The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

[Goldeneye]

Welcome to the forum zu zu petals!

[zu zu petals]

Thank you. I got interested in this through my new beau, who you all know as BJ here. The discussions here are quite interesting and I have enjoyed reading them in my stay overs with him. I look forward to more debate over the upcoming months. It should get quite interesting.

[katied]

Thank you. I got interested in this through my new beau, who you all know as BJ here. The discussions here are quite interesting and I have enjoyed reading them in my stay overs with him. I look forward to more debate over the upcoming months. It should get quite interesting.

Welcome, Zu Zu, and glad you enjoy reading the posts here!

[Dr. No]

Welcome Zu Zu! I am very glad you decided to join in the fun

[Kristatos]

Thank you. I got interested in this through my new beau, who you all know as BJ here.

It's good for couples to share a common interest. Like throwing darts at a picture of Daniel Craig.

[Harvey danish]

Welcome Zu Zu I'm kinda knew on the forumn myself...

[Harvey danish]

NEW YORK – Before James Bond heads out on a mission, he has to stop in Q's laboratory for custom-made gadgets such as an exploding watch. Life wasn't so dashing for the suspected Russian spies arrested this week: They allegedly relied heavily on off-the-shelf consumer electronics.

"In the old days, they'd have special KGB-type equipment. Now they use normal computers, normal laptops," said Sujeet Shenoi, professor of computer science at the University of Tulsa and a frequent consultant to the FBI. "Technology is so powerful now that you don't have to have special-purpose equipment anymore."

According to the FBI's complaints that sought the arrest of the 11 suspects, the array of tools included laptops, flash memory cards and at least one prepaid cell phone. The suspects are accused of backing that up with old-fashioned spy technology such as short-wave radios, invisible ink, and a classic, manual encryption method known as a "one-time pad."

Short-wave radios were once relatively common in homes. Today, they're a bit of a giveaway if the FBI already suspects you're a spy. Not so with laptops, cell phones or flash drives. But that doesn't mean spies can feel safe. The way the Russian suspects used these gadgets was revealing to FBI agents who followed them for years.

The use of "spy-fi" is a case in point.

The FBI said that one of the suspects, Anna Chapman, would go to a coffee shop in Manhattan on Wednesdays and set up her laptop. A little while later, a minivan the FBI knew was used by a Russian official would drive by. To the naked eye, there was no contact between them.

But the FBI said it figured out that Chapman's computer was set to link wirelessly to a laptop in the minivan, using a standard, built-in Wi-Fi chip. In the short time the computers were close, they could transfer encrypted files between each other.

The agency figured this out with commercial Wi-Fi analysis software, not with something from Q's lab.

Glenn Fleishman, editor of the Wi-Fi Net News blog, said that from a technical standpoint, the Wi-Fi link appeared to be fairly amateurish and laughably easy to sniff out. He pointed out that there's at least one other commercially available technology for short-range transmissions, known as ultra-wideband radio, that would likely have been impossible for the FBI to pick up.

On the contrary, Keith Melton, who co-authored the book "Spycraft" with the former director of the CIA's Office of Technical Service, said the use of Wi-Fi could have been "very smart" because no data passed through the Internet. The connection would have been impossible to trace — if the FBI hadn't been smart and dogged enough to have Wi-Fi analysis equipment in place at the right time.

Melton said the technique is reminiscent of a precursor to today's BlackBerry, developed by the CIA in the 1970s to give its spies in Russia some way to pass messages unseen to receivers close by. The downfall was that being caught with the equipment could lead to a death sentence.

In another example of an everyday item allegedly being used for secret communications, the FBI said Chapman bought a cell phone last Saturday under a fake name. This was probably a "prepaid" phone, which doesn't come with a contract. Because there's no long-term commitment from the buyer, the sellers don't check the IDs of the buyers. That means law enforcement don't know which numbers suspects are using, making wiretapping very difficult.

[Harvey danish]

Zu Zu if ever you want to give BJ the "air" you can contact me... I bet your prettier than Ms. Crabtree...

[bjmdds]

Zu Zu if ever you want to give BJ the "air" you can contact me... I bet your prettier than Ms. Crabtree...

