spying – Jupiter Broadcasting https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com Open Source Entertainment, on Demand. Thu, 20 Apr 2017 05:25:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-favicon-32x32.png spying – Jupiter Broadcasting https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com 32 32 How the Mighty Fall | Unfilter 233 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/114036/how-the-mighty-fall-unfilter-233/ Wed, 19 Apr 2017 21:25:06 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=114036 RSS Feeds: Video Feed | MP3 Feed | OGG Feed | HD Torrent | Mobile Torrent | iTunes Become an Unfilter supporter on Patreon: — Show Notes — Links: British spies were first to spot Trump team’s links with Russia | UK news | The Guardian The CIA’s Director Went In Hard Against Wikileaks — […]

The post How the Mighty Fall | Unfilter 233 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>
RSS Feeds:

Video Feed | MP3 Feed | OGG Feed | HD Torrent | Mobile Torrent | iTunes

Become an Unfilter supporter on Patreon:

Patreon

— Show Notes —

Links:

The post How the Mighty Fall | Unfilter 233 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>
The Kremlin Candidate | Unfilter 222 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/106286/the-kremlin-candidate-unfilter-222/ Wed, 18 Jan 2017 23:29:12 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=106286 RSS Feeds: Video Feed | MP3 Feed | OGG Feed | HD Torrent | Mobile Torrent | iTunes Become an Unfilter supporter on Patreon: — Show Notes — Links: Chuck Todd Goes One-On-One With Buzzfeed Editor | MSNBC Trump Wasn’t Told About Russia Memo During Briefing, Official Says – NBC News Donald J. Trump on […]

The post The Kremlin Candidate | Unfilter 222 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>
RSS Feeds:

Video Feed | MP3 Feed | OGG Feed | HD Torrent | Mobile Torrent | iTunes

Become an Unfilter supporter on Patreon:

Patreon

— Show Notes —

Links:

The post The Kremlin Candidate | Unfilter 222 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>
The Hunt for Red November | Unfilter 203 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/102911/the-hunt-for-red-november-unfilter-203/ Wed, 07 Sep 2016 21:15:26 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=102911 RSS Feeds: Video Feed | MP3 Feed | OGG Feed | HD Torrent | Mobile Torrent | iTunes Become an Unfilter supporter on Patreon: — Show Notes — Episode Links Judicial Watch: New Abedin Emails Reveal Top Clinton Foundation Executive Doug Band Sought Diplomatic Passport from Clinton State Department – Judicial Watch Bears in the […]

The post The Hunt for Red November | Unfilter 203 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>
RSS Feeds:

Video Feed | MP3 Feed | OGG Feed | HD Torrent | Mobile Torrent | iTunes

Become an Unfilter supporter on Patreon:

Patreon

— Show Notes —

Episode Links

The post The Hunt for Red November | Unfilter 203 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>
50 First Jihads | Unfilter 156 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/86966/50-first-jihads-unfilter-156/ Wed, 26 Aug 2015 20:50:04 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=86966 The NSA is being sued by a former mayor for blanket surveillance & the case could spark a public debate. New information on how the Clinton’s stored their mail server, our takedown of ISIS claimed attempts to recruit American women & why you better buy that Patriot Drone soon! Plus an update on the 2016 […]

The post 50 First Jihads | Unfilter 156 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>

post thumbnail

The NSA is being sued by a former mayor for blanket surveillance & the case could spark a public debate. New information on how the Clinton’s stored their mail server, our takedown of ISIS claimed attempts to recruit American women & why you better buy that Patriot Drone soon!

Plus an update on the 2016 election, the recent market turmoil & more!

Direct Download:

Video | MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Torrent | YouTube

RSS Feeds:

Video Feed | MP3 Feed | OGG Feed | HD Torrent | Mobile Torrent | iTunes

Become an Unfilter supporter on Patreon:

Foo

Show Notes:

— Episode Links —

ISIS Is Recruiting Women

The post 50 First Jihads | Unfilter 156 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>
Get Tracked with Windows 10 | TTT 198 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/85697/get-tracked-with-windows-10-ttt-198/ Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:19:01 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=85697 Windows 10 is released to the public, but the devil is in the details. Microsoft’s new small print – how your personal data is (ab)used, we share the details. Plus how the mainstream is reacting to the new release, the sliding market share of the iPad & the teleportation breakthrough scientists are reporting. Direct Download: […]

The post Get Tracked with Windows 10 | TTT 198 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>

post thumbnail

Windows 10 is released to the public, but the devil is in the details. Microsoft’s new small print – how your personal data is (ab)used, we share the details.

Plus how the mainstream is reacting to the new release, the sliding market share of the iPad & the teleportation breakthrough scientists are reporting.

Direct Download:

MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Video | HD Video | Torrent | YouTube

RSS Feeds:

MP3 Feed | OGG Feed | iTunes Feed | Video Feed | Video Feed | Torrent Feed

Become a supporter on Patreon

Foo

Show Notes:

The post Get Tracked with Windows 10 | TTT 198 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>
Terror for the 4th | Unfilter 149 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/84557/terror-for-the-4th-unfilter-149/ Wed, 01 Jul 2015 22:38:34 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=84557 Dire warnings of a holiday attack this weekend, your Unfilter show gets to the bottom of this week’s latest scare! The NSA’s vacuums are back to full, we’ll explain why, Russia turns off the gas, the Supreme court makes their big decision & we’re tracking the latest claimed threats from ISIS. Plus IRS emails recovered, […]

The post Terror for the 4th | Unfilter 149 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>

post thumbnail

Dire warnings of a holiday attack this weekend, your Unfilter show gets to the bottom of this week’s latest scare! The NSA’s vacuums are back to full, we’ll explain why, Russia turns off the gas, the Supreme court makes their big decision & we’re tracking the latest claimed threats from ISIS.

Plus IRS emails recovered, the situation in Greece, some Red Book follow up & more!

Direct Download:

Video | MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Torrent | YouTube

RSS Feeds:

Video Feed | MP3 Feed | OGG Feed | HD Torrent | Mobile Torrent | iTunes

Become an Unfilter supporter on Patreon:

Foo

Show Notes:

— Episode Links —

The post Terror for the 4th | Unfilter 149 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>
DuckDuckGoing Up | Tech Talk Today 185 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/83942/duckduckgoing-up-tech-talk-today-185/ Thu, 18 Jun 2015 10:16:33 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=83942 DuckDuckGo sees 600% user growth since the Edward Snowden leaks, we’ll play highlights of an interview with their CEO. Uber has a mess in California, Apple Watch sales numbers are in & solving a major sleep issue for many. Direct Download: MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Video | HD Video | Torrent | YouTube […]

The post DuckDuckGoing Up | Tech Talk Today 185 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>

post thumbnail

DuckDuckGo sees 600% user growth since the Edward Snowden leaks, we’ll play highlights of an interview with their CEO. Uber has a mess in California, Apple Watch sales numbers are in & solving a major sleep issue for many.

