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  1. Re:android? on EFF Reverse Engineers Carrier IQ · · Score: 1

    The software was used by US telcos in a few different phone systems they offered ... i.e. sitting between the beloved safe 'open' android or more closed OS's, https and your fingers.

  2. If your of interest on Do Slashdotters Encrypt Their Email? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Your computer will be software or hardware bugged.
    Carrieriq showed the plain text deep state joy of https efforts on your average open or closed US mobile device.
    Sending encrypted mail will just make the NSA more curious.
    Sit down with your family, friends, faith group, business associates and work out a few simple comments that can flow into any text.

  3. Re:This is news for nerds?! on North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Il Dead at 70 · · Score: 1
  4. Re:At least Austin should be free of floods . . . on Apple Outsources A5 Chip Manufacture ... To Texas · · Score: 1

    Just your usual US pay-to-play political donations ect.

  5. Re:Occam's Razor on Was Russia Behind Stuxnet? · · Score: 2

    Russia sells products and services around the world. Why would they stuff up a project they got paid for and what to get done?
    Every project Russia brings in on time, on budget ect. is a great showcase to the world - to buy more nation building Russian or Russian related tech.
    Its very simple, you pay Russia, big product arrives and works.
    Stuxnet seems to be very well tested by people with a deep understanding of a subset of German hardware and very closed US software with the desire to create many problems.
    http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/01/with-stuxnet-did-the-u-s-and-israel-create-a-new-cyberwar-era/

  6. Re:Will we see this in mainstream medicine? on 17-Year-Old Wins $100K For Creating Cancer Killing Nanoparticle · · Score: 1, Troll

    Sure when they can patent your "cure" and turn you into a monopoly while undergoing lots of life long treatments.
    Few $100K to get a basic work up, then their factory in China produces your nanomeds.
    If they find you went shopping in Asia first and still have traces of infringing medical treatments, its lawyer time.

  7. Re:Anyone else not surprised? on Iranian TV Shows Downed US Drone · · Score: 1

    Yes the US learned a lot of Enigma and other "lost" Cold war device issues.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_D-21
    If you pack lots of fancy drone communication CPU boxes in, you have to cut sensors and power back other fun spy stuff.
    So I think the US packed in just enough to keep out script kiddies in the US, but nothing that would be too stressful if lost.
    Whats the drone doing, sucking up data, pumping it back to the US and getting ~targeting/flight path info.
    The US did the same with its old satellites, suck data up, encrypt well at the sorting level not in the drone.
    The data steam that got a face/voice print is just a long stream of data, bounced around the world.
    The face, voice, file and friends of friends and their computer use, phones ect. are the real prize, safe back at NSA/CIA ect.
    Chain and Russia would be handing out many different "Atmospheric Heater" to flood flight paths areas with massive amounts of energy.
    Did they get lucky or did their targeting work?

  8. Re:Zune Brown on Dell Kills Streak 7, Bails On Android Tablets · · Score: 1

    The GP did not select the colour brown or the name Streak, that was the expensive work of some of the best and brightest designers in the USA.

  9. Re:This isn't a rebuttal on Researchers Say Carrier IQ Isn't Logging Data, Texts · · Score: 1

    Have a search for 3G modems ;)

  10. Re:Why is CarrierIQ an issue? on Researchers Say Carrier IQ Isn't Logging Data, Texts · · Score: 1

    Think of it as a form of digital Tempest. Long range your https is safe.
    But like the electronic devices of the 1950's if your close, you get plain text.
    Every key you press is noted before the https is sent.
    So all the data is safe online, the math "workers" at teclos can tell the world the encryption they sell is "safe"
    But the plain text is still wide open :)

  11. Re:Opaque on GCHQ Challenge Solution Explained · · Score: 1

    Its what they taught the freedom fighters in the 1980's?

  12. Re:better a little more north on Apple May Build Oregon Data Center Next To Facebook's · · Score: 1

    They want to be "near" the $1.5 billion NSA centre Utah Data Center ~Camp Williams.

  13. Re:The Job Creators at Work on Apple May Build Oregon Data Center Next To Facebook's · · Score: 4, Informative

    Guards, a few low end staff to swap out the data media when needed 24/7, gardeners so the landscape looks pretty for a congress critter media event, a few smart admins to cover all the real time error reports (off site is fine).
    No need for on site engineers, plumbers, electricians, technical staff, admins - just swap out the media and look at id's at the gates.

