" but I have to get it to run on a computer without user interaction or demands for passwords or administrative rights - Windows excels in that part of the attack vector."
By default, Windows Vista/7 will prompt you if a program requires admin privs to continue, Windows doesn't excel at it, Windows users excel at clicking OK.
If you're going to talk about "Windows", you shouldn't be talking about the old version that is 10+ years old and no longer supported.
In 2.5 years of working as IT, the Mac group saw more Mac OSX systems crash than us Windows guys had WinXP crash. Not talking about low end machines, but the high end $3.5k pros.
The Mac group weren't incompetent either. They were linux fanatics and they actually use Linux as their work machines. They also had a direct line to their own personal Apple OS dev. The Mac group constantly had problems with OSX and many problems took months for our Mac group and the Apple Dev to fix. A University with 150+ Mac pros and a high rate of system upgrades lets you get access to stuff most people can't. The head person of the Art dept had a $8k dual socket quad core Mac pro. All she did was check email on it../sigh Think that's bad, the Music dept ordered 50+ 64GB iPods for the teachers. They were about $400 each at the time.
But I will say, the OSX machines, that you didn't try to change anything, ran much better than XP. It's when you had to start customizing things, then OSX breaks.
Willful ignorance is a disease. The problem with this disease is it is only removed via education, which is controlled mostly by the government.
Ignorant masses can be controlled and used like a weapon. Being controlled by ignorance is not freedom as they are being controlled, which is the opposite of freedom. Idiots have no freedom, they just don't realize it. Didn't you hear? Ignorance is bliss.
Personally, I would rather see a revolution in education than a revolution in the streets. It's much safer and more effective.
The average user picks High Max Speed, and also doesn't want to pay a lot. They tend to get an unreliable Max Speed.
Although, I can't consider sub 50mb a "high" speed with modern routing equipment. 60mb on a 100mb line during peak hours is one thing, 3mb on a 10mb line is another.
When I went to school 3 years ago, it cost me $1800/sem and free book rentals. When I started college, it was $1600/sem. Luckily, Federal loans covered all of it and then some. Beginning of semesters, when the extra money from federal loans came in, was my time to play catch-up on bills. I only qualified for loans because my parents made a combined income of more than $90k..:*(
Also good to have a college department(CIS) that has had a 100% post-graduation job rate for the past 20 years. 100% of the graduates found a job in their field within 6 months of graduating and an average $60k/year starting wage. We've had alumni guest speakers ranging from Microsoft to FBI.
I found a $50k($75k if you include benefits)/year job within 3 months of graduating during a recession.
I love socialized education. I plan on donating back to my uni once I pay off some of my debt. I love my state. Actually, nearly all of the state subsidy that paid for 80% of my tuition cost came from royalties made from patents and other research my state universities put out. So really, it's not that subsidized by tax payers.
My fin aid office said if I wanted to not have my parents income calculated into my loan/grants, I would have to stop accepting their insurance. I should have. I could've gotten quite decent health insurance through my college for only $50/month, and that included dental. The loan/grant difference would have more than made up for this../sigh On campus doctors helped a lot to. only a 2-3 day wait to get checked by someone. If your issue was outside their abilities, they could forward you onto the local hospital with a greatly reduced medical price. Heck, even the local hospital will wave fees if you can't afford them. Birth control was 100% free to all students. Well, females.
Almost everyone I knew in college were getting a free ride and I knew people ranging from low to medium incomes. One of my friend's parent's made over $100k/year and he got enough grants to not only pay for the uni, but also covered his housing. He used his federal loan to buy a new car since student loans are interest free during school and very low interest after school. He didn't get special grants for being smart or anything, just general federal grants.
My main state uni is up to $3k/sem, but use to be $2k/sem back a few years. But at least it is top 10 world wide in Bio-tech, electrical engineering, genetics, and a few other areas. I knew freshmen who were getting called by IBM, Intel, and AMD just because they were going to my state uni. If you're paying $100k to send a kid to school, your state sucks.
I guess that's what happens when your state capital and your city both get voted several years as "top 10 places to live in the USA", "top 10 safest place to live in the USA", and "top 10 places to retire in the USA".
After 7 year of college, I only have ~$30k of debt. BTW, I got twice as many credit required for my major, which is why it is 7 years.
