It certainly explains how they've managed to penetrate so many large corporations, and in such a short window. There was a common weak security element between all these companies, and this was likely it.
I do remember the RSA was hacked into not so long ago, and a good chunk of their data was stolen. I wonder if they got a dose of their own medicine. In fact, I wonder if they allowed it to happen deliberately, to show the spooks what happens when they try to sabotage everybody indiscriminately.
No, Gates dropped the ball on the internet. Then he tried to make up for it by pushing IE in everyone's face. Which, while it worked for a time, earned him a big anti-trust case for his company too.
The difficulty in understanding the Russians is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an Asiatic, and therefore thinks deviously. We can no more understand a Russian than a Chinaman or a Japanese, and from what I have seen of them, I have no particular desire to understand them, except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them. In addition to his other Asiatic characteristics, the Russian have no regard for human life and is an all out son of bitch, barbarian, and chronic drunk.
I see you one troll for another Patton troll.
Actually, going through the list of quotes, he's quite the troll. Brilliant though. Wasn't enough of a politician for Roosevelt, but he knew what he was doing and did it well.
What if I can go into a custom tailor's shop and have a suit made while I go have lunch? Just the way I want it, at a reasonable price, and without waiting for days.
I take it you've never spent any time in Asia before.
It's not feasible for a general attack, but it's still possible with a targetted attack. Still, I wouldn't look there. Intel and other microprocessor makers are a much easier target. In fact, that's one of the things that came out in Snowden's documents. The NSA asked one of the companies to put a backdoor into hardware that was being shipped to the government of another country.
The most significant difference is that with Linux, other governments can task their own sigint people to go through the source code and submit fixes. Since every government has eyes on it, any hole gets discovered fairly quickly. One government might be stupid enough to try to add security holes, but then that person would be outed as an agent pretty quickly.
Now, if all the governments were collaborating and keeping the 0-days they discover secret from the rest of the public, that'd be one thing. But I'm fairly certain that some non-trivial amount of governments (*ahem* continental Europe *ahem*) wouldn't be party to this, and that would be sufficient to neuter any such efforts.
No, the Linux kernel itself is probably not compromised. It's too much trouble. Intel and other chip makers are though. Maybe even some of the distros and distro maintainers. Path of least resistance.
You have to understand that the DoD is comprised of both civilians and combatants. War crimes tend to be committed by the combatants. The civilians tend to be more interested in the Defense part of the DoD than in the attack part.
The NSA/CIA/FBI do not have such a distinction. Their entire organization is comprised of combatants. You can argue about field agents versus analysts and such for the latter two, but the very purpose of the organization is to attack.
For a human body analogy, the DoD might be your skin and your digestive membranes, keeping the bad stuff out. The NSA/CIA/FBI is your immune system, attacking the bad stuff that gets in, or the stuff that turns bad. Well, they're developing into leukemia. Or maybe, you can say we had a relapse.
Well, for starters, Linux is but a kernel. The development efforts of software around the kernel, be it embedded microcontrollers or whole desktop OSes, still count as investing in it. Android runs atop Linux. I would imagine that the thin OS for cloud applications could use the Linux kernel too.
Second, the Snowden revelations is making foreign organizations wary of U.S.-centric software. Linux, being Europe-centric, is ripe for growing in the enterprise workstation market in the long term as more international organizations leave Microsoft and Apple in favor of an OS that's managed more openly.
Third, the Snowden revelations is also slowly reversing the trend of consolidation everywhere. There will be more individual machines both on the consumer side and the enterprise side, rather than dumb terminals hooked into a VM. It also will mean more geographically diverse data centers (see what's going on in Brazil), and less-direct connections between them for the sake of security. That means fewer things done at the hardware level and more at the application level.
We used to think of sin, cos, etc. as ratios of the sides of a triangle. Then someone came up with arithmetic series, and via infinite series, ultimately came upon Euler's identity.
Still waiting on the Euler's identity equivalent for physics (maybe a testable theory of everything?). But this might be the breakthrough necessary to get there.
