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  1. Re:AGW on Michael Mann Vindicated (Again) Over Climategate · · Score: 1

    building your nuclear power infrastructure?
    The US can't even look after the nuclear power infrastructure it has.
    http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/08/23/virginia.quake.nuclear/
    "One of those generators failed a few minutes after it kicked in, said Joey Ledford, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory"

  2. Re:Clearly Biased Article on Controversial Cybercrime Bill Introduced In Australia · · Score: 2

    AC did you read http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jscc/cybercrime_bill/report/additional_comments.pdf ?
    ASIO (Australia's national security service ~MI5) gets more power.
    Your ISP will preserve traffic data for a ***foreign country*** in response to a mutual assistance request. (A 24/7 tap thats .au legal, NSA is in from the cold)
    Traffic may be stored for up to 180 days
    Domestic investigation data is shared without request to any country Australia likes.
    No independent oversight.
    Not clear on 'telecommunications data' - what can they collect?
    No dual criminality test for mutual assistance - if your ip is found anywhere in the world on any forum...

  3. Re:I'm confused ... on Google Street View Gets Israeli Government's Nod · · Score: 1

    That feeling of a unique brand image around the world?
    It also blocks any politically connected/protected/national champion/ex military start up/telco from doing maps locally and selling ads/telco cellphone ads/maps/deals.
    A country without a Google maps is like a company/bureaucracy without MS Word. Its bad to let anyone ever fill the brand name void and create buzz. Best to cut a deal, any deal and stop any competition for cell phone/tablet tracking/local ads.
    No directory assistance calls, call records and billing "telco" is going to out map Google. The NSA gets a optical line in deep a region of interest?

  4. Re:Why? on Anonymous Breaches Another US Defense Contractor · · Score: 2

    People in 1940's-90's Eastern Europe risked loss of work, jail time i.e. "throwing their own lives away" for telling jokes or joining a peace groups, asking questions about loved ones, handing out a pamphlet...
    With Romas/COIN now Odyssey - peace group is joke on you.

  5. Re:More information please on Former Wikileaks Spokesman Destroyed Documents · · Score: 1

    If you leak you know most parts of the world have internal document tracing. From layout, spelling, names, dates, small changes, work that has passed by many 100's of trusted names can be traced back to 10's.
    If you work in such a system- that list can have extra/less names that where only for your dept, unique clearance level, very short term project, internal or contractor use ect.
    But the person still leaks ..
    Someone wanted this released or some gov saw value in having it leaked .. let the world of press/bloggers/citizen journalist/ ex spooks work it out over time.

  6. Re:They are in for a suprise on 25,000 Danish Hospital Staff Moving To LibreOffice · · Score: 2

    Don't worry. The US company will offer low rent just to stop the idea from spreading.
    If that fails they will call in the State Dept.
    Words will be had with the gov and a list of troublemakers presented. People who pushed for 'free' will get new jobs, be offered packages or new safe positions well away from the stress of buying software.
    A new cost saving deal will done the new staff and US exports will be safe again.

  7. Escape the China syndrome on Rare Earth Restrictions To Raise Hard Drive Cost · · Score: 0

    "Race for rare earths" broadcast on the 18/08/2011
    Come to Australia http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2011/s3296991.htm
    The US, Europe, Japan are interested and it will only cost A$700 to $800 million (A$~=US$).
    Get your vision goggles, spy radar, missile guidance and tank navigation systems supplies from friends :)
    We love US investors and your open ended defence funding goes a long way in Oz :)

  8. Re:No sense at all on UK Men Get 4 Years For Trying to Incite Riots Via Facebook · · Score: 1

    I think England would like to see its ~1970's bank robbery and "Irish" legal thinking extended to social networking.
    Expect to see a web 2.0 "conspiracy to commit" legal roll out.

  9. Re:Correction on Accused Teen Bomber Finds FBI Surveillance Team's Wireless Network · · Score: 1

    With http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_center its all in the mix.
    Local, state, fed, mil - its all local now.

  10. Re:Existing Database on The London Riots and Facial Recognition Technology · · Score: 1

    You would have some photo taken at some point. School, welfare, bank account, job, passport, some licence may all need a new photo taken or photo id submitted on application.
    The math of your face would do the rest.

  11. Re:Anti camera tech on The London Riots and Facial Recognition Technology · · Score: 1

    I am sure all that digital traffic is been recorded and sorted in real time - face, voice prints, ip's.
    Roof tops, intelligence teams, air surveillance. The facial math for eye position, nose, lip is not too expensive to compare to every id photo in the UK.
    In the near term its gathering all the electronic data in near real time and acting on it with a lot of snatch squads night after night.
    Long term elite units fresh from colonial wars will start getting "supplies", images and maps ready.

  12. Re:would somebody tell me on The London Riots and Facial Recognition Technology · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes massive cost cutting and "positional asphyxia" over the years "Deaths in police custody since 1998: 333; officers convicted: none"
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/03/deaths-police-custody-officers-convicted
    http://cryptome.org/info/totten-protest/totten-protest-01.htm
    The Darcus Howe interview with the BBC is very telling too.

