Unnecessary unless you use an ancient decade-plus-old Windows version. Vista and 7 stop this attack automatically by displaying the Autoplay dialog when a new device is inserted.
Decade plus, like Windows XP, quite probably purchased in 2007-2008? The version of the OS where attempting to disable autorun via the recommended method actually did not work, and Microsoft refused to fix that except as an optional patch for a year after it was discovered?
In fact, Windows 7 removes the ability entirely to manually execute Autorun from a flash drive.
Really? Windows 7 removes the ability to manually execute something on a flash drive, just based on whether it's listed in autorun? I'll have to test that tomorrow morning, but I'm pretty sure you're wrong.
Which is funny because not a lot of people realize that one of the bands used by 802.11, 2.4 GHz, is the same frequency your magnetron uses to quickly excite watery bags of meat.
Which is funny, because not a lot of magnetrons realize that 2.4 GHz, is the same frequency some people use with 802.11 to connect to the Internet and excite bloody bags of meat.
Last I checked, Obama doesn't have an engineering degree, and most of the people who do have experience with this kind of thing aren't employed by the Federal government. So I don't understand this desire for a nanny-state government that takes care of everything.
Last I checked (literally, it's been a few days), Obama was using his daughter in a "It's not the President's job, but he _could_ stop it with enough hope" message.
As I recall, the maximum statutory damages for non-wilful infringement are $30,000 per work. I'd love to see them award this. An award of $60,000,000,000,000 - four times the US national debt - would send a clear message that the laws are fundamentally broken. Even better would be if they proved wilful infringement and awarded the full $300 trillion.
...50 percent compound annually after the policyholder's 75th birthday... 400 years old. We'll have to welch on the bet. Everything in the sock goes to Vanderdecker's beneficiary.
Perhaps Symantec needs to update its Ghost to run on Linux, for example, as Ghost currently runs on DOS which uses BIOS hooks for I/O.
Did you write this in 2004? Ghost has been running fine on Linux for a while now. In fact, Symantec's Linux boot disks have better driver support and more functionality than both the DOS and WinPE boot disks.
I'm stepping on your lawn.
At first, I thought "Turkey wants nothing to do with PIGS; they're mostly Muslim there." then I Googled Turkey and this image showed up on top.
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/admisfa/prospective/turkey.jpg Apparently turkey does like pig.
What's the age of [whateveritscalled] in China? i.e. Why do over 16/18 (?) year olds need to "escape"? Pressure from the government, or parents, or honour, or something else?
[whateveritscalled], Adulthood? In a Communist country, only the State is an adult. Everyone else is a child of the State, and babies are having babies... err, babies are having one baby per couple.
This video wasn't Top Secret. It was merelyy CLASSIFIED as TS so that it could be hidden. There was no other reason for its classification.
The reason for classification is immaterial. If it was classified TS, then it is TS, and there are proper channels to deal with it. Wikileaks/mass dissemination is not one of those channels.
Yeah, the real news is that North Korea has spent a lot of money on computer graphics to make a cyber Dear Leader. Now Kim Jong-Il can die, but his broadcasts will continue forever. We love you Dear Leader! We understand why only you have have the true benefit of the drink.
The military all too often makes things secret not because it is sensitive, but because it would generate bad PR. This is not how a democratic government is supposed to function. If you don't like living in a country with a transparent government, you can always move to places like North Korea.
The only transparent governments are neighborhood associations, 4-H clubs, and scout troops. State and national governments that deal with life and death need to keep some things secret. Unfortunately, there's no good way to keep things secret _and_ assure the general public that the secret things are worthy of secrecy.
And pro-war people aren't? "Iraq has WMDs! Oops, we mean they don't." "If we go to Afghanistan, we can capture and/or kill bin Laden! Oops, I mean we can't."
Before we invaded Iraq, the only person who knew whether Iraq had any WMDs left was Saddam, and he wouldn't let UN inspectors do their jobs. Even anti-war folk thought the probability of WMDs in Iraq was moderate to high.
The stated purpose of invading Afghanistan was to destroy a regime which harbored and fostered Al Qaeda. After the Taliban refused to help bring Bin Ladin to justice, it didn't really matter if he was even on the planet any more.