Direct Download:

MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Video | HD Video | Torrent | YouTube

RSS Feeds:

MP3 Feed | OGG Feed | iTunes Feed | Video Feed | Video Feed | Torrent Feed

Become a supporter on Patreon

Foo

Show Notes:

Episode Links:

The post DuckDuckGoing Up | Tech Talk Today 185 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>
Reigning In Blood | Unfilter 145 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/82922/reigning-in-blood-unfilter-145/ Wed, 27 May 2015 22:40:29 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=82922 The media is sure the “strategy” against ISIS has failed & the time has come for boots on the ground in Iraq again, but the real game is a much longer player & the intention is to sell the American public on arming more militants. We’ll break it down. The Senate fails to reform NSA […]

The post Reigning In Blood | Unfilter 145 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>

post thumbnail

The media is sure the “strategy” against ISIS has failed & the time has come for boots on the ground in Iraq again, but the real game is a much longer player & the intention is to sell the American public on arming more militants. We’ll break it down.

The Senate fails to reform NSA spying & the Patriot Act is set to expire this Sunday. We’ll explain where things are at & why regardless of anything, the larger transgressions by the NSA are being left untouched.

Direct Download:

Video | MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Torrent | YouTube

RSS Feeds:

Video Feed | MP3 Feed | OGG Feed | HD Torrent | Mobile Torrent | iTunes

Become an Unfilter supporter on Patreon:

Foo

Show Notes:

The Senate Fails to Reform NSA Spying, Votes Against USA Freedom Act

A last-minute bid to reform NSA spying before lawmakers break for a week-long recess failed early Saturday morning after hours of debate and filibuster overnight when Senate lawmakers voted 57-42 against the USA Freedom Act.

Senator Mitch McConnell then tried to lead an effort to extend the key provision in the Patriot Act that has been used to justify NSA spying, which is set to expire on June 1. But that vote also failed. Temporarily, that means the government’s bulk collection of phone records from U.S. telecoms is on hold.

USA Freedom Act aimed to put an end to that program, first uncovered by USA Today in 2006 and re-exposed in 2013 by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

The bill called for records to be retained by telecoms and would have forced the NSA to obtain court orders from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to gain access to them. It also would have required the agency to use specific search terms to narrow its access to only relevant records.

A companion bill passed in the House earlier this month by a landslide vote of 338 to 88 but encountered trouble in the Senate where opponents said it would handicap the fight against terrorism and harm national security.

Proponents of the bill were pushing to get it passed before lawmakers could vote on whether or not to re-authorize sections of the US Patriot Act. Section 215, which the government has long said legally justifies its collection of phone records, is set to expire at midnight June 1.

Unlike many privacy and civil liberties groups, the ACLU has refrained from endorsing the USA Freedom Act and instead is advocating for allowing the Patriot Act provisions to sunset — i.e., to die a long overdue death rather than being “reformed.” Meanwhile, almost all of the 86 “no” votes in the House were based on the argument that the USA Freedom Act either does not go far enough in limiting the NSA or that it actually makes things worse.

The USA Freedom Act was rejected by the U.S. Senate on May 22, 2015. By a vote of 57-42, the Senate did not pass the bill that would have required 60 votes to move forward, which means that the NSA must start winding down its domestic mass surveillance program this week. The Senate also rejected, by 54-45, also short of the necessary 60 votes, a two-month extension for the key provision in the Patriot Act that has been used to justify NSA spying, which is set to expire on June 1, 2015.

Inside the battle for Ramadi: Iraqi soldier speaks

He believes that the order to withdraw was a betrayal. The Iraqi government has said it launched an investigation to find out what went wrong and how the order was issued, but so far, no one has given a viable explanation.

“I want to quit the army, I would, if I thought I wouldn’t get into trouble,” Al-Yassiri says. “I want to join the militias and go back to the fight.”

Ramadi Fell to ISIS Fighters Even Though They Were ‘Vastly Outnumbered’ by Iraqi

The city of Ramadi is controlled by “hundreds” of ISIS fighters who were able to seize the city after Iraqi military commanders ordered the withdrawal of several thousand Iraqi troops from the city.

That’s according to a U.S. official who also confirmed that the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Ramadi may have been prompted by the unexplained pullout of the elite Iraqi counterterrorism force based in the city.

The pullout of the Iraqi counterterrorism unit from Ramadi first appeared in the Kurdish news agency Rudaw.

Ramadi occupies a highly strategic location on the Euphrates and the road west into Syria and Jordan. This has made it a hub for trade and traffic, from which the city gained significant prosperity. Its position has meant that it has been fought over several times, during the two World Wars and again during the Iraq War and Iraqi insurgency. It was heavily damaged during the Iraq War, when it was a major focus for the insurgency against occupying United States forces. Following the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq in 2011, the city was contested by the Iraqi government and the extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and fell to ISIL in May 2015.

The King of Tech Talk Showed Everyone a (His?) Naked Dick

This particular incident occurred on May 24th, during an explanatory segment on Apple’s new Photos app. Most of the clip is the same sort of David Pogue explainer-mush that’s been Laporte’s bread and butter for years. While clicking through his photo library, Laporte brings up a grid of imported images: family, friends, food, and an erect penis.

The Tech Guy Leo Laporte Accidentally Shows A Penis Photo During His Live Tech Program! See The Awkward Moment HERE!

Wikileaks reveal massive haul of 1978 Documents

PlusD

Today WikiLeaks has released more than half a million US State Department cables from 1978. The cables cover US interactions with, and observations of, every country.

1978 was an unusually important year in geopolitics. The year saw the start of a great many political conflicts and alliances which continue to define the present world order, as well as the rise of still-important personalities and political dynasties.


The cables document the start of the Iranian Revolution, leading to the stand-off between Iran and the West (1979 — present); the Second Oil Crisis; the Afghan conflict (1978 — present); the Lebanon–Israel conflict (1978 — present); the Camp David Accords; the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua and the subsequent conflict with US proxies (1978 — 1990); the 1978 Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia; the Ethopian invasion of Eritrea; Carter’s critical decision on the neutron bomb; the break-up of the USSR’s nuclear-powered satellite over Canada, which changed space policy; the US “playing the China card” against Russia; Brzezinski’s visit to China, which led to the subsequent normalisation of relations and a proxy war in Cambodia; with the US, UK, China and Cambodia on one side and Vietnam and the USSR on the other.


