Hackers are always two steps ahead of the game.

Now that is a salient comment Sirius.

We are led to believe that mainstream software is written by the full time paid professionals, and that the hackers & virus writers are amateur nerds, usually in Eastern Europe. Therefore how are they 2 steps ahead all the time???

Answers on a post card to :-

Central Intelligence Agency
Office of Public Affairs
Washington, D.C. 20505
USA

SIS (MI6)
85 Albert Embankment
Lambeth
London
SE1
UK

Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052-6399
USA

Had you done some basic research, you would've found that virus writers are no longer 80's script kiddies but professional criminals/ex-soviet military specialists/Russian Mafia etc etc.....

....here's your starter for 10...

Why people write viriuses

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Well well, 3 out of 3 replies seem to think I'm wrong! Okidoki, I'll live and learn then, no big deal in the scheme of things. I'll just have a beer instead :-)

Well if you posted with the same convictions that you post in your own politicial threads, we might all learn something.

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Is it possible to quit Google?

Google's reach spreads far across the web. But is it possible to go online without being noticed by the search giant? Three computer professionals try to part ways with Google. ...


How I divorced Google

Leave Google, and save your privacy in 7 days (or at least get a start on it)



Can any 'addiction' or 'monopoly' be 'trusted'?...

Keep searchin',
Martin

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And then also there is this example:


UK's British Airways to Google Passengers Prior to Flight

... UK airline British Airways has made waves with new plans to Google passengers so it can greet them upon arrival for their flight. Dubbed "Know Me," the scheme is supposed to provide passengers with a more personal experience...


There are some good comments with that article...

Who's watching you?... And why?... And worse still, what happens for misidentification and when the wrong assumptions are made?... Who's name do you share?!


All on our only planet,
Martin

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Well I have just "googled" myself and the first 7 results were me!!

This is because I have a Facebook profile and I use my real name on these boards.

I have also posted some photos elsewhere, but is is quite scary.

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Well I have just "googled" myself and the first 7 results were me!!

This is because I have a Facebook profile and I use my real name on these boards.

I have also posted some photos elsewhere, but is is quite scary.

Been like that for years. I've googled real name in the past...so far, Have yet to find any that is me & there are literally thousands......

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Technology over the years has made many things a lot easier for us, but again, can we really trust the software that the technology uses?

It's all fine & good in releasing new technology, but IMV, I think its come to the point that the software for this should be throughly tested in a "real world" enviroment rather than a test lab.

Bye-bye cash?

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Slowly getting there, poor Apple. Just goes to prove that software can be hacked regardless.....

Apple alarm

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Slowly getting there, poor Apple. Just goes to prove that software can be hacked regardless.....

Apple alarm

Finally, what we have been waiting for, the results of the RSA break in and the stolen root certificates ...

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Welcome back Phil

Can the creator of PGP, do for mobiles what he did for desktops?

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Slowly getting there, poor Apple. Just goes to prove that software can be hacked regardless.....

Apple alarm

Finally, what we have been waiting for, the results of the RSA break in and the stolen root certificates ...

Interesting update

Even more interesting....

AV Update BSOD's XP systems

Hmmmn, attempt to force users off XP by chance or just lazy coding?

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WHY Apple?.......

Apple pulls privacy app from it's store

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http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/security-it/hackers-steal-customer-data-to-prove-risk-of-retention-proposal-20120726-22v67.html

Hackers steal customer data to prove risk of retention proposal.

HACKERS have stolen customer data from the internet company AAPT to highlight the dangers of a proposal to force telcos to store every Australian's web history for up to two years.

The chief executive of the internet service provider, David Yuile, confirmed the security breach, which occurred at 9.30pm Wednesday, in a statement to the Herald yesterday, saying he was ''extremely concerned''. AAPT is conducting an investigation and has promised to contact any affected customers.

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Google in the headlines again

Shame Apple didn't get in on the act....

"Google is to pay a record $22.5m (£14.4m) fine to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the US after it tracked users of Apple's iPhone, iPad and Mac computers by circumventing privacy protections on the Safari web browser for several months at the end of 2011 and into 2012".

