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Slashback: Blaster, Sabers, Canada
Art of the Saber Jagaast writes "As a counterpoint to all the hype about the Star Wars kid, here's a Star Wars fan film that's actually very well done. Art of the Saber is 'a light saber fight sequence with the flavor of a Hong Kong martial arts action movie.' Well worth watching." Update by J : I've made torrents available.
Vote early, often, and reversably. An anonymous reader writes "As a follow up to a previous story here on Slashdot on electronic voting, Excite has a story on the same subject with a bit more information including this amazing quote from Deborah Seiler, Diebold's West Coast sales representative: '"These activists don't understand what they're looking at," Seiler said.'"
GSM-crack paper online morcheeba writes "Copies of the GSM-crack paper described in last week's Slashdot article are now available online (PDF) thanks to John Young's Cryptome"
Mandrake ads...take 2 *no comment* writes "Apparently there has been some controversy over the ads in the upcoming Mandrake 9.2. I thought it was pretty cut & dried, but apparently Mandrake thought it was enough of a controversy to to release a written statement about it. I wonder how many flames were posted in the slashdot forum using the download version of Opera."
Blaster Worm still alive and well on MIT campus fwc writes "MIT still has 900 network drops disabled due to the Blaster worm infection. Of particular interest is that MIT network security requires users to reformat their hard drive and re-install their operating system before they get back on the network. Sounds like a good excuse to reinstall something other than a Microsoft operating system."
A big AWOOOGAH for Canadian file sharers.
Rumor writes in response to a recent story suggesting that Canadian users could swap files scot-free: "Listen, Canadians, don't go using your p2p apps and thinking you are immune from lawsuit, you are liable for copyright infringement if you share files on p2p apps.
To wit: a fellow law student and I have written an
analysis of s. 80 of the Copyright Act and we've
concluded that one can download music safely under the Private Copying provision, but no one can share or upload files without infringing on copyright.
In a nutshell, Private Copying allows anyone to make a
copy of a song purely for their own use. As you
probably know, when you share files and someone
downloads from you, what actually happens is that
their computer makes a request and your computer
actually sends the file to them. Thus, you're copying
for someone else's use and infringing. It doesn't
matter if you didn't realize that's what happens,
either... intent is not required for infringement.
The upside is that you can accept copies from other
people (ie. download) all you want. Although there
might be an issue of contributory infringement to
worry about... I won't go into analyzing that, since
so far the record companies are only suing uploaders.
The article can be found on greplaw.
I've recently confirmed this analysis with an IP law professor at my university, so I'm pretty damn sure of it. So, please, be aware of this danger. Downloading cool, uploading/sharing not. I
guess the situation still better than nothing."
Why not ask for your money back? zaaj writes "There are several articles out about a newly found/fixed(openssh.org) buffer management bug in OpenSSH and some derivatives. Cisco's Advisory only mentions DoS attacks against certain of their SSH-enabled devices, but ZDNet's article hints at rumors of long-existing root exploits. Regardless, RedHat's got their typical list of updated packages with the patch back-ported. A few other distro's have info in the vendor section of Cert's advisory CA-2003-24"
Canada's in Star Wars?
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
GSM-crack paper online morcheeba writes "Copies of the GSM-crack paper described in last week's Slashdot article are now available online (PDF) thanks to John Young's Cryptome"
I dunno what's the world coming to?
You can buy crack rock on the street and get crack paper online so what's next, crack scissors from your local hardware store?
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
I think I have a way of sharing music while avoiding legal action. The client should work like this:
1) Request a file
2) Ask "Is bit #0 a 1"
3) Get a response, write the appropriate bit to a disk (or buffer).
4) Repeat for the other 9238472093847 bits.
Now, here we're not copying anything. We're just asking about it in a way that lets us make an educated guess about the contents of the file. How can that be illegal!?
My other car is first.
Cause I don't have any money.
The file's has a .mov extension, but neither file nor xine seems able to recognize it. Does anyone know what format it is, and how to play it?
Sig:Why copyright isn't a fundamental human right
Any reason this is in the Apache section?
Yes, timothy's mouse wheel slipped
The unofficial
I don't use Mandrake, but I have to respect any company that knows enough to number points in a press release starting with zero.
Somebody get that guy an ambulance!
His Microsoft mouse wheel.
Kinda a cute draconian policy....
1) reformat harddrive
2) reinstall windows from the CD, (back to the version without Service Packs, security updates, etc.)
3) Get network access reenabled
4) Pray MSUpdate is faster downloading and installing all the updates than MSBlaster et al. is at find the vulnerabilities that used to be patched.
With all the neat technical things I learn on Slashdot about hacking, viruses and Canadia, I have to ask the question: is there a chance I can get an SSH shell on Tom Green's cellphone to plant the Blaster worm on it? Then I'll chop his head off with a Mandrake-enabled light saber.
...
I really can't stand Tom Green
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
More likely:
1) Reformat hard drive
2) Reinstall Windows from CD
3) Install the patch from CD
4) Get network access reenabled
5) Ignore recommendations and never touch Windows Update, never intall a firewall, and never install antivirus software.
6) Get hit by the next Windows worm.
7) Go to step 1. Do not ???, do not Profit!
It's an operating system, not a religion.
"Any reason this is in the Apache section? "
The editor forgot to hit preview.
"Derp de derp."
Have you got any 0s?
;-)
"Any reason this is in the Apache section? "
The editor forgot to hit preview.
At least Timmy didn't archive this one too.
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
How could some people be smart enough to crack GSM and not smart enough together a PDF that does not look like ass?
I don't know shit about dot products but I do know a shitty looking PDF when I see one.
Somebody give these folks some fonts!
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me