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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 09:21 PM EDT |
f-secure.com
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Authored by: bugstomper on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 09:22 PM EDT |
Just before PJ posted this article I posted a comment to the previous article in
which I said that I was posting it...
"at the bottom of 256 other comments, probably moments before PJ posts a
new article and nobody will ever see this"
I am sure that PJ had no idea that she was going to write another article until
I clicked "Submit Comment" and she suddenly found this article fully
written by her on her screen ready to go :)
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 01:00 AM EDT |
"The New York State Senate passed a controversial bill on
Wednesday that aims
to classify ‘aggravated harassment of a
police officer’ as a crime, but will it
give the authorities
the green light for strong-arm tactics if
passed?"
`Sponsored by Senator Joe Griffo, Bill S.2402 would make it
a
felony to “harass, annoy, or threaten a police officer
while on duty.”'
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 01:06 AM EDT |
The National Security Agency and the FBI are
tapping directly into
the central servers of nine leading
U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio
and video chats,
photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that
enable analysts to track foreign targets, according to a
top-secret document
obtained by The Washington Post.
The program, code-named PRISM, has not been
made public
until now. It may be the first of its kind.
[...]
Like
market researchers, but with far more privileged
access, collection managers in
the NSA’s Special Source
Operations group, which oversees the PRISM program,
are
drawn to the wealth of information about their subjects in
online
accounts. For much the same reason, civil
libertarians and some ordinary users
may be troubled by the
menu available to analysts who hold the required
clearances
to “task” the PRISM system.
There has been “continued
exponential growth in tasking to
Facebook and Skype,” according to the PRISM
slides. With a
few clicks and an affirmation that the subject is believed
to
be engaged in terrorism, espionage or nuclear
proliferation, an analyst obtains
full access to Facebook’s
“extensive search and surveillance capabilities
against the
variety of online social networking services.”
According to a
separate “User’s Guide for PRISM Skype
Collection,” that service can be
monitored for audio when
one end of the call is a conventional telephone and
for any
combination of “audio, video, chat, and file transfers” when
Skype
users connect by computer alone. Google’s offerings
include Gmail, voice and
video chat, Google Drive files,
photo libraries, and live surveillance of
search terms.
Firsthand experience with these systems, and horror at their
capabilities, is what drove a career intelligence officer to
provide
PowerPoint slides about PRISM and supporting
materials to The Washington Post
in order to expose what he
believes to be a gross intrusion on privacy. “They
quite
literally can watch your ideas form as you type,” the
officer
said.
Barton Gellman and Laura
Poitras,
The Washington Post[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Director of National Intelligence: Reports About PRISM Contain “Numerous Inaccuracies” - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 01:37 AM EDT
- The Guardian's coverage - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 01:41 AM EDT
- What's he gonna tell Mr Xi tomorrow? - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 02:11 AM EDT
- Freedom Box FTW - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 02:58 AM EDT
- 'Yes, we scan." - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 04:44 AM EDT
- 'Yes, we scan." - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 05:04 AM EDT
- 'Yes, we scan." - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 05:12 AM EDT
- 'Yes, we scan." - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 06:05 AM EDT
- Vatican collection - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 06:47 AM EDT
- Big Brother is Watching You! - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 09:54 AM EDT
- EFF Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 10:43 AM EDT
- PRISM - Fuss crosses Atlantic - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 12:47 PM EDT
- NYT Gives Damning-With-Faintest-Praise-Possible Profile of Glenn Greenwald After Scoops - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 08:19 PM EDT
- Anonymous Just Leaked a Trove of NSA Documents - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 09:15 PM EDT
- PRISM - Google's Larry Page, CEO, and David Drummond, Chief Legal Officer, Respond - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 11:24 PM EDT
- NSA sucks in data from 50 companies - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 08 2013 @ 11:36 AM EDT
- Co.'s Built Segregated Systems For NSA Instead Of Firehoses To Protect Innocent Users From PRISM - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 08 2013 @ 01:24 PM EDT
- Interview with NSA whistleblower William Binney - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 08 2013 @ 03:21 PM EDT
- BOUNDLESS INFORMANT - the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 08 2013 @ 10:25 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 03:39 AM EDT |
http://boingboing.net/2013/06/06/bradley-manning-trial-
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Authored by: Ian Al on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 04:39 AM EDT |
Not that I have any First Amendment rights, of course: I'm not from around here.
Anyway, I have been exercising my right to free speech for years with my sig.
and now, by editorial artifice, I am excluded from OT comments.
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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 06:28 AM EDT |
Some examples of things in the same catagory as APIs (distinguished only by not
being on-a-computer)
Turning a screw clockwise makes it go in (unless you're in a small set of
situations involving wheels).
That clock hands go round top->right->bottom->left->top.
The QWERTY keyboard layout.
The accellerator in a car is the small pedal.
Move the top of the steering wheel in the direction you want to turn.
Power buttons have that circle-with-line symbol on them.
Red light means stop, Green light means go.
Hot water is in the red tap.
I could probably go on for pages if I thought harder.
Imagine if anyone did one of those things differently?
How much trouble would it cause?
Exactly.
APIs are also on that list.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 06:33 AM EDT |
Some of you may remember when Canada's strategic maple syrup
stash was under attack - after a slow-as-molasses
investigation the Mounties got their man...
Now comes word that Foreign interests are trying to corner
the great Canadian chocolate market.
Court documents unsealed in December, 2007, allege senior
executives at Hershey, Mars and Nestlé met secretly in
coffee shops and restaurants and at industry conventions to
set prices.
