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Comment Re:Still don't get it... (Score 1) 362

by robinsonne (#44380561) Attached to: NSA Still Funded To Spy On US Phone Records
Because it never stops. It's a gigantic dragnet of everyone and everything. Sure, a huge majority of it is blah blah blah about how Sally is tired of putting up with Tom's crap and Judy's going to have a baby...

Where it becomes an issue is: you can find out anything you want to know about someone by who they talk to. Are they part of a union, are they part of a certain political/religious group, are they having an affair, did they talk to someone 2 months ago that went on a shooting rampage today....?

The entire purpose is to dig up dirt on people, and I don't trust anyone in the government to hold and use that information properly, professionally, competently, or ethically. It is a very dangerous tool that they have, and anyone who thinks it will only be used against "terrorists" is incredibly naive.

Submission + - OS X Malware Demands $300 FBI Fine For Viewing, Distributing Porn

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A new piece of malware is targeting OS X to extort money from victims by accusing them of illegally accessing pornography. Ransomware typically uses claims of breaking the law and names law enforcement (such as the CIA or FBI) to scare victims, but it is usually aimed at Windows users, not Mac users.

The security firm Malwarebytes first spotted this latest threat, noting that criminals have ported the ransomware scheme to OS X and are even exploiting a Safari-specific feature. The ransomware page in question gets pushed onto unsuspecting users browsing high-trafficked sites as well as when searching for popular keywords.

Submission + - Planetary Resources To Build Crowdfunded Public Space Telescope (singularityhub.com)

Submitted by kkleiner
kkleiner writes: Planetary Resources, the company that set its sights on mining asteroids, has launched a campaign to raise $1M to crowdsource the world's first publicly accessible space telescope. In an interview, co-founder and co-chairman Peter Diamandis stated that the ARKYD 100 telescope is a means of "extending the optic nerve of humanity." The company hopes that the campaign, which is supported by Richard Branson, Bill Nye the Science Guy, and Seth Green, will make an orbiting telescope available to the public to help schools and museums in their educational efforts to inspire great enthusiasm in space.

Submission + - Planetary Resources to crowd fund its first Arkyd space telescope (examiner.com)

Submitted by MarkWhittington
MarkWhittington writes: Planetary Resources, a company that proposes to capture and mine asteroids for profit, announced on May 29, 2013 that it has started a Kickstarter campaign to finance its first Arkyd space telescopes with which it intends to find likely asteroid candidates. The goal is to raise $1 million by the end of June, 2013, which would launch the telescope, build the interfaces, and set up a variety of education programs. The idea that the first commercial space telescope will further space and science education as well as the company's business plan as various levels of sponsorship will allow one to pay for schools and museums to be given time on the telescope.

Submission + - Judge Orders Porn Suspect to Decrypt His Hard Drives 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: After having first decided against forcing a suspect to decrypt a number of hard drives that were believed to be his and to contain child pornography, a U.S. judge has changed his mind and has now ordered the suspect to provide law enforcement agents heading the investigation with a decrypted version of the contents of his encrypted data storage system, or the passwords needed to decrypt forensic copies of those storage devices. Jeffrey Feldman, a software developer at Rockwell Automation, has still not been charged with any crime, and the prosecution initially couldn't prove conclusively that the encrypted hard drives contained child pornography or were actually Feldman's, which led U.S. Magistrate Judge William Callahan to decide that forcing him to decrypt them would violate his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

Comment But what about the aliens? (Score 1) 270

by robinsonne (#42807989) Attached to: Blimps To Help Protect Washington DC From Air Attack
What about the aliens?!?!? Are these blimps going to save our government from the aliens' attack that could come any moment?!?! Everyone knows Independence Day was a documentary sent back from the future to warn us!

/sarcasm

I think that their imagined threat of terrorist airplane attacks is about as likely to happen.

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