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  1. Selecting and sorting of news by staff while still branding as a free and open commons kind of alters that freedom to think and link.
    Or have account freedom after speech.

  2. The freedom to spy domestically on AT&T Is Spying on Americans For Profit, New Documents Reveal (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    New laws like the USA Freedom Act ensure every telco will collect data and have it ready for the US government.
    The color of law, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and past "partnerships" are back with new laws to get around the Fourth Amendment protections.

    "NSA Can Access More Phone Data Than Ever" (Oct 20, 2016)
    http://abcnews.go.com/US/nsa-p...
    "The USA Freedom Act ended the NSA's bulk collection of metadata but charged the telecommunications companies with keeping the data on hand."
    "... the percentage of available records has shot up from 30 percent to virtually 100."

  3. Enjoy been collected on on Snapchat, Skype Put Users' 'Human Rights at Risk', Amnesty Int'l Reports (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    So use that fact if your in the press. Plant lots of fiction based on your past reporting to bait or misdirect the nations tasked with illegal domestic collect it all.
    If the brand was part of PRISM and was happy to decrypt for the US gov over the years keep mentioning that for free.
    PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    If you write on political issues, fill your messages with stories about contacts, news from new whistleblowers, about new emerging and past political intrigues.
    Part of the tech media? A new free crypto that actually works as designed without a US trapdoor or backdoor designed in. That a select few in the press have been allowed to see but not mention yet is great bait.
    Free OS security apps that can find zero day gov malware and track back its origins. Be super creative and push the limits of tech fiction.
    Walk around areas of a city where it would be expected to meet with a mil/gov worker and keep the phone like device powered on.
    Fake notes in a cafe and send then back "encrypted" details your office and residence in real time. Be very creative.
    Make the brands popular messaging app collection irrelevant for both tracking and content. Give the tracking hardware and software to friends for a different walk or drive around.
    You still have freedom of expression, freedom of the press and the freedom after speech. So be creative and help fill the tasking systems.
    Be seen near any local protests, walk, carry a big old dslr, park locally to get your license plate near any event. If a chat down is induced by walking around in public, record it and put it on youtube with a lot of other first amendment audit videos.

    The method in all this is to go from interesting member of the press or an interesting person to the security services to been very, very boring.
    Got off their "Interesting People” list by using US device and software with junk encryption to flood illegal domestic collection with plain text fictional junk.
    Illegal domestic collection only works if the product is good, the people been tasked are very real and can be sorted and tracked.
    Go from a security risk to a risk to keep in any database due to all the fiction that clogs up domestic tasking.

  4. Its about German jobs in a company town in Germany.
    With the flow of illegal migrants wondering around the EU, it was hoped to have cheap union free workers and new robots.
    Now the US has removed some of that funding and Germany is stuck with a lot of illegal migrants and less cash for new robots and can only dream of union free production lines.

  5. Re 'even more convenient and powerful, with remote sharing and stuff, which isn't something the advertisers particularly want to see happen) and nobody wants to maintain 10 different accounts to find stuff, so the logical step would've been to congregate around a market leader or de facto standard early on[1] and try secure some good long term license deals or options while Netflix's position is weak."
    Expect big media and their cable friends to clone the streaming idea and make their own "new" lock in streaming shows.
    The final step will to be to region code any must have productions onto their own cable networks and traditional networks.
    No buying new shows and a flood of streaming imitations with the cash going back to big media.

  6. Re:Beginning of the end on Twitter Plans To Cut About 300 Jobs As Soon As This Week: Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    But the monarchies, theocracies and bureaucracies like their safe product that reports and removes users.
    Cant cults, kingdoms and big gov help grow the safe brand?

  7. Re:Staff have to be smart again on Seth's Blog: Hardware is Sexy, But It's Software that Matters (typepad.com) · · Score: 1

    Its getting hard to blame external issues :)
    More brands have to look at who they are adding to they own staff and why the products fail.

  8. Re:East Germany equals America on Electronic Surveillance Up 500% In DC Area Since 2011, Almost All Sealed Cases (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    It gets better. Even when laws are presented to slow the domestic spying down, reform is used as a legal gateway to perfect domestic spying.
    "NSA Can Access More Phone Data Than Ever" (Oct 20, 2016)
    http://abcnews.go.com/US/nsa-p...
    Welcome to the "USA Freedom Act" that gave the NSA 100% of all US domestic telecommunications companies.
    "As a result, the NSA no longer has to worry about keeping up its own database ... the percentage of available records has shot up from 30 percent to virtually 100."
    "Rather than one internal, incomplete database, the NSA can now query any of several complete ones."
    All telcos are helping at so many levels now. NSA, federal, state, city.

