Yes apparently the project used to be called Project Hostile Intent, but was re-branded as FAST. See http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/09/precrime-detector-is-showing-p.html
Yes I'm not sure why Ubuntu scored a mention. Novell would be a better match; not sure how well SUSE Linux Enterprise sells, but they're definitely trying to make inroads on the RHEL market space.
Well they did have a history of going with whatever makes money at the time, whether it's playing cards, "love hotels" or game consoles. Maybe Nintendo can run a few lapdancing clubs til the Gamecube market picks up?:-)
Inkjet printers? This is about the Prebate laser toner cartridge recycling program, nothing to do with inkjet cartridges. Although Lexmark's case against Static Control over the Smartek chips is all about inkjet printers.
Recharger Magazine says that Lexmark stated in court that only 50% of cartridges are returned, and that Lexmark remanufactured and sold over 500,000 cartridges themselves in 2002.
A few more comments.. The scenarios are great. Call me cynical, but I find it hard to believe some of them would work, or at least not always. But they make for good reading. The stuff at the end about security policies for companies is extremely dry in comparison.
I found the tone of the book a bit annoying at times. "A social engineer is amazing! You might not think that they could get this info, but they CAN! Even from you. Read on, and you won't get done anymore.." I guess it was Mitnick or Simon trying to make the book more readable, but IMHO they should've saved that kind of stuff for the back cover:-)
Interesting to note that while a couple of the sites mentioned in the book no longer work, the Social Security info one is still up.
Entries in that file take precedence over your other settings (eg before looking at DNS servers). The line for for pop3.nortonav.com to 127.0.0.1 redirects anything for pop3.nortonav.com to your local machine. What's the point of that? Doesn't doing this mean that normal applications trying to access localhost won't be able to? Okay probably not. At any rate it is a lazy and inefficient way to send packets from an application to the same machine's mail service that fucks with bits of Windows it shouldn't touch. IMHO.
It wasn't Norton's? I just fixed a friend's computer with dead Windows networking, partially I think it was a dead ZoneAlarm but also Norton AV seemed to have created a c:\windows\hosts file with something like 127.0.0.1 pop.nortonav.com
Linux is seure? It's the most hacked OS on the Internet according to the last study I saw.. Redhat 6.2 to be precise. A Debian developer probably needs his dick held to take a leak!
Yep apt-get. Great idea, like some half-arsed program that could be replaced by a little Perl script is going to resolve a distribution with so many dependency issues?
And forgive me if this is against your indoctrination into the Debian Guild, but to me a distribution that cares more about politics than technical soundness, reliability or useability, isn't worth the price of the CDs it comes on.
How long have you worked at Microsoft to know whether or not there is coordination or not? If IIS is running without a user knowing about it, then that is the administrator's fault. Same as all the people running RedHat with Apache, sendmail and ftp daemons. An administrator is being paid lots to know which things the user doesn't need and doesn't know are running, and to turn them off.
If you spend that much time dealing with NT/2000 servers then you don't know what you're doing and someone ought to fire your sorry arse. It's nothing to be proud about.
The mindless Microsoft bashing is getting old. There are plenty of vendors who are slower in putting out security patches etc. and after all; it is your server, it is up to you to check for security patches and download them. What do you want; Microsoft to send a fast chopper
to your place of business and hold your hand while you do it?
Don't even start, oh masses of Linux lusers. Linux is one of the least secure OSes; it's main security "strength" is that most people loathe it too much to use it.
Friends,
Just one 256k SIMM can give a family of 12 poor Nepalese children the gift of warez; brilliant games like Platoon, Congo Bongo and Tapper. How can we ever expect such pagan misguided souls to become as technologically advanced as us if they can't work out how to defeat Donkey Kong and save the chick? Never mind about food, once we get them hooked on these games they won't be so hungry any more. Send your x86 PC bits today!
Not to mention conning sweet teenage girls to have sex with them in exchange for being able to moderate a message area. I think the warez sysops were the best, those guys just wanted warez.. and maybe weed. Much more noble pursuits than manipulating people.