That's my anecdotal rant to counter yours. bwaa-haha
Blocks allocated before ARIN don't abide by ARIN rules. This is why Nortel is trying to sell its block. There are regular home users out there that own/24s. Back when they gave out/24s for free, you could have gotten one. If you got your/24 before ARIN, then you don't need to pay for a yearly fee and it's yours to do with what you want.
The magnetic fields are stored as analog waves which take different forms based on the previous data stored. If all you did was single pass zero a HD, the bits that use to be ones will look different than bits that use to be zeros because of the shape of the wave. The problem is getting access to this low level data. You need custom hardware that doesn't return ones and zeros but the shape of the magnetic fields.
No one but powerful or governments could get access to this equipment... or anyone who owns a company that makes harddrives.
You're not going to get a 3rd party private company that has the equipment that can do this, you're going to have to ask the FBI.
So, I guess it does come down to "unless you're trying to hide information form the government, just dev/zero the HD."
An ISP can't NAT a customer without breaking stuff. Once an ISP runs out of IPs, they will have to stop accepting new customers and stop deploying any IP based devices. They will risk a massive lawsuit if they sell an "internet" connection that knowingly will not work correctly.
Your ISP only routes based on the prefix, not the suffix. Changing your IP has nothing to do with your ISP as you only change your/64 suffix. Also, your IP that is based on your MAC address is non-routable on the internet, it is meant for your LAN only. No one on the internet will get your MAC.
Instead of 10.0.208.*, you use a private IP range like fc00:abcd:1234::208:*
It'll be a bit longer, but the prefix will stay the same and you can customize the postfix. Remember, there are tons of IPs to use. A computer will have a public IP and a private IP. You can set either however you want, but the private IPs you can set the prefix to just about anything.
Actually, the current estimates are about 10E80 hydrogen atoms in the universe. 300bits can represent 2E90. A 1024bit address could reference every atom in 1.79E308 universes.
384bit would probably be plenty enough for our universe, assuming not too much waste for subnetting or handing out/256s, etc.
ISP level NAT breaks: Skype, Blizzard's patching system(well, really really slow), Bad Company2, Modern Warfare 2, Sending pics/files to friends over [insert chat app], Punkbuster, VOIP, Starcraft1/2, Warcraft3, Diablo2, Civ3/4/5, many other games on 360/PS3. Small list for examples. Incoming ports are required mostly for hosting games and certain DRM features.
But hey, end users won't notice this at all.
You may think... but all of that works fine behind NATs.. yeah, because uPNP, which doesn't work at the ISP level.
You may also think.... most cell phones use an ISP level NAT.. yeah, but 500MB/month avg for a cellphone is not the same as a broadband connection that can tear through 2GB just watching a movie on Netflix.
So, if you're an ISP and you want to gouge on IPv4 addresses and you only have 2mil IPs and 2.5mil customers and you can't provide any addresses for those 500k users.. You get to enjoy being sued for not providing the internet. To stay legally safe, you must reject new customers. You can't sell what you can't provide.
Data is considered recoverable for under 3 passes of random data. From what I read, the binary data on your harddrive is stored as an analog wave, so it is very possible to recover most, if not all, of the data if you just do a single pass of zeros.
Your best bet is 3+ passes of random data.
My last job as IT at my uni required a 5 pass NSA wipe of all working drives before leaving the uni, or physical destruction of them. All "dead" drives had to be destroyed since we couldn't wipe them properly. I still have a bunch of magnets at home. I don't use them on the fridge because they're too strong and they ruin the surface of the fridge.
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I remember reading something back when fuel took a $0.50 jump and the state *lost* out on millions in tourism because of fewer travelers.
So we spend $200mil to research, then people get taxed, then tourism drops and everyone loses?
Anyway, I'm sure it's much more complicated than that and I have very little knowledge in economics, but it sounds more like a cash grab to me.
" but I have to get it to run on a computer without user interaction or demands for passwords or administrative rights - Windows excels in that part of the attack vector."
By default, Windows Vista/7 will prompt you if a program requires admin privs to continue, Windows doesn't excel at it, Windows users excel at clicking OK.
If you're going to talk about "Windows", you shouldn't be talking about the old version that is 10+ years old and no longer supported.
In 2.5 years of working as IT, the Mac group saw more Mac OSX systems crash than us Windows guys had WinXP crash. Not talking about low end machines, but the high end $3.5k pros.
