Really, most phishing attacks can be stopped with 2 things A) Making sure that it is the correct site and B) Making sure that it is HTTPS and the certificate is valid. If you do those two things, you have a good possibility of not being phished. Now, if the DNS servers gets cracked or other things like that, you might, but for 99.99999 percent of the time, doing those two things should protect you. Oh, and use a decent browser like Firefox.
The thing though is, as far as I know in China there is no DMCA. Now presumably there is some sort of copyright laws so it wouldn't be legal to download everything from TPB, but removing DRM (which, knowing MediaSentry it won't be hard) would be legal.
But, given as this is in China, they might just shoot you for breaking DRM.
Ah, true, however, in most cases if it is a good game, clones don't sell as well as the original one does. And as you can easily trademark your game, the other game will seem as a clone, especially when you have to say that this isn't your code to start with. And Apple might forbid what you are saying, not sure though.
Election workers found that votes were 'dropped' in at least 11 counties when memory cards were uploaded to computer servers. The same voting machines are used nationwide. The company blames a conflict between their software and antivirus software for the problem and says that an advisory was issued on the subject.
Ok, if you are buying computers to be used as election machines why would you even run an antivirus? There should be no way a virus could even touch the install. Don't connect it to the internet, and think twice before even networking it. Don't have a single USB port on it, no CD ROM drive, card reader, whatever. And no HDs. What they should really have is an open source BIOS (such as Linux BIOS) booting Linux or another OSS OS, which logs into a user that only has rights to use one program, and that is the only program installed. Preferably, the data should be stored on a Compact Flash card for fast booting which would have double or triple redundancy over multiple cards.
But, that isn't what a gamer thinks. Your solution works fine for people who play games, not gamers. What I am talking about are true gamers, people who run quad core boxes with as much RAM as they can stuff in with the most powerful graphics card they can afford. If a product promises to shave 4 milliseconds of lag off the network, they will buy it. Gamers will always be using Windows until not a single major game supports it.
Here in the US though, unless you buy your box online (which, granted a lot of people do), you are stuck with Best Buy or similar which will look at you blankly if you say you don't want Vista or you use Linux.
Yes F/OSS software *can* make money. Think of it this way, if you wrote an application and licensed it like under the BSD license, stuck the source code on a website, but made people pay $3 to download it for your iPhone, you just made money on an OSS idea. And really, no one is going to compile the source other than people who jailbreaked the iPhone, and that is few people. Then port the application to the Wii, Cell Phones, etc. All the while having source on your website but offering binary downloads for platforms that your can't "sudo apt-get install" or double click an.EXE to install programs. I can see this possibly being a problem if you use the GPL V3 though.
Home customers feel like they just can't do anything about it. A lot of them hate Vista, I have heard people tell me that they got a new computer, and I asked them how it was and they said that it was good except it had Vista on it. And no, these weren't the people who know much about computers. They see that Vista is pathetically slow and they don't want it.
A lot would downgrade to XP if they had either A) the right drivers B) an XP CD and C) the knowledge to downgrade.
And have the same results, only I don't need to spend any money. Most of the software sold in boxes are a load of crap. With the exception of games, but if you are a gamer, you will be running Windows for a long time.
Exactly, in the end of most it comes to A) I know the difference between a virus, a worm and a trojan. B) I can scan with a certain anti-virus to remove the virus and C) I can use the Windows firewall!
Look, I honestly don't get what the big deal with this is. Today I walked into a bookstore and got a copy of 2600 and Hakin9 both told me how to make malware. Now, granted, it didn't go into much depth, but I can search on Google for the rest of it.
I don't understand how anyone would hire a penetration tester that hasn't written a virus and doesn't understand how they work.
Yes, but why are they even caring? I mean, today I picked up a copy of 2600 from a local bookstore, in there I learned how to Arp poisoning, obtain malware via a honeypot, and all kinds of info that is similar to this. Yet I don't see the FBI raiding 2600's publisher burning all copies of the magazine.
