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  1. And now for the Tinfoil stuff on US Plans Cyber Shield For Private Companies and Utilities · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What if there are no "massive cyber-attacks" by "Chinese hackers"?

    Who'd know? The key part of almost every successful TCP/IP network attack or compromise is the ability to manipulate intermediate hosts, etc. to obfuscate and mislead as to the actual "real location" of the attacker or malicious agent. When I was so preoccupied, in the mid/late-nineties, it was common practice to use Chinese IP space as "base-camp" for our explorations. I remember, in particular, an entire University lab of several dozen Sparc5 clones, directly connected to the Internet. Getting shell on these was a trivial exercise. The poor quality of the systems administration on these hosts was also an excellent indication that any forensics effort would be pretty hopeless, with the simple deletion of local logfiles.

    Given the resources of a US or Israeli intelligence agency, it is completely likely that attacks could appear to be "Chinese" - without ever having a ZH presence. Manipulation of BGP, etc. could produce the required 'evidence'.

    Which also begs the question: why would "Chinese" or "North Korean" state-sponsored "hacker gangs" be able to launch attacks with sophistication enough to be considered a threat to national infrastructure, yet simultaneously naive enough to be triangulated back to their supposedly surreptitious origin?

    As they say, "Pull the other one, it has bells on it."

    The only serious outcome of any mass-scale foreign cyber-attack has been to create a climate for the acceptance of increased surveillance, demolition of limits for Federal agencies and the Military in regards to the law-abiding civilian US population, and the complete obliteration of 4th and 1st Amendment protections afforded by the U.S. Constitution. What if that is not the "unintended consequence"?

  2. Re:Surveillance on US Plans Cyber Shield For Private Companies and Utilities · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The summary for the submitted article misses almost EVERY important aspect to this story, as it was initially reported! It almost looks like an attempt to deliberately minimize concern over the dubious legality and suspect agenda for "Perfect Citizen".

    In fact, Samzenpus and "Wiggles" seem content not to mention the program's Orwellian name, nor the specific use of the term "Big Brother" by Ratheon contractors associated with the NSA on this effort.

    Here is the summary I supplied, when submitting this story as a front-pager for Slashdot. I believe that it is more cogent and INFORMATIVE than the blandness offered us.

    The WSJ is reporting on an $100M NSA program "to detect cyber assaults on private companies and government agencies running such critical infrastructure as the electricity grid and nuclear-power plants." All of which sound nice enough, if one does not become critically focused on the name they chose for this effort: 'Perfect Citizen'. Releasing this to the WSJ has the appearance of PR cover for the expansion of both warrantless surveillance and the intrusion of the NSA into a theatre of domestic operations.
    Ratheon, the NSA contractor charged with realizing the NSA vision for the 'Perfect Citizen' program openly called this the "Big Brother" system, in internal communications.

    For once, I really wouldn't mind a "dupe" story, either my summary or that of another poster with some insight to the implications of "Perfect Citizen".

  3. Re:We All Wish on Climategate's Final Days · · Score: 1, Troll

    Science is not produced through consensus. We'd still be insisting on the Ptolemaic universe, if that were so.

    Global warming support is like creationism, it has no repeatable experimental methodology, from the entire cycle of data collection, through model construction and testing of hypothesis.

    "Peer review" does not mean "I respect his degree, and assume his methodology is correct, because he's constructed a well supported paper."

    "Peer review" is also NOT "Take his data, and his model, and I get the same result".

    "Peer review" is independent reproduction of results, and validating assumptions made. This INCLUDES independent gathering of original source data.

    Supposed evidence for "Global Warming" is derived from pseudo-scientific, statistical manipulation of suspect and cherry-picked data, which in the end, serves a Malthusian social agenda and results in taxing the very air you breathe.

  4. Perspective vs. Tunnel Vision on Stop the Math Press's Presses — Knuth Announces iTex · · Score: 1

    Film at 11.

  5. DISINFO TO DISCREDIT WIKILEAKS / ASSANGE on With World Watching, Wikileaks Falls Into Disrepair · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The US Gov is undermining CREDIBILITY of Wikileaks, to discourage leakers.

    You ARE familiar with the 2008 Army Counterintelligence Agency report, which specifically calls to discredit Wikileaks through disinformation and propaganda, are you not?

    The HIGHLY suspect connection of Manning with Greenwald STINKS of a PsyOp, then, hot on the heels comes this tidbit. Where from? Oh! DangerRoom on Wired.com.

    I think we can now see wired.com as another polluted information channel, co-opted by the spooks. Leak meaningless true tidbits on intelligence and surveillance to establish/maintain credibility - then use this established route for the insertion of disinformation messages.

