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Software Dead Man's Switch

Anonymous Coward writes "DaisyMan over on ArsWare has come up with a software based Dead Man's Switch that will, if you don't 'check in' every so often, post a message (presumably about your demise, but whatever you wish) to various message boards, send email (maybe that incriminating evidence?) to your friends, and encrypt specified files on your computer so that 'they' can't have them. Paranoia? Yeah, but they really _are_ watching you ..." Update: 06/22 12:57 GMT by T : The idea isn't new, but recently sparked a New York Times article.

231 comments

  1. Opps! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    went on holiday for 2 weeks, got back and my PC had foobar'd itself

  2. CRON? by vbrtrmn · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you are really paranoid, couldn't you just run a cron job every few days, that if you don't stop would do this? You could probably just have it wipe your drive. Of course if you forgot, you'd be SOL.

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    1. Re:CRON? by Richard_at_work · · Score: 1

      Of course if you forgot, you'd be SOL.

      Ahh but thats what backups are f.........hmmmmm.

    2. Re:CRON? by charon.de · · Score: 1

      If you are really paranoid, couldn't you just run a cron job If you are really paranoid, couldn't you just run a cron job every few days, that if you don't stop would do this?

      Sure, a short shell script + cron would do the trick, but from the link, the sw seems to be pointed at M$ users...

    3. Re:CRON? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      After reading some of the comments here, I have to wonder what you folks are keeping around that you are so ashamed of.

      If you don't want your Mom to see it than perhaps you'd be better off without it?

    4. Re:CRON? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      In which case you probably need a 130MB download with a horrid GUI that spews AOL icons on your desktop and various crap in your tray as well as automatically sends your email address to Spammers and "volunteers" you for a P2P ad sharing network.

      What is Slashdot doing covering such a dead simple piece of software that is only "newsworthy" because someone has created a Windows version?

    5. Re:CRON? by DEBEDb · · Score: 2, Funny
      If you don't want your Mom to see it than perhaps you'd be better off without it?


      Do you want your Mom to see you
      having sex? If the answer is no, perhaps
      you'd be better off without it.

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    6. Re:CRON? by electronerd · · Score: 1

      You can use the Windows equivelent of cron + a shell script: Task scheduler + batch file and some other progs to send the mail.

    7. Re:CRON? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      You can use the Windows equivelent of cron + a shell script: Task scheduler + batch file and some other progs to send the mail.


      In other words, you can't really do it at all.
    8. Re:CRON? by Manitcor · · Score: 2

      This tool provides one better, though some of your data you may wish to just disappear. With this tool you can encrypt files, I can think of many cases where you might wish some points of data to outlive you.

      With the encryption routine then you can include a copy of the decryption program and the password sealed in your Will and then you can Will that stuff to whomever may need the data (business partners, spouses, children, channel 9 News, etc.)

      Some of us have data that is not just porn.

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    9. Re:CRON? by BLAG-blast · · Score: 1
      I don't have a Windows box, but I think cron on Windows is called "after".

      You could write something simple in Tcl and run it with "after". If the after time expires while the computer is off, I believe the after command will be ran first thing on startup.... I could be wrong so if you care that much look it up....

      Plenty of Tcl mailer libraries and stuff like that.

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    10. Re:CRON? by electronerd · · Score: 1

      no, If you have NT (including XP), you can use 'at'. There is no 'after' command. I use Windows a lot. I also use Linux a lot.

    11. Re:CRON? by Amizell · · Score: 1

      In which case you probably need a 130MB download with a horrid GUI that spews AOL icons on your desktop and various crap in your tray as well as automatically sends your email address to Spammers and "volunteers" you for a P2P ad sharing network.

      ...or you could use AT, the equivalent MS command. That would probably be quicker...

      alex

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    12. Re:CRON? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ahh...perhaps that's why I'm 33 and never "done it."

    13. Re:CRON? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      A word on arsware (bugware) you should be made aware of.

      Aryeh ('Are ya got holes in yer Programs') Holzer alias Daisyman on the arstechnica forums created a serious buggy app you all should be made aware of that shows he codes VERY poorly in another application he wrote. It was proven he has done that demonstrates an utter lack of skills & dangerous methods. Read on...

      He wrote that Coolinfo program (of which he had to change the name from Coolinfo to Coolmon or get sued since he stole it first of all) which is a giant bug, examples of it & proof are below, so no Arsholeware (bugware) unless you like taking extreme chances.

      EXAMPLE #1:

      He was shown to code without using error trapping or structured error handlers at

      http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

      In their software forums (search Coolmon & use from the beginning as your search query... OR sort by most views from the beginning, you will see it).

      The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk?

      You can't.

      Funniest part was the guy who found the error, without having the source to "Uncoolmon" lol, as he called it, had to show the coder HOW AND WHERE TO PLACE THE ERROR TRAPPING! Obviously, either he did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

      (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program)

      The fix the other coder gave him in that URL above is EXACTLY what Aryeh/Daisyman used VERBATIM. No creativity either apparently.

      That to me proved Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool without checking for the water being in it first, hehe, can you say "CRASH"?

      EXAMPLE #2:

      2 years of life, and this program is HUGELY buggy, see here on their own forums... another place they pimp their junk:

      http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

      Still to this day. Nope, no arsware for me. They pimp it all over the web but better alternatives exist for that Uncoolmon one... like Clearinfo!

      Most hilariously, they posted that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward" about it here...

      Ha, want to bet that's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here as the originator of that post about DeadMan's switch too?

      Unbelievable! What a pack of weasels. They're known for posting via hotmail.com & yahoo.com accounts & using "anonymous" alot. What a bunch of gossipy women. Learn to code PROPERLY arstech boys, then the goods will speak for themselves & no need to pimp them "anonymously" girls!

      I don't know about you people, but reading those URL links above convinced me that arsware is bugware to the max.

      At least Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer thanked the guy who showed him how to write a structured error handler in Delphi for removing 4 bugs from his code. Too bad hundreds more exist as you see in the second URL.

    14. Re:CRON? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      A word on arsware (bugware) you should be made aware of.

      Aryeh ('Are ya got holes in yer Programs') Holzer alias Daisyman on the arstechnica forums created a serious buggy app you all should be made aware of that shows he codes VERY poorly in another application he wrote.

      It was proven he has done that demonstrates an utter lack of skills & dangerous methods. Read on...

      He wrote that Coolinfo program (of which he had to change the name from Coolinfo to Coolmon or get sued since he stole it first of all) which is a giant bug!

      Examples of it & proof are below, so no Arsholeware (bugware) unless you like taking extreme chances.

      EXAMPLE #1:

      He was shown to code without using error trapping or structured error handlers at

      http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

      In their software forums (search Coolmon & use from the beginning as your search query... OR sort by most views from the beginning, you will see it).

      The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk?

      You can't.

      Funniest part was the guy who found the error, without having the source to "Uncoolmon" lol, as he called it, had to show the coder HOW AND WHERE TO PLACE THE ERROR TRAPPING!

      Obviously, either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

      (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program)

      The fix the other coder gave him in that URL above is EXACTLY what Aryeh/Daisyman used VERBATIM. No creativity either apparently.

      That to me proved Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool without checking for the water being in it first, hehe, can you say "CRASH"?

      EXAMPLE #2:

      2 years of life, and this program is HUGELY buggy, see here on their own forums... another place they pimp their junk:

      http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

      Still to this day. Nope, no arsware for me. They pimp it all over the web but better alternatives exist for that Uncoolmon one... like Clearinfo!

      Most hilariously, they posted that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward" about it here...

      Ha, want to bet that's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here as the originator of that post about DeadMan's switch too?

      Unbelievable! What a pack of weasels. They're known for posting via hotmail.com & yahoo.com accounts & using "anonymous" alot. What a bunch of gossipy women. Learn to code PROPERLY arstech boys, then the goods will speak for themselves & no need to pimp them "anonymously" girls!

      I don't know about you people, but reading those URL links above convinced me that arsware is bugware to the max.

      At least Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer thanked the guy who showed him how to write a structured error handler in Delphi for removing 4 bugs from his code. Too bad hundreds more exist as you see in the second URL.

      If arsware "uncoolmon" has that kind of buggy and lack of error trap code in it, do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"?

      Me, I don't play Russian roulette with arsware!

  3. What if by paule9984673 · · Score: 1
    ...my net access goes down?

    I'm on KPNQwest BTW

    (not really)

    1. Re:What if by neuroticia · · Score: 1

      Keep it on your local computer, and if you go away for vacation, make sure you can dial-in.

    2. Re:What if by packeteer · · Score: 1

      you have this program running on a REMOTE computer... of course you would have it on your home machine but it would be best to simply have some overseas box have this sit and wait...

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    3. Re:What if by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Arsware (bugware) issues you should be made aware of since it demonstrates the coder creates programs without error handling and shows poor operating system function understanding as well.

      Aryeh (Are ya got holes in yer Programs/Bugs Bunny) Holzer alias Daisyman (after you read this, you will call him "BUGS" bunny) has been proven to create serious flaws in his programs due to his already shown flagrantly dangerous coding style of using no error handling doubtless carryover to this application also! Not only bugs, but FLAWS IN CODING PRACTICES and DESIGN LOGIC! Present without doubt in this program also which are lack of error handling and understanding of his own code architecture, oddly, which makes you wonder who's code it is.

      EXAMPLE #1 OF LACK OF ERROR HANDLERS & CRASH:

      Aryeh Holzer/Daisyman shown to code without using error trapping or structured error handlers ->

      http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

      The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk? You can't. You can only try fix them, not one of them did as most of them talk alot, but could not code their way out of a wet paper bag.

      In fact, the man who found the bug had to tell the coder of the application how to do it which is pretty amazing. How to do it, where to place it. Without having the sourcecode available to him. You would think the coder would have known how & where to do that once made aware of it! He used the fix, verbatim also. Obviously, either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

      (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program.)

      Performance minded users on NT based Os' turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, and ram as well as other forms of IO. If you do not monitor those you can turn them off with reskit tool extctrlst.exe and save those resources for programs that can use them.

      He was not accounting for this at all. Poor understanding of the Operating Systems of NT genre and no accounting for users who do this also! If they are not generated and are not monitored or used, again, you save resources by turning them off!

      That to me proved Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool without checking for the water being in it first, hehe, can you say "CRASH"?

      (Heh, plus he had to change the name from Coolinfo to Coolmon or get sued since he stole it first of all. Makes you wonder again, if the code is his in fact.)

      EXAMPLE #2 OF ONGOING INSTABILITIES BY TESTERS:

      2 years of life and this program is HUGELY buggy, see here on their own forums, another place they pimp their junk:

      http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

      BUGGY as you can see. No arsware for me. Ars pimps it all over the web, better alternatives exist and are already in your OS in perfmon & motherboard monitor which coolmon attaches to its coattails only!

      (Technically speaking this is NOT a complex program at all, and a kid could make it. All Coolinfo does is read output that motherboard monitor does and Performance counters anyhow. Tools already are in mobo monitor and Os native perfmon for that already anyways.)

      EXAMPLE #3 (BUGLIST):

      http://daisyman.arsware.org/coolinfo/bugs.html

      (Delphi transparent form code it has? Freely available online, tops 50-100 lines tacked on & probably stolen from on the web! After reading all that above, it's fairly obvious this coder does not write large tracts of his work as was evidenced by his inability to use error handlers & where to put them in the code.)

      Arstechnica posted that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward" about it here: Want to bet that Anonymous Coward who started this thread's an arstechnica forum member posting and pimping their bugware here (and allover the web also) as the originator of this post too?

      Learn to code PROPERLY arstech, the goods will speak for themselves then no need to pimp them "anonymously" ars-girls!

      After reading all that above, do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"?

  4. Flaw? by Deanasc · · Score: 3, Insightful

    OK wouldn't this be a moot point if my enemies get my computer offline before the switch is thrown. A better way would be for the software to run off something like FIDOnet with no single weakpoint. Just my 2 cents.

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    1. Re:Flaw? by Ami+Ganguli · · Score: 2

      It depends on how you set it up and whether or not 'they' know you've got such a system.

      Under Linux you'd presumably use Anacron to schedule the task, so if the computer is powered on intact the task will trigger.

      If 'they' are anticipating a self destruct mechanism then, yeah, 'they' can get around it. But I think even the wariest NSA spook will probably at least try to turn the machine on before deciding to disassemble it. As soon as that happens you're safe.

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    2. Re:Flaw? by the_real_tigga · · Score: 1

      But I think even the wariest NSA spook will probably at least try to turn the machine on before deciding to disassemble it. As soon as that happens you're safe.

      hmm, well on my machines the'll probably simply attach a SCSI cable from their SpookPad(TM) laptops to the back of my SCSI adapter, and power on the just the disks.

      You can't hide that much data in the CMOS, you know.

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    3. Re:Flaw? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ...The idea is to have it as an insurance policy so you don't BECOME dead. But, unless I have misinterpreted the program, it doesn't require/allow a password to reset the switch. Is this the case?

    4. Re:Flaw? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      A word on arsware (bugware) you should be made aware of. This coder codes without proper error handling BIGTIME, and it was proven. He could not even fix it himself and had to have advice how to, makes you wonder if he writes his own stuff. More on that below, with proofs.

      Aryeh ('Are ya got holes in yer Programs') Holzer alias Daisyman on the arstechnica forums created a serious buggy app you all should be made aware of that shows he codes VERY poorly in another application he wrote.

      It was proven he has done that demonstrates an utter lack of skills & dangerous methods. Read on...

      He wrote that Coolinfo program (of which he had to change the name from Coolinfo to Coolmon or get sued since he stole it first of all) which is a giant bug!

      Examples of it & proof are below, so no Arsholeware (bugware) unless you like taking extreme chances.

      EXAMPLE #1:

      He was shown to code without using error trapping or structured error handlers at

      http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

      In their software forums (search Coolmon & use from the beginning as your search query... OR sort by most views from the beginning, you will see it).

      The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk?

      You can't.

      Funniest part was the guy who found the error, without having the source to "Uncoolmon" lol, as he called it, had to show the coder HOW AND WHERE TO PLACE THE ERROR TRAPPING!

      Obviously, either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

      (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program)

      The fix the other coder gave him in that URL above is EXACTLY what Aryeh/Daisyman used VERBATIM. No creativity either apparently.

      That to me proved Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool without checking for the water being in it first, hehe, can you say "CRASH"?

      EXAMPLE #2:

      2 years of life, and this program is HUGELY buggy, see here on their own forums... another place they pimp their junk:

      http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

      Still to this day. Nope, no arsware for me. They pimp it all over the web but better alternatives exist for that Uncoolmon one... like Clearinfo!

      Most hilariously, they posted that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward" about it here...

      Ha, want to bet that's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here as the originator of that post about DeadMan's switch too?

      Unbelievable! What a pack of weasels. They're known for posting via hotmail.com & yahoo.com accounts & using "anonymous" alot. What a bunch of gossipy women. Learn to code PROPERLY arstech boys, then the goods will speak for themselves & no need to pimp them "anonymously" girls!

      I don't know about you people, but reading those URL links above convinced me that arsware is bugware to the max.

      At least Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer thanked the guy who showed him how to write a structured error handler in Delphi for removing 4 bugs from his code. Too bad hundreds more exist as you see in the second URL.

      If arsware "uncoolmon" has that kind of buggy and lack of error trap code in it, do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"?

      Me, I don't play Russian roulette with arsware!

  5. If you are not here, please raise your hand. by march · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What if you forget to check in? Does the "countdown" start? Will the world end?

    This is similar to the argument about usenet (message boards) vs. mailing lists. With mailing lists, if you forget about a low traffic list, you are reminded when mail comes in. With a message board, you have to remember to check in.

    I find the "check in" model flawed because we (humans) are flawed.

    1. Re:If you are not here, please raise your hand. by GigsVT · · Score: 1

      Well this is getting a little offtopic, but if you have a usenet reader that acts more like a mail client (or is also a mail client), then basically all the usenet groups you are subscribed to look like a bunch of pre-sorted mailboxes.

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  6. BBS Days by totallygeek · · Score: 2
    I had something similar for my BBS. It was a DOS TSR that had a countdown and unless I typed in two phrases before it ran out it would zero-out the drive. Well, software sucks, and software on DOS doubly so -- can you say boom!?!?!

    1. Re:BBS Days by brejc8 · · Score: 2

      Thats weird! I just wrote thesame story below.

    2. Re:BBS Days by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Arsware (bugware) 3 proofs of SERIOUS issues you should be made aware of since it demonstrates the coder creates programs w/out error handling & shows poor operating system function understanding as well. Aryeh (Are ya got holes in yer Programs/Bugs Bunny) Holzer alias Daisyman (after you read this, you will call him "BUGS" bunny) has been proven to create serious flaws in his programs due to his already shown flagrantly dangerous coding style of using no error handling
      doubtless carryover to this application also!

      A.) EXAMPLE #1 OF LACK OF ERROR HANDLERS & CRASH:

      Aryeh Holzer/Daisyman shown to code w/out using error trapping or structured error handlers ->

      http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

      The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk?

      You can't. You can only try fix them, not one of them did as most of them talk alot, but could not code their way out of a wet paper bag. This is their typical libellous nature on their forums also if their "integrity", such as it is, is wounded.

      * Proof here, Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool w/out checking for the water being in it first, hehe, can you say "CRASH"?

      (Coolinfo's name change to Coolmon was done because they stole that name also. Change it or get sued since he stole it first of all. Makes you wonder again, if the code is his in fact.)

      B.) EXAMPLE #2 OF ONGOING INSTABILITIES BY TESTERS:

      2 years of life & this program is HUGELY buggy! See here on arstechnica, another place they pimp their junk:

      http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

      Ars pimps it all over the web, better alternatives exist & are already in your OS in perfmon & motherboard monitor which coolmon attaches to its coattails only!

      C.) EXAMPLE #3 (BUGLIST):

      http://daisyman.arsware.org/coolinfo/bugs.html

      Not only bugs, but FLAWS IN CODING PRACTICES & DESIGN LOGIC! Present w/out doubt in DeadmanSwitch also because he had to be shown how & where to place error handlers to account for lack of checking if Performance Counters generated by the OS were on or off at program startup, which he sent out into the web proven to be dangerously designed with no error handling. If perf. counters were off, it crashed!

      In fact, the man in example A below who found the bug had to tell the coder of the application how to do it which is pretty amazing. How to do it, where to

      place it. w/out having the sourcecode available to him. You would think the coder would have known how & where to do that once made aware of it! He used the fix, verbatim also. Obviously, either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

      (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program.)

      Why turn perf. counters off? Simple: Performance minded users on NT based Os' turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, & ram as well as other forms of IO. If you do not monitor those you can turn them off w/ reskit tool extctrlst.exe & save those resources for programs that can use them. He was not accounting for this at all.

      (Technically speaking this is NOT a complex program at all. All Coolinfo does is read output that motherboard monitor does & Performance counters anyhow. Tools already are in motherboard monitor (to which arstechnica has attached itself to Alex Van Kaam's coattails in Motherboard Monitor with) & Os native perfmon for that already anyways.Delphi transparent form code it has? Freely available online, tops 50-100 lines tacked on & probably stolen from on the web! After reading all that above, it's fairly obvious this coder does not write large tracts of his work as was evidenced by his inability to use error h&lers & where to put them in the code.)

      Arstechnica posted that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward" about it here: Want to bet that Anonymous Coward who started this thread's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here (& allover the web also) as the originator of this post too? Learn to code PROPERLY arstech, the goods will speak for themselves then no need to pimp them "anonymously" ars-girls! He's famous for bugware.

      After reading all that above, do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"?

  7. Safe House by smackdotcom · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This sounds markedly similar to the idea employed in the underrated TV-movie Safe House, where Patrick Stewart's character, a retired spook, employs a software failsafe based on his ability to recreate a Japanese alphabet character. If he is unable to complete this task every day by a certain time, incriminating information about his black ops "friends" would automatically be sent to every major news organization on the planet. It could be very handy if you think someone is out to get you...

