To Disrupt the criminal washington gang which created ISIS and will create their replacement bad guy when they become worn out in the media.
Give them no safe harbor for their secrets, offer them no contracts to secure themselves, and above all, refuse to work for them. If you do work for them, accomplish nothing. Grind these terrorists to a halt for the good of humanity.
I still maintain there is a difference between the technology, like a person or org could make, and a government program. I would also contend that since they are so distributed, and their misuse of data, can have such serious consequences for others, that whether or not the police should be permitted to use their resources on something is quite a different question from whether private individuals should be able to persue it. The police should have more restrictions on them.
Yes I am well aware what excuses they use to violate people's private matters. I have never once felt it was an appropriate use of state power, nothing but abusive really.
and maybe stop having ridiculous laws against the private exchanges between consenting adults.
How is it any of their business? A worthless program of justifying jobs and budget to fight, nothing of consequence. Or what could be nothing of consequence, if not for their own bungling which turned it into a cesspool of criminal elements, from abusive pimps to human traffickers.
Sure but intention doesn't have any bearing on function. They also, depending on how they are made, reduce the distance dice have to travel before making another impact and sending their spin off in a new direction.
I really think the weight induced bias would only come into play towards the end where the die is coming to rest. If the vertical portion is the longer distance and baffled, and the end tray short and walled so as to prevent a lot of space to resolve their bias at the end of their journey, I think it might work.
I wonder if any of the natural bias of a particular set of dice could be reduced through the use of something like a dice tower which contains internal facets that cause the dice to tumble more and possibly have less unhindered spinning time to settle into their more natural configurations.
Yes but even that is more work and more expensive. Pretty sure its cheaper to just hire the people with the bad accents to get on the phone for you.
My assumption is they are so bad because there is no value in being better, not because there is so much value in being bad that they go out of their way.
Hmmm the text doesn't read like a very convincing russian accent, as it has a somewhat distinct grammar that goes with it. Particularly, skipping use of the definite article, and less superfluous preposition usage:
I would expect it to be more like "Hello, my name is Steven. I am calling from Homeland Security Department and definitely not former KGB agent." That seems more like the flow I have come to expect from a person with a heavy russian accent.
I know there are likely a lot of russians who have learned more normalized English grammar, but remember, scammers actually have very little reason to try too hard. They want the kind of person who isn't going to question a person in a bad accent asking for their personal details.
Seriously though, who would want their systems compromised by a group of motivated liars who have a demonstrated track record of covering up their own wrongdoing and misusing any access they do get?
Anyone who wants that deserves every inch of penetration they are going to get.
Not a public transmission, not in any way. Its a private transmission, facilitated by a third party under contract. I would no more expect the telephone company to feel free to disclose such information as I would expect any other business to talk freely about the private nature of their business dealings with clients.
I would consider the privacy of such dealings to be pretty well implied in the very nature of a contract to facilitate private communications.
I was out camping with a larger group. You know, all those friends of friends who say the darndest things. As topics bounced around I was reminded of this device and mentioned it, saying "it was basically an explosive finding dowsing rod" and one of the people pipes up "Well nothing wrong with that then, dowsing rods work just fine"
We already have "did this package get dropped" sensors. So take that to the next level.
Vacume seal an interior bag. Place a module inside the bag with: 1. Internal Battery 2. Sensor package including light and air pressure/composition sensors 3. A small amount of memory 4. A running program which will erase the memory if any of the sensors detect a change 5. a small transmitter, capable of answering a challenge.
Customer/Cisco generate a key using a key exchange protocol, key is loaded into box gaurdian module. Box is shipped. Customer uses an RF device to query the package to see if it has been tampered with, customer informs cisco for an immediate RMA, but accepts delivery, so as to be sure the box can be returned in tact for analysis.
I first became aware of encryption back when it was still being pointed out that ITAR regulations are stupid when the encryption they block from export already exists, and some of it was even patented, outside the US. There were, quite literally, two versions of the same library based on whether you were in the US or outside the US....same routines, same capabilities.
And this was the mid 1990. How ridiculous is it to be threatening people with prison time for "exporting" something that was already out there?
Yes blame the tools....the same tools which have been available to the entire fucking world for 3+ decades.
Terrorists capable of using freely downloadable software that does math....yes.... big news story. Be afraid, they can do math. Somehow they can build bombs but its still shocking they can download freely available software.
In the end its all just fearmongering, whatever people will buy and sounds scary.
Absolutely. I don't block ads, but ads get blocked, because my browser security package (noscript+requestpolicy) just doesn't load anything from a 3rd party site unless I approve it, and then doesn't run javascript unless I approve it.
