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  1. Re:Darn kids these days on UK Police Charge Suspected Anonymous Spokesman · · Score: 1

    "civilian informants"? I think they would be able to map out most local people having contact for cash ect....
    If the night raids get too good in your area, you have an informant..
    No need for complex computer files in areas where people are close .. the namers listed in any "free", "gift to the world" "download" databases might be traps ..
    COINTELPRO was great at getting groups to replace their own top leaders with well placed gossip.

  2. Stuxnet super worm .. on Hackers Could Open Convicts' Cells In Prisons · · Score: 1

    Recall all the Stuxnet comments on how it was so unique and targeted it was.
    The perfect safe digital weapon with layers of unique code to seek out a sub set of industrial units.
    Now cost cutting Microsoft based programmable logic controllers are at risk in other areas...
    Why are so many expensive unique projects connected to low end Windows code?

  3. Re:Engrish? on Foxconn To Employ 1 Million Robots · · Score: 1

    Long complex production lines with a robot per few tasks? ...
    http://eandt.theiet.org/magazine/2011/05/teardown.cfm notes an ipad2 has "1,227 (excluding box contents), of which 652 components reside on the Main PCB and 227 on the 3G Module."
    ~1000 parts to move around ... x stations with "robot" units .. x production lines running 2/4
    More robots to keep parts flowing 24/7

  4. Re:So many accidents... on Google Grabbed Locations of Phones, PCs · · Score: 2

    Yes cars all over the world getting all that data and nobody 'found' it during local beta testing ... or during a review. They just signed off on it, stage after stage ...
    Its all just that "one" person using net code that one time ... just once and it got past all the smart people all over the world looking after data collection in all the cities ... all the trials, testing, reviews - they all missed it.
    How strange was that.

  5. Re:News for nerds? on Google Grabbed Locations of Phones, PCs · · Score: 1

    Interesting http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9920665-7.html was about the P2P illegal file hunt.
    They hinted at "software captures "unique serial numbers" from the person's computer".

  6. Re:Not this crap yet again! on Google Grabbed Locations of Phones, PCs · · Score: 1

    1. It it was with so "*most* of it truncated" they still got details like- username and password.
    http://www.macworld.com/article/158671/2011/03/google_streetview.html
    "There's absolutely 0 new information here" - they got fined in court 100,000 euros, about $143,000 i.e. the nothing wrong line repeated so so many times is now 'old'

  7. Re:Why? on A Linux Distro From the US Department of Defense · · Score: 1

    http://articles.boston.com/2011-01-05/news/29335792_1_child-pornography-investigation-pentagon very true.
    Could be more into who would be interested in a .mil distro? - who has the skills and who shows an interest.

  8. GCHQ staff in UK schools seeking 'future spies' on Queen Elizabeth Sets a Code-Breaking Challenge · · Score: 0

    The UK has long lost it White Russian and ~ww2/cold war mass draft like testing generation to find needed languages.
    So the GCHQ will reach out to schools with "ambassadors" to make maths, crypto ect. seem fun and help with languages of long term national interest like Russian and Arabic.
    GCHQ staff teach 'future spies' in schools (March 2011) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-12675368
    A challenge just builds on a basic need for finding the next generation of gifted young people. Getting them young also allows better filtering and testing for a future "Katharine Gun".
    GCHQ translator cleared over leak http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3485072.stm

  9. Re:Think harder... on The Cost Of Broadband In Every Rural Home · · Score: 1

    Yes read what was done in Australia with wimax http://www.internode.on.net/news/2008/01/71.php
    "“With good line of sight, we are achieving speeds as fast as six megs per second at distances up to 30km from the base station. This is not a theoretical result – it’s a real world outcome."
    (30km is near 18.6 miles)
    So a system like that with good antennas may help many in the US to find broadband or offer the freedom to select a new broadband provider.

  10. Re:A better question on 5 Concerns About Australia's New Net Filter · · Score: 1

    Re: Why aren't the authorities using their resources to actually find, arrest, and confine the people
    http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/224056/federal_police_anti-porn_operations_cut_by_razor_gang/
    They cut $2.8 million from the Online Child Sex Exploitation Team in Australia....
    I guess the filter did better with a focus group?

  11. Re:What the fuck is a "Tumblr blog"? on Apple Store Artist Raided By Secret Service · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Democrat Debt Default Plan on How America Can Get Its Tech Mojo Back · · Score: 1

    It's a great plan, when you want any economy holding too many US$ to crash and burn.
    Historically the US got oil, sold a lot of weapons systems and traded in raw materials cheaply via the impressive US $.
    Many parts of the world are now left holding near empty oil wells, export quality tanks/jets, a few very expensive dams/roads/mines and a pile of US paper to show for all their unique export wealth.
    What have the US elite got to lose? They can buy up a crashed world for cents in the new $US.
    Want an island, new mine, new dam, the big telco, a country?
    The US Government will win, just not in a nice way for your savings account as the old US$ your holding fails.

