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Comment No thanks (Score 5, Insightful) 562

I am not afraid of terrorists. I am not afraid of religious extremists. I am not afraid of murderers, rapists, drug dealers, drug addicts, carjackers, burglars, home invaders, "active shooters," or copyright violators. No, the biggest threat to my freedom comes from my own government, and that makes me sad.

Comment Re:Biased Institutions FTW (Score 1) 784

You can't have just one parent watching all of the kids either, each kid has to have their own parent there.

This drives me crazy. It's not the law here but it's become custom, I suppose due to helicopter parenting. I live near a school bus stop and every morning there are a dozen or more vehicles crowding around that corner. They're creating traffic hazards trying to park amongst each other, with doors opening at random as kids decide they want to go talk to their friend in another car, etc. This isn't just in the freezing cold or the pouring rain, it's every day.

What's the point of having the school bus at all? The parents obviously have the time to drive their kids a block and a half to the bus stop and then sit there waiting for half an hour until the bus shows up. The school itself is less than 15 minutes away, just drive them there.

Comment Re: Microsoft PAYS people and orgs. to use Bing! (Score 1) 177

I don't understand how that works. Can someone make a software robot to do searches and visit ads, and then get paid? Why have a job when your computer can make money unaided?

Yes, Google (or Bing) for bing rewards bot. You, too, can raise your utility bill while earning a whopping $5 worth of credits per month to apply to your XBox Live account. Don't quit your day job just yet.

Comment Re:This is how DMCA takedown works at Google (Score 1) 88

In your Step 5, only the first sentence is valid. Chilling Effects is never given a copy of your copyrighted material, they do not post a copy of your copyrighted material. They post a copy of the DMCA notice that you sent to Google. If that DMCA notice contains a list of 100 URLs where I can download your copyrighted material, I'm afraid that's too bad. Maybe you should be filing your DMCA notices against the places actually hosting your copyrighted material, so that those URLs no longer function, instead of filing your complaints against a search engine.

Comment Re:Countless Comments on Prior Articles & Now (Score 2) 219

So, you realize that releasing information could give away the techniques used to gather said data.

These days it's not an unreasonable assumption that the NSA intercepts, collects, and stores every frame of IP data routed through any publicly addressable router on planet Earth. I don't think it would really be giving anything away to disclose some packet logs.

Comment Re:How much bandwidth *do* they have? (Score 1) 219

I don't believe the North Korea story, but lack of transit is not (IMO) a solid argument against their involvement. I don't think anyone has accused them of downloading everything into their country and sending it back out. If I were a North Korean cyber warrior tasked with exfiltrating terabytes of data out of Great Satan's companies, I'd compromise some vulnerable servers in a country with fat pipes, and direct the attacks from there. A few kbps is plenty to sustain a control channel via ssh/RDP/LogMeIn to some rooted servers in, say, China.

Comment Re:Crapper? (Score 1) 219

Nah, different guy. This is James Comey, the FBI director. The one who's spent the last couple of months heavily pushing the narrative that if Apple and Google allow encryption on their devices, a child will die. Which isn't false, anymore than it's false to say that if Americans are allowed to drive, a child will die. It's weird, though, I can't seem to recall any government officials lobbying to outlaw cars.

I'll give Comey credit for one thing, he's kept a low enough profile that the Nigerians don't yet seem to know he exists! I still get scam emails from "Robert Mueller FBI Director" almost every damned day...

Submission + - US Sanctions North Korea Over Sony Incident (nytimes.com)

ShaunC writes: The US has announced new sanctions against North Korea in response to the infiltration and data leakage affecting Sony Pictures Entertainment. Despite a lack of hard evidence of wrongdoing, and amid competing theories of culpability, the US on Friday introduced new sanctions against entities like North Korea's General Reconnaissance Bureau and a state-sponsored arms dealing group which masquerades as a mining conglomerate. Most of the targets were already under sanction prohibiting trade with the US, and the Times notes that "none of the targets of the sanctions are likely to feel much sting."

Comment Re:Script kiddies at work (Score 5, Insightful) 62

Let me ask this the other way: what benefit would come out of arresting the kid? Do you honestly fear he would continue and escalate his criminal activities now?

Hasn't he shown a propensity to do just that? He got caught carding food at DEF CON in 2013. More recently he spent three months in a detention facility for that bomb threat against a Sony executive's airplane; he even joked about his haircut looking bad because they shaved it for him in jail. He got out, went home, and proceeded to step up his game by DDOSing the hell out of PSN and XBL. There does seem to be a pattern of continuing and escalating criminal activity.

I'm not arguing that he's dangerous or that he needs to be locked up for 5 years, but if he's guilty, I do believe there has to be some sort of punishment. Make him pick up litter every weekend until he's 18, or something productive that benefits society.

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