Problem with this is, unless you're pretty damn good at canary protocols, odds are the adversary that is interrupting the supply chain is pretty damn good at detecting and circumventing the canary protocol.
I noticed this article was from the " fond-memories-of-weird-greenpeace-macro dept". And due to the hiding of extensions in the UI, I would be remiss to not remember the time that a general in the military confessed his undying love to me in an email... with an email to follow about 20 minutes later telling us all to turn off our emails.... Conspiracy theories abound...
This talk of solar power drones providing Internet Access does sound... tin foil like... doesn't it. Seem to recall a project called Google Street View where they came up with the idea of mounting cameras on cars and driving around every road in the world taking pictures. Also found it interesting that all the wifi data was war driven at the same time, not just the GPS coordinates of everyone's home routers, but captures of the traffic as well. So I guess my question is, while it's nice to have that broad band internet beamed from a few hundred feet up, what else is the drone doing? Seems somewhat voyeuristic to me.
I'm aware of that. Whose to say that the secure enclave can't be incorporated into the VM solution so that the group key and device key is made available to the simulated environment? From that point forward, the passcode / rollback technique should work fine. I don't recall there being a direct coorelation between the secure enclave and the software cycle outside of the crypto. That shouldn't be affected by a rollback (barring that doesn't cross OS versions that is).
This got me thinking. If you were to load the flash drive into a VM with rollback capabilities, it could be conceivably possible to hack the phone at near real time. Just rollback the image after each failed attempt until you have a success. Might not be as fast as hammering it with a brute force attack (minus delays) like their asking, but as long as the rollback could occur in a short enough period of time, you'd avoid the protections Apple put in place. Just a thought.
I can't remember the name of it, but there was a Nintendo strike fighter game that as a first person shooter flight simulator. Each successive level would add two additional boogies to take down. The bug with this game was that if you wedged a tooth pick into the button on the controller and had a "rapid fire" option turned on all you had to do was lean a book against the joystick so that you continued to do flips while firing. If you did that, the boogies would never be able to hit you and you would eventually take them out every time. You could leave the game like that for days and it would just keep going up in levels. No game play needed.
I had to ponder this one. What exactly is "fair"? I get that he doesn't want to go through a military tribunal with no right to an attorney or something spooky like that. But is it fair to have a Jury with no military/government members who know what it means to protect classified information? Is it fair that additional classified information be disclosed as public record? Is it fair to force the Government into a position where they can't show the damage of his disclosures (weakening their position) as not to provide additional strength to terrorist groups who wish to do us harm? I guess the biggest question is, does two wrongs make a right (the underlying principle he is relying on to prove his innocence.)
I don't think the US is at the level where Congress is being nullified, but that's not to say that it can't be. Congress is at the level where it's passing laws that "bend" the rules of the Constitution, both Republicans and Democrats are quick to point out instances where such bending impedes their unique sensibilities. Civil Rights organizations are quick to point this out as well. I did simplify my explanation of the history to fit in the 5 minute write up. But you're right, there is more to it. But the point was, it was fast. And the take over was targeted against a similar form of government to what the US has. I believe the law in question that was passed was called "The Enabling Act" which enabled Hitler to circumvent the Reichstag. But that's not saying that a President and Congress who are of the same party can't could push other similar legislation in the US. The three houses of Government are only effective at preventing hostile take overs such as what happened in Germany when the checks and balances between each other are respected.
I get that this is turning into a political debate that is taking staunch political lines between republican (foxnews) and democrat (msnbc) ideologies. And that is unfortunate. That division of ideology is exactly why Trump is doing so well. And that ideology is blind to the fact that it really doesn't matter which political party you align with, the damage come just the same. The Patriot Act, and many of the other political issues that are raised here on Slashdot are bi-partisan. Yes, that means it doesn't matter which soda you choose, both coke and pepsi have a crap ton of sugar in them that will make you fat. Let's shift focus back to the original point of the article and away from whether Obama or Trump or Bush or who the heck ever would be qualified as worse president ever. Let's start picking better presidents and better legislators. Not what Fox or MSNBC says we should pick, who are they to decide what's right for us?
Oh, agreed. For the vast majority of us, this is a major incursion on our privacy. But the truth is, this technology has been in place for decades. It's just that very few cared until now. But for some people there may be benefits to this feature.
