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“A hacker going by the handle BuggiCorp is selling a zero-day vulnerability affecting all Windows OS versions that can allow an attacker to elevate privileges for software processes to the highest level available in Windows, known as SYSTEM”
That actually seems like a low price, the vulnerability must not be quite the ‘game over’ scenario you might expect
The claim is that the exploit will be sold to only one person, and will include the source code and a working demo
Two videos of the exploit in action have been posted
The first show the exploit working against a fully patched (May) Windows 10
The second show the exploit bypassing all EMET mitigations
“How much would a cybercriminal, nation state or organized crime group pay for blueprints on how to exploit a serious, currently undocumented, unpatched vulnerability in all versions of Microsoft Windows? That price probably depends on the power of the exploit and what the market will bear at the time”
The reason for the lower price is likely this:
“This type of flaw is always going to be used in tandem with another vulnerability to successfully deliver and run the attacker’s malicious code”
To exploit this flaw, you need to have access to the victim’s machine. It cannot be exploited against a remote unsuspecting victim
Of course, there are lots of malware droppers and exploit kits that provide this functionality
“The seller claims his exploit works on every version of Windows from Windows 2000 on up to Microsoft’s flagship Windows 10 operating system.”
“Jeff Jones, a cybersecurity strategist with Microsoft, said the company was aware of the exploit sales thread, but stressed that the claims were still unverified. Asked whether Microsoft would ever consider paying for information about the zero-day vulnerability, Jones pointed to the company’s bug bounty program that rewards security researchers for reporting vulnerabilities. According to Microsoft, the program to date has paid out more than $500,000 in bounties.”
Microsoft does pay for bugs, but maybe not as much as the black market does
“Microsoft heavily restricts the types of vulnerabilities that qualify for bounty rewards, but a bug like the one on sale for $90,000 would in fact qualify for a substantial bounty reward. Last summer, Microsoft raised its reward for information about a vulnerability that can fully bypass EMET from $50,000 to $100,000. Incidentally, Microsoft said any researcher with a vulnerability or who has questions can reach out to the Microsoft Security Response Center to learn more about the program and process.”
Zerodium’s pay scale for Microsoft LPE bugs is “up to $30,000”
The biggest factor in the actual value of an exploit to the buyer, is its longevity. How long before Microsoft figures out what the issue is and patches it
This can be directly proportional to how widely the exploit is used. The more people it is used against, the more likely researchers will be able to get their hands on it and figure out what the problem is
Additional Coverage

