Today is one of those days that I wish I had mod points.
First, the question at hand, get yourself some virtualization, and get a box that you can just plug in at home and fiddle around with when you aren't doing anything else. Trial and error will help you.
Just make sure that you do your trials and errors on a testing environment and not in production. It is alright to make mistakes until you sort stuff out, just don't bring down the house.
Second, shame on you naysayers. Let this guy learn stuff as he goes. Where did our curiosity and creativity go? You could give him advice instead of being a rude, mean, naysaying bastard. Thanks for posting as anonymous cowards too. Real nice.
This is an interesting topic. Richard Levi-Strauss was concerned with this as well, and had a similar set of methods for parsing data related to superstition and religion, how they relate, and how we can develop a system for understanding the interrelation of ritual and communicative behaviors which have their roots in emotional/instinctual/superstitious-type responses.
What would be really hilarious is if rather than being a hole in something windows-ish it was a hole in all of our Linux-based home servers and none of us have noticed it yet.
That would be a big collective egg-on-face.
I hadn't thought about pet power. This is perfect. Get the kids a hamster. Shit, get them 30, just as long as you can wire up their little wheels into a power collection station. Same goes for the exerbike and weight station. Hamster wheels for everyone!
I've been using a package called DenyHosts for about 2 months now. It's in the Debian repos. It just reads the auth.log file and blocks ssh login attempts based on the parameters that you set. It's cut back on my login attempts by about 40% since I started playing with it. It helps a great deal even if you are doing password-less logins, because it will block based on the user, whether it is valid or not, root login attempt, et al.
denyhosts.sourceforge.net
It's worth looking into as an extra layer of security.
Well, the air is terrible all the time, but November/December is the worst because of the rice straw. In October you should be alright. Enjoy your vacation. There are some amazing things here.
There is 'gmailfs' which allows you to mount your Gmail share as a local directory. It is apparently not fully secure as it stores your password as text on your system, but well...
I know that it is available for Linux systems, though I have never been able to fully get it to work.
We have the same in Cairo in November from the rice-straw fires in the delta. The air is just black/gray in the morning and hangs. It is probably the reason for something that they expats collectively refer to as Cairo Lung.
This really does make you wonder how we sent human beings to the moon without involving either fiery or airless death. I know that it is not a matter of technology as much as it is political pretense, but good lord, if we are going to use technology in our polite public fiction then wouldn't it be nice if it were well implemented and deployed?
Currently, passports are still difficult to copy and someone looks at the passport to confirm that it is real. What do you think will happen when a TSA monkey can just slide the passport under a reader? They are not going to look at anything! They will just do whatever the screen tells them to do, which, I suppose, is the way that our current overlords want it. They get to pull the strings, all the way to the ground-level.
In other words, once again, in our attempts to appear as though we have everything under control, we have added a layer of complexity and simultaneously a layer of vulnerability which can and will be exploited by those who have the appropriate incentives.
The problem here is that there is money at stake. The insurance companies are only interested in the amounts that we spend on health care anyway, they don't particularly care about the treatments themselves. They care about the amounts because, they would infer, high-speanding = sick = more sickness over time.
No "health care" involved. The companies are worried about how much they will spend if they take you on as a client.
Also, they have had access to physicians records for some time—again for the same reasons. And guess what (RTFA, or the "Privacy Rule" in HIPAA): HIPAA doesn't apply. When you apply for insurance, read the fine-print, because there are clauses in there about allowing them access to your medical billing records. These days they are just electronic, ergo easier to access. This is why they want access to prescription info as well, because then they can use this to more finely tune their systems of prescription drug co-pay scenarios.
I don't think that it was ever up for debate that the United States "health care" system has nothing to do with health, but another good indicator would be that insurance plans typically don't cover anything that can be deemed preventative, including basic physical examinations, and routine diagnostic testing such as STD/HIV tests, cancer-screenings, etc. Those tests are only paid for if they are deemed "necessary" for the diagnosis of a condition, rather than the prevention of a condition.
