TOR is only as safe as the government permits it to be. I stated above that the darkweb is subject to MIM attacks. TOR is merely a subset of the darkweb - albeit, less secure than I2P and other protocols.
Actually, yes. I've considered it. And, I consider it to be extremely wasteful. As I pointed out already, every grocer in America has to haul off a truckload of waste every month. Larger grocers might have two or three truckloads per week.
Since I am a former truckdriver, I am intimately familiar with how things are done, and why they are done that way. And, that does not change the fact that we, as a nation, generate millions of tons of waste, every day.
Now, I've already said that my idea was half assed, and I'll add that it's less than half baked. But, there MUST be a better way than what we are doing right now!
That sidesteps my point, really. Assuming that you want a proxy server to actually hide you - you need to determine what logs they keep, right?
You also seem to ignore my final question. Shouldn't it be considered fraud, if they promise to "cover your ass", then they hand logs to whichever government agency demands them?
Mmmm. I kinda feel like you do. But, while scratching my head over the submission, I got to thinking. Mankind wastes a lot of crap. Including shipping containers. See, I had smaller containers in mind - the stuff your local grocer has hauled to the landfill and/or a paper recycler every week.
I was visualizing some kind of plastic or metal containers being hauled to the grocer, filled with everything from toilet paper to filet mignon, aspirin to floor wax. The staff unloads it, puts it on the shelves, and leaves the container sitting right where the truck dropped it. Next day, the truck returns, unloads a new container, folds up yesterday's container, and puts it in front of, or on top of, the rest of his load.
Ehhh - alright, so this is less environmentally freindly than my half-assed idea. Even so, if it means fewer ship movements to return these containers wherever they need to go, that's kinda geeky. It saves fuel, and maybe makes the ship's passage a little less hazardous. (Ever seen a ship with these containers stacked up to the sky? Storms really have to suck, aboard one of them!)
Oh yeah - it could help the unemployment figures, a little. If it takes two or three men to collapse a container, that's good. A port like Houston, that handles tens of thousands of these things each day could employ a couple thousand workers. That may not be geeky, but hell, having more people to share the tax burden is always a good thing!
Perhaps you could write a "How to" for covering your ass, then. There aren't very many ways to hide your ass on the internet, and those that I know of are all subject to a MIM attack. Yes, even the darknet is subject to MIM, if the gubbermint wants to throw enough resources into finding you. So, what do you use?
Now, THAT is the correct question. A server that keeps no logs is a fairly secure server from which to run a VPS. Ditto proxies. When shopping for something of this sort, the important question to ask is, "What logs do you keep, and how long do you retain them?" Every server makes and keeps logs - there is no getting around that. The lifetime of the logs should depend on administrative necessity. Generally, logs should be flushed every 24 hours. Performance logs, security logs, things that pertain to the ongoing health and security of the server should be retained for as long as necessay - sometimes, for months. But every publicly facing server should routinely delete logs that aren't central to the server's main mission. VPS and proxy servers main mission being to protect the anonymity of it's users.
Shouldn't it be considered a fraud, to advertise they you will protect a user's identity, then maintain logs which can be seized by any government agency that demands them?
Well, I'm certainly happy to learn that you have attended classes, lectures, and talks given by all of the college professors in this nation. And, I'm very happy that you're able to post an unbiased, statistical analysis of your experiences. Without you, I would have continued to believe that liberals and conservatives are equally asinine. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I've argued with idiots who claim that America's cost of living has increased in the past few decades. I never though to use college tuition as part of my argument. College is only one of many things that have tripled in price, or more, since I graduated high school.
As a high school sophomore, I pumped gasoline at a local gas station. Sunoco - if you're familiar with them. They have (or had) two tanks in the ground. The cheap stuff, or "regular" was 27 cents. The racing fuel was 33 cents. And, you could choose your blend, because the pump took suction from both tanks at the same time.
Today, I pay ten times the price of racing fuel, for ethanol laced, low octane gasoline. Phhht.
Yeah, the cost of living has gone down in the last 30 years, if you're into some kind of ultra-conservative math, where powers of ten are ignored, and multiplication is restricted to two digits on either side of the decimal point, always rounded down. There may be a few more rules I need to learn, before I can make the math work for me.
