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As the Tor community knew of a possible compromise in advance, what what is the purpose of this? Sounds like fear mongering by the TLAs with the aim to discredit anonymity within the network rather than actual malice.
I thought the advanced warning was related to directory servers, not exit nodes.
A Dutch tech news site [1] published the news on their site and got in contact with the ISP Snel: The ISP told Tweakers that the account of Thomas White was blocked due to a security policy of the company. The customer let a deadline for verification accidentally expire and logged in through KVM. "Some KVM's generate a USB event when you use it to set up a connection to the server, this is what the customer just noti…
So much about ISP customer confidentiality then!?
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It is not merely the uneducated who can subscribe to extremist ideologies. When the unskilled highschool grad gets off the plane and signs up, they are going to give him a rifle. When the engineer gets off the plane and announces himself as such, there is a chance that he will be put to better use.
Sadly, the fastest route to martyrdom is quite literally by biting a bullet, so no, AK-47's all round. Keyboards don't have quite the same sacrificial qualities.
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Which latest tor-talk update is missing the canary? The one you linked to says: > 7. Again, at this moment in time I am under no gagging orders or unreasonably withholding information under orders.
The "under no influence" part is missing.
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I've had job offers for programming drones. I was involved with computer security for a while, and I still have a strong interest in every computational and mathematical aspect of it. I have friends that work on those things. I like those friends. I write code. I write math. We all think. We all share abstract models, different ways of thinking. It's not just code that gets turned into code. It's thought, and everyth…
Have I abstracted this problem too much, too far away from reality? I'll say. You could throw it in and go work as a coal-miner, but then you'd have to worry about the coal you mined being used to smelt steel that goes on to be manufactured as bomb casings. And so on. Certainly you shouldn't work on anything that offends you conscience, but the mere fact that something can be repurposed for warfare doesn't create mor…
Or because you didn't work on guidance systems, you could wonder if that was the reason the near miss which causes a lot of civilian deaths happened.
Or you could note that the use of military power is not really constrained by technical limitations and never has been, but the effect most certainly is, and start voting and advocating politically which would be more effective at stopping wars in every way.
But then you would have some much more direct responsibility for how the various conflicts turned out.
Any thoughts? Comments?
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Have I abstracted this problem too much, too far away from reality? I'll say. You could throw it in and go work as a coal-miner, but then you'd have to worry about the coal you mined being used to smelt steel that goes on to be manufactured as bomb casings. And so on. Certainly you shouldn't work on anything that offends you conscience, but the mere fact that something can be repurposed for warfare doesn't create mor…
Of course then your country could lose a war because it had insufficient technology, and you'd get to wonder if you contributed to that (you would have, though so would everyone else). Or because you didn't work on guidance systems, you could wonder if that was the reason the near miss which causes a lot of civilian deaths happened. Or you could note that the use of military power is not really constrained by technic…
I don't have the energy for that. These situations are so complicated and they never seem to get resolved. As soon as peace comes someone sees that as opportunity to manipulate (or is the perception of that what causes it to happen?)
I'd rather just stare at math and code, seriously, even if it doesn't talk back like a person. At least it's not crazy.
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Must admit I'm slightly amused that this is even being considered as a plausible theory. They're busy executing elderly with AK47s...thats very far away from physically cracking open servers in a western data center and inserting USB devices with targeted attack software.
If you put an AK47 into a USB port and pull the trigger, the server is very likely to go offline. Not even reimaging will help.
[Ace is having difficulty with throwing knives] Ace Levy: Sir, I don't understand. Who needs a knife in a nuke fight anyway? All you gotta do is push a button, sir. Career Sergeant Zim: Cease fire. Put your hand on that wall trooper. PUT YOUR HAND ON THAT WALL! [Zim throws a knife and hits Ace's hand pinning it to the wall] Career Sergeant Zim: The enemy can not push a button... if you disable his hand. Medic!
A Dutch tech news site [1] published the news on their site and got in contact with the ISP Snel: The ISP told Tweakers that the account of Thomas White was blocked due to a security policy of the company. The customer let a deadline for verification accidentally expire and logged in through KVM. "Some KVM's generate a USB event when you use it to set up a connection to the server, this is what the customer just noti…
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-Decembe...
Few quick points (that I found most interesting, click link to read everything):
"The likelihood of this being the work of law enforcement seems to be lower than originally anticipated. This is good in many ways but asks more questions than it solves right now."
"Support staff at the ISP have confirmed to me there has been unauthorised access to my account. This could be down to the fact I access the control panel often via Tor (yes, using TLS before anybody asks), however it does raise the prospect of a non-LE person(s) being behind this but does not explain why a chassis intrusion was detected for example or anything else to do with on-board sensors."
"Again, at this moment in time I am under no gagging orders or unreasonably withholding information under orders."
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I'm surprised that this comment has been voted to the top. First, it has little to nothing to do with the comment posted, which concerns not a "cyberwar" but the possible police seizure of a Tor server. The assumption is it's either a false alarm or a police raid. No one thinks this was done by ISIS. Second, a post using the word "cyberwar" in a non-ironic manner at the top of HN?! O tempora o mores! So while your ob…
I don't know, sometimes something in an article triggers another stream of thought or tangent, and its a comments section, and other people might want to discuss that. I don't necessarily agree with the comment (as I have next to no visibility of this) but certainly don't mind reading comments on it. Maybe I'm wrongly using the site!