Im 17.5 Years old. Ive been told by multiple people that I should sue for discrimination, because it is fairly obvious they they fired me because they fault threatened by my knowledge at this young age. I have neglected too for multiple reasons. One being I dont want to get a reputation for sueing my employer, that doesnt help when trying to get a new job. Two, and the biggest reason, I dont have the money for a lawyer and would not know where to start.
The company has no download policy. There is some sort of unwritten policy I guess, but no terms of usage that we were ever shown when we started working there. Never signed a computer usage agreement, never saw one, and they admitted thier is not one, but it should be assumed that I should know not to download things on my work computer. To make things worse, they have a double standard. They dont mind if you download napster and winamp and play mp3s (I know some peopel tehre with a 20+gig mp3 collection on their work computer), but they do if you download other things. The director of business sales (who I worked undeR) told me they look the other way for music and mp3s, but what I did they cant look the other way. Because the tools I downloaded could possible be used in a malicious way! (Or so they claim). The thing is, I never installed anything, the security they have in place would not allow me. I downloaded and had a zip file on the HD, but could not install it. I got fired over a zip file on my HD.
No, I didnt sign any sort of NDA. Two, What exactly did I tell you that Egghead hasnt already told us? I didnt say anything very informative, essential that they just have 3-4 databases, unstead of 15. How is that a map to hacking egghead? To be honest, I dont even know how how many databases they have relate at all to get access to the databases. If I would of given you IPs (which I dont have) and logins and passwords (which I dont have) and exact versions of all the softwar eon the DBs (which I also have no clue about) that would be another thing. But all I told the slashdot community was that there are 3-4 databases, and the schedule in which they update (how is that important to keep secret? Alot of companys, like banks, tell you there servers update your accounts at midnight, or whatever). Just shedding some light that no matter what DB the intruder gained access to, they still would of got almost the entire customer DB.
I assume you work at egghead? Or worked at Egghead like I did. Is the ecommetry upgrade complete? They were supposed to have it finished mid september, but we were still using ARC (customer built software by OnSale.com, which Egghead inherited when they merged) mid November.
Thanks. I believe i full disclosure. Id much rather tell the truth about the situation instead of having rumours spread around. Its not like im telling anythig sensistive anyway, i said they have 3 databases instead of 15, no biggy. The CS rep told you there was 15, I told you know more but that number is wrong. And spread some light on the true damage potential. BTW. Im typing this on a dreamcast using a hacked up web browser. You people should check this out. Also, My credit card is in the datbase also, so I feel with the rest of you.
I think 50 dollars a card seams completely unlikely. They would have to all be valid, and have to card alot more than that to make it lucrative. I remember reading that the 100,000 citibank cards that were stolen, were for sale for only like 3 million total. 3.7million cards, of which maybe 50% or less are are still valid (egghead.com's customer databse dates back to around 1997, of which alot of cards have expired) at day, 5 dollars a card (Still seams high) 18.5million. Still alot of money. It would be interesting to know how much these cards really go for.
Thier is not 15 databases. They have Worfin, and Blue which are the main databases. Then thier is Lectroid which ARC (the software the customer service and sales reps use). Worfin is the main database, which is live, and Blue is updated at midnight. Lectroid (and I think one more, I forget its name) are updated in semi real time. So, if they cracked one database, and not another, it really doesnt matter. They have identical content, except that they might be one day behind in content then another database. So best case senario, they hacker got all the data upto the day before, I didnt get any new customer data the day he hacked it. Which is neglible when you think about how many credit cards he stole whole. And Im quite sure they would know which one was stolen, unless the IT people are stupider then they were when I left egghead.
Fine with me. I have nothing to hide, because I didnt do it. But anyway, the ram thing, dude, that was a typo. The company is not legally responsible for a typo and does have the right to cancel the order. It is not false advertising. I may not like Egghead, but they were right to cancel it. Why should they suffer millions of dollars in loss (when they dont have the money, look at the stock price) because of a typo, to make a few customers happy. Thats just silly.