  9. Staff have to be smart again on Seth's Blog: Hardware is Sexy, But It's Software that Matters (typepad.com) · · Score: 1

    Why was in house dx12 support not ready? Why is the port of a game so bad on a desktop? Staff are just not the best anymore.
    Video is done at HD or 4K with free software or low cost solutions or software from a big hardware brand. Good enough to upload and share.
    Music is streamed and created by creative people or a group created by committee to sell well.
    VR is still been hyped as not inducing user issues and needs a gpu and cpu to get the frame rate.

    The problem now is branding and the optics of the brand in social media. The staff presenting well as a group on social media is useless.
    Having your best staff stop to help educate new team members for years is years lost on a product with your brand on it.
    Average staff with no creativity or ability now been placed in top projects is not useful long term to any brand.
    Stop including staff that need "support" for years on software projects. If useless staff have to be hired keep them away from software the consumers buy.
    A new building for new staff and their special projects will keep new staff well away from slowing down actual products.
    Government officials, inner city politicians, bloggers, tour groups can be shown what they need and want to see.

    Hire only the best to work on products and code great software again.

  10. Re:Encourage curiosity, not coding on Women in Computing To Decline To 22% by 2025, Study Warns (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Nations that pushed the science is great story that still see a final flow to medical science, biology, teaching, nursing and other science related topics.
    People with the funding and freedom to select a course enjoy what they want and pass really well.
    Better to produce the best computer support tools for university teaching so a nations graduates are the best
    Top pathologists, doctors, nurses all need computers and math but is the programming product been sold to them as a regulated turn key product?
    Pushing programming and coding might not work as all the products are ready and its more about learning the OS, network and systems not the code.
    i.e. get a book chapter out, enjoy a conference, working with existing regulated devices or in a lab setting and secure funding. The computer is a tool, not a tool that needs to be rediscovered every year.
    If a new super computing is needed, learn it or have the ability to get funding for expert staff. The numbers of staff with that kind of skill and access to real funding is not huge in most nations. Thats the real problem for most. The funding and great computer design jobs don't exist and never will for 90% of graduates.
    Only the top few are really going to design a computer OS or new language or have the access to fund computer designers for years. The lower 90% of the graduates will just be using computers sold to them to get great results.
    i.e. publications, conferences, starting new projects and getting real funding is fun. IT support asked in to upgrade the lab is .... unpacking imported equipment, years of paper work and calibration.
    Or you end up in the real world and have to run at a profit, look after staff and work with new product lines. Deal with governments and health insurance.
    The computers are used everyday, no need to waste time and effort programming daily on site.

  11. Get the apps out of the desktops and cell phones. Ban the apps until the hardware and software is secure.
    Get free AV and consumer grade AV products to scan the users home networks with the same passwords and test every device found as a default setting.
    Tell the user about the type of devices they have networked and the poor quality security some have.
    Get some real security from the 5 eye nations and find out who is doing the command and control.
    If its a person or bad country whats the problem with finding the origins?

  12. Re:Make ISPs at the source responsible on Slashdot Asks: How Can We Prevent Packet-Flooding DDOS Attacks? (oceanpark.com) · · Score: 1

    Whats the different between a user watching their CCTV from work or half way around the world using all the upload or been owned and part of some swarm?

  13. Re:Thanks, *hats on A New Attack Allows Intercepting Or Blocking Of Every LTE Phone Call And Text (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It depends why any telco issue exists and is fixed or not fixed.
    Greek wiretapping case 2004–05
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...–05
    SISMI-Telecom scandal
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    or why "Fake Mobile Phone Towers Operating In The UK"
    http://news.sky.com/story/fake...

  14. Re:Signal triangulation = GPS on Russians Seek Answers To Central Moscow GPS Anomaly (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    ".. what response there was to the influx of double-agents, or if the responses were effective."
    That can usually be seen with an influx of different science education offers, the building of listening stations globally, the power needs, cooling water and the rushed reaction to a few very select very fake signals collected.
    Antenna design, foundations, the need to involve a local gov/mil with a cover story.
    If billions get spent on placing hardware (like a long term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...) thanks to results of double agents telling a good story over decades?
    The over reaction in policy changes is noted or a better story is told.

  15. Re:The IoT as a connection? on US Police Consider Flying Drones Armed With Stun Guns (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    How smart is the software on the drone and is the antenna tested to set specs in the factory?
    If that can be measured or simulated a 3d printer with a study plan, read me and lists of materials and equipment could be passed around the inner city areas.
    Design once, print anywhere. Thats the problem with factory fixed hardware and limited software expecting to have a secure radio link.
    The next step is extracting the images sent back. Is the drone searching every part of the building or does it go direct to some location? That could show an informant issue and a map in advance?
    Following a drone's signal back to its command and control network, can that be a way into other networks? Is the drone feed been shared? Its all packed with encryption?

  16. Re:This doesn't sound like a clever idea on US Police Consider Flying Drones Armed With Stun Guns (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Think of the shareholders. Why sell a device any other nation can offer to US law enforcement at a lower cost?
    Make it special, US mil spec encrypted and enjoy a "no bid" security contract.
    Then make it a suggested part of every law enfacement budget. So staff can expect the same quality standards all over the USA. Get educated once, drone anywhere in the USA.

