Those who don't want to end up being toyed with in a YouTube video are advised to take the same precautions that apply to most malware: use a solid anti-malware program, keep your operating system updated, and make sure plugins (especially Flash and Java) aren't out of date. Don't visit dodgy forums or buy dodgy items, don't click dodgy attachments in e-mail, and don't download dodgy torrents. Such steps won't stop every attack, but they will foil many casual users looking to add a few more slaves to their collections.It was also interesting that the note on the Syrian government using "off-the-shelf" RAT software to spy on Syrian activists.
We had reached the end of the interview and the length of the stare between us became uncomfortable - very uncomfortable. Then he looked away for a second, and his bravado evaporated. To me, he seemed almost pitiful.Socially awkward and lonely men abusing women, supported by their peers, motivated by sexual entitlement, anger, punishment and fun, despite the fact that it goes against any moral code they might admit to? We're talking about the same beast in different form, right? And it gets at the idea that having a moral code has never stopped men from maintaining the sexual order with violence. That's what feminism contributes. The moral failure has always been implicit, but feminism brings it into focus -- helping us to see and pull ourselves out of the toxic brew described in both of these articles.
Perhaps with the exception of this man, none of the gang rapists I spoke to during the filming of the 101 East programme It’s a man’s world, struck me as especially evil people. They were just ordinary men. Some had slight physical disabilities, seemed a bit socially awkward and a little lonely, but above all else they wanted to fit in with their friends, even if it was at the expense of women.
“What are they like?” A friend of mine asked when she contacted me during the filming of this difficult story, “Are they like a pack of rabid dogs?” While many would like to think that gang rapists are in some way psychopathic, they are actually just like other men. They have mothers, sisters, wives, daughters, girlfriends and every one of them told me they would not want the same thing to happen to the women in their own families. ...
The reasons men say they rape are complex. The majority feel sexually entitled, but in Cambodia which has one of the highest rates of gang rape, anger, punishment and fun featured more prominently as reasons than in other countries. Interestingly, alcohol played less of a role than many previously thought.
OK ... so where does your average computer user go to learn how to stay on top of this sort of thing? Are there classes? websites? podcasts?Websites and podcasts are probably the best places to go to stay current. That said, now and again there are good radio shows that keep on top of this stuff. I'd say that the stuff on Leo Laporte's Twit.tv is generally helpful, and his weekend radio show is generally the kind of show I'd recomend.
"Most of my slaves are boring," wrote one aspiring ratter. "Wish I could get some more girls with webcams. It makes it more exciting when you can literally spy on someone. Even if they aren't getting undressed!"posted by gladly at 1:07 PM on March 11
As another poster put it in a thread called ☆ ShowCase ☆ Girl Slaves On Your RAT, "We are all going to hell for this..." But he followed it with a smiley face.
"A lot of times the slave will download pics from their phone or digital camera and I watch on the remote desktop to see where they save em to and that's usually where you'll find the jackpot!"
And if even this handholding isn't enough, more successful ratters sometimes rent out slaves they have already infected. In other cases, they simply hand them off to others in a "Free Girl Slave Giveaway."
Another described testing DarkComet on a male slave and activating the man's webcam.
One popular thread, running for more than a year, with 59 pages of comments, asks people to "Post your ugly slaves here.
“Stop the Cyborgs” launches public campaign against Google Glassposted by XMLicious at 11:09 PM on March 22 [1 favorite]
“In generation two, when you've got better battery life and apps that do better face recognition—maybe we're crying wolf a little early to a certain extent—but [what happens when] you get to competing products?” Adam said. “The idea that you'll have recognition of objects and infrared tags so it will always know what you're looking at—that kind of thing, it will be gathering information. It's more the face recognition stuff that changes society. You're never going to see a stranger as a stranger again.”
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"Google Glass simply lowers the transaction costs of taking photos and videos and learning about your surroundings," the law professor said. "If Glass has a high adoption rate, it will significantly increase the likelihood of information that was assumed to be obscure or ethereal being discovered, recorded, and subject to publication. The law has yet to figure out how to unravel the fact that there are many situations where individuals expect privacy in public. So perhaps the best approach to this, at least initially, is a vocal, context-based opposition."
then every person who walks past you on the street can get a popup displaying all of the creepshots of you and other embarrassing photos and dirty laundry based on a lookup via facial recognition.On one hand, I'm tempted google bomb myself with "tubgirl" before my next trip to Mountain View. On the other hand, being the recipient of lost lunches while I'm attempting to eat my own lunch is completely lacking in appeal.
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