He bought a name brand laptop. These are not clean installs of Windows, these are all imaged at the factory with a master image. I work on a helpdesk, and had a user call in recently with a brand new, out of the box HP.
It had spyware on it. No joke. It had IE hosed to the point we could not use it to configure a router to get online.
All I can guess is that thier master image has the spyware. I connot conceive of them WANTING it there.
Okay, when they released MS Anti Spyware, they asked for a validation. You dl this little app, it sniffs your key, and gives you a code. You then enter your code on the MS page, and it verifies you or it does not. My cracked version with a keygenned key passed with flying colors. They are checking it, but it seems to be based on an algorithm for a 'Valid' Key
Well, by nature, we are pack animals. Similar behaivior has been seen in dolphins, and even dolphin on dolphin violence, with bulls from one pod raiding another for breeding stock.
Is that, Okay, Great^n Grandpawas around 160,000 years ago, complete with stone tools and burial practices.
Yet Civilization only 'started 6-10,000 years ago.
Why does this just not quite add up to me. I mean, our ancestors were not stupid, they posessed the same intuition and logic that we do today. Whay did it take so long to get where we are now though?
The problem with points cards is around here, they are 'Discount Cards' As in, if you do not have the card, you pay grossly inflated prices for your groceries. The way around this I have found is the fact when you sign upo, they give you an actual card, and a keychain card. I give one to a friend, and I sign up for new ones all the time. This leaves thier data so skewed they are literally wasting money.
It is better than 100+ a month extra on the grocery bill
This is correct, but if you did not lock your door, you were just asking for it to happen sooner or later.
Basically, the gist of all that I am saying here is one should take responsibility for thier own networks, instead of bogging down the legal system because you want to skimp in the tech department.
A house is not a network, trying to say it is is somewhat pointless.
And frankly, yes, I do believe that if you do not lock your door, you are just begging for people just to waltz in. I have lived in some pretty bad neighborhoods. To me these concepts are common sense. If you don't want people walking into your house, lock your door. If you do not want people accessing your wireless network, secure it. If you have taken these precautions, and somebody forcibly enters either, then you are well within your rights to press charges, and there is not a damn thing the perpetrator can use in thier defense.
Well, as the article says, if they want to use a wireless network, the burden falls apon them, nit the state to make sure that network is secure.
Frankly, I feel that this is a good approach to hacking in general. Why should buisineses, who often lobby to pay the state less in tax revenue and whatnot, still expect the state to prosecute people who break into thier networks because they were too lazy to apply a patch?
Now, as a caveat to this, I feel that if the company can show that they took all reasonable precautions to secure thier network, then the state should go ahead with prosecution. This way a company that is 'following the rules' is not unduly punished, but the company that is too lazy or too cheap to implement good security is, and cannot fall back on fear of the state to be thier security apparatus.
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Is how many of these are left in a week once people realize thier networks are being tapped.
Actually, I know what the problem is.
He bought a name brand laptop. These are not clean installs of Windows, these are all imaged at the factory with a master image. I work on a helpdesk, and had a user call in recently with a brand new, out of the box HP.
It had spyware on it. No joke. It had IE hosed to the point we could not use it to configure a router to get online.
All I can guess is that thier master image has the spyware. I connot conceive of them WANTING it there.
I would not call a free electronic bidet "Life to the fullest"
Okay, when they released MS Anti Spyware, they asked for a validation. You dl this little app, it sniffs your key, and gives you a code. You then enter your code on the MS page, and it verifies you or it does not. My cracked version with a keygenned key passed with flying colors. They are checking it, but it seems to be based on an algorithm for a 'Valid' Key
I concur. Who cares? A bunch of rich people get some free stuff. So? How is this different from any other day?
Newsweek seemsto be scraping the barrel this week for stories.
Funny, my pirated version of XP is running SP2.
To little too late MS.
You say this like Indymedia has wads of cash just laying around to buy redundant hardware.
Except for everything we say we want to control.
This reminds me of a novel called Sovereign
Well, that would be no problem for the average male.
So, if I am reading the code right, it has basically no security whatsoever at this point. Wouldn't you want that in an alpha release?
The Keyboard maps you!
Sorry, could not resist that one
I was going with dolphins because they seem to be a bit more on par with us on the intelligence scale than Chimpanzees, etc.
And we all know the infallibility of the US justice system
But they have Penguins!
Well, by nature, we are pack animals. Similar behaivior has been seen in dolphins, and even dolphin on dolphin violence, with bulls from one pod raiding another for breeding stock.
Is that, Okay, Great^n Grandpawas around 160,000 years ago, complete with stone tools and burial practices.
Yet Civilization only 'started 6-10,000 years ago.
Why does this just not quite add up to me. I mean, our ancestors were not stupid, they posessed the same intuition and logic that we do today. Whay did it take so long to get where we are now though?
Just food for thought.
It is called Lycoris, formerly Redmond Linux.
Well, it certainly is more socially acceptable than damning them
The problem with points cards is around here, they are 'Discount Cards' As in, if you do not have the card, you pay grossly inflated prices for your groceries. The way around this I have found is the fact when you sign upo, they give you an actual card, and a keychain card. I give one to a friend, and I sign up for new ones all the time. This leaves thier data so skewed they are literally wasting money.
It is better than 100+ a month extra on the grocery bill
This is correct, but if you did not lock your door, you were just asking for it to happen sooner or later.
Basically, the gist of all that I am saying here is one should take responsibility for thier own networks, instead of bogging down the legal system because you want to skimp in the tech department.
A house is not a network, trying to say it is is somewhat pointless.
And frankly, yes, I do believe that if you do not lock your door, you are just begging for people just to waltz in. I have lived in some pretty bad neighborhoods. To me these concepts are common sense. If you don't want people walking into your house, lock your door. If you do not want people accessing your wireless network, secure it. If you have taken these precautions, and somebody forcibly enters either, then you are well within your rights to press charges, and there is not a damn thing the perpetrator can use in thier defense.
Well, as the article says, if they want to use a wireless network, the burden falls apon them, nit the state to make sure that network is secure.
Frankly, I feel that this is a good approach to hacking in general. Why should buisineses, who often lobby to pay the state less in tax revenue and whatnot, still expect the state to prosecute people who break into thier networks because they were too lazy to apply a patch?
Now, as a caveat to this, I feel that if the company can show that they took all reasonable precautions to secure thier network, then the state should go ahead with prosecution. This way a company that is 'following the rules' is not unduly punished, but the company that is too lazy or too cheap to implement good security is, and cannot fall back on fear of the state to be thier security apparatus.
That assumes that the entire US economy is based on the Computer industry
That all depends on the nature of your fetish or what trashy strip joint you are at.