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EAU CLAIRE — The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire has announced the fall semester schedule of performances in The Cabin, the Davies Center coffeehouse that provides free performances nearly every weekend and jazz shows many Wednesday evenings.
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concertina226 (2447056) writes "Chinese authorities have detained a total of 1,530 suspects in a crackdown on spam SMS text messages being sent out by illegal telecoms equipment, according to Chinese news agency ECNS. Over 2,600 fake mobile base stations were seized and 24 sites manufacturing illegal telecoms equipment shut down as part of a massive nationwide operation involving nine central government and Communist Party of China departments. A report released by Trend Micro this month looked into the telecoms equipment black market in China (PDF) and found that cybercriminals routinely use either a GSM modem, an internet short message gateway and an SMS server to send out spam messages. On the underground market, SMS servers come in 'all-in-one' packages that include a laptop, a GSM mobile phone, an SMS server, an antenna to send out the fake signal and a USB cable, all for RMB 45,000 (£4,355)."
An anonymous reader writes "As most of us working in IT may know, Microsoft will stop supporting Windows XP on April 8th, 2014. Although this fact has been known for quite some time, XP is still relatively popular in companies and also enjoys noticeable marketshare for home users. Even ATMs are running XP and will continue to do so for some time. A lot of companies/users don't want to change because they see no additional benefit to do a costly upgrade, no reason to change a running system, and they may in some cases be right with their assumptions. So what is the best way to secure this remaining Windows XP systems? Installing the latest security patches, checking firewall status and user permissions etc. should be fairly obvious, as Microsoft Security Essentials may also not receive updates anymore, changing antivirus programs seems a sensible thing to do."
mask.of.sanity (1228908) writes "eBay Japan created passwords for accounts based on a combination of a username plus a static salt, allowing anyone with knowledge of it to access any account, a researcher reported. The salt, which should have been random, used was the combination '123456', which was reported as last year's worst password." Complete with visual aids.
An anonymous reader writes "After hiring the lead Btrfs developers and Linux kernel block maintainers last year, Facebook is beginning trial deployments of Btrfs. Facebook will start using the next-generation file-system within their web-tier and they will be among the first major public deployments of Btrfs."
wiredmikey writes: "Russian government officials have swapped their iPads for Samsung tablets to ensure tighter security, the telecoms minister told news agencies on Wednesday. Journalists spotted that ministers at a cabinet meeting were no longer using Apple tablets, and minister Nikolai Nikiforov confirmed the changeover "took place not so long ago." He said the ministers' new Samsungs were "specially protected devices that can be used to work with confidential information." This isn't the first time Russian powers have had concerns over mobile. In August 2012, Russia unveiled a prototype tablet with its own "almost Android" mobile OS that has the remarkably familiar feel of an Android but with bolstered encryption. In an even more paranoid move, this past July a Russian state service in charge of safeguarding Kremlin communications was looking to purchase an array of old-fashioned typewriters to prevent leaks from computer hardware."
Daniel_Stuckey (2647775) writes "The FBI is intercepting the prison correspondence of infamous Internet troll Andrew "weev" Auernheimer, including letters from his defense team, according to his attorney. 'He's sent me between 10 and 20 letters in the last month or two. I've received one,' Tor Ekeland, who had just returned from visiting Auernheimer at the federal corrections institute in Allenwood, PA., told the Daily Dot in a video interview.
Last March, Auernheimer was convicted of accessing a computer without authorization and sentenced to 41 months in prison. As a member of the computer security team Goatse Security, Auernheimer discovered a major security flaw in AT&T's network, which allowed him to download the email addresses of some 114,000 iPad users. Goatse Security reported the flaw to Gawker and provided journalists with the information, who then published it in redacted form."
itwbennett writes: "A new variant of the Gameover computer Trojan is targeting job seekers and recruiters by attempting to steal log-in credentials for Monster.com and CareerBuilder.com accounts. Like the Zeus banking malware on which it is based, Gameover can steal log-in credentials and other sensitive information by injecting rogue Web forms into legitimate websites when accessed from infected computers. 'A computer infected with Gameover ZeuS will inject a new 'Sign In' button [into the Monster.com sign-in page], but the page looks otherwise identical,' security researchers from antivirus firm F-Secure said Tuesday in a blog post."
What happens when your oven is on the Internet? A malicious hacker might be able to set it to broil while you're on vacation, and get it so hot that it could start a fire. Or a prankster might set your alarm to wake you up at 3 a.m. - and what if someone gets access to the wireless security camera over your front door and uses it to gain access to the rest of your home network, and from there to your bank account? Not good. With the 'Internet of Things' you will have many devices to secure, not just a couple of computers and handheld devices. Timothy Lord met Mark Stanislav of Duo Security at BSides Austin 2014, which is where this interview took place.(Here's an alternate link to the video.)
jfruh (300774) writes "Security vendors like Trustwave can make big bucks when major companies decide they don't have the internal resources to handle their cybersecurity needs. Unfortunately, when taking on security chores, you also take on security liabilities. In the wake of Target's massive credit card security breach, both Target and Trustwave are now on the receiving end of a class action lawsuit, in part backed by banks that had to issue thousands of new credit cards." The filing, and a bit more from El Reg: "It's against Target, however, that the most serious allegations are levelled. The class action led by Trustmark National Bank and Green Bank, say the retailer should not have allowed an outside contractor the access to its network that brought about the breach, and that it violated federal and state laws in storing the credit card data on its network."
An anonymous reader writes with good news for advocates of Full Disclosure of security vulnerabilities. A week ago, the venerable full-disclosure list was shut down; now, a successor has arisen run by fyodor. From the announcement email: "As an F-D subscriber and occasional poster myself, I was as shocked as you all last week when John Cartwright threw in the towel and shuttered the list. Now I don't blame him one bit. He performed a thankless job admirably for 12 years and deserves some time off. But I, for one, already miss Full Disclosure. So I decided to make a new list today which is a successor in name and spirit. Like the old one, it uses Mailman and is being archived by my Seclists.org site as well as numerous other archives around the world. This list is a fresh start, so the old userbase won't automatically transfer over. And I haven't added any of you either, because it is your choice. ... I hope you'll join us and resume posting your security info and advisories. If not now, then someday."
rjmarvin writes: "Researchers in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a platform for building secure web applications and services that never decrypt or leak data. MIT researcher Raluca Ada Popa, who previously worked on the Google and SAP-adopted CryptoDB, and her team, have put a longstanding philosophy into practice: to never store unencrypted data on servers. They've redesigned the entire approach to securing online data by creating Mylar, which builds and updates applications to keep data secure from server breaches with constant encryption during storage, only decrypting the data in the user's browser. Integrated with the open-source Meteor framework, a Mylar prototype has already secured six applications by changing only 35 lines of code."
judgecorp (778838) writes "A newly discovered malware attack uses a smartphone connected to the computer that manages an ATM, and then sends an SMS message to instruct it to dispense cash. The attack was reported by Symantec, and builds on a previous piece of malware called Backdoor.Ploutus. It is being used in actual attacks, and Symantec has demonstrated it with an ATM in its labs, though it is not revealing the brand of the vulnerable machines."