    The next stage is to plant doubts about Wikileaks among its advocates, who will begin to speculate if the project is not a honeypot, designed to attract and expose leakers.

    "To live outside the law, you must be honest."
    -- Bob Dylan

    "Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act."
    -- George Orwell

  6. Re:Who? on Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday · · Score: 2, Funny

    You know. The Feivel guy...

  7. Stop Him Now on DIY Synthetic Aperture Radar · · Score: 5, Funny

    This could fall into the hands of terrorists.

    Citizens are consumers. We are passing Intellectual Property laws, to ensure that they remain so, and do not make the mistake of becoming producers.

    This man's brilliance sets another difficult example and precedent, which will be hard to contain or dismiss! I suggest a patent law-suit against him, and a criminal charges based on illegal production of weaponizable technology.

  8. Re:Dont Know on HP and Yahoo To Spam Your Printer · · Score: 1

    It isn't unsolicited anymore, when you agree to receive ads, in exchange for Internet printing. I'm not saying that it is right. It's very wrong.

    But the people who make and enforce law work for HP, not you and I.

  9. Re:Dont Know on HP and Yahoo To Spam Your Printer · · Score: 1

    Unsolicited Fax Legislation?

    Four Letters: EULA

    You just clicked "Accept".

  10. WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT THERE, SON? on Porn Sites More Infected Than Thought · · Score: 1

    "uhhh... I'm doing malware research..." (grin)

  11. Re:British Teeth on Why Video Calling Is a Wasted Feature In the UK · · Score: 1

    Since the World Cup in the 90's, the distance between these has ever grown!

    Some good lookin' Scottish girls!

  12. Re:British Teeth on Why Video Calling Is a Wasted Feature In the UK · · Score: 1

    Cor, there 'int a few!

    But Keisha White, I regard as fair compensation. She might actually have me supporting the Spurs!

  13. Re:British Teeth on Why Video Calling Is a Wasted Feature In the UK · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's not the teeth.

    What an unattractive lot. The average Briton of Anglo/European extraction is a creature of unfortunate appearance. There is nothing quite like walking down a street in Warwick, Birmingham or Manchester, in producing a disappointment for the eyes. Just short of being actually ugly, the bulk of our folk are merely unpleasant. This too, is probably because extremes are un-British.

    One out of a thousand is a real swan - if you go for the pale-skin thing.

    London is where it is at for beauty. We have the world's finest imports, casually, at nearly every turn. The beautiful people that England - in particular- has attracted through the virtue of colonial heritage? They are what turns the head, on a West London street. Hello, Leona Lewis!

  14. Spy vs... on Claimed US Military Wikileaks Source Arrested · · Score: 1

    Consider this possibility:

    The arrest in Kuwait is fake. There are no 260,000 documents. Assange is being setup for a US takedown. Lamo is a stooge. He's agreed to say whatever the US wants him to - thi swas the condition of his release when captured.

    "One just can't go "rummaging through" compartmented files. Each person with access to a particular compartment would have to be individually cleared for that compartment.

    Say the compartmented thing is a new spy plane that is designated with the codeword AAA. Bob works on one of the sensors that has the codeword AAA/BBB. Jim works on the avionics. That compartment is AAA/CCC. Bob, feeling bored one day, can't just go have a look at the AAA/CCC avionics data. He wouldn't have access. Jim, likewise, can't access the AAA/BBB sensor compartment."

    http://cryptogon.com/?p=15843

    The disinfo being generated in this story is multi-axial, and thicker than smoke...

  15. Re:Unsurprisingly on Scientists Use Calvin Klein Cologne to Lure Big Cats · · Score: 1

    I have been training Mynah birds to say "Heeere, Kitty, Kitty..."

    We plan to release them in major urban centers, worldwide.

  16. Re:This on HP Gives Printers Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    Hi, HP! Thanks for intercepting my document! Oh, say hi to that nice Mr. Tice for me too, will you?

    What class of carrier are you now? Not that it much matters - I guess that having both HP and the US Government in possession of my personal information and private, proprietary information is really both safer and more convenient. Just keep NSA on the bcc line, OK?

  17. Re:AMERICAN CITIZEN KILLED BY TURK ON ISRAELI GROU on Police Officers Seek Right Not To Be Recorded · · Score: 1

    The perpetrators of the holocaust were the banks that extended credit to the Reich for the Wehrmacht.

    Stern and Irgun were allied with the Nazi's, until at least El Alemaign.

    Create a demand for Zionism?