ArsTechnica: How the internet works

“But how does it work? Have you ever thought about how that cat picture actually gets from a server in Oregon to your PC in London? We’re not simply talking about the wonders of TCP/IP or pervasive Wi-Fi hotspots, though those are vitally important as well. No, we’re talking about the big infrastructure: the huge submarine cables, the vast landing sites and data centres with their massively redundant power systems, and the elephantine, labyrinthine last-mile networks that actually hook billions of us to the Internet.”
The article starts out by looking at submarine cables between the US and the UK
The amount of shielding on a cable actually depends on how deep it will be deployed. The deeper it is, the less shielding is required. The biggest threat is international shipping.
“At a 3 mile depth, cable diameter is just 17mm, akin to a marker pen encased by a thick polyethylene insulating sheath. A copper conductor surrounds multiple strands of steel wire that protect the optical fibres at the core, which are inside a steel tube less than 3mm in diameter and cushioned in thixotropic jelly. Armoured cables have the same arrangement internally but are clad with one or more layers of galvanised steel wire, which is wrapped around the entire cable.”
“Without the copper conductor, you wouldn’t have a subsea cable. Fibre-optic technology is fast and seemingly capable of unlimited bandwidth, but it can’t cover long distances without a little help. Repeaters—effectively signal amplifiers—are required to boost the light transmission over the length of the fibre optic cable. This is easily achieved on land with local power, but on the ocean bed the amplifiers receive a DC voltage from the cable’s copper conductor. And where does that power come from? The cable landing sites at either end of the cable.”
“Although the customers wouldn’t know it, TGN-A is actually two cables that take diverse paths to straddle the Atlantic. If one cable goes down, the other is there to ensure continuity. The alternative TGN-A lands at a different site some 70 miles (and three terrestrial amplifiers) away and receives its power from there, too. One of these transatlantic subsea cables has 148 amplifiers, while the other slightly longer route requires 149.”
“To power the cable from this end, we’ve a positive voltage and in New Jersey there’s a negative voltage on the cable. We try and maintain the current—the voltage is free to find the resistance of the cable. It’s about 9,000V, and we share the voltage between the two ends. It’s called a dual-end feed, so we’re on about 4,500V each end. In normal conditions we could power the cable from here to New Jersey without any support from the US.”
So what happens when a cable is damaged?
“Once the cable has been found and returned to the cable-repair ship, a new piece of undamaged cable is attached. The ROV [remotely operated vehicle] then returns to the seabed, finds the other end of the cable and makes the second join. It then uses a high-pressure water jet to bury the cable up to 1.5 metres under the seabed”
“Repairs normally take around 10 days from the moment the cable repair ship is launched, with four to five days spent at the location of the break. Fortunately, such incidents are rare: Virgin Media has only had to deal with two in the past seven years.”
So once these cables are installed, they are expected to last 25+ years. Of course, if you installed a cable 5 years ago, you are likely to be disappointed with its speed. This is where new technology comes into play, by just replacing the optics at either end of the cable, you can get more data through the same fibres
“DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) technology is used to combine the various data channels, and by transmitting these signals at different wavelengths—different coloured light within a specific spectrum—down the fibre optic cable, it effectively creates multiple virtual-fibre channels. In doing so the carrying capacity of the fibre is dramatically increased.”
DWDM allows between 40 and 160 channels to be combined down a single fibre. So suddenly those 4 strands that could only carry 10 gigabits per second each a few years ago, can carry 400, or 6.4 terabits per second
The Tata cable featured in the article has a capacity of up to 10 terabits per pair, for a total of 40 terabits.
“Enter one of the two battery rooms and instead of racks of Yuasa UPS support batteries—with a form factor not too far removed from what you’ll find in your car—the sight is more like a medical experiment. Huge lead-acid batteries in transparent tanks, looking like alien brains in jars, line the room. Maintenance-free with a life of 50 years, this array of 2V batteries amounts to 1600Ah, delivering a guaranteed four hours of autonomy.”
“There are six generators—three per data centre hall. Each generator is rated to take the full load of the data centre, which is 1.6MVA. They produce 1,280kW each. The total coming into the site is 6MVA, which is probably enough power to run half the town. There is also a seventh generator that handles landlord services. The site stores about 8,000 litres of fuel, enough to last well over 24 hours at full load. At full fuel burn, 220 litres of diesel an hour is consumed, which, if it were a car travelling at 60mph, would notch up a meagre 1.24mpg—figures that make a Humvee seem like a Prius.”
The article goes on to talk about SLAs and how the fibre network manages quality of service:
“Latency commitments have to be monitored proactively, too, for customers like Citrix, whose portfolio of virtualisation services and cloud applications will be sensitive to excessive networking delays. Another client that appreciates the need for speed is Formula One. Tata Communications handles the event networking infrastructure for all the teams and the various broadcasters.”
The article then goes on to talk about getting that connectivity to your house, the “last mile”
Each of the various technologies is discussed, ADSL, VDSL (78mbps), DOCSIS3 (200mbps, but could go up to 600mbps, with DOCSIS 3.1 offering 10gbps), FTTC, and FTTH
Of course, they also discuss Wireless and Mobile connectivity
“Ars will have another in-depth feature on the complexities of managing and rolling out cellular networks soon”, we’ll look forward to that
“First it was a few plucky cafes and pubs, and then BT turned its customers’ routers into open Wi-Fi hotspots with its “BT with Fon” service. Now we’re moving into major infrastructure plays, such as Wi-Fi across the London Underground and Virgin’s curious “smart pavement” in Chesham, Buckinghamshire. For this project, Virgin Media basically put a bunch of Wi-Fi access points beneath manhole covers made of specially made radio-transparent resin. Virgin maintains a large network of ducts and cabinets across the UK that are connected to the Internet—so why not add a few Wi-Fi access points to share that connectivity with the public?”
So what is next for the last mile?
“The next thing on the horizon for Openreach’s POTS network is G.fast, which is best described as an FTTdp (fibre to distribution point) configuration. Again, this is a fibre-to-copper arrangement, but the DSLAM will be placed even closer to the premises, up telegraph poles and under pavements, with a conventional copper twisted pair for the last few tens of metres.”
“The idea is to get the fibre as close to the customer as possible, while at the same time minimising the length of copper, theoretically enabling connection speeds of anywhere from 500Mbps to 800Mbps. G.fast operates over a much broader frequency spectrum than VDSL2, so longer cable lengths have more impact on its efficiency. However, there has been some doubt whether BT Openreach will be optimising speeds in this way as, for reasons of cost, it could well retreat to the green cabinet to deliver these services and take a hit on speed, which would slide down to 300Mbps.”
“So, there we have it: the next time you click on a YouTube video, you’ll know exactly how it gets from a server in the cloud to your computer. It might seem absolutely effortless—and it usually is on your part—but now you know the truth: there are deadly 4,000V DC submarine cables, 96 tonnes of batteries, thousands of litres of diesel fuel, millions of miles of last-mile cabling, and redundancy up the wazoo.”
“The whole setup is only going to get bigger and crazier, too. Smart homes, wearable devices, and on-demand TV and movies are all going to necessitate more bandwidth, more reliability, and more brains in jars. What a time to be alive.”

