Except the cost of remedy for a stolen key is rather cheap.
Change lock, redistribute new key, and maybe make sure there is nothing left behind (a broken window lock for instance).
That's only if you're lucky.
By breaking in, the attacker could have left Anthrax, could have rigged the room with explosives, replaced all the computer batteries with turnips, added a small machine to periodically sprinkle asbestos into the air, and sprinkled peanut oil delicately around the room to kill the peanut-allergic staff.
The above is about as likely as this kid leaving a rootkit behind when it was probably a directed attack on grade data.
I just sent in this note to the author (using the Contact the author form; who knows if that gets bitbucketed or what):
Possible mistakes in article
At http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/21889 , the photo caption reads, 'Political activist Richard Stallman spoke against the resolution "Digital Restrictions Management should be illegal" at a Yale Political Union debate Wednesday night.'
Also, you wrote at the end, "comic depicting a failed assassination attempt on Stallman by four masked men from Microsoft". According to http://xkcd.com/225/ , there are only *two* masked men, and they are not necessarily from Microsoft.
Just a heads-up to those looking to install it easily: This program is already in Debian, thanks to the work of Adam Cécile (Le_Vert). You can see it on the packages page at http://packages.debian.org/lenny/ophcrack .
I don't know what all the fuss is about. SpamAssassin sucked for me, so I switched to DSPAM a week and a half ago. My web quarantine interface reports these figures:
Overall accuracy (since start) 99.182%
Detailed figures since start: Spam Ham 121 spam missed, 60 ham missed 18787 spam caught, 3158 ham delivered 99.360% spam caught, 1.865% ham missed
DSPAM is catching image spam sent to mailing lists that I'm on, as well as directly to me. I haven't seen a false positive since the first week of training. This NYT article is just a sob story for companies who are selling bad technology.
Democracy for America, the follow-up to Howard Dean's Dean for America organization, is running a "Put paper ballets on the agenda" drive right now. They want people to tell Nancy Pelosi, as the future Speaker of the House, to make this a priority for next year's Congress.
So if you care about this issue, make sure she hears about it!
For what it's worth, I filed testimony in the EFF lawsuit, OPG v. Diebold, where Diebold was suing kids who (like me!) posted to the Web copies of some Diebold memos in which you can read about Florida precicints with negative 16,000 votes for Al Gore and Diebold "upgrading" the software to uncertified (read: "illegal") versions in California.
For some reason, the article omitted a link to bugmenot. There's a Firefox extension that automates the process.
If you don't know what this is, it's a user-maintained list of usernames and passwords for sites that "bug" you for registration. Some sites block Bugmenot-listed usernames and passwords but most don't.
http://www.venganza.org/ has more information on how the decreasing number of pirates in the world is affecting global average temperature, and will tell you what you can do to help.
I run Linux on my iBook G4, and I would say the install was not as a waste of time.
A year and a half ago I wanted to buy a laptop that was lightweight, inexpensive (under $1200 tops), had a good keyboard, had good battery life, came from a vendor with a good reputation for reliability and service, and came with internal wireless. I spent hours racking my brain over half-decent PC designs, and I ended up finding inexpensive but low-quality machines (Compaq), expensive but great ones (IBM), or decent ones with terrible keyboards (Dell).
Then I realized I could buy an Apple and install Linux on it. So that's what I did, Debian first, then Ubuntu. It runs all my applications just fine, and it's a great laptop.
I was originally going to dual-boot, but I had the computer shipped to my parents' house, and they eagerly threw away the box and OS X DVD. In the end, I don't think I mind. Debian and Ubuntu have been good to me.
> It was the first platform with a highly complete API set included in the core,
Python predates Java. When I program in Java, it's always a pain to replicate the functionality I get with Python's default libraries. Python comes with "batteries included."
> it was the first dynamic web server technology that used a multithreaded model in addition to runtime-compiled code (bye-bye CGI)
Perhaps, I don't know early Python history this well.
> it was the first language with reflection designed into its core, and it was the first language to bring OOP, Virtual Machine, and cross-platform capabilities together into a workable package.
Python has had compiled bytecode for a long time. And it's also clearly object-oriented.
Unless you mean the first such language pushed by a *corporation* rather than by *enthusiasts*.
"Generic" defaults, like Gentoo or Debian, don't cut it for this.
You don't want to compare GNOME to KDE to Windows because GNOME and KDE aren't operating systems. You should compare *Fedora* against *Ubuntu* against *Mac OS* against *Windows*.
Fedora and Ubuntu make customizations to GNOME because they feel they are doing a better job of usability than upstream. Fine, let them. Tell us how they compare.
