Sunday, 9 October 2011

Porn Is No Longer A Leading Indicator of Web Innovation

7:08 (09/10/11)

Alan Grayson Steals the Show on Real Time w/ Bill Maher

Brilliant!

♪♫ AA Bondy - Killed Myself When I Was Young

Better Pacifiers (1923)

'Better pacifiers don't exist, now or ever.
He's ready to suck until old age.
Sold everywhere
REZINOTREST'
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Secret U.S. Memo Made Legal Case to Kill a Citizen

Mace in the face at Air and Space

At a demonstration by the October 2011 Movement at the National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian Protection Services security officers pepper sprayed protesters as soon as they entered the museum. They pepper-sprayed a young woman from Woodlawn, VA who is not part of the protest.
Demonstrators were protesting the drone exhibit at the museum, which represents the glorification of extra-judicial executions and the military industrial complex at a public institution.
The police closed the museum and have been telling the public that the building was closed due to a bomb threat.
http://october2011.org/
Video by Nathan Schneider
http://wagingnonviolence.org/author/nathanschneider/

HA!

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(Thanx Samantha!)

Harry Moseley RIP

@harry_moseley harry moseley

My brave inspirational boy fell asleep in my arms at 11.10pm. Suddenly our world is a very dark and cruel place

Harry Moseley

Harry Moseley: Tributes as cancer fundraiser, 11, dies

RIP you brave wee soldier XXX

Well don't drive!

jeff_rock Jeff Rock

Hey musicians that put samples of police sirens in songs: those of us that drive would really appreciate it if you would stop doing that.

Banksy's latest

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leeranaldo Lee Ranaldo

Shit is fucked up and bullshit instagr.am/p/PgbrI/

Chaos Computer Club analyzes government malware

The largest European hacker club, "Chaos Computer Club" (CCC), has reverse engineered and analyzed a "lawful interception" malware program used by German police forces. It has been found in the wild and submitted to the CCC anonymously. The malware can not only siphon away intimate data but also offers a remote control or backdoor functionality for uploading and executing arbitrary other programs. Significant design and implementation flaws make all of the functionality available to anyone on the internet.

Even before the German constitutional court ("Bundesverfassungsgericht") on February 27 2008 forbade the use of malware to manipulate German citizen's PCs, the German government introduced a less conspicuous newspeak variant of the term spy software: "Quellen-TKÜ" (the term means "source wiretapping" or lawful interception at the source). This Quellen-TKÜ can by definition only be used for wiretapping internet telephony. The court also said that this has to be enforced through technical and legal means.
The CCC now published the extracted binary files [0] of the government malware that was used for "Quellen-TKÜ", together with a report about the functionality found and our conclusions about these findings [1]. During this analysis, the CCC wrote its own remote control software for the trojan.
The CCC analysis reveals functionality in the "Bundestrojaner light" (Bundestrojaner meaning "federal trojan" and is the colloquial German term for the original government malware concept) concealed as "Quellen-TKÜ" that go much further than to just observe and intercept internet based telecommunication, and thus violates the terms set by the constitutional court. The trojan can, for example, receive uploads of arbitrary programs from the Internet and execute them remotely. This means, an "upgrade path" from Quellen-TKÜ to the full Bundestrojaner's functionality is built-in right from the start. Activation of the computer's hardware like microphone or camera can be used for room surveillance.
The analysis concludes, that the trojan's developers never even tried to put in technical safeguards to make sure the malware can exclusively be used for wiretapping internet telephony, as set forth by the constitution court. On the contrary, the design included functionality to clandestinely add more components over the network right from the start, making it a bridge-head to further infiltrate the computer...