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Comment Computer hacker shut lights off with malware? (Score 1) 396

'When U.S. officials warn about "attacks" on electric power facilities these days, the first thing that comes to mind is probably a computer hacker trying to shut the lights off in a city with malware'

Just who in their right mind would connect the power facilities directly to the Internet .. oh wait ....

Submission + - Unintended Consequences: How NSA Revelations May Lead to Even More Surveillance (vortex.com)

Submitted by Lauren Weinstein
Lauren Weinstein writes: "This then may be the ultimate irony in this surveillance saga. Despite the current flood of protests, recriminations, and embarrassments — and even a bit of legal jeopardy — intelligence services around the world (including especially NSA) may come to find that Edward Snowden’s actions, by pushing into the sunlight the programs whose very existence had long been dim, dark, or denied — may turn out over time to be the greatest boost to domestic surveillance since the invention of the transistor."

Comment When it comes to modern firewalls .. (Score 1) 259

by codeusirae (#45815439) Attached to: Have a Privacy-Invasion Wishlist? Peruse NSA's Top Secret Catalog
"When it comes to modern firewalls for corporate computer networks, the world's second largest network equipment manufacturer doesn't skimp on praising its own work"

Firewalls are next to useless given todays Oss that require randomly open ports and remotely downloading scripts/code in order to function, the security model is fundamentally broken ..

Submission + - IPv4S coming soon? IPv6 is dead? (acostasite.com) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: After a secret meeting almost a week in Switzerland, major hardware and software manufacturers worldwide took the drastic decision not to continue with the development and implementation of IPv6. Alternatively they unanimously decided to use the same IPv4 protocol and create a new concept of sub-IP (IPv4S).

Technical details are described as follows: "Let's use a bit that is reserved in the IPv4 header from source (RFC 791), the bit to be on the hosts will read the data fields indicating more IPv4 addresses, ie, is a subset of IPv4 ". According to the TNIV PhD Freq: "This is something that should be done long ago."

Submission + - Hacker took over BBC server, tried to 'sell' access on Christmas Day

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A hacker secretly took over a computer server at the BBC, Britain's public broadcaster, and then launched a Christmas Day campaign to convince other cyber criminals to pay him for access to the system.

It was not clear how the BBC, the world's oldest and largest broadcaster, uses that site, ftp.bbc.co.uk.

Submission + - The future as Sir Clive Sinclair predicted 30 years ago. (nvg.ntnu.no)

Submitted by canada_dry
canada_dry writes: From a speech given to the U.S. Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future in 1984 he eloquently describes our world today... from personal cell phones to bullet trains and convicts wearing tracking bracelets. It's a great read.

Submission + - ask - what do you think caused the NSA to start collecting so much data? (slashdot.org) 13

Submitted by raymorris
raymorris writes: Many people believe that the NSA collects far too much data, violating the privacy rights of the very citizens the NSA is supposed to protect. How did we get here? What specific structural or cultural changes can be identified that led some to believe it is okay to engage in this sort of broad dragnet surveillance as opposed to getting specific court orders for specific suspects?

Many people simply assign the blame to the opposite political party, which doesn't get very far in solving the problem and ensuring it doesn't happen again. Can we look at specific, identifiable factors and show exactly how they directly caused the intelligence community to get off track? For example, precisely which sections of which laws are being used to justify these programs, and what caused those laws to be passed? Is the surveillance directly authorized by law, or do the justifications require "creative" interpretation of the law?

In order to avoid getting into yet another fruitless political flame war and keep the discussion factually focused, please provide citations where possible.

Submission + - Moving a city to Linux needs political backing, says Munich project leader (itworld.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: This year saw the completion of the city of Munich's switch to Linux, a move that began about ten years ago. "One of the biggest lessons learned was that you can't do such a project without continued political backing," said Peter Hofmann, the leader of the LiMux project, summing up the experience.

While Hofmann can look confidently to the city's future, he recognizes that switching to Linux is not for everyone. Yet even those who don't want to switch can still profit from the city's experience: "Some guy once told me, 'Since you started your project I can negotiate with Microsoft.'"

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Can commercial hardware routers be trusted? 1

Submitted by monkaru
monkaru writes: Given reports that various vendors and encrytion algorithms have been compromised. Is it still possible to trust ANY commercial hardware routers or is "roll your own" the only reasonable path going forward?

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