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Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If One Is On a Watchlist?
An anonymous reader writes: On Slashdot, we joke about it all the time: 'I did a Google search for 'pressure cooker' and I connected a bunch of times to the Tor network to download some Linux distribution .torrent files... I must be on some sort of watchlist now.' There have been news articles about people being questioned in airports and given special attention for being political activists. How can one determine is one is on a watchlist of some sort? Are there any Slashdot users who are knowingly on a watchlist? What sort of suspicious special attention have you received?
Board a plane for a domestic or international flight, and you will definitely find out.
We are all on a watchlist because the US government deems itself to be above the law.
If you are on a list, then there is a trail of it. If not, it virtually never happened. What do you think is easier to defend in court?
Don't ask if you're on the watch list. If you weren't before, you are now.
Alternatively: Realize that everyone is on a watch list and nothing will happen to you unless you stir up some shit. If you're a journalist investigating this shit your life will be hard. If you're a nerd who likes to Google a lot of shit and post about how you hate the government they'll just laugh at you.
The beginning of security is to assume that you are already compromised.
Assume you already are on a watchlist, and then we can discuss about the rest.
This is how one joins all those highly acclaimed and fashionable watchlists!
Back in the late 1980's going to the 2600 meetings in NYC got you automatically photographed by the FBI. These days, attend a conference such as HOPE or DefCon, and I guarantee you're on a watchlist.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
I've had you on my watchlist for the last few months because your apartment is across the road from mine and you don't close your bedroom curtains at night. In case it matters, you're in the 10:25-10:35 time slot.
Cooking devices and Linux torrents a domestic terrorist do not make. You must be a little on the (possibly overly) cautious side to use Tor (private) for torrents (public) in the first place. FOIA requests would probably work. But a cup of chamomile tea might do you more good in the long run.
Quack, quack.
I would assume that attempting to find out if you are on a watch list is just the kind of thing that would land you on a watch list.
"Hmm, this guy is worried we are watching him, I wonder why, let's keep an eye on him, shall we?"
We know who you are and are watching you. PS. Stop touching yourself.
BTW, having a wireless password of password is just asking for it.
(If at first you don't succeed, do it different next time!)
If you're immediately sent to secondary inspection, you're on a list.
That simple.
See any drones circling above you?
If Yes = You're on a Watchlist and should probably start running
If No = You're on a Watchlist and have nothing to worry about
-==- Buy a Mac and leave me alone!
add a hundred agents on the line 2 hours prior to the flight when entering the airport, and you got agents harrassing you left and right from the moment you step out of your place of residence, don't even get me started if you live in an apartment, what was that "no fly list" that you can't even know if youre on, gov/ia incentive to businesses/individuals by way of monetary compensation and lower tax(no wonder they complain about irs thing like theres no tomorrow), other than that, do something profitable in business/army/nasa, and im sure youl be able to grab the attention of other foreign gov/ia because your a "terrorist"(sarcasm at the end)
I spoke with a friend on the phone not too long ago, and we may have mentioned a bunch of ECHELON keywords. I don't TOTALly RECALL...;)
My phone did auto-restart though (which it has never done in the 2 years I've had it, no updates either...) after that I only got 3g, and crappy reception in my apartment.
I was like for someone in IT, couldn't you afford a 4G stingray?
I art more snarky, and terse than thou. I art Slashdot!
Do you use the internet? You are on a watchlist. The more interesting question would be which ones, and of course most of us have no way to know.
I spend a lot of time reading and commenting on current events on another site, and I like to back up my comments with citations, so this leads me to Google all sorts of things. Offhand today I've searched for feces swastika (re: the U of Missouri stuff) and officers shot or killed (a story about one officer shooting another off-duty officer). Last night I was reading a thread about the Mazda RDX and so I Googled RDX; RDX is also the name of a military explosive. Around that time I was also searching for various terms related to the Missouri protests.
Some overzealous algorithm might see a person searching for RDX and Mizzou and officer and shooting all within close proximity, and get me on a list I really would rather not be on. That's one of the big problems with automated bulk surveillance, I imagine it's connecting a lot of dots that truly aren't connected.
See you on the list!
Thanks to the War on Drugs, it's easier to buy meth than it is to buy cold medicine!
They'll tell you when they come for you.
In my particular case, I first learned I was on a terrorist watch list in 2004, when I renewed my drivers' license.
The lady at DMV informed me of it, and said there would be an additional three-week wait for my license while they did a background check on me.
Ever since, every time I've flown, I've been pulled aside for additional searches and questioning,
The fun part is that there's no way to get off the list. I've now have three Congressman and a Senator from two different States tell me this.
The really infuriating part is that I suffer from an anxiety disorder. The only danger to those around me is if I go off my meds and then fly to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.
Microsoft leads to Bluescreen; Bluescreen leads to downtime; downtime leads to suffering.
Why were you downloading torrents through the TOR network? Its pointless and clogs exit nodes.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
In case you haven't been paying attention, the FED is spying on everyone whether they're entitled to or not. That means that you're on at least one list if you've used the phone or internet. Duh.
You are already on a watch list. Somewhere.
After all, most NSA people are geeks, and so they read Slashdot. To the point they did a MITM using a fake Slashdot page.
Oh, and by the way: hi NSA!
A more serious reply is this one: they don't want you to know you are on a watch list. If you represent a serious target, they REALLY don't want you to know. On the other hand, if you have any reason to suspect you are a serious target, assume the worst and unplug now.
The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended. (Rowan Atkinson)
Ever felt like writing posts as Anonymous Coward? Or that guy who thinks he has an identity to protect? Know Orwell's 1984 or Aronofsky's Pi? Yes you are suspect. Ever felt like playing Fallout 4 would be a refreshing experience? Or how ISIS felt powerful? Yes yes. Ever watched "let's check deep web" YouTube videos? Yes you are in the top 10 list, just you my friend. They are inside your head.
Is someone off their meds or just need some? If you're paranoid you're on a watchlist because you did something illegal, and you know you did but didn't get caught, then try going for a plane flight. If you didn't actually do anything wrong and you think you might be on a watchlist you either need to see a psychiatrist or just take a plane flight and STFU!
WHY??????
Simple. Just pick up the phone and ask the dial tone.
Dude,,
if your doing something questionable, then perhaps you should assume as much..
You DONT have to torrent those ISO files, you can also ftp or even dl them over http..
it's like saying, I smoke half a pack of cig's a day, have been for 10+ years now, am I addicted??
I have a firecracker,, if I hold it in my hand I run the risk of blowing my shit off. I see it happening to others, men, woman, children, etc.
Should it do that?
Or how about, would you allow a colleague or friend to defecate on your head, just so you could be called a shit-head. Taking that a step further, would that action or series of actions put you on some list as well..
My wife and I were added to some expedited airport list so that we go through a lower level of screening than other passengers. This year, it appears that our kids were added as they had to go through the regular line in past years and now go though the same line with us. I don't really have a clue as to how all of this stuff works.
And, would it hurt you to call your mother now and then? She's worried about you.
Write your Congressman, Senator, and the President about something. Add in randomly misspelled words, and suggest you know things you shouldn't.
This will get you on a watchlist, without violating any laws, but hopefully keep them so busy they can't find your real crimes.
1. Are you American. You're on an unconstitutional and illegal watchlist.
2. Are you Canadian. You're on an unconstitutional and illegal watchlist.
3. Are you European. You're on an illegal watchlist.
4. Are you from anywhere else? You're on a watchlist, but it's probably legal.
Oh, and they are tracking your cell phones. Always.
And, yes, your xBox One and PS are spying on you, as well as Windows 10.
Should you be paranoid? Doesn't matter, actually.
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If the government didn't know about you before, they will after you get hired for a government job. My two-hour background interview lasted four hours because I had to list every I.T. contract job I did since the Great Recession. Security folks frown on the practice of having two jobs at the same time, say a weekday job and a weekend job, which I had to do after being out of work for two years and filing for chapter seven bankruptcy. Living in the same studio apartment for ten years was another flag, as that was inconsistent with being unemployed for two years and filing for chapter seven bankruptcy. We went back and forth on those two points. And then Chinese hackers stole my background file along with millions of other government employees.
You're spewing a number of words, but they don't make a sentence or sense. You wouldn't use Tor to download ISOs when you could simply use a torrent. You know they aren't the same thing right?
Of course not, citizen. Thank you for asking. Could you step this way for a moment, please?
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
It will be done in 11 minutes. They're awesome.
Back in '97, my roommate and I went over to Vietnam. She's from there and we went over to visit some friends--purely tourist stuff. While I was there, I visited the Cu Chi tunnels and picked up a Vietnamese Officer's cap from the gift shop--My "Commie Hat," as I call it. I brought it with me on the flight back and was wearing it when I got to the airport in the US.
So I get off the plane and I stop and look at the big sign they have discussing things you can bring in and can't bring in and the duty that needs to be paid and stuff like that. I didn't bring much back of particular value and wasn't too concerned. I mostly just wanted to rest for a minute. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a uniformed customs person staring at me. I glanced over and sure enough, there he was. Just standing there and staring at me. I continued my walk to baggage claim and he starts following me. When I get to baggage claim, I hang around and wait for my bag and the guy is still standing around and staring at me. My bag--a big ol' duffel bag--shows up and I sling it over my shoulder and trudge off to customs. Off he goes as well. While I'm waiting in line there, he's still standing off to the side and staring at me! I declare that I have a couple of knit caps and a half-naked woman ashtray in my bag. They didn't really search my bag or anything too severe and I think I might have paid a few bucks--I don't really remember. Then I left, with the customs guy still staring at me as I walked away.
The only thing I can think of was that I was wearing my "Commie Hat" and that stuck in his craw somehow.
congratulations! you're on /.
Sometimes it does not matter if you are on a list or not:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_%281985_film%29
1. Make a FOIA request with your name and possibly other identifying information
2. Congratulations! You are now on a watchlist
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
So I might be on the list.