I've an attitude. Someday, it could cause me trouble, but so far, it hasn't. I do NOT acknowledge that my employer has any authority to "discipline" me. In fact, we recently got a new Employee's handbook. It states that the company employs people "at will". If and when the company or myself finds that further employment is not to our benefit, I walk. Simple as that. Discipline? No fekkiing way. I spent my time in the service, I was taught self discipline, and I exercise self discipline. The bunch of weenies who sit in the front office, whiling away the day on the phone, throwing darts, and drinking cold drinks has nothing to teach me about discipline. Nothing. Like the book says, when I get tired of working for them, I walk. When they get tired of me and my attitude, I walk. If any of those weenies gets uppity, and tries to teach me "discipline", I walk. And, I'd be happy to tell any or all of them, to their faces. There will never be a "disciplinary hearing" of which I am the subject.;^)
Exactly. What I do, what I say, or what I don't do or say, for x number of hours each day, is the business of my employer. When I clock out, nothing that I do, or don't do, is any business of theirs. Nothing. If I want to dress in tights, and swing from the chandoliers at the local watering hole, that is the business of myself, the owner of the watering hole, and any customers who might be present. The ONLY thing my employer needs to know, is whether I am competent to perform my duties while on the job. Nothing more, nothing less.
Yeah - but you're still stuck with a population that grows exponentially. You'll notice that despite the educated peoples in Europe and North America slowing their growth rate, the human race continues to reproduce at an unsustainable rate. China leads the world, with their negative growth rate, but still we have the masses of Asia, Africa, and South America plus Mexico producing around 5 babies per woman.
I guess you need to get out there and start educating people!
Meanwhile, I still ask, what good does it do to solve all of humankind's ills, just to have a huge ass rock fall on all of our heads?
How 'bout we continue to push for space exploration, and space settlement, while some other people work on mankind's diseases and hunger problems?
Something that Window's defrag tools never seem to do, is to defrag the metadata, and the swap file. I've found that the metafile defrag has been overhyped by some vendors, but that data can be fragmented all over the disk. It's nice to defrag it into only a few pieces, rather than hundreds. Performance does improve. The swap file? I can defrag that, manually, by deleting the swap file, reboot, then create a new, static swap file. I can't believe the number of people who allow Windows to manage that file, only to have it broken up into dozens of bits and pieces! Seek times measured in seconds just suck!
So - Windows defrag leaves something to be desired.
As has been pointed out already, the article deals with MS servers. MSSE is not available for servers, and I don't think that Avast free version is available for servers. ClamAV is free, for servers, for desktops, for workstations, for home use, for enterprise. No restrictions.
What is the cost for Avast on an enterprise server, anyway? Hmmm - looks like $175 for the bargain basement deal, and $250 for the more robust business version. http://www.avast.com/business
That's not a lot of money - unless your business runs on a financial shoestring. In today's economy, a lot of businesses are run on shoestrings!
Haven't looked at HyperV in ages. I remember when it was trash. Every other virtualization tool available at the time was better suited to the job. Things change, though. Maybe HyperV is worth looking at again - but I tend to stick with what works for me. I'll stick with VirtualBox, and dabble with VMWare, thank you.
That's a question I've often asked. Code writers really don't appear to be engineers to me. They look more like liberal arts students. Computer engineers are the people who work hard to increase bandwidth to and from the memory, to and from the GPU, they work at combining the CPU and GPU into a single unit, they work at creating faster memory, more compact memory, faster and more compact storage. You know, all those trivial "engineering" things that engineers do.
Once the technicians have assembled the hardware that the engineers have designed, everything else is just so much liberal arts. That includes all those "techs" at tech support, LMAO! They feel so important with that little title, but they do little more than tell dumb consumers how to mix the paint on their pallets. Liberal arts, to be sure.
You've been reading the 'Nutter's Weekly' again, haven't you?
Take any culture, be it human, canine, rodents, or whatever. Allow that culture to breed without restraint, and soon, that culture will have consumed all available resources. Worse, it will probably poison itself with it's own waste products. Go get yourself a petrie dish, and try it out. Just put one little organism in the dish, with unlimited nutritional resources. You can even replenish those resources every day if you wish. Just watch, and see how long it takes your culture to poison itself.
No, you can't solve the world's hunger problem permanently, unless you execute all the people of reproductive age. Don't talk so crazy, man!
Hey, Bob - what if you cure all of humanity's ills, just to have an asteroid half the size of the moon crash into the earth the next day? Just think - all that wasted time solving one set of problems, just to have another, bigger problem dropped on your head, out of nowhere.
I'll deal with the flu, staph, and strep, if I can just get OFF THIS ROCK! It's a deathtrap, I tell you! I've beaten the flu a couple dozen times now, but I have little idea how to beat a few million tons of rock falling on my head. Don't you think that would really screw up your chiropractics?
And, why do I always read "homeopathic" as "homopathic"? Is my gaydar messed up, or is it you?