The Mac group weren't incompetent either. They were linux fanatics and they actually use Linux as their work machines. They also had a direct line to their own personal Apple OS dev. The Mac group constantly had problems with OSX and many problems took months for our Mac group and the Apple Dev to fix. A University with 150+ Mac pros and a high rate of system upgrades lets you get access to stuff most people can't. The head person of the Art dept had a $8k dual socket quad core Mac pro. All she did was check email on it.. /sigh Think that's bad, the Music dept ordered 50+ 64GB iPods for the teachers. They were about $400 each at the time.
But I will say, the OSX machines, that you didn't try to change anything, ran much better than XP. It's when you had to start customizing things, then OSX breaks.
Even without OtherOS, PS3 is full of hackers; I don't see how it'll make any difference.
The biggest group of willful sheople on the internet.
mine changed(bank card anyway).. boo-yaa. I use a credit union and they keep up to date with lots of security stuff.
Heck, they even have their own numbering system for IDs as not to ask for your SSN/last-4, except in private rooms with an employee.
Willful ignorance is a disease. The problem with this disease is it is only removed via education, which is controlled mostly by the government.
Ignorant masses can be controlled and used like a weapon. Being controlled by ignorance is not freedom as they are being controlled, which is the opposite of freedom. Idiots have no freedom, they just don't realize it. Didn't you hear? Ignorance is bliss.
Personally, I would rather see a revolution in education than a revolution in the streets. It's much safer and more effective.
AMD is releasing a 20core CPU next year, lets hope they don't sell a quad socket mobo because this OS won't support it.
High Max Speed, Reliable Max Speed, Cheap
Pick two.
The average user picks High Max Speed, and also doesn't want to pay a lot. They tend to get an unreliable Max Speed.
Although, I can't consider sub 50mb a "high" speed with modern routing equipment. 60mb on a 100mb line during peak hours is one thing, 3mb on a 10mb line is another.
Intel is leasing out 22nm fabs for FPGAs.
When I went to school 3 years ago, it cost me $1800/sem and free book rentals. When I started college, it was $1600/sem. Luckily, Federal loans covered all of it and then some. Beginning of semesters, when the extra money from federal loans came in, was my time to play catch-up on bills. I only qualified for loans because my parents made a combined income of more than $90k.. :*(
Also good to have a college department(CIS) that has had a 100% post-graduation job rate for the past 20 years. 100% of the graduates found a job in their field within 6 months of graduating and an average $60k/year starting wage. We've had alumni guest speakers ranging from Microsoft to FBI.
I found a $50k($75k if you include benefits)/year job within 3 months of graduating during a recession.
I love socialized education. I plan on donating back to my uni once I pay off some of my debt. I love my state. Actually, nearly all of the state subsidy that paid for 80% of my tuition cost came from royalties made from patents and other research my state universities put out. So really, it's not that subsidized by tax payers.
My fin aid office said if I wanted to not have my parents income calculated into my loan/grants, I would have to stop accepting their insurance. I should have. I could've gotten quite decent health insurance through my college for only $50/month, and that included dental. The loan/grant difference would have more than made up for this.. /sigh On campus doctors helped a lot to. only a 2-3 day wait to get checked by someone. If your issue was outside their abilities, they could forward you onto the local hospital with a greatly reduced medical price. Heck, even the local hospital will wave fees if you can't afford them. Birth control was 100% free to all students. Well, females.
Almost everyone I knew in college were getting a free ride and I knew people ranging from low to medium incomes. One of my friend's parent's made over $100k/year and he got enough grants to not only pay for the uni, but also covered his housing. He used his federal loan to buy a new car since student loans are interest free during school and very low interest after school. He didn't get special grants for being smart or anything, just general federal grants.
My main state uni is up to $3k/sem, but use to be $2k/sem back a few years. But at least it is top 10 world wide in Bio-tech, electrical engineering, genetics, and a few other areas. I knew freshmen who were getting called by IBM, Intel, and AMD just because they were going to my state uni. If you're paying $100k to send a kid to school, your state sucks.
I guess that's what happens when your state capital and your city both get voted several years as "top 10 places to live in the USA", "top 10 safest place to live in the USA", and "top 10 places to retire in the USA".
After 7 year of college, I only have ~$30k of debt. BTW, I got twice as many credit required for my major, which is why it is 7 years.
