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It's actually very easy to frame someone online which will be (mark my word) the next big thing in divorce cases, criminal cases, etal. I won't comment anymore on these issues though. I've been through the whole shabang. One thing people should be aware of though is the ease of which someone could actually do something malicious to another person. Courts, well let's just say if you're the accused, pray you don't get a computer phobic (which the DA will try to ensure he selects the most of) jury.

Official explanation? You make it seem as if Americans were robbed of Robotic Al Gore on a shoddy recount or something. The Powers that be would never lie, they believe in God so there you atheistic terrorist. And if that doesn't work, we could always send in the army to take over the oilwells in your backyard. SUV driving, gas guzzling, Al Qaeda following, non-bible reading oxycondone abuser. That was so unAmerican of you... Paper trail... *scoffs

yup and anyone who knows me knows I don't hide from no one nor do I hold back on saying what I feel. Understand?

yup and anyone who knows me knows I don't hide from no one nor do I hold back on saying what I feel. Understand?

When I was ([post sponsored by Politrix) writing this I was thinking ([Sponsor) thinking about how much money ([Symantec) product placements generate. Maybe ([Pepsi) Slashdot should look into this for ([RSA) revenue generation?

IMHO I think this is somewhat of a political move coming out of Germany, combined with the fact that MS has had MAJOR problems within the past few months with worms and all...

Now when I say political I mean maybe Germany doesn't want to spend their money on US products based on the tension between the US and Germany that started with the war somehow. It would also be benificial to Germany if say they were to choose SuSE for a distro of choice, maybe that would become a Euro standard distro of sorts. Something similar to what US companies think of when Linux comes to mind... Redhat. Sure geeks think of other distros, but have you ever mentioned Slackware, or Stampede to a CEO? Chances are he's heard of Redhat but not Slack, Debian, etc.

Let's not forget that nice little letter that went out earlier this month to the Dept. of Homeland Sec., which vendors asked the US gov to reconsider their use of MS products. Hell if US companies are turning their backs on MS, then why would foreigners want to use it.

The Bush administration's plan to merge a dozen anti-terrorist "watch lists" into a single database overseen by the FBI is being called long overdue by Congress.

But some critics see the potential for a giant blacklist.

"Having a single watch list is counterterrorism 101," said Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, a frequent FBI critic. "Now it's up to the FBI to demonstrate the technical savvy needed to maintain" and share the list.

Under the plan unveiled Tuesday, police officers on the beat, airport security personnel and officials who issue U.S. travel visas would have access to a database containing more than 100,000 names. It would be housed in the new Terrorist Screening Center, a 24-hour, seven-days-a-week operation under the FBI's lead.

The center will consolidate a patchwork of a dozen existing lists currently maintained by nine different federal agencies, but not always accessible to the officials who need them.

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Reformat? That's pretty dumb

B. Clear your computer of the Blaster worm

1.On the taskbar at the bottom of your screen, click Start, and then click Run. Type in services.msc and click on OK.

2. The Services window will appear. Enlarge it, if small, so you can see things. Click on the Name heading so the list is in alphabetical order. Look down the list for Remote Procedure Call (RPC) which Provides the endpoint mapper, etc. Do not choose Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator, which Manages things. Right click on Remote Procedure Call (RPC) and left click on Properties.

3. Click on the Recovery tab, and change first, second and subsequent failures to Restart the service, not Restart the computer. Click on Apply then OK. Close the Services window.

4. Hold down Ctrl and Alt keys and press the Delete key. The Windows Task Manager window will appear. Click on Processes. Click on Image Name to put the list into alphabetical order. Look down the list for msblast. There it is. Right click on it and click on End Process. Close all windows.

Total time to find this info: less than 30 seconds on Google cache... Interested in SoBigF? Check out my psychotic rants on it.

As for so called security team of whatever, I don't know why they would tell their users to format their machines... Seems a bit irresponsible, and makes me think their too lazy to read something like the DOC I just linked (Google cache link)... Hell they don't have to if you think about it... Print it out and throw it on every damn door. Come on if MIT can hang cars off bridges, place cars on roofs for pranks don't tell me they cant ctrl-p a damn doc...

maybe I should clear my cache then... See... I would have looked into it simply because Linus worked there, other than that Transmeta's hopes have diminished over the years. Seems like it will be an Intel/AMD world at the rate both companies pump out chips. Hell at the rate of SCO articles I see here and there, SCO might sue Intel and AMD for some sock() calls or something... SCO Pentium just sounds lame...