Hugh Pickens DOT Com (2995471) writes "As attacks like the one on Target have exposed up to 40 million customer payment card accounts and the names, addresses and email addresses of as many as 70 million shoppers, Tiffany Hsu and E. Scott Reckard report in the LA Times that increased activity by data hackers has produced millions of victims but there has been one big winner: credit monitoring businesses. "It's almost a terrible thing to say, but these kinds of situations raise awareness of the need to protect yourself and to be more vigilant in checking your transactions," says Yaron Samid. Meanwhile services with names such as BillGuard and Identity Guard report a surge in sign-ups from people anxious to be protected. For example, the number of AAA Southern California members opting in for the club's identity theft monitoring service — whether for free or for an extra charge — boomed in January, up 58% from December." (More below.)
wiredmikey (1824622) writes "Microsoft warned on Monday of a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2014-1761) in Microsoft Word 2010 that is being actively exploited in targeted attacks. If successfully exploited, an attacker could gain the same user rights as the current user, Microsoft said, noting that users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than accounts with administrative privileges. 'The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted RTF file using an affected version of Microsoft Word, or previews or opens a specially crafted RTF email message in Microsoft Outlook while using Microsoft Word as the email viewer,' Microsoft explained Microsoft did not share any details on the attacks that leveraged the vulnerability, but did credit Drew Hintz, Shane Huntley, and Matty Pellegrino of the Google Security Team for reporting it to Microsoft."
An anonymous reader writes "GitHub contains thousands of 'secret keys', which are stored in plain text and can be used by miscreants to access AWS accounts and either run up huge bills or even delete/damage the users files. Amazon is urging users of the coding community site to clean up their act."
An anonymous reader writes "My eastern European tech-support job will be outsourced in 6 months to a nearby country. I do not wish to move, having relationship and roots here, and as such I stand at a crossroads. I could take my current hobby more seriously and focus on Java development. I have no degree, no professional experience in the field, and as such, I do not hold much market value for an employer. However, I find joy in the creative problem solving that programming provides. Seeing the cogs finally turn after hours invested gives me pleasures my mundane work could never do. The second option is Linux system administration with a specialization in VMware virtualisation. I have no certificates, but I have been around enterprise environments (with limited support of VMware) for 21 months now, so at the end of my contract with 27 months under my belt, I could convince a company to hire me based on willingness to learn and improve. All the literature is freely available, and I've been playing with VDIs in Debian already.
My situation is as follows: all living expenses except food, luxuries and entertainment is covered by the wage of my girlfriend. That would leave me in a situation where we would be financially alright, but not well off, if I were to earn significantly less than I do now. I am convinced that I would be able to make it in system administration, however, that is not my passion. I am at an age where children are not a concern, and risks seem to be, at first sight, easier to take. I would like to hear the opinion and experience of fellow readers who might have been in a similar situation."
msm1267 (2804139) writes "The first deep look into the security of the Android patch installation process, specifically its Package Management Service (PMS), has revealed a weakness that puts potentially every Android device at risk for privilege escalation attacks. Researchers from Indiana University and Microsoft published a paper that describes a new set of Android vulnerabilities they call Pileup flaws, and also introduces a new scanner called SecUP that detects malicious apps already on a device lying in wait for elevated privileges. The vulnerability occurs in the way PMS handles updates to the myriad flavors of Android in circulation today. The researchers say PMS improperly vets apps on lower versions of Android that request OS or app privileges that may not exist on the older Android version, but are granted automatically once the system is updated.
The researchers said they found a half-dozen different Pileup flaws within Android's Package Management Service, and confirmed those vulnerabilities are present in all Android Open Source Project versions and more than 3,500 customized versions of Android developed by handset makers and carriers; more than one billion Android devices are likely impacted, they said." Handily enough, the original paper is not paywalled.
IamTheRealMike (537420) writes "In recent months fake PGP keys have been found for at least two developers on well known crypto projects: Erinn Clark, a Tor developer and Gavin Andresen, the maintainer of Bitcoin. In both cases, these PGP keys are used to sign the downloads for popular pieces of crypto software. PGP keys are supposed to be verified through the web of trust, but in practice it's very hard to find a trust path between two strangers on the internet: one reply to Erinn's mail stated that despite there being 30 signatures [attached to] her key, [the respondent] couldn't find any trust paths to her. It's also very unclear whether anyone would notice a key substitution attack like this. This leaves three questions: who is doing this, why, and what can be done about it? An obvious candidate would be intelligence agencies, who may be trying to serve certain people with backdoored binaries via their QUANTUMTHEORY man-in-the-middle system. As to what can be done about it, switching from PGP to X.509 code signing would be an obvious candidate. Both Mac and Windows support it, obtaining a forged certificate is much harder than simply uploading a fake PGP key, and whilst X.509 certs can be issued in secret until Google's Certificate Transparency system is fully deployed, finding one would be strong evidence that an issuing CA had been compromised: something that seems plausible but for which we currently lack any evidence. Additionally, bad certificates can be revoked when found whereas beyond making blog posts, not much can be done about the fake PGP keys."
An anonymous reader writes "Achilleas Tsitroulis of Brunel University, UK, Dimitris Lampoudis of the University of Macedonia, Greece and Emmanuel Tsekleves of Lancaster University, UK, have investigated the vulnerabilities in WPA2 and present its weakness. They say that this wireless security system might now be breached with relative ease [original, paywalled paper] by a malicious attack on a network. They suggest that it is now a matter of urgency that security experts and programmers work together to remove the vulnerabilities in WPA2 in order to bolster its security or to develop alternative protocols to keep our wireless networks safe from hackers and malware."
darthcamaro (735685) writes "Docker has become one of the most hyped open-source projects in recent years, making it hard to believe the project only started one year ago. In that one year, Docker has now gained the support of Red Hat and other major Linux vendors. What does the future hold for Docker? Will it overtake other forms of virtualization or will it just be a curiosity?"
Jim_Austin writes "At a press conference this week, in response to a question by a Science Careers reporter, Scott Corley, the Executive Director of immigration-reform group Compete America, argued that retraining workers doesn't make sense for IT companies. For the company, he argued, H-1B guest workers are a much better choice. 'It's not easy to retrain people,' Corley said. 'The further you get away from your education the less knowledge you have of the new technologies, and technology is always moving forward.'"
alphadogg writes "Web servers running a long-outdated version of the Linux kernel were attacked with dramatic speed over two days last week, according to Cisco Systems. All the affected servers were running the 2.6 version, first released in December 2003. 'When attackers discover a vulnerability in the system, they can exploit it at their whim without fear of it being remedied,' Cisco said. After the Web server has been compromised, the attackers slip in a line of JavaScript to other JavaScript files within the website. That code bounces the website's visitors to a second compromised host. 'The two-stage process allows attackers to serve up a variety of malicious content to the visitor,' according to Cisco."
Dega704 sends this news from ComputerWorld: "Some financial services companies are looking to migrate their ATM fleets from Windows to Linux in a bid to have better control over hardware and software upgrade cycles. Pushing them in that direction apparently is Microsoft's decision to end support for Windows XP on April 8, said David Tente, executive director, USA, of the ATM Industry Association. 'There is some heartburn in the industry' over Microsoft's end-of-support decision, Tente said. ATM operators would like to be able to synchronize their hardware and software upgrade cycles. But that's hard to do with Microsoft dictating the software upgrade timetable. As a result, 'some are looking at the possibility of using a non-Microsoft operating system to synch up their hardware and software upgrades,' Tente said."
An anonymous reader writes "The Snowden revelations continue, with The Intercept releasing an NSA document titled 'I hunt sys admins' (PDF on Cryptome). The document details NSA plans to break into systems administrators' computers in order to gain access to the networks they control. The Intercept has a detailed analysis of the leaked document. Quoting: 'The classified posts reveal how the NSA official aspired to create a database that would function as an international hit list of sys admins to potentially target. Yet the document makes clear that the admins are not suspected of any criminal activity – they are targeted only because they control access to networks the agency wants to infiltrate. "Who better to target than the person that already has the 'keys to the kingdom'?" one of the posts says.'"