That's my anecdotal rant to counter yours. bwaa-haha
So a block was that grandfathered in loses its status once they try to change ownership?
Grandfathered in.
Blocks allocated before ARIN don't abide by ARIN rules. This is why Nortel is trying to sell its block. There are regular home users out there that own /24s. Back when they gave out /24s for free, you could have gotten one. If you got your /24 before ARIN, then you don't need to pay for a yearly fee and it's yours to do with what you want.
The magnetic fields are stored as analog waves which take different forms based on the previous data stored. If all you did was single pass zero a HD, the bits that use to be ones will look different than bits that use to be zeros because of the shape of the wave. The problem is getting access to this low level data. You need custom hardware that doesn't return ones and zeros but the shape of the magnetic fields.
No one but powerful or governments could get access to this equipment... or anyone who owns a company that makes harddrives.
You're not going to get a 3rd party private company that has the equipment that can do this, you're going to have to ask the FBI.
So, I guess it does come down to "unless you're trying to hide information form the government, just dev/zero the HD."
I don't see how masturbation would help. Ever try programming when some of your keys no longer work? It makes for very interesting variable names.
But I guess real programmers lay a sheet of saran wrap over their keyboard before they start fapping.
An ISP can't NAT a customer without breaking stuff. Once an ISP runs out of IPs, they will have to stop accepting new customers and stop deploying any IP based devices. They will risk a massive lawsuit if they sell an "internet" connection that knowingly will not work correctly.
Your ISP only routes based on the prefix, not the suffix. Changing your IP has nothing to do with your ISP as you only change your /64 suffix. Also, your IP that is based on your MAC address is non-routable on the internet, it is meant for your LAN only. No one on the internet will get your MAC.
Co-worker just bought a new Toyota. The book says to only change the oil every 10k miles. cool.
Instead of 10.0.208.*, you use a private IP range like fc00:abcd:1234::208:*
It'll be a bit longer, but the prefix will stay the same and you can customize the postfix. Remember, there are tons of IPs to use. A computer will have a public IP and a private IP. You can set either however you want, but the private IPs you can set the prefix to just about anything.
Actually, the current estimates are about 10E80 hydrogen atoms in the universe. 300bits can represent 2E90. A 1024bit address could reference every atom in 1.79E308 universes.
384bit would probably be plenty enough for our universe, assuming not too much waste for subnetting or handing out /256s, etc.
ISP level NAT breaks: Skype, Blizzard's patching system(well, really really slow), Bad Company2, Modern Warfare 2, Sending pics/files to friends over [insert chat app], Punkbuster, VOIP, Starcraft1/2, Warcraft3, Diablo2, Civ3/4/5, many other games on 360/PS3. Small list for examples. Incoming ports are required mostly for hosting games and certain DRM features.
But hey, end users won't notice this at all.
You may think... but all of that works fine behind NATs.. yeah, because uPNP, which doesn't work at the ISP level.
You may also think.... most cell phones use an ISP level NAT.. yeah, but 500MB/month avg for a cellphone is not the same as a broadband connection that can tear through 2GB just watching a movie on Netflix.
Just offering another point of view.
So, if you're an ISP and you want to gouge on IPv4 addresses and you only have 2mil IPs and 2.5mil customers and you can't provide any addresses for those 500k users.. You get to enjoy being sued for not providing the internet. To stay legally safe, you must reject new customers. You can't sell what you can't provide.
As an ISP, I would want to get IPv6 working asap.
Every time I put a cat in a box and come back to it, I measure the cat as dead. Starting to think it's not truly random or I'm getting bad luck.
Data is considered recoverable for under 3 passes of random data. From what I read, the binary data on your harddrive is stored as an analog wave, so it is very possible to recover most, if not all, of the data if you just do a single pass of zeros.
Your best bet is 3+ passes of random data.
My last job as IT at my uni required a 5 pass NSA wipe of all working drives before leaving the uni, or physical destruction of them. All "dead" drives had to be destroyed since we couldn't wipe them properly. I still have a bunch of magnets at home. I don't use them on the fridge because they're too strong and they ruin the surface of the fridge.
Remind me not to use Chrome when camping Blizzard for Blizzcon tickets.
IPv4 vs IPv6 is less like VHS vs BetaMax and more like DvD vs BluRay. You don't really need BlueRay, but you know it's moving that way.