Maybe we should only buy machines listed on coreboot.org

Breaking the encryption offline:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=cloud+wpa+cracker

Undersea cable tap:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Operation+Ivy+Bells

Listening in a government facility is done passively. Your arp flood would be noticed, yup.

Examples of snooping that lack the ability to do a MITM attack:

1. Listening to an encrypted wifi session, then breaking the encryption offline

2. Tapping into undersea fiber (the listening party is going to have a hard enough time exfiltrating the snooped bytes; setting up a "take over" command and associated equipment is prohibitive due to both the technical and political risks)

3. Listening device inside a government facility. China famously does this for example by using a small office-supply firm to get equipment into a US facility somewhere is Asia; the copy machine has a hard drive like any copy machine and there's nothing suspicious about that, right? And then you find the second, and the third, and the fourth hard drive hidden in places you would never look. The data is exfiltrated only when the machine is replaced as part of a regular service contract.
Need I go on?

How does this deflect spam? Unless user accounts were getting hijacked just to add a POP3 server I fail to see how this helps.

Give it up, recoiledsnake, probably a troll and you do not understand this stuff, writing retarded anti-BMO stuff and calling people karmawhores. It's useless as trying to explain why what you say in reply is wrong.

Please join us on coreboot.org. We especially need more laptops.

Ok. But there aren't very many AAA open source games. How do we go about changing that?

Games still tend to be locked to Windows (annoying, I know), so here's hoping AMD stays alive long enough for Valve to port Steam Linux to ARM.

I'm a technical person. To quote you: "I'm not really that bothered" that someone like you doesn't believe that I am.

Why should I have to ask Microsoft for permission to create my linux distro? You are pretty ignorant to think that this is not important.

What Linux distro do you prefer?

Not trying to flame here, just would love another data point.

After I read the summary and all the links, they could have just put up http://semiaccurate.com/2012/11/14/microsoft-has-failed/ and a period!

You say that like it's funny, but their Bay Area office had an explicit "no Linux installs allowed" policy. Maybe they've changed that now (I got sick of it and left), but developing iOS was a nightmare.

And you wonder why the commands are so brutal...it's nearly impossible to write them.

Ok, never mind about the AOAKN: http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2012/11/02/dead-pigeon-sparks-ww2-cipher-mystery

And decryption efforts are being coordinated here: http://en.reddit.com/r/cryptography/comments/12jipi/ww2_pigeon_carried_an_encrypted_text_here_it_is/.

(Thanks, by the way, for the info about all WWII German spies in the UK.)

http://www.bletchleypark.org/news/docview.rhtm/675670 says the red capsule attached to the pigeon is an Allied capsule, so if the code is German the message is from a German spy.

It's more likely the code is British. It has "AOAKN" twice - once at the start and once at the end, and from the digraph frequency (below), "AO" "FN" and "AK" stand out. I think that rules out any Enigma-based codes (e.g. the British TypeX), as well as the US SIGABA - the AOAKN would not be repeated at the beginning and end. I haven't found a description of BAMS yet.

Digraph frequency:
2 AR
2 DJ
2 GH
2 JR
2 ME
2 RZ
2 UA
2 OA, 2 AK, 2 KN (this is AOAKN twice)

3 AO
3 FN

If it is either of these ciphers, that means it was a message encoded using a German encryption scheme.

I think that means the message was from a German spy in England or for a British spy in Axis territory. (And the pigeon's number on the band was an "unregistered" number.) Either way, it should be a very interesting message.