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Comment Re:Social engineering. (Score 1) 90

Who died? Spanish citizens? Sources, please.
I'm not saying it isn't tragic that so many of the people suckered into this operation drowned

Who died? How can you not know? Have you done any research at all before forming an opinion of what did or did not happen?

The source is the mouth of the Mayor President of Ceuta during his address to the EU parliament on Aug 6th.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Or if you prefer second hand press sources:

https://www.bbc.com/news/artic...
https://www.dw.com/en/ceuta-le...

but that was not the point of contention. Read the thread again, carefully.

I'm sorry I have no clue what you are trying to say. What was the point of the statement "In no time, pretty much all those who had crossed were back in Morocco and everything was back to normal." ? What did you intend to convey by this that is actually consistent with the facts of what took place?

Comment Re: Social engineering. (Score 1) 90

The entire concept of national borders is stupid.

Putler also doesn't believe Russia's borders end anywhere.

It plays the human race against each other as a lottery of where you born, as if there isn't enough inequality in the world.

The entire point of a state that governs itself with the consent of its citizens is advancement of the interests of the citizens of that state. It isn't fighting global inequality or advancing the interests of those in other states at the expense of their own.

And congrats on emphasising my point. The Spanish external border wasn't breached. 0 people reached the EU Schengen zone, and yet Italy decided due to the risk of those immigrants they suspended the Schengen agreement with Spain. Let me repeat using different words. Brown people outside the EU moved to somewhere outside else still outside the EU, and Italy decided to close an internal EU border, all to rile up a racist base who also doesn't like brown people - With this context do you understand what "nationalistic" means?

Unconstrained immigration is almost always a bad idea. It leads to failed integration, ghettoization, prejudice and resentment. This issue is turbo charging the rise of right wing politics throughout Europe.

Comment Re:Social engineering. (Score 1) 90

I'm going to assume you're not completely ignorant of the fact that the number of migrants that came in was *EQUAL TO THE POPULATION OF THE ENTIRE REGION*. So that means your "force" will either fail miserably, likely resulting in your own death or you have strong firepower and decided to massacre people.

Spain has a population of 50 million. They should have sent required forces to Ceuta to block or interdict the invasion well in advance and made its intentions known.

Why's that matter? Your stupid idea just killed many more than those you proclaimed to care about. You really say some spectacularly stupid shit sometimes.

Are you seriously asking why it matter that weakness is getting people killed? The trigger for this was a seemingly permissive supreme court ruling in Spain. Merkel for her part intentionally lit up a neon sign both showings of weakness resulted in needless death. If people know they will not be allowed to invade they won't bother to go in the first place which is the best scenario for everyone.

Comment Re:Social engineering. (Score 2) 90

If you want to take pictures out of context, there's plenty of pictures of what happened at the border: On the Spanish side all the border agents were there, standing there in full force unable to do anything. How many people do you think make up the border guard there, and what do you think they were going to do with an influx of 50000 people? Shoot them? Prevent people who just spent 5km swimming (some didn't make it and drowned) from coming out of the water?

You come in force and physically stop them and provide suitable transportation back to where they came from. More importantly is to make it known you won't tolerate invasion in advance so this shit doesn't take place to begin with.

Did you learn nothing from Gandhi?

Did you learn nothing from Merkel who got thousands of people killed with her come to Germany stunt in 2015? Weakness gets people killed, in this particular case over 100 people died to say nothing of a terrorized local population.

Comment Re:Social engineering. (Score 1) 90

Spanish government failed its citizens.

Nonsense. Except from the right-wing vultures abusing the images for politics and undermining EU unity (which was the intent of this campaign), there were no consequences Spain could have prevented with the border security or army. In no time, pretty much all those who had crossed were back in Morocco and everything was back to normal.

Jesus Christ, WTF are you talking about? Over 100 people are dead.

Comment Re: SSL for Wifi (Score 1) 36

Yeah, but that's a check of the client's cert, not the AP's.

The AP is irrelevant in all of this. Certificate validation occurs between the EAP server and supplicant. When the server is done it furnishes encryption keys to the AP for it to use.

There are approaches that do require the AP to have a valid cert, but how do you validate it when all the authentication happens on the other side of the AP?

The supplicant uses its trust anchor to validate the cert the same way any web browser would. The real problem is having a valid cert is completely meaningless because its identity is tied to nothing not even the SSID of whatever you are connecting to.

