Posts by tr1ck5t3r

Phishing fraudsters pose as UK bank social media types

Re: re. they seem to be getting better

Its never been easier to drain bank accounts considering the IQ levels of many egotistical social media users.

Of course once said bank account is drained of funds, Carr v Carr 1811 has set a precedent which states that money on deposit with a bank becomes the property of the bank not the customer so its legally impossible for bank customers to ever experience fraud.

Its just modern day bank robbery when considering the 1811 judgement, and considering how easy it is to set up a social media account from any part of the world, just base yourself in some country that has no extradition agreements in place.

Simplez...

I dont really trust Eset that much since I found out they appear to have no faith in their own antivirus anti spam products as noted by their use of messagelabs.com aka Symantec as seen here.

http://mxtoolbox.com/archive/?actionstring=mx:eset.co.uk

Pref Hostname IP Address TTL

10 cluster3.eu.messagelabs.com 194.106.220.35 30 min Blacklist Check SMTP Test

20 cluster3a.eu.messagelabs.com 85.158.139.103 30 min Blacklist Check SMTP Test

Self-driving cars doomed to be bullied by pedestrians

Re: Commercials will be even more fun.

I expect to see young Hackers gate crash parties in the future with their very own autonomous lorry complete with bud.

Suddenly STEM subjects become over subscribed at educational establishments.

Re: I called it a couple of weeks back.

You can have fun now with the mercedes radar controlled cruise control and others by spoofing their signals from your own car. If in front you can make them slow down and the drivers face is a picture as they grind to a halt in their lane. I dont think its caught on yet as Mercedes havent had lots of drivers contacting them about their cruise control grinding to a halt for no apparent reason, but I'm sure they will in the future....

Some smart arses finally get it with autonomous vehicles, playing chicken will never have been easier.

You can see the gangs of hoodies lining up in the hood to see who can judge when to step out in order to get the autonomous vehicle to stop closest to them without it running them over.

Stand and deliver will have never been so easy when you smash the door windows and take what you like, having made it stop. Just how do you get those sensors to detect when someone is a friend or foe in order to decide when to run them over or make some other get away.

Programming the laws of the jungle is no Sunday afternoon drive in the countryside you know.

The Darwin awards evolve.

Belgian court fines Skype for failing to intercept criminals' calls in 2012

Want to make free local, national & international phone calls & messages which are probably untraceable even to the spooks? Get yourself some free voip numbers, Sipgate.de works in this example. Download a copy of freeswitch and set it up to record the phone call and have call intercept setup. Set the voip phone software running with call intercept running, and phone the voip number but never answer the call. Instead talk away ignoring the ringing tone the caller is hearing as the phone system will record everything you say, and you can listen in to what the caller is saying using the call intercept. Reverse to have a two way conversation ignoring or filter out the ringing tones. Not only will you not be charged for the call as the call is technically never answered but the way the phone systems works is freeswitch sends the ringing tones back to the call once it has been routed to you.

Et Voila free probably untraceable (at least no billing logs will exist) telephone messaging.

My Nest smoke alarm was great … right up to the point it went nuts

It woke you up at 4am, the sales blurb promised you wouldnt be woken up at 2am, why are you complaining? What is it they say? Buyer beware? I think this story is an example of typical over hyped Us tech malware.

Prime Minister May hints at shaking up Blighty's 'dysfunctional' rural broadband

If you talk to BT engineers you'll know fibre has been around for a long time and is fitted around large parts of the country already. I was on FTTC back in the early 00's on an affluent new build estate but had a capped broadband speed to 2mb to maintain the charade along with packet filtering. Besides squeezing every last ounce of revenue out of the copper a form of planned obsolescence, the Govt also needs massive storage capabilities in order to spy on everyone. Its just a charade being played out by some arms of the Govt masquerading as business in this case BTOpenreach much like the CIA have invested in tech companies in the US to further military intelligence. Its called Bread & Circuses.

Can Facebook influence an election result?

Re: Do the math(s)

Studies show young and poor vote left, old and rich vote right. Of course thats without getting into the issue of politics is more complicated than just simple left and right. No one party represents me, but the Bread & Circus game gives me little choice in the popularity contests which claims to represent me when its a law unto itself.

Should Computer Misuse Act offences committed in UK be prosecuted in UK?

