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Microsoft Takedown of Zeus Botnet
Apr 3rd
Kudos for Microsoft in taking the lead to squash so many of the botnets out there. They are doing things that law enforcement hasn’t been able to do. And they do it better too. Compare Microsoft’s approach, of selected targeting of specific hosts to the scattershot disruptive approach of the DOJ and ICE of grabbing DNS names.
To me the movie gets pretty boring past the Scranton hosting facility. Hosting services are being provided out of a section of rowhouses? And why does Scranton look like the Ukraine? That place really is a hellhole, isn’t it?
Thanks to Adam for the tip!
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Brendle What’s Maid Hate
Apr 2nd
“Brendle What” is a unique twitter account. He enjoys showcasing the vileness of hateful youngsters by retweeting their racist or elitist tweets. He was on a tear today retweeting the Maid Hate.
OHMYGOD MY MAID IS SO RETARDED;
— Gargi Mishra(@Gargixo) March 29, 2012
I’m so fucking frustrated right now I just want to mother fucking rant on and on about how fucking retarded my maid is. Omfg
— mavis (@akamavis) March 30, 2012
My maid is retarded , it’s fucking raining and she put my jacket into the washing machine. What the fuck-.-
— C ? R I N ? . ? (@_TEMPORARYBLISS) April 1, 2012
My maid is 14 years old, uneducated, forced to marry a deaf guy and somehow still has a smile on her face everyday!#inspiration
— Roukaya A. Nasr (@RoukayaAtef) March 31, 2012
Thank you cleaning lady for not vacuuming my hall floor causing me to step on glass and fuck up my foot.
— Windsey (@lindseylou_93) March 28, 2012
Y the fuck is the cleaning lady in my room right now being so loud and taking forever #imsleeping #leave
— Monique Terilli (@moeterilli) March 30, 2012
stupid cleaning lady threw away all my shopping bags and she organized my stuff in a wierd way -_- UGHHHH FUCK HER.
— swaggie? (@ayeitsamyxo) March 30, 2012
Yo why the fuck I gotta clean up for the cleaning lady! That’s so fucked up!!
— Jacob Bikshorn (@OldManBikshorn) April 1, 2012
Why the fuck is my cleaning lady just walking in now at 4pm? She need to learn how to be in and out before 12
— gonL aiN (@iFoundNar_Nia) April 2, 2012
Maid fucking pms-ing. Idiot. Hate that fucking face. Talking to her like talking to the wall.
— Amelia? (@Meliachua) March 27, 2012
My maid is so stupid omg she’s been giving my sister double dosage of medicine for two weeks. Goddamnit.
— Amanda(@italianmushroom) March 30, 2012
My cunt ass maid is getting fired finally!!!!!!!!! #thankthelord
— Erica ScottodiRosano (@ericascotto) March 28, 2012
“@c_gauth24: My maid is such a cunt. How about you actually clean my stuff. Your my, slave I pay you.” I FEEL THE SAME WAY BOUT MINE !!!
— Aja Duplessis (@ajaduplessis) April 2, 2012
My cleaning lady broke my shower door……what a bitch #firstworldproblems
— Kay Higgs (@Stuff_Kay_Says) March 28, 2012
Haha….the cleaning lady at work said the spiders on the counter not her problem….lmao…..bitch it is….that shit pose to be clean
— Candii Bee (@KissinCandii) March 29, 2012
Hate how my mom makes me clean my room before the cleaning lady comes…like da fuck are we paying the bitch for #comeon
— Dana Matedero (@Danaaa1020) March 30, 2012
my cleaning lady is singing… wtf bitch, just clean.
— mckenathomas (@miCkayyOfficial) April 2, 2012
Just walked into my room and realized the 900 things my cleaning lady did wrong.So furious I’m not sure whether to kill or deport her..