  18. Re:AMERICAN CITIZEN KILLED BY TURK ON ISRAELI GROU on Police Officers Seek Right Not To Be Recorded · · Score: 1

    A Zionist will lie to God's face.

    Israel IS a signatory to the 4th Geneva Convention, on Aug 12, 1949.

    http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/NORM/35D52356F487FC85C1256402003F9563?OpenDocument

    The U.N. Security Council has already weighed in on the blockade (of which the flotilla attack is one part), attacking it in Resolution 1860 for collectively punishing the people of Gaza. The resolution calls for "the unimpeded provision and distribution throughout Gaza of humanitarian assistance, including food, fuel, and medical treatment." The criticism of the embargo as illegal is heavily rooted in the logic of the Fourth Geneva Convention, Article 3 of which mandates that states take all possible steps (even when formal wars have not been declared between two states) to protect noncombatants. Behavior that is expressly prohibited includes any actions that are a threat to individual life (9 civilian activists were killed in the flotilla attack). The taking of hostages (including the more than 660 seized by Israel) for political or military purposes is also prohibited. The blockade is illegal in that it violates the legal principles behind the Geneva Conventions, which were created for the general purpose of prohibiting states from engaging in collective punishment against civilians during times of conflict. Israel's collective attack on the civilians of Gaza (and its refusal to even acknowledge that they are under assault) represents a clear violation of the spirit and letter of the Geneva Conventions.

    http://www.counterpunch.org/dimaggio06042010.html

    Israel's blockade of Gaza violates the mandate of UNSC resolution 1860. Period.

  19. BP GOATSE on Hands-On With Dell's Streak Android Device · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  20. Re:AMERICAN CITIZEN KILLED BY TURK ON ISRAELI GROU on Police Officers Seek Right Not To Be Recorded · · Score: 1

    No such thing as International Law? Is that what Zionism teaches, these days?

    During the pre-dawn hours of May 31, 2010, the Israeli Navy attacked the six civilian vessels of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. The attack took place in international waters against ships flying under national flags of countries with which Israel is not at war, namely Turkey, Greece and the United States. The ships were carrying civilians from more than sixteen countries.

    Salient points:

    Since no state of war existed at the time, the attack on these vessels constitutes an act of war against those governments under whose flags the vessels were sailing.

    The attack falls within the purview of the ius ad bellum, those laws which govern the resort to armed conflict. Israel's action does not fall into the category of the ius in bello or the laws which govern the actual conduct of war.

    Because this attack was carried out in international waters, the status of the relationship between Hamas, or any other Palestinian body, and the state of Israel is of no relevance whatsoever. Likewise, neither the blockade of Gaza nor Israel's claims and legal interpretations regarding it has any bearing on its acts of aggression in international waters.

    This is not an act of piracy. Piracy is an act of aggression carried out in international waters by individuals and not by states.

    The following internationally binding treaties, charters, and agreements are relevant to the attack by Israel:

    1. Article 6 of the Charter Provisions of the Nuremburg Trials

    (a) Crimes against Peace: namely, planning, preparation, initiation, or waging of a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing;
    (3) Crimes against Humanity: namely murder...deportation, and any other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war...in execution of or in connection with any crime...whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetrated.

    2. 1907 Hague Regulation Convention (XI) Relative to Certain Restrictions with Regard to the Exercise of the Right of Capture in Naval War

    Chapter II - The Exemption from Capture of Certain Vessels
    Article 4. Vessels charged with religious, scientific, or philanthropic missions are likewise exempt from capture.

    Salient points:

    The standard for judging the Israeli acts is objective and not subjective. It is irrelevant what Israeli ministers, generals, admirals, or soldiers thought or intended. The test is in what they did.

    What they did was engage in acts of war using weapons of war in international waters against vessels that are protected not only in peacetime but also in times of war.

    Israel has therefore committed both crimes against the peace and crimes against humanity.

    These are crimes that have international jurisdiction. Israeli political and military personnel can be named in trials held in any and all countries of the world. If the Israelis do not attend the trials, they can be tried in abstentia, and those decisions in which the Israelis are found guilty can be executed anywhere in the world.

    Because unarmed civilians were murdered by a preplanned military attack, capital crimes have been committed. While it would appear that the international community no longer finds capital punishment civilized, the punishments for these capital crimes can be multiple life sentences.

    These crimes give rise to damage claims for huge sums of money and Israeli accounts can be blocked using decisions finding them guilty.

    The unarmed vessels were on a philanthropic mission, carrying civilians and humanitarian supplies. Even if Israel were in a state of war with any of these countries, it would be prohibited from capturing the vessels according to the terms of the Hague Convention of 1907.