Once at an airport I met a loony TSA agent who claimed to have met Muhammad in his dreams.
Till date I haven't figured out if he was actually nuts or was just gauging how I would respond to this wackiness. I found it unnerving in either case.
take out a full page add, calling for death to the unbelievers in the name
of Islam, and include your name, home address and phone number
its safe to assume at the point you're on a watchlist
There have been news articles about people being questioned in airports and given special attention for being political activists.
So, are all political activists potential terrorists in the US? Or are the suspicious ones only those who are concerned how people and animals are treated in and by the society?
At this point, what difference does it make?
If you are on a list, you are on it. You won't know one way or another until some authority who uses the list when dealing with you, and even then you may not know. Apart from actually doing something illegal, chances are you will never be on a list beyond the IRS's.
IMHO - I'm just guessing here, but I seriously doubt that you have caught the attention of *anybody* compiling lists of people to watch compiled by the government if your identity wasn't already suspect. Just doing a Google search, or to or 100 isn't all that significant. Downloading lots of stuff though Tor is not significant either. Unless you are routinely calling your local ISIS recruiter or something else DIRECTLY suspicious, I seriously doubt there is much you can do to get on some government list. There are over a hundred million people in this country, you are going to have to really do something to stand out in the crowd and what you describe is unlikely to draw any attention.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
The fun part is that there's no way to get off the list. I've now have three Congressman and a Senator from two different States tell me this.
There is a way, but 3 Congressmen and 2 Senators isn't enough.
If you had 218 Congressmen and 51 Senators and the President on your side, that might be enough, but just to be safe, get 61 Senators on your side.
They can pass a "private relief act" type of bill to remove you from the watchlist. Once the President signs it, it will be law.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Are you a Human?
Then you are on a watchlist.
FBI checklist:
http://www.networkworld.com/ar...
Ever used tor or a vpn?
Ever posted anything anti-government?
Ever traveled outside your country?
Ever phoned/skyped/g-talked to anyone outside your country?
I have a friend, David Nelson. I've known him since we were about 10yrs old. He and 2000 other "David Nelsons" are on the TSA watchlist. That was a problem for my friend since he used to travel every week for business. After missing about 10 flights due the watch list triple-checking, he was asked to quit his job. Here's the TSA side of the story.
http://blog.tsa.gov/2008/07/my...
Not part of Thomas Jefferson's plan for democracy. Who is the enemy? YOU ARE!
If you get a plane ticket and it's has the 3 letter code SSSS
then you are on list to be pulled aside for special screening.
But this watchlist is kinda arbitrary. got a couple cousins that work for TSA, of course it's easy to infiltrate TSA as they hire anyone when there's openings. Even highschool dropouts work for TSA minimum wage.
Anyhow they've fucked with assholes before by tossing them in the list so any future plane tickets they ever purchase will be tagged SSSS
SSSS = the new "SS" hehe
but yea you see this: http://i.imgur.com/Ns42bla.jpg
you are on watchlist.
here's wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But TSA can add you to it to troll you.
I heard one story woman kept snapping at them to hurry, and was being rude. They know everyone hates TSA, they even hate it, but only thing that was hiring at the time.
There's about 7 or 8 in his area and woman just kept tossing insults.
so after she got through, they added her to the SSSS list. So any airport and any airline she will be pulled out of line for special secondary searches.
There are also tales of TSA trolling sports figures, wwe wrestlers and some celebrities, and filmmakers like michael moore/morgan spurlock and adding them to the watch list :P
michael moore had a huge bitch session on his blog long ago after finding out he's on the tsa list.
but thats just the TSA watchlist.
there are other lists, NSA/CIA/FBI/ATF/etc... dozens of alphabet pigs
The sign is when they won't let you check-in online.
My neighbor's kid has the same name as an IRA terrorist ... so they had to go through loads of crap every time, to explain that he's 3 ... he might be a terror, but he's not a terrorist.
I don't know if they still have problems flying with him or not. (He's now in high school)
This is part of the reason why the 'there are only (x) number of people on the terrorist watchlist' is problematic -- you have (x) people with (y) permutations of their aliases which means (z) people are stopped every time ... except for the people who we deem *so* dangerous that we don't want them to find out they're being watch ... so they're allowed to fly.
Build it, and they will come^Hplain.
And they're both my friends on facebook.
My guess: If you post on a major technical site asking as an anonymous coward how to find out if you are on a watch list, you are on a watch list.
You may not be on a no fly list, and it may a watch list of "mostly harmless" people, but you're on a watch list.
Pressure Cooker + Ina Garten = cool
Pressure Cooker + ISIS = no fly
Pressure Cooker + Anthony Bordain = check for drugs
Apply for a security clearance for work or to improve looking for gov/mil work.
Look into getting a police check or certificate for local work.
That would induce paperwork see if a person has been placed on a basic, direct national not trusted list.
The "political activists" can face a very passive surveillance just to see who a person talks to, walks with, sends emails, letters, phones, spends hours with.. IM lists, IRC, web 2.0, international VOIP, IM with a person not added to a friends list or not shared with a common third persons IM list, any contact with 1950-80's activists or their work.
A lot of advanced "charity" and "corporate" network tracking is often shared with or sold to gov, mil to see what political connections people make.
If you are a journalist, press, media expect gov backed malware crafted just for your computers, cell phone. No consumer grade protection will have any record of it and view it as normal OS like functionality. Traces of such efforts can point to gov interest in a person.
What are most Western governments looking for at this time is passive collect it all databases that show hops, links, connections, people talking politics, crypto.
Build up too much of an online reputation and have the ability to sway, protect or publish mil or gov whistleblowers material is really when the gov and mil take note.
Crypto and advance maths skills? Creating open source projects with advanced crypto skills passed on from advance university learning that was for placement for mil or gov jobs. Changing from closed source well paid private sector skills to open source crypto.. that will get a lot of gov attention and for anyone in the same project forum, IRC chats, code site.
What books a person buys online on what topics. Years of bulk non fiction can show a person deep in thought about political issues. Some more nonfiction book orders can help with that list..
Basically a person is waiting for enough of a gov database to move form a person of interest to active protest group or political group creation.
Another tracking point is *who* is reading your work, code, looking for you online. If workers with security clearances are been tracked looking up your blog, your work as a journalist, chatroom, code project, as an author...in own time, at home.. your work is an issue for a gov or mil.
University presentations on open, public papers surrounding crypto, gov, mil whistleblowers material even if your nation has freedom of the press, freedom after and of speech.
'How Covert Agents Infiltrate The Internet To Manipulate, Deceive, And Destroy Reputations" (Feb. 25 2014) https://theintercept.com/2014/...
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
You would hope that the people managing these lists would make their own jobs easier by making the lists a bit smarter. Surely each entry would have a score associated with it which would reflect how often that entry "tripped the wire". Scores would degrade over time reflecting that the initial listing wasnt indicative of concerning behavior. Over time the people who only got on as a result of something stupid would filter to the bottom of the list and the more active ones would "percolate" to the top. Only scores above a certain value would get stopped, watched, etc. That's assuming of course that the system is actually designed to identify potential terrorists and isn't just a tool for oppression of the masses. In fact you'd have to hope that they're way smarter than that. I wonder if they incorporate how often you're in proximity to a listed entity with a higher score than yours based on cell gps data? Might want to be careful who you sit next to on the bus, or at least don't always sit next to the same person.
What watchlists exist- that's the real question.
Remember, all repression begins with *keeping lists of people* and all repressive regimes begin to look and act alike past a certain point. In China, the government assigns you an ongoing *credit score* according to your activism and political statements.
https://www.aclu.org/blog/free...
Think about it. There must be watchlists in the US other than the ones we know about. Watchlists for people who can't be permitted to say, succeed at starting a defense contracting firm... or a biotech firm.. a computer security firm... where does it stop? Think about people who are known to express sympathies and maintain personal associations with terrorists. There are some things which are *inalienable rights* under the Constitution which the intelligence community is going to want to deny them, in this case freedom of association and the pursuit of happiness (in their chosen field of work).
Does the intelligence community think is has the right to decide who will fail and to cause that failure? You have to think that they do.
So how is that done, exactly? When the person goes for funding pf their company, or starts one and recruits people, are there informal channels where potential investors communicate with the intelligence community? Or does the intelligence community proactively communicate with them? Does either party do that before any big investment in any technology firm?
What about hires? There are tons of positions that could be damaging to the security of the United States is the *wrong* people started jobs in them. I am not just talking about the obvious ones. I am talking about non-obvious ones, like computer programmer, chip fabricator, biotech executive. There are not SCI positions, and yet....
And what properties other than consorting with known terrorists might get you on a list? Known strong civil libertarian? Known big government hater?
When Jesselyn Raddack went to get another job as a lawyer, the government called her employer and made sure the employer fierd her, without cause. They did it to her we know, sowho else do they do that to and how many of those people are there and what exactly are the properties which will get non-criminals in the crosshairs?
Private entities which are free from government oversight and Constitutional constraints on their behvaior engage in profiling and list making.This is how organizations like Perverted Justice basically operate. They engage in all kinds of luring behaviors online, in chatrooms and elsewhere, to flush out and ensnare people in criminal behaviors, then when a certain threshold of culpability and intent is reached, the whole exchange gets turned over to the police in real time.
Same thing with list making. A private company can create attribute lists of people based on derogatory information for highly questionable sources, speculation, vicious gossip, total hearsay, even people intent on smearing an enemy. After all, it's not a crime to think and talk about your impressions of people and then write it down. It's not a crime to try to be more thorough than that and access information from all kinds of sources.
Then that information gets *shared*.
In this kind of scheme, the police never did anything but accept community input and tips. That's good policing, right?
With certainity, the terrorist watch list and no-fly lists are the tip of the people-list iceberg. In all likelihood, a long time ago, it careened into illegality and unconstituional surveillance and interference in people's lives, but like parallel construction:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
it's probably now considered "bedrock" policing techniques, the Constitution be damned.