— Alex Johns. (@AlexJJohns) March 28, 2012
That’s it. I am gonna kill my maid. I swear. She’s gonna get it from. She fucking will. You’ll be dead bitch.
— NadiahEfendi (@nadiahefendi) April 1, 2012
Gads, the pure lack of respect for someone that works a thankless job is pretty jarring eh?
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Great News! More EngineerGuy Videos Coming Soon
Mar 31st
What’s been the delay? Well, according to this video, Bill is just a little clumsy.
And yeah, I kinda want this book too.
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Cool Sand Flea Jumping Robot
Mar 28th
Its a four-wheel drive remote control car that can launch itself 30 feet in the air, stabilize its flight so that it lands on its wheels. Not too sure what they will do with it other than make a viral video? Anyone see any real-world application for this type of robot? It seems a little limited for combat situations too?
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Someone Get This Elephant an iPad
Mar 28th
This is a pretty amazing video of an elephant using a smartphone. Remarkable about how accurate and gentle he can be with that trunk.
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Byron Sonne Was Emailing Anarchists- Who Are Now Locked Up
Mar 23rd
Byron Sonne, a would-be anarchist and mad bomber of the G20 is still undergoing trial up in Toronto. See my previous posts for more background. An interesting tidbit of information gleaned from the good notes taken by Chris Olah mentions that the prosecution in the Byron Sonne case is still working on some evidence dealing with emails to now-convicted anarchists Leah Henderson and Amanda Hiscocks.
The notes for today’s very brief sesion of the #FreeByron trial: github.com/colah/ByronTri… — Agreed Statement not done. #Canada
— Chris Olah (@ch402) March 23, 2012
“Crown interested in emails btwn Sonne & activist Leah Henderson” Byron Sonne trial Continues via @OpenFile shar.es/pd9oh #G20
— Carmelle Wolfson (@TeamCarmelle) March 23, 2012
I can’t find what the content of those emails are other than Byron Sonne offering to monitor police radio channels to inform anarchists about locations of the police- but it is telling that the two primary ringleaders of the G20 Anarchy riots in Toronto were pals with Byron Sonne and were actively corresponding with him. So who are these jailed anarchists? Crazed Moonbats.
Leah Henderson is a fat troll who is serving a 10 month sentence after getting busted by undercover cops plotting violence and destruction during the G20.
At her sentencing she went on a leftist diatribe:
Henderson’s offence was “not even close” to constituting Charter-protected speech.
The court was packed with Henderson’s supporters, some of whom sniggered and made derogatory remarks as Mr. Miller spoke, prompting the judge to intervene at one point.
Henderson, 27, was also given a chance to address the court, saying she had been “deeply and profoundly affected” by her arrest and the ensuing process. In a brief statement later posted online, she rejected Canada’s legal system and decried “the distorted mirror that hides of the lies of capitalism.”
“The laws that govern our societies are not laws of community, or laws of consensus, they are laws of oppression. Laws that underpay and overwork mothers. That deport the poor and those of colour. Laws that rob Indigenous Nations of their traditions, their land, their childhoods. Laws that blame the unemployed and rewards those that get rich on their backs.”
And for these radical leftist beliefs, fat ugly bitches try to smash windows. And she’s not alone. Also corresponding with Sonne via email was this disgusting woman, Amanda Hiscocks, who is serving a 16 month stint in jail for her participation in encouraging violence during the G20. Her trial and sentencing were constantly disrupted by her cohorts-
G20 protest ringleader Amanda Hiscocks says she has no respect for the legal system, and her supporters demonstrated that in spades Friday, throwing a Toronto courthouse into chaos for nearly two hours before the accused was jailed for 16 months.
Ms. Hiscocks, who pleaded guilty in November to counselling others to commit mischief and to obstruct police in the run-up to the 2010 world leaders’ summit, is among the last of the so-called G20 conspiracy group to be sentenced. Of the six who pleaded guilty to counselling offences, all have been sentenced except for ringleader Alex Hundert, whose case was adjourned until April.
