Neil deGrasse Tyson solution for North Korea's hacking...

[Playinghardball]

Neil deGrasse Tyson ‏@neiltyson · 5h5 hours ago
Obama authorized North Korea sanctions over cyber hacking. Solution there, it seems to me, is to create unhackable systems.

[jakeXT]

1. They already exist

Kremlin returns to typewriters to avoid computer leaks
The Kremlin is returning to typewriters in an attempt to avoid damaging leaks from computer hardware, it has been claimed.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/10173645/Kremlin-returns-to-typewriters-to-avoid-computer-leaks.html

[Cleita]

3. Where there is a will.....

When I worked at a large university, when we changed the ribbons on the typewriters that we typed tests on, we had to incinerate the ribbons because the students were that good at pulling the tests together from the reading the ribbons.

[VScott]

5. All I can think of

Is Blutto and D-Day going through the dumpster looking for copies of their finals test.

[Cleita]

8. And that was based in truth. I was always amazed at the lengths students

went to in cheating. I actually lectured a couple of them I caught trying to steal one of the masters that if they put as much effort into studying they would ace the exams legitimately.

[Brigid]

11. That was a master from a mimeograph machine.

Ah, the memories (grade school).

[Archae]

13. We used to fight over running the mimeographs.

The smell got us high!

[VScott]

14. The smell from the copies was intoxicating!!

[VScott]

4. Where there's a will, there's a way...

one of dozens the KGB embedded in the walls of the U.S. embassy in Moscow, and thus a relic of one of the most awkward episodes in the U.S.-Soviet détente. In a purportedly helpful move, the Soviet Union offered to sell the United States precast concrete modules for the building, supposedly to ensure that it would be up to code, and the United States accepted. But mid-construction inspections beginning in 1982, including X-rays, revealed that the Soviets were turning the building into a huge antenna, with some bugs so sophisticated they could transmit each keystroke from the embassy's IBM Selectric typewriters. After that, the top floors of the embassy were torn down and replaced by a secure "top hat" of four floors. The project took more than four years—and was done by American contractors.

http://io9.com/a-rare-look-at-historical-spy-gadgets-inside-the-cias-p-1643898351

Now at age 52, he offers this memoir, looking back at his days of rage and writing with outrage at how the U.S. government and its Langley dirty tricks subsidiary spied on him after he turned on them, writing books about Company secrets. The Company followed him, opened his mail and even arranged to loan the novice author a typewriter, complete with radio transmitter secreted in its case. Imagine, the CIA actually spied on Agee. Shocking.

http://articles.latimes.com/1987-07-05/books/bk-2120_1_cia-diary

Following this he details how he resigned from the CIA and began writing the book, conducting research in Cuba, London and Paris. During this time he alleges that the CIA spied on him.[5][19][20] The cover of the book actually featured an image of the bugged typewriter given to Agee by a CIA agent as part of their surveillance and attempts to stop publication of the book

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Agee

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[Cleita]

2. Stating the obvious but is it possible to create hack proof systems?

I watched the old classic "War Games" over the holiday and the way the kid got into the military computer was through a 'back door.' What if future software didn't have those accesses programmers use? I'm not that computer savvy so I wonder how doing something like that could screw things up even worse if their is no way to fix corruptions and other problems.

[ElboRuum]

6. I don't know it if he is aware...

... but he just asserted that the digital version of Santa Claus is real.

[BootinUp]

7. Seems a little naive, as there are no such thing. nt

[melm00se]

9. his comment is a great example

of "just because you are smart that doesn't confer expertise in all areas"

[wyldwolf]

10. I liked Taegan Goddard's solution

Being that barely 5 - 10% if North Koreans have internet access, blast free internet into North Korea that can't be scrambled.

[PosterChild]

12. Along with a regulation requiring...

...that they be adopted. Just using what already exists would be a big, bit improvement.