  17. Re:The IoT as a connection? on US Police Consider Flying Drones Armed With Stun Guns (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    But cant they just keep on adding heavy RF shielding? Add a bigger engine and carry more protection?
    When a R.F. noise generator is encountered for the first time think of the sales to counter such inner city creativity:
    Version 2.0 Feel the weight of the new shielding.
    Version 2.1a A tight beam of commands from a helicopter to a small dish on the big drone.
    Version 3.0 will be on wheels/tracks and just spool optical behind it for the length of the mission.
    The upgrades and up sell will keep shareholders happy for decades :)

  18. The IoT as a connection? on US Police Consider Flying Drones Armed With Stun Guns (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    How encrypted is that link?
    How much computer power in a parked van with carefully designed antennas is needed to build up a picture of the command and control link in a suburban setting per device?
    It really, really frequency hops and has super encryption?
    After that all that a device that sends a default return code or induces an error to make the drone stop and return.
    A bit like whats done to mil grade drones but as a production line in a city.
    A race to offer counter measures to the inner city and secure the drones again, more upgrades per drone.
    Up sell the police on new electronic warfare equipment to protect their drone? To track any passive collection attempts when the drone is in use?

  19. Re:Need to work with IoT developers and/or shame t on Dyn Executive Responds To Friday's DDOS Attack (dyn.com) · · Score: 1

    One way to do that is at the app level. Get the two big US brands to stop the smartphone integration of device apps that have a free flow onto the internet.
    The app gets delisted until the device is fixed or upgrades.
    It can be fixed by the IoT builders as they want cheap or use long supply chains.
    The consumer want easy, powered on, integrated, working devices. No entering long unique passwords deep in the packaging.
    Get AV firms to scan local networks and tell users their entire network and all their devices are unsafe on the internet?

  20. Re:How are all these consumer devices on the WAN? on Who Should We Blame For Friday's DDOS Attack? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    A long list of default passwords popped a lot of toys, IoT devices and got them to swarm via consumer networks?
    Default admin passwords, guest mode?
    All the altered devices with optical, coax, wireline offered huge bandwidth in the up direction on their low cost consumer plans that flooded the net at the same time?
    They all add up to a super smart online network that can focus on one task globally?
    Its strange how few are really pushing any party political narrative with this one.
    No code litter within hours, no set media stories about time zones, ip ranges, code fragments.
    So US law enforcement have some undercover staff or informants, NSA, GCHQ know and don't want the world to counter their global tracking, or its too many layers of p2p, VPN, hops to find command and control....

  21. Re:I use it and appreciate the developer's approac on VeraCrypt Security Audit Reveals Many Flaws, Some Already Patched (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is for travellers. Can the chat down at a crossing result in a scan of working hardware show any and all encryption?
    The user is then asked to decrypt.

  22. Re:The Usual Suspects on Who Should We Blame For Friday's DDOS Attack? (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    Given the billions the 5 eye nations spend on the "internet" and all their bases, camps and shared site globally finding the command and control should be not hard?
    Even if its encrypted or p2p2 or via a commercial or staging server, VPN or lots of hops, or in unexpected nations or by a few people.
    Will they show what their tech can do or save it for "cyber" events?
    Strange how well former crypto gov "operators", open-source counterintelligence operations and contractors can work together and in the open with the media if the code litter helpful to one side of politics?
    Maybe they got a hint of who did it and why and its not for public consumption or shows a method of tracking or the intelligence services have staff/informants in groups and had to keep their cover?
    The next push could be a roll out of laws, product lines, contractors, internal ion cooperation and hardware to "stop" such events?

  23. Re:How are all these consumer devices on the WAN? on Who Should We Blame For Friday's DDOS Attack? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    People have smart phones and want to see, change, connect, save new data, interact with some device from work or half a world away.
    To the older generation you used a "person" or a timer or a device created for that task that was not networked.
    Now that generations only know smart phones and the older generations want to be seen using apps its all network badly and on default passwords.
    Blame wifi, default settings on modems, devices, toys. Users wanting to be seen with the IoT without the IoT been on its own network with really unique security.

  24. Re:How do you secure the unsecurable? on Who Should We Blame For Friday's DDOS Attack? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Get consumer AV to scan the networked hardware with all listed easy to try passwords.
    Inform the user to change the password or to get a new device if its of a poor design that cant be fixed.

  25. Re:how big was it? on Dyn Executive Responds To Friday's DDOS Attack (dyn.com) · · Score: 1

    "Attacks on the Internet keep getting bigger and nastier" (22 Oct 2016)
    http://www.latimes.com/busines...
    "1.2 trillion bits of data every second" or
    "How Hackers Make Money from DDoS Attacks"
    http://fortune.com/2016/10/22/...
    "1.2 terabits of data per second"