Before Ms. Hiscocks was led away in handcuffs to begin serving her 16-month sentence she asked to address the court.
Her speech was a wide-ranging attack on the justice system, which she likened to the Ku Klux Klan while commenting on systemic racism and inequality in the courts.
“Your system is not about justice,” Ms. Hiscocks said.
Judge Budzinski, who repeatedly interjected during her address, suggested Ms. Hiscocks was hypocritical to denounce elitism while advocating a method of protest that violently invaded public space and silenced opposing views.
Lovely people. Maybe jail can cure the stupid. But these are Sonne’s pals, and the association with these anarchists is going to factor into the verdict.
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Moonbat Congressman Grills NSA Chief About “President Cheney’s Hunting Accident”
Mar 21st
Hank Johnson, a Democrat and moonbat from the state of Georgia has some serious fantasy and paranoia issues. His committee called the NSA Chief and CYBERCOM commander General Keith Alexander to answer about their abilities to monitor US Communications. Watch as he drills Alexander about his own paranoid fantasy of the evil President Dick Cheney who wants to “detain and incessantly waterboard every American who sent an email” about his hunting accident. What the hell is wrong with these leftists? One terrorist was waterboarded twice and he coughed up all kinds of intelligence. And to leftists, this equates to Dick Cheney and Halliburton torturing every American over email messages? Disgusting.
The story is from Wired, who relies on some retarded uninformed whistle-blower who says that the NSA has all this wiretapping infrastructure. There is nothing newsworthy from Ryan Singel’s news article to quote, but there is something meaty in the comments which is far more accurate about the NSA’s capabilities- Sean Bauer wrote:
I have an insider at NSA as well. My father has worked at Ft. Meade for 43 years, and is getting ready to retire this year. He was the Director of Linguistics for the Russian Department throughout the 80′s & 90′s. After 9/11 he was asked to head the newly formed Department assigned to track-down and sieze Al Qaeda money world wide. He has spent the past 10 years in that position. His days are spent analyzing network traffic, tapping bank accounts, writing reports, and obtaining court authorizations. Needless to say, I have heard my fair share of stories regarding NSA. My father has always been open and honest with me regarding his work. While I’m sure he leaves out many details, he has always answered my questions knowledgeably and with enthusiasm.
Contrary to popular belief, NSA does not currently have the capacity to monitor all network traffic world wide, nor will it in the future. The best they can muster is to focus on certain regions, networks and individuals. Through other means of intelligence gathering NSA is able to narrow it’s focus, and in turn better utilize their much restricted resources. Even the new Data Center will not be enough to monitor all world wide traffic. People simply don’t realize what an astronomical feat that entails. My father tells me it would take a lot more than 1 Data Center to filter all traffic. With that said, here’s a quote my father said to me recently: “Why on Earth would NSA want to spend valuable resources monitoring your sexting in the first place? We are FAR SMARTER than you give us credit for. NSA doesn’t need to monitor “everything”. Paranoia fuels that fallacy.”
In regards to the “Secret Courts” (It is located at Ft. Meade headqaurters by the way. I guess it’s not so secret any more). It is true NSA had free reign during the Bush administration. My father was able to obtain any authorization he needed, without a court order. The court was pretty much non functional during that period. However, when Obama took office all that changed. My father now has to go before the court on a regular basis. He even complains he has to go to work early so he can make sure he has everything in order for the court that day. He mentions how strict they have become and finds it much harder to obtain authorizations. The days of free reign are no longer common practice at NSA according to my father. Yes, a few extremest Americans are monitored, but only under extreme circumstances and careful scrutiny by the Court. The idea all Americans are being monitored and indiscriminately targeted is another NSA fallacy fueled by paranoia.
If you think Dick Cheney is trying to read your emails, you might be a liberal.