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LogMeIn to LastPass | TTT 217

chris — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 10:36:51 +0000

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LastPass gets bought, FireFox loves Flash long time, just not your plugins, good iPhone vs bad iPhone & why the rest of the world laughs at the state of the US’ mobile payments.

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DOM Be Gone | CR 116

chris — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 14:20:58 +0000

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Mike and Chris follow up on the TypeScript and JavaScript discussion from last week after a lot of you jumped to the defense of JavaScript. Plus the guys discuss why the phrase “work-life-balance” feels cheap & how each of us have to figure it all out for ourselves.

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Steam Streaming Showcased | LAS s30e07

chris — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 14:38:21 +0000

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In-Home Streaming hit beta this week and it’s a breakthrough technology that changes the game for desktop Linux forever. Not just limited to games, Steam’s In-Home streaming can deliver entire applications. We’ll demo the power and possibilities of this new tech.

Plus: The new big feature in the Linux kernel everyones talking about, a roundup of upcoming Linux community events…

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Requirements

A machine powerful enough on the “server” side to play the game, and encode it.
A machine on the client side powerful enough to decode whatever the resolution of video is it will be receiving (resolution is set to the servers screen size).
About 3MB/s sustained transfer. That might be trickier than you think over Wifi.

Game Streaming

Games installed on Windows box show up in my Library
Game install status is displayed on the Linux steam client while the Windows box is installing.
I was able to stream Dust from Linux to my Windows box.
When the game you are streaming is running for the first time on the host Windows box, and the DirectX reds is getting installed, Steam will inform you that the remote system is running first time setups on the remote box.
UAC will break this process at this time.
Steam In-Home Streaming Beta Demonstration

Non-Steam Application Streaming

Valve open up in-home streaming beta to non-Steam games

In this latest instance, they’ve updated the Steam client beta’s in-home streaming functionality to support “streaming non-Steam games in the Steam library”. That means, whether they’re part of Steam or not, you’ll be able to beam your most powerful games between local area network PCs. Even Minesweeper.

