Re: So, just like the NSA
Power is as Power does.
If no-one can stop them, then no-one can stop them. QED.
Posts by Sir Runcible Spoon
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Brit spooks 'kept oversight bodies in the dark' over data sharing
Man prosecuted for posting a picture of his hobby on Facebook
Sounds painful: Audio code bug lets users, apps get root on Linux
WPA2 security in trouble as KRACK Belgian boffins tease key reinstallation bug
Monday 16th October 2017 12:13 GMT
Re: But what's the risk?
If you are working in the field protecting assets worth millions or billions; or on major pieces of critical national infrastructure affecting millions of people then you'll need to look a bit more closely.
If someone is stupid enough to do this, what makes you think they would have enabled WPA2 in the first place?
Essex drone snapper dealt with by police for steamy train photos
BOFH: Oh dear. Did someone get lost on the Audit Trail?
'Israel hacked Kaspersky and caught Russian spies using AV tool to harvest NSA exploits'
Friday 13th October 2017 10:45 GMT
What I'd like to know is how it is possible for the Israeli's to spot the Russians trawling the information in real-time, yet Kaspersky security employees couldn't.
I can only think of two resolutions to this conundrum:
1. Kaspersky wasn't hacked by Israeli cy-ops and this is all FUD
2. Kaspersky are lying about knowing they have been compromised
Rejecting Sonos' private data slurp basically bricks bloke's boombox
Thursday 12th October 2017 15:28 GMT
Re: "Fall Creators Update"
Except when the software refuses to work without the update, yet the update won't install on your device (such as a dedicated iPod for controlling your Sonos for example) because they now require a level of IOS that your device can no longer be upgraded to.
It's a speaker app, not Doom 4 ffs.
'There has never been a right to absolute privacy' – US Deputy AG slams 'warrant-proof' crypto
Wednesday 11th October 2017 12:28 GMT
Re: Backdoors are a smokescreen.
@Techdrone
Even if that system were mandatory, there are still many options for people to employ a system without it enabled. At this point you are back to square-one. It's still a question of trust.
As has already been mentioned, this situation was provoked by the wider public becoming more aware of the unfettered data collection by various agencies. This issue didn't just appear out of thin air just to piss off the law.
Google: This may shock you, but we also banked thousands of dollars to run Russian propaganda
Tuesday 10th October 2017 20:55 GMT 
More bullshit
A few hundred thousand dollars to buy an election you say? If that is the case then there are going to be a lot of party donors who would like to know where their money *really* went.
In other news, a squirrel got involved in a fight between two packs of dogs. Its antics made them go (for the) nuts.
Still haven't seen any real evidence of just how these adverts were supposed to influence voters either.
Fending off cyber attacks as important as combatting terrorism, says new GCHQ chief
Tuesday 10th October 2017 21:02 GMT
Re: No license to thrill, no right to head intelligence agencies. Beware fraudsters at the helm.
What think thee of they and all of that?
I've lost track of the number of times my hopes have been dashed. So I suppose the answer to that is 'I'm tired.' Nothing else is printable without tempting knocks on doors in the wee hours.
Video games used to be an escape. Now not even they are safe from ads
Tuesday 10th October 2017 13:35 GMT
Re: Mildly curious
In what situation would your life depend on recalling a video ad?
Your <enemy> interrogator is having a bad day, his wife is upset with him. He looks at you and says 'tell me a funny advert or I will cut off your balls".
I, personally, would probably go with the John West 'oh look, an eagle!' advert myself, but there are others :) (you asked)
Australia launches critical infrastructure security reforms
VPN logs helped unmask alleged 'net stalker, say feds
Monday 9th October 2017 10:39 GMT
Re: Interesting, very interesting
Setting up your own VPN server leaves behind information that goes back to that server, so unless you are also allowing other people to use that VPN server, then it all leads back to the owner of the server.
At that point you then have to try and hide your tracks as it relates to owning and managing the server. Obviously you also have to ensure that all management connections to that server are not logged either (i.e. not logged in the first place, rather than logged and deleted - as that info could be recovered).
You also have to consider the possibility that the server has been hacked, since you won't have any logs you'll never be able to tell will you?
It's logs all the way down mate :)
Monday 9th October 2017 09:48 GMT
Re: Interesting, very interesting
Using a VPN service that logs isn't a problem as long as the authorities are required to submit a warrant to view those logs (and not some general catch-all type BS either).
Under those circumstances I'm happy for them to keep logs. I want to avoid being spied on by general busybodies in local Councils etc., I'm not trying to avoid (reasonable) legal scrutiny.
After selling his site for millions, founder hacked it for a second payday
Monday 9th October 2017 10:25 GMT
Re: Of course DHI declined to comment
does human greed truly know no bounds?
I believe it is bound by the degree to which human stupidity extends, which is almost certainly infinite.
So no, no bounds really.
(If it wasn't for those pesky GET's*, he might have gotten away with it!)
*For our American cousins, 'GET' is a term of endearment for ones' offspring, i.e. Children :)
Blade Runner 2049 review: Scott's vision versus Villeneuve's skill
Monday 9th October 2017 10:11 GMT
Re: Arrival? good?
How did you manage to see through your hands?
I remember watching the face hugger attack on frame-advance on my super-duper VHS player of the time and being mightily impressed that it still looked real and, if anything, scarier. If you've never done that, I highly recommend it. There's so much in that split second you don't actually see in real-time.
How bad can the new spying legislation be? Exhibit 1: it's called the USA Liberty Act
Friday 6th October 2017 13:25 GMT
Re: I have nothing to hide
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear"
If you can't hide anything at all, no matter what, you aren't free. People have tried to turn this one back on the Gov. to see how they like - they just clam up and start re-defining terrorist.
We've been in an invisible cage for a while now, most people aren't aware of it at all. The only way you could tell in the past was when you accidentally hit the walls without realising it. Now the walls are closing in a more people are bumping into them, but too many people still don't see it.
As the great prophet once said: "We be fucked!"
Russian spies used Kaspersky AV to hack NSA staffer, swipe exploit code – new claim
What is the probability of being drunk at work and also being tested? Let's find out! Correctly
Wednesday 4th October 2017 14:59 GMT
The 'correct' calculation has not factored in the test frequency whatsoever.
If the tests were run on 52 consecutive days, if the drunk managed to miss out on being caught for those his chances for the rest of the year are 100%, even if he comes in drunk on 12 consecutive days.
Also, human behaviour being what it is, isn't it more likely that it will be a Monday that the person would be drunk, or a Friday afternoon for example?
Still, useful article :P
Home Sec Amber Rudd: Yeah, I don't understand encryption. So what?
Wednesday 4th October 2017 14:21 GMT
Re: I see what you are doing there...
After deconstructing that sentence, the pivotal aspect appears to be
"by force or violence".
So, as long as whatever you are watching doesn't involve force or violence it shouldn't fall foul of this definition. Well, that's the theory. I don't suspect for a minute that it will actually hold true.
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