Sorry but "that pesky network card in your laptop, which has a MAC address hard-coded into it," is not correct information because in reality it's not hard coded, it's easily changed. I can change the MAC address at whim and do so easily with the ifconfig command or automatically with a linux script, every reboot the mac changes. Also MAC addresses do not get passed on by routers. You need to look at the router's ARP table, so the only way you are going to be identified by your MAC address, is that the first router you connect to is compromised and under the complete control of the enemy and they can access the ARP table to identify you. And no, the ARP table will not keep your MAC address info in there forever, it's gone quite quickly after you stop being a part of the network if the router is busy, like a coffee shop.
Since it seems you don't know much about networking or network forensics so please let me enlighten you....
There is a common belief that because MAC addresses are burned into the network interface card (NIC), they never can be changed. The MAC address can be changed by using the ifconfig command in Unix. Given that MAC addresses are sometimes used to identify the source of hostile activity, it should also come as no surprise that programs are available that can randomly change a MAC address.3 Don't automatically assume that a piece of equipment is useless as evidence because its MAC is different than you expected. The MAC you are seeking may have been changed through software, or the NIC may have been changed.
"Buy a cheap, hundred dollar laptop from someone on Craigslist. Wipe the disk and install Linux. Create an account called "privacy". Encrypt the home directory."
I know several ex cops. and they all quit the force because of what you said. The police are turning into a legal thug gang. Personally I believe any cop that injures a innocent person needs to be found off duty after hours and have the living shit beat out of him by 5-6 people. break both arms and legs. make him understand that what he did was unacceptable. That's the only way those kinds of thugs learn.
Problem is cops support the bad cops. it's a good ol boys club and they back each other up. Honestly, if you are a good cop, you need to blow the head off another cop that is assaulting an innocent. Cops needto be held to a higher standard...
Speeding off duty? you lose your fucking job scumbag.
I wouldn't. I wold have called the local cops and reported it as a bomb. Get a ton of press, have the local swat team remove it and then discover what it was. The feds get to pay for a bomb removal and explain to themselves WHY they did not report it to the locals so that the bomb squad was not rolled for no reason.
Best way to embarrass a federal department is to get the locals to do it for you. The device looks like a bomb. The kid after all the news could have sued and won damages as well.
"Really? You think that executing the absolute worst criminals in society means we can't "assert any moral highground" over people that behead reporters"
WE dont just execute evil, we execute innocents. there is an unacceptable number of innocent people on death row. and many innocent have been executed because they were railroaded by the prosecution or they had incompetent defense.
They are STILL INNOCENT... and yes, until that is fixed our hands are very bloody.
I see as many atrocities done by CHRISTIANS as well.
Christians in the USA typically are rude and hostile (Westboro) OR are fakes. Jesus fish car tailgating you or driving recklessly. I have seen more Christians road rage someone than any other. Christians call for the death of people that do good, Sara Palin calling for the death of Assange for example. Christians send death threats to doctors, accused, etc.. Christians support taking away freedoms. Unless these people are not really Christians but just fakes that go to church to keep up the lie they live. I really see jesus's love coming from the Christians that picket the gay pride events, the pagan events.. All these people do is exude hate. Raw hate.. They are identical to the extremists in the middle east.
Disclaimer: I'm christian, but one who actually follows Christs teachings.
They are not going to show you the masonic lodge and the giant space communications array that the aliens built in 1207. Just give it up. You will have to join and become a master mason in order to even see the photos of it, and become worshipful master before you can go there.
Now I need to go kill myself as I have revealed far too much. My brothers will be here shortly to torch the house... hopefully they torch the right one this time.
Problem is, "the public" is not what you think it is. that does not mean you or me but "major shareholders" which is the top 1% of the population. Liability to you or me, even if we hold 1,000 shares is nothing. liability to the guy that owns 20% is there.
the public was sold a bag of goods that was rigged from the start to protect the riches of the top 1% and NOT that of the public.
