can you please tell me where that etc folder is located ?
I would like to have a look at it to make sure I am safe but I just can't find it.
Thanks !;-)
myhost:~# ls/viruses/spyware/adware/etc ls:/viruses/spyware/adware/etc: No such file or directory myhost:~# find / | grep viruses/spyware/adware/etc myhost:~#
Well, I am not sure that this is the right approach but there seems to be plenty of jamming devices around that you could use during exams. Just put some signs near your exam room like "jamming devices at work" so everybody know that they have to go a little farther away in order to get connectivity and calibrate your jamming device appropriately so you do not jam the whole campus..;-)
You sure are right son. Here is what we use out here in Australia for "mosquito net", "fly wire", "screen" or whatever you wish to call it. Pretty big mosquitoes they are for sure ! :
> It now had news and key sites in minutes after update...
I noticed that too a few years ago so it made me wonder to which extend TFA was news. Maybe they were previously using it in a less prominent manner but they sure had something similar, in functionality at least, a few years ago.
Memory leaks usually get swapped out... your swap usage will grow but the system will keep going just as fast since those pages will never get swapped in again. I have tried several times to explain that to some slashdotters that bragged about not using any swap space anymore nowadays and that called me stupid for reserving a 2 gig swap partition or more on a 4 gig ram machine that sometimes runs for 2 years before rebooting.
It should work as well at classifying 'nuisance' emails as it does for classifying plain Spam as long as one trains it accordingly. Then, check the 'nuisance' emails at a lowest priority. He could also have his email go through several Bayesian filters, one trained to identify 'nuisance' emails and one trained to identify plain Spam. All email types could be handled differently.
In my experience, it's already too late to remove your email address from a web site when already too many people know it so it is not that efficient. Anyways, it seems like this guy might need some technical advise;-)
> Petermann is a sleeping giant that is slowly awakening. > Removing flow resistance leads to flow acceleration.
Basically, this means flow acceleration would speed up erosion of the corners that "landlock" it relatively quickly. Pressure caused by the increasing flow on the parts that do the "landlocking" could also lead to the iceberg breaking into smaller parts thus making it easier to make it to the open water.
Maybe they already are but are just more professional at it. Secure your homeland network better and you will sure have a better reputation on this matter. Maybe China just has a bad reputation because more bot-nets and hijacked machines run on computers back there, not because there is a higher percentage of professional hackers at work there.
I often get reply and explanation from US sysadmins when I complain while I get typical bot-net or hijacked machines port-scanning traffic, rarely do I get replies from China. Is it because China sysadmins are all hackers or because their organization is less professional and that are just less competent and get overflodded with complain reports ?
I opened an 'active virtual account number' valid for an unlimited time and unlimited amount and also valid with an unlimited number of merchants and it is the only one I use all the time;-)
Maybe, but for me "weird arch" Linux equals security through obfuscation. I know it doesn't qualify as real security but "security through obfuscation" has saved our asses a few times against zero-day exploit or more like "less than 1 day exploits" I should say. In our case, "obfuscation" is just using custom configurations, chrooting things, using reverse proxies and limiting reachable URL. etc.
Just changing the default admin username on things like MySql, FreePBX, Joomla and the like can save your ass sometime. You can also pretty easily change the root user name on Linux by editing/etc/passwd and/etc/shadow and replacing "root|" with something else although I have never done it in production environments, maybe because I wrongly trust that gaining root on our system is impossible and that binary hacks will use user number 0 anyway;-)
Also, most serious companies I have worked for use some level of obfuscation, host names like e444tyh56p, etc...
Using obfuscation brings an additional cost although because it goes against usability and ease of maintenance principles.
We are working on a honey pot module for Damn Vulnerable Linux, it should be coming out soon;-)
Basically log all activity to a network server while hiding the fact that we are doing it. Just refresh from a fresh image once in a while. Once an intruder is noticed, we can give him as many rights as we want in real time, especially with regards to network connectivity, which is done at the firewall level. It is a nice way to get a good grip of what is running in the wilderness of the internet. If you are lucky enough, you can even learn about unpublished exploits although I would use a up to date distro to specifically discover these.