Funny thing is, that's how the internet is supposed to be. The only things that are common are the protocols used to communicate between networks. The idea that everything should be consolidated into one system is not in the spirit of the internet. It is the centralized systems that are ripe for abuse by large organizations. As an aside, terrorists operate in cells rather than with a strong command hierarchy for the same reason.
Now, if the Brazilians can design their own microprocessors and switch to a flavor of Linux, they might have a shot at being secure.
3.6 has a status bar, and a real status bar at that. As opposed to the always-present extension bar add-on, I see status messages in the status bar and not above it intruding into page space.
I also have a real back and forward button, as well as an arrow I can click if I want to see my backwards or forwards history. I don't need to hold anything down if all I want is to go back three pages, or go forward to the most recent one from five pages back.
I regularly using 17 and 23 in different environments. The only thing I like about the newer versons is that the URL is under the tabs and not above it (but for some reason, search is also under the tabs even though it is not tab-specific).
It gets worse. Police forces have been militarizing over the past decade or two. This means that they shoot first and treat everyone around them as a potential enemy. They no longer work for the good of the public; they work for the good of the government.
So add that to the issues you mentioned, and you'll realize that there's no way to change them back into public peace officers without firing the current lot and starting anew. They're too set in the us-vs-them mentality where "us" is law enforcement and "them" is, well, us regular people.
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It certainly explains how they've managed to penetrate so many large corporations, and in such a short window. There was a common weak security element between all these companies, and this was likely it.
I do remember the RSA was hacked into not so long ago, and a good chunk of their data was stolen. I wonder if they got a dose of their own medicine. In fact, I wonder if they allowed it to happen deliberately, to show the spooks what happens when they try to sabotage everybody indiscriminately.
No, Gates dropped the ball on the internet. Then he tried to make up for it by pushing IE in everyone's face. Which, while it worked for a time, earned him a big anti-trust case for his company too.
Only now with Metro, it's the tail wagging the dog. Which makes it all the dumber of a move.
If it comes to that, I'd prefer Design Industry Association For America. DIAFA. Or DIAF-A.
The difficulty in understanding the Russians is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an Asiatic, and therefore thinks deviously. We can no more understand a Russian than a Chinaman or a Japanese, and from what I have seen of them, I have no particular desire to understand them, except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them. In addition to his other Asiatic characteristics, the Russian have no regard for human life and is an all out son of bitch, barbarian, and chronic drunk.
I see you one troll for another Patton troll.
Actually, going through the list of quotes, he's quite the troll. Brilliant though. Wasn't enough of a politician for Roosevelt, but he knew what he was doing and did it well.
What if I can go into a custom tailor's shop and have a suit made while I go have lunch? Just the way I want it, at a reasonable price, and without waiting for days.
I take it you've never spent any time in Asia before.
He hasn't put out any new work in many years. Nor have other greats such as Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, and Liszt.
This is definitive proof that piracy has killed the output of these famous, world-renowned composers and performers!
./ is plagiarizing headlines now. What, editors, can't think up your own?
So they let you stumble upon prostitutes? You usually need to pay extra for that. Oh, I see what you did there.
Of course it's not a mystery. Bengal tigers will eat their Siberian cousins if not properly fed.
For me, it was the ponies.
Oh wait.
It's just the usual /. dupe and delay system at work.
Considering this is all happening in Japan, the answer is likely yes.
Or you're not spending enough time in a pub.
It's not feasible for a general attack, but it's still possible with a targetted attack. Still, I wouldn't look there. Intel and other microprocessor makers are a much easier target. In fact, that's one of the things that came out in Snowden's documents. The NSA asked one of the companies to put a backdoor into hardware that was being shipped to the government of another country.
The most significant difference is that with Linux, other governments can task their own sigint people to go through the source code and submit fixes. Since every government has eyes on it, any hole gets discovered fairly quickly. One government might be stupid enough to try to add security holes, but then that person would be outed as an agent pretty quickly.