Watch yourself Harve....she's quite a special gal....and Kris, throwing darts at Cr-egg's picture would be a nice game for us to play.

[katied]

I'm just glad we are getting more people....come over to DCINB..we have cookies!

[bjmdds]

Mass MI6 exodus once DC leaves the role? Prozac city at MI6 then?

[katied]

Mass MI6 exodus once DC leaves the role? Prozac city at MI6 then?

I think there will be a certain amount of denial if Craig gets the boot(as well he should, if the hiatus becomes a several year thing)

[Kristatos]

Mass MI6 exodus once DC leaves the role? Prozac city at MI6 then?

From what I've seen of them, they're a fickle bunch. Whoever replaces Craig will be hailed as "the best Bond since Connery" and they'll all be pretending they never liked Craig in the first place.

[Omega]

Mass MI6 exodus once DC leaves the role? Prozac city at MI6 then?

I think there will be a certain amount of denial if Craig gets the boot(as well he should, if the hiatus becomes a several year thing)

As soon as there is a new Bond Craig is going to melt away. He isn't that good and he only has one movie his fans like to talk about. I thought it was boring and been done before to death. Even the most exciting part the parkour was before and done better. The Casino was too long and way to many breaks. For me they didn't sell the urgency or drama they were trying to suggest. I don't hate Craig but he was too old to be playing a new agent. He looks like he retired from his first job at the post office. I think they were stuck because they knew Craig looked a lot older than connery in the first one but they couldn't explain why he was a rough as he was without him being a new agent. A fresh faced kid. Riiight. Someone like Sam Worthington would have been amazing as a new 007 learning his way. It would have been a way more believable learning curve, Craig just look confused and then smashed his way through like a young Sylvester Stallone when he realized he locked himself out of his house on a rainy night.

I also just didn't by Vesper was his first "real" love. I had more romance in my first semester away from home. He is former military right? did he get no shore leave whatsoever? Were there no fetching young ladies in uniform to turn his head........ Just struck me if the gay angle were added it would make more sense. He was Navy right? Then maybe Vesper would be his first female love.

Any way he isn't the best thing since Connery to say that takes a lot of arrogance. Connery after nearly 50 years is the standard, directors like Cameron are talking about making new movies with new technology featuring him as Bond. That says a hell of a lot. Not many actors will ever be talked about that way. That up there with the likes of John Wayne and Carry Grant .

[katied]

I tend to agree that Craig will be forgotten..I think there will be a hardcore few who have a problem with it(particularly if he doesn't look Flemingesque enough)

Especially if someone like Fassbender gets the job. People at the fanboy boards are starting to get shouted down for suggesting anyone besides him. )

[Kristatos]

I also just didn't by Vesper was his first "real" love. I had more romance in my first semester away from home. He is former military right? did he get no shore leave whatsoever? Were there no fetching young ladies in uniform to turn his head........ Just struck me if the gay angle were added it would make more sense. He was Navy right? Then maybe Vesper would be his first female love.

He was a little old for his first serious relationship, perhaps, but I don't regard student fumblings as "real love".

[bjmdds]

This MGM mess is no joke for the franchise and other films. Broccoli might decide to walk away BUT this franchise is her ONLY entry into show business so giving it up would relegate her to non-essential Hollywood status. After all, aside from her father's treasure, who the hell is she any way?

[FormerBondFan]

Forget Bond and we don't need him for escapism. It's all about The Hobbit. The bad news is that Ian McKellen may bow out as Gandalf, and this could ruin the Middle Earth franchise.

[Mazer Rackham]

This MGM mess is no joke for the franchise and other films. Broccoli might decide to walk away BUT this franchise is her ONLY entry into show business so giving it up would relegate her to non-essential Hollywood status. After all, aside from her father's treasure, who the hell is she any way?

Not their only entry. Not any more. Babs was happy producing theater years before she decided Bond had to change, probably daddy's money opened the doors for this as well. They have 4 other movie projects they were suppsoed to be developing /working on since 2008. 2 for Sony and I think there was 2 others they bought up the options for.

[katied]

I'm more excited about the Hobbit as well. I really enjoyed the LOTR movies-even though they're long, they're rewatchable.