Comment Re:Alternate use for this technology (Score 1) 188
You could simply shoot whoever comes closer than the "stop and don't come closer or be shot" signs.
KISS, not everything needs a technical solution.
You could simply shoot whoever comes closer than the "stop and don't come closer or be shot" signs.
KISS, not everything needs a technical solution.
In terms of stumble/dollar vodka has it beat, hands down.
Stumble/dollar is one of the best descriptions I've ever heard to rate drugs, just FYI.
It got there using a buffer overflow in one of your outdated (read: 2 days since patch) software and also got executed that way. The downloader wrote it into your %appdata%\roaming folder (where it has write access without you needing elevated privileges) and got started likewise.
Why files in %appdata%\roaming can be run at all? Ask MS. I don't see a good reason why files located there should be executable. Actually, there are very few areas in user-writeable areas where execution of files makes sense, and not allowing it would increase security of Windows by leaps and bounds.
Sadly, you need at least Win7 Professional to make it so. Well, it is technically possible to get Win7 Home Premium to perform it, but the hassle is maybe not far away from having to reinstall the system and restore a backup if the malware strikes...
It already starts at you having to get that weapon platform to the point where you can fire it. You have to build the weapon platform, you have to build the targeting computer, and then you have to move that all to where you want to employ it. And all that to (hopefully) hit a person who may or may not be still there when you get there and who may or may not be an actual target for you.
In turn, your enemy just needs to send a suicide jockey to your well known base and blow up the checkpoint at the entrance. Even if you kill the first 9 guys it doesn't matter as long as the 10th makes it.
Well, it just MIGHT work to give people a reason not to hate the US and instead turn towards the shit that you don't want to go down. It worked like a charm after WW2, didn't it?
The cheapest way to retain the order that you want somewhere is to give the people there a reason to want it, too. That works great if you can show them the benefit of your way of life. Of course, that first of all requires that your way of life must have some benefit for them, though...
Provide money and guidance to the local school systems then let them buy the approved technology they need rather than what is dictated to them.
Because then all the money will go to the assistant principal's brother-in-law.
That's what oversight is supposed to be for... and if wishes were horses...
On the other hand, there's a variety of lesson plans and administrative tools used in education that can benefit from better connectivity.
Such as?
Basically anyone not in a bunker would become an easy target.
Seriously, the only way this could be spoof-proof is to modulate the laser with some type of crypto.
In practice, by the time you realize that a sniper was targeting you, it is too late to start spoofing.
Which is why you should do it all the time.
Hey, maybe this is why everyone in "futuristic" movies walks around in full-body tinfoil...
It's a new feature on the smartphone app: you could already honk the horn, open the windows and roof, and many other things. Now they added "split in half and eject driver". Very useful, I must say.
Still playing catch-up with the big boys, I see.
No, I'm not part of the military industrial complex.
I intend to win my wars. Not just get rich off them.
That's the key in asymmetric warfare. Basically what you need is:
- An expendable population that is not only willing to fight but also to die for you, your goal, your god, whatever.
- Cheap weapons (manpower is no issue, people are cheap)
- And enemy who doesn't have the two above.
If you can muster that, you have won. There is no way short of total annihilation that you could possibly lose.
While a good idea, it's not that easy for Windows users. Especially since the "basic" (aka "premium") versions of Win7 come even without the ability to limit execution of files in certain directories (which would surprisingly actually defeat this pus, at least the variants that I'm aware of, my knowledge in this area is a bit dated, though).
Guess you have to pay extra with Microsoft if you want some semblance of security...
Nope. The current version of this piece of internet-pus walks down mounted network devices, too.
So far they don't go for your network environment to hunt down unmounted shares. Not yet, at least.
Peanuts compared to the revenue. We're talking millions here.
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. -- Steinbach