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    1. Re:Safe House by GigsVT · · Score: 1

      That would require the sensitive information to be automatically accessible from a network connected (in some form) computer. Sure, you could have it dial in, and keep the modem out of auto-answer mode, but I seriously doubt an ex-spook would make the mistake of storing sensitive information in a network accessible computer.

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    2. Re:Safe House by SuiteSisterMary · · Score: 2

      It's not that difficult to configure a network to be one-way only.

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    3. Re:Safe House by Jaffa · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      But it reveals the flaws of any Dead Man's Switch when his increasing Alzheimers (IIRC) means he knows that he has to do it and what the consequences will be if he doesn't, but he gets stuck half way through and can't complete the task.

    4. Re:Safe House by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Basically, the character had dirt on a big time military man (seems to be a hybrid of Colin Powell and Stormin' Norman). The Bigwig in question had a Senator killed when he refused to support increased funding the DIA. Not this Bigwig has a good chance of becoming President.

      In this scenario, the General knows that he has the info, but has no idea if he has any plans on informing the world. The bad guy(s) know that he has the info, the good guys have no idea. If the information gets out, the General can kiss his campaign goodbye. As long as he remains unthreatened, the sensitive info remains under lock and key.

      I put a lot of thought into this when I saw the movie, I considered the possibility that if one were in such a situation, the badguys would have the clout to just monitor your traffic and see what you were doing and what you were connecting to.

      Of course this is not possible, but a hidden process on a large and popular website's server would be a way to do this. If, for example, yahoo's httpd were also looking for a hidden "reset_countdown" in every incoming http request, someone sniffing your traffic would never know what to look for. Even if they sniffed the packet that contained the message.

      The problem is getting that kind of access to such a server.

    5. Re:Safe House by Lozzer · · Score: 1

      Ah yes, I remember the climax where the spooks put an axe through the failsafe machine and said "transmit now har har harharhar! Whatdya mean it was a fault tolerant cluster? Bugger.

      --
      Special Relativity: The person in the other queue thinks yours is moving faster.
    6. Re:Safe House by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      A word on arsware (bugware) you should be made aware of since it demonstrates the coder creates programs without error handling & shows poor operating system function understanding as well.

      Aryeh ('Are ya got holes in yer Programs') Holzer alias Daisyman on the arstechnica forums created a serious buggy app you all should be made aware of that shows he codes VERY poorly in another application he wrote.

      It was proven he has done that demonstrates an utter lack of skills & dangerous methods. Read on...

      He wrote that Coolinfo program (of which he had to change the name from Coolinfo to Coolmon or get sued since he stole it first of all) which is a giant bug!

      Examples of it & proof are below, so no Arsholeware (bugware) unless you like taking extreme chances.

      EXAMPLE #1:

      He was shown to code without using error trapping or structured error handlers at

      http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

      In their software forums (search Coolmon & use from the beginning as your search query... OR sort by most views from the beginning, you will see it).

      The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk?

      You can't.

      Funniest part was the guy who found the error, without having the source to "Uncoolmon" lol, as he called it, had to show the coder HOW AND WHERE TO PLACE THE ERROR TRAPPING!

      Obviously, either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

      (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program. Many performance minded people turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, and ram as well as other forms of IO. He was not accounting for this, not at all. Poor understanding of the Operating Systems of NT genre!)

      The fix the other coder gave him in that URL above is EXACTLY what Aryeh/Daisyman used VERBATIM. No creativity either apparently.

      That to me proved Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool without checking for the water being in it first, hehe, can you say "CRASH"?

      EXAMPLE #2:

      2 years of life, and this program is HUGELY buggy, see here on their own forums... another place they pimp their junk:

      http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

      Still to this day. Nope, no arsware for me. They pimp it all over the web but better alternatives exist for that Uncoolmon one... like Clearinfo!

      Most hilariously, they posted that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward" about it here...

      Ha, want to bet that's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here as the originator of that post about DeadMan's switch too?

      Unbelievable! What a pack of weasels. They're known for posting via hotmail.com & yahoo.com accounts & using "anonymous" alot. What a bunch of gossipy women. Learn to code PROPERLY arstech boys, then the goods will speak for themselves & no need to pimp them "anonymously" girls!

      I don't know about you people, but reading those URL links above convinced me that arsware is bugware to the max.

      At least Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer thanked the guy who showed him how to write a structured error handler in Delphi for removing 4 bugs from his code. Too bad hundreds more exist as you see in the second URL.

      If arsware "uncoolmon" has that kind of buggy and lack of error trap code in it, do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"?

      Me, I don't play Russian roulette with arsware!

  8. Question... by rant-mode-on · · Score: 5, Funny

    The question is, can I set up a cron job to save me being pestered by it all the time?

    1. Re:Question... by clary · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Hehe.

      Actually, maybe the poster was serious??? I could imagine putting the cron job on one of your main servers or workstations, easily found by "THEM." The dead-man's switch would be on some less obvious machine, in another location. When "THEY" rush in, unplug, and cart off all your machines, "THEY" unknowingly turn off the cron job.

      For the most delicious irony, the most wily of you might find some way to host the dead-man's switch on one of "THEIR" machines!

      --

      "Rub her feet." -- L.L.

    2. Re:Question... by Henry+Stern · · Score: 1

      Just wait until your kernel panics. Who's laughing then? ;)

    3. Re:Question... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Arsware (bugware) 3 proofs of SERIOUS issues you should be made aware of since it demonstrates the coder creates programs w/out error handling & shows poor operating system function understanding as well. Aryeh (Are ya got holes in yer Programs/Bugs Bunny) Holzer alias Daisyman (after you read this, you will call him "BUGS" bunny) has been proven to create serious flaws in his programs due to his already shown flagrantly dangerous coding style of using no error handling
      doubtless carryover to this application also!

      A.) EXAMPLE #1 OF LACK OF ERROR HANDLERS & CRASH:

      Aryeh Holzer/Daisyman shown to code w/out using error trapping or structured error handlers ->

      http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

      The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk?

      You can't. You can only try fix them, not one of them did as most of them talk alot, but could not code their way out of a wet paper bag. This is their typical libellous nature on their forums also if their "integrity", such as it is, is wounded.

      * Proof here, Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool w/out checking for the water being in it first, hehe, can you say "CRASH"?

      (Coolinfo's name change to Coolmon was done because they stole that name also. Change it or get sued since he stole it first of all. Makes you wonder again, if the code is his in fact.)

      B.) EXAMPLE #2 OF ONGOING INSTABILITIES BY TESTERS:

      2 years of life & this program is HUGELY buggy! See here on arstechnica, another place they pimp their junk:

      http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

      Ars pimps it all over the web, better alternatives exist & are already in your OS in perfmon & motherboard monitor which coolmon attaches to its coattails only!

      C.) EXAMPLE #3 (BUGLIST):

      http://daisyman.arsware.org/coolinfo/bugs.html

      Not only bugs, but FLAWS IN CODING PRACTICES & DESIGN LOGIC! Present w/out doubt in DeadmanSwitch also because he had to be shown how & where to place error handlers to account for lack of checking if Performance Counters generated by the OS were on or off at program startup, which he sent out into the web proven to be dangerously designed with no error handling. If perf. counters were off, it crashed!

      In fact, the man in example A below who found the bug had to tell the coder of the application how to do it which is pretty amazing. How to do it, where to place it. w/out having the sourcecode available to him. You would think the coder would have known how & where to do that once made aware of it! He used the fix, verbatim also. Obviously, either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

      (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program.)

      Why turn perf. counters off? Simple: Performance minded users on NT based Os' turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, & ram as well as other forms of IO. If you do not monitor those you can turn them off w/ reskit tool extctrlst.exe & save those resources for programs that can use them. He was not accounting for this at all.

      (Delphi transparent form code it has? Freely available online, tops 50-100 lines tacked on & probably stolen from on the web! After reading all that above, it's fairly obvious this coder does not write large tracts of his work as was evidenced by his inability to use error h&lers & where to put them in the code.)

      Arstechnica posted that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward" about it here: Want to bet that Anonymous Coward who started this thread's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here (& allover the web also) as the originator of this post too? Learn to code PROPERLY arstech, the goods will speak for themselves then no need to pimp them "anonymously" ars-girls! He's famous for bugware.

      After reading all that above, do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"?

  9. Everything old is new again. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Kids, this ain't new.

    In corporate IT circles, this trick has been used for -years- by disgruntled employees.

    The theory goes that you have a bomb set to go off once a day (the bomb does something nefarious -- wipes the disks clean, alters some code to ensure incorrect results, etc..)

    The disgruntled employee must check in to defuse the bomb once a week.

    If he doesn't (ie, if he got canned....) A week later, the business is going to grapple with an unfortunate surprise.

    Totally underhanded, but not at all uncommon.

    1. Re:Everything old is new again. by jcoy42 · · Score: 1
      The disgruntled employee must check in to defuse the bomb once a week.

      If he doesn't (ie, if he got canned....) A week later, the business is going to grapple with an unfortunate surprise.

      Totally underhanded, but not at all uncommon.

      That is underhanded, and I would think could get you into a lot of trouble.

      I typically put scripts for things like log rotation & email alerts in my home directory and have them spawned by cron jobs. Or re-spawning at jobs.

      The idea is a clever admin who is paying attention will migrate my stuff over and all is well. But the typical admin will just nuke my account.. Nothing like turning off nightly log compression on a few hundred websites to make someone feel the heat.
      --
      Never trust an atom. They make up everything.
    2. Re:Everything old is new again. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So you are willing to inconvenience a few hundred people just to express your cleverness? How juvenile...

    3. Re:Everything old is new again. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You sound like one of the morons I used to work with. Any idiot who thinks it's okay to run production code on production systems from his home directory should be at the top of the layoff list. Of course, any manager who allows for such and doesn't enforce better organization should be on the list ahead of him.

    4. Re:Everything old is new again. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      A word on arsware (bugware) you should be made aware of since it demonstrates the coder creates programs without error handling & shows poor operating system function understanding as well.

      Aryeh ('Are ya got holes in yer Programs') Holzer alias Daisyman on the arstechnica forums created a serious buggy app you all should be made aware of that shows he codes VERY poorly in another application he wrote.

      It was proven he has done that demonstrates an utter lack of skills & dangerous methods. Read on...

      He wrote that Coolinfo program (of which he had to change the name from Coolinfo to Coolmon or get sued since he stole it first of all) which is a giant bug!

      Examples of it & proof are below, so no Arsholeware (bugware) unless you like taking extreme chances.

      EXAMPLE #1:

      He was shown to code without using error trapping or structured error handlers at

      http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

      In their software forums (search Coolmon & use from the beginning as your search query... OR sort by most views from the beginning, you will see it).

      The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk?

      You can't.

      Funniest part was the guy who found the error, without having the source to "Uncoolmon" lol, as he called it, had to show the coder HOW AND WHERE TO PLACE THE ERROR TRAPPING!

      Obviously, either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

      (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program. Many performance minded people turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, and ram as well as other forms of IO. He was not accounting for this, not at all. Poor understanding of the Operating Systems of NT genre!)

      The fix the other coder gave him in that URL above is EXACTLY what Aryeh/Daisyman used VERBATIM. No creativity either apparently.

      That to me proved Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool without checking for the water being in it first, hehe, can you say "CRASH"?

      EXAMPLE #2:

      2 years of life, and this program is HUGELY buggy, see here on their own forums... another place they pimp their junk:

      http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

      Still to this day. Nope, no arsware for me. They pimp it all over the web but better alternatives exist for that Uncoolmon one... like Clearinfo!

      Most hilariously, they posted that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward" about it here...

      Ha, want to bet that's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here as the originator of that post about DeadMan's switch too?

      Unbelievable! What a pack of weasels. They're known for posting via hotmail.com & yahoo.com accounts & using "anonymous" alot. What a bunch of gossipy women. Learn to code PROPERLY arstech boys, then the goods will speak for themselves & no need to pimp them "anonymously" girls!

      I don't know about you people, but reading those URL links above convinced me that arsware is bugware to the max.

      At least Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer thanked the guy who showed him how to write a structured error handler in Delphi for removing 4 bugs from his code. Too bad hundreds more exist as you see in the second URL.

      If arsware "uncoolmon" has that kind of buggy and lack of error trap code in it, do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"?

      Me, I don't play Russian roulette with arsware! And most certainly not with this buggy thing, since it is timing critical, and with no error trapping done by this guy? NO WAY!

  10. This rulez. by Krapangor · · Score: 1

    I've always wanted a program which sends email to my friends that I'm missing and they should call the police when I just went on holidays.
    Ha, but it encrypts all my pr0n.

    --
    Owner of a Mensa membership card.
    1. Re:This rulez. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      A word on arsware (bugware) you should be made aware of since it demonstrates the coder creates programs without error handling & shows poor operating system function understanding as well.

      Aryeh ('Are ya got holes in yer Programs') Holzer alias Daisyman on the arstechnica forums created a serious buggy app you all should be made aware of that shows he codes VERY poorly in another application he wrote.

      It was proven he has done that demonstrates an utter lack of skills & dangerous methods. Read on...

      He wrote that Coolinfo program (of which he had to change the name from Coolinfo to Coolmon or get sued since he stole it first of all) which is a giant bug!

      Examples of it & proof are below, so no Arsholeware (bugware) unless you like taking extreme chances.

      EXAMPLE #1:

      He was shown to code without using error trapping or structured error handlers at

      http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

      In their software forums (search Coolmon & use from the beginning as your search query... OR sort by most views from the beginning, you will see it).

      The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk?

      You can't.

      Funniest part was the guy who found the error, without having the source to "Uncoolmon" lol, as he called it, had to show the coder HOW AND WHERE TO PLACE THE ERROR TRAPPING!

      Obviously, either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

      (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program. Many performance minded people turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, and ram as well as other forms of IO. He was not accounting for this, not at all. Poor understanding of the Operating Systems of NT genre!)

      The fix the other coder gave him in that URL above is EXACTLY what Aryeh/Daisyman used VERBATIM. No creativity either apparently.

      That to me proved Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool without checking for the water being in it first, hehe, can you say "CRASH"?

      EXAMPLE #2:

      2 years of life, and this program is HUGELY buggy, see here on their own forums... another place they pimp their junk:

      http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

      Still to this day. Nope, no arsware for me. They pimp it all over the web but better alternatives exist for that Uncoolmon one... like Clearinfo! Heck all this thing does is read output that motherboard monitor does, and Performance counters anyhow. Tools already are in mobo monitor & perfmon for that already anyways.

      And, Delphi transparent form code? Freely available online, tops 50-100 lines tacked on & probably stolen, because it's fairly obvious this coder does not write large tracts of his work as was evidenced by his inability to use error handlers & where to put them in the code.

      Most hilariously, they posted that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward" about it here...

      Ha, want to bet that's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here as the originator of that post about DeadMan's switch too?

      Unbelievable! What a pack of weasels. They're known for posting via hotmail.com & yahoo.com accounts & using "anonymous" alot. What a bunch of gossipy women. Learn to code PROPERLY arstech boys, then the goods will speak for themselves & no need to pimp them "anonymously" girls!

      I don't know about you people, but reading those URL links above convinced me that arsware is bugware to the max.

      At least Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer thanked the guy who showed him how to write a structured error handler in Delphi for removing 4 bugs from his code. Too bad hundreds more exist as you see in the second URL.

      If arsware "uncoolmon" has that kind of buggy and lack of error trap code in it, do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"?

      Me, I don't play Russian roulette with arsware! And most certainly not with this PROBABLY VERY buggy thing, since it is timing critical, and with no error trapping done by this guy as was shown to the case above in CoolMon by aryeh holzer as well? NO WAY!

  11. Add wireless.... by brainboyz · · Score: 1

    Add some form of wireless heartbeat sensor, and you'd be set. Plus some of these villian toys, and the superheros/goodguys can't win!

    1. Re:Add wireless.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      A serious word on arsware (bugware) you should be made aware of since it demonstrates the coder creates programs without error handling & shows poor operating system function understanding as well.

      Aryeh ('Are ya got holes in yer Programs') Holzer alias Daisyman on the arstechnica forums also created another serious buggy app you all should be made aware of that shows he codes VERY poorly in another application he wrote.

      It was proven he has done that demonstrates an utter lack of skills & dangerous methods. He wrote that Coolinfo program (of which he had to change the name from Coolinfo to Coolmon or get sued since he stole it first of all) which is a giant bug!

      Examples of it & proof are below, so no Arsholeware (bugware) unless you like taking extreme chances.

      EXAMPLE #1:

      He was shown to code without using error trapping or structured error handlers at

      http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

      In their software forums (search Coolmon & use from the beginning as your search query... OR sort by most views from the beginning, you will see it).

      The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk? You can't.

      Funniest part was the guy who found the error, without having the source to "Uncoolmon" lol, as he called it, had to show the coder HOW AND WHERE TO PLACE THE ERROR TRAPPING!

      Obviously, either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

      (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program. Many performance minded people turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, and ram as well as other forms of IO. He was not accounting for this, not at all. Poor understanding of the Operating Systems of NT genre!)

      The fix the other coder gave him in that URL above is EXACTLY what Aryeh/Daisyman used VERBATIM. No creativity either apparently.

      That to me proved Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool without checking for the water being in it first, hehe, can you say "CRASH"?

      EXAMPLE #2:

      2 years of life, and this program is HUGELY buggy, see here on their own forums... another place they pimp their junk:

      http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

      BUGGY still to this day as you can see. No arsware for me. They pimp it all over the web but better alternatives exist for that Uncoolmon one like Clearinfo! Heck all this thing does is read output that motherboard monitor does, and Performance counters anyhow. Tools already are in mobo monitor & perfmon for that already anyways.

      And, Delphi transparent form code? Freely available online, tops 50-100 lines tacked on & probably stolen! It's fairly obvious this coder does not write large tracts of his work as was evidenced by his inability to use error handlers & where to put them in the code.

      Arstechnica posted that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward" about it here... Ha, want to bet that Anonymous Coward who started this thread's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here as the originator of this post too?

      Arstechnica members are known for posting via hotmail.com & yahoo.com accounts & using "anonymous" alot. Learn to code PROPERLY arstech boys, then the goods will speak for themselves & no need to pimp them "anonymously" girls!

      I don't know about you people, but reading those URL links above convinced me that arsware is bugware to the max. If arsware "uncoolmon" has that kind of buggy and lack of error trap code in it, do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"?

      I don't play Russian roulette with arsware! And most certainly not with this PROBABLY buggy thing, since it is timing critical, and with no error trapping done by this guy as was shown to the case above in CoolMon by aryeh holzer as well? NO WAY!

  12. login script by xpurple · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've got my laptop set to format the drive (yes | rm -r /) if I don't login every so often. Currently it's set at two weeks (I don't reboot much). I don't see this causing any issues, and it makes me feel better.

    So far so good :)

    Note that this gets around the annoying having to do something special to make it work. I'd login anyway :)

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    1. Re:login script by awx · · Score: 1

      I don't see the problem with rm -rf / , why don't you use that? It's hardly a huge point - just interested...

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    2. Re:login script by willardj · · Score: 1

      I like that idea but would the data still be recoverable with some utility? Mabey it would make sense to rm -rf /home or whereever your data is, calculate the amount of free disk space and do a mkfile of that size!

    3. Re:login script by Fruit · · Score: 1

      shred -fuz

    4. Re:login script by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Posting as AC because i already modded this discussion.

      I think rm -rf doesn't actually eliminate the data, it just unlinks it. the files remain intact on the drive. formatting overwrites all your data so that te original information is destroyed.

    5. Re:login script by prog-guru · · Score: 1

      srm will securely delete files in Linux. rm -P in *BSD.

      dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda might be faster.

      --

      chris@xanadu:~$ whatis /.
      /.: nothing appropriate.

    6. Re:login script by swillden · · Score: 2

      I've got my laptop set to format the drive (yes | rm -r /) if I don't login every so often.

      For the truly paranoid, that's not good enough. You really ought to make sure that random data gets written all over the drive at least, and you also risk the chance that someone may get to your data before it's wiped.