Through 1978, Zbigniew “Zbig” Brzezinski was US National Security Advisor. He would become the architect of the destabilisation of Soviet backed Afghanistan through the use of Islamic militants, elements of which would later become known as al-Qaeda. Brzezinski continues to affect US policy as an advisor to Obama. He has been especially visible in the recent conflict between Russia and the Ukraine.


WikiLeaks’ Carter Cables II comprise 500,577 US diplomatic cables and other diplomatic communications from and to US embassies and missions in nearly every country. It follows on from the Carter Cables (368,174 documents from 1977), which WikiLeaks published in April 2014.

The Carter Cables II bring WikiLeaks total published US diplomatic cable collection to 2.7 million documents.

The post Reigning In Blood | Unfilter 145 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>
Comcast Carries Grudge | Tech Talk Today 72 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/68707/comcast-carries-grudge-tech-talk-today-72/ Wed, 08 Oct 2014 10:39:39 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=68707 Belkin users go offline all over the world due to a router design flaw, Facebook has a private chat app in the works, Adobe spies on you & Comcast gets a customer fired for complaining about their service. Direct Download: MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Video | HD Video | Torrent | YouTube RSS […]

The post Comcast Carries Grudge | Tech Talk Today 72 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>

post thumbnail

Belkin users go offline all over the world due to a router design flaw, Facebook has a private chat app in the works, Adobe spies on you & Comcast gets a customer fired for complaining about their service.

Direct Download:

MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Video | HD Video | Torrent | YouTube

RSS Feeds:

MP3 Feed | OGG Feed | iTunes Feed | Video Feed | Torrent Feed

Become a supporter on Patreon:

Foo

Show Notes:

Borked Belkin routers leave many unable to get online | Ars Technica

Owners of Belkin routers around the world are finding themselves unable to get online today. Outages appear to be affecting many different models of Belkin router, and they’re hitting customers on any ISP, with Time Warner Cable and Comcast among those affected. ISPs, inundated with support calls by unhappy users, are directing complaints to Belkin’s support line, which appears to have gone into meltdown in response.


The reason for the massive outages is currently unknown. Initial speculation was that Belkin pushed a buggy firmware update overnight, but on a reddit thread about the problem, even users who claim to have disabled automatic updates have found their Internet connectivity disrupted.

Update: Belkin has given us the following statement:

Starting approximately midnight on October 7, Belkin began experiencing an issue with a service configured in certain Belkin router models that causes a failure when it checks for general network connectivity by pinging a site hosted by Belkin.


If your service has not yet been restored, please unplug your router and plug it back in after waiting 1 minute. Wait 5 more minutes and the router should reconnect. If you have any further issues, please contact our support at (800) 223-5546.

Facebook Readies App Allowing Anonymity – NYTimes.com

The company is working on a stand-alone mobile application that allows users to interact inside of it without having to use their real names, according to two people briefed on Facebook’s plans, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the project.


The point, according to these people, is to allow Facebook users to use multiple pseudonyms to openly discuss the different things they talk about on the Internet; topics of discussion which they may not be comfortable connecting to their real names.


There are many unknowns as to how the new app will interact, if at all, with Facebook’s main site. It is unclear if the app will allow anonymous photo sharing, or how friend interactions and existing friend connections will work.

Adobe spies on reading habits over unencrypted web because your ‘privacy is important’ • The Register

Adobe confirmed its Digital Editions software insecurely phones home your ebook reading history to Adobe — to thwart piracy.

And the company insisted the secret snooping is covered in its terms and conditions.

Version 4 of the application makes a note of every page read, and when, in the digital tomes it accesses, and then sends that data over the internet unencrypted to Adobe.

Adobe explained that the data it collects is for digital rights management (DRM) mechanisms that may be demanded by publishers to combat piracy, and gave a detailed list of what and why it needs such specific information:

  • User ID: The user ID is collected to authenticate the user.
  • Device ID: The device ID is collected for digital right management (DRM) purposes since publishers typically restrict the number of devices an eBook or digital publication can be read on.
  • Certified app ID: The Certified App ID is collected as part of the DRM workflow to ensure that only certified apps can render a book, reducing DRM hacks and compromised DRM implementations.
  • Device IP: The device IP is collected to determine the broad geo-location, since publishers have different pricing models in place depending on the location of the reader purchasing a given eBook or digital publication.
  • Duration for which the book was read: This information is collected to facilitate limited or metered pricing models where publishers or distributors charge readers based on the duration a book is read. For example, a reader may borrow a book for a period of 30 days. While some publishers/distributers charge for 30-days from the date of the download, others follow a metered pricing model and charge for the actual time the book is read.
  • Percentage of the book read: This information is collected to allow publishers to implement subscription models where they can charge based on the percentage of the book read. For example, some publishers charge only a percentage of the full price if only a certain percentage of the book is read.

Additionally, the following data is provided by the publisher as part of the actual license and DRM for the ebook:

  • Date of purchase or download
  • Distributor ID and Adobe content server operator URL
  • Metadata of the book provided by publisher (including title, author, publisher list price, ISBN number)

Complain About Comcast, Get Fired From Your Job – Slashdot

When you complain to your cable company, you certainly don’t expect that the cable company will then contact your employer and discuss your complaint. But that’s exactly what happened to one former Comcast customer who says he was fired after the cable company called a partner at his accounting firm. Be careful next time when you exercise your first amendment rights.

  • From the article:

At some point shortly after that call, someone from Comcast contacted a partner at the firm to discuss Conal. This led to an ethics investigation and Conal’s subsequent dismissal from his job; a job where he says he’d only received positive feedback and reviews for his work.

Comcast maintained that Conal used the name of his employer in an attempt to get leverage. Conal insists that he never mentioned his employer by name, but believes that someone in the Comcast Controller’s office looked him up online and figured out where he worked.
When he was fired, Conal’s employer explained that the reason for the dismissal was an e-mail from Comcast that summarized conversations between Conal and Comcast employees.