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Warehouse Inventory Run by Robots
Mar 20th
I love applying technology to solve tedious tasks. Working in a warehouse environment sucks and this system looks like a way to revolutionize order fulfillment.
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Your Tax Dollars At Work: NSA Plays Ostrich with Wikileaks Keywords
Mar 16th
I have heard rumors that the entire NSA facility is an “open classified facility.” This means that you simply can’t get in without a clearance, unless its to one of their unclassified conference rooms. It also means that it is permissible to leave documents labeled as classified out on the desktop. But this story came out today revealing that the NSA has a global “spam filter” in that they block all inbound email that contains the word “wikileaks” in it.
Now usually, this blocking of emails wouldn’t be much of a problem in Civilian agencies such as the FDA, USDA, DOI and others- facilities that aren’t cleared to view information pertaining to the classified State Department documents leaked by Bradley Manning to Julian Assange’s Wikileaks- those agencies would typically have to initiate a “classified spillage” drill to scrub information from the hard drives of affected systems that viewed such sensitive information, despite its wide availability online. In these Federal Civilian agencies cases, such precautions make a little bit of sense. But for the NSA? Despite the secret clearances of everyone employed there, they are still trying to “protect” their users from viewing what an adversary has released?
Anyways, its affected the ability of prosecutors to properly send Bradley Manning to his much deserved doom. From Politico here:
At a hearing last month, prosecutors in the case against Pfc. Bradley Manning noted that they didn’t receive the messages but could not explain why. Chief prosecutor Capt. Ashden Fein said at a hearing Thursday that the messages had been “blocked by a spam filter for security.”.
“Apparently, they were blocked because the word ‘WikiLeaks’ was somewhere in the e-mail,” Coombs said.
Fein said there is now a procedure in place to check the spam filter on a daily basis for errant e-mails. In addition, military Judge Col. Denise Lind said prosecutors had set up an alternate e-mail account that shouldn’t encounter the same problem.
So Eleven years after 9/11 we still have people trying to prevent our intelligence agencies from gathering intelligence. Pretty stupid.
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More LOLsuits Threatened
Mar 14th
As the trial of Byron Sonne looms large, his most ardent supporters, who have put their reputations on the line that he will be found innocent, must be biting their nails. Its not everyone who can count among their friends a man who, in a fit of anarchistic fury, convinced the cops that he was plotting to blow up the G20 in Toronto.
One of these supporters, James Arlen, a liberal frequent guest speaker at hacker conventions, despises me because of my criticism of Byron Sonne. You see, Sonne had his CISSP suspended for his actions leading up to the G20 in which he made threats against the police. Sonne was also busted cooking explosives in his house that was bought and paid for by his wealthy wife’s family. That would-be anarcho-terrorist is loved by Arlen. Arlen has donated cash to Sonne’s defense fund. But a CISSP in good standing like me who criticizes Sonne’s actions must be silenced.
He is threatening lawsuits and attempting to have my own CISSP certification suspended simply because of my speech.
I was debating the cost of getting a complaint notarized – no longer debating. I was debating the cost of a lawsuit – no longer debating.
— James Arlen (@myrcurial) March 9, 2012
@CanSec One group failing to police their own characterizes the entire group.
— James Arlen (@myrcurial) March 9, 2012
@CanSec dm me an email address and I’ll send you a copy of the complaint.
— James Arlen (@myrcurial) March 9, 2012
Arlen even attempted to contact a former employer to complain about my free speech in an effort to silence my criticism of Sonne:
Anyone at Netwitness available for a quick consultation on an issue?
— James Arlen (@myrcurial) March 9, 2012
Pretty cowardly.
And what is ironic is that Arlen was a vocal critic of SOPA, which would have had the effect of creating censorship on the Internet.
You see, as a typical liberal, Arlen is a big believer in free speech so long as it supports liberal group-think. Any opposition or deviation is quickly labeled as “hate speech.”