You might lose title bars.
If you’re tricky enough you can get to the full Windows desktop.
Everything is full screen. Loading boxes, new windows, etc.

Notes

All Windows stream as full screen, so loading boxes are full screen while the app loads.
Works from Big Picture Mode
My Life is now complete – I can now change my main pc to my laptop (arch) and stream my games to either the laptop or shield from the desktop

Resources

Steam In-Home Streaming Forum

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Previous Spashtop coverage: Easy Linux Remote Desktop | LAS s28e03

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Linux 3.13 is out bringing among other thing the first official release of nftables. nftables is the project that aims to replace the existing {ip,ip6,arp,eb}tables framework aka iptables. nftables version in Linux 3.13 is not yet complete. Some important features are missing and will be introduced in the following Linux versions. It is already usable in most cases but a complete support (read nftables at a better level than iptables) should be available in Linux 3.15.

The SteamOS non-UEFI / legacy BIOS support is derived from the community’s “Ye Olde SteamOSe” distribution fork. With this SteamOS Beta update, dual-boot and custom partitioning are also possible via the SteamOS installer’s “expert install” mode.

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Tendresse for Ten | BSD Now 21

chris — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 21:58:45 +0000

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We\’ve got some great news for OpenBSD, as well as the scoop on FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE – yes it\’s finally here! We\’re gonna talk to Colin Percival about running FreeBSD 10 on EC2 and lots of other interesting stuff. After that, we\’ll be showing you how to do some bandwidth monitoring and network performance testing in a combo tutorial. We\’ve got a round of your questions and the latest news, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE is out

The long awaited, giant release of FreeBSD is now official and ready to be downloaded
One of the biggest releases in FreeBSD history, with tons of new updates
Some features include: LDNS/Unbound replacing BIND, Clang by default (no GCC anymore), native Raspberry Pi support and other ARM improvements, bhyve, hyper-v support, AMD KMS, VirtIO, Xen PVHVM in GENERIC, lots of driver updates, ZFS on root in the installer, SMP patches to pf that drastically improve performance, Netmap support, pkgng by default, wireless stack improvements, a new iSCSI stack, FUSE in the base system… the list goes on and on
Start up your freebsd-update or do a source-based upgrade right now!

OpenSSH 6.5 CFT

Our buddy Damien Miller announced a Call For Testing for OpenSSH 6.5
Huge, huge release, focused on new features rather than bugfixes (but it includes those too)
New ciphers, new key formats, new config options, see the mailing list for all the details
Should be in OpenBSD 5.5 in May, look forward to it – but also help test on other platforms!
We\’ll talk about it more when it\’s released

DIY NAS story, FreeNAS 9.2.1-BETA

Another new blog post about FreeNAS!
\”I did briefly consider suggesting nas4free for the EconoNAS blog, since it’s essentially a fork off the FreeNAS tree but may run better on slower hardware, but ultimately I couldn’t recommend anything other than FreeNAS\”
Really long article with lots of nice details about his setup, why you might want a NAS, etc.
Speaking of FreeNAS, they released 9.2.1-BETA with lots of bugfixes

OpenBSD needed funding for electricity.. and they got it

Briefly mentioned at the end of last week\’s show, but has blown up over the internet since
OpenBSD in the headlines of major tech news sites: slashdot, zdnet, the register, hacker news, reddit, twitter.. thousands of comments
They needed about $20,000 to cover electric costs for the server rack in Theo\’s basement
Lots of positive reaction from the community helping out so far, and it appears they have reached their goal and got $100,000 in donations
From Bob Beck, \”we have in one week gone from being in a dire situation to having a commitment of approximately $100,000 in donations to the foundation\”
This is a shining example of the BSD community coming together, and even the Linux people realizing how critical BSD is to the world at large

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FreeBSD on Amazon EC2, backups with Tarsnap, 10.0-RELEASE, various topics