Re: I thought where the crime was felt mattered

I'll add, I used to tell my parents when I was a kid I would choose their nursing home. Is that not planning especially when I gave her the nick name Hyacinth Bucket? Never under estimate kids intelligence, just because they might not know everything doesnt mean to say they dont take it and learn from it which raises more and more questions that need answering which then creates new targets to learn from.

Re: I thought where the crime was felt mattered

You cant always look at the most obvious action as being the intended action, you see this all the time, its called misdirection or magic tricks. What if the action was phishing for others like trying to find out about whether mail is read in the US or email in the UK? Whats the ultimate hack? Outing the spooks capabilities trying to bring it out into the open. Do you think everyone is focused in the hear and now, or do you think planning and operations can take place over decades?

Re: Re. Zimbardo

Copyright and intellectual property is tricky. How do you quantify without the help of the spooks who can monitor everything that people cant arrive at a solution independently. History shows people around the world have arrived at discoverys in science independently, but it also stifles new discoveries and developments. The problem here is the financial system and the way it works. It makes us fight one another. Sure people should be paid for the work they do and their discoveries but this is where medals and other forms of public recognition could be weighted more properly instead of the current skewed bias to the person with the most money is considered the best. Monkeys worship money but it does also grease society better than anything else if we are to be honest, but not everyone is motivated by money or fame. Some have ego's which need massaging as we see with celebrities others just want a quiet life getting enough sleep & other creature comforts to get on with what they want without being disturbed even by people in the same house. Nothing worse than having strong instincts which keep you half awake or wake you up before you have got all you need only to suffer all the negative effects of sleep deprivation, when someone else is moving around the house. Nikola Tesla a famed night worker & I would suggest found a natural way to compensate for what I would call his ADHD. Now a days we drug kids with ADHD making zombie robots, this is stifling future creativity harming mankinds future developments, but because the financial system restricts our options in the way it works, people end up in a cycle of negativity which then generates the laws we have today. So in effect the law is banning the attainment of knowledge with the likes of Lauri Love whilst the US fails to accept the systems of its geniuses of geniuses were compromised possibly due to laziness in sys admins not trying to be adequately educated and/or the hubris of the belief in software is fit for purpose when its not fit for purpose. Its interesting that MS pulled out of the firewall market I think, noted with its absence in SBS2008R2 iirc. Is that an admission of failure or an example of the direction of the US military industrial complex was turning to. I'm not against money, but its current method of distribution & redistribution is flawed not to mention the fact that money is created when we take on loans like a mortgage which then inflates the money supply. So with that in mind, the best creditworthy people can take on the most debt, inflating the money supply further so everyone elses % of the money pot gets smaller, in effect financially cleansing everyone else which is not illegal but ethnic cleansing is illegal. Again I have to question the laws put in place. Where ever I look I see problems which could be fixed with todays knowledge which would help make things more eco friendly, like I had to light a coal boiler the other day. Firstly it has a gravity feed which takes hot water upstairs when the pump is not on, yet why can the pump come on and circulate it downstair only during a time period ie daylight hours, and in general why cant central heating circulate water between upstairs and downstairs when needed? Theres no need to circulate water downstairs at night when everyone is asleep for example, and no need to circulate water upstairs during the day. Just one example of little engineering tweaks that should not cost too much money but could save the environment loads. UK Part P legislation prevents people tinkering building their own solution with the help of a say a Rpi. Its just so frustrating as we have so much knowledge and we cnat use it because laws hold us back in many ways, which means law is not fit for purpose. Ok it attempts to stop harm, but is it quantify this correctly in the first place if its just focused on the hear and now and not quantifying the problems its building up for humans in the future? The UK is forecast to have just 0.1% spare leccy capacity this year, yet we cant role out intelligent housing due to building regs, which my Bro knows all about that. Ergo are the so called experts really experts, just like I question legal experts and the laws? Plus picking investors if thats a solution mooted cant be trusted, once bitten twice shy and all that. So life is complicated and tricky to say the least and never as simply as many experts like to portray.

Re: Surely the CMA con ONLY be prosecuted in thge UK?

But you fail to even question if the laws are right and fit for purpose in todays supposedly enlightened world?

What is the spirit of the law?