I don't understand how if as you say, Excel can't do communication like Outlook, that it can be so nasty? There have been viruses with payloads around forever.. Word macro viruses for what, about 6 years?
Outlook/IIS have many holes; it is very rare that someone has bothered to write a worm that uses them. I personally won't be holding my breath for these exploits to be used in one. You aren't a reporter or AV person are you?:)
That Microsoft advisory states that Macintosh versions are affected, yes. I doubt the OS matters much with viruses that rely on a macro language within an application rather than using the OS itself or its services to propagate.
I know of companies where employees have gone without pay or with lesser pay for months because they would rather have somewhere to keep working and they like working there, than chuck a hissy fit about their pay being late once or twice. And yes I would call people who take money without being told to "dishonest". What's with slashdot lately, it's like everyone is trying to be geekier than thou..?? Is there some secret conspiracy going on? We must all boycott any companies who are so evil as to try and provide for customers or stay in business, and replace them with a bunch of antisocial know-alls who refuse to do anything? Homey, PLEASE.
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Not just movies; I think there's a couple of computer games they're changing too. Red Alert(?) and the latest Microsoft Flight Simulator maps.
Didn't you realise it had Ben Stiller in it?
If women find him sexy, I think it speaks very badly of them. I thought it was only us guys who were stupid enough to go for women who act lobotomized and are dishonest in every role they're ever cast in because they are trying so hard to be "nice".
There was this coffeeshop where the owner was really bad at paying the employees on time. So the employees started taking their wages out of the register, and leave a note about how much they took.
The employer hadn't been paying them on time because she was having troubles juggling paying the rent and installments on the new advertising campaign to promote the store. Once she realised what thieving devious little smart arses she'd hired, she wondered how much else they'd pinched.
She sacked them and hired some honest people instead. They treated her with respect, and she replied in kind, giving them all a nice payrise once the new advertising campaign kicked in and the store became more popular.
The moral of the story: don't steal. If you have a problem with an employer, tell them.
Well said. Another thing I think is important to note is that the intelligence community have been saying for years that too much emphasis has been put on sigint not humint. This very article is more evidence of the same. Bin Ladin is not stupid. If he can't use encryption to make it harder for the NSA etc to intercept his calls/emails, he will just use word of mouth or some other non technology equivalent. Having one of his cohorts tell all would be much more useful than spending a couple of hundred hours decrypting a call that turns out to be "Hi brother. I am pretty worried, those Americans don't like me very much. How is your wife?"
Who cares what percentage of their net worth it is? To a disaster fund 10 million is a lot more likely to save lives than the $5000 some poor sucker earning $10000 a year might donate. And I really can't see what your point is about how you should only donate something if it means something to you or does something for you. Not a believer in true altruism huh? It doesn't make giving to a worthy cause a bad thing to do. Oh and for those who still haven't worked it out, Bill Gates Microsoft.
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Spoken like a truly spoiled brat who has never realised the world isn't how he was taught it was in Sunday School. And if you are going to quote famous people to try and impress readers, at least get it right:
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin in 1759.
Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
- Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson's quote is too simplistic. I am sure neither of them meant that people should object to walking through metal detectors and instead prefer to end up being hijacked. The logical answer to not giving up anything in order to obtain safety is not to "be nice", it is to not exercise your freedom. If you don't travel because you are fearful of your personal safety, you are not exercising your freedom. If to be able to exercise my freedom means that I need to give up little parts of it so I can have greater freedom, then fine.
I pray that your theory is never put to the test, that you are never on a plane trying to explain to hijackers that your country has been nicer to other countries lately while they scream at you about Allah and the religious laws that say that you, as a non-believer, must die.
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>but slowly tension have built up and now it
>exploded in some lunatics mind.
Is that right? You must know something that CNN doesn't, as far as I know those who did it haven't yet been identified.