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Wow Google really needs to lay off the data mining. Or at least keep the methods respectable.

Taking advantage of security exploits for the purpose of collecting data, I thought was considered hacking/ID theft?

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#resist

Wow Google really needs to lay off the data mining. Or at least keep the methods respectable.

Taking advantage of security exploits for the purpose of collecting data, I thought was considered hacking/ID theft?

Yep, makes you wonder dosen't it?

A big corporation does on the premise of making our "technological" lives much easier. You or I do it & we labelled hackers & arrested.

Just who is conning who?

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Quite simply if you don't want anyone to know something about you don't put it online, use a fake ID never give your real address or e-mail and never enter your bank details on ANY website. In short don't use the internet. In the world we currently live in that is the ONLY way to ensure your privacy.

Every company out there MS, Apple, Google, Yahoo, Facebook etc... need as much info as they can get and WILL stop at nothing.

I have come to accept this and ignore all my own advice. :-0

Hope it won't come back to bit me.

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Quite simply if you don't want anyone to know something about you don't put it online, use a fake ID never give your real address or e-mail and never enter your bank details on ANY website. In short don't use the internet. In the world we currently live in that is the ONLY way to ensure your privacy.

Every company out there MS, Apple, Google, Yahoo, Facebook etc... need as much info as they can get and WILL stop at nothing.

I have come to accept this and ignore all my own advice. :-0

Hope it won't come back to bit me.

Yeah, I hear that. I know between my (Google) Android and my home machines/devices, Google knows more about me than my own mother. :-(

And, I know this and live with it.

Hey, they aren't going to see anything interesting, just a strange set of data that breaks every expected demographic rule out there. An odd being that doesn't buy into ads, big names, or anything. A set of data not even worth sending emails to. :-)

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#resist

Generally speaking we can trust the software we use. ... If mainstream software like Windows of Office wasn't basically safe to use, it wouldn't sell.

Ignorance is blissful... Until those blissfully ignorant get their blissful ignorance abused to their great cost.

I still find it amazing that people accept completely unreasonable EULAs without question and without even reading them. You do have a choice...

If you download free cheapy programs from the web, then you run a risk, and it;s up to you to decide.

A worrying trend is for most 'free' (of cost) Android applications requiring access to your phone details and address book... All very suspicious for apps that shouldn't need such access...


And you believe you can trust Google and others with recording all your intimate personal details and habits?!

So what did happen to privacy?

It's just a question of when the bullies will seize their advantage to rear their ugly ways...


IT is what we make it...
Martin

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Well now,

I still find it amazing that people accept completely unreasonable EULAs

End user licence agreements are deliberately designed to be as difficult to understand as possible and as boring as hell, for a good reason. They don't want people to read them. If they did they would never buy the software in the first place. If you really really read the small print they probably reserve the right to sleep with your wife and pee in your back yard.

A worrying trend is for most 'free' (of cost) Android applications requiring access to your phone details and address book... All very suspicious for apps that shouldn't need such access...

Anyone who is silly enough to use an ipad or an iphone deserves all they get. They are designed from day one to harvest personal details so that the marketing boys can more accurately target their most likely profitable customers.

And you believe you can trust Google and others with recording all your intimate personal details and habits?!

Nope. I personally think that Google should be shut down and put out of business as being an anti Human Rights organisation. I do use Ccleaner regularly which helps a little bit.

So what did happen to privacy?

World recession, and greed mainly from people desperate to make a few bucks on the back of everyone elses misery. Oh and international terrorism where governments can't trust anyone living in their country any more without keeping tabs on them 24/7.

I guess the game is to keep everyone passively amused/distracted and abused until that abuse becomes too apparent where all individuals 'rights' have by then already been prostituted. Then it's a game of when comes the Revelations and the ensuing Revolution...

Welcome to the 21C Martin, this is what life is like now. The first ET flying saucer that lands in my back garden with have an extra fare paying passenger.

Rather than fatalistic pessimism, how about doing something?...


IT and our world are what WE ALL make them...
Martin

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