Probably to prevent malicious harm to others, yet the law is weighted stupidly in favour of physical and not mental harm. Can you quantify the mental effects on a victim? Does money as compensation make it better for the victim? Plus if the State wants to be judge jury and hangman, have they failed in their responsibilities to even educate the public properly? Lets face state school education is crap, even Labour MP's who benefited from being educated at grammer schools and/or send their kids to private school know this. So with this in mind, have you not got flawed individuals running Govt looking after no1 instead of fulfilling their public duty, despite making a big play on their public service?

Plus considering how different we all are, how can one law fit all? Its like Vitamin Recommended Daily Amounts, considering the different levels of exercise we all do from being a couch potatoe to a fitness freak, being fat & thing, tall & short, how on earth can a Vitamin RDA be fit for purpose, at best it should be called a Minimum Daily Amount, but the so called experts in the Govt's SACN dept that set these things think they know best, even though Govt medical advisors admit they made up the safe alcohol consumption limits in the 70's or 80's. Govt are fire fighting, you saw this with Osborne announce more Govt spending just after the Chinese state visit which announced a series of trade deals between the two countries. Govt borrowing is designed to fill the vacuum left by most people being tapped out or not wanting to play the game inflating the BoE M4 figure. Its made harder with a disingenuous media fueling your conformation bias, for example back in the 70's the British Bread & Circus (BBC) used to just tell the news the facts in a concise unspun manner mostly, look at how little news we get today, with things like "coming up in the program" during the news reports along with overt bias. I have to get news from around the world to get a feel for what is really going on. But the best divide and conquer technique is how we are made to vote. You get a popularity contest every few years for a couple of stooges, and then mid term the puppet is changed in an unelected manner.

If you cant see you are being had over by so called clever deceitful people sucking on the taxpayers teat then I dont hold much hope for most people at enlightening themselves, but thats probably because if you treat people like idiots you get idiots. The other trick is to make people think they cant change anything so can you kill an idea? The internet certainly makes it possible despite the illusion of "free" communication, you dont know that all these comments are not just put up by sockpuppets having hijacked DNS at the ISP and then doing a proxy server MITM attack on websites, injecting stories to phish your thoughts. Big Brother is here and now and its very pervasive, but like Gollum out of Lord ofthe Rings most people would rather shy away from it. So am I waisting my time in a Resource Burn exercise? Time will tell. I live in hope.

Re Imperius curse, what I would probably liken to "curiosity killed the cat", is there any harm done, time will tell? Just how do you interpret those words, do you project fear or hope?

The CMA is also designed to stop people outing the spooks and their actors, just like Military has to be secret to hide the fact they break their own laws like experimenting on the public. The internet with the aid of US tech giants enable the spooks to carry out their dark arts. I wont explain how I know, but I know when something is up, so has the experiment failed if the lab rat was acting up all along? Intelligence matching intelligence on possibilities. Whose pushing whose buttons?

Zimbardo et al have a lot to answer for.

Re: Autism.

"My daughter has Asperger's. It brings difficulties, but she knows the difference between right and wrong. May not like it, but she knows it. And she's five."

Only when you stop and ask her focusing her mind on the question does she give you the answer you expect, at other times, you dont know if she is thinking about the difference, with so many thoughts going on and a limited resource ie a brain, can you really say, does she know the difference between right and wrong if she is caught up in the moment of whatever is going on which is dominating most of her attention? You are not a mind reader, you cant tell what is going on in the mind otherwise you wouldnt be posting on here.

This is the problem with law, if you are so heavily focused on something, can you really claim she knows the difference between right and wrong if she is not even thinking about it? We are not operating systems with software acting on Windows event messages. This is why I say laws are a form of mental harassment for creative minds. The law needs to show malicious intent and thats probably as hard as proving Schroedinger cat.

Put another way, if you have a car accident and its your fault and you claim you didnt see the vehicle you hit, should you be punished in the same way to the same extent of the law as the US CMA equivalent wants to punish Lauri Love?

You didnt invent the laws, you dont have a say in the laws as you took the lazy option and wanted to be represented in a so called democracy.

Clever people take from the strong and the strong take from the weak. Think about it...

Re: Jurisdiction

I know exactly what you mean, so when I'm flying my squadron of Canadian Geese in front of the runway next time and those jets fly into them, whose fault is it? Whilst the public footpath through RAF Lakenheath is now closed to the public, theres no law to stop me flying my Red Robin around either.

