Except when slot machines are hacked, the developers usually keep it a secret so the casinos will not be investigated. (Mitnick, K (2005). The Art of Intrusion.)
Oh wait, the voting machine companies probably try to do that too.
I think the concern stopping them from using the server now is the fear that the FBI modified "something" to log or report on traffic going through the server.
Absent the implementation questions of whether there will be anything useful in the logs, when someone takes you equipment and returns it later without comment, it is not unreasonable to assume that something happened to it.
(Note: I have participated in DoJ forensic training. The FBI procedures should be similar.)
As to the validity of the concern: Investigators are not usually allowed to mount storage media in read/write mode. If they do so, any evidence obtained from that media will no longer be admissible in court. While many labs do have non-forensic connectors for storage media, they are usually not used for fear of accidentally tampering with the evidence. Investigators will make copies of media and manipulate the copies, but the originals will never be changed. This does not say that there is no way from them to put some kind of logging software/firmware/hardware on the server, but it is pretty unlikely.
That is relatively new. It used to be that if you had made a purchase (read: installed a free app) from the app store, you could purchase in-app content with out entering a password for some number of minutes (I think it was 15 minutes)
How exactly is it supposed to get better for consumers if the government forces companies to give everything they have to a competitor in order to get permission to buy another company?
Companies will stop spending on R&D because they will need to give all their research away for free if they want to buy another company.
Like most other gadgets, the iPad can charge off of a USB port. That would be 5 Vdc.
Actually, the iPad can not be charged off a standard USB port while it is powered on. It draws 1.5 amps (more than the.5 amps of USB 2.0).
There are USB ports that will charge the iPad (if they support the Battery Charging v1.1 spec), but having those on a device is rare.
The iPad can charge slowly when it is asleep from a standard USB 2.0 port if there is nothing else drawing power.
Personally I never buy desktop's pre-made speicifically because I don't want to be forced to pay for a windows license I don't want, and am not going to use. Sadly, however, I don't get that luxury when it comes to a laptop.
I know of one laptop manufacturer that does not require Windows: http://www.avadirect.com/
Their problem is supply chain: They frequently do not have certain components in stock (matte displays in particular). If you are looking for something they have in stock, then I highly recommend them. You can customize (on a laptop remember, so there are chasis limits) all the way down to the thermal grease on the processor.
I do build my own desktops and servers.
The judgment could open the way for PC buyers elsewhere in Europe to obtain refunds for bundled software they don't want
Does this say anything for buyers outside Europe? I bought a Lenovo laptop and tried to get them to refund the Windows license I was not planning to use and they said they can't do that.
It's used in the US, where they are 20 years behind the rest of the world in mobile phones.
Come on, America, at least move onto GSM. Now that it's all being ripped out and replaced with 3G there's a lot of GSM hardware on the second-hand market. It's not even expensive.
But CDMA has at least one major advantage: When your phone rings, it does not destroy any recordings being made in the same room (the way a GSM cell phone does).
The Symantec FaceBook post answers that:
The source code is from two different products, one four years old, one five years old. One of them is discontinued.
https://www.facebook.com/Symantec/posts/10150465997682876
Short of blowing it up and starting fresh, this is the best way.
Kidding aside, I was in the same situation as you several years ago.
We happened to have Sharepoint already installed (as part of SBS2008), so we started using its Wiki feature for our documentation.
We use its lists feature to keep track of license keys and firewall settings (not in the same list of course). Just make as comprehensive a list as possible.
The difference is in where you flip. In the Towers of Hanoi, you do not flip the whole stack, you can only move the pieces one at a time between poles.
For the pancake problem, you only have one pole and you flip as many as you want at once.
Good explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake_sorting
This is not just about non-profits, it is about summer camps, boy scout troops, bake sales, high-school yearbooks, freelance artists and software developers, and personal gifts to family members half way around the world. This is about transparency.
