In the article, Laurence Hessig was mis-quoted through an e-mail.
I looked up my information years ago (before I decided to become invisible). Did I find anything about how many lines of code I've written? About how many machines I've recovered from BSoD's??
We want to give them legit sales so they can't whine that they are losing money to DeCSS! If they increase sales while claiming that DeCSS will cause rampant piracy (Harrr maties!) it's just a pie in the face!
Larry, Curly, Moe and the other two would be proud!
IBM AS/400 series comes with built in hardware encryption.
The chipset is proprietary, and the data cannot be read by another AS/400. If you try to remove the drives etc from the unit, they will not function! Conversely, if you add more drives, you have to know the master key to get them to function...as well if you replace these chips, the unit will not function.
Might be worthwhile to port Linux to one of these boxes! Bonus points for the student!
Not only did it have the BEST object oriented interface, but it's security was rock solid.
I've done some support work for IBM, and most banks around here still use OS/2 as their primary platform. The security is centralized, and if properly implemented, unbreakable.
As well, most ABM's or ATM's (Instant cash machines) use OS/2. Doesn't matter Diebold, NCR or otherwise. Imagine walking up to an ATM and seeing "General Protection Fault:":-)
But the desktop was the best! You could create a desktop "palette" of colours, fonts etc and just drag and drop that on your desktop and *poof*(tm) it would change. You could even do that with just a single window, and it would modify just the objects in that window! Try modifying the background bitmap, font or colour of ONE window, in any O/S out there!
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It is most amazing isn't it!
I live and work in the far north, above 60 degrees N Latitude.
I have the advantage of seeing things like this on a regular basis, however in periods of increased solar activity, such as this, even a hardened observer such as myself is in awe!
It is indescribable, the depth of colour and the speed at which aurora can change it! Imagine being surrounded by a curtain of the best Pink Floyd laser light show that can be seen for hundreds of miles, and fills the entire sky!
And a little known fact - you can hear the lights up here! Yes, they actually make kind of a hissing television-static kind of sound. Tres Kewl!
But I also service computers - so this also makes my life HELL! My digital cell phone is out of comission for hours, 100mbit ethernet LAN's are basically one big colission, my laptop locks up for no good reason....it's basically "hold on and tough it out" season...but the aurora makes it worth it!!
Countries like France? Sorry, they already have their own Space programs. Which sometimes run at a PROFIT...
Canada perhaps? No thanks, we already contribute quite a bit to NASA, through training crew members and in hardware. Unfortunately, we don't have the equitorial advantage that the US does. Nor do we have the budget for it.
And let's not forget about that little old space station that's getting built up there.:-P
It just keeps popping it's head up! How can I hit it when it keeps moving?
They want the names of everyone who downloaded cphack.exe. Bring it on bitch!
I have it! Right here! But I call it CPHACK.EXE.PGP! 2048 bit key! Expires in 6 months! And I downloaded it using a proxy and a spoofed IP address! Let's see the FBi track that and de-crypt that with their super quintuple q*bit quantum Beowulf cluster!
Plus I'm posting this from my room mate's computer so that he gets busted instead of me! (That'll lern you to be on time with the rent!)
There is no safe way to dispose of data on a hard drive.
Formats, encryption, anything. As you say, the data was recovered 16 re-writes deep. What's to stop anyone from recovering the same data before it was encrypted?
Personally, I've seen drives that were involved in a house fire recovered. I had experience with someone who's doctoral thesis was on his computer, and his machine was in his house when it burnt down. The case, everything was melted! It was soaked from all the water and foam. We sent it off, and it was recovered - completely!
The only way I've seen to totally destroy data, is to take a 3/8 steel bit and drill through all the platters. That is the way my company handles sensitive data. In certain departments, such as HR, if there is a problem with a users machine that requires removing the box from their office, we can ask if they want this to be done. And we do it, on the spot, in front of the user.
No arguing with the fact that the data is G O N E!
Off topic - Navy eh! The best part about being in the Navy is never having to say you're Air Force!
New laws just mean more people will be guilty of something. What people should be focusing on is prevention. Due dillegence my friends!
Where I live, there is still a law that says if the Sherrif asks you to leave town, he must provide you with a horse with saddle and blankets, bedding, a weeks tack and a 30-30 rifle with 10 rounds of ammunition. Imagine trying to enforce that one!
