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  1. Re:In Soviet Russia .... on Russian Lie Detector ATM · · Score: 1

    In Capitalist Russian kleptocracy ATM offers easy credit to you.
    In Soviet Russia ATM credits post colonial Africa with you.

  2. Re:the US is broke on Chinese Tianhe-1A Supercomputer Starts Churning Out the Science · · Score: 2

    Dont worry the CIA understands China, like it understood the Soviets.
    At anytime they can induce cults, fads, music, addictive sci fi, secessionist movements, hardware, software issues, payment issues, NGO "outrageous", intellectual property, middle class rights, property bubbles ect.

  3. Re:Not false. on Thomas Drake Innocent of All Ten Original Charges · · Score: 1

    Really depends how they wanted to be seen. Well outside the US, mess with telco in a public way, your suicided.
    The UK and US have faced people in court before. Their great fear is the press about the global reach of intercepts.
    The UK never wants another ABC trial, Aubrey/Berry and Campbell put quality public information on the GCHQ together and where taken to court on a "secrets" change in the late 1970's.
    The NSA faced the same over the years, then you had the Sibel Edmonds in the US, Katharine Gun in the UK (case dropped very quickly), Mark Klein and Room 641A.
    Pre-911 the NSA was much smaller, post-911 the NSA wanted to tell anyone in the US gov about their skills and what they knew about pre 911, they where not asked much.
    They have now got massive, rapid funding. The fun part is the press is now all about the trail and not the original "whistle-blower investigation"/"financial waste"/"legal practices" aspect. A big win :)

  4. Re:In Apple's defense on Police Say Mac Tech Installed Spyware To Photo Women · · Score: 1

    The NSA owns your internet, the cable landing sites, your consumer grade crypto/OS ect. from day one.
    A state "taskforce"/city might be interested. Rented as amazing new next gen first of its kind remote Mac surveillance software well off the radar of any Mac anti virus software ... by a trusted contractor.

  5. Re:Little Snitch? on Police Say Mac Tech Installed Spyware To Photo Women · · Score: 1

    If he ran it first and selected allow, any outgoing software firewall would let it pass as safe.
    It would take a look in the allowed apps list if it even showed up as something new or different?
    Physical access would allow the setting up/clearing of any security apps/logs.
    If the user did have too much security, try the next user?

  6. Re:Mac cam : LED on on Police Say Mac Tech Installed Spyware To Photo Women · · Score: 1

    Internal and external webcam LED lights up, its a known issue, google finds Mac comments going back years.
    Not really dependant on any make, year, OS X version.

  7. Re:Job skills on Police Say Mac Tech Installed Spyware To Photo Women · · Score: 1

    The feds think its better to ensure the safe roll out of cams in state 'gifted' laptops than let the limited press surrounding one school district upset the web 2.0 version of a super "pen recorder".
    Think of the good the cams can do as more and more impressionable young people self radicalize in the privacy of their own homes.
    The feds can passively get pics, video and sound as lone wolves transform into home-grown cells and connect up with more like minded people.
    Meeting with their free networked laptops running, sharing literature, video clips, music, pills, encryption hardware and chatting about expensive foreign gap year vacations.

  8. Re:More to the point on Why the US Govt Should Be Happy About Wikileaks · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout and the people who crafted the incredibly well written and well reasoned paragraphs are very happy.

  9. Re:Maybe I'm naive, but... on Facebook Facial Recognition Raises New Privacy Concerns · · Score: 2

    Astonishing Tribe had Recognizer, there was Face Match, think back to Operation Nobel Shield. Add in the Local Feature Analysis (LFA) vs the hinted at speed of nodal point databases and the known US populations size - public and private facial recognition is getting interesting, cheap and very fast.
    Your face and someone who is a friend of a friend ... could be on a list. A one person list, a private firm or government - once they have you connected with a pic you uploaded?

  10. Re:2 players, 1 Screen, 2D yes? on Sony's Solution To Split-Screen Multiplayer · · Score: 1

    I was thinking do you get all the colors too :)

  11. Re:Wow on Checkpoint of the Future Coming Soon To Airports · · Score: 1

    They have you if you drive too - your face, OCR, car
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F90wnuWo6jk

  12. Re:OS X - Plain old search on Ask Slashdot: Software To Organise a Heterogeneous Mix of Files? · · Score: 1

    Spotlight was bad on slow systems as it indexed. With better ssd's and updates it seems to be not as bad now.