Bird strikes are a multi million pound disaster waiting to happen.

What next banning birds near airports or even a dangerous birds act? Innovation comes in many guises, but if you dont want to be spied on by the US stop using US Tech, its as simple as that. Your business secrets are worth more than you think. Just like popup adverts are a virtual version of sandwich board men following you around the highstreet into shops watching what you pickup. You wouldnt tolerate the sandwich board men, so why tolerate popup adverts? Is that not psychological harassment? Ban popup adverts I say they spread viruses, although MS did slip me an update onto my Dell Laptop which stopped them, didnt ask for it, but if anyone wants a copy let me know.... Its a special edition...

Re: Why need it at all?

So how can the US claim to know Lauri Loves hacks were not a premeditated botnet run by a third actor? The US wont publish their evidence so he cant be extradited in my opinion. I found something on my windows machine hiding in the MSR partition, it removed itself but I took photo's of it using an old digital camera and kept them off the computer. I've got the partition loaded in Partition Magic Hex editor so unlike photos taken on smart phone's the actors miscalculated on this one.

Its convenient for Windows to have so many bugs in a moving target basis. If M$ were interested in security they would have developed a secure method to update windows which also verified the legality of the software, but this bread & circus is just part of the charade of the society we live in.

Re: Jurisdiction

"Where it is a crime in both places" Have you just proven the existence of a legal Schrodinger's cat?

Re: Jurisdiction - Thought experiment:

The dead person might have got in the way. Wrong time and place but thats history, they are dead.

On the point of robbers using cars, and law being updated, why cant we update the law to prosecute americans for the psychological trauma of knowing about their culture or is that not serious enough for some?

Besides if we live in a democracy why should I be governed by laws from a bygone era? I certainly would not have agreed to the 1947 USUK agreement to share military intelligence.

According to UK Law Carr v Carr 1811, once money is deposited in a bank it becomes the property of the bank not the depositor. On this precedent we should not have bailed out the banks using Quantative Easing or any other method, plus the depositors and shareholders of said failed banks should have had a hair cut.

As I've said before the public are just pawns in a global psychopathic game of control. If law is any good then theres no need for the moral high ground. However as the moral high ground still exists it shows the law is not fit for purpose so I say lets scrap the law and start again.

Re: Seems simple to me

"Careful what you wish for - fancy being prosecuted in North Korea?"

There's prisoners in the UK digging their flesh out alive such is the UK's psychological softpower if you didnt know. Whilst entrapment is illegal in the UK, its not in the US. What the SIS cant do, they get 5Eyes members to do for them. Sometimes I think the public are just pawns in a global chess game played by psychopaths. Divide and conquer, been in use since Roman times, as seen in education, media outlets and so on....

Some of the best hackers work for the largest US tech firms just like the "best" banksters work for Goldman Sachs, its a psychological empowerment mind trick. Do you think its not a valid strategy for the US to be setting up foreign targets who show sparks of genius, knowing that its easy to claim the US tech firms & other entities were hacked themselves? After all, who do you believe the big guy or the little guy? Its the same strategy that works for corrupt police when investigating crimes if you want something a little more local.

As someone who had a distinguished professor from MIT who also sat on the board of a US VC company, insist without sounding desperate, I meet them at Cambridge Uni on what I call with hindsight, a phishing exercise, I thought his advice was odd to say the least at the time, especially as history now shows his advice to me was contradictory to what has transpired in the US with Google, Facebook and other tech firms. So whilst spooks break the laws, do you not think from a military perspective that using tech companies would further the US military advantage even though its disguised as a business? BAE systems is a classic example of a company essentially working for some countries military's. Law only needs evidence and in todays world photoshop works-of-art are not the only thing faked in the digital world. How easy is it to fake logs? So dont be so gullible and swallow the line Lauri Love hacked the US, the US could have hacked him psychologically by building him and other wannabe hackers up just like survivors of whatever traumatic event are built back up, but with Lauri Love, he is also likely to be a suggestible character so other hackers will almost likely have coerced/suggested actions which may or may not have led to him doing things or maybe his own hacked equipment acted as part of a botnet. I've seen so much of this go on, you really cant trust noone, not even your own Govt when it operates in secret!

