JorgeA Posted March 19, 2014 Author Share Posted March 19, 2014 That is at the same time unbelievable and so typical.---JorgeA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JorgeA Posted March 19, 2014 Author Share Posted March 19, 2014 (edited) Cyberprivacy (not):NSA surveillance program reaches ‘into the past’ to retrieve, replay phone callsThe National Security Agency has built a surveillance system capable of recording “100 percent” of a foreign country’s telephone calls, enabling the agency to rewind and review conversations as long as a month after they take place, according to people with direct knowledge of the effort and documents supplied by former contractor Edward Snowden.Speaking of the cloud:Because of similar capacity limits across a range of collection programs, the NSA is leaping forward with cloud-based collection systems and a gargantuan new “mission data repository” in Utah. According to its overview briefing, the Utah facility is designed “to cope with the vast increases in digital data that have accompanied the rise of the global network.”[emphasis added]Too bad they're not putting the stuff on SkyDrive. --JorgeA Edited March 19, 2014 by JorgeA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 ...provided that they solve the minor electrical issues they had in the past.... http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304441404579119490744478398the leap from zettabytes to zappedbytes is not particularly large ... jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JorgeA Posted March 19, 2014 Author Share Posted March 19, 2014 Cybersecurity (not):Without proper security measures, smart homes are just begging to be targets"Everything can be hacked," said Jerry Irvine, CIO of Prescient Solutions and a member of the National Cyber Security Task Force. "Here's the big picture: With Target...they're not saying it with certainty, but supposedly the way the hackers got into their network was through the HVAC network. That's a similar situation with us with our home solutions and our IoT [internet of Things] environment."Each of these connections, explained Irvine, is a potential risk for hackers to get into your internal network. Once they get into your network and place some sort of virus or even just a sniffer, they can see what's going on and everything becomes hackable. And when he says "everything," he means everything."Home security systems, thermostat controls, lock controls, opening and closing the garage, the lights, info on the fire alarms...basically anything that is there can now be controlled via a Wi-Fi network," he said. "In a home environment, the average person doesn't even have a password on their cell phone, which they're going to be connecting to their home systems. It's just not going to happen."Bet the NSA's counting on that.The infrastructure for 1984 is going up all around us and we are eager participants in its construction. All it will take is a sufficiently determined party in charge for whom the ends justify the means.--JorgeA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
351837 Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Speaking of monitoring: and Even more on there site (click on "explore data")http://www.skyboximaging.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Former Microsoft employee arrested for allegedly stealing Windows 8 trade secretshttp://www.zdnet.com/former-microsoft-employee-arrested-for-allegedly-stealing-windows-8-trade-secrets-7000027499/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Former Microsoft employee arrested for allegedly stealing Windows 8 trade secretshttp://www.zdnet.com/former-microsoft-employee-arrested-for-allegedly-stealing-windows-8-trade-secrets-7000027499/Here's another one with more info, also seemingly to identify who the blogger was.http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/microsoft-uncovers-mole-who-leaked-windows-secrets-wzor-lives-238755 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JorgeA Posted March 20, 2014 Author Share Posted March 20, 2014 That's exactly who I thought it might be. He seemed to suddenly disappear, for no apparent reason, around that time.Looks like these guys' gossip interest ran way ahead of their security mindfulness:...Then, for reasons unknown, the blogger used Hotmail to send an entire copy of the SDK to a Microsoft employee for verification that it was valid. Not a hash code, mind you, but the whole thing.[...]The SDK proved valid, so Microsoft investigators went through the blogger's Hotmail account and found an email from Kibkalo to the blogger that included links to Windows 8 "hot fixes" for a pre-release version of Win8. Bingo. Sheesh, if you're going to be engaging in this cloak-and-dagger stuff, you need to be a little more cautious than that.--JorgeA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JorgeA Posted March 20, 2014 Author Share Posted March 20, 2014 Speaking of monitoring:[...]Even more on there site (click on "explore data")http://www.skyboximaging.com/ Wow. That is very cool and very scary. Soon we'll have to start living and traveling underground.--JorgeA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 The infrastructure for 1984 is going up all around us and we are eager participants in its construction. Question of the day being:Is a discount for water supply a legitimate decision?