But Conal has never seen this e-mail in order to say whether it’s accurate and Comcast has thus far refused to release any tapes of the phone calls related to this matter._

The post Comcast Carries Grudge | Tech Talk Today 72 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>
China Pays Microsoft a Visit | Tech Talk Today 34 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/63292/china-pays-microsoft-a-visit-tech-talk-today-34/ Tue, 29 Jul 2014 10:04:09 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=63292 Microsoft is in hot water with authorities in China and it could be worse than your being told. Plus Mozilla has a new CEO & then we cover a series of tech stories from down under that you’ve just got to hear! Direct Download: MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Video | HD Video | […]

The post China Pays Microsoft a Visit | Tech Talk Today 34 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>

post thumbnail

Microsoft is in hot water with authorities in China and it could be worse than your being told. Plus Mozilla has a new CEO & then we cover a series of tech stories from down under that you’ve just got to hear!

Direct Download:

MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Video | HD Video | Torrent | YouTube

RSS Feeds:

MP3 Feed | OGG Feed | iTunes Feed | Video Feed | Torrent Feed

Become a supporter on Patreon:

Foo

Show Notes:

China Investigates Microsoft – WSJ

Two people familiar with the inquiry said Chinese corporate regulatory officials made surprise visits to Microsoft’s offices in four Chinese cities.


According to Reuters and the South China Morning Post, the company is being investigated by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, which raided Microsoft offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu on Monday.

China’s State Administration for Industry and Commerce acts as the nation’s corporate registry and has some marketing and antitrust responsibilities. It couldn’t be reached for comment late Monday.


AIC officials sometimes pay visits to industries under official scrutiny that don’t result in formal probes.


Microsoft had been in the Chinese government’s cross hairs before this week. China’s powerful state-run television broadcaster ran a report in June that questioned the security of the company’s new Windows 8 computer operating system.

The broadcast quoted Chinese experts who argued that Microsoft cooperated with the U.S. government to carry out cyberspying.


Other U.S. companies have also been under scrutiny in the country. China’s state broadcaster also raised questions about the security of the iPhone in July, allegations that Apple Inc.


In late May, the Chinese authorities banned government institutions from using Windows 8

Chris Beard Named CEO of Mozilla

Chris Beard has been appointed CEO of Mozilla Corp. The Mozilla board has reviewed many internal and external candidates — and no one we met was a better fit.

Chris first joined Mozilla in 2004, just before we shipped Firefox 1.0 – and he’s been deeply involved in every aspect of Mozilla ever since. During his many years here, he at various times has had responsibility for almost every part of the business, including product, marketing, innovation, communications, community and user engagement.

Leaked discussion paper reveals Australian online piracy crackdown in full swing

The federal government is proposing that internet service providers (ISPs), such as Telstra, Optus and iiNet, take measures to discourage or reduce online copyright infringement, according to a leaked copy of its discussion paper.

According to the document, first obtained by news website Crikey, the government also wants to give itself the power to prescribe specific measures that would see internet providers discourage online copyright infringement. This is in the cases where the industry does not develop effective schemes or commercial arrangements.

It is also proposing that universities be “captured” by the safe harbour scheme that currently governs internet service providers. This stipulates financial damages can be levied against carriage service providers who breach four categories, including providing connections to copyright material and referring users to an online location where it exists via a link.


In the document, signed by Attorney-General George Brandis and Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull, the government cited its unratified trade obligations with the US – known as the** “Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement”** – to pursue its reforms.


It essentially overrules a decision by the High Court in 2012, which found that internet service providers could not be found liable for authorising an act by a subscriber that infringes copyright.


Although the discussion paper hasn’t been released yet, a speedy response from industry and the public is expected, with submissions closing on August 25.

Aussie hackers get Doom working on an ATM- The Inquirer

HACKERS IN AUSTRALIA have succeeded in running classic first person shooter game Doom on a bank cash machine.

The ATM, which runs Windows XP Embedded, can be controlled using the device’s buttons, with the game appearing on the screen in place of the message telling you the size of your overdraft.

At the moment, weapons selection is done through the arrow buttons to the side of the screen, and the group already has plans to get the number keys up and running.

Close Encounters Of The Radio Kind? Mystery Bursts Baffle Astronomers : NPR

Back in 2007, astronomers detected an incredibly brief, incredibly strong radio wave burst in Australia. And now, on the opposite side of the world, astronomers have detected a second blast of similar proportions. Meaning that A) the first one wasn’t a fluke, and B) we have absolutely no idea what’s causing them.

This second ultrafast flash of radio waves was discovered by the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, which had been putting out its feelers in hopes of discovering neutron stars. Instead, it got the second instance of so-called fast radio bursts (FRBs), which finally allowed astronomers to rule out cosmic noise and formally report them. Because unlike the radio signals we usually detect, these radio waves “show every sign of having come from far outside our galaxy.”

Emails:

Stephen writes:

IBM Typerwriter

Yes, I remember that IBM typewriter. That typewriter was so popular that they were often stolen from offices. Some police forces had special teams to investigate thefts.


Sebastian writes:

USB flux capacitor

Hey Chris I saw this on twitter and it just lit a light in my soul, remembering the good old day 🙂
Flux Capacitor charger turns any ride into a DeLorean time machine

FauxShow Awards show – How do you watch JB? Send a pic, your IRC Nick, and anything you’d like to add to angela@jupiterbroadcasting.com

The post China Pays Microsoft a Visit | Tech Talk Today 34 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>
NSA Wargames | Unfilter 78 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/47892/nsa-wargames-unfilter-78/ Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:13:02 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=47892 The NSA Spying Scandal is Costing U.S. Tech Giants Billions, and until this week they’ve remained nearly silent, and politely complicent.

The post NSA Wargames | Unfilter 78 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>

post thumbnail

The NSA Spying Scandal is Costing U.S. Tech Giants Billions, and until this week they’ve remained nearly silent, and politely complicent.

Now eight of the largest tech companies joined forces to push back against the Government spying policies.

Meanwhile new leaks continue to be published, the latest detail the infiltration of online gaming communities to conduct massive surveillance of gamers.

Don’t worry everything’s just fine, the mainstream media is reporting the economy is on the fast track to recovery now, and unemployment is down. We’ll discuss the reality of the situation, plus your feedback, and much more.

On this week’s episode of, Unfilter.

Direct Download:

Video | MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Torrent | YouTube

RSS Feeds:

Video Feed | MP3 Feed | OGG Feed | HD Torrent | Mobile Torrent | iTunes

Become an Unfilter Supporter:

— Show Notes —


Edward Snowden’s Rough Week

Eric Michael O’Neill (born March 3, 1973) is a former American FBI counter-terrorism and counterintelligence operative. He worked and was entitled as an Investigative Specialist with the Special Surveillance Group (SSG) and played a major role in the arrest, conviction, and life imprisonment of FBI agent Robert Hanssen for spying on behalf of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation.