@BelchSpeak The shame is yours alone for your bullying behaviour and unsupportable bigotry and hate.
— James Arlen (@myrcurial) March 9, 2012
Not that Arlen could point to a single thing I’ve said that is bigoted or hateful. Oh, yeah, I called him fat, which he is. He continues to threaten a libel lolsuit, but all I have to do is point to his ginormous gut as exhibit A.
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Metal Storm for Your Network
Mar 13th
I’ve been working for a while on a new gig, and I still get to use NetWitness on client networks, so that’s awesome- but I generated a new philosophical discussion over my refusal to encrypt email updates to the client.
My team mates on the project suggested to me that, “Best practices dictate that any communications to the customer takes place over secured channels.”
“Why?” I countered. “My communications to my home server is encrypted. My home server sends out email via TLS. If the customer somehow downloads the email unencrypted, then I’ll just list that as a finding for the final report.”
“But what if the adversary is somehow reading the email?” they asked. For years, incident response teams in unfamiliar territory on a network have to make a presumption that the adversaries on the network might be listening and intercepting communications.
I replied, “I don’t think the adversary is interested in what we have to say, and besides, I don’t care if he knows we are on the network and are shutting him out.”
The team mates seemed shocked. “Look,” I continued, “I’m tired of keeping the red carpet out for these A-holes. They aren’t welcome on this network. You think they might be peeking at application data? I have the biggest packet sniffer ever on this network. I have the advantage from now on. He might see one thing we do, but we see everything he does. Let him know we are here; have the bigger guns. I hope he’s scared and will delete everything and never come back. The game has changed. We are in charge now.”
And I saw some shrugs and nods and could tell they were considering my words. Back in the day when an incident responder had to crawl from system to system with a limited set of disk-based forensics tools, that forensics examiner was always playing defense, attempting to reconstruct network movement based on snippets of data files or incomplete logs. Now with a network-wide sniffer like NetWitness, a forensics investigator can quickly locate adversaries and work to alter control systems to block the intruders. Its only defense for the first moments, and then the power shifts away from the adversary and back to where it belongs- the owner of the network.
One person mentioned it was like creating an “area denial weapon” for a network and then he showed me the Metal Storm video. Thats the kind of power you feel you have when you are matching NetWitness against intruders on a network.
No more welcome mats.
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Job Opening At PayPal
Mar 13th
Ugh, this is sad. An executive at PayPal, battling mental illness, apparently threw himself in front of a commuter train in Silicon Valley widowing his wife and leaving three small children at home.
From the DailyMail here:
PayPal vice-president killed by commuter train had been suffering from depression
The PayPal executive struck and killed by a California train last week suffered from depression and bipolar II disorder his family said.
Eric Salvatierra, 39, vice president of customer advocacy and operational excellence, was standing on the tracks of a Caltrain commuter train Friday morning when hit.
The family of Mr Salvatierra, who leaves behind a wife, Meredith Ackley, and three daughters, aged three, eight and 10, released a statement saying he was diagnosed with the mental illness last summer.
‘In the past eight months, Eric and Meredith worked tirelessly with mental health professionals to get him through his illness,’ the statement obtained by Mercury News read. ‘In the end, he lost his fight with this debilitating disease.’
I often forget that mental illness is often a terminal illness. Any suicide is tragic and even worse when such a young family is involved. But I suppose now one poor train driver is going to be drinking away the horrifying image of flattening a Silicon Valley fat cat with his locomotive.
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Occupy Wall Street Now a Video Game
Mar 10th
Lame-0-rang. A bunch of dope-smoking hippies came up with a poorly coded video game based on Occupy Wall Street. How hard would it be to win a game where the players smash a few windows, refuse to bathe and sit in tents? The gameplay is actually even worse than that.
From RT here by way of Twitchy:
Programmers in Oakland, California have unveiled a video games inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement.
