Tag: security

3D printed guns

the second amendment fight comes to 3d printing. fireworks!

Since its inception, it has been legal in the USA to fashion your own firearm, and to talk about doing so. More precise legalities are that it is legal to produce any category of weapon you could ordinarily legally own, so long as you are not providing it for sale or are not prohibited from possessing firearms in the first place. Everything else is free speech, ladies and gentlemen.

this is very eye opening. the second amendment has to deal with an estimated 270M guns in the US plus now you get distributed defense printing guns that can do 100s of rounds.

2013-11-12: cue moral panic in 3 … 2 … 1 …

Secure pet names

Popular pet names Rover, Cheryl and Kate could be a thing of the past. Banks are now advising parents to think carefully before naming their child’s first pet. For security reasons, the chosen name should have at least 8 characters, a capital letter and a digit. It should not be the same as the name of any previous pet, and must never be written down, especially on a collar as that is the first place anyone would look. Ideally, children should consider changing the name of their pet every 12 weeks.

Nullsec space

this is extremely fascinating. the null sec areas of the game sound like the perfect place to send ron paul and his friends to.

The open-ended game is like a Hobbesian dreamworld in its no-security (“null-sec”) areas, that are open to scamming, murder, corporate espionage, economic manipulation, ruthless warmongering, and mind-boggling heists. But many of EVE’s law abiding players stay within safe high-security (“hi-sec”) areas that have mostly protected them from null-sec raiders, much to the chagrin of Goonswarm and its allies. Many of those in null-sec, including Goonswarm and its leader, resent hi-sec’s existence and aim to force their vision of the game on hi-sec players (who they insultingly refer to as “empire dwellers”). To accomplish that, they’re waging economic warfare and aiming to strike fear into all those who play in hi-sec space.

War with Iran?

That is the path we are on: Israel and America will soon go to war with Iran — for as many times as it takes. In each instance, our proximate goal will be to kick the nuclear “can” as far down the road as possible, but our ultimate goal will be regime change.

Nothing is going to stop this war dynamic from unfolding — not China, the U.N., the Pentagon’s strategic “pivot” to East Asia, our upcoming presidential election, nor our nation’s much-discussed war fatigue, much less “decline.”

Nothing.

So get ready for war with Iran. Because once Assad is gone, that is what comes next.

Kill HTTP

The data retention mandate in this bill would treat every Internet user like a criminal and threaten the online privacy and free speech rights of every American, as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have recognized. Requiring Internet companies to redesign and reconfigure their systems to facilitate government surveillance of Americans’ expressive activities is simply un-American.

2014-08-19: HTTP shaming. If appstore “reviews” were actually serious they’d block http apps.
2014-12-14: The civil war of our time. Another shot being fired: Proposal: Marking HTTP As Non-Secure

The attacks on fundamental freedoms to communicate that are represented by various government repression of the Internet around the world, and in the US by hypocritical legislation like PROTECT IP and SOPA (E-PARASITE), are fundamentally fascist in nature, despite between wrapped in their various flags of national security, anti-piracy profit protection, motherhood, and apple pie. Anyone or anything that is an enabler of communications not willingly conforming to this model are subject to attack by authorities from a variety of levels — with the targets ranging from individuals like you and me, to unbiased enablers of organic knowledge availability like Google. For all the patriotic frosting, the attacks on the Internet are really attacks on what has become popularly known as the 99%, deployed by the 1% powers who are used to having their own way and claiming the largest chunks of the pie, regardless of how many ants (that’s us!) are stomped in the process.

2015-01-28: Amen. 2015 will be less forgettable if we can kill off most HTTP sites.

New favorite Chrome Canary flag: chrome://flags/#mark-non-secure-as … non-secure! The way it should have been from the start.

NATO is weak

“The mightiest military alliance in history is only 11 weeks into an operation against a poorly armed regime in a sparsely populated country. Yet many allies are beginning to run short of munitions, requiring the US, once more, to make up the difference.” The underlying reason for these failings is no secret. Most Europeans spend too little on defence, and what they do is often wasted. That Europeans would struggle, militarily and politically, to maintain 10k troops in far-off Afghanistan is understandable. That they should be tiring in a limited air campaign on Europe’s own borderlands (less intense than the Kosovo war of 1999, for instance) suggests something bigger is amiss.

NATO can’t even sustain a campaign against libya.

LulzSec

Although large sections of the security community will deny it if you ask them, they’re secretly enjoying watching LulzSec’s campaign of mayhem unfold. LulzSec is running around pummelling some of the world’s most powerful organisations into the ground… for laughs! For lulz! For shits and giggles! Surely that tells you what you need to know about computer security: there isn’t any.

because it puts the media to work highlighting the cavalier attitude of business to security.