Hard? Nah they are easy to "track", the problem is, the tracking pretty much relies on someone being a bit careless.
Thing is, every bitcoin address is a public key, so they are anonymous, anyone can generate a new address. So each new transaction, to a new account, is nearly impossible to "track". You just don't know if the coins changed hands or not, nor do you know which one.
Lets say there are X bitcoins in account A. A new transaction is generated sending Y bitcoins to account B and Z bitcoins to account C.
That is a standard transaction as the client sends extra coins to new addresses as "change". Which is the change, which didn't change hands? How do you know?
Don't get me wrong, it happens and has, I tracked down who stole some bitcoins once, thing is, I did it on the other side because the person in question mixed a number of coins together before another transaction, and some of those coins came from an address he had posted on a forum for "tips".
So basically you can follow them backwards to a transaction that can be attributed or watch them going forwards until one, but, you can't actually be sure that it is going to happen or that it is going to lead back to the right person...unless they make a mistake...which is also easy enough.
Though, I, for one, am hoping he doesn't screw up, I like Lulzsec more than I like the FBI. If I could take the money I am forced to give the FBI every year, and give it to Lulzsec instead...I would.
The directions this sort of research could be taken next are so amusing. First, A potentially communicable source of disease resistance. Nose picking: Beneficial Adaptation for both picking up AND spreading immunity?
> When I built my house, I was frustrated with my previous 1960's house that had 2 receptacles per > room. I said, hell with it, code says 6 feet, I'll make it 4. Note that thinking CORRECTLY, that would > have made it 8 feet between outlets.
1960's! Oh the luxury!
My house was built to the 90s codes...that is... 1890s. Original lighting in the house was gas lamp. A friend of mine, was at his grandmother's house up the road and was messing with an old gas lamp fixture and found....it was still connected to live gas!
With horse hair plaster walls, and a house that was built before electricity, I am just happy everything was converted to 3 prongs and breakers...and that the vast majority (if not quite all) of the old cloth covered wire is gone. (though, I did personally kill one of the few remaining circuits recently, not even sure what it went to, but after it was off for a year from the breaker and nobody complained, I cut it out of the box and capped off the old run with glee)
> A little bug spray easily manages crazy ants. Bifenthrin or Pyrethrum based insecticides are highly effective. > Fire-ant bait is ineffective because they aren't fire ants, thank God.
I haven't had to deal with "crazy" ants, but I had good luck with pyrenthum on a nasty ant problem once. A friend of mine was living in a dorm and came over my place. He brought a pizza box with a number of leftover slices, that had been in his dorm room. We set that in the kitchen and went to hang out in the other room. I walk into the kitchen to a horror: a swarm of ants, centering on the box, and in a solid mass covering the table, table leg, and portion of the floor.
I had some pyrenthum spray labeled for kitchen use, so I grabbed it and sprayed. The effect was immediate and complete. The writhing mass of spreading ants came to an immediate halt. Killed every single one as fast as I could spray it.
> The idea that scientists though the Earth was flat in the 1800s is the most ridiculous thing I have read on slashdot, I have a 5 digit ID!!!
In the poster's defence, he actually said that this was the opinion in 1490, not the 1800s. Still incorrect but, is a more understandable point of confusion since it was before the general public really had had it shown and explained to them. His point about the 1800s was about the existence of germs.
And looking for some citations on this in wiki...it seems I may have confused the geocentric/heliocentric world with the flat earth, even the church talked about the roun earth. Thomas Aquinas (who died in the 1200s) said: "The physicist proves the earth to be round by one means, the astronomer by another: for the latter proves this by means of mathematics, e.g. by the shapes of eclipses, or something of the sort; while the former proves it by means of physics, e.g. by the movement of heavy bodies towards the center, and so forth."
> Most scientists believed the earth was flat. In the mid 1800's 99% of leading scientists did not > believe in microbes. Louis Pasteur did. Consensus is meaningless.
Not true. By the 1490s, it had already been pretty well established that the earth was round. It was the uneducated masses and official church dogma that this was not true, and this created a climate where openly saying the earth was round was not exactly a safe position to take.
So while it may not have been en vogue to say the earth was round, privately, amongst those who did study the issue, it was allready known.