The ABC News doyenne pushed hard to have NSA leaker*Edward Snowden *at the top of her list of 10 most fascinating people of the year — but in the end was overruled by network brass, a source told Confidenti@l.

In addition to Snowden, the others chosen for the much-anticipated special includeJennifer Lawrence, Miley Cyrus, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West (starring jointly as KimYe), baby Prince George, the cast of “Duck Dynasty,” swimmer Diana Nyad, “Good Morning America” hostRobin Roberts andPope Francis.

The European parliament is lining up Edward Snowden to give evidence by video link this month, in spite of resistance by British Conservatives, a Green MEP has announced.


– Thanks for Supporting Unfilter –

This Week’s New Supporters:

  • Caleb J

  • Chris S

  • Robert R

  • Sigmund V

  • David P

  • Brady L

  • Paul B

  • Thomas D

  • Alex

  • John I

  • Shayne

  • Robert B

  • Alexander R

  • Eric B

  • Faran J

  • Daniel P

  • Michael P

  • Sean W

  • Thanks to our 290 Unfilter supporters!

  • Supporter perk: Downloadable Pre and Post show. Extra clips, music, hijinks, and off the cuff comments. The ultimate Unfiltered experience. ‘

  • Supporter perk: Exclusive BitTorrent Sync share of our production and non-production clips, notes, and more since the NSA scandal broke in episode 54. The ultimate Unfiltered experience, just got more ultimate.

  • Supporter Perk: Past 5 supporters shows, in a dedicated bittorrent sync folder.

  • Unfilter lands on Dec 25th and Jan 1st. No main show those weeks, but supporters only shows will air. A limited time opportunity to have the entire lineup in the sync folder for easy listening.


World of Spycraft

Online games might seem innocuous, a top-secret 2008 NSA document warned, but they had the potential to be a “target-rich communication network” allowing intelligence suspects “a way to hide in plain sight.” Virtual games “are an opportunity!,” another 2008 NSA document declared.

But for all their enthusiasm — so many CIA, FBI and Pentagon spies were hunting around in Second Life, the document noted, that a “deconfliction” group was needed to avoid collisions — the intelligence agencies may have inflated the threat.

The documents do not cite any counterterrorism successes from the effort, and former American intelligence officials, current and former gaming company employees and outside experts said in interviews that they knew of little evidence that terrorist groups viewed the games as havens to communicate and plot operations.

During Smith’s 6 years on Eve, he used the game to communicate covert messages with the US State Department. Being the perfect cover, online games like Eve provide a pathway of communication between the US government and overseas operatives on nearly secured channels because of the cryptic messages being passed back and forth.

The friend recalls that Smith was on Eve the night of the attack and conveyed that sirens could be heard in the distance, and suddenly would go offline, then pop back up. In the last communication, Smith said “GUNFIRE”, logged off – and never returned. – See more at: https://www.occupycorporatism.com/state-department-covers-up-ambassador-stevens-death-at-rented-villa-in-benghazi/#sthash.DWzBGG2S.dpuf

Beck accuse Sean Smith and his colleagues of either working with the CIA or of being CIA agents, and that some of Smith’s final messages to the outside world – which were sent to members of the EVE Online community – were actually coded, and intended for the CIA.

NSA is CRAZY

The agency’s internal presentation slides, provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, show that when companies follow consumers on the Internet to better serve them advertising, the technique opens the door for similar tracking by the government. The slides also suggest that the agency is using these tracking techniques to help identify targets for offensive hacking operations.

According to the documents, the NSA and its British counterpart, GCHQ, are using the small tracking files or “cookies” that advertising networks place on computers to identify people browsing the Internet. The intelligence agencies have found particular use for a part of a Google-specific tracking mechanism known as the “PREF” cookie. These cookies typically don’t contain personal information, such as someone’s name or e-mail address, but they do contain numeric codes that enable Web sites to uniquely identify a person’s browser.

“In our Q1 earnings call of November 13th, we stated that product orders in China declined 18% in Q1 FY14, whereas in Q4 FY13, we referenced that our business in China had declined 6%,” a Cisco spokesperson told Ars. “By comparison, China bookings were up 8% in Q3 FY13. So, yes, there is a short-term trend of declining business in China, which we have acknowledged.”

“We shouldn’t have gathered economic intelligence under the guise of security – not with an ally,” Clinton told O Globo, a newspaper in Rio de Janeiro.

On Monday the companies, led by Google and Microsoft, presented a plan to regulate online spying and urged the United States to lead a worldwide effort to restrict it. They accompanied it with an open letter, in the form of full-page ads in national newspapers, including The New York Times, and a website detailing their concerns.

Apple, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, AOL and LinkedIn joined Google and Microsoft in saying that they believed in governments’ right to protect their citizens. But, they said, the spying revelations that began last summer with leaks of National Security Agency materials by Edward J. Snowden showed that “the balance in many countries has tipped too far in favor of the state and away from the rights of the individual.”


War on Unemployment Benefits Heats Up

One reason the unemployment insurance extension wasn’t included in the budget deal: cost. The budget deal includes about $22 billion in deficit reduction over two years. (It cuts $85 billion but allows spending caps to rise by $63 billion.)

Extending unemployment will cost about $25 billion for one year. It would undo the bill’s savings. That doesn’t mean Congress won’t do it. But they couldn’t credibly pair it with their modest budget bill.

Sen. Rand Paul says “black unemployment in America is double white unemployment” and “hasn’t budged” under President Obama. Actually, the black unemployment rate is lower now than when Obama took office, and the gap between the races is below the historical average.

CEO vs. Worker inequality

  • The Average CEO makes 354 times what the average worker makes[3]
    [year: ratio between worker/CEO earnings]

1982: 42:1
1992: 201:1
2002: 281:1
2012: 354:1

Feedback:

If you’re a Supporter check your inbox!

Call us: 1.425.312.1756

Follow the Us:

The post NSA Wargames | Unfilter 78 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>
The NSA Justification | Unfilter 77 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/47477/the-nsa-justification-unfilter-77/ Wed, 04 Dec 2013 22:19:11 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=47477 Dianne Feinstein and Mike Rogers held a joint interview over the weekend that gives us new insights into the rampant paranoia and circular logic.

The post The NSA Justification | Unfilter 77 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>

post thumbnail

Dianne Feinstein and Mike Rogers the supposed chief overseers of the the US intelligence war machine held a joint interview over the weekend that gives us new insights into the rampant paranoia and circular logic that dominates their thinking and enables them to justify the spying of the world’s connected population. We’ll bust their talking points and focus on their real motivations.