      I recommend encrypting everything. The easiest way is to use an encrypting file system (I use Cryptfs) . Then, you just have to arrange for your machine to forget the password and all of your data is inaccessible, even to forensics (well, unless they can guess your passphrase, so use a good, long, complex one, or unless they can break the cipher, which is unlikely at best if you use a good implementation of a respected, modern algorithm).

      I hacked the screen lock (which can be engaged automatically when the screensaver comes on) to execute "echo wrongpassword | fist_setkey /mnt/cryptfs", which changes the key being used to access my encrypted data, making it all inaccessible (and invisible to the casual attacker).

      When I unlock the screen, I have to enter both my login password and my cryptfs passphrase.

      So, after 30 minutes of inactivity, or after a reboot, all of my data is inaccessible. The most significant weakness is the possibility that my passphrase might get written to the swapfile. I've been meaning to look into that but haven't gotten around to it.

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    7. Re:login script by Bishop · · Score: 2

      There is a chance that your passphrase could end up in the swap file. Use an encrypted swap to be safe.

    8. Re:login script by swillden · · Score: 2

      Yes, I mentioned that issue. Do you have any pointers to information on how to set up encrypted swap?

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    9. Re:login script by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      AFAIK OpenBSD has an encrypted swap. For Linux, I use BestCrypt & BCWipe. For FreeBSD I use BCWipe and CryptFS.

      I have various shell scripts that scrub my FreeBSD system after certain activity automagically.

      Still experimenting.

    10. Re:login script by lommer · · Score: 1

      A friend of mine also had something similar for a time.

      You see, he was running a warez server and he figured that if he got busted, the cops would probably be able to figure out anything that was on his drive before, no matter how many times he formatted it. The solution?

      He had a deadman's switch that when run, send a signal out through a spare serial port. This was connected to some homebrew electronics, which was connected to an electric ignitor, which was connected to a fuse, which was connected to a little pile of thermite sitting on top of the hard drive. This meant that if the switch didn't get reset, his harddrive would very quickly become a little puddle of molten metal on the bottom of his case (it would probably set his house on fire too, but if you're dead, who cares?)

      They other neat feature he built into it is he connected a wire up to a switch near his front door that would act as a manual activator if/when the cops came to execute a warrant. After a couple close calls though, he figured his system was even more of a liability than his pirate server and then went back to just formatting multiple times.

  13. I bet... by Verizon+Guy · · Score: 1

    Stephen King already has a copy!

    --

    Aw, fuck it. Let's go bowling. - The Big Lebowski

    1. Re:I bet... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Arsware (bugware) 3 proofs of SERIOUS issues that demonstrates the coder creates programs w/out error handling & shows poor operating system function understanding as well. Aryeh (Are ya got holes in yer Programs/Bugs Bunny) Holzer alias Daisyman has been proven to create serious flaws in his programs due to his already shown flagrantly dangerous coding style of using no errorhandling doubtless carryover to this application also!

      A.) EXAMPLE #1 OF LACK OF ERROR HANDLERS & CRASH:

      http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

      The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk?

      You can't. You can only try fix them! Not one of them did as most of them talk alot, but could not code their way out of a wet paper bag. This is their typical libellous nature on their forums also if their "integrity", such as it is, is wounded via hotmail.com & yahoo.com based accounts on webpage forums.

      * Proof here, Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool w/out checking for the water being in it first! Can you say "CRASH"?

      (Coolinfo's name change to Coolmon was done because they stole that name also. Change it or get sued since he stole it first of all. Makes you wonder again, if the code is his in fact.)

      B.) EXAMPLE #2 OF ONGOING INSTABILITIES BY TESTERS:

      http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

      Ars pimps it all over the web, better alternatives exist & are already in your OS in perfmon & motherboard monitor which coolmon attaches to its coattails only! 2 years old now, bug-ridden shown in user testing.

      C.) EXAMPLE #3 (BUGLIST):

      http://daisyman.arsware.org/coolinfo/bugs.html

      Bugs, & LOGICAL DESIGN FLAWS abound! Present w/out doubt in DeadmanSwitch also because he had to be shown how & where to place errorhandlers to account for lack of checking if Performance Counters generated by the OS were on or off at program startup, which he sent out into the web proven to be dangerously designed with no error handling. The man in example A below who found the bug had to tell the coder of the application how to do it. How to do it, where to place it. w/out having the sourcecode available to him. You would think the coder would have known how & where to do that once made aware of it! He used the fix, verbatim also. Obviously either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

      (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program.)

      Why turn perf. counters off? Simple: Performance minded users on NT based Os' turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, & ram as well as other forms of IO. If you do not monitor those you can turn them off w/ reskit tool extctrlst.exe & save those resources for programs that can use them. Transparent form code used in it is available online tops 50 lines tacked on from the web! After reading all that above, it's obvious this coder does not write large tracts of his work as was evidenced by his inability to use errorhandlers & where to put them.

      Arstechnica posted on their forums that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward", famous for what? Making bug-ridden no error handling code? Obviously, Anonymous Coward who started this thread's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here (& allover the web also) as the originator of this post too? The goods will speak for themselves when done right (if ever) & no need to pimp them "anonymously" ars!

      Do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"?

  14. Now is the Time!!! by BEI01 · · Score: 1

    Aaaah, yes...the one thing VillainSupply.com didn't have. It is time. MUAHAHA!. MUAHAHAHAHA!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

    1. Re:Now is the Time!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Arsware (bugware) 3 proofs of SERIOUS issues that demonstrates the coder creates programs w/out error handling & shows poor operating system function understanding as well. Aryeh (Are ya got holes in yer Programs/Bugs Bunny) Holzer alias Daisyman has been proven to create serious flaws in his programs due to his already shown flagrantly dangerous coding style of using no errorhandling doubtless carryover to this application also!

      A.) EXAMPLE #1 OF LACK OF ERROR HANDLERS & CRASH:

      http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

      The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk?

      You can't. You can only try fix them! Not one of them did as most of them talk alot, but could not code their way out of a wet paper bag. This is their typical libellous nature on their forums also if their "integrity", such as it is, is wounded via hotmail.com & yahoo.com based accounts on webpage forums.

      * Proof here, Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool w/out checking for the water being in it first! Can you say "CRASH"?

      (Coolinfo's name change to Coolmon was done because they stole that name also. Change it or get sued since he stole it first of all. Makes you wonder again, if the code is his in fact.)

      B.) EXAMPLE #2 OF ONGOING INSTABILITIES BY TESTERS:

      http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

      Ars pimps it all over the web, better alternatives exist & are already in your OS in perfmon & motherboard monitor which coolmon attaches to its coattails only! 2 years old now, bug-ridden shown in user testing.

      C.) EXAMPLE #3 (BUGLIST):

      http://daisyman.arsware.org/coolinfo/bugs.html

      Bugs, & LOGICAL DESIGN FLAWS abound! Present w/out doubt in DeadmanSwitch also because he had to be shown how & where to place errorhandlers to account for lack of checking if Performance Counters generated by the OS were on or off at program startup, which he sent out into the web proven to be dangerously designed with no error handling. The man in example A below who found the bug had to tell the coder of the application how to do it. How to do it, where to place it. w/out having the sourcecode available to him. You would think the coder would have known how & where to do that once made aware of it! He used the fix, verbatim also. Obviously either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

      (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program.)

      Why turn perf. counters off? Simple: Performance minded users on NT based Os' turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, & ram as well as other forms of IO. If you do not monitor those you can turn them off w/ reskit tool extctrlst.exe & save those resources for programs that can use them. Transparent form code used in it is available online tops 50 lines tacked on from the web! After reading all that above, it's obvious this coder does not write large tracts of his work as was evidenced by his inability to use errorhandlers & where to put them.

      Arstechnica posted on their forums that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward", famous for what? Making bug-ridden no error handling code? Obviously, Anonymous Coward who started this thread's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here (& allover the web also) as the originator of this post too? The goods will speak for themselves then no need to pimp them "anonymously" ars!

      Do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"?

  15. NY Times registration by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This one works with the NY Times registration (no, I'm not kidding): user: goatsecx, password: goatsecx.

    1. Re:NY Times registration by ZaneMcAuley · · Score: 4, Informative


      http://www.majcher.com/nytview.html

      Just use this NYTimes user generator :D

      --
      ----- Whats wrong with this picture? http://www.revoh.org:1234/whatswrong
    2. Re:NY Times registration by Jim+Hall · · Score: 1

      Maybe I'll burn major karma on this post, but I'll ask anyway ....

      What the hell is it with Slashdot and New York Times articles? The Slashdot editors are always rejecting submissions in favor of identical ones that link to the NYT. And here's another weird example: a Slashdot editor feels some overwhelming need to add a link to the NYT on an item that clearly doesn't need it.

      What gives?

    3. Re:NY Times registration by KuRL · · Score: 1

      It quite possibly has something to do with the fact that the NYT actually, justifiably *is* the newspaper of record in the US.

    4. Re:NY Times registration by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No the fuck it is not. The NY Times is a biased source of news. Even the NY Post is a better source.

    5. Re:NY Times registration by 8-Track · · Score: 1
      DMS was also mentioned in this Wired article. I love this quote:
      "I went on vacation, and forgot all about the switch," said Kenny LaGuardia, a Web designer from Los Angeles. "When I returned home, the program had posted, 'So I guess I'm dead' messages to all the newslists I subscribe to, and destroyed all my adult entertainment files."
  16. How do you test it? by falser · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Like, do I have to do a "trial death", spewing out messages all over the internet like "Hey I'm dead, blah, blah, oh by the way I'm just testing my death switch, you may disregard this message". I think after testing it out a couple of times nobody's really going care when you really do die to take notice.

    Certainly the chances of an accidental death mode going off are high. So I think there should be different "death alert levels". If you don't sign in after a month, it starts sending out alert messages like "Hey I haven't been around for a while and I might be dead, please check whether or not I'm dead for me, Thanks bud!".

    There should also be instructions given in an email to your friends/family so that they too can stop the death switch for you in dire or unusual situations (coma, kidnapping, laziness). And only then if another couple days pass it goes into full blown death mode.

    1. Re:How do you test it? by BarefootClown · · Score: 5, Funny

      laziness

      I thought you said unusual situations...

      --

      "Make it ten--I am only a poor corrupt official."
      --Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains), Casablanca

    2. Re:How do you test it? by falzer · · Score: 1

      Just use something like "Hey. What's up?" for your trial death message.

      Once you know that works, change it to "Hey. What's up? I'm dead."

    3. Re:How do you test it? by brendanoconnor · · Score: 1

      Actually, if your in a coma are you really alive? When in a coma you yourself doesn't have a clue whether or not your actually alive. So if you are in a coma and this little message is sent out over the internet, then it was technically correct about you being dead, at least as far as your concerned.

      Brendan

  17. Memories.... by peterdaly · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Reminds me of my last job when we fired someone from finance. I had to go confescate his PC, and every "storage medium" I could find from his office while he was in HR. Not quite the same, but he went on the "death march" and his machine just "vanished" from his office.

    -Pete

    1. Re:Memories.... by netringer · · Score: 1
      Reminds me of my last job when we fired someone from finance. I had to go confescate his PC, and every "storage medium" I could find from his office while he was in HR. Not quite the same, but he went on the "death march" and his machine just "vanished" from his office.
      I had a similar assignment once with more drama for entertainment. The boss told me that he was firing the worthless consultant. Could I do something to keep him from being able to destroy the work he's done so far?

      When the consultant got called into the boss's office I went into the lab and REMOVED ALL OF THE KEYBOARDS.

      As he's told he's being canned he freaked and stormed out of the office with "THIS IS WAR!" He tore into the lab, positoned himself in front of the machines, and prepared to cause havoc. Then he realized that something was missing and that it was really difficult to carry out his vengeance on any computer without having a keyboard to do it.

      He sheepishly sulked back into the boss's office and tried to negotiate. The boss didn't give in. The drama may have reinforced his position.

      When I think about it it, that boss wasn't one of the smarter ones I've had but he played this one pretty well. He was smart enough to think ahead and tip me off.

      I had gone to him to to tell him the consultant was worthless a few days before.
      --
      Ever dream you could fly? Get up from the Flight Sim. I Fly
    2. Re:Memories.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Arsware (bugware) 3 proofs of SERIOUS issues that demonstrates the coder creates programs w/out error handling & shows poor operating system function understanding as well. Aryeh (Are ya got holes in yer Programs/Bugs Bunny) Holzer alias Daisyman has been proven to create serious flaws in his programs due to his already shown flagrantly dangerous coding style of using no errorhandling doubtless carryover to this application also!

      A.) EXAMPLE #1 OF LACK OF ERROR HANDLERS & CRASH:

      http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

      The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk?

      You can't. You can only try fix them! Not one of them did as most of them talk alot, but could not code their way out of a wet paper bag. This is their typical libellous nature on their forums also if their "integrity", such as it is, is wounded via hotmail.com & yahoo.com based accounts on webpage forums.

      * Proof here, Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool w/out checking for the water being in it first! Can you say "CRASH"?

      (Coolinfo's name change to Coolmon was done because they stole that name also. Change it or get sued since he stole it first of all. Makes you wonder again, if the code is his in fact.)

      B.) EXAMPLE #2 OF ONGOING INSTABILITIES BY TESTERS:

      http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

      Ars pimps it all over the web, better alternatives exist & are already in your OS in perfmon & motherboard monitor which coolmon attaches to its coattails only! 2 years old now, bug-ridden shown in user testing.

      C.) EXAMPLE #3 (BUGLIST):

      http://daisyman.arsware.org/coolinfo/bugs.html

      Bugs, & LOGICAL DESIGN FLAWS abound! Present w/out doubt in DeadmanSwitch also because he had to be shown how & where to place errorhandlers to account for lack of checking if Performance Counters generated by the OS were on or off at program startup, which he sent out into the web proven to be dangerously designed with no error handling. The man in example A below who found the bug had to tell the coder of the application how to do it. How to do it, where to place it. w/out having the sourcecode available to him. You would think the coder would have known how & where to do that once made aware of it! He used the fix, verbatim also. Obviously either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

      (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program.)

      Why turn perf. counters off? Simple: Performance minded users on NT based Os' turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, & ram as well as other forms of IO. If you do not monitor those you can turn them off w/ reskit tool extctrlst.exe & save those resources for programs that can use them. Transparent form code used in it is available online tops 50 lines tacked on from the web! After reading all that above, it's obvious this coder does not write large tracts of his work as was evidenced by his inability to use errorhandlers & where to put them.

      Arstechnica posted on their forums that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward", famous for what? Making bug-ridden no error handling code? Obviously, Anonymous Coward who started this thread's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here (& allover the web also) as the originator of this post too? The goods will speak for themselves when done right (if ever) & no need to pimp them "anonymously" ars!

      Do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"? NO WAY!

  18. Old DOS days by brejc8 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I had a system just like this to protect the computer if it was stolen or I died.
    If someone steals it and doesn't run a BBS program at least once a day then he system would encrypt most files and ring me.
    Once I have the number of the person who stole my computer I would be able to get them.
    The cool thing is that it run from boot block just like a virus so you would need to fully format the disk to get rid of it.

    1. Re:Old DOS days by Ilgaz · · Score: 1

      FDISK /MBR ;)

      Besides jokes, cool idea. I always thinked of such a system too..

    2. Re:Old DOS days by The+Dobber · · Score: 1

      So exactly how did it ring you if you were dead?

    3. Re:Old DOS days by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I always thinked of such a system too

      Next time think about grammar.

    4. Re:Old DOS days by liquidsin · · Score: 2

      it actually just called Haley Joel Osment. He sees dead people.

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      do not read this line twice.
    5. Re:Old DOS days by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      Next time think about grammar.

      Every day. and I call her once a week. I'm a bit worried though. She just hasn't been the same since grampa passed away.

    6. Re:Old DOS days by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'll see your dead people and raise you five more.

    7. Re:Old DOS days by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Next time, think about punctuation.

    8. Re:Old DOS days by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I thought it was against the law to write a spelling/grammar flame without a spelling/grammar error.

      You bastard.

  19. supposedly dead by Dan+Aloni · · Score: 5, Funny
    I really don't like the idea that by mistake, my relatives, friends, or colleagues on the Internet will get this kind of E-Mail by mistake:

    "This is an automated message. If you read this, I am probably dead. My will is to be burried along with my hard drive, and send the rest of my computer hardware as donation to Linus Torvalds."

    On the first time they get it, they may get paniced, and set up a funeral for me while I am away.

    On the second time, I'd really drop dead and they'll laugh and ignore while I rot on my keyboard for months.

    --
    0x2b or not 0x2b, the answer is -1
  20. The more the better by muffen · · Score: 2

    I already saw a few posts saying things like: "it's useless, it easy to get around etc etc".
    We all know you can get around this program. I didn't try installing it, but I'm sure it isn't even hard to prevent it from launching.
    However, the idea isn't bad. I'm sure this program will get other people to write similar things, and maybe someone will create a program that is really hard to get around.

    In any case, I think that if you really have data you want to protect, you should probably have a lot of protection. This one should only be one amongst many. If used like this, I think this program is great.

    1. Re:The more the better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The key is to not have a single system that is hard to get around, but to have many systems with incompatable ways to get around.

  21. Repost. by loply · · Score: 1

    This is a repost.
    It was on a few weeks ago.

  22. The good news and the bad news by unformed · · Score: 2

    The good news: You aren't suffering from paranoia
    The bad news: They really are out to get you.

  23. necessary services by dboyles · · Score: 5, Funny

    This reminds me of something that was on The Man Show a few years ago. In the event of an untimely death, a (made-up) company could be enlisted to "correct" some things for you. The team came in and replaced items such as Playboy centerfolds, a bong, porn videos, and a - let's just call it a "sexual device" - with pictures of your family, Bibles, and other such things.

    They showed a "with and without" sequence, where one's parents came to their dead son's apartment to discover the two different scenarios. It was pretty funny, and encouraged me to say to my roommate, "You know that bottom drawer of my dresser? If I die, burn everything in it."

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    -- "Complacency is a far more dangerous attitude than outrage." -Naomi Littlebear
    1. Re:necessary services by twoshortplanks · · Score: 2
      Reminds me of the concept of "Porn Buddies" mentioned in the BBC series "Coupling." Basically you and a best mate exchange keys so that they can rush round and hide your porn in the case of your sudden death.

      Good series. Oooh, look, you can buy it on DVD.

      --
      -- Sorry, I can't think of anything funny to say here.
    2. Re:necessary services by stevey · · Score: 1

      A fantastic series .. I'm just waiting for the release of season two.

      (I particularly liked the Hebrew episode)

    3. Re:necessary services by pdwalker · · Score: 1

      Don't laugh.

      Been there, done that.

      Many years ago, one of our co-workers died in the arms of a prostitute. (it was the sort of life he liked to live, you see).

      Before his parents flew into town to collect his personal effects, we went through his apartment and removed his pornography, condoms, various "trophies".

      His parents never learned the real circumstances surounding his untimely demise.

  24. Formatting your laptop? by ArtEnvironment · · Score: 1

    your Laptop? You said you don't reboot often.. do you also not take it out of your house? a good security measure to keep retention or not lose your laptop to theft is... should it get stolen... and someone does something stupid like use it to log onto the net.. that the features you normally use (instant messaging, etc.) would make a tracable record for you to find it's location of use...

    Are you really that concerned about someone getting their hands on your 'sensitive data' without your password or even most likely, a knowledge of unix-like systems? :P Geesh, why don't you just encrypt it?

    If you format the drive... you make it nice and easy for any thief/fence to simply put a new OS back on it and pass it along clean... I mean you REALLY don't want someone putting MS Windows on your laptop, now DO YOU? Gotta prevent THAT! :P

    1. Re:Formatting your laptop? by adamjaskie · · Score: 1

      If you have a fixed IP, or even a dynamic DNS thing, just have it send piles of data about whatever network it is attatched to back to your server or whatever. Someone attatches it to the net, and you immedately have a log of ip, tracert, etc back to your server.

