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Rattle wrote:
Dagmar posted up this summary of the situation with Dan Egerstad (Google Cache).

In a move almost staggeringly myopic, agents from Swedish National Crime and the Swedish Security Police raided Dan Egerstad on Monday of this week, rather clearly on the basis of his massive non-hack of the TOR routing service.

For those not catching on, Dan is the gentleman we all cheered a short while ago for having the ingenuity to set up and connect several new TOR (an anonymizing packet routing system) nodes and see if people were actually using the network with unencrypted protocols (which would basically be foolish in the extreme). It turns out that Dan's suspicions were right, and that not only were people using the network insecurely, lots of people, up to and including embassies and government and military offices were using the network unsafely--effectively sending emails and other sensitive traffic across the network completely in the clear where anyone who added their connectivity to the network could see it. This is very, very bad.

Let me make this clear... Anyone, myself included, can at any time, add their resources to and use the TOR network, simply by joining it and using it. (Non-technical explanation for simplicity) Participants in the network pass each other's traffic back and forth randomly through encrypted links, counting on the misdirection of a massive shell game to protect their privacy. Users are supposed to encrypt all their traffic as well as an additional step to keep the last site that handles the traffic before it goes back out to the Internet at large from being able to see what's being sent around. The encryption of the TOR network itself protects the contents up to that point, but no farther. For embassies and other installations that might have things going on where a breach of security could mean people die, incorrect use of the network almost guarantees that someone's likely to get hurt--possibly many, many someones. Dan figured that if anyone can do this, bad people were probably already doing it.

After doing his due diligence and trying to tell the people using the network unsafely the mistakes they were making (and getting nowhere), Dan took the more civic-minded approach of shouting it to the heavens by publishing samples and account information of the hapless fools on his website, and announcing the disturbing results of his completely legal and ethical research to security-oriented mailing lists in hopes that people would take notice and stop endangering themselves and others. The resulting splash shou... [ Read More (0.2k in body) ]

RE: Hacker arrested for... um... *not* hacking?

By Carl DiOrio

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Striking Hollywood screenwriters must turn in their unfinished projects by Friday so that union officials can ensure they don't secretly work for studios during the walkout, which is expected to be lengthy.

OMG - So now that the sitcoms, soap opera's and other drivel doesn't have writers, we'll have to do something different. Oh, wait, how about Reality TV?

Or perhaps, we could find an automatic script writing bot to do their daily drivel...

Good Riddance... it's about time we got some new blood....

Union orders writers to turn over scripts | U.S. | Reuters

I love it when I see old shit turned into functional gear again...

Hope you enjoy it...

A Vax 11/780... converted to a bar... complete with Sink... Amazing.

My other VAX is a VAXbar

We are ready for this year's Phreaknic convention in Nashville, and have a scavenger hunt planned that starts at Midnight tonight, and ends on Saturday the 20th.

There are fine prizes, including a new, in the box, firewall for SOHO use, and several other cool things...

If you're planning on coming to Phreaknic, wander over to the scavenger hunt site, sign up, and take a crack at playing, since it's a free event, and you can only win...if you play...

Phreaknic 0x00b Scavenger Hunt

A Minnesota university has suspended one of its graduate students who sent two e-mail messages to school officials supporting gun rights.

Hamline University also said that master's student Troy Scheffler, who owns a firearm, would be barred from campus and must receive a mandatory "mental health evaluation" after he sent an e-mail message arguing that law-abiding students should be able to carry firearms on campus for self-defense.

Holy crap. This is a time bomb... just waiting to explode...

I'm off to purchase more ammo.

Grad student suspended after pro-gun-rights e-mail | The Iconoclast - politics, law, and technology - CNET News.com

possibly noteworthy wrote:

A group of researchers at Sony and the University of Alabama in Huntsville have come up with a wide-angle camera that can image a 10-kilometer-square area from an altitude of 7.5 kilometers with a resolution better than 50 centimeters per pixel.

The trick is to build an array of light sensitive chips - each one recording small parts of a larger image - and place them at the focal plane of a large multiple-lens system. The camera would have gigapixel resolution, and able to record images at a rate of 4 frames per second.

The team suggests that such a camera mounted on an aircraft could provide images of a large city by itself. This would even allow individual vehicles to be monitored without any danger of losing them as they move from one ground level CCTV system to another.

Coming to a predator drone near you!

This is definitely technology for more 'big brother' surveillance. Just what I wanted to hear.

RE: Wide-angled gigapixel satellite surveillance

Dagmar wrote:
For standing on stage like a cowardly sack of crap, because in theory you more than anyone else there should have known what was going on in that room was illegal and would have had the power to stop it with a word but didn't.

FUCK YOU.

You're done. As far as a lot of Americans and myself are concerned, you will never be worthy of a vote again. You very obviously don't have our best interests in heart, and even more clearly don't give a crap what happens to your fellow man even when it's right in front of you.

This is the wishy-washy bullshit fucktard that I saw when he ran for president the first time... He's always been a sack of shit. And he deserves to be chastised in EVERY WAY for allowing this to occur in front of him.

RE: John Kerry: FUCK YOU.

There's all kinds of practical uses for a dye that's only visible to digital chips, but we like all the mischief that could be wrought.

Oh, I could have so much fun with this...

Kameraflage - Digital Camera Visible Only | productdose.com

A little bit about locked phones. When you buy a cell phone (mobile) in the United States and several other countries, you are purchasing a piece of hardware (the phone) and software, and a relationship with a telecommunications provider. Typically, but not universally, the telecommunications provider will heavily subsidize the initial cost of the telephone in order to induce you to remain with or switch to them. After all, your 300 page phone bill can be for hundreds of dollars a month, so it’s natural for them to want you to stay. In fact, to cement this relationship, phone companies do two things. First, they make you sign a long-term (usually two-year) contract with substantial “early termination” of “liquidated damages” fees. For AT&T, this “fee” is at least $175.

This is a very articulate discussion of the "unlocked" iphone and ATT's Cease & Desist Letters...

Mod Your iPhone – For Fun or Profit?