  13. Re:This means "Was never secure" on RSA Admits SecurID Tokens Have Been Compromised · · Score: 1

    After Enigma, Crypto AG, the Clipper chip initiative - the past would say your right.
    Young nerds go to public international crypto conferences, see the new big public math.
    They run back to their employee and buy generation after generation of closed boxes promised to be based on the safe math they so enjoyed with their peers.

  14. Re:two factor? on RSA Admits SecurID Tokens Have Been Compromised · · Score: 2
  15. Re:Lies, damn lies on RSA Admits SecurID Tokens Have Been Compromised · · Score: 1

    Company: It's just a little hacked. It's still profitable, it's still profitable!
    It's just a little compromised, it's still profitable, it's still profitable!
    It's just a little copied, it's still profitable, it's still profitable!
    Tech: [Crestfallen.] It's public.
    Company: I know.

  16. Re:how do they know? on 25% of US Hackers Are FBI/CIA Informers · · Score: 1

    You have known numbers from Eastern Europe in the 1980's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi that gives a feel of the needed occasional informants 'count' of a state under threat.
    Lets try the math: 50 states, 1-4 fusion centers per state, a few 100 trusted workers. ~1-3 0000 real people with ~10-100 useful online user names that get pushed/kept warm/updated online during weekends, holidays, when forums/chatrooms get a hot topic.
    Add in the people who have done deals, enrolled in patriotic cyber defence initiatives, feedback from computer repair shops seeing 100 of computers with no expectation of privacy -
    Add in the private sector for pure passive data collection .. hows the maths looking vs people who can write a useful computer program in Windows/Unix in the US?

  17. Re:And that's just 1 agency from 1 country on 25% of US Hackers Are FBI/CIA Informers · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the world wide wiretap. If you blog about issues, expect a flood of strange ip's from strange data centers and massive telcos to be all over your site in hours.
    Read about the origins of tor, the quality of exit nodes and then add in this 25% number, its really like making an international call/fax back in the 1940-80s - someone will be interested.
    Its their network and seems to be loaded with a lot of honeypots and people who have be caught and made deals.
    Given the size of the US population that might have come in contact with the federal prison system and the popularity of computers after the 1970's - the numbers do look interesting for larger groups of hackers.

  18. Re:Oh wow . . . on Mozilla Labs Introduces the Webian Shell · · Score: 1

    We now have the bandwidth, cpu power, OS and vision for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Chrome
    For the net desktop ... think of the malware :)

  19. Re:Beat? on Kogan Beats Samsung and Acer With World's First Chrome OS Laptop · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ChromeOS and Chrome and Andriod are here for two reasons:
    1) Prevent "ad lockout" ie ready for flash/cookie/tracking/database/web 2.0+ads every start up.
    2) Upgrade client side revenue stream technology (allowing a better profiting from web applications)

  20. Re:The Real Lowdown on India's Schooling Experiment Tests Rich and Poor · · Score: 1

    The BBC talked about this in its http://www.thedohadebates.com/debates/debate.asp?d=72&s=6&mode=transcript
    re the Schedule Castes and Tribes policy.

  21. Re:Nice strawman on India's Schooling Experiment Tests Rich and Poor · · Score: 2

    If you ran a prison for profit and cared for your shareholders - at some point your going to get a lobbyist to ensure that your "24 hours a day, 365 days" payment per prisoner is big, and updated often.

  22. Don't have these kinds of problems in the US... on India's Schooling Experiment Tests Rich and Poor · · Score: 1

    Enjoy the 28 Most Expensive Private High Schools In America
    http://www.businessinsider.com/most-expensive-private-schools-2011-4
    The US just has to ensure testing is fully funded in every state and that its best and brightest get scholarships to the top endowment funded U.S. universities.
    Testing 100% of every states students vs educating the bottom ~90% every year? Best to put limited state tax funding into the top few %.
    The real question is how to keep the bottom 90% distracted every year?

  23. Re:Police? on Student Suspended For Posting On YouTube · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Phone's gone, followed by cops' innocence. on Man Ordered At Gunpoint To Hand Over Phone For Recording Cops · · Score: 1

    Something like http://cube.teradek.com/cube_family.html ?
    'The Cube Encoder streams HD video over WiFi or wired Ethernet. The Cube Encoder creates its own wireless (ad hoc) network, and streams HD video directly to a Cube Decoder, a computer or laptop, a server, or a mobile device such as an iPad with no other networking equipment required."
    Most of the other units will allow the sending of a video clip via wifi when recording is stopped iirc.

  25. Re:Court ordered purchases on Court Demands American Airlines List Its Flights On Orbitz · · Score: 2

    "American's contract with Orbitz expires this year." - Most parts of the world do try to uphold contracts.