Posts by adnim

@AC:What do you expect?

You summed it up pretty well, nothing more to add.

Why don't they

just stick to what they are good at, what they do that is innovative, what they do that makes consumers happy? Oh wait a minute, I withdraw that question.

@Bounty

I object to you bringing anarchists into this mix. Please research what anarchists are and what they stand for. The term anarchist is bandied about too freely to describe those who want to destroy society when all that the majority of anarchists want to do is destroy the status quo and encourage self rule. I do agree with you however that things are not always black and white.

Anarchism: The theory that forms of government are oppressive and should be abolished, the rejection of authority and control.

Anarchy does not have to be violent nor chaotic.

roflmao

"his status as a celebrity hacker makes his accounts too hard to defend against the legions of script kiddies who regularly attack them".

Hard to defend? Perhaps his providers need to employ competent security staff.

Script kiddies use known and published exploits, competent hackers develop exploits for publicly unknown vulnerabilities. Any security expert worth his/her salt is aware of attack vectors exploited by script kiddies and protect systems from such lame attacks.

Anyone want my IP address? It is either full stealth or exposes my honeypot. I am not saying I cannot be owned, but it would take more than a script kiddie and I'm not a security professional. Btw I am working on it (becoming a security expert that is) and looking for a change of career should anyone want to employ a smart ass to protect their systems ;-)

The Pirate Bay

does not exist anymore. It is now a commercial enterprise trading under the name "Pirate Bay".

Let go and move on people.

@Colin Miller

Yes, if I was an alien life form and aware of humanity through receiving the many and varied EM transmissions that have no doubt propagated through space, I too would keep my head down.

To be honest I wouldn't be surprised if the inner rim of the Orion arm has been quarantined.

Strange

I have been gaming for around 25 years as have many of my friends and I don't know a single fat depressed gamer. None of my friends are over weight nor depressed.

Ah the survey was taken in the US, that explains it, I guess most of the US population are over weight and depressed gamer or not.

Compromise

I would guess most nxdomain errors are a result of a user mistyping into the browser address bar. A solution would be the ISP sends DNS rcode 3 nxdomain to browser as would be expected when complying with standards, then a timed Javascript redirect shows a page of domain names which relate to the mistyped address, along with all those revenue creating advertisements... Just a thought

Perhaps if one is not smart nor dexterous enough to type an address correctly one deserves a page full of ads? ;-)

More info on DNS hijacking here: Warning PDF

www.icann.org/en/committees/security/sac032.pdf

Detection

"The alleged perpetrators worked hard to cover their tracks, according to the indictment. In addition to using proxy servers that masked their real IP addresses"

Please correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn't breaching those servers and collecting/selling the data via different wifi hotspots (McD's, coffee shops, poorly secured domestic AP's), from several different locations/cities, as well as going through proxies in countries that are let's say unsympathetic to the US have made it just about impossible to trace?

I am not an accomplished nor clever hacker but I think I could avoid detection.

@Eddie Johnson

It sucks to be any artist when the majors say... Sign here for the deal of your life, promotion, fame, money and international success. Alternatively you can remain unnoticed, unrecognised and poor. Oh btw after you have signed we own your ass and everything you do.

Still I agree with you, if fame and money are more important than integrity and freedom, his choice was a big fail.

So much for research...

and a having a social conscience.

I do however have a strong belief that all not Americans are fucking retards.

Missed opportunities

"As Joe McKay points out, Google turns off its sponsored links if an email mentions suicide, death, 9/11, and murder. Or other words to that effect."

Yes, rather nice of them don't ya think... but do they then forward such emails directly to the NSA?

If I was a shareholder I would be rather angry about the missed revenue.

Why do Google not show ads that advertise paracetamol, knives, guns, C4 and funeral directors with such emails?

Where's the sarcasm icon?

Too safe!