There has never been a better time for a national health-care system in the US. Also, there has never been a worse time: we don't have any more money.
I just wonder how many of these incidents we are going to have to see before need for encryption is taken seriously by "security" pros.
I agree, if I am going to have to give my passphrase up when going through security, then I should be allowed to keep my pocket knife. Or at least my fingernail clippers and water bottle.
I concur with some fellow above who noted that we must be losing touch with our inner geek. Even if thing is riddled with illegal shit and the guy who created it is kind of an idiot, cheers to him for indulging himself.
Then again, this comes from a guy who spends ALL of his spare time making wireless thin clients out of old laptops for mounting in picture frames and other surfaces in his house. Gotta get on that solar power next, this shit is getting expensive.
The point, to hell with all you nay-sayers. Go back to whatever boring, gainfully-employed thing is is that you are doing while the rest of us have fun.
Yah, I sort of took for granted the non-monopoly as default state. In reality, the situation where I live is worse than a non-monopoly. I live in Egypt, where there are 4 companies which provide DSL. All of the companies are privately owned, save one, and each of the privates rent their lines from the government-owned one. In order to switch companies, you have to get a code from your current company to give to the new company. In order to discourage this, the process takes several months at the shortest. It is a nightmare. On second thought, I might have done the same thing this poor bastard with a shitty name did after all.
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Today is one of those days that I wish I had mod points.
First, the question at hand, get yourself some virtualization, and get a box that you can just plug in at home and fiddle around with when you aren't doing anything else. Trial and error will help you.
Just make sure that you do your trials and errors on a testing environment and not in production. It is alright to make mistakes until you sort stuff out, just don't bring down the house.
Second, shame on you naysayers. Let this guy learn stuff as he goes. Where did our curiosity and creativity go? You could give him advice instead of being a rude, mean, naysaying bastard. Thanks for posting as anonymous cowards too. Real nice.
apt-get install free-beer? Who knew?
Yeah, but wouldn't it be nice not to have to wait 8 months for DSL when you move into that condo in shadow of Olympos Mons?
This is an interesting topic. Richard Levi-Strauss was concerned with this as well, and had a similar set of methods for parsing data related to superstition and religion, how they relate, and how we can develop a system for understanding the interrelation of ritual and communicative behaviors which have their roots in emotional/instinctual/superstitious-type responses.
Sorry, I couldn't hear you. Mama Mia was on really loud.
I was just wondering if anyone else scrolled down and read some of the comments posted in response to TFA. There are some doosies.
I mean, I know that not everyone can have the brilliant likes of Slashdotters commenting on their sites, but good lord.
Well, they wouldn't necessarily get out of their chairs in protest, but they might raise a glass from a seated position in a sidewalk cafe in protest.
I wonder if you took an image of the USB key and mounted the image as a filesystem. Maybe that might work.
Or... oh wait, Ghostbusters?
What would be really hilarious is if rather than being a hole in something windows-ish it was a hole in all of our Linux-based home servers and none of us have noticed it yet. That would be a big collective egg-on-face.
I hadn't thought about pet power. This is perfect. Get the kids a hamster. Shit, get them 30, just as long as you can wire up their little wheels into a power collection station. Same goes for the exerbike and weight station. Hamster wheels for everyone!
I've been using a package called DenyHosts for about 2 months now. It's in the Debian repos. It just reads the auth.log file and blocks ssh login attempts based on the parameters that you set. It's cut back on my login attempts by about 40% since I started playing with it. It helps a great deal even if you are doing password-less logins, because it will block based on the user, whether it is valid or not, root login attempt, et al. denyhosts.sourceforge.net It's worth looking into as an extra layer of security.
Damn right.
Did you mean "faint-of-heart?"
Well, the air is terrible all the time, but November/December is the worst because of the rice straw. In October you should be alright. Enjoy your vacation. There are some amazing things here.
Hear, hear!
