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    "According to Our Surveys, Many Teenage Students Have Become Familiar With Internet Pornography"

    Immense 'GhostNet' Computer Spy System Is Going to Put Cranky Windows Guy Over the Edge

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    06/08/09

    In reply to "According to Our Surveys, Many Teenage Students Have Become Familiar With Internet Pornography"
    And the teenagers with the most callouses on their hands are obviously just a little 'too familiar' with the aforementioned internet pr0n...
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    Image of Vastad Vastad
    06/08/09

    In reply to "According to Our Surveys, Many Teenage Students Have Become Familiar With Internet Pornography"
    This is actually fantastic news. It reveals the colossal inability of last-generation Chinese politicians to grasp how the internet works and how cyberwars are run and won.


    Think about it. EVERY computer in China is forced to have a form of malware/spyware. They makes EVERY computer in China have one common software door. One common target. Murphy's Law operates particularly actively in software engineering. No matter how much money they throw at it, how many firing squads they threaten their contractors with, it WILL have bugs and flaws ripe for explotiation. It will NOT have the same sort of update system as Vista.


    I guarantee that if this goes through, it will be a home-grown Chinese programmer who wants to surf without Big Brother who inadvertently reveals an exploit in all of the domestic and corporate (and if the government is particularly stupid, even military) computers and opening the doors to every blood-thirsty, fame-hungry hacker group on the planet.


    The irony is from all these semi-tin foil hat rumours about China sponsoring a lot of cyber-warfare and hacking US systems. If it's true, they are essentially adding an Achilles heel to their domestic computer infrastructure and slowly bending over for karma.


    Until that happens though, China will essentially have the largest zombie-net on the planet disguised as a Big Brother act. Bet you didn't consider that did you?

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    06/08/09

    @Vastad: It reveals the colossal inability of last-generation Chinese politicians to grasp how the internet works and how cyberwars are run and won.


    uhh, if anybody would win a cyber war it is china. even the old guys know that.


    They makes EVERY computer in China have one common software door.


    uhh, it's called Windows. so not a door per se.

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    06/08/09

    @Vastad: I've found that when considering consequences, one must consider unintented consequences, and even the intended intent of the unintentional consequences, for when considering such things, one must consider all things, all things considered.


    ...yeah!

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    06/08/09

    @Vastad: ... not to mention that every computer is a potential bot client.
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    06/08/09

    @DeusExMach: i consider you my friend.
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    06/08/09

    In reply to "According to Our Surveys, Many Teenage Students Have Become Familiar With Internet Pornography"
    Ummm... unless I'm mistaken, computers on pretty much every public school computer in the US of A probably have software pretty much similiar to this. I doubt you can log onto porno sites from you computer lab at the local high school.


    Not to say it is or will be used to block 'political' sites like it will be in China, but the technology is there.

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    06/08/09

    @KEVINMC: so now not only whitehouse.gov is blocked, but also whitehouse.com? jebus we're doomed.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06/08/09

    In reply to "According to Our Surveys, Many Teenage Students Have Become Familiar With Internet Pornography"
    According to my survey, Captain Obvious is often saying obvious things.
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    Image of DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star. DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star.
    06/08/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: but what about Lt. Oblivious?
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    06/08/09

    @DeusExMach: Not so much, but often enough to still retain the title of Lieutenant.
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    Image of DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star. DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star.
    06/08/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: 1st or 2nd?
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    06/08/09

    @DeusExMach: doesn't matter. young officers think they know everything.
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    06/08/09

    In reply to "According to Our Surveys, Many Teenage Students Have Become Familiar With Internet Pornography"
    What is this pornography you speak of?
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    06/08/09

    @closhedbb: It's when you go out there with a DAT recorder and start taking samples of different kinds of sounds.
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    06/08/09

    In reply to "According to Our Surveys, Many Teenage Students Have Become Familiar With Internet Pornography"
    Sex? Dangerous? If only were wars engaged through sex...
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    Image of Curves Curves
    06/08/09

    In reply to "According to Our Surveys, Many Teenage Students Have Become Familiar With Internet Pornography"
    I am glad I live someplace that doesnt block Gizmodo. I really dont care about the porn, just dont take my gadgets.
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    06/08/09

    @Curves:


    the things that are/aren't blocked at my work are f'ing weird. Fleshbot will load, but I can't download the Adam Carolla Podcast...? wtf?

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    06/08/09

    @Curves: You can have my gadgets, when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers!
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    06/08/09

    @nutbastard:


    /spoiled american

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    06/08/09

    @Kaiser-Chromeo: You know, I just watched Red Dawn for the frist time this weekend, and that phrase has new meaning to me.
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    Image of Preyfar Preyfar
    06/08/09

    In reply to "According to Our Surveys, Many Teenage Students Have Become Familiar With Internet Pornography"
    Porn, the single greatest risk to China's infrastructure next to free will.
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    06/08/09

    @Preyfar: And colored chalk.
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    06/08/09

    In reply to "According to Our Surveys, Many Teenage Students Have Become Familiar With Internet Pornography"
    Will this cause a revolution? (about time)
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    06/08/09

    @aerospaceman: you say you want a revoluuuuuhoouhootion...
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    06/08/09

    @eagles3Well you know, we all want to change the world.
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    06/08/09

    @AluminumFalcon_GitEmSteveDave: Really? And here I thought that everybody wants to Rule the world.