Here's the million dollar question. Do the police and the intelligence communities deliberately and s
My alarm clock set off an airline's bomb sniffer. Even though the finally figured it out after a half hour of passing my bag back over and over again, nevertheless, they put me on their own computer's watch list. This was within the first few years of all this starting. The things I noticed was:
Not allowed to check in at the curb side check in anymore.
Always required to go through that airline's pre-screening scanner after checking in at the ticket counter.
Always had to go through a secondary airline screening at the gate.
This happened three times in a row. I have not flown commercial since. Been about 14 flightless years now.
First, if you're a US citizen or Green Card Holder, or applying for a Green Card or citizenship you're on a passive watch list by the FBI.
This is a thought of as a protective service, an insurance policy provided by the government by investing in you, as a citizen to be a part of this country, and by you choosing to be a part of this country.
What this passive watch list means is - first and foremost - if you show extreme pattern disruptions and interruptions in your behaviors which can be detrimental to your health and/or to others around you - then there could be psychological or other influences occurring to you that may be the product of things outside your control or even awareness through foreign governments and/or malicious company practices and/or any other set of indeterminate and often obscure reasons which warrant FBI investigation.
MOST of these reasons are known as domestic terrorism, it's not sold as such publicly because of the connotation terrorism has with Al Qaida and Bin Laden and the sort, but the effects can be just as detrimental to a large population if not at the very least understood, and in some cases, the risk is mitigated.
Second, this watch list also actively monitors you while you're outside the country - largely because most people aren't aware of how much of a problem human trafficking is when they travel abroad and what the FBI does to mitigate this risk - whether you travel alone or with others. There's other reasons to actively monitor you while abroad, and personally I have been requesting the FBI announces this practice publicly for years and let this be an 'opt-in' service.
The FBI maintains an active watch list for domestic citizens and internationally people and organizations for a literally ever changing variable set of reasons. Back in 2005, for instance, that watch list included keywords used in phone conversations which use 'bomb and president and kill him'. That's evolved dramatically since then, and the list of reasons that you might go from passive monitoring to active all depend on the operation within the organization. This list is not just not publicized, but is typically very dynamic and based on the agency they are dealing with (ie: IRS, Homeland Security, President and/or the Oval Office, etc)
The NSA, like the FBI, is the same way with the dynamic list, with one glaring exception: The focus for the NSA is both prevention of corporate and government espionage and support of counter espionage research, and protection of informational and intelligence assets. So if you represent a credible threat to these, then I can guarantee you you're their watch list and I can guarantee you that your cameras and microphones everywhere you go are in passive listening mode transcribing everything you say and do. Other threats that the NSA pays attention to are largely new technology threats, which has the NSA paying attention to on the wire chatter and the development of new ideas and inventions that might create a risk to the CIA, FBI or NSA.
Central Services is leveraged to disseminate technological threats. Terrorism in any form is the FBI's deal, so Central Services is used to provide intelligence information for these.
The CIA doesn't have watch lists. Period end of story.
How do you determine if you're on watch list?
There's literally thousands of teams within the FBI alone each potentially operating in silos. And while the NSA is less silod, and more hierarchically based, there's no one single watch list that's maintained and largely it's hidden behind layers that even the best agent can't get to.
The short answer is: Unless you're stopped and turned away at the airport. You don't represent an immediate threat to the United States.
But you're not going to know if you're on someone's watch list within any of these agencies.
No one person knows. That's why they call it "Top Secret/ Compartmentalized Local Information"
Compartmentalized.
Read: No one knows.
The NSA have set up a hotline for this. The number is +49 174 276 6483 and you'll be added to the watchlist with no further fuss. More details here: http://hop3.de/konzept_en.html
Every time i fly i am subject to the "random" bag search.
And have a background processes constantly browsing livegoatporn.com so they have something interesting to look at while they're watching you.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Yes.
I was on a list. I don't know what list. Or why. Or how I got added. Or how I (eventually) got removed (I think the latter has something to do with a review process that my senator's staff helped initiate.)
For me it took the form of an additional ID check. When flying, I was not permitted to print boarding passes in advance or check in at a kiosk in the airport - I received a non-specific error message if I tried either of those things and was told to check in with an agent. Then, when I would check in with an airline agent, when they pulled up my reservation they would see some kind of flag on the record which required them to take my photo ID and go into the back room and make a phone call before I could be cleared for boarding. Sometimes it took 5 minutes, sometimes it took 45 minutes -- I missed a couple of flights because of delays due to this before I realized it was happening every time and I needed to allow extra time for it.
The odd (and to me, stupid) thing about it is that I never received any additional screening at the security checkpoints as a result of this list. You would think that if I was suspected of being a risk in any way they would have done at least that (not that I'm sorry they didn't, it's just that there seemed to be no rhyme or reason to their system and it was completely opaque. A couple of the check-in agents admitted to me unofficially that it was a TSA thing but they were forbidden from saying anything officially.
...and ask. Whatever the answer you know for sure you're now on a watchlist.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
they can watch me pick my nose, and scratch my ass, and then i will wash my hands and cook lunch, since i almost killed myself on a motorcycle i am as harmless as a kitten, i can barely walk anymore, now that i am more comfortable in a chair i am considering teaching myself some basic coding on linux and maybe if i am lucky i will make some software that will make people happy
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
I received a copy of my NCIC file through a court mishap kinda sorta. Basically, you won't know other than things start going wrong in your life in this really special way where multiple things all start to conflict and collide in just the perfect way, and thats about all of the indication you'll get. Beyond that, I've noted that the volumes of crimes committed against me seems to have exponentially increased while at the same time the willingness of police to take reports about them have decreased.
Maybe parents should think about this *before* they give their child a name.
don't cut it off www.mgmbill.org
My partner was on a watchlist (because of someone she once went out with). The consistent way we knew was that every time we flew, she got pulled aside for extra screening. When we looked at her boarding pass, it was always specially marked with SSSS or *S*. When you fly, if you have SSSS or *S* on your boarding pass, congratulations, you are on a watchlist.
The last time we went back the US, we had no problems with it, so I guess she fell off that watchlist.
Make of FOIA request for my FBI records; receive back a redacted copy of my request.
My name came up as similar to a listed person when I opened a bank account. A banker friend may be able to run your name.
I also got more attention from the TSA, but that may be because I used the same bag for a carry-on that I had previously used to go to the gun range, leaving a bit of powder residue all over the bag.
I assume I'm on a few lists because I work in internet security, meaning I frequent web sites related to hacking and such, plus I (legally) work with fireworks, so I order chemicals and such that could be used to make explosives. Lastly, I'm a conservative who once checked out a Tea Party event, so the current administration is definitely notices that. The IRS started calling after I followed a tea party page on Facebook. Might be coincidence.
The Slashdot audience is now testing the Streisand Effect on such terms.
Airports will end up with a "slashdot room" where we are all housed while they check further. You'll know when you are escorted to a room with 30 other neckbeards who smell like pizza.
Table-ized A.I.
if you got a name and/or a face and/or have ever left the woods, your're leaving trails that will be collected, linked and analysed. but there's only so much money the lizard people can give to the illuminaliens to pay for your anal probes. also, unfortunately the financial crisis affects the interstellar export of soylent green and glagnar's human rinds too, so that leads to budget cuts as well. so, until our new & cheap robot overlords take over, you're pretty much safe.
If I was a "watcher" and I wanted to see the various ways that folks would detect my observation, I would ask a question like this.
It would show me who was paranoid.
It would show me who was informed.
It would give me some good ways to make myself have less visibility, or more visibility.
"Why should I change my name? He's the one who blows people up!"
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
Getting the case open is the big first one, as you say, that's easier said than done. After that, you need to put a switch into a case that was designed to be as small and slim as possible with no mind paid to allowing said switch. Though I suppose you could put in a magnetic switch or something.
In short, a major project. Unlikely to be done by any but the most dedicated, in which case it's quicker/easier to simply do what the military does - dump all the cell phones and such OUTSIDE.
I don't read AC A human right
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You are asking the wrong question. In the post 911 USA it is easier to just assume that you are on several watchlists. It is which ones you are on that is the question. Most of them don't amount to much, but others will get you pulled aside at airports or used to deny you a job.
Do you have a foreign sounding name?
Have you ever been out of the country?
Are you visiting this country?
Are you a minority?
Have you ever been to an internet website that some government official does not like?
Do you belong to MENSA?
Have you ever said anything to anybody that goes against the Obama regime's political agenda?
Have you purchased a firearm in the last 40 years?
Have you ever donated money to a charity?
Have you ever written or spoken with your congressman or legislator?
Have you ever been questioned by law enforcement (even as a witness to something you were not involved in)?
Have you ever said anything against the school system or common core during a PTA meeting?
Have you ever written a letter to the editor of a newspaper?
Have you ever stood up during a city council meeting and asked "Why?"
Do you own a digital camera?
Do you own a toy drone?
Have you ever purchased an alcoholic beverage?
Have you ever purchased a beverage that contained sugar?
I could go on, but I think you get the idea.
"The FBI has been after him, since he began promoting usage of the Windows hosts file to evade tracking and detection. They have a black mark next to his name and are looking for enough evidence for a "material support of terrorism charge"" - by Jeremiah Cornelius (137) on Thursday January 17, 2013 @08:51PM (#42622423)FROM http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
I liked the guy too, respecting his political awareness & saavy there - However: not his tech skills though (even though he worked @ Microsoft in the past & VMWare currently afaik @ least).
Anyhow/anyways:
We "got into it" which surprised me & the 'feud' got pretty heated to the point he said:
1.) I had turd breath
2.) Was raped as a child
3.) Had a horse porn server
4.) That he's rip my head off & shit down my neck
5.) I was a polock (only one that's true, lol)
6.) Called me ALL sorts of names (peckerwood made me laugh) by the 100's etc. - et al...
