Almalieque wrote:
Yes, seriously. Society tends to think smarter with technology, not dumber.
No, they don't. Modern communication technology merely allows people to be dumb even faster and to a wider audience than ever before.
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We can also create a machine that can counts millions of pennies at a time. You're not getting the logic point.
Yes, I am. You're actually arguing my point for me. It become worth counting pennies if you can do so very very quickly. When you can't, you don't. Surely you see how this applies to the case at hand? Nah. Probably not.
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The controversy isn't the concept of being cautious of providing private information to the government. The controversy is your third grade logical jump of doing automatic mass hacking of random people. That is both logically and technically stupid.
And despite you claims, that's
exactly how it would be done. I get that you don't actually understand the technology. And that's fine. But please, for the love of all that is holy, stop making claims about how a hypothetical attempt to obtain mass private information by the government might be done.
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You act as if robots fall out of the sky and create their own scripts. SOMEONE is writing the script.
Wow? Really? It's almost like I don't actually do that for a living or something.
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If you don't want to write the command, please describe the command that you are referring to. Tell me what you would be looking for. Don't give me the "I don't have time to write" BS, given the amount of text you write on a daily basis.
The command? There's a ton of commands and tools. You could go old school and use something like snoop (which will give you passive scanning of a subnet's traffic, but not a ton of info about individual system). Any of a host of rpc commands will provide you information on network systems around you and the services they're providing (at least on your subnet). Of course, you can also do tricks like pinging the broadcast address to fill the local router's arp table, then reading that to get a complete list of systems on your subnet and use that as a starting point. There are a wide array of port scanning tools (nmap is one simple one). Some of them more stealthy that others, of course.
Here's the thing though. These are basic commands and tools. There are literally libraries full of information about this. What you're asking me is the equivalent of saying "give me the formula for physics". Um... Which one? How do they interconnect? It's a massive subject to look at. And to be perfectly honest, you don't even speak the language.
Edited, Jul 19th 2016 1:49pm by gbaji