    Conclusion:

    It follows, therefore, that Israel

  21. IRONY? Israeli's Help the BLIND to SEE? on New Radar Device Helps Blind People 'See' · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Will the blind America ever see the crime of Israel?

    On the Gaza Relief Flotilla, an American Citizen - born in New York, Was Shot Five Times, including Four Times in Head. That is not self defense, that is execution.

    Obama is studying the situation.

    McCain thinks we are not doing enough to support Israel in this crisis.

    Biden wonders what all the fuss is about.

    And there are high placed members of the US government, proudly "dual-citizens" of US and Israel. In former times, this was called treason.

    All these politicians, including the hundreds who take campaign money from AIPAC which represents the nation that just hijacked a US flagged ship in international waters, kidnapped 12 Americans, and murdered one, all hope they can convince you that immigration and gay marriage are the issues this election year.

    I disagree

    The issue is Israel.

    No government can serve two masters and a government that serves Israel cannot serve the American people.

    A politician who proclaims themselves a friend of Israel thus in the same breath proclaims himself an enemy of America.

    America needs leaders who put America first, second, and third.

    America needs leaders who put America first, second, and third.

    America needs leaders who put America first, second, and third.

    That is the only issue this election.

  22. Re:AMERICAN CITIZEN KILLED BY TURK ON ISRAELI GROU on Police Officers Seek Right Not To Be Recorded · · Score: 1

    Israel is a bunch of Polish, Ukrainian ,Lithuanian and Dutch invaders. It is "Their" land no more than South Africa was rightfully the Boers, or Bombay rightfully English.

    Might does not make right. Your fake "hebrews" will finally pay for blaming the victim of their crime of aggression.

    The TRUE descendants of the Biblical people DO live in Palestine - their forefathers converted to Christianity and Islam - they are today known as "Palestinian". The diaspora story is a lie. It has no basis in the historical record, nor archaeological evidence.

    Stern and Irgun ripped this country from it's natives with terror that makes your vaunted Hamas rockets look like what they really are: Estes model rockets.

    When Israel implodes on its own festering vileness, evil, corruption and hatred of humanity, the whole world will celebrate - except in the US, where worshiping the MYTH of Jewish historical victim hood is the real state religion.

  23. Re:AMERICAN CITIZEN KILLED BY TURK ON ISRAELI GROU on Police Officers Seek Right Not To Be Recorded · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Because they are BOUGHT. 50 Billion over 5 years. Per the Federation of American Scientists:

    "United States has subsidized Egypt's armed forces with over $38 billion worth of aid. Egypt receives about $2 billion annually--$1.3 billion in foreign military financing and about $815 million in economic support fund assistance --making it the second largest regular recipient of conventional U.S. military and economic aid, after Israel. In 1990, the United States also forgave $7.1 billion in past Egyptian military debt in return for Egypt's support of Operation Desert Shield. In addition, Egypt receives excess defense articles worth hundreds of millions of dollars annually from the Pentagon. The announcement that 23,000 U.S. troops will be based in Egypt to conduct biannual military training exercises (Operation Bright Star) may have longer term implications for U.S. aid to the region, as might Egypt's willingness to support U.S. efforts against the Taliban."

    http://www.fas.org/asmp/profiles/egypt.htm

    Now, why do American taxes go by the HUNDRED BILLIONS to Israel and Egypt, when your dad can't get insurance to pay for his cancer meds?

  24. Re:AMERICAN CITIZEN KILLED BY TURK ON ISRAELI GROU on Police Officers Seek Right Not To Be Recorded · · Score: 0, Troll

    Gee, I guess I didn't get caught for my murders, so I'm not going to burn in hell.

    Do you get paid to advocate the murder of children, or are you compelled by an inner corruption?

  25. Re:AMERICAN CITIZEN KILLED BY TURK ON ISRAELI GROU on Police Officers Seek Right Not To Be Recorded · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Security Council? No. Because the Zionist Enabler USA has blocked this motion, every time it is raised.

    UNHRC? UNRWA? UNGA? Yes. I suppose you call the moral authority of Desmond Tutu into question? In favor of a government established though murder, forced expulsion and the torture-killings of British soldiers?

    Israel's blockade of Gaza illegal: UN rights chief
    http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/13+israel+blockade+of+gaza+illegal+un+rights+chief-za-05

    UN envoy Tutu calls Gaza blockade illegal
    http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3549068,00.html

    Head of UNRWA says Israeli blockade imposes illegal economy on Gaza
    http://www.unmultimedia.org/radio/english/detail/92037.html

    UN leaders blast Gaza blockade in wake of flotilla raid
    http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/641854/cs/1/