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Novell OpenSUSE Server Hacked
abelikoff writes "Both LinuxWorld Australia and SuSE Linux Forums report that OpenSUSE website got hacked last night." This story was submitted quite a number of times.
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God only knows man, on "Am I safe?" from your subject line...
Heh, imo, all you can do? Well, all you can do is try do the 'right thing' & patch + secure your rigs is all as best you can given guidelines for it, or using your own common-sense once you gain enough understanding of how these systems work (internally & also how they work online).
(You're "SAFE", until the "next big thing" in penetrations happens that are NOT the result of poor administrative practices & setup of an OS that faces the public internet that is... but, something new & different as to HOW the 'hacker/cracker' busted his way in (e.g.-> new buffer overflow possibility in a particular OS &/or program being discovered for example)).
Yup, I finally got around (had to go do "normal domestic related duties today (like laundry & dishes etc.)) to looking @ the article's links & saw an allegedly political note from Iranians regarding "You cannot rule us & tell us not to use nuclear power" etc. & to be honest?
I have to agree with them (even though I am a United States citizen by birth etc.)...
HONESTLY? I don't believe my country/nation has ANY right to tell others how to live in THEIR nations &/or homes, period. Would I go for it, were the shoe on the other foot here?
To be blunt about it? HELL NO!
Imo? It's wrong of the U.S.A. to throw their weight around on this planet, period!
Why? WELL, because it makes me ashamed @ times, especially the whole IRAQ thing, no "WMD's" found, etc./et all...
Then, our "fearless leaders" ("b.s./sarcasm", regarding our politicians errors on this particular war) trying the PUNY trick of pointing fingers @ the intelligence community in my nation!
The intelligence folks (e.g.- CIA/NSA/FBI) ONLY PROVIDE THE DATA - not the decision making done as to whether to startup a war or not.
That's on Mr. Bush's & Mr. Cheney's heads, as well as other leaders of state in my country here... Congress & Senate as well.
I hold all of those parties responsible.
Why?
I don't like the results @ all, as well as the economic situation in my nation (gas prices & lack of GOOD paying jobs under their administration being rampant, as well as funding a war that has NO damn basis period based on the "facts" used to start it).
Especially knowing a war was started under the pretense of false allegations, then pointing fingers at the folks who gathered the data... they don't make the decisions (again): The leaders do. It's up to they to interpret findings correctly!
Which, even the first lady says, her husband's not too much on literacy... do you trust such a man to make such decisions? I don't. He couldn't even establish a decent business track-record from what I saw in the film "Farenheit 911"...
Anyhow - like Mr. Scott McNealy said (of SUN microsystems):
"There is NO privacy - get used to it"
(Probably no true safety either!)
Fact/Example:
I had an academic project as far back as 1984 during my first degree in this field regarding internet security & my team & I came up with a conclusion that still holds true today - See Mr. McNealy quote above, & also my conclusion, which was "What one man can lock & secure? Another man can unlock & unsecure"...
I based much of my research on things like Cliff Stoll's novel "The Cuckoo's Egg" (great read & TRUE STORY by the way, about how Richard Stallman's work was exploited via buffer overflows to invade our military systems & more by German hackers in the employ of the KGB etc. iirc) even before it became a novel based on Mr. Stoll's actual experience.
Nobody believed him, or helped him (from local authorities up to FBI/NSA/ATF/CIA etc. levels) & just told him "it's not my job" etc. & "keep logging it"... not until it hit a military based in Ft. Stewart in Richmond Hill Ga. U.S.A. that is... then, they took it seriously!
Read it.
I figure it this way - If
Because it is not a good source of energy in its present state.
It's either on the beat or off the beat, it's that easy.
I moderate therefore I rule!
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I have to agree on that note - but, the problem boils down to a very practical topic:
E.G.-> Do you own a gun?
What if your neighbors don't particularly trust YOU??
Does that take away your inalienable right to keep & bear arms as a United States citizen (assuming you are that is)???
No!
Telling other nations, or other individuals, how to live? It's dead-up wrong! Then, enacting the "patriot act", which takes away YOUR personal privacy & freedoms & is SO damn 'open-ended' they can employ it any way that they like @ governmental levels.
(That is, unless they have a proven trackrecord of wrongdoing on YOUR part in your neighbors in YOUR community, dangerous wrongdoing to others on YOUR part (this is purely relative too, depends on who's looking) but the point's there imo @ least).
I only know of 1 nation that's used nukes in wars... & that's us in the U.S.A., but we warned our opponent, openly, & they chose to ignore the warnings & demonstrations thereof no less... there?
They brought it upon themselves. Still, was it right to poison the Japanese forever on their soil (or for the length of time it would take for natural radioactive decay to make the 1945 blast remnants dissipate for good)? Man, I do NOT know.
(I agree, on 1 of your points totally though - Nuclear power, as you staed ericdano, isn't a good clean safe form of power... too much unuseable crap results that is in & of itself TOO dangerous in the form of waste products from it...)
APK
P.S.=> I too, would not want (e.g.) a firearm in the hands of a maniac, but you have to REALLY take a look at who's being called a 'maniac' & consider sources other than our own "trustworthy" media...
After all, again:
The whole issue of "WMD's" in IRAQ? Turned up COMPLETE b.s. man... & still, the folks in IRAQ are dealing with our troops over there...
Also, you as a taxpayer are bearing the FULL BRUNT of financing Mr. Bush & Mr. Cheney's private war (maniacs @ the wheel) vs. IRAQ - And, again, what makes me SO ashamed is the fact they tried SUCH A PUNY RUSE/TRICK, of pointing fingers @ the intelligence community here (NSA/CIA/FBI/ATF), when all they did? Was provide data... & in said data, iirc?
They were not 110% sure of the findings either! Still, sure made a GOOD EXCUSE to startup a war now, didn't it? Especially with the 1 guy over in the middleeast with some balls & means. Take him down? Who's left to stand up for the folks over there??
All law, I hate to say it, because it makes us ALL as human beings look like shit? Boils down to 1 thing:
Might, makes right - the threat of violence? It's what backs "laws"... not what is really right.
So, what did our gov't. do?
WELL, they interpreted the data as they saw fit, not being 110% sure, sent guys like my bro off to fight this "war" over there (he is back now, thank goodness finally after being held there WAY over his term in fact because he is an officer they can hold him to longer than normal callbacks)... while we, as taxpayers, finance it.
Question - how many Congressmen, Senators, or other politicians sons & daughters fight over there, by % especially, vs. other U.S. Citizenry's children/relatives?
(I wouldn't look that up were I you, you won't like the answer - guaranteed!)
Yes, that's right: Our leaders went off, 1/2 cocked, & hit IRAQ! Uhm, refresh my memory - Wasn't it Osama Bin Laden who hit our buildings with jets, & not Saddam Hussein??
No, there is FAR more to it, & I personally think that Bin Laden is a CIA operative & in cahoots up to his neck with the Bushes, period... apk
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