Posts by JaitcH 3904 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Oct 2009
Simply more shit Piled Higher and Deeper.
When I saw pictures of The Guardian having to smash up old Apple computers, I had little doubt that that piece of human slime called Jeremy Heywood, who hangs out in No. 10, had made threats against the newspaper.
All without the aid of PowerPoint!
Besides, the immediate reactions from GCHQ and NSA served as quite sufficient proof they were up to no good.
I've been asked to take lie detector tests as part of job application processing as well as a couple of investigations. As a Canadian I can refuse.
I agreed to one but the examiner said 'The subject was unable to comply with conditions' (I took medication before the test). If a prospective subject doesn't co-operate with a test conditions, they will never work properly and therefore any 'results' will be inaccurate.
I still got the contract, I was the best candidate for the work involved.
Same with retina scans - they don't work unless you adhere to their demands when they acquire your scans. I don't have any scans, either.
The equipment isn't much better - look at the Apple fingerprint device - or the expose involving the German Defence Minister.
the bad guys spray painting advertising on walls with contact numbers. Ditto with posters stuck on street furniture like lamp posts, etc.
But they cured it - any telephone number displayed in illegal advertising is cancelled and replaced with another WITHOUT referencing.
The result? Some of the cleanest streets you will see - world wide!
Cancelling cell numbers works.
Any equipment I buy must have external storage - and excludes CLOUD, I don't want to share my stuff with the NSA and GCHQ.
@Anthony Hegedus:
"I have android devices and yes, they have a microSD cards but they're not that useful:"
What a crock. SD memory configuration is established by the manufacturer. Note 4 can handle up to 128Gbyte.
You shouldn't be so cheap when buying SD cards - a couple of percent more can buy you a lifetime warranty.
My wife loads her Note with Bittorent movies, leaves her Note in Hotspot mode in the dining room of our hotel dining room and the guests can down load their choices for the next leg of their journey.
SD work well, if you know how to use them.
I don't have enough fingers on my hands to count the times that North Korea has humiliated the USA.
From the USS Pueblo to nuclear bombs and rockets - the North Koreans copy the USA and act with impunity.
The USA, after it lost the American War in VietNam, slapped sanctions on the country, and did VietNam a favour. European technology dominates because the Europeans ignored these petty bans.
We are are self-sufficient in VietNam, save a few shortages of electricity, I can have custom products made by skilled craftsmen that neither the USA, Canada or the UK offer. Where in these countries can you pop down with your transportation of delight and have a custom accessory manufactured?
When I design an electronic device I go straight from Electronic Circuit Simulation Software / Circuit Simulators to CAD, e-mail my design to the PCB manufacturers and have five PCBs the next day with solder resist and text/graphics overlay.
I have to wait a whole TWO DAYS if I want 100 pieces. And the prices would make you cry - a 10cm square board costs me less than a USD$1.25!
So go ahead, USA, do enemies favours, they are better off without you.
P.S. Guess which country is begging VN to buy more products and to rent their old Cam Ranh Bay facilities from VN?
US domain that plays by US rules.
EUROland complains about the US meddling in things such as MS servers in Ireland ... they should understand this works both ways.
My web sites carry stuff that deliberately challenges UK laws - but do I care? No, I obey the laws of the land where the domains are registered and the servers are located.
The Advertising Standards Authority is manned by a bunch of ageing retards who live in the 1950's - BANNED IN BRITAIN is their rallying call. Time that community standards ruled, not old fuddy-duddies who think missionary is the ONLY way.
They are the types that censored Bloody January, Again by Flanders and Swann.
apart from the fact they could do evil with it, next they will set up an Apple credit bureau. Along with health, Apple has a lot of data to sell.
Coming soon ... walk by CC data theft. Or even by 'bumping' someone whilst making a call and getting credit approval info.
The amoral scum inhabiting the doughnut in Gloucestershire as well as those at Bude and Menwith Hill will never be forced to drop their pants as far as this.
That's because their oversight committees, especially the former minister, are as culpable as anyone.