Wow so I'm not alone in this world. (for those who know me) Anyway, I wrote up an article about the Blaster scapegoat, guess I'll do another one. The ONE THING TO NOTE (I will not rant on about this too much) is how supposedly he accessed information on federal agents. Not to start a conspiracy theory thread or flame war, but shouldn't this be the obvious reason why they are going after this guy. Think about that for a bit. Sure he accessed their site, but they should also go after the vendor if they're sincere about being pissed off at the actions of this guy. If a car salesman sells you a car and states it has an alarm, yet the alarm doesn't work who do you blame the thief? Or would you go back to the salesman. Shit, sorry I have no time to finish this /. rambling, the feds are here because I decided to use POST to send information to my bank.

A significant cybersecurity improvement over the next decade will be found in enhancing our ability to find and eliminate malicious code in large software applications. Beyond the matter of simply eliminating coding errors, this capability must find malicious software routines that are designed to morph and burrow into critical applications in an attempt to hide. There is little coordinated effort today to develop tools and techniques to examine effectively and efficiently either source or executable software. I believe that this problem is significant enough to warrant a considerable effort coordinated by a truly National Software Assurance Center. This center should have representatives from academia, industry, federal government, national laboratories and the national security community all working together and sharing techniques to solve this growing threat.

Personally I would stop using machines if it were possible to have some form of monitoring of my actions without my authorization. Aside from that it's not a secret that the NSA has been accused of corporate espionage, so I would hope large corporations would think twice about giving them any form of say when it comes to codes for commercial software.

While all the rage is on viruses and backdoors, would you care to explanation as to what exactly it is your members do? One not too familiar with the scene would think most virus coders are evil pricks out to rm -Rf /* the world. Whats your guys description of the virii field?

Well, many virus coders do not agree to destructive payloads now. The idea of a virus is to spread. What is the use of a virus that infects a computer and formats it's hdd? In effect it is killing itself... not the best idea if it wants to spread no?

With regards to what ShadowvX members do, we code viruses that incorporate new or existing virus techniques. We try to code viruses with things like ICQ spreading or virus networks. Only a few of our codes have made it into the wild, but they had to be released. Ya know, new techniques, lets see how far up the AV "Dangerous" list we can get :] We make it a policy though that no code gets released unless all members agree it should. And we ain't no evil pricks either... we are like you guys, doing what we do to prove that computers are too relied upon these days...

Back Orifice, Netbus, Melissa, Tuxissa, ILOVEYOU, were plain and simply maliciously coded virii, we know some virii coders assist companies like Symantec, AVP, etc, whats your outlook on the creators of these program like Melissa, etc.?

Well, with Melissa it certainly showed MS a few things. Most of the code that gets released are to show or exploit vulnerabilities in software or hardware.. it just seems to only happen with MS software.

My view on these types of coders is no different from how I view other virus coders. They want to create something and show that humans rely too much on computers now a days.
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Anyway, my thoughts for one are, wouldn't someone who works for an antivirus company have a biased opinion being that the more people create a virus, the more money his company would make? Give me a break. Viruses are nothing more than annoyances which serve no purpose whatsoever, no matter how you want to look at it. Developers of software should take more precautions when releasing code to ensure these viruses dont become epidemics like SobigF was, knocking off the electric grid. For anyone to claim that a virus is good coming from a corporation, he deserves to be canned. The statement he made about being infected to be cured is irresponsible. Should someone die because some medical equipment malfunctioned due to some power outtage that was cause by a virus for the sake of find an antidote? I think not.

Ahh jello biafra and H2K. I don't remember any tea but I do remember Mary Jane... Good old Mary Jane and my friend Joker aka Dutchmaster aka Philly aka Bambu. Ahh those memories!!!