Exactly. The fear is actually quite justified too. Do we really think that, just because we eventually got over our fear of people with HIV, that there will never again be a disease that imparts significant social stigma? Not only that, but, if people have access to our records, they can make decisions behind our back.
Didn't get that job? Was it because of your medical record? They aren't going to tell you. If they did give you a reason, you would be daft to believe they told the truth.
Lets also not forget, a lot of this is similar to the FISA courts: it doesn't exist because some academic had an argument....it came about because of abuses. My mother and I both have worked at a major hospital; her in a clinical setting, me in IT.
The SINGLE most common reason for a person to get fired, not 20 years ago, but TODAY, is still unauthorized access to medical records. People look up celebrities, people look up their friends, look up their family members, look up their neighbors....and these are trained professionals with access to the system who have been told not to do it; and warned that the system is being audited.
Thing is, the audits came about because they found this was rampant. Princess Di came in for treatment once. The number of people who looked up her records just for their own curiosity was alarming. That is the sort of thing that started it, not just that but, people have lost jobs over illnesses. People have felt violated when their private medical details ended up the gossip of the town.
Sure, thats the real problem. Nobody should have to be ashamed of their medical condition, no condition really deserves stigma. Until that stigma is gone and people feel safe talking voluntarily, I am very much against taking their choice as to whether they let the world know away.
I talk freely about my own medical issues, but.... thats my choice. I will tell you I sleep with a CPAP machine, or about the lump I just had removed from my face. I feel no shame either. However, if you came up to me and told me that you read it in my medical records, you had better be my doctor, or else you better hope I can compose myself before I punch you.
> on the other hand, it wasn't too long ago people were bemoaning flight simulators as "terrorism trainers".
Really? People were were they? Anyone doing that has less of a grip on reality than the people who think they are personally Napoleon. I don't see why their opinion needs much consideration. May as well just say "on the other hand, some people are crazy and stupid".
I actually wasn't considering how prepared different groups were at all, not sure how or why that makes a difference. Its all about ensuring and protecting specific jobs and the business models that creates them.
Apparently doing business more efficiently is "unfair" now. Guessing this means "fairness" is defined as "works the same as we expected before we had current technology". Kind of like how buying refridgerators was unfair to ice harvesters....a perfect example of what happens when the government doesn't step in and restore fairness....now we all have to make our own ice because there is nobody to harvest natural ice for us.... so sad.
The problem is, I think, really one of measurement. We know how to measure reaction time and certain other things, then we call those "impairment", and talk about it as a few deviations in those few statistics and "impairment" are the same thing.
What about the study that found people who got in accidents with cell phones actually drove differently than other drivers, took more risks, and got in more accidents...even without cell phones. In fact, while most drivers using a phone drive more cautiously, these individuals actually drove less cautiously.
The problem isn't reaction time, its judgement, which is a problem because its very hard to measure directly and put a number on.... but, the evidence I have been looking at leads me to think it is a much more important factor than raw reaction time. A good driver doesn't rely on raw reaction time to keep him safe, and again... thats a judgement issue
Do you know what kind of depravity Dihydrogen monoxide exposure has been "associated" with?
- Nearly 100% of all felons were exposed to Dihydrogen Monoxide within just hours prior to their arrest. - DHMO use is almost universal amongst child rapists. - DHMO exposure actually kills children - DHMO is dangerously addictive, killing most addicts who attempt to abstain from it within just 3 days!
That said, equipment follows a "bath tub" curve and I often think that people replace it too soon. I see a lot of "that's 3 years old, we should replace it", which seems bonkers to me - if a bit of equipment has been working very reliably for 3 years, I would certainly hesitate to replace it with shiny new (untested) kit
Yup, and I have worked places with such policies. I still thought it was bonkers, and even so, we didn't actually do it, because replacing everything every X years was laughable given staff size and the environment size and type.
That said, I think you are missing a couple of things:
1. Other incentives - Does IT charge back? What is the overall model? Where I was "IT" was in an odd position that involved strange budgets and chargebacks. They were basically stuck trying to push people into upgrades or being stuck supporting the same systems without getting any new revenue to the department, and taking hits on having maintenance costs be "too high". To the overall insitution this was likely wasteful and stupid, to IT, it was the only sane course.