But first: The editor of The Guardian was grilled by politicians and his patriotism called into question. Meanwhile Greenwald takes to the air to defend their reporting on the Snowden leaks.

Then it’s Amazon’s drones, your feedback, our follow up, and much much more.

On this week’s episode of, Unfilter.

Direct Download:

Video | MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Torrent | YouTube

RSS Feeds:

Video Feed | MP3 Feed | OGG Feed | HD Torrent | Mobile Torrent | iTunes

Become an Unfilter Supporter:

— Show Notes —



Amazon’s Cyber Monday Ad

60 Minutes associate producer Nathalie Sommer says even Bezos built up the surprise during breaks in filming the 60 Minutes segment. During a tape change, Bezos told the producers, “If you can guess what it is, then…I will give you half my fortune and send you to Vegas with it.”

The 10-mile delivery radius for the drones shown in the Amazon video seems quite literally a stretch, according to Colin Guinn CEO of DJI Innovations, a Texas based company that makes unmanned aerial cinematography systems for commercial and recreational use.

“The [Amazon] video is by far the most fleshed out proof of concept yet,” Guinn said. “But with the system they showed, a 20-mile round trip on a single charge isn’t possible with today’s technology.”

He said that the system Amazon presented would carry a five-pound payload for a maximum flight time of about 15 to 20 minutes. “That would amount to maybe about a five-mile delivery radius,” he said, adding that a 10-mile radius might be possible in about a year from now.

As you can see, tweets for “Amazon” increased by 180% between Saturday (11/30) and Sunday (12/1). Their 60 minutes appearance was a great tool for getting people to talk about Jeff Bezos, Amazon and their drones. Of course, Amazon hopes that this increase in conversations will influence people to visit Amazon.com.


– Thanks for Supporting Unfilter –

This Week’s New Supporters:

  • Matt B

  • Dylan L

  • Jason F

  • Aaron G

  • ProfessorKaos

  • Andrew T

  • Matt D

  • Edward R

  • Jared R

  • Thanks to our 273 Unfilter supporters!

  • Supporter perk: Downloadable Pre and Post show. Extra clips, music, hijinks, and off the cuff comments. The ultimate Unfiltered experience. ‘

  • Supporter perk: Exclusive BitTorrent Sync share of our production and non-production clips, notes, and more since the NSA scandal broke in episode 54. The ultimate Unfiltered experience, just got more ultimate.

  • Supporter Perk: Past 5 supporters shows, in a dedicated bittorrent sync folder.

  • Unfilter lands on Dec 25th and Jan 1st. No main show those weeks, but supporters only shows will air. A limited time opportunity to have the entire lineup in the sync folder for easy listening.

  • BitTorrent Sync JFK Archive

BSQROSUAQASU7BEKURP73ULWOGABSQOZ6

“The goal for the next six months, is that we need more shows and less newscasts.”

He wants the network to attract “viewers who are watching places like Discovery and History and Nat Geo and A&E.”


NSA is CRAZY

The NSA does not target Americans’ location data by design, but the agency acquires a substantial amount of information on the whereabouts of domestic cellphones “incidentally,” a legal term that connotes a foreseeable but not deliberate result.

One senior collection manager, speaking on condition of anonymity but with permission from the NSA, said “we are getting vast volumes” of location data from around the world by tapping into the cables that connect mobile networks globally and that serve U.S. cellphones as well as foreign ones. Additionally, data are often collected from the tens of millions of Americans who travel abroad with their cellphones every year.

In one curious exchange, the committee chair, Keith Vaz, asked Rusbridger if he loved his country.

“I’m slightly surprised to be asked the question,” replied Rusbridger. "But, yes, we are patriots and one of the things we are patriotic about is the nature of democracy, the nature of a free press and the fact that one can in this country discuss and report these things.

Senator Dianne Feinstein and Representative Mike Rogers appeared together on CNN’s State of the Union, on the day that al-Qaida’s US spokesperson called for attacks on US interests around the world. Rogers said al-Qaida groups had changed their means of communication as a result of leaks about US surveillance programs, making it harder to detect potential plots in the early planning stages.

“We’re fighting amongst ourselves here in this country about the role of our intelligence community that it is having an impact on our ability to stop what is a growing number of threats,” he said. “And so we’ve got to shake ourselves out of this pretty soon and understand that our intelligence services are not the bad guys.”

Feinstein, a California Democrat, said there were more terrorist groups than ever, with more sophisticated and hard-to-detect bombs. She said: “There is huge malevolence out there.”

I asked him about the NSA disclosure that bothered him most. He described how, in the name of defending the country, the hackers of the NSA are committing a cardinal digital sin: weakening the Internet by targeting cryptography and other security measures that make the Internet secure for the bad guys and for everyone else too.


The Season of Weed

OVER-POLICING

Between 2001 and 2010, there were over 8 million pot arrests in the U.S. That’s one bust every 37 seconds and hundreds of thousands ensnared in the criminal justice system.

WASTED TIME AND MONEY

Enforcing marijuana laws costs us about $3.6 billion a year, yet the War on Marijuana has failed to diminish the use or availability of marijuana.

STAGGERING RACIAL BIAS

Marijuana use is roughly equal among Blacks and whites, yet Blacks are 3.73 times as likely to be arrested for marijuana possession.

Mom Recounts Using Medical Marijuana To Treat Her Son’s Epilepsy: He went 48 hours without a seizure immediately. Within three days he was pumping his legs on the swings, which is something I had tried to teach him for seven years…tomorrow he’ll be 14 months seizure-free."

Feedback:

If you’re a Supporter check your inbox!

Call us: 1.425.312.1756

Follow the Us:

The post The NSA Justification | Unfilter 77 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>
The Android Problem | LINUX Unplugged 6 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/43222/the-android-problem-linux-unplugged-6/ Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:04:27 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=43222 Is that exploit in your pocket? This week we\’ll ask if Android is Stallman\’s worst nightmare, making Tivo look like a quaint abuser of Linux. And how Linux is poised to push past it\’s current limitations over the next few years. Then it\’s your feedback, and our follow up! Thanks to: Direct Download: MP3 Audio […]

The post The Android Problem | LINUX Unplugged 6 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>

post thumbnail

Is that exploit in your pocket? This week we\’ll ask if Android is Stallman\’s worst nightmare, making Tivo look like a quaint abuser of Linux. And how Linux is poised to push past it\’s current limitations over the next few years.

Then it\’s your feedback, and our follow up!

