Posts by Sean M 18 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Nov 2007
Put a mobile phone in every car, and then every car will be trackable.
Therefore road pricing becomes easy.
And tracking average speed becomes easy as well, so speeding becomes impossible to get away with.
(Of course the phone would have to be always on, but I'm assuming this will be a legal requirement).
Unlike Storm and Nugache, the Kraken botnet does not use a peer-to-peer architecture. The code includes a list of domains in which the C&C server might be located, and once a new machine is infected it begins looking through that list to find the current location.
The Kraken code arrives in a file disguised to look like a typical image file, such as a JPEG or a PNG, but with a hidden extension of .exe
I believe this means that only Windows is affected.
Damballa plans to publish a subset of the list of infected IP addresses it has seen within the next week or so. Damballa also plan to reveal more details at the RSA conference in San Francisco, which started today.
You don't need a default password on a router. You don't actually need ANY password on a router.
You provide a physical switch on the router labelled "Configure".
If the switch is on, then it provides the configuration page to any computer that connects, and does no routing (so you can't do anything with it apart from configure it).
If the switch is off it works normally.
Which means you have to physically access the router to configure it. Now it's as secure as your house is!
Yep, that'll work.
From memory (it's been a while since I was last there) the Easy Internet Cafes in London (you know, the bright orange ones) do this every time a user finished their session.
Of course, you may still be able to get free internet access (see above), but no permanent exploits would be possible.
A reason why he would not give them the password, even if there is no child porn in the encrypted files, is because there might be something else in there that could incriminate him of a different crime.
To take an example (to choose a popular one), there are copyrighted films or songs there.
Now this may cost him a huge fine (and maybe a prison sentence?) Whereas if he ran the "can't incriminate myself" defense throught the courts and won, he gets away with it.
And yes, that would mean he is innocent of the crime they accused him of (having encrypted child porn), but has incriminated himself as guilty of another crime they didn't know he had done. Hence the constitutional protection.
Perhaps you say that he is still guilty, so who cares? Take another example then. He has files in there that suggest he is guilty of tax evasion. He knows that he is innocent, he is certain that he can prove he is innocent, but also knows that it would probably take some time in jail (or a big bail bond) and a huge legal fight to do so. It is therefore better in his case to run the "can't incriminate myself" defense, even though there is no child porn there and he is innocent of everything else.
Yes, potassium hyroxide is a lot nastier than methanol. From the same site : http://ptcl.chem.ox.ac.uk/~hmc/hsci/chemicals/potassium_hydroxide.html
Methanol is a dangerous chemical, and potassium hydroxide is a very dangerous chemical. Methanol may cause damage if you're not careful, potassium hydroxide WILL cause damage if you're not careful!
http://www.violin-memory.com/products/hostinterfaces.html
"PCI Express interface (4x & 8x interfaces)"
"The Violin 1010 Memory Appliance is connected to a host via the PCI Express interface. This connection requires a Host Interface Board (HIB) and a PCIe Cable"
Cynical aren't we?
http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1172937
And I quote "Once the year is complete, customers can keep all their music without having to worry about it disappearing when their subscription is over."
Nope, I have no idea how they're going to make any money out of this either!
"You can't store wind power"
Not easily, although there are options (batteries, pumping water uphill, flywheels, heat and insulate), none of which are very efficient.
On the other hand, wind power is MORE reliable than nuclear power at present. Currently 50% of British nuclear power stations are offline, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7082518.stm
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