"is it just me or does it seem that something BAD may happen soon like the united states getting bombed or attacked again to keep president bush as president or if something bad happens McCain will most likely be elected president..." - d e f c o n
Wow, that is awesome. But how does the guy collect money? And what do you get for your money? Won't the decryptor program have the private key in it, so a single copy should suffice to save the world? - ⓞnor
Hasn't this been going on for many years now? Perhaps the difference is that the bad guys are now using strong encryption instead of simple obfuscation ... Getting the money is definitely a problem, as is getting the decryption key once you have paid :P - John Mueller
if the virus requires some type of secure authentication to decrypt it would be hard to get the passphrase, also the encryption key could use specific things on each computer to generate the key like pc name, hardware, date infected etc, and the possibilities are endless, if this was coded well enough and the coder had enough expertise it will be impossible to decrypt and restore your files without help from the author - d e f c o n
"Google has increased its share of the UK search market by almost 10 points over the past year, and has now reached a monopoly market share of 87.3%, according to Hitwise. Yahoo's share of the market slumped from 8.6% to 4.1%." - d e f c o n
"John McCain is looking for a VP
The Republican candidate joked to a small crowd of fundraisers in Virginia that he was using the internet search engine to research his list of potential vice presidents.
"You know, basically it's a Google," Mr McCain said, to laughter, when asked how the selection process was going during a 10,000 dollar-a-head luncheon in Richmond. "What you can find out now on the internet - it's remarkable."" - d e f c o n
"WASHINGTON - Scott McClellan, President Bush's former spokesman, will testify before the House Judiciary Committee about whether Vice President Cheney ordered him to make misleading public statements about the leaking of CIA analyst Valerie Plame Wilson's identity." - d e f c o n
"the press was whisked away to Dulles Airport outside of Washington, D.C., to board a flight to Chicago". "Obama had scheduled interviews with local Chicago television reporters and would meet up at the airport shortly".
"After waiting for Obama for over an hour, the situation on the plane quickly went from tiresome to alarming once the pilot informed the press that the doors had been locked and the plane was about to take off." - d e f c o n
Article on the CBS blog continues:
"As the plane rolled down the tarmac, the press quickly realized that Obama had never boarded the flight and we had all been duped."
"Minutes later, communications director Robert Gibbs casually informed the press that Obama had stayed behind in Washington for “meetings”, without specifying who the meetings were with. As we began to frantically call our assignment desks to alert them that the presumptive Democratic nominee was running free in Washington, the plane took off for Chicago, leaving us trapped on a plane."
Reread the last one. - d e f c o n
The plane's doors were LOCKED, and the reporters were NOT ALLOWED to leave. - d e f c o n
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Wow, this shows proof of the bush administration paying terrorists and giving cia authorization to assassinate government officials. I wasnt for impeaching him, but now I am for sure, this is a stunning performance by Kucinich - d e f c o n
It doesnt matter if you are a Democrat, or a Republican, keeping him in office after these facts of criminal behavior is un-american - d e f c o n
Well the Main Stream media can turn their back on this but will we turn our backs on this on friendfeed? Lets discus this. - d e f c o n
A stupid performance is more like it. Kucinich introduced this on June 9 in a presidential election year. Even if Pelosi thought this was a winner, and the House voted to impeach, and the Senate got Republican votes to convict - all in less than 8 months, and all in an election year - guess what? Cheney would become President! Perhaps this would have made sense in the first year of Bush's 2nd term, but not in the fourth. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
We as a society "turned our backs on this" for 6 freakin' years. Yes, let's discuss it now that it's safe to do so. Or, we can do what's not too late to do and talk with our votes. One senator already got her world turned upside down by putting her head in the sand when her state needed her alert and active. Still a lot of 'em out there. Vote for people that won't send us down the rabbit hole next time. It's more effective than safe commenting here. - Jim Stanger
we should make an example of him for future presidents, if he gets away with what he has I fear future presidents will try and get away with worst, dont you think - d e f c o n
“Friendfeed should add their own commenting system and blog comments would go directly to a ff room and comments within friendfeed would go directly to the blog”
disqus is lacking, I prefer http://www.intensedebate.com but I think if friendfeed did their own commenting system it would blow them all away - d e f c o n
I was talking with Paul from FriendFeed and Daniel from Disqus at brunch about this. I think this will happen eventually but it isn't as easy as it sounds. Done wrong and it could really mess up the experience here. - Robert Scoble
You can put a widgy (http://anzman.blogspot.com) on your blog for now. I added Disqus for comments and everything ended up over here anyway ... BUT I met a lot of interesting people AND reconnected with a few after a decade. No complaints! - Charlie Anzman
if they would go for a standard on comments which please also puts the contetn into my blog, people would not stop at the walled gardens and people can use the tool they like best due to the features. - Nicole Simon
Instead of FriendFeed cannibalizing Disqus, I think FriendFeed should feed data to these services, so a comment in FriendFeed becomes a comment in Disqus. A Digg or Share becomes a "Like". And vice versa. Wouldn't that be better for the web AND for FriendFeed's relationship with other services? - Pat Hawks
I think it would be a great feature for FF, although I take on the cannablizing comment on board. - Duncan Riley
Think of what could happen if FriendFeed worked with your current comments system (Disqus, Wordpress, Blogger, CoComment, etc.) to pull comments from your blog and push comments to your blog. They wouldn't need to develop their OWN commenting system. Besides, every comment that was pushed from FriendFeed could have a link with a FF icon. Think of the potential publicity. - Pat Hawks
Agreed with Pat Hawkes, why should FF develop their own comment system rather than integrate with existing system(s)? To me the whole point of using FF is to integrate and group services, not add yet another one :) - d@vid seaward
If only I didn't have to enter the remote key everytime, I'd use it. - Aaron Myers
Aaron you definitely should not have to input your key everytime (I don't). The cookie is set to last 2 months. Does your phone let you access other sites with long cookies too or do they all break like fftogo? I'd love to fix this for you. - Benjamin Golub via fftogo
A virus that takes all your important files hostage and then demand money is on the loose according to security experts. wow... This blackmailer virus uses 1024-bit key to encrypt data on user’s PC and then demands money for decryption key. According to Kaspersky Lab public should be on the lookout for ransomware virus named “Gpcode” which encrypts your files using an RSA encryption algorithm with a 1024-bit key. - d e f c o n