Catching the spooks since the early 90's on dialup tracing lonely packets back to the BT UK Core at Bletchley. Related to the highest risk Cat A prisoner in the UK who used to supply equipment to GCHQ and has had documentaries made about his prison escape. (Is the last paragraph enough words to have a Milgram like obedience to authority over your thoughts)?

Artificial intelligence will eradicate channel drudgery, says Lenovo boss

Unthinking people sometimes called Lemmings are what Salomon Asch called Conformists. Of the sexes, woman are the most conforming by their need for new this and that, beit wearing latest makeup, hair styles or clothing. If you can get more women into the boardroom, you can then get more conforming behaviour but this stifles creativity. Conformists are like socialists or communists so its some what ironic that the US tech giants are pushing a form of communism on the rest of the world!

Re: Jobs and growth, jobs and growth

On the point of where will the jobs go, well if you havent noticed, Govt is now about causing problems, its an evolution of the idea that Maynard Keynes call digging a hole and filling hole. Classic example many can relate to, is road resurfacing, just a few weeks back road was resurfaced with chippings, within a week weeds had pushed through the chipping layer and it hard already started showing the orginal surface underneath when it melted in the sun, so I chuckled to myself at how MK's idea had evolved.

I thought it interesting how in the mid 00's computer security took a nose dive, so bugs are not only back doors but a moving target to obfuscate this fact. Introduce new platforms which run/ran slower like compiled dot net which still sits in the main on the WinAPI's and you'll see what I mean. Put another way, why use dot net if you want a fast system? Win API's are fastest but with a combination of Asch conformity and other factors like appealing to the Ego and the need for new shiny things and you can see why some companies do alright even when its not technically a superior system.

Some say profit wins, but if you exploit the rules like athletes exploit the TUE's rules, you can play and win, unless you get setup by Dark arts for upsetting the status quo. Theres a lot of money riding on this and some dont want to give up their cushy lifestyle.

Tesco Clubcard was also introduced during my time there to not only improve loyalty and sales, but in turn the very predictive capabilities you suggest as you see with their offers. However Tesco have since demonstrated to shareholders their AI's are crap amongst other things and I know why, but I guess for those selling this tech, if they cant see the wood from the trees how can you lead a horse to water and make it drink? All it boils down to is how you can sell it on the day beit to a prospective customer or in the court room. Some call it the religion of science ironically.

My customers didnt want this on their system in the 00's as they would miss the personal touch talking to customers and suppliers having a bit of banter with them negotiating the prices. Seems only psychopaths want this, so companies using AI might be run by a pyschopath or two. Talk to Robert Hare about them, he claims to be an expert and has invented a test or two to prove it along with a number of words to back up his arguments. We did use AI in the 90's at Tesco to forecast volume though, but it failed on the exceptions which is mainly public holidays like Xmas, Bank Hols etc and couldnt factor in the weather properly, probably because the Met Office's AI is as accurate as Mystic Meg is at predicting the Stars and I dont mean Xfactor ones. The problem with Chaos theory is that there is too much data to know whether the butterfly fluttering its wings in Rio is gonna cause a hurricane or not in Michael Fish's 1987's Britain. Besides Chaos Theory is just Brownian Motion on a global scale which in a 2d sense is just like playing snooker or pool with all the balls in motion. And its insane to quote Einsteins insanity quote if you have failed to quantify Schrödinger's cat so get back to your clockwork Turk machine.

Level 3 goes to Level 0 for American VoIP peeps

Dare I propose a GIF day aka a Global Internet Free day?

One of the OVH data centres in France over Xmas was hacking me, I traced it back into France where I was promptly attacked by botnets from the US on Level 3 and a few other carriers funnily enough. Coincidence?

Happy VXers get 400 enterprise-popping apps hosted on Google Play

Once Google have secured their own systems they then might be able to secure their play store. LOL.

WikiLeaks claims 'significant' US election info release ... is yet to come

The US are dragging themselves down in more ways than one.

https://iq-research.info/en/page/average-iq-by-country

When Pornhub meets the Internet of Fridges

Brings a whole new meaning to chilled fluids and chilled birds...

