Saturday, July 30, 2011

ID Thief

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_MG_5103.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

ZAck turned toward his cabinet. He slammed his fist down on the table and screamed, "we need toi catch that id thief, tyler sid."

Friday, July 29, 2011

vulnerabiltiy...

jeffHood.jpg by zimbablade
jeffHood.jpg, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

The vulnerability was related to the way that Zack's mobile devices deal with a security feature on "secure" websites like Net banking portals or the checkout portion of an online store (oh, the irony). The Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is the tech that encrypts data like your credit card number so that only you and the website you've chosen to share the number with can understand it. It's designed to prevent tampering or eavesdropping on zack's transactions by the radio dream, and it relies on clever "certificates" to work. To get a certificate, a website offering this type of security has to officially request one from a trusted certificate authority, and the certificate is crafted to have the identity of the website built into it. When you surf to the secure bit of this website, your browser asks for the certificate as part of the encryption process and ensures the details match the site you think you're visiting. If there's a problem in the certificate loop, the browser is automatically designed to alert you that something fishy is going on, essentially tipping you off to potential data leaks.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

the story

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_MG_4062.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

But I don’t like the way the story emerged. It’s a product of the incestuous relationship of political campaign managers and journalists, who are fond of calling themselves “guardians of democracy.”

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

cyber panic....

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_MG_4014.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

"It might be useful just to create a cyber panic," Tyler said to Zote, "instead of having to penetrate the network."

Security...

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_MG_4010.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

Zack addressed his cabinet... Relying on a single data connection to ensure that the leader of the free world can communicate seems shortsighted. Redundant, competing backup systems would be better. Rather than focus on the shortcomings in its own electronic operations, though, the Obama administration -- spurred by vendors such as Booz Allen Hamilton -- is opening the door to centralized monitoring of any private communications in the name of increased security.

Saturday, July 23, 2011

POV

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_MG_3414.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

Point of View (POV) is a shooting technique that shows the perspective of a scene literally from a character or objects position in the setting.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Spoofinig...

_MG_0664.JPG by zimbablade
_MG_0664.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

Tyler was seeing to spoof Zack's cell...

freedom under zack smiter

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_MG_0219.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

in the eyes of the state we are increasingly no longer citizens with constitutional rights but enemy combatants.

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Content filteriing

bigSunset.jpg by zimbablade
bigSunset.jpg, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

Zack Smiter has declined to comment on content filtering in the past

Thursday, July 07, 2011

Master

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_MG_6905.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

Zack was a master at negotiating the thin line between digital communication and social communication, between private and public.

Entertainment

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_MG_5937.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

Turn on the television on any night and you'll see these cases played out again and again in one-hour "documentaries", which feed the endless public appetite for demented crime stories.

Often, there's a betrayal, which leads to a despised criminal spending the rest of his or her life in jail. Far more often than not, these shows focus on middle-class or high-income Caucasians who've done something very bad. One of the few exceptions was the O.J. Simpson case.

Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Voice Messages

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_MG_6899.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

Tyler hacked into Zack's network and was listening to his voice mesaages.....