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      /usr/games/fortune
    2. Re:Formatting your laptop? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And then you can decide wether or not to release the cyanide gas from inside the laptop.

    3. Re:Formatting your laptop? by xpurple · · Score: 1

      My laptop is an iBook running OS X, if someone puts widnows on it more power to them :)

      I take it with me everywhere, the sleep feature works very well. I don't think I've shut it off since I got it about a year ago (not counting reboots).

      --
      http://www.xpurple.com
  25. Lost passwords maybe? by Fuzzums · · Score: 1

    Oopsie. I forgot to send my lost password of the Norwegian database to my boss.

    --
    Privacy is terrorism.
    1. Re:Lost passwords maybe? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      guns cause violence, they don't stop it.

      In what way would a gun make someone more violent? And even if they do cause violence, surely banning them would mean criminals have an easier time of it, since they will be like wolves among unarmed sheep...

      Sorry to reply to your sig, btw :-)

    2. Re:Lost passwords maybe? by dexter+riley · · Score: 1
      Don't sweat it; the world knows that your password was "smuzzuF"

      Of course, if you WERE dead, you wouldn't be sweating it anyway...

      ...unless you went the the bad place, that is.

    3. Re:Lost passwords maybe? by Fuzzums · · Score: 1

      yes, it's 'smuzzuF' ,but.... how did you know??? ;)

      --
      Privacy is terrorism.
  26. Safe Deposit Box by SparkyTWP · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think I'd rather just get a safe deposit box and make instructions to have it opened after my death. Inside would be instructions for emails, postings, etc...

    Then you know you wouldn't have to worry about accidentally tripping the program if you went on vacation.

    You'd still need an encryption program for files though if you don't trust anyone with that, but that's not a big deal.

    Accidentally encrypting data is no big deal, accidentally sending off final emails with very personal messages is a whole other story.

    1. Re:Safe Deposit Box by Mignon · · Score: 2
      I think I'd rather just get a safe deposit box and make instructions to have it opened after my death.

      This is actually slightly trickier than that. Just a couple of weeks ago, my brother and I met with my parents and their lawyer to discuss their will. The lawyer just explicitly told us not to keep their will in their safe deposit box, since banks automatically lock them when they find out someone died. And banks have people whose job it is to scan obits. I forgot the details, but the lawyer said there is a way to get let into the box, but it will be delayed.

      In other words, by the time your trusted people get to your safe deposit box, the untrusted people could have had their way with your computer, etc.

  27. I'm not *quite* dead by Trevin · · Score: 1

    I've had this idea before, because I live alone, and if I died at home it could be weeks before anyone noticed.

    The problem is that I'm also absent-minded.

  28. Spooks turning machines on/off... by ArtEnvironment · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Uhm... NO.

    If you turn a machine on (or off.) you change the state of a machine, and thusly, destroy potential evidence.

    If they're dropping into your place secretly to install a 'bug' program or hardware piece, then they might turn it on or off..

    But, if they just want your data they won't even use any of your hardware to get it, but will just remove your drive and then clone your drive.

    Even the local police know that one, I doubt the NSA would be so stupid.

  29. A slightly BIGGER flaw... by The+Creator · · Score: 1

    You have to be DEAD before it does anything for you.
    And when you'r DEAD you'r not capable of giving a shit anymore. :)

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    FRA: STFU GTFO
    1. Re:A slightly BIGGER flaw... by Monkey+Angst · · Score: 1
      You have to be DEAD before it does anything for you. And when you'r (sic) DEAD you'r (sic) not capable of giving a shit anymore. :)

      No, no, that's the beauty of it! It works if they've captured you, too!

      Just imagining situations where this feature would be useful is kinda fun, in a stupid sort of way...

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      stripShow - Where WordPress meets webcomics
  30. Hey by LemurShop · · Score: 1

    It's not parnoia if they are -realy- out to get you.My "dead man's switch" would have a lot of rm ~.porn commands to run. And how can that thing erase my bookmarks to barnwyardsex.com? :)

    A program like this could be used to help find stolen computers. If you dont execute the program and type in the pasword every week or so the prog tries to dial-up and send an email with the current ip. (well that would only work with machines not setup to start with a login prompt anyway.)

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    This sig was cut off by the sla
  31. "The Trigger" by Arthur C. Clark and Kube-McDowell by DoorFrame · · Score: 2

    A book called The Trigger goes into a fairly in depth subplot about a man arranging his own death/arrest program. The book itself is a little bit weak, but kind of a fun read.

  32. You're dead! So what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When you are dead, you are dead. Hopefully the living will mourn you, but you are certainly not going to care if someone is watching your prOn.
    And so what if there is valuable data on you HD? You are DEAD. You do not care anymore. And if it's so valuable, it should be accessible to others, so you important work won't get lost. Or people will say once more, 'oh that loser. Didn't do anything good in its live.'

    What is better software, is software that emails documents when you are dead.

    'Oh, no mister Hitman. You can't kill meç'
    'Oh really? This is a gun, you know.'
    'Yes, but when you kill me, a computer will send that prOn starring you boss around the world.'
    'Oh... Damn... What a second... I got you HD in my hand. Hahaha'
    BANG
    Last thougt of victim: 'I said A computer, not MY computer. Hehehe...'

    Oh well, dead = dead

  33. cron solution by mrsbrisby · · Score: 1
    0 0 15 * * rm /yourself || /root/imdead.sh

    just remember to # touch /yourself before the 15th of every month and you'll be okay...

    1. Re:cron solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Touching /myself more than once a month is never a problem.

  34. This reminds me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    ...of how Timbuktu (a VNC commercial clone) helped some girl and her brother find back her stolen iMac: the thief had not formatted the HD, and was unsing it to surf the net.
    Much AppleScript was involved, to delete everything personal from the HD then connect to a particular site so the IP could be traced. Quite epic ;-)

    So I think it's just much better to have some remote control mean on your computer (as long as it is secure), as an aside to completely locking your machine with passwords.

  35. A little off-topic but what the hey... by twoslice · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why do people insist on typing MUAHAHAHA (ad infinitum) after their post? Do they really think it is funny or are they just goofed on skunk weed?

    Oh, and while I am burning up the Karma.

    Loose rhymes with GOOSE! it is Lose as in when you lost somthing...

    Ok, I am sane again now, you can stop slapping me....

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    From excellent karma to terible karma with a single +5 funny post...
  36. Time, oh Time by standards · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yet another great reason for secure network time.

  37. On a similar note... Fire Kits by Xiver · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have set up a fire kit that runs as an NT service on my laptop and our file server. In the even that my user ID is removed from the Domain my computer and the server will zip and FTP my personal files to me and delete my personal email.

    I've considered adding options to wipe out my HD and user directories, but thought I might be liable if project data was lost.

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    10: PRINT "Everything old is new again."
    20: GOTO 10
    1. Re:On a similar note... Fire Kits by steve_l · · Score: 1

      That is really cool.

      I just hope your ops department are more competent than mine, because I have been accidentally deleted from a domain. And no, you can never quite come back as the same person.

  38. A more effective one by Fencepost · · Score: 3, Informative
    Though their website is sappier than I would've believed possible, "Loving Pup" has a service along these lines for folks in the US. They aren't looking for notifications, they get the death notifications (by SSN) from the US government; when your SSN is listed they send the email messages that you'd set up in advance. Of course, they also charge an annual fee ranging from $12-24.

    If nothing else, it's certainly safer in terms of vacations.

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    fencepost
    just a little off
    1. Re:A more effective one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I think the point of the more paranoid dead man's switch is to obviate the need for formal identification of the body and certification of death.
      Think about it: if "they" are after you, you're going to end up at the bottom of the sea somewhere far enough offshore that what remains of your body do survive your undoubtedly gruesome death will never be discovered.
      Without evidence, no one will declare you dead, so the government won't put your SSN on the "dead" list. Without that, Loving Pup won't send out your e-mails. It could be quite some time before anyone knows you're dead. Besides, if you were paranoid enough to employ a system to encrypt your data, "they" might decide *never* to declare you dead, just so your data is easier to pilfer.
      On the other hand, with the dead man's switch or a cron job or the like, the program assumes you are dead based on your inactivity, not on the government's declaration. Your data is encrypted, your friends are notified, and that notification might even lead someone to search for your remains (if you actually had friends who'd bother, though, you probably wouldn't be quite so paranoid).

      Somehow, in this whole issue, the more useful thing would to be to construct a dead man's switch to *decrypt* data. What if you die, and no one can recover your memoirs or your project files, etc... something to decrypt what you'd not mind being public post mortem.

  39. WHY??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0


    Why the hell should I give a damn about what happens to my files, money, information etc.. whan I'm DEAD ???

    Once I'm dead noting matters even a tiny bit anymore since I'm not here to be bothered by it. If people want access to my big secret, my money, car, house, want to kill off the planet etc after I'm dead, well let them - basically I won't give a shit at that point.

    1. Re:WHY??? by Trinton+Azaleth · · Score: 1

      I wouldn'y say it quite like that, but I pretty much concur that one doesn't care about a lot of that stuff when one has moved on from this world... I should like to have stuff happen when I die... there is some stuff I simply would never want published till after I'm dead.

  40. Revelation Day by wytcld · · Score: 3, Funny
    How about we offer really slick freeware (or even better, 'shareware' that can easily not be paid for so folks think its of greater value) secretly set to go off on the Day of Reckoning?

    Prior to that civilization-improving point of revelation let's also have a backdoor so we can get the inside scoop on the really nasty revelations. Free the truth!
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    "with their freedom lost all virtue lose" - Milton
  41. Encrypted file system...? by stoicfaux · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't an encrypted file system be a tad more convienent? Everything is 'secure' even if They(tm) scan your harddrive w/o booting from it.

    As others have stated, the email features can be enabled via a cronjob.

    1. Re:Encrypted file system...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Everything is 'secure' even if They(tm) scan your harddrive w/o booting from it." You really have no idea of "their" capabilities, do you?

  42. A much easier, less risky, more effective solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Have someone you trust, like your wife, your sister or, if you're alone on the world, a lawyer flip on the 'switch' when you're dead.

    There must be someone you can trust more then your ability to check in every now and then.

    And if there isn't, I truly pitty you, but you can hire a lawyer to do it.
    And no there is no conspiracy between the lawyers and the government.

  43. google doesn't index blocked content. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    gosh... _yet another_ new york times plug on slashdot. I sure hope the deal they made with NYT is getting them tons and tons of money. Cause if you gotta sell out. You might as well do it big-time.

  44. Run a grep on the obituaries by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    if the grep comes up with your name, format c:

    iirc, there is a version of grep for windows

  45. I'd be "dead" in short order by buffy · · Score: 2

    Given the difficulty I have in remembering to keep my hotmail accounts alive, I'd probably not have a much better time remembering to tell the dead man switch that I wasn't dead.

    I can see the distressed look on my Mom's face already when she recieves a copy of my doomsday manifesto^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hlast will and testiment!

    1. Re:I'd be "dead" in short order by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      A word on arsware (bugware) you should be made aware of.

      Aryeh ('Are ya got holes in yer Programs') Holzer alias Daisyman on the arstechnica forums created a serious buggy app you all should be made aware of that shows he codes VERY poorly in another application he wrote.

      It was proven he has done that demonstrates an utter lack of skills & dangerous methods. Read on...

      He wrote that Coolinfo program (of which he had to change the name from Coolinfo to Coolmon or get sued since he stole it first of all) which is a giant bug!

      Examples of it & proof are below, so no Arsholeware (bugware) unless you like taking extreme chances.

      EXAMPLE #1:

      He was shown to code without using error trapping or structured error handlers at

      http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

      In their software forums (search Coolmon & use from the beginning as your search query... OR sort by most views from the beginning, you will see it).

      The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk?

      You can't.

      Funniest part was the guy who found the error, without having the source to "Uncoolmon" lol, as he called it, had to show the coder HOW AND WHERE TO PLACE THE ERROR TRAPPING!

      Obviously, either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

      (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program)

      The fix the other coder gave him in that URL above is EXACTLY what Aryeh/Daisyman used VERBATIM. No creativity either apparently.

      That to me proved Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool without checking for the water being in it first, hehe, can you say "CRASH"?

      EXAMPLE #2:

      2 years of life, and this program is HUGELY buggy, see here on their own forums... another place they pimp their junk:

      http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

      Still to this day. Nope, no arsware for me. They pimp it all over the web but better alternatives exist for that Uncoolmon one... like Clearinfo!

      Most hilariously, they posted that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward" about it here...

      Ha, want to bet that's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here as the originator of that post about DeadMan's switch too?

      Unbelievable! What a pack of weasels. They're known for posting via hotmail.com & yahoo.com accounts & using "anonymous" alot. What a bunch of gossipy women. Learn to code PROPERLY arstech boys, then the goods will speak for themselves & no need to pimp them "anonymously" girls!

      I don't know about you people, but reading those URL links above convinced me that arsware is bugware to the max.

      At least Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer thanked the guy who showed him how to write a structured error handler in Delphi for removing 4 bugs from his code. Too bad hundreds more exist as you see in the second URL.

      If arsware "uncoolmon" has that kind of buggy and lack of error trap code in it, do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also? Me, I don't play Russian roulette with arsware!

  46. bash script by martinflack · · Score: 2

    I was drinking last night so don't expect it to be bug-free although it seems to work. It is left as an exercise to the reader to create the "goneforever" script that decides what to do in the event of your sudden demise (or inability to login to your computer for 15 days). Cron as appropriate. There is no special action, just login.

    #!/bin/bash
    # Dead man script. Warning, do not take this seriously or use for anything important!
    deadman="$HOME/bin/goneforever"
    dontw orry="$HOME/.gonefishing"
    ranonce="$deadman.ran"
    period='15 days ago'
    lastlogin=`last -1 $USER | cut -c40-55`
    if [ `date -d "$lastlogin" +%s` -lt `date -d "$period" +%s` \
    -a ! -f $dontworry -a ! -f $ranonce ]; then
    $deadman
    touch $ranonce
    exit 0
    fi
    exit 1
    # exits "false" normally, so you can read val, e.g. ./deadman && echo DEAD!

    Cheers,
    Martin

  47. Good in theory, Bad in practice by 1g$man · · Score: 5, Informative

    IIRC there were so many false alarms on the ArsTechnica forums from this thing that the moderators will lock any Deadman Switch posts on sight.

    It's an interesting idea, but it's way too easy to forget it's running, go on vacation, and then come back and find your hard disk wiped. Not to mention a forum filled with ArsTechnica loungers weeping over your passing, only to be bitter to find out you've tricked them...

    1. Re:Good in theory, Bad in practice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No doubt. Aryeh (Are ya got holes in yer Programs) Holzer alias Daisyman on their forums pulled another LARGE boner as well. He wrote that Coolinfo program (of which he had to change the name from Coolinfo to Coolmon or get sued since he stole it first of all).

      Then, he was shown to code without using error trapping or structured error handlers at www.majorgeeks.com in their software forums (search Coolmon & use from the beginning as your search query... OR sort by most views from the beginning, you will see it).

      The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk? You can't. Funniest part was the guy who found the error, without having the source to "Uncoolmon" lol, as he called it, had to show the coder HOW AND WHERE TO PLACE THE ERROR TRAPPING (which involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program).

      The coder obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool without checking for the water being in it first, hehe, can you say "CRASH"?

      2 years of life, and this program is HUGELY buggy to still to this day. Nope, no arsware for me. They pimp it all over the web but better alternatives exist for that Uncoolmon one... like Clearinfo.

    2. Re:Good in theory, Bad in practice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      A word on arsware (bugware) you should be made aware of.

      Aryeh ('Are ya got holes in yer Programs') Holzer alias Daisyman on the arstechnica forums created a serious buggy app you all should be made aware of that shows he codes VERY poorly in another application he wrote. It was proven he has done that demonstrates an utter lack of skills & dangerous methods. Read on...

      He wrote that Coolinfo program (of which he had to change the name from Coolinfo to Coolmon or get sued since he stole it first of all) which is a giant bug, examples of it & proof are below, so no Arsholeware (bugware) unless you like taking extreme chances.

      EXAMPLE #1:

      He was shown to code without using error trapping or structured error handlers at

      http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

      In their software forums (search Coolmon & use from the beginning as your search query... OR sort by most views from the beginning, you will see it).

      The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk?

      You can't.

      Funniest part was the guy who found the error, without having the source to "Uncoolmon" lol, as he called it, had to show the coder HOW AND WHERE TO PLACE THE ERROR TRAPPING! Obviously, either he did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

      (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program)

      The fix the other coder gave him in that URL above is EXACTLY what Aryeh/Daisyman used VERBATIM. No creativity either apparently.

      That to me proved Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool without checking for the water being in it first, hehe, can you say "CRASH"?

      EXAMPLE #2:

      2 years of life, and this program is HUGELY buggy, see here on their own forums... another place they pimp their junk:

      http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

      Still to this day. Nope, no arsware for me. They pimp it all over the web but better alternatives exist for that Uncoolmon one... like Clearinfo!

      Most hilariously, they posted that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward" about it here...

      Ha, want to bet that's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here as the originator of that post about DeadMan's switch too?

      Unbelievable! What a pack of weasels. They're known for posting via hotmail.com & yahoo.com accounts & using "anonymous" alot. What a bunch of gossipy women. Learn to code PROPERLY arstech boys, then the goods will speak for themselves & no need to pimp them "anonymously" girls.

  48. Re:"The Trigger" by Arthur C. Clark and Kube-McDow by 2sheds · · Score: 2

    I really wish Arthur would realise these collaborations just ruin his storys. His books with Gentry Lee went the same way.

    Saly he's not the only author with this problem.

    j.

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    Absit Invidia
  49. big deal by erc · · Score: 1

    And why is this such a big deal? A friend and I did this 10 years ago - if we didn't log into our Linux boxes for 7 days, it would automatically send out email to everyone we knew, asking us to log in. After 14 days, it would automatically email our digital wills out to affected parties.

    This, of course, assumes someone doesn't come along and unplug your machine shortly after you die, but if it's on a dedicated or shared box that wouldn't be a problem.

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  50. Oh Comedy Central... by MsGeek · · Score: 2

    ...this sounds like your next BBC-generated hit. Remember AbFab? This sounds like it could be the masculine equivalent. Get cracking, guys!

    Damn, I HATE Region coding and multiple video standards!

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    Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
    1. Re:Oh Comedy Central... by joekool · · Score: 1

      Actually, Men Behaving Badly is the masculine version of AbFab, and it was made into an American show, it just was terrible here, same as the AbFab lookalike, Cybil. The British version is great.

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      Slackware: old school feel, new school gear.
  51. The Ultimate Solution by red_gnom · · Score: 1
    "...and encrypt specified files on your computer so that 'they' can't have them..."

    You see, the problem with encryption is that it can be broken. Also, your PC can be taken away, before the program executes. Your HD can be removed, files restored.

    There is only one good solution to this: Place a dozen or more of dynamite sticks inside your case (don't stint), and make sure not to be seen by your colleagues from your company. Place battery inside and connect it with a fuse through some digital "count down" timer. Place "ON" switch on the box door, and wire it to the circuit, so nobody can open your PC without "surprise". You are almost done. The last thing is to connect the clock to the reset switch on the box, and disconnect it from the system (By the way, you don't need reset button on the Linux machine. It newer hangs). You will be required to press the reset button minimum once a week, and few second after every reboot to prevent the box from going OFF. Have fun.

    1. Re:The Ultimate Solution by Monkey+Angst · · Score: 2, Funny
      There is only one good solution to this: Place a dozen or more of dynamite sticks inside your case (don't stint), and make sure not to be seen by your colleagues from your company.... Have fun.

      Damn. You live in Montana, don't you? :)

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    2. Re:The Ultimate Solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Arsware (bugware) issues you should be made aware of since it demonstrates the coder creates programs without error handling & shows poor operating system function understanding as well.

