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#166 Post by cat_n_mouse »

I'm also willing to bet that a lot of the technology the authorities use to
spy on us is Linux/open source based.

Talk about making a rod for your own back.

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#167 Post by Lobster »

8)
Most Supercomputers run Linux
A group that keeps track of the top 500 supercomputers in the world estimates that Linux powers 60% of those machines
http://www.forbes.com/2005/03/15/cz_dl_0315linux.html

However spying is no longer required.
Some of the recent 'recreational looters' that terrorised
everyone in London (so I am told) posted pics of themselves
and their looting skills on Twitter and Facebook.

Android, which I have been using has apps that require
access to all data that I have ever used on the Internet
(maybe it just seems that way) . . .

Spying is now just data sorting . . . :wink:
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#168 Post by nooby »

I wonder if the authorities will allow this latest "remedy" from the world or work of University researchers?
I read about late last night but forgot to make a bookmark.

The bad thing was that one needed their software for to be able to get it to work.

I would not trust them will be allowed to make it available or that the ISP would be allowed to have users using it. Them would make laws that require ISP to shut it down.
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#169 Post by Lobster »

Nooby even if you use quantum encryption, you will not be 'safe'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14505750

'Safe' is a state of mind not a state of technology.

During the recent London riots, the security services swamped the social networks with spurious messages about the latest looting locations. (day 2 and 3)

Anyway, for those of you needing a quick dose of paranoia . . . who invented the Internet? See next post for answer . . . :roll:
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#170 Post by 8-bit »

For your question as to who invented the internet, you have to go back to 1950!
You can find more information here.

BTW, the first crash of the internet also happened during testing.

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#171 Post by nooby »

DARPA something? out of my poor memory.

Cool thing here
Greg Martin – whom had worked for Nasa, FBI och CIA had installed software on his computer that allowed him to follow everything that the looter did on his stolen computer and when the looter logged into his own FaceBook account he could document every friend and a lot of info about the looter and tell the police. He got his computer back.

Not a quote just a rough summary of the swedish text about it.

Easy to install too Greg told the reporter.
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#172 Post by Lobster »

This will check your URL's and files for malware or bad sites
http://www.virustotal.com/
They give themselves a safety score of 99.4%

Is it safe to go there? :oops:

Stay safe guys. :wink:
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#173 Post by Aitch »

Is it safe to go there? :oops:
They have a good WOT rating/reviews



This'll scramble a few brains.... :lol:

http://www.broadband-providers-uk.co.uk ... /47876.php

Where there's money and military minds, there's always something you never thought possible....

I don't know if this may have been a Premier April post :wink:

Aitch :)

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#174 Post by Lobster »

make sure your email address is safe
. . . or just adding it to commerce database of those interested in buying security software?
https://shouldichangemypassword.com/
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#175 Post by Lobster »

Have you been compromised lately . . . 8)

My Android smartphone has the security potential
of a swiss cheese with added holes.

You can plug the Huawei Android into a USB port to charge . . .
So now Puppy is secure but a wifi and 3G enabled
dongle (aka smartphone) is connected to my system . . .

A system simple enough for a News of the World (now defunct)
reporter to hack . . .

The other day, whilst charging, a program
I had not loaded appeared on the phone
AND (I think it was some sort of clock) a program I had not loaded
appeared in Puppy. :shock:

[Break out the bacofoil . . . feverishly make tin foil hat]

Concerted and deliberate intrusion from Google, Virgin (Branson run ISP), glitch, test run from MSS (Chinese Secuity) or other state intelligence, automated malbot or something else?

I am beginning to think that transparency may have to be the new security . . . :roll:
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#176 Post by nooby »

The other day, whilst charging a program
I had not loaded appeared on the phone
AND (I think it was some sort of clock) a program I had not loaded
appeared in Puppy.
Man you scare me. :)
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#177 Post by madchad »

Based on the original post of this thread, THAT'S ME! Oh how I have a hyperparanoid mind. So paranoid in fact that I don't bother with firewalls. I just trust my router and never ever EVER EVER EVER type in anything to do with bank accounts or personal info like birth dates or physical address and whatnot. I will only buy online stuff if there's a customer service phone number I can call to give my info to a live human with no personal info crossing my keyboard. Knowing that my name is Chad is the closest anybody online will ever come to hacking me. Let them hack my pc. They won't get anything worth having. I'm so paranoid that sometimes I drag out guns, swords, and various power tools just because I get that feeling. My home is a fortress and I'm fully prepared and literally waiting for zombie attack or SHTF scenarios. People around me say they're gonna come find me if civilization ever collapses. They know they'll be safe and eat well.

They say that perfect paranoia is perfect awareness. They're right.

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#178 Post by Lobster »

They know they'll be safe and eat well.
If they are zombies - you might well be on the menu :lol:
I should think most people will be unable to find you
. . . and I wonder if the hyper paranoid and their weapons
make safe dinner company?

