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October 09, 2013

Russians arrest notorious malware creator
— Purple Avenger

The guy was selling malware exploit kits to cyber-criminals

...Russian police have reportedly arrested a man on suspicion of masterminding two infamous hacking tools.
He is suspected of being the man behind the alias Paunch - the nickname used by the creator of the Blackhole and Cool exploit kits, sold to cybercriminals to infect web users with malware.
The Russian authorities have not confirmed the details.
But security firms said they had already detected a decline in the programs' use...

I'm betting they make him an offer he can't refuse. Go to work for FSB, or rot in the basement of Lubyanka for the rest of his life.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at 07:08 AM | Comments (219)
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1 Nicely done, Russia, nicely done.

Posted by: perturbed at October 09, 2013 07:11 AM (TXq4O)

2 I got nuttin.

Posted by: maddogg at October 09, 2013 07:13 AM (xWW96)

3 Nobody else got nuttin either.

Posted by: maddogg at October 09, 2013 07:14 AM (xWW96)

4 BWA-HA-HA!!!! Now FSB catch Moose and Squirrel!

Posted by: Not the KGB at October 09, 2013 07:14 AM (0cMkb)

5 Cyberpunk is no longer the Dark Future. It is the Dark Present. Remember that the next time you do anything related to communication on the Net. Big Brother is watching you...and so is Big Mafia. Robbing banks directly is for losers. Robbing banks through identity fraud is $$$$$.

Posted by: exdem13 at October 09, 2013 07:14 AM (kfSXj)

6 I hope Putin makes this guy eat a whole bowl of radioactive poison.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at October 09, 2013 07:14 AM (TpXEI)

7 I'm sure 404care will be up and running now. Hahahahaha.

Posted by: Darth Randall at October 09, 2013 07:15 AM (Zswg6)

8 Sorry to go O/T, but in response to those who want to know about the Million Vet March on Washington this Sunday, here's the link to Blackfive:

http://tinyurl.com/mrskrm6

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 09, 2013 07:15 AM (lVPtV)

9 Volodya says this man looks like he needs some polonium.

Posted by: Captain Hate on his iPhone at October 09, 2013 07:16 AM (I0CHa)

10 Good. And also good is their arrests of the Greenpeace pukes for storming an oil rig. I hope they all rot in jail.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at October 09, 2013 07:16 AM (0HooB)

11 Ah, the prospect of a stint in a filthy jail with Oleg the Russian mafia enforcer can be mighty motivational.

Posted by: joncelli at October 09, 2013 07:16 AM (RD7QR)

Oh good, I keep getting emails from people on my contacts lists, people who send me email telling me to go to websites. I've been resisting going to those websites, but now it's safe!

Woohoo!! What wonders await me...

Posted by: BurtTC at October 09, 2013 07:17 AM (TOk1P)

13 In Soviet Russia, system beat you.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 09, 2013 07:17 AM (ECVlr)

14 Obama asked Putin to arrest him so no one would find out he was the chief programer for the Obamacare exchanges.

Posted by: John Smith at October 09, 2013 07:17 AM (wR+pz)

15 Lets suppose the fucking socialist government forces everybody to enroll in some shit program that contains tons of personal medical information, among other things, and this shit program is wide open for criminals to exploit. Why should I cooperate. Why shouldn't I tell them to go fuck themselves with a copy of Zerocare?

Posted by: maddogg at October 09, 2013 07:17 AM (xWW96)

16 Notorious malware creator? oh no. The Russians have the guy who developed the Obamacare site.

Posted by: Kathleen Sebilius at October 09, 2013 07:17 AM (Pr6hk)

17 Now the FSB truly has the means to own Obamacare.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 09, 2013 07:17 AM (ObMtJ)

18 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 09, 2013 07:17 AM (/PCJa)

Paunch? Really? In honor of the CHiPS guy, or because our crooked cyber criminal has a prodigious beer gut?

Wait, what am I saying? This is Russia. He'd have vodka gut.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at October 09, 2013 07:18 AM (4df7R)

20 Putin announced the arrest by taking off his shirt and wrestling a bear.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 09, 2013 07:18 AM (ECVlr)

21 I'm betting they make him an offer he can't refuse. Go to work for FSB, or rot in the basement of Lubyanka for the rest of his life. Well, yeah, that's pretty well SOP in these circumstances. "Hey, this guy is *Good*. We can send him to prison forever, or we can hire him. Let's hire him."

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 09, 2013 07:18 AM (/PCJa)

22 In Gabe's first thread this morning, I posted about DISCONNECT and add-in for Chrome that strips your IP address.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes at October 09, 2013 07:19 AM (kXoT0)

23 Big Fish. Did Putin ride a Hammerhead while spearing it?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 09, 2013 07:19 AM (IXrOn)

24 From now on I'm going to refer to TFG as Putin's Little Bitch.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 09, 2013 07:19 AM (lVPtV)

25
Dah!! In Soviet Russia..... software hack YOU!!

Posted by: fixerupper at October 09, 2013 07:19 AM (nELVU)

26 Putin announced the arrest by taking off his shirt and wrestling a ~~bear~~ sharknado. FIFY.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 09, 2013 07:19 AM (/PCJa)

27 "Now FSB catch Moose and Squirrel!
Posted by: Not the KGB at October 09, 2013 11:14 AM"

I needed that laugh this morning.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2013 07:19 AM (knoK7)

Sebelieus is already calling Putin, to see if she can borrow him to fix 404care

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 09, 2013 07:20 AM (U292F)

29 Wait, what am I saying? This is Russia. He'd have vodka gut.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea at October 09, 2013 11:18 AM (4df7R)

Yeah, wodka give man gut full of hard brown fat to help survive winter.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes at October 09, 2013 07:20 AM (kXoT0)

30 In US, gubmint creates malware. cref 404Care

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 09, 2013 07:20 AM (wNF3N)

31 I'm sorry folks, but there is no way this guy created the 404care site. His stuff works.

Posted by: Darth Randall at October 09, 2013 07:20 AM (Zswg6)

32 The President of McAffee says the Zerocare enrollment program is full of exploitable holes. A hackers dream.

Posted by: maddogg at October 09, 2013 07:21 AM (xWW96)

This paunch guy is probably no dummy as a criminal, but 30-40 years ago? He would have been a local hood, never heard of outside of nowheresgrad.

That is the dark side of the 'net. Some clown in a place we cannot even identify can make life miserable for millions. Not enough to stop using the 'net, but enough to make him and his friends millions, if not billions of dollars. By duping people, ripping people off, and making their lives and busineesses that much harder.

Posted by: rd at October 09, 2013 07:21 AM (D+lxs)

34 When the Russian Govt does more in a news cycle that makes me feel good than U.S. Govt. .... hmmmm interesting times. Thanks Democrats!

