won't continue to be careful with what happens with this data.
Yes and search engine logs would have resulted in the same logs for this individuals searches (which is what I said in my post), but only because there was something common to link the searches together. Hence the "At the very least " part. Your searches *might* result in you being tracked down, but if your searches are linked directly to your ISP account then their isnt much gues work involved is there?
Topack would definately have stopped this from happening. There would be no common IP address or username to link the searches. Finding an individual through their search results is not rocket science, but if you can find an individual from a single search request then that would be impressive (or a very specific search request)*.
*names, SSNs etc in a query still dont link you to a search request, it is just as likely someone searching for you or your SSN as you searching for your own.
At the very least do your searching through an engine that is separate to your ISP.
A customer of AOL searching through AOL has their searches linked to you as an individual. If you search through google then they get your IP address, and your ISP knows which IP address links to which individual at any one time (open Wifi networks aside). But at least the same company doesnt know both.
The data AOL released was the equivalent of any other search engine releasing its searches with IP addresses, so the same damage could be done by any other search engines logs, but imagine how much a marketing company would pay for that info from AOL with the personal details for each user included (i.e. Age, Sex, location etc.).
Co-incidentally my Significant Other also has hearing problems in the exact frequencies that I talk in. Doesnt seem to have any problem hearing other people though.
Although, the problem seems to go away if I say anything negative about her, she seems to hear just fine then. That does cause HER voice to raise a few frequencies though.
Science is yet to explain this strange phenomenon.
Seeing as Steve Ballmer tried for 2 days to clear a friends PC of nasties and then:
"lumped the thing back to Microsoft's headquarters and turned it over to a team of top engineers, who spent several days on the machine, finding it infected with more than 100 pieces of malware, some of which were nearly impossible to eradicate. "
You are either:
a) shithot at what you do (and should probably send your resume to Microsoft so you can teach them all you know)
b) not cleaning these machines as well as you think you are.
to spend the money that it will take to enforce this on actually working to catch these "online sexual predators"?
That way everyone still gets to use these sites and they are safe(r) no matter where you access them from, be it a public terminal or from home. Surely if it is such a problem from public terminals it is still a problem from everywhere else as well?
Or is the government just concerned that they will get the finger pointed at them if it happens from one of their public terminals? Sounds like some good old fashioned arse covering to me.
Perhaps this could be integrated into the hot water system so incoming cold water can be used to cool the condensate back to fluid and you get hot water out the other end.
Obviously you can only do this for a limited period (i.e. until your hot water storage limit is reached), unless once your hot water storage limit is reached you let the excess escape as steam. This wouldn't be ideal as you are losing fresh water out of the system but the benefit might outway that cost.
My mp3 player was stolen along with all the mp3s I had on it.
I had the mp3s on my pc, bought a new mp3 player and copied all the mp3s onto my new one. So thats why I have all the mp3s still on my PC, on my mp3 player, and they are all over the P2P network.
Entering my username and password into a third party "untrusted" site like that makes me very uncomfortable.
I tried it once and it worked but after logging out changed my passwords and never used it again. Sure the passwords are probably "Passwords encrypted with 1024-bit RSA keys. Copyright 2005-2006 Meebo, Inc. All rights reserved." as it says on the site, but I dont really want to take that chance.
Due to heavy weather and headwinds predicted for the race I believe they didnt even take it out with them but they did testing prior to the race which was apparently successful. New laws were made to outlaw the kite sail for the next years race so I dont knwo if it was ever actually used in competition.
Admins, security depts and managers (though to a lesser extent generally) usually get pretty uppity with sharing passwords on ANY systems, and thats on internal systems for small time companys with sweet FA worth breaking in to. What the hell was this guy thinking? I suppose he thought those relaxed, easy going folks over at the FBI wouldnt mind if he ran some random script/program off the internet to retrieve some passwords so he can get on with the job.
I mean, its only a cracking/hacking script, people that write those are usually pretty stand-up guys right? And its only the FBI here, its not the NSA or anything! And I need to crack those passwords so I can do my job so that should be cool, right?
Is this the kind of consultant they have working on this new system? I imagine the security being implemented with it is state of the art then!
x is about between one 405millionths and one 324millionths of a VW beetle.
(where an average mozzie is 2.0 to 2.5 milligrams and a VW beetle is approx 810 Kgs - source wikipedia (except for the calculations which are mine so probably wrong)).
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My ingdirect.com.au savings account has a login method that would stop any keyloggers.
You type in your account id (keylogger can pick this up obviously), then you are presented with an on screen keypad where you enter your pin number with the mouse. 4 digit pin number ( easy to remember), the numbers are in a different location on the on screen keypad every time. The only way any spyware can capture this would be with screen captures on every mouse click. I am not sure there are many spywares that go to these lengths.
Aren't these search queris part of Googles "payment" for providing the free to use search function?
What is Googles financial motivation for providing its search free of charge to the world? For all the hardware/datacentre/bandwidth to keep those spiders out there working, to rank all those pages and provide the search engine optimised so it gives good results? They dont advertise on the search page so no money there, their benefit comes from knowing what people are searching for and whether they find it or not.
If you don't want Google to know what you are searching for don't search through Google (though if you search through someone else you can bet they are keeping that info as well). You can clear cookies and change IP address etc so that your searches arent traced back to you as an individual (and Google is cool with that), but Google is under no obligation to provide their search free to the world without keeping the search info.
Isn't the search history used to tune their search engine anyway? I was under the assumption this was done to continuously improve Google ranks etc so search results remain/become more relevant.
To answer all the "what about the *Do No Evil*" questions, I don't see keeping this data as being evil. Releasing it to the public is another matter though, but just because AOL screwed up doesnt mean Google won't continue to be careful with what happens with this data.