New laws in the US just mean more people from outside the US will be hacking US servers. "But the FBI will haul their asses in." Yea right. Let's see the FBI arrest someone from Cuba, China, or Russia! *[Ooooh we're breaking US laws!] *translated from Mandarin
It's good to see they aren't going to waste their time with more laws that won't work. What they need to push are sites that deal with security! How to lock down those B2B servers!
In related news, version 2.0 is expected to include "Flag Signal Semaphore" (FSS).
This will be included for Wide-Area and Wireless networking.
It was not included in version 1.0 due to security concerns, but these concerns were met by draping a large tarp around the sending or recieving stations on three sides.
I too spent a little time writing articles for a little newspaper in a little town, and I found praise to be a powerful motivator. I don't have the experience writing that you do, but, and you pointed out, I'm an engineer, not a writer.
I think you have hit on the basis for a subject that has come up recently with all these DDoS attacks: a new social contract. If some of these people posting useless information could sit back, and follow some of the things you brought up, they might learn and even contribute something. Everyone might be better for it.
This forum can be powerful, and it is a shame that the people most qualified on certain subjects are unwilling or unable to shed light on certain subjects. These discussions could be greatly enriched by some of these views and information.
As well, the issue of AC's. I hope that Rob or someone can come up with a code that allows valid users to post anonymously without the "coward" stigma. This might allow these people to post without us knowing who they are, but still knowing that the source is reliable or qualified.
I read your articles here (can't say I've read them elsewhere though...) and I must say that at times I have almost believed some of the flaming that has gone on; but I thank you for always promoting an interesting discussion. Now that I know your motivations and views on why you do what you do, I cannot be swayed by flames or AC's.
One thing I'd like to point out - I don't know you personally, you don't know me; but isn't it interesting how any of us can refer to each other on a first name basis and feel comfortable with it?:-)
To flamers: Now that I have shown respect and admiration for your mortal enemy: I know it's coming, and I'm not concerned.
There seems to be several solutions floating around, mostly smart routers that track valid traffic and MAC addresses.
Would changing to IPv6 help eliminate these type of attacks? From what I read of the specs on IPv6, all the data needed to track a packet from destination right down to the MAC address is included in the packet.
What do you want to bet ethier the 'culprits' will never be found, or that they are found and there will be insufficient evidence for conviction.
Give me a break! 50 ~possible~ addresses? I've worked on a large network (approx 10k nodes) and it never took more that 1/2 hour to find a NIC that was spewing garbage, or one with a duplicate IP. And that was with an old 386 laptop running an old 1992 packet sniffing program!
I'm sorry, but I know what some of these 'companies' are capable of, and they would have to be totally inept to take 4 hours to narrow it down to 50 IP's, and then lose the trace! Only to have it pop up again the next day! Oh! Look there it is again! Hit it with the fuzzy hammer!
It cannot be co-incidence that Prez Clinton wants broader powers for law inforcement; that backdoors will not be included in new internet protocols and that these attacks are ocurring!
These attacks are costing these companies millions and they can't narrow it down!?! Because the man doesn't want it narrowed down!
That's how it begins kids! Fear group X, and let's hunt them down and parade them through town square tarred, feathered and GNU zipped!
North of the 49th paralell. The emmigration requirements are that you must show up with a bunch of your country*men and claim that your country is persecuting you on some basis.
Usually the mode of transport usually seems to be boats that barely float, cargo containers with no air and motorhomes. But you get to live for free for 2 years!
I hear it's pretty easy to cross the border;-)
Clueless Lawmakers!?! What do you mean? That guy, Al Gore, He's brilliant! He invented the internet after all!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha he he he hee hee hee Bwaaaaaahahahahaha...
"the most important model of free speech and equal access to information in history, certainly since the U.S. Constitution was adopted."
Sorry Jon, I don't know specific numbers, but like myself; most people here on/. are not subject to the limitations and flaws of the U.S. Constitution.
The Constitution of my country provides for many more and broad freedoms than that of the U.S. , and as such it is nearly impossible to get a wire tap for a private citizen. An Internet tap is equally as difficult.