Posted by: Yip at October 09, 2013 07:21 AM (/jHWN)

35 Now you make tweets from Tony Weiner stop, or I put you in same cell as smelly hippie Greenpeace pirates

Posted by: Vlad Putin at October 09, 2013 07:22 AM (Pr6hk)

36
Russia -- arrests notorious criminals
USA -- takes foreign nationals hostage

Compare/constrast

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 09, 2013 07:22 AM (l5zzX)

37 Of course, everyone believes that 404care was designed to coordinate insurance, and all of the data collection was just a side issue.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 09, 2013 07:22 AM (U292F)

38 Obama sent Putin a congratulatory gift of a bike helmet.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 09, 2013 07:23 AM (ECVlr)

39 FSB Thug: We are very impressed by your work. What you did to the Amerikanski "Obamacare" site was highly professional.

Paunch: Uh, I didn't attack that...

FSB Thug: BWAhahahahaha! Da, da, we know that, I was just making a little joke...

Posted by: joncelli at October 09, 2013 07:23 AM (RD7QR)

40 The President of McAffee says the Zerocare enrollment program is full of exploitable holes. A hackers dream.

Posted by: maddogg at October 09, 2013 11:21 AM (xWW96)

...That's not the guy who's zipping around Belize on the run from the law, right?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at October 09, 2013 07:23 AM (4df7R)

41 I read this and thought the folks who did Norton got tossed in the gulag.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at October 09, 2013 07:23 AM (naUcP)

42 Is being jailhouse rockski

Posted by: Jones in CO at October 09, 2013 07:24 AM (8sCoq)

43 Summary Execution- An appropriate punishment for spammers and hackers, or too lenient? You decide.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at October 09, 2013 07:24 AM (SY2Kh)

44 Either Putin gets a taste or you go to jail.

There's good reason why the climate change email hacks ended up on Russian servers and not on Sweden's.

See also: Greenpeace, vegan prison food and cold nights in Siberia.

Posted by: 13times at October 09, 2013 07:25 AM (fGPLK)

45 This is almost EXACTLY the same way that Jugears handled that Aussie dicksmoker for Wikileaks. .....almost.....

Posted by: ontherocks at October 09, 2013 07:25 AM (WAtZR)

46 The first action should be to break both kneecaps with a hammer.

Posted by: Vic at October 09, 2013 07:25 AM (zZbNF)

47 Sherry that seems nice. That it strips the IP address. But does it remove MAC addresses?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 09, 2013 07:25 AM (ObMtJ)

48 Holy crap -- USA Today is more in the tank for Obama than MSNBC.

They have a counter on their front page counting how much the shutdown is costing in real time like a telethon...

Underneath the headline: Alaska sinking due to thawing permafrost.

Posted by: eleven at October 09, 2013 07:25 AM (KXm42)

49 I'd be more happy about the arrest if I didn't have reason to believe this guy was part of the Russian Mafia. Odds are in 24 hours he's a free man, and his case never comes to trial. Russia has police and government corruption to make big-city US law enforcement look like Boy Scouts.

Posted by: exdem13 at October 09, 2013 07:25 AM (kfSXj)

50 Those Greenpeace idiots are facing drug charges now too.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 09, 2013 07:26 AM (l5zzX)

51 ...That's not the guy who's zipping around Belize on the run from the law, right?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea at October 09, 2013 11:23 AM (4df7R)

That is exactly him. Guy is not a nice person, but, a genius, nonetheless.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes at October 09, 2013 07:26 AM (kXoT0)

52 They have a counter on their front page counting how much the shutdown is costing in real time like a telethon...

You have to spend money to save money?

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at October 09, 2013 07:26 AM (/kI1Q)

Correction: co founder of McAaffee.

http://tinyurl.com/kw8lz5g

Posted by: maddogg at October 09, 2013 07:26 AM (xWW96)

54 It must be cool to be the hacker guy - right up to the point someone announces they know who you are and where you live. Then reality steps in with a vengeance and you realize all of your hacking skills really isn't much good against a bunch of armed men with a blowtorch, some knives, a lot of time on their hands, and something to relieve the tedium.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Outrage Outlet has Petulance and Tantrums in all styles and colors! at October 09, 2013 07:26 AM (hLRSq)

55 10 Good. And also good is their arrests of the Greenpeace pukes for storming an oil rig. I hope they all rot in jail. *** Barky would open the Mall for a Greenpeace rally.

Posted by: WalrusRex at October 09, 2013 07:27 AM (ee9LE)

56 Underneath the headline: Alaska sinking due to thawing permafrost.

Posted by: eleven at October 09, 2013 11:25 AM (KXm42)

----

Meh... I thought it was from all the new ice...

Posted by: fixerupper at October 09, 2013 07:27 AM (nELVU)

57 Underneath the headline: Alaska sinking due to thawing permafrost.

Guam is also showing serious signs of instability.

Posted by: Rep. Hank Johnson (D) Genius at October 09, 2013 07:27 AM (ECVlr)

58 So, question. If you're a cyber crook, why would you use the same alias on your various malware products? I mean, yeah, okay, I get it; you want people to know you're the guy who did it so you get some name recognition in criminal circles. But you get that same name recognition in law enforcement circles, too.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at October 09, 2013 07:27 AM (4df7R)

59 Sherry that seems nice. That it strips the IP address. But does it remove MAC addresses?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 09, 2013 11:25 AM (ObMtJ)

I don't know. It was just one of those conversations that spring up. According the my doctor, the guys that developed it are former NSA and former Google, so I suspect it's pretty good.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes at October 09, 2013 07:28 AM (kXoT0)

60 >Those Greenpeace idiots are facing drug charges now too.

Posted by: Purp at October 09, 2013 11:26 AM (l5zzX)

they chose the target of their protest... poorly

Posted by: Jones in CO at October 09, 2013 07:28 AM (8sCoq)

61 Who knew that the only thing holding up Alaska was ice?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 09, 2013 07:28 AM (ECVlr)

62 You know this guy might have been the russian version of Bezos or Zuckerberg, or Gates. But how likely would that be with Putin's thugocracy? Except for Kaspersky, are their any successful Russian Software or Interent Companies?

Posted by: rd at October 09, 2013 07:28 AM (D+lxs)

63 50 Those Greenpeace idiots are facing drug charges now too. -*** There's a shocker.

Posted by: WalrusRex at October 09, 2013 07:28 AM (ee9LE)

64 You have to spend money to save money?

Posted by: HeatherRadishÂ™ needs a beer at October 09, 2013 11:26 AM (/kI1Q)

Obviously they're being fed these numbers from the Whitehouse. How could a newspaper possibly track something like that?

It's certainly a made up number.

Posted by: eleven at October 09, 2013 07:29 AM (KXm42)

65 I will not negotiate with terrorists.

Please stand by.

Posted by: Obamacare Enrollment Disclaimer at October 09, 2013 07:29 AM (UzPAd)

66 .........the guys that developed it are former NSA and former Google, so I suspect it's pretty good.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes at October 09, 2013 11:28 AM (kXoT0)

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ITS A TRAP!!!!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at October 09, 2013 07:29 AM (nELVU)

67 Oh, how did my 7 year old mind love the lovely Natasha.

Posted by: Dr. Jesse Pinkman, PhD at October 09, 2013 07:29 AM (A/ga/)

I am the king of malware!

