Posts by Jarno van der Linden
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OnPoint: The Gift that Keeps on Making…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
As I’ve said before, MIM attacks are likely to be a last resort for governments because of their extreme detectability
Seems the NSA has been running out of ideas then.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/09/flying-pig-nsa-impersonates-google -
It just occurred to me to start imagining how this all interacts with the (already bad) idea of online voting for local and national elections. The security agencies could end up actually knowing who you voted for.
Next time you go through US customs and immigration, be prepared for extra attention because you voted for the local communist for mayor, or gave your party vote to the KimDotComForwardSlashParty.
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The faces of spring at the beach
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Another constraint is the annual worldwide harddrive production. It’s roughly 500 million units. Give them each 1TB, that’s only half a zettabyte total.
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https does not hide what website you are communicating with, only the data sent between you and the site.
It should also be remembered that government and government-controlled organisations are in the trusted certificate authority lists of your typical browser. That means that they can redirect your internet traffic through an intermediate site using their encryption and decryption keys. They can pretend to be publicaddress.net and your browser will be perfectly happy with it as it has a certificate from a trusted source that it is the real deal.
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Isn't a foreign buyers ban trivially circumvented by using a New Zealand based company as an intermediary? NZ company invests in property, non-resident owns or is shareholder of company. Apply usual tax dodges to move all the income offshore.
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Can we please stop with making a distinction between data and metadata? Metadata IS data. Whether or not a piece of data is classified (ha!) as metadata is entirely dependent on the context. If I'm interested in what is said during a phonecall, then for me the phonenumbers are metadata. If i'm interested in who calls who, then the phonenumbers are data.
By making a distinction between data and metadata in law, then it becomes almost trivial to work around it by pretending that your focus is on something else for which the information you are secretly really after is considered metadata.
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Around this time of year the setting Sun shines through some glass blocks and hits a bedroom wall at a glancing angle. Some lovely floor to ceiling caustics ensue.
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"we live in a dangerous world"
Fear!
'nothing to hide, nothing to fear'
Don't fear!
So if I fear the dangers in the world (which the government recommends), does that mean I must be hiding something (which the government finds suspicious)?
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For the great majority of those celebrating last night's marriage equality vote -- those who can already wed their chosen, or who have no wish to do so -- the victory in the House was symbolic.
Though being part of that great majority, I feel that living in a society which is now a bit more equal, a bit more just, a bit more human than before is more than symbolic.
