"Allow me to play devil's advocate for a moment here: in the short term, moving to a platform that is perhaps less familiar to the attacker provides considerable relief, but it is essentially less difficult to write exploits for Mac OS/Linux than it is for Windows, given the many anti-exploitation mechanisms Microsoft has embedded in the last years, so in the long run, if the attackers want your data, the entire move is moot."
First off, yes, that is a single sentence.
Secondly, exactly who is it who says (or can demonstrate) that cracking a Mac or Linux box is easier than a Windows box? My experience is exactly the opposite.
Because people have some strange belief in the infallibility of: #1. The people taking the DNA sample at the crime scene. #2. The database keeping the DNA tags. #3. The people taking the DNA sample to enter it into the database. #4. DNA samples being completely unique.
Instead, DNA should be used to clear suspects. Not to find them. It just isn't reliable enough.
But that's not how it is shown on TV. And TV is where most people get their education.
Congratulations, you've just managed to support Intelligent Design.
It doesn't matter how the characters acted. That's a whole different thread.
In that story, human beings as we know them today are NOT a product of millions of years of evolution. They're the result of some "god" who directly influences events. And who is, apparently, still involved today.
Which is even worse than the age old cliche "and we will call this new planet 'Earth'".
I was using something similar. The trick is to identify the ISP mail servers. Usually by some naming convention of the ISP... but in some cases you have to just wait for a complaint to come when they get blacklisted. I solved part of that by sending the rejection list to the recipients at times so they could check it.
Meanwhile, greylisting is completely different. Greylisting means that any new "triplet" (recipient name + sender's name + sending IP address) is TEMPORARILY rejected for X minutes. This is because many spammers were using zombie machines that would not try to resend the message OR would keep trying with different sender's names. Legitimate senders and email servers would (MOST OF THE TIME) be able to handle the delay and the message would get through. All future messages with that "triplet" would be received without delay.
Given that God is all powerful and all knowing, it is ALWAYS a cop out to write him into a script.
People have destinies in this show, real ones.
Which is nothing more than a cop out saying that the bad script is not really a bad script. It's a good script about God.
Why would God have NEEDED or WANTED to have the characters act like that? Particularly when there must be a near infinite number of options available to an all knowing and all powerful God.
Yes. Because those thousands of people every year don't have the public impact that a news story does.
This has been going on for YEARS and the credit card companies NEVER took any action before now. Because the credit card companies were getting their share of the loot.
Now that the PR problem might be more costly than their share of the fraud, they take action.
Are you saying that experiments were done and we were able to disprove it?
No. Because in order to perform an experiment, you have to have a falsifiable hypothesis.
Creationism cannot form a falsifiable hypothesis because EVERY outcome could be "proven" by the words "God wanted it that way".
That is why it is not science.
I always thought that at lot of what is proclaimed by religions can be proven wrong. But some core stuff would probably survive the scientific method. That would at least clean up religions, from a scientific point of view of course.
That would depend upon what you mean by "religions".
I think you're confusing historical evidence with science. In order for it to be science, It must be able to be stated in the form of a falsifiable hypothesis that can be test by different scientists.
And that is the problem. Look at how bad it really was. Not in comparison to even worse shows. But in comparison to GOOD shows.
They had set up a really interesting concept... and then totally neutered it. Everyone on the ship were best friends. Even though a large chunk of the crew had declared their own war. And the ship somehow kept getting repaired. And the borg were suddenly very weak. And do we really want to go into time travel?
Now compare that to Firefly's only season. Some of the crew did not like other members of the crew. The captain was not perfect. They had to work to keep the ship flying.
So I can vote for someone... who then becomes unquestionable.
That's a Republic, exactly that.
We are electing politicians. Not princes and kings.
You vote for the best and brightest to run the country within the allowed scope of their powers for some limited term, and they can do whatever they want, without harassment.
And now you're confusing oversight with "harassment".
Just let the damn President and the elected officials do their job.
Your "logic" is self contradictory.
By your "logic". They were elected to do a job. Once they are elected, they can do whatever they want to do. And no matter what they are doing, the public must not bother them about what they are doing. Even if what they are doing is the opposite of what the people who voted for them asked them to do.
Fuck that. Fuck princes and kings. I'm watching my elected officials. I'm watching what they're doing. If I don't approve, I let them know.
Who would have to do the work hunting down the "missing" emails?
Someone appointed/hired by Obama's administration.
If the task falls to Obama's staff who weren't even there during the whole Bush thing, then I can't really blame him.
If you were hired in the civilian sector and one of the things you sold yourself on to your new boss was your belief in email recovery, wouldn't you expect to be asked to do just that?
If you took on a new job, would you like to be told that rather than focus on the tasks that they were hired to do, instead your staff was going to have to digging around through your predecessors crap to try to find something that may or may not be there?
Get a job in IT. That's what I have to go through ALL THE TIME.
What decisions were made.
Why were those specific decisions made.
How were they implemented.
Why were they implemented in that specific way.
And yes, a LOT of it DOES involve going through my predecessor's email and notes.