Now, SIX years later, criminal charges have been laid for
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 07:32 AM EDT |
Link
Acording to
a new Microsoft-sponsored study by the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy
Systems, Internet Explorer consumes less wattage than Mozilla Firefox and Google
Chrome. The study discovered some pretty miniscule changes between each browser
when it came to situations like “Average, Top 10 Websites” and “Fishbowl
Benchmarks.” However, the introduction of Flash into the test showed a fairly
substantial change between browser power consumption, with Internet Explorer
consuming approximately 18.6 percent less wattage than Google
Chrome.
Remember those MS-sponsored Linux Vs Windows TCO
Comparison?
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- This matters? - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 07:42 AM EDT
- yes? - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 12:59 PM EDT
- Half As Bright - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 08 2013 @ 05:43 AM EDT
- Half As Bright - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 08 2013 @ 08:30 AM EDT
- How many ways to cheat here ?? - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 07:46 AM EDT
- More MS FUD: IE is more energy efficient than other browsers - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 09:03 AM EDT
- when I saw this it entertained me - Authored by: designerfx on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 09:07 AM EDT
- Use Internet Explorer - it's good for the environment! lol - n/t - Authored by: Gringo_ on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 09:42 AM EDT
- If this was really important - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 10:21 AM EDT
- ROFL ( n/t ) - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 12:07 PM EDT
- Using maths... - Authored by: Nick_UK on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 11:03 AM EDT
- More MS FUD: IE is more energy efficient than other browsers - Authored by: JamesK on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 11:55 AM EDT
- I can't argue... - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 01:17 PM EDT
- I can't argue... - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 08 2013 @ 03:38 AM EDT
- More MS FUD: IE is more energy efficient than other browsers - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 01:30 PM EDT
- IE is optimized for Flash - Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 02:25 PM EDT
- More MS FUD: IE is more energy efficient than other browsers - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 03:16 PM EDT
- You've got to look at the overall TCO! - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 04:35 PM EDT
- MS - IE, optimised for Flash - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 04:39 PM EDT
- Now compare it to Chrome/Firefox on Linux with no botnet running in the background [N/T] - Authored by: bugstomper on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 04:50 PM EDT
- More MS FUD: IE is more energy efficient than other browsers - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 08 2013 @ 03:11 AM EDT
- IE power usage so bad they had to hide the testing procedure - Authored by: ailuromancy on Sunday, June 09 2013 @ 03:57 AM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 01:17 PM EDT |
Is the human brain more powerful than a turing machine?
Has anyone done any research into this at all?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 03:04 PM EDT |
Microsoft is now calling it Reputation Management.
The article claims
MS
have just brought in a huge sweep of SMM managers to handle reputation
management for the Xbox One. If you're unfamiliar with reputation
management
Social media managers doing RM focus on providing positive posts,
likes and shares to promote the brand on social media sites and forums - usually
posing as the 'happy customer' archetype through a multitude of accounts. In the
last year or so, Reddit has become more and more important to an overall RM
strategy.
It also often involves 'debunking' people who make negative or
critical comments about the brand online. I've done this myself for numerous
clients before (even on Reddit once, sorry!). It is fairly standard procedure,
although usually not so much for huge companies like Microsoft.
Click for reddit post .
I do trust reddit more than any
spin by Microsoft.
The new xbox 360 has onerous conditions attached to it. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 03:32 PM EDT |
GamePop console to run iOS apps without using
any
Apple code
A new TV game console dubbed GamePop
will
allegedly run iOS applications with virtualization, without
using any of
Apple's own code, potentially giving developers
a new platform on which to
offer their titles.
Watch Apple try to sue them into
oblivion as soon as they
release their product. Watch Apple cry when they lose.
This
should be excellent entertainment for the whole family.
(Seeing them
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Authored by: naka on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 07:25 PM EDT |
Found this from Anon E Mouse's comment on an ars article...http://ia601508.us.archive.org/28/items/gov.uscourts.
cacd.543744/gov.uscourts.cacd.543744.176.0.pdf
Further, the
Prenda parties shall be required to post an additional bond in the amount of
$135,933.66 (which is the $237,583.66 total, minus the $101,650.00
bond that the Prenda parties other than Mr. Gibbs have already posted) to cover
costs on appeal, which includes attorneys fees since the underlying case is a
copyright case.
They have to respond within 7 days... I
really like this Judge Wright fellow.
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 11:41 PM EDT |
The leaks regarding NSA (
ironically confirmed by James R. Clapper, Director of National Intelligence
),
have led many to wonder what is really going on.
But, even if those
responsible for the oversight were
actually doing their job, little would be
learned.
Link
Wonkblog's Ezra Klein
writes about a
paradox to make Yossarian proud:
members of Congress who gain clearance to learn
about government spying in order to fulfill their oversight role cannot raise an
alarm about government spying because to do so would be to violate the terms of
their clearance.
Fortunately, those that don't "get it"
are
not on the proper committees anyway.
"I'm a Verizon
customer," Senator Lindsey Graham said Thursday. "It doesn't bother me one bit
for the NSA to have my phone number."
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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 08 2013 @ 03:54 PM EDT |
Of course the president doesn't want patent trolls. He wants a monopoly on
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 08 2013 @ 10:21 PM EDT |
Seen at
Computex along with many other mockups and PoCs.
The Verge's update
suggests it's
business as usual.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 08 2013 @ 11:39 PM EDT |
I wonder if the companies participating in Prism are in violation of accounting
standards by not reporting the cost of compliance to this program to
shareholders. I would think that the cost of building and operating the systems
required is non-trivial.
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