Completely agree and I wish that I had mod points. It's one thing to go grab a bite with a couple of co-workers once in a while but a completely different thing to sit you down on a big table with some food in front of you.
The first situation is lunch-time, the second one is feeding time.
Probably everything, even from the sectors that had the holes (assuming no significant demagnetisation due to friction). Electron microscopy and other techniques can go a loooong way.
Why would they? They're the British BBC, Paracetamol is far more common in the UK than any other over the counter analgesic; do you think they care about an American (I'm guessing) Slashdoter's inferiority complex?
(I realise I didn't contribute anything pertinent to the discussion but I couldn't help myself.)
Isn't it obvious? Because the impact of hacking a server containing data from thousands of users is FAR greater than hacking a single desktop.
That's why the parent is right.
I'm confused...you're saying it's OK to put a spa in the middle of a closed loop water cooling system which is vital to an NSA datacenter? o.O
How 'bout you plug all the servers in a hub and then pull an Ethernet cable for the spa visitors to have some Top Secret data to read while they're relaxing?
...I use an SSH tunnel now and then just to circumvent certain limits of a certain video delivery service but other than that I don't care.
I also keep most of my pictures on Facebook where I have only 6-7 friends (my *real* and closest friends); so Facebook wants to track me and has access to a few pictures of me on vacation or a couple of videos of me jamming with my friends, so what...
All the other people that were on the same vacation spot probably have my face in the background of their photos as well.
My on-line handle is also closely linked to my real identity and anyone can find my work experience on LinkedIn.
Of course I protect the things that matter, my private keys, passwords, banking data etc...
Yeah...'cuz the bobbies won't put together the fact that the window of the geekiest resident of the building is head-on facing the camera that happened to be blinded by pew-pew laz0rz and LED clusters. C'mon...
Good one mate! That's what I call British humour!
PS. I live in the UK too and I have to keep my blinds shut due to the traffic camera firmly pointed towards my bedroom window.
... and look at this as a layman.
OK, they chose a closed/custom CMS in hopes of security through obscurity, fair enough.
Ok, the guy thought he was talking to the boss and gave away the credentials, fair enough.
But how the HELL did they thought that such weak passwords, an out-of-date system and no SSH keys were fine?
Granted that all of their mistakes look unforgivable to me since I'm in the business but I simply can't wrap my head around the ones I mentioned.
Strong passwords aren't an inconvenience, damn let your browser remember them; why not keep an updated a system in the first place? And passwordless SSH logins are more secure and more convinient.
And an SQL injection? Even an automated scan would have found that! (No offence to scanner developers, I'm one myself)
This is amateurish to say the least....
+1 for Carmageddon and its slow motion replay and zoom-in, enabling you to see close-up the head you just ran over.
But that stuff were so pixelated you couldn't tell the car wheel from the body, a high-def remake would be scary though...
What the hell are you talking about? To many people computers are gaming and masturbatory aids, to all the people here they are not.
To you cars may be just a means of transportation, to people who can appreciate a good car and what went into building it they are not -- at least not just.
...so long as you can turn them off when you get to a track.
As a geek I like my car to be...geeky but I also want it to give me a facelift when I stomp on the gas; the Nissan GTR and Audi R8 come to mind (personal favourites).
My point is that for those of us who can actually handle a car and know when it is OK -- and legal -- to cross the line we should be allowed to do so.
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Look at the image, they are tracking your wifi access points: http://crowdflow.net/blog/2011/04/28/wifi-stations-in-berlin/
So the ones that don't require any sort of feel-good small talk, social validation or an ego boost are the pathetic/sad ones? Ooook then...
Completely agree and I wish that I had mod points. It's one thing to go grab a bite with a couple of co-workers once in a while but a completely different thing to sit you down on a big table with some food in front of you.
The first situation is lunch-time, the second one is feeding time.
XOR your data with entropy from /dev/urandom before uploading them.
Easy peasy...
(I was actually kidding but now I'm tempted...this can be the poor man's one-time-pad.)