2. Homogeny - Well the environment keeps growing.... so the number of generations of hardware keeps growing. Every year or so the old servers you were ordering become unavailable, and new ones come out. Unless you buy large stocks ahead of time, you can't continue to deploy what you have been....
So lets say you have your list of standard servers (lets leave one-offs alone) down to 4 machines, a 1 U unit, a 2 U unit, and 2 models of blade. (that is close to what I have seen). Thats 4 models per year...in 3 years you could have 12 different models with slight variations; just for "standard" hardware, before we even consider individual configurations. Likely you have both Linux and Windows.... which in and of itself now means up to 24 different standard configs....and that assumes you actually replace boxes every 3 years.
Not saying any of this is unmanageable, but, I can see why people choose this route, especially when factors in #1 come into play.
> State laws imposing restrictions on manufacturers in favor of dealers aren't new
No shit. We have similar here in MA in relation to Alcohol, but one step worst. Instead of forcing sales through retail outlets, it forces the retail outlets to buy from licensed distributors.
So if Tesla started making wine, it would have to be bought buy a distributor before a liquor store here in MA could buy it and offer it for sale. Really nice racket. Now they are scrambling to make sure they get a similar middleman installed for the upcoming pot legalization.
God forbid they don't find a way to give their big donors a taste of the action. To think people might profit without cutting in the people who made donations to political parties. Such a travesty cannot be allowed!
> But even I find the idea of eating insects a bit revolting. I mean, I'd give it a go, but I'd grimace a bit > the first few times
Its not so bad, hell in some forms, you wont even notice, take it from me.... I have done it.
We had some grubs infest a bag of rice in our pantry area. Funny thing about grubs, they don't look so different from rice. The whole family was sitting down to eat, we were about halfway through the meal when i thought one of the grains looked "burnt", then I noticed it also seemed to be made up of a number of ring segments, which is odd for rice.
It took a few moments before I figured it out and let everyone know that there were grubs in the rice, and not just a few, quite a lot actually.
Of course, everyone looked disgusted, stopped eating the rice, and tossed the rest of the bag.... but up until that point, nobody had noticed. In fact, we had probably been eating steamed grubs with our rice a couple of times a week for a while.
> Anyone considering a gun for criminal use simply has zero desire to jump through the hoops and > significant expense required to produce one. Why do you think that no crimes are reported today > with custom built guns when it's already easy to assemble them
You are assuming an order of events starting with "Person decides to be criminal" and ending with "Criminal aquires gun". What about a person who already has a 3d printer? How about someone who knows someone with a 3d printer? How about this "Wow these 3d printed guns are cool" then progressing to "shit, i need a weapon... this will do".
What you describe is why it wont become a trend, or be a big deal, but, at some point, there are just too many people for anything not to happen once or twice.
I would have no ethical concern; except in relation to the original cell source. Once the cells are growing in a vat, they are just cells. The only ethical concern from that point is the protection of the original donor identity, since the genetics of the meat will be his. Perhaps a wide range of donors would be preferable?
Could you imagine the contracts that could arise out of that? Would it be legal to pay a flat fee, with a bonus based on taste tests after the first batch (would that be unfair...compensating people based solely on their genetics? Royalties? What about derivative products? Will a package of hamburg come with a shrink wrap license forbidding me from making copies?
My complaint is that Apple is even capable of complying. If I buy a device, its mine, if I encrypt that device, I, and whoever I give the key to, should be the only people able to decrypt it (key weakness and cryptanalsys not withstanding, obviously).
If this is not the case, then it should be made explictly obvious up front, and not even just buried in the fine print, because this, in reality, is a HUGE difference between expectation and reality.
But.... I have already exercised my right as a consumer in this area, I have not and willnot buy an ijail.
No shit. I don't even use google for my personal email. I have an account...its where I let the spam go.
Microsoft, as much as I dislike exchange, is right here. Its not like there are not many alternatives, both free and commercially supported, which could be migrated to if they really wanted to drop that fee. However, going to a third party controlled cloud? Not just that, but the major one that so many people are using that it is, quite litterally, one of the biggest and juiciest targets in the world?
> The domain of home-printed guns is solely that of the gun enthusiast, not the criminal who values practicality > and speed above all else.
