altjira - Slashdot User

Comment Re:What a headline (Score 1) 164

by altjira on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @02:51PM (#43226289) Attached to: Krebs Hacker Unmasked, Hit Ars and Wired's Honan

Thanks, I'll take that as constructive criticism. In my defense, for the few times I have noticed interesting news that isn't already on Slashdot and I was preparing a submission, I have worried more about providing relevant, interesting links and an accurate and reasonable summary. But the submission process starts with writing the headline, and editing is a low priority if you're trying to get it in first. Who knew? Journalism seems to be real work.

Submission + - Krebs hacker unmasked, hit Ars and Wired's Honan (krebsonsecurity.com)

Submitted by altjira on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @05:46PM

altjira writes: Brian Krebs, hot on the tail of the hacker who DDOS his site and SWATted his home, followed up on a tip, found the dox, called and then outed his hacker. Turns out it may have been the same guy who hit Wired's Mat Honan and Ars Technica.

Comment Re:One more time (Score 1) 44

by altjira on Sunday December 28, 2008 @05:08PM (#26251939) Attached to: Matt Blaze Examines Communications Privacy

The only communications the government listened in on were calls FROM this country TO other countries. IF the call was routine, then it was dropped. IF the call was about terrorism, then your asses were protected from it. Got it?

Read the articles. The NSA program covers internal calls within the United States without a warrant.

Submission + - Matt Blaze Examines Communications Privacy (gregrperry.com)

Submitted by

altjira

on Sunday December 28, 2008 @08:04AM

altjira writes: "Matt Blaze analyzes the implications of a recent Newsweek story on the Bush administration's use of the NSA for domestic spying on communications, and questions whether the lower legal threshold for the collection of communications metadata is giving away too much to the government: 'As electronic communication pervades more of our daily lives, transaction records — metadata — can reveal quite a bit about us, indeed often much more than a few out-of-context conversations might. Aggregated into databases with other people's records (or perhaps everyone's records) and analyzed by powerful software, metadata by itself can paint a remarkably detailed picture of connections, relationships, and other patterns that could never be recovered simply from listening to the conversations themselves.'"

Comment Re:Which is all great... (Score 1) 438

by altjira on Wednesday August 09, 2006 @10:27AM (#15873534) Attached to: The Doom of Wired Peripherals

That's why my computer room is lined with aluminum foil (faraday cage), and I don't use DVI! The government takes vE phreaking so seriously they developed TEMPEST. Make it all wireless? What's the point, to make identity theft so easy that nobody's identity is trusted?

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