2013-08-28, 02:51 | Link #30321 | |
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To a degree you are correct. It's not hard to link together information as you've said using something particularly telling. There are, however, limitations to what information you can find on a person without knowing what you're looking for. Having a person's name doesn't mean the government can find everything they've ever done on the internet. A name means nothing, because there are many like it. A social security number means much more. A name and a date of birth will give you the most access. It's the one completely common requirement for signing up for any website. If you lie about your name, or you lie about your date of birth, how do they find what you've done? If they track your movements, sure. Stuff that's in the past, especially if it's been masked with deletions and various other methods of secrecy, isn't going to be something they can find with the press of the button or a nice hard scrubbing. How do you find something if you don't know you're looking for it? Is it overbearing that they could do such things? Without a doubt. Perhaps I'm disillusioned that I think they don't care about what I post on AnimeSuki, or Reddit. I suspect the same is true for the vast majority of people. Mountains of irrelevant information with no bearing on legitimate (or illegitimate) investigations. Should they be able to look at what they please and how they please whilst viewing me as a potential threat to society or some such thing? I can't rightly blame them for doing so. The true issue tends to be more about the 'why' than the 'what'. After all, when they're running around proclaiming traitors and security threats as they please and investing in discovering every little bit of information that can be gleaned, it's hardly appropriate. The time and place isn't whoever and whenever.
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2013-08-28, 03:29 | Link #30322 | |
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If you want to see what shit is really going on in the world, take a plc connect it to the internet and let it mimick some component of a water plant or power plant. I promise you, you do not have to wait long for the first attack (matter of a week or less).
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2013-08-28, 04:32 | Link #30323 |
books-eater youkai
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Indian rupee hurtles lower as foreign investors flee
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...97R06K20130828 Analysis: China has much at risk but no reach in Middle East http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...97R08V20130828
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2013-08-28, 05:33 | Link #30328 |
Absolute Haruhist!
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Dr Kevin Warwick the world's first cyborg has already plugged both his, and his wife's brain into the internet.
They might be prone to hacking or viruses, but they are the first people in the world to achieve real telepathy. They can sense each other's nerve impulses through the wireless chip implants, Warwick can even control robots and devices from across the world.
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2013-08-28, 07:30 | Link #30329 | |
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For some reason the Times registered its domain with MelbourneIT, a hosting company in Australia which also hosts twitter.com. From reading this article today, it sounds like the security on the nytimes.com domain was pretty minimal. The records weren't even locked, and the attackers gained access by using a reseller's certificate. Why the Times chose a registrar halfway around the world from them is a mystery. Domain registration is cheap, so cost cannot be the primary reason. The Times maintains its own domain-name servers, meaning that the only records at Melbourne were the ones that point to those servers. After the hack those records were changed to point to the SEA's servers. Usually companies don't change their DNS servers all that often so the records should have been locked long ago. The CEO of Melbourne announced he was stepping down as part of an internal reorganization yesterday. The announcement seems to have come in advance of the breach, though the search for his replacement might be accelerated after yesterday's events.
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Moving in circles
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Of course, there will always be haters. After all, the near 40 per cent who voted for the Opposition in 2011 do form a significant minority. But that's what they are, a minority. And most governments in developed nations would be chuffed to still secure about 60 per cent of the popular vote despite a disappointing report card. I have my own quibbles with the government but, in the end, they're just that: quibbles. On matters of integrity, the government is still generally trustworthy. And this is so, even in spite of draconian and potentially abusive internal security laws. You want bad? You don't have to look far beyond our own borders to find examples. |
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2013-08-28, 08:38 | Link #30331 | |
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eg An engineer can troubleshoot a problem from home instead of making it all the way down to the plant. Some deal if the x-tier support is in another country, they can access the data from the site remotely. Alternatively, they can centralize the control from a central monitoring hub to save on cost. Quite frankly it doesn't need to be on the net to be hackable, wasn't there a case where a researcher discovered a flaw in pacemakers which allowed people to take control of it? (He died before he could present it) |
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2013-08-28, 08:53 | Link #30332 | |
Absolute Haruhist!
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I watched it on a TEDtalk, which also told us that they can hack car brakes, accelerators, doors etc. and cause accidents. Basically anything that can be accessed wirelessly can be hacked into.
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2013-08-28, 20:46 | Link #30336 |
そのおっぱいで13才
Join Date: Dec 2006
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A new day on 2ch...
Big update turns out to be the info on Hiroyuki and the people responsible for deleting posts. Took a peek, and as far as it seems, Hiroyuki still had power over 2ch. There was rigged censoring to force people to buy 2ch Viewer. And some other nasty behind-the-curtains stuff.
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2013-08-28, 21:05 | Link #30337 |
books-eater youkai
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Fort Hood shooter sentenced to death for 2009 killings
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...97Q11A20130828 San Bernardino, California, gets bankruptcy protection http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...97R18020130829
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2013-08-29, 03:30 | Link #30338 | |
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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I can only guide you in the right direction. This is how the process works in i.e. the USA:
http://www.dhs.gov/cybersecurity-results Quote:
http://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/alerts http://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories However, analysis data of e.g. monitored incidents against the U.S. infrastructure are not publicly available for obvious reasons. But, now you know whom to ask.
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2013-08-29, 11:41 | Link #30339 | |
Moving in circles
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Singapore
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I would have posted this in silly news, but someone may have actually died. In which case, the story is not so funny.
Kim Jong Un's ex-girlfriend executed for appearing in porn Quote:
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2013-08-29, 20:32 | Link #30340 | ||
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Plus, even if the NSA is completely struck down and closed down, you think that surveillance won't continue? They'll just rebuild it and call it something else, make it more secret and it'll run until the next scandal, and the cycle will go on. Again and again and again... Contrary to what people believe, "Big Brother" isn't a recent development. The American government has spied on people since...the beginning of the US. And before that, England spied on the colonists. What, you thought the Cold War era didn't depend on unlimited and often illegal spying? There were "Communist bustdowns" back in the WWI era. Nowadays, it's the same damn thing. Quote:
To be fair though, it's hard for government to really 100% completely target everything, and they really only look at the major stuff most of the time unless they have a lead, like facebook, Google, etc. Of course, since most people stick to those sites for goddamn everything and share goddamn everything sometimes on them (you're saying that sharing all of my personal info on facebook is a bad idea? You don't say!) that basically vets out 99.9% of people most of the time....
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