Yes and search engine logs would have resulted in the same logs for this individuals searches (which is what I said in my post), but only because there was something common to link the searches together. Hence the "At the very least " part. Your searches *might* result in you being tracked down, but if your searches are linked directly to your ISP account then their isnt much gues work involved is there?
Topack would definately have stopped this from happening. There would be no common IP address or username to link the searches. Finding an individual through their search results is not rocket science, but if you can find an individual from a single search request then that would be impressive (or a very specific search request)*.
*names, SSNs etc in a query still dont link you to a search request, it is just as likely someone searching for you or your SSN as you searching for your own.
At the very least do your searching through an engine that is separate to your ISP.
A customer of AOL searching through AOL has their searches linked to you as an individual. If you search through google then they get your IP address, and your ISP knows which IP address links to which individual at any one time (open Wifi networks aside). But at least the same company doesnt know both.
The data AOL released was the equivalent of any other search engine releasing its searches with IP addresses, so the same damage could be done by any other search engines logs, but imagine how much a marketing company would pay for that info from AOL with the personal details for each user included (i.e. Age, Sex, location etc.).
Thats just where the Google editors were trying to remove dust marks while working under bad lighting conditions. Its a common mistake.
for that you need to take the green pill.
Co-incidentally my Significant Other also has hearing problems in the exact frequencies that I talk in. Doesnt seem to have any problem hearing other people though.
Although, the problem seems to go away if I say anything negative about her, she seems to hear just fine then. That does cause HER voice to raise a few frequencies though.
Science is yet to explain this strange phenomenon.
>portable DVD players could get slimmer and replace the walkman.
There is already a replacement to the walkman, you might have heard of it, it's called the i-something-or-other.
No-one is going back to carrying a DVD sized discman and a whole stack of DVDs so they can listen to their music on the move.
You forgot to tick the Post AC checkbox.
Seeing as Steve Ballmer tried for 2 days to clear a friends PC of nasties and then:
"lumped the thing back to Microsoft's headquarters and turned it over to a team of top engineers, who spent several days on the machine, finding it infected with more than 100 pieces of malware, some of which were nearly impossible to eradicate. "
Source
You are either:
a) shithot at what you do (and should probably send your resume to Microsoft so you can teach them all you know)
b) not cleaning these machines as well as you think you are.
to spend the money that it will take to enforce this on actually working to catch these "online sexual predators"?
That way everyone still gets to use these sites and they are safe(r) no matter where you access them from, be it a public terminal or from home. Surely if it is such a problem from public terminals it is still a problem from everywhere else as well?
Or is the government just concerned that they will get the finger pointed at them if it happens from one of their public terminals? Sounds like some good old fashioned arse covering to me.
Everything that flies has the option of a vertical landing. Some just do it more gracefully than others. :-)
Perhaps this could be integrated into the hot water system so incoming cold water can be used to cool the condensate back to fluid and you get hot water out the other end.
Obviously you can only do this for a limited period (i.e. until your hot water storage limit is reached), unless once your hot water storage limit is reached you let the excess escape as steam. This wouldn't be ideal as you are losing fresh water out of the system but the benefit might outway that cost.
Thats generally what people do when they "don't know what I am doing"* but have to look as though they do in order to keep their job.
*from the first line of TFA
This technology has been around for a few years for mirror/televisions. eg: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,111100,0 0.asp
or an even better excuse....
My mp3 player was stolen along with all the mp3s I had on it.
I had the mp3s on my pc, bought a new mp3 player and copied all the mp3s onto my new one. So thats why I have all the mp3s still on my PC, on my mp3 player, and they are all over the P2P network.
Sue me.
I'm not big on the idea on law makers taking advice from anyone that uses the term "get a cap in their ass".
Actually, you can change your penis size anywhere as long as you have something sharp enough.
didn't you get that memo?
Entering my username and password into a third party "untrusted" site like that makes me very uncomfortable.
I tried it once and it worked but after logging out changed my passwords and never used it again. Sure the passwords are probably "Passwords encrypted with 1024-bit RSA keys. Copyright 2005-2006 Meebo, Inc. All rights reserved." as it says on the site, but I dont really want to take that chance.
In 2004 the AAPT team were planning on using a kite sail the same as this in the annual Sydney to Hobart (Australia) ocean yacht race.
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info and photos here:
http://www.kitepower.com.au/news/index.php?id=1,6
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Sport/Lets-go-sail-a-k
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/2004/12/15/110
Due to heavy weather and headwinds predicted for the race I believe they didnt even take it out with them but they did testing prior to the race which was apparently successful. New laws were made to outlaw the kite sail for the next years race so I dont knwo if it was ever actually used in competition.
you want him to edit the stories without reading them?
>See what happens when you don't give a consultant the access he needs? He goes out and gets it himself!
No, this is what happens when you don't give a consultant the access he needs and he is a RAVING LUNATIC with a deathwish.
no kidding.
Admins, security depts and managers (though to a lesser extent generally) usually get pretty uppity with sharing passwords on ANY systems, and thats on internal systems for small time companys with sweet FA worth breaking in to. What the hell was this guy thinking? I suppose he thought those relaxed, easy going folks over at the FBI wouldnt mind if he ran some random script/program off the internet to retrieve some passwords so he can get on with the job.
I mean, its only a cracking/hacking script, people that write those are usually pretty stand-up guys right? And its only the FBI here, its not the NSA or anything! And I need to crack those passwords so I can do my job so that should be cool, right?
Is this the kind of consultant they have working on this new system? I imagine the security being implemented with it is state of the art then!
x is about between one 405millionths and one 324millionths of a VW beetle.
(where an average mozzie is 2.0 to 2.5 milligrams and a VW beetle is approx 810 Kgs - source wikipedia (except for the calculations which are mine so probably wrong)).