If I am hired to recover the email, I work on recovering the email. Even if I have to recommend bringing in a recovery specialist. There are 300 million people in the USofA. It shouldn't be that difficult to find a few people to handle this. Instead, he's arguing against even TRYING.
That anonymity, a form of secrecy is necessary for honest communications.
How so? Particularly with regard to government operations.
If the President cannot communicate honestly, then he cannot do his job.
And yet you have not established that secrecy is a necessity for honesty.
But I can give you MANY examples of secrecy being a necessity for DISHONESTY.
Imagine if LBJ's tapes had been made public during his administration. Do you want to throw away the Civil Right's act because he's also tailing MLK?
Why would that be necessary?
Let the public decisions an administration makes stand for themselves, right wing or left wing, and don't let yourself get trapped up needing to see every frank discussion that takes place behind the scenes.
And that makes sense as long as you agree with every decision made.
Fuck that.
This is our elected government. Not our king.
This is a Republic, not a Democracy, and you need to let leaders lead. If you don't like the way they lead, then run for office yourself.
So I can vote for someone... who then becomes unquestionable.
Fuck that, too.
They're elected officials. This is not an autocracy.
It must have been the "half the Internet" that I don't use. Which would be an interesting half because many of the sites I visit regularly are based in Europe.
From the thread, it looks like AS 47868 was the route being lost.
No. That doesn't show the differences between the licenses. Look at how many of them have the same answers in the same columns... yet have different restrictions if you read the licenses.
IANAL but shouldn't it be fairly easy to construct a matrix of the various licenses and what rights/responsibilities are characteristic of each and how they compare to the other licenses?
At least that way any new licenses could be compared to the existing licenses to see if they were really needed or if they simply duplicated an existing one. Such as requiring that text block X be included in all copies... but text block X differs from licenses A and B and C.
Think about it for a moment. We have enough processing power that we can tie taxes to specific projects at the fraction of a cent level.
Why not let the voters vote for projects AND the taxes to fund them? If they want another school, then they get a property tax increase of $3.15 on all property in area X.
If they want to fill in the pot holes on 1st Avenue then they increase the sales tax by 0.013%. And when the project is finished, the tax is repealed.
Let the people see EXACTLY what they're spending the money on.
If someone runs for office claiming to want to "cut taxes" then let them specify EXACTLY what projects will be cut and the people can see how much they'll be saving.
In one case investigated by Kessler's firm, thieves used computer software transmitted by e-mail to monitor financial information input by the chief financial officer of an Ohio insurance firm.
Sounds like a trojan to me. Or possibly an exploit of Outlook to install a keylogger. But not in any way "Nigerian".
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First off, yes, that is a single sentence.
Secondly, exactly who is it who says (or can demonstrate) that cracking a Mac or Linux box is easier than a Windows box? My experience is exactly the opposite.
Because people have some strange belief in the infallibility of:
#1. The people taking the DNA sample at the crime scene.
#2. The database keeping the DNA tags.
#3. The people taking the DNA sample to enter it into the database.
#4. DNA samples being completely unique.
Instead, DNA should be used to clear suspects. Not to find them. It just isn't reliable enough.
But that's not how it is shown on TV. And TV is where most people get their education.
Fascism begins when the efficiency of the Government becomes more important than the Rights of the People.
Remember folks, it's okay as long as it's happening to someone you don't care about.
And by the time it's happening to someone you DO care about, it's too late.
Name names.
The NSA cannot "do" anything because it is nothing more than a legal fiction.
It is the people who are employed under that legal fiction that commit the crimes.
So, who will be fired for those crimes? It should be very simple to find the people who did it. And the people who authorized it. Etc.
Congratulations, you've just managed to support Intelligent Design.
It doesn't matter how the characters acted. That's a whole different thread.
In that story, human beings as we know them today are NOT a product of millions of years of evolution. They're the result of some "god" who directly influences events. And who is, apparently, still involved today.
Which is even worse than the age old cliche "and we will call this new planet 'Earth'".
I was using something similar. The trick is to identify the ISP mail servers. Usually by some naming convention of the ISP ... but in some cases you have to just wait for a complaint to come when they get blacklisted. I solved part of that by sending the rejection list to the recipients at times so they could check it.
Meanwhile, greylisting is completely different.
Greylisting means that any new "triplet" (recipient name + sender's name + sending IP address) is TEMPORARILY rejected for X minutes. This is because many spammers were using zombie machines that would not try to resend the message OR would keep trying with different sender's names. Legitimate senders and email servers would (MOST OF THE TIME) be able to handle the delay and the message would get through. All future messages with that "triplet" would be received without delay.
You want dysentery don't you? All the cool kids have dysentery. Dump all your existing technology and get yourself a nice case of dysentery.
No, that makes no sense whatsoever. The only people who would think it does have never had to deal with the wilderness on an extended basis.
Who cares about rebuilding civilization? This is about surviving the winter.
Given that God is all powerful and all knowing, it is ALWAYS a cop out to write him into a script.
Which is nothing more than a cop out saying that the bad script is not really a bad script. It's a good script about God.
Why would God have NEEDED or WANTED to have the characters act like that? Particularly when there must be a near infinite number of options available to an all knowing and all powerful God.