Visit my website, and I infect your life with ObamaCare. No lousy Russian programmer could top that little beauty.

Posted by: President For Life Obama at October 09, 2013 07:29 AM (B5y+v)

69 Oh ....and also a teen is being denied a transplant because shutdown.

Posted by: eleven at October 09, 2013 07:30 AM (KXm42)

70 That is exactly him. Guy is not a nice person, but, a genius, nonetheless. He's batshit insane. His latest goal is to make the internet unhackable. People tend to doubt he can do it, since it's been a decade since he was involved in software (and it's also impossible).

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at October 09, 2013 07:30 AM (JFbSU)

71 Permafrost issues have been around since before global warming was a fad.

The Soviets had some outposts out in the tundra and had buried the power/comms cables to them.

Some years later shit stopped working and they went looking for the reason.

Dug down to where the cables should have been and found nothing. They eventually found the cables 25-30' down.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 09, 2013 07:31 AM (l5zzX)

72 Underneath the headline: Alaska sinking due to thawing permafrost.

The fucking Russians sold us a bill of goods.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 09, 2013 07:31 AM (ECVlr)

73 Lubyanka! The tallest building in Moscow! You can see all the way to Siberia from the basement!

Posted by: JamesT at October 09, 2013 07:31 AM (Fb8Gq)

74 ITS A TRAP!!!!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at October 09, 2013 11:29 AM (nELVU)

It's all a trap. Sure, it is possible to live off the grid, no cell phone, no bank account, etc. But, it takes an enormous amount of time and effort. I choose to go ahead and take my chances--using reasonable precautions.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes at October 09, 2013 07:32 AM (kXoT0)

75 Of course, everyone believes that 404care was designed to coordinate insurance, and all of the data collection was just a side issue. Posted by: Vashta Nerada Not everyone around here. That little NRA section aside (for it will soon be ignored), the Obamacare database is going to be used to disarm everyone who even looks into psychotropic medications, if they ever get it running, that is. BATFE is going to have a trunk right into the database you can bet. Pay the fine, pay cash for medical. Lovely. Thanks, 52%!

Posted by: imp at October 09, 2013 07:32 AM (niFY8)

76 Greenpeace complaining about being jailed in Russian prison because they are sharing cells with chain smoking Russian criminals. Bwhaaaaaaa

Posted by: thunderb at October 09, 2013 07:33 AM (Us/US)

77 Greenpeace smells like a hamster.

Posted by: eleven at October 09, 2013 07:34 AM (KXm42)

78 Greenpeace complaining about being jailed in Russian prison because they are sharing cells with chain smoking Russian criminals.

If they think the cigarette smoking is annoying, they'll really hate the ass-rape.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 09, 2013 07:34 AM (ECVlr)

79 Greenpeace complaining about being jailed in Russian prison because they are sharing cells with chain smoking Russian criminals.

Bwhaaaaaaa

Posted by: thunderb at October 09, 2013 11:33 AM (Us/US)

*SNIGGER*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at October 09, 2013 07:34 AM (4df7R)

80 His latest goal is to make the internet unhackable. People tend to doubt he can do it, since it's been a decade since he was involved in software (and it's also impossible).

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at October 09, 2013 11:30 AM (JFbSU)

I never said he was sane, just, that he was a genius. Some of the smartest people that I have ever known were obviously several bricks short of sane.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes at October 09, 2013 07:34 AM (kXoT0)

81 I never said he was sane, just, that he was a genius. Some of the smartest people that I have ever known were obviously several bricks short of sane. There is a fine line between insanity and genius. Most people who try to walk it fall off a time or two.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 09, 2013 07:35 AM (/PCJa)

82 Greenpeace complaining about being jailed in Russian prison because they are sharing cells with chain smoking Russian criminals. Bwhaaaaaaa
Posted by: thunderb at October 09, 2013 11:33 AM (Us/US)

So how do we put money in those Russians' commissary accounts?

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes at October 09, 2013 07:35 AM (kXoT0)

83 In theory, you could have an unhackable OS, but the effort required to do it is insanely high.

You'd need genuinely correct code and need to generate the mathematical correctness proofs to show the code correct...and run that proven correct code on proven correct hardware with no errata.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 09, 2013 07:36 AM (l5zzX)

84 Wait... did I see that right? The Boston Herald is saying that the 1 year Delay is a good idea? Did I wake up in the Twilight Zone?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 09, 2013 07:36 AM (/PCJa)

85 *SNIGGER*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea at October 09, 2013 11:34 AM (4df7R)

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....... raaaaaaaaaccciiiiiiiiiiist!!!!!

Posted by: fixerupper at October 09, 2013 07:36 AM (nELVU)

86 >Greenpeace complaining about being jailed in Russian prison because they are sharing cells with chain smoking Russian criminals.

that's the least of their problems

Posted by: Jones in CO at October 09, 2013 07:36 AM (8sCoq)

87 Did I wake up in the Twilight Zone?

They don't want to lose the Senate in 2014.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at October 09, 2013 07:38 AM (/kI1Q)

88 Too bad the RNC couldn't get him.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at October 09, 2013 07:38 AM (T/gBg)

89 20 Putin announced the arrest by taking off his shirt and ~~wrestling~~ deflowering a bear.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 09, 2013 11:18 AM (ECVlr)

****

Just trying a little tweak of your excellent comment.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 09, 2013 07:38 AM (lHb9q)

90 Posted by: Purp at October 09, 2013 11:36 AM (l5zzX) And then run it for proven correct users... Wait, I see a flaw in the theory... It has been, and will remain, true that the biggest flaw (or "exploit" if you prefer) in any software is due to the human element.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 09, 2013 07:38 AM (/PCJa)

91 The Greenpeace clowns are in serious trouble. Jail in Russia ain't no laughing matter. They are likely to spend years in the slammer. And Russian slammers ain't fun.

Posted by: maddogg at October 09, 2013 07:38 AM (xWW96)

92
I hope Putin makes this guy eat a whole bowl of radioactive poison.

Plutonium frosted Kaboom cereal.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at October 09, 2013 07:38 AM (0IhFx)

93 There is a fine line between insanity and genius. Most people who try to walk it fall off a time or two.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 09, 2013 11:35 AM (/PCJa)

Actually, the geniuses who make it big are usually the ones just insane enough to be absolutely consumed and single minded in the pursuit of their ideas without being completely dysfunctional.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes at October 09, 2013 07:38 AM (kXoT0)

94 Did I wake up in the Twilight Zone?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 09, 2013 11:36 AM (/PCJa)

The Herald's not as bad as the Globe.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at October 09, 2013 07:39 AM (4df7R)

They don't want to lose the Senate in 2014.