This is wide-ranging interview with Dev Patel and Poulomi Damany of BitYota, an Analytics as a Service startup that works specifically with MongoDB. Open Source? Not yet. But hopefully soon, they say. And why should an IT person or programmer care about marketing-oriented analytics? Because the more you know about functions in your company besides IT (such as finance, investor relations, and -- yes -- marketing), the more valuable you are as an employee. Dev also mentions the two main things he looks for when recruiting for BitYota: "One is intellect, and the other is attitude." He points out that this is not true merely of BitYota, but of any strong startup. This is all good information for any job-seeker hoping to land a spot with a startup -- and for anyone who is happy with where he or she works but hopes to earn promotions and raises, too.
itwbennett (1594911) writes "For the past several months Tor developers have unsuccessfully been trying to convince Apple to remove from its iOS App Store what they believe to be a fake and potentially malicious Tor Browser application. According to subsequent messages on the bug tracker, a complaint was filed with Apple on Dec. 26 with Apple reportedly responding on Jan. 3 saying it would give a chance to the app's developer to defend it. More than two months later, the Tor Browser app created by a developer named Ronen is available still in the App Store. The issue came into the public spotlight Wednesday when people involved in the Tor Project took to Twitter to make their concerns heard. Apple did not respond to IDG News Service's request for comment."
Trailrunner7 (1100399) writes "Perhaps no company has been as vocal with its feelings about the revelations about the NSA's collection methods as Google has, and the company has been making a series of changes to its infrastructure in recent months to make it more difficult for adversaries to snoop on users' sessions. The biggest of those changes landed Thursday when the company switched its Gmail service to HTTPS only, enforcing SSL encryption on all Gmail connections. The change is a significant one, especially given the fact that Google also has encrypted all of the links between its data centers. Those two modifications mean that Gmail messages are encrypted from the time they leave a user's machine to the time they leave Google's infrastructure. This makes life much more difficult for anyone—including the NSA–who is trying to snoop on those Gmail sessions." GMail also does TLS for SMTP, but regrettably Talk (what's left of it) does not do TLS for XMPP server-to-server connections, effectively forcing XMPP server admins to lower their security if they want to federate with Google.
itwbennett (1594911) writes "The software driving Bitcoin's network was upgraded Wednesday, with security fixes addressing a problem that defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox blamed for losing nearly half a billion dollars worth of bitcoins. The latest version of bitcoin's software, 0.9.0, contains more than a half dozen fixes for transaction malleability, according to the release notes for the software. Bitcoin Core also contains a new feature for payment requests. Previously, merchants couldn't attach a note describing an invoice, and people also could not supply a refund address to a merchant. The latest version automatically supplies a refund address." This wouldn't have prevented the Mt. Gox implosion since they weren't using the reference implementation. The foundation also renamed the software to "Bitcoin Core" to avoid confusion between Bitcoin-the-network and Bitcoin-the-reference-implementation,
kc123 writes "The UK government has announced plans to create the Alan Turing Institute intended to tackle problems in Big Data. The government will provide £42m over five years for the project. Turing was a pivotal figure in mathematics and computing. His codebreaking work led to the cracking of the German 'Enigma' codes. In December 2013, after a series of public campaigns, Turing received a posthumous royal pardon, for a conviction of homosexual activity in 1952."
New submitter BIOS4breakfast writes "Research presented at CanSecWest has shown that despite the fact that we know that firmware attackers, in the form of the NSA, definitely exist, there is still a wide gap between the attackers' ability to infect firmware, and the industry's ability to detect their presence. The researchers from MITRE and Intel showed attacks on UEFI SecureBoot, the BIOS itself, and BIOS forensics software. Although they also released detection systems for supporting more research and for trustworthy BIOS capture, the real question is: when is this going to stop being the domain of research and when are security companies going to get serious about protecting against attacks at this level?"
An anonymous reader writes with news that John Cartwright has been forced to shut down the full disclosure list. The list was created in 2002 in response to the perception that Bugtraq was too heavily moderated, allowing security issues to remain unpublished and unpatched for too long. Quoting: "When Len and I created the Full-Disclosure list way back in July 2002, we knew that we'd have our fair share of legal troubles along the way. We were right. To date we've had all sorts of requests to delete things, requests not to delete things, and a variety of legal threats both valid or otherwise. However, I always assumed that the turning point would be a sweeping request for large-scale deletion of information that some vendor or other had taken exception to.
I never imagined that request might come from a researcher within the 'community' itself (and I use that word loosely in modern times). But today, having spent a fair amount of time dealing with complaints from a particular individual (who shall remain nameless) I realised that I'm done. The list has had its fair share of trolling, flooding, furry porn, fake exploits and DoS attacks over the years, but none of those things really affected the integrity of the list itself. However, taking a virtual hatchet to the list archives on the whim of an individual just doesn't feel right. That 'one of our own' would undermine the efforts of the last 12 years is really the straw that broke the camel's back.
I'm not willing to fight this fight any longer. It's getting harder to operate an open forum in today's legal climate, let alone a security-related one. There is no honour amongst hackers any more. There is no real community. There is precious little skill. The entire security game is becoming more and more regulated. This is all a sign of things to come, and a reflection on the sad state of an industry that should never have become an industry.
I'm suspending service indefinitely. Thanks for playing." The archives are still up on seclists.org, gmane, and Mail Archive. For now at least.
wiredmikey writes "Security researchers from ESET have uncovered a widespread attack campaign that has infected more than 25,000 Linux and UNIX servers around the world. The servers are being hijacked by a backdoor Trojan as part of a campaign the researchers are calling 'Operation Windigo.' Once infected, victimized systems are leveraged to steal credentials, redirected web traffic to malicious sites and send as many as 35 million spam messages a day. 'Windigo has been gathering strength, largely unnoticed by the security community, for more than two and a half years and currently has 10,000 servers under its control,' said Pierre-Marc Bureau, security intelligence program manager at ESET, in a statement.
There are many misconceptions around Linux security, and attacks are not something only Windows users need to worry about. The main threats facing Linux systems aren't zero-day vulnerabilities or malware, but things such as Trojanized applications, PHP backdoors, and malicious login attempts over SSH. ESET recommends webmasters and system administrators check their systems to see if they are compromised, and has published a detailed report presenting the findings and instructions on how to remove the malicious code if it is present."
colinneagle writes "In a blog post, Andy Patrizio laments the trend — made more common in the mobile world — of companies pushing software updates ahead without the ability to roll back to previous versions in the event that the user simply doesn't like it. iOS 7.1, for example, has reportedly been killing some users' battery power, and users of the iTunes library app TuneUp will remember how the much-maligned version 3.0 effectively killed the company behind it (new owners have since taken over TuneUp and plans to bring back the older version).
