Agreed - and this viewpoint is specifically applicable to the times we now find ourselves.
We are at the beginning of a new era of humanity, and whether our descendants praise this generation or curse us depends a lot on what we choose to do now. The problem is we are making a lot of choices based on little or no comprehension of potential future consequences.
For example, the current mad rush into the *cloud* with data by governments and businesses for the sole purpose of saving a few bucks in the short term. At this point we can not begin to comprehend the future consequences of putting data into the *cloud* and I for one remain extremely skeptical as the *cloud* generally provides no protection for data from the *cloud* owner. Specifically not an Google cloud services - and likely in truth not Amazon or any of the others.
I view the current, "We gotta save money now, so transfer resources, data and processes to the *cloud*" strategy as pure folly which may prove disastrous for future humanity. Just because a technology exists and can be used for something does not mean that use is appropriate from an Information Security standpoint; a fact which is seemingly ignored due to the nice, friendly "Privacy" policies posted by the various *cloud* providers. If they say it, it must be true seems to be good enough for many...
Frequent texting and Facebooking are pleasures of their own for many; likely some future study will prove, instead of speculate, that they are addictive as well. Just like sex, drugs and alcohol.
A combination of FlashBlock and perhaps RequestPolicy, combined with caching set to 0 and a block on the ever cookie creator domain results in no ever cookies being successfully set on FF 3.6.10 on RHEL 5.4 - I'd venture to guess it will be the same for other OS running FF at least.
If I don't block the domain cookie creation then just a standard cookie is created.
Occasionally I get to drive by a huge corporate cattle ranch while on a trip; the animal's living conditions are deplorable. No shade in a hot arid climate, and hardly enough room to move around, they pack as many animals into a corral as possible. They stand all day in wet muddy shit, costs too much to provide land to roam and people to round them up.
In my opinion, this exemplifies what is wrong with unabashed Capitalism. Who cares what happens, just make us more money now, is a philosophy ultimately doomed to failure. Time to get smart.
I'm happy to find the Right Wingers managed to whip up their counterparts on/. and make sure my original post was modded Troll - too funny especially based on the subsequent replies to the first reply; well said people.
Yesterday my original was, at one point at least, modded +4 insightful, but by today it is Troll - awesome, I love politics on the Internet.
The case finally ends up in the Supreme Court where the justices vote 5 - 4 that police in public arenas are entitled to an expectation of privacy due to the War on Terror.
Who in their worst nightmares would could have thought that anyone could stoop to do what he did?
This clearly illustrates that until lay persons learn to think otherwise in terms of privacy and security on systems and networks; nothing is going to get better.
What is really beginning to blow my mind is the theory that the Universe is the result of an experiment, and God is potentially our future selves who began it all; perhaps even with the LHC.
Especially if one expands on that theory with the theory that the future LHC is effecting the past in order to prevent us from finding the Higgs Boson, which perhaps would trigger a reoccurence of the ultimate result.
Even if that theory is hogwash, what is the first is true and we will eventually start the next instance of a never ending creation of universes.
I'm encouraged by the fact it is Ron Howard slated to direct; however that said, I think this initiative has no better than a 50/50 chance of being any good. It is quite impossible to duplicate the in depth pictures that King paints in your mind on the big screen. With the exception of The Shining, which was a pretty good screen adaptation, though of course pales on comparison to the book, all King screen adaptations have pretty much sucked. Need I mention The Stand? And that is only one book, good luck with Dark Tower Ron.
Incidentally, that account can also write to and create executables in
/Library
/Applications
Great way to p0wn a system is to write malware to a . directory in/Applications or/Library
Bottom line is Macs are a susceptible to system installed malware as Windows systems, unless on each system you specifically choose to create a second account without admin privs to use for general computing purposes, which most users don't thus the reason for my original response.
Great way to p0wn a system is to write malware to a . directory in/Applications or/Library
Bottom line is Macs are a susceptible to malware as Windows systems, unless on each system you specifically choose to create a second account without admin privs to use for general computing purposes
Uh, most Mac users do everything in the admin account, because the first account you set up to use has admin privileges. If you have not specifically configured another account, then writing to the root file system is accomplished without requiring any password.
