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Not even the National Security Agency is immune to carelessness, according to noted leaker Edward Snowden. The agency’s operatives can get lazy, and sometimes they leave behind files inside the servers they’ve hacked.
That could explain how an anonymous group managed to obtain hacking tools that may belong to the NSA. The files are up for auction to the highest bidder, and allegedly include cyber weapons that rival the Stuxnet computer worm.
On Tuesday, Snowden, a former NSA contractor, tweeted that it isn’t “unprecedented” for cyberspies to try to hack the agency’s malware staging servers.
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The specifics of the workaround are comically beyond my technical expertise, but more interesting anyway is the disagreement as to whether the effort involved even makes sense. From the section of Reddit devoted to networking comes this thread, “Getting around Wi-Fi throttling using OSPF and GRE.”
“So, you are at a hotel for a week of training. The website said the hotel has ‘free Wi-Fi.’ Yay.
“1Mbps up, 1Mbps down, free.
“5 Mbps up, 50Mbps down, $ 5/day. Boo.
“The solution: multiple routing tables and some GRE tunnels back to a gateway router at corporate.”
It’s not as simple as that single sentence may sound, especially if you’re not a networking professional, so if you want the details you can find them here.
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The second S-97 Raider ever built, sitting on the convention floor at the AUSA ’15 Expo.
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WASHINGTON—At the Association of the United States Army’s Annual Meeting and Exposition here today, Sikorsky gave press and attendees a guided walk-around of the S-97 Raider, a proof-of-concept helicopter developed without government funding that the company hopes will earn a role with the military as an armed scout helicopter. The Raider is different from just about everything in the helicopter world, using a pair of counter-rotating rigid rotors for lift and a tail-mounted propeller for additional thrust, allowing it to fly at speeds of up to 250 miles per hour (220 knots) and hover at extreme altitudes.
The walk-around was guided by the Raider’s chief test pilot Bill Fell, a former Army Kiowa scout pilot who has flown the aircraft for both of the test flights thus far. The Raider first flew in May of this year and again in September after reconfigurations based on the engineering data collected in the first flight.
The Raider is based on the research done with Sikorsky’s X2 technology demonstrator, which in 2010 (unofficially) broke the speed record for rotary-wing aircraft by flying at 250 knots (287 miles per hour). It is also in many ways a development platform for the SB-1 Defiant, Sikorsky’s joint proposal with Boeing for the Army’s Future Vertical Lift program. But with the Army having retired its Kiowa scout helicopters, Sikorsky is hoping that the Raider will fill a hole in the Army’s aviation capabilities that can’t currently be filled by unmanned aircraft. “You need to have a human in the loop assessing the situation” on scout missions, Fell said.