I am curious to know what happened in 2012 that all these breaches occurred. I assume they are holding the data, and trying to squeeze what they can out of it all the way through. However this year there seems to have been a lot of massive breaches that year. does it all stem from one hack? 200m Yahoo accounts could lead to at least a few million LinkedIn accounts I would assume, maybe not as many as was actually compromised in the LinkedIn breach, but still.

I just want to know if the same exploits were used in all of these instances. Or maybe they have just found backups for all these companies this year from 2012 and are using those. I don't even how that would happen.

If they found a yahoo employee credentials in the linkedin hack (or vice-versa) then they don't need a million accounts, just those credentials.

"Hackers who used an employee’s password, re-used from the LinkedIn breach, to access Dropbox’s corporate network and steal the user credentials" - from a unnamed source quoted in a techcrunch article.

So maybe they also managed to traverse from linkedin to Yahoo or Yahoo to linkedin through similar password re-use.

Homes that have a driveway connected to a street probably aren't private then..... I mean it's essentially the same thing.

Don't forget about phones, no more warrants for phone taps.

iirc, that's actually been ruled true before....

It has been ruled that they can observe from the connected street, but without a warrant, your property is your property, at least until this ruling.

You recall incorrectly.

I remember a case where police placed or retrieved something from a car in the driveway without a warrant. The reasoning was that your driveway is not private property.

You might be remembering the FBI placing GPS tracking on cars in drive ways, which was considered fair game and not requiring a warrant.

I think he's talking about this.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/cops-illegally-na...

But as far as the GPS tracking, that was declared to be a 4th amendment violation as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Jones_(2012)

Reading the decisions actually shows Scalia's rare awesome side.

Source?

Thought this was an interesting insight into the beginnings of fitness tracking and what was being done right before mobile devices took off.

This is something I am trying out. Basically working on a series of articles about some fundamental IT concepts and things to consider when implementing these sort of things from an IT pro POV.

This just like out of a movie or something. You always hear about rumors of this kind of thing

It might have been a limitation on my services or a misconfig on my part, but I have my ghost instance crash a couple of times, and was unable to recover it. I love the interface, but haven't reinstalled it until I could test it on another hosting platform. I think it is a quick and simple way to get setup and start blogging.