* Posts by SJRulez

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Linode hackers escape with $70K in daring bitcoin heist

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Re: does someone want to clue me in here

There is a digital footprint but it still has the same restrictions as its based on ip address logging. As far as the cash-for-coin goes, its not just about getting the money for them, there are many online retailers, hosting providers, service providers and dark corners of the internet where they can also be spent. Its also decentralized so there is no real control over bitcoins as a currency.

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Re: Just like real currency?

Its not quite like cash, they are traceable as all transactions are logged and coin can be followed from point to point. The main drawback is those logs still rely on IP addressing so someone using Tor or similar service could avoid detection.

One thing i'm not sure on though is whether its possible to actually block a coin from the chain effectively rendering it useless or alternatively whether you could block transactions from a specific wallet.

Either way the system does have some draw backs including one of which being the limit on the total number of coins that can ever be produced.

Interpol attacks hacks

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Re: Re: Re: Re: 25 out of how many

1. Ive out though law enforcement quite a few times.

2. Its my house not my moms.

3. The computers are in the loft since i don't have a basement.

4. Law enforcement are useless because just like you most of them think Hackers are a bunch of geeks who sit in their basements.

5. There's a difference between being a hacker and hanging round IRC chat rooms.

6. There's also a difference between being a hacker or cracker and someone who jumps on the bandwagon for a DOS attack which so far is what most of the arrests are for.

7. There's a difference between hacking to destroy things and hacking to out the fact that half the gov organizations including law enforcement are completely inept at security.

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Re: Re: 25 out of how many

On the contrary I think Interpol and rest of the intelligence services are complete muppets for releasing information about arrests. Every time they brag about it, all the seem to do is help anon recruit more people to the cause and give them another reason to go seeking retribution.

I also think they cut off a valuable source of intel, they should be online impersonating those people they have arrested to gleam more info and track down more sources but instead they prefer to blow their trumpets about how they caught 25 hackers.

Their current methods are more akin to when the mafia were a big problem, law enforcement constantly bragged about removing a few people only to find the ranks filled out even more and with more dangerous people.

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25 out of how many

Lets all brag about how many we've caught, 25 members is the tip of the ice berg.

Feds unlock suspect's encrypted drive, avoid Constitution meltdown

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Re: Re: Any word...

I bet she was using windows as well so every file will be filled with guid's and specific id's so the plausible denial defense wont stick either.

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Forgot the key.....

Hey that old chestnut,

I forgot the key officer.... When did that happen? About the same time you started banging the door!

Epic net outage in Africa as FOUR undersea cables chopped

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UK metal thieves

Probably tried to drag it up for metal and then realized it was optic.

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Ive got a few spare rolls of CAT5, anyone got a few routers\hubs we can string together.

Blighty's gov to spunk up to £2.9b on crim-stalking tech

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Joke

3 foot chain attached to rather large heavy ball, there we go problem solved.... Serves a few purposes, people passing them in the street know they are a criminal offender, slows them down if they commit crime so our stuck behind the desk cops can actually catch them, costs about £50 each and if your lucky some metal thief will take it to the scrappy crusher with it still attached to their leg.

Court rejects Tesla’s latest libel spat with Top Gear

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Its all pointless anyway

Tesla and the gang can carry on the arguments all day long, the bottom line at the moment still is...... UK electricity generation capacity cant support many electric cars.

If we replace all 27million cars in the UK alone we would need a four fold increase in electricity generation which isn't going to happen anytime soon and with the present rising costs of electricity thanks to all the green subsidies and feed in tariffs currently being paid out. For all those who say it will be greener thats great, but lets bear in mind that a four fold increase using wind farms, solar and tidal would take up massive amounts of space losing those nice green areas we want to protect and blighting the countryside.

I believe by the time they have viable electric vehicles the cost of running your car on electric will outstrip the cost of running it on oil based fuels.

The cyber-weapons paradox: 'They're not that dangerous'

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Re: Is SCADA particularly difficult?

SCADA and PLC's themselves are not that difficult, understanding the interactions between them within an industrial system is.

SCADA software is primarily a monitoring system and to certain extent control, it will check the status of hardware and it some cases facilitate transfer of status information between PLC's through set points, simply interfering with SCADA might not cause issues at the PLC level since the it has its own program managing itself and if the program is written correctly it would spot an inconsistency.