In the aggregate yes. However, there are enough people out there that the tiny fraction of them that are this type of criminal, that still make large enough numbers to say one thing definitively: Someone will do it.
I am not saything this to imply its a problem, in fact, quite the opposite. Someone will do it... some small fraction of a small fraction of a really large number may even be enough to convince some people that its a real problem.
I think it more likely that these will find their way into the hands of some criminals who know people with 3d printers, as a novelty. Lets not also forget, these have some minor advantages. Being lightweight, you could carry several, all pre-armed.... then dispose of them easily in a small fire, without any worry of recovery and fingerprinting.
Somebody will take advantage of that.... not because its a great idea, or because its a big danger.... just because... there are enough days and enough people for anything to happen a few times.
Where are you buying your plastic? I Don't think I have yet paid more than $40 for a spool of plastic, and it lasts a while too. That gun doesn't have that many components. Several hours of printing time but I would be surprized if it took more than $10 in actual materials.
This is exactly what I was thinking. An "encryption gateway" just sounds like one more vector for a problem. This is especially the case when its not needed. Pgp/gpg works and has worked for a long time, and requires no real infrastructure.
This is true but you are assuming that removing this information from where it is now presents a significant barrier to such a database. I find this unlikely with the ease of both os level and application level fingerprinting and the availability of throwaway botnetted machines.
This protects best against the very specific MO of someone with a few exploits looking for a wide range of servers to exploit. This seems more targeted. If they didn't have the information needed on a desired target, they could likely collect it easily enough.
Remember, the malware in question doesn't spread itself, it must be injected by another tool, and likely can use multiple tools with different injection vectors.
> Apache doesn't run with the right permissions to change it's own binary
However it runs with enough permission to execute an exploit that would elevate access. The further you get into the system, the more holes can be exploited. The article did mention that they seem to be using a sophisticated root kit, after initial entry.
> as I read it was mainly machines with cpanel that were infected.
However many infected had neither cpanel or the other common app. Likely, there are multiple vectors. This seems very targeted. Likely they pick their target and then choose vectors based on the intended target.
It was indicated that this Cdorked.A doesn't contain code to spread itself. So it must be injected by some other tool.
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Hard? Nah they are easy to "track", the problem is, the tracking pretty much relies on someone being a bit careless.
Thing is, every bitcoin address is a public key, so they are anonymous, anyone can generate a new address. So each new transaction, to a new account, is nearly impossible to "track". You just don't know if the coins changed hands or not, nor do you know which one.
Lets say there are X bitcoins in account A. A new transaction is generated sending Y bitcoins to account B and Z bitcoins to account C.
That is a standard transaction as the client sends extra coins to new addresses as "change". Which is the change, which didn't change hands? How do you know?
Don't get me wrong, it happens and has, I tracked down who stole some bitcoins once, thing is, I did it on the other side because the person in question mixed a number of coins together before another transaction, and some of those coins came from an address he had posted on a forum for "tips".
So basically you can follow them backwards to a transaction that can be attributed or watch them going forwards until one, but, you can't actually be sure that it is going to happen or that it is going to lead back to the right person...unless they make a mistake...which is also easy enough.
Though, I, for one, am hoping he doesn't screw up, I like Lulzsec more than I like the FBI. If I could take the money I am forced to give the FBI every year, and give it to Lulzsec instead...I would.
The directions this sort of research could be taken next are so amusing.
First, A potentially communicable source of disease resistance. Nose picking: Beneficial Adaptation for both picking up AND spreading immunity?
> When I built my house, I was frustrated with my previous 1960's house that had 2 receptacles per
> room. I said, hell with it, code says 6 feet, I'll make it 4. Note that thinking CORRECTLY, that would
> have made it 8 feet between outlets.
1960's! Oh the luxury!
My house was built to the 90s codes...that is... 1890s. Original lighting in the house was gas lamp. A friend of mine, was at his grandmother's house up the road and was messing with an old gas lamp fixture and found....it was still connected to live gas!
With horse hair plaster walls, and a house that was built before electricity, I am just happy everything was converted to 3 prongs and breakers...and that the vast majority (if not quite all) of the old cloth covered wire is gone. (though, I did personally kill one of the few remaining circuits recently, not even sure what it went to, but after it was off for a year from the breaker and nobody complained, I cut it out of the box and capped off the old run with glee)
> A little bug spray easily manages crazy ants. Bifenthrin or Pyrethrum based insecticides are highly effective.
