Posts by NonSSL-Login

Despite so many deliveries a day, they manage to screw mine up every time.

Used to get told they tried to deliver but I was out so many times when no one had even approached my door but heard that in the last year they introduced something where drivers have to take a photo to prove they were at the property as so many were apparently lying about deliveries.

Instant dread when I see Yodel as the delivery type after paying. I tend to ask up front that Yodel isn't used when I remember.

Re: Sex by Surprise

Wake-up sex with a consensual sex partner is enjoyed by many around the world.

Re: Protest via DDoS ?

In general you may be right but it's not that black and white.

When Paypal, VISA and other similar companies stops allowing their services to be used by a company or organisation for political reasons, it can end a company or organisation as it struggles to find other ways of payment. This has happened with some VPN companies, Wikileaks and even some hosting companies because of political pressure.

The little guy has no way to really voice their opinion on that with it being noticed or heard but taking VISA and Paypal offline via DDoS made enough attention to get that fact on the main news channels. Operation Payback got coverage like those gluing themselves to floors in London recently. Both inconvenienced people but the London protests were legal to organise and participate in, if you kept to the law. DDoS'ing a site is not.

That did not stop media companies hiring Aieplex to DDoS torrent sites though which is well documented. Pretty sure no one in Bollywood or Aieplex went to jail though. The same with the anti-piracy companies that cause denial of service on perfectly legal trackers by faking clients that don't exist and other tricks to cause issues. Which goes back to my original point of it seems to be ok for governments, companies and the rich to do all these things which anyone else would go to jail for.

Re: Hate hub hacked

That always depends what side of an argument you are on. A terrorist to one is freedom fighter to another.

It can be better to gain root, keep quiet and observe in case some of the fanatics on these sites decide to plan something. Showing your cards and going public with the hack just makes them more secure and your intel on them goes dark.

Re: "... a misuse, which is contractually prohibited."

It's more a front door than backdoor.

Maybe that is how the WhatsApp CEO can keep a straight face while saying they don't want backdoors.

It's ok you choosing to disable backups but has the other end of your conversations? If not, un-encrypted backups on googles/NSA's servers.

Re: Privacy? Not on today's internet...

Even with all that, there are other things which can give you away, such as HTML5 canvas, timing of video/audio drivers responses (yes its a thing and workable) and one of my biggest bug bears as among all the tricks I do to stay anonymous is screen resolution.

Obviously the site needs it to display but it would be nice if sites didn't get that info and pages could be rendered to your screen resolution without the site knowing what yours actually is.

On top of those methods, I use a fake Browser User agent which changes every 5 minutes. Also help sites that want to send you malware as you get a nice .DMG file when they think you are using Safari on a Mac rather than Firefox on Linux for example. This is where it would be nice again for the site not to know screen resolution so if I fake my browser as Chrome on Android, a screen res of 4k wouldn't give that away + make my http fingerprint so unique.

I'm often telling people a VPN only gives you some privacy from your ISP (who generally won't MITM your connection to remove that protection) and in the UK from the police & 20 odd other services who can see your ICR/Internet connection record for the last 2 years but there is nothing to stop them submitting a request to google for your email account, your search history and probably sites you visited anyway because they had ad-trackers on most of the sites on the internet.

Google are going to fight anything privacy related that stops them tracking you and making money from us so its a surprise they are in an organisation where their single veto can block everything so they can make a privacy groups manifesto less private for citizens. Yes money makes the world go around but just because a company has monetised the internet with adverts, which was created for sharing information, should we structure it so they can continue to profit by stripping our privacy away? I think not.

API's among other methods.

Re: Stalin would be so proud of him

How sure are you that those areas do not have backdoors done in a way of plausible deniability by the manufacturers?

-UEFI made it easier to implant and hide a backdoor over BIOS and gave much more memory to play with

-TPM/Trusted Platform Module was introduced in Intel chips to offer extra security where in fact there were so many holes it made things like bitlocker and such totally insecure. Sell it as security while it weakens it, sounds and smells like a backdoor.

-Some HDD manufacturers are known to give their source code and signing keys to the agencies so they can compile their own firmware with backdoors that cannot be found with most usual methods.