For example a motor spins at 400 rpm and has max speed of 1000rpm, if SCADA was to tell the PLC to spin it at 1200rpm it would ignore it as an error and generate a fault (assuming it was well programmed), if on the other hand you were able to alter the register on the PLC to always be 100rpm lower than it actually is or intercept the return pulse from the motor, instruct SCADA to tell PLC to run it at 1000rpm it wouldn't realised and would actually spin at 1100rpm.

The modifications to the program would be easy to spot later by an engineer or would be removed by reloading from a previous backup, the trick to the recent SCADA attacks was its ability to manipulate SCADA and the programming terminals. It manipulated the program whilst it was being transferred to the PLC's making it appear that the program as seen on the screen was downloaded when it actual fact it had been manipulated on the fly during the download. It then further manipulated the SCADA programs to cover up the changes it had made at PLC level.

Proview offers Apple peace talks amid Shanghai iPad ban bid

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Nice to see Apple getting stuffed in trademark\copyright war for once.

Bung a tenner to a mate's mobile number with new Barclays app

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Re: Re: Tried it on my phone

According to xda developers which already has a thread about it renaming superuser.apk should do the trick or moving the files out of the bin folder temporarily. I think it only flags it on activation, bit annoying since rooting an android is perfectly legal now.

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Re: Question about linking to the bank account

They deposit a penny in your account with a reference number which you then have to enter during the signup.

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FAIL

Its broke already

I signed up to it early to start having a dig into how it works, installed the app on android and rather shockingly got a message stating.....

"We have detected that your phone has root access, so for security reasons you cant use Pingit"

Hmm, obviously root access must give you access to some stuff Barclays dont want you to see.

Social networks can't be forced to filter content, rules top EU court

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Are they going to apply this Newzbin

This could overturn the ruling against newzbin which BT is currently blocking.

Sensitive council data sent to hundreds via PERSONAL EMAIL

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Re: I really do not see the point with fines of this kind.

The fines are really stupid, they take the money from the council (tax payer) for their own purpose. The fine really should be put back into the councils systems towards fixing their IT issues.

Twitter mobile apps storing address books for 18 months

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Most people seem to forget that some of these companies such as facebook and twitter don't make money directly from you as a user, their only revenue stream is from advertising to you or selling your data to others.

UK cops cuff suspect after RnBXclusive takedown

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Search Engines

How long before all these enforcement idiots figure out that the biggest facilitators of copyright infringement are google and microsoft, they index all these sites. If i want to download something I dont go checking around multiple torrent sites, I punch it in my fav search engine! The funny thing is when you search for a track etc you'll get advertisements paid for by the same companies who retain the rights..... I would have thought they would have mentioned that in their advertising agreements with said search engine companies.

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Hmm lost sales from downloading, guess I'll go back to using tape and recording off the radio like the old days.

If anyone feels like some fun why not browse the following:

http://rnbxclusive.com/Sony_Have_No_Morals_So_Why_Should_We_They_Want_To_Hike_The_Houston_Price_We_Will_Just_Download.html

Google locks Wallets – no new customers for now

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I'm still a strong believer in Signatures whilst they can be forged they still offer some additional checks which the new systems don't, the recent changes with Chip & Pin and NFC allows anyone to pay as long as they have the details. The number of times I've used my partners card to purchase things at the shop and no one even realizes amazes me, when i worked in retail you have to check things like the name, whether the signature was tampered with and none of this takes place anymore.

You can beat a pin number out of someone but you cant beat a signature out of them!

Hackers spunk 'pcAnywhere source' after negotiation breakdown

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I doubt they would have gone through with any extortion, it was probably to see what Symantec would do. Its a similar tactic Anon used with HBGary where they talked with them about payouts and HBGary tried to bribe them to keep information secret.

Parliament ponders £400,000 iPads-for-MPs plan

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Stop

What the hell are the Gov playing at now, cutting costs in all sectors of the UK but that doesn't matter because if we have a ipad will save billions.

I'm also curious as to whether they have actually tested any other alternative devices like any business organization would have to do or whether it was more a case of someone saying... Oh i've got an ipad and everyone jumping on the band wagon wanting one.

My other issue is.... Will the MP be liable for loss and damage (should prevent them leaving it on a train if they are) and also who's paying the bills for the data use etc because we all know they aren't just going to use it for Gov business.

