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I find it interesting that no USA-based news source is covering this.
Among US-based news sources covering this: The New York Times, NBC News, New York Daily News, CBS News, NPR, Chicago Tribune, ABC.
My apologies, for some reason the only sites google showed on this issue were .co.uk.
Puts this in an entirely different light, doesn't it: Even when ostensibly not functioning, the Xbox One can run in a low-powered state, ready to be snapped on at a moment's notice. That's something Microsoft was showing off last week as an asset. The only on-switch Microsoft showed for waking the machine from its low-power state was a voice command... "Xbox On." The Xbox One could only hear that if the Kinect was al…
Since the Xbox camera is connected to the console via a cable, you can verify whether data going over the wire. If the Xbox is off, you shouldn't see traffic. It's a /bunch/ different from traffic in a data center, which is essentially untraceable and can be cloned at many points. Frankly I'd be more concerned about the microphones contained in ubiquitous and nearly unexaminable devices such as cell phones, and to a…
Puts this in an entirely different light, doesn't it: Even when ostensibly not functioning, the Xbox One can run in a low-powered state, ready to be snapped on at a moment's notice. That's something Microsoft was showing off last week as an asset. The only on-switch Microsoft showed for waking the machine from its low-power state was a voice command... "Xbox On." The Xbox One could only hear that if the Kinect was al…
Do you want your information to be given to the NSA?
[ ] Yes
[X] YesThe sad thing about all of this is that Microsoft were pretty much forced into this position (so we're told) by the authorities. In the process these leaks have just destroyed pretty much any credibility Microsoft's online services had, which form large parts of their strategy (according to the recent Ballmer memo). It also makes you wonder about the OS and other software they produce, which isn't a good place for MS…
I'm not sure why you're picking on Microsoft. The credibility of pretty much every large US-based tech services company is probably destroyed. The fact that we only saw the big service providers (MS, Google, etc...) on those slides doesn't mean that the other companies are free from the hands of the NSA. Do you think that the NSA has no access to Dropbox?
It would be rather surprising if they were not at least approached by Federal agencies such as NSA and FBI.
To put it another way, because Microsoft has a closed source model, the intelligence agencies took the approach described in the article. From that, it may be a mistake to conclude that the strategy pursued with Microsoft was the only strategy pursued. It just happens to be one that would pass across the desk of an analyst, rather than someone on the operations side.
Viewed as an intelligence operation, it would be grossly unprofessional of such agencies not to have placed moles within the open source community, or for those moles to be seen as highly skilled contributors on open source projects. The three letter agencies have decades of experience infiltrating both commercial organizations and those motivated by something other than money.
I suspect it is easier to turn an open source hacker than a diplomat - not just ideologically but because the open source community lacks a state funded organized counter-intelligence apperatus.
Puts this in an entirely different light, doesn't it: Even when ostensibly not functioning, the Xbox One can run in a low-powered state, ready to be snapped on at a moment's notice. That's something Microsoft was showing off last week as an asset. The only on-switch Microsoft showed for waking the machine from its low-power state was a voice command... "Xbox On." The Xbox One could only hear that if the Kinect was al…
> We are designing the new Kinect with simple, easy methods to customize privacy settings, provide clear notifications and meaningful privacy choices Do you want your information to be given to the NSA? [ ] Yes [X] Yes
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Among US-based news sources covering this: The New York Times, NBC News, New York Daily News, CBS News, NPR, Chicago Tribune, ABC.
Huh. My apologies, for some reason the only sites google showed on this issue were .co.uk.
Fortunately they now have a worldwide setting. At one point you could select only 5 (or was it 7?) languages for which Google would show you results. They fortunately fixed that.
I mean, who would want to search _all_ the internet?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Among US-based news sources covering this: The New York Times, NBC News, New York Daily News, CBS News, NPR, Chicago Tribune, ABC.
Huh. My apologies, for some reason the only sites google showed on this issue were .co.uk.
Puts this in an entirely different light, doesn't it: Even when ostensibly not functioning, the Xbox One can run in a low-powered state, ready to be snapped on at a moment's notice. That's something Microsoft was showing off last week as an asset. The only on-switch Microsoft showed for waking the machine from its low-power state was a voice command... "Xbox On." The Xbox One could only hear that if the Kinect was al…
Not that we should have to do this....
This whole thing makes me very suspicious of Apple's and Microsoft's whole disk encryption technologies. I can't help but wonder if back doors have been inserted into the products.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/08/an_analysis_of...
Paper here:
http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/374.pdf
Currently, there seem to be three vectors:
1) Weak passwords
2) If you opt-in to store a recovery key with Apple
3) If attacker has physical access to machine, and machine is powered on (direct memory access via Thunderbolt or Firewire) (Edit: seems like this is not the case, see below)
But no backdoor has been found (yet!)