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Comment Re:Classic dragnetting problem (Score 1) 413

by ajyasgar (#44545927) Attached to: Schneier: The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet

Somehow, we didn't have the resources available

Unfortunately, this can only remain true for a short while.

The United States government has effectively unlimited money and they can continue throwing more hardware at the problem until they've effectively brute-forced surveillance. This occurs even if we ignore the advancement in capabilities of the hardware they'll be buying.

We've turned down a dark road and the powers that be seem poised over the accelerator.
Bitcoin

Submission + - Bitcoin-Based Drug Market Silk Road Thriving With $22 Million In Annual Sales (forbes.com)

Submitted by Sparrowvsrevolution
Sparrowvsrevolution writes: Every day or so of the last six months, Carnegie Mellon computer security professor Nicolas Christin has crawled and scraped Silk Road, the Tor- and Bitcoin-based underground online market for illegal drug sales.

Now Christin has released a paper on his findings, which show that the site's business is booming: its number of sellers, who offer everything from cocaine to ecstasy, has jumped from around 300 in February to more than 550. Its total sales now add up to around $1.9 million a month. And its operators generate more than $6,000 a day in commissions for themselves, compared with around $2,500 in February.

Most surprising, perhaps, is that buyers rate the sellers on the site as relatively trustworthy, despite the fact that no real identities are used. Close to 98% of ratings on the site are positive.
Graphics

Submission + - New OpenGL version released (khronos.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The specification for OpenGL 4.3 has been released by the Kronos Group at the SIGGRAPH 2012 conference in Los Angeles. New functionality includes compute shaders, shader storage buffers, improved debug message output, memory security improvements, robustness improvements, texture parameter queries, and more.

http://www.khronos.org/news/press/khronos-releases-opengl-4.3-specification-with-major-enhancements
Be

Submission + - Dev interview: How Haiku is building a better BeOS (computerworld.com.au)

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angry tapir
angry tapir writes: "BeOS may be dead, but over a decade after its lamentable demise the open source Haiku project keeps its legacy alive. Haiku is an attempt to build a drop-in, binary compatible replacement for BeOS, as well as extending the defunct OS's functionality and support for modern hardware. At least, that's the short-term goal — eventually, Haiku is intended significantly enhance BeOS while maintaining the same philosophy of simplicity and transparency, and without being weighed down with the legacy code of many other contemporary operating systems. I recently caught up with Stephan Aßmus, who has been a key contributor to the project for seven years to talk about BeOS, the current state of Haiku and the project's future plans."
Apple

Submission + - How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to Mat Honan's Epic Hacking (wired.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The story behind the hacking of Mat Honan's multiple accounts has been revealed and points to massive failures in how Amazon and Apple handle password recovery. Accounts for both sites can be easily accessed with simple to find publically available information. If you ask me, both companies should be liable for violating privacy laws.

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TOKYO, June 4 (Reuters) - Nintendo, the world's leading game console maker, unveiled a new online strategy on Monday, saying it will launch a social and content network dubbed Miiverse for its latest version of the Wii - the Wii U. The strategy is ...
Nintendo Unveils Wii U GamePad, Demos 'MiiVerse' Online FeaturesPC Magazine
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Submission + - College Freshman at Age 9, M.D. at 21 - A Real-World Doogie Howser (chicagotribune.com) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Sho Yano this week will become the yougnest student to get an M.D. from University of Chicargo. He was reading at age 2, writing by 3, and composing music by his 5th birthday. He graduated from Loyola University in three years — summa cum laude, no less. When he entered U. of C.'s prestigious Pritzker School of Medicine at 12, it was into one of the school's most rigorous programs, where students get both their doctorate and medical degrees.

Intelligence is not Yano's only gift — though according to a test he took at age 4, his IQ is too high to accurately measure and is easily above genius level. He is an accomplished pianist who has performed at Ravinia, and he has a black belt in tae kwon do. Classmates and faculty described him as "sweet" and "humble," a hardworking, Bach-adoring, Greek literature-quoting student. And in his own words, "I may not be the most outgoing person, but I do like to be around people." — unlike many self-proclaimed genius-level slashdoters.
Linux

Submission + - First Steps with the Raspberry Pi (linuxlinks.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Raspberry Pi received an extraordinary amount of pre-launch coverage. It truly went viral with major news corporations such as the BBC giving extensive coverage. Not without reason, it is groundbreaking to have a small capable computer retailing at less than the price of a new console game. There have been a number of ventures that have tried to produce a cheap computer such as a laptop and a tablet but which never materialised at these price points. Nothing comes close to the Raspberry Pi in terms of affordability, which is even more important in the current economic climate. Producing a PC capable of running Linux, Quake III-quality games, and 1080p video is worthy of praise.
Security

Submission + - AntiVirus Firms Out of their League with Stuxnet, Flame 2

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer of software security company F-Secure, writes that when his company heard about Flame, they went digging through their archive for related samples of malware and were surprised to find that they already had samples of Flame, dating back to 2010 and 2011, that they were unaware they possessed. "What this means is that all of us had missed detecting this malware for two years, or more. That’s a spectacular failure for our company, and for the antivirus industry in general." Why weren't Flame, Stuxnet, and Duqu detected earlier? The answer isn't encouraging for the future of cyberwar. All three were most likely developed by a Western intelligence agency as part of covert operations that weren’t meant to be discovered and the fact that the malware evaded detection proves how well the attackers did their job. In the case of Stuxnet and DuQu, they used digitally signed components to make their malware appear to be trustworthy applications and instead of trying to protect their code with custom packers and obfuscation engines — which might have drawn suspicion to them — they hid in plain sight. In the case of Flame, the attackers used SQLite, SSH, SSL and LUA libraries that made the code look more like a business database system than a piece of malware. "The truth is, consumer-grade antivirus products can’t protect against targeted malware created by well-resourced nation-states with bulging budgets," writes Hypponen adding that it’s highly likely there are other similar attacks already underway that we haven’t detected yet because simply put, attacks like these work. "Flame was a failure for the antivirus industry. We really should have been able to do better. But we didn’t. We were out of our league, in our own game.""

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Best way to copy/sync files with remote server while on the road?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Here's a scenario: you are on a vacation trip for a couple of weeks — on the road. Lots of pictures — 2-300 per day- maybe some text files with short notes etc. You have a camera with Eye-Fi, a PC, and a phone with WiFi and 3G. Files ends up on the PC (mobile storage), phone providesInternet connectivity. Now, if you wanted to upload all files pretty much as you go — given spotty access to Internet over G3 and WiFi — what would be the best way to do that automatically; set-it-and-forget-it style? I would like them to end up on my own server

rsync script?
ownCloud?
Some BitTorrent setup?
Other?

Which one would be the most robust solution? I'm thinking of interrupted file transfers due to no network, re-starts etc. And I would not want to loose any files; including scenarios where files gets deleted locally but that should not result in files getting automatically deleted on the server as well. Sure; I could perhaps use something like Dropbox but that would take the fun out of it :-).

Submission + - Another Step Forward in Small Scale Electrical Generators (pddnet.com)

Submitted by NicknamesAreStupid
NicknamesAreStupid writes: Product Design & Development reports another breakthrough in small scale solid oxide fuel cells. This methane-fueled cell achieves about 50% efficiency at around 2kW, enough to power an average home. It does so by efficiently recycling its heat to perpetuate the process. Of course, this is not practical for most homes, which only have natural gas that contains nearly one fifth impurities. However, that could change if gas suppliers refined their product.

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