Posts by Rich of Observationz
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OnPoint: Ich bin ein Cyberpunk, in reply to Steve Withers,
SELinux is open source. That means that many eyes outside the NSA will have inspected it to see if there are any holes. And given that what it does (annoy people trying to admin a system, mostly) is fairly obvious, that should be quite straightforward.
OTOH, if what you mean is that NSA perpetrated the idea that fine-grained access controls are useful as a way to lull people into thinking that because their servers are annoying and awkward to administer, they must be difficult to hack, then maybe I'd agree.
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I would imagine that anyone with truly nefarious intent would have taken the hint and be communicating by couriered pieces of paper, etc.
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
What's Mangakino done to deserve that?
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Interesting as to whether it's a component or system-wide crack. Factoring public keys would give them full access to anything under than private key, while cracking the conventional crypto would have to be run for every session and any sort of active attack on the protocol (like MITM) would be detectable.
securing information up to and including material classified as Top Secret
Or the US is willing to risk foreign agencies reading their Top Secret traffic in return for access to everyone's personal email? Maybe they take the view that even if the Russians know the location of every Trident sub, they probably won't be starting a nuclear war anytime soon.
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I'm seriously hoping that someone in NSA/GCHQ/GCSB gets caught in massive financial fraud soon:
- grabbing credit card transactions
- grabbing online banking logins
- some other type of couffablingI imagine this must be happening on some scale and being covered up, but it might wake up the sheeple if they find government employees have been stealing their bank account contents
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an amphibious assault ship carrying a few hundred marines
That sounds like a "target". Send a ship with minimal self-defence capabilities and an expendable crew of jarheads into Syrian waters in the hope that it'll get sunk and create a casus belli.
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Hey, I'm going to do all I can to promote Aaron Gilmore as the next leader of the National party.
I'm sure you won't doubt my sincerity, he'd be an awesome leader.
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...conspiracy theory [that National support Jones because they know he'd be a useless leader] is absurd
So the National Party's various flacks are supporting Jones because they really feel he'd be the best leader for Labour. Yeah right. (as they would say in Jones's no doubt favourite ads for shite beer).
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to Sam M,
Whiskey? You beltway urban liberal, you.
True working class pulled-yourself-up-by-their-bootstraps real men do methamphetamine.
(Actually no politician has admitted to meth yet, Well, not since Hitler).
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to Tom Semmens,
Tell us Tom, what form of horny-handed working class toil do you engage in? I'm just wondering whether they have Internet access down by the coal seam nowadays for you to post on in your breaks, or do you climb all the way to the surface to regale us with true working class opinions?