      Aryeh ('Are ya got holes in yer Programs') Holzer alias Daisyman on the arstechnica forums also created another app that has been proven to carry some serious flaws, ones you should consider since you will be the ones using it possibly. No only bugs, but FLAWS IN CODING PRACTICES & DESIGN, fatal crash & lockup potential ones!

      You all should be made aware of that shows he codes VERY poorly in another application he wrote.

      He demonstrates an utter lack of skills & dangerous methods. He wrote that Coolinfo program with NO error handling evidenced in it as well as other issues below:

      EXAMPLE #1:

      Aryeh Holzer/Daisyman shown to code without using error trapping or structured error handlers ->

      http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

      The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk? You can't.

      (Heh, plus he had to change the name from Coolinfo to Coolmon or get sued since he stole it first of all)

      Anyhow, the funniest part was when the guy at that URL who found the error, without having the source to "Uncoolmon", as he called it, had to show the coder HOW AND WHERE TO PLACE THE ERROR TRAPPING! That's pretty sad because if the coder is any good they can ID that themselves & quickly.. assuming that is, they actually wrote the code that is!

      Obviously, either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

      (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program.)

      Performance minded users on NT based Os' turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, and ram as well as other forms of IO.

      He was not accounting for this, not at all. Poor understanding of the Operating Systems of NT genre & no accounting for users who do this also! If they are not generated & are not monitored or used, save those resources by turning them off!

      The fix the other coder gave him in that URL above is EXACTLY what Aryeh/Daisyman used VERBATIM. No creativity either apparently.

      That to me proved Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool without checking for the water being in it first, hehe, can you say "CRASH"?

      EXAMPLE #2:

      2 years of life, and this program is HUGELY buggy, see here on their own forums... another place they pimp their junk:

      http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

      BUGGY as you can see. No arsware for me. Ars pimps it all over the web, better alternatives exist like Clearinfo!

      (Technically speaking this is NOT a complex program at all, and a kid could make it. All Coolinfo does is read output that motherboard monitor does & Performance counters anyhow. Tools already are in mobo monitor & perfmon for that already anyways.)

      EXAMPLE #3 (BUGLIST):

      http://daisyman.arsware.org/coolinfo/bugs.html

      Delphi transparent form code it has? Freely available online, tops 50-100 lines tacked on & probably stolen!

      It's fairly obvious this coder does not write large tracts of his work as was evidenced by his inability to use error handlers & where to put them in the code.

      Arstechnica posted that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward" about it here: Want to bet that Anonymous Coward who started this thread's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here as the originator of this post too?

      Learn to code PROPERLY arstech boys, then the goods will speak for themselves & no need to pimp them "anonymously" girls!

      Reading those URL links above convinced me arsware is bugware & Arsware "uncoolmon" has that kind of buggy and lack of error trap code in it, do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"?

  52. Security violation in itself by obtuse · · Score: 1

    So your sensitive data is either on this machine, or pointed to by this machine. The bad guys watch you for long enough to figure out the likely locations of your dead man switches, and then follow them to your sensitive data.

    Your car breaks down stranding you for a week while you're on your Belize holiday, and the first thing you do when you get to an internet cafe is to post a content free message to alt.cypherpunks. Which one of your associates reads alt.cypherpunks religiously, or what servers have you had access to? As long as you never screw up, you should be safe, but you could be defeated by simple traffic analysis.

    I hope you didn't entrust that blackmail evidence to someone you love.

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    Assembly is the reverse of disassembly.
    1. Re:Security violation in itself by Emugamer · · Score: 2

      Then why have all your eggs in one basket? I personally have 6 machines at home only one contains any sensative data which would be mildly annoying if it fell into hte wrong hands.. However I have around 15 computers spread around the internet (2 different countries 10 different locations) that are still mine by some over spending fluke of .com era. Now I access eac h of these maybe once a month and onlly with https ... I use https to accesss a dozen minor sites a day from exchange web access to secure forums to a lot of other stuff. Its hard to find all of those boxs if I did need to use them myself let alone if someone needed to track them all down. not that I have any sensative data on them any way. + My sensative data is mostly porrly written love notes, drafts of legal documents and papers that I wrote in 6th grade. More embaresssing then anything else

  53. NBC just bought it... by LoadStar · · Score: 1

    I'm ashamed to admit, I was actually watching Entertainment Tonight this week. In any case, they report that NBC actually bought the series you refer to. They say it could be a "replacement" for Friends, even though later in the report they report that the series would air later in the evening than Friends currently airs. They report it would, of course, be filmed with an American cast for US audiences.

    1. Re:NBC just bought it... by joekool · · Score: 1

      Actually considering the premise, etc, I think that Coupling is a copy of Friends. Its got the same three guys, and the same three girls, except everyone is British. Still, it's a much better show.

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      Slackware: old school feel, new school gear.
  54. Wrong. Dreadfully wrong. by gd23ka · · Score: 2

    Wrong. IANAWNS, but I would never EVER turn on a machine on with evidence on it. Instead I would yank it's hard drives and put them into a system I know is safe. The only way I know of which could cause a lot of confusion and inconvenience would be to modify the firmware of the hard drive itself to expect an authentication handshake before executing read commands properly, and if it doesn't get a handshake just give out junk and silently start corrupting data on the media. Of course, the self-destruct should not be allowed to be interrupted once its in self-destruct mode and authentication data such as keys should be in part stored on a secure smart card and in part in the users head. Oh and while we're at it modifying that firmware, it would also make sense to encrypt the data on the medium using a key derived from the authentication data. That way, even if they're smart enough to hookup the drive's medium to another "clean" controller, they're still fscked.

  55. Hmmm... by BrokenHalo · · Score: 1
    The model is more than flawed...

    Just imagine your "existence" depending on the date of your last Slashdot posting...

    1. Re:Hmmm... by sconeu · · Score: 2

      Just imagine your "existence" depending on the date of your last Slashdot posting...

      You mean it doesn't? Crap, I didn't have to check /. every day?

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  56. Re:A much easier, less risky, more effective solut by Monkey+Angst · · Score: 1
    Have someone you trust, like your wife, your sister or, if you're alone on the world, a lawyer flip on the 'switch' when you're dead.

    All these people can potentially be compromised. THEY have the power. THEY probably got to your wife, sister, and lawyer a long time ago.

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  57. I always wanted something like this for getting .. by neo · · Score: 2

    rooted. If I didn't check in once in a while, the system would assume my unix box was rooted and take action to lock down the system.

  58. another possible use by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Too ashamed to use my real identity...

    Somebody is eventually going to use this as a high-tech suicide note. I can just imagine how icky things would be if a suicide appears like a murder and everybody thinks the suicide note is faked online.

  59. Disabled, the elderly and others by jhines · · Score: 2

    There are people in the world who might actually have a use for this.

    Rather than "hello, I am dead", send a message like "would you please call and check on me".

    Probably simpler, would be just checking the mailbox, if email hasn't been accessed, then there is a problem, given that most people that are alive, check their mail semi-regularly.

    1. Re:Disabled, the elderly and others by droleary · · Score: 2

      Rather than "hello, I am dead", send a message like "would you please call and check on me".

      This is even worse! If the message gets falsely sent, you end up having to talk to old, sickly people!

      ObHomer: Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.

  60. That make sense? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    DaisyMan over on ArsWare has come up with a software based Dead Man's Switch that will, if you don't 'check in' every so often, post a message (presumably about your demise, but whatever you wish) to various message boards, send email (maybe that incriminating evidence?) to your friends, and encrypt specified files on your computer so that 'they' can't have them. Paranoia? Yeah, but they really _are_ watching you ..."


    Did that paragraph read properly for anyone else?
    I'm sitting here smashing my head against the monitor.
    I will admit though, that I am feeling a little tipsy.
    But WTF??
    "Someone has written something, that if "some long condition".
    Oh i think I worked it out
    "Someone has written something, that if "some condtion", then will encrypt files??
    I think decent expression has hit an all time low
  61. fastest way to destruction by dattaway · · Score: 4, Informative

    Make sure you format once to quickly start a new filesystem, repeated by a destructive badblock test to finish off the lost data between the inode maps. Just to be safe, scramble the boot sector and randomize the partition tables. That ought to make recovery a bit more difficult.

    /sbin/mkfs /dev/hda --ooops, formatted the whole drive as a filesystem, not a partition. Scrambled the partition table and the user's data all in one step. Ooops. Sorry.

    /sbin/badblocks -fw /dev/hda --forces write testing on a mounted filesystem with assorted patterns of data. Truely evil.

    The first step ought to take a few seconds. The second will continue to munch away until the deed is complete. Since all data will be gone, no ill will from upset mourners.

    1. Re:fastest way to destruction by surfimp · · Score: 1

      Is it just me, or does *nix offer the most truly evil-looking commands of any operating system?

      rm -rf /

      /sbin/mkfs /dev/hda

      /sbin/badblocks -fw /dev/hda

      That's cool.

  62. Wordsworth: "birth is but a sleep and a forgetting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Like you're going to care if "they" get your files when you die.

    You don't take any more with you when you leave this world than you brought with you the day you came.

  63. Got it by Easy2RememberNick · · Score: 1

    I already have a Deadman's Switch, it's called Windows '98

    'They' told me to tell me there is no conspiracy.

    1. Re:Got it by Easy2RememberNick · · Score: 1

      ...and, now that I'm home, wouldn't you need to wipe the drive several times to be sure of getting rid of the data? I've seen stories on here on that topic, so even if it does work the first time someone may just get the data eventually or unplug the computer before it can execute the command.
      Maybe someone mentioned this before but hey I'm a child of the late 70's early 80's, I have no... attention span. Either that or it's the pot smoke affecting me drifting over from the guy next door.

      ...I'm hungry.

      (damn screwed up sig...it was funny until it got screwed up)

  64. Also useful as a duress switch by Patrick+May · · Score: 1
    A number of actual and proposed laws in various countries that should know better require ISPs and other organizations to aid in spying on their customers. These laws frequently require the company not to notify the subject of the investigation. This service could be used to post a "You are being investigated." message if the ISP is operating under duress.

    While some countries might consider this to be notification, other legal systems distinguish between enjoining someone from performing an action and requiring someone to perform an action. At the very least, it could muddy the legal waters.

    Patrick May

  65. Please check on me... by Richard_at_work · · Score: 1

    Hi, i havent been around for a while, this means im eiather dead or I went out and got a life. Could someone please check up on me?

  66. sigreply by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    so if the criminal has a gun, i'll have two bigger guns and he'll have an uzi and i'll have an M16 and he'll have a rocketlauncher and i'll have heavy explosives and he'd have a tank and i have a F16 ahd he'll have a sub and i'll have a nuke and he'll have two and i'll have america and he'll have the former ussr.

    therefore guns should be banned.

    1. Re:sigreply by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There is no arms race. I only need a revolver to kill any man; it does not matter what type of weapon that he uses.

  67. Ever heard of a will? by yerricde · · Score: 1

    Why the hell should I give a damn about what happens to my files, money, information etc.. whan I'm DEAD ???

    Have you ever heard of something called a "last will and testament", or "will" for short? The article is about a technological measure designed to enforce a will.

    --
    Will I retire or break 10K?
    1. Re:Ever heard of a will? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes, I know what a "will" is, and I don't have one. Maybe some people care about what happens after they die, but I certainly do not.
      As far as I'm concerned everyone else can do /whatever/ they please when I'm gone.

  68. You don't get it, do you? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Deadman switches in software are meant as job security.

    IF program author hasn't checked in in last two weeks assume he was fired, ->
    THEN delete customer database
    OTHERWISE permit program author to continue naming variables after his girlfriends

    JOB SECURITY. You can raise your children on it.

    The world ends for your employer when you're gone.

  69. Re:I always wanted something like this for getting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Clever, Sherlock. Put your trust in a rooted box. "Neo" eh. Poop on a stick.

  70. Dead? Or just laid off? by standards · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In my previous job for a large corporation, there was a programmer who decided that it would be a good idea to install such a switch. In the event he didn't update a particular file at least once within 30 days, a job would start slowly corrupting an accounts receivable database.

    Unfortuantely for him, he was severely injured in a car accident and was incapacitated for several months.

    Now that he is out of the hospital, he's in jail.

    Was it his fault? You bet. But the company was also severely repremanded for having poor controls on sensitive computing systems.

  71. Okay by mindstrm · · Score: 2


    What you do is this.

    Get an old busted hard drive.
    Open it up.
    Gut it.
    Pack it full of thermite.
    Rig up an electronic ignition that can ignite the thermite.. you'll probably have to stage it.. thermite has a high ignition temperature.(standard electric match -> some chemical that's easy to light but burns really hot -> thermite).
    Rig it up a watchdog timer inside the drive too.

    Now have a driver that asks for a password on boot and kicks the dog for you.

    If it fails.. the dog ignites the thermite and turns your computer into a pile of molten slag.

    1. Re:Okay by adamjaskie · · Score: 1

      Even better: The thermite is in the hard drive with the sensitive data in it. If the drive is not accessed with a certain access key (modified firmware is required) the thermite will ignite, destroying the platters.

      --
      /usr/games/fortune
    2. Re:Okay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Removing the case from a harddrive will probably have much the same effect.

    3. Re:Okay by silentbozo · · Score: 2

      Run a bunch of current through a thin strip of magnesium, that should do nicely to ignite the thermite.

  72. Who could use this in RL? by Bonker · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Who, really, has secrets that are keeping them alive or incriminating evidence that just might get them arrested, imprisoned, or killed. To most people, this kind of utility is a joke. To a few people, however, this is a godsend...

    Like, for instance, RAWA. These are the women who ran an underground women's rights movement in Afghanistan while the Taliban were in control. You may have seen their website with its grotesque pictures. They lived and worked in secrecy, in constant fear of being imprisoned or killed by the Taliban. Wouldn't a dead-man's(or -woman's) switch be just the thing to send off a 'Farewell. This is the evidence of my capture at the hands of the Taliban' message?

    It's not just them, either. Dissidents in China could also use a utility like this... especially all those guys who just got their internet cafes shut down. Suppose the 2600 guys got raided by the MPAA^H^H^H^HFBI and were all put in prison. I imagine that Emanuel Goldstien has some juicy information he'd like to share in the event of his capture or death.

    The Gotti family has been in the news a lot lately. Suppose that you were a mob informant and had information on them that was all that was standing between you and 'Sleeping with the Sopranos after next season'. A dead-man's switch would go a long way to allowing you to release that last little bit of information, even if the mafia got to you first.

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  73. jumping out of planes by caveat · · Score: 1

    first time i went skydiving, i set up an 8-hour countdown script to mail out "hi, i just went skydiving and hit the ground awfully hard...call my next of kin" messages to everybody in my address book. keyed it to seti@home screensaver mode, so when it quit the script was aborted. otherwise i know i'd have forgotten.

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    Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley
  74. If 'they' are enemies, secrets no get :) by Trinton+Azaleth · · Score: 1

    I want certain people to get my cool information on my computer. Not some random losers who happen to trip on my computer 10 years after I'm dead and my pc has been screwed by people who knew nothing about me.

  75. I just hope they don't try to patent the idea by darkonc · · Score: 2
    What this is is a software watchdog timer. It's available in the Linux kernel, and I'm sure that it would take minimal work to have it execute arbitrary code instead of resetting the box.

    Other than that, what's new about this?

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    Sometimes boldness is in fashion. Sometimes only the brave will be bold.
  76. I hope their web server by cca93014 · · Score: 1

    is using this software...

  77. Look on the bright side... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...what do you care? You're safely dead!

  78. mkfs is the fastest by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    rm -rf /

    Takes too long. When people ask what rm-rf means, I tell them Reinvest Money, Real Fast. If they are likely to believe that, then they just might be likely the same ones that distribute pyramid schemes to everyone in their address book.

  79. Re:Dead? Or just laid off? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Wow, that guy made a real dumb mistake: He got caught.

  80. L4$t Pr0st!!(tm) by MattGWU · · Score: 1

    Are you a troll?

    Have you died?

    If the answer to the above questions is a resounding "w3rd!!", then have we got the program for you! Introducing "L4$t Pr0st!!". Inform a likely relieved populace of your unfortunate demise in style. Written in perl, "L4$t Pr0st" integrates easily with your favorite "F1r$t Pr0st" sniper script. Along with a standardized (but customizable) message, "L4$t Pr0st" can leave a personalized message to your adoring public, readable by them until you are modded down past viewable level. Let them know what you REALLY think...make them pje4r you...transmit URLs to your favorite gaping anus webpage; With "L4$t Pr0st" the possibilities are endless, even if your mortal coil is not!

    "Make your final First Post your Last Post, with L4$t Pr0st!"

    Warning: "L4$t Pr0st Ltd." and it's parent company "Mbogo Plumbing and Software", its affiliates, subsidiaries, and shareholders hereby disavow all liability for any adverse affects in the afterlife caused by loss of Karma due to use of L4$t Pr0st, including but not limited to assignment to a lower than expected circle of Hell, in perpetutity and throughout the Universe.

    --
    "These people look deep within my soul and assign me a number based on the order in which I joined" --Homer re:
  81. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 3, Funny

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  82. What about a car wreck? by nurb432 · · Score: 1

    Not quite dead, but might be out of commision for a few weeks..

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  83. Re:A much easier, less risky, more effective solut by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Hell, they're probably "compromising" your wife, your sister, your daughter AND your mother right now.

  84. Post-Mortium Information Dissemination Feature? by MattGWU · · Score: 1

    Forget that! I'll take the top-secret recipe for the immortality elixer with me to my grave!

    --
    "These people look deep within my soul and assign me a number based on the order in which I joined" --Homer re:
  85. Automated Message by Kasmiur · · Score: 1

    This is a automated message setup to notify you that I apperently have died.

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    -THIS SPACE FOR RENT!
  86. Re:A much easier, less risky, more effective solut by An+IPv6+obsessed+guy · · Score: 1
    And no there is no conspiracy between the lawyers and the government.

    Oh, sure, that's exactly what they want us to believe. Admit it, you're one of them--probably a lawyer--aren't you? You're trying to get us to reveal all of our secrets to the Grand Global Lawyer-Government Conspiracy! Admit it!

  87. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 1

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  88. You all forgot one important thing. by comp.sci · · Score: 1

    What if you do a cron job (or similar) that checks if you login at least twice a month and you actually die and all your friends and parents already know!
    I wouldn't want them to get an email message from me a few days after they learned that I am dead that says "Could you please check on me?".
    This would be at least a little shock for them to just receive an email from me!
    Anyways the idea of erasing/encrypting your personal data is a good idea, but you should give the decryption key to someone so that your "important files" are not lost forever.

    1. Re:You all forgot one important thing. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      A serious word on arsware (bugware) you should be made aware of since it demonstrates the coder creates programs without error handling & shows poor operating system function understanding as well. Why do I say that? 3 Proofs all below, read on, in A, B, & C:

      Aryeh ('Are ya got holes in yer Programs') Holzer alias Daisyman ("bugs" bunny is more like it) from arstechnica forums also created another buggy app you all should be made aware of that shows he codes VERY poorly in another application he wrote which shows this application probably has SAME problems.

      A.) EXAMPLE #1 (LACK OF ERROR HANDLING IN CODE):

      http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

      The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk? You can't. All they could do was bitch about it, but not a one offered a fix. The person who found the bug had to instruct the coder how to fix it and did so.

      Funniest part was the guy who found the error, without having the source to "Uncoolmon" lol, as he called it, had to show the coder HOW AND WHERE TO PLACE THE ERROR TRAPPING! Obviously, either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

      (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program.)

      Performance minded users on NT based Os' turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, and ram as well as other forms of IO. He was not accounting for this, not at all. Poor understanding of the Operating Systems of NT genre & no accounting for users who do this also! If they are not generated & are not monitored or used, save those resources by turning them off!

      The fix the other coder gave him in that URL above is EXACTLY what Aryeh/Daisyman used VERBATIM. No creativity either apparently.

      That to me proved Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool without checking for the water being in it first, hehe, can you say "CRASH"?