Tutorial

Bandwidth monitoring and testing

News Roundup

pfSense talk at Tokyo FreeBSD Benkyoukai

Isaac Levy will be presenting \”pfSense Practical Experiences: from home routers, to High-Availability Datacenter Deployments\”
He\’s also going to be looking for help to translate the pfSense documentation into Japanese
The event is on February 17, 2014 if you\’re in the Tokyo area

m0n0wall 1.8.1 released

For those who don\’t know, m0n0wall is an older BSD-based firewall OS that\’s mostly focused on embedded applications
pfSense was forked from it in 2004, and has a lot more active development now
They switched to FreeBSD 8.4 for this new version
Full list of updates in the changelog
This version requires at least 128MB RAM and a disk/CF size of 32MB or more, oh no!

Ansible and PF, plus NTP

Another blog post from our buddy Michael Lucas
There\’ve been some NTP amplification attacks recently in the news
The post describes how he configured ntpd on a lot of servers without a lot of work
He leverages pf and ansible for the configuration
OpenNTPD is, not surprisingly, unaffected – use it

ruBSD videos online

Just a quick followup from a few weeks ago
Theo and Henning\’s talks from ruBSD are now available for download
There\’s also a nice interview with Theo

PCBSD weekly digest

10.0-RC4 images are available
Wine PBI is now available for 10
9.2 systems will now be able to upgrade to version 10 and keep their PBI library

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All the tutorials are posted in their entirety at bsdnow.tv
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Adobe’s Leaky Source | TechSNAP 131

chris — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:22:06 +0000

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Adobe blows it. A treasure trove of customer information and source code has been found, we’ll share the details.

The DNS hijacking hijinks continue, after several big sites are brought offline. Then its a huge batch of your questions, our answers, and much much more!

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Adobe hacked, 3 million customer records leaked

Adobe’s servers was compromised sometime between July 31 and Aug. 15, but the attack was not discovered until Sept. 17
The source code for “numerous” products was stolen, including Adobe Acrobat, Publisher, ColdFusion, and ColdFusion Builder
The source code leak could allow the attackers to much more easily generate a slew of 0-day attacks against Adobe products, resulting in exploits against which there is no defense
Sensitive information on people with Adobe accounts was also taken, including names, encrypted credit numbers, expiration dates, order history and more
“At this time, we do not believe the attackers removed decrypted credit or debit card numbers from our systems” said Adobe chief security officer Brad Arkin
“Krebs also saw a list of 1.2 million potential .org domains running ColdFusion that the attackers could use as targets stored among the stolen data”
“Holden and Krebs discovered a 40 GB file of stolen data, Krebs reported yesterday, on the same server hosting data stolen from brokers LexisNexis, Dun & Bradstreet and Kroll.”
Additional companies were also compromised
Additional Coverage – Threatpost
Additional Coverage – ZDNet
Adobe Blog – Illegal Access to Adobe Source Code
Adobe – Important Customer Security Announcement
Adobe – Customer Security Alert

WhatsApp, AVG, Avira, Alexa websites hacked in apparent DNS hijack

Network Solutions is investigating an attack by a pro-Palestinian hacking group that redirected websites belonging to several companies.
A group calling itself the KDMS Team claimed responsibility on Twitter.
KDMS posted several screenshots on Twitter, including one that affected WhatsApp\’s domain. + The message asserted that the region known as Palestine has been stolen, and that prisoners should be released from Israeli jails.
The websites affected included those of the security companies AVG and Avira; the messaging platform WhatsApp; a pornography site, RedTube; and Web metrics company Alexa.
Stated on the company’s blog:
> \”It appears that our account used to manage the DNS records registered at Network Solutions has received a fake password-reset request which was honored by the provider.\”
> \”Using the new credentials, the cybercriminals have been able to change the entries to point to their DNS servers.\”
Additional Coverage:
- WhatsApp Web site hijacked, shows pro-Palestinian message
- DNS-Based Attack Brings Down New Victim: WhatsApp

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Too Much Choice | LU1

chris — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 16:49:25 +0000

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Does the Linux community lean on the age old excuse of choice, to brush of the real limitations of desktop Linux environments? We debate that, and then discuss the growing reasons to roll your own email server.

