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| Authored by: bugstomper on Thursday, July 18 2013 @ 06:28 PM EDT |
In the article on Google drive encryption PJ added a note asking for hints on
hiding one's ip address when sending a GPG encrypted email from a GMail
account.
I think the easiest way to do it is to get a VPN account from one of the
providers who offer privacy-oriented VPN services. I think in a previous comment
I posted a link to a really good article comparing some of the best (i.e.,
paranoid) of them. This is not the same as a VPN service that will keep your
data secure from snooping between you and the provider's equipment but not
protect you from traffic analysis or three letter agencies issuing national
security letters. For anonymity and privacy you need a VPN provider who
specializes in exactly that.
If you are talking to the Google mail servers over a VPN you can use Thunderbird
and EnigMail (a GPG plugin) and not worry about the ip address that shows up.
Another way that does not require a VPN is something I have read about but not
yet tried, a Chrome extension (Firefox extension in the works) named Mailvelope
http://www.mailvelope.com/ that uses a JavaScript OpenPGP library. You compose
your message in the external editor of your choice. Mailvelope handles the
encryption in the browser so that the GMail web interface only sees the
encrypted message. Similarly when receiving a message, Mailvelope detects that
the message in the GMail inbox is encrypted, displays that it is, and allows you
to have it decrypt the message in the browser and display it to you without
GMail ever seeing the plaintext.
The disadvantages I see about mailvelope are 1) it would not have been as
thoroughly vetted by independent parties as has GPG; 2) It does not yet have the
ability to sign messages; 3) If you get a VPN account instead of using
mailvelope, not only can you get the convenience and full feature set of using
Thunderbird with Enigmail, you also get the privacy and security enhancement for
all your dealings on the Internet.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 18 2013 @ 10:35 PM EDT |
The article is straightforward.
The comments are a complete hoot! Serious denial going on there, or else M$ is
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| Authored by: JamesK on Friday, July 19 2013 @ 08:12 AM EDT |
It's nice to see the Surface is doing so well. ;-)
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| Authored by: JamesK on Friday, July 19 2013 @ 12:10 PM EDT |
We have a similar scam in Canada and the Royal Bank of Canada was caught using
it. Canada has long had a foreign worker program to bring in needed workers.
This was mainly used in agriculture, where there is a definite shortage of
Canadians willing to do this work, which is often seasonal. A few years ago,
the current government decided to expand the program to just about every
occupation. They also decided the foreign workers could be paid 15% less than
the going rate for Canadians. This is nothing more than an inducement for
companies to fire existing employees to make room for foreign workers. The
Royal Bank got caught doing this. They fired several employees recently and
then arranged through a contractor to provide employees. That contractor then
hired workers from India to fill those positions. Bottom line, Canadians were
put out of work, just so the bank, that's already doing well, could make more
profit. The CEO of that bank makes $12M per year and, according to Bloomberg,
is the most overpaid of Canadian bank execs. Perhaps the bank could have
obtained greater savings if they'd fired him and brought in someone cheaper from
India.
This indicates a big problem these days. The people at the top of business are
doing more and more to benefit themselves, at the expense of the average person.
In the U.S., Reagan brought in some tax changes that resulted in the top
wealthy having become even more wealthy, the poor poorer and the middle class is
disappearing. Dubya took things even further. In addition, both cut
regulations which in turn allowed the finance industry to trash the economy back
in 2008. The current government in Canada tends to do the same, to benefit the
wealthy, at the expense of the not so wealthy.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 19 2013 @ 10:43 PM EDT |
Also via Bruce Schneier
a scheme to
find
random terrorists, or to
classify the unclassifiable.
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| Authored by: albert on Saturday, July 20 2013 @ 03:57 PM EDT |
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No one owns more than 5% of MS stock. Gates
has 4+%, Vanguard & State Street ~4% each; everyone else owns less.
According to the article, "...number of Microsoft's top
institutional investors have contacted ValueAct, expressing concern over
management execution and strategy....". That IS a problem for MS. If these guys
ever start reducing their positions, MS could be in a heap of
trouble.
Here's wishing Steve a long career at MS.
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| Authored by: JamesK on Saturday, July 20 2013 @ 05:16 PM EDT |
Or perhaps people just don't like Windows Phone. According to the articles I've
read, Nokia was doing just fine, until Elop took over.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, July 20 2013 @ 06:20 PM EDT |
The station that aired the fake pilots name is trying to clear it's name by
filing DCMA requests to take down the video.
http://thedesk.matthewkeys.net/2013/07/20/ktvu-orders-gaffe-videos-pulled-from-y
outube/
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| Authored by: jbb on Saturday, July 20 2013 @ 07:06 PM EDT |
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link
Okay, I'll
bite.