I'm not naive in assuming it doesn't happen, however (especially when I'm connected to a U.S. based server:-O ). The answer is vigilance. If the Internet 2.0 will not allow for freedom, boycott it faster than cookies from doubleclick.com! If no one uses it, they'll soon get the picture.
Hollywood/Wall Street/Big Business go where the money is. The money is where the people are. They'll realize that and change their ways.
Gopher is dead. Usenet is dying. Perhaps the Web will return to what it once was, a place to exchange ideas freely, without the commercial content.
Of course, my anti-U.S. Constitution comments will get me moderated down and ignored, but I expect that in a place where free expression is subject to the opinions of others.
I started out after University designing chips. Simple PLC's etc. Doing some single chip microcontroller and DSP program designing.
I always found Whiskey helped me with those long night programming sessions coding assembler. I think it was the sugar. Sweet coffee seemed to help too. But after 48 - 72 hours of this, the sugar, caffine and sleep deprevation was quite similar to the "extacy" experience.
I knew some guys that had a bad coke habit, and that led to some problems. Seems they designed a chip that went into the fuel injection computer on some late model cars. Well, they forgot one simple step in the design process - things change with heat.
After a while, these chips would heat up and the substrate would crack. All of a sudden, people would be driving down the road, and their car would just stop dead. Note: This is a bad thing at highway speed.
Kids, remember, there are soft and hard drugs. I've tried most everything out there. Some are scary, like heroin and coke. Stick with the natural stuff. Vitamin M.
Better yet, 72 hours of assembly language and booze. It doesn't cost as much, and if it develops into a habit, you'll be rich not poor!
Cash is the way! Until they start putting tracking devices in them!! (Conspiracy Theory - excellent flick!)
The supermarket I frequent does much the same thing. Discounts on products for "card" holders only - but when I say I don't have a card (and don't want one!) they ask if I want to donate my points to the food bank!
Win-win! I get the discount, and the food bank can exchange the points to re-stock their shelves!
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In the article, Laurence Hessig was mis-quoted through an e-mail.
I looked up my information years ago (before I decided to become invisible). Did I find anything about how many lines of code I've written? About how many machines I've recovered from BSoD's??
No.
But you suck one lousy cock...;-)
We want to give them legit sales so they can't whine that they are losing money to DeCSS! If they increase sales while claiming that DeCSS will cause rampant piracy (Harrr maties!) it's just a pie in the face!
Larry, Curly, Moe and the other two would be proud!
The chipset is proprietary, and the data cannot be read by another AS/400. If you try to remove the drives etc from the unit, they will not function! Conversely, if you add more drives, you have to know the master key to get them to function...as well if you replace these chips, the unit will not function.
Might be worthwhile to port Linux to one of these boxes! Bonus points for the student!
I've done some support work for IBM, and most banks around here still use OS/2 as their primary platform. The security is centralized, and if properly implemented, unbreakable.
As well, most ABM's or ATM's (Instant cash machines) use OS/2. Doesn't matter Diebold, NCR or otherwise. Imagine walking up to an ATM and seeing "General Protection Fault:" :-)
But the desktop was the best! You could create a desktop "palette" of colours, fonts etc and just drag and drop that on your desktop and *poof*(tm) it would change. You could even do that with just a single window, and it would modify just the objects in that window! Try modifying the background bitmap, font or colour of ONE window, in any O/S out there!
I live and work in the far north, above 60 degrees N Latitude.
I have the advantage of seeing things like this on a regular basis, however in periods of increased solar activity, such as this, even a hardened observer such as myself is in awe!
It is indescribable, the depth of colour and the speed at which aurora can change it! Imagine being surrounded by a curtain of the best Pink Floyd laser light show that can be seen for hundreds of miles, and fills the entire sky!
And a little known fact - you can hear the lights up here! Yes, they actually make kind of a hissing television-static kind of sound. Tres Kewl!
But I also service computers - so this also makes my life HELL! My digital cell phone is out of comission for hours, 100mbit ethernet LAN's are basically one big colission, my laptop locks up for no good reason....it's basically "hold on and tough it out" season...but the aurora makes it worth it!!
Just another dead troll in a Baggie(tm).
Space, and rural roads should be governed by the salvage laws of the sea!
