Found this interesting - via Thoreau (not that one, this one):
The feds have arrested 10 people charged with spying for Russia. I do not know the validity of the evidence, so I cannot comment on that. I can, however, note that these people were charged with crimes in a court of law.He shoots, he scores.
Now, charging people with crimes in an open court of law is perfectly fine if we’re merely talking about people accused of acting at the behest of a nuclear power with a global intelligence network, a navy and airforce, oil, natural resources with which they play politics with neighbors, and a $1.2 trillion GDP. Sure, they may have some resources behind them, but at least the threat is manageable.
On the other hand, if we’re talking about a small network of guerrilla fighters whose leader lives in caves and whose fighters are armed with at best shoulder-mounted rocket launchers, well, you simply cannot charge them in an open court. The risks are far too great.
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they are doing spydrops with private wireless networks.
the 21st century equivalent of a dropped briefcase.
I saw that - I was reading the criminal complaint.
How cool is it that:
1) Russian spies are using wireless data transfers to avoid surveillance; and
2) The FBI is totally on them anyway
As part of,the surveillance operation, law-enforcement agents utilized a commercially available tool that can detect the presence of wireless networks. Lawenforcement agents were able to detect a particular MAC address - MAC ADDRESS A - at the time that CHAPMAN was observed powering on her laptop computer; law-enforcement agents were also able to dete~mine that the electronic device associated with MAC ADDRESS A created the AD HOC NETWORK. Approximately three minutes after the creation of the AD HOC NETWORK, another electronic device with MAC ADDRESS B was detected joining the AD HOC NETWORK.
That's just seriously cool
The steganography bit with images is a very cool thing. see the wiki page on that. Damn kitties just seem so cute, whodathunk...
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