from KRACK to TRACK https://www.wired.com/story/track-location-with-mobile-ads-1000-dollars-study/
-- rec -- On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 6:05 PM, Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > I am all for big investments in Blockchain: Secure the vote, secure > hazardous materials, secure titles to property, fuel the quantum computing > arms race.. Good stuff! > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Oct 21, 2017, at 3:27 PM, Steven A Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > I recently heard from a friend who achieved a very transient and > unexpected contact with a US Antartica Science team member via a 1W > handheld DMR RX/TX device. Anecdotally, they field about 10 such contacts > a week. This is more than a little misleading since DMR is a packet-relay > system, albeit ad-hoc, but doesn't really say anything about the distance > of any single link... just that there were a finite(reasonable) number of > hops between my friend in Kansas and the folks on the ground in > Antartica. > > > Meanwhile, my own tiny low-power handheld device (iPhone 4) hears (and > more importantly, can be heard by) a small handful of cell towers, the > closest is known to be 9 miles away and I don't get much if any useful > reception BTW. That would suggest to me that my 2.4Ghz WiFi modem could > be "heard" from a similar distance (given the similar frequency of 1.9Ghz) > I"m sure there are some folks here with more SIGINT knowledge than I, I'm > just winging it on the back of an envelope. So that makes for a pretty > big "moat" around my 2.9 acre property. And if I can't stop gophers from > boring under my garden fence buried 18 inches, how can I hope to stop Musk > and El Chapo? And the drones and tethered balloons? No way! I can barely > see them with my 100x scope on my WWI 30.06 which has a theoretical ceiling > of 10,000 ft anyway, so I doubt I can shoot them down even if I can find > them (PS. I don't own any ammunition for said antique handed down from my > grandfather who carried it in Europe 100 years ago). > > > I remember scoffing at a colleague 25 years ago who claimed that the > holographic strips added to $50/$100 bills was a "gubmint konspiracy" to > track our cash from satellite... and yup! He had an MS in CS but lined his > wallet with tinfoil (but not his hat?). It seems steered phased array > antenna can interrogate UHF RFID tags from about 600ft in free air today... > so while he was a few orders of magnitude off in his paranoia, it is MORE > reasonable than I'd expected. > > > McNealy told us 20 years ago "there is NO privacy, get OVER it". I'm not > sure what "over it" means, but I think we need a whole restructuring of > social norms and expectations based on this issue. > > > My latest bets are on ideas grown up out of BlockChain tech... it's not > just for Digital Currency anymore? > > > I think we need to transcend both Capitalism (and for sure consumerism) > and Democracy (but not egalitarianism) at this point, so folks like > Democracy Earth might either be "a good start" or "a bad seed", I'm not > sure yet. http://democracy.earth/ . Any observations? > > > - Sneeze > > On 10/21/17 10:59 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > Nick writes: > > > "I hope at some point you will let us civilians know what we should do > about this. Other than cringing in abject terror, of course." > > > You can subscribe to one of these.. > > > https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2403388,00.asp > > > This will involve pressing a Connect button before using the Internet. > The channel will be encrypted, so that a wiretap (without the wires) it > will only show gibberish. > > > Or download the software at www.torproject.org > > Tor takes more extensive measures to both encrypt your connections and > also to make it very difficult to track you. The cost of this is that it > is slower. A VPN is less noticeable in this regard. > > > As Glen points out, there are other kinds of wireless access that are easy > to overlook such as when a smartphone switches from LTE to Wifi, > Kindle/Tablet browsing, Amazon Fire sticks, wireless cameras, and so on. > There are VPN app for smartphones too. > > > Then there is another option which is to buy a big estate and put a moat > around it. That doesn't stop drones, though. A moat and a plexiglass > bubble, then. Oh, and watch out for boring machines too from > well-equipped people like Elon Musk and El Chapo. > > > Marcus > ------------------------------ > *From:* Friam <[email protected]> <[email protected]> on > behalf of Nick Thompson <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Saturday, October 21, 2017 9:49:23 AM > *To:* 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] KRACK > > Hi, Wizards, > > I hope at some point you will let us civilians know what we should do > about this. Other than cringing in abject terror, of course. > > Nick > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > Clark University > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam [mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] > On Behalf Of gepr ? > Sent: Friday, October 20, 2017 7:11 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] KRACK > > Yeah. They've built with a patch for ddwrt, too. Supposedly here: > http://svn.dd-wrt.com/changeset/33525 > But it's still fun to think about. > > > On October 20, 2017 5:00:38 PM PDT, Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> wrote: > >The OpenWRT/LEDE open source images for compatible routers got updated > >a few days ago. Since the hack attacks the handshake protocol between > >client and access point, there are apparently several ways the access > >point can subvert the attack. Whether the update accomplishes that > >without introducing new vulnerabilities remains to be seen. > > > -- > ⛧glen⛧ > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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