No one (sane) will give a newbie an uncustomized Gentoo box or Debian setup, so compare realistic things.
Why do other countries have 25 mbit connections with cable for $20 a month and in the US we can't give a 512 kbit line for free while the city is a complete mess.
Other countries have faster connections for cheaper because they have competitive marketplaces, and their companies don't get away with insulting the citizens of a damaged city.
In other words, they have governments that look out for the interests of citizens rather than the interests of corporations.
Different mirrors for different directories
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But I want/debian/ to be a Debian cache, and/ubuntu/ to be an Ubuntu cache, and it'd be nice to have e.g. a Cygwin cache in/cygwin/ . Many "mirrors" sharing one disk cache space allocation on one easily-administered server.
Can Squid handle that kind of flexibility? That's what drew me to Apache's ProxyPass.
Combining mod_proxy with mod_cache
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I've been struggling with setting up a mirrors server for our computing club here. I'd like to mirror all of Debian, for example, but I'm finding that storing (and, worse, updating) 80 gigs only to serve a tiny fraction of the files to our users is a dismal trade-off. I had been experimenting with ProxyPass, but since it didn't cache the results locally, it wasn't really providing a speed benefit.
mod_disk_cache plus mod_proxy's ProxyPass seems like just the ticket - I could give it a few servers to proxy for, give it a few hundred gigs of cache, and it would then automatically intelligently cache for those servers. This would be a great, easy plug-in solution.
Has anyone used mod_proxy and mod_cache in this fashion? It'd be great to hear about others' experiences or configuration examples.
I've started using Ubuntu, which I feel is set up very nice as an office system. It is very well integrated, (for example) providing one good application for each of the normal uses rather than flooding the user with "Kate (an editor), KEdit (an editor), gedit (an editor), gvim (an editor)" all in the same menu.
How does Linspire compare? I've never tried it, though I'm currently working on downloading this to get a sense of what the buzz is about.
When there's one key to the whole American Internet infrastructure, that sounds pretty insecure to me.
One malicious Fed with the access key can leak it, or eavesdrop on anyone at will. Perhaps he was blackmailed by the mafia, or wants extra money by selling info to spammers, or incentives are otherwise skewed.
Time and time again, we see that eavesdropping systems are abused by insiders. That's why limiting the availability of eavesdropping technology to exactly what's required is the most secure choice.
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By breaking in, the attacker could have left Anthrax, could have rigged the room with explosives, replaced all the computer batteries with turnips, added a small machine to periodically sprinkle asbestos into the air, and sprinkled peanut oil delicately around the room to kill the peanut-allergic staff.
The above is about as likely as this kid leaving a rootkit behind when it was probably a directed attack on grade data.
Honestly, this is extremely sloppy.
No it does not come with OOo or The Gimp. It comes with custom software instead. See http://laptop.org/laptop/software/specs.shtml or read wiki.laptop.org.
Just a heads-up to those looking to install it easily: This program is already in Debian, thanks to the work of Adam Cécile (Le_Vert). You can see it on the packages page at http://packages.debian.org/lenny/ophcrack .
I don't know what all the fuss is about. SpamAssassin sucked for me, so I switched to DSPAM a week and a half ago. My web quarantine interface reports these figures:
Overall accuracy (since start) 99.182%
Detailed figures since start:
Spam Ham
121 spam missed, 60 ham missed
18787 spam caught, 3158 ham delivered
99.360% spam caught, 1.865% ham missed
DSPAM is catching image spam sent to mailing lists that I'm on, as well as directly to me. I haven't seen a false positive since the first week of training. This NYT article is just a sob story for companies who are selling bad technology.
Democracy for America, the follow-up to Howard Dean's Dean for America organization, is running a "Put paper ballets on the agenda" drive right now. They want people to tell Nancy Pelosi, as the future Speaker of the House, to make this a priority for next year's Congress.
So if you care about this issue, make sure she hears about it!
For what it's worth, I filed testimony in the EFF lawsuit, OPG v. Diebold, where Diebold was suing kids who (like me!) posted to the Web copies of some Diebold memos in which you can read about Florida precicints with negative 16,000 votes for Al Gore and Diebold "upgrading" the software to uncertified (read: "illegal") versions in California.
I've mirrored the English PDF.
For some reason, the article omitted a link to bugmenot. There's a Firefox extension that automates the process.
If you don't know what this is, it's a user-maintained list of usernames and passwords for sites that "bug" you for registration. Some sites block Bugmenot-listed usernames and passwords but most don't.
Companies like this make the Internet a frightening, dangerous place. They literally attempted to crack into people's computers without their consent.
