if the people writing exploits for these security holes wrote a worm that once it had got onto a computer patched the exploit and then detached?
You could call it Good Samaritan Computing or something;)
It is still an intrusion in legal sense. Whoever wrote such a worm would face charges if caught.
Putin takes Medvedev to a restaurant and orders a steak. "What about the vegetable?" the waiter asks. Putin looks at Medvedev and says, "The vegetable will have steak, too.
This happened to me in winter of 2000. I found a open FTP-site on the LAN of my public school that contained sensitive information about the municipality elderly care. I reported it to the Swedish Data Inspection Board. I later found out that the municipality had filed a police report to find the alleged 'hacker' that were able to break the 10-digit code (read: IP-address).
My only comfort was that I had reported the findings anonymously.
And yes - they municipality were charged. The period for prosecution for my 'crime' has expired.
GM today annonced a management system that will restrict certain aspects of a car's auxiliary system based on which key is in the ignition.
It will be possible to restrict the playback of music with a BPM above slow jazz (ie. euro-techno). As well as the limiting the angle of the drivers seat to 2 degrees from vertical.
This new concept will be called bald-man-wan-mode.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. [...]" -- C.S. Lewis
My humble opinion is that once you decide that other people are not able to elect their own leaders you are on the slipping slope to tyranny. Granted that we have seen democraties (trying not to invoke Godwin's law here) such as Iran & Palestine that elect tyrants, but these populations are the exceptions that proves the rule.
Soo, they will shoot down potential WMD:s by using a laser, positioned near the target to protect (hence TACTICAL), that vents stuff that makes highly toxic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrofluoric_acid
My wife switched to Ubuntu after her XP-installation trashed the hard drive. When she first tried to recover the OS with the supplied restore-cd from LG neither the WiFi card or sound worked. Then she tried Ubuntu which worked without turning a dial.
Now she's been running Ubuntu for over six months and she's hooked. She even managed to install Hardy Heron while breastfeeding our 7 week old daughter. - If that isn't usability for the masses then what is?
Anything that is valuable and still free must be (*drumroll*) Communism! Never mind that the Finns kicked the nuts of some russkis during WWII. There still speaking a slavic language so they must be contaminated with some kind of marxism.
What about all those legal radiation sources. I wouldn't want FBI to start eavesdrop on my conversations only because I work as a dentist and my cell phone is being exposed to stray emissions from x-ray photos.
I'm an self-appointed environmentalist as I'm currently employed to write product requirements for my company (professional electronics). Even I can see that RoHS is rather useless. A 1% mercury ban? Hello?! To allow 1 gram of mercury for every kilo is just stupid. And why did they exclude car batteries from the RoHS? Car batteries stand for more than 70% of all lead-usage...
Today we write requirements with Greenpeace in mind, not legislated law. Just look at Apple...
The biggest murder case was that of the prime minister Olof Palme. Investigating the murder case has cost the Swedish government 350 SEK (53M US $) up to 2006.
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It is still an intrusion in legal sense. Whoever wrote such a worm would face charges if caught.
The name of the system sure sounds as from a dilbert strip: "Problem Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action (PRACA)"
So why aren't they suing weapons manufacturer making handguns or assault rifles. Their products have a sole purpose - killing people...
Oh, i forgot. Downloading is EXACTLY as killing people - according to RIAA anyways..
In soviet russia october surprise republic! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_revolution
Putin takes Medvedev to a restaurant and orders a steak. "What about the vegetable?" the waiter asks. Putin looks at Medvedev and says, "The vegetable will have steak, too.
This happened to me in winter of 2000. I found a open FTP-site on the LAN of my public school that contained sensitive information about the municipality elderly care. I reported it to the Swedish Data Inspection Board. I later found out that the municipality had filed a police report to find the alleged 'hacker' that were able to break the 10-digit code (read: IP-address).
My only comfort was that I had reported the findings anonymously.
And yes - they municipality were charged. The period for prosecution for my 'crime' has expired.
GM today annonced a management system that will restrict certain aspects of a car's auxiliary system based on which key is in the ignition.
It will be possible to restrict the playback of music with a BPM above slow jazz (ie. euro-techno). As well as the limiting the angle of the drivers seat to 2 degrees from vertical.
This new concept will be called bald-man-wan-mode.
meh. In Soviet^LSweden the covert agency is shipped to you!
I stand corrected :)
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. [...]" -- C.S. Lewis
My humble opinion is that once you decide that other people are not able to elect their own leaders you are on the slipping slope to tyranny. Granted that we have seen democraties (trying not to invoke Godwin's law here) such as Iran & Palestine that elect tyrants, but these populations are the exceptions that proves the rule.
Am I calculating the circumface speed correctly? Got it to approximatley 2350 km/h!
Soo, they will shoot down potential WMD:s by using a laser, positioned near the target to protect (hence TACTICAL), that vents stuff that makes highly toxic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrofluoric_acid
Well here's some more anectodes:
My wife switched to Ubuntu after her XP-installation trashed the hard drive. When she first tried to recover the OS with the supplied restore-cd from LG neither the WiFi card or sound worked. Then she tried Ubuntu which worked without turning a dial.
Now she's been running Ubuntu for over six months and she's hooked. She even managed to install Hardy Heron while breastfeeding our 7 week old daughter. - If that isn't usability for the masses then what is?
Don't know about you but I believe one aspect of the cyber-crime growth is peoples inclination to press hyper links named "compromised Web sites"
I stand corrected. Thank you!
Anything that is valuable and still free must be (*drumroll*) Communism! Never mind that the Finns kicked the nuts of some russkis during WWII. There still speaking a slavic language so they must be contaminated with some kind of marxism.
Mod flamebait, see if I care.
Well, here's definite truth that a picture does not tell a thousand words but less than 512 bytes.
So much for poetry!
What about all those legal radiation sources. I wouldn't want FBI to start eavesdrop on my conversations only because I work as a dentist and my cell phone is being exposed to stray emissions from x-ray photos.
Yup.
I'm an self-appointed environmentalist as I'm currently employed to write product requirements for my company (professional electronics). Even I can see that RoHS is rather useless. A 1% mercury ban? Hello?! To allow 1 gram of mercury for every kilo is just stupid. And why did they exclude car batteries from the RoHS? Car batteries stand for more than 70% of all lead-usage...
Today we write requirements with Greenpeace in mind, not legislated law. Just look at Apple...
Well, thats my 2 cents.
Do not rule out the RIAA to hire someone to do the hacking to win moral high ground.
RIAA may now turn their media machine to connect evil hackers with the pirate bay and try to put them in the same corner as child molesters and nazis.
BGA:s have always been a pain to work with. Ericsson had similar problem during the 90s with some of their mobile phones.
If you think thermal expansion is hard think about the stress introduced in a SMA due to users pressing buttons.
The biggest murder case was that of the prime minister Olof Palme. Investigating the murder case has cost the Swedish government 350 SEK (53M US $) up to 2006.
They propose to do this by changing the gear ratio making first gear max out at 9000 rpms at just above 2 mph.
You just have to love politicians
To start a revolution you need the support of the masses. 'Piratpartiet' got 0,63 % of the national votes last election (2006).
This projector and a camera hack similar to the one Johnny Chung Lee made http://mradomski.wordpress.com/2007/12/20/wiimote-multi-touch-display/ with the Wiimote and you would have a multi-touch screen projected onto any surface. Drool
I'm not a US resident but isn't slashdotting/DoS-attacking a federally owned site a criminal/terror offence in the US?