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Slashback: Compromise, Bugs, Slag
Let me just slide your card a few dozen more times ... Any Web Loco writes "Following on from this piece on /., this story in the Sydney Morning Herald tells us that the company that got hacked (exposing up to 8 million credit card numbers) was Data Processors International. Not much to the story, but we now know who it was."
Another reason to be cautious about domains with "uk" in them. An anonymous reader writes "The Register reports that Nominet has looked at opening .net.uk up or killing it off and then decided it can't decide. The chair of sub-committee responsible, Clive Feather, is currently standing for re-election to Nominets Policy Advisory Board. The sub-committee he chaired had suggested shutting down net.uk entirely, which the main board rejected. His position must surely be under scrutiny by the internet community."
Interesting bugs are in the teeth of the beholder. dvdweyer writes "I myself do remember having read the whole interview with Bill Gates in Focus, a German weekly news magazine (their online service now seems to be part of MSN *yuck*). There are however resources online which provide full sources, in English, most notably RISKS in issue 17.43 (not 17.42) with a follow-up in issue 17.44."
When fan-subs just aren't what you want. May Kasahara writes "Studio Ghibli fansite Nausicaa.net now has official release dates for Region 1 DVDs of Kiki's Delivery Service , Laputa: Castle in the Sky , and Spirited Away , as well as official preview artwork of the disks and packaging. As a side note, the site now has a page up for Miyazaki's upcoming Howl's Magic Castle . See you at the video store on April 15!"
Fonts make your terminal much more useful. Russ Nelson writes "The Bitstream Vera fonts are available for trial use. Bitstream is still tweaking them, so they're under the provisional "no redistribution" license. You can download them yourself, though, and in about a month, put them in your software distribution. Kudos to X co-creator Jim Gettys for finally getting X some professional-quality fonts."
Dear Mr. Ashcroft: I hope you find this slag useful. eecue writes "Due to the recent MIT study concerning data recovery from old hard drives, we decided that the only foolproof means of data removal was complete destruction."
while interesting, is;
8 years old.
a multiple dupe.
news for nerds, indeed.
"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing" - Alan Perlis
I hope virus creators don't find out about this one...
Now that's how I'd want to get rid of my hard drives.. Anyone have a furnace I can use to get rid of some crapped out drives that came from servers that have pissed me off?
Crash unexpectedly have you? Take that!
Turn them in to paperclips! Finally a way to come through with all those threats! HAH!
"We're so tough we're made of nerf!" --D&D Character Tagline
all 8 million credit cards were held by 6 families in an Alabama trailer park.
"And this is my boy, Sherman. Speak, Sherman." "Hello." "Good boy."
I can't wait for Sun to finish on their Oak project for interactive Televisions!
Anyone out there hear of this new free OS called Lineux or something? I think it was written by some student in Estonia or something. Two guys down in San Jose are starting up some company based on this product called "RedHelmet" or something.... but I'm sure they'll go out of business in a year.
I tried to go to their website, but I can't get my Mosaic brower to display these new Jpeg pictures.
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
was "after a few minutes we saw a toxic smoke" etc, etc. I don't know why but that made me laugh. For some reason I have visions of some geek smelling that shit and saying "that's not so ACK ACK ACK...thump".
So you can justify posting a 8-year old badly written and poorly translated article in an obscure German magazine merely because you think it's a novel way to "stick it to The Man"?
And here I thought that we'd never run out of material to generate amazingly insightful comments and unlimited nasal chuckles from the peanut gallery.
But I guess we've hit a new low.
1) Advertise hard drive slagging service
2) Keep actual slagging procedure secret
3) ???
4) Profit!
Oh wait; I guess step 2 won't work now.
I used to just throw mine into the nearest active volcano, until I found out some volcano-diving kiddie named d4r74 was reading them anyway.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
I think you missed the point... We didn't slag the drive to get rid of data.. we slagged it becuase MELTING HARDS DRIVES IS COOL! Besides, 0 fills will only stop the curious not the devoted. MELTING STUFF IN A FURNACE IN YOUR BACK YARD IS COOL OK?
Slag:
Is this one of those words, like fag and wank that means something horribly different depending on what side of the Atlantic you happen to be speaking?
I think we should be told.
Did anyone read the next article after the MS bug one? SMTP chicken and the social contract. It talks about how offended a guy was that someone had his own Domain with an MX record and was, get this, trolling while using the postmaster account! What an egregious crime against man!
Heh, just kinda reminds me of the day when the net was so innocent.
Rats, I don't think that my erased porn collection is worth $500...
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you are partially correct. Nobody reads anything except the headlines, and figures out how to bash microsoft according in their posts.
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
once again, you're missing the point... nobody cared what was on the drive, it's a joke. We dont really melt our hard drives to get rid of data, we wait around till somebody tries to read them and then sneak up behind them and knock them in the head with the ingots we made melting drives... Security through ouch...
Who else heard "netcraft survey says..." spoken in Richard Dawson's voice when they read that?
(Of course, I frequently hear Richard Dawson's voice in my head. Werner Klemperer, too...)
Cheers,
Jim
-- My Weblog.
They don't even RTFA, and you want them to read user posts too?
damn.
I don't think it's really needed either. I had 3 seperate replacement 40GB Western Digital drives fail within a few months...
If you want to get rid of sensitive data, just put it on an unreliable hard drive to begin with and the problem will take care of itself.
Course, with how angry I was about having so many drive failures, I wouldn't mind mailing back one of their drives in the form of hardened slag.
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DRM is like antifreeze, to the MPAA/RIAA it's sweet, to the consumers it's poison.
Shhhh... it's best not to alert the editors that it's 2003 and not 1995. They'll be pissed about VA's stock price.
-Bill
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On another note, I've heard (someone please verify) that the military uses explosives to take care of old hard drives and storage media.
... you know, the one that the next N-Test is going to be fired off in ...
...
I seem to recall a usenet post about some chap that was attending a some conference and the subject of deleting data from disks came up during conversation . One of the attendees said something like well, where I work, we just put our old drives into a hole
Everyone laughed at that, til they realised the speaker wasn't joking...
'course, that was quite a while ago now
Since dictionary.com is so reassuring, I'd like to invite you to visit the UK, and refer to the first bloke you see as a slag within his hearing.
Bonus points if you pick significantly bigger and harder than you, or if you refer to his girlfriend as a slag too.
Steff
When I worked in Air Force communications, we used a big-assed degauser and a sledgehammer to take care of our destruction needs.
One of the hazards of working a buzy communications center is that you get a lot of inspectors coming through to see how you operate. We always showed them how to use the degauser and let them put some media through it. Then we'd let them bust it up with the sledge hammer. They really liked that.
The sledge was really a bit gratuitious, since the degauser was powerful enough to wipe the credit cards of people sitting in the next room.
I used to have dreams where I left accidentially the degauser on over night and discovered fusion.
True. In the intervening time, he's provided us with hundreds of thousands of newer, cooler bugs than we ever had in Windows 3.1.
Why? You need help writing a letter?
"Silicon implants in women who had had cosmetic breast surgery were also known to have exploded during cremation."
Anyone out there want their info to go when they do? And what's more- does anybody want to think about where those smart Bio Chips are gonna go, if they aren't slagged? Do you really want that around forever? (On the other hand, it would make one heck of a 'memory album' for the great-grandkids...)
"I'd say 'Have a good time,' but arson is still illegal.