MPs rattle telcos to help kill extremist material online

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The word terrorist gets flung around too often, a terrorist use to be someone with a political motive who's methods were questionable i.e. not distinguishing between combatants and non-combatants, killing civilians, bombing buildings etc.... Now it seems you can be labelled a terrorist just for having different views to everyone else.

Brit pair deported from US for 'destroy America' tweet

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Hmm, I wonder what the US would do when one of its nationals working abroad in Dubai or Iraw tweets something similar and gets arrested. Ahh... hang on they are all CIA so they just shoot first and claim diplomatic immunity.

BT seeks apartment dwellers to sign-up to 'superfast' FTTP trial

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One of the villages in our area also one the Race to Infinity despite the fact the village only has less than a thousand people in it they all voted which give them a really high uptake.

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I would be happy to as well.

I'm connected to the second largest exchange in our area along with most of the local businesses and they haven't even given us a date yet, but those people on the small exchange are going to have it by the end of the year!

US govt security advice site trashed by hackers

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5%

You have to be kidding, it may only be 5% that download the movies although I doubt its that low buts its probably more like 30% in total who benefit from pirate copies by buying them.

If it was as low as 5% then I don't think they industry could say they were losing billions.

Juror jailed for looking up rape defendant on Google

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This seems to be happening quite a lot lately.

Incidentally though there was a case near us recently where a juror looked someone up and found evidence of convictions the defendant had as a child but which weren't allowed to be mentioned in court (the juror kept it to himself).

The defendant was found innocent after a witness for the prosecution was torn apart by the defense team over some minor convictions they had, it later came out in the open that he had been accused multiple times of rape and convicted as a young offender. The juror subsequently told the local paper what he found and wished he had risked the contempt of court.

Redmond campaigns for gay marriage rights

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Since when did the bible set the rules for marriage

Luke 16:18 quotes the Nazarene as saying – although in Matthew 19:9

And so what...... Marriage was around hundreds, thousands of years before the bible or any religion for that matter. It was the joining of two people, suddenly a book comes along and redefines what it is.

Careless care charity loses unencrypted patient data stick

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End Point Control??

I cant see how this is still happening within these industries, I worked for the local council and we implemented Safe End which restricted any USB devices. In order to use a USB key it would have to be formatted and a secure client installed on it prior to data being written, the reason for using client based encryption was that we could still recover the data if the person lost the password unlike a hardware encrypted device and when connected to the network it could be authenticated against any user.

Blighty's film biz asks gov to hurry up pirate crackdown

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copyright infringement is contributing to declining industry revenues and that a "key element" to addressing the problem was in implementing the measures

One of the biggest factors is the stupidly high prices charged to visit the movies and to buy films which are only compounded when you see films getting the highest box office takes and profits of 100million+

The measures and monitoring they suggest will only ever catch out the small time people who don't know enough about how peer2peer and other technology's work to protect themselves. They major pirates will still continue, lets face the actual downloading of the movie is the tip of the ice berg..... who's going after the people selling them in pubs, shops and other places.

Boffins quarrel over ridding world of leap seconds

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"We must not give up the >5,000 years old human practice of defining time through Earth's rotation because of unfounded worries of some air traffic control engineers,"

Right so even if something is technically incorrect and wrong as long as we have been doing it long enough we will say its correct, oh well good news for religious people.... another 3000 years and well have to agree there is a god.

Using phone-tracking tech? 'Fess up now, urges expert

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FootPath system's collection of data "is in no way analagous to cookies" because the technology neither stores nor accesses information from user devices, Obviously it does store information from the device, it stores the IMEI or ESN from the device surely those would be considered personal data since they can be used to identify you. This defense sounds very similar to Google's stance of we just caught what was in the air with our cars.

1TB USB stick shoved into Swiss Army knife

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Now your local council, nhs trust or mp can lose all its data in one go instead of just a small portion of it.

How's Cameron's favourite Shoreditch startup doing? Oh.

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More Sucess

David Cameron wants more successes like Last.fm

Strange statement, so he wants more web startups that are losing money??? Has anyone also thought to mention to Cameron that the time for web startups has pretty much been and gone, very few actually become a success these days.

Microsoft's master stroke: Pay store staff per WinPhone sold

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Yep im curious about that, does everyone get the same add. I keep getting cloud ads, if microsoft actually knew anything about me or my 'demographic' it would know i hate the cloud ( i wouldnt be able to charge mileage to client sites)

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Patents

Love the fact patents got thrown in at the end, lets face it nearly all the new devices are the same as each other. The patent war is the last war of attrition, no one can come up with anything significantly better which makes you say ill go buy an X. its all about forcing your competitors product off the market and selling yours rather than here's our product its better for these reasons.