You abandon it, it reverts back to the chapter of law defined under "Finders Keepers caveat emptor".
Wanna leave that nice new Expedition stuck in a ditch by the side of the road? No prob! Me and the boys have some winches!
Wanna leave that space station unlocked? Well we'll just move in and squat!
Wanna leave a few satellites unattended? Fine! We need the Sci-Fi channel up here too!
I know you moderators are just trying to dump Karma so you can get it over with and participate, but SHEESH!!
And by the way, I think this discussion is turning into the worst form of bandwidth waste ever! Chain letters are bad enough!
Moderate the whole article down to -1 so the rest of us who get these stupid chain letters can't see it!!!
Countries like France? Sorry, they already have their own Space programs. Which sometimes run at a PROFIT...
Canada perhaps? No thanks, we already contribute quite a bit to NASA, through training crew members and in hardware. Unfortunately, we don't have the equitorial advantage that the US does. Nor do we have the budget for it.
And let's not forget about that little old space station that's getting built up there. :-P
This was a copyright issue, which would be a civil matter.
They want the names of everyone who downloaded cphack.exe. Bring it on bitch!
I have it! Right here! But I call it CPHACK.EXE.PGP! 2048 bit key! Expires in 6 months! And I downloaded it using a proxy and a spoofed IP address! Let's see the FBi track that and de-crypt that with their super quintuple q*bit quantum Beowulf cluster!
Plus I'm posting this from my room mate's computer so that he gets busted instead of me! (That'll lern you to be on time with the rent!)
Ha!
Ha Ha!
D'ho! Black helicopters - gotta g
Formats, encryption, anything. As you say, the data was recovered 16 re-writes deep. What's to stop anyone from recovering the same data before it was encrypted?
Personally, I've seen drives that were involved in a house fire recovered. I had experience with someone who's doctoral thesis was on his computer, and his machine was in his house when it burnt down. The case, everything was melted! It was soaked from all the water and foam. We sent it off, and it was recovered - completely!
The only way I've seen to totally destroy data, is to take a 3/8 steel bit and drill through all the platters. That is the way my company handles sensitive data. In certain departments, such as HR, if there is a problem with a users machine that requires removing the box from their office, we can ask if they want this to be done. And we do it, on the spot, in front of the user.
No arguing with the fact that the data is G O N E!
Off topic - Navy eh! The best part about being in the Navy is never having to say you're Air Force!
Where I live, there is still a law that says if the Sherrif asks you to leave town, he must provide you with a horse with saddle and blankets, bedding, a weeks tack and a 30-30 rifle with 10 rounds of ammunition. Imagine trying to enforce that one!
New laws in the US just mean more people from outside the US will be hacking US servers. "But the FBI will haul their asses in." Yea right. Let's see the FBI arrest someone from Cuba, China, or Russia! *[Ooooh we're breaking US laws!] *translated from Mandarin
It's good to see they aren't going to waste their time with more laws that won't work. What they need to push are sites that deal with security! How to lock down those B2B servers!
Disney.com!
Blonde Jokes!
I always picture sites like that with sweet little old ladies as moderators. Sitting there, reading the results, reading the query tags. Knitting.
In my mental picture, they just burst into flames!
Bwhaaahahahahaha ha haaaa!
This will be included for Wide-Area and Wireless networking.
It was not included in version 1.0 due to security concerns, but these concerns were met by draping a large tarp around the sending or recieving stations on three sides.
I think you have hit on the basis for a subject that has come up recently with all these DDoS attacks: a new social contract. If some of these people posting useless information could sit back, and follow some of the things you brought up, they might learn and even contribute something. Everyone might be better for it.
This forum can be powerful, and it is a shame that the people most qualified on certain subjects are unwilling or unable to shed light on certain subjects. These discussions could be greatly enriched by some of these views and information.
As well, the issue of AC's. I hope that Rob or someone can come up with a code that allows valid users to post anonymously without the "coward" stigma. This might allow these people to post without us knowing who they are, but still knowing that the source is reliable or qualified.
I read your articles here (can't say I've read them elsewhere though...) and I must say that at times I have almost believed some of the flaming that has gone on; but I thank you for always promoting an interesting discussion. Now that I know your motivations and views on why you do what you do, I cannot be swayed by flames or AC's.