And McLame, Cornyn, and the rest of our betters don't want them to lose it, either.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 09, 2013 07:39 AM (U292F)

96 A better chrome browser than the default vanilla:

http://www.srware.net/forum/

chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disconnect

Posted by: 13times at October 09, 2013 07:39 AM (fGPLK)

97 FWIW, the last CPU Intel ever made that was actually errata-free and performed as advertised was the E-stepping level 80286.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 09, 2013 07:39 AM (l5zzX)

98 Putin announced the arrest by taking off his shirt and wrestling deflowering a bear.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 09, 2013 11:18 AM (ECVlr)

****

Just trying a little tweak of your excellent comment.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 09, 2013 11:38 AM (lHb9q)

And now the bear is disconsolate because he never calls her.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes at October 09, 2013 07:39 AM (kXoT0)

99
The Greenpeace clowns are in serious trouble. Jail in Russia ain't no laughing matter. They are likely to spend years in the slammer. And Russian slammers ain't fun.

And they'll likely lose their boat too. So yeah, fuck em. Next time they'll harass less aggressive targets.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at October 09, 2013 07:41 AM (0IhFx)

100 Wait... did I see that right? The Boston Herald is saying that the 1 year Delay is a good idea?

That's the rag Crittenden used to write for. Not to be confused with the Boston Globe - owned by the NYT

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 09, 2013 07:42 AM (l5zzX)

101 I believe it would be the Twilight Zone if it was the Boston Globe.

The Herald leans right.

Posted by: H Badger at October 09, 2013 07:42 AM (n/0Nw)

102 "The Boston Herald is saying that the 1 year Delay is a good idea?

Did I wake up in the Twilight Zone? Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 09, 2013 11:36 AM"

That's normal. They're the more conservative paper. If it was The Globe I'd issue an aerial pork alert.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2013 07:43 AM (knoK7)

103

The Greenpeace clowns are in serious trouble. Jail in Russia ain't no
laughing matter.

I am constantly amazed at how lefties never realize that the rest of the world does not have the same rights as us. And then, they go all out trying to help the democrats take away more of ours.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 09, 2013 07:43 AM (U292F)

104 True Names by Vernor Vinge.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 09, 2013 07:43 AM (ObMtJ)

105 So far Pixy has eluded capture.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at October 09, 2013 07:44 AM (SzAZ7)

106
Permafrost issues have been around since before global warming was a fad.

Posted by: Purp at October 09, 2013 11:31 AM (l5zzX)

Digging foxholes in permafrost is........ interesting. Especially when you break pickaxes because of the cold making the steel brittle.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 09, 2013 07:44 AM (TIIx5)

107

So far Pixy has eluded capture.

Crimes against non-people don't really count.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 09, 2013 07:44 AM (U292F)

108 The Russians never did forgive Greenpeace for going after their whaling ships back in the Commie days. Bloom County had fun with that whole thing, which fortunately ended without loss of life. Then about a decade ago we had those "Whale Wars" dolts on APL doing it again. At that point (doubtless) Dear Leader Putin approved measures to arrest and detain those pinko posers the next time they went after Mother Russia instead of the corrupt running-dog exploiters of the decadent burgeois West like they were supposed to.

Posted by: exdem13 at October 09, 2013 07:45 AM (kfSXj)

109

It must be cool to be the hacker guy - right up to the point someone announces they know who you are and where you live. Then reality steps in with a vengeance and you realize all of your hacking skills really isn't much good against a bunch of armed men with a blowtorch, some knives, a lot of time on their hands, and something to relieve the tedium

That there comes close to a little daydream of mine that tends to pop up whenever I read something about those Anonymous punks...

I dunno why they infuriate me so much, but they do.

Posted by: Grey Fox at October 09, 2013 07:45 AM (sfIVg)

110 90 seamus muldoon That reminds me of the punchline to an old joke I like. "And the Pollock says, all right, where's that eskimo woman you want me to kill?"

Posted by: Darth Randall at October 09, 2013 07:45 AM (Zswg6)

111 There is a fine line between insanity and genius. Most people who try to walk it fall off a time or two. Posted by: AllenG
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Bah!

Posted by: Nikola Tesla at October 09, 2013 07:46 AM (nch4c)

112 I posted about DISCONNECT and add-in for Chrome that strips your IP address. Judging from its description, Disconnect does not strip your IP address; it blocks loading known third-party tracking code. If true, this means that the server youÂ’re visiting still gets your IP address (and anyone intercepting your traffic still gets your IP address). You can test this by going to a web site that repeats your IP address back to you (such as the one I linked in my nick). That will tell you what IP address the remote server sees. You canÂ’t really block IP addresses on the net; you can only anonymize them by running all of your requests through a proxy server; but this, of course, means that all of your traffic is routed through the proxy, and can be watched by hacking that proxy.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 09, 2013 07:46 AM (QF8uk)

113 84 In theory, you could have an unhackable OS, but the effort required to do it is insanely high. You'd need genuinely correct code and need to generate the mathematical correctness proofs to show the code correct...and run that proven correct code on proven correct hardware with no errata. --- You'd also have to hope that, if it all works, it doesn't take enough bandwidth that it makes running it a complete waste of time on whatever platform you're using.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at October 09, 2013 07:47 AM (/Crba)

114 "Bloom County had fun with that whole thing,"

"Now, now, fellas, we're all basically leftists here...." *harpoon*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2013 07:47 AM (knoK7)

115 Wait a minute, did I just read that a BOSTON newsrag endorses a delay on Obamacare? Good lord, this is a political retreat to beat the loss of support for Richard III.

Posted by: exdem13 at October 09, 2013 07:47 AM (kfSXj)

116 Just out of curiosity, is there video of the Greenpeace folks getting arrested by the Russians?

Posted by: Grey Fox at October 09, 2013 07:48 AM (sfIVg)

117 Speaking of hackers we all want to punch in the face- Everyone else seeing those promos for the Julian Whatshisvag (founder of Wikileaks) hagiography?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 09, 2013 07:48 AM (/PCJa)

118 Underneath the headline: Alaska sinking due to thawing permafrost. Ha, ha, soon Sarah Palin won't be able to see Alaska...Ha, ha, Tina Fey is so dreamy.

Posted by: Typical Fucking Lefty 9th Grade Social Studies Teacher at October 09, 2013 07:48 AM (Ec6wH)

119 The Russians are now arresting people who commit actual crimes, rather than people who commit the crime of offending Putin. So that's progress, I guess.

Posted by: NealK at October 09, 2013 07:49 AM (5dW+Y)

120 49 I'd be more happy about the arrest if I didn't have reason to believe this guy was part of the Russian Mafia. Odds are in 24 hours he's a free man, and his case never comes to trial. Russia has police and government corruption to make big-city US law enforcement look like Boy Scouts. --- You are assuming that their exists a difference between the "Russian" government and the Russian Mafia.