  13. One morning on Macs More Vulnerable Than Windows For Enterprise · · Score: 1

    I found 10.7 with Airport turned on and little snitch (software outgoing firewall for Mac OS X) needing to be reinstalled....
    Could it be?

  14. Re:No bandwidth limiting yet on External Thunderbolt Graphics Card On Its Way · · Score: 1

    Will be great for a Mac mini. Energy use is low when working in OS X, then enjoy a Windows game at okish fps for a while in bootcamp.

  15. Re:Every 'IT act' in India provides some serious L on India Wants To Monitor Twitter, Facebook · · Score: 1

    See if you can find a video called "India - Who Killed The Sikhs" ~35 mins.
    Its strange what "data" human rights groups can turn up.
    Your right, why any state actor, supporter would let any "group" ever use any IT is strange.
    Italy was able to put together the trail of a rendition operation in court http://articles.latimes.com/2008/may/29/world/fg-rendition29 using telco logs.

  16. Re:I hope you don't mind on India Wants To Monitor Twitter, Facebook · · Score: 2

    http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/blackberry-messenger-used-to-perpetuate-riots-in-london/12089
    Seems law enforcement are all over the web 2.0, social media act.
    In Eastern Europe they had to get informants into the protest groups, now politically active people carry their own unique beacons for free.

  17. Re:Who uses FB anymore anyway? on Facebook Now Using Natural Language Processing · · Score: 1

    Daniel Ellsberg, Former State and Defense Dept. Official on Facebook and FBI :)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYqWabxYhSs

  18. Re:Telstra on Verizon Cracks Down On Jailbreak Tethering · · Score: 1

    Sure recall http://apcmag.com/telstra-to-block-ipad-micro-sims-in-other-devices.htm
    It was fun deal when the new devices entered the Australian market and they wanted in on the buzz.
    You can use any device you want until x00 megs.
    In Australia its a per meg limit. In the US its a rent the $x1000 dongle with some 'free'* downloads.

  19. Re:49 Year Old Militant Feminist Grandmother Here on DARPA Commits To Funding Useful Hacking Projects · · Score: 1

    Re a few absurd gross historical generalisation?
    A 56k using UFO hunter used a perl script to glide around a set of wide open MS "mil" US networks.
    The CIA has In-Q-Tel like fronts to seek any useful project at any price and nobody will know.
    DARPA has.... like fronts and nobody will know.
    The US has usually found solutions to its language, math, computer, crypto, science ect. issues very quickly, with less press and with lots of cash.
    Yet now we are to believe the US suffers from unique bug related, surface area and very real "high-end" computing issues.... all very public and only "You" can help..

  20. Re:made to government spec on Defcon Hacks Defeat Card-And-Code Locks In Seconds · · Score: 1

    With residential key box programs spreading all over the US, good standards are going to get interesting.
    Sneak and peek :)

  21. Re:Why are western nations silent? on China's 5-Year Cyberwar Met With Western Silence · · Score: 2

    Reading http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/09/operation-shady-rat-201109
    "After identifying the command-and-control server, located in a Western country" ....
    Mb the average Western spook wanted to keep it flowing to see who collected or what was been collected in a part of the world where telcos where 'friendly'.
    Nothing like a "Room 641A" in a "Western country" for ducting off a telcos bulk data in real time, no questions, legal teams, contacts, requests, meetings...
    Also think of national self interest and the joy of having a huge flow of interesting international data ending in a local telco/isp- and getting the first look.

  22. Re:That didn't take long on Widespread Hijacking of Search Traffic In the US · · Score: 2

    http://www.usenix.org/event/leet11/tech/full_papers/Zhang.pdf paper quoted is the only real missing link.

  23. Re:Who's at the door? on First PS3 Jailbreaker Arrested In South Africa · · Score: 1

    vs say the green boots of Koevoet.

  24. Re:Anonymous on London Could Soon Get Free Wi-Fi Everywhere · · Score: 1

    "paranoid side of the bed this morning"?
    Well lets see http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1041011/MI5-launch-spy-sky-UK-manhunt-British-Taliban-fought-Afghanistan.html for the interest in voice prints.
    http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/363802/wired-coppers-the-new-technology-behind-old-bill/3 Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR)/CCTV.
    and the http://www.independent.co.uk/news/facerecognition-cctv-launched-1178300.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4035285.stm for the joys of tracking your face...
    Mix in ideas of the Data Retention Directive, the past skills of the GCHQ, MI5 funding .... you would only need to be seen near one access point.
    A laptop user would have to be lucky all the time. A CCTV network only has to be lucky for a few frames...

  25. Re:Anonymous on London Could Soon Get Free Wi-Fi Everywhere · · Score: 1

    Expect many vans, GCHQ tracking and Forward Intelligence Teams to be all over this wonderful "free" gift :)
    All the CCTV and databases waiting as you type away, for free, sharing your MAC, ip, passwords, unique browser data and a nice face pic when you look up.
    They have your online interests, face, track your car via OCR, your friends with you ... all for free and in the open.
    If you make a VoIP call - your voice print too - enjoy your free anonymous laptop use in London.