So, the argument and merits boil down to this: You may choose between Bowdlerized digital lifestyle from Apple, or a direct pipeline into the next-generation of Total Information Awareness from Google?
Try and get a Google account without submitting a verifiable mobile number. Combine the use of that account with any phone running Google Maps and Search. Now, multiply that potential by an order of magnitude, when you operate a phone stack that is completely designed and built by Google. Correlate your location and your content and your identity?
I used to demo / sell personals in the 79-81 years. (GW-Basic?) Nothing had but 4 or 16 base. Commodore and Apple had 4Kb models (The PET!). There were Apple ][ expansion cards for PR4 from third parties, that gave you funny numbers like 12 Kb.
Sure. But breadboarding a computer with 1980 processors (8080, 6502) would have sucked if you picked some funny multiple. How many machines were ever built where you could have 28K? I can't remember one. 1980 you had lots of 16K and 32K and 64K machines, with Zilog Z80's, running CPM. There were a smattering of new, 8088's and the new 68000 was in mini-class workstations - these had, sometimes, a whopping 256Kb!
1980? 3.5 inch floppies? No way. 5.25 inch, only - just leaving the era of 8.0 inch!
28K RAM? What multiple of 4 is 28? 7? I don't think so. Get it right: 4 8 16 32. There could be 6 or 7 banks of discreet RAM chips - this would have been ridiculous to construct.
That little lock on your browser window indicating you are communicating securely with your bank or e-mail account may not always mean what you think its means.
Normally when a user visits a secure website, such as Bank of America, Gmail, PayPal or eBay, the browser examines the website's certificate to verify its authenticity.
At a recent wiretapping convention, however, security researcher Chris Soghoian discovered that a small company was marketing internet spying boxes to the feds. The boxes were designed to intercept those communications -- without breaking the encryption -- by using forged security certificates, instead of the real ones that websites use to verify secure connections. To use the appliance, the government would need to acquire a forged certificate from any one of more than 100 trusted Certificate Authorities.
The attack is a classic man-in-the-middle attack, where Alice thinks she is talking directly to Bob, but instead Mallory found a way to get in the middle and pass the messages back and forth without Alice or Bob knowing she was there.
The existence of a marketed product indicates the vulnerability is likely being exploited by more than just information-hungry governments, according to leading encryption expert Matt Blaze, a computer science professor at University of Pennsylvania.
"If the company is selling this to law enforcement and the intelligence community, it is not that large a leap to conclude that other, more malicious people have worked out the details of how to exploit this," Blaze said.
The parent got plugged as flamebait? There are revenue agents in the health care bill. The IRS, your favorite agency, is appointed to enforce health "reform".
If either an individual or a business has failed to comply with this mandate for any month out of the year, they are required to pay a separate tax to the IRS. For individuals this is a maximum of $750 per person (up to $2,250 per household) and $750 per uncovered employee for businesses.
Because these penalties would each apply on a monthly basis, individuals and employers would have to pay 1/12th of the maximum penalties for each month they failed to comply with the mandates.
In order to carry out its new monitoring and enforcement duties, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the IRS will need $10 billion in additional funds, funds which were not made available under the health reform bill.
There was a young man from the Clyde Who fell down a sewer and died Along came his brother, Who fell down another And now they're interred side by side!
There once was a man named Hall Who died in the spring in the fall. 'Twould have been a sad thing Had he died in the spring But he didn't, he died in the fall.
The story, as cited, is the disinformation spin - once the story came out, Israeli sources admit to a fraction of the problem. Then they claim exageration and throw the "victim" monkey-wrench, again.
"We used to steal organs and lie about it, but now we stopped stealing and lying - Trust me!"
Israel claims to be a victim of Palestinian violence. That is such a tragic inversion of the truth on every level. Like the fucking Americans, making movies that depict themselves as victims of Apache violence.
Israel is not a victim. It is a killer of babies and starver of mothers.
There is one God, and Israel murders God's children.
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I don't walk around naked, with the blinds up, either.
Discretionary privacy is a root of sovereignty - a property that attaches to individuals, not states, despite the regular abuse of this notion.
So, the argument and merits boil down to this: You may choose between Bowdlerized digital lifestyle from Apple, or a direct pipeline into the next-generation of Total Information Awareness from Google?
Try and get a Google account without submitting a verifiable mobile number. Combine the use of that account with any phone running Google Maps and Search. Now, multiply that potential by an order of magnitude, when you operate a phone stack that is completely designed and built by Google. Correlate your location and your content and your identity?
I can look at REAL tits, thanks.
Sitting in a tree...
Dedicated to Adolph, a man who loved - perhaps too much. A man who loved and lost.
Ask the Pope.
Now, go kill us some more afghans and ay-rabs.
Next?
Google Toilet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrontojPWEE&feature=player_embedded
Google IS the terrorist you fear...