Posted by: Czar Peter at October 09, 2013 07:49 AM (4LI4E)

121 Everyone else seeing those promos for the Julian Whatshisvag (founder of Wikileaks) hagiography?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 09, 2013 11:48 AM (/PCJa)

Ugh. Yes. Thank God for the mute button on the remote.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at October 09, 2013 07:49 AM (4df7R)

122 Re 115: Good, somebody else remembers that.

The harpoon was not just comedic license either, one actually was shot at Greenpeace people. Commies don't like being interrupted in their exploitation of natural resources...or human ones either.

Posted by: exdem13 at October 09, 2013 07:49 AM (kfSXj)

123 On the DC Rally- Dang it. I was hoping it was a different one- I might have been able to swing one later in the year (maybe I'll make plans for the 4/15 rally next year- assuming there is one), but the wife is out of town starting today, leaving me with the kids until Tuesday.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 09, 2013 07:50 AM (/PCJa)

124 FWIW, the last CPU Intel ever made that was actually errata-free and performed as advertised was the E-stepping level 80286.

The original 8086/8088 has some not-quite-as-documented quirks that early PC software relies on as well.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2013 07:50 AM (B/VB5)

125
The Greenpeace cockholsters are lucky that the Russkies didn't use the Somali Pirate method (capture pirate mothership, handcuff pirates to the rail, serve vodka to gunners and use mothership for target practice).

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 09, 2013 07:50 AM (TIIx5)

126
If true, this means that the server youÂ’re visiting still gets your IP address (and anyone intercepting your traffic still gets your IP address).

Bah. Just use the NSA endorsed TOR anonymous browsing thingy.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at October 09, 2013 07:50 AM (0IhFx)

127 [The Russians are now arresting people who commit actual crimes, rather than people who commit the crime of offending Putin. So that's progress, I guess.
Posted by: NealK at October 09, 2013 11:49 AM (5dW+Y)[/i]

If this Paunch had given Putey a little slice of his enterprise, I'm sure he'd still be a free man. And by "little slice" I mean "extortionary levels of cash."

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at October 09, 2013 07:51 AM (4df7R)

128 Everyone else seeing those promos for the Julian Whatshisvag (founder of Wikileaks) hagiography?

Yup, with Benedict Cumberbitch as Jazz Hands. Almost didn't recognize him.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2013 07:51 AM (B/VB5)

129 Ugh. Yes. Thank God for the mute button on the remote. You know how I know Cumulus Media wants to destroy their Conservative Talk stations (and they bought a whole bunch in the last couple of years)? WBAP here in DFW has started playing those commercials. "What's his agenda?" "The truth!" [AllenG nearly swerves off the road due to rage-stroke]

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 09, 2013 07:52 AM (/PCJa)

130 Posted by: exdem13 at October 09, 2013 11:49 AM

That whole bit stuck in my mind for no very good reason as a kid. Probably just the environ-nazi mocking that appealed to me.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2013 07:52 AM (knoK7)

131 Bah. Just use the NSA endorsed TOR anonymous browsing thingy. Yeah, I never did understand the logic: Â“I donÂ’t want anyone tracking me on the Internet. To solve this, I will route all of my traffic through someone elseÂ’s proxy.Â”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 09, 2013 07:53 AM (QF8uk)

132 Re 121: The exact points of opposition and collaboration between the Russian Mafia and the Russian Government at large would warrant some serious study. Unfortunately the last few journalists who tried to follow those connections with aforementioned seriousness all met with untimely ends... The Western MSM all took their cues from deadly violence (like the Van Gogh murder) and dropped the topic.

Posted by: exdem13 at October 09, 2013 07:53 AM (kfSXj)

133 They made him an offer - he could walk out a free man as soon as he signed up on an ObamaCare exchange.

Posted by: Roy at October 09, 2013 07:53 AM (VndSC)

134 Yup, with Benedict Cumberbitch as Jazz Hands. Almost didn't recognize him. Huh. I didn't recognize him at all- of course I try to tune out the commercials. Well, that just makes it a little easier to hate Into Darkness.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 09, 2013 07:53 AM (/PCJa)

135

FYI Boston Herald is the marginally conservative rag, so their editorial is not surprising. They have a number of conservatives who regularly write columns for their paper. If the Globe ever went the other way.... I'd look for ice floes in the Gulf of Mex.

As a point of order, isn't this a non-political thread? The new regime would seem to require an open thread (above or below) this thread. Or maybe we need some further definition of what constitutes political?

Thank you, NED

Posted by: NewEnglandDevil at October 09, 2013 07:55 AM (73P68)

136 They made him an offer - he could walk out a free man as soon as he signed up on an ObamaCare exchange. Posted by: Roy at October 09, 2013 11:53 AM (VndSC) Nah, He'd probably get better care in a Russian Gulag

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 09, 2013 07:55 AM (UbDLm)

137 OT, but UGH. I have to go into a meeting in an hour that's going to be a PITA, I can just tell. I'm already in a bad mood thanks to the idiots in the gubmint. Add to that the fact that I've the PMS redrum rage going on and I'm worried I'm going to go into this meeting and end up kicking a chair through a window, probably while someone is sitting in it.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at October 09, 2013 07:56 AM (4df7R)

138 We're going to need a coding system for this on / off topic-able thread thing because this one isn't exactly clear. Mebbe some alpha in the headline?

Are we restricted to the topic of cracking in this thread? If so I recommend someone crack Minx 0.01 and breaking the shit outta her.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at October 09, 2013 07:57 AM (ooEwf)

139 Or maybe we need some further definition of what constitutes political?

Thank you, NED

Posted by: NewEnglandDevil at October 09, 2013 11:55 AM (73P6

Hmm... Good point.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at October 09, 2013 07:57 AM (4df7R)

140 If hackers broke into HealthCare.gov and stole the personal information of everyone currently enrolled it would be a disaster affecting at least a half dozen Americans.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at October 09, 2013 07:57 AM (SzAZ7)

141 Charlie Spiering ‏@charliespiering 3m

State Dept. Awards $5M Contract for Crystal

http://is.gd/S9tk36

Crystal is not a stripper btw

Posted by: Jones in CO at October 09, 2013 07:57 AM (8sCoq)

142 138 OT, but UGH. I have to go into a meeting in an hour that's going to be a PITA, I can just tell. I'm already in a bad mood thanks to the idiots in the gubmint. Add to that the fact that I've the PMS redrum rage going on and I'm worried I'm going to go into this meeting and end up kicking a chair through a window, probably while someone is sitting in it.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea at October 09, 2013 11:56 AM (4df7R)

Does your cell phone have video capability? And are you willing to share? (CHRIST I hate meetings. Meetings were invented by extroverts as a means to bully introverts into doing stuff they would otherwise not do.)

Posted by: joncelli at October 09, 2013 07:58 AM (RD7QR)

143 Are we restricted to the topic of cracking in this thread? If so I recommend someone crack Minx 0.01 and breaking the shit outta her.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2013 11:57 AM (ooEwf)

Isn't that what lost us our editability in the first place?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at October 09, 2013 07:58 AM (4df7R)

144 I'm guessing this is just a contract dispute, the guy was already working for the FSB - and just wanted a bit more coin.