You can get cracking techniques from loads of places, this guy's teachings is old news.
Hey, Slashdot is one of the few places online where people actually talk without a bunch of slang to seem "hip" just look at YouTube comments. Slashdot is much, much, better.
No. For most you only need to write a line of new code. For example, if the Anti-Virus flags any files being added called Spamb0t.exe, you can rename it Spammer.exe and it would work.
Exactly. No one can make you commit suicide. Sure, people can make your life miserable in real life, but online? I imagine that if it is such a big deal, you can simply delete your MySpace or perhaps contact whoever runs it about it if it is such a big deal.
I can see this law being applied to ban MMORPGs whenever someone calls someone an idiot for running in the middle of a quest and getting killed.
What I don't get is how people then get worked up about all this stuff if it is a person that doesn't exist. Ok, sure if it was someone you knew that said "I hate your guts" it might be a problem, but some random guy on the internet, I could care less.
Most companies usually don't care about something they aren't making money off of. Commodore is making money off of the C64 with the Virtual Console, but I don't think Apple has sold an Apple II since '93. Apple also isn't writing new software for it.
This is a perfect example on why IBM stays ahead. They adapt. They went from proprietary to open, from DOS to Linux. From punch cards to computers. Despite how "old" IBM seems, they always seem to adapt, something that some tech companies refuse to do.
Unfortunately, history indicates they would probably do it again.
And did it before. Look at the Japanese internment camps after the pearl harbor bombings, they were US citizens who happened to be Japanese. Now it is they are US citizens but have internet access. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_internment_camp
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Really, most phishing attacks can be stopped with 2 things A) Making sure that it is the correct site and B) Making sure that it is HTTPS and the certificate is valid. If you do those two things, you have a good possibility of not being phished. Now, if the DNS servers gets cracked or other things like that, you might, but for 99.99999 percent of the time, doing those two things should protect you. Oh, and use a decent browser like Firefox.
Nah, I only break out a Red Hat for the few occasions I work with RPMs. Or when I feel like switching to Fedora for a weekend.
The thing though is, as far as I know in China there is no DMCA. Now presumably there is some sort of copyright laws so it wouldn't be legal to download everything from TPB, but removing DRM (which, knowing MediaSentry it won't be hard) would be legal.
But, given as this is in China, they might just shoot you for breaking DRM.
Exactly, rule number 1 of running something online. If you make hackers mad, they will hack. I believe that Scientology learned that
Ah, true, however, in most cases if it is a good game, clones don't sell as well as the original one does. And as you can easily trademark your game, the other game will seem as a clone, especially when you have to say that this isn't your code to start with. And Apple might forbid what you are saying, not sure though.
Election workers found that votes were 'dropped' in at least 11 counties when memory cards were uploaded to computer servers. The same voting machines are used nationwide. The company blames a conflict between their software and antivirus software for the problem and says that an advisory was issued on the subject.
Ok, if you are buying computers to be used as election machines why would you even run an antivirus? There should be no way a virus could even touch the install. Don't connect it to the internet, and think twice before even networking it. Don't have a single USB port on it, no CD ROM drive, card reader, whatever. And no HDs. What they should really have is an open source BIOS (such as Linux BIOS) booting Linux or another OSS OS, which logs into a user that only has rights to use one program, and that is the only program installed. Preferably, the data should be stored on a Compact Flash card for fast booting which would have double or triple redundancy over multiple cards.
But, that isn't what a gamer thinks. Your solution works fine for people who play games, not gamers. What I am talking about are true gamers, people who run quad core boxes with as much RAM as they can stuff in with the most powerful graphics card they can afford. If a product promises to shave 4 milliseconds of lag off the network, they will buy it. Gamers will always be using Windows until not a single major game supports it.
Here in the US though, unless you buy your box online (which, granted a lot of people do), you are stuck with Best Buy or similar which will look at you blankly if you say you don't want Vista or you use Linux.