The ability to undo a problematic install should be mandatory, but in too many instances it is not. That's because software developers are always operating under the assumption that the latest version is the greatest version, when it may not be. This is especially true in the smartphone and tablet world. There is no rollback to be had for anything in the iOS and Android worlds. Until the day comes when software developers start releasing perfectly functioning, error-free code, we need the ability to go backwards with all software."
concertina226 writes "There's less than a month to go before Samsung launches its new flagship Galaxy S5 smartphone worldwide on 11 April, and the new device has still not gone into mass production due to camera module manufacturing problems. The 16 megapixel camera module consists of six plastic pieces, one more piece than in the existing 13 megapixel camera modules in the Galaxy S4. The problem that Samsung is having is that even though the number of plastic pieces has gone up, the thickness of each piece has remained the same, so in order to fit the new camera module into the Galaxy S5, the lens makers will likely have to develop new technology to make thinner lenses. Not only that, joining six pieces together instead of five for the 13 megapixel camera modules increases the risk of optical faults surfacing at the lens manufacturers' plants dramatically."
chicksdaddy writes "The Security Ledger has picked up on an opinion piece by noted cyber terrorism and Stuxnet expert Ralph Langner (@langnergroup) who argues in a blog post that critical infrastructure owners should consider implementing what he calls 'analog hard stops' to cyber attacks. Langner cautions against the wholesale embrace of digital systems by stating the obvious: that 'every digital system has a vulnerability,' and that it's nearly impossible to rule out the possibility that potentially harmful vulnerabilities won't be discovered during the design and testing phase of a digital ICS product. ... For example, many nuclear power plants still rely on what is considered 'outdated' analog reactor protection systems. While that is a concern (maintaining those systems and finding engineers to operate them is increasingly difficult), the analog protection systems have one big advantage over their digital successors: they are immune against cyber attacks.
Rather than bowing to the inevitability of the digital revolution, the U.S. Government (and others) could offer support for (or at least openness to) analog components as a backstop to advanced cyber attacks could create the financial incentive for aging systems to be maintained and the engineering talent to run them to be nurtured, Langner suggests." Or maybe you could isolate control systems from the Internet.
itwbennett writes "An archive containing transaction records from Mt. Gox that was released on the Internet last week also contains bitcoin-stealing malware for Windows and Mac, say researchers at Kaspersky Lab who have analyzed the 620MB file called MtGox2014Leak.zip. The files masquerade as Windows and Mac versions of a custom, back-office application for accessing the transaction database of Mt. Gox. However, they are actually malware programs designed to search and steal Bitcoin wallet files from computers, Kaspersky security researcher Sergey Lozhkin said Friday in a blog post."
Bismillah writes "If Attorney-General Brandis gets his way in the process of revising Australia's Telecommunications Interception Act, users and providers of VPNs and other encrypted services will by law be required to decrypt government intercepted data. Because, 'sophisticated criminals and terrorists.' New Zealand already has a similar law, the Telecommunications Interception and Computer Security Act. Apparently, large Internet service providers such as Microsoft and Facebook won't be exempt from the TICSA and must facilitate interception of traffic."
darthcamaro writes "Though IE, Chrome and Safari were all attacked and all were exploited, no single web browser was exploited at this year's Pwn2own hacking challenge as Mozilla Firefox. A fully patched version of Firefox was exploited four different times by attackers, each revealing new zero-day vulnerabilities in the open-source web browser. When asked why Mozilla was attacked so much this year, Sid Stamm, senior engineering manager of security and privacy said, 'Pwn2Own offers very large financial incentives to researchers to expose vulnerabilities, and that may have contributed in part to the researchers' decision to wait until now to share their work and help protect Firefox users.' The Pwn2own event paid researchers $50,000 for each Firefox vulnerability. Mozilla now pays researcher only $3,000 per vulnerability."
tippen writes "The management user interface on most networking and storage appliances are, shall we say, not up to the snuff compared to modern websites or consumer products. What are the best examples of good UX design on an IT appliance that you've managed? What was it that made you love it? What should companies (or designers) developing new products look to as best-in-class that they should be striving for?"
Lucas123 writes "Imagine that in 1952, an IBM RAMAC 350 disk drive would have been able to hold only one .MP3 song. Today, a 4TB 3.5-in desktop drive (soon to be 5TB) can hold 760,000 songs. As much data as the digital age creates (2.16 Zettabytes and growing), data storage technology has always found a way to keep up. It is the fastest growing semiconductor technology there is. Consider a microSD card that in 2005 could store 128MB of capacity. Last month, SanDisk launched a 128GB microSD card — 1,000 times the storage in under a decade. While planar NAND flash is running up against a capacity wall, technology such as 3D NAND and Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) hold the promise of quadrupling of solid state capacity. Here are some photos of what was and what is in data storage."
schwit1 writes with this excerpt from the Washington Post: "U.S. officials announced plans Friday to relinquish federal government control over the administration of the Internet, a move likely to please international critics but alarm some business leaders and others who rely on smooth functioning of the Web.
Pressure to let go of the final vestiges of U.S. authority over the system of Web addresses and domain names that organize the Internet has been building for more than a decade and was supercharged by the backlash to revelations about National Security Agency surveillance last year." Reader Midnight_Falcon points out this press release on the move from Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
puddingebola writes "Target ignored indications from its threat-detection tools that malware had infected its network. From the article, 'Unusually for a retailer, Target was even running its own security operations center in Minneapolis, according to a report published Thursday by Bloomberg Businessweek. Among its security defenses, following a months-long testing period and May 2013 implementation, was software from attack-detection firm FireEye, which caught the initial November 30 infection of Target's payment system by malware. All told, up to five "malware.binary" alarms reportedly sounded, each graded at the top of FireEye's criticality scale, and which were seen by Target's information security teams first in Bangalore, and then Minneapolis.' Unfortunately, it appears Target's security team failed to act on the threat indicators."
Trailrunner7 writes "A revamped early random number generator in iOS 7 is weaker than its vulnerable predecessor and generates predictable outcomes. A researcher today at CanSecWest said an attacker could brute force the Early Random PRNG used by Apple in its mobile operating system to bypass a number of kernel exploit mitigations native to iOS. 'The Early Random PRNG in iOS 7 is surprisingly weak,' said Tarjei Mandt senior security researcher at Azimuth Security. 'The one in iOS 6 is better because this one is deterministic and trivial to brute force.' The Early Random PRNG is important to securing the mitigations used by the iOS kernel. 'All the mitigations deployed by the iOS kernel essentially depend on the robustness of the Early Random PRNG,' Mandt said. 'It must provide sufficient entropy and non-predictable output.'"
realized writes in with a closer look at the NSA's QUANTUM system. "Today QUANTUM packs a suite of attack tools, including both DNS injection (upgrading the man-on-the-side to a man-in-the-middle, allowing bogus certificates and similar routines to break SSL) and HTTP injection. That reasonable enough. But it also includes gadgets like a plug-in to inject into MySQL connections, allowing the NSA to quietly mess with the contents of a third-party's database. (This also surprisingly suggests that unencrypted MySQL on the internet is common enough to attract NSA attention.) And it allows the NSA to hijack both IRC and HTTP-based criminal botnets, and also includes routines which use packet-injection to create phantom servers, and even attempting (poorly) to use this for defense."
cartechboy writes "The presidential limo is known as "The Beast," and it's getting to be about that time where it's replaced. Currently The Beast is a General Motors creation with a Cadillac badge, but what if the next presidential limo was a Tesla? Stick with me here. The Beast is a massive vehicle, which means there would be plenty of room in the structure to have a long battery pack a la Model S. Plus, it could use the upcoming Model X's all-wheel-drive system. Tesla's air suspension would keep it from encountering high-centering issues. There could even be a charging port on both the front and back so a battery truck could hook up while driving, like in-flight refueling. Obviously the battery pack would need to have extra protection so it wouldn't have any issues with road debris, but that's a minor issue. Tesla is an American company, and that's a requirement for The Beast. So is it that far fetched to think the next presidential limo could be a Tesla?"