Later, I caught him posting his "$10,000 challenge to APK" UNDER HIS "real name" here/registered 'luser' name http://slashdot.org/comments.p... instead of his USUAL ac ones BY THE 100's on /. for months!
I am guessing he was trying to masquerade as me to piss everyone off so I would be 'banned' here (not possible to do)...
* It surprised me he's stop SO low actually!
Still - even after it? I like the guy... why??
Well - since he's enlightened me to things I had little clue on politically is why & financially (IMF etc.) beforehand.
APK
P.S.=> I've taken international flights BEFORE then (2010 into Europe for a summer touring it in Poland, parts of USSR, Czechoslovakia etc.) but IF he's right above? Who knows... but I doubt it - I wrote my program to HELP everyone & yes, law enforcement too (making their job easier by protecting others worldwide for free & it works) - who knows... I'm NOT THAT IMPORTANT though imo @ least... maybe he was just "f'ing" with me (hope so)... apk
Unfortunately this is one of those issues where, rather than seeking information to demystify the government's behavior, many people cynically fall-back on something like, "we're all on a watchlist." We're all the weaker for it as a democracy.
It may be the case we are all being "watched" in some way but that is not the same as being on a "watchlist." If everyone were on a "watchlist," there would be no need for a list. In reality, the government maintains many kinds of lists for many different purposes.
If you file a Freedom of Information/Privacy Act request with an agency like the FBI, NSA, or CIA asking if you are on a watchlist, you will receive a form response stating they cannot confirm or deny either way for any person. The government will almost never acknowledge whether you have been placed in a database of some sort. Thus, most people find out they are listed only after they experience differential treatment that is characteristic of some of these lists, particularly those related to travel security. (I heard of an individual who learned they were on a watchlist because they attempted a legal name change and the required background check from the court disclosed (inadvertently?) that he was on the Terrorist Screening Database.)
One of these lists is the Secondary Screening Security Selection list that some have alluded to. If you can't print your boarding passes online, can't check in at kiosks, or have an "SSSS" on your boarding pass, those are signs you are in that database. As a result, you will be subjected to extra scrutiny when traveling through airports. However, people who have received an SSSS undergo varying levels of scrutiny (not all are subjected to the same treatment), so there may be more nuances behind the scenes. Furthermore, sometimes your travel pattern will flag you and you will receive a one-time SSSS. For example, if you purchase a one-way ticket a very short time before your flight, that might trigger an SSSS for a single trip but not permanent placement on a list.
People on this list can file a request for review under the Traveler Redress Inquiry Program (http://www.dhs.gov/dhs-trip). the review process is opaque. At the end, you will receive a notice that says something like, "If corrective action was necessary, it was taken," without confirming or denying whether you were on a list to begin with and whether you were subsequently removed. Reportedly, this process works best in cases of mistaken identity, ie, having a name similar to someone the government intended to list. You will receive a "redress number" that can be plugged in to future flight reservations. If it wasn't a mistaken identity issue, then the reviewing officer behind the curtain will have to determine whether you merit placement on the list. I'm not sure if there is information available about how many people are removed from a list after filing a TRIP complaint.
Some people have stated that posting comments online with certain code words can trigger placement on a watchlist. Although that may be true down the line, it probably is not automatic. One of the main systems for these kind of incidents is a federal program called "Suspicious Activity Reporting," which goes by the marketing slogan, "see something, say something." Behind the posters, though, there is a network of ~80 "fusion centers" which are collaborations between federal, local, and state officials to share and analyze intelligence. An intelligence analyst at your local fusion center will review every Suspicious Activity Report and conduct any necessary evaluation/investigation. After reviewing, the analyst will decide whether to "nominate" the Suspicious Activity Report to the eGuardian database (one of the terrorism intelligence databases) and your name could be associated for years with suspicion of terrorist activity. The ACLU published many of these reports from California a few years ago and found they included things like "speaking excitedly in a foreign tongue" or taking photographs of dams, courthouses, and other
"Oh, this makes me so mad. I could just..."
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
and figure out if you're not on a watchlist.
... courtesy of the Democratic Party's paranoia of the Tea Party
I'm sure my name pops up on several watchlists -
First, I am from China, that was before I ran away from there and end up in US as a refugee
After reaching US I studied, graduated with some fancy degrees and started my career in high tech fields
I have been 'invited' for 'interviews' several times by 'security people', including FBI, concerning my investments, particularly those in businesses which has direct dealings with defense projects. They are also interested in my businesses abroad, especially branches in 'sensitive regions' such as Africa, Russia and China
With all those 'interviews' getting no where, they finally, through IRS, awarded me with a thorough audit
And oh, I forgot to add, when that too came up empty they tried to frame me by linking me to Chinese triad activities
Can't fault them for trying so hard though ...
After all, a minority (Chinese) like me supposed to support the Democratic Party. The problem is I refuse to buy into their bullshit and gave my support to the Tea Party instead
I know how to play the game, after all, I survived the Culture Revolution, where even more brutal 'games' had occurred
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
The best way is to live in a democracy that cherishes freedom of speech and will protect your constitutional rights by not introducing laws that attempt to bypass them.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
Aw man someone else is using my witty original wifi network name...
All we need is a simple web interface where one can check potential names for the child whether they are on the check list - or are going to be when the child grows up?
That's how I assume watchlists work. If the NSA wants people who like back-of-the-bus sex in Chicago, that's the combination they search for. The results could be called a "list" I suppose.
(||) Nehmo (||)
Just pick a name of someone who's a big name in security and not likely to turn whistleblower-- like someone on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Then at least if you start getting harassed, you can presume they are too...
You mean like the parents of Bobby Tables?
On flights, the male cabin crew always give me special attention. I have a feeling I am on the list
Provided I don't miss my flight or get tortured, they can question me. I'd like the company to be honest. Trolling for years online doesn't really fulfil that space in my heart that human interaction does.
What if all of us, and our friends, childrem, coworkers, etc. included some kind of inflammatory keywords in the subject or the body of every email we sent? This would have the immediate effect of 'lighting up the switchboard" at the NSA. While a few of us might get a call from the NSA, the vast majority of us could relax, knowing that whatever harmless activity we might actually be emailing about would be overlooked as the NSA investigates 20 billion emails that advocate "per to the hedonists" (it's an anagram- I'm not crazy!)
You would want to be sure that you weren't the only one doing this though. We could probably get some russian spammers to help out... Now that's a headline I'd like to see- SPAMMERS SAVE THE INTERNET!
This might actually work. It would sure be fun try it to see what happens. Who's in?
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Your Now Watched Because You Clicked On This
bent over backwards and given a good reaming beyond the one you normally get every day because your an amercian citizen and are not currently in Jail?
Then your on a watch list !
I suspect I probably am. Being the holder of FAA, FCC, and firearms licenses one would assume I'm on a watchlist to begin with. Also, I've got an application on file for an organization that requires FBI approval and it's taking weeks longer than others of my friends that were going through the same process at the same time (out of the handful of us, all but 2 were approved in just a couple weeks. The remaining 2 of us are in the months now)... Coincidence, perhaps, but it does make one wonder if they have to clear it with some watchlists via some slow inter-agency process...
I've been searching for years to learn more about the weapons I use in online games. It's a particular fascination. Of course possessing such weapons in my country is illegal with many years of time in jail as a punishment. I can imagine that I am on a few watchlists for that alone. Add to that an intense interest in electronics and computers. There is no hope for me.
Nope. Not me. But remember the NSA spies on everyone so yes, and so do foreign intelligence agencies. Its easy to see much of it if you are watchful. But no, I never was put on a watch list, I'm sure of that. I do have friends who are paranoid and overthink things.... if you are on a watch list you would know right away. Its a whole different realm from the normal spying.
I'm putting mine on before even reading any comments.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
There are so many watch lists with such ridiculous and arbitrary criteria that it's impossible to tell which ones or how many you are on.
Trying to board an airplane would tell you if you are on the "No Fly" list of course. If you're allowed to board but often get singled out for extra scrutiny, you might be on the terrorism watch list.
When you try to buy a gun, you'll find out if you're on a list of "prohibited persons", but that's not exactly a "watch list". Usually that check happens in a few minutes, but the feds can impose a 72 hour delay. They will claim it's due to high volume or that your personal info is similar to that of some prohibited person, but getting singled out makes me very suspicious that I'm on some list which causes them to subject me to extra scrutiny.
Thanks to the government's network of "fusion centers", any state, local and federal authorities can file a "suspicious activity" report about you, even if you've committed no crime (never give them your ID unless you are required by law to do so). Ever heard those PSAs "If you see something, say something."? That 1-800 # (rat-on-your-neighbors hotline) probably gets you on the same list.
I'd say that if you've ever engaged in any sort of political activism, especially libertarian causes, but also environmentalism, pacifism, drug legalization or digital privacy, you're probably on a list. If you visit a mosque or have an Arab-sounding name, assume you're on a list. Basically, there's no other logical course of action than to assume you're on a list and that all of your actions and communications are being constantly monitored.
No-talent ass-clown?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7DdyChR8JU
you guys realize that reading this puts you on the list, right? Or not reading it, just because you thought about it and decided not to.
Story time.
I took a math course at one of the top STEM schools in my country.
The professor is well known in the field, and his first words to us were:
"Hello, welcome to Applied Cryptography. Congratulations you are all on an NSA watchlist!"
In the UK, the Theresa May Bot will tell you your threat level by putting you in the appropriate list: https://twitter.com/theresamay...
I'm 'Deviant Level 3', a fact which I was _thrilled_ to discover ;-)
"If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we've solved it." --- Arthur Kasspe
I just had to sit in a room for 5 minutes and then answer some inane questions, and I was on my way, rectum unscathed.
Better luck next time!
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Everybody is suspect.
Deal with it.
aaaaaaa
"Apk doesn't think DNS servers are worth running & believes Microsoft Active Directory can run w/out DNS." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015
Where'd I say it? I say AD needs internal DNS far back as 2007 http://forums.tweaktown.com/wi...