    I guess it doesn't really matter since we didn't start the fire.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    06/08/09

    @DeusExMach: Well, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it.


    Cuz this is the world we live in.

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    06/08/09

    @Auto-Erotic_GitEmSteveDave-ation: True, and these ARE the hands we're given. Let's use them, and let's stop fighting.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    06/08/09

    @DeusExMach: And make this worth living in?
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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/08/09

    In reply to "According to Our Surveys, Many Teenage Students Have Become Familiar With Internet Pornography"
    but they have no problems with their huge hacker culture that brims with national pride and attacks like a swarm of coked up african-eyes bees lookin' to beat up the poor sap that scratched their hummer knock off. scratch that. i guess hummer is chinese now. oh, china.
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    Image of Eauboy Eauboy
    06/08/09

    In reply to "According to Our Surveys, Many Teenage Students Have Become Familiar With Internet Pornography"
    In other news: Water is wet.
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    06/08/09

    @Eauboy: Silence, you capitalist dog!
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    @Hello Mister Walrus:

    no no no, you've got it all wrong. It's 'Silence, you communist dog!
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    06/08/09

    @Eauboy: Followed by the story: "GitEmSteveDave is a shameless Ego-whore"
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06/08/09

    @Eauboy: Unless kept in a sustained solid state. :P
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    06/08/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: don't forget as a gas. water is not wet as a gas.
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    06/08/09

    @Eauboy: i guess you are also going to fool me into believing that bears actually crap in the forest!
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    06/08/09

    @urbanturban666: Only the forrest dwelling ones.
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    06/08/09

    @.- -. --- -. -.-- -- --- ..- ... / .. ... / .-.. . --. .. --- -.: actually it was you who got it wrong@Nick: actually it is kinda wet as a gas
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    06/08/09

    @FiskFisk33: no, it's not. it condenses and goes back to liquid. then it's wet.
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    Image of drg40 drg40
    03/29/09

    In reply to Immense 'GhostNet' Computer Spy System Is Going to Put Cranky Windows Guy Over the Edge
    I should read the fine print on the BBC site if you want to find people a tad closer to home who long to use your camera and microphone.


    When they see fit.

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    03/29/09

    @drg40: Wait, you mean someone could use my website, [GitEmSteveDave.com], to watch me through cameras attached to my computer?!?! Don't think I could stand that.
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    03/29/09

    In reply to Immense 'GhostNet' Computer Spy System Is Going to Put Cranky Windows Guy Over the Edge
    i don't get it... why would frucci care? is he being watched by hackers in china?
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    03/29/09

    @Weihovah: "is he being watched by hackers in china?"


    I would think that would be but one of several dozen governmental agencies quietly tracking Frucci's actions.

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    Image of Hyman Decent Hyman Decent
    03/29/09

    In reply to Immense 'GhostNet' Computer Spy System Is Going to Put Cranky Windows Guy Over the Edge
    Where have I seen this news story before? I'm not trying to be snarky, it's just that I can't think of any Web site that I frequent other than Gizmodo that would've posted this.
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    03/29/09

    @Hyman Decent: The great thing about having 18+ people to write stories is you get an eclectic mix. Which I think is awesome as you get many different personalities.
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    03/29/09

    In reply to Immense 'GhostNet' Computer Spy System Is Going to Put Cranky Windows Guy Over the Edge
    Have we not always been told that the internet is not private and to ALWAYS assume whatever you do there is seen by all? You want privacy… meet me in the garden, we'll chat there.
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    03/29/09

    @Software_Goddess: "Have we not always been told that the internet is not private and to ALWAYS assume whatever you do there is seen by all?"


    I had ignored all the cautions, but you are SO right, as I found out the hard way. Indeed, I am still recovering from the pain of a recent incident in which I was horrified to discover that I had NO privacy online whatsoever.


    All I had done was shoot a simple little family video, quietly posted it to the internet, and the next thing you know my private video has been viewed like a million times! What good is the internet if you can't post a video of a chihuahua having sex with a chicken and then maintain privacy of such family videos? Who even would think people would find www.hotxxxchihuahuachickensex.com?


    All I can say is thank god I hadn't posted any of the more personal videos involving the babysitter and the hedgehog.

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    03/29/09

    @bosskev: OMG... you're killing me! that was really side splitting funny
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    03/29/09

    @Software_Goddess: Oh, sure, laugh at my distress. But I tell you, Software_Goddess, you don't know pain until your privacy has been exposed all raw to the world.


    Well, actually, you don't know pain until your privacy has been exposed to a hedgehog...still plucking those damned spines out of tender locations.

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