(i.e. should NSA operations be facilitated by the good population of UTAH?)http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/03/nsa-water/jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpalone Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 The infrastructure for 1984 is going up all around us and we are eager participants in its construction. Question of the day being:Is a discount for water supply a legitimate decision?(i.e. should NSA operations be facilitated by the good population of UTAH?)http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/03/nsa-water/jaclazI don't live in Utah, but have done a fair amount of work in the state in different parts of it. There are some places where the Jack Rabbits pack canteens. I find it hard to believe that Utah allowed them to build it there simply because of the water demand. Using the lower number of 1.2 million gallons a day and 55 gallons per day for a person, that is enough water for approximately 21,818 people per day, used for nothing more than snooping. Probably a large part snooping on its own citizens, who are paying for it to boot.bpalone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 (edited) Strangely enough, Utah residents are seemingly among the most thirsty people around, with a per-capita use of water above anyone else (except possibly Nevada and Idaho - data is strangely contrasting in different sources):http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_13750549http://le.utah.gov/interim/2012/pdf/00002706.pdfaround 200-250 or maybe even 308 gallons (that is up to over 1,000 liters ).http://humanistsofutah.org/wordpress/sample-page/2012-2/april-2012/water-waste-in-utah/As a reference, currently used international norms when designing a water supply are usually between 150 and 250 liters/person/day, whilst US are AFAIK more oriented towards the 100 gallons or 400 liters (these are norms used to dimension pipes/pumps/etc. not the actual consumption).Point at hand being that water price in Utah is strongly subsidized by property taxes (depending on exact location), so knowing how much water the NSA uses and how much it pays it may be of public interest, at least for the local residents.On another installment the NSA will use WASTE water (which makes matter quite a bit different):http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/07/wastewater-will-cool-new-nsa-computing-center/jaclaz Edited March 20, 2014 by jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Formfiller Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Nice Xbone & NSA rant:Link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricktendo Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 (edited) Looks like the finally busted Wzor (or his source)http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9247091/Windows_leak_site_Wzor_goes_dark_a_day_after_feds_arrest_Microsoft_moleEdit: NOT Wzor nor is it his/her/their source, apparently it was coanouna's source (he/she is the blogger in question)http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/microsoft-uncovers-mole-who-leaked-windows-secrets-wzor-lives-238755 Edited March 21, 2014 by ricktendo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monroe Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Post 5307 by jaclaz ... very well written, thought provoking post dealing with what all we store. Good one to save and read every so often ... I tend to keep my XP setup to the size that will will always fit on one image backup DVD. I have one 500 GB USB hard drive to move things to as a "temporary" storage hold ... though some items have been on that 500 GB drive much longer than I planned for them to be. Eventually I plan and do burn items to a DVD for permanent storage ... this could be XP software programs, YouTube videos, music, news articles and just other stuff that I think I will want to look at one day or read a second time.I don't save a lot of YouTube videos but I have saved many through the years that I will probably never watch again ... just don't have the time. For sure after I'm gone someday or no longer have need for my computers, will anyone even be interested in what I "collected" or thought was good enough to "save" to watch or read again one day ... probably not, the computers will be already old and older and probably scrapped ... the DVDs of what I stored or thought was important to store will most likely be tossed out. Who, in their busy day to day existence, will have the time or want to take the time to go through old computer junk or old DVDs - CDs ???The picture that I use is Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) who's music I very much like ... have collected through the years all of his music, everything that exist today on a CD. Hopefully that collection would be of some interest to someone, but maybe not.Maybe ... 30 to 50 years from now, someone will still want an old Windows 98 or Windows XP computer setup ... with the fast pace of life today and probably faster tomorrow, I just can't imagine who will have the time or the interest to check out old computer electronics.Just seems so true ... today will be very old, very quick!... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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