Why don't we sue them into the ground as pursuing cyberterrorism as a business model?
Timothy was still using a Handspring Visor Deluxe in 2005? Golly!
I tested this attack in Internet Explorer 6 on Ubuntu 5.10 running the current Wine deb from winehq.
Oh, no! Germany is dooming us to an even higher rate of global warming!
http://www.venganza.org/ has more information on how the decreasing number of pirates in the world is affecting global average temperature, and will tell you what you can do to help.
I didn't know they had that event in the Winter olympics!
I run Linux on my iBook G4, and I would say the install was not as a waste of time.
A year and a half ago I wanted to buy a laptop that was lightweight, inexpensive (under $1200 tops), had a good keyboard, had good battery life, came from a vendor with a good reputation for reliability and service, and came with internal wireless. I spent hours racking my brain over half-decent PC designs, and I ended up finding inexpensive but low-quality machines (Compaq), expensive but great ones (IBM), or decent ones with terrible keyboards (Dell).
Then I realized I could buy an Apple and install Linux on it. So that's what I did, Debian first, then Ubuntu. It runs all my applications just fine, and it's a great laptop.
I was originally going to dual-boot, but I had the computer shipped to my parents' house, and they eagerly threw away the box and OS X DVD. In the end, I don't think I mind. Debian and Ubuntu have been good to me.
> It was the first platform with a highly complete API set included in the core,
Python predates Java. When I program in Java, it's always a pain to replicate the functionality I get with Python's default libraries. Python comes with "batteries included."
> it was the first dynamic web server technology that used a multithreaded model in addition to runtime-compiled code (bye-bye CGI)
Perhaps, I don't know early Python history this well.
> it was the first language with reflection designed into its core, and it was the first language to bring OOP, Virtual Machine, and cross-platform capabilities together into a workable package.
Python has had compiled bytecode for a long time. And it's also clearly object-oriented.
Unless you mean the first such language pushed by a *corporation* rather than by *enthusiasts*.
What's WPF? I've never heard of it....
It's criminal that customers were charged so much for this!
"Generic" defaults, like Gentoo or Debian, don't cut it for this.
You don't want to compare GNOME to KDE to Windows because GNOME and KDE aren't operating systems. You should compare *Fedora* against *Ubuntu* against *Mac OS* against *Windows*.
Fedora and Ubuntu make customizations to GNOME because they feel they are doing a better job of usability than upstream. Fine, let them. Tell us how they compare.
No one (sane) will give a newbie an uncustomized Gentoo box or Debian setup, so compare realistic things.
Other countries have faster connections for cheaper because they have competitive marketplaces, and their companies don't get away with insulting the citizens of a damaged city.
In other words, they have governments that look out for the interests of citizens rather than the interests of corporations.
But I want /debian/ to be a Debian cache, and /ubuntu/ to be an Ubuntu cache, and it'd be nice to have e.g. a Cygwin cache in /cygwin/ . Many "mirrors" sharing one disk cache space allocation on one easily-administered server.
Can Squid handle that kind of flexibility? That's what drew me to Apache's ProxyPass.
I've been struggling with setting up a mirrors server for our computing club here. I'd like to mirror all of Debian, for example, but I'm finding that storing (and, worse, updating) 80 gigs only to serve a tiny fraction of the files to our users is a dismal trade-off. I had been experimenting with ProxyPass, but since it didn't cache the results locally, it wasn't really providing a speed benefit.
mod_disk_cache plus mod_proxy's ProxyPass seems like just the ticket - I could give it a few servers to proxy for, give it a few hundred gigs of cache, and it would then automatically intelligently cache for those servers. This would be a great, easy plug-in solution.
Has anyone used mod_proxy and mod_cache in this fashion? It'd be great to hear about others' experiences or configuration examples.
I've started using Ubuntu, which I feel is set up very nice as an office system. It is very well integrated, (for example) providing one good application for each of the normal uses rather than flooding the user with "Kate (an editor), KEdit (an editor), gedit (an editor), gvim (an editor)" all in the same menu.
How does Linspire compare? I've never tried it, though I'm currently working on downloading this to get a sense of what the buzz is about.
When there's one key to the whole American Internet infrastructure, that sounds pretty insecure to me.
One malicious Fed with the access key can leak it, or eavesdrop on anyone at will. Perhaps he was blackmailed by the mafia, or wants extra money by selling info to spammers, or incentives are otherwise skewed.
Time and time again, we see that eavesdropping systems are abused by insiders. That's why limiting the availability of eavesdropping technology to exactly what's required is the most secure choice.