  13. Re:Why has it taken so long for anyone to think... on Airplanes Cause Accidental Cloud Seeding · · Score: 1

    The Airline industry was subsidised, nationalistic and futuristic. Nothing was going to be allowed to get in the way of its expansion.
    If decades of “tombstone technology" (when there are enough tombstones the technology gets fixed) was allowed to slip whats a bit of weather changing :)

  14. Re:Effect on TOR on Los Alamos Fire Idles NSA Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    cheap and annonymous 1Us colo-ed in various random places and/or cheapy VPS instances all being paid for by front companies with PO boxes and horribly forgettable names.
    Yes http://cryptogon.com/?p=624 had "High-Traffic Colluding Tor Routers in Washington, D.C., and the Ugly Truth About Online Anonymity" on just that in 2007 :)

  15. Re:Politics making technology useless on The Patriot Act and the EU Cloud · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If the US has a base, is friendly with a nation or your telco loops data via friend of the US or a country with a US base ....
    Your data is now US data and has been for many years. The problem with the Patriot Act is you not just been watched anymore.
    Think hard before you share too much data with anything US on a network.

  16. Re:Does this surprise anyone ? on Microsoft May Add Eavesdropping To Skype · · Score: 1

    The US has had a long history of bringing in tech, from aspects of radio, jets, rockets ect.
    Now they have most of the worlds VOIP servers and staff within reach of the US legal system.
    The only shock is the price, and that MS had all the tech - someone wanted Skype in the US.
    What was hinted when the sale was first mentioned ie US crypto and legal wiretaps issues seems to be the reason that fits.
    Skype must have been a few extra steps for US SIGINT and now thats fixed.

  17. Re:A berm? on Flood Berm Collapses At Nebraska Nuclear Plant · · Score: 2

    http://www.cartoradiations.fr/Fort_Calhoun.php has pic of the water and berm surrounding the plant.

  18. One final performance on Sony Develops Technology To Hack Your Hand · · Score: 1

    Recall the movie Shooter http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0822854/ ?
    No more messy machines needed to set up a "suicide".

  19. Re:I wonder on The Intentional Flooding of America's Heartland · · Score: 1

    engineering measures?
    http://www.cartoradiations.fr/Fort_Calhoun.php
    Hope the berm (rubber barrier) around Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant (shut down for maintenance) holds ...
    http://iowaindependent.com/57751
    http://www.journaldemocrat.com/topstories/x2108618113/NRC-TRACKING-FLOODING-AT-TWO-NEBRASKA-NUCLEAR-POWER-PLANTS
    Long term the US has to spend cash on basic maintenance - nothing really ominous about the reality of building dams ect and then expecting them to last many extra decades.
    The real fun is in who ensures laws are re written so basic inspections become 'evil' at a state level.

  20. Re:AH so that's what on Moon Dust Back In NASA's Hands · · Score: 1

    Jarrah White has some great moon vids and some on moon rocks ;) http://www.youtube.com/user/WhiteJarrah

  21. Re:You're failing to get the point. on Telstra Fears LulzSec Attacks, Hesitates On Internet Filter · · Score: 1

    The MS rep from the US used 3 napkins over a very expensive lunch - the line art on napkin 2 shows they are safe.

  22. Re:This just in on Telstra Fears LulzSec Attacks, Hesitates On Internet Filter · · Score: 1

    With all the telco consolidation in the US, how many telcos will you have left to enjoy that ipad3 or android or Windows Phone ect on?
    Soon you may face your largest/only two mobile telecoms offering a clean feed unless you opt out to enjoy the full web as an adult who showed photo ID and pay extra?
    Whats tested in loser zones like the UK, Australia, Canada often gets a roll out later in the US.
    Just as facebook/google is searched during a job application, do you think your request for an "opt out" will be really really private?

  23. Re:Victory for Civil Disodience on Telstra Fears LulzSec Attacks, Hesitates On Internet Filter · · Score: 1

    The cyber rights movement has begun. No to cyber segregation. Australian ISP's are a lot like the bus companies in the deep south.
    All that expensive infrastructure needs a lot of users paying in every month.
    Just as empty buses rolled, users can find other isp's.

  24. Re:Who gets to say what's on the list? on Telstra Fears LulzSec Attacks, Hesitates On Internet Filter · · Score: 2

    Federal police would get lists from around the world.
    Write ins for medical, faith and political issues will then start to flow.
    If you can print and post a nice letter, put together a reason why a site should be banned, it might be added :)

  25. Re:Who is LulzSec? on LulzSec Posts First Secret Document Dump · · Score: 1

    A lot of start up funding, promotions, budgets depend on much public 'cyber' going down 'soon' to ensure the rapid expansion of Cyber 3.0 and huge new contracts.
    If not funding flows to other areas. Large budgets get set lower long term, 100's of megawatts in power lost.
    Need to get public interested rising fast .... must save budget and prestige ...