  14. Re:Stasi on San Francisco Team Wins DARPA's De-Shredding Contest · · Score: 1

    Thats always a fun one. Some in the West helped the East or where blackmailed.
    With everyday of sorting, a name might drop out.
    Just think what the East had on some EU political parties too :)

  15. Re:Good on Video Game Consoles Are 'Fundamentally Doomed,' Says Lord British · · Score: 2

    +1, give us hi res, huge worlds, servers and many monsters. No more 640p efforts ported back to PC.

  16. Re:Can I download it? on UK Recruiting Codebreakers Via Social Networks · · Score: 0

    UKUSA agreement (or "Five Eyes") prohibits this?
    NZ and Australia came in under the UK ~ in 1946 via the UK-USA Technical Conference, Canada via agreements, letters and memoranda of understanding was finally entered in 1953.
    Most of the deal was to collect foreign signals via the residual British empire (e.g. Iraq, Egypt, Cyprus, Ceylon) as a "swap" for US tech and massive long term funding.
    "respect to their citizens" seems very distant from on the needs of the day i.e. a complete interchange of communications intelligence.
    Canada and Australia both tried to hold back early on for different reasons, but both got pulled into line.
    Intelsat and Morwenstow/GCHQ Bude showed what "respect" was in reality - British numbers (P-numbers) where lost in the domestic and international call mix - interception was everything and covered all calls.
    "Respect" was for the budgets and new hardware.

  17. Re:12 years?! on Aleph One 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Between telco work, new families, PhDs and a very tight dev community with set views on the look and feel of the game :)
    This was one neat idea http://jemmet.home.xs4all.nl/spnkrghol/3Dpolygonmap.html
    But visions like that did not last long.
    The map making tools have their own story too :)

  18. Re:Pathways remake still coming? on Aleph One 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Some people tried, then stopped. Always the Doom 3 PiD intro game :)
    So lets hope one day a group of dev and artists can get A1 PiD back again :)

  19. Re:Heard this before. on UK Plans Space Based Radar System · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They had Skynet in 1969, but the GCHQ got most of its bandwidth :)
    The classic 1980's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon_(satellite) shows what "initial investment of £21m" can really mean.
    The New Statesman trial showed what happened when the UK lost close to 1 billion pounds into 1980's UK "satellite" tech.
    In the end they used US tech for 500 million pounds.
    So with any UK space effort watch the cash flow :)

  20. Nothing new? on UK Announces "Cyber Strategy" · · Score: 1

    Protect MS products with more quality 3rd party AV?
    As for letting the GCHQ be seen in public - the UK tried this in the 1990's.
    The tracking of EU based crime went very well. All was set for a trial with transcripts from different parts of the EU.
    The problem is after the first big public show trial - who of real interest will ever use a mobile or computer in the same sloppy way again?
    They pulled back from the trial and the public embraced mobile and net use not really aware of what could be done.
    So they can listen to voice prints all they like, look at networks and share with the NSA.
    Strange how every UK gov likes to use data collected in a public way only to pull back from their vision of a low crime EU.
    They recovered from the Lord Curzon's quotes, the ABC trial, the Brinks Mat bullion robbery trace - the more the GCHQ skill set was seen in public -
    the more they risk it going dark again - will they risk a 29 October 1948 "Black Friday" after their next show trial?

  21. Re:George Orwell had it wrong on Obama Orders Federal Agencies To Digitize All Records · · Score: 1

    Thats why they can hand it over to the private sector. What the US gov cannot not collect, the private sector can share and build on.
    What the private sector cannot link over time, the US gov can do, medical, other govs.
    Any laws that stop the US gov, use private contractors or friendly govs outside the US e.g. Canada, UK.
    Databases are now very efficient, data entry is in place in most states in a shareable form.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office showed the vision before it was lost into other new projects.

  22. Re:Banning a HUGE Mistake on Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication · · Score: 1

    A bathroom with HEPA filters, a homemade airlock and lots of low cost lab equipment found online.
    Add in lab "samples" and a few years to get it all working .... just don't do the manifesto thing.

  23. Re:I believe this might have happened before with on Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication · · Score: 0

    Yes you had http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak
    Australia "lost" its rabbit controlling calicivirus during quarantine compound "testing" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbits_in_Australia#Biological_measures
    Who knows what the US lost from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum_Island_Animal_Disease_Center after the 1950's ???
    Don't worry, the US wanted to move its new high-security animal disease lab to .... Manhattan, Kansas.

  24. Re:As I keep telling my wife... on Next Apple iPhone To Have a 4 Inch Display? · · Score: 1

    Did she look at the Dell Streak?

  25. Re:The TSA will ruin this. on California Going Ahead With Bullet Train · · Score: 1

    Federal/state/private property will not stop the TSA ....
    They just find some locals and form a VIPR operation- "visible intermodal protection and response" team and go for a train station, buses, trucks... as invited by your state.