Kernel hacking + Debugger + Virtual Machine + DRM blobs filled with Polymorphic code.
There will be a better understanding of the kernel by a few very determined researchers / hackers.
My question: If you spent a couple hundred hours rewriting DRM will you share it?
Agency functionaries wait impatiently for their chance to try the revolving door.
There is no technical solution for regulatory capture. We (voters) don't pay as much as lobbyists. Our wallets don't support campaigns. Few of us after a long day at work care to read the congressional record.
Have you read what researchers have written about the firmware for phones, your television, your router?
A little poking around Blackhat Convention videos, Bruce Schnier posts and OpenWRT You bet your life it's well worth a few minutes of your time and a letter of support.
Industry Average: "about 15 - 50 errors per 1000 lines of delivered code. Source www.forbes.com
The tutorial was likely incomprehensible to kindegartners but maybe Mark Z. was speaking equally to kindergartners as legisilators and educators
Your 6 yr old might enjoy the "ComputerCraft" mod.
Minecraft and Minetest have several forks, mods that allow coding in game and complete access to all the code in "grown up" languages. Teaching Scratch is easier but the two biggeest hurdles are still time and patience.
When you say "laws" is it domestic laws? This supercedes that and becomes enforceable on all of us without so much as a "by your leave." These agreements easily bypass the wishes of any local electorate or protections they find important,
Has anyone used dissent to revoke a recent trade pact?
Quid pro quo for including DRM in the new standard.
Piecemeal legislation to ensure content providers can deliver from many sources and guaruntee many bidders for copyrighted movies and sporting events. Do you wonder if anyone will tackle the privacy issue?
They must be indebted to us for their jobs AND wealth or they will feel no obligation to us.
From the Center for Disease Control.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpKZvnJwicA
It wasn't profitable to continue research ahead of disaster. Shareholders demanded a better return. (Though Pfizer felt obligated to their history in this area did maintain a small program.)
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-03-19/health/ct-met-antibiotics-pipeline-20130319_1_drug-resistant-tuberculosis-resistant-bacteria-ketek
How did we get here?
It's likely that we wern't careful to preserve the efficacy of antibiotics. Using wide spectrum antibiotics instead of $$ testing and treating for a specific organism. Surely livestock didn't need it for faster weight gain.
Bacteria have "learned" to share resistance thus increasing the threat to us.
http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/antibiotic-resistance-mutation-rates-and-mrsa-28360
Why wouldn't you download an easy to use self configuring (platform agnostic) entertainment and shopping framework?
Earn points for your next Amazon purchase today!
Be part of the Amazon community and share your bandwidth to deliver content.
Apple and or Microsoft VMs must be uninstalled.
Linux support comming soon..... (cough)
Description
Blueprint for information revolution.
Creative Commons license: Public Domain Mark 1.0
Guerilla Open Access Manifesto
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for
themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries
in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of
private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the
sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.
There are those struggling to change this. The Open Access Movement has fought
valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure
their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it. But
even under the best scenarios, their work will only apply to things published in the future.
Everything up until now will have been lost.
That is too high a price to pay. Forcing academics to pay money to read the work of their
colleagues? Scanning entire libraries but only allowing the folks at Google to read them?
Providing scientific articles to those at elite universities in the First World, but not to
children in the Global South? It's outrageous and unacceptable.
"I agree," many say, "but what can we do? The companies hold the copyrights, they
make enormous amounts of money by charging for access, and it's perfectly legal â"
there's nothing we can do to stop them." But there is something we can, something that's
already being done: we can fight back.
Those with access to these resources â" students, librarians, scientists â" you have been
given a privilege. You get to feed at this banquet of knowledge while the rest of the world
is locked out. But you need not â" indeed, morally, you cannot â" keep this privilege for
yourselves. You have a duty to share it with the world. And you have: trading passwords
with colleagues, filling download requests for friends.
Meanwhile, those who have been locked out are not standing idly by. You have been
sneaking through holes and climbing over fences, liberating the information locked up by
the publishers and sharing them with your friends.
