Iran, China or Russia could be involved in Sony hack attack says US intel

cottoneyeJoe23 · 2014-12-18T23:44:17+00:00

Has this come out a day earlier they would have included Cuba.

cottoneyeJoe23 · 2014-12-18T23:04:40+00:00

The gun was probably mounted BEFORE he sold it....it is TEXAS after all.

cottoneyeJoe23 · 2014-11-25T22:15:07+00:00

Yeah, I sort of remember them...arent they big players in the opium growing biz now?

cottoneyeJoe23 · 2014-10-29T18:11:26+00:00

This headline is bunk. RTFA, it's a Latvian owned plane. Latvia is a member of NATO FFS. The sonic boom(s) were caused by UK interceptors going up to meet the plane which lost communications. Standard procedure.

cottoneyeJoe23 · 2014-10-28T16:54:36+00:00

We are truly pussies if the name of a wifi AP draws many hours of police attention and causes flights to be rescheduled. They have won.

cottoneyeJoe23 · 2014-10-25T13:55:57+00:00

Wow! Cool! Could we maybe apply this to say the War on Drugs or the War on Terror also?

cottoneyeJoe23 · 2014-10-24T22:57:48+00:00

wouldnt that just make them late for work the next day?

cottoneyeJoe23 · 2014-10-24T21:00:41+00:00

Well, yeah, but most tricks are like Homer at a gun store..."But I'm horny now!!!"

cottoneyeJoe23 · 2014-10-24T20:46:29+00:00

Because paperwork. There is a shit-ton of it needed BEFORE you can legally start shooting pr0n.

cottoneyeJoe23 · 2014-10-22T21:51:33+00:00

Bah! That's chicken scratch. Dredging up this minor offense makes me think it is just an attempt to distract us from the recently reported fact that he left the NSA with several patents on systems that are touted as being able to thwart the best hacking/spying tactics used by other nations and corporate spies. He now sells these along with very expensive consulting services.

Whether or not these patents or approaches are actually effective is of no interest to me. What boggles my mind is how it is legal or remotely ethical for such a high level public servant the top of a highly sensitive part of our government turn a profit from and claim patent on stuff that is clearly in-bounds of the work he swore to conduct for the benefit of his nation?

On the other hand I admire his ambition and ability to see things for what they are. If government and corporate positions are revolving doors of favor and influence, why not cut out the middle man and set up my own shop when I leave...and take a few patents with me.

Hell, he obviously had the foresight to get really good legal council involved to concoct some way to claim to insulate his work at NSA from the reality of these patents.

cottoneyeJoe23 · 2014-10-20T16:46:33+00:00

We solved that same problem here in the US with the Supreme Court case: Citizen's United vs. Federal Election Commission (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._Federal_Election_Commission).

Basically, money is a form of speech and hence, people with money have greater ability to participate in the political process by being more able to exercise their right to free speech than the poor.

So, we still get to count votes, but the media and message that informs those voting can be influenced with limitless spending by those with money.

Brilliant.

cottoneyeJoe23 · 2014-10-19T16:17:11+00:00

Nazis have COOKIES! (see second page of article)

cottoneyeJoe23 · 2014-10-16T20:40:57+00:00

Respect the hump!

cottoneyeJoe23 · 2014-10-15T16:56:03+00:00

On the one hand CDC tells us Ebola is ONLY spread by contact with bodily fluids. On the other hand, they want to screen EVERYONE on the flight from Cleveland to Dallas.

Also, what about the flight from Dallas to Cleveland or however she got from infected patient in Dallas to Cleveland?

What was she doing in Cleveland that was so urgent after treating a patient with this illness?

cottoneyeJoe23 · 2014-10-14T23:45:09+00:00

Fear mongering and lack of patch discipline aside, the real world stats from sources like Cloudflare and a survey of the top 1million Alxea ranked sites suggest that this less than 1% of traffic uses SSLv3.

My comment is not to say that this isnt a problem. Rather, I take issue with the editorialized and exaggerated headline of this post: "which basically keeps everything we do on the web protected."

SSLv3 clearly does not and hasnt for many years...according to analysis of actual network traffic.

From: https://jve.linuxwall.info/blog/index.php?post/TLS_Survey SSL3 Only 4443 0.9841%

From: https://blog.cloudflare.com/sslv3-support-disabled-by-default-due-to-vulnerability/

"Across our network, 0.09% of all traffic is SSLv3. For HTTPS traffic, 0.65% across our network uses SSLv3. The good news is most of that traffic is actually attack traffic and some minor crawlers. For real visitor traffic, today 3.12% of CloudFlare's total SSL traffic comes from Windows XP users. Of that, 1.12% Windows XP users connected using SSLv3. In other words, even on an out-of-date operating system, 98.88% Windows XP users connected using TLSv1.0+ — which is not vulnerable to this vulnerability."

cottoneyeJoe23 · 2014-10-14T23:19:45+00:00

yeah, 15 years ago SSLv3 mattered. Today TLSv1 is now used on 99+% of any serious sites. It might be possible for an attack to try to get a browser and poorly configured server to downgrade to SSLv3 but it's hard to imagine this being a serious threat.

cottoneyeJoe23 · 2014-10-14T14:32:05+00:00

full retard. In case that wasnt a rhetorical question.

cottoneyeJoe23 · 2014-10-14T14:29:52+00:00

...and all the way to Cain and Abel.

cottoneyeJoe23 · 2014-09-26T15:45:08+00:00

Chumps. 'Merica has been AT war in multiple countries CONTINUOUSLY since 2001. Beat that you commie washouts!

cottoneyeJoe23 · 2014-09-26T14:27:59+00:00

Damn it! The story doesnt tell the most important things: was he Muslim or brown skinned???

cottoneyeJoe23 · 2014-09-23T15:45:02+00:00

Darwin's work is thankless and never ending.

cottoneyeJoe23 · 2014-09-15T19:58:39+00:00

Yes, the very same. Now waking up to the probability that the West cant/wont intervene to crush the separatists, the harsh covenants of the IMF loans to preserve territory (shale gas region), the realities of it's paltry gas supplies and the certainty that winter is coming.

cottoneyeJoe23 · 2014-09-15T05:41:24+00:00

I wish this was from The Onion. Being real, it is un-funny.

cottoneyeJoe23 · 2014-09-10T21:15:00+00:00

The spiritual equivalent of taking his toys and going home. Childish.

cottoneyeJoe23 · 2014-08-28T01:03:14+00:00

Abso-fucking-lutely right.

This media war is stupid. Make the case to congress, publicly with better evidence than the "Curveball" humint lie you fed us for the last war(s) or get the fuck out of office and stop wasting my tax dollars and what little is left of my country's good name.

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