Comment Re: SSL for Wifi (Score 1) 36

WPA Enterprise has this covered. The certificate check occurs during the connection, prior to authentication. Procedurally generated credentials could be printed on to your tickets in advance, designed to work both at airports and during flights.

This solves nothing because anyone (including Defcon attendees) can obtain a valid certificate. What what is needed are secure authentication algorithms rather than endless parades of absurd band-aids that only make the lack of secure authentication even worse.

Using existing infrastructure and code one could do this quite easily using a PAKE rather than certificates for mutual authentication within EAP-TLS.

Comment Re: replacing with AI (Score 1) 119

I, for one, doubt we'll see air traffic control replaced by AI any time soon. The big reason is accountability. If one air traffic controller completely screws things up and causes a plane crash -- that person can be singled out, terminated, and things return to normal. If the AI they replaced the human workers with screws up and causes a plane crash? Now you're talking about years of ongoing investigation, arguments/debates and pressure to bring the human workers back.

I don't understand why it would be necessary to use "AI" rather than deterministic algorithms. All you are doing is calculating state vectors and telling people what to do to accomplish a preprogrammed goal.

Comment Re:SSL for Wifi (Score 1) 36

You are aware that WPA-Enterprise authentication is thing? Eduroam for example is using federated RADIUS authentication for researcher on 5 continents.

This technology is an unusable insecure clusterfuck. Unlike normal secure sites linked to DNS names cert identities are pointless indicators of nothing. For it to be secure you have to constrain both certificate identity and issuer which in the real world will only ever happen if your supplicant is provisioned by an administrator. Without it WPA-Enterprise is completely insecure. Most supplicants will gladly connect without proper verification and not so much as issue a warning while doing so.

Comment Conversations (Score 1) 119

"How did you get hired?"
"I was top at Fortnite. You?"
"Combat flight sims."

"Damn, two Boeings just crashed over an oil refinery on city limits and took out half the city."
"Did you remember to save your position beforehand?"
"Yeah."
"The reload and continue from there. No-one will notice."

I love computer games. I have XPlane 12 and many scenery packs. I rank well on Elite:Dangerous. From the sounds of it, the FAA would see me as over-qualified. In reality? There's no way in hell I'd be taking those kinds of risks with real lives. There's a huge difference between having good reflexes and a good eye, versus having the complex 4D spacetime relationship mental models needed for robust air traffic control.

Comment Re:Excuses sound a little... fishy? (Score 1) 123

At least in the UK, when you're operating a boat with a VHF radio, it's a requirement to leave it on channel 16 when not actively using it. Is that true in the US?

Yes, same in the US. I rarely take a radio with me for this reason. If I have one I have to monitor 16 which I'm not going to do on a crowded lake.

The other interesting bit about the radios is you need a license to operate it on land however step one foot on a boat and the license requirement vanishes.

Comment Re: I am fortunate (Score 1) 16

1. Middle East and North Africa
Iran (1953): The CIA and British intelligence (MI6) orchestrated Operation Ajax, overthrowing the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and restoring the Shah to power.

The Shah was in power the whole time as he had been for the preceding dozen years already. According to article 46 of their own constitution hiring and firing of ministers is by royal decree. Not only was nobody restored to power the Shah had the power to fire Mossadegh at his leisure and exercised it while still the king in a letter on Aug 15 1953 as Mossadegh was actively perusing a coup to install himself as dictator. It gets worse because the only person with authority to hire Mossadegh is ... drumroll... the Shah himself who had merely rubber stamped a decision of parliament (e.g. "democratic election"). The whole democratic and overthrow narratives are patently absurd on their face being at odds with trivially checkable facts.

Operation Ajax was an inept propaganda campaign. They bought radio ads, printed posters and paid people to go in the streets and shit on Mossadegh. It didn't do shit and the CIA itself pulled the plug on it for that reason. The Shah won the legitimacy contest between himself and Mossadegh on the 15th and 19th of Aug '53 because he had more popular support and support within institutions of hard power.

Meanwhile confusing Mossadegh with democracy would be funny if it were not so ass backwards.

"A plebiscite more fantastic and farcical than any ever held under Hitler or Stalin is now being staged in Iran by Premier Mossadegh in an effort to make himself unchallenged dictator of the country."

https://www.nytimes.com/1953/0...

And this is just the first entry on your list. The last entry references none other than Milosevic himself a highly decorated war criminal charged with crimes against humanity and genocide. There are numerous legitimate cases of US aggression (many times at the behest of corporate interests) even in the post WWII era..there is no need to pad lists with nonsense.

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