>There is no justification for killing thousand
>of civilians but ask yourself, how many innocent
>people have the US killed in Israel, Iraq,
>Vietnam, the list goes on...
Yeah innocent people who were trying to drive tanks over women, children and farmers. How dare the US enforce treaties. If the US would just mind its own business and let the rest of the world kill each other then everyone would like the US. Same as if you let your kids take
heroin and crack then at least your kids won't call you a bad Mum or Dad.
>I don't know how much reporting you get about
>this is in the US but the unresponsible way Bush
>and formerly Clinton have been dealing with such
>important issuses as the UN, ABM, UN conference
>about racism I don't understand how you can
>possible imagine that pepole WON'T start hating
>the US??
News flash for you, I am not in the US. I am in Australia, and I have a lot of admiration and respect for America. That is not to say they are perfect, I don't believe any country is, and the richer and larger a country is, the more difficult it is for them not to upset some people with their decisions. Clinton did a LOT for world peace actually.
>The US have been protecting its own interests
>like oil supply and earning more money and
>totally forgot about enviromentalism and the
>goverments of other states.
The US is not on trial here. They are the victims. There are non violent avenues to address
concerns like their stance on the environment and
foreign policy.
>So the US can stop this! It is not by using
>organizations like NSA, Secret Service, FBI and
>CIA. Grow up. Get responsible and realize that
>the US has to stop running over other states
>whenever it desires
You are the one who needs to grow up. How does doing any of that stop a pack of lunatics who believe that America is the Great Satan who are stopping their religion from spreading all over the world, and who must be all killed?
And try posting with your real name you gutless worm.
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There is nothing that can be done to stop this sort of insanity. I have been arguing with people about this; everyone seems to think it's because of US foreign policy. That is total bullshit. Whoever did this is insane, there is no justification for trying to kill 50,000 innocent accountants, secretaries and business people. Whether it is some evil billionaire waging his personal vendetta against America or a pack of the insane justifying their intense jealousy of the US with religion, it does not matter. Nothing the US could have done would have stopped this, all that they can do is to use intelligence gathering etc to TRY and stop similar events. This is a very sad world we live in.
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Yes apparently the project used to be called Project Hostile Intent, but was re-branded as FAST.
See http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/09/precrime-detector-is-showing-p.html
Yes I'm not sure why Ubuntu scored a mention. Novell would be a better match; not sure how well SUSE Linux Enterprise sells, but they're definitely trying to make inroads on the RHEL market space.
Now if they can just wire the Discman inside your skull someplace too..
Well they did have a history of going with whatever makes money at the time, whether it's playing cards, "love hotels" or game consoles. :-)
Maybe Nintendo can run a few lapdancing clubs til the Gamecube market picks up?
Recharger Magazine says that Lexmark stated in court that only 50% of cartridges are returned, and that Lexmark remanufactured and sold over 500,000 cartridges themselves in 2002.
A few more comments.. The scenarios are great. Call me cynical, but I find it hard to believe some of them would work, or at least not always. But they make for good reading.
:-)
The stuff at the end about security policies for companies is extremely dry in comparison.
I found the tone of the book a bit annoying at times. "A social engineer is amazing! You might not think that they could get this info, but they CAN! Even from you. Read on, and you won't get done anymore.." I guess it was Mitnick or Simon trying to make the book more readable, but IMHO they should've saved that kind of stuff for the back cover
Interesting to note that while a couple of the sites mentioned in the book no longer work, the Social Security info one is still up.
Entries in that file take precedence over your other settings (eg before looking at DNS servers). The line for for pop3.nortonav.com to 127.0.0.1 redirects anything for pop3.nortonav.com to your local machine. What's the point of that? Doesn't doing this mean that normal applications trying to access localhost won't be able to? Okay probably not. At any rate it is a lazy and inefficient way to send packets from an application to the same machine's mail service that fucks with bits of Windows it shouldn't touch. IMHO.
