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Is Cyberwarfare Fiction? 205

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 07, 2010 @10:52AM from the hands-off-my-grid dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In response to calls by Russia and the UN for a 'cyberwarfare arms limitation treaty,' this article explains that 'cyberwar' and 'cyberweapons' are fiction. The conflicts between nation states in cyberspace are nothing like warfare, and the tools hackers use are nothing like weapons. Putting 'cyber' in front of something is just a way for people to grasp technical concepts. The analogies quickly break down, and are useless when taken too far (such as a 'cyber disarmament treaty').'"

Comment A link? (Score 1) 1

by donicer on Monday August 31, 2009 @09:13PM (#29268819) Attached to: Fight back against DMCA?

You can get a take down notice for linking to content? Not hosting or distributing it but just linking to it?

Submission + - Hacker publishes notorious Apple Wi-Fi attack (computerworld.com.au)

Submitted by

inkslinger77

on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @09:03PM

inkslinger77 writes: "More than a year after claiming to have found a way to take over a Macintosh computer using a flaw in the system's wireless card, David Maynor has finally published details of his exploit. Maynor had been under a nondisclosure agreement, which had previously prevented him from publishing details of the hack, but the NDA is over now and by going public with the information, Maynor hopes to help other Apple researchers with new documentation on things like Wi-Fi debugging and the Mac OS X kernel core dumping facility."

Feed Macworld: News: Hacker finally publishes Apple Wi-Fi attack details (macworld.com)

From feed by macworldfeed on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @08:12PM

Researcher David Maynor has published details of the controversial Apple Wi-Fi hack he disclosed at last year's Black Hat conference.

Point-and-Click Gmail Hacking Shown at Black Hat 260

Posted by Zonk on Friday August 03, 2007 @10:12AM from the man-they-get-all-the-fun-demos dept.

not5150 writes "Using Gmail or most other webmail programs over an unsecured access point just got a bit more dangerous. At Black Hat Robert Graham, CEO of errata security, showed how to capture and clone session cookies very quickly over connections without encryption. He even hijacked a shocked attendee's Gmail account in the middle of his presentation. 'While Ou was typing, Graham was running Ferret and sniffing all the cookies that were being sent from Ou's laptop and Google. Graham then clicked on Ou's IP address and Gmail page, complete with Ou's recently sent message on the screen. We photographed both Graham's and Ou's laptop at that time and posted it to the picture gallery. You'll see that the contents are exactly the same.'"

Feed news.com: Researchers find Web 2.0 vulnerable to cookie theft and 0days inside security pr (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Thursday August 02, 2007 @07:12PM

Blog: Robert Graham of Errata also demonstrates a way to steal Web 2.0 session cookies, and how to find 0days inside security applications.

Feed The Register: Flash: Public Wi-Fi even more insecure than previously thought (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Thursday August 02, 2007 @06:12PM

How to gain permanent access to Gmail accounts

Black Hat Users of Yahoo! Mail, MySpace and just about every Web 2.0 service take note: If you access those services using public Wi-Fi, Rob Graham can probably gain unlimited access to your account - even if you logged in using the secure sockets layer protocol.

Submission + - Apple Safari on Windows broken on first day

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 11, 2007 @07:21PM

An anonymous reader writes: David Maynor, infamous for the Apple Wifi hack, has discovered bugs in the Windows version of Safari mere hours after it was released. He notes in the blog that they do not report vulnerabilities to Apple. The blog post, with pictures, can be found at: http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2007/06/niiiice.html

Comment Re:Crash? I thought the original claim was... (Score 1) 82

by donicer on Friday March 02, 2007 @12:32PM (#18207772) Attached to: MacBook Wi-Fi Hijack Details Finally Released

http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2007/03/apple-infoan d-thats-all-folks.html

Comment You gotta love Katz (Score 1, Redundant) 1007

by RobertGraham on Tuesday May 28, 2002 @12:54PM (#3595864) Attached to: The Empire Stumbles

I think the reason they keep around is so that we can all feel superior to his obvious mistakes.

They are just movies. Every couple years a new summar blockbuster will unseat all previous records; this is just they way things work; their is nothing momentous behind it.
Spiderman was hyped more than Star Wars:AOTC. There are more movie commercials, product tie ins, billboards, the lot. Just look around you.
Katz uses the opening weekend's receipts to prove that Spiderman is a better film. Um, opening weekend is to0 quick for word of mouth; it is really more of a measure of the hype leading up to the opening than the quality of the film. In any event, the money earned in American theatres represents about 10% of what a film earns (international, video, TV, etc.) making up the rest.
Lucas is not in it for the money. This is precisely the problem with the Episode I and Jar Jar: Lucas is not trying to appeal to the masses but is instead trying to achieve his artistic vision. (Of course, people lob millions his way, his only crime is not rejecting more of it).
Do we really care precisely how Anakin Skywalker got pissed off and turned to the Dark Side? Um, YES! Lucas's vision was a rich backstory that we saw only a couple of episodes in the middle of. The public has put huge demands on him to develop that backstory.
When Episode III comes out, Katz will be describing how that summer's blockbuster narrowly edges it out. Nobody will care who beats SpiderMan2 on opening weekend. Ten years from now, interest in Star Wars will be high; interest in SpiderMan won't.

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