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Symantec Claims They Knew About Slammer In Advance
truthsearch writes "Wired is reporting 'Symantec claims to have identified the Slammer worm that ravaged the Internet during the last weekend of January hours before anyone else did. Symantec then shared the information only with select customers, leaving the rest of the global community to get slapped around by Slammer.' I'm not bothered I didn't know Slammer was coming, but Symantec has a moral responsibility to inform the public if it thinks millions will be affected." It isn't clear to me how Symantec could know, hours in advance, about a worm which took ten minutes to spread throughout the entire Internet, unless they had something to do with its release. Update: 02/14 16:54 GMT by M : Wired has their math wrong; Symantec apparently had at most 20-30 minutes of early warning. Symantec claims in this press release that they discovered the worm "hours before it began rapidly propagating".
my first post
hah
I bet you're just too fucking afraid. Well, it's time to wake the hell up!
You have the technology. You have the people. And knowing the history of Europe I am sure that there are still people in your militiaries that know their stuff and have not been mentally castrated by your pacifist left-wing governments. Act now! In due time, you could become real people. Smiling in the face of adversity, ready to conquer the terror, and finally living with the reality that you are no longer wimps. Just imagine, if that day ever comes the world will know a peace and prosperity like never before.
I can now cross one more thing off my list of things to do before I die -
#76 - Have a first post on a slashdot story
Now to get down to #75 - Having sex with Natalie Portman
Bullshit its exactly the same thing, and to know and let such a thing occur is morally corrupt. Of course the worlds sense of morality is seriously skewed these days anyway.
Power Corrupts,Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely, leaving one person(group)in charge is absolutely corrupt.
responsible or objective journalism, but seriously - "unless they had something to do with it" makes slashdot look even more ridiculous than it already is.
George W. Bush: Too stupid to know any better.
If "stupid" means getting a masters from on Ivy League school, becomming independently wealthy through prudent business decisions, and being elected as the leader of the free world, then sign me up!
Nothing like going off topic on a tag line...but here we go...
Yes Stupid!
Bought grades in Ivy League school: ~$1,500 per class
Becomming Independantly Wealthy: $XXXXXX from daddy
Stealing an election that you lost by popular vote and rightfully lost by Electoral Collage: Priceless!
BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- A group of U.S. soldiers, parents of soldiers and six U.S. House members filed a lawsuit in federal court Thursday seeking to stop the president from launching a war against Iraq without a declaration of war from Congress.
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The People's Investigation of 9/11
We declare a national emergency in uncovering what really happened on 9/11/2001 through an immediate call for an independent collaborative investigation worldwide. The U.S. government could help us but instead is doing everything it can to stop any investigations into 9/11.
The People's Investigation of 9/11 is an assemblage of international researchers and activists. Task-based functional groups work together on various projects, including research topics and volunteer efforts, in unison with other 9/11 evidence-finding efforts. Until a legitimate independent citizen's committee is funded and recognized by the U.S. government or a world political body or court, it is left up to the citizens of the world to investigate and share what they know with others.
What we know
"There was plenty of time to shoot down several of the planes, particularly the one we all knew was heading toward the Pentagon, which had enough time to fly 270 degrees around the Pentago and then hitting it where the least number of employees were working. Interviews with pilots in the air during the attacks indicate they were asked to land or simply verify the Pentagon was hit."
Scarificing Lives for a pretext
In his book, The Grand Chess Board, the former secretary of state laid out a plan detailing what the U.S. should do in order to establish and maintain global hegemony. He suggested that control over Central Asia was absolutely necessary. One of the major obstacles to the achievement of this plan, he noted, was the problem of securing domestic support for military presence and action abroad. In light of the horrific attacks on 9/11 his words carry additional significance.
"The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor."
"Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat."
"It is also a fact that America is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad. This limits the use of America's power, especially its capacity for military intimidation. Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization."
Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security advisor, in "THE GRAND CHESSBOARD - American Primacy And It's Geostrategic Imperatives," Basic Books, 1997.
In a January 13, 2002 Washington Post op-ed piece, Henry Kissinger argued for a quick commencement to the proposed war against Iraq - while people still remember 9-11, he said. A military operation against Iraq must begin with haste - "while the memory of the attack on the United States is still vivid and American-deployed forces are available to back up the diplomacy."
This is NOT a test. This is real, so wake up and SHOUT AT THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS!!
Bush did it. 911 was an inside job.
http://www.copvcia.com/
http://www.lightscion.com/Sounds/g_b_ruppert.mp
http://energycrisis.org/de/lecture.html
Impeach Bush over 9/11
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/Sept11/septemb
See me get modslapped down as flamebait.
Gawd. What a damn joke this 'discussion site' is. It's gotten 10x worse in the last few weeks. I dont think they allow mod points to people with different points of view anymore.
Why cant anyone accept the fact that open source can be exploited too? I mean it's just true. Go find your local warez kiddie and get a list of 'pubs' (stolen space on anon ftps) from him. There will be as many linux boxen on that list as NTs.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
ok, if you're replying to a post, then it is definitaly not a "firstus postus."
In soviet russia, firstus postus fails you!