> Fire-ant bait is ineffective because they aren't fire ants, thank God.
I haven't had to deal with "crazy" ants, but I had good luck with pyrenthum on a nasty ant problem once. A friend of mine was living in a dorm and came over my place. He brought a pizza box with a number of leftover slices, that had been in his dorm room. We set that in the kitchen and went to hang out in the other room. I walk into the kitchen to a horror: a swarm of ants, centering on the box, and in a solid mass covering the table, table leg, and portion of the floor.
I had some pyrenthum spray labeled for kitchen use, so I grabbed it and sprayed. The effect was immediate and complete. The writhing mass of spreading ants came to an immediate halt. Killed every single one as fast as I could spray it.
> The idea that scientists though the Earth was flat in the 1800s is the most ridiculous thing I have read on slashdot, I have a 5 digit ID!!!
In the poster's defence, he actually said that this was the opinion in 1490, not the 1800s. Still incorrect but, is a more understandable point of confusion since it was before the general public really had had it shown and explained to them. His point about the 1800s was about the existence of germs.
And looking for some citations on this in wiki...it seems I may have confused the geocentric/heliocentric world with the flat earth, even the church talked about the roun earth. Thomas Aquinas (who died in the 1200s) said:
"The physicist proves the earth to be round by one means, the astronomer by another: for the latter proves this by means of mathematics, e.g. by the shapes of eclipses, or something of the sort; while the former proves it by means of physics, e.g. by the movement of heavy bodies towards the center, and so forth."
> Most scientists believed the earth was flat. In the mid 1800's 99% of leading scientists did not
> believe in microbes. Louis Pasteur did. Consensus is meaningless.
Not true. By the 1490s, it had already been pretty well established that the earth was round. It was the uneducated masses and official church dogma that this was not true, and this created a climate where openly saying the earth was round was not exactly a safe position to take.
So while it may not have been en vogue to say the earth was round, privately, amongst those who did study the issue, it was allready known.
Exactly. The fear is actually quite justified too. Do we really think that, just because we eventually got over our fear of people with HIV, that there will never again be a disease that imparts significant social stigma? Not only that, but, if people have access to our records, they can make decisions behind our back.
Didn't get that job? Was it because of your medical record? They aren't going to tell you. If they did give you a reason, you would be daft to believe they told the truth.
Lets also not forget, a lot of this is similar to the FISA courts: it doesn't exist because some academic had an argument....it came about because of abuses. My mother and I both have worked at a major hospital; her in a clinical setting, me in IT.
The SINGLE most common reason for a person to get fired, not 20 years ago, but TODAY, is still unauthorized access to medical records. People look up celebrities, people look up their friends, look up their family members, look up their neighbors....and these are trained professionals with access to the system who have been told not to do it; and warned that the system is being audited.
Thing is, the audits came about because they found this was rampant. Princess Di came in for treatment once. The number of people who looked up her records just for their own curiosity was alarming. That is the sort of thing that started it, not just that but, people have lost jobs over illnesses. People have felt violated when their private medical details ended up the gossip of the town.
Sure, thats the real problem. Nobody should have to be ashamed of their medical condition, no condition really deserves stigma. Until that stigma is gone and people feel safe talking voluntarily, I am very much against taking their choice as to whether they let the world know away.
I talk freely about my own medical issues, but.... thats my choice. I will tell you I sleep with a CPAP machine, or about the lump I just had removed from my face. I feel no shame either. However, if you came up to me and told me that you read it in my medical records, you had better be my doctor, or else you better hope I can compose myself before I punch you.
> on the other hand, it wasn't too long ago people were bemoaning flight simulators as "terrorism trainers".
Really? People were were they? Anyone doing that has less of a grip on reality than the people who think they are personally Napoleon. I don't see why their opinion needs much consideration. May as well just say "on the other hand, some people are crazy and stupid".
I actually wasn't considering how prepared different groups were at all, not sure how or why that makes a difference. Its all about ensuring and protecting specific jobs and the business models that creates them.
