lippydude - Slashdot User

Comment Dr. Edward Maggio, Esq deceased .. (Score 1) 1

by lippydude on Thursday February 26, 2015 @12:50AM (#49134387) Attached to: http://edward-maggio-esq.blogspot.in/2015/02/dr-edward-maggio-inspiring-life.htm

Why is the death of some lawyer deemed worthy enough for a slashdot lead article?

Comment Re:As seen on 'Person of Interest' Intro .. (Score 1) 55

by lippydude on Thursday February 26, 2015 @12:29AM (#49134273) Attached to: US Govt and Private Sector Developing "Precrime" System Against Cyber-Attacks

"Now given how Person of Interest does things, How do you think the real US goverment or ANY OTHER goverment would handle it if such a tech existed today?"

I don't think it would be necessary to have someone killed based on SSN. It would more likely be of the form of discrediting them with false allegations of financial or sexual improprieties.

'More importantly, is there anything you have ever done that may get you made "relevant" by a real version of "the machine"?'

No I've never done anything that would bring me to the attention of "the machine", apart from posting here that is. I would be interested if slashdot was ever required to hand over peoples registration information. 'Reddit Reveals Bids for User Data by Outside Agencies'

Comment As seen on 'Person of Interest' Intro .. (Score 4, Insightful) 55

by lippydude on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @08:34PM (#49133115) Attached to: US Govt and Private Sector Developing "Precrime" System Against Cyber-Attacks

"IARPA unit, is .. creating a computer system capable of anticipating cyber-terrorist acts"

The only people such blanket surveillance won't work against are the real terrorists. Besides, the real target of such blanket surveillance are the voters. Besides, it only works in the movies.

Person of Interest Intro

Comment RAMNIT botnet runs on computers .. (Score 5, Insightful) 23

by lippydude on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @08:22PM (#49133043) Attached to: 3 Million Strong RAMNIT Botnet Taken Down

Hey, samzenpus what was the name of the Operating System the RAMNIT botnet runs on? Was it one of Apple OS X, Linux, Android or another OS that must never be mentioned on a technology site in conjunction with malware.

Comment Flash & JAVA exploits .. (Score 1) 188

by lippydude on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @05:19PM (#49131473) Attached to: Google Now Automatically Converts Flash Ads To HTML5

What I want to know is, how all these technological innovators managed to make PDFs, Flash and JAVA allow security exploits on our 'computers'. I thought the 'sandbox' was supposed to provide protection.

Comment FBI investigating the Zeus Trojan? (Score 0) 66

by lippydude on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @10:07AM (#49126537) Attached to: FBI Offers $3 Million Reward For Russian Hacker

"Starting in September of 2011, the FBI began investigating a modified version of the Zeus Trojan, known as GameOver Zeus (GOZ)"

What the fuck would the FBI know about 'computer' hacking.

Comment Botnet affected over a million computers? (Score 0) 66

by lippydude on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @09:55AM (#49126469) Attached to: FBI Offers $3 Million Reward For Russian Hacker

"Bogachev is the alleged administrator of the GameOver Zeus botnet, estimated to have affected over a million computers"

Hey Soulskill, what class of ' computers ' did this botnet infect? Don't hesitate to name Operating System platforms, such as Apple OS X, Linux or Android ...

Submission + - Red Hat present the Women in Open Source Award - vote now

Submitted by AmiMoJo on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @09:39AM

AmiMoJo writes: Red Hat's judges have narrowed down more than 100 entries to 10 finalists who you may vote for in their Women in Open Source Award. The award aims to recognize women's contributions to open source and encourage a new generation to join in.

Comment Pakistanis Must Provide Fingerprints .. (Score 1) 134

by lippydude on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @09:13AM (#49118249) Attached to: Pakistanis Must Provide Fingerprints Or Give Up Cellphone

Mightened the Taliban (aka virtually every tribe in north western in Pakistan) resort to stealing SIM cards or buying them on the black market. Considering that the Taliban had virtual safe haven in North Pakistan. Such attacks don't seem to be the product of rational minds. The net effect being to force Pakistan Intelligence to move against them.

Comment It's called proportionality? (Score 1) 224

by lippydude on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @02:12AM (#49117201) Attached to: 100 Years of Chemical Weapons

"It's called proportionality .. you can't nuke a country in response to a platoon of infantryman crossing the frontier" ...

You're more likely to use nuclear or chemical weapons if the other side don't have them ref.

Comment Ubuntu on Lenovo Models .. (Score 1) 114

by lippydude on Monday February 23, 2015 @06:54PM (#49115235) Attached to: Lenovo Hit With Lawsuit Over Superfish Adware

'Canonical works closely with Lenovo to certify Ubuntu on a range of their hardware.'

Comment Say again ? (Score 1) 147

by lippydude on Monday February 23, 2015 @06:20PM (#49114995) Attached to: Looking Up Symptoms Online? These Companies Are Tracking You

Why does my browser visit these websites when I only want to visit slashdot?

dice.com, fonts.googleapis.com, fsdn.com, google-analytics.com, googletagservices.com, janrain.com, ooyala.com, rpxnow.com, scorecardresearch.com, taboola.com, zedo.com ...

Submission + - NSA, GHCQ implicated in SIM encryption hack.

Submitted by BlacKSacrificE on Monday February 23, 2015 @03:49AM

BlacKSacrificE writes: Australian carriers are bracing for a mass recall after it was revealed that a Dutch SIM card manufacturer Gemalto was penetrated by the GCHQ and the NSA in an alleged theft of encryption keys, allowing unfetted access to voice and text communications. The incident is suspected to have happened in 2010 and 2011 and seems to be a result of social engineering against employees, and was revealed by yet another Snowden document. Telstra, Vodafone and Optus have all stated they are waiting for further information from Gemalto before deciding a course of action. Gemalto said in a press release that they "cannot at this early stage verify the findings of the publication" and are continuing internal investigations, but considering Gemalto provides around 2 billion SIM cards to some 450 carriers across the globe (all of which use the same GSM encryption standard) the impact and fallout for Gemalto, and the affected carriers, could be huge.

Submission + - Bill Nye Disses "Regular Software Writers" (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by conoviator on Sunday February 22, 2015 @08:25PM

conoviator writes: Bill Nye, one of the foremost science educators in the United States states that only the upper crust members of American science and technology (with degrees from top tier schools) understand science, particularly climate change. He opines that "regular software writers" dwell in the realm of the semi-science-literate.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Submission + - OS X, iOS and Linux have more vulnerabilities than Windows (betanews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 22, 2015 @04:54PM

An anonymous reader writes: This startling fact comes from the National Vulnerability Database (described as the "US government repository of standards based vulnerability management data") which details security issues detected in different operating systems and software titles.

http://nvd.nist.gov/

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