Anonymous to "destroy" Facebook on Nov. 5
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Rightly said. After all, if they did advertise themselves, it would make my efforts to secure various networks far easier.
Hah!Eradicating FarmVille might be a service to humanity.
Yeah, I don't get the "gaming on facebook thing". I've bought all these nice computer parts to do some proper gaming, I don't need facebook for that.
And I'm not too worried.
I'm not a computer scientist or a hacker, but I don't think that's completely true. I can't see any way that it would be possible to hack a computer that isn't connected to a network, or at least a network to which the hacker has access. Of course that also places certain limits on the utility of the computer, but if you want absolute security from computers, you can't get much better than that.
Facebook needs me more than I need Facebook.
Nowadays, I occasionally use it to touch base with my contacts (I almost said "adoring fans"
) although I wouldn't be sad to see it go.
Nowadays, I occasionally use it to touch base with my contacts (I almost said "adoring fans"
) although I wouldn't be sad to see it go.the only safe computer is one that's locked in a room with no phone line and is turned off.
yes I will have no symapthy for those people who have put alot of hours (and possibly cash) into various facebook games, if they are all taken off line, and accounts deleted.Eradicating FarmVille might be a service to humanity.
That said unless they are holding some new super hacking tool back for this, I dont think they will do it, sure if they had enough time,people and the right tools maybe, but I suspect Facebook is plenty strong enough to ward off an attacked, even more so now they have been warned (unless that bluff is part of the plan)
This is very bad, it's going to be used by our government to justify it's "cyber security" policies, which are 95% about spying on people, and 5% about providing protection to vital infrastructure.
With no crisis allowed to go unexploited anything like this provides justification for it. To make it worse, one facet of cyber security includes an internet kill switch and this could prove justification for that too (though it's possible the London Riots could have done that as Blackberries were used to facilitate coordination of the riots)
With no crisis allowed to go unexploited anything like this provides justification for it. To make it worse, one facet of cyber security includes an internet kill switch and this could prove justification for that too (though it's possible the London Riots could have done that as Blackberries were used to facilitate coordination of the riots)
you have a point, too much talk after the riots of the government being able to shut down socail media websitess, when expect for very small areas, it wont have achieved much.
Do you have anything to corroborate that claim? The whole design of the Internet would seem to prevent the existence of a single "kill switch" - traffic would just be rerouted via other paths.
And the Blackberry shutdown would have been done by RIM shutting down the servers that process BBM traffic, not by shutting down the Internet.
I've still taken my phone number off of my Facebook account for the time being. Last thing I need is crank calls when I'm trying to sleep because I have to watch my nephew all the next day.
Rampant paranoia is basically CuttingEdge's "thing." Lots of speculation about how technology either is being or will be abused to violate privacy and spy on people. But she never seems to have any insight as to how we should deal with any potential privacy threats, other than to legally curtail technology so that it is less useful and thus less "dangerous."
Likewise, as with most with similar ways of thinking, the conspiracy focuses on the what with little about they why. The reasons why the government would want to spy on us always seem a little thin--almost an afterthought. The supposed benefit the government gets from that information isn't worth much compared to the effort and expense required to get it.
I meant connected computers and you do have a point. However, even un-connected computers can be hacked into. There are ways to "catch" electronic and magnetic waves from the next room and "recreate" what a computer does on some other computer.
However, I agree that, unless you are someone really important, you don't have to worry about such things. An un-connected computer is as safe as it gets.
Please explain how this is done.All electronics generate electric fields. A sensitive enough detector might be able to record minute changes in the field corresponding to a computer's activity.
However, that still leaves the problem of determining the actual activity which generated each observation, which is a potentially large state space. And even if you did have some algorithm for determining that, a single operation doesn't tell you much; to get a real picture, you need to record many operations in order, accurately.
It strikes me as unlikely that this technology is very far along.
However, that still leaves the problem of determining the actual activity which generated each observation, which is a potentially large state space. And even if you did have some algorithm for determining that, a single operation doesn't tell you much; to get a real picture, you need to record many operations in order, accurately.
It strikes me as unlikely that this technology is very far along.
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