The reason I hate PayPal is that there is no transparency or even apparent logic to account freezes. I have worked with a number of non-profit organizations and small businesses that have had their PayPal accounts' frozen for reasons that were never explained. Then when we supplied the requested documentation, it was rejected with no apparent reason.
Discover Card recently teamed up with PayPal to allow sending money between people, but it fails randomly with no errors and even Discover Card's tech support has no idea what is wrong. (It turns out that the problem was that within that week, PayPal had suspended personal payments to that country with no reason given.)
I am generally opposed to government regulation of business, but if PayPal wants to act like a bank by holding on to people's money, it should be regulated like a bank.
The only reason I continue to use PayPal is that there is no comparable alternative. If there was, I would stop using PayPal.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view), most browsers do not support nested-wildcard certificates.
(I have tried it).
The CA I usually use catches it and warns you, but some other CAs take your money and leave you with a mostly-useless certificate.
Try and find a Comcast channel you can't find a FIOS ad on.
On the other hand, I was at someone's house watching FiOS TV and Verizon was doing a VERY poor job of replacing the ads in the video feed with their own ads.
The start and end times of the ads were off by a second or two, so you would see the first two seconds of an ad, suddenly it would change to a different ad, then when the program resumed, you would miss the first second or two.
I was about to write pfSense when I saw the parent post, so I will just second it.
I use it at home and at several of my clients, and one of those has dual WANs.
(Full disclosure: I have contributed (code, not money) to pfSense.)
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Except when slot machines are hacked, the developers usually keep it a secret so the casinos will not be investigated. (Mitnick, K (2005). The Art of Intrusion.)
Oh wait, the voting machine companies probably try to do that too.
I think the concern stopping them from using the server now is the fear that the FBI modified "something" to log or report on traffic going through the server.
Absent the implementation questions of whether there will be anything useful in the logs, when someone takes you equipment and returns it later without comment, it is not unreasonable to assume that something happened to it.
(Note: I have participated in DoJ forensic training. The FBI procedures should be similar.)
As to the validity of the concern: Investigators are not usually allowed to mount storage media in read/write mode. If they do so, any evidence obtained from that media will no longer be admissible in court. While many labs do have non-forensic connectors for storage media, they are usually not used for fear of accidentally tampering with the evidence.
Investigators will make copies of media and manipulate the copies, but the originals will never be changed.
This does not say that there is no way from them to put some kind of logging software/firmware/hardware on the server, but it is pretty unlikely.
That is relatively new. It used to be that if you had made a purchase (read: installed a free app) from the app store, you could purchase in-app content with out entering a password for some number of minutes (I think it was 15 minutes)
I asked one of the developers: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2649559&cid=38948521
Works for me. How else can you eat lunch? (Peeling an orange while driving is fun.)
How exactly is it supposed to get better for consumers if the government forces companies to give everything they have to a competitor in order to get permission to buy another company?
Companies will stop spending on R&D because they will need to give all their research away for free if they want to buy another company.
Like most other gadgets, the iPad can charge off of a USB port. That would be 5 Vdc.
Actually, the iPad can not be charged off a standard USB port while it is powered on. It draws 1.5 amps (more than the .5 amps of USB 2.0).
There are USB ports that will charge the iPad (if they support the Battery Charging v1.1 spec), but having those on a device is rare.
The iPad can charge slowly when it is asleep from a standard USB 2.0 port if there is nothing else drawing power.
Personally I never buy desktop's pre-made speicifically because I don't want to be forced to pay for a windows license I don't want, and am not going to use. Sadly, however, I don't get that luxury when it comes to a laptop.
I know of one laptop manufacturer that does not require Windows: http://www.avadirect.com/
Their problem is supply chain: They frequently do not have certain components in stock (matte displays in particular). If you are looking for something they have in stock, then I highly recommend them. You can customize (on a laptop remember, so there are chasis limits) all the way down to the thermal grease on the processor.
I do build my own desktops and servers.
Does this say anything for buyers outside Europe? I bought a Lenovo laptop and tried to get them to refund the Windows license I was not planning to use and they said they can't do that.