Problem is Companies don't want to PAY for college educated Sysadmins or IT people in general. They want to pay $16-$18 an hour instead of the $32-$42 my BSEE and BSCS deserves. The Cert mills churn out the useless certified IT people that gladly lap up the low wages.
THAT is the demise of the educated Sysadmin. Companies that want to pay the IT department less than the custodial department.
Linux owns the server market, on the internet they decimate Windows hard.
On the desktop you are comparing a high end Designed for server use operating system to a consumer desktop operating system designed to NOT be a server.
Let me guess, you also will claim that Chevy cars are a success compared to semi trucks, because not everyone drives a semi truck.
Out of the last 10 Fortune 100 companies I worked for 6 of them did not use Exchange. Now in a service role, I find that Exchange is still not "defacto standard" but Lotus Notes and good old open source IMAP is still used heavily in big corperations.
You need to get out more in the IT world, maybe all the tiny companies that use Microsoft Server SBE and cant afford a real IT staff all use exchange, but the big guys dont.
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Sorry but "that pesky network card in your laptop, which has a MAC address hard-coded into it," is not correct information because in reality it's not hard coded, it's easily changed. I can change the MAC address at whim and do so easily with the ifconfig command or automatically with a linux script, every reboot the mac changes. Also MAC addresses do not get passed on by routers. You need to look at the router's ARP table, so the only way you are going to be identified by your MAC address, is that the first router you connect to is compromised and under the complete control of the enemy and they can access the ARP table to identify you. And no, the ARP table will not keep your MAC address info in there forever, it's gone quite quickly after you stop being a part of the network if the router is busy, like a coffee shop.
Since it seems you don't know much about networking or network forensics so please let me enlighten you....
There is a common belief that because MAC addresses are burned into the network interface card (NIC), they never can be changed. The MAC address can be changed by using the ifconfig command in Unix. Given that MAC addresses are sometimes used to identify the source of hostile activity, it should also come as no surprise that programs are available that can randomly change a MAC address.3 Don't automatically assume that a piece of equipment is useless as evidence because its MAC is different than you expected. The MAC you are seeking may have been changed through software, or the NIC may have been changed.
And it makes it easier to put in code that detects if it's an oracle repackage and spew out "ORACLE SUCKS" on the text console and in the logs.
So raising their taxes by another 2% will solve all the problems.
Thanks for volunteering that.
ebay duh!
"Buy a cheap, hundred dollar laptop from someone on Craigslist. Wipe the disk and install Linux. Create an account called "privacy". Encrypt the home directory."
Why?
Live CD + usb stick. does the exact same thing.
Yes it is tough luck. It can even be done publicly to a public official without any recourse.
http://www.zimbio.com/Senator+Rick+Santorum+of+Pennsylvania/articles/Wx8d2kfC9QG/Rick+Santorum+Google+Bomb+Still+Haunts
if you want a perfect example...
Now shut up or I'll associate your name with another bodily fluid mixture!
I know several ex cops. and they all quit the force because of what you said. The police are turning into a legal thug gang. Personally I believe any cop that injures a innocent person needs to be found off duty after hours and have the living shit beat out of him by 5-6 people. break both arms and legs. make him understand that what he did was unacceptable. That's the only way those kinds of thugs learn.
Problem is cops support the bad cops. it's a good ol boys club and they back each other up. Honestly, if you are a good cop, you need to blow the head off another cop that is assaulting an innocent. Cops needto be held to a higher standard...
Speeding off duty? you lose your fucking job scumbag.
I wouldn't. I wold have called the local cops and reported it as a bomb. Get a ton of press, have the local swat team remove it and then discover what it was. The feds get to pay for a bomb removal and explain to themselves WHY they did not report it to the locals so that the bomb squad was not rolled for no reason.
Best way to embarrass a federal department is to get the locals to do it for you. The device looks like a bomb. The kid after all the news could have sued and won damages as well.