I remember using those a lot more in the beginning of times when it almost always worked as expected. Nowadays, I still try it on new sites that I visit and I use it on sites where I know it works.
I always think "buffoons" when I visit a site where it doesn't work but I have to admit that I am pretty old guard on this matter...;-)
Anyways, I have encountered very complex sites using newer technologies such as Ajax where the back button worked fine. So if you state it as a requirement when you start to design the site, it should still be possible to respect the old HTML/HTTP spirit IMHO.
By the way, clicking quickly twice on the back button still lands you to the expected page once you have been through a redirection although I have no data with regards to if it only works when the redirection is done through HTML in contrast with one done in the HTTP headers.
Actually, it is a cover-up. I know for sure. In realty, the ship was hijacked and captured by aliens. I have very credible sources within the conspiracy theorists community !;-)
Since you mention you had DVDs on board, maybe that's what the aliens were after... I will share this with my contacts, thanks !
I thought about not opening the door just to see what would happen but I decided against since I had nothing to hide. This is the very type of reasoning we have to be careful about and that could potentially lead to a police state.
I agree with you that they might not have dared to break in if I didn't open the door.
The fact that I was alone in the apartment didn't help. If there had been 10 persons saying; no problem here officers, they might not have asked to come in. Anyway, the cops were just doing their jobs. Cops are mandated to apply the laws and to follow guidelines stated by their superiors. If not happy with it, don't complain to the cops but to people who make laws and instruct cops how they should behave in given situations.
That was the whole point of my posts. Public awareness is the only thing that can save us from tending to a police state. The day everybody says: "I have nothing to hide, so I do not mind being randomly checked or checked because of a technological mistake", we are fried.;-)
It doesn't take a great brain to figure out that civil liberties tend to go down as technology arise. We have to be aware of this phenomenon, it is irrefutable.
I just gave an insigthful example with my 911 example. Enhanced 911 was supposedly put in place to protect people. For example, somebody having a heart attack and who is unable to speak could still be saved due to the dispatcher seeing his address on his console. But in my case this "technological advancement" infringed on my civil rights.
There was no content, only a callerid shown on the dispatcher console.
The defect on the line was causing it to go on-hook/off-hook randomly. The way rotary dials work is just the same.
1) Go off hook for 1 sec. 2) Quickly go on-hook for 1/10 to 3/4 of a second nine times. 3) Stay off-hook for 1 sec. 4) Quickly go on-hook for 1/10 to 3/4 of a second one time. 5) Stay off-hook for 1 sec. 6) Quickly go on-hook for 1/10 to 3/4 of a second one time. 7) Stay off-hook
There you go, you have just called 911. Of course there will be no content but police will show up at your place if you do have enhanced 911 where the dispatcher sees your callerid/address.
The police then thinks you hung up the phone before your now dead girlfriend had a chance to say anything to 911. They will search under the bed, closest, look in the bathtub and look for traces of fighting or violence.
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> but none caused by viruses/spyware/adware/etc
can you please tell me where that etc folder is located ?
I would like to have a look at it to make sure I am safe but I just can't find it.
Thanks ! ;-)
myhost:~# ls /viruses/spyware/adware/etc /viruses/spyware/adware/etc: No such file or directory
ls:
myhost:~# find / | grep viruses/spyware/adware/etc
myhost:~#
This is not enforced as hard as you seem to think:
http://www.khq.com/Global/story.asp?S=9963126
Also, formal amendments are coming up:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-560
http://www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?tabid=16176
Contact the FCC for permit applications and waivers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_jammer [wikipedia.org]
Watch your big mouth son:
Contact the FCC for permit applications and waivers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_jammer
Well, I am not sure that this is the right approach but there seems to be plenty of jamming devices around that you could use during exams. Just put some signs near your exam room like "jamming devices at work" so everybody know that they have to go a little farther away in order to get connectivity and calibrate your jamming device appropriately so you do not jam the whole campus .. ;-)
http://www.netline.co.il/page/cell_phone_jammer.aspx
http://www.jammer-store.com/
http://www.chinavasion.com/product_info.php/pName/wifi-bluetooth-wireless-video-jammer-portable-wireless-block/
http://www.amazon.ca/Power-Portable-Signal-Jammer-Phone/dp/B003YFSKUU
You sure are right son. Here is what we use out here in Australia for "mosquito net", "fly wire", "screen" or whatever you wish to call it. Pretty big mosquitoes they are for sure ! :
http://go635254.s3.amazonaws.com/cleantechnica/files/2009/02/sewer-grate.jpg
> It now had news and key sites in minutes after update...