Seems to me that Belkin has never managed to meet, or beat, the quality of competitors.
For example, they had a Notebook Security Lock - all it is good for is making the security hole in the laptop large enough until it falls out. Pure junk.
If you are going into home-based systems it's essential not to locked in to a non-standard communications protocol. Look at X-10, supported by numerous Third Party vendors.
Nest is solid because it has Google behind it.
where Samsung makes Note 4's. And now they are building a second plant.
Vietnamese workers can strike, form unions, demonstrate and the VN Labour Code is very definitive (and superior to the US labour 'standards'). There are national pension and health plans, too.
Come to think of it, may be the benefits are why Apple is NOT in VN!
It's just as well that Prestwick looks after OCEANIC traffic, otherwise a sizable chunk of world air transportation would have been compromised.
Twenty-five year old software, overloaded computers and an American contractor with a history, little wonder the system collapsed.
Better to use AMSterdam or PARis then take the train.
Given that the USA and Israel have expended so much energy and money attacking Iran in so many ways, what credibility is there left.
Just as with the American War in VietNam, the USA lost so much face (were so embarrassed) by a bunch of clerics in Iran kicking out their anointed sheep and having to close down all the NSA monitoring stations that kept an eye on Russian rocket activity.
The simplest solution to all this alleged hacking is to cut the InterNet connections. But that would NSA and GCHQ out of business.
all the video intercoms/door controls are installed in locations in the various apartment designs where maximum viewability of the apartment can be achieved. Mind you, this requires the control units being installed in some very inconvenient or unusual places and are a damn nuisance to work furniture layouts or access around.
I 'modified' my unit by pulling the microphone connectors loose along those with those of the camera.
Couple of days later a technician shows up, unannounced and unrequested and tells me my intercom unit is defective.
Asked what the problem was he advised me they can't see in the apartment nor hear what's going on.
I told him I had cut the wires (more dramatic) as I don't need the facility. I asked where his company was from he replied: 'Singapore'. He added, most every Singapore apartment has these things and many are connected to the 'emergency' (police/fire) services.
So much for Singapore being a 'free' country.
Blunkett must be one of the more amoral politicians in Britain, if not the world.
On many levels he is little better than the scum in a sewage works. RIPA was written to breach British citizens Rights, such as they were, which today are practically non-existent.
Blunkett was the mechanism through which the unbalanced extradition treaty between the UK and the USA was implemented.
He also betrayed the spirit of the Labour Party. (I am not a supporter)
You have to wonder about British priorities.
The GCHQ is effectively stripping your life and privacy bare yet only a few people seem to recognise the danger.
But the porn sites (around 50% featuring Asian/Orient women) are sacrosanct.
Of course, CAMERON and that woman from Maidenhead - MAY- have exposed their ignorance of the InterNet and VPN's.
The UK government issued 'high tech' passports, the only trouble is the pictures fade away! They still require TWO photo's and instead of using one real photograph and an e-copy they opted for two e-photos.
The e-photos can be deliberately caused to fade and replacement photographs can be 'imprinted' in their place using electronic deposition technology.
USD$50 in China! So much for security.
And what of people who don't have the necessary documents?
the UK design or even manufacture smartphones?
The Plesseys, GCEsn Marconis and STCs generated technological breakthroughs - yet now the UK can't even get on the cell phone bandwagon.
But we are good at spying.
I've just returned home to VietNam after a couple of months in China.
It's unbelievable but I've seen the infamous MS Blue Screen on many ATMs.
At night, when the cash registers are idled I've seen after screen of XP at rest!
Same here in VietNam, thousands of ATMs still running XP, I have a friend who an ATM tech and he confirmed what I saw on the screen of some crashed ATMs - XP Rules!
Ditto in supermarkets and larger stores, more XP territory.
Don't mince your words - Singapore is a dictatorship, just like China, etc.
SP (Singapore) is flat-out a dictatorship with all the necessary trappings of such countries from secret police (using Tetra radios), to constant monitoring (and blocking) of the InterNet and telephone systems.
