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  1. Re:Encrypted, If it is worth keeping secret. on US Launches Largest Spy Satellite Ever · · Score: 1

    Consumer grade encryption must have been broken....
    They are hunting voice prints, known numbers/calls, locations and anything from consumer grade junk.
    The raw data is bounced around to a safe location with a lot of cpu power for sorting and finally encrypted back to the USA.
    Satellites just collect and pass on the info with location data.
    Depending on the location expect a black ops team or a drone if your voice print is known.
    Any state sponsor or government trained consultant should be telling their clients about the joys of not using many types of electronics.

  2. Bungie's Marathon on FPS Games That Need a Remake · · Score: 3, Interesting

    was added to Unreal Tournament.
    http://resurrection.bungie.org/images.html
    Aleph One does exist to make sure the game can run on todays Mac, Windows and Linux (and other OS) - but a pro remake beyond MS xbox limits would be nice :)

  3. Re:Been there. on How the 'Tech Worker Visa' Is Remaking IT In America · · Score: 1

    It's corporate America and the selling walk around. Would you invest in a company has feel good US generation brands all over its kit?
    Or like to trust a company with the low cost ugly no brand kit?
    Whats the difference? One box is built to order in Peoples first class export electronics factory 12, the other cloned in factory 48 a mile away for a fraction of the cost.
    The US still has the design edge. Build on that :)

  4. Re:Curious about other considerations. on Russia To Help NATO Build Anti-Missile Network · · Score: 1

    It protects the Russian, US and EU's military industrial complex from a lack of hi tech jobs and cash flow issues over the next generation.
    Iran will be pushed into more revolutions via NGO's, twitter again.
    Israel is well protected via its own efforts and what it can buy/find/collect on the world market.
    If anyone wanted to use a missile, buy one that works or if thats too expensive, use the cash in emerging non missile areas.

  5. Re:Now answer me this: what does RockMeIt mean? on Did an Apple Engineer Invent FB Messages In 2003? · · Score: 1

    It sets like rock in your OS and melts your privacy down to one easy to track app?

  6. Re:First Post on Whitehat Hacker Moxie Marlinspike's Laptop, Cellphones Seized · · Score: 1

    So you can give your presentation/work/network on hardware you know and make/receive calls/send data?
    No need to give up on all the fun tech, just be very aware of what is been collected if you are stopped or your system is cloned out of your sight ect.

  7. Re:Time for him to invoke the china visit policy.. on Whitehat Hacker Moxie Marlinspike's Laptop, Cellphones Seized · · Score: 1

    Reinstall into hardware they scanned and logged all the unique stats off? You can wipe, change some hardware numbers but they will just look for your computer again.
    Why glow so bright online but they will get back to you via a sneak and peek soon enough.

  8. Re:Hidden volumes? on Whitehat Hacker Moxie Marlinspike's Laptop, Cellphones Seized · · Score: 1

    Depends on the lab set up and what an ex CIA/MI6/GCHQ contractor sold them.
    That hidden formatted file might show, some other random 'data' might give a false positive too.
    So they will then flag a "probably encrypted and being hidden" data structure. Next would be intensive network logging and other hardware/software options to see what your really doing long term at home, work and on other devices.

  9. Re:First Post on Whitehat Hacker Moxie Marlinspike's Laptop, Cellphones Seized · · Score: 1

    Yes the "greeted by two U.S. Customs officials ... and asked for the passwords needed to access the encrypted material on them."
    The idea that they devices could be unlocked in a lab seems to point towards a MS and others do their part to help.
    http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/11/hacker-border-search/#more-20877 has the interesting comment on that "send them to the lab and you’re not going to have the equipment anyway and we’re going to get all the data"
    Then the extended layover at the airport in Frankfurt chat is interesting too. " agent said he was from the U.S. Consulate and .... routine customs question asking him where he’d been and why he’d gone there .. Now I have to call Washington.”"
    I would suggest entering (or exiting the US), have nothing on your HD/SSD but an OS with a few games/media player and a phone that empty and can be used once for a short time.
    Once the feds have your contact data, everybody enters same database. Then the friends of your friends.
    If your computer is cloned, wipe and sell it.

  10. Re:Shares of ... Hollywood accounting profits? on Amazon Launches Online Movie Studio · · Score: 1

    Yes http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/10/07/09/1621218/Hollywood-Accounting-mdash-How-Harry-Potter-Loses-Money has some great posts :)
    The funding scheme would be for one movie, no production profit moves, loans ect ;)

  11. Re:Was anyone surprised about the privacy bit? on Hacked iRobot Uses XBox Kinect To See World · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just like everyone cleans out their cookies, flash cookies and browser database?
    Think of the fun the feds/state task force could have with a new MS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Lantern_(software) for the Kinect.
    Once you are on their list for a warrantless networking sneak and peek, your junk is moving up the tubes.
    The audio, visual and depth to plots or unatural acts on your sofa.

  12. Re:This could mean good things on Amazon Launches Online Movie Studio · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Do you really want a ~$40 to $x00 computer game with a remote delete option and compulsory limited activation keys?