Apparently doing business more efficiently is "unfair" now. Guessing this means "fairness" is defined as "works the same as we expected before we had current technology". Kind of like how buying refridgerators was unfair to ice harvesters....a perfect example of what happens when the government doesn't step in and restore fairness....now we all have to make our own ice because there is nobody to harvest natural ice for us.... so sad.
But its ok, because you can use those increased arrests to claim the problem is getting worst and you need stricter standards and more enforcement.
The problem is, I think, really one of measurement. We know how to measure reaction time and certain other things, then we call those "impairment", and talk about it as a few deviations in those few statistics and "impairment" are the same thing.
What about the study that found people who got in accidents with cell phones actually drove differently than other drivers, took more risks, and got in more accidents...even without cell phones. In fact, while most drivers using a phone drive more cautiously, these individuals actually drove less cautiously.
The problem isn't reaction time, its judgement, which is a problem because its very hard to measure directly and put a number on.... but, the evidence I have been looking at leads me to think it is a much more important factor than raw reaction time. A good driver doesn't rely on raw reaction time to keep him safe, and again... thats a judgement issue
And the key word there is "Associated".
Do you know what kind of depravity Dihydrogen monoxide exposure has been "associated" with?
- Nearly 100% of all felons were exposed to Dihydrogen Monoxide within just hours prior to their arrest.
- DHMO use is almost universal amongst child rapists.
- DHMO exposure actually kills children
- DHMO is dangerously addictive, killing most addicts who attempt to abstain from it within just 3 days!
Hows that for association?
Yup, and I have worked places with such policies. I still thought it was bonkers, and even so, we didn't actually do it, because replacing everything every X years was laughable given staff size and the environment size and type.
That said, I think you are missing a couple of things:
1. Other incentives - Does IT charge back? What is the overall model? Where I was "IT" was in an odd position that involved strange budgets and chargebacks. They were basically stuck trying to push people into upgrades or being stuck supporting the same systems without getting any new revenue to the department, and taking hits on having maintenance costs be "too high". To the overall insitution this was likely wasteful and stupid, to IT, it was the only sane course.
2. Homogeny - Well the environment keeps growing.... so the number of generations of hardware keeps growing. Every year or so the old servers you were ordering become unavailable, and new ones come out. Unless you buy large stocks ahead of time, you can't continue to deploy what you have been....
So lets say you have your list of standard servers (lets leave one-offs alone) down to 4 machines, a 1 U unit, a 2 U unit, and 2 models of blade. (that is close to what I have seen). Thats 4 models per year...in 3 years you could have 12 different models with slight variations; just for "standard" hardware, before we even consider individual configurations. Likely you have both Linux and Windows.... which in and of itself now means up to 24 different standard configs....and that assumes you actually replace boxes every 3 years.
Not saying any of this is unmanageable, but, I can see why people choose this route, especially when factors in #1 come into play.
> State laws imposing restrictions on manufacturers in favor of dealers aren't new
No shit. We have similar here in MA in relation to Alcohol, but one step worst. Instead of forcing sales through retail outlets, it forces the retail outlets to buy from licensed distributors.
So if Tesla started making wine, it would have to be bought buy a distributor before a liquor store here in MA could buy it and offer it for sale. Really nice racket. Now they are scrambling to make sure they get a similar middleman installed for the upcoming pot legalization.
God forbid they don't find a way to give their big donors a taste of the action. To think people might profit without cutting in the people who made donations to political parties. Such a travesty cannot be allowed!
> But even I find the idea of eating insects a bit revolting. I mean, I'd give it a go, but I'd grimace a bit
> the first few times
Its not so bad, hell in some forms, you wont even notice, take it from me.... I have done it.
We had some grubs infest a bag of rice in our pantry area. Funny thing about grubs, they don't look so different from rice. The whole family was sitting down to eat, we were about halfway through the meal when i thought one of the grains looked "burnt", then I noticed it also seemed to be made up of a number of ring segments, which is odd for rice.
It took a few moments before I figured it out and let everyone know that there were grubs in the rice, and not just a few, quite a lot actually.
Of course, everyone looked disgusted, stopped eating the rice, and tossed the rest of the bag.... but up until that point, nobody had noticed. In fact, we had probably been eating steamed grubs with our rice a couple of times a week for a while.