Thanks to:

\"Ting\"

Direct Download:

MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Video | HD Video | Torrent | YouTube

RSS Feeds:

MP3 Feed | OGG Feed | iTunes Feed | Video Feed | Torrent Feed | WebM Torrent Feed

— Show Notes: —

FU

— Android Love Lost —

Mail Sack:

The post The Android Problem | LINUX Unplugged 6 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>
Obama Is Afraid Of You | Unfilter 57 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/39822/obama-is-afraid-of-you-unfilter-57/ Wed, 03 Jul 2013 18:13:58 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=39822 Obama shrugged him off, but this week the Administrations actions spoke louder than their words as their hunt for Edward Snowden intensified.

The post Obama Is Afraid Of You | Unfilter 57 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>

post thumbnail

Obama shrugged him off, calling him some 29 year old hacker. But this week the Administrations actions spoke louder than their words. Their hunt for Edward Snowden intensifies as they twist the arm of Vladimir Putin, ground the jet of the Bolivian president, and placing frantic calls to nation leaders around the world.

We’ll bring you up to date on the twists and turns in hunt for Snowden, analyze the latest leaks, and discuss why some of America’s allies are very angry.

Then we’ll cover the historic showdown in Egypt as millions take to the street, your feedback, and much much more.

On this week’s Unfilter.

Direct Download:

Video | MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Torrent | YouTube

RSS Feeds:

Video Feed | MP3 Feed | OGG Feed | HD Torrent | Mobile Torrent | iTunes

Become an Unfilter Supporter:

— Show Notes —


Germany, France outraged by US ‘Cold War’ spying web

The report, carried by Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine, cites a secret 2010 document alleging that the US spied on EU offices in New York and Washington.

Europe’s reeling from revelations that its leaders and citizens have been targeted by U.S. wiretapping and mass surveillance. That information was leaked to the German media – and the American ambassador there has been summoned for an explanation. RT is joined by Lizzie Phelan, newsroom chief at RT’s video agency in Berlin, Ruptly. RT is also joined by French journalist and blogger Jean Marc Manach.

“The documents prove that Germany played a central role in the NSA’s global surveillance network – and how the Germans have also become targets of U.S. attacks,” Der Spiegel reported. “Each month, the U.S. intelligence service saves data from around half a billion communications connections from Germany.”

France wants to delay the ‘biggest bilateral trade deal in history’ by 2 weeks after learning the USA was allegedly tracking economic communications of EU member states. But Germany says they should go ahead as planned.

At Tuesday’s press conference in the capital Quito, minister Patino said that the hidden listening device was found during a regular security check by the Ecuadorian intelligence for the Ecuadorian embassy in the UK on June 16.

The microphone was found in the office of the ambassador Ana Alban.

“We immediately conducted an investigation to find the source and I will release our result at tomorrow’s press conference including the source of the device, who was using it and which department installed it”, Patino told reporters.


– Thanks for Supporting Unfilter –

This Week’s New Supporters:

  • Neil C
  • Todd H
  • Thomas L @13.33
  • Pablo W
  • Marc B
  • Christopher U
  • Timothy C
  • Anonymous BTC Supporter
  • Thanks to our 119 Unfilter supporters!

  • Supporter perk: Downloadable Pre and Post show. Extra clips, music, hijinks, and off the cuff comments. The ultimate Unfiltered experience.

Where in the World is Snowden

Vice President Biden has asked Ecuador to turn down an asylum request from National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, the country’s president said Saturday.

Rafael Correa said he had a “friendly and very cordial” conversation with Biden, and told the vice president that Ecuador hadn’t sought to be put in the situation of deciding whether to harbor an American fugitive. Correa said Ecuador can’t consider the asylum request until Snowden is on Ecuadorean soil.

White House officials have said in recent days that in their contacts with foreign governments about Mr. Snowden, they have warned those governments about the felony charges that Mr. Snowden faced in the United States and urged that they not further aid his international flight.

France and Portugal accused of refusing entry to their airspace, while plane lands in Vienna with no sign of Snowden

Guardian editors Alan Rusbridger and Janine Gibson on Edward Snowden and the NSA leaks


Showdown: Egypt

CAIRO – Egyptian military leaders on Wednesday said they were suspending the constitution, and they replaced President Mohamed Morsi with the head of the nation’s constitutional court.

The Egyptian military released new images taken from the skies above Cairo during this weekend’s huge anti-government protests. Hundreds of thousands of protesters can be seen gathered at Tahrir Square and the Ittihadiya presidential palace. (July 2)


Feedback:

“Show all mail to supv” — supervisor — “for copying prior to going out on the street,” read the card. It included Mr. Pickering’s name, address and the type of mail that needed to be monitored. The word “confidential” was highlighted in green.

About 30 RCMP officers set up a blockade at the checkpoint, preventing 50 residents from walking into the town. Dozens more police cars, lights on, could be seen lining streets in the town on standby.

If you’re a Supporter check your inbox!

Call us: 1.425.312.1756

Follow the Us:

The post Obama Is Afraid Of You | Unfilter 57 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>
Blackwater Academi | Unfilter 10 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/21966/meet-academi-unfilter-10/ Fri, 20 Jul 2012 07:35:53 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=21966 Private citizen contractors might seem common place now, thanks to the war on terror, but in reality it’s one of the most transformational changes our Military has ever gone through.

The post Blackwater Academi | Unfilter 10 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>

post thumbnail

Private citizen contractors engaged in the theater of battle might seem common place now, thanks to the war on terror, but in reality it’s one of the most transformational changes our Military has ever gone through, and most of us never noticed.

ACT 1: A new once a day drug can help prevent HIV infection, but it’s been announced during a major FDA Spying scandal, plus the biggest threat facing the United States of America, according to Lamar Smith.

ACT 2: How did companies like Blackwater get their start, what major policy changes were put in place to make this legal, and what the future looks like for these companies. We answer those questions, and a lot more.

ACT 3: It’s your feedback, and some of our follow up.

All that and much more, is coming up right now on, Unfilter.

Direct Download:

HD Video | Mobile Video | MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Torrent | YouTube

RSS Feeds:

HD Feed | Mobile Feed | MP3 Feed | OGG Feed | HD Torrent | Mobile Torrent | iTunes

Show Notes:

ACT ONE:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
+ Lamar Smith, who is pushing for this new legislation, is the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee which (according to his website) \”is the second oldest standing committee in Congress. In the last Congress over one thousand bills and resolutions were referred to the Judiciary Committee on such subjects as terrorism, crime, immigration, bankruptcy, civil liberties, constitutional amendments, and patents and copyrights. Lamar Smith is the first Republican Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee from Texas.”

