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Not too long ago the norm was actually for transponders to simply be open.

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The link off that page is dead, but I'll save you the trouble - Captain Midnight didn't do anything to a satellite.

Satellite hacking has been a commercially available service for some years now - don't know if they're still offering the service (their prices look a little old) but these folks can help.

An example of what's available from a hijacked surveillance drone is here.

Disclaimer:- this is just a hobby.

Not too long ago the norm was actually for transponders to simply be open.

He means like this

The link off that page is dead, but I'll save you the trouble - Captain Midnight didn't do anything to a satellite.

Satellite hacking has been a commercially available service for some years now - don't know if they're still offering the service (their prices look a little old) but these folks can help.

An example of what's available from a hijacked surveillance drone is here.

Disclaimer:- this is just a hobby.

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I've known this since 1997. It just goes to show that IE requires the fewest bytes to crash at will. If that's not enough evidence of how easy it is to crash a browser, play around on http://www.digicrime.com/.

Well, the biggest one is to prevent stupid sites from refusing to serve you just because you're not using browser X. They're almost always wrong. I'll take my chances, thank you, I don't need you playing Mommy.

If you're paranoid, there are certain browser-specific bugs that a malicious website can take advantage of if they know your exact version. Better to keep them guessing. (You have cleaned out your /etc/issue file so it doesn't say exactly what version of what OS you're running... right?! If you do, you might as well as change it to "PORTSCAN ME NOW, WORLD!")

And, it's always a good thing to throw some entropy into to some marketroid's demographics.

Plus, I hope I give some admins a good laugh now and then. If you ever see this in your server logs, you'll know it's me:

Mozilla/6.666 (Atari 2600)

I like the images that this conjures.

What I think is annoying everyone (but isn't mentioned outright yet) is that these (and many other) sites are blocked without a clear explanation of why they were blocked beyond a category heading. These category markings are not always accurate. An anonymizer is not a sex site, etc., (although it could be used to proxy one).

What censorware makers need to do is give a one or two sentance discription of what a site is/does *and* why they chose to block a site beyond the few bits needed to denote categories. In order to do this, they must have their teams revisit every site and have *real people* write these comments.

If they this, their databases likely would more than double in size. But at least consumers would know exactly why a site was blocked besides someone being checkbox happy...

If you want interesting censorware, try Antivirus! That's right - Antivirus comapanies sometimes decide to block sites using their Internet scanners. For instance, McAfee Antivirus' Internet scanner has two web sites blocked by IP address and name - one of which is Digicrime (Harmless, but will show you holes in your web browser!). Dr. Solomon's will say that the opening JAVA on this site is a virus, but it isn't (depending on your web browser, it might actually run *before* Dr. Solomon catches it). Norton AV ignores Digicrime entirely.

This just raises the question -- how do *you* really know what's on a web site? Could "censorware" be changing it? A major company could make their Internet software refuse to access their competitor's site, claiming to be protecting you. Or it might just change the content to something you never would imagine was wrong...

cute idea, to bad you didn't get it ten years ago. Now digicrime is taking all the cash.

Does a company who cares so very little about security belong in your server room?

And I thought Linux fanatics were beyond FUD.

Stop blaming Microsoft for your virus woes. If ILoveYou came into your computer and trashed it - too bad, that's not M$'s fault.

And billions were not lost to ILoveYou or any other program like it.

The only reason this hasn't yet happened with Linux desktops is, well, there aren't nearly as many Linux desktops because there's no standardized desktop distro (see prior post) and no common e-mail software for any desktop environment. OK, Netscape 4.7 maybe. But the guys at DigiCrime could show you how to do these things to Netscape and maybe write a Javascript trojan, and even circumvent the "sandbox".