Re: As an expert he should have known about Eraser
As a security expert working for a corp with security experts, he might have realized that, well, data is really really hard to destroy, particularly when someone has physical access.
Things that have been done with physical access:
1) RAM that was unpowered for 10 minutes was read perfectly, using a special hot-boot OS. For example, to grab an encryption or decryption key.
2) A 10 character password was copied into 10 files randomly distributed on a hard drive, then the hard drive was formatted, and written over 3 times with random 1's and 0's. The password was able to be recovered, (because some of the bits refuse to flip and areas/bits of non-randomness were apparently easy to identify). You aren't likely to copy down a password ten times, but it might be, say, store din a cookie, in firefox for auto-complete, maybe once in a password file somewhere, maybe all of those are copied because you have a back-up of your program preferences for some reason, whatever.
3) Files that they suspected to exist were completely falsified, because the defendant could not deny that they could reconstruct the file.
Man, I remember back in the early days, when you had 12 & 15 year olds hacking into the binary itself and changing pointers.
Changing this data collection is as simple as changing the IP address it tries to connect to back to 192.168.0.1 and setting up a second program that gives the right return data. Now, if teenagers were doing this back in the 80's . . .
Re: Why it's good that several places wrote about it
Here's an idea:
[news]
Steve Jobs Retired (link)
[/news]
A few of the blogs I visit do exactly that; sometimes, they'll post at the end of the day, a single post with links to all the news stories they thought were relevant, but didn't have anything to add to them.
We like innovation. It makes cool new things we all want, and it makes stuff more efficient. Efficient stuff makes everyone win! If I'm more efficient, my goods are cheaper, so I sell more on the same profit margin, my customers get cheaper goods, and everyone else experiences nice ripple effects that mean that we all can exchange more wealth using less money.
The money may not be disappearing, but who is it disappearing to? Companies who innovate need patents to protect themselves from other patent owners. Companies who don't innovate can sell patents for a great amount, (Otherwise, they wouldn't, or don't).
In other words, patent sales, such as the one above, move money from companies who innovate, to companies who do not, (In the case of nortel, for example, because it's been bankrupt for a while).
So the money doesn't disappear, but some innovation sure did.
Personally, I would've grown better in larger classes.
In my school, we typically had about 20 students/teacher, and I found my larger, more anonymous, more algorithm and less judgment based classes to be the ones where I learned the most, (particularly in literature courses).
Even though I was a bit of a loner, having more people on the exact same page, doing the exact same assignments, meant I had more people to discuss class with, and bounce ideas off. Or tutor, and through tutoring, understand the material better myself.
Having nearly earned my 2nd bachelors (kinda, but I won't bore you with that), I can say this has held true in university as well, as far as I'm able to tell with a sample size of 1 and being unable to replicate experimental values to any degree of precision.
That being said, I don't believe I have any amount of knowledge on how to run a school-system as a whole.
On one hand, I agree that riots should be prevented if possible, and turning off cellular service does seem like a very easy method IF it works.
In fact, I would say it should definitely happen around sports arenas as well, beginning near the end of the game and extending until the riot has happened anyways, or people have dispersed from the stadium without incident.
OTOH, that has a whole bunch of consequences, and I don't think it would stop a riot from happening.
Apparently, there's been huge problems eradicating polio due to social backlash to vaccines, (and western medical initiatives in general), to some of pfizer's experiments in kano, Nigeria.
It's much stronger for me in RPG's: If I know beforehand what the setup is, what the railroading is, I can say: "That's cool, I'll roll with it".
If we only learn what the premise is, by say, my character doing something Out Of Character and the villain using that to blackmail us, well, that's just frustrating.
OTOH, if the GM tells us beforehand, that we're being captured by aliens to fight in an intergalactic arena, I can accept that premise, and not be bothered so much when they threaten to expose an entire city to hard vacuum unless we give in to their demands. (Even though it's OOC)
(In reality, I'm still (trying to be) on the fence about who I'm siding with. I despise non-peaceful protest, or whatever this rioting is, at least, but which party should I be blaming for this violence?)
I'm starting to wonder, are these apple fanboys? Nay, even those guys know how to read most times, and we're seeing pretty good grammar and at least passable command of the exclamation mark.
Given that their literacy is, at least, passable, why then are they unable to read the comments, and are conflating 'stolen goods' with 'lost goods'?
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Re: I dunno..
You'll notice a number of us questioning the defendant's motives, and supposed ability as a security expert.
On the post: Is Destroying A Hard Drive On A Work Issued Computer The Equivalent Of Hacking Or Fraud?
Re: As an expert he should have known about Eraser
Things that have been done with physical access:
1) RAM that was unpowered for 10 minutes was read perfectly, using a special hot-boot OS. For example, to grab an encryption or decryption key.