Probably not. The US Government usually gets the corporate edition. That usually has different phone home requirements. From there, the installs are built into "standard images" which may contain a number of "customizations" usually surrounding security. From there the standard images are pushed out to subordinate organizations for installation. If Win 10 works anything like Win 7, then each installation will require a phone call into Microsoft to activate the install. But that's handled with M$ in many ways the same as it would for a large fortune 500 company.
As a person who has visited Dachau, my sincere condolences. As for the article, I would think a better way to approach this would be to address the educational material and reference material rather than implementing a revisionist methodology on individual people's thoughts. Seems rather big brother to me. Visiting Dachau and reading the history as it happened there was very eye opening to me. I was under the impression that the German government was a bunch of third world, unsophisticated neanderthals that allowed some megalomaniac take over and slowly build a war machine.... This impression was very, very wrong. The German government at the time was very scientifically advanced, had a similar structure to what the US has today, and allowed a fair and open election that elected the megalomaniac into office. From there, they passed a law that allowed the "president" to override the congress in times of need. From there, the congress was disbanded, the constitution suspended, and within a month Dachau was opened. The Third Reich had risen. And to learn the passivity of the local population was shocking. People simply didn't care.
I agree. And to further add to the comment, I'd say that by freeing up the car that would be sent to the blogger who would trash it, Tesla freed up a car to be sent to someone who'd appreciate it. All a matter of priorities.
Just sayin'... The Bald Eagle is their national bird, and it's their surveillance system that has everyone up in arms... Am I not the only one who sees the irony in this?
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Problem with this is, unless you're pretty damn good at canary protocols, odds are the adversary that is interrupting the supply chain is pretty damn good at detecting and circumventing the canary protocol.
I noticed this article was from the " fond-memories-of-weird-greenpeace-macro dept". And due to the hiding of extensions in the UI, I would be remiss to not remember the time that a general in the military confessed his undying love to me in an email ... with an email to follow about 20 minutes later telling us all to turn off our emails. ... Conspiracy theories abound...
When do I get my $1.35 from the class action suit?
So the whole point of OpISIS is to shut down ISIS, and Twitter is shutting down ISIS.. I fail to see the problem here.
This talk of solar power drones providing Internet Access does sound... tin foil like... doesn't it. Seem to recall a project called Google Street View where they came up with the idea of mounting cameras on cars and driving around every road in the world taking pictures. Also found it interesting that all the wifi data was war driven at the same time, not just the GPS coordinates of everyone's home routers, but captures of the traffic as well. So I guess my question is, while it's nice to have that broad band internet beamed from a few hundred feet up, what else is the drone doing? Seems somewhat voyeuristic to me.
Didn't Microsoft have similar problems with incorporating third party tools into IE4? And that was like what, 1997?
I'm aware of that. Whose to say that the secure enclave can't be incorporated into the VM solution so that the group key and device key is made available to the simulated environment? From that point forward, the passcode / rollback technique should work fine. I don't recall there being a direct coorelation between the secure enclave and the software cycle outside of the crypto. That shouldn't be affected by a rollback (barring that doesn't cross OS versions that is).
This got me thinking. If you were to load the flash drive into a VM with rollback capabilities, it could be conceivably possible to hack the phone at near real time. Just rollback the image after each failed attempt until you have a success. Might not be as fast as hammering it with a brute force attack (minus delays) like their asking, but as long as the rollback could occur in a short enough period of time, you'd avoid the protections Apple put in place. Just a thought.
I can't remember the name of it, but there was a Nintendo strike fighter game that as a first person shooter flight simulator. Each successive level would add two additional boogies to take down. The bug with this game was that if you wedged a tooth pick into the button on the controller and had a "rapid fire" option turned on all you had to do was lean a book against the joystick so that you continued to do flips while firing. If you did that, the boogies would never be able to hit you and you would eventually take them out every time. You could leave the game like that for days and it would just keep going up in levels. No game play needed.
is why I don't have any Microsoft products in my home. And that I must begrudgingly use them at work.