I noticed that too a few years ago so it made me wonder to which extend TFA was news. Maybe they were previously using it in a less prominent manner but they sure had something similar, in functionality at least, a few years ago.
Then again, a lot of us slashdotters have never heard about anything above 7 ;-)
Maybe some moderator thought he could get his moderation modded funny...
Memory leaks usually get swapped out... your swap usage will grow but the system will keep going just as fast since those pages will never get swapped in again. I have tried several times to explain that to some slashdotters that bragged about not using any swap space anymore nowadays and that called me stupid for reserving a 2 gig swap partition or more on a 4 gig ram machine that sometimes runs for 2 years before rebooting.
Oh well....
I already do something very similar to what you describe but that guy has to start somewhere ;-)
The Bayesian classifier is only a part of what SpamAssassin uses and using SpamAssassin is only a part of how one should handle emails.
Maybe he would be better off using some type of Bayesian classifier similar to the one SpamAssassin uses.
http://linux.die.net/man/1/sa-learn
It should work as well at classifying 'nuisance' emails as it does for classifying plain Spam as long as one trains it accordingly. Then, check the 'nuisance' emails at a lowest priority. He could also have his email go through several Bayesian filters, one trained to identify 'nuisance' emails and one trained to identify plain Spam. All email types could be handled differently.
In my experience, it's already too late to remove your email address from a web site when already too many people know it so it is not that efficient. Anyways, it seems like this guy might need some technical advise ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes'_theorem
http://spamassassin.apache.org/
> No, but seriously, educate me:
Simple enough, you just need to follow the access point with your car. Problem solved !
From TFA:
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/07/vast-ice-island-breaks-free-of-greenland-glacier/
> Petermann is a sleeping giant that is slowly awakening.
> Removing flow resistance leads to flow acceleration.
Basically, this means flow acceleration would speed up erosion of the corners that "landlock" it relatively quickly. Pressure caused by the increasing flow on the parts that do the "landlocking" could also lead to the iceberg breaking into smaller parts thus making it easier to make it to the open water.
Maybe they already are but are just more professional at it. Secure your homeland network better and you will sure have a better reputation on this matter. Maybe China just has a bad reputation because more bot-nets and hijacked machines run on computers back there, not because there is a higher percentage of professional hackers at work there.
I often get reply and explanation from US sysadmins when I complain while I get typical bot-net or hijacked machines port-scanning traffic, rarely do I get replies from China. Is it because China sysadmins are all hackers or because their organization is less professional and that are just less competent and get overflodded with complain reports ?
Just wondering... ;-)
Nearly two thirds of people agree with whatever their government do. Right ?
Otherwise, how would they get elected in the first place, at least where elections do take place ?
I opened an 'active virtual account number' valid for an unlimited time and unlimited amount and also valid with an unlimited number of merchants and it is the only one I use all the time ;-)
> Something philosophically similar
Maybe, but for me "weird arch" Linux equals security through obfuscation. I know it doesn't qualify as real security but "security through obfuscation" has saved our asses a few times against zero-day exploit or more like "less than 1 day exploits" I should say. In our case, "obfuscation" is just using custom configurations, chrooting things, using reverse proxies and limiting reachable URL. etc.