-American owned Broadcom made some network cards with plenty of space to put your own code and someone showed how a rootkit could be installed on the network card in this space. Coincidence or manufacturers giving the agencies the capability to backdoor their products?

-Not to mention software companies like WhatsApp not long ago bringing out a 'backup' 'feature' that it nags you to use which saves your messages unencrypted on google servers. If that is not an in your face backdoor for the security services then i'll eat my grey hat.

Assume everything is being backdoored in some way now, especially if an american company.

Re: I've been caught ...... I must have Asperger's.

The UK doesn't diagnose Asperger's as a condition since DSM5 which was released in 2013. Before that someone with Aspergers would get a diagnosis of Aspergers but after that date they have ASD. Just a different place on the spectrum than others with ASD.

So the original posters intention was to say he must have got diagnosed well before the case.

Re: Not impressed with so called smart TVs full stop.

MPAA DRM and geo-restrictions screwing people over everywhere. Encrypted recordings, Youview which launches iPlayer and other apps which refuse to work over a VPN, even though the TV can say exactly where it is due to the signal it is getting.

Don't even get me started on HDMI/HDCP.

Usability for loads of things are fucked and people should be aware than 9 out of 10 times the tv problems are due to the Hollywood studios and stuff they force tv makers to do and the things they force tv channels to do via licencing agreements.

They are the reason you cant watch legit content on linux, 4k on some android box's, nothing at all on rooted phones and force shitty DRM on tv' and other equipment through their part of being part of HDMI organisation.

We would not need smart tv's if Hollywood were not so anal with pushing DRM.

Re: So now he has admitted to creating nasty malware.

He didn't reverse wannacry and find the kill switch, he just noticed a domain the

infected call out to was unregistered and registered it probably in the hope of seeing what data clients where sending. He did not know at the time registering that domain would kill wanncry.

Re: ""crime" and "morally wrong" can be tenuous"

Is it morally wrong to kill those those who feel damaged over the post-it notes being out of stock at work because Sally from accounting helps herself to a pad for home while at the cupboard?

Re: This is not exactly news

While I understand the reasons for blocking incoming datacentre traffic, it's quite annoying for VPN users but luckily only a few sites block by ASN or netblock. Saying that, I don't take down the VPN to access those few sites or create static routes so they just lose me as a visitor.

Since the UK decided that every network connection will be logged for a year in the form of ICR's (Internet connection record) and that everyone and their dog (Scottish and Welsh ambulance service, local councils, food standards agency among others...) can access your viewing + whatever protocol usage, many now live behind a VPN to regain some sort of privacy from big brother. Now we have some admins punishing us for that.

DRM and geofencing forced on media streaming providers means amazon now wont work if your IP resolves to a VPN provider name, despite the tv knowing it's proper location due to the tv signals its getting. Makes the service unusable so amazon loses a customer.

Needs to be a better way to keep privacy without being blocked by overzealous blocking.

Re: JavaScript intercepts credit card data?

Single use virtual numbers on each online transaction. It already happens for some of my transactions automatically as my banks systems get invoked too.

Re: In the USA

The copyright cartels are another example of this. Nothing has been done to stop their ever increasing laws and control on the internet and hardware in our homes, all in the name of profit.

Would love for more EFF type organisations to fight for us but also have government realise there are human and moral judgements to be made with technology, not just industry money winning everything they want.

Re: Not really secret

On the same road as the Experian building. Makes sense as that's another company that lets data thieves just walk right in :P

Re: It's not just Kaspersky

Qihoo 360 is a popular AV product and has a very talented team behind it like Kaspersky.

They are known in the security world for finding and reporting exploits, pulling apart malware and pretty much all the usual stuff. Just not really penetrated the market in the west yet, although they are making some headway on mobile.

Re: Something not ringing true here ...

Personally I think it's a screw up of language somewhere along the line and the reality is that some of the drive was readable and the rest was encrypted in a trucrypt volume.

Rather than encryption kicking in, they meant to say that they couldn't read the encrypted part. That is my best guess anyway.

Firmware for hard drives probably needs to be signed(?) so not straight forward to do even if you could modify it to delete content on a certain sector or block read.