It wasn't Norton's? I just fixed a friend's computer with dead Windows networking, partially I think it was a dead ZoneAlarm but also Norton AV seemed to have created a c:\windows\hosts file with something like
127.0.0.1 pop.nortonav.com
Linux is seure? It's the most hacked OS on the Internet according to the last study I saw.. Redhat 6.2 to be precise. A Debian developer probably needs his dick held to take a leak! Yep apt-get. Great idea, like some half-arsed program that could be replaced by a little Perl script is going to resolve a distribution with so many dependency issues? And forgive me if this is against your indoctrination into the Debian Guild, but to me a distribution that cares more about politics than technical soundness, reliability or useability, isn't worth the price of the CDs it comes on.
How long have you worked at Microsoft to know whether or not there is coordination or not? If IIS is running without a user knowing about it, then that is the administrator's fault. Same as all the people running RedHat with Apache, sendmail and ftp daemons. An administrator is being paid lots to know which things the user doesn't need and doesn't know are running, and to turn them off.
If you spend that much time dealing with NT/2000 servers then you don't know what you're doing and someone ought to fire your sorry arse. It's nothing to be proud about.
The mindless Microsoft bashing is getting old. There are plenty of vendors who are slower in putting out security patches etc. and after all; it is your server, it is up to you to check for security patches and download them. What do you want; Microsoft to send a fast chopper
to your place of business and hold your hand while you do it?
Don't even start, oh masses of Linux lusers. Linux is one of the least secure OSes; it's main security "strength" is that most people loathe it too much to use it.
Friends,
Just one 256k SIMM can give a family of 12 poor Nepalese children the gift of warez; brilliant games like Platoon, Congo Bongo and Tapper. How can we ever expect such pagan misguided souls to become as technologically advanced as us if they can't work out how to defeat Donkey Kong and save the chick? Never mind about food, once we get them hooked on these games they won't be so hungry any more. Send your x86 PC bits today!
Not to mention conning sweet teenage girls to have sex with them in exchange for being able to moderate a message area. I think the warez sysops were the best, those guys just wanted warez.. and maybe weed. Much more noble pursuits than manipulating people.
Outlook/IIS have many holes; it is very rare that someone has bothered to write a worm that uses them. I personally won't be holding my breath for these exploits to be used in one. You aren't a reporter or AV person are you?
That Microsoft advisory states that Macintosh versions are affected, yes. I doubt the OS matters much with viruses that rely on a macro language within an application rather than using the OS itself or its services to propagate.
I know of companies where employees have gone without pay or with lesser pay for months because they would rather have somewhere to keep working and they like working there, than chuck a hissy fit about their pay being late once or twice. And yes I would call people who take money without being told to "dishonest". What's with slashdot lately, it's like everyone is trying to be geekier than thou..?? Is there some secret conspiracy going on? We must all boycott any companies who are so evil as to try and provide for customers or stay in business, and replace them with a bunch of antisocial know-alls who refuse to do anything? Homey, PLEASE.
Not just movies; I think there's a couple of computer games they're changing too. Red Alert(?) and the latest Microsoft Flight Simulator maps.
Didn't you realise it had Ben Stiller in it?
If women find him sexy, I think it speaks very badly of them. I thought it was only us guys who were stupid enough to go for women who act lobotomized and are dishonest in every role they're ever cast in because they are trying so hard to be "nice".
There was this coffeeshop where the owner was really bad at paying the employees on time. So the employees started taking their wages out of the register, and leave a note about how much they took. The employer hadn't been paying them on time because she was having troubles juggling paying the rent and installments on the new advertising campaign to promote the store. Once she realised what thieving devious little smart arses she'd hired, she wondered how much else they'd pinched. She sacked them and hired some honest people instead. They treated her with respect, and she replied in kind, giving them all a nice payrise once the new advertising campaign kicked in and the store became more popular. The moral of the story: don't steal. If you have a problem with an employer, tell them.