These stupid stories based on lame research and over simplification of the human condition are really pissing me off.
$75,000 per year may buy a lot of happiness, if that is possible, in a place where the cost of living is really low, but in LA , NYC or Frisco? Forget about it - $75,000 is chicken feed - you can barely pay your rent on that salary. Guess most people living in LA, NYC and San Fran are really unhappy if this is the case.
Oh wait, I make more than that, but my wife does not work, so for the two of us we make less and we live in one of the aforementioned expensive cities. Guess we should be unhappy - dang it I hate it when I am not deemed normal!
Yeah, you can rely on a statistic based on being a self proclaimed hacker, perhaps much akin to statistics on self proclaimed geniuses..
Based on the responses what we really know is that out of the 43% who did not admit to being a Black Hat, some percentage actually does engage in such activities.
This is capitalism at its finest in action. If something like this is implemented, maybe fanboios, p2p filesharers, and the rest of us can simply spend a few months paying for only the lowest priced service available and we will see capitalism at its finest in action again as the tiered system is rolled back.
The problem is that like with television, too many people are addicted to it, so the populace will end up accepting tiered Internet as they did television.
If nobody paid for it, tiered programming on cable would not exist. Same for the Internet.
Slashdot Mirror
Agreed - and this viewpoint is specifically applicable to the times we now find ourselves.
We are at the beginning of a new era of humanity, and whether our descendants praise this generation or curse us depends a lot on what we choose to do now. The problem is we are making a lot of choices based on little or no comprehension of potential future consequences.
For example, the current mad rush into the *cloud* with data by governments and businesses for the sole purpose of saving a few bucks in the short term. At this point we can not begin to comprehend the future consequences of putting data into the *cloud* and I for one remain extremely skeptical as the *cloud* generally provides no protection for data from the *cloud* owner. Specifically not an Google cloud services - and likely in truth not Amazon or any of the others.
I view the current, "We gotta save money now, so transfer resources, data and processes to the *cloud*" strategy as pure folly which may prove disastrous for future humanity. Just because a technology exists and can be used for something does not mean that use is appropriate from an Information Security standpoint; a fact which is seemingly ignored due to the nice, friendly "Privacy" policies posted by the various *cloud* providers. If they say it, it must be true seems to be good enough for many...
Frequent texting and Facebooking are pleasures of their own for many; likely some future study will prove, instead of speculate, that they are addictive as well. Just like sex, drugs and alcohol.
So what is the story, Tavis Ormandy exposes Windows bugs but does not work on top Google projects?
A combination of FlashBlock and perhaps RequestPolicy, combined with caching set to 0 and a block on the ever cookie creator domain results in no ever cookies being successfully set on FF 3.6.10 on RHEL 5.4 - I'd venture to guess it will be the same for other OS running FF at least.
If I don't block the domain cookie creation then just a standard cookie is created.
Yeah, it's called MythTV
http://www.mythtv.org/
Yep that's right, many EDUs, which are ISPs for many thousands, do not tolerate malware on the network and block infected systems upon detection.
Occasionally I get to drive by a huge corporate cattle ranch while on a trip; the animal's living conditions are deplorable. No shade in a hot arid climate, and hardly enough room to move around, they pack as many animals into a corral as possible. They stand all day in wet muddy shit, costs too much to provide land to roam and people to round them up.
In my opinion, this exemplifies what is wrong with unabashed Capitalism. Who cares what happens, just make us more money now, is a philosophy ultimately doomed to failure. Time to get smart.
>> we buy a locked device because we want to hack
Pretty close, but more along the lines of we buy a locked device because it is a challenge
I'm happy to find the Right Wingers managed to whip up their counterparts on /. and make sure my original post was modded Troll - too funny especially based on the subsequent replies to the first reply; well said people.
Yesterday my original was, at one point at least, modded +4 insightful, but by today it is Troll - awesome, I love politics on the Internet.
The case finally ends up in the Supreme Court where the justices vote 5 - 4 that police in public arenas are entitled to an expectation of privacy due to the War on Terror.
Antonin Scalia writes the majority opinion...
