X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/9e7e2c3613f6b37892c99dfa1752b3c45b79348d..5dbe5f4ba63007f3f66f69de792db0a9a385ca81:/blog/index.rss diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index df2856eb21..ae9c5ecb84 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -6,6 +6,40 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + Of course USA looses in cyber war - NSA and friends made sure it would happen + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Of_course_USA_looses_in_cyber_war___NSA_and_friends_made_sure_it_would_happen.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Of_course_USA_looses_in_cyber_war___NSA_and_friends_made_sure_it_would_happen.html + Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:10:00 +0100 + <p>So, Sony caved in +(<a href="https://twitter.com/RobLowe/status/545338568512917504">according +to Rob Lowe</a>) and demonstrated that America lost its first cyberwar +(<a href="https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/status/545339074975109122">According +to Newt Gingrich</a>). It should not surprise anyone, when the +whistle blower Edward Snowden documented that the government of USA +and their allies for many years have done their best to make sure the +technology used by its citizens is filled with security holes allowing +the secret services to spy on its own population. No one in their +right minds could believe that the ability to snoop on the people all +over the globe could only be used by the personnel authorized to do so +by the president of the United States of America. If the capabilities +are there, they will be used by friend and foe alike, and now they are +being used to bring Sony on its knees.</p> + +<p>I doubt it will a lesson learned, and expect USA to loose its next +cyber war too, given how eager the western intelligence communities +(and probably the non-western too, but it is less in the news) seem to +be to continue its current dragnet surveillance practice.</p> + +<p>There is a reason why China and others are trying to move away from +Windows to Linux and other alternatives, and it is not to avoid +sending its hard earned dollars to Cayman Islands (or whatever +<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_haven">tax haven</a> +Microsoft is using these days to collect the majority of its +income. :)</p> + + + Klarer ikke Microsoft å holde på hemmeligheter? http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Klarer_ikke_Microsoft___holde_p__hemmeligheter_.html @@ -800,23 +834,5 @@ install firmware, replacing the earlier scripts.</p> - - Ubuntu used to show the bread prizes at ICA Storo - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ubuntu_used_to_show_the_bread_prizes_at_ICA_Storo.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ubuntu_used_to_show_the_bread_prizes_at_ICA_Storo.html - Sat, 4 Oct 2014 15:20:00 +0200 - <p>Today I came across an unexpected Ubuntu boot screen. Above the -bread shelf on the ICA shop at Storo in Oslo, the grub menu of Ubuntu -with Linux kernel 3.2.0-23 (ie probably version 12.04 LTS) was stuck -on a screen normally showing the bread types and prizes:</p> - -<p align="center"><img width="70%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2014-10-04-ubuntu-ica-storo-crop.jpeg"></p> - -<p>If it had booted as it was supposed to, I would never had known -about this hidden Linux installation. It is interesting what -<a href="http://revealingerrors.com/">errors can reveal</a>.</p> - - -