Plus we read a ton of feedback, chat with our live hangout, some tablet troubleshooting, and more!

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Linux Mint 15 Review: Arch’s Nemesis? | LAS s27e02

chris — Sun, 26 May 2013 14:27:37 +0000

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Linux Mint 15 is about to hit the web. Is this the distro for the disenfranchised Ubuntu user? We’ll demo of some of Mint 15’s best new features, look at MATE vs Cinnamon. And why Mint’s real competition might be Arch Linux, and the Arch challenge is announced!

PLUS: A flash review of 5 great new games for Linux, a huge BIG batch of your feedback…

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8 Month support cycle or so (depends on release). Mint releases not built off Ubuntu LTS will be subject to the shorter support window non-LTS Ubuntu releases now have.
No upgrade path from Mint 14, or to Mint 16 in the future.
MATE and Cinnamon are at their best, current releases really starting to shine.
Tools built by the Mint team are top rate, and fill holes missing on Ubuntu.
Linux Distro Timeline
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“This is not about us against new, emerging platforms,” Saarnio said. “This is about new platforms against Android. I think that’s the game.”

Latest Tizen sightings: Samsung phone, Intel laptop demo · LinuxGizmos.com

On May 23, the second day of a three-day Tizen Developers Conference in San Francisco, TechTastic reported confirmation of a rumored debut Tizen smartphone called the GT-I8805 in Samsung’s UAPROF systems. The GT-I8805 (“Redwood”) is listed as running Tizen 2.1 on an ARM Cortex-A9 SoC and offering 1280 x 720 resolution and LTE support.

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Dungeon Defenders on Steam

Dungeon Defenders is a Tower Defense Action-RPG where you must save the land of Etheria from an Ancient Evil! Create a hero from one of four distinct classes to fight back wave after wave of enemies by summoning defenses and directly participating in the action-packed combat!

X3: Terran Conflict on Steam

It is the year 2938. The long wished-for encounter of the X Universe and the Earth holds both joy and sorrow for the people. Despite flourishing trade, the clash of the diverse races, cultures and life forms creates new tensions, mistrust and open conflict that need to be overcome!

Don’t Starve on Steam

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. You play as Wilson, an intrepid Gentleman Scientist who has been trapped by a demon and transported to a mysterious wilderness world. Wilson must learn to exploit his environment and its inhabitants if he ever hopes to escape and find his way back home.

Shank 2 on Steam

The fan-favorite 2D brawler is back as ex-mob hit man Shank returns to action in Shank 2. With those closest to him under attack, Shank is once again forced on the offensive. Now he must put his trusty arsenal of handguns, shotguns, automatic weapons, chainsaws, machetes, grenades, plus all-new weaponry.

Minetest

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Ubuntu 13.04: Best But Boring? | LAS s26e07

chris — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:15:03 +0000

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Ubuntu 13.04 was nearly the release that wasn’t, but now it looks like it could be the next great desktop. What happens when you hit the top, and loose your focus?

We’ll answer why even though this release gets two thumbs up, it still leaves us feeling a little disappointed.

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Ship Energy Levels and YOU! | STOked s02e09

chris — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:03:42 +0000

STOked Season 2 Episode 9: We cover all the news around the Season 1 content update, chat about a hilarious PVP bug, and then MATH your face off with a our segment: Ship Energy Levels and YOU!

PLUS – Our first look at the new C-Store items, the tribble Borg pet, and our first look at The Big Dig mission!

And much, much more

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This Week’s Show Notes:

Season One: “Common Ground” has landed!

Patch Notes: https://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=142766

Launch Day FAQ: https://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=143065

– A billion changes!

* Respecs! WOO!

* Additional starship skills, and a 25% carry-over rate for T3 and T4 ship skills.

– New Content!

