phreakngeek - Slashdot User

Comment COSTS $12.99 FOR AN ACCOUNT! (Score 4, Insightful) 79

by phreakngeek on Thursday November 14, 2019 @11:28PM (#59415864) Attached to: Wikipedia's Co-Founder Takes On Facebook With Ad-Free Social Network

WT:Social charges $12.99 to simply create an account and it isn't a one-time fee! You can't even try it! When you get to the end of creating an account WT:Social asks for a subscription fee of $12.99/month or $100/year via credit card or Paypal. The subscription price is not an optional donation, a suggestion, or payment for special or additional services. Payment is required! I've seen and heard a lot of bad ideas in my time but this is the worst idea I've seen in a while. The inventor, Jimmy Wales, doesn't seem to have close friends or family member who are capable or comfortable being honest with him about his terrible idea. The average person cares more about money than they care about their private data. So who is the target demographic? Rich paranoid people who want to both share and protect data and like to gamble on new website ideas? Really? I can't think of anyone who would want to spend $12.99 a month to gamble on a hokey website in the hope that it will be successful and will also protect their data.

Comment Itâ(TM)s also on github (Score 5, Informative) 67

by phreakngeek on Saturday July 27, 2019 @02:14PM (#58997534) Attached to: Penetration Testing Toolkit Includes Exploit For 'Incredibly Dangerous' Bluekeep Vulnerability

Sorry to disrupt the commercial for Immunity Canvas but you can download a Bluekeep POC from github here: https://github.com/Ekultek/Blu...

NASA's Cassini Captures Photos of Saturn's Rings In Unprecedented Detail (voanews.com) 43

Posted by BeauHD on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @06:00AM from the mother-nature dept.

NASA's Cassini probe has captured news images of Saturn's rings in unprecedented detail. The images were captured by the probe in its penultimate mission phase of its mission that includes "20 orbits that dive past the outer edge of the main ring system" before the spacecraft plunges into the planet itself. Interestingly, the rings include what NASA calls "moonlets" embedded in them. VOA News reports: The images are the closest ever taken of Saturn's rings and, according to NASA âoeresolve details as small as 550 meters, which is on the scale of Earth's tallest buildings.â The"ring-grazing" orbits began last November and will continue until the end of April, and in addition to spotting the moonlets, they have given greater clarity to other structures within the rings such as the so-called propeller-like formations. NASA added that Cassini has also provided the "closest-ever" glimpses of two small moons, Daphnis and Pandora. The report via NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) adds: "Some of the structures seen in recent Cassini images have not been visible at this level of detail since the spacecraft arrived at Saturn in mid-2004. At that time, fine details like straw and propellers -- which are caused by clumping ring particles and small, embedded moonlets, respectively -- had never been seen before. (Although propellers were present in Cassini's arrival images, they were actually discovered in later analysis, the following year.) Cassini came a bit closer to the rings during its arrival at Saturn, but the quality of those arrival images (examples: 1, 2, 3) was not as high as in the new views. Those precious few observations only looked out on the backlit side of the rings, and the team chose short exposure times to minimize smearing due to Cassini's fast motion as it vaulted over the ring plane. This resulted in images that were scientifically stunning, but somewhat dark and noisy.

Comment Re:With Intel... (Score 1) 141

by phreakngeek on Saturday August 25, 2012 @11:26PM (#41126855) Attached to: NIST Publishes Draft Guidelines For Server BIOS Protection

What is the source for this claim?

Comment Crypto without stego (Score 1) 219

by phreakngeek on Sunday June 17, 2012 @03:44PM (#40353561) Attached to: Phil Zimmermann's New Venture Will Offer Strong Privacy By Subscription

This looks like the same architecture the NSA is advocating for a secure Android communication platform using encrypted VoIP. The problem with their (NSA) proposal is that it requires 3G+ data network coverage to work and this isn't available everywhere. What data speeds are required by Zimmerman's project? Also, won't using this tool immediately flag the user as suspicious? As a hostile government/network provider could I not just block/flag traffic routing towards the Canadian server? What is to keep someone using this in someplace like Ethiopia from being immediately picked up by the authorities and jailed indefinitely or tortured into revealing the data the cryptography was meant to protect?

Comment Hardware Question (Score 2) 77

by phreakngeek on Sunday August 28, 2011 @10:43AM (#37233664) Attached to: Low-Cost DIY Cell Network Runs On Solar

Can someone tell me what hardware they're using? OpenBTS traditionally runs on USRP1 but I have a USRP1 at home and the picture doesn't look similar to what I have. It would be nice to run something like OpenBTS without spending ~$1500US.

Comment Re:Don't bother applying, you'll just load missile (Score 1) 142

by phreakngeek on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @12:28AM (#25295869) Attached to: Air Force To Re-Open Pursuit of Cyber Command

The military treats people as interchangeable for continuity of operations. The hero role plays nice in the movies but in reality it's bad when the only guy who can perform a critical function isn't available. If you have unique skills and you want to work for them so much then why don't you just go apply to one of the contractors there?

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