Name the baby Genn, no regrets.
You know, don't have any fucking secrets to worry about and it will be fine.
Time...line? Time isn't made out of lines. It is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round. ~ Caboose
Breaking News: Secretary of State John Kerry is being sensible.
I'm not sure if this thread has been derailed with small topic about personal matters, but from what I've read, in the game of hackers vs encryption / security, the hackers are winning. And they aren't just winning, they are pulling away. At this point, hackers can pretty much get into any system they want. They can even hack into computers that aren't online via radio waves via TEMPEST hacks, because someone wrote a virus that modulates electromagnetic radiation emitted by the computer to transmit a signal in the air that a listening device can pick up and translate.
The government actually now must have standards for how far computers must be away from walls, how much shielding the walls, cable, and pipes have to prevent TEMPEST hacks. Of course none of those standards matter if spies get a listening device into the room.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)
TEMPEST is a National Security Agency specification and NATO certification[1][2] referring to spying on information systems through leaking emanations, including unintentional radio or electrical signals, sounds, and vibrations.[3] TEMPEST covers both methods to spy upon others and also how to shield equipment against such spying. The protection efforts are also known as emission security (EMSEC), which is a subset of communications security (COMSEC).[4]
The NSA methods for spying upon computer emissions are classified, but some of the protection standards have been released by either the NSA or the Department of Defense.[5] Protecting equipment from spying is done with distance, shielding, filtering and masking.[6] The TEMPEST standards mandate elements such as equipment distance from walls, amount of shielding in buildings and equipment, and distance separating wires carrying classified vs. unclassified materials,[5] filters on cables, and even distance and shielding between wires/equipment and building pipes. Noise can also protect information by masking the actual data.[6]
While much of TEMPEST is about leaking electromagnetic emanations, it also encompasses sounds or mechanical vibrations.[5] For example, it is possible to log a user's keystrokes using the motion sensor inside smartphones.[7] Compromising emissions are defined as unintentional intelligence-bearing signals which, if intercepted and analyzed, may disclose the information transmitted, received, handled, or otherwise processed by any information-processing equipment.[8]
TO FIX WOW:1. smaller server sizes & server-only LFG awarding satchels, so elite players help others. 2. "helper builds" with loom powers - talent trees so elite players cast buffs on low level players XP gain, HP/mana, regen, damage, etc. 3. "helper ilvl" scoring how much you help others. 4. observer games like in SC to watch/chat (like twitch but with MORE DETAILS & inside the wow UI) 5. guild leagues to compete with rival guilds for progression (with observer mode).6. jackpot world mobs.
Where do I send my account information???
/sarc
OT: Cybersecurity is the new war front. Private Russian hackers are going after financials, Chinese hackers are going after military tech.
Remember when some kid from Texas got into Sarah Palin's private account? How? By guessing her "secret question." (The answer was GrizzlyMomma)
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It's sort of a rule in warfare. Offense always outpaces defense. Heh, full plate armor? Meet my longbow and crossbow-men.
All right, gentleperchildren, let's review. The year is 2024 - that's two-zero-two-four, as in the 21st Century's perfect vision - and I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of still-masked clots ridden infertile senile sissies who want the Last Ukrainian to die so they can get on with the War on China, with some middle-eastern genocide on the side
Nah, in the history of war, it's always the offensive. The defense is trying to play catch up.
Maginot Line? Oh shit, Germany drove around it. Fast forward a couple decades, and any nation's tanks could have one-shot those German tanks. Still can,. actually, with each other's modern tanks.
That's offense playing catch-up at its finest. Maginot line was the shit until
Tanks are not defensive in nature. Tank's Armor evolves constantly and weapons need to catch up to penetrate it. You cannot just shoot a missile at the tank - the missile will get shot down by Active Defense System.
All right, gentleperchildren, let's review. The year is 2024 - that's two-zero-two-four, as in the 21st Century's perfect vision - and I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of still-masked clots ridden infertile senile sissies who want the Last Ukrainian to die so they can get on with the War on China, with some middle-eastern genocide on the side
The problem there is eventually we develop several technologies that everyone agrees should be banned from warfare. But apply that attitude to 5000 years of history and eventually there will be 1 civilization that arises that is totally ruthless, ignores all the bans, and conquers all. Its like, in trying to avoid the worst outcome, you actually set it up!
TO FIX WOW:1. smaller server sizes & server-only LFG awarding satchels, so elite players help others. 2. "helper builds" with loom powers - talent trees so elite players cast buffs on low level players XP gain, HP/mana, regen, damage, etc. 3. "helper ilvl" scoring how much you help others. 4. observer games like in SC to watch/chat (like twitch but with MORE DETAILS & inside the wow UI) 5. guild leagues to compete with rival guilds for progression (with observer mode).6. jackpot world mobs.
More like its software beat its own defense. But, in theory, having the only offense capable of taking your defense out is the best strategy.
China probably can't (but they could probably get into the Pentagon and attack the US that way), the British probably could come close, the Russians have half their nuclear sub fleet slowly dissolving in a fjord next to the Kola peninsula.
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Looking at Hillary's email problem I think he needs to write them assuming the GOP reads them.