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The viewpoint of some US citizens on this is quite astonishing. It was reported on Ars some days ago and since then a number of people have been posting about how this will really upset the Russians and how being "outed" may result on their being sent to Siberia. As far as I can tell they really believe it and are not being ironic.
I do wonder if cold war nostalgia and the inhabiting of a fantasy world in which the US are always the good guys is confined to the lunatic fringe, or whether it really is shared at higher levels. Which would be worrying because one of the first principles of warfare is to get a clear view of the enemy and to respond to that, not to respond to some imaginary enemy.
I do wonder if cold war nostalgia and the inhabiting of a fantasy world in which the US are always the good guys is confined to the lunatic fringe, or whether it really is shared at higher levels.
I submit that it isn't (mostly) shared at higher levels as a personally held view, but that the collective behaviours of the US establishment are as though this belief set was the driver. Individually, most people will recognise that this is a fantasy world, but in a world of highly political group think (even with the military and TLAs), few will call out the truth, any that do are themselves ascribed to a semi-official lunatic fringe status.
I imagine a step from state funded criminal activity to just criminal activity wouldnt be a huge leap, and an unnecessary fake evil to sate into Alternative Directions from the Future.
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It's not a fantasy that in Russia today opponents of Putin are subjected to various forms of repression, and it's not a fantasy that Russia committed armed aggression against Georgia and the Ukraine. That the United States, what with Trump as President, is not what it used to be is just another addition to our worries.
how it’s installed...
The malware is found on a rather bland disk image file, without any of the usual decorations that could make it look like a legitimate installer.
When opened, the app does not present an installer display but instead invisibly installs its components. The only evidence that it is doing anything at all comes from two authentication requests. The first is a request to authorize changes to Certificate Trust Settings.
The second is to allow something called spi to modify the network configuration.
It's a bit of a giveaway if your malware opens with the question. "ALLOW SPI TO CONTROL YOUR NETWORK?" But of course, any Windows user would reflexively confirm.
But of course, any Windows user would reflexively confirm.
Apparently, Mac owners will also because "can't be malware as there are none for Mac". <sigh> And yes, the myth persists and apparently even the Apple store folks repeat this to customers.
Soooo, what's a good anti malware proggy for Macs? One that doesn't install hooks all over the system, just runs when I ask it to, does a scan, then gets the hell out of the way. I have a Mac Mini, I rarely use it, mostly for watching iView and Netflix. An open source one would be preferable.
Soooo, what's a good anti malware proggy for Macs? One that doesn't install hooks all over the system, just runs when I ask it to, does a scan, then gets the hell out of the way.
Kaspersky can do that, but the problem is that that doesn't catch infections that do get their claws deep in the OS. I tend to run something like Little Snitch of Hands Off. LO is simpler for most users, but HO gives you very granular control so you can, for instance, stop the Microsoft update viruses from working other than for the one time per month they need to talk to Microsoft to keep Office 365 going ( speaking of infestations, that's one that may just go on the next rebuild and be relegated to the one Windows machine we have on its own isolated segment).
The best thing about those two is that they also give me a grip on all the background code that tends to run. I understand that companies want to run some task for update checks, but all of that runs as higher privileges than I'd like so instead I block it and run a manual check. Also stops anyone with having Microsoft's idea of updating at the most inconvenient time (i.e. during working hours)..
"Kaspersky can do that, but the problem is that that doesn't catch infections that do get their claws deep in the OS. I tend to run something like Little Snitch of Hands Off."
You mention lots of Microsoft stuff in your reply, I don't run any Microsoft stuff on my Mac. None of those are showing up in the Apple store. Little Snitch and Hands Off are firewalls basically. I was asking about malware scanners, and specifically about ones that don't hook into everything to catch active network traffic and file accesses. I just want a scanner.
It's a bit of a giveaway if your malware opens with the question. "ALLOW SPI TO CONTROL YOUR NETWORK?"
I thought the same initially. But those dialogs appear in the context of another installation, so I guess there is the temptation to just follow the flow. (There's something about those dialogs that implies that if you say "no", the software won't work. And we're sometimes just too tired to think about what we're doing. There should be some info about the consequences of saying "no". )
I generally use a Mac without anti-virus software these days just to annoy Reg journalists.
I generally use a Mac without anti-virus software these days just to annoy Reg journalists.
Notice the distribution vector: cracked software. (a) with the low cost of most Mac software, you don't need cracks, (b) if a platform has a reasonable degree of security, why on Earth would you go and bypass that?
That said, I generally do a full from-scratch rebuild when a full new OS comes out. As with Windows, it tends to speed things up quite a bit. Until I install anti-virus software, that is. I think it's time to re-install Hands! Off!..
Apparently, Uncle Sam believes that the threat of privately messaging miscreants, telling them to knock it off, and publicly named and shamed will be enough to dissuade the Russians from continuing their trollish ways and halt the ongoing flood of disinformation plaguing US social media.
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How does a sentient being even manage to write such incomprehensible stuff? Admittedly it is some kind of a skill - or alternatively a state-of-the-art AI bot at work.
It's coded for smart people. It just takes a bit to decode :).
It does look heavy on the shift keys, though, worse than German :p
How does a sentient being even manage to write such incomprehensible stuff? Admittedly it is some kind of a skill - or alternatively a state-of-the-art AI bot at work. ... Credas
Incomprehensible? To Man and/or Virtual Machine?
And would an alternative state-of-the-art AI bot network be simple to understand or much more easily be misunderstood and misunderestimated with any necessary stealth and secrecy requirements for SCADA Administrative Operating Systems on Earth dictating more creative disciplined approaches be employed and deployed for SMARTR SWIFT Travel in novel open sourced directions with terrifying and terrorising productions or exciting and life-changing missions resulting?
And surely, alternative state-of-the-art AI bot network and Virtual Machinery don't do the right/wrong drugs, onefang. Are they not a human confection/affliction/addiction/exploitable vulnerability/hopeless escape module/hopeful exit strategy?
"taking images of a ballot document is illegal, isn't it?" In Texas yes, in Louisiana - next door to Texas - no. The law depends on which state you are in but it's all a toss up - even if it's legal they can still stop you taking pictures if some poll worker thinks you shouldn't.
"However, taking images of a ballot document is illegal, isn't it?"
I'm far more pragmatic when it comes to "legal" and "illegal". If I want to document something that isn't covered under an "Official Secrets Act" NDA, I take a photo. I don't see what the problem is if the ballot I'm taking a picture of is the one I am casting. WTF?
There probably is no issue if democracy is an ongoing thing that is being voted upon. However....
I believe the problem lies with unstable or non-democratic regimes where there may become an absolute insistence on photographing one's ballot in order to determine good or bad actions, either against the person voting (bribery or repression respectively), or against the polling station where the vote is cast (oh look the polling station has caught fire, what a shame votes are unable to be counted).
By putting red tape obstacles in the path of such interference the general public is being protected for its own good... for a change.
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