Its generally a bit annoying but.... I put up with it for the same reason I wouldn't have sex with someone I just met without condoms. However, that isn't really even an apt comparison....because sex with a random person is, mostly a pretty rare event, even if you are trying.
Browsing the web is like.... if we replaced the social custom of saying "hello" with anal sex, and browsing a website is like going to a dinner party with your friend, and 20 of his friends that he brought along; and they are all anxious to greet you, and quite offended that you even brought up the word condom.
Quick, somebody shoot the messenger! Focus on the leaker and make sure he goes to prison himself! He must have broken some law if the public was apprised of wrongdoing.
So how is paying someone else to do something different from doing it yourself anyway?
They are acting... on your request. You are using them, as a tool, to perform the action, and using department funds to compensate them. Acting via a proxy is still acting.
In fact, its involving them in a criminal conspiracy, as conspiracy to commit a criminal act is, itself, a crime. Everyone involved should be facing felony charges.
I don't understand this word "fear"? How can they "Fear" anything? Does a single one of them actually risk prosecution? Does any one of them think that, if they were prosecuted, the provisions of the Westfall act which allow the Government itself to stand for the defendant would not be invoked?
They have nothing to fear but reassignment at worst.
No. There really is no market for murder. Even in the rare instance where someone seriously seeks out such a market, they end up talking to the police, or finding some unstable fool. The only market for murder is the military contracting one, and you need a lot of dough and connections to use that.
I never played a mute in fallout. I don't need a voice actor to give my own character a voice.
Personally, I am not bothered as much, but I do prefer games that don't do that. Actually, I prefer the game not even "phrase" my responses for me. I think one of the better systems was the old shadowrun game for the NES where dialog options were made by using keywords to select topics....leaving your side of the conversation entirely up to your own head-cannon.
> You have to go back a bit further, with PGP in 91, or even further back with InfoZip's encryption, IIRC. I'm sure I haven't gone to the beginning.
Very true, and I probably wasn't even the first person to compile decent encryption routines on an apple 2 either, hell, by that time someone had already developed a TCP/IP stack and gno existed.
> lightning connectors finally addressed one of the biggest annoyances - keyed connectors.
I guess that was never one of my biggest annoyances. In fact, connector wise, the real huge pain was always DIN style connectors with thin wires that had to push into individual holes in a female socket. Original USB and SATA, as basically edge card connectors that slide together, already solved 95% of the real pain.
What really gets me is the complexity. Its a connectior. Being keyed is a SMALL price to pay for lacking the complexity of specialized hardware in the cable for no other purpose than switching the pins around so you can plug it in either way. To me, it seems such a level of complexity for such a miniscule problem points far more at a desire to enforce user lock-in and freeze out aftermarket parts.....both of which I put in the category of "Screwing your own customers".
I said "will not" not "never have". However, I could have said never have with the caveat of being a customer and rather than consumer. The GS was a gift from my parents and while I did personally buy one, it was at a flea market years later (and it was an original "Woz Edition" GS).
If you want me to clarify, I have not purchased an apple product, except possibly an Ipod as a gift for someone else who wanted one, since the Apple ][ was on the market, and Apple has, quite consistently, made decisions which have reinforced that decision since then.
Begrudged Apple hater here (][ Forever motherfucker.... jobs didn't get cancer, he WAS cancer! and don't even start me on lightning connectors and walled gardens....grrrrr fuck apple)
Anyway, totally agree. Any general purpose computing device can perform these basic functions if programmed to. That encryption and original file deletion and network access were all available on the Mac is quite uninteresting.
If these are the standards, then i claim prior art as one of the earliest people to have "proven" this when I compiled the RSA libraries on my Apple ][GS in 1996. Either I was 20 years ahead of myself, or this is bullshit....thinking bullshit.
and I still hate apple and wont buy any of their products.
This is an important point, but there is also honesty with yourself. Games share a property with relationships, its often not about how good it is, because good times are easy. Its really more about which negatives you can deal with.
I really love "Zero Punctuation" reviews for ripping apart a game comically because I find the jabs are full of truth. Even when I love a game that is being shredded, I find myself agreeing with its criticism, he is usually right, we just have different priorities. Its like dishes in the sink.
Its like if someone says "hey this girl is really nice, and I think you would get along, but she leaves dishes in the sink all the time". Well.... guess what.... for some people that right there, if they were being honest with themselves, is a deal breaker; possibly more so than infidelity, but, good luck finding many people who will admit that, even to themselves.
OTOH some people are like "Whats wrong with dishes in the sink? Are you that fucking uptight?". Well.... not a deal breaker for them.
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To Disrupt the criminal washington gang which created ISIS and will create their replacement bad guy when they become worn out in the media.