Every aspect of SP residents lives are collected and stored in government computers. They use 'block-busting' techniques to move voters around that would make US gerry-mandering look tame.
Censorship is rife, due to electronic newspaper publication they can no longer stop and cut-up newspapers at Customs. Radio reception is difficult in the tropics and a decent HF antenna sure gets the wrong people's attention.
I was 'posted' there for a 11 month work stint but I refused to live there, prefering Malaysia as it is not so authoritarian. A short commute on the subway was time enough to read all the news that fits.
Australian Signals Directorate, along with GCHQ, NSA and Singaporean 'intelligence' agencies tap undersea fibre optic telecommunications cables that link Asia, the Middle East and Europe and Australia.
Their favourite target, the SEA-ME-WE-3 cable, lands at Tuas on the western side of Singapore Island. Access to the SEA-ME-WE-3 cable is via Singapore's government-owned operator SingTel.
GCHQ used to hang out at Chia Keng 2 (CK2) but have now moved to a military base whose name begins with K and is located in one of the 'highest' parts of SP. They also have air-conditing as opposed to the olds fans.
What I thought was most telling was a comment I overheard from an adjacent table of Singy guys in a SaiGon pho (noodle) shop was when one said: 'I feel so free here (la). I can't believe it (la)'.
Rifkind, the sad excuse for a former Tory minister, should accept that the UK has no powers over corporations operations not in it's judicial reach. And this includes most of the US social service sites.
His position is that Facebook should operate under UK laws in the US, where web site operators are treated like Common Carriers and are not responsible for the content of communications.
He doesn't expect BT or some other Telco to be responsible for communications, so why should companies in other jurisdictions?
Dell builds consumer junk and has poor / non-existent support. Strange hardware, too.
HP has Third Party (dubious) support and corporate problems. That aging blonde running the show seems to have a new 'idea' almost monthly. I expect anything I buy to be supported for at least three years.
BTW: Were these prices VAT-in or VAT-out?
Anyone who has read the specifications for the test standards to be met for the installation of underground conduits issued by BT must be impressed, as if they were installing high technology involved in, say, rocket launching facilities.
It's time the UK network providers took a gander at what is happening on other countries.
Railways are very popular partners as they have the rights of way through all manner of landscapes - and are a kiss to use for installation of fibre optics.
Abandoned pipe systems are also popular - it's amazing how much infrastructure lies abandoned underground, just rusting away.
Sewers are used in Paris - they even have mini-crawlers that haul cable into conduits too small for even a midget to crawl in to - and everyone has a sewer connection.
In Toronto, a Western common carrier checked out Bell Canada's pole/conduit lease rates and decided it was cheaper to plow in (a tracked vehicle with a 'hoe' on the back cutting the ground and laying cable) very well armoured cable straight into the dirt under the roads in fully developed areas - not virgin ground.
Of course, nothing beats a pro-active regulator as Canada (now) has whose enabling legislation gives them control over all property owned by telco's and cellco's and permit's them to stipulate/dictate the terms under which one company can lease facilities from a competing incumbent.
Today's cable together with current cable laying techniques can bypass the artificial bottlenecks thrown up by BT.
Better still, the UK government could establish a stand-alone fibre grid, such as used in electricity distribution, with the ISP's simply accessing it for onward sale.
The rights of way of gas lines and fuel oil lines are another public asset to be exploited. Remember the tank farm fire in HEMEL HEMPSTEAD a few years ago? It was a feeder to Heathrow Airport. Hard to imagine a quicker, more direct, route than one used by a pipeline.
If you wear glasses for reading, taking them OFF negates any difference in the screens. And saves you hundreds of Pounds, Dollars or even millions of Dong.
But Samsung still has some software bugs such as when a Euro language is selected - it still lets Chinese or Vietnamese appear onscreen when used in Asian countries.
their spots and seemingly Tigers never change their stripes, either!
Telephone company mathematics are as tricky as unravelling cryptographic code - they've been at it for years. No one has been practicing accounting slight of hand better - and now the new, broken up, AT&T carries on the tradition.
