h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Banksy
http://t.co/SA4xqefjTc

Very nicely done

"Attackers used a well-known method to bring down a system known as Denial of Service (DoS) - in which huge amounts of data are forced on a target, causing it to fall over."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26136774

https://thedaywefightback.org/international/

or

http://thedaywefightback.org/international/

Ti, those bare links are kind of a conversation stopper. People are reluctant to click on them when they don't know what they are, just in case they turn out to use a lot of bandwidth, or are loud or contain graphic images. You know, while they're at work.

Why don't you just tell us what they are about, like I did with mine a little earlier, and feed the discussion?

On that site, there's a quote by Washington Post describing the reason:

The NSA collects the content and metadata of emails, web activity, chats, social networks, and everything else from fiber-optic cables "that carry much of the world's Internet and phone data."

And here's an article in The Guardian about it:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-back-protest-nsa-mass-surveillance

My life is so boring, I don't worry about being caught at anything nefarious. But I do worry about information that can be misused and affect my financial security.

'666 Park Avenue' is taking a turn for the worse in the third episode; a blonde (in more than one sense) waking up from odd sounds, getting out of bed without waking up her husband, walking all alone into the basement and into a room where she was spooked and, having been warned not to 'let him out' - duh, enough of a spoiler.

I really hate that - assuming women are too stupid to think of their own safety and wandering off into odd and spooky places all on their own, all the while having you screaming at the screen 'LOOK BEHIND YOU!'

Me, I'd bring something blunt and heavy - too bad Whisky isn't frequenting this thread, or he'd immediately make me regret that comment...

I wonder, if she had been well armed, and quietly told her husband to be quiet and call the police, if the story would have been different?
It might have worked, without making anyone stupid.

With regard to surveillance. I am rather encouraged by the idea that the US government is monitoring every e-mail and social network post, By the time they get round to that stuff I posted about George W I will have been dead for fifty years. Just don't mention Al Quaeda, oh sh**.

I decorated my website with the Day We Fight Back banner.

And we have a 50% chance of rain tomorrow and tomorrow night, so this is a great time to give California your unneeded precipitation

A couple of months ago, (regarding denial of service link above) Swedish government sites were brought down, as well as some banks, I think. I think it was "revenge" for wanting Assange questioned for the rape allegations by several women during one of his visits to Stockholm.

And a little later, our local "government" for the region was brought down by massive requests, and I believe also hacking. Those sites were for access to health services and for public transport information. Several days loss of service, and weeks of aftermath - bus stops and train stations have electronic signs for timetables, but they were knocked out for weeks. Still, some of them are out of order.

The future is here, and not in a nice way.

HN

Have some heavy showers blowing horizontal in 40mph winds, feel free to keep it.

Milla

Whilst I don't believe it is possible to stop sites being knocked off line by a DDOS attack, not being able to get them back up immediately after it stops indicates poor engineering.

I think a lot of these systems fail to maintain proper separation between the public and private data because they try to save money by running everything over public data networks (aka the internet)

You really shouldn't be able to carry out system management functions from the internet.

I really don't like it when journalist use terms like DoS and then explain it as if it's a simple matter. There are several vectors that can create a DoS, not simply flooding. While flooding is a common means of DoSing a target, there are so very many other means to accomplish the denial. My personal favorite is to unplug a device.

Yeah, I am being somewhat pedantic here, but this is just one example of poor, to the point of misleading, reporting on technology by a journalist. Other pet peeves include the use of the terms "Anonymous", hacktivist and tubes.

BB, actually there are several ways to mitigate the effects of a DDoS attack that don't result in taking a service offline. It's difficult, and very expensive, to do but there are various techniques that can eliminate the malicious traffic while allowing the legitimate traffic to traverse a network. Once, I mitigated a massive DDoS against an infrastructure under my control with one line of configuration.

Is it just me, or does Trion's 'Trove' look like a rip-off of Minecraft (trovegame.com)?

I like Minecraft. I even turned my PC into a mini-server so that I could have complete rights to build whatever I wanted.

It's like virtual Lego.

Ah, the nostalgia before I figured out how to make myself almighty in Minecraft - hastily building up walls to surround myself when it got dark before the zombies could get to me...