Now, if all the governments were collaborating and keeping the 0-days they discover secret from the rest of the public, that'd be one thing. But I'm fairly certain that some non-trivial amount of governments (*ahem* continental Europe *ahem*) wouldn't be party to this, and that would be sufficient to neuter any such efforts.
No, the Linux kernel itself is probably not compromised. It's too much trouble. Intel and other chip makers are though. Maybe even some of the distros and distro maintainers. Path of least resistance.
You have to understand that the DoD is comprised of both civilians and combatants. War crimes tend to be committed by the combatants. The civilians tend to be more interested in the Defense part of the DoD than in the attack part.
The NSA/CIA/FBI do not have such a distinction. Their entire organization is comprised of combatants. You can argue about field agents versus analysts and such for the latter two, but the very purpose of the organization is to attack.
For a human body analogy, the DoD might be your skin and your digestive membranes, keeping the bad stuff out. The NSA/CIA/FBI is your immune system, attacking the bad stuff that gets in, or the stuff that turns bad. Well, they're developing into leukemia. Or maybe, you can say we had a relapse.
Well, for starters, Linux is but a kernel. The development efforts of software around the kernel, be it embedded microcontrollers or whole desktop OSes, still count as investing in it. Android runs atop Linux. I would imagine that the thin OS for cloud applications could use the Linux kernel too.
Second, the Snowden revelations is making foreign organizations wary of U.S.-centric software. Linux, being Europe-centric, is ripe for growing in the enterprise workstation market in the long term as more international organizations leave Microsoft and Apple in favor of an OS that's managed more openly.
Third, the Snowden revelations is also slowly reversing the trend of consolidation everywhere. There will be more individual machines both on the consumer side and the enterprise side, rather than dumb terminals hooked into a VM. It also will mean more geographically diverse data centers (see what's going on in Brazil), and less-direct connections between them for the sake of security. That means fewer things done at the hardware level and more at the application level.
Better analogy:
We used to think of sin, cos, etc. as ratios of the sides of a triangle. Then someone came up with arithmetic series, and via infinite series, ultimately came upon Euler's identity.
Still waiting on the Euler's identity equivalent for physics (maybe a testable theory of everything?). But this might be the breakthrough necessary to get there.
Funny thing is, that's how the internet is supposed to be. The only things that are common are the protocols used to communicate between networks. The idea that everything should be consolidated into one system is not in the spirit of the internet. It is the centralized systems that are ripe for abuse by large organizations. As an aside, terrorists operate in cells rather than with a strong command hierarchy for the same reason.
Now, if the Brazilians can design their own microprocessors and switch to a flavor of Linux, they might have a shot at being secure.
3.6 has a status bar, and a real status bar at that. As opposed to the always-present extension bar add-on, I see status messages in the status bar and not above it intruding into page space.
I also have a real back and forward button, as well as an arrow I can click if I want to see my backwards or forwards history. I don't need to hold anything down if all I want is to go back three pages, or go forward to the most recent one from five pages back.
I regularly using 17 and 23 in different environments. The only thing I like about the newer versons is that the URL is under the tabs and not above it (but for some reason, search is also under the tabs even though it is not tab-specific).
And then the problem is with the spiders in the corners of your eyes.
I don't want to burst your bubble or anything, but chances are, it's the spiders who're catching the flies. Just ask the old lady.
"Fallen dramatically" over the past 20 years? There's no "fall" without time, and social changes are usually measured in decades.
It gets worse. Police forces have been militarizing over the past decade or two. This means that they shoot first and treat everyone around them as a potential enemy. They no longer work for the good of the public; they work for the good of the government.
So add that to the issues you mentioned, and you'll realize that there's no way to change them back into public peace officers without firing the current lot and starting anew. They're too set in the us-vs-them mentality where "us" is law enforcement and "them" is, well, us regular people.
Dude, it's 2013, not 2003. France are the US's new best chums now
So you're saying that they surrendered beforehand to save everyone the trouble of declaring war.