* Fed vs Fed pvp maps

* Off-duty space pajamas

* Klingon T2 Cruiser + additional KDF ship customization

* “Big Dig” and DS9 Fleet Actions

* THE CURE (STF)

– C-Store items

* Bridge Variants

* Fed ship variants (+more coming soon)

– More Lifetime Sub perks

* Captain’s Table private social zone

* Special Title (“Career Officer”)

* Blue Name on forums with special rank

March 22nd Engineering Report: https://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?p=2417369#post2417369

Monthly targets added to items “in development” including the following listed for April:

– Difficulty Sliders

– Death Penalty

– Memory Alpha / Crafting revamp

– Joined Trill for KDF

BIG BAD PVP BUG: Several maps deleveling people to level one (Captain -29, RA -39)

https://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?p=2454348#post2454348

“Post-Mortem Report” from Coderanger: https://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?p=2464377#post2464377

Jack Emmert interview @ thebigfreaks.com: https://thebigfreaks.com/?p=276

Also an audio interview: https://thebigfreaks.com/?p=263

* “Well over 100,000 subscribers”

* He comments a lot on how WoW has shifted the MMO audience into an “immediate satisfaction” state of mind, rather than the pre-WoW environment where people judged them on their potential / scope.

* “Season Two” will be based 100% on the surveys and forum responses they have gotten over the past month+ since release.

MATH:

Ship Energy Levels and YOU!

UI Explanation:

Postures: Attack, Defend, Speed, Balanced

Type I: Current Energy / Energy Setting

Type II: Visual representation, updated live

Type III: Same as II, but with customization and Save/Reset buttons for presets

What They Effect:

WEAPON ENERGY: Energy Weapon damage output (Torpedoes and Mines are unaffected by current level, but unable to fire when at 0 power)

SHIELD ENERGY: Shield regen rate (note: Does NOT affect total shield strength)

ENGINE ENERGY: Movement speed

AUXILIARY ENERGY: Hull Repair, Turn Rate, Stealth Detection, and many “Sciencey” abilities’ amplititude (e.g. Tachyon Beam, Tyken’s Rift, etc.)

WEAPONS SYSTEM:

Power Level = % of affect

100 – 200

75 – 150

50 – 100

25 – 50

In other words = 2% difference (up or down) per point of Power above or below a setting of 50.

This only affects the power of the weapon when it leaves your ship, and not when it impacts the enemy. All energy weapons are also affected by the distance between yourself and your target, to varying degrees and will deal more damage the closer you are to your target. (cannons seem to be more affected than beams)

Your current available Weapon Energy is drained each time you fire an energy weapon. The amount of drain depends on the type of weapon you are firing, and the number of weapons firing simultaneously. Watch your power level in combat, and make sure you’re not over-draining your weapon power, as you will end up doing LESS damage over time if your Weapon Energy dips too low on a regular basis. If you regularly see your Weapon Power dipping well below the level it is set at, it may be a good idea to swap in a lower-power weapon type.

Weapon Power Drain amounts per shot:

Beam Arrays and all cannon types = drain 10 power (beams drain more frequently than cannons, allowing less time to regen)

Turrets = drain 8 power

You can offset the drain of Energy Weapons by investing in EPS Flow Regulator (Engineering Consoles). You can also use batteries or Emergency Power abilities to quickly recharge.

SHIELDS SYSTEM:

Power Level = % of base regen

100 – 300

75 – 200

50 – 100

25 – 0 (!!)

In other words = 4% difference (up or down Bryan’s Penis) per point of Energy Level above or below a setting of 50.

Unlike weapons, shield tooltips do not update on the fly along with your Shield Power.