Which is why I no longer have ANY online discussions about shadowrun gaming anymore.
The Feds are looking for scapegoats. and Gamers are a good target.
You're thinking Von Neumman.
Hitler was the bassist.
"Really? You think that executing the absolute worst criminals in society means we can't "assert any moral highground" over people that behead reporters"
WE dont just execute evil, we execute innocents. there is an unacceptable number of innocent people on death row. and many innocent have been executed because they were railroaded by the prosecution or they had incompetent defense.
They are STILL INNOCENT... and yes, until that is fixed our hands are very bloody.
I see as many atrocities done by CHRISTIANS as well.
Christians in the USA typically are rude and hostile (Westboro) OR are fakes. Jesus fish car tailgating you or driving recklessly. I have seen more Christians road rage someone than any other. Christians call for the death of people that do good, Sara Palin calling for the death of Assange for example. Christians send death threats to doctors, accused, etc.. Christians support taking away freedoms. Unless these people are not really Christians but just fakes that go to church to keep up the lie they live. I really see jesus's love coming from the Christians that picket the gay pride events, the pagan events.. All these people do is exude hate. Raw hate.. They are identical to the extremists in the middle east.
Disclaimer: I'm christian, but one who actually follows Christs teachings.
I prefer the bottom 99% show up at the 1%'s homes with torches and pichforks and solve the whole problem in a night.
They are not going to show you the masonic lodge and the giant space communications array that the aliens built in 1207. Just give it up. You will have to join and become a master mason in order to even see the photos of it, and become worshipful master before you can go there.
Now I need to go kill myself as I have revealed far too much. My brothers will be here shortly to torch the house... hopefully they torch the right one this time.
From the article : "The combined image shows slight banding where the 1,024-pixel-wide swaths were stitched together."
BULL! those are where the moon farmers were harvesting their moon wheat! It's all a coverup!
What are you talking about?
We need to make sure that door hit's him on the way out... What the hell do we pay that midget that sits next to the door for?
and every day the internet is working ,no excommunication, we don't know how it works, it's a satirical of God.
All the "used" ipads on ebay and craigs list are still within 20% of MSRP...
Your Used ipad 1 should go for at LEAST $200.00 less than what you bought it for.
APPLE even discounted new ipad 1's by $100.00 as well.. I can buy a NEW Ipad 1 for $399.00 so your used one is worth $299...
In fact a single employee functions BETTER if all the management parts were removed.
that makes Management in a corporation.... Cancer?
Nope it will be a rider in the "telecommunications terrorism prevention act."
I'm NOT joking. They will pull this shit.
Problem is, "the public" is not what you think it is. that does not mean you or me but "major shareholders" which is the top 1% of the population. Liability to you or me, even if we hold 1,000 shares is nothing. liability to the guy that owns 20% is there.
the public was sold a bag of goods that was rigged from the start to protect the riches of the top 1% and NOT that of the public.
Problem is Companies don't want to PAY for college educated Sysadmins or IT people in general. They want to pay $16-$18 an hour instead of the $32-$42 my BSEE and BSCS deserves. The Cert mills churn out the useless certified IT people that gladly lap up the low wages.
THAT is the demise of the educated Sysadmin. Companies that want to pay the IT department less than the custodial department.
No real admin skills required....
so a MCSE can do it then?
Linux owns the server market, on the internet they decimate Windows hard.
On the desktop you are comparing a high end Designed for server use operating system to a consumer desktop operating system designed to NOT be a server.
Let me guess, you also will claim that Chevy cars are a success compared to semi trucks, because not everyone drives a semi truck.
Out of the last 10 Fortune 100 companies I worked for 6 of them did not use Exchange. Now in a service role, I find that Exchange is still not "defacto standard" but Lotus Notes and good old open source IMAP is still used heavily in big corperations.
You need to get out more in the IT world, maybe all the tiny companies that use Microsoft Server SBE and cant afford a real IT staff all use exchange, but the big guys dont.