PayPal dispute ends in 'violin destruction'

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Stupidty

Whilst i do to some extent understand the 'destroy a fake' (I worked in the watch industry for a while, if u get a fake you hit it with a hammer.... ovbisouly you keep the parts for evidence) I find it amazing that someone with a multi thousand pound object which can have its authenticity debated would be sold through ebay.

10k car on ebay fair enough, but 10k rembrant would you really send it hoping the buyer could be trusted. surely for an item like this though you would go to a 'dealer' for the best price not ebay

Comet 'sold 94,000 pirate Windows CDs', claims Microsoft

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IT Angle

Bottom line

As per my original post is.......

Bottom line you should get the disk, everyone saying you download this you dont get the disk etc etc.... fair enough but other downloads we arent talking an OS were talking software.

For nearly every other software package you cant obtain a disk for free!!!!! Linux, unix, mac..... there is always a recovery disk or some media. Microsoft are kicking off over lost revenue, lets face it their lost revenue is 10-15 pound for purely a disk (less than 1pence and production cost few pence).

Some will blame the OEM for not supplying it..... So the OEM have the media to install it and repair it but no doubt when the OEM says to MS how much to send a disk as well MS probably say £10 plus the fee for the user license.

As far as im concerned if i purchase the software i should have the ability to download the install package when i choose and in a media format i choose, and as a further option if i want to purchase the media i should be able to...... thats standard for almost any software provider so why not for an OS provider.

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Bit of a late response but I've just stuck a copy of Backtrack on it.

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Microsoft should be sued for not providing recovery disk in the first place, if I have a license to use the software and its pre-installed then I should get a disk with it anyway and not have to rely on a stupid recovery partition which is useless the moment the hard drive dies.

I currently have a Dell mini which is knackered, I cant rebuild it since it came with no disk, I cant get a recovery CD because its a cut down windows and whats even worse there's nothing that Dell or MS will do about it other than try and sell me their latest device....... Surely that's not fair on customers!!!

US 'space warplane' may be spying on Chinese spacelab

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Joke

Tail gating

Lol, the Americans are just trying to see how close they can tail gate before the chinese turn arround and zap them with a laser beam or crazy neutron canon.

Microsoft revives flight sim by giving it away free

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X-Plane

Microsoft giving it away free....... Its probably because they know they still cant beat XPlane who only charge about £30 including lifetime updates.

Vint Cerf: 'The internet is not a human right'

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Human Rights don't exist and never have done, they are brilliant way of letting the powerless think they have some form of power.

Lets face the facts......

A right to freedom of expression...... Yes as long as your right doesn't infringe on someone else (then it comes down to bigger bank balance and better lawyer)

Satnav mishap misery cure promised at confab

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Why does the Gov spend millions on OS maps which don't get used by Sat Nav firms, if they want a better say force them to purchase access to the OS maps and make those more available.

Surely it would make more sense to have a single standard map that they all work from and then allow the companies to overlay what ever additional features they want to display....

Bottom line still is though......

Stop using f**king Sat Nav - If you don't know where your going use a map then at least you know roughly where your going and have actually looked at the route rather than punching it into your little device and waiting for instructions because you still don't know where your f**king going!

Blocking Twitter, Facebook during riots not such a hot idea - MPs

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Hmm, yep that's exactly what the Egypt government said.

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Hang on... I thought this was england not a middle east dictatorship

Enough said really.

Only 6 months ago Cameron and his bunch of muppets were dead against other countries blocking access to free speech, if they actually do go through with this it would be like sticking to fingers up to all those countries they tore into over censoring the people.

Do as we say not as we do springs to mind.

Her Majesty's £444m court IT system can't even add up fines

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The cost of Libra was £444m, plus services charges of some £10m a year. The system is now run by Fujitsu, but the original supplier, ICL, estimated its cost at £146m over 11 years when bidding for the project in May 1998.

The obviously forgot to add the 'Government Budget Change Percentage' which stipulates that if you allow 10% per year for changes to tax, fuel, vat etc over the course of the project we'll do everything we can to make sure its 50 times that to make it look like you screwed up even worse.

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