See "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers" there on OpenDNS free (I use it) + AD in my security guide.
+ Migrate hosts across a LAN (admin/scripts not GPO)-> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
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I'm RIGHT on admin priv + hosts update (WFP/SFP)!
"figured out why privilege escalation's a bad thing?" - by Coren22 on Tuesday September 22, 2015
How else can I programmatically update it?
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"it requires elevation to write hosts" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday September 23, 2015
Hypocrite later admits it!
Even MalwareBytes AntiMalware (best one) DEMANDS it or it can't do its job fully like many security tools!
Guess what?
Don't NEED to run my program as ADMIN - I do it here manually vs. auto.
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"Needing admin privileges every time a program updates is poor design" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
Users set it, not programmatic impersonation for autoupdate. You design zero & say what's what here?
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"90's technology to fight modern war" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
Ozymandias/Watchmen per a namesake:
"I resolved to use antiquities teachings" (hosts) "to our world today & began my path to conquest - Conquest not of men but of the evils that beset them: Fossil Fuels (antispyware), Oil (antivir), Nuclear Power (addons) are like a drug & you gentlemen along w/ foreign interests are the pushers"
It works Aryeh Goretsky NOD32/ESET said hosts = good security-> http://it.slashdot.org/comment...
Oliver Day (Symantec) too-> http://www.securityfocus.com/c...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts' Admin hosts+recommends APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit-> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl...
APK
P.S.=> Continued in #2/5... apk
"Virus scanners/Adblock software don't need admin priv to update" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
AV does to remove threats - Adblock addons = VASTLY INFERIOR in abilities + efficiency vs. hosts as I've proven w/ noone proved me wrong to date!
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"your software does" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
No, hosts do due to WFP/SFP!
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"won't reveal your source code" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
I don't owe you it. I don't give away work to be stolen by others so it's misused like GOOGLE CHROME http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
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"What's stopping you from pointing my bank's web site at your private server?" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
I don't keep a server. You're a security guru (not - you create no ware for security & your forensics skills = non-existent): Put it in a VM, trace it using process monitor + wireshark to prove it (don't need code) & I only put in hardcodes of fav sites @ top of hosts for speed & reliabilty - you'd spot it easily & bulk of the file is sorted blocked known bad threat origins.
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"the possibility of being caught, which would be pretty hard to catch w/ such a large hosts file, as no one can go through it manually." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
See just above!
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"What are you going to do when Windows gets rid of the hosts file completely?" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
Hasn't happened!
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"They have already taken steps to make it useless in Windows 10." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
It still works there!
APK
P.S.=> To be continued in part #3/5... apk
"I guess we should avoid your crap, it looks like it is marked as malware. Good luck getting that removed." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Monday November 02, 2015 @03:52PM (#50850445)
62 sources of good repute show + /. users say otherwise:
Proven safe by 57 antivirus programs in its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
Same for the 32-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
&
Per VirScan its installer too -> http://f.virscan.org/APKHostsF...
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MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news... /.'ers say my work is good too:
"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant (4179011) on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:34PM (#50287195)
"I like your host file system." - by Karmashock (2415832) on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:57PM (#50489401)
"APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works." - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015 @11:30AM (#50736071)
"his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources" by alexgieg (948359) on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:57AM (#50596461)
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You tried using Computer Associates another antivirus I turned over on false positives (1/8 over time) & they were caught in ACCOUNTING SCANDALS FRAUD http://www.bing.com/search?q=c...
Reputable source (not): They had to sell off their PC security suite too (crap fraud also) LOWERING the 'threat level' on THAT program (not my hosts file engine) TO ZERO!
* YOU ARE WRONG ON EVERY ACCOUNT NOTED!
APK
P.S.=> To be continued in part #4/5... apk
If you get routine free anal exams from the TSA, you might be on a watchlist.
If your state troopers know you by your first name, you might be on a watchlist.
If you see men wearing dark sunglasses staring in your windows, you might be on a watchlist.
If the bank tellers always call someone on the phone everytime you go into the bank, you might be on a watchlist.
If you PC camera turns on by itself all the time, you might be on a watchlist.
"nowhere in there did you actually say what you are using that isn't a proxy/VPN" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Thursday November 12, 2015 @02:25PM (#50916751)
I don't use proxies/VPN (or anonymous relays).
"APK ... uses anonymous relays to get around the limits of posting anonymous" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
I'm not stupid enough to do what YOU want (make me as stupid as an easily tracked for retrolling sheep like you).
There's 3-4 ways to do what I do & those? Aren't them in your mistake accusations.
What I do, like all I do = FAST + EFFICIENT, NO extra "moving parts" - less IS more = GOOD engineering, using what you have natively vs. "Bolting on 'MoAr'" stupidly & illogically.
You're MCSE, networking admin 'god', & security guru (not) - figure it out, I gave clues - I'm NOT going to tell you!
All you know is I do it WHEN combatting little scumbags like you that hide behind fake names online trolling me.
It works, like all I do does with testimonials to that effect no less.
"it's funny how little you know of security APK" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Thursday November 12, 2015 @02:25PM (#50916751)
Funny how little you know in computing (no code, especially for security - I have it. You don't)
(& you're stumped on an anti-troll technique I use too!)
I've long ago done far more than you will or have in the art & science of computing! For security?
CIS Tool took fixes from me http://slashdot.org/comments.p... which you doubted & my layered security guides got me paid http://pcpitstop.com/news/winn... & MILLIONS use it.
APK
P.S.=> To be continued in part #5/5... apk
"but rather than take my advise on various things, he feels that he is allowed to defame me by saying things he knows are not true - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
Hypocrite, I show you're projecting in my posts. What "advice" can you, an INFERIOR to me, like yourself give?
"I have offered him advise on ways to improve what he does to reduce the feeling of icky his software - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
I've shown /.'er saying differently - Show us you've done better: YOU can't - & you're "advising"? Talking out your ass on things you haven't done is what you're doing.
"posting them so often that maybe, just maybe, someone will think they are true - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
Quotes of you are true! You can't keep your word as you're replying to me yet again + projecting what I prove YOU do (AD/DNS lie).
"I don't have time for the Troll APK, and refuse to respond anymore to a post signed APK" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @04:27PM (#50858983)
No troll. I protect users for free w/ a program that speeds them up, helps reliability, & even anonymity online w/ more abilities & efficiency than ANY other 1 solution doing more w/ less - do you? No.
"Maybe I should change my signature again just to rile him up some more." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @10:07AM (#50855451) FROM http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
"Rile" me? Childish sig bs is all you've got!
"I have repeatedly refuted his assertions - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
BS - See my last 4 posts here!
APK
P.S.=>
"I never admitted you were right" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
You PROVE I AM FOR ME part #1-#5 of your "Greatest Hits Fails"... apk
quote> "Apk doesn't think DNS servers are worth running & believes Microsoft Active Directory can run w/out DNS." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015
Where'd I say it? I say AD needs internal DNS far back as 2007 http://forums.tweaktown.com/wi...
See "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers" there on OpenDNS free (I use it) + AD in my security guide.
+ Migrate hosts across a LAN (admin/scripts not GPO)-> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
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I'm RIGHT on admin priv + hosts update (WFP/SFP)!
"figured out why privilege escalation's a bad thing?" - by Coren22 on Tuesday September 22, 2015
How else can I programmatically update it?
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"it requires elevation to write hosts" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday September 23, 2015
Hypocrite later admits it!
Even MalwareBytes AntiMalware (best one) DEMANDS it or it can't do its job fully like many security tools!
Guess what?
Don't NEED to run my program as ADMIN - I do it here manually vs. auto.
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"Needing admin privileges every time a program updates is poor design" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
Users set it, not programmatic impersonation for autoupdate. You design zero & say what's what here?
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"90's technology to fight modern war" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
Ozymandias/Watchmen per a namesake:
"I resolved to use antiquities teachings" (hosts) "to our world today & began my path to conquest - Conquest not of men but of the evils that beset them: Fossil Fuels (antispyware), Oil (antivir), Nuclear Power (addons) are like a drug & you gentlemen along w/ foreign interests are the pushers"
It works Aryeh Goretsky NOD32/ESET said hosts = good security-> http://it.slashdot.org/comment...
Oliver Day (Symantec) too-> http://www.securityfocus.com/c...
APK
P.S.=> Continued in #2/5... apk
"Virus scanners/Adblock software don't need admin priv to update" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
AV does to remove threats - Adblock addons = VASTLY INFERIOR in abilities + efficiency vs. hosts as I've proven w/ noone proved me wrong to date!
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"your software does" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
No, hosts do due to WFP/SFP!
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"won't reveal your source code" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
I don't owe you it. I don't give away work to be stolen by others so it's misused like GOOGLE CHROME http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
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"What's stopping you from pointing my bank's web site at your private server?" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
I don't keep a server. You're a security guru (not - you create no ware for security & your forensics skills = non-existent): Put it in a VM, trace it using process monitor + wireshark to prove it (don't need code) & I only put in hardcodes of fav sites @ top of hosts for speed & reliabilty - you'd spot it easily & bulk of the file is sorted blocked known bad threat origins.
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"the possibility of being caught, which would be pretty hard to catch w/ such a large hosts file, as no one can go through it manually." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
See just above!
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"What are you going to do when Windows gets rid of the hosts file completely?" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
Hasn't happened!
---
"They have already taken steps to make it useless in Windows 10." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
It still works there!
APK
P.S.=> To be continued in part #3/5... apk
Start project and build good size EMP device, make sure that it has a good output..
"I guess we should avoid your crap, it looks like it is marked as malware. Good luck getting that removed." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Monday November 02, 2015 @03:52PM (#50850445)
62 sources of good repute show + /. users say otherwise:
Proven safe by 57 antivirus programs in its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
Same for the 32-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
&
Per VirScan its installer too -> http://f.virscan.org/APKHostsF...