IMO, this is another example of the no-win situation the
government
has put itself in on their present course of vilifying Snowden at any
cost. Their only alternative to admitting mistakes were made
would be to
persist in their (now obvious) lies and obfuscations while the world
laughs. But
by admitting mistakes were made, they are legitimizing
the Snowden leaks because
that is the only reason why the admission of these mistakes was made
public.
If a huge set of mistakes were made then Snowden was right
and he is a whistle blower. The government's only possible complaint is that he
didn't go through proper channels but that has already been thoroughly
debunked.
There were previous NSA whistle blowers who did follow proper
channels. Their lives were destroyed and their leaks did not get out into the
open. One of the whistle blowers, Thomas Drake,
had this to say about Snowden:
I
differed as a whistleblower to Snowden only in this respect: in accordance with
the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act, I took my concerns up
within the chain of command, to the very highest levels at the NSA, and then to
Congress and the Department of Defense. I understand why Snowden has taken his
course of action, because he's been following this for years: he's seen what's
happened to other whistleblowers like me.
[...] But as I found out later,
none of the material evidence I disclosed went into the official record. It
became a state secret even to give information of this kind to the 9/11
investigation.
The material evidence that Snowden was able to
provide, only by going outside the proper channels, was essential for refuting
the lies that had been emanating from the highest levels of the NSA.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, July 20 2013 @ 11:32 PM EDT |
MIT doesn't want you to know that for years they have been
helping all these 3 letter orgs make there software and help
with hardware....knowing full well a lot of it was
questionable in use and legality....
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, July 21 2013 @ 03:50 AM EDT |
When The NSA Shows Up At Your Internet
Company
Build your
own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox-esque sync folder
So the
second link recommends using Backupsy.
Mm-hmm. Bearing in mind the
first link above, where are their servers? Funny
you should ask that, because six hours ago when I followed the links
FAQ's -> Technical -> Where are your servers
located?
they said Our servers are located in Lombard,
IL
I've just been back to check, and now they say Our
servers are located in Dallas, TX; Chicago, IL; Denver, CO;
Buffalo, NY; Los
Angeles, CA and The Netherlands.
Good, good, dynamic diversity.
Bad, bad, too much onshore in the US of A. Anyhow relying on one company like
that can have
other problems.
Where is my data? When hosting providers go away
isc.sans.edu
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 22 2013 @ 06:58 AM EDT |
This is just very straightforward Censorship of the Internet,
with all of its negativ shoestrings attached.
I think Google, Yahoo and others should provide sufficient
Funds to directly destabalize the political platform that
Cameron is standing on. With such hypocritical politicians
that always works best.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 22 2013 @ 01:14 PM EDT |
by Joel Spolsky
Monday, July 22, 2013
There are a
lot of people complaining about lousy software patents these days. I say, stop
complaining, and start killing them. It took me about fifteen minutes to stop a
crappy Microsoft patent from being approved. Got fifteen minutes? You can do it
too.
...
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2013/07/22.ht
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 23 2013 @ 04:19 AM EDT |
And yet, few of these consumers were aware of Bradley's shortcut
quietly lingering in their machines. It wasn't until the early 1990s, when
Microsoft's Windows took off, that the shortcut came to prominence. As PCs all
over the country crashed and the infamous "blue screen of death" plagued Windows
users, a quick fix spread from friend to friend: ctrl+alt+del.
Say
what?!! I was well aware of ctrl-alt-del in 1985 when I was in the unenviable
position of learning the C programming language, Digital Research's (I think)
"concurrent DOS" and IBM PC (or AT, or ...) at the same time. Many a time,
operator error, aka programer error, aka stupid mistake forced me to reboot the
system. While I may have been getting paid for my blunders and hence not a
"consumer", this "shortcut" was well known to me.
Perhaps others more
knowledgable about such matters can clarify something for me. Given the variety
of things that can happen as a result of ctrl-alt-del, i.e. a reboot in MS-DOS ,
a dialog box in certain versions of MS-Windows, and (usually) a shift to
runlevel 6 (reboot) in Linux I am *guessing* that what the three finger salute
*really* does is, at a hardware level, trigger a particular exception. Can
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 23 2013 @ 06:51 AM EDT |
- the "invention" is the buying of the loterry ticket (patent
application
from the patent office !
- surely you don't want to deny the American his consttution right to do that?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 23 2013 @ 01:19 PM EDT |
T
op 50 most influential people in IP in Europe.
PJ will get a kick out
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