As a teenager myself and a few pals used to don parkas and goggles and use some derelict farm buildings as shooting range. Armed with .177 air pistols we would shoot each other. deathmatch, Team death match and a type of capture the flag games were played, we did this for a couple of summers before getting bored with it. No serious injuries, just lots of fun. No head shots though, we didn't think that was a good thing, it's surprising how sensible one can be even whilst being completely wreckless.

Yeah right

"Perhaps they would just content themselves with lower profits for the good of the people"

And how does the good of the people pay for 2nd and 3rd homes, Porsche, Ferrari, Learjet, Gulfstream, Rolex, Cartier, Prada, Armani, Bollinger, Dom Perignon, swimming pools, islands and political will. You know all of those little essentials that are so vital for ones survival. Those things that massage the ego and make one stand out as something really, really special in the sea of mediocre nobodies that struggle to make ends meet.

Surprise, surprise!

Intel reduce prices where AMD are competitive.

I think prices need to drop on i7 mainboards and perhaps i7 CPU's too, especially when most mainstream applications and much home computer use needs little more than a core 2 dual core CPU. These price cuts are poor incentive for me to upgrade, perhaps others who are already running core 2 duo and core 2 quad will feel the same.

Even if...

I was looking to buy a product for which I received a spam email. I would not follow any links or purchase the product from the company advertised in the spam.

I don't report spam, perhaps I should but it rarely gets into my inbox anyway, my filters catch at least 99% of spam and direct it to my trash folder. I do scan the subject lines before emptying my trash folder in case of false positives.

What is worse is when a spam operation uses your email address as sender, I had to telnet into an email account once just to delete the many thousands of bounces in there. Thunderbird just wouldn't download them all.

@AC:I wondered what the price would be

My thoughts exactly.

Still Richard F is one of my heroes.

More stuff for those who like this kind of thing.... All free, a choice of formats and not a SilverLight in sight:

http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/Outreach/Public_Lectures/View_Past_Public_Lectures/

@David 141:Security "advisory" isn't

If you mean DEP as enabled by default in XP, then no DEP dosn't mitigate the attack.

FF 3.0.11 on linux is also vulnerable, I haven't managed to craft a working payload yet ( with the aid of msf... I ain't smart enough to craft my own) but I have crashed/locked up Ubuntu 9.04 whilst trying.

cool

Office 10 connects to cloud... Yet another way to own a windoze box.

"Individuals will get this feature via Windows Live, probably for free."

Free until a predetermined critical mass and a certain level of user dependency is achieved.

A secure Internet...

is:

i) one where all vulnerabilities are kept quiet and only exploited by those that discover them.*

ii) one where there is no privacy and every action is logged by governments.

iii) one where there is no anonymity and every action can be traced to an identity and physical street address.

*Thus only the elite few would be able to create mischief (should that be their goal) as opposed to just about anyone smart enough to run the metasploit frame work... Namely script kiddies. I see a double edged sword here.

A secure Internet is the end of the internet as a useful resource for the oppressed.

Long live the wild West. One can only secure that which one controls, So who's going to step up and control the internet? Will the technology ever be there to do so? And do we really need another Wyatt Earp?

I don't know enough to answer these questions, but thanks to full disclosure I am smart enough to cover my own ass. So keep them coming because without them I wouldn't be.

I like the Internet the way it is, which self respecting anarchist wouldn't?.

Blamed the press?

"The operator of a new directory of private mobile phone numbers has blamed the press for its rushed launch and subsequent technical problems."

Well that's what you get when you allow journalist's to design develop and deploy intrusive database systems. Perhaps they should have employed IT experts instead.

Impressive

Nice interface, rapid response and many interesting and professional GPL'd projects, tools and code.

Very useful for any professional or budding web developer.

For the real lazy...

I can see a market for pre-digested foodstuffs, perhaps even pre-regurgitated for the bulimic consumer.

@Stu:Scale

I believe its is a cm scale. Inch scales are usually divided into 1/4s, 1/8ths, 1/16s and so on. This scale is divided into 1/0ths.