SmartAboutThings writes "Up until today, I always had the impression that cloud storage was pretty expensive and I'm sure that many will agree with me. It's a good thing that some bright minds over at Google have the same impressions as they now have drastically discounted the monthly storage plans on Google Drive. The new monthly storage plans and their previous prices are as follows: $1.99 for 100GB (previously $4.99), $9.99 for 1TB (previously $49.99), and $99.99 for 10TB.The 2 dollar plan per month means that the price for a gigabyte gets down to an incredibly low price of only two cents per month."
RSA holds big-time annual security conferences. The 2014 U.S. edition had 25,000 attendees, Stephen Colbert as the closing keynote speaker, and a major controversy (and some anger) from potential speakers and attendees over RSA's reputed $10 million contract with NSA to make sure the company's encryption software had back doors the secretive agency could use to spy on people and companies that use RSA software. This is part of a story that might be called The Snowden Revelations if it is made into a movie, but right now it's still controversial, and enough of a bombshell in the IT security industry that F-Secure's Mikko Hyppönen decided not to speak at this year's U.S. RSA conference, followed by Bruce Schneier, DEFCON founder Jeff Moss, Princeton professor Ed Felten, and other security luminaries.
And so, TrustyCon -- the Trustworthy Technology Conference -- was born. It was a sellout, with 400 people attending at $50 a head, and another 300 on a waiting list who couldn't get in. Slashdot's Tim Lord managed to get in, and got to speak briefly with several people there, including one of the TrustyCon organizers, Joel Wallenstrom. These were crude interviews, done on a "catch as catch can" basis, and the sound in them is poor. (Google sent a camera crew and shot over seven hours of the conference speakers, which you can watch on YouTube if you want to view TrustyCon presentations in good HD with great sound.). Will there be another TrustyCon next year? According to The Register, "The conference organizers said that, at this point, the plan is to hold another get-together next year, but that a final decision will be made closer to the time."
gnujoshua writes "Paul Kocialkowski (PaulK), a developer for the Replicant project, a fully free/libre version of Android, wrote a guest blog post for the Free Software Foundation announcing that whlie hacking on the Samsung Galaxy, they "discovered that the proprietary program running on the applications processor in charge of handling the communication protocol with the modem actually implements a back-door that lets the modem perform remote file I/O operations on the file system." They then replaced the proprietary program with free software.
While it may be a while before we can have a 100% free software microcode/firmware on the the cellular hardware itself, isolating that hardware from the rest of your programming and data is a seemingly important step that we can take right now. At least to the FSF anyhow. What do others think: is a 100% free software mobile device important to you?"
An anonymous reader writes "Developers of the Free Software Foundation-endorsed Replicant OS have uncovered a backdoor through Android on Samsung Galaxy devices and the Nexus S. The research indicates the proprietary Android versions have a blob handling communication with the modem using Samsung's IPC protocol and in turn there's a set of commands that allow the modem to do remote I/O operations on the phone's storage. Replicant's open-source version of Android does away with the Samsung library to fend off the potential backdoor issue."
Advocatus Diaboli sends news from The Intercept about leaked documents which show that the NSA is significantly expanding its efforts to build an automated system to compromise computers remotely. From the article: "The implants being deployed were once reserved for a few hundred hard-to-reach targets, whose communications could not be monitored through traditional wiretaps. But the documents analyzed by The Intercept show how the NSA has aggressively accelerated its hacking initiatives in the past decade by computerizing some processes previously handled by humans. The automated system – codenamed TURBINE – is designed to 'allow the current implant network to scale to large size (millions of implants) by creating a system that does automated control implants by groups instead of individually.' In a top-secret presentation, dated August 2009, the NSA describes a pre-programmed part of the covert infrastructure called the 'Expert System,' which is designed to operate 'like the brain.' The system manages the applications and functions of the implants and 'decides' what tools they need to best extract data from infected machines."


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Lauren Alaina Opens Up About Father's Alcoholism in New Single 'Same Day, Different Bottle'
One of the songs she premiered earlier this week at CMT's Next Women of Country showcase reveals her father's battle with alcoholism.
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While in the midst of working on the follow-up to 2011's 'Wildflower,' Alaina sat down with Radio.com to discuss the songwriting process and give a taste of what to expect.
Lauren Alaina Talks About Graduation
Make no doubt about it, Lauren Alaina is one busy girl. So how did she manage to graduate? "I have accomplished so much in the past two years that have meant so much to me, […]
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Lauren Alaina has released her new single "Barefoot and Buckwild" on Monday (June 3rd). She co-wrote the song with Chris DeStefano and Jon Nite, which means the world to her and she tells us about it. […]
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Little Big Town, Trace Adkins, Lauren Alaina, Dwight Yoakam, and Hunter Hayes are among the country artists appearing on TV this week. Time to set your DVR!
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Don't miss out on seeing your favorite country artists on television this week! We have the schedule and details for you below. Time to set your DVR and John Rich in the premiere of 'The Next,' Carrie Underwood, Lionel Richie, Blake Shelton and more!
Lauren Alaina Put On Vocal Rest And Forced To Cancel Sugarland Appearances
Lauren Alaina is very apologetic as she tells fans that she has been put on vocal rest by her doctor and forced to cancel upcoming appearances on Sugarland's "In Your Hands" tour.
Lauren Alaina Interview Before the Sugarland Concert
Steve was joined by Cledus T. Judd backstage before the Sugarland concert at the 1-800-ASK-GARY Ampitheater and 2011 American Idol runner-up, Lauren Alaina, stopped by to talk to them. Lauren is currently opening up for […]
Lauren Alaina Sings Carrie Underwood
Carrie Underwood talks about Lauren Alaina recording a song she co-wrote called Eighteen Inches. "I've had co-writes go on other people's albums before, but this'll be my first single. I've never had that before. It's […]
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Biological Terror From Nature
by Bill Sardi by Bill Sardi
It all started with a hike up a path near my house. There were brush and tree limbs pushed out onto the pathway at a bend in the trail where hikers and mountain bikers would run right into it. I began to lift the tree limbs and brush and thrust them to the side of the trail. It was only a moment later I realized there was some poison oak limbs in the brush I had cleared. OK, go home, wash your hands and arms, as advised when exposure occurs.
"Leaves three let it be" is the advice that is given to anybody who is outdoors. Poison oak and ivy are known for the three-pronged leaves. But this advice is misleading. I never touched the leaves. Little did I know that the toxic oil in poison oak (urushiol oil) can become airborne and likely had been deposited on my clothes.
Only a billionth of a gram of this oil is needed to incapacitate an army of 400 people and create a latent skin rash that is next to unbearable. The advice that needs to be given is to steer clear of even getting in the proximity of poison oak, or its cousin, poison ivy. If you are exposed, go home, throw your clothes away and get in the shower and scrub and scrub with soap.
My poison oak rash erupted three days later, and by now I had spread its toxic oil to who knows where — on my tennis shoes, automobile steering wheel, chairs, bedding — the list is endless. I had been mounting up a histamine response that would be excruciating.
As the rash spreads it initially gives you the false impression it might be some sort of virus, like the chicken pox spreads its bumps. But the rash forms into straight lines, characteristic of poison oak.
The problem with running to the drug store is that the false impression is given that there are remedies there. What is offered at the drug store are overpriced tubes of soap with a skin abrasive that helps get the oil out of the skin. But these must be employed within a few hours of initial exposure to be effective and my exposure was days ago. These poison oak remedies cost $30 for 1-ounce or 4-ounce tubes. I used them, with little effect.