---
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news... /.'ers say my work is good too:
"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant (4179011) on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:34PM (#50287195)
"I like your host file system." - by Karmashock (2415832) on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:57PM (#50489401)
"APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works." - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015 @11:30AM (#50736071)
"his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources" by alexgieg (948359) on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:57AM (#50596461)
---
You tried using Computer Associates another antivirus I turned over on false positives (1/8 over time) & they were caught in ACCOUNTING SCANDALS FRAUD http://www.bing.com/search?q=c...
Reputable source (not): They had to sell off their PC security suite too (crap fraud also) LOWERING the 'threat level' on THAT program (not my hosts file engine) TO ZERO!
* YOU ARE WRONG ON EVERY ACCOUNT NOTED!
APK
P.S.=> To be continued in part #4/5... apk
"nowhere in there did you actually say what you are using that isn't a proxy/VPN" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Thursday November 12, 2015 @02:25PM (#50916751)
I don't use proxies/VPN (or anonymous relays).
"APK ... uses anonymous relays to get around the limits of posting anonymous" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
I'm not stupid enough to do what YOU want (make me as stupid as an easily tracked for retrolling sheep like you).
There's 3-4 ways to do what I do & those? Aren't them in your mistake accusations.
What I do, like all I do = FAST + EFFICIENT, NO extra "moving parts" - less IS more = GOOD engineering, using what you have natively vs. "Bolting on 'MoAr'" stupidly & illogically.
You're MCSE, networking admin 'god', & security guru (not) - figure it out, I gave clues - I'm NOT going to tell you!
All you know is I do it WHEN combatting little scumbags like you that hide behind fake names online trolling me.
It works, like all I do does with testimonials to that effect no less.
"it's funny how little you know of security APK" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Thursday November 12, 2015 @02:25PM (#50916751)
Funny how little you know in computing (no code, especially for security - I have it. You don't)
(& you're stumped on an anti-troll technique I use too!)
I've long ago done far more than you will or have in the art & science of computing! For security?
CIS Tool took fixes from me http://slashdot.org/comments.p... which you doubted & my layered security guides got me paid http://pcpitstop.com/news/winn... & MILLIONS use it.
APK
P.S.=> To be continued in part #5/5... apk
"but rather than take my advise on various things, he feels that he is allowed to defame me by saying things he knows are not true - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
Hypocrite, I show you're projecting in my posts. What "advice" can you, an INFERIOR to me, like yourself give?
"I have offered him advise on ways to improve what he does to reduce the feeling of icky his software - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
I've shown /.'er saying differently - Show us you've done better: YOU can't - & you're "advising"? Talking out your ass on things you haven't done is what you're doing.
"posting them so often that maybe, just maybe, someone will think they are true - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
Quotes of you are true! You can't keep your word as you're replying to me yet again + projecting what I prove YOU do (AD/DNS lie).
"I don't have time for the Troll APK, and refuse to respond anymore to a post signed APK" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @04:27PM (#50858983)
No troll. I protect users for free w/ a program that speeds them up, helps reliability, & even anonymity online w/ more abilities & efficiency than ANY other 1 solution doing more w/ less - do you? No.
"Maybe I should change my signature again just to rile him up some more." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @10:07AM (#50855451) FROM http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
"Rile" me? Childish sig bs is all you've got!
"I have repeatedly refuted his assertions - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
BS - See my last 4 posts here!
APK
P.S.=>
"I never admitted you were right" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
You PROVE I AM FOR ME part #1-#5 of your "Greatest Hits Fails"... apk
+1 funny xkcd ref
Nothing posted to
"nowhere in there did you actually say what you are using that isn't a proxy/VPN" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Thursday November 12, 2015 @02:25PM (#50916751)
I don't use proxies/VPN (or anonymous relays).
"APK ... uses anonymous relays to get around the limits of posting anonymous" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
I'm not stupid enough to do what YOU want (make me as stupid as an easily tracked for retrolling sheep like you).
There's 3-4 ways to do what I do & those? Aren't them in your mistake accusations.
What I do, like all I do = FAST + EFFICIENT, NO extra "moving parts" - less IS more = GOOD engineering, using what you have natively vs. "Bolting on 'MoAr'" stupidly & illogically.
You're MCSE, networking admin 'god', & security guru (not) - figure it out, I gave clues - I'm NOT going to tell you!
All you know is I do it WHEN combatting little scumbags like you that hide behind fake names online trolling me.
It works, like all I do does with testimonials to that effect no less.
"it's funny how little you know of security APK" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Thursday November 12, 2015 @02:25PM (#50916751)
Funny how little you know in computing (no code, especially for security - I have it. You don't)
(& you're stumped on an anti-troll technique I use too!)
I've long ago done far more than you will or have in the art & science of computing! For security?
CIS Tool took fixes from me http://slashdot.org/comments.p... which you doubted & my layered security guides got me paid http://pcpitstop.com/news/winn... & MILLIONS use it.
APK
P.S.=> To be continued in part #5/5... apk
"but rather than take my advise on various things, he feels that he is allowed to defame me by saying things he knows are not true - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
Hypocrite, I show you're projecting in my posts. What "advice" can you, an INFERIOR to me, like yourself give?
"I have offered him advise on ways to improve what he does to reduce the feeling of icky his software - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
I've shown /.'er saying differently - Show us you've done better: YOU can't - & you're "advising"? Talking out your ass on things you haven't done is what you're doing.
"posting them so often that maybe, just maybe, someone will think they are true - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
Quotes of you are true! You can't keep your word as you're replying to me yet again + projecting what I prove YOU do (AD/DNS lie).
"I don't have time for the Troll APK, and refuse to respond anymore to a post signed APK" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @04:27PM (#50858983)
No troll. I protect users for free w/ a program that speeds them up, helps reliability, & even anonymity online w/ more abilities & efficiency than ANY other 1 solution doing more w/ less - do you? No.
"Maybe I should change my signature again just to rile him up some more." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @10:07AM (#50855451) FROM http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
"Rile" me? Childish sig bs is all you've got!
"I have repeatedly refuted his assertions - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
BS - See my last 4 posts here!
APK
P.S.=>
"I never admitted you were right" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
You PROVE I AM FOR ME part #1-#5 of your "Greatest Hits Fails"... apk
"Apk doesn't think DNS servers are worth running & believes Microsoft Active Directory can run w/out DNS." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015
Where'd I say it? I say AD needs internal DNS far back as 2007 http://forums.tweaktown.com/wi...
See "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers" there on OpenDNS free (I use it) + AD in my security guide.
+ Migrate hosts across a LAN (admin/scripts not GPO)-> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
---
I'm RIGHT on admin priv + hosts update (WFP/SFP)!
"figured out why privilege escalation's a bad thing?" - by Coren22 on Tuesday September 22, 2015
How else can I programmatically update it?
---
"it requires elevation to write hosts" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday September 23, 2015
Hypocrite later admits it!
Even MalwareBytes AntiMalware (best one) DEMANDS it or it can't do its job fully like many security tools!
Guess what?
Don't NEED to run my program as ADMIN - I do it here manually vs. auto.
---
"Needing admin privileges every time a program updates is poor design" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
Users set it, not programmatic impersonation for autoupdate. You design zero & say what's what here?
---
"90's technology to fight modern war" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
Ozymandias/Watchmen per a namesake:
"I resolved to use antiquities teachings" (hosts) "to our world today & began my path to conquest - Conquest not of men but of the evils that beset them: Fossil Fuels (antispyware), Oil (antivir), Nuclear Power (addons) are like a drug & you gentlemen along w/ foreign interests are the pushers"
It works Aryeh Goretsky NOD32/ESET said hosts = good security-> http://it.slashdot.org/comment...
Oliver Day (Symantec) too-> http://www.securityfocus.com/c...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts' Admin hosts+recommends APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit-> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl...
APK
P.S.=> Continued in #2/5... apk
"Virus scanners/Adblock software don't need admin priv to update" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
AV does to remove threats - Adblock addons = VASTLY INFERIOR in abilities + efficiency vs. hosts as I've proven w/ noone proved me wrong to date!
---
"your software does" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
No, hosts do due to WFP/SFP!
---
"won't reveal your source code" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
I don't owe you it. I don't give away work to be stolen by others so it's misused like GOOGLE CHROME http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
---
"What's stopping you from pointing my bank's web site at your private server?" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
I don't keep a server. You're a security guru (not - you create no ware for security & your forensics skills = non-existent): Put it in a VM, trace it using process monitor + wireshark to prove it (don't need code) & I only put in hardcodes of fav sites @ top of hosts for speed & reliabilty - you'd spot it easily & bulk of the file is sorted blocked known bad threat origins.
---
"the possibility of being caught, which would be pretty hard to catch w/ such a large hosts file, as no one can go through it manually." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
See just above!
---
"What are you going to do when Windows gets rid of the hosts file completely?" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
Hasn't happened!
---
"They have already taken steps to make it useless in Windows 10." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
It still works there!
APK
P.S.=> To be continued in part #3/5... apk
You're all on a list now. You're welcome.
"I guess we should avoid your crap, it looks like it is marked as malware. Good luck getting that removed." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Monday November 02, 2015 @03:52PM (#50850445)
62 sources of good repute show + /. users say otherwise:
Proven safe by 57 antivirus programs in its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
Same for the 32-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
&
Per VirScan its installer too -> http://f.virscan.org/APKHostsF...
---
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news... /.'ers say my work is good too:
"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant (4179011) on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:34PM (#50287195)
"I like your host file system." - by Karmashock (2415832) on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:57PM (#50489401)
"APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works." - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015 @11:30AM (#50736071)
"his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources" by alexgieg (948359) on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:57AM (#50596461)
---
You tried using Computer Associates another antivirus I turned over on false positives (1/8 over time) & they were caught in ACCOUNTING SCANDALS FRAUD http://www.bing.com/search?q=c...
Reputable source (not): They had to sell off their PC security suite too (crap fraud also) LOWERING the 'threat level' on THAT program (not my hosts file engine) TO ZERO!