One thing I'd like to point out - I don't know you personally, you don't know me; but isn't it interesting how any of us can refer to each other on a first name basis and feel comfortable with it? :-)
To flamers: Now that I have shown respect and admiration for your mortal enemy: I know it's coming, and I'm not concerned.
There seems to be several solutions floating around, mostly smart routers that track valid traffic and MAC addresses.
Would changing to IPv6 help eliminate these type of attacks? From what I read of the specs on IPv6, all the data needed to track a packet from destination right down to the MAC address is included in the packet.
Thanks.
Give me a break! 50 ~possible~ addresses? I've worked on a large network (approx 10k nodes) and it never took more that 1/2 hour to find a NIC that was spewing garbage, or one with a duplicate IP. And that was with an old 386 laptop running an old 1992 packet sniffing program!
I'm sorry, but I know what some of these 'companies' are capable of, and they would have to be totally inept to take 4 hours to narrow it down to 50 IP's, and then lose the trace! Only to have it pop up again the next day! Oh! Look there it is again! Hit it with the fuzzy hammer!
It cannot be co-incidence that Prez Clinton wants broader powers for law inforcement; that backdoors will not be included in new internet protocols and that these attacks are ocurring!
These attacks are costing these companies millions and they can't narrow it down!?! Because the man doesn't want it narrowed down!
That's how it begins kids! Fear group X, and let's hunt them down and parade them through town square tarred, feathered and GNU zipped!
Usually the mode of transport usually seems to be boats that barely float, cargo containers with no air and motorhomes. But you get to live for free for 2 years!
I hear it's pretty easy to cross the border ;-)
Clueless Lawmakers!?! What do you mean? That guy, Al Gore, He's brilliant! He invented the internet after all!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha he he he hee hee hee Bwaaaaaahahahahaha...
Sorry Jon, I don't know specific numbers, but like myself; most people here on /. are not subject to the limitations and flaws of the U.S. Constitution.
The Constitution of my country provides for many more and broad freedoms than that of the U.S. , and as such it is nearly impossible to get a wire tap for a private citizen. An Internet tap is equally as difficult.
I'm not naive in assuming it doesn't happen, however (especially when I'm connected to a U.S. based server :-O ). The answer is vigilance. If the Internet 2.0 will not allow for freedom, boycott it faster than cookies from doubleclick.com! If no one uses it, they'll soon get the picture.
Hollywood/Wall Street/Big Business go where the money is. The money is where the people are. They'll realize that and change their ways.
Gopher is dead. Usenet is dying. Perhaps the Web will return to what it once was, a place to exchange ideas freely, without the commercial content.
Of course, my anti-U.S. Constitution comments will get me moderated down and ignored, but I expect that in a place where free expression is subject to the opinions of others.
I always found Whiskey helped me with those long night programming sessions coding assembler. I think it was the sugar. Sweet coffee seemed to help too. But after 48 - 72 hours of this, the sugar, caffine and sleep deprevation was quite similar to the "extacy" experience.
I knew some guys that had a bad coke habit, and that led to some problems. Seems they designed a chip that went into the fuel injection computer on some late model cars. Well, they forgot one simple step in the design process - things change with heat.
After a while, these chips would heat up and the substrate would crack. All of a sudden, people would be driving down the road, and their car would just stop dead. Note: This is a bad thing at highway speed.
Kids, remember, there are soft and hard drugs. I've tried most everything out there. Some are scary, like heroin and coke. Stick with the natural stuff. Vitamin M.
Better yet, 72 hours of assembly language and booze. It doesn't cost as much, and if it develops into a habit, you'll be rich not poor!
Well, gotta go, crack don't smoke itself ya know!
I wonder what the current requirements are for the plastic?
Here are some links for Nitinol wire and its application on the Mars Pathfinder Mission: http://www.robotstore.com
For Mark Tilden's Home page: http://nis-www.lanl.gov/robot/
For the B.E.A.M. Robotics page: http://www.beam-online.com/
The supermarket I frequent does much the same thing. Discounts on products for "card" holders only - but when I say I don't have a card (and don't want one!) they ask if I want to donate my points to the food bank!
Win-win! I get the discount, and the food bank can exchange the points to re-stock their shelves!