But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It's called stealing or
piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a
ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn't immoral â" it's a moral imperative. Only
those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.
Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate
require it â" their shareholders would revolt at anything less. And the politicians they
have bought off back them, passing laws giving them the exclusive power to decide who
can make copies.
There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the
grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public
culture.
We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with
the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need
to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific
journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open
Access.
With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the
privatization of knowledge â" we'll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?
Aaron Swartz
July 2008, Eremo, Italy
https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt
Why isn't this on wikipedia's list of manifestos?
Help me understand why Wikipedia hasn't added this to their listing of manifestos.
"A manifesto is a published verbal declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of the issuer, be it an individual, group, political party or government."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifesto
"Guerilla Open Access Manifesto
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for
themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries
in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of
private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the
sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.
There are those struggling to change this. The Open Access Movement has fought
valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure
their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it. But
even under the best scenarios, their work will only apply to things published in the future.
Everything up until now will have been lost.
That is too high a price to pay. Forcing academics to pay money to read the work of their
colleagues? Scanning entire libraries but only allowing the folks at Google to read them?
Providing scientific articles to those at elite universities in the First World, but not to
children in the Global South? It's outrageous and unacceptable.
"I agree," many say, "but what can we do? The companies hold the copyrights, they
make enormous amounts of money by charging for access, and it's perfectly legal â"
there's nothing we can do to stop them." But there is something we can, something that's
already being done: we can fight back.
Those with access to these resources â" students, librarians, scientists â" you have been
given a privilege. You get to feed at this banquet of knowledge while the rest of the world
is locked out. But you need not â" indeed, morally, you cannot â" keep this privilege for
yourselves. You have a duty to share it with the world. And you have: trading passwords
with colleagues, filling download requests for friends.
Meanwhile, those who have been locked out are not standing idly by. You have been
sneaking through holes and climbing over fences, liberating the information locked up by
the publishers and sharing them with your friends.
But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It's called stealing or
piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a
ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn't immoral â" it's a moral imperative. Only
those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.
Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate
require it â" their shareholders would revolt at anything less. And the politicians they
have bought off back them, passing laws giving them the exclusive power to decide who
can make copies.
There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the
grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public
culture.
We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with
the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need
to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific
journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open
Access.
With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the
privatization of knowledge â" we'll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?
Aaron Swartz
July 2008, Eremo, Italy
"
https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt
Always pleased to read an informed opinion on slashdot.
I was fascinated by the news of stuxnet and persistent rootkits. Nearly everything connected to a data bus has firmware. How likely is it that embedded devices would be compromised?
It was surprising to me even the simplest hard disk has three controller CPUs, RAM and ROM.
Thank you again for making slashdot a site about technology.
It seems possible that government funding is as responsive to the private sector and there will be more money available to researchers when they can more easily accept corporate donations. That is just my 2 ruble opinion.
What about a heap spray attack?
For crackers a system crash is an invitation to explore what is possible. Is there more specific information available? Uninitialised pointers etc are very worrisome..
Thomas Drake, William Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe
The NSA has created an irresistable treat for the least moral people in government. Oversight and controls will periodically fail for reasons slashdotters and sysadmins understand well.
Recently
*Spied on reporters
*Prosecutors pretend evidence was gathered with a warrant.
*NSA lied to congress about what was collected.
Previously
*Threatened U,S reporters with death,
*Influence the U.S. elections Watergate.
*Electronic surveillance Martin Luther King, John Lennon, Elvis, It is alleged MLK was blackmailed and the letter demanded he commit suicide before christmas.
Funny
(Unless your former spouse/boyfriend is violent)
*Appalachee "Love-Intelligence"
This answers (for me) why Snowden left the country.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/09/15/nixon-white-house-plot-to-kill-journalist-jack-anderson.html
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/nsa-analyst-under-bush-we-spied-repor
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/16/snowden-whistleblower-nsa-officials-roundtable/2428809/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/16/snowden-whistleblower-nsa-officials-roundtable/2428809/
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed -- it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. -- A.J. Perlis
