One example given was a keyboard that can guess your password (watch for the first string you type) and then wakes up your pc in the wee hours to send the keylog to collections web sites. You need not install anything into the OS.

We already know that the NSA has swapped hardware in transit. This just makes it even easier. Often their is no facility to read the firmware back from these devices without physically accessing it and even then it may not be possible.

http://www.usb.org/developers/... has been around for a decade and a half. I'm sitting in front of a USB mouse that gets firmware updates. I've flashed USB keys with new firmware. USB devices can and do contain nonvolatile firmware not just flash drives and not just what is general accessed by the OS.

I'll repeat.

Sure this is the case with any hardware and MS but you would assume a secure facility would lock it down. But USB now you have the sneaker net issues.

Windows loves to install USB drivers for all sorts of things. A couple NSA letters later and MS is now sending NSA payloads. They do not even have to ever touch the hardware.

Sure this is the case with any hardware and MS but you would assume a secure facility would lock it down. But USB now you have the sneaker net issues.

Yes you should config iptables, If you thing all it's supposed to do is block inbound access your not really using it well. You should be locking down outbound as well per user/group. So rules for a LAMP stack box might only allow some very specific outbound connections from nobody, outbound packets to your log server, outbound connections to your config server and inbound connections to SSH from your jump box. Frankly I would not run a LAMP box in the modern day rather splitting up a web server box a DB box running on top of a VM server. Possibly adding in an application specific firewall/proxy/load balance VM in front. Allowing for you to expand laterally as needed.

Mind you I nearly never see just a LAMP box, you end up with an ecosystem once you add in backup, separate storage and compute tiers, management and monitoring applications etc etc etc.

I sorta did that with AT&T, ordering DSL I specifically told them that the phone line was down from the pole to the house and they needed to dispatch a tech to correct that. Was using my own DSL modem and waiting to see that they had come out and fixed it. I got a bill for service and took nearly an hour and 2 escalations to figure out the wire did not connect to my house yet meant they had not provided service yet.

This is a problem all over the world with ISP's providing "smart" devices now often incapable of running in dumb mode. Buy your own modem 60-100 bucks at staples solves a lot of hassles since the tier 1 guys do know how to activate a customer owned cable modem (or DSL box for that matter). Frankly the concept of my ISP running my firewall scares me.

So one of two things needs to happen, an internal uprising overthrowing hamas or an external invasion to liberate them. I think that falls under my options 2 hit them with cluebats.

My limited understanding is that copyright dictates your right to copy media, and the restrictions surrounding that. Laws about software licensing consider factors such as installing software from physical media to a disk, copying code on disk temporarily to memory, how many machines you can have it installed on at once, etc.

I'm fairly sure this is a legitimate lawsuit according to the letter of the law. However, this is one of those situations where the law has become outdated and does not reflect real world use anymore. Not to mention citing the "Audio Home Recording Act of 1992" even though it's not reasonable to call a vehicle a home.

So I moved out of a Comcast area. It was 3 rounds of what can we do to keep you, to cancel. Apparently I no longer live in a Comcast area is to hard to process. I've since gotten a call trying to get me back.

I ready did not have much of a problem with internet from them, though my new Optimum service is faster and cheaper (75/25)

Last I checked they are the ones refusing a cease fire to allow humanitarian aid so pretty hard to spin that PR.

Who is calling for the finial solution? Frankly even evacuating that whole hellhole and glassing it over the religious extremists would fight over the radioactive glass. The long term solution is education people so they can understand that religion by definition is insane.

As to understanding the means that a countries military is capable of or that half a century of war gives people reason to do, has nothing to do with the Finial Solution nor is this even close to the scale of what the Nazi's inflicted on the Jews and others.

I see a lot of complaining about a disproportionate response, would you tell a police offers that if they get punched they can only punch back just as hard? Should a thief just have to give the stuff back when caught? No nearly universally justice demands a much harsher response to deter others from doing the same. This conflict will not end until the Gazan's (sp) figure out peace is in their collective best interest for the long term.