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NSA surveillance: how to stay secure

NSA surveillance: how to stay secure
Now that we have enough details about how the NSA eavesdrops on the internet, including today's disclosures of the NSA's deliberate weakening of cryptographic systems, we can finally start to figure out how to protect ourselves. For the past two weeks, I have been working with the Guardian on NSA stories, and have read hundreds of top-secret NSA documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden. I wasn't part of today's story – it was in process well before I showed up – but everything I read confirms what the Guardian is reporting. At this point, I feel I can provide some advice for keeping secure against such an adversary. The primary way the NSA eavesdrops on internet communications is in the network. Leveraging its secret agreements with telecommunications companies – all the US and UK ones, and many other "partners" around the world – the NSA gets access to the communications trunks that move internet traffic. TAO also hacks into computers to recover long-term keys. Trust the math. Related:  Informatique

Pack De Portabilisation Framakey Retour à la liste des applications portables Dans le but de pouvoir accélérer la mise en ligne des applications (et bien entendu d’augmenter le nombre d’applications disponibles sur le portail francophone des applications portables libres), l’équipe Framakey vous propose de télécharger le Pack de portabilisation Framakey. Il s’agit d’un ensemble d’outils (libres et portables, évidemment !) qui facilitera la vie des développeurs bidouilleurs souhaitant portabiliser des applications. Depuis la FK 1.12 et l’adoption d’une structure similaire à celle de PA.com, le pack a été proposé en version 9.x et a subi une grande refonte. Suite à la sortie de la version FK 2.0 et dans l’idée d’encore plus automatiser le processus et de vous faciliter la vie, le pack est maintenant proposé en version 10. Il se décompose comme suit. Les outils indispensables : RegshotPortable, pour vérifier la discrétion d’une application comme les traces laissées dans la base de registre et le profil. Les outils accessoires :

Revisiting the Ban on Federal Funding for Syringe Exchange Programs : Harvard Health Policy Review With HIV infection rates persisting at high levels in the United States, it’s time we faced the facts. Science and policy are disconnected. In the United States, the sharing of contaminated needles during injection drug use accounts for 7-14% of new HIV infections each year.1 Syringe exchange programs, which facilitate the trade of used syringes for free, sterile replacements, have been shown to substantially reduce the likelihood of HIV transmission through needle sharing.2 But in 2011, only two years after a landmark decision to allow federal funding for syringe exchange programs, the ban was renewed as the process of a political compromise on a general spending bill. Just as they did decades ago when the original ban was instated, public health officials continue to denounce the ban on federal funding for syringe exchange programs as a policy that is counter to what science tells us is a sensible and cost-effective public health strategy. References: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Cybook Gen3 Tips and Troubleshooting Here is where to go to find help with your Bookeen Cybook Gen3. [edit] Tips [edit] User's Manual Download the User's Manual [edit] Contact Address: Bookeen, 6 rue du Tage, 75013 Paris, France Phone number: 0033 1 45654256 Email: support@bookeen.com [edit] Firmware Versions You can check your firmware build number by going to the library view, opening the menu, click on Advanced, click on About. [edit] 1.0 Build 476 Build 476 was the first 1.0 firmware when the CyBook Gen3 became available for ordering at the end of October 2007. delphidb96 reported testing the 1.00 firmware with his pre-production CyBook Gen3 on 31st October 2007. [edit] 1.0 Build 538 Build 538 was released ca. To get build 538 you had to write to Bookeen and ask for it. [edit] 1.0 Build 674 Build 674 came installed on the new version CyBook Gen3 with 512MB internal memory, which appeared in early May 2008. [edit] 1.0 Build 681 Build 681 also came installed on some of the new version CyBook Gen3s with 512MB internal memory.