Can you make a swarm of 20+ flying military robots? UK.gov wants you

Yeah the problem with the space based satellites using lidar tracking humans like the reverse of the 1cm+ space debris tracking systems as noted here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris#Tracking_and_measurement is they dont work so well when its a bit cloudy.

Still how hard would it be to fix up a couple of drones carrying small explosives that detonate on impact hanging a net between them so your ICBM flies right into the goal net? Just needs to be deployed from a jet fighter far enough away to not trigger the ICBM avoidance systems but close enough so you dont need massive drones that show up on the ICBM systems. Goal......

Source code unleashed for junk-blasting Internet of Things botnet

Re: Routers anyone?

Who uses encrypted comms from inside a firewall? Is that encrypted data yours or mine?

Because the spooks cant hack them and spy on you, and cyber crime units would be out of a job looking at porn. Not many jobs you can do looking at porn, but the other one I know of is the SEC. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/23/sec.porn/

I want to launch thousands of drones, says Facebook's flying Wi-Fi router chief

Re: "with our saturation-level coverage of mobile phone masts and wired backhaul"

Start here. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/smart-metering-implementation-programme-technical-specifications

Look for the mesh network covering much of the UK and if that doesnt work, trying the 800Mhz+ frequency which gives you a radius of 30km, you'll soon find some wifi if you know where to look.

Got a great IoT story to tell? You have until Friday to let us know

Yeah I caught GCHQ hacking my systems so I phoned them up and described their software to them so they covered it up by claiming TalkTalk was hacked. what makes me laugh is theres only 1 of me and how many of them? LOL. Still they can make up anything they like when they control the media, just like they control the phone system, so next time you call a call centre are you talking to a spook who has hacked the call centre companies computer systems or a genuine call centre operator? How do you prove it? For a clue, in maths its possible to calculate unknowns is a starting point....

UK will build new nuclear bomb subs, says Defence Secretary

You also forgot when considering how much we import and how long radiation hangs around that it makes sense to nuke our suppliers including our food suppliers. Thanks to just in time deliveries the major UK supermarkets only have 3-5days food in the supplychain to feed the whole country. You cant even magic up mushrooms in that time so its would be back to rations for everyone.

Nothing like a hungry animal to make an angry animal. Dont be a diva have a snickers!

Nukes are just big loud flash bang whallops to keep the population under control and will generally target large population densities so its useful for population reduction which is something we might need when the Grand Solar Minimum takes full effect in 2020. Lets face it we dont even have that many nukes so what use are they really and thats before you get into defensive measures that can take them out, examples being defensive missle systems like Israel's Iron dome, and countless air force personnel for jet fighters in various countries. Ask yourself why infrasound the silent killer is not used as a weapon, maybe it doesnt have the psychological effect on the populaces mind to help maintain that charade of being in control/law & order because the public are like herding cats. Ask why nuclear suitcase bombs are not mentioned even though they could be smuggled in and deployed in many busy shopping centres targeting large parts of the innocent (or should that be stupid) population?

Its interesting reading that the UK policy in the event of a nuke attack was to use law enforcement to keep the populations in their houses, so towns & city populations would be prevented from leaving, as the country folk could fend for themselves and survive knowing what to do to carry on in the future. The old ways are best.

Google rushes in where Akamai fears to tread, shields Krebs after world's-worst DDoS

For a little test, block the google.com domain and see how data from google.com comes into your firewall from google.se in a matter of milliseconds.

If you can keep Google out, you have a secure system.

Daesh-bag hacker gets 20 years for harvesting US military kill list

Its not so hard to build a list of top ranking individuals. The information has always been in public view all along and I'm sure if you sent them all an email, technically you would be in their email servers as well. Its all about perspective I guess.

http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/AirForceSeniorLeaders.aspx

Take a look at the weird looking ones at this link. Trained to perfection or just dont like being looked at? Typical Marine mentality is all I can say.

http://www.marines.mil/Leaders/

https://www.army.mil/leaders/sa/

https://www.army.mil/leaders/usa/

https://www.army.mil/leaders/csa/

https://www.army.mil/leaders/vcsa/

https://www.army.mil/leaders/sma/

Some of you might be interested in this bunch.

http://www.disa.mil/About/Our-Leaders

Penetration testing for beginners starts here.

https://www.us.army.mil/

Is the contract/agreement invalid because they cant spell "authorised" properly?