Just changing the default admin username on things like MySql, FreePBX, Joomla and the like can save your ass sometime. You can also pretty easily change the root user name on Linux by editing /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow and replacing "root|" with something else although I have never done it in production environments, maybe because I wrongly trust that gaining root on our system is impossible and that binary hacks will use user number 0 anyway ;-)
Also, most serious companies I have worked for use some level of obfuscation, host names like e444tyh56p, etc...
Using obfuscation brings an additional cost although because it goes against usability and ease of maintenance principles.
We are working on a honey pot module for Damn Vulnerable Linux, it should be coming out soon ;-)
Basically log all activity to a network server while hiding the fact that we are doing it. Just refresh from a fresh image once in a while. Once an intruder is noticed, we can give him as many rights as we want in real time, especially with regards to network connectivity, which is done at the firewall level. It is a nice way to get a good grip of what is running in the wilderness of the internet. If you are lucky enough, you can even learn about unpublished exploits although I would use a up to date distro to specifically discover these.
Have you managed to slashdot your own site or is it just me experiencing problems connecting to www.teslabox.com ?
I remember using those a lot more in the beginning of times when it almost always worked as expected. Nowadays, I still try it on new sites that I visit and I use it on sites where I know it works.
I always think "buffoons" when I visit a site where it doesn't work but I have to admit that I am pretty old guard on this matter... ;-)
Anyways, I have encountered very complex sites using newer technologies such as Ajax where the back button worked fine. So if you state it as a requirement when you start to design the site, it should still be possible to respect the old HTML/HTTP spirit IMHO.
By the way, clicking quickly twice on the back button still lands you to the expected page once you have been through a redirection although I have no data with regards to if it only works when the redirection is done through HTML in contrast with one done in the HTTP headers.
Actually, it is a cover-up. I know for sure. In realty, the ship was hijacked and captured by aliens. I have very credible sources within the conspiracy theorists community ! ;-)
Since you mention you had DVDs on board, maybe that's what the aliens were after... I will share this with my contacts, thanks !
I thought about not opening the door just to see what would happen but I decided against since I had nothing to hide. This is the very type of reasoning we have to be careful about and that could potentially lead to a police state.
I agree with you that they might not have dared to break in if I didn't open the door.
The fact that I was alone in the apartment didn't help. If there had been 10 persons saying; no problem here officers, they might not have asked to come in. Anyway, the cops were just doing their jobs. Cops are mandated to apply the laws and to follow guidelines stated by their superiors. If not happy with it, don't complain to the cops but to people who make laws and instruct cops how they should behave in given situations.
That was the whole point of my posts. Public awareness is the only thing that can save us from tending to a police state. The day everybody says: "I have nothing to hide, so I do not mind being randomly checked or checked because of a technological mistake", we are fried. ;-)
It doesn't take a great brain to figure out that civil liberties tend to go down as technology arise. We have to be aware of this phenomenon, it is irrefutable.
I just gave an insigthful example with my 911 example. Enhanced 911 was supposedly put in place to protect people. For example, somebody having a heart attack and who is unable to speak could still be saved due to the dispatcher seeing his address on his console. But in my case this "technological advancement" infringed on my civil rights.
Just a note; they might recycle discarded plans into plan B,C,D... in case plan A fails.
There was no content, only a callerid shown on the dispatcher console.
The defect on the line was causing it to go on-hook/off-hook randomly. The way rotary dials work is just the same.
1) Go off hook for 1 sec.
2) Quickly go on-hook for 1/10 to 3/4 of a second nine times.
3) Stay off-hook for 1 sec.
4) Quickly go on-hook for 1/10 to 3/4 of a second one time.
5) Stay off-hook for 1 sec.
6) Quickly go on-hook for 1/10 to 3/4 of a second one time.
7) Stay off-hook
There you go, you have just called 911. Of course there will be no content but police will show up at your place if you do have enhanced 911 where the dispatcher sees your callerid/address.
The police then thinks you hung up the phone before your now dead girlfriend had a chance to say anything to 911. They will search under the bed, closest, look in the bathtub and look for traces of fighting or violence.