I am a former employee of egghead. I was let go because I downloaded a remote admin tool, so I could connect to my home windows boxen. I also had putty to ssh into my linux boxes. They found those tools to be "hacker tools" so they let me go. The entire IT security team consist of two people. Everret and Ben, they are two 20 something year old punk asses who lack a basic knowledge of computer security. Egghead security consist of daily virus checks of the work stations and a firewall. THATS ALL. Because I am young, they automatically assumed I was a hacker and a risk to security, when I got a job there doing Ecommerce Analyst work at my young age. Young does not equal hacker. I still was never given a reason as to why I was fired, except for that if the media found out I had remote admin tools on my workstations it could be bad publicity for the company. Now this comes along, Im suprised i havent been blaimed for this attempt. Unfortunate, if they would of hired me on as IT security like I wanted to be int he first place, this would of never happened.:P
This is not good. We use that company to process all our credit card orders. Its going to be a complete pain in the ass to go about emailing all our customers and explaining our credit card company has been hacked. As well as bad publicity. So much for repeat customers.
Jeff Knox
This is majorly redundant, but it looks damned awesome. The design is brilliant. I would love to have one of these to lug around. Why cant you just post a link and what not to the new laptop, and instead of investing the post with your bullshit opinion, let us decide what to think of it. Eh? Dont you think that would be a better idea then making the title say it looks like BARF.
He did say those exact words on public television at one point. There is a certain Rage Against The MAchine music video which contains the video clip. Ill look further into it and see if I can point a link to donwload the music video containing the video clip.
Its a great codec, not open sources, but still provides excellent almost DVD quality.However, its not practical for regular use. It takes a good 10-15 hours on a fast machine, like Athlon 650, to do this. And a decent amount of work on your part. Its worth it for movie piraters to spend this time, but for the average person to spend all this effort to put his DVD on CD, I question the value. Just go download the pirated rip of your DVD, its legal cause ya own it, and you save your self the time.
Im sorry, what I said is misleading. Some program that uses DeCSS must be used to decrypt the dvds before you use flask on the files. It is not built into flask. Sorry about the misinformation.
Excuse me, no one traffices in.asf. Well, not no one, thats the comment format for modem users to traffic illegal movies, that or SMR navi stuff. DIVX is the common format for dvd rips, and Mpeg1 (VCD) is the common format for movies still in theatres.
It may be common at your school to do windows filesharing, but FTP is much more common. There is a large use of napster though, but not really to share, to get new stuff. Napster also is probably more prevalent also in people without a large knowledge base about computers, who doesnt know how to setup ftp or filesharing.
I assure you in real life, you can barely tell teh different from the original dvd, a still shot is kinda misleading. It looks 99% the same as the original, your not going to notice if you have a fast machine.
Excuse me, no one traffics in.asf files. Well Modem users do. Anyone with more then a modem uses DIVX for DVD rips, and regular old Mpeg1 (VCD) for movies still in theatres. And no, people in colleges rarely set up Windows File Sharing to trade mp3s, they might at your school, but its not nearly as wide spread as an FTP server.
Disclosure: I am the only remaining founder of the ReactOS (Formally FreeWin95, and WOS) from 1995, and the person who coined the name ReactOS. Take a look at the ReactOS project. www.reactos.com. We have been working on it for the last many years, and are not even close to finished, I believe we are the furthest along (cept for Wine, but thats not a OS project). Maybe we should consolidate the effort of all these others and focus on one projects. Things would get done faster. Currently we only have a few DEDICATED programmers and members of the project. I appreciate them. We always welcome more. http://www.reactos.com
I think some of you are misunderstanding my post. I am not whining. I love Slashdot, and have since before it was Slashdot back when it was Chips and Dip. I have great respect for Rob and the whole Slashdot crew. So when I express my opinions towards a post (which I rarely do, and specifically if I just say I think it would be better of as a quickie) that is not meant to be intended as a 'dis' towards Slashdot. And to respond to a another comment. No. This is not robs Homepage. Cmdrtaco.net is robs homepage. This is a professional news website owned by Va Linux corp.
What does my opinion about whether or not the article is funny, have do to with why I think we as a community have a right to express concerns about a community website. If you wish to address my parent post, please address the appropriate thread.
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Im 17.5 Years old. Ive been told by multiple people that I should sue for discrimination, because it is fairly obvious they they fired me because they fault threatened by my knowledge at this young age. I have neglected too for multiple reasons. One being I dont want to get a reputation for sueing my employer, that doesnt help when trying to get a new job. Two, and the biggest reason, I dont have the money for a lawyer and would not know where to start.