Parent wasn't talking about wikileaks or about getting the video to be public. [Top] Secret stuff remains secret even during a congressional investigation, but the congressmen in question have clearance to access the data and make determinations. The AI analyst should have gone to congress and poked a bear, telling someone (with clearance already) what video to watch. We would never have gotten to see the video, but actions would be taken as needed.
You said the unedited video doesn't exist. If that's true, then all we have to go on is what the pilots said, pilots which would never implicate themselves (and the military likely wouldn't either, as it would add validity to the fact that what they did was wrong.)
It doesn't exist in the wild.
If it DOES exist, and if it clears the military from looking as bad, then why doesn't the army release it?
Because it would be like a training manual for insurgents? "Hey, if we carry babies on our backpacks, they won't fire from gunships; see right here in 14:60.2 of the video? It's not just pilot's judgment, he cites a rule of engagement."
Don't get me wrong, there have been more than a few nice saves by real security,
Really?
I try to pay attention and I haven't seen a single one in the news. [...] They even busted a guy in florida for having bomb materials - unassembled and in his checked luggage. They even chalked that one up as a win to this SPOT program - despite the fact the guy had no intent or ability to harm the flight
Were each of the bomb materials going to be sold as innocuous items to separate buyers, or was he planning to illegally blow up _something_? Sounds like a nice save to me. Granted, TSA has no business outside of the airport, but someone somewhere owes them a debt of gratitude.
So just remember when gambling at the Wildwood Casino, to remember to request the Colorado Gaming Division inspect the machines every time you _don't_ get a jackpot, because you might have. I'm pretty sure that would stop Wildwood's shenanigans right quick.
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Unnecessary unless you use an ancient decade-plus-old Windows version. Vista and 7 stop this attack automatically by displaying the Autoplay dialog when a new device is inserted.
Decade plus, like Windows XP, quite probably purchased in 2007-2008? The version of the OS where attempting to disable autorun via the recommended method actually did not work, and Microsoft refused to fix that except as an optional patch for a year after it was discovered ?
In fact, Windows 7 removes the ability entirely to manually execute Autorun from a flash drive.
Really? Windows 7 removes the ability to manually execute something on a flash drive, just based on whether it's listed in autorun? I'll have to test that tomorrow morning, but I'm pretty sure you're wrong.
Which is funny because not a lot of people realize that one of the bands used by 802.11, 2.4 GHz, is the same frequency your magnetron uses to quickly excite watery bags of meat.
Which is funny, because not a lot of magnetrons realize that 2.4 GHz, is the same frequency some people use with 802.11 to connect to the Internet and excite bloody bags of meat.
Last I checked, Obama doesn't have an engineering degree, and most of the people who do have experience with this kind of thing aren't employed by the Federal government. So I don't understand this desire for a nanny-state government that takes care of everything.
Last I checked (literally, it's been a few days), Obama was using his daughter in a "It's not the President's job, but he _could_ stop it with enough hope" message.
As I recall, the maximum statutory damages for non-wilful infringement are $30,000 per work. I'd love to see them award this. An award of $60,000,000,000,000 - four times the US national debt - would send a clear message that the laws are fundamentally broken. Even better would be if they proved wilful infringement and awarded the full $300 trillion.
...50 percent compound annually after the policyholder's 75th birthday... 400 years old. We'll have to welch on the bet. Everything in the sock goes to Vanderdecker's beneficiary.
GDP is a pretty fuzzy number and hard to conceptualize for me.
Look at it this way, then: They want 10% of everything we do, own, and earn. They want a tithe. They believe they are gods.
Perhaps Symantec needs to update its Ghost to run on Linux, for example, as Ghost currently runs on DOS which uses BIOS hooks for I/O.
Did you write this in 2004? Ghost has been running fine on Linux for a while now. In fact, Symantec's Linux boot disks have better driver support and more functionality than both the DOS and WinPE boot disks.
I'm stepping on your lawn.
At first, I thought "Turkey wants nothing to do with PIGS; they're mostly Muslim there." then I Googled Turkey and this image showed up on top. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/admisfa/prospective/turkey.jpg Apparently turkey does like pig.
What's the age of [whateveritscalled] in China? i.e. Why do over 16/18 (?) year olds need to "escape"? Pressure from the government, or parents, or honour, or something else?
[whateveritscalled], Adulthood? In a Communist country, only the State is an adult. Everyone else is a child of the State, and babies are having babies... err, babies are having one baby per couple.