  13. Next step is net funding on Amazon Launches Online Movie Studio · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Max Keiser http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Keiser, a film-maker, broadcaster and former broker and options trader offers a vision of what this could really be like.
    http://www.piratemyfilm.com/pages/how_it_works shows how funding could work..
    "The system automatically creates enough shares to match the funds request and then makes those shares available for PMF members to reserve."
    Why just read and offer feedback when you could support a work from day one and perhaps share in some value.
    Great funding for a tech movie, drama, historical documentary, extreme sports, romance, cars ect.
    Get a forum or core supporters on any topic. No need for some grant, arts council or one person funding.

  14. Re:Let's Just Hope... on Canada To Mandate ISP Deep Packet Inspection · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, where was the USA mentioned in this?
    The NSA is your telco network, so the only aspect missing from the USA is the 'local' court aspect.
    I am sure your local http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_center can help with that soon.

  15. Re:this shit wasn't invented in two years on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    Why won't the tea-partiers call it like it is?
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/39691880#39691880
    Welcome to the idea of a “Virtual democracy” and follow the cash :)

  16. Re:Well that just leaves one question on Stuxnet Was Designed To Subtly Interfere With Uranium Enrichment · · Score: 1

    Who cares? At least this kind of thing is bloodless ...
    We know this code is safe running on MS?
    We know some overrun or faulty system or version beta hack wont be seen by the next version of this code as the target?
    Why should 'some' countries get to flood the world with factory/system destroying code?
    In the cold war every country backed by the KGB and CIA got to send out 'gifts' to troublesome exiles.
    Why should we risk massive disruptions on MS quality code and some states skills to write "bloodless" malware?
    Like anything done in dark places, expose, name, shame.

  17. Re:Yes on Did Microsoft Alter Windows Sales Figures? · · Score: 1

    They don't know how much money they really are working with only what they think they might be estimating they have.
    They do via the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_annual_financial_report
    Deficits "sore" in the short term public view to keep the public spooked and scared.
    As for MS they have always played loss leader as they embrace and extend their way into new markets.
    The problem for MS has always been one of image. Wealth creation at a personal level for its staff that is ever expanding.
    The reality of been rich short term is starting to show. Wealth creation in some divisions might be over.

  18. Re:Oh Noes on Royal Navy Website Hacked, Passwords Revealed · · Score: 1

    Yes a usb drive/laptop used to pass a cute new propaganda/recruiting image could allow code to find its way back deeper into the system.
    The air gap is gone, the bespoke OS gap is now filled by MS.

  19. Re:Microsoft? Really? :-) on Royal Navy Website Hacked, Passwords Revealed · · Score: 1

    Yes to save costs MS is now 'next' to the UK's most critical systems.
    One usb drive/download away from ???? at sea.

  20. Re:Rockmelt? WTH? on Andreesen Offers New Browser 'Rockmelt' · · Score: 1

    It sets deep in your OS like stone and melts your privacy into one long term coherent outgoing data stream?

  21. Re:Flock on Andreesen Offers New Browser 'Rockmelt' · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_(web_browser)
    Yes sounds great version 3 will use the Chromium rendering engine, works on Linux, mac, Windows, FreeBSD.
    The real new trick will be in the tracking, ads, "evercookies" ect.,br> To get users to keep everything running at the same time in the same application, sending back realtime bulk 'value'.

  22. Re:The grandfather on Recalling Windows 1.0 At 25 Years · · Score: 1

    Re Xerox-Apple relationship.
    The BBC did a doco on this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNnbP6igAGY
    Xerox ideas are at about the 3.00 point.

  23. Re:Oh God, more revisionist history? on Recalling Windows 1.0 At 25 Years · · Score: 1

    Xerox did all the hard work, mostly sinking cash into developer/human/computer/child interaction. They really worked hard with human testing and code.
    Apple got hold of most of that due to Xerox been a paper pusher and not really having a final digital vision after an expensive effort trying to master the emerging paperless digital world.
    MS was gifted the IBM OS side, 'bought' an OS and dumped a GUI over it after seeing Apple's and Xerox's efforts.
    The MS magic was in IBM's name, marketing and 'listening' to people buying systems and then selling them an OS.
    After the expensive OS sale, what was any firm going to do? They where locked in ....

  24. Re:Hmmm on Recalling Windows 1.0 At 25 Years · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The cost of producing a less crashing OS is now balanced by the value of networked tracking and ads.
    A consumer crashing on one PC at home was not worth the coding time.
    Best to put that cash into marketing the next version of Windows.
    A world wide network of consumers not viewing ads due to Windows crashes, is now worth fixing.

  25. Re:Piracy does NOT equal loss of life. on Porn Maker Sues 7,000+ For Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    Its so true, when they raid the "average" p2p's users homes they find so much porn, different guns, drugs, everything else swabs for drugs, explosives, their digital rolodex lists are packed with known evil types.
    They are one click away from ordering a SAM with a stolen CC number.