The company has no download policy. There is some sort of unwritten policy I guess, but no terms of usage that we were ever shown when we started working there. Never signed a computer usage agreement, never saw one, and they admitted thier is not one, but it should be assumed that I should know not to download things on my work computer. To make things worse, they have a double standard. They dont mind if you download napster and winamp and play mp3s (I know some peopel tehre with a 20+gig mp3 collection on their work computer), but they do if you download other things. The director of business sales (who I worked undeR) told me they look the other way for music and mp3s, but what I did they cant look the other way. Because the tools I downloaded could possible be used in a malicious way! (Or so they claim). The thing is, I never installed anything, the security they have in place would not allow me. I downloaded and had a zip file on the HD, but could not install it. I got fired over a zip file on my HD.
No, I didnt sign any sort of NDA. Two, What exactly did I tell you that Egghead hasnt already told us? I didnt say anything very informative, essential that they just have 3-4 databases, unstead of 15. How is that a map to hacking egghead? To be honest, I dont even know how how many databases they have relate at all to get access to the databases. If I would of given you IPs (which I dont have) and logins and passwords (which I dont have) and exact versions of all the softwar eon the DBs (which I also have no clue about) that would be another thing. But all I told the slashdot community was that there are 3-4 databases, and the schedule in which they update (how is that important to keep secret? Alot of companys, like banks, tell you there servers update your accounts at midnight, or whatever). Just shedding some light that no matter what DB the intruder gained access to, they still would of got almost the entire customer DB.
I assume you work at egghead? Or worked at Egghead like I did. Is the ecommetry upgrade complete? They were supposed to have it finished mid september, but we were still using ARC (customer built software by OnSale.com, which Egghead inherited when they merged) mid November.
Thanks. I believe i full disclosure. Id much rather tell the truth about the situation instead of having rumours spread around. Its not like im telling anythig sensistive anyway, i said they have 3 databases instead of 15, no biggy. The CS rep told you there was 15, I told you know more but that number is wrong. And spread some light on the true damage potential. BTW. Im typing this on a dreamcast using a hacked up web browser. You people should check this out. Also, My credit card is in the datbase also, so I feel with the rest of you.
I think 50 dollars a card seams completely unlikely. They would have to all be valid, and have to card alot more than that to make it lucrative. I remember reading that the 100,000 citibank cards that were stolen, were for sale for only like 3 million total. 3.7million cards, of which maybe 50% or less are are still valid (egghead.com's customer databse dates back to around 1997, of which alot of cards have expired) at day, 5 dollars a card (Still seams high) 18.5million. Still alot of money. It would be interesting to know how much these cards really go for.
Thier is not 15 databases. They have Worfin, and Blue which are the main databases. Then thier is Lectroid which ARC (the software the customer service and sales reps use). Worfin is the main database, which is live, and Blue is updated at midnight. Lectroid (and I think one more, I forget its name) are updated in semi real time. So, if they cracked one database, and not another, it really doesnt matter. They have identical content, except that they might be one day behind in content then another database. So best case senario, they hacker got all the data upto the day before, I didnt get any new customer data the day he hacked it. Which is neglible when you think about how many credit cards he stole whole. And Im quite sure they would know which one was stolen, unless the IT people are stupider then they were when I left egghead.
Fine with me. I have nothing to hide, because I didnt do it. But anyway, the ram thing, dude, that was a typo. The company is not legally responsible for a typo and does have the right to cancel the order. It is not false advertising. I may not like Egghead, but they were right to cancel it. Why should they suffer millions of dollars in loss (when they dont have the money, look at the stock price) because of a typo, to make a few customers happy. Thats just silly.
Its an Oracle database. I worked there, I know.