Well said. Another thing I think is important to note is that the intelligence community have been saying for years that too much emphasis has been put on sigint not humint. This very article is more evidence of the same. Bin Ladin is not stupid. If he can't use encryption to make it harder for the NSA etc to intercept his calls/emails, he will just use word of mouth or some other non technology equivalent. Having one of his cohorts tell all would be much more useful than spending a couple of hundred hours decrypting a call that turns out to be "Hi brother. I am pretty worried, those Americans don't like me very much. How is your wife?"
Who cares what percentage of their net worth it is? To a disaster fund 10 million is a lot more likely to save lives than the $5000 some poor sucker earning $10000 a year might donate. And I really can't see what your point is about how you should only donate something if it means something to you or does something for you. Not a believer in true altruism huh? It doesn't make giving to a worthy cause a bad thing to do. Oh and for those who still haven't worked it out, Bill Gates Microsoft.
Microsoft have donated 10 million.. How much has Torvalds and co donated?
Spoken like a truly spoiled brat who has never realised the world isn't how he was taught it was in Sunday School. And if you are going to quote famous people to try and impress readers, at least get it right:
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin in 1759.
Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
- Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson's quote is too simplistic. I am sure neither of them meant that people should object to walking through metal detectors and instead prefer to end up being hijacked. The logical answer to not giving up anything in order to obtain safety is not to "be nice", it is to not exercise your freedom. If you don't travel because you are fearful of your personal safety, you are not exercising your freedom. If to be able to exercise my freedom means that I need to give up little parts of it so I can have greater freedom, then fine.
I pray that your theory is never put to the test, that you are never on a plane trying to explain to hijackers that your country has been nicer to other countries lately while they scream at you about Allah and the religious laws that say that you, as a non-believer, must die.
>but slowly tension have built up and now it
>exploded in some lunatics mind.
Is that right? You must know something that CNN doesn't, as far as I know those who did it haven't yet been identified.
>There is no justification for killing thousand
>of civilians but ask yourself, how many innocent
>people have the US killed in Israel, Iraq,
>Vietnam, the list goes on...
Yeah innocent people who were trying to drive tanks over women, children and farmers. How dare the US enforce treaties. If the US would just mind its own business and let the rest of the world kill each other then everyone would like the US. Same as if you let your kids take
heroin and crack then at least your kids won't call you a bad Mum or Dad.
>I don't know how much reporting you get about
>this is in the US but the unresponsible way Bush
>and formerly Clinton have been dealing with such
>important issuses as the UN, ABM, UN conference
>about racism I don't understand how you can
>possible imagine that pepole WON'T start hating
>the US??
News flash for you, I am not in the US. I am in Australia, and I have a lot of admiration and respect for America. That is not to say they are perfect, I don't believe any country is, and the richer and larger a country is, the more difficult it is for them not to upset some people with their decisions. Clinton did a LOT for world peace actually.
>The US have been protecting its own interests
>like oil supply and earning more money and
>totally forgot about enviromentalism and the
>goverments of other states.
The US is not on trial here. They are the victims. There are non violent avenues to address
concerns like their stance on the environment and
foreign policy.
>So the US can stop this! It is not by using
>organizations like NSA, Secret Service, FBI and
>CIA. Grow up. Get responsible and realize that
>the US has to stop running over other states
>whenever it desires
You are the one who needs to grow up. How does doing any of that stop a pack of lunatics who believe that America is the Great Satan who are stopping their religion from spreading all over the world, and who must be all killed?
And try posting with your real name you gutless worm.
There is nothing that can be done to stop this sort of insanity. I have been arguing with people about this; everyone seems to think it's because of US foreign policy. That is total bullshit. Whoever did this is insane, there is no justification for trying to kill 50,000 innocent accountants, secretaries and business people. Whether it is some evil billionaire waging his personal vendetta against America or a pack of the insane justifying their intense jealousy of the US with religion, it does not matter. Nothing the US could have done would have stopped this, all that they can do is to use intelligence gathering etc to TRY and stop similar events. This is a very sad world we live in.
Where did I say I was "deeply offended"?