By my third week into this ordeal, I was at an auto parts store, spied a hand cleaner called Fast Orange which combines pumice as a skin abrasive with soaps and lanolin, aloe vera, glycerin, and jojoba oil as moisturizers and skin softeners. I bought a 28-ounce tube for $2.99, or the equivalent of 7 of the widely advertised poison oak remedy at the drug store which would cost me $210 for 28 ounces. A whole gallon spray bottle of Fast Orange (128 ounces, equivalent to 42 of the 3-ounce tubes) costs only $9.97 online. Keep some of this handy if poison oak or poison ivy is growing near your home. The makers of the widely-advertised, over-priced remedies for poison ivy and oak prey upon the desperation of the affected person.
A report published in the International Journal of Dermatology (volume 39, page 515, July 2000) shows that high-priced Tecnu provided 70% protection compared to 62% for Goop (another pumice hand cleaner) and 56% for Dial soap. The difference in protection is insignificant and the price differs by 18-times.
I tried all kinds of remedies mentioned online — alum, banana leaves, lemon peel, Fels-Naptha soap, orange peel oil (a natural degreaser). For me, these were of little help.
The best topical skin relievers and anti-itch products I found were a product called Ivarest and calamine/analgesic I picked up at Walgreen's, under their label. Solarcaine makes an aloe-based burn relief gel with a topical pain reliever that is quite soothing.
Then there was advice from someone who had a very bad case of poison oak, to get in the bathtub and pour Clorox in and soak in it. This helped, but it also spread the oil and the rash. So the best advice is to soap up in the shower, not the tub.
The best topical remedy that strikingly relieved my itching came to me by way of a friend who shared an old Polish home remedy for poison oak. First, acquire rubbing alcohol and apply it to your skin, to disinfect. Then pour salt on your rash and rub it in with vinegar. This is a cheaper and more effective treatment than the $30 tubes in the drug store. My incessant itching was knocked down considerably.
My friend told me the itching wouldn't come back after using the alcohol, salt and vinegar treatment. But that wasn't my experience. The rash lingered and kept spreading. By now I was not just putting my clothes in the wash and adding some Clorox, but I was throwing away robes, t-shirts, shorts, even tennis shoes. The rash persisted.
I was losing sleep, showering 6 times a day, throwing my clothes in the washing machine every time I showered, and obtaining only temporary relief. Hot water removes the histamine response in the skin for a couple of hours, but then the itching returns.
The dermatologist offered remedies that were problematic in themselves. The antihistamine that also puts you to sleep also makes you groggy during the day. I had to cut the antihistamine pills in half but then the itching would return in the middle of the night.
When I added over-the-counter Benadryl, my vision became distorted and I developed a phenomenon called "visual snow." It was eerie and took me two days to figure out which pills were causing this.
The steroid pills provide relief, but if taken at bedtime, they made by heart race, and then how do you get to sleep? The steroids make you quite irritable.
By now I was at my wits end and my wife's uncle said he got poison oak when he was a child and couldn't shake it when an uncle drove him to the beach and the salty ocean water eradicated the problem.
OK, time for a trip to the beach. The water at Huntington Beach was warm that afternoon. Forty minutes and my rash subsided somewhat. That night I was back to applying topical remedies and taking the antihistamine pill.
Now what? I had to drive from the Los Angeles area where I live to Las Vegas one day for a business meeting and I noticed my rash was in remission and not itchy. But when I returned home, it came back with a vengeance. Cleaning crews were called in. I didn't know what to think.
In my fourth week of this ordeal I called a friend to mull over everything. He referred me to Tom Ogren's articles and book on allergy-free gardening and the fact that once sensitized to poison oak, urushiol oil could be re-transmitted to me by pets, on outdoor chairs where animals like squirrels could deposit it, by airborne pollen, and even other allergy-provoking plants like ragweed and sumac could pose problems. That might explain why my rash subsided when I was out of town.
My friend later e-mailed to advise me to avoid nuts like cashews and pistachios that are in the same family as poison oak. Duh, my wife had bought me a bag of pastry made with pistachios that I had with my morning coffee. There were cashews in a trail mix that I occasionally consumed by the handful. Yikes!
I went into remission the moment I stopped eating nuts. I assume soy and other common allergenic foods, like peanuts, shellfish, eggs, should also be avoided. No one had said, once sensitized, foods could exacerbate my skin rash. The advice was welcomed, late as it was.
I wonder if most unexplained skin rashes are caused by urushiol oil, one of the most toxic agents on the planet. It is said standing armies could be totally incapacitated by this toxin.
Heed my advice, don't touch those leaves with three leaflets, but also don't even go near them, and if you suspect you have, go home and dispose of your clothes outside your home and wash in the shower. If you wander off the trail when hiking, like many hikers do to relieve their full bladder, you are at greater risk of toxic urushiol oil being deposited on your skin or clothing. I'd carry some of the hand cleaner with me when hiking.
Bill Sardi [send him mail] is a frequent writer on health and political topics. His health writings can be found at www.naturalhealthlibrarian.com. He is the author of You Don't Have To Be Afraid Of Cancer Anymore.


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March 6, 2014
Rejoice, University City (… and everyone for that matter), the Federal Donuts location on the 3400 block of Sansom Street is slated to open its doors at 7 a.m. on Monday, March 10. Open seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., or until sell-out, the third Federal Donuts location promises the same […]Read more»
January 27, 2014
Like a ball player, a great plate of fried chicken might be retired but it's never forgotten. Chef David Katz's fried chicken lunch special at his now-shuttered Mémé was widely lauded and sorely mourned when the restaurant closed in 2012. Now, those luscious legs live on at American Sardine Bar this week for the second […]Read more»
July 18, 2013
On National Fried Chicken Day, July 6, Philadelphia fried chicken mecca Federal Donuts gave away golden tickets to win sweet swag, including fried chicken for life. Twenty winners claimed tickets, with two lucky souls walking away with the grand prize of a lifetime supply of fried chicken. If you missed out on round one, you're […]Read more»
July 5, 2013
Assemble the troops and alert the masses, Federal Donuts is about to make two fortunate people very happy for the rest of their lives. Sound extreme? We're not kidding. Federal Donuts is giving away free fried chicken to two guests for the rest of their days. On Saturday, July 6, 11 golden tickets (hats off […]Read more»
October 1, 2012
The super popular fried chicken and donuts shop Federal Donuts, co-owned by Michael Solomonov, restaurateur Steven Cook, coffee aficionados Thomas Henneman and Bob Logue and food-and-drink expert Felicia D'Ambrosio, is expanding to Center City. This Wednesday, October 3 at 7 a.m., Federal Donuts will open its second location at 1632 Sansom Street. We. Cannot. Wait. […]Read more»
July 16, 2012
Chef Mitch Prensky of Supper, which has been receiving a lot of national press recently (last month's 50 Shades of Grey dinner was mentioned on Perez Hilton, and they nabbed an appearance on Food & Wine Magazine's list of the Best Fried Chicken in the U.S.), is launching a new dinner series, Fried Chicken Tuesdays, […]Read more»
June 12, 2012
The next Night Market is quickly approaching — it's coming to Washington Avenue and the Italian Market on Thursday, June 28. And we have some pretty cool news to announce about it. Quest Loves Food will be headlining the VIP Night Market Experience. (Quest Loves Food is the food venture from Questlove, drummer extraordinaire for […]Read more»
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April 5, 2012
That twice-fried, sticky-sweet Korean fried chicken goodness is coming back to Meritage on Thursdays, starting tonight. Chef Anne Coll will be serving her "high class" K.F.C. (Korean Fried Chicken) alongside $5 cans of Sapporo and Korean Short Rib Tacos every Thursday evening. The free-range fried chicken, which is marinated in sesame, garlic, ginger and onion […]Read more»
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This week we're talking equipment.