D.J. Fluker should have been paid by Alabama D.J. Fluker celebrates after Alabama’s win in the 2012 SEC Championship.(Photo: Daniel Shirey-USA TODAY Sports) A Yahoo! Sports investigation alleged Wednesday that five SEC football players, including former Alabama and current San Diego Chargers rookie offensive lineman D.J. Fluker received payments from an intermediary for agents and financial advisers while they were still active college athletes. The report says that a series of transactions that included cash payments, money for hotel stays for Fluker’s family and furniture were found, including an invoice that appeared to total $33,755 in expenditures. While those numbers and Fluker’s involvement remain alleged, here are some more certain numbers. In the 2011-12 fiscal year, Alabama football made $82 million in revenue and $45.1 million in profit. D.J. Today’s other winners:A couple of Gamecocks fans: These guys pulled off a fantastic prank on their Clemson loving friend.

HFSExplorer Latest version: 2021.10.9 (Oct 9, 2021) [changelog]: Requirements: A Java SE Runtime Environment (version 5.0 or greater). For bug reports, please use github's issue tracking system. For discussions, please use github's discussion forums. What is HFSExplorer? HFSExplorer is an application that can read Mac-formatted hard disks and disk images. HFSExplorer allows you to browse your Mac volumes with a graphical file system browser, extract files (copy to hard disk), view detailed information about the volume and create disk images from the volume. You may be interested in the application if you're: A user of an Intel Mac running Windows with Boot Camp in need of accessing the files on the Mac OS X hard drive. HFSExplorer is written mostly in Java 5, optionally using some Java 6 / 7 features, with some Windows-specific parts written in C in order to be able to get raw access to block devices, and to create a practical launcher application. Installing Usage Load file system from device

Use Google Chrome as a Free Voice Recognition Software with Dictation You can use Google Chrome as a free voice recognition software to write longer emails and documents without even installing anything on your Windows or Mac computer. Meet Dictation v2.0, a web-based speech recognition app that will transcribe your voice into digital text using the Chrome Speech API. You can also install Dictation as a Chrome App. Unlike the regular Chrome web apps that are nothing but fancy bookmarks, the Dictation App for Chrome will run entirely on your computer. Getting started with Dictation in simple. Just plug in the microphone to your computer, click the Start Dictation button and watch as your spoken words are magically transformed into text. Say “new sentence” to begin a new sentence. If you make a mistake, or if Chrome makes an error while recognizing your speech, simple click the incorrect word and edit it inline. Dictation 2.0 – What’s New The first release of Dictation happened in August 2012 and much has changed since then.

Getting Started with R – RStudio Support New to R? There are hundreds of websites that can help you learn the language. Here's how you can use some of the best to become a productive R programmer. Start by downloading R and RStudio. Learn the basics Visit Try R to learn how to write basic R code. Broaden your skills Work through The Beginner's Guide to R by Computerworld Magazine. Practice good habits Read the R Style Guide for advice on how to write readable, maintainable code. Look up help When you need to learn more about an R function or package, visit Rdocumentation.org, a searchable database of R documentation. Ask questions Seek help at StackOverflow, a searchable forum of questions and answers about computer programming. If you a have question that is more about statistical methodology there are also plenty of R users active on the the CrossValidated Q&A community. Keep tabs on the R community Read R bloggers, a blog aggregator that reposts R related articles from across the web. Deepen your expertise Got R down?

13 Hacks to Improve Your Google Search Even the king of all search engines can be throttled up with a few simple tricks. From finding flights to discovering new music, here are 13 ways to hack Google. Ever since the Internet's dozens of Web crawlers (AltaVista, anyone?) were whittled down to a single alpha engine, pinpointing your online destination has been a relative breeze. Type in “set timer for” followed by a number of minutes, or a specific hour you’d like an alert, and Google will graciously comply with an obnoxious beeping once the moment has arrived. Sometimes a memory lapse leaves you searching for the right word. To encompass a wider definition than you’re currently searching for, add a “~” in front of the word, and Google will pull up results from similar terms as well. Instead of slogging through your airline’s website, just type in your flight number and get an easy look at all the important stuff: flight status, times, terminal, and gate. Skip doing math in your head and punch in the units you want to convert.

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