      B.) EXAMPLE #2 (CURRENT TESTING USERS NEW BUGS):

      2 years of life, and this program is HUGELY buggy, see here on their own forums another place they pimp their junk:

      http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

      BUGGY as you can see. Ars pimps it all over the web (anonymously as was done here), but better alternatives exist like Clearinfo! All Coolinfo does is read output that motherboard monitor does & Performance counters anyhow. Tools already are in mobo monitor & perfmon for that already anyways.

      C.) EXAMPLE #3 (BUGLIST):

      http://daisyman.arsware.org/coolinfo/bugs.html

      Delphi transparent form code it has? Freely available online, tops 50-100 lines tacked on & probably stolen! It's fairly obvious this coder does not write large tracts of his work as was evidenced by his inability to use error handlers & where to put them in the code.

      Arstechnica posted that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward" about it here: Want to bet that Anonymous Coward who started this thread's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here as the originator of this post too?

      Learn to code PROPERLY arstech boys, then the goods will speak for themselves & no need to pimp them "anonymously" like arstech does!

      Reading those URL links above convinced me arsware is bugware & Arsware "uncoolmon" has that kind of buggy and lack of error trap code in it, do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"?

      It was proven he has done that demonstrates an utter lack of skills & dangerous methods. He wrote that Coolinfo program (of which he had to change the name from Coolinfo to Coolmon or get sued since he stole it first of all) which is a giant bug as seen above.

      I don't play Russian roulette with arsware! Since it is timing critical, and with no error trapping done by this guy as was shown to the case above in CoolMon by aryeh holzer as well? NO WAY!

  89. This whole attitude just pisses me off by uptownguy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, getting caught was just bad luck for him, not a mistake.

    {rant}

    The mistake was in doing something WRONG -- setting up a system ahead of time to cause DAMAGE to the property of someone else is WRONG. Once you stop working for that company, you have no right to do bad things to their systems. Actually, when you DO work there, you don't have a right to do bad things to their systems. You still don't have a RIGHT to the information that is on their systems. My GOD, the arrogance of programmers/system admins who feel that it is their network to do with as they please. Unless you are the one signing the check each week, that is...

    Vandalism is vandalism. I get pissed when the punks down the street spraypaint a fence and mess up what is a beautiful neighborhood. I get pissed when someone with a big ego and a bigger sense of entitlement comes up with a way to vandalize the property of their former boss. It is sophomoric, unethical and just plain wrong.

    I can see the case for security on a personal system. A laptop. A privately owned workstation. I am all for freeing information and sharing what we know. Knowledge is power. Open source is good. Preaching to the choir, there. But...

    The direction that a subset of our community seems to take... this gleeful boating about destroying the private property of another... the idea that might makes right... well, let's just say it pisses me off and does a disservice to the community.

    {/rant}

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    I would have to say that explosives are the most abused technology in all of history.
    1. Re: This whole attitude just pisses me off by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      uptown guy said:
      "Once you stop working for that company, you have no right to do bad things to their systems. Actually, when you DO work there, you don't have a right to do bad things to their systems."
      Bullshit. You sure as hell do have the right to screw them over if they owe you money.
  90. good stuff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I've been looking for this type of software, to use when sailing solo.

  91. Simple! by zCyl · · Score: 2

    This has been a test, of the emergency conspiracy-death system. If this had been an actual conspiracy-death, this post would have been followed by lots of random looking crap that would actually be encrypted porn. BRZRZRZRZRZR. BRZRZRZRZRZR.

    1. Re:Simple! by Ubi_NL · · Score: 1

      in which case you will need extra CPU capacity

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      If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
  92. Have it do this... by sconeu · · Score: 2

    Make sure it mails out the encryption key to your
    Norwegian history database!

    --
    General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
    1. Re:Have it do this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      A serious word on arsware (bugware) you should be made aware of since it demonstrates the coder creates programs without error handling & shows poor operating system function understanding as well. Why do I say that? 3 Proofs all below, read on, in A, B, & C:

      Aryeh ('Are ya got holes in yer Programs') Holzer alias Daisyman ("bugs" bunny is more like it) from arstechnica forums also created another buggy app you all should be made aware of that shows he codes VERY poorly in another application he wrote which shows this application probably has SAME problems.

      A.) EXAMPLE #1 (LACK OF ERROR HANDLING IN CODE):

      Aryeh Holzer/Daisyman shown to code without using error trapping or structured error handlers ->

      http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

      The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk? You can't. All they could do was bitch about it, but not a one offered a fix. The person who found the bug had to instruct the coder how to fix it and did so.

      Funniest part was the guy who found the error, without having the source to "Uncoolmon" lol, as he called it, had to show the coder HOW AND WHERE TO PLACE THE ERROR TRAPPING! Obviously, either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

      (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program.)

      Performance minded users on NT based Os' turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, and ram as well as other forms of IO. He was not accounting for this, not at all. Poor understanding of the Operating Systems of NT genre & no accounting for users who do this also! If they are not generated & are not monitored or used, save those resources by turning them off!

      The fix the other coder gave him in that URL above is EXACTLY what Aryeh/Daisyman used VERBATIM. No creativity either apparently.

      That to me proved Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool without checking for the water being in it first, hehe, can you say "CRASH"?

      B.) EXAMPLE #2 (CURRENT TESTING USERS NEW BUGS):

      2 years of life, and this program is HUGELY buggy, see here on their own forums... another place they pimp their junk:

      http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

      BUGGY as you can see. Ars pimps it all over the web (anonymously as was done here), but better alternatives exist like Clearinfo! All Coolinfo does is read output that motherboard monitor does & Performance counters anyhow. Tools already are in mobo monitor & perfmon for that already anyways.

      C.) EXAMPLE #3 (BUGLIST):

      http://daisyman.arsware.org/coolinfo/bugs.html

      Delphi transparent form code it has? Freely available online, tops 50-100 lines tacked on & probably stolen! It's fairly obvious this coder does not write large tracts of his work as was evidenced by his inability to use error handlers & where to put them in the code.

      Arstechnica posted that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward" about it here: Want to bet that Anonymous Coward who started this thread's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here as the originator of this post too?

      Learn to code PROPERLY arstech boys, then the goods will speak for themselves & no need to pimp them "anonymously" like arstech does!

      Reading those URL links above convinced me arsware is bugware & Arsware "uncoolmon" has that kind of buggy and lack of error trap code in it, do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"?

      It was proven he has done that demonstrates an utter lack of skills & dangerous methods. He wrote that Coolinfo program (of which he had to change the name from Coolinfo to Coolmon or get sued since he stole it first of all) which is a giant bug as seen above.

      I don't play Russian roulette with arsware! Since it is timing critical, and with no error trapping done by this guy as was shown to the case above in CoolMon by aryeh holzer as well? NO WAY!

  93. If you feel a need to do this.... by Fencepost · · Score: 3, Insightful
    If you feel a need to screw your coworkers like this if you quit/get fired/whatever, you're at the wrong company. Quit now before you do something stupid and vindictive that's likely to mess up your life, because if you feel like that now even if things improve you'll never really be happy there.

    If you can't grasp that, grasp that most companies that inspire this sort of feeling are the large impersonal ones that are likely to survive, and that eventually they may figure out what you did at which point you're screwed for the rest of your life and they're minorly inconvenienced. Not worth it.

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    fencepost
    just a little off
  94. Feeling a little drowsy? by robolemon · · Score: 1
    Let's just hope that you drink plenty of caffeine and aren't narcoleptic!

    You could just have it blast the infernal Celine Dion song from Titanic first, ensuring you are dead. Even if you're in a deep coma you'll leap up awake and turn it off just to save your sanity.

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    I design user interfaces for a free network management application,

  95. Re:"The Trigger" by Arthur C. Clark and Kube-McDow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Very rarely do I get fed up of a book and stop reading it. This was the case with The Trigger. I read half way through, got throughly fed up and returned it. BTW. Clark didnt write it, it was Kube, just has Clark's blessing. It's lame as hell. Got the worst lines than most you see in modern movies.

  96. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 1

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  97. Re:"The Trigger" by Arthur C. Clark and Kube-McDow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    He isn't. And don't call me Saly.

  98. Just don't forget.... by nohup · · Score: 1

    Just be careful you don't forget to "check in" if your servers go down for some reason!

  99. for best effect, go nuclear by danny · · Score: 3, Funny
    Obtain a surplus Russian nuclear warhead and wire your dead man switch to that... That's what one of the characters in Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash does, anyway - the result is that he gets looked after very carefully by local law enforcement.

    There's a great bit of dialogue at one point that goes something like "You can't attack him, he's a sovereign nation!" "So, I'll declare war on him first." If anyone has a copy handy maybe they can transcribe it.

    Danny.

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    1. Re:for best effect, go nuclear by signingis · · Score: 1
      Squeaky smiles, as though we haave just tossed the border into the realm of kidding around. "He's Sovereign."

      "So declare war on him."

      "It's not a good idea to declare war on a nuclear power"

      "Huh?"

      "Christ," Squeaky says, shaking his head, "if I had any idea how little you knew about this shit I never would have let you into my car. I thought you were some kind of serious CIC wet-operations guy. Are you telling me you really didn't know about Raven?"

      "Yes, that's what I'm telling you."

      "Okay. I'm going to tell you this so you don't go out and cause any more trouble. Raven's packing a torpedo warhead that he boosted from an old Soviet nuke sub. It was a torpedo that was designed to take out a carrier battle group with one shot. A nuclear torpedo. You know that funny looking sidecar that Raven has on his Harley? Well, it's a hydrogen bomb, man. Armed and ready. The trigger's hooked up to EEG trodes embedded in his skull. If Raven dies, the bomb goes off. So when Raven comes into town, we do everything in our power to make the man feel comfortable."

      --

      I prefer a void in conversation to a vacuous one.
    2. Re:for best effect, go nuclear by robman · · Score: 1

      He-he.

      I especially like the part where Hiro has an internal dialog about the side effects to ones self image of Raven being a nuclear power.

      It's the part where Hiro is talking about how you can train in Kung Fu all your life and think you're the baddest mofo around, but then you realize that this mofo [Raven] is nuclear and you don't feel like such a badass anymore.

      --
      "Perl 6 will give you the big knob." -Larry Wall
    3. Re:for best effect, go nuclear by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      A serious word on arsware (bugware) you should be made aware of since it demonstrates the coder creates programs without error handling & shows poor operating system function understanding as well.

      Aryeh ('Are ya got holes in yer Programs') Holzer alias Daisyman ("bugs" bunny) from arstechnica forums also created another serious buggy app you all should be made aware of that shows he codes VERY poorly in another application he wrote.

      It was proven he has done that demonstrates an utter lack of skills & dangerous methods. He wrote that Coolinfo program (of which he had to change the name from Coolinfo to Coolmon or get sued since he stole it first of all) which is a giant bug!

      EXAMPLE #1 (LACK OF ERROR TRAPPING PROVEN):

      http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

      In majorgeeks.com software forums (search Coolmon & use from the beginning as your search query... OR sort by most views from the beginning, you will see it).

      The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk? You can't.

      Funniest part was the guy who found the error, without having the source to "Uncoolmon" lol, as he called it, had to show the coder HOW AND WHERE TO PLACE THE ERROR TRAPPING!

      Obviously, either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

      (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program. Many performance minded people turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, and ram as well as other forms of IO. He was not accounting for this, not at all. Poor understanding of the Operating Systems of NT genre!)

      The fix the other coder gave him in that URL above is EXACTLY what Aryeh/Daisyman used VERBATIM. That to me proved Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool without checking for the water being in it first, hehe, can you say "CRASH"?

      EXAMPLE #2 (CURRENT TESTING USERS BUGS FOUND):

      2 years of life, and this program is HUGELY buggy, see here on their own forums... another place they pimp their junk:

      http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

      BUGGY still to this day as you can see. No arsware for me. They pimp it all over the web but better alternatives exist for that Uncoolmon one like Clearinfo! Heck all this thing does is read output that motherboard monitor does, and Performance counters anyhow. Tools already are in mobo monitor & perfmon for that already anyways.

      EXAMPLE #3 (KNOWN BUGLIST):

      http://daisyman.arsware.org/coolinfo/bugs.html

      And, Delphi transparent form code? Freely available online, tops 50-100 lines tacked on & probably stolen! It's fairly obvious this coder does not write large tracts of his work as was evidenced by his inability to use error handlers & where to put them in the code.

      Arstechnica posted that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward" about it here! Want to bet that Anonymous Coward who started this thread's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here as the originator of this post too?

      Arstechnica members are known for posting via hotmail.com & yahoo.com accounts & using "anonymous" alot. Learn to code PROPERLY arstech boys & the goods will speak for themselves & no need to pimp them "anonymously"!

      I don't know about you people, but reading those URL links above convinced me that arsware is bugware to the max. If arsware "uncoolmon" has that kind of buggy and lack of error trap code in it, do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"?

      I don't play Russian roulette with arsware! And most certainly not with this PROBABLY buggy thing, since it is timing critical, and with no error trapping done by this guy as was shown to the case above in CoolMon by aryeh holzer as well? NO WAY!

  100. Well by mindstrm · · Score: 2

    This will also turn the computer and everything in it into a molten blob of junk. It doesn't matter if the thermite is in a working drive or non-working drive.

  101. Re:I like mine better by juliao · · Score: 2

    Man, God forbid you from ever falling asleep...

  102. What a bunch of b.s. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    His other program is buggy as all get out, that coolmon one ('uncoolmon' is more like it) and his coding style sucks. I saw a guy at majorgeeks.com point out he was not even checking for the presence of the Performance Counters it reads at the startup of it, & that indicated he does not even have error trapping or structured error handlers in place in his code. Pretty shoddy. That's like as the guy put it who told him HOW AND WHERE to add it to his code (which I felt was odd, I mean the coder has the source and yet could not figure it out & had to ask him)

    He did it verbatim per the suggestion given to him, the simplest one, there were better but more complex ones.

    Taking down his 20 bugs he has (more than that though exist) down to 16 or so. I won't use that arsware junk.

    Funniest part is this "Anonymous Coward" post, lol!

    Arstechnica comes here and pimps that stuff, but be aware of the fact that they code dangerously & make definite amateurish errors as noted above, see www.majorgeeks.com & search COOLMON in their software forums using from the beginning as the search criteria date, you will see this all that I said above.

    No error trapping! Can you say "let's jump into a concrete bottom pool without checking if water is in it first?" hehe.

    Probably why the program has bugs to this day and has been around (along with others that were online before it with same idea like ClearInfo) for 2 years now. Heck I run plain jane motherboad monitor and it does what I need it to. I don't need to use some broken busted up shoddy code that has poor logical design in it to attach itself to Alex Van Kaam's coattails & ruin Motherboard monitor.

  103. Re:Dead? Or just laid off? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A word on arsware (bugware) you should be made aware of.

    Aryeh ('Are ya got holes in yer Programs') Holzer alias Daisyman on the arstechnica forums created a serious buggy app you all should be made aware of that shows he codes VERY poorly in another application he wrote. It was proven he has done that demonstrates an utter lack of skills & dangerous methods. Read on...

    He wrote that Coolinfo program (of which he had to change the name from Coolinfo to Coolmon or get sued since he stole it first of all) which is a giant bug, examples of it & proof are below, so no Arsholeware (bugware) unless you like taking extreme chances.

    EXAMPLE #1:

    He was shown to code without using error trapping or structured error handlers at

    http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

    In their software forums (search Coolmon & use from the beginning as your search query... OR sort by most views from the beginning, you will see it).

    The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk?

    You can't.

    Funniest part was the guy who found the error, without having the source to "Uncoolmon" lol, as he called it, had to show the coder HOW AND WHERE TO PLACE THE ERROR TRAPPING! Obviously, either he did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

    (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program)

    The fix the other coder gave him in that URL above is EXACTLY what Aryeh/Daisyman used VERBATIM. No creativity either apparently.

    That to me proved Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool without checking for the water being in it first, hehe, can you say "CRASH"?

    EXAMPLE #2:

    2 years of life, and this program is HUGELY buggy, see here on their own forums... another place they pimp their junk:

    http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

    Still to this day. Nope, no arsware for me. They pimp it all over the web but better alternatives exist for that Uncoolmon one... like Clearinfo!

    Most hilariously, they posted the coder is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward" about it here... ha, want to bet that's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here?

    Unbelievable! What a pack of weasels. They're known for posting via hotmail.com & yahoo.com accounts & using "anonymous" alot. What a bunch of gossipy women. Learn to code PROPERLY arstech boys, then the goods will speak for themselves & no need to pimp them "anonymously" girls.

  104. Buggy Arsware shown to have no errortraps in it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A serious word on arsware (bugware) you should be made aware of since it demonstrates the coder creates programs without error handling & shows poor operating system function understanding as well.

    Aryeh ('Are ya got holes in yer Programs') Holzer alias Daisyman on the arstechnica forums also created another serious buggy app you all should be made aware of that shows he codes VERY poorly in another application he wrote called Coolmon.

    It was proven he has done that demonstrates an utter lack of skills & dangerous methods. He wrote that Coolinfo program (of which he had to change the name from Coolinfo to Coolmon or get sued since he stole it first of all) which is a giant bug!

    Examples of it & proof are below, so no Arsholeware (bugware) unless you like taking extreme chances.

    EXAMPLE #1:

    He was shown to code without using error trapping or structured error handlers at

    http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

    In their software forums (search Coolmon & use from the beginning as your search query... OR sort by most views from the beginning, you will see it).

    The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk? You can't.

    Funniest part was the guy who found the error, without having the source to "Uncoolmon" lol, as he called it, had to show the coder HOW AND WHERE TO PLACE THE ERROR TRAPPING!

    Obviously, either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

    (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program. Many performance minded people turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, and ram as well as other forms of IO. He was not accounting for this, not at all. Poor understanding of the Operating Systems of NT genre!)

    The fix the other coder gave him in that URL above is EXACTLY what Aryeh/Daisyman used VERBATIM. No creativity either apparently.

    That to me proved Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool without checking for the water being in it first, hehe, can you say "CRASH"?

    EXAMPLE #2:

    2 years of life, and this program is HUGELY buggy, see here on their own forums... another place they pimp their junk:

    http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

    BUGGY still to this day as you can see. No arsware for me. They pimp it all over the web but better alternatives exist for that Uncoolmon one like Clearinfo! Heck all this thing does is read output that motherboard monitor does, and Performance counters anyhow. Tools already are in mobo monitor & perfmon for that already anyways.

    And, Delphi transparent form code? Freely available online, tops 50-100 lines tacked on & probably stolen! It's fairly obvious this coder does not write large tracts of his work as was evidenced by his inability to use error handlers & where to put them in the code.

    Arstechnica posted that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward" about it here... Ha, want to bet that Anonymous Coward who started this thread's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here as the originator of this post too?

    Arstechnica members are known for posting via hotmail.com & yahoo.com accounts & using "anonymous" alot. Learn to code PROPERLY arstech boys, then the goods will speak for themselves & no need to pimp them "anonymously" girls!

    I don't know about you people, but reading those URL links above convinced me that arsware is bugware to the max. If arsware "uncoolmon" has that kind of buggy and lack of error trap code in it, do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"?

    I don't play Russian roulette with arsware! And most certainly not with this PROBABLY buggy thing, since it is timing critical, and with no error trapping done by this guy as was shown to the case above in CoolMon by aryeh holzer as well? NO WAY!

  105. Re: BUGS IN ARSWARE TO KNOW ABOUT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A serious word on arsware (bugware) you should be made aware of since it demonstrates the coder creates programs without error handling & shows poor operating system function understanding as well.

    Aryeh ('Are ya got holes in yer Programs') Holzer alias Daisyman on the arstechnica forums also created another serious buggy app you all should be made aware of that shows he codes VERY poorly in another application he wrote.

    It was proven he has done that demonstrates an utter lack of skills & dangerous methods. He wrote that Coolinfo program (of which he had to change the name from Coolinfo to Coolmon or get sued since he stole it first of all) which is a giant bug!

    Examples of it & proof are below, so no Arsholeware (bugware) unless you like taking extreme chances.