  • \’\’The greatest threat to America is not necessarily a recession or even another terrorist attack. The greatest threat to America is a liberal media bias.\’\’ – Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX)

ACT TWO: Blackwater

Basics

Going Forward

ACT THREE: Feedback

Next week:

Headline edition of Unfilter. Tracking stories like:

Song pick of the week:

Mercenary by Of The I off their album Balance Instars which was ether released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) license (which is what it says on songs page on Jamendo) or the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales (CC BY-SA 2.0) (which is what the license file says when you download the full album)

The Dick Song by Ministry off their album The Last Sucker
UK version

Further Reading:

[asa]156858394X[/asa]

Follow the Team:

If you don’t already have a Dropbox account help Dan out by signing up using this link and then installing Dropbox

The post Blackwater Academi | Unfilter 10 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>
Allan Goes to War | TechSNAP 5 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/8261/allan-goes-to-war-techsnap-5/ Sun, 15 May 2011 22:02:29 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=8261 We’ll cover the dirty details of a Facebook flaw that exposes your private account info to snoops & Allan shares one of his classic tech war stories.

The post Allan Goes to War | TechSNAP 5 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>

post thumbnail

We’ll cover the dirty details of a Facebook flaw that exposes your private account info to snoops, look into the privacy issues around “Smart Meters” and discuss a few big tech rivals coming together to fight a bad law.

Plus Allan shares one of his many war stories in our first installment of our continuing series!

[ad#shownotes]

Show Notes:

Topic: Facebook app platform flaw exposes personal data

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/10/facebook_user_credentials_leaked/

  • Older form of user authentication used by some facebook apps returned a token that could be used for both read and write access to a users account
    • Access to personal information
    • Write wall posts and private messages
    • Send invites and RSVPs
    • Access photographs and other objects
  • These tokens can be leaked via the referrer field or given to advertisers and other third parties who you did not authorize, when the tokens should only be able to be used by the application you did authorize
  • The flaw was fixed when facebook switched to the standardized OAUTH API that works differently and requires public and private keys, but the old API is still supported to avoid breaking existing apps
  • Facebook is phasing out the old method, by September 1st all apps must use OAUTH 2.0 and by October 1st all apps must have an SSL Certificate.
  • Changing your password invalidates all old tokens

Topic: Google and Facebook oppose California Law against tracking cookies

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/google-facebook-fight-california-do-not-track-law.ars
https://static.arstechnica.com/oppositionletter.pdf

  • would create an unnecessary, unenforceable and unconstitutional regulatory burden on Internet commerce
  • Would require sites to allow users to opt-out of storing information such as:
    • date and hour of online access
    • the location from which the information was accessed
    • The device and its operating system used for access
    • IP addresses
  • Would kill google analytics and other such products
  • Google also claims it would reduce online safety and increase fraud
    • Many e-commerce providers use details such as where the user is located, previous access patterns, referral information etc, to help determine the validity of online transactions.
  • The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Commerce have also promoted the idea of self-regulation

Topic: Is your electric meter spying on you?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/05/california-proposes-strong-privacy-protections

  • The California Public Utilities Commission proposes new privacy regulations to prevent utilities from sharing or selling your smart meter data
  • Such data could be used to build a complex behavioural profile on you
    • when you wake up
    • when you shower
    • when you leave for and return from work
    • when you go on vacation
  • Where is this information stored? How is it protected? could it be compromised like PSN/SOE was?

War Story: When it goes wrong, it goes very wrong

  • Background: We were co-located with the local cable company, they had been offering data center services for years and were rapidly expanding and becoming a major force in the area. We particularly liked the data center because it was a block from my house in the event of a problem. However, after a few years there, the local cable company was bought out by a major national cable system. This new company decided that data center services were outside of their business focus and requested that all customers find a new home.
  • So we signed a contract with a new data center and arranged with our customers to physically move half of our equipment over two consecutive weekends. In preparation for this we shifted load away from the gear we were going to move and adjusted our router configuration, leaving the redundant router as the primary at the old location. However, to save reconfiguration time during the final phase of the move, the new configuration on the backup router was only the ‘running’ config, not the ‘boot’ config. The boot config was setup so that when the router was physically moved next weekend, it would be read to go online immediately.
  • Things were all going according to plan until about an hour before we were scheduled to being our move. A massive power event knocked out utility power to about a 40 block radius that included the data center. This was obviously nothing to be concerned about, this was a real data center, with redundant battery backups and a generator system.
  • The servers kicked over to the battery backup, and things went well for the first few minutes. Once the system decided that the utility power was not going to be restored quickly, it spooled up the generator, which came online cleaning and started generating power. Once the generator was online, the system attempted to switch to generator power, however this failed, so the system resumed off of battery power, and sent out an alarm to the data center staff. The system attempted the transfer again, but again power was not getting from the generator to the battery backup system.
  • Eventually, after about 15 minutes, the batteries ran flat and the entire data center went dark. The catastrophic loss of power also took out my home Internet connection from the same provider. Now, all of my servers were down, but I was unaware of the issue because my own Internet connection was down as well. I quickly became aware of the situation when my offsite monitoring starting pinging my phone.
  • I called the ISP/Data Center and they said they had suffered a power loss, this explained why my home internet was down, but surely the data center should be fully functional. It wasn’t.
  • Once utility power was restored after a total of about 30 minutes, things started to come back online, however because our routers and servers had modified ‘boot’ configs in preparation for the move that was going to happen later that day, things did not come back online cleanly. We rushed to the data center and started reconfiguring the gear that was to remain in the old data center for another week.
  • Root Cause Analysis:
    • Due to lack of maintenance by the new management of the data center, the transfer cables between the generators and the battery banks had corroded and failed to transfer power
    • Due to the closing of the business unit, the data center was understaffed to deal with the catastrophic event
  • Lessons Learned:
    • Don’t change your boot config until the last possible minute. The idea was to save time at the far end during the move, but it ended up costing us when the power prematurely changed our configuration
    • Internal directories services need to be redundant, reconfiguring the servers took an excessive amount of time because the servers were unable to lookup user to uid mappings
    • Make sure your SSH server does not wait for DNS
    • When a data center is going down hill, GET OUT. We were one of the first customers to leave, but we wish we had left 2 weeks sooner.

Related:
https://appfail.com/read/139/Rackspace-customers-fanatical-about-downtime/

 

The post Allan Goes to War | TechSNAP 5 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

]]>