If your'e lucky this bunch will slip you some LSD whilst claiming to have invented lithium ion batteries via their twitter account, personally I think they have done too much acid and I'm not talking battery acid!

https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/leadership

You get some interesting survey questions if you visit this website.

http://www.defense.gov/About-DoD/Leaders

"Please rate how thoroughly this site discloses information about what this agency is doing."

Is that a trick question?

Register your favourite sites with the DOD if you fancy it. Loved to see what can be slipped into the intelligence category!

http://www.defense.gov/Resources/Register-A-Site/tab/Website?page=Army

Why do some use HTTP and others use HTTPS, a bit inconsistent wouldnt one say?

Narcissist Heidi Powell wants her dot-com and she wants it now, now, NOW!

I'm Victor Meldrew and I dont believe it!

TalkTalk hack: Teen in court on hacking and blackmail charges

Do you seriously believe the country purporting to be the no1 Soft Power in the world is able to be hacked by loners in their bedrooms?

Just look at how quickly the spooks moved to track down the bloke punting images from Pippa Middletons (sister in law to a future King) icloud account?

Govt/Military have a game play, down play the spying and capabilities because the public would not like the truth that the UK is in effect one giant panopticon, where your school records, NHS records, Bank purchases are all monitored in realtime. Some Big Businesses are little more than Govt agencies in all but name, just take BT OpenReach, the clue is in the name. money GDP is just one big carrot for the donkeys who dont know where the carrot/money comes from even though it keeps expanding ala BoE M4Ex.

Things is the spooks know the game is up, theres only so many co-incidences they can get away with before it becomes statistically improbable for occurrences to be anything other than spook work.

You just need to be observant and push their buttons like they push your buttons.

You call it 'hacking.' I call it 'investigation'

Social media and contracting for foreign Govt services has its uses after all, doesnt it NSA?

Is Tesla telling us the truth over autopilot spat?

So these cars have driven 100k miles on average and handed back to the driver to avoid an accident every other mile or so, but dont dwell on the last part its not good for sales.

Give me an autonomous vehicle that can complete a journey _without_ handing back to the driver and I'll call it autonomous.

AT&T tries broadband over power lines again

Cool, using your neighbours broadband via their powerline adapters in newbuilds could get faster.

Robot overlords? Pshaw! I ain't afraid of no AI – researchers

This man reminds of the scientists who have made fMRI announcements before the flaw was found. To be fair, he's only going on what he knows, or as Donald Rumsfeld would say Known Knowns and Known Unknowns, whilst not knowing about Unknown Knowns and Unknown Unknowns.

VMware's secret security plan revealed

The beauty of switching on cpu virtualisation in the bios is DuQu can operate unhindered. The TinyOS core is only 64KB in size, hardly detectable by todays bloatware standards.

Wow, RIP hackers ... It's Cyber-Lord Blunkett to the rescue for UK big biz

So should we change our passwords periodically or not.

Some parts of Govt want us to to not change our passwords.

https://www.cesg.gov.uk/articles/problems-forcing-regular-password-expiry

Is this a case of the blind leading the blind, or is that a poke in the eye too far?

UK Labour man Owen Smith: If you wanna be a leader, you gotta stop with that lens

The INTJ thing to do is have various AI's watching the the various human output channels including TV looking for things it can recognise. Its not too hard to use upgraded document scanning algo's to automatically capture data that might come in useful, even its a computer printed piece of paper hanging on a noticeboard in the background of a TV news article.

I wonder how many people realise how much private data is inadvertently leaked on a daily basis by everyone and anyone in ways you cant possibly imagine.

SETI searchers: We still haven't found what we're looking for

If you dont advertise your presence, how can you expect to be visited?

Pixellation popped: AI can ID you, even after PhotoShop phuzzing

"The only difficult part, in dealing with photos, is that the attacker would need to trawl social media for a “set of possible faces that may appear in a given photo”."

Not very good. Try developing an AI to reveal whats behind your frosted glass windows. Throw in night vision and infrared camera's to get a 24x7 video feed, but you do need HD cams or better. Training is simple if you think about it.

Obama says USA has world's biggest and best cyber arsenal

Its easy to say you have the biggest cyber arsenal when you have bloatware, as for the best, thats debatable.

What would be an acceptable demonstration?