Posted by: Jean at October 09, 2013 07:58 AM (x0UH9)

145 I'm worried I'm going to go into this meeting and end up kicking a chair through a window, probably while someone is sitting in it. Pics or!

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 09, 2013 07:59 AM (QF8uk)

146 RedMindBlueState: "Them was the good old days", when the Left as well as the Right was allowed to be skewered for public displays of idiocy. The "we're all leftists here" line was the perfect tagline on the Left, now and then. Breathed somehow managed to endorse the ideals of Greenpeace, while at the same time looking askance at their whale-hugging nutbar lifestyle. The Andropov-era Commies of course refused to play nice at all.

Posted by: exdem13 at October 09, 2013 07:59 AM (kfSXj)

147 133 Re 121: The exact points of opposition and collaboration between the Russian Mafia and the Russian Government at large would warrant some serious study. Unfortunately the last few journalists who tried to follow those connections with aforementioned seriousness all met with untimely ends... The Western MSM all took their cues from deadly violence (like the Van Gogh murder) and dropped the topic. ---- The two have been one since the early Bolshevik days. Somebody had to fund the madness. Those "financiers" became part of the Governing Regime and later probably merged with the KGB and GRU--or at least those agencies were using the nefarious groups to run guns, drugs, etc. all over the world. My recollection was that this business may have had something to do with Comrade Trotsky's death, but maybe I'm misremembering the history.

Posted by: Czar Peter at October 09, 2013 07:59 AM (4LI4E)

148 State Dept. Awards $5M Contract for Crystal

http://is.gd/S9tk36

Crystal is not a stripper btw

Posted by: Jones in CO at October 09, 2013 11:57 AM (8sCoq) <b>At that rate she better be a hooker.</b>

Posted by: NewEnglandDevil at October 09, 2013 08:00 AM (73P68)

149 Oh, and sympathies. IÂ’ve found a good scotch often helps with pointless meetings; plus a bad scotch to pass around to everyone else.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 09, 2013 08:00 AM (QF8uk)

150 I'm sure the FSB has known about this guy for some time but was just keeping a file on him until he hacked somebody or something that pissed off Putin.

Imagine that- the state keeping a crime under wraps until the crimminal steps on the wrong toes.

Something to ponder as the US enters the Brave New World of socialism.

Posted by: Nighthawk at October 09, 2013 08:01 AM (OtQXp)

151
If hackers broke into HealthCare.gov and stole the personal information of everyone currently enrolled it would be a disaster affecting at least a half dozen Americans.

Tweet that. Tweet it immediately.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at October 09, 2013 08:01 AM (0IhFx)

152 Michelle Malkin ‏@michellemalkin 40s

Fed Ed funds $1 mil worth of kayaks, toys for wealthy CT schools' Â“wellness initiativeÂ”

Posted by: Jones in CO at October 09, 2013 08:02 AM (8sCoq)

153 Something to ponder as the US enters the Brave New World of socialism.

Posted by: Nighthawk at October 09, 2013 12:01 PM (OtQXp)

Bah. Socialism is just the mafia with impressive letterhead.

Posted by: joncelli at October 09, 2013 08:02 AM (RD7QR)

154 >Crystal is not a stripper btwPosted by: Jones in CO at October 09, 2013 11:57 AM (8sCoq) <b>At that rate she better be a hooker.</b>

it's just that I knew a stripper named Kristel once, and that got me to thinki-

brb

Posted by: Jones in CO at October 09, 2013 08:03 AM (8sCoq)

155 "I'm worried I'm going to go into this meeting and end up kicking a chair through a window, probably while someone is sitting in it. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea at October 09, 2013 11:56 AM"

You say that like it's a bad thing. Here...*slips adult beverage into USB port*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2013 08:03 AM (knoK7)

156 151 I'm sure the FSB has known about this guy for some time but was just keeping a file on him until he hacked somebody or something that pissed off Putin. Imagine that- the state keeping a crime under wraps until the crimminal steps on the wrong toes. Something to ponder as the US enters the Brave New World of socialism. ---- If be willing to bet that they only "arrested" this guy because he was either a) going to defect or b) getting ready to go over to someone else.

Posted by: Czar Peter at October 09, 2013 08:04 AM (4LI4E)

157 Tweet that. Tweet it immediately. Posted by: Sticky Wicket at October 09, 2013 12:01 PM (0IhFx) ~ My tweeter is kaput.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at October 09, 2013 08:04 AM (SzAZ7)

158 Isn't that what lost us our editability in the first place?

Posted by: MWR

No. That was simple open HTML codes. No cracking required.

Fun facts: Twitter didn't exist when Moveable Type 2.X launched.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at October 09, 2013 08:04 AM (ooEwf)

159 > "I'm worried I'm going to go into this meeting and
end up kicking a chair through a window, probably while someone is
sitting in it.

just go all Carrie on they asses

Posted by: Jones in CO at October 09, 2013 08:04 AM (8sCoq)

160 My tweeter is kaput.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at October 09, 2013 12:04 PM (SzAZ7)

Bob Dole knows a solution for that.

Posted by: Bob Dole at October 09, 2013 08:05 AM (RD7QR)

161 Tweet that. Tweet it immediately. And then post back back so we can retweet it. You will have fame, and fortune, and everything that goes with it.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 09, 2013 08:05 AM (QF8uk)

162 Cookie Monster got $445 million on the first day of the shutdown. Kids stricken with cancer - $0

Posted by: RWC at October 09, 2013 08:05 AM (fWAjv)

163

Does your cell phone have video capability? And are you willing to share?

Unfotunately it does not.

(CHRIST I hate meetings. Meetings were invented by extroverts as a means to bully introverts into doing stuff they would otherwise not do.)

Posted by: joncelli at October 09, 2013 11:58 AM (RD7QR)

A-to the-MEN.

I hate meetings. I especially hate meetings like this one, where I'm expected to answer questions about things that are well beyond my experience or pay grade. seriously, I'm a Program Assistant. I should not be making decisions. If I'm going to be chief data person, it would be nice to A) have a new job title and oh, btw, a RAISE, and B) some actual frigging education in the field of data management. And I don't mean a few SQL Server trainings and access to Google.

*rubs temples*

It would also be nice if the other people in the meeting didn't look at me as if I was an idiot, forcing me to once again school them all that I am NOT an idiot, and am in fact probably smarter than many of them, and would you wipe that gaping-mouthed expression off your face, Old-Dimwit-Across-The-Table-From Me, because this isn't the first time I've been to this particular rodeo and I'm not going to sit there like a biddable young twit while you treat me like a special snowflake who needs Lots of Help to Understand the Big Words (tm).

