Comcast at least, won't now release subscriber information without a subpoena.This ruling requires that a grand jury must issue the subpoena not a municipal court. This raises the barrier quite a bit. The ruling is at:http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/opinions/supreme/A-105-06%20State%20v%20Shirley%20Reid.pdf
I once had to determine the requirements for handling some crypto hardware we were about to receive from the NSA. Of course they had a manual, and among other things they recomended the use of a disc sander if a disk had to be cleaned. They had large removeable discs in mind, but it is the logical tool to use.
"Bombardier Recreational Products designers were asked to come up with a prospective concept for a recreational vehicle that would meet the needs of people in the year 2025" It appears to be a nice picture and maybe a model...one concept of several. It's not even marketing, just a little PR.
I don't know if it's still there, but there was house tricked up to look like a Hobbet hole on Rt. 206 North of Princeton, NJ twenty years ago. Round doors and windows would have made it a little hard to sell without a major rehab. The owner was an early adopter.
The DARPA web site http://www.darpa.mil/iao/ spells out their mission, including things like "Story telling, change detection, and truth maintenance". Check out their logo, it looks like something from a James Bond movie.
1. send a command (100b/s or 1Kb/s).
2. S/C telemetry responds repeating the command.
3. send execute command if 2 matches 1.
4. telemetry stream reports the results of the command.
All the above encrypted.
The owner would know in short order if the command was bogus and could take corrective action. It would be unlikely that a random command would have a disastrous effect.
I was a payload systems engineer for a major manufacturer of commercial communications satellites (now retired). All our birds had encrypted command links: DES for export or an NSA chip for domestic users. The command link was very narrow band and had a low data rate - everything happens in slow motion in orbit. The uplinks typically used a KW klystron and a 30' dish so jamming or DoS is difficult and would just about have to be an inside job at an earth station or a hostile government. We would never use an internet connection. If commands were sent from off site we would use dedicated phone lines. For launch ops we would set up two leased lines and a dialup.
There was one incident in the early 90s when "Capt. Midnight" broke into a TV channel with a rude message. That was an inside job, but I don't remember if he was caught. It did scare one customer into specifing an elaborate "intruder detection and elimination system" where the birds antenna pattern could be changed to put a null on the intruder.
All I can recommend is to use encryption - it's not that hard, and stay off the internet.
I just called Comcast. The guy was very emphatic that my service would not be affected. His reasons were less than coherent: "You have service with Comcast, we have nothing to do with @home." But at least his script said there would be no interuption.
A preprint of the paper reporting the experiment is posted at:
http://arXiv.org/find/hep-ex/1/au:+McFarland/0/1/0/2001/0/1
hep-ex/0104037 "Observation of an Anomalous Number of Dimuon Events in a High Energy Neutrino Beam."
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Comcast at least, won't now release subscriber information without a subpoena.This ruling requires that a grand jury must issue the subpoena not a municipal court. This raises the barrier quite a bit. The ruling is at:http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/opinions/supreme/A-105-06%20State%20v%20Shirley%20Reid.pdf
I once read an NSA document that recomended using a disk sander. Of course they had in mind large removable discs.
I once had to determine the requirements for handling some crypto hardware we were about to receive from the NSA. Of course they had a manual, and among other things they recomended the use of a disc sander if a disk had to be cleaned. They had large removeable discs in mind, but it is the logical tool to use.
"Bombardier Recreational Products designers were asked to come up with a prospective concept for a recreational vehicle that would meet the needs of people in the year 2025"
It appears to be a nice picture and maybe a model...one concept of several. It's not even marketing, just a little PR.
Well, that's a little more trouble than it's worth. The page killed Moz 1.5 dead on my win2k box
I don't know if it's still there, but there was house tricked up to look like a Hobbet hole on Rt. 206 North of Princeton, NJ twenty years ago. Round doors and windows would have made it a little hard to sell without a major rehab. The owner was an early adopter.
The DARPA web site http://www.darpa.mil/iao/ spells out their mission, including things like "Story telling, change detection, and truth maintenance". Check out their logo, it looks like something from a James Bond movie.
Excite WFM with 1.2b, but I do have cookies and JS on.
Well, I just read my hotmail with Mozilla 0.9.7 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221) No spoofing.
Haydn
An addendum: The command sequence was as follows:
1. send a command (100b/s or 1Kb/s).
2. S/C telemetry responds repeating the command.
3. send execute command if 2 matches 1.
4. telemetry stream reports the results of the command.
All the above encrypted.
The owner would know in short order if the command was bogus and could take corrective action. It would be unlikely that a random command would have a disastrous effect.
I was a payload systems engineer for a major manufacturer of commercial communications satellites (now retired). All our birds had encrypted command links: DES for export or an NSA chip for domestic users. The command link was very narrow band and had a low data rate - everything happens in slow motion in orbit. The uplinks typically used a KW klystron and a 30' dish so jamming or DoS is difficult and would just about have to be an inside job at an earth station or a hostile government. We would never use an internet connection. If commands were sent from off site we would use dedicated phone lines. For launch ops we would set up two leased lines and a dialup.
There was one incident in the early 90s when "Capt. Midnight" broke into a TV channel with a rude message. That was an inside job, but I don't remember if he was caught. It did scare one customer into specifing an elaborate "intruder detection and elimination system" where the birds antenna pattern could be changed to put a null on the intruder.
All I can recommend is to use encryption - it's not that hard, and stay off the internet.
I just called Comcast. The guy was very emphatic that my service would not be affected. His reasons were less than coherent: "You have service with Comcast, we have nothing to do with @home." But at least his script said there would be no interuption.
Haydn
A preprint of the paper reporting the experiment is posted at:0 /2001/0/1
http://arXiv.org/find/hep-ex/1/au:+McFarland/0/1/
hep-ex/0104037 "Observation of an Anomalous Number of Dimuon Events in a High Energy Neutrino Beam."