Saturday, December 3, 2011

In God We Trust, All Others We Nuke

Lingo has some MHI Fan Fiction - plenty of local flavoring.

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)

Bruce Schneier on the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) concept in his Crypto-Gram Newsletter:
"It highlights an important characteristic of a particular sort of Internet attacker.
A conventional hacker or criminal isn't interested in any particular target. He wants a thousand credit card numbers for fraud, or to break into an account and turn it into a zombie, or whatever. Security against this sort of attacker is relative; as long as you're more secure than almost everyone else, the attackers will go after other people, not you. An APT is different; it's an attacker who -- for whatever reason -- wants to attack you. Against this sort of attacker, the absolute level of your security is what's important. It doesn't matter how secure you are compared to your peers; all that matters is whether you're secure enough to keep him out.
APT attackers are more highly motivated. They're likely to be better skilled, better funded, and more patient. They're likely to try several different avenues of attack. And they're much more likely to succeed."  

How the World Works: Occupy Wallstreet

Soldier, Farmer, Poet

kasthomas "I was a soldier so that my son could be a farmer, so that his son could be a poet" -- Thomas Jefferson.Wed, Nov 23 18:17:40 from web
retweeted by msuster
But be careful that the soldier, farmer, poet doesn't become:

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by dictatorship.

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence


From bondage to spiritual faith

From spiritual faith to great courage

From courage to liberty

From liberty to abundance

From abundance to selfishness

From selfishness to complacency

From complacency to apathy

From apathy to dependency

From dependency back again into bondage"


Via The Smallest Minority

PhillipFulmer.com

phillipfulmer click on the link to visit my website: phillipfulmer.comWed, Nov 09 15:52:43 from web

Did he get this site running in preparation for a comeback?

Priorities

greggdoyelcbs Joe Paterno got fired by phone, and that's supposed to matter? On what planet do these people live on?Thu, Nov 10 12:31:05 from TweetDeck

IWB - Hickok45 Style

Good advice: "You don't want the holster coming out with the gun."

Siri + Arduino = Universal Remote

A pretty cool hack... Siri + Arduino (Warning - foul language for no apparent reason in the video):


Siri Universal Remote from toddtreece on Vimeo.

The Girls' Guide to Surviving the Apocalypse: Know Your Idols

At The Girls' Guide to Surviving the Apocalypse, we have the Know Your Idols list. I knew most of them and really appreciate the old school additions like Private Benjamin. I do think Buffy should be ranked much, much higher. Buffy, River, RipleySarah, and Hermione would be my top five.

I would also include Arya, Nikita, and Tam.

N7TFP HF Vocabulary

Another video on the basics...



A summary based on my interpretation:

cq (dx, 20) - calling any station
qsy - change frequency
qth - location
qrz - who
qsl - confirmation/acknowledgement
qso - a conversation
qrp - low power
qrm - interference (~man)
qrn - interference (~nature)

A longer list here.