Because they have to be, stupid! They're SCADA!

No, he realizes what's up.

cut-n-paste from http://www.social-engineer.org/general-blog/innocence-of-the-media/ :

Adding more fuel to the fire, the creator of the movie, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, an Egyptian born Christian immigrant living in Southern California, originally masqueraded as “Sam Bacile”, a 52-year old Jewish real estate developer from Israel. [3] “Sam Bacile” claimed the movie was made with $5 million in donations by “more than 100 Jewish donors”, as reported by the Associated Press.

Trailers and excerpts were uploaded to YouTube in July 2012 garnering little attention. In September 2012, Morris Sadek, an Egyptian-American blogger previously exiled from Egypt for calling for attacks on Egypt, translated the YouTube video to Arabic and reuploaded it. Morris Sadek then sent video links to journalists.

I'd suggest you may be mistaken. In fact, it would appear that his desire was to incite.

If the following is correct, he's an Egyptian Christian posing as an Israeli making a M Sucks video. That movie is not an insult. It is a tactic, and this was deliberate.

READ ME. http://www.social-engineer.org/general-blog/innocence-of-the-media/

..."At least 2,000 US Federal Government sites were hacked when it was discovered that they were not behind a NAT anymore."

Even more skewed is the definition of "accurate" as simply, "was found, somewhere", while ignoring the attributes being correct in every aspect.

I once geocoded an address in FL and the result was 4 miles out to sea. GDT considered that "accurate" because the address query was resolved.

It'll be interesting to see how many f*ups occur because of such misrepresentations of what "accuracy" is. Never mind the GPS inaccuracy on top of it.

I misread this as "the three and eight waitresses" and thought, "so, they attested to serving him lunch on gold plates? Why so many waitresses?"

Most of us network and admin guys know how long things take. Pop quiz: with the "buy -> confirm" SLAs these guys have on their network, what is NOT taking place?

Schneier's "externality", indeed.

Better solution:
Someone else's fingertips and a few drops of superglue.

Funny that you say you should *not* hold your breath around that stuff...

Even better is if *I* can get a copy of your information and correct it, just as with your credit reports.

*somewhat-whoosh-but-not-really*
That it is not accurate for you is half of the point. The people / processes that rely on that data will insist that it is perfect.

I can call the police and fabricate an accusation of rape against you. With any form of evidence, they can and will arrest you. When my rouse is discovered, the charges will be dismissed immediately, and I'll be in trouble, blah blah blah... but meanwhile, YOUR arrest record will be entered into the local and national databases as a felony/sex/violent crime.

And for the rest of your life, you will be subject to Felony Stop procedures any time a cop pulls you over.

See the problem? Database isn't accurate, but every player involved on that database-side has no incentive to challenge it. The cops on the beat will want to know you're a probable felon, right? Who's going to be dumb enough to remove that data record?

Even better, since you'd now be tagged as a not-yet-convicted sex offender, and nobody is going to remove *that* record, either. The database... is perfect.

Be VERY careful with such devices, especially ones purchased off of less reputable sites like Craigslist. The bulk of the units there are dysfunctional prototypes, left over from the '90s... you guessed it, they are cheap because they are NOT Y2K compatible. Some sadist planted a few at the ATM-stations of my local bank the other day, it made filling out a deposit slip very humorous to watch.

Also note that some others out there are cheap knock-offs that look real, but are in fact missing most of the standard core fonts, or have deliberate errors in their spellcheck dictionaries.

Well, Apple is just going back to it's roots - "Computers for the Rest of Us". You know, the ones too stupid to handle a two button mouse.

It's pretty sad when the core premise behind your purchase decision is that you're a simpleton. It gets more sad when there's an entire market of such people, and a company can reach Apple's size by selling to it based on that premise. And it makes me vomit that the definition of "Genius" has been lowered to that of some f*wad tier-1 tech support who demonstrates a no-help-needed userland app.

"Think Different... somewhere else." -E.L. Kersten

*Whoosh*

I can put anything I want into your dropbox account and it will magically appear on every machine you've linked it to.
I can edit anything I want in your dropbox account and THAT will magically appear on every machine you've linked it to.

You are clueless as to what I can do to someone if I have that ability. I think it's safe to add yourself to the pool of people with no idea of what they are doing.

> 1. There are huge patches of scrub-land in the southwestern states California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico and Texas, that would be absolutely perfect for huge solar arrays, and nobody would notice their existence.

Is that before or after the yearly wildfire turns them to dust. Again.