Pointy stick

Free and available from many fences, or one could sharpen a broom handle.

Perhaps picket fences and brooms should be banned.

And then if a kid really, really wants a knife, there is always the cutlery draw.

How get browser without browser?

For those users who are used to a point and click everything, who need a wizard to do anything and have no real idea of how to use a PC, MS could simply provide scripts to download a choice of browsers via ftp. Alternatively their telephone based support could walk users through a ftp download of the users' browser of choice. They should provide this service for free, but that would entail altruism on Microsoft's part, and to be honest I have seen more rocking horse shit than MS altruism.

And no I will not be buying windoze 7. MS have made billions off the backs of unsuspecting beta testers, oh sorry consumers. They should give the OS away for free as a thank you to all those who have suffered during the years of transition and development from Windows 2.0 to Windows 7.

I have said this before

Even the most secure rock solid, bulletproof database, even one that is impossible to hack (should one ever exist) has a fatal flaw... Human operators.

Humans unlike machines have ideals, drug/alcohol/gambling habits, consumer lust, mortgages, greed etc. etc.

"Each man has his price Bob, and yours was pretty low"

Roger Waters

OK So I am cynical

No doubt this will be shown first, followed by 30 minutes of advertising then 20 minutes of trailers before the main feature. The novelty may well wear off quickly and cinema goers will forsake the awesome pleasure of waving hands in the air in order to avoid the pain of 30 minutes of adverts.

@AC:Bears/Woods

As a middle aged man and survivor of two long term (>=10 year) relationships and countless short term fun and frolic type relationships, I wholly concur with you. So much so it has to be repeated:

Do what your told.

Do some housework at least 25% of the time.

Give up the odd Saturday for above chores.

If you're in an argument, give up, 'cos you'll never win it, not matter if 100% right.

However I would add... Do something special once every month or so... Flowers, chocolates, cook a nice meal, prepare a candle lit bath for two to share. Do whatever it is that makes your woman smile and feel appreciated. Do it when it is least expected.

Yeah women or at least relationships with them are very hard work. And I am sure my lady experiences nothing but pure pleasure living with me.

OK, I humbly acquiesce

Having only seen the film and not read the book I concede that I have little idea of what I am talking about.

'Tis Nice to be educated though, thank you.

What he is dead?

I would have never have thought it considering BBC News 24 is now the Micheal Jackson show.

Is this not to be expected, when is a major (not my opinion) news story not exploited for profit?

Michael Jackson dies...

of suspected cardiac arrest. OK that's enough information can we move on now.

What's that

a judge passing judgment on a judge?

Not much chance of a conflict of interest here then?

I thought

it was only countries that do not have a significant military force who have to bend over for the US.

Well to be honest

with the historical quality of Microsoft software as it is, I will continue to place my trust in third party solutions.

@the pedants

I sit corrected... I shall stand up at some point soon, but for now I shall remain seated.

I did write "I am English, yet I struggle sometimes." As you can see I am no liar.

I guess a pedancy is somewhere a foot lives.

How does this apply

to hardcore porn actors? Apparently some of them eat horses without killing them.

Let's see

Could this have anything to do with China being a huge potential market place for Google and its ad empire? The Chinese authorities have the ability to deny Google access to this huge money spinner, why would the greedy fsckers want to rock the boat. Human liberties always take second place behind turning a profit to most corporations and indeed governments, even to the point of exploitation.

Rule 11

Don't give servers names descriptive of their function.

For instance FinanceFilesOne, BackUpBox, SensitiveFiles, EmployeeRecs.

Security through obscurity although not a solution in itself does resist cluing up any potential hackers.

Could it be that this is such an obvious rule it was omitted?

I personally use characters from the tales of king Arthur on my home network.... Albion, Avalon, Uther, Gwain, Mordred etc. The exception is my missus' PC and laptop which are named Angus and LittleAngus respectively after the cat. The planets imho, are also a good source of computer names.