The gameplay appears quite simple, but without two players cooperating together, a goal is impossible to accomplish. Maneuvering two sets of controls, gamers move characters through a series of switches one at a time to ascend a tower all the way to the top. When the clock ticks down, players then have to parachute down and, as Wired explains, “occupies” a switch and, thus, saves their score.
“Someone who’s maybe not super good at video games might only get to an early switch, but they’ll still stay behind and hold that switch and help all future players to still be contributing something that’s significant.”
So are they selling the game or giving it away for free? The jobless Occupiers, who are mostly vacationing back in their parents’ basements, might have to ask Mom and Dad for the iTunes cash to download it onto their iPads.
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LulzSec Hacker Delivered DefCon Manifesto in 2004
Mar 8th
I was reading more about Jeremy Hammond, the hacker caught up in the Stratfor hack and realized I saw his scrawny ass give his manifesto screen to the DefCon crowd to boos and hisses in 2004. Many security gurus laughed saying he had seen “Fight Club” way too many times.
His photo doesn’t show that this weasel is 5’6″ but when I saw him, he had the audacity to deliver a speech wearing a bandana around his face.
From FoxNews here:
A top hacker with LulzSec is a committed anarchist who mocked the 9/11 attacks, spoke of burning down the White House and ridiculed pacifist protesters for not using violence to achieve their means, FoxNews.com has learned.
Jeremy Hammond, whose online handles “Anarchaos” and “crediblethreat” and “tylerknowsthis” underscored his virulent anti-government beliefs, was arrested up Tuesday in Chicago as part of an international sweep netting top members of the hacker group LulzSec and its affiliates. The 27-year-old is a self-styled anarchist. He took credit for the massive attack on the global intelligence company Stratfor and even embraced being branded a “terrorist” in a speech at a 2004 hacker convention caught on video.
“One man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist,” Hammond told the audience at the annual DefCon hackers conference in Las Vegas 2004. “So let them call us terrorists,” he added moments later. “I’ll still bomb their buildings.”
I remember being in the audience at that DefCon. I was with the DHS NCSD at the time, and when this guy spoke other hackers hissed him, and taunted him that he wasn’t in “Fight Club,” and I remember one FAA guy vow to put this twat on a watch list. I guess he stayed on that watch list according to the story. In and out of jail for years now, this anarchist and assured Occupy member is going back to the poke.
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Sabu Snitched, Anonymous Rounded Up
Mar 7th
Sabu, aka Hector Xavier Monsegur, has been outed by the FBI as a notorious snitch and former leader of Lulzsec. While he was busy helping the Feds round up his former cohorts who attacked HBGary Federal and other security companies, he lawyered up and copped a plea to avoid jail time.
EncyclopediaDramatica taunts this leftist script kiddie saying:
Sabu would hunt down XSS vulnerabilities in comment fields, so his fellow anons could redirect their enemies to porn and give “hacked by XxAnonymousLegionxX” popups via alert(). Eventually, Sabu’s stance within the Anonymous borg gave him the impression that he could finally do something with his life by founding “notorious troll-hacker group” LulzSec.
Sabu exchanged the dox of Topiary and Kayla for his freedom in order to “protect” his children, despite the fact that they probably would have made a better life for themselves without him, as his parenting techniques involve sitting around eating cereal and sniffing glue. Sabu lived in the projects off of government cheese, all the while bashing big brother via Twitter
Sabu was not an internet champion. He was a criminal and a spoiled OccupyWallSt type of brat who managed to avoid his own jail time by ratting out his friends. And according to CNET, a girl turned him into the FBI.
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Carbonite Stocks Drop After They Drop Advertising on Rush
Mar 7th
It seems that conservatives upset with Carbonite are logging on, pulling their files off the remote Carbonite servers and deleting their accounts. They are also selling off the Carbonite Stocks.