SUB-TOPIC: Rebalancing Shield Quadrants, to maximize Regen…

Shield regeneration is applied to all four quadrants of your shields, every 6 seconds (aka, per tick). Let’s say you have a regen rate of 100. If you have 3 maxed out quadrants, and one that is damaged, you are only regenerating 25 shield power / tick. However, if you rebalance your shield power so that all 4 are slightly damaged, you will regenerate essentially 25*4 = 100 shield power / tick. Obviously it’s not always a good idea to weaken ALL of your shields. However, doing so when you are not under direct fire is ALWAYS recommended. Especially before using an ability that increases your Shield Regen (e.g. Emergency Power to Shields, Science Team, etc).

ENGINE SYSTEM:

The math to figure out your exact speed is complicated and involved, and I don’t have time to go into all of it right now.

Suffice it to say that your energy level directly impacts your speed, but the following are also factors that will always figure into it:

– 0 Engine Power (system offline) will cause you to stop, AND cut your turn rate to almost nothing.

– For Feds, each ship type has a different variable that causes them to go different speeds, with the same engines (Cruisers and Science are slower than Escorts)

– For KDF, check the “Impulse Modifier” listed in the ship stats at the Shipyard consoles.

– Engine types have different base modifiers. Fastest to Slowest = Hyper Impulse, Combat Impulse, Impulse

– Your max bonus is controlled and normalized by the Tier of ship.

– Engine Power does not appear to have any affect on your Warp Speed (in Sector Space).

AUXILIARY SYSTEM:

TURN RATE – Just like Engine speed, it’s very complicated. But here’s a few quick tips:

– 0 Aux Power (system offline) will cause you to be almost completely unable to turn.

– Tier 1 and 2 ships are easier to get to turn faster. Tier 3+ ships have a built-in modifier that is meant to normalize the “high-end” ship bonus skills. (In essence, they force you to invest points in the ship type, to get them to move comparably to lower-tier ships).

– Turn Rate is calculated in “Degrees per Second” which is unaffected by your Engine SPEED.

– Turn Rate modifiers (such as those on consoles and engines) are % bonuses to your ship’s turn rate, and are not directly additive.

– The total possible bonus (or penalty) of a high (or low) Aux power level is never going to turn a Cruiser into an Escort (or vice versa).

– Escorts will benefit far more from Aux, due to a higher innate Turn Rate.

HULL REPAIR – Bryan’s Penis Calculations unknown. Sorry!

– Also affected by Crew Levels, and passive skills.

– The longer the battle, the more Hull Repair will matter.

– Hull Repair is always % based, so larger/beefier ships will repair more per tick than smaller ships, with the same Captain.

STEALTH DETECTION –

– Base is determined by ship type: Escorts/Cruisers are 33% that of Science Ship detection rate.

– Also based on all of the following: Starship Operations Training, Starship Sensors stat (from items + skills), Starship Sensor Array stat (from items + skills)

– After the “base” detection rate is found (using the above + innate based on ship type), MULTIPLIED BY AUXILIARY in same manner as Weapon Power.

ABILITY MODIFIER –

– Determined on a per-power basis. Can affect Duration and/or Magnitude.

– Does NOT always affect abilities. To check: Tooltips will update on-the-fly if they are affected by Aux (but not always in Sector Space)

IN CLOSING: https://theenginescannaetakeit.wordpress.com/

MEDIA:

Pics of one of the new C-Store ship skins: https://forums.startrekonline.com/showpost.php?p=2438996&postcount=6

Tribble of BORG:

Was rewarded to people that participated in a Dev event on the Tribble server during the weekend prior to Season One release.

Pic: https://www.wegame.com/view/star-trek-online-screenshot-by-ermest-2010-03-26-15-33-01/sizes/

Info: https://www.wegame.com/view/star-trek-online-screenshot-by-ermest-2010-03-26-15-34-18/sizes/

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STOked s2e1: Gozer Interview & Skills Calculator

chris — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:11:48 +0000

Dan AKA Gozer joins us from Cryptic Studios, then in our new MATH segment we discuss combat tactics and turning radius, show you a great new skill calculator, and kick off our STO MEDIA segment with some footage from the end-of-beta event!

PLUS SO MUCH MORE!