* YOU ARE WRONG ON EVERY ACCOUNT NOTED!
APK
P.S.=> To be continued in part #4/5... apk
"nowhere in there did you actually say what you are using that isn't a proxy/VPN" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Thursday November 12, 2015 @02:25PM (#50916751)
I don't use proxies/VPN (or anonymous relays).
"APK ... uses anonymous relays to get around the limits of posting anonymous" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
I'm not stupid enough to do what YOU want (make me as stupid as an easily tracked for retrolling sheep like you).
There's 3-4 ways to do what I do & those? Aren't them in your mistake accusations.
What I do, like all I do = FAST + EFFICIENT, NO extra "moving parts" - less IS more = GOOD engineering, using what you have natively vs. "Bolting on 'MoAr'" stupidly & illogically.
You're MCSE, networking admin 'god', & security guru (not) - figure it out, I gave clues - I'm NOT going to tell you!
All you know is I do it WHEN combatting little scumbags like you that hide behind fake names online trolling me.
It works, like all I do does with testimonials to that effect no less.
"it's funny how little you know of security APK" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Thursday November 12, 2015 @02:25PM (#50916751)
Funny how little you know in computing (no code, especially for security - I have it. You don't)
(& you're stumped on an anti-troll technique I use too!)
I've long ago done far more than you will or have in the art & science of computing! For security?
CIS Tool took fixes from me http://slashdot.org/comments.p... which you doubted & my layered security guides got me paid http://pcpitstop.com/news/winn... & MILLIONS use it.
APK
P.S.=> To be continued in part #5/5... apk
"but rather than take my advise on various things, he feels that he is allowed to defame me by saying things he knows are not true - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
Hypocrite, I show you're projecting in my posts. What "advice" can you, an INFERIOR to me, like yourself give?
"I have offered him advise on ways to improve what he does to reduce the feeling of icky his software - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
I've shown /.'er saying differently - Show us you've done better: YOU can't - & you're "advising"? Talking out your ass on things you haven't done is what you're doing.
"posting them so often that maybe, just maybe, someone will think they are true - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
Quotes of you are true! You can't keep your word as you're replying to me yet again + projecting what I prove YOU do (AD/DNS lie).
"I don't have time for the Troll APK, and refuse to respond anymore to a post signed APK" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @04:27PM (#50858983)
No troll. I protect users for free w/ a program that speeds them up, helps reliability, & even anonymity online w/ more abilities & efficiency than ANY other 1 solution doing more w/ less - do you? No.
"Maybe I should change my signature again just to rile him up some more." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @10:07AM (#50855451) FROM http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
"Rile" me? Childish sig bs is all you've got!
"I have repeatedly refuted his assertions - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
BS - See my last 4 posts here!
APK
P.S.=>
"I never admitted you were right" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
You PROVE I AM FOR ME part #1-#5 of your "Greatest Hits Fails"... apk
Don't ask us for help, you terrorist you.
I suppose just ordering a shit-ton of small limit switches and a few mercury switches from Amazon probably didn't exactly help matters...
I worked a few IT contracts for foreign military (our allies though, NOT the Libyans or Russkies). Got a job with a financial-services company who did 14-year background check with the FBI (fingerprints too). The government said, "not just no but HELL NO".
Actually, I'm a patriot. I would NEVER trade my country or my liberty for a million dollars. Not even for a bazillion dollars!!! ;)
No way, Jose'!!!
I have facial hair and was educated in Europe. TSA already thinks I AM 'Alfred Kaboom Kay'duh'.
Just step behind the screen for your pat-down, 'kay?
Given the number of them in Canada, it is hard for any other community to claim the distinction.
"Apk doesn't think DNS servers are worth running & believes Microsoft Active Directory can run w/out DNS." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015
Where'd I say it? I say AD needs internal DNS far back as 2007 http://forums.tweaktown.com/wi...
See "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers" there on OpenDNS free (I use it) + AD in my security guide.
+ Migrate hosts across a LAN (admin/scripts not GPO)-> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
---
I'm RIGHT on admin priv + hosts update (WFP/SFP)!
"figured out why privilege escalation's a bad thing?" - by Coren22 on Tuesday September 22, 2015
How else can I programmatically update it?
---
"it requires elevation to write hosts" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday September 23, 2015
Hypocrite later admits it!
Even MalwareBytes AntiMalware (best one) DEMANDS it or it can't do its job fully like many security tools!
Guess what?
Don't NEED to run my program as ADMIN - I do it here manually vs. auto.
---
"Needing admin privileges every time a program updates is poor design" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
Users set it, not programmatic impersonation for autoupdate. You design zero & say what's what here?
---
"90's technology to fight modern war" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
Ozymandias/Watchmen per a namesake:
"I resolved to use antiquities teachings" (hosts) "to our world today & began my path to conquest - Conquest not of men but of the evils that beset them: Fossil Fuels (antispyware), Oil (antivir), Nuclear Power (addons) are like a drug & you gentlemen along w/ foreign interests are the pushers"
It works Aryeh Goretsky NOD32/ESET said hosts = good security-> http://it.slashdot.org/comment...
Oliver Day (Symantec) too-> http://www.securityfocus.com/c...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts' Admin hosts+recommends APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit-> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl...
APK
P.S.=> Continued in #2/4... apk
"Virus scanners/Adblock software don't need admin priv to update" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
AV does to remove threats - Adblock addons = VASTLY INFERIOR in abilities + efficiency vs. hosts as I've proven w/ noone proved me wrong to date!
---
"your software does" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
No, hosts do due to WFP/SFP!
---
"won't reveal your source code" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
I don't owe you it. I don't give away work to be stolen by others so it's misused like GOOGLE CHROME http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
---
"What's stopping you from pointing my bank's web site at your private server?" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
I don't keep a server. You're a security guru (not - you create no ware for security & your forensics skills = non-existent): Put it in a VM, trace it using process monitor + wireshark to prove it (don't need code) & I only put in hardcodes of fav sites @ top of hosts for speed & reliabilty - you'd spot it easily & bulk of the file is sorted blocked known bad threat origins.
---
"the possibility of being caught, which would be pretty hard to catch w/ such a large hosts file, as no one can go through it manually." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
See just above!
---
"What are you going to do when Windows gets rid of the hosts file completely?" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
Hasn't happened!
---
"They have already taken steps to make it useless in Windows 10." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
It still works there!
APK
P.S.=> To be continued in part #3/4... apk
"I guess we should avoid your crap, it looks like it is marked as malware. Good luck getting that removed." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Monday November 02, 2015 @03:52PM (#50850445)
62 sources of good repute show + /. users say otherwise:
Proven safe by 57 antivirus programs in its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
Same for the 32-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
&
Per VirScan its installer too -> http://f.virscan.org/APKHostsF...
---
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news... /.'ers say my work is good too:
"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant (4179011) on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:34PM (#50287195)
"I like your host file system." - by Karmashock (2415832) on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:57PM (#50489401)
"APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works." - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015 @11:30AM (#50736071)
"his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources" by alexgieg (948359) on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:57AM (#50596461)
---
You tried using Computer Associates another antivirus I turned over on false positives (1/8 over time) & they were caught in ACCOUNTING SCANDALS FRAUD http://www.bing.com/search?q=c...
Reputable source (not): They had to sell off their PC security suite too (crap fraud also) LOWERING the 'threat level' on THAT program (not my hosts file engine) TO ZERO!
* YOU ARE WRONG ON EVERY ACCOUNT NOTED!
APK
P.S.=> To be continued in part #4/4... apk
"but rather than take my advise on various things, he feels that he is allowed to defame me by saying things he knows are not true - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
Hypocrite, I show you're projecting in my posts. What "advice" can you, an INFERIOR to me, like yourself give?
"I have offered him advise on ways to improve what he does to reduce the feeling of icky his software - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
I've shown /.'er saying differently - Show us you've done better: YOU can't - & you're "advising"? Talking out your ass on things you haven't done is what you're doing.
"posting them so often that maybe, just maybe, someone will think they are true - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
Quotes of you are true! You can't keep your word as you're replying to me yet again + projecting what I prove YOU do (AD/DNS lie).
"I don't have time for the Troll APK, and refuse to respond anymore to a post signed APK" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @04:27PM (#50858983)
No troll. I protect users for free w/ a program that speeds them up, helps reliability, & even anonymity online w/ more abilities & efficiency than ANY other 1 solution doing more w/ less - do you? No.
"Maybe I should change my signature again just to rile him up some more." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @10:07AM (#50855451) FROM http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
"Rile" me? Childish sig bs is all you've got!
"I have repeatedly refuted his assertions - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
BS - See my last 4 posts here!
APK
P.S.=>
"I never admitted you were right" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
You PROVE I AM FOR ME part #1-#5 of your "Greatest Hits Fails"... apk
I'm the guy who stripped during a TSA screening in 2012 at Portland Airport. I've had no trouble flying since then. Maybe it's because I took action against them them directly. Here's a link to the slashdot story back then: http://idle.slashdot.org/story... Story update, for those who are interested: I was quickly acquitted on the criminal charges of indecent exposure. The judge said, "What else would it be (other than protest)?" to the DA who had no case. The civil case, which the TSA took 2.5 years to decide, continues. I'm appealing their decision that I "interfered with the screening process" to the 9th Circuit Court. I've learned a lot during this process, but that's another story. More info: http://www.nakedamericanhero.c...
-J
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"Apk doesn't think DNS servers are worth running & believes Microsoft Active Directory can run w/out DNS." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015
Where'd I say it? I say AD needs internal DNS far back as 2007 http://forums.tweaktown.com/wi...
See "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers" there on OpenDNS free (I use it) + AD in my security guide.
+ Migrate hosts across a LAN (admin/scripts not GPO)-> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
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I'm RIGHT on admin priv + hosts update (WFP/SFP)!
"figured out why privilege escalation's a bad thing?" - by Coren22 on Tuesday September 22, 2015
How else can I programmatically update it?