From the DailyCaller here:
On Saturday, Carbonite CEO David Friend released a statement on his company’s website declaring that Carbonite had decided to “withdraw” advertising from Rush Limbaugh’s radio show in the wake of his controversial remarks involving Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke because it will “ultimately contribute to a more civilized public discourse”:
Even though Mr. Limbaugh has now issued an apology, we have nonetheless decided to withdraw our advertising from his show. We hope that our action, along with the other advertisers who have already withdrawn their ads, will ultimately contribute to a more civilized public discourse.
However, it hasn’t done much to contribute to his company’s stock price. Since the market opened on Monday through its close today, Carbonite stock (NASDAQ:CARB) has plummeted nearly 12 percent, outpacing the drop of the NASDAQ index in that same time period by nine-and-a-half points. It was also one of the biggest decliners on the NASDAQ on Tuesday.
Ah, the free market is speaking. Actually, I never use Carbonite or any other online backup. Its too risky to give away data ownership to an external group that will have access to snoop your files. There is a privacy issue, plus there is a major risk of actually losing the files that you think you are backing up. Just look at MegaUpload. Tons of people were using Kim DotCom’s service for legitimate file backup. When the Feds swooped in and shutdown the site, people lost those files.
Carbonite’s stock reflects the value of the company. Its obviously worth less now that it is not advertising on the most popular radio show on the planet. But its a security issue to give your files to any external group. Only use online backups for files that have a temporary nature or files you can live without.
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The FBI is Unmasking Anonymous
Mar 7th
There has been loads of good news on the cyber law-enforcement front. Seems that the Feds know how to generate some lulz too, including how to drop some serious dox. They are exposing the dope-smoking anarchistic leftists behind the Anonymous and Lulzsec groups. I’ll get into more of that in later posts. But right now look at Jeremy Hammond, who looks like he was stoned for his arrest picture.
From the DailyCaller here:
A hacker involved in the December 2011 cyberattacks on private intelligence firm Stratfor was arrested late Monday evening in Chicago. The hacker was one of six members of hacktivist group Anonymous charged with “computer hacking and other crimes,” the FBI said Tuesday.
Chicago native Jeremy Hammond — a member of Anonymous splinter-group Antisec — was arrested by the FBI late Monday evening as part of a greater sting on the leadership of Anonymous, a group once thought to be leaderless.
The international sting comes one week after the publication of Stafor’s private email correspondence — which was obtained through the cyberattack — by WikiLeaks and its various international media partners.
Hammond (“Anarchaos”), a 27 year old from Chicago, Ill. was the only other American charged in the case. New York native Hector Xavier Monsegur (“Sabu”) — a 28-year-old alleged kingpin of the group — plead guilty in August 2011 to the charges he faced and cooperated with federal officials in exchange for leniency. Monsegur is an unemployed father of two.
In addition to the Americans charged Tuesday, several of the members — all of whom identified themselves as members of Anonymous, Internet Feds and/or LulzSec — were from the U.K. and Ireland. Ryan Ackroyd (“Kayla”), Jake Davis (“Topiary”), Darren Martyn (“Pwnsauce”) and Donncha O’Cearrbhail (“Palladium”) were charged.
The only way these anarchists will learn is to make them serve long jail stretches. It should dissuade the other skiddies out there in the Warner Bros. copyrighted V for Vendetta masks. But I have a feeling that the Feds are finished with their lulz yet.
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Enigma Machine at RSA Conference
Feb 29th

Crypto, a photo by BelchSpeak on Flickr.
I got to get a close look at the German Enigma machine at a booth at the RSA Conference. Fantastic crypto device! Of course it was ultimately cracked by some nerds at Bletchley Park.
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Ubuntu for the Android- True Desktop to Mobility
Feb 28th
While I was troubleshooting my own Ubuntu installation, I came across this awesome video showing an Android phone that runs Ubuntu and is dockable to a larger screen to enable traditional input devices. Looks fantastic! Truly a desktop to mobility solution.
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