If you do a Traceroute on a HSBC account, regardless of country, you will find they all end up in New Jersey, USA. All the ATM's, via MUX systems, also end up in New Jersey.
If you e-mail any HSBC entity they, too, are routed through the HSBC 'e-mail washing machine'
So why does a major breach not suggest that other regions in the HSBC banking computers cannot be equally easily penetrated? This is NOT the first time.
Sounds like a lot of PR tosh is being applied.
After saying he will refuse the return of Freedom Fighters to the UK, which is not only illegal but impossible to impose on UK-born citizens, he now says he will regulate the InterNet.
The biggest challenge is the US Constitution - freedom of speech. Do you think Obama actually likes reading about his activities on www.CRYPTOME.org or https://firstlook.org/The Intercept/ But even Obama is between a rock and a hard place.
And Cameron more and more resembles "The Emperor's New Clothes" (Danish: Kejserens nye Klæder)(Hans Christian Andersen) - the InterNet has defeated more people with skills that dwarf him.
And is he going reach out and remove material on servers in non-UK countries that offend his sensibilities? I don't think so.
After years of reprogramming cell handsets IMEI numbers with special cables hooked up to laptops (unlawful in the UK), the new (certain models) are a whiz to reprogram the IMEI 'on the run' using an App and a power adapter. Maybe you can still get it done at weekend markets - I had my first change decades ago at the High Wycombe Market.
My changing the IMEI had nothing to do with crime, just privacy. I don't use my smartphone in a standard mode - it is a permanent MESH node used to access WiFi and the InterNet by other nodes.
Remember, if you use roaming out of your carriers area, you must change the SIM and the IMEI concurrently BEFORE turning it on, make a call, so the IMEI is registered with the SIM issuer system.
Many WiFi and Bluetooth Apps scrape handset info, for who knows what.
Of course, using the same IMEI on different cells and different networks would sort of spoil the Plod and Marshals little spy escapades.
I simply cook my passport in the microwave, along with a cup of water, for 80 seconds and Bingo! the evil chip is like the parrot in Monty Python's "Pet Shop Sketch" or "Parrot Sketch" ... deceased.
It doesn't make immigration clearance any slower since a surprising number don't have RFID readers.
The old reprobate, father of children born if unions outside marriage, is the LAST PERSON I would take guidance from in the matter of morals.
If using security procedures make the likes of Blunkett, and his cohorts, call me a `terrorist`then I am proud to be called so, as NO government has rights to access my communications, or my thoughts.
When travelling through certain airports I always leave extra time to have a chat with the dead-heads that represent Blunkett`s thought process. They ask question`s such as `Why is your laptop devoid of data` (I always like the correct English they use), `Why are you carrying a smartphone without a SIM or data` (to save weight). My favourite was, when using a UK passport, to be denied entry to Canada - and I am a Canadian citizen!
These result from the Blunkett`s of this world - totally disconnected brain functions.
I have used PGP since a weekend many moon cycles ago when it was released on bulletin boards in California. Great stuff and Phil Zimmerman deserves all the accolades he has received since writing such an effective piece of code that has frustrated GCHQ and NSA for so many years.
I guess, to GCHQ and NSA `thought`processes, that makes Phil Zimmerman a MASTER TERRORIST.
Even the Government of VietNam, an alleged `Communist`nation but actually socialist, permits the use of encryption. Of course, it does nothing like the Five Eyes do by way of surveillance or mistreats it`s former employees as they did Peter Tomlinson.
My employer, in a fit of trying to support UK industry, bought four of the original boards with a with to using them in some of our products.
Unfortunately, they failed largely for mechanical reasons when subjected to appropriate tests as they lacked sufficient mounting holes. Now mounting holes are the most noticeable feature!
Pity, we are now gobbling up Beagle Boards.
“All of GCHQ's work is carried out in accordance with a strict legal and policy framework, which ensure[s] that our activities are authorized, necessary and proportionate, and that there is rigorous oversight, including from the Secretary of State, the Interception and Intelligence Services Commissioners and the Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee. All of our operational processes rigorously support this position.”
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