Being unavailable isn't the same as actively interfering (it may be passive interference as far as the signal is concerned, but it took an active effort).
It wouldn't be illegal under FCC in the US, but it's still endangering people by blocking calls to emergency services. It shouldn't necessarily be legal.
However, it seems to be only covered by state law - and there are several that criminalize active blocking of emergency calls: https://www.cga.ct.gov/2002/rp...
It really doesn't matter if it's possible without it. It's done. It's out there - and there were a lot of implementations made. I'm not arguing whether there's some other way to do it. I'm arguing that there are real rootkits out there doing this - and that the AC who claimed 15 years of malware cleanup experience and never seeing one is probably just not doing good cleanup.
While that's completely off-topic of what I'm talking about, I'll go ahead and address the most pointless of your arguments.
Realistically the only thing they can do is rubber stamp things.
And malware that poses as a driver to get kernel access will not get that rubber stamp. The end. That's the main goal, regardless of how many other nefarious purposes could be behind it as well.
just gave that money directly to the TrueCrypt developers instead, that they wouldn't use that money to go bug-hunting themselves?
There's a reason for the audit to be independent. And it wasn't to find bugs. If you're paranoid enough to be running TrueCrypt, you should be paranoid enough not to trust the anonymous developers. Trust is all sorts of warm and fuzzy, but it's not secure.
I was talking to an anonymous coward. Most rootkits I've dealt with intercept file-system calls to hide the files and the signature of the modified file. That requires kernel-level access. And they've usually been a modified ntfs.sys - tell me that's not kernel-mode. Sometimes kbd.sys.
Were you trying to install as an upgrade? You would have to do it as a clean install. Worst case, you have a VGA driver to fall back on until you get it figured out.
Won't need to use it since I don't have any allergies after all. But of course that could change. I have an overactive immune system in a mostly good way.
You don't know much about computers prior to protected mode being implemented by the OS. The only reason every piece of hardware has to have a driver is because only kernel-level code can access raw hardware. If you don't close that down, you can just have any old program poking around at interrupts and hardware memory addresses.
Really? You must not be doing very good cleanup. I've seen it dozens of times as a part time computer repair tech. Have you not heard of a "rootkit"? Most of those involve infecting basic system drivers.
Loratadine doesn't even (readily) cross the blood-brain barrier. You can kill yourself with Benadryl.
I tried Loratidine once, thinking that I had allergies. Turned out that I don't have allergies. But I do have a serious reaction with loratidine that causes irregular heartbeat. Six hours of the heart beating outside of a normal rhythm from taking a single pill.
OK, it seems that the LoC might be partly at fault for the misinformation by using one of their standard text templates - at least according to the evidence presented on the case: http://digitalcommons.law.scu....
Unfortunately, there seems to be no digital copy online of their Exhibit B - the text of the oriignal "Instrument of Gift" that gave the public access to her photos in the first place. At the very least, her intent was to make the photos freely available to use/copy but not public domain.
Of course if you read the "Assessing the Risk of Using a P&P Image" section of the web site you quoted, you'll see that they aren't claiming those records to be without fault.
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I'm pretty sure that the bar has a landline telephone.
That doesn't mean it wouldn't be considered interference with an emergency call.
Being unavailable isn't the same as actively interfering (it may be passive interference as far as the signal is concerned, but it took an active effort).
There are several states that make interfering with calls to emergency services a crime:
https://www.cga.ct.gov/2002/rp...
And that's cellular or not. Just because the FCC rules (no, not FTC) only say you can't jam the signal - that's not the final word.
It wouldn't be illegal under FCC in the US, but it's still endangering people by blocking calls to emergency services. It shouldn't necessarily be legal.
However, it seems to be only covered by state law - and there are several that criminalize active blocking of emergency calls:
https://www.cga.ct.gov/2002/rp...
Or Linux
There are plenty of urinating statue fountains out there, too.
13 states require registration for public urination
Where do I go register to urinate? I'd better do that before I get caught.
It really doesn't matter if it's possible without it. It's done. It's out there - and there were a lot of implementations made. I'm not arguing whether there's some other way to do it. I'm arguing that there are real rootkits out there doing this - and that the AC who claimed 15 years of malware cleanup experience and never seeing one is probably just not doing good cleanup.
The point is, it's not dispersed into the entire volume of the room instantaneously. Especially not for the person directly using the device.
Best Buy tech support would at least try System Restore - and succeed.
If you're on Linux, just use Transmission. It has the better web interface if accessing remotely or from another device.
It's kind of like those Garfield comics with Garfield removed
http://garfieldminusgarfield.n...
While that's completely off-topic of what I'm talking about, I'll go ahead and address the most pointless of your arguments.
Realistically the only thing they can do is rubber stamp things.
And malware that poses as a driver to get kernel access will not get that rubber stamp. The end. That's the main goal, regardless of how many other nefarious purposes could be behind it as well.
prevent my decade old CueCat drivers from working
Scared me for a second, but no. It's an HID-compliant standard keyboard - no driver required.
just gave that money directly to the TrueCrypt developers instead, that they wouldn't use that money to go bug-hunting themselves?
There's a reason for the audit to be independent. And it wasn't to find bugs. If you're paranoid enough to be running TrueCrypt, you should be paranoid enough not to trust the anonymous developers. Trust is all sorts of warm and fuzzy, but it's not secure.
I was talking to an anonymous coward. Most rootkits I've dealt with intercept file-system calls to hide the files and the signature of the modified file. That requires kernel-level access. And they've usually been a modified ntfs.sys - tell me that's not kernel-mode. Sometimes kbd.sys.
Were you trying to install as an upgrade? You would have to do it as a clean install. Worst case, you have a VGA driver to fall back on until you get it figured out.
Won't need to use it since I don't have any allergies after all. But of course that could change. I have an overactive immune system in a mostly good way.
What genius logic. Because you can't put the same forensic traces in there that would exist if it was previously installed.
You don't know much about computers prior to protected mode being implemented by the OS. The only reason every piece of hardware has to have a driver is because only kernel-level code can access raw hardware. If you don't close that down, you can just have any old program poking around at interrupts and hardware memory addresses.
Really? You must not be doing very good cleanup. I've seen it dozens of times as a part time computer repair tech. Have you not heard of a "rootkit"? Most of those involve infecting basic system drivers.
Not to get pedantic, but rose-colored glasses let a lot of blue light in too. Not pure-red.
Loratadine doesn't even (readily) cross the blood-brain barrier. You can kill yourself with Benadryl.
I tried Loratidine once, thinking that I had allergies. Turned out that I don't have allergies. But I do have a serious reaction with loratidine that causes irregular heartbeat. Six hours of the heart beating outside of a normal rhythm from taking a single pill.
OK, it seems that the LoC might be partly at fault for the misinformation by using one of their standard text templates - at least according to the evidence presented on the case:
http://digitalcommons.law.scu....
Unfortunately, there seems to be no digital copy online of their Exhibit B - the text of the oriignal "Instrument of Gift" that gave the public access to her photos in the first place. At the very least, her intent was to make the photos freely available to use/copy but not public domain.
Of course if you read the "Assessing the Risk of Using a P&P Image" section of the web site you quoted, you'll see that they aren't claiming those records to be without fault.
If you're going to make that connection, you might as well say we call Radiation Poisoning skin cancer, too. The cause is not the name of the effect.