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  1. Re:Isn't it obvious? on Kenya Seeks Nuclear Power Infrastructure · · Score: 1

    They are trying to get out of poverty- thats classic post colonial nationalism - making the West pay more for needed cheap raw materials.
    CIA backed coup in 3,2,1...

  2. Re:Why no LEO? on ViaSat Delivers 12 Mbps+ Via Satellite · · Score: 2

    Geostationary makes it more easy for the NSA sat to collect all the communications.
    Nice to know where your needing remote communications, what your saying and where your packets are going, 24/7.
    Safe for long term tracking.

  3. Re:Seriously, guys on Leaked Memo Says Apple Provides Backdoor To Governments · · Score: 1

    My guess is that some people believe that because they have been invited to enough code conferences and seen how good the presented math is that ships in sub systems on their toy devices -
    1) Nobody could keep backdoors secret from all the smart hackers in any shipping closed code...
    2) Nobody could keep backdoors secret from all the smart developers in open source code...
    2.5) Nobody could ship a software layer between the keypad and https...
    3) They view leaking encryption sold to Iran, the NSA deal with IBM, the wide use of spyware deep in some EU telco systems ect. as very historical or exposed and fixed.
    4) Company X is my friend as they fully support open source code, are not MS/Apple, changed they way "I" use a computer thats now cheap, useful, safe and open...
    5) They trust the dual use idea, its not sending data back, its just for network quality, you can turn it off, not shipping it anymore, they destroyed all the collected data, it was a beta test, it was a third party, a mistake ... ect. Add in the life changing joy that the Cyber Security Industrial Complex might have guided them for a PhD, got them a 'free' math/code study trip to another part of the world, got them a very good job, got them a security clearance, then on to very compartmentalised consulting work - just like their parents.

  4. Re:China, India, et al better be careful... on China To Begin Submitting Air Pollution Reports · · Score: 1

    Vietnam is the place to go next. Cheaper and their Party understands the needs of investors rather a place on the world stage.

  5. Re:After all the advancements in cryptography on Israel Says It Will Treat Online Credit Card Theft As It Would Terrorism · · Score: 2

    If every point of sale, transfer, bank network and card is well encrypted the GCHQ and NSA will be very unhappy.
    For how long will they be able set and flood the world with very low cost weak crypto is the question.
    http://cryptome.org/nsa-v-all.htm
    Setting the Data Encryption Standard (DES) was the hint.

  6. Re:If they were profitable... on Shareholder Fight Threatens Mandriva SA · · Score: 1

    Maybe they can get the paper work in to be too French to fail?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_video_game_policy
    A French re imagineering of Tux Racer using advanced ray tracing - then they can get into super computing tax breaks and be the next Bull.

  7. Re:Just keep calm... on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way To Deal With Roving TSA Teams? · · Score: 1

    Just be sure your city does not have strange new permanent protest permit changes http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-emanuel-protest-permits-20120102,0,6937770.story
    eg. private real estate applications, Department of Transportation applications, time limits (length of protest time and between what hours), new rules on amplified sound and music, parade marshal ect.

  8. Re:Ummm, why... on Drones Within a Drone Riding a Balloon · · Score: 1

    As one system watches, another gets clearance to kill.
    Its a lovely public private partnership with shareholders getting a nice segment of all that new defence spending.
    http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-drones-civilians-20111230,0,6127185.story
    If you see something, kill something.

  9. Re:Reminds me of on Drones Within a Drone Riding a Balloon · · Score: 1

    The US did get the research and offer immunity to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731 for its biological and chemical warfare efforts on humans - they had balloon ideas too but with different payloads.

  10. Re:Why does the Indian military have the source??? on Symantec Looks Into Claims of Stolen Source Code · · Score: 1

    Some local long term http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Lantern_(software) ?
    i.e. keystroke logging software that was safe from some anti-virus companies.

  11. How would the classic hood and glasses hold up? on Avoiding Facial Recognition of the Future · · Score: 1

    Recall hiding your face with large sunglasses and hair with a hood - commented on with end user facial recognition back in 2009.
    http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-10363727-248.html
    Useful in winter/spring/fall and large sunglasses are easy to find.
    "We threw in more than 50 shots that included large sunglasses--none of which were picked up as recognisable."
    Anyone into todays Local Feature Analysis (LFA) vs the hinted at speed of nodal point databases like to comment on eye distance detection vs lens color and hood cover needed?

  12. Re:Prices ARE different on Why Do All Movie Tickets Cost the Same? · · Score: 1

    Wires, battery, led, thats a dry run circuit for an act of evil! - staff from your local fusion centre will be having a long chat with you.

  13. Re:Report terrorism - on EU Proposal Would Encourage Web Users To Flag Suspicious Web Pages · · Score: 1

    UK, Spain, parts of France/Germany, east of Austria - for generations the idea of informing was a positive.
    Just moving with the times from "packages" and "strangers" to webpages.
    Its a great EU boondoggle - the reporting site/plug in, every page has to be looked at, passive log requests of low risk sites, ongoing surveillance of more interesting people.
    Admis/sites been investigated... dossier updated with voice prints, new faces, sharing of intel with the US
    All that expensive software to rent/expertise on over time/hardware sales, telco and isp staff setting up logging... never ending site logs to sort.
    Then roll out the informants, long term persona management jobs... infiltration.. , raids... courts, private prison contractors, extradition requests...