Yes F/OSS software *can* make money. Think of it this way, if you wrote an application and licensed it like under the BSD license, stuck the source code on a website, but made people pay $3 to download it for your iPhone, you just made money on an OSS idea. And really, no one is going to compile the source other than people who jailbreaked the iPhone, and that is few people. Then port the application to the Wii, Cell Phones, etc. All the while having source on your website but offering binary downloads for platforms that your can't "sudo apt-get install" or double click an .EXE to install programs. I can see this possibly being a problem if you use the GPL V3 though.
Home customers feel like they just can't do anything about it. A lot of them hate Vista, I have heard people tell me that they got a new computer, and I asked them how it was and they said that it was good except it had Vista on it. And no, these weren't the people who know much about computers. They see that Vista is pathetically slow and they don't want it.
A lot would downgrade to XP if they had either A) the right drivers B) an XP CD and C) the knowledge to downgrade.
Yes, but I can just type in
sudo synaptic
And have the same results, only I don't need to spend any money. Most of the software sold in boxes are a load of crap. With the exception of games, but if you are a gamer, you will be running Windows for a long time.
OpenGL is as good as DirectX, the downside is, it is hard to get native Linux games, but a lot of them run in WINE.
Yah, because with any luck Windows 7 will be released... Unfortunately, it will probably suck worse than Vista, thus driving up Vista adoption
Exactly, in the end of most it comes to A) I know the difference between a virus, a worm and a trojan. B) I can scan with a certain anti-virus to remove the virus and C) I can use the Windows firewall!
All those things should make me secure? Right?
Look, I honestly don't get what the big deal with this is. Today I walked into a bookstore and got a copy of 2600 and Hakin9 both told me how to make malware. Now, granted, it didn't go into much depth, but I can search on Google for the rest of it.
I don't understand how anyone would hire a penetration tester that hasn't written a virus and doesn't understand how they work.
Yes, but why are they even caring? I mean, today I picked up a copy of 2600 from a local bookstore, in there I learned how to Arp poisoning, obtain malware via a honeypot, and all kinds of info that is similar to this. Yet I don't see the FBI raiding 2600's publisher burning all copies of the magazine.
You can get cracking techniques from loads of places, this guy's teachings is old news.
Hey, Slashdot is one of the few places online where people actually talk without a bunch of slang to seem "hip" just look at YouTube comments. Slashdot is much, much, better.
No. For most you only need to write a line of new code. For example, if the Anti-Virus flags any files being added called Spamb0t.exe, you can rename it Spammer.exe and it would work.
Exactly. No one can make you commit suicide. Sure, people can make your life miserable in real life, but online? I imagine that if it is such a big deal, you can simply delete your MySpace or perhaps contact whoever runs it about it if it is such a big deal.
I can see this law being applied to ban MMORPGs whenever someone calls someone an idiot for running in the middle of a quest and getting killed.
What I don't get is how people then get worked up about all this stuff if it is a person that doesn't exist. Ok, sure if it was someone you knew that said "I hate your guts" it might be a problem, but some random guy on the internet, I could care less.
Most companies usually don't care about something they aren't making money off of. Commodore is making money off of the C64 with the Virtual Console, but I don't think Apple has sold an Apple II since '93. Apple also isn't writing new software for it.
Don't you mean Obama
*hides as karma burns*
This is a perfect example on why IBM stays ahead. They adapt. They went from proprietary to open, from DOS to Linux. From punch cards to computers. Despite how "old" IBM seems, they always seem to adapt, something that some tech companies refuse to do.
Unfortunately, history indicates they would probably do it again.
And did it before. Look at the Japanese internment camps after the pearl harbor bombings, they were US citizens who happened to be Japanese. Now it is they are US citizens but have internet access. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_internment_camp
in a free government, that which is common is legal
On that basis (and many others) the US, UK, Canada and all other "free" nations seem to be heading down the road to tyranny.