Re: [Fed-Talk] DigiNotar update
Re: [Fed-Talk] DigiNotar update
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] DigiNotar update
- From: "Pike, Michael (IHS/HQ)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:22:30 -0400
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] DigiNotar update
This is one thing that I think is nice about the Mac App Store, doesn't apple make sure this doesnt happen before it's released?
This group is a rare collection of people. MOST USERS these days are really idiots. They dont know what a command prompt is, they dont know what goes on behind the system. They know they click a button to leave an entry in FaceBook that nobody cares about. you could make a website with a flashy button that says "you'll be more popular if you click me!" and install malware and they are none the wiser.
I've been called paranoid a time or two in my life (okay, maybe a time or 2 million), but it has NEVER let me down. Google, while they do some great things, is one company that CANNOT be trusted... I feel even more than facebook. Google has the knowledge and ability to capture things without even the smartest of the smart knowing it's going on. WHY are they giving Google Voice away for free??? (I use it, I love it, dont get me wrong), but they aren't doing it to be sweet.
Then they share all of their info... info that has no business being public. To me its amazing that the more school they make kids go to, the dumber, and dumber they seem to get.
I remember in 1991, a guy on a dialup BBS (if you know what that is, then you are truly legacy!! :), known only as ZOT, used to go on and on about how phone calls were monitored, and key phrases would start recording, and how everything was going to start going into a database, and at any given moment they could know anything you've said or done in your life...
We laughed, called him crazy, but now, he was visionary and totally right!
Mike
On Sep 21, 2011, at 9:05 AM, Todd Heberlein wrote:
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> On Sep 21, 2011, at 6:23 AM, Miller, Timothy J. wrote:
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>> ...when Javascript is allowed to sniff network packets. AFAIK only node_pcap does this, and if you're allowing this or similar library wrappers to be installed on your system you deserve what you get. :)
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> One thing I've become aware of recently are the large number of programs downloaded onto the computer without the user's knowledge, run, and then deleted. So far I've noticed this with a number of software update systems, with Chrome being the most egregious example since it is continuously modifying itself and never notifying the user about it.
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> I never realized how much transient code is run on my system without my knowledge.
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> Todd
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