Who in their worst nightmares would could have thought that anyone could stoop to do what he did?
This clearly illustrates that until lay persons learn to think otherwise in terms of privacy and security on systems and networks; nothing is going to get better.
Kudos to a really informative reply.
What is really beginning to blow my mind is the theory that the Universe is the result of an experiment, and God is potentially our future selves who began it all; perhaps even with the LHC.
Especially if one expands on that theory with the theory that the future LHC is effecting the past in order to prevent us from finding the Higgs Boson, which perhaps would trigger a reoccurence of the ultimate result.
Even if that theory is hogwash, what is the first is true and we will eventually start the next instance of a never ending creation of universes.
W-w-w-w-wh-h-h-e-e-e-e!!!!!
No surprise based on yesterday's story regarding the majority of users on Facebook.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/08/1621235/Narcissists-Insecure-People-Flock-To-Facebook
Post a bunch of stupid sh*t about myself, then read it over and over again...
I'm encouraged by the fact it is Ron Howard slated to direct; however that said, I think this initiative has no better than a 50/50 chance of being any good. It is quite impossible to duplicate the in depth pictures that King paints in your mind on the big screen. With the exception of The Shining, which was a pretty good screen adaptation, though of course pales on comparison to the book, all King screen adaptations have pretty much sucked. Need I mention The Stand? And that is only one book, good luck with Dark Tower Ron.
Do you ken filmslinger?
Incidentally, that account can also write to and create executables in
/Library
/Applications
/Applications or /Library
Great way to p0wn a system is to write malware to a . directory in
Bottom line is Macs are a susceptible to system installed malware as Windows systems, unless on each system you specifically choose to create a second account without admin privs to use for general computing purposes, which most users don't thus the reason for my original response.
True, however you can write to anywhere in
/Library
/Applications
/Applications or /Library
Great way to p0wn a system is to write malware to a . directory in
Bottom line is Macs are a susceptible to malware as Windows systems, unless on each system you specifically choose to create a second account without admin privs to use for general computing purposes
Not true. Create the Hello World perl script below in /
./myperlfile.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Hello World\n";
####### end perl script
cd /
vi myperlfile.pl
chmod 755 myperlfile.pl
You have now created a simple executable in / owned group admin without using a password
Uh, most Mac users do everything in the admin account, because the first account you set up to use has admin privileges. If you have not specifically configured another account, then writing to the root file system is accomplished without requiring any password.
It is not the same on Unix or Linux.
That has no relation to the original question which related exactly to creating files in the root files ystem without having to enter a password.
Yes and actually Macs are one of them Mr. Snarky.
In the original account set up on your Mac perform the following
cd /
touch testfile
ls -l testfile
Whe-e-e-e-e-e-e!!!!!
These stupid stories based on lame research and over simplification of the human condition are really pissing me off.
$75,000 per year may buy a lot of happiness, if that is possible, in a place where the cost of living is really low, but in LA , NYC or Frisco? Forget about it - $75,000 is chicken feed - you can barely pay your rent on that salary. Guess most people living in LA, NYC and San Fran are really unhappy if this is the case.
Oh wait, I make more than that, but my wife does not work, so for the two of us we make less and we live in one of the aforementioned expensive cities. Guess we should be unhappy - dang it I hate it when I am not deemed normal!
I see a cat named Snoop
Says to Hack is Whack
Well WTF he know
'bout anything like dat?
Yeah, you can rely on a statistic based on being a self proclaimed hacker, perhaps much akin to statistics on self proclaimed geniuses..
Based on the responses what we really know is that out of the 43% who did not admit to being a Black Hat, some percentage actually does engage in such activities.
>> If your industry has tight data integrity, then they can't steal anyway
s/can\'t/will have a harder time stealing it/
Never say never.
This is capitalism at its finest in action. If something like this is implemented, maybe fanboios, p2p filesharers, and the rest of us can simply spend a few months paying for only the lowest priced service available and we will see capitalism at its finest in action again as the tiered system is rolled back.
The problem is that like with television, too many people are addicted to it, so the populace will end up accepting tiered Internet as they did television.
If nobody paid for it, tiered programming on cable would not exist. Same for the Internet.