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"it requires elevation to write hosts" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday September 23, 2015
Hypocrite later admits it!
Even MalwareBytes AntiMalware (best one) DEMANDS it or it can't do its job fully like many security tools!
Guess what?
Don't NEED to run my program as ADMIN - I do it here manually vs. auto.
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"Needing admin privileges every time a program updates is poor design" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
Users set it, not programmatic impersonation for autoupdate. You design zero & say what's what here?
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"90's technology to fight modern war" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
Ozymandias/Watchmen per a namesake:
"I resolved to apply antiquities teachings" (hosts) "to our world today & began my path to conquest - Conquest not of men but of the evils that beset them: Fossil Fuels (antispyware), Oil (antivir), Nuclear Power (addons) are like a drug & you gentlemen along w/ foreign interests are the pushers"
It works Aryeh Goretsky NOD32/ESET said hosts = good security-> http://it.slashdot.org/comment...
Oliver Day (Symantec) too-> http://www.securityfocus.com/c...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts' Admin hosts+recommends APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit-> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl...
APK
"Virus scanners/Adblock software don't need admin priv to update" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
Stupid, neither does my program. AV does to remove threats - Adblock addons = VASTLY INFERIOR in abilities + efficiency vs. hosts as I've proven w/ noone proved me wrong to date!
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"your software does" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
No, hosts do due to WFP/SFP!
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"won't reveal your source code" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
I don't owe you it. I don't give away work to be stolen by others so it's misused like GOOGLE CHROME http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
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"What's stopping you from pointing my bank's web site at your private server?" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
I don't keep a server. You're a security guru (not - you create no ware for security & your forensics skills = non-existent): Put it in a VM, trace it using process monitor + wireshark to prove it (don't need code) & I only put in hardcodes of fav sites @ top of hosts for speed & reliabilty - you'd spot it easily & bulk of the file is sorted blocked known bad threat origins.
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"the possibility of being caught, which would be pretty hard to catch w/ such a large hosts file, as no one can go through it manually." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
See just above!
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"What are you going to do when Windows gets rid of the hosts file completely?" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
Hasn't happened!
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"They have already taken steps to make it useless in Windows 10." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
It still works there!
APK
P.S.=> To be continued in part #3/4... apk
"I guess we should avoid your crap, it looks like it is marked as malware. Good luck getting that removed." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Monday November 02, 2015 @03:52PM (#50850445)
62 sources of good repute show + /. users say otherwise:
Proven safe by 57 antivirus programs in its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
Same for the 32-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
&
Per VirScan its installer too -> http://f.virscan.org/APKHostsF...
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MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news... /.'ers say my work is good too:
"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant (4179011) on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:34PM (#50287195)
"I like your host file system." - by Karmashock (2415832) on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:57PM (#50489401)
"APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works." - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015 @11:30AM (#50736071)
"his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources" by alexgieg (948359) on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:57AM (#50596461)
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You tried using Computer Associates another antivirus I turned over on false positives (1/8 over time) & they were caught in ACCOUNTING SCANDALS FRAUD http://www.bing.com/search?q=c...
Reputable source (not): They had to sell off their PC security suite too (crap fraud also) LOWERING the 'threat level' on THAT program (not my hosts file engine) TO ZERO!
* YOU ARE WRONG ON EVERY ACCOUNT NOTED!
APK
P.S.=> To be continued in part #4/4... apk
"but rather than take my advise on various things, he feels that he is allowed to defame me by saying things he knows are not true - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
Hypocrite, I show you're projecting in my posts. What "advice" can you, an INFERIOR to me, like yourself give?
"I have offered him advise on ways to improve what he does to reduce the feeling of icky his software - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
I've shown /.'er saying differently - Show us you've done better: YOU can't - & you're "advising"? Talking out your ass on things you haven't done is what you're doing.
"posting them so often that maybe, just maybe, someone will think they are true - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
Quotes of you are true! You can't keep your word as you're replying to me yet again + projecting what I prove YOU do (AD/DNS lie).
"I don't have time for the Troll APK, and refuse to respond anymore to a post signed APK" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @04:27PM (#50858983)
No troll. I protect users for free w/ a program that speeds them up, helps reliability, & even anonymity online w/ more abilities & efficiency than ANY other 1 solution doing more w/ less - do you? No.
"Maybe I should change my signature again just to rile him up some more." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @10:07AM (#50855451) FROM http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
"Rile" me? Childish sig bs is all you've got!
"I have repeatedly refuted his assertions - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
BS - See my last 4 posts here!
APK
P.S.=>
"I never admitted you were right" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
You PROVE I AM FOR ME part #1-#4 of your "Greatest Hits Fails"... apk
"Apk doesn't think DNS servers are worth running & believes Microsoft Active Directory can run w/out DNS." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015
Where'd I say it? I say AD needs internal DNS far back as 2007 http://forums.tweaktown.com/wi...
See "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers" there on OpenDNS free (I use it) + AD in my security guide.
+ Migrate hosts across a LAN (admin/scripts not GPO)-> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
---
I'm RIGHT on admin priv + hosts (WFP/SFP)!
"figured out why privilege escalation's a bad thing?" - by Coren22 on Tuesday September 22, 2015
How else can I programmatically update it?
---
"it requires elevation to write hosts" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday September 23, 2015
Hypocrite later admits it!
Even MalwareBytes AntiMalware (best one) DEMANDS it or it can't do its job fully like many security tools!
Guess what?
Don't NEED to run my program as ADMIN - I do it here manually vs. auto.
---
"Needing admin privileges every time a program updates is poor design" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
Users set it, not programmatic impersonation for autoupdate. You design zero & say what's what here?
---
"90's technology to fight modern war" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
Ozymandias/Watchmen per a namesake:
"I resolved to apply antiquities teachings" (hosts) "to our world today & began my path to conquest - Conquest not of men but of the evils that beset them: Fossil Fuels (antispyware), Oil (antivir), Nuclear Power (addons) are like a drug & you gentlemen along w/ foreign interests are the pushers"
It works Aryeh Goretsky NOD32/ESET said hosts = good security-> http://it.slashdot.org/comment...
Oliver Day (Symantec) too-> http://www.securityfocus.com/c...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts' Admin hosts+recommends APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit-> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl...
APK
P.S.=> Continued in #2/4... apk
"Virus scanners/Adblock software don't need admin priv to update" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
Stupid, neither does my program. AV does to remove threats - Adblock addons = VASTLY INFERIOR in abilities + efficiency vs. hosts as I've proven & no one proved me wrong to date!
---
"your software does" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
No, hosts do due to WFP/SFP!
---
"won't reveal your source code" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
I don't owe you it. I don't give away work to be stolen by others so it's misused like GOOGLE CHROME http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
---
"What's stopping you from pointing my bank's web site at your private server?" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
I don't keep a server. You're a security guru (not - you create no ware for security & your forensics skills = non-existent): Put it in a VM, trace it using process monitor + wireshark to prove it (don't need code) & I only put in hardcodes of fav sites @ top of hosts for speed & reliabilty - you'd spot it easily & bulk of the file is sorted blocked known bad threat origins.
---
"the possibility of being caught, which would be pretty hard to catch w/ such a large hosts file, as no one can go through it manually." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
See just above!
---
"What are you going to do when Windows gets rid of the hosts file completely?" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
Hasn't happened!
---
"They have already taken steps to make it useless in Windows 10." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
It still works there - who are you trying to fool other than yourself?
APK
P.S.=> To be continued in part #3/4... apk
"I guess we should avoid your crap, it looks like it is marked as malware. Good luck getting that removed." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Monday November 02, 2015 @03:52PM (#50850445)
62 sources of good repute show + /. users say otherwise:
Proven safe by 57 antivirus programs in its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
Same for the 32-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
&
Per VirScan its installer too -> http://f.virscan.org/APKHostsF...
---
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news... /.'ers say my work is good too:
"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant (4179011) on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:34PM (#50287195)
"I like your host file system." - by Karmashock (2415832) on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:57PM (#50489401)
"APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works." - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015 @11:30AM (#50736071)
"his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources" by alexgieg (948359) on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:57AM (#50596461)
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You tried using Computer Associates another antivirus I turned over on false positives (1/8 over time) & they were caught in ACCOUNTING SCANDALS FRAUD http://www.bing.com/search?q=c...
Reputable source (not): They had to sell off their PC security suite too (crap also) LOWERING the 'threat level' on THAT program (not my hosts file engine) TO ZERO!
* YOU ARE WRONG ON EVERY ACCOUNT NOTED!
APK
P.S.=> To be continued in part #4/4... apk
"but rather than take my advise on various things, he feels that he is allowed to defame me by saying things he knows are not true - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
Hypocrite, I show you're projecting in my posts & your signatures about me does the rest. What "advice" can you, an INFERIOR to me, like yourself give?
"I have offered him advise on ways to improve what he does to reduce the feeling of icky his software - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
I've shown /.'ers say differently by their quoted testimonials - Show us you've done better: YOU can't - & you're "advising"? Talking out your ass on things you haven't done is what you're doing.
"posting them so often that maybe, just maybe, someone will think they are true - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
Quotes of you are true! You can't keep your word as you're replying to me yet again + projecting what I prove YOU do (AD/DNS lie).
"I don't have time for the Troll APK, and refuse to respond anymore to a post signed APK" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @04:27PM (#50858983)
No troll. I protect users for free w/ a program that speeds them up, helps reliability, & even anonymity online w/ more abilities & efficiency than ANY other 1 solution doing more w/ less - do you? No.
"Maybe I should change my signature again just to rile him up some more." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @10:07AM (#50855451) FROM http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
"Rile" me? Childish sig bs is all you've got!
"I have repeatedly refuted his assertions - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
BS - See my last 4 posts here!
APK
P.S.=>
"I never admitted you were right" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
You PROVE I AM FOR ME part #1-#4 of your "Greatest Hits Fails"... apk