    EXAMPLE #1:

    He was shown to code without using error trapping or structured error handlers at

    http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

    In their software forums (search Coolmon & use from the beginning as your search query... OR sort by most views from the beginning, you will see it).

    (The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk? You can't. You can only try to fix it, & not a one of them could. They only could packrat attack under yahoo & hotmail anonymous accounts. The guy who found it & was attacked by them above, ends up telling aryeh holzer how to fix it in fact.)

    Funniest part was the guy who found the error, without having the source to "Uncoolmon" lol, as he called it, had to show the coder HOW AND WHERE TO PLACE THE ERROR TRAPPING!

    Obviously, either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

    (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program. Many performance minded people turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, and ram as well as other forms of IO. He was not accounting for this, not at all. Poor understanding of the Operating Systems of NT genre!)

    The fix the other coder gave him in that URL above is EXACTLY what Aryeh/Daisyman used VERBATIM. No creativity either apparently.

    That to me proved Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool without checking for the water being in it first, hehe, can you say "CRASH"?

    EXAMPLE #2:

    2 years of life, and this program is HUGELY buggy, see here on their own forums... another place they pimp their junk:

    http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

    BUGGY still to this day as you can see. No arsware for me. They pimp it all over the web but better alternatives exist for that Uncoolmon one like Clearinfo! Heck all this thing does is read output that motherboard monitor does, and Performance counters anyhow. Tools already are in mobo monitor & perfmon for that already anyways.

    And, Delphi transparent form code? Freely available online, tops 50-100 lines tacked on & probably stolen! It's fairly obvious this coder does not write large tracts of his work as was evidenced by his inability to use error handlers & where to put them in the code.

    Arstechnica posted that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward" about it here. Want to bet that Anonymous Coward who started this thread's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here as the originator of this post too?

    Learn to code PROPERLY arstech boys, then the goods will speak for themselves & no need to pimp them "anonymously" girls!

    I don't know about you people, but reading those URL links above convinced me that arsware is bugware to the max. If arsware "uncoolmon" has that kind of buggy and lack of error trap code in it, do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"?

    I don't play Russian roulette with arsware! And most certainly not with this PROBABLY buggy thing, since it is timing critical, and with no error trapping done by this guy as was shown to the case above in CoolMon by aryeh holzer as well? NO WAY! Too dangerous.

  106. Re:BUGS IN ARSWARE BY THIS CODER: BAD ONES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A serious word on arsware (bugware) you should be made aware of since it demonstrates the coder creates programs without error handling & shows poor operating system function understanding as well.

    Aryeh ('Are ya got holes in yer Programs') Holzer alias Daisyman on the arstechnica forums also created another serious buggy app you all should be made aware of that shows he codes VERY poorly in another application he wrote.

    It was proven he has done that demonstrates an utter lack of skills & dangerous methods. He wrote that Coolinfo program (of which he had to change the name from Coolinfo to Coolmon or get sued since he stole it first of all) which is a giant bug!

    Examples of it & proof are below, so no Arsholeware (bugware) unless you like taking extreme chances.

    EXAMPLE #1:

    He was shown to code without using error trapping or structured error handlers at

    http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

    In their software forums (search Coolmon & use from the beginning as your search query... OR sort by most views from the beginning, you will see it).

    The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk? You can't.

    Funniest part was the guy who found the error, without having the source to "Uncoolmon" lol, as he called it, had to show the coder HOW AND WHERE TO PLACE THE ERROR TRAPPING!

    Obviously, either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

    (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program. Many performance minded people turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, and ram as well as other forms of IO. He was not accounting for this, not at all. Poor understanding of the Operating Systems of NT genre!)

    The fix the other coder gave him in that URL above is EXACTLY what Aryeh/Daisyman used VERBATIM. No creativity either apparently.

    That to me proved Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool without checking for the water being in it first, hehe, can you say "CRASH"?

    EXAMPLE #2:

    2 years of life, and this program is HUGELY buggy, see here on their own forums... another place they pimp their junk:

    http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

    BUGGY still to this day as you can see. No arsware for me. They pimp it all over the web but better alternatives exist for that Uncoolmon one like Clearinfo! Heck all this thing does is read output that motherboard monitor does, and Performance counters anyhow. Tools already are in mobo monitor & perfmon for that already anyways.

    EXAMPLE #3 (BUGLIST):

    http://daisyman.arsware.org/coolinfo/bugs.html

    And, Delphi transparent form code? Freely available online, tops 50-100 lines tacked on & probably stolen! It's fairly obvious this coder does not write large tracts of his work as was evidenced by his inability to use error handlers & where to put them in the code.

    Arstechnica posted that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward" about it here... Ha, want to bet that Anonymous Coward who started this thread's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here as the originator of this post too?

    Arstechnica members are known for posting via hotmail.com & yahoo.com accounts & using "anonymous" alot. Learn to code PROPERLY arstech boys, then the goods will speak for themselves & no need to pimp them "anonymously" girls!

    I don't know about you people, but reading those URL links above convinced me that arsware is bugware to the max. If arsware "uncoolmon" has that kind of buggy and lack of error trap code in it, do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"?

    I don't play Russian roulette with arsware! And most certainly not with this PROBABLY buggy thing, since it is timing critical, and with no error trapping done by this guy as was shown to the case above in CoolMon by aryeh holzer as well? NO WAY!

  107. Jumping out of planes w/ no chute = Arsware by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A serious word on arsware (bugware) you should be made aware of since it demonstrates the coder creates programs without error handling & shows poor operating system function understanding as well. Jumping outta airplanes with no parachute or one that is packed badly with faults.

    Why do I say that... proofs all below, read on:

    Aryeh ('Are ya got holes in yer Programs') Holzer alias Daisyman on the arstechnica forums also created another serious buggy app you all should be made aware of that shows he codes VERY poorly in another application he wrote.

    It was proven he has done that demonstrates an utter lack of skills & dangerous methods. He wrote that Coolinfo program (of which he had to change the name from Coolinfo to Coolmon or get sued since he stole it first of all) which is a giant bug!

    Examples of it & proof are below, so no Arsholeware (bugware) unless you like taking extreme chances.

    EXAMPLE #1:

    He was shown to code without using error trapping or structured error handlers at

    http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

    In their software forums (search Coolmon & use from the beginning as your search query... OR sort by most views from the beginning, you will see it).

    The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk? You can't.

    Funniest part was the guy who found the error, without having the source to "Uncoolmon" lol, as he called it, had to show the coder HOW AND WHERE TO PLACE THE ERROR TRAPPING!

    Obviously, either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

    (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program. Many performance minded people turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, and ram as well as other forms of IO. He was not accounting for this, not at all. Poor understanding of the Operating Systems of NT genre!)

    The fix the other coder gave him in that URL above is EXACTLY what Aryeh/Daisyman used VERBATIM. No creativity either apparently.

    That to me proved Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool without checking for the water being in it first, hehe, can you say "CRASH"?

    EXAMPLE #2:

    2 years of life, and this program is HUGELY buggy, see here on their own forums... another place they pimp their junk:

    http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

    BUGGY still to this day as you can see. No arsware for me. They pimp it all over the web but better alternatives exist for that Uncoolmon one like Clearinfo! Heck all this thing does is read output that motherboard monitor does, and Performance counters anyhow. Tools already are in mobo monitor & perfmon for that already anyways.

    EXAMPLE #3 (BUGLIST):

    http://daisyman.arsware.org/coolinfo/bugs.html

    And, Delphi transparent form code? Freely available online, tops 50-100 lines tacked on & probably stolen! It's fairly obvious this coder does not write large tracts of his work as was evidenced by his inability to use error handlers & where to put them in the code.

    Arstechnica posted that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward" about it here... Ha, want to bet that Anonymous Coward who started this thread's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here as the originator of this post too?

    Arstechnica members are known for posting via hotmail.com & yahoo.com accounts & using "anonymous" alot. Learn to code PROPERLY arstech boys, then the goods will speak for themselves & no need to pimp them "anonymously" girls!

    I don't know about you people, but reading those URL links above convinced me that arsware is bugware to the max. If arsware "uncoolmon" has that kind of buggy and lack of error trap code in it, do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"?

    I don't play Russian roulette with arsware! And most certainly not with this PROBABLY buggy thing, since it is timing critical, and with no error trapping done by this guy as was shown to the case above in CoolMon by aryeh holzer as well? NO WAY!

  108. Agreed: Arsware=Bugware also BIGTIME see inside... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A serious word on arsware (bugware) you should be made aware of since it demonstrates the coder creates programs without error handling & shows poor operating system function understanding as well. Jumping outta airplanes with no parachute or one that is packed badly with faults.

    Why do I say that... proofs all below, read on:

    Aryeh ('Are ya got holes in yer Programs') Holzer alias Daisyman on the arstechnica forums also created another serious buggy app you all should be made aware of that shows he codes VERY poorly in another application he wrote.

    It was proven he has done that demonstrates an utter lack of skills & dangerous methods. He wrote that Coolinfo program (of which he had to change the name from Coolinfo to Coolmon or get sued since he stole it first of all) which is a giant bug!

    Examples/proof below, so no Arsholeware (bugware) unless you like taking extreme chances.

    EXAMPLE #1:

    Aryeh Holzer/Daisyman shown to code without using error trapping or structured error handlers ->

    http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

    The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk? You can't.

    Funniest part was the guy who found the error, without having the source to "Uncoolmon" lol, as he called it, had to show the coder HOW AND WHERE TO PLACE THE ERROR TRAPPING!

    Obviously, either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

    (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program.)

    Performance minded users on NT based Os' turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, and ram as well as other forms of IO. He was not accounting for this, not at all. Poor understanding of the Operating Systems of NT genre & no accounting for users who do this also! If they are not generated & are not monitored or used, save those resources by turning them off!

    The fix the other coder gave him in that URL above is EXACTLY what Aryeh/Daisyman used VERBATIM. No creativity either apparently.

    That to me proved Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool without checking for the water being in it first, hehe, can you say "CRASH"?

    EXAMPLE #2:

    2 years of life, and this program is HUGELY buggy, see here on their own forums... another place they pimp their junk:

    http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

    BUGGY as you can see. No arsware for me. Ars pimps it all over the web, better alternatives exist like Clearinfo! All Coolinfo does is read output that motherboard monitor does & Performance counters anyhow. Tools already are in mobo monitor & perfmon for that already anyways.

    EXAMPLE #3 (BUGLIST):

    http://daisyman.arsware.org/coolinfo/bugs.html

    Delphi transparent form code it has? Freely available online, tops 50-100 lines tacked on & probably stolen! It's fairly obvious this coder does not write large tracts of his work as was evidenced by his inability to use error handlers & where to put them in the code.

    Arstechnica posted that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward" about it here: Want to bet that Anonymous Coward who started this thread's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here as the originator of this post too?

    Learn to code PROPERLY arstech boys, then the goods will speak for themselves & no need to pimp them "anonymously" girls!

    I don't know about you people! Reading those URL links above convinced me arsware is bugware & Arsware "uncoolmon" has that kind of buggy and lack of error trap code in it, do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"?

    I don't play Russian roulette with arsware! Since it is timing critical, and with no error trapping done by this guy as was shown to the case above in CoolMon by aryeh holzer as well? NO WAY!!!

  109. BUGWARE BY ARSWARE CODER "BUGS BUNNY" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A serious word on arsware (bugware) you should be made aware of since it demonstrates the coder creates programs without error handling & shows poor operating system function understanding as well. Jumping outta airplanes with no parachute or one that is packed badly with faults.

    Why do I say that... proofs all below, read on:

    Aryeh ('Are ya got holes in yer Programs' or rather, "Bugs Bunny" lol) Holzer alias Daisyman on the arstechnica forums also created another serious buggy app you all should be made aware of that shows he codes VERY poorly in another application he wrote.

    It was proven he has done that demonstrates an utter lack of skills & dangerous methods. He wrote that Coolinfo program (of which he had to change the name from Coolinfo to Coolmon or get sued since he stole it first of all) which is a giant bug!

    Examples of it & proof are below, so no Arsholeware (bugware) unless you like taking extreme chances.

    EXAMPLE #1:

    He was shown to code without using error trapping or structured error handlers at

    http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

    In their software forums (search Coolmon & use from the beginning as your search query... OR sort by most views from the beginning, you will see it).

    The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk? You can't.

    Funniest part was the guy who found the error, without having the source to "Uncoolmon" lol, as he called it, had to show the coder HOW AND WHERE TO PLACE THE ERROR TRAPPING!

    Obviously, either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

    (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program. Many performance minded people turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, and ram as well as other forms of IO. He was not accounting for this, not at all. Poor understanding of the Operating Systems of NT genre!)

    The fix the other coder gave him in that URL above is EXACTLY what Aryeh/Daisyman used VERBATIM. No creativity either apparently.

    That to me proved Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool without checking for the water being in it first, hehe, can you say "CRASH"?

    EXAMPLE #2:

    2 years of life, and this program is HUGELY buggy, see here on their own forums... another place they pimp their junk:

    http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

    BUGGY still to this day as you can see. No arsware for me. They pimp it all over the web but better alternatives exist for that Uncoolmon one like Clearinfo! Heck all this thing does is read output that motherboard monitor does, and Performance counters anyhow. Tools already are in mobo monitor & perfmon for that already anyways.

    EXAMPLE #3 (BUGLIST):

    http://daisyman.arsware.org/coolinfo/bugs.html

    And, Delphi transparent form code? Freely available online, tops 50-100 lines tacked on & probably stolen! It's fairly obvious this coder does not write large tracts of his work as was evidenced by his inability to use error handlers & where to put them in the code.

    Arstechnica posted that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward" about it here... Ha, want to bet that Anonymous Coward who started this thread's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here as the originator of this post too?

    Arstechnica members are known for posting via hotmail.com & yahoo.com accounts & using "anonymous" alot. Learn to code PROPERLY arstech boys, then the goods will speak for themselves & no need to pimp them "anonymously" girls!

    I don't know about you people, but reading those URL links above convinced me that arsware is bugware to the max. If arsware "uncoolmon" has that kind of buggy and lack of error trap code in it, do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"?

    I don't play Russian roulette with arsware! And most certainly not with this PROBABLY buggy thing, since it is timing critical, and with no error trapping done by this guy as was shown to the case above in CoolMon by aryeh holzer as well? NO WAY!

  110. Re:ARS BUGWARE BY ARYEH HOLZER alias "Bugs" bunny by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A serious word on arsware (bugware) you should be made aware of since it demonstrates the coder creates programs without error handling & shows poor operating system function understanding as well. Jumping outta airplanes with no parachute or one that is packed badly with faults.

    Why do I say that... proofs all below, for your own sakes, do read on:

    Aryeh ('Are ya got holes in yer Programs') Holzer alias Daisyman on the arstechnica forums also created another serious buggy app you all should be made aware of that shows he codes VERY poorly in another application he wrote.

    It was proven he has done that demonstrates an utter lack of skills & dangerous methods. He wrote that Coolinfo program (of which he had to change the name from Coolinfo to Coolmon or get sued since he stole it first of all) which is a giant bug!

    Examples/proof below, so no Arsholeware (bugware) unless you like taking extreme chances.

    EXAMPLE #1:

    Aryeh Holzer/Daisyman shown to code without using error trapping or structured error handlers ->

    http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

    The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk? You can't.

    Funniest part was the guy who found the error, without having the source to "Uncoolmon" lol, as he called it, had to show the coder HOW AND WHERE TO PLACE THE ERROR TRAPPING!

    Obviously, either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

    (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program.)

    Performance minded users on NT based Os' turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, and ram as well as other forms of IO. He was not accounting for this, not at all. Poor understanding of the Operating Systems of NT genre & no accounting for users who do this also! If they are not generated & are not monitored or used, save those resources by turning them off!

    The fix the other coder gave him in that URL above is EXACTLY what Aryeh/Daisyman used VERBATIM. No creativity either apparently.

    That to me proved Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool without checking for the water being in it first, hehe, can you say "CRASH"?

    EXAMPLE #2:

    2 years of life, and this program is HUGELY buggy, see here on their own forums... another place they pimp their junk:

    http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

    BUGGY as you can see. No arsware for me. Ars pimps it all over the web, better alternatives exist like Clearinfo! All Coolinfo does is read output that motherboard monitor does & Performance counters anyhow. Tools already are in mobo monitor & perfmon for that already anyways.

    EXAMPLE #3 (BUGLIST):

    http://daisyman.arsware.org/coolinfo/bugs.html

    Delphi transparent form code it has? Freely available online, tops 50-100 lines tacked on & probably stolen! It's fairly obvious this coder does not write large tracts of his work as was evidenced by his inability to use error handlers & where to put them in the code.

    Arstechnica posted that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward" about it here: Want to bet that Anonymous Coward who started this thread's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here as the originator of this post too?

    Learn to code PROPERLY arstech boys, then the goods will speak for themselves & no need to pimp them "anonymously" girls!

    I don't know about you people! Reading those URL links above convinced me arsware is bugware & Arsware "uncoolmon" has that kind of buggy and lack of error trap code in it, do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"?

    I don't play Russian roulette with arsware! Since it is timing critical, and with no error trapping done by this guy as was shown to the case above in CoolMon by aryeh holzer as well? NO WAY!!!

  111. Test it? DON'T unless you don't mind crashes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Arsware (bugware) 3 proofs of SERIOUS issues that demonstrates the coder creates programs w/out error handling & shows poor operating system function understanding as well. Aryeh (Are ya got holes in yer Programs/Bugs Bunny) Holzer alias Daisyman has been proven to create serious flaws in his programs due to his already shown flagrantly dangerous coding style of using no errorhandling doubtless carryover to this application also!

    A.) EXAMPLE #1 OF LACK OF ERROR HANDLERS & CRASH:

    http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

    The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk?

    You can't. You can only try fix them! Not one of them did as most of them talk alot, but could not code their way out of a wet paper bag. This is their typical libellous nature on their forums also if their "integrity", such as it is, is wounded via hotmail.com & yahoo.com based accounts on webpage forums.

    * Proof here, Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool w/out checking for the water being in it first! Can you say "CRASH"?

    (Coolinfo's name change to Coolmon was done because they stole that name also. Change it or get sued since he stole it first of all. Makes you wonder again, if the code is his in fact.)

    B.) EXAMPLE #2 OF ONGOING INSTABILITIES BY TESTERS:

    http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

    Ars pimps it all over the web, better alternatives exist & are already in your OS in perfmon & motherboard monitor which coolmon attaches to its coattails only! 2 years old now, bug-ridden shown in user testing.

    C.) EXAMPLE #3 (BUGLIST):

    http://daisyman.arsware.org/coolinfo/bugs.html

    Bugs, & LOGICAL DESIGN FLAWS abound! Present w/out doubt in DeadmanSwitch also because he had to be shown how & where to place errorhandlers to account for lack of checking if Performance Counters generated by the OS were on or off at program startup, which he sent out into the web proven to be dangerously designed with no error handling. The man in example A below who found the bug had to tell the coder of the application how to do it. How to do it, where to place it. w/out having the sourcecode available to him. You would think the coder would have known how & where to do that once made aware of it! He used the fix, verbatim also. Obviously either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

    (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program.)

    Why turn perf. counters off? Simple: Performance minded users on NT based Os' turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, & ram as well as other forms of IO. If you do not monitor those you can turn them off w/ reskit tool extctrlst.exe & save those resources for programs that can use them. Transparent form code used in it is available online tops 50 lines tacked on from the web! After reading all that above, it's obvious this coder does not write large tracts of his work as was evidenced by his inability to use errorhandlers & where to put them.

    Arstechnica posted on their forums that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward", famous for what? Making bug-ridden no error handling code? Obviously, Anonymous Coward who started this thread's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here (& allover the web also) as the originator of this post too? The goods will speak for themselves when done right (if ever) & no need to pimp them "anonymously" ars!

    Do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"? No way!