> Anyone considering a gun for criminal use simply has zero desire to jump through the hoops and
> significant expense required to produce one. Why do you think that no crimes are reported today
> with custom built guns when it's already easy to assemble them
You are assuming an order of events starting with "Person decides to be criminal" and ending with "Criminal aquires gun". What about a person who already has a 3d printer? How about someone who knows someone with a 3d printer? How about this "Wow these 3d printed guns are cool" then progressing to "shit, i need a weapon... this will do".
What you describe is why it wont become a trend, or be a big deal, but, at some point, there are just too many people for anything not to happen once or twice.
I would have no ethical concern; except in relation to the original cell source. Once the cells are growing in a vat, they are just cells. The only ethical concern from that point is the protection of the original donor identity, since the genetics of the meat will be his. Perhaps a wide range of donors would be preferable?
Could you imagine the contracts that could arise out of that? Would it be legal to pay a flat fee, with a bonus based on taste tests after the first batch (would that be unfair...compensating people based solely on their genetics? Royalties? What about derivative products? Will a package of hamburg come with a shrink wrap license forbidding me from making copies?
My complaint is that Apple is even capable of complying. If I buy a device, its mine, if I encrypt that device, I, and whoever I give the key to, should be the only people able to decrypt it (key weakness and cryptanalsys not withstanding, obviously).
If this is not the case, then it should be made explictly obvious up front, and not even just buried in the fine print, because this, in reality, is a HUGE difference between expectation and reality.
But.... I have already exercised my right as a consumer in this area, I have not and willnot buy an ijail.
No shit. I don't even use google for my personal email. I have an account...its where I let the spam go.
Microsoft, as much as I dislike exchange, is right here. Its not like there are not many alternatives, both free and commercially supported, which could be migrated to if they really wanted to drop that fee. However, going to a third party controlled cloud? Not just that, but the major one that so many people are using that it is, quite litterally, one of the biggest and juiciest targets in the world?
No thanks.
> The domain of home-printed guns is solely that of the gun enthusiast, not the criminal who values practicality
> and speed above all else.
In the aggregate yes. However, there are enough people out there that the tiny fraction of them that are this type of criminal, that still make large enough numbers to say one thing definitively: Someone will do it.
I am not saything this to imply its a problem, in fact, quite the opposite. Someone will do it... some small fraction of a small fraction of a really large number may even be enough to convince some people that its a real problem.
I think it more likely that these will find their way into the hands of some criminals who know people with 3d printers, as a novelty. Lets not also forget, these have some minor advantages. Being lightweight, you could carry several, all pre-armed.... then dispose of them easily in a small fire, without any worry of recovery and fingerprinting.
Somebody will take advantage of that.... not because its a great idea, or because its a big danger.... just because... there are enough days and enough people for anything to happen a few times.
Where are you buying your plastic? I Don't think I have yet paid more than $40 for a spool of plastic, and it lasts a while too. That gun doesn't have that many components. Several hours of printing time but I would be surprized if it took more than $10 in actual materials.
This is exactly what I was thinking. An "encryption gateway" just sounds like one more vector for a problem. This is especially the case when its not needed. Pgp/gpg works and has worked for a long time, and requires no real infrastructure.
This is true but you are assuming that removing this information from where it is now presents a significant barrier to such a database. I find this unlikely with the ease of both os level and application level fingerprinting and the availability of throwaway botnetted machines.
This protects best against the very specific MO of someone with a few exploits looking for a wide range of servers to exploit. This seems more targeted. If they didn't have the information needed on a desired target, they could likely collect it easily enough.
Remember, the malware in question doesn't spread itself, it must be injected by another tool, and likely can use multiple tools with different injection vectors.
> Apache doesn't run with the right permissions to change it's own binary
However it runs with enough permission to execute an exploit that would elevate access. The further you get into the system, the more holes can be exploited. The article did mention that they seem to be using a sophisticated root kit, after initial entry.
> as I read it was mainly machines with cpanel that were infected.
However many infected had neither cpanel or the other common app. Likely, there are multiple vectors. This seems very targeted. Likely they pick their target and then choose vectors based on the intended target.
It was indicated that this Cdorked.A doesn't contain code to spread itself. So it must be injected by some other tool.