My approach is very different.
If my government or any government is taking an interest . . .
it show they care . . . what they care about is their interests . . .

I am far more concerned about compulsory advertising
(available from G-ogle who do no evil - unless there is a profit in it)

I don't buy into paranoia or compulsory glutton level consumerism

If I had a mind I would sell it
- perhaps online to the highest bidder . . . :wink:

I sometimes wonder if paranoia is a form of fear
I am not really frightened by fear
though I am a little scared for those scarred by it . . .

Maybe there is a middle way? :)
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#179 Post by Lobster »

They have your phone.
They have your computer.
Get in your car and drive for the hills . . .

Wait . . .
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-mca ... autos.html
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#180 Post by Stripe »

hi lob

another good reason to keep using my 1968 diesel land rover, as well as it being able to run on used cooking oil. (because its cheap)

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#181 Post by Sylvander »

1. "I am not really frightened by fear"
Fear is a primitive instinct...
Originating in the subconscious...
Which knows MORE than our conscious mind...
[Our conscious mind only gets told those parts of what the subconscious knows IF they develop enough drive/importance]
These instinctive fears developed over millions of years.
Babies are born with them I believe.
They protect us even when our intellect attempts to over-rule them.
e.g. There was at least one person I heard of who was afraid to travel in the Titanic...
Because it was said to be unsinkable, and she KNEW that must be FALSE...
Because [she correctly believed that] NOTHING is perfect.

So she didn't travel on the Titanic...
Used another ship to take her to the USA...
And DIDN'T DIE.

CONCLUSION:
NEVER attempt to silence your fears.
Listen to them.
If you feel fear, then you're not ready to do that thing.
If all soldiers listened to their fears, and acted accordingly, there would be no wars.
And beware of no longer feeling afraid in situations that involve significant risk...
It may get you killed.
Like all those people on the Titanic.
And all those dead soldiers in all those wars.

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#182 Post by Bruce B »

Sylvander wrote:1. "I am not really frightened by fear"
Fear is a primitive instinct...
Originating in the subconscious...
Which knows MORE than our conscious mind...

[Our conscious mind only gets told those parts of what the subconscious knows IF they develop enough drive/importance]
These instinctive fears developed over millions of years.
I think fear in our context is primal which could be described as foundational or basic. Primitive would imply something of little evolution.

Yeah, in my own experience, I've had valid fear which my consciousness could not account for. Sometimes, if I have a certain kind of fear, I don't dismiss it easily. Meaning I may make decisions based on the 'fear' which may also be intuition. Who knows?

Like yourself, I think 'fear' often supersedes our conscious mind.

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#183 Post by Sylvander »

1. "Primitive would imply something of little evolution"
(a) Ah...
Exactly so!
I'm inclined to think that the fears that reside in and emanate from the subconscious.
Are very very ancient...
Perhaps no longer strictly apply in the modern world...
And yet they still exist.

Things like:
Fear of the predators that [many thousands of years ago would] hunt us in the night.
That leads to our present fear of the dark.
Then again, perhaps it wasn't so far back after all that people were hunted in the night.

(b) Anyway...
I'm inclined to think that our fears go Waaay back, and are slow to evolve.

(c) And that probably babies are born with such things already built into their mind...
Like the ability to suckle, even though no-one has taught them how to do that.

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#184 Post by jim3630 »

interesting discussion of fear and concur it is the bases for our human survival instinct that is our fight or flight response. suspect fear to some extent comes into play when breaking into our awareness but we give the credit to "intuition."

People describe "hairs standing up on their neck" or "feeling in my stomach"when having "intuitions." but those physical sensations are often described by people who are feeling fearful.

acting on intuition or gut level "instincts" is what separates people. sometimes the living from the dead. couple days ago a guy went crazy in a ihop and shot 11 people killing 3 where I live.

doing what needs to be done despite the fear is one definition of courage. fear that slows reaction time is a bad thing. which is different from that pause that occurs as we measure or consider our choices of response. Over-reacting out of fear is just as undesirable.

are our fears justified or just paranoia. life experience usually provides the answer. I have a firewall linux os and everyday at least two pistols on me and a prayer in my heart.

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#185 Post by Bruce B »

Sylvander wrote: Things like:
Fear of the predators that [many thousands of years ago would] hunt us in the night.
That leads to our present fear of the dark.
I don't know about you, but when I was young, closet monsters and other goblins haunted my room at night and only at night.

Dad was maybe too macho to let me leave the light on. What do I care about macho? Just give me a light and a Teddy Bear to cuddle.

I don't have any statistics to give you. However, the police departments keep records. I bet if we could get statistics, we'd find certain types of crimes happen at differing rates by hours, days of week, seasons and weather. Of course the full moons, but we've always know about that :)

Hardly to mention geographical areas of high and low crime.

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