It's used in the US, where they are 20 years behind the rest of the world in mobile phones.
Come on, America, at least move onto GSM. Now that it's all being ripped out and replaced with 3G there's a lot of GSM hardware on the second-hand market. It's not even expensive.
But CDMA has at least one major advantage: When your phone rings, it does not destroy any recordings being made in the same room (the way a GSM cell phone does).
The Symantec FaceBook post answers that:
The source code is from two different products, one four years old, one five years old. One of them is discontinued.
https://www.facebook.com/Symantec/posts/10150465997682876
InMotionHosting offers tons of disk space for a very low price.
I and other people who used to use them highly do not recommend them
Start with these : http://blog.sucuri.net/2011/09/mass-compromise-at-inmotionhosting-com.html
http://thehackernews.com/2011/09/inmotion-hosting-server-and-trinity-fm.html
They messed up the cleanup, damaging sites that had already cleaned up by themselves.
Last but not least: http://www.windows8update.com/2011/11/17/top-10-reasons-that-i-dont-use-inmotion-hosting-for-my-website-and-business/
Short of blowing it up and starting fresh, this is the best way. Kidding aside, I was in the same situation as you several years ago.
We happened to have Sharepoint already installed (as part of SBS2008), so we started using its Wiki feature for our documentation.
We use its lists feature to keep track of license keys and firewall settings (not in the same list of course).
Just make as comprehensive a list as possible.
As this xkcd does a great job of explaining.
The difference is in where you flip. In the Towers of Hanoi, you do not flip the whole stack, you can only move the pieces one at a time between poles.
For the pancake problem, you only have one pole and you flip as many as you want at once.
Good explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake_sorting
Great idea. Submit your regex back so that everyone can use it.
https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban
Sorry, accidentally hit AC. If you don't mind, reply to this one so I get email notification.
This is not just about non-profits, it is about summer camps, boy scout troops, bake sales, high-school yearbooks, freelance artists and software developers, and personal gifts to family members half way around the world. This is about transparency.
The reason I hate PayPal is that there is no transparency or even apparent logic to account freezes. I have worked with a number of non-profit organizations and small businesses that have had their PayPal accounts' frozen for reasons that were never explained. Then when we supplied the requested documentation, it was rejected with no apparent reason.
Discover Card recently teamed up with PayPal to allow sending money between people, but it fails randomly with no errors and even Discover Card's tech support has no idea what is wrong. (It turns out that the problem was that within that week, PayPal had suspended personal payments to that country with no reason given.)
I am generally opposed to government regulation of business, but if PayPal wants to act like a bank by holding on to people's money, it should be regulated like a bank.
The only reason I continue to use PayPal is that there is no comparable alternative. If there was, I would stop using PayPal.
The best usability book I ever used is "Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works (Interactive Technologies)" by Janice (Ginny) Redish.
http://www.amazon.com/Letting-Go-Words-Interactive-Technologies/dp/0123694868
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view), most browsers do not support nested-wildcard certificates.
(I have tried it).
The CA I usually use catches it and warns you, but some other CAs take your money and leave you with a mostly-useless certificate.
Here is Improv Everywhere's write up of the event: http://improveverywhere.com/2011/07/25/the-mp3-experiment-eight/
Firmware in a battery
Smart batteries are used by Apple, Lenovo, HP/Compaq, and other companies.
Try and find a Comcast channel you can't find a FIOS ad on.
On the other hand, I was at someone's house watching FiOS TV and Verizon was doing a VERY poor job of replacing the ads in the video feed with their own ads.
The start and end times of the ads were off by a second or two, so you would see the first two seconds of an ad, suddenly it would change to a different ad, then when the program resumed, you would miss the first second or two.
I was about to write pfSense when I saw the parent post, so I will just second it.
I use it at home and at several of my clients, and one of those has dual WANs.
(Full disclosure: I have contributed (code, not money) to pfSense.)