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at October 09, 2013 08:05 AM (4df7R)

164
My tweeter is kaput.

I'll tweet it, but it'll be impossible to give attribution.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at October 09, 2013 08:05 AM (0IhFx)

165 Re 148: The very fact that an organized crime network, based in the exiles and felons of Siberia, managed to survive and thrive during the Communist police state, could be construed as evidence of collusion. The pervasive need for control (or at least influence) would inevitably lead to some non-judicial interaction. Of course, the gangsters would have been able to supply the luxury/contraband goods and no-fingerprints transactions the Politburo could desire, in return for official laxness.

Posted by: exdem13 at October 09, 2013 08:06 AM (kfSXj)

166 Bah. Socialism is just the mafia with impressive letterhead. Posted by: joncelli at October 09, 2013 12:02 PM (RD7QR) ~ The mafia produces less casualties.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at October 09, 2013 08:06 AM (SzAZ7)

167 Posted by: exdem13 at October 09, 2013 11:59 AM

True enough. Even though he's a lefty, the strip still made me laugh.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2013 08:07 AM (knoK7)

168 I'll tweet it, but it'll be impossible to give attribution. Posted by: Sticky Wicket at October 09, 2013 12:05 PM (0IhFx) ~ Go for it.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at October 09, 2013 08:08 AM (SzAZ7)

169 Posted by: Sticky Wicket at October 09, 2013 12:05 PM (0IhFx)

Use the comment number link.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 09, 2013 08:09 AM (/kU/5)

170 So when I link stories like this in Facebook, I get no nifty graphics, like of bare chested Putin. Not even a general AoS logo ... where is the complaint department? I want a full refund.

But really, a little graphic, linked tot he story or not, would be nifty. Wouldn't that be easy?

Posted by: Illini Bill at October 09, 2013 08:09 AM (yIOdo)

171 Wanna bet this guy gets ticketed? http://tinyurl.com/ku2cczq

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at October 09, 2013 08:09 AM (bCEmE)

172 Monica Crowley ‏@MonicaCrowley 1m

LoveThis RT @TheBrandonMorse A guy has taken it upon himself 2 mow the lawn @ the Lincoln Memorial.God bless that man pic.twitter.com/wzqItgAgTb

Posted by: Jones in CO at October 09, 2013 08:09 AM (8sCoq)

173 You canÂ’t really block IP addresses on the net;

There's a new class of pseudo-proxies or VM'd proxies; they only exist for a session and are hosted on unsuspecting, unpatched severs scattered about the intertubes. S,o while you would still be vulnerable to backtracking via hardware logs - monitoring would be difficult.

Posted by: Jean at October 09, 2013 08:11 AM (x0UH9)

174 I think this is political'ish because of the international/Russian angle. Its not like a cat pics thread

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 09, 2013 08:11 AM (l5zzX)

175 A guy has taken it upon himself 2 mow the lawn @ the Lincoln Memorial. Th Park Service will probably wait till he finishes, then arrest him.

Posted by: Name Withheld Upon Request [/i] at October 09, 2013 08:11 AM (U2UQk)

176 Check this out. Automated computers don't work during a shut down. http://tinyurl.com/6p4z9

Posted by: John Smith at October 09, 2013 08:11 AM (wR+pz)

177 "IRS official says she never consorted with devil"
http://is.gd/voTCF4

She lies.
No offense, Bannion.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at October 09, 2013 08:12 AM (/kI1Q)

178 That Greenpeace guy gave me the clap.

Posted by: Flipper at October 09, 2013 08:12 AM (pgQxn)

179 Monica Crowley ‏@MonicaCrowley 1m

LoveThis RT @TheBrandonMorse A guy has taken it upon himself 2 mow the lawn @ the Lincoln Memorial.God bless that man pic.twitter.com/wzqItgAgTb

Forrest Gump?

Posted by: Hollowpoint at October 09, 2013 08:12 AM (SY2Kh)

180 There's a new class of pseudo-proxies or VM'd proxiesÂ… monitoring would be difficult. Except for the person who set up the pseudo-proxy network who can do all the monitoring and tracking they want.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 09, 2013 08:12 AM (QF8uk)

181 172 Wanna bet this guy gets ticketed? http://tinyurl.com/ku2cczq Posted by: Tami at October 09, 2013 12:09 PM (bCEmE) ~ Where does one apply for the lawn care exemption to the shutdown?

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at October 09, 2013 08:12 AM (SzAZ7)

182 @172 Want to bet Fox shows him on OR tonight?

Posted by: John Smith at October 09, 2013 08:13 AM (wR+pz)

183 1. Malware.
2.Obamacare.
3. Duck.

One of these things is not like the others. One of these things is not the same.

Posted by: jwpaine @PirateBallerina at October 09, 2013 08:13 AM (/lWM8)

184 A guy has taken it upon himself 2 mow the lawn @ the Lincoln Memorial.

I must be Nostradamus -- I predicted this shit would start to happen last week.

Next come the weed whackers, trash collections, and then it out of control!

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 09, 2013 08:14 AM (l5zzX)

185 184 1. Malware.
2.Obamacare.
3. Duck.

One of these things is not like the others. One of these things is not the same.

Posted by: jwpaine @PirateBallerina at October 09, 2013 12:13 PM (/lWM

[Scratches beard] Does Obamacare float?

Posted by: joncelli at October 09, 2013 08:15 AM (RD7QR)

186 Want to bet Fox shows him on OR tonight? Posted by: John Smith at October 09, 2013 12:13 PM (wR+pz) ~ The USS Breaking News was made for moments like this. Beam Shep aboard.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at October 09, 2013 08:15 AM (SzAZ7)

187 Where does one apply for the lawn care exemption to the shutdown? Tiajuana?

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2013 08:15 AM (ndIek)

188 In Russia Lacey Wigs and Laptop Batteries get Malware.

Posted by: dananjcon at October 09, 2013 08:16 AM (wmU4G)

189 Can we go off topic anymore? I'm a gonna....

National park service is Sally Jewell, former ceo of REI.
Jonathon Jarvis is head of NPS.

Jewell said she would employee no one in interior if they were climate deniers.
Jarvis is responsible, prior to his appointment, for shutting down the Drakes Bay Oyster Company, committing scientific misconduct by falsifying data that seemed to support the Oyster company causing great harm to seals, and then denying FOIA requests for the data.

See letter from eenews.net Goodman to Salazar opposing Jarvis as head of NPS because of unethical improprieties.

Golly. No wonder they're taking hostages. They're arrogant fascists.
Why would Sally Jewell screw with her former customers at REI by closing down all their recreational playgrounds? What a short sighted wench.

Posted by: Derak at October 09, 2013 08:16 AM (xEkHi)

190 [Scratches beard] Does Obamacare float? Burn it!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2013 08:16 AM (ndIek)

191 You could just setup a honey pot machine that presented itself as say an unpatched WinNT4 server.

The script kiddies would be all over that the moment their IP scans showed a juicy "target"

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 09, 2013 08:17 AM (l5zzX)

192 138 OT, but UGH. I have to go into a meeting in an hour that's going to be a PITA, I can just tell. I'm already in a bad mood thanks to the idiots in the gubmint. Add to that the fact that I've the PMS redrum rage going on and I'm worried I'm going to go into this meeting and end up kicking a chair through a window, probably while someone is sitting in it.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea at October 09, 2013 11:56 AM (4df7R)

Find a happy place.