Give them no safe harbor for their secrets, offer them no contracts to secure themselves, and above all, refuse to work for them. If you do work for them, accomplish nothing. Grind these terrorists to a halt for the good of humanity.
I still maintain there is a difference between the technology, like a person or org could make, and a government program. I would also contend that since they are so distributed, and their misuse of data, can have such serious consequences for others, that whether or not the police should be permitted to use their resources on something is quite a different question from whether private individuals should be able to persue it. The police should have more restrictions on them.
Yes I am well aware what excuses they use to violate people's private matters. I have never once felt it was an appropriate use of state power, nothing but abusive really.
and maybe stop having ridiculous laws against the private exchanges between consenting adults.
How is it any of their business? A worthless program of justifying jobs and budget to fight, nothing of consequence. Or what could be nothing of consequence, if not for their own bungling which turned it into a cesspool of criminal elements, from abusive pimps to human traffickers.
This is hardly a fix for the mess they made.
Sure but intention doesn't have any bearing on function. They also, depending on how they are made, reduce the distance dice have to travel before making another impact and sending their spin off in a new direction.
I really think the weight induced bias would only come into play towards the end where the die is coming to rest. If the vertical portion is the longer distance and baffled, and the end tray short and walled so as to prevent a lot of space to resolve their bias at the end of their journey, I think it might work.
I wonder if any of the natural bias of a particular set of dice could be reduced through the use of something like a dice tower which contains internal facets that cause the dice to tumble more and possibly have less unhindered spinning time to settle into their more natural configurations.
Yes but even that is more work and more expensive. Pretty sure its cheaper to just hire the people with the bad accents to get on the phone for you.
My assumption is they are so bad because there is no value in being better, not because there is so much value in being bad that they go out of their way.
"Job Creation" covers the entire spectrum. Pretty sure they know EXACTLY what their "mission" is.....expand their employment opportunities.
Hmmm the text doesn't read like a very convincing russian accent, as it has a somewhat distinct grammar that goes with it. Particularly, skipping use of the definite article, and less superfluous preposition usage:
I would expect it to be more like "Hello, my name is Steven. I am calling from Homeland Security Department and definitely not former KGB agent." That seems more like the flow I have come to expect from a person with a heavy russian accent.
I know there are likely a lot of russians who have learned more normalized English grammar, but remember, scammers actually have very little reason to try too hard. They want the kind of person who isn't going to question a person in a bad accent asking for their personal details.
Security Penetrates YOU!
Seriously though, who would want their systems compromised by a group of motivated liars who have a demonstrated track record of covering up their own wrongdoing and misusing any access they do get?
Anyone who wants that deserves every inch of penetration they are going to get.
Not a public transmission, not in any way. Its a private transmission, facilitated by a third party under contract.
I would no more expect the telephone company to feel free to disclose such information as I would expect any other business to talk freely about the private nature of their business dealings with clients.
I would consider the privacy of such dealings to be pretty well implied in the very nature of a contract to facilitate private communications.
I was out camping with a larger group. You know, all those friends of friends who say the darndest things. As topics bounced around I was reminded of this device and mentioned it, saying "it was basically an explosive finding dowsing rod" and one of the people pipes up
"Well nothing wrong with that then, dowsing rods work just fine"
What do you even say?
We already have "did this package get dropped" sensors. So take that to the next level.
Vacume seal an interior bag. Place a module inside the bag with:
1. Internal Battery
2. Sensor package including light and air pressure/composition sensors
3. A small amount of memory
4. A running program which will erase the memory if any of the sensors detect a change
5. a small transmitter, capable of answering a challenge.
Customer/Cisco generate a key using a key exchange protocol, key is loaded into box gaurdian module. Box is shipped. Customer uses an RF device to query the package to see if it has been tampered with, customer informs cisco for an immediate RMA, but accepts delivery, so as to be sure the box can be returned in tact for analysis.
Thing is....its not even new.
I first became aware of encryption back when it was still being pointed out that ITAR regulations are stupid when the encryption they block from export already exists, and some of it was even patented, outside the US. There were, quite literally, two versions of the same library based on whether you were in the US or outside the US....same routines, same capabilities.
And this was the mid 1990. How ridiculous is it to be threatening people with prison time for "exporting" something that was already out there?
Yes blame the tools....the same tools which have been available to the entire fucking world for 3+ decades.
Terrorists capable of using freely downloadable software that does math....yes.... big news story. Be afraid, they can do math. Somehow they can build bombs but its still shocking they can download freely available software.
In the end its all just fearmongering, whatever people will buy and sounds scary.
That implies it was even written by a human, I am not so sure these days.
Absolutely. I don't block ads, but ads get blocked, because my browser security package (noscript+requestpolicy) just doesn't load anything from a 3rd party site unless I approve it, and then doesn't run javascript unless I approve it.