I had to ponder this one. What exactly is "fair"? I get that he doesn't want to go through a military tribunal with no right to an attorney or something spooky like that. But is it fair to have a Jury with no military/government members who know what it means to protect classified information? Is it fair that additional classified information be disclosed as public record? Is it fair to force the Government into a position where they can't show the damage of his disclosures (weakening their position) as not to provide additional strength to terrorist groups who wish to do us harm? I guess the biggest question is, does two wrongs make a right (the underlying principle he is relying on to prove his innocence.)
Let's see... FBI takes over Onion servers, supposedly paid universities for "research", managed to find the operator to silk road 2.0, and managed a rather large bust of criminals. Then you've got the issue of "fake tor clients"... Seems to me that considering tor (be it with a VPN before or after) is really irrelevant and that the underlying technology of tor has just been under attack for two long and needs to be replaced.
I don't think the US is at the level where Congress is being nullified, but that's not to say that it can't be. Congress is at the level where it's passing laws that "bend" the rules of the Constitution, both Republicans and Democrats are quick to point out instances where such bending impedes their unique sensibilities. Civil Rights organizations are quick to point this out as well. I did simplify my explanation of the history to fit in the 5 minute write up. But you're right, there is more to it. But the point was, it was fast. And the take over was targeted against a similar form of government to what the US has. I believe the law in question that was passed was called "The Enabling Act" which enabled Hitler to circumvent the Reichstag. But that's not saying that a President and Congress who are of the same party can't could push other similar legislation in the US. The three houses of Government are only effective at preventing hostile take overs such as what happened in Germany when the checks and balances between each other are respected.
I get that this is turning into a political debate that is taking staunch political lines between republican (foxnews) and democrat (msnbc) ideologies. And that is unfortunate. That division of ideology is exactly why Trump is doing so well. And that ideology is blind to the fact that it really doesn't matter which political party you align with, the damage come just the same. The Patriot Act, and many of the other political issues that are raised here on Slashdot are bi-partisan. Yes, that means it doesn't matter which soda you choose, both coke and pepsi have a crap ton of sugar in them that will make you fat. Let's shift focus back to the original point of the article and away from whether Obama or Trump or Bush or who the heck ever would be qualified as worse president ever. Let's start picking better presidents and better legislators. Not what Fox or MSNBC says we should pick, who are they to decide what's right for us?
No comment.
Oh, agreed. For the vast majority of us, this is a major incursion on our privacy. But the truth is, this technology has been in place for decades. It's just that very few cared until now. But for some people there may be benefits to this feature.
Probably not. The US Government usually gets the corporate edition. That usually has different phone home requirements. From there, the installs are built into "standard images" which may contain a number of "customizations" usually surrounding security. From there the standard images are pushed out to subordinate organizations for installation. If Win 10 works anything like Win 7, then each installation will require a phone call into Microsoft to activate the install. But that's handled with M$ in many ways the same as it would for a large fortune 500 company.
As a person who has visited Dachau, my sincere condolences. As for the article, I would think a better way to approach this would be to address the educational material and reference material rather than implementing a revisionist methodology on individual people's thoughts. Seems rather big brother to me. Visiting Dachau and reading the history as it happened there was very eye opening to me. I was under the impression that the German government was a bunch of third world, unsophisticated neanderthals that allowed some megalomaniac take over and slowly build a war machine. ... This impression was very, very wrong. The German government at the time was very scientifically advanced, had a similar structure to what the US has today, and allowed a fair and open election that elected the megalomaniac into office. From there, they passed a law that allowed the "president" to override the congress in times of need. From there, the congress was disbanded, the constitution suspended, and within a month Dachau was opened. The Third Reich had risen. And to learn the passivity of the local population was shocking. People simply didn't care.
How else better to keep tabs on the low class people to make sure they don't try to rise up and overthrow the middle or upper class?
Guess I'll have to get my tech news from Slashdot instead.
... that have borrowed heavily from targeted nation-state attacks
'nough said.
I agree. And to further add to the comment, I'd say that by freeing up the car that would be sent to the blogger who would trash it, Tesla freed up a car to be sent to someone who'd appreciate it. All a matter of priorities.
Seconded.
Of course, we don't HAVE to have a mean time to failure if things are engineered well enough. But then how would we feed our greed?
Just sayin'... The Bald Eagle is their national bird, and it's their surveillance system that has everyone up in arms... Am I not the only one who sees the irony in this?