2) A 10 character password was copied into 10 files randomly distributed on a hard drive, then the hard drive was formatted, and written over 3 times with random 1's and 0's. The password was able to be recovered, (because some of the bits refuse to flip and areas/bits of non-randomness were apparently easy to identify). You aren't likely to copy down a password ten times, but it might be, say, store din a cookie, in firefox for auto-complete, maybe once in a password file somewhere, maybe all of those are copied because you have a back-up of your program preferences for some reason, whatever.
3) Files that they suspected to exist were completely falsified, because the defendant could not deny that they could reconstruct the file.
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Re:
On the side of a copyright infringer being defended, we have his actions of infringing being defended.
On the side of a policeman being defended, we have his actions of beatings and murder being defended.
So, uh, murder = infringement? Wow, AC. Wow.
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Re: Doesn't have to be used
I assume that if I install a different OS, the spyware isn't be able to adapt, right? It's just made for windows 7 and works on nothing else?
So, this will help drive the 2nd market to *nix?
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Re: Dangling?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: I have no issues with it
Changing this data collection is as simple as changing the IP address it tries to connect to back to 192.168.0.1 and setting up a second program that gives the right return data. Now, if teenagers were doing this back in the 80's . . .
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Re: Re:
Anyway, the idea is: GuardaLey makes torrent, gets IP addresses by seeing what IP addresses downloads from GuardaLey.
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Re:
Or it could also be real, and there's still problems with that.
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Re:
I'm not really seeing that, TBH.
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Re: Why it's good that several places wrote about it
[news]
Steve Jobs Retired (link)
[/news]
A few of the blogs I visit do exactly that; sometimes, they'll post at the end of the day, a single post with links to all the news stories they thought were relevant, but didn't have anything to add to them.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Sociological Economics
I guess I do see more schoolkids smoking marijuana than tobacco . . .
On the post: Does The FBI Really Use Surveillance Vans With WiFi SSIDs Saying 'FBI_SURVEILLANCE_VAN'?
My favourites:
XCKD341
And 4 that popped up in my neighbourhood in this sequence:
HALLSWIRELESS
NOTHALLSWIRELESS
NOTNOTHALLSWIRELESS
DOESTHATMAKEITHALLSWIRELESS
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Re:
We like innovation. It makes cool new things we all want, and it makes stuff more efficient. Efficient stuff makes everyone win! If I'm more efficient, my goods are cheaper, so I sell more on the same profit margin, my customers get cheaper goods, and everyone else experiences nice ripple effects that mean that we all can exchange more wealth using less money.
The money may not be disappearing, but who is it disappearing to? Companies who innovate need patents to protect themselves from other patent owners. Companies who don't innovate can sell patents for a great amount, (Otherwise, they wouldn't, or don't).
In other words, patent sales, such as the one above, move money from companies who innovate, to companies who do not, (In the case of nortel, for example, because it's been bankrupt for a while).
So the money doesn't disappear, but some innovation sure did.
On the post: DailyDirt: Can Education Ever Be One-Size-Fits-All?
In my school, we typically had about 20 students/teacher, and I found my larger, more anonymous, more algorithm and less judgment based classes to be the ones where I learned the most, (particularly in literature courses).
Even though I was a bit of a loner, having more people on the exact same page, doing the exact same assignments, meant I had more people to discuss class with, and bounce ideas off. Or tutor, and through tutoring, understand the material better myself.
Having nearly earned my 2nd bachelors (kinda, but I won't bore you with that), I can say this has held true in university as well, as far as I'm able to tell with a sample size of 1 and being unable to replicate experimental values to any degree of precision.
That being said, I don't believe I have any amount of knowledge on how to run a school-system as a whole.
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On one hand, I agree that riots should be prevented if possible, and turning off cellular service does seem like a very easy method IF it works.
In fact, I would say it should definitely happen around sports arenas as well, beginning near the end of the game and extending until the riot has happened anyways, or people have dispersed from the stadium without incident.
OTOH, that has a whole bunch of consequences, and I don't think it would stop a riot from happening.
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Apparently, there's been huge problems eradicating polio due to social backlash to vaccines, (and western medical initiatives in general), to some of pfizer's experiments in kano, Nigeria.
On the post: Spoiler Alert: People Enjoy Books More When They Know The Spoilers
It's much stronger for me in RPG's: If I know beforehand what the setup is, what the railroading is, I can say: "That's cool, I'll roll with it".
If we only learn what the premise is, by say, my character doing something Out Of Character and the villain using that to blackmail us, well, that's just frustrating.
OTOH, if the GM tells us beforehand, that we're being captured by aliens to fight in an intergalactic arena, I can accept that premise, and not be bothered so much when they threaten to expose an entire city to hard vacuum unless we give in to their demands. (Even though it's OOC)
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
On the post: UK Prime Minister Wants To Ban Suspected Rioters From Facebook & Twitter
Re: Re: Re: Re:
But let's get back to talking about the riots instead of the police, alright?
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Re: Spin doctor
Given that their literacy is, at least, passable, why then are they unable to read the comments, and are conflating 'stolen goods' with 'lost goods'?
Could there be an agenda at work here?
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