In the top left corner, you'll see a little tin of pins. I like long pins with a flat head, but any sewing pin will do, especially if it's a quilting pin. You should be able to pick these up for under $5.
You will need a small pair of scissors for snipping threads, also around $5. And a pair of sewing shears, which are only used to cut fabric. Again, please borrow someone's if you're not yet sure this is for you. And when you're ready, buy the best you can afford. A good pair will cost $50 or a little less.
Every sewer needs a ripper because mistakes do happen. This is another item which will cost under $5. Extra needles are also a must have, because they break from time to time and also need frequently replaced. A package of 5 needles costs about $5.
The next tin is from Gutermann and contains thread. You don't have to buy this brand, but do buy a good quality thread. I normally piece with a polyester thread although cotton is also acceptable.
The final little silver thing on the right is a quarter inch foot. It shows you how to guide your fabric perfectly so that you always get a quarter-inch seam. This is the standard sized seam used in quilting. This foot cost about $15. Most machines have a similar foot available. You can also place a brightly colored taped at the quarter inch mark on your machine to accurately mark your seam allowance. An accurate seam allowance is possibly the most essential secret to good quilt piecing!
A good ruler follows the mat, and I recommend one that is 24" x 6" or a little bit bigger. Mine is 8 1/2" wide. Rulers can also get pretty pricey, but a decent one can be purchased for under $20 although you may have to shop around.
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BMW has launched a new microsite for its upcoming K1600 GT big bore tourer, which is expected to make its debut very soon, possibly at EICMA 2010 in early November.
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21 August 2013
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Hi Marc,ReplyDelete
a) 6% a year of return is already good. Purchasing power is increased because salaries are not increased at the same rate.
b) Drawdowns and volatility are a bit difficult to handle, and I think you are more conservative type
c) How will you be protected against deflation?
Hi Frugal :)ReplyDelete
In my opinion salaries are losing purchasing power. Since they increase at a rate around 2% and I estimate true inflation around 5% they are losing around 3% per year in purchasing power. Strong proof for this is that one needs 2 salaries today to cover the expenses of an average household whereas 30/40 years ago 1 salary was enough!
I think the PP gains you around 2% per year in purchasing power. Everything ofcourse depends on how high you estimate true inflation. As you know I had a big discussion about this on the permanent portfolio forum and supported my case with hard data: http://gyroscopicinvesting.com/forum/permanent-portfolio-discussion/chances-of-losing-(and-winning!)-are-close-to-zero/msg62321/#msg62321
I certainly have a conservative part in me that detests drawdowns and volatility. This part prefers to keep the 30y bonds. It is fearful. However fear is not a good driver to make decisions. Reason and logic is a much better one.
One does not need protection anymore against deflation if the deflation already happened. Sure it can get worse before it gets better (interest rates continue to go down), but the worse it gets the lower the chances that it will get even worse and the higher the chances become that it will turn around (interest rates go back up).
Interest rates dropped from +10% to 2% since 1981 for 10y german bonds. It can go to 0.5% as it has in Japan. But lower? It's possible, theoretically it could go to -2% but historically this has never happened so chances are extremely low and if chances are very low it is a very bad bet to take. Hence why I plan to liquidate them if they would hit 1% again. It's speculation, but it's rational.
On the other hand, interest rates went also to historic highs end 70's even for the most credit worthy nations due to the unprecedented worldwide fiat system. It might be that we get negative interest rates not seen before also due to the fiat system. Maybe you are right and I should just hold those 30y bonds, sit back and enjoy the show. Thanks for your criticism and making me think more about it.
Hugs :)
- BrowneheadAugust 24, 2013 at 6:54 PM
Hello Marc,ReplyDelete
as a reference of the European Permanent Portfolio I'm very sorry you finally decided to abandon the strategy. In spite of your beliefs on the future, don't you think is still necessary to have a core portfolio protected against every possible, even improbable, outcome? Have in mind that if you think nowadays real inflation is 5%, that's far from deflation so I don't see how deflation has already happened following your logic.
On the other hand, if you can tolerate volatility if there are chances to get a higher return, why don't you also remove the cash portion?
Hi Brownehead, true deflation where the cost of living goes down has not happened since the great depression where there was still a gold standard and the amount of money printing was far less.ReplyDelete
As you can see on my pp returns page even in Japan where stocks and real estate collapsed for 20 years in a row by -80% and interest rates bottomed at 0.5% for 10y maturities, consumer prices went UP during that time, and this according to the official data, which is likely underestimating inflation too.
Also here in 2008 when international trade literally came to a standstill for half a year, not even seen during the great depression, and people barely bought anything, consumer prices just corrected somewhat but over the total year still went up by again 5%!
So I think that chances for an actual deflation where living expenses go down on a nation wide scale (eurozone) is very low in a world of unlimited money printing.
Under deflation Harry Browne seemed to also understand falling interest rates, not so much falling consumer prices. So when judging whether deflation is played out to the max, not consumer prices but interest rates are to be judged I think. Since interest rates have already fallen to historic lows, we definitely are in deflation territory according to Harry Browne his definition.
I'm starting to doubt though to dumb them already if it would hit 1%, considering Japan actually fell to 0.5% interest for 10y bonds and realizing that Japan was an isolated case, add mass worldwide hysteria and who knows, maybe we get negative interest rates for Germany, USA and Japan, just like we got them for a brief time in Sweden a few years back. In such case selling at 1% was a bad move.
Why I would keep the short term bonds is not the question for me. The question is why would I kick short term bonds out? Will they always drag average returns of the PP down? Indeed, of all assets, cash, short term bonds, performed the worst the past 40 years. But will that continue? Maybe they will perform the best the coming years? They are certainly not as overvalued as long term bonds. Would not take capital losses when interest rates go up and would immediately benefit from that. Though I agree they can go broke too.
You make a good point that having a core portfolio that is protected against most economic climates, even improbable, is a good thing to have. But let's not forget that the PP did not prove yet to survive in a great depression. What if they refuse to print and the bonds go broke like in Greece, losing 75% of the value of the long - and - short term bonds? Stock market also to the floor in such scenario, and maybe gold only doubles giving you a -50% loss in total, while consumer prices continue to go up? This is exactly what happened in Greece. Maybe this is impossible to happen over the whole Eurozone as Harry Browne said: gov will print before they go broke. But frankly that's just Harry Browne speculating. Up until today the PP has not proven yet to survive a great depression in a fiat world. We are in unprecedented territory here with no track records available. Every system works, until it doesn't... Maybe common sense to sell what is clearly valued historically high is the only thing that will save you?Replies
- BeowneheadAugust 25, 2013 at 12:46 AM
Hi Marc,Delete
Harry Browne was very clear about deflation (prices going down), I gess you have some of his books and can check it; acording to him lower interest rates is just the consequence of a higher purchasing power of the dollar. And he was also very aware of the fiat money world we live, in fact his full strategy is based on it, but anyways it doesn't matter whatever money is just paper or gold, if everything goes down except purchasing power people will buy the investment which pays more interest with less credit risk (and any goverment who prints its money has zero credit risk, including Germany with its ECB and the euro printers in Frankfurt).
