Personally, I think a heck of a lot more vulnerabilities like this could be found and/or located if there were a decent, free (as in beer) disassembler out there. You would think that the industry giants would be more than willing to donate funds to such a project, yet I have yet to see anything such as this out there. Now, some of you might say, "Well, just jump on the IDA Pro bandwagon." My answer: "Easier said than done." The IDA folks _require_ you to be associated with a business when purchasing the program, where they can track your every move, mainly because they are paranoid that the might "accidentally" sell their software to a software cracker. The funny thing about this is that most crackers wouldn't even bother purchasing the program and just bittorrent the thing to begin with for free.
Anywho, my solution is this: start an open-source-disassembler project, which will hopefully attract industry donations, and then offer users of the software incentives for locating vulnerabilities, such as cash rewards (based on severity), free commercial software/hardware, etc., and maybe we might just be instrumental in creating more security experts in the not-too-distant future.
As soon as the severity of the nerfs sets in, I'm predicting that millions are going to quit,
and Ghostcrawler is FINALLY going to get canned! The dude might understand character balance
somewhat (READ: NOT MUCH), but he sure in the hell doesn't understand human nature. Asking
people to drag race with a vette, telling them "that car's too fast, so use this one," and
then sticking everyone in 1300cc Volkswagen's with single-barrel carbs isn't going to sit
well with most. Guess it's time to purchase some Warhammer stock or something.
As far as the teleco companies are concerned, you can be assured that the only thing
they really give a shit about is network throughput, overall availability, and
efficient use of their bandwidth. At this moment in time, the transfer of large-scale
video (Read: HD-DVD and the like) is really ripping into their bandwidth. Also, with
broadband communications starting to open up even more, their once seemlessly talking
network is starting to stutter, and they realize that the only way to get the gal
talking right again is by increasing her bandwidith -- and you don't need me to tell
you how expensive that endeavor is going to be!
On top of all of this, the vast majority of the telcos' bandwidth is being used for illegal
transfer of copyrighted materials. Thus, they are more than willing to throttle specific
P2P traffic, especially when they are well aware that 99% of the files being transfered
are copyrighted material.
By doing this, the telco's do a few things that make a lot of people happy:
1) They increase the their overall throughput, making the other non-P2P users
much happier, even though the vast majority don't realize that their connections
are much smoother and faster because of this situation.
2) They make the copyright holders' a bit happier (pun intended:^)),
knowing that the major tool being used for piracy is being throttled. Time
to market is everything to thier industries.
In closing, all I can really say and expect to be somewhat heard is this:
if bittorent continues to dominate in network traffic un-throttled, you can
take it to the bank that the government is really going to step in
and lay down the law, forcing the ISP's to monitor and report all
illegal traffic to local and international authorities. As a matter of fact,
I think it's down-right frickin' stupid that most of you people aren't
throttling your own connections yourselves, trying to make sure that you
fly in under the radar before this situation elevates. Lack of foresight
and frickin' dumb.
They've always known about global warming, but they chose to look the other
way for one very, very important reason: GREED. They're ringing out
hydrocarbons for every last drop the can provide, collecting as much revenue as
possible before the eventual collapse of the industry. To put it another way,
this has all been thought out and calculated for many years, and they're just
hoping that we, "The Sheeple of the USA," don't figure out what they're doing
too quickly.
Anyway, they've totally realized for many, many years that oil is on its last leg.
The main problem, be it a liberal or conservative government, is: "How in the hell
are we going to ramp down oil and ramp up the alternatives without putting millions
upon millions of people out of work?" Remember, hydrocarbons aren't all that easy
to come by, and numerous amounts of folks are needed for gathering and processing the
stuff -- world wide!
BTW, the White House will soon be pointing the nasty-emissions finger
at China and India. Both are coming on-line are ramping up emissions quickly.
Looks like, overall, we "will be living in interesting times," unfortunately!
What the oil biz doesn't want you to know, or, put another way,
what they aren't going to come out and tell you...
The somewhat-complicated act of drilling for oil and gas produces tremendous amounts of CO2. Read: vast pockets of CO2 are
also trapped in various strata, and oil companies are drilling into
these pockets and releasing staggering amounts of C02 into the air
on a daily basis. I've actually watched gas-detection meters "peg out"
while a well was being drilled, with the main culprit being CO2.
(For the initiated, it was a Continental Labs detector.)