Vote LibDem or meet your doom.
I don't like 'em either - but Labour is gone and it's never coming back.
Beautiful confirmation of my cynical - and unerring - suspicions.
To enable the surveillance telescreens promised us with such fanfare by Orwell in 1984. Cameras on the street really don't do the job.
'Zactly.
I used to demo / sell personals in the 79-81 years. (GW-Basic?) Nothing had but 4 or 16 base. Commodore and Apple had 4Kb models (The PET!). There were Apple ][ expansion cards for PR4 from third parties, that gave you funny numbers like 12 Kb.
Yup. Let's put 14 sockets for 512b RAM chips, in our new PC!
Sure. But breadboarding a computer with 1980 processors (8080, 6502) would have sucked if you picked some funny multiple. How many machines were ever built where you could have 28K? I can't remember one. 1980 you had lots of 16K and 32K and 64K machines, with Zilog Z80's, running CPM. There were a smattering of new, 8088's and the new 68000 was in mini-class workstations - these had, sometimes, a whopping 256Kb!
1980? 3.5 inch floppies? No way. 5.25 inch, only - just leaving the era of 8.0 inch!
28K RAM? What multiple of 4 is 28? 7? I don't think so. Get it right: 4 8 16 32. There could be 6 or 7 banks of discreet RAM chips - this would have been ridiculous to construct.
Good Onion, bad technology and history.
It requires copulation, to be infected. /. is immune to this transmission vector.
Just in time for commonplace MiTM spoofing.
That little lock on your browser window indicating you are communicating securely with your bank or e-mail account may not always mean what you think its means.
Normally when a user visits a secure website, such as Bank of America, Gmail, PayPal or eBay, the browser examines the website's certificate to verify its authenticity.
At a recent wiretapping convention, however, security researcher Chris Soghoian discovered that a small company was marketing internet spying boxes to the feds. The boxes were designed to intercept those communications -- without breaking the encryption -- by using forged security certificates, instead of the real ones that websites use to verify secure connections. To use the appliance, the government would need to acquire a forged certificate from any one of more than 100 trusted Certificate Authorities.
The attack is a classic man-in-the-middle attack, where Alice thinks she is talking directly to Bob, but instead Mallory found a way to get in the middle and pass the messages back and forth without Alice or Bob knowing she was there.
The existence of a marketed product indicates the vulnerability is likely being exploited by more than just information-hungry governments, according to leading encryption expert Matt Blaze, a computer science professor at University of Pennsylvania.
"If the company is selling this to law enforcement and the intelligence community, it is not that large a leap to conclude that other, more malicious people have worked out the details of how to exploit this," Blaze said.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/packet-forensics/
So they found the dark matter? If so, this is astounding.
No. This is making the dark-matter theorists look bloody foolish. All those convoluted theories and reality distorting models are now rubbish.
Central Services.
I warned you all about Google and this stuff for years, now.
The parent got plugged as flamebait? There are revenue agents in the health care bill. The IRS, your favorite agency, is appointed to enforce health "reform".
If either an individual or a business has failed to comply with this mandate for any month out of the year, they are required to pay a separate tax to the IRS. For individuals this is a maximum of $750 per person (up to $2,250 per household) and $750 per uncovered employee for businesses.
Because these penalties would each apply on a monthly basis, individuals and employers would have to pay 1/12th of the maximum penalties for each month they failed to comply with the mandates.
In order to carry out its new monitoring and enforcement duties, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the IRS will need $10 billion in additional funds, funds which were not made available under the health reform bill.
What's holding back the "Paperless Office"?
One word:
Printers.
There was a young man from the Clyde
Who fell down a sewer and died
Along came his brother,
Who fell down another
And now they're interred side by side!
There once was a man named Hall
Who died in the spring in the fall.
'Twould have been a sad thing
Had he died in the spring
But he didn't, he died in the fall.
NO INSURANCE COMPANY LEFT BEHIND ACT of 2010.
I like the provision for hiring additional revenue agents.
You can't tell Switzerland from Sweden.
The story, as cited, is the disinformation spin - once the story came out, Israeli sources admit to a fraction of the problem. Then they claim exageration and throw the "victim" monkey-wrench, again.
"We used to steal organs and lie about it, but now we stopped stealing and lying - Trust me!"
Israel claims to be a victim of Palestinian violence. That is such a tragic inversion of the truth on every level. Like the fucking Americans, making movies that depict themselves as victims of Apache violence.
Israel is not a victim. It is a killer of babies and starver of mothers.
There is one God, and Israel murders God's children.
"They're trying to stiff you again."
And Mr. Michael Seringhaus' puckered, little anus is begging sweetly for the tip of Hitler's dick.
I Get It.
Bashing Islam is Freedom of Speech - Criticizing Israel is a Hate Crime.
Wow! Now 50% LESS immoral! As long as they were Goyim, I guess it doesn't much matter?