"Turkeys reportedly banned Gobble"?
From Engatget's coverage:
11:50AM "We developed a glass that's 30 times harder than plastic."
From Gizmodo's coverage:
11:50AM "..."
This video wasn't Top Secret. It was merelyy CLASSIFIED as TS so that it could be hidden. There was no other reason for its classification.
The reason for classification is immaterial. If it was classified TS, then it is TS, and there are proper channels to deal with it. Wikileaks/mass dissemination is not one of those channels.
Wouldn't it then be "Friend Computer" instead of "Dear Leader"?
Are you insinuating that the Computer is a Communist Mutant from the Outside? What's your sixpack's security clearance?
Will it Core a Apple?
I don't know. Apples these days commonly have 2 to 8 cores.
Yeah, the real news is that North Korea has spent a lot of money on computer graphics to make a cyber Dear Leader. Now Kim Jong-Il can die, but his broadcasts will continue forever. We love you Dear Leader! We understand why only you have have the true benefit of the drink.
You're flat out incorrect here. First, not only can the power be shut off, but generators can be made to explode.
Not if they're designed correctly.
Which is why you need to buy latest, greatest, cyber-warfare-proof generator from Safe-Generators, Inc. Seek out your nearest vendor.
TFA is wrong because
What does submit button do?
The military all too often makes things secret not because it is sensitive, but because it would generate bad PR. This is not how a democratic government is supposed to function. If you don't like living in a country with a transparent government, you can always move to places like North Korea.
The only transparent governments are neighborhood associations, 4-H clubs, and scout troops. State and national governments that deal with life and death need to keep some things secret. Unfortunately, there's no good way to keep things secret _and_ assure the general public that the secret things are worthy of secrecy.
Anti war people are so gullible.
And pro-war people aren't? "Iraq has WMDs! Oops, we mean they don't." "If we go to Afghanistan, we can capture and/or kill bin Laden! Oops, I mean we can't."
Before we invaded Iraq, the only person who knew whether Iraq had any WMDs left was Saddam, and he wouldn't let UN inspectors do their jobs. Even anti-war folk thought the probability of WMDs in Iraq was moderate to high.
The stated purpose of invading Afghanistan was to destroy a regime which harbored and fostered Al Qaeda. After the Taliban refused to help bring Bin Ladin to justice, it didn't really matter if he was even on the planet any more.
Parent wasn't talking about wikileaks or about getting the video to be public. [Top] Secret stuff remains secret even during a congressional investigation, but the congressmen in question have clearance to access the data and make determinations. The AI analyst should have gone to congress and poked a bear, telling someone (with clearance already) what video to watch. We would never have gotten to see the video, but actions would be taken as needed.
You said the unedited video doesn't exist. If that's true, then all we have to go on is what the pilots said, pilots which would never implicate themselves (and the military likely wouldn't either, as it would add validity to the fact that what they did was wrong.)
It doesn't exist in the wild.
If it DOES exist, and if it clears the military from looking as bad, then why doesn't the army release it?
Because it would be like a training manual for insurgents? "Hey, if we carry babies on our backpacks, they won't fire from gunships; see right here in 14:60.2 of the video? It's not just pilot's judgment, he cites a rule of engagement."
Don't get me wrong, there have been more than a few nice saves by real security,
Really?
I try to pay attention and I haven't seen a single one in the news. [...] They even busted a guy in florida for having bomb materials - unassembled and in his checked luggage. They even chalked that one up as a win to this SPOT program - despite the fact the guy had no intent or ability to harm the flight
Were each of the bomb materials going to be sold as innocuous items to separate buyers, or was he planning to illegally blow up _something_? Sounds like a nice save to me. Granted, TSA has no business outside of the airport, but someone somewhere owes them a debt of gratitude.
From the title, I was expecting it to be psychically trained TSA agents.
IMHO, legitimate news organizations do not pay for stories in the manner that Giz did, especially when it involves the purchase of stolen property.
Sure they do. They even pay worse criminals and occasionally keep their identities secret from the authorities, preventing justice.
So just remember when gambling at the Wildwood Casino, to remember to request the Colorado Gaming Division inspect the machines every time you _don't_ get a jackpot, because you might have. I'm pretty sure that would stop Wildwood's shenanigans right quick.
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