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They need a gimmick. Personally, if I was running things, I'd hand out a free android phone every hour as a door prize till things get rolling.
Personally, I think a heck of a lot more vulnerabilities like this could be found and/or located if there were a decent, free (as in beer) disassembler out there. You would think that the industry giants would be more than willing to donate funds to such a project, yet I have yet to see anything such as this out there. Now, some of you might say, "Well, just jump on the IDA Pro bandwagon." My answer: "Easier said than done." The IDA folks _require_ you to be associated with a business when purchasing the program, where they can track your every move, mainly because they are paranoid that the might "accidentally" sell their software to a software cracker. The funny thing about this is that most crackers wouldn't even bother purchasing the program and just bittorrent the thing to begin with for free. Anywho, my solution is this: start an open-source-disassembler project, which will hopefully attract industry donations, and then offer users of the software incentives for locating vulnerabilities, such as cash rewards (based on severity), free commercial software/hardware, etc., and maybe we might just be instrumental in creating more security experts in the not-too-distant future.
As soon as the severity of the nerfs sets in, I'm predicting that millions are going to quit, and Ghostcrawler is FINALLY going to get canned! The dude might understand character balance somewhat (READ: NOT MUCH), but he sure in the hell doesn't understand human nature. Asking people to drag race with a vette, telling them "that car's too fast, so use this one," and then sticking everyone in 1300cc Volkswagen's with single-barrel carbs isn't going to sit well with most. Guess it's time to purchase some Warhammer stock or something.
As far as the teleco companies are concerned, you can be assured that the only thing they really give a shit about is network throughput, overall availability, and efficient use of their bandwidth. At this moment in time, the transfer of large-scale video (Read: HD-DVD and the like) is really ripping into their bandwidth. Also, with broadband communications starting to open up even more, their once seemlessly talking network is starting to stutter, and they realize that the only way to get the gal talking right again is by increasing her bandwidith -- and you don't need me to tell you how expensive that endeavor is going to be! On top of all of this, the vast majority of the telcos' bandwidth is being used for illegal transfer of copyrighted materials. Thus, they are more than willing to throttle specific P2P traffic, especially when they are well aware that 99% of the files being transfered are copyrighted material. By doing this, the telco's do a few things that make a lot of people happy: 1) They increase the their overall throughput, making the other non-P2P users much happier, even though the vast majority don't realize that their connections are much smoother and faster because of this situation. 2) They make the copyright holders' a bit happier (pun intended :^)),
knowing that the major tool being used for piracy is being throttled. Time
to market is everything to thier industries.
In closing, all I can really say and expect to be somewhat heard is this:
if bittorent continues to dominate in network traffic un-throttled, you can
take it to the bank that the government is really going to step in
and lay down the law, forcing the ISP's to monitor and report all
illegal traffic to local and international authorities. As a matter of fact,
I think it's down-right frickin' stupid that most of you people aren't
throttling your own connections yourselves, trying to make sure that you
fly in under the radar before this situation elevates. Lack of foresight
and frickin' dumb.
They've always known about global warming, but they chose to look the other
way for one very, very important reason: GREED. They're ringing out
hydrocarbons for every last drop the can provide, collecting as much revenue as
possible before the eventual collapse of the industry. To put it another way,
this has all been thought out and calculated for many years, and they're just
hoping that we, "The Sheeple of the USA," don't figure out what they're doing
too quickly.
Anyway, they've totally realized for many, many years that oil is on its last leg.
The main problem, be it a liberal or conservative government, is: "How in the hell
are we going to ramp down oil and ramp up the alternatives without putting millions
upon millions of people out of work?" Remember, hydrocarbons aren't all that easy
to come by, and numerous amounts of folks are needed for gathering and processing the
stuff -- world wide!
BTW, the White House will soon be pointing the nasty-emissions finger
at China and India. Both are coming on-line are ramping up emissions quickly.
Looks like, overall, we "will be living in interesting times," unfortunately!
What the oil biz doesn't want you to know, or, put another way,
what they aren't going to come out and tell you...
The somewhat-complicated act of drilling for oil and gas produces
tremendous amounts of CO2. Read: vast pockets of CO2 are
also trapped in various strata, and oil companies are drilling into
these pockets and releasing staggering amounts of C02 into the air
on a daily basis. I've actually watched gas-detection meters "peg out"
while a well was being drilled, with the main culprit being CO2.
(For the initiated, it was a Continental Labs detector.)