Its generally a bit annoying but.... I put up with it for the same reason I wouldn't have sex with someone I just met without condoms. However, that isn't really even an apt comparison....because sex with a random person is, mostly a pretty rare event, even if you are trying.
Browsing the web is like.... if we replaced the social custom of saying "hello" with anal sex, and browsing a website is like going to a dinner party with your friend, and 20 of his friends that he brought along; and they are all anxious to greet you, and quite offended that you even brought up the word condom.
Quick, somebody shoot the messenger! Focus on the leaker and make sure he goes to prison himself! He must have broken some law if the public was apprised of wrongdoing.
So how is paying someone else to do something different from doing it yourself anyway?
They are acting... on your request. You are using them, as a tool, to perform the action, and using department funds to compensate them. Acting via a proxy is still acting.
In fact, its involving them in a criminal conspiracy, as conspiracy to commit a criminal act is, itself, a crime. Everyone involved should be facing felony charges.
I don't understand this word "fear"? How can they "Fear" anything? Does a single one of them actually risk prosecution? Does any one of them think that, if they were prosecuted, the provisions of the Westfall act which allow the Government itself to stand for the defendant would not be invoked?
They have nothing to fear but reassignment at worst.
No. There really is no market for murder. Even in the rare instance where someone seriously seeks out such a market, they end up talking to the police, or finding some unstable fool. The only market for murder is the military contracting one, and you need a lot of dough and connections to use that.
I never played a mute in fallout. I don't need a voice actor to give my own character a voice.
Personally, I am not bothered as much, but I do prefer games that don't do that. Actually, I prefer the game not even "phrase" my responses for me. I think one of the better systems was the old shadowrun game for the NES where dialog options were made by using keywords to select topics....leaving your side of the conversation entirely up to your own head-cannon.
> You have to go back a bit further, with PGP in 91, or even further back with InfoZip's encryption, IIRC. I'm sure I haven't gone to the beginning.
Very true, and I probably wasn't even the first person to compile decent encryption routines on an apple 2 either, hell, by that time someone had already developed a TCP/IP stack and gno existed.
> lightning connectors finally addressed one of the biggest annoyances - keyed connectors.
I guess that was never one of my biggest annoyances. In fact, connector wise, the real huge pain was always DIN style connectors with thin wires that had to push into individual holes in a female socket. Original USB and SATA, as basically edge card connectors that slide together, already solved 95% of the real pain.
What really gets me is the complexity. Its a connectior. Being keyed is a SMALL price to pay for lacking the complexity of specialized hardware in the cable for no other purpose than switching the pins around so you can plug it in either way. To me, it seems such a level of complexity for such a miniscule problem points far more at a desire to enforce user lock-in and freeze out aftermarket parts.....both of which I put in the category of "Screwing your own customers".
> But you already did.
I said "will not" not "never have". However, I could have said never have with the caveat of being a customer and rather than consumer. The GS was a gift from my parents and while I did personally buy one, it was at a flea market years later (and it was an original "Woz Edition" GS).
If you want me to clarify, I have not purchased an apple product, except possibly an Ipod as a gift for someone else who wanted one, since the Apple ][ was on the market, and Apple has, quite consistently, made decisions which have reinforced that decision since then.
Begrudged Apple hater here (][ Forever motherfucker.... jobs didn't get cancer, he WAS cancer! and don't even start me on lightning connectors and walled gardens....grrrrr fuck apple)
Anyway, totally agree. Any general purpose computing device can perform these basic functions if programmed to. That encryption and original file deletion and network access were all available on the Mac is quite uninteresting.
If these are the standards, then i claim prior art as one of the earliest people to have "proven" this when I compiled the RSA libraries on my Apple ][GS in 1996. Either I was 20 years ahead of myself, or this is bullshit....thinking bullshit.
and I still hate apple and wont buy any of their products.
This is an important point, but there is also honesty with yourself. Games share a property with relationships, its often not about how good it is, because good times are easy. Its really more about which negatives you can deal with.
I really love "Zero Punctuation" reviews for ripping apart a game comically because I find the jabs are full of truth. Even when I love a game that is being shredded, I find myself agreeing with its criticism, he is usually right, we just have different priorities. Its like dishes in the sink.
Its like if someone says "hey this girl is really nice, and I think you would get along, but she leaves dishes in the sink all the time". Well.... guess what.... for some people that right there, if they were being honest with themselves, is a deal breaker; possibly more so than infidelity, but, good luck finding many people who will admit that, even to themselves.
OTOH some people are like "Whats wrong with dishes in the sink? Are you that fucking uptight?". Well.... not a deal breaker for them.