Probably everything, even from the sectors that had the holes (assuming no significant demagnetisation due to friction). Electron microscopy and other techniques can go a loooong way.
I'm not an expert btw.
Why would they? They're the British BBC, Paracetamol is far more common in the UK than any other over the counter analgesic; do you think they care about an American (I'm guessing) Slashdoter's inferiority complex?
(I realise I didn't contribute anything pertinent to the discussion but I couldn't help myself.)
Scratch that, I missed the last item in the announcement -- my bad.
... a few people just couldn't figure out how to perform certain actions.
Here's the actual announcement: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2011-April/032988.html
Isn't it obvious? Because the impact of hacking a server containing data from thousands of users is FAR greater than hacking a single desktop.
That's why the parent is right.
Man messing about with a cellphone is all a 16y.o. could do in that situation. Hell it's what I would have done considering the party's participants .
http://community.websense.com/blogs/securitylabs/archive/2011/03/31/update-on-lizamoon-mass-injection.aspx
Actually... my home-town's phone code back in Greece was, at the time, 555. It really threw me off when I was young...
I'm confused...you're saying it's OK to put a spa in the middle of a closed loop water cooling system which is vital to an NSA datacenter? o.O
How 'bout you plug all the servers in a hub and then pull an Ethernet cable for the spa visitors to have some Top Secret data to read while they're relaxing?
...I use an SSH tunnel now and then just to circumvent certain limits of a certain video delivery service but other than that I don't care.
I also keep most of my pictures on Facebook where I have only 6-7 friends (my *real* and closest friends); so Facebook wants to track me and has access to a few pictures of me on vacation or a couple of videos of me jamming with my friends, so what...
All the other people that were on the same vacation spot probably have my face in the background of their photos as well.
My on-line handle is also closely linked to my real identity and anyone can find my work experience on LinkedIn.
Of course I protect the things that matter, my private keys, passwords, banking data etc...
Like a Trollgatory...or Purgatrolly...or...I'm out.
You know...the guys in Crete can help with that too... (This joke would kill in Greece)
Yeah...'cuz the bobbies won't put together the fact that the window of the geekiest resident of the building is head-on facing the camera that happened to be blinded by pew-pew laz0rz and LED clusters. C'mon...
Because when I climb 5 meter tall poles with wire-cutters in my teeth people tend to freak out.
Good one mate! That's what I call British humour!
PS. I live in the UK too and I have to keep my blinds shut due to the traffic camera firmly pointed towards my bedroom window.
... and look at this as a layman.
OK, they chose a closed/custom CMS in hopes of security through obscurity, fair enough.
Ok, the guy thought he was talking to the boss and gave away the credentials, fair enough.
But how the HELL did they thought that such weak passwords, an out-of-date system and no SSH keys were fine?
Granted that all of their mistakes look unforgivable to me since I'm in the business but I simply can't wrap my head around the ones I mentioned.
Strong passwords aren't an inconvenience, damn let your browser remember them; why not keep an updated a system in the first place? And passwordless SSH logins are more secure and more convinient.
And an SQL injection? Even an automated scan would have found that! (No offence to scanner developers, I'm one myself)
This is amateurish to say the least....
...the 7 years younger me wants to scream kamehameha!
+1 for Carmageddon and its slow motion replay and zoom-in, enabling you to see close-up the head you just ran over.
But that stuff were so pixelated you couldn't tell the car wheel from the body, a high-def remake would be scary though...
An 'app' is an application, Mac is a PC, Windows is a PC, Linux is a PC. Enough with this malarkey.
What the hell are you talking about? To many people computers are gaming and masturbatory aids, to all the people here they are not.
To you cars may be just a means of transportation, to people who can appreciate a good car and what went into building it they are not -- at least not just.
...so long as you can turn them off when you get to a track.
As a geek I like my car to be...geeky but I also want it to give me a facelift when I stomp on the gas; the Nissan GTR and Audi R8 come to mind (personal favourites).
My point is that for those of us who can actually handle a car and know when it is OK -- and legal -- to cross the line we should be allowed to do so.