You are right that the PP has not been tested in a full depression, even that 2008 and 2011 gave us some tips about how usefull can be that part of the PP but, apart from logic, history also shows that every depression is followed by much lower interest rates:
Of course today rates are allready very low, but I think you know the convexity property of bonds so small changes in the low rate cause a lot of volaitlity (which can translate in high gains in a real depression).
Regarding cash and short term bonds, I really don't mean it is a good idea to drop that part, I think it is important for the stability of the PP, however if you don't mind volatily and only want growth there is no logic in maintaining it, moreover with your inflation estimations which will never be covered by short term rates. On the other hand if your reason to not drop the cash is getting some stability in a very volatile portfolio (precious metals, bitcoins and some stocks), that same reason urges for long term bonds.
Here's my two (paper) cents ;)
I prefer not to guess ... and keep original PP.
Can you post this video on PP forum ?Replies
Feel free to share my work anywhere you like. I value that.Delete
The PP also contains guesses. That governments will always choose printing over defaulting on their bonds, is a guess/speculation. And if that guess/speculation would prove to be wrong, the PP could fail.
That being said, the PP is still the portfolio that proved to be the most resilient in different economic climates. This fact is still widely ignored by most investors.
Hi Marc!Delete
a)Why PP can fail because of printing ?
b)Would you feel confortable having all ETF PP ? What do you advice?
Thanks for your good work on EU-PP.
Hi Frugal,Delete
You are very welcome. Thank you for valuing my work, I really like that too. I think the PP could fail not due to money printing but due to a lack of it. Harry Browne was confident that gov bonds would not go broke in a fiat world due to the fact that politicians would always choose printing over defaulting on their bonds. However it is theoretically possible that the government for example decides to bail out bank accounts but to default on their bonds.
I agree that chances are low but it is a possibility. In such case you would get a Greek scenario, but then for the US or Eurozone. Meaning your long and short bonds become almost worthless, your stocks also, and gold only doubles in value. And this while consumer prices and real estate prices barely go down. In such scenario most people would be better off as most people have just bank accounts and real estate and barely hold any government bonds, but the wise PP investor would be fucked having 50% of his capital in it.
Hi MARC!Delete
the Best option is to spend all saved money in some assets!
Do you agree :-) ?
lol :) It reminds me of this funny quote: "I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something"Delete
In all seriousness I still think the PP is the best solution to - protect - your purchasing power, and is a poor solution to - increase - your purchasing power.
The best solution does not mean bullet proof. It just means that it has empirically proven to be the best solution in the past. There remains a - small - chance that it will fail in the future. But this chance is smaller than with any other portfolio I have seen, hence why it is still the best solution. But not perfect.
I like that you are really involve thinking in your investment process. Most other PP users just do what HB suggested and don`t even try to think about that the PP perhaps only worked long term because we had sinking interest rates since 1981. But i think about cash and bonds a little different than you. Cash is the only asset where you know what you get before you invest. Currently you know that for the next year you are going to loose purchasing power with cash. So why even bother to invest in cash? When real short terms rates rise you have time to switch assets to cash to profit from that interest.
The volatility problems are only psychological problems. So you have to find a way to get around those. (Btw. holding the PP gives you the same problems as seen in May and June this year :) ).
In the next spike of bonds i will switch to a dividend growth strategy with a little gold position as an inflation hedge. The goal is to focus on the income/cashflow side of stocks and eliminate the psychological problems of volatility on that way. By the way if you haven`t read it already, i suggest reading "The intelligent investor" from Benjamin Graham. And yes bonds are overvalued historically! :)
Regards frommiReplies
- AnonymousSeptember 6, 2013 at 5:12 PM
Dividend growth strategy remains on of the best long term strategy in my opinion.Delete
My main portfolio is based on this.
Regards Gil
- Jan (the original one, sleepy so caveat emptor, LOL)August 25, 2013 at 8:45 PM
I wouldn't give up your cash portion. It's useful for rebalancing into asset classes that have gone down and for taking advantage of all sorts of once in a lifetime opportunities. One could ofcourse argue that you could quickly sell any asset for these purposes but nothing is as liquid as cash and rebalancing the PP without cash... Backtests might be useful but I figure it would not be the same.ReplyDelete
Hi MARC!ReplyDelete
we need your comments here:
Thanks for posting my work there frugal :) I replied.Delete


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Astronomers are predicting a massive solar storm in 2012. How big? The magnitude is a around 100 million hydrogen bombs.
The flare that we experienced earlier this month was just a precursor to a massive solar storm building. This massive solar storm is predicted to wipe out the entire planet's power grid. Similar storms back in 1859 and 1921 caused worldwide chaos, wiping out telegraph wires on a massive scale. This storm is predicted to be even more disruptive and would be the most violent in 100 years!
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Something strange is happening in Gakona, Alaska. The US Air Force, the US Navy, the University of Alaska and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have been working on the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) at a strange looking facility in Gakona.
They claim that the purpose of HAARP is to analyze the ionosphere and investigate the potential for developing ionospheric enhancement technology for radio communications and surveillance purposes.
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In November 2006 in a northern Mexican town of Cuatrociénegas, farmers started to see some of their animal livestock dead and dismembered in the mornings when they checked on them. Most of the blood was missing from the dead animals and it didn't appear to be from coyotes which the farmers are used to dealing with. They feared it was from the Chupacabra which first originated in Puerto Rico.
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Russian political scientist has claimed the United States may be using climate-change weapons to alter the temperatures and crop yields of Russia and other Central Asian countries.
Andrei Areshev, deputy director of the Strategic Culture Foundation, wrote, "At the moment, climate weapons may be reaching their target capacity and may be used to provoke droughts, erase crops, and induce various anomalous phenomena in certain countries." Articles on this have been carried by publications throughout Russia, including "International Affairs," a journal published by the Foreign Ministry and by the state-owned new agency RIA Novosti.
Areshev voiced suspicions about the High Frequency Active Aural Research Program (HAARP), funded by the U.S. Defense Department and the University of Alaska. HAARP, which has long been the target of conspiracy theorists, analyzes the ionosphere and seeks to develop technologies to improve radio communications, surveillance, and missile detection. Areshev writes that that the true aim of HAARP is to create new weapons of mass destruction "in order to destabilize environmental and agricultural systems in local countries."Russian Scholar Warns Of Secret US Climate Change Weapon
Astronauts trip to Mars Will Turn Them Into Weaklings!Written by Jeffrey Sinor
Research done in the August 17 edition of the Journal of Physiology states that astronauts on a mission to Mars could lose nearly half their muscle strength during the long trip, giving them the physiques of senior citizens by the time they arrived. Prolonged exposure to weightlessness could cause astronauts to lose more than 40 percent of their muscle strength even with regular exercise, researchers said. On a long voyage, a healthy 30- to 50- year-old astronaut could end up with the strength of an 80- year old.
A ten month trip to Mars would cause such extreme muscle deterioration that even routine tasks would be hard to perform, let alone move around the Martian surface in spacesuits, according to the study, which was lead by Robert Fitts of Marquette University. Returning to Earth would be even more perilous with astronauts too weak to evacuate their spacecraft if they needed to make an emergency landing.
Currently six-month stints aboard the International Space Station involve rigorous exercise for 2.5 hours per day, six days a week.Trip to Mars Would Turn Astronauts Into Weaklings