2013-05-06
post/49788735346
quote 19:46:30
“ A group of pupils at a middle school in Alaska took control of their classroom computers after phishing for administrator privileges. They asked teachers at Schoenbar Middle School, for 12 to 13-year-olds, to enter admin names and passwords to accept a false software update, according to reports.
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Associated Press said that at least 18 pupils were involved in the phishing, which gave them control over 300 computers allocated for student use at the school in the Alaskan town of Ketchikan.
Those computers have now been seized.
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Alaskan phishing pupils take over classroom computers at BBC News (via iamdanw)
2012-04-01
post/20296781908
quote 18:59:06
“ By the mid-1970s, this notion that you could directly apply systems engineering to urban problems was fairly soundly repudiated. There was this perception that we had mastered this enormous amount of complexity and it turns out that putting a man on the moon is fairly simple. It’s technologically challenging, given that the sheer amount of force and energy and orbital trajectories that need to be harnessed and negotiated are enormous in scale. But it’s a problem with relatively few variables whereas the city is problem with an enormous number of interconnected variables in which these systems engineering approaches have little applicability. ”
Nicholas de Monchaux replying to questions in an interview about Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo, at Txchnologist.
(See also.)
2012-03-18
post/19508370075
quote 12:25:05
“ I’ve come to the conclusion that the technical details are the easy part. It’s the social engineering that’s the killer. Moon shots and Manhattan Projects are child’s play compared to needed changes in the way we behave. ”
Gary Stix: Effective World Government Will Be Needed to Stave Off Climate Catastrophe on the Scientific American Blog Network.