It's a cop out. That's all.
Yes. Because those thousands of people every year don't have the public impact that a news story does.
This has been going on for YEARS and the credit card companies NEVER took any action before now. Because the credit card companies were getting their share of the loot.
Now that the PR problem might be more costly than their share of the fraud, they take action.
No. Because in order to perform an experiment, you have to have a falsifiable hypothesis.
Creationism cannot form a falsifiable hypothesis because EVERY outcome could be "proven" by the words "God wanted it that way".
That is why it is not science.
That would depend upon what you mean by "religions".
I think you're confusing historical evidence with science. In order for it to be science, It must be able to be stated in the form of a falsifiable hypothesis that can be test by different scientists.
And that is the problem. Look at how bad it really was. Not in comparison to even worse shows. But in comparison to GOOD shows.
They had set up a really interesting concept ... and then totally neutered it. Everyone on the ship were best friends. Even though a large chunk of the crew had declared their own war. And the ship somehow kept getting repaired. And the borg were suddenly very weak. And do we really want to go into time travel?
Now compare that to Firefly's only season. Some of the crew did not like other members of the crew. The captain was not perfect. They had to work to keep the ship flying.
And Voyager was such a great series. Sarcasm intended.
Why do you say that? I can think of multiple ways to address that issue.
And you don't even address the issue of someone NOT having any of those programs that depend upon the insecure configuration.
#1. Virtual machines for insecure apps.
#2. Load the insecure .dll's only if necessary for an insecure program and then put a notice on the desktop which cannot be removed.
The idea is to move towards a more secure system. Not to keep making excuses.
2000 years from now we'll probably still be talking about Nazi Germany. So your "obviously" is 100% wrong.
Simply being a subject of discussion does NOT mean anything beyond being a subject of discussion.
Once again, you are wrong.
We are electing politicians. Not princes and kings.
And now you're confusing oversight with "harassment".
Your "logic" is self contradictory.
By your "logic".
They were elected to do a job.
Once they are elected, they can do whatever they want to do.
And no matter what they are doing, the public must not bother them about what they are doing.
Even if what they are doing is the opposite of what the people who voted for them asked them to do.
Fuck that. Fuck princes and kings. I'm watching my elected officials. I'm watching what they're doing. If I don't approve, I let them know.
You can keep your princes and kings.
Someone appointed/hired by Obama's administration.
If you were hired in the civilian sector and one of the things you sold yourself on to your new boss was your belief in email recovery, wouldn't you expect to be asked to do just that?
Get a job in IT. That's what I have to go through ALL THE TIME.
What decisions were made.
Why were those specific decisions made.
How were they implemented.
Why were they implemented in that specific way.
And yes, a LOT of it DOES involve going through my predecessor's email and notes.
If I am hired to recover the email, I work on recovering the email. Even if I have to recommend bringing in a recovery specialist. There are 300 million people in the USofA. It shouldn't be that difficult to find a few people to handle this. Instead, he's arguing against even TRYING.
How so? Particularly with regard to government operations.
And yet you have not established that secrecy is a necessity for honesty.
But I can give you MANY examples of secrecy being a necessity for DISHONESTY.
Why would that be necessary?
And that makes sense as long as you agree with every decision made.
Fuck that.
This is our elected government. Not our king.
So I can vote for someone ... who then becomes unquestionable.
Fuck that, too.
They're elected officials. This is not an autocracy.
It seems that the problem was that Windows was cooperating with the app vendor to lock out such hacking attempts.
Who owns your computer? You or the ISV's?
It must have been the "half the Internet" that I don't use. Which would be an interesting half because many of the sites I visit regularly are based in Europe.
From the thread, it looks like AS 47868 was the route being lost.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_System_Number
No. That doesn't show the differences between the licenses. Look at how many of them have the same answers in the same columns ... yet have different restrictions if you read the licenses.
IANAL but shouldn't it be fairly easy to construct a matrix of the various licenses and what rights/responsibilities are characteristic of each and how they compare to the other licenses?
At least that way any new licenses could be compared to the existing licenses to see if they were really needed or if they simply duplicated an existing one. Such as requiring that text block X be included in all copies ... but text block X differs from licenses A and B and C.
Think about it for a moment. We have enough processing power that we can tie taxes to specific projects at the fraction of a cent level.
Why not let the voters vote for projects AND the taxes to fund them? If they want another school, then they get a property tax increase of $3.15 on all property in area X.
If they want to fill in the pot holes on 1st Avenue then they increase the sales tax by 0.013%. And when the project is finished, the tax is repealed.
Let the people see EXACTLY what they're spending the money on.
If someone runs for office claiming to want to "cut taxes" then let them specify EXACTLY what projects will be cut and the people can see how much they'll be saving.
If more boxes are going to the shop to be cleaned, that means those shops would be hiring more cleaning techs. At least in theory.
Not to mention the sales tax on the cleaning service.
So, all in all, this just MIGHT help their local economy.
That's a MUCH better explanation than TFA had.
From TFA:
Sounds like a trojan to me. Or possibly an exploit of Outlook to install a keylogger. But not in any way "Nigerian".