I am a former employee of egghead. I was let go because I downloaded a remote admin tool, so I could connect to my home windows boxen. I also had putty to ssh into my linux boxes. They found those tools to be "hacker tools" so they let me go. The entire IT security team consist of two people. Everret and Ben, they are two 20 something year old punk asses who lack a basic knowledge of computer security. Egghead security consist of daily virus checks of the work stations and a firewall. THATS ALL. Because I am young, they automatically assumed I was a hacker and a risk to security, when I got a job there doing Ecommerce Analyst work at my young age. Young does not equal hacker. I still was never given a reason as to why I was fired, except for that if the media found out I had remote admin tools on my workstations it could be bad publicity for the company. Now this comes along, Im suprised i havent been blaimed for this attempt. Unfortunate, if they would of hired me on as IT security like I wanted to be int he first place, this would of never happened. :P
How is this comment a troll comment? I would really like to know that. The post is 100% true. We do use them to process all our online orders.
This is not good. We use that company to process all our credit card orders. Its going to be a complete pain in the ass to go about emailing all our customers and explaining our credit card company has been hacked. As well as bad publicity. So much for repeat customers. Jeff Knox
This is majorly redundant, but it looks damned awesome. The design is brilliant. I would love to have one of these to lug around. Why cant you just post a link and what not to the new laptop, and instead of investing the post with your bullshit opinion, let us decide what to think of it. Eh? Dont you think that would be a better idea then making the title say it looks like BARF.
Isnt transmeta 5 years old though. Didnt they spend that long developing the Crusoe technology?
He did say those exact words on public television at one point. There is a certain Rage Against The MAchine music video which contains the video clip. Ill look further into it and see if I can point a link to donwload the music video containing the video clip.
Its a great codec, not open sources, but still provides excellent almost DVD quality.However, its not practical for regular use. It takes a good 10-15 hours on a fast machine, like Athlon 650, to do this. And a decent amount of work on your part. Its worth it for movie piraters to spend this time, but for the average person to spend all this effort to put his DVD on CD, I question the value. Just go download the pirated rip of your DVD, its legal cause ya own it, and you save your self the time.
Im sorry, what I said is misleading. Some program that uses DeCSS must be used to decrypt the dvds before you use flask on the files. It is not built into flask. Sorry about the misinformation.
Excuse me, no one traffices in .asf. Well, not no one, thats the comment format for modem users to traffic illegal movies, that or SMR navi stuff. DIVX is the common format for dvd rips, and Mpeg1 (VCD) is the common format for movies still in theatres.
It may be common at your school to do windows filesharing, but FTP is much more common. There is a large use of napster though, but not really to share, to get new stuff. Napster also is probably more prevalent also in people without a large knowledge base about computers, who doesnt know how to setup ftp or filesharing.
Yes, decss is used to decrypt the contents of the cd. Its built into Flask.
I assure you in real life, you can barely tell teh different from the original dvd, a still shot is kinda misleading. It looks 99% the same as the original, your not going to notice if you have a fast machine.
Excuse me, no one traffics in .asf files. Well Modem users do. Anyone with more then a modem uses DIVX for DVD rips, and regular old Mpeg1 (VCD) for movies still in theatres. And no, people in colleges rarely set up Windows File Sharing to trade mp3s, they might at your school, but its not nearly as wide spread as an FTP server.
KNRK kicks ass, Marconi (sp) RULES!! :P
Disclosure: I am the only remaining founder of the ReactOS (Formally FreeWin95, and WOS) from 1995, and the person who coined the name ReactOS. Take a look at the ReactOS project. www.reactos.com. We have been working on it for the last many years, and are not even close to finished, I believe we are the furthest along (cept for Wine, but thats not a OS project). Maybe we should consolidate the effort of all these others and focus on one projects. Things would get done faster. Currently we only have a few DEDICATED programmers and members of the project. I appreciate them. We always welcome more. http://www.reactos.com
I think some of you are misunderstanding my post. I am not whining. I love Slashdot, and have since before it was Slashdot back when it was Chips and Dip. I have great respect for Rob and the whole Slashdot crew. So when I express my opinions towards a post (which I rarely do, and specifically if I just say I think it would be better of as a quickie) that is not meant to be intended as a 'dis' towards Slashdot.
And to respond to a another comment. No. This is not robs Homepage. Cmdrtaco.net is robs homepage. This is a professional news website owned by Va Linux corp.
What does my opinion about whether or not the article is funny, have do to with why I think we as a community have a right to express concerns about a community website. If you wish to address my parent post, please address the appropriate thread.