Sam L.
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Commented on Brontosaurus BDSM, Werewolf Marines, and Serious Social Issues: Self-Publishing in the Wild
So... Culinary mystery. Crime and food, eh? Is that a genre ? And if so, could it be known as a who donut? Right, I'll see myself out, then....
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J Thomas commented on
Brontosaurus BDSM, Werewolf Marines, and Serious Social Issues: Self-Publishing in the Wild
"... maybe I'm just being unduly complacent. It's not my area of expertise. But I think it's much more the area of paranoid nightmares." If either of us had that expertise we could not legally discuss it. So it is not possible for us to know what's possible. What we have seen from NSA has been very polite. They have made viruses that erase themselves after awhile if they find they have not reached the specific targets they are aimed at. Etc. They have been designed to do a particular task and then eliminate themselves. It's taken a long time...
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Chris Suslowicz commented on
Brontosaurus BDSM, Werewolf Marines, and Serious Social Issues: Self-Publishing in the Wild
Ahem....
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J Thomas commented on
Brontosaurus BDSM, Werewolf Marines, and Serious Social Issues: Self-Publishing in the Wild
See, that's the worst you can come up with and it only affected an estimated 60 million computers, in an economy that didn't that much depend on them. Trivial, compared to a big attack....
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barren_samadhi commented on
Brontosaurus BDSM, Werewolf Marines, and Serious Social Issues: Self-Publishing in the Wild
a decent overview of 'warhol worm' etc (i.e., own the net in 15 mins) http://www.icir.org/vern/papers/cdc-usenix-sec02/...
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anonemouse commented on
Brontosaurus BDSM, Werewolf Marines, and Serious Social Issues: Self-Publishing in the Wild
Why need a worm? The Internet Census compromised 1.2 million embedded devices (routers etc.) by trying to log in to them with default or empty credentials....
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