mSparks

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by mSparks 9y ago
Taking a devils advocate position for a moment. I wonder if deminishing "net neutrality" will be "yet another nail" in the copyright industries coffin. The closest analogy I can think of to a historic non neutral network
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by mSparks 10y ago
Dont think there is any doubt Russian (and Chinese) hackers completely own most US infrastructure. Only need visit a few Russian hacking forums to see that. It "was easy" because the NSA put so much effort into making systems inse
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by mSparks 10y ago
almost comedy. is it the good AIDs or bad AIDs (Mary Whitehouse experience reference) It was clearly the good computer virus designed to penetrate state infrastructure. because Glenn Greenwald said so.
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by mSparks 10y ago
"agenda news" fvey vs fsb played out in public.
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by mSparks 10y ago
they'll needing plugging into the matrix and teaching to read Russian plus linking to all the russian underground in 30 seconds or less. otherwise its too much effort and they'll just go along with whatever seems trendy and cool a
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by mSparks 10y ago
how do we report moderators? you seem intent on forcing your particular world view on hn than providing moderation of explosive or unpleasant reading. i find reading all the posts you like to detach often more interesting reading than any o
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by mSparks 10y ago
snowden lives in moscow now. And the US government did enough to annoy both of them that they decided to defect.
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by mSparks 10y ago
such studies inevitably biased to find failures tho. successes rarely get written up. so finding details on them is much harder. also depends what you mean by fail. if fail means "ran over budget and hit loads of unexpected problems&qu
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by mSparks 10y ago
My other post is flagged and downvoted by well, yeah, I'll keep it civil despite them. But the point was, The russian hacker forums are orders of magnitude better than anything offered in English, and virtually every single one has mad
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by mSparks 10y ago
that bit hes bolded isnt key is it? the singluarity isnt "ai making new ai" the singularity is ai solving problems that we cant - "greater than human intelligence." which has basically already arrived. albeit bounded suc
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by mSparks 10y ago
guess that depends on your definition of globalism. the economist is pro imf/world bank. that is less pro globalisation and more pro * poorer nations for the Western profit incentive. which isnt quite an equivalence.
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by mSparks 10y ago
i often run into google web sites that render and behave terribly in android chrome (usually floating windows with the close hidden or extending outside the screen). most web problems are now bugs either by the site developer or in a specif
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by mSparks 10y ago
and for those to young to remember. Rewson, SAFE, Waihopai, INFOSEC, ASPIC, MI6, Information Security, SAI, Information Warfare, IW, IS, Privacy, Information Terrorism, Terrorism Defensive Information, Defense Information Warfare, Offensiv
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by mSparks 10y ago
Not sure where you're getting that from. certainly not an official source. http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/National/ar... ->RUSSIA and China have cracked the top-secret cache of
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by mSparks 10y ago
In the good old days they just called them defectors. Rather than whistleblowers that didn't blow any whistles. Political Correctness gone mad i tell ya. As for "shared it with everyone on the planet." - really, where exactly
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by mSparks 10y ago
There are three known potentially problematic areas and they are well documented. apple stuff, wifi cards, laptops and their custom sleep code. aside from apple stuff (who have made it quite clear they believe their users want a totally wal
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by mSparks 10y ago
Yep, and subsequent bust. Many many companies getting not significant cash inflows in the run up to 2000 which made their balance sheets look great, until the end of the 2000 tax year in 2001 when they didn't look so great any more.
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by mSparks 10y ago
Its not exactly clear though, as far as I can tell "commercial features" just means JRocket Mission Control (which is a very cool bit of kit.... debugging production systems remotely with negligable performance hit, seriously you
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by mSparks 10y ago
Their own fault they got slaughtered tho. I lost count of the number of times I watched a Lib Dem politician on TV defending idiotic Conservative policies. They were all so blinded by actually being asked on TV most never seemed to think it
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by mSparks 10y ago
i seem to recal they were working on a "fedora upgrade" package, but only works as long as you dont miss a release iirc.
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by mSparks 10y ago
apple go to a lot of effort to make only their software work on their hardware, and vice versa, the days of the linux crowd caring enough to test it have long since passed. whats the point in having a gui installed on a machine that by defi
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by mSparks 10y ago
more depressing because fedora is the "canary" for new hardware rather than an everyday in use desktop let alone server. so the fact it struggled on what seems like ancient hardware is hardly a surprise. wonder what his reaction w
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by mSparks 10y ago
yet the link i posted is ubuntu users asking how to make it do exactly that, because by default something added no password to their sudo configuration. which is also my experience. having plenty of experience getting red hat fedora and cen
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by mSparks 10y ago
most you can get to on a normal unlocked linux machine in normal use is the see browsing history. you cant even copy files to a usb stick because mounting it requires a password. that is very different to making the machine yours via remote
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by mSparks 10y ago
i barely trust my own programs to have access to the root account, why should any old script be able to access the entire machine in 6 letters? "you should never run anything as root" yet on ubuntu everything as good as runs as ro
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by mSparks 10y ago
for a start, by default accounts can access the root account by simply running sudo -i
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by mSparks 10y ago
dell "developer" releases come with linux preinstalled. so almost certainly. although i wouldnt touch ubuntu with a barge pole. e.g. http://www.dell.com/uk/business/p/xps-13-9350-laptop-ubuntu/.
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by mSparks 10y ago
->Nobody is secure against their home country government, which has the power to both: -- Mount black bag attacks on your premises. -- Snoop the networks of internet service providers. Indeed, not even our governments are safe from the g
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by mSparks 10y ago
I think what you are missing is the huge investment the "bad guys" have put into getting people to believe insecure communications are in fact secure.
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by mSparks 10y ago
nsa shill:everyone should use curve25519 hacker news:downvote to hell anyone who disagrees that off my chest. "protocol level" is the order of the bits. for example the octets in the tcp protocol. "rearranging the payload&quo

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