INSTANT MESSAGES TO ISRAEL WARNED OF WTC ATTACK
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Source/Publisher: NEWSBYTES
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/17058
Friday, 27 September 2001 - 11:48 AM CST
By BRIAN McWILLIAMS - Newsbytes
Officials at instant-messaging firm Odigo confirmed today that two employees received text messages warning of an attack on the World Trade Center two hours before terrorists crashed planes into the New York landmarks.
Citing a pending investigation by law enforcement, the company declined to reveal the exact contents of the message or to
identify the sender.
But Alex Diamandis, vice president of sales and marketing,confirmed that workers in Odigo's research and development and
international sales office in Israel received a warning from another Odigo user approximately two hours prior to the first
attack.
Diamandis said the sender of the instant message was notpersonally known to the Odigo employees. Even though the companyusually protects the privacy of users, the employees recorded the Internet protocol address of the message's sender to facilitate his or her identification.
Soon after the terrorist attacks on New York, the Odigo employees notified their management, who contacted Israeli
security services. In turn, the FBI was informed of the instant message warning. FBI officials were not immediately available
for comment today.
The Odigo service includes a feature called People Finder that allows users to seek out and contact others based on certain
interests or demographics. Diamandis said it was possible that the attack warning was broadcast to other Odigo members, but the company has not received reports of other recipients of the message.
In addition to operating its own messaging service network, Odigo has licensed its technology to over 100 service providers,
portals, wireless carriers, and corporations, according to the company.
Odigo is online at http://www.odigo.com
Reported by Newsbytes, http://www.newsbytes.com
11:48 CST
Reposted: 11:53 CST
(20010927/WIRES ONLINE, PC, BUSINESS/WTCPOST/PHOTO)
[© 2001 The Washington Post Company]
INSTANT MESSAGES TO ISRAEL WARNED OF WTC ATTACK
3 .html
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Source/Publisher: NEWSBYTES
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/17058
Friday, 27 September 2001 - 11:48 AM CST
By BRIAN McWILLIAMS - Newsbytes
Officials at instant-messaging firm Odigo confirmed today that two employees received text messages warning of an attack on the World Trade Center two hours before terrorists crashed planes into the New York landmarks.
Citing a pending investigation by law enforcement, the company declined to reveal the exact contents of the message or to
identify the sender.
But Alex Diamandis, vice president of sales and marketing,confirmed that workers in Odigo's research and development and
international sales office in Israel received a warning from another Odigo user approximately two hours prior to the first
attack.
Diamandis said the sender of the instant message was notpersonally known to the Odigo employees. Even though the companyusually protects the privacy of users, the employees recorded the Internet protocol address of the message's sender to facilitate his or her identification.
Soon after the terrorist attacks on New York, the Odigo employees notified their management, who contacted Israeli
security services. In turn, the FBI was informed of the instant message warning. FBI officials were not immediately available
for comment today.
The Odigo service includes a feature called People Finder that allows users to seek out and contact others based on certain
interests or demographics. Diamandis said it was possible that the attack warning was broadcast to other Odigo members, but the company has not received reports of other recipients of the message.
In addition to operating its own messaging service network, Odigo has licensed its technology to over 100 service providers,
portals, wireless carriers, and corporations, according to the company.
Odigo is online at http://www.odigo.com
Reported by Newsbytes, http://www.newsbytes.com
11:48 CST
Reposted: 11:53 CST
(20010927/WIRES ONLINE, PC, BUSINESS/WTCPOST/PHOTO)
[© 2001 The Washington Post Company]
Well, we all see the wired articles about "KNOWING hours in advance". And of course that nice 3 hour discrepancy, oh wait! That's a timezone change.
.beats whenever I talk to friends over the net (in other countries). The .beat system is based on Greenwich time (+0). The day is then subdivided into 1000 sections. According to the math, 1 beat is 86.4 seconds. In this setup, it doesnt matter where you're at. The .beat is exactly the same for any timezone.
.beat was created as Internet Time helps). Here's some links to the @beat system:
I could go on to flame Wired, or even Symantec but I wont. Instead I use a system called
In this case, all times are equal (well, the fact the
CNN story
Some crazy guy who does lots with time
Oh yes, there is a news article referencing it. It must be true!!! What a moron....
Can you please explain how turning a $600k investment in the Texas Rangers into $15 Million is a failure?
I like to slam my cock into my girlfriends 18 year old pussy. I make her read stories on asstr.org and then she MUST act each one out on me. She has nice 34C titties that bounce when she walks. Her golden blond hair is tied up in a pony tail...she looks like jail bait. She is still in high school, graduating this year, AND she is on the cheerleading team.
I love to fuck her slutty pussy when she is in her cheerleader's outfit. She comes home from practice or a game and then I get to have her. Did I also mention my she is also my daughter? Yup that's right. When she graduates I will force her to star in a black gangbang porn video. It will be called "Nigger knock my blond 18 year old cheerleading pussy"!
That's right. In her very first interacial gangbang film, she WILL get knocked up by a big ugly black man. My blond 18 year old daugter will have his child. She will have 7 black and mexican childern from ugly porn actors because I *want* to make her the ultimate slut.
So all you slashdotters go to your local porn store during the summer to rent this hardcore "knock my 18 year old blode cheerleading daughter up, you black man".
I think world peace will occur in the *BSD community when that video is released. No one will have any spunk left.