  112. BUGS IN ARSWARE TO KNOW ABOUT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Arsware (bugware) has 3 proofs of SERIOUS issues that demonstrates the coder creates programs w/out error handling & shows poor operating system function understanding as well. Aryeh (Are ya got holes in yer Programs/Bugs Bunny) Holzer alias Daisyman has been proven to create serious flaws in his programs due to his already shown flagrantly dangerous coding style of using no errorhandling doubtless carryover to this application also!

    A.) EXAMPLE #1 OF LACK OF ERROR HANDLERS & CRASH:

    http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

    The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk?

    You can't. You can only try fix them! Not one of them did as most of them talk alot, but could not code their way out of a wet paper bag. This is their typical libellous nature on their forums also if their "integrity", such as it is, is wounded via hotmail.com & yahoo.com based accounts on webpage forums.

    * Proof here, Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool w/out checking for the water being in it first! Can you say "CRASH"?

    (Coolinfo's name change to Coolmon was done because they stole that name also. Change it or get sued since he stole it first of all. Makes you wonder again, if the code is his in fact.)

    B.) EXAMPLE #2 OF ONGOING INSTABILITIES BY TESTERS:

    http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

    Ars pimps it all over the web, better alternatives exist & are already in your OS in perfmon & motherboard monitor which coolmon attaches to its coattails only! 2 years old now, bug-ridden shown in user testing.

    C.) EXAMPLE #3 (BUGLIST):

    http://daisyman.arsware.org/coolinfo/bugs.html

    Bugs, & LOGICAL DESIGN FLAWS abound! Present w/out doubt in DeadmanSwitch also because he had to be shown how & where to place errorhandlers to account for lack of checking if Performance Counters generated by the OS were on or off at program startup, which he sent out into the web proven to be dangerously designed with no error handling. The man in example A below who found the bug had to tell the coder of the application how to do it. How to do it, where to place it. w/out having the sourcecode available to him. You would think the coder would have known how & where to do that once made aware of it! He used the fix, verbatim also. Obviously either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

    (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program.)

    Why turn perf. counters off? Simple: Performance minded users on NT based Os' turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, & ram as well as other forms of IO. If you do not monitor those you can turn them off w/ reskit tool extctrlst.exe & save those resources for programs that can use them. Transparent form code used in it is available online tops 50 lines tacked on from the web! After reading all that above, it's obvious this coder does not write large tracts of his work as was evidenced by his inability to use errorhandlers & where to put them.

    Arstechnica posted on their forums that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward", famous for what? Making bug-ridden no error handling code? Obviously, Anonymous Coward who started this thread's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here (& allover the web also) as the originator of this post too? The goods will speak for themselves when done right (if ever) & no need to pimp them "anonymously" ars!

    Do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"? NO WAY!

  113. ARSWARE BUGS & DANGEROUS CODING PROOFS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    On "Arsware" (bugware): 3 proofs below, of SERIOUS issues that demonstrates the coder creates programs w/out error handling & shows poor operating system function understanding as well. Aryeh (Are ya got holes in yer Programs/Bugs Bunny) Holzer alias Daisyman has been proven to create serious flaws in his programs due to his already shown flagrantly dangerous coding style of using no errorhandling doubtless carryover to this application also!

    A.) EXAMPLE #1 OF LACK OF ERROR HANDLERS & CRASH:

    http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

    The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk?

    You can't. You can only try fix them! Not one of them did as most of them talk alot, but could not code their way out of a wet paper bag. This is their typical libellous nature on their forums also if their "integrity", such as it is, is wounded via hotmail.com & yahoo.com based accounts on webpage forums.

    * Proof here, Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool w/out checking for the water being in it first! Can you say "CRASH"?

    (Coolinfo's name change to Coolmon was done because they stole that name also. Change it or get sued since he stole it first of all. Makes you wonder again, if the code is his in fact.)

    B.) EXAMPLE #2 OF ONGOING INSTABILITIES BY TESTERS:

    http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

    Ars pimps it all over the web, better alternatives exist & are already in your OS in perfmon & motherboard monitor which coolmon attaches to its coattails only! 2 years old now, bug-ridden shown in user testing.

    C.) EXAMPLE #3 (BUGLIST):

    http://daisyman.arsware.org/coolinfo/bugs.html

    Bugs, & LOGICAL DESIGN FLAWS abound! Present w/out doubt in DeadmanSwitch also because he had to be shown how & where to place errorhandlers to account for lack of checking if Performance Counters generated by the OS were on or off at program startup, which he sent out into the web proven to be dangerously designed with no error handling. The man in example A below who found the bug had to tell the coder of the application how to do it. How to do it, where to place it. w/out having the sourcecode available to him. You would think the coder would have known how & where to do that once made aware of it! He used the fix, verbatim also. Obviously either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

    (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program.)

    Why turn perf. counters off? Simple: Performance minded users on NT based Os' turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, & ram as well as other forms of IO. If you do not monitor those you can turn them off w/ reskit tool extctrlst.exe & save those resources for programs that can use them. Transparent form code used in it is available online tops 50 lines tacked on from the web! After reading all that above, it's obvious this coder does not write large tracts of his work as was evidenced by his inability to use errorhandlers & where to put them.

    Arstechnica posted on their forums that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward", famous for what? Making bug-ridden no error handling code? Obviously, Anonymous Coward who started this thread's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here (& allover the web also) as the originator of this post too? The goods will speak for themselves when done right (if ever) & no need to pimp them "anonymously" ars!

    Do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"? NO WAY!

  114. ARSWARE BUGS & DANGEROUS CODING PROOFS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    On "Arsware" (bugware): 3 proofs below a thru b of SERIOUS issues that demonstrates the coder creates programs w/out error handling & shows poor operating system function understanding as well. Aryeh (Are ya got holes in yer Programs/Bugs Bunny) Holzer alias Daisyman has been proven to create serious flaws in his programs due to his already shown flagrantly dangerous coding style of using no errorhandling doubtless carryover to this application also!

    A.) EXAMPLE #1 OF LACK OF ERROR HANDLERS & CRASH:

    http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

    The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk?

    You can't. You can only try fix them! Not one of them did as most of them talk alot, but could not code their way out of a wet paper bag. This is their typical libellous nature on their forums also if their "integrity", such as it is, is wounded via hotmail.com & yahoo.com based accounts on webpage forums.

    * Proof here, Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool w/out checking for the water being in it first! Can you say "CRASH"?

    (Coolinfo's name change to Coolmon was done because they stole that name also. Change it or get sued since he stole it first of all. Makes you wonder again, if the code is his in fact.)

    B.) EXAMPLE #2 OF ONGOING INSTABILITIES BY TESTERS:

    http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

    Ars pimps it all over the web, better alternatives exist & are already in your OS in perfmon & motherboard monitor which coolmon attaches to its coattails only! 2 years old now, bug-ridden shown in user testing.

    C.) EXAMPLE #3 (BUGLIST):

    http://daisyman.arsware.org/coolinfo/bugs.html

    Bugs, & LOGICAL DESIGN FLAWS abound! Present w/out doubt in DeadmanSwitch also because he had to be shown how & where to place errorhandlers to account for lack of checking if Performance Counters generated by the OS were on or off at program startup, which he sent out into the web proven to be dangerously designed with no error handling. The man in example A below who found the bug had to tell the coder of the application how to do it. How to do it, where to place it. w/out having the sourcecode available to him. You would think the coder would have known how & where to do that once made aware of it! He used the fix, verbatim also. Obviously either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

    (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program.)

    Why turn perf. counters off? Simple: Performance minded users on NT based Os' turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, & ram as well as other forms of IO. If you do not monitor those you can turn them off w/ reskit tool extctrlst.exe & save those resources for programs that can use them. Transparent form code used in it is available online tops 50 lines tacked on from the web! After reading all that above, it's obvious this coder does not write large tracts of his work as was evidenced by his inability to use errorhandlers & where to put them.

    Arstechnica posted on their forums that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward", famous for what? Making bug-ridden no error handling code? Obviously, Anonymous Coward who started this thread's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here (& allover the web also) as the originator of this post too? The goods will speak for themselves when done right (if ever) & no need to pimp them "anonymously" ars!

    Do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"? NO WAY!

  115. ARSWARE BUGS & DANGEROUS CODING PROOFS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "Arsware" (bugware): 3 proofs A-B below of SERIOUS issues that demonstrates the coder creates programs w/out error handling & shows poor operating system function understanding as well. Aryeh (Are ya got holes in yer Programs/Bugs Bunny) Holzer alias Daisyman has been proven to create serious flaws in his programs due to his already shown flagrantly dangerous coding style of using no errorhandling doubtless carryover to this application also!

    A.) EXAMPLE #1 OF LACK OF ERROR HANDLERS & CRASH:

    http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

    The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk?

    You can't. You can only try fix them! Not one of them did as most of them talk alot, but could not code their way out of a wet paper bag. This is their typical libellous nature on their forums also if their "integrity", such as it is, is wounded via hotmail.com & yahoo.com based accounts on webpage forums.

    * Proof here, Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool w/out checking for the water being in it first! Can you say "CRASH"?

    (Coolinfo's name change to Coolmon was done because they stole that name also. Change it or get sued since he stole it first of all. Makes you wonder again, if the code is his in fact.)

    B.) EXAMPLE #2 OF ONGOING INSTABILITIES BY TESTERS:

    http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

    Ars pimps it all over the web, better alternatives exist & are already in your OS in perfmon & motherboard monitor which coolmon attaches to its coattails only! 2 years old now, bug-ridden shown in user testing.

    C.) EXAMPLE #3 (BUGLIST):

    http://daisyman.arsware.org/coolinfo/bugs.html

    Bugs, & LOGICAL DESIGN FLAWS abound! Present w/out doubt in DeadmanSwitch also because he had to be shown how & where to place errorhandlers to account for lack of checking if Performance Counters generated by the OS were on or off at program startup, which he sent out into the web proven to be dangerously designed with no error handling. The man in example A below who found the bug had to tell the coder of the application how to do it. How to do it, where to place it. w/out having the sourcecode available to him. You would think the coder would have known how & where to do that once made aware of it! He used the fix, verbatim also. Obviously either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

    (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program.)

    Why turn perf. counters off? Simple: Performance minded users on NT based Os' turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, & ram as well as other forms of IO. If you do not monitor those you can turn them off w/ reskit tool extctrlst.exe & save those resources for programs that can use them. Transparent form code used in it is available online tops 50 lines tacked on from the web! After reading all that above, it's obvious this coder does not write large tracts of his work as was evidenced by his inability to use errorhandlers & where to put them.

    Arstechnica posted on their forums that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward", famous for what? Making bug-ridden no error handling code? Obviously, Anonymous Coward who started this thread's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here (& allover the web also) as the originator of this post too? The goods will speak for themselves when done right (if ever) & no need to pimp them "anonymously" ars!

    Do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"? NO WAY!

  116. ARSWARE BUGS & DANGEROUS CODING PROOFS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "Arsware" (bugware): Below are 3 proofs of SERIOUS issues that demonstrates the coder creates programs w/out error handling & shows poor operating system function understanding as well. Aryeh (Are ya got holes in yer Programs/Bugs Bunny) Holzer alias Daisyman has been proven to create serious flaws in his programs due to his already shown flagrantly dangerous coding style of using no errorhandling doubtless carryover to this application also!

    A.) EXAMPLE #1 OF LACK OF ERROR HANDLERS & CRASH:

    http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

    The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk?

    You can't. You can only try fix them! Not one of them did as most of them talk alot, but could not code their way out of a wet paper bag. This is their typical libellous nature on their forums also if their "integrity", such as it is, is wounded via hotmail.com & yahoo.com based accounts on webpage forums.

    * Proof here, Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool w/out checking for the water being in it first! Can you say "CRASH"?

    (Coolinfo's name change to Coolmon was done because they stole that name also. Change it or get sued since he stole it first of all. Makes you wonder again, if the code is his in fact.)

    B.) EXAMPLE #2 OF ONGOING INSTABILITIES BY TESTERS:

    http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

    Ars pimps it all over the web, better alternatives exist & are already in your OS in perfmon & motherboard monitor which coolmon attaches to its coattails only! 2 years old now, bug-ridden shown in user testing.

    C.) EXAMPLE #3 (BUGLIST):

    http://daisyman.arsware.org/coolinfo/bugs.html

    Bugs, & LOGICAL DESIGN FLAWS abound! Present w/out doubt in DeadmanSwitch also because he had to be shown how & where to place errorhandlers to account for lack of checking if Performance Counters generated by the OS were on or off at program startup, which he sent out into the web proven to be dangerously designed with no error handling. The man in example A below who found the bug had to tell the coder of the application how to do it. How to do it, where to place it. w/out having the sourcecode available to him. You would think the coder would have known how & where to do that once made aware of it! He used the fix, verbatim also. Obviously either Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer did not write his sourcecode, or has NO sense of logic & design in programming. Take your pick.

    (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program.)

    Why turn perf. counters off? Simple: Performance minded users on NT based Os' turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, & ram as well as other forms of IO. If you do not monitor those you can turn them off w/ reskit tool extctrlst.exe & save those resources for programs that can use them. Transparent form code used in it is available online tops 50 lines tacked on from the web! After reading all that above, it's obvious this coder does not write large tracts of his work as was evidenced by his inability to use errorhandlers & where to put them.

    Arstechnica posted on their forums that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward", famous for what? Making bug-ridden no error handling code? Obviously, Anonymous Coward who started this thread's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here (& allover the web also) as the originator of this post too? The goods will speak for themselves when done right (if ever) & no need to pimp "anonymously" ars!

    Do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"? NO WAY!

  117. Re:I like mine better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A serious word on arsware (bugware) you should be made aware of since it demonstrates the coder creates programs without error handling & shows poor operating system function understanding as well. Why do I say that? 3 Proofs all below, read on, in A, B, & C:

    Aryeh ('Are ya got holes in yer Programs') Holzer alias Daisyman ("bugs" bunny is more like it) from arstechnica forums also created another buggy app you all should be made aware of that shows he codes VERY poorly in another application he wrote which shows this application probably has SAME problems.

    A.) EXAMPLE #1 (LACK OF ERROR HANDLING IN CODE):

    http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

    The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk? You can't. All they could do was bitch about it, but not a one offered a fix. Fact is, the person who found the bug had to instruct the coder how to fix it and did so. Makes sense, arstech forum fools talk a good game, but most are just that only: talk.

    The guy who found the error, without having the source to "Uncoolmon" as he called it, had to show the coder HOW AND WHERE TO PLACE THE ERROR TRAPPING!

    (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program.)

    Performance minded users on NT based Os' turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, and ram as well as other forms of IO. He was not accounting for this at all. Poor understanding of the Operating Systems of NT genre & no accounting for users who do this also! If they are not generated & are not monitored or used, save those resources by turning them off!

    The fix the other coder gave him in that URL above is EXACTLY what Aryeh/Daisyman used VERBATIM. No creativity either apparently.

    That to me proved Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool without checking for the water being in it first, hehe, can you say "CRASH"?

    B.) EXAMPLE #2 (CURRENT TESTING USERS NEW BUGS):

    See here on their own forums another place they pimp their junk (only not 'anonymously' like they do elsewhere):

    http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

    BUGGY as you can see. Ars pimps it all over the web (anonymously as was done here). Massive Bugs popping up, & tools already are in mobo monitor & perfmon (native to OS) for that already anyways.

    C.) EXAMPLE #3 (BUGLIST):

    http://daisyman.arsware.org/coolinfo/bugs.html

    Delphi transparent form code it has? Freely available online, tops 50-100 lines tacked on & probably stolen! It's fairly obvious this coder does not write large tracts of his work as was evidenced by his inability to use error handlers & where to put them in the code.

    Arstechnica posted that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward" about it here: Want to bet that Anonymous Coward who started this thread's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here as the originator of this post too?

    Learn to code PROPERLY arstech boys, then the goods will speak for themselves & no need to pimp them "anonymously" like arstech does!

    Reading those URL links above convinced me arsware is bugware & Arsware "uncoolmon" has that kind of buggy and lack of error trap code in it, do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"?

    It was proven he has done that demonstrates an utter lack of skills & dangerous methods. He wrote that Coolinfo program (of which he had to change the name from Coolinfo to Coolmon or get sued since he stole it first of all) which is a giant bug as seen above.

    I don't play Russian roulette with arsware! Since it is timing critical, and with no error trapping done by this guy as was shown to the case above in CoolMon by aryeh holzer as well? NO WAY!

  118. Re:L4$t Pr0st!!(tm) ARSWARE BUGS TO KNOW ABOUT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A serious word on arsware (bugware) you should be made aware of since it demonstrates the coder creates programs without error handling & shows poor operating system function understanding as well. Why do I say that? 3 Proofs all below, read on, in A, B, & C:

    Aryeh ('Are ya got holes in yer Programs') Holzer alias Daisyman ("bugs" bunny is more like it) from arstechnica forums also created another buggy app you all should be made aware of that shows he codes VERY poorly in another application he wrote which shows this application probably has SAME problems.

    A.) EXAMPLE #1 (LACK OF ERROR HANDLING IN CODE):

    http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?s=17 06 89b43758f12943f85610f9bc8344&threadid=341

    The whole anonymous hotmail.com & yahoo.com crew from ars came over trying to defend it like the women they are, but how do you defend a buggy hunk of junk? You can't. All they could do was bitch about it, but not a one offered a fix. Fact is, the person who found the bug had to instruct the coder how to fix it and did so. Makes sense, arstech forum fools talk a good game, but most are just that only: talk.

    The guy who found the error, without having the source to "Uncoolmon" as he called it, had to show the coder HOW AND WHERE TO PLACE THE ERROR TRAPPING!

    (His error that was shown involved checking for the presence of performance counters being on at the startup of this program.)

    Performance minded users on NT based Os' turn these off if no monitoring of them is needed to save IO cycles, CPU time, and ram as well as other forms of IO. He was not accounting for this at all. Poor understanding of the Operating Systems of NT genre & no accounting for users who do this also! If they are not generated & are not monitored or used, save those resources by turning them off!

    The fix the other coder gave him in that URL above is EXACTLY what Aryeh/Daisyman used VERBATIM. No creativity either apparently.

    That to me proved Aryeh/Daisyman obviously codes dangerously, or is a fool. Take your pick. That is like jumping into a concrete bottom pool without checking for the water being in it first, hehe, can you say "CRASH"?

    B.) EXAMPLE #2 (CURRENT TESTING USERS NEW BUGS):

    See here on their own forums another place they pimp their junk (only not 'anonymously' like they do elsewhere):

    http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a= tp c&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=7000908972&r=4020981594# 4020981594

    BUGGY as you can see. Ars pimps it all over the web (anonymously as was done here). Massive Bugs popping up, & tools already are in mobo monitor & perfmon (native to OS) for that already anyways.

    C.) EXAMPLE #3 (BUGLIST):

    http://daisyman.arsware.org/coolinfo/bugs.html

    Delphi transparent form code it has? Freely available online, tops 50-100 lines tacked on & probably stolen! It's fairly obvious this coder does not write large tracts of his work as was evidenced by his inability to use error handlers & where to put them in the code.

    Arstechnica posted that the coder of it Daisyman/Aryeh Holzer is famous at their forums, from this post by "Anonymous Coward" about it here: Want to bet that Anonymous Coward who started this thread's an arstechnica forum member posting & pimping their bugware here as the originator of this post too?

    Learn to code PROPERLY arstech boys, then the goods will speak for themselves & no need to pimp them "anonymously" like arstech does!

    Reading those URL links above convinced me arsware is bugware & Arsware "uncoolmon" has that kind of buggy and lack of error trap code in it, do you think you should trust critical jobs to bugware/arsware code also in "dead man's switch"?

    It was proven he has done that demonstrates an utter lack of skills & dangerous methods. He wrote that Coolinfo program (of which he had to change the name from Coolinfo to Coolmon or get sued since he stole it first of all) which is a giant bug as seen above.

    I don't play Russian roulette with arsware! Since it is timing critical, and with no error trapping done by this guy as was shown to the case above in CoolMon by aryeh ("bugs" bunny) holzer as well? NO WAY!