There is 'gmailfs' which allows you to mount your Gmail share as a local directory. It is apparently not fully secure as it stores your password as text on your system, but well...
I know that it is available for Linux systems, though I have never been able to fully get it to work.
Here is theLinux link.
Here is a link to a Windows Port.
It's not a "one-touch" solution, but what is? I has the potential to be a great deal more than just your average backup.
We have the same in Cairo in November from the rice-straw fires in the delta. The air is just black/gray in the morning and hangs. It is probably the reason for something that they expats collectively refer to as Cairo Lung.
Defense against the dark arts? Harry Potter? Anyone?
This really does make you wonder how we sent human beings to the moon without involving either fiery or airless death. I know that it is not a matter of technology as much as it is political pretense, but good lord, if we are going to use technology in our polite public fiction then wouldn't it be nice if it were well implemented and deployed?
Currently, passports are still difficult to copy and someone looks at the passport to confirm that it is real. What do you think will happen when a TSA monkey can just slide the passport under a reader? They are not going to look at anything! They will just do whatever the screen tells them to do, which, I suppose, is the way that our current overlords want it. They get to pull the strings, all the way to the ground-level.
In other words, once again, in our attempts to appear as though we have everything under control, we have added a layer of complexity and simultaneously a layer of vulnerability which can and will be exploited by those who have the appropriate incentives.
It's win-win really: Terror: 1, Fear-mongering: 1.
It's sort of like the drains going the opposite way and Summer being cold, right?
Agreed. Public keys have been used successfully for all sorts of less "sensitive" applications. Why not?
The problem here is that there is money at stake. The insurance companies are only interested in the amounts that we spend on health care anyway, they don't particularly care about the treatments themselves. They care about the amounts because, they would infer, high-speanding = sick = more sickness over time.
No "health care" involved. The companies are worried about how much they will spend if they take you on as a client.
Also, they have had access to physicians records for some time—again for the same reasons. And guess what (RTFA, or the "Privacy Rule" in HIPAA): HIPAA doesn't apply. When you apply for insurance, read the fine-print, because there are clauses in there about allowing them access to your medical billing records. These days they are just electronic, ergo easier to access. This is why they want access to prescription info as well, because then they can use this to more finely tune their systems of prescription drug co-pay scenarios.
I don't think that it was ever up for debate that the United States "health care" system has nothing to do with health, but another good indicator would be that insurance plans typically don't cover anything that can be deemed preventative, including basic physical examinations, and routine diagnostic testing such as STD/HIV tests, cancer-screenings, etc. Those tests are only paid for if they are deemed "necessary" for the diagnosis of a condition, rather than the prevention of a condition.
There has never been a better time for a national health-care system in the US. Also, there has never been a worse time: we don't have any more money.
I just wonder how many of these incidents we are going to have to see before need for encryption is taken seriously by "security" pros. I agree, if I am going to have to give my passphrase up when going through security, then I should be allowed to keep my pocket knife. Or at least my fingernail clippers and water bottle.
I concur with some fellow above who noted that we must be losing touch with our inner geek. Even if thing is riddled with illegal shit and the guy who created it is kind of an idiot, cheers to him for indulging himself.
;p
Then again, this comes from a guy who spends ALL of his spare time making wireless thin clients out of old laptops for mounting in picture frames and other surfaces in his house. Gotta get on that solar power next, this shit is getting expensive.
The point, to hell with all you nay-sayers. Go back to whatever boring, gainfully-employed thing is is that you are doing while the rest of us have fun.
Yah, I sort of took for granted the non-monopoly as default state. In reality, the situation where I live is worse than a non-monopoly. I live in Egypt, where there are 4 companies which provide DSL. All of the companies are privately owned, save one, and each of the privates rent their lines from the government-owned one. In order to switch companies, you have to get a code from your current company to give to the new company. In order to discourage this, the process takes several months at the shortest. It is a nightmare. On second thought, I might have done the same thing this poor bastard with a shitty name did after all.