Posted by: eleven at October 09, 2013 08:17 AM (KXm42)

193 Go for it

Done. Edited to fit 140 character limit:

If hackers broke into HealthCare.gov, stole the info of everyone enrolled, it would be a disaster affecting almost a dozen Americans

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at October 09, 2013 08:17 AM (0IhFx)

194 I am not acquainted with this comrade but can vouch for my great grandson Edward Snowden Bronstein. Jr has my profile don't you think?

Posted by: Lev Bronstein at October 09, 2013 08:17 AM (CpIq9)

195 I'm betting they make him an offer he can't refuse. We'll top it. We've got 300 million computers we're trying to break into.

Posted by: The NSA at October 09, 2013 08:18 AM (FcR7P)

196 I'm betting they make him an offer he can't refuse. Go to work for FSB, or rot in the basement of Lubyanka for the rest of his life. I'm thinking that's not binary.

Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at October 09, 2013 08:18 AM (VtjlW)

197 Why the hell did the NPS produce a 'praise Islam' video? How the heck does that fall under them?

Posted by: RWC at October 09, 2013 08:20 AM (fWAjv)

198 As soon as my super-large check arrives from this really cool from Nigeria, I'm getting the most secure, bad-ass computer money can buy!

Posted by: Dang at October 09, 2013 08:20 AM (Hx2XA)

199

184 -

Easy, Malware exploits cracks, whereas once the Ocare system is up and running... nothing but quacks.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 09, 2013 08:20 AM (TOk1P)

200 I'm thinking that's not binary. I never understood binary. Apparently there are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand it, and those that don't.

Posted by: Name Withheld Upon Request [/i] at October 09, 2013 08:21 AM (U2UQk)

201 Drew M has posted a new thread titled "Bastards--Shutdown Theater Holding Up Death Benefits To Families Of The Fallen". Come join the conversation!

Posted by: Countrysquire at October 09, 2013 08:22 AM (LSJmV)

202 Posted by: Sticky Wicket at October 09, 2013 12:17 PM (0IhFx) ~ Nice. I like your version better anyways.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at October 09, 2013 08:22 AM (SzAZ7)

203 I have to say that if I were Putin, I would absolutely put a team of hackers on the ACA site. Since the Dims and Obama have screwed the pooch already with their lame-ass roll-out, it wouldn't take much to keep inserting little viruses, trojan horses, whatever to keep the administration tied up in knots domestically. Make Oblabla/Dims use up their political capital on this dog's breakfast of a healthcare act. And that would give you even a freer hand in the world. Chinese should be hopping on this too for that matter. It's exactly the kind of low cost-low risk operation that could yield big results in the arena of global politics.

Posted by: Not the KGB at October 09, 2013 08:22 AM (0cMkb)

204 Why the hell did the NPS produce a 'praise Islam' video? How the heck does that fall under them? TheyÂ’re not the National Prayer Service?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 09, 2013 08:22 AM (QF8uk)

205 I would be remiss if I didn't give a shout out to my home sisters Lois Lerner and Candy Crowley. You go girls! Yes I see your good works too Tim Wise and Bill Mahr. Divide and conquer my lovelies.

Posted by: Lev Bronstein at October 09, 2013 08:22 AM (CpIq9)

206

They send Paunch to the Ruskie version og Gitmo

Wait!!! that version is closed.

Vast blight wing conspiracy.

Posted by: PAul MAUSER at October 09, 2013 08:22 AM (3GuQx)

207 I'm pretty sure I went to college with "Berke Breathed". All the clues add up and the guy was a gifted cartoonist.

Posted by: Mr. Dave at October 09, 2013 08:23 AM (Atpg6)

208 I never understood binary. Apparently there are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand it, and those that don't. Posted by: Name Withheld Upon Request at October 09, 2013 12:21 PM (U2UQk) *golf clap*

Posted by: RWC at October 09, 2013 08:24 AM (fWAjv)

209 [Scratches beard] Does Obamacare float?

Posted by: joncelli at October 09, 2013 12:15 PM (RD7QR)

Oh, it like totes would float, if only we had a punch bowl big enough.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes at October 09, 2013 08:24 AM (kXoT0)

210 179 That Greenpeace guy gave me the clap.
Posted by: Flipper at October 09, 2013 12:12 PM (pgQxn) Or was it the other way around you rapey rapist mammal?

Posted by: NewEnglandDevil at October 09, 2013 08:25 AM (73P68)

211 the guy cutting the grass at the Lincoln Memorial is Carl Spackler

Posted by: Jones in CO at October 09, 2013 08:25 AM (8sCoq)

212 If hackers broke into HealthCare.gov, stole the info of everyone enrolled, it would be a disaster affecting almost a dozen Americans
Posted by: Sticky Wicket

Ha ha ha! The joke's on you! The entire HealthCare.gov website is self-hacking! Take that, you devious hackers! Obama's a freaking genious, geneus, genous, really smart!

Posted by: Dang at October 09, 2013 08:26 AM (Hx2XA)

213 MWR, clearly you need an advanced degree and a few Microsoft university credentials after your name - then they would only stare at your boots.

Posted by: Jean at October 09, 2013 08:26 AM (x0UH9)

214 Lawn care guy better watch out. Mooch is suited up and ready to go to work. http://tinyurl.com/kdrw3fa

Posted by: RWC at October 09, 2013 08:28 AM (fWAjv)

215 Oh, oh...I know.......Obamacare. The other 2 perform the function they were designed to perform. That's making interesting assumptions about the actual intent behind Obamacare...

Posted by: Brother Cavil at October 09, 2013 08:28 AM (naUcP)

216 One final comment and I'm headed for my daily shvitz. Harvey Weinstein please pay a visit to Vince Gilligan and let him know I am not amused. A White and a Pinkman making war on the Schwartz's? We see you working Vince. Middle class guy named White deals with Schwartz's and loses. He dies and the Schwartz's seemingly live on to enjoy their riches. But its a pyrrhic victory because while they may have beat White in business, they are forced to live the rest of their lives looking over their shoulder.

Posted by: Lev Bronstein at October 09, 2013 08:29 AM (CpIq9)

217 Why the hell did the NPS produce a 'praise Islam' video? How the heck does that fall under them?

Posted by: RWC at October 09, 2013 12:20 PM (fWAjv)

Because "kiss muzzie butt" is #1 on the agenda for all federal agencies under the rule of Barack Hussein Obama?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2013 08:44 AM (8Fl6F)

218 Go to work for FSB, or rot in the basement of Lubyanka for the rest of his life. In Soviet Russia, he would have had both.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie © at October 09, 2013 08:46 AM (1hM1d)

219 I'm glad Russia caught him and not us. He'll be sorry for all the times he messed up my computer!

Posted by: PJ at October 09, 2013 10:03 AM (ZWaLo)

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