  14. Re:Blowing smoke out their asses. on Iran Tests Naval Cruise Missile During War Games · · Score: 1

    Why would they start a conflict? Iran has not invaded any other country for some time and seems wise about not falling into that trap..
    We might see a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident#NSA_report -
    "only information that supported the claim that the communists had attacked the two destroyers was given to Johnson administration officials"
    or as was suggested in 2008 "The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran"
    http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_hersh
    "Initial reports of the incident made public by the Pentagon press office said that the Iranians had transmitted threats, over ship-to-ship radio"

  15. Re:Transiting the Hormuz.. on Iran Tests Naval Cruise Missile During War Games · · Score: 1

    Yes re 'hit the target from above" pop up will be interesting
    http://exiledonline.com/the-war-nerd-this-is-how-the-carriers-will-die/all/1/

  16. Thinking back to Millenium Challenge '02 on Iran Tests Naval Cruise Missile During War Games · · Score: 5, Informative

    Read about small boats and aircraft did during US war games under Gen. Paul van Ripen.
    U Sank My Carrier! By Gary Brecher
    http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=6779
    "send everything at once"

  17. Re:why on earth on SCADA Vulnerabilities In Prisons Could Open Cell Doors · · Score: 1

    Just watching their investors cash.
    Why have expensive, tech trained local "union" staff on site when you can a few remote experts to watch over aspects of your state wide prison IT system.
    Why hire so many expensive state accredited IT staff when you can log in a few - over weekends, nights - to solve issues, updates.
    It also locks down the contractors systems - no locals can sit around working out a new system - a low bid is paid for by a long term cash stream for remote 'support'.

  18. Re:In a word...yes. on Is Twitter Aiding and Abetting Terrorism? · · Score: 1

    Let the GCHQ and NSA enjoy their network.
    Stop making the freedom fighters think about the need to go dark and let them feel safe on the net.
    Every ip, voice print, email, image, video posted is useful.

  19. Re:incredible on Attack Tool Released For WPS Setup Flaw · · Score: 1

    The same thinking that went into the 56 bit Data Encryption Standard as been "free of any statistical or mathematical weaknesses"?
    http://cryptome.org/nsa-v-all.htm
    If its crypto and many people use it - expect it to be weak, carrieriqed ect.
    The real trick is getting so many very very smart people to buy into wifi and use it around the world as usable.... safe....

  20. Re:Surprise? on Insects Rapidly Becoming Resistant To GM Corn · · Score: 1

    Its a surprise to the investors who thought they could sell terminator seeds and use courts to control a revenue stream on a new generation of legally protected crops.
    Everything was in place. The changes to US law, the ability of the US to push its new agro products and laws world wide, a wonderful new crop selection and the joy of setting next years seed prices every year.
    The critters are doing a select few out of billions of $ of intergenerational wealth - think of all the "trustafarians" who would have been happy on their GMO investment trust portfolios :(

  21. Re:Trust? on Why American Corporate Software Can No Longer Be Trusted · · Score: 3, Informative

    Re "If it's phoning home, we can detect it."
    The problem is not so much what is "phoning home" everyday but the carrieriq like layer between any shipped phone in parts of the world wrt https and all input.
    From 2006 "FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool" http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html
    Before that you had the fun of the safe 56 bits and the Data Encryption Standard.
    More at http://cryptome.org/nsa-v-all.htm
    Products have shipped for generations before smart people began to discover what they had really installed and recommended beyond the accepted public math and low price.

  22. Re:Go! on Anonymous Hacks US Think Tank Stratfor · · Score: 1

    Bill O'Really likes spread out their info during interviews/talking points ... usually to help hype a new war or keep up interest in an old war :)

  23. Re:What's wrong with their space program? on Satellite Piece Crashes Through Man's Roof · · Score: 1

    The past was built on "Gulag" science and some German technicians not found by the US/UK/French teams.
    If the closed Soviet science city performed, you got good food and the joy of been on the short list for an apartment.
    If not - much worse job, Gulag or death.
    Now all Russia has is ageing Soviet era teams and young people trained on imported western computer tech trying to pick over what was not lost or sold off in the 1990's.
    Nothing really worked that well, in the past it was just all airbrushed out.

  24. Re:People fear change and the unknown on New Study Confirms Safety of GM Crops · · Score: 1

    Read up on Genetic use restriction technology (GURT) i.e. the single use/suicide seeds - terminator technology.

  25. Re:I smell a class action suit on EFF Reverse Engineers Carrier IQ · · Score: 2

    I hope it wakes a generation up. So may thought the https as offered was safe via the trusted device and telco.
    This shows how many layers can sit between the users and the trusted network - open or closed in every phone shipped in parts of the world.
    Many noted it sends "nothing" back - but it still shows how easy it is to get a whole generation of devices shipped with any shipped or installed crypto dead out of the box.
    Where are the telco open source developers, former big telco contractors on this?
    All we got was ~ "its hard to keep a software secret in 'our' new open source world" or "https math is safe down the network"