Now back to my evil coding

I ranted on about SoBig being on steroids with a down and dirty analysis on what having Windows is costing someone along with concepts of SoBig disconnecting a backbone along with a program to test that concept

I ranted on about SoBig being on steroids with a down and dirty analysis on what having Windows is costing someone along with concepts of SoBig disconnecting a backbone along with a program to test that concept

I ranted on about SoBig being on steroids with a down and dirty analysis on what having Windows is costing someone along with concepts of SoBig disconnecting a backbone along with a program to test that concept

Sobigf / MSBlast on Steroids

By Peter Behr and James V. Grimaldi
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, August 17, 2003

The Bush administration intends to side with a Senate Republican attempt to freeze a disputed regulatory proposal meant to strengthen the nation's aging power transmission system, which was blamed in last week's massive blackout, a senior administration official said yesterday.

On top of this it was announced that grids would be targeted by terrorists.

US electrical grid a prime terrorist target By Knut Royce Washington August 18, 2003 Like virtually all of America's infrastructure, the electrical grid is vulnerable to isolated terrorist attacks that could create disruptions similar to the recent blackout. A growing number of security experts, in and out of the Government, worry that potentially hostile states and even a rebuilt al-Qaeda could wreak havoc through simultaneous and co-ordinated assaults on sensitive points on the grid.

Here is a link to a mirrored doc of the Electronic Power Risk Assessment, there is going to be a huge amount of finger pointing, and political partisan bs behind this entire incident, but read it for yourself in plain english how your (P)Resident will not fund plan for a more secure system.

Off topic? I think not

By Peter Behr and James V. Grimaldi
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, August 17, 2003

The Bush administration intends to side with a Senate Republican attempt to freeze a disputed regulatory proposal meant to strengthen the nation's aging power transmission system, which was blamed in last week's massive blackout, a senior administration official said yesterday.

On top of this it was announced that grids would be targeted by terrorists.

US electrical grid a prime terrorist target By Knut Royce Washington August 18, 2003 Like virtually all of America's infrastructure, the electrical grid is vulnerable to isolated terrorist attacks that could create disruptions similar to the recent blackout. A growing number of security experts, in and out of the Government, worry that potentially hostile states and even a rebuilt al-Qaeda could wreak havoc through simultaneous and co-ordinated assaults on sensitive points on the grid.

Here is a link to a mirrored doc of the Electronic Power Risk Assessment, there is going to be a huge amount of finger pointing, and political partisan bs behind this entire incident, but read it for yourself in plain english how your (P)Resident will not fund plan for a more secure system.

Off topic? I think not

According to Schumer "The threat facing commercial airliners from shoulder-fired missiles here in the United States is no longer theoretical"

So again I state... Waste money on pork-barrel shit like this, or but it to proper use?

Full article on Schumer & view on this matter

One of the problems with independent journalists is cognitive dissonance:

Festinger claimed that people avoid information that is likely to increase dissonance. Not only do we tend to select reading material and television programs that are consistent with our existing beliefs, we usually choose to be with people who are like us. By taking care to ''stick with our own kind," we can maintain the relative comfort of the status quo. Like-minded people buffer us from ideas that could cause discomfort. In that sense, the process of making friends is an example of selecting our own propaganda.

As most newspaper and broadcast journalists can attest, there are some news subjects that are considered generally off-limits to the news side

Everything must be taken with a grain of salt. My pet peeve about news agencies, is they seemed to be reserved in what they will say, and I think too many people are left blind to major issues in life. It's sad to admit it, but there are many people worldwide who don't have the mental capability of understanding what is in front of them. Instead they turn away to fantasy, Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck, Oprah, whatever can be used as an escape.

Being that i run a pseudo news site with information that I think is interesting, I too know how to slant things for my own enjoyment or gain. I also know the dangers that most don't when it comes to posting certain information. Sure I've been threatened with suits, been visited by feds, and I'm still debating whether or not I should take down MI6's headquarter pix from my FOIA directory. I think participation is great because it gives another perspective to an issue, yet at the same time I think it is dangerous because common sense would dictate, somewhere along the line information will be misconstrued which could lead to grave danger.

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It should be a good thing for SoIP, and for pissing off the RIAA