I recently bought a WNR3500, flashed it to DD-WRT, then flashed it again to Tomato. Enabled QOS, and haven't made a single change to Toastman's default QOS settings. His settings were developed for precisely the environment into which the author intends to deploy his router.
My wife has the RFID thing, as part of her ID card. She never has to clock in, or clock out. As she enters and leaves the building, it makes a log entry to that effect. The apparently reads a short distance from the building that she works in, but that is no more than 1/2 mile, probably less than 1/4 mile. I'm not even sure what the maximum range is on those things. Once the computer picks her up though, it pinpoints her location pretty damned close, and she is never clocked in more than a minute before or after she actually walks through the gate, nor clocked out more than a minute before or after she walks back through the gate.
It is acceptable if they track a government owned car. Putting a GPS into the car is fine with me. Private car? They have no right, period. They want to track me, personally? During business hours, that's somewhat acceptable, but they aren't going to implant a GPS behind my ear, or hide it in my shoe. Good grief - if they can't keep track of employees without resorting to 24/7 GPS, then they are doing something terribly wrong.
First good post in this thread. Yes, most of the laws on our books today should be stricken. We have outrageously stupid laws that simply don't apply anymore, we have outrageously stupid laws that never did apply, we still have racist laws, we have some less stupid laws that have simply outlived their usefulness, and we even have laws that are blatantly unconstitutional.
Yes, laws should age. Around ten years, they should be reviewed, then again at twenty years, and scheduled to be stricken unless they actually contribute to society's health and welfare.
Imagine - a printed copy of US Code or state law that can actually be carried by an individual without straining himself!
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TOR is only as safe as the government permits it to be. I stated above that the darkweb is subject to MIM attacks. TOR is merely a subset of the darkweb - albeit, less secure than I2P and other protocols.
Actually, yes. I've considered it. And, I consider it to be extremely wasteful. As I pointed out already, every grocer in America has to haul off a truckload of waste every month. Larger grocers might have two or three truckloads per week.
Since I am a former truckdriver, I am intimately familiar with how things are done, and why they are done that way. And, that does not change the fact that we, as a nation, generate millions of tons of waste, every day.
Now, I've already said that my idea was half assed, and I'll add that it's less than half baked. But, there MUST be a better way than what we are doing right now!
That sidesteps my point, really. Assuming that you want a proxy server to actually hide you - you need to determine what logs they keep, right?
You also seem to ignore my final question. Shouldn't it be considered fraud, if they promise to "cover your ass", then they hand logs to whichever government agency demands them?
Alright, can't fault your logic there.
Mmmm. I kinda feel like you do. But, while scratching my head over the submission, I got to thinking. Mankind wastes a lot of crap. Including shipping containers. See, I had smaller containers in mind - the stuff your local grocer has hauled to the landfill and/or a paper recycler every week.
I was visualizing some kind of plastic or metal containers being hauled to the grocer, filled with everything from toilet paper to filet mignon, aspirin to floor wax. The staff unloads it, puts it on the shelves, and leaves the container sitting right where the truck dropped it. Next day, the truck returns, unloads a new container, folds up yesterday's container, and puts it in front of, or on top of, the rest of his load.
Ehhh - alright, so this is less environmentally freindly than my half-assed idea. Even so, if it means fewer ship movements to return these containers wherever they need to go, that's kinda geeky. It saves fuel, and maybe makes the ship's passage a little less hazardous. (Ever seen a ship with these containers stacked up to the sky? Storms really have to suck, aboard one of them!)
Oh yeah - it could help the unemployment figures, a little. If it takes two or three men to collapse a container, that's good. A port like Houston, that handles tens of thousands of these things each day could employ a couple thousand workers. That may not be geeky, but hell, having more people to share the tax burden is always a good thing!
I'm looking around my desk, looking for /dev/null. Can't find the damned thing. Not even sure what I'm looking for. Do you have a picture? ;^)
Perhaps you could write a "How to" for covering your ass, then. There aren't very many ways to hide your ass on the internet, and those that I know of are all subject to a MIM attack. Yes, even the darknet is subject to MIM, if the gubbermint wants to throw enough resources into finding you. So, what do you use?
Now, THAT is the correct question. A server that keeps no logs is a fairly secure server from which to run a VPS. Ditto proxies. When shopping for something of this sort, the important question to ask is, "What logs do you keep, and how long do you retain them?" Every server makes and keeps logs - there is no getting around that. The lifetime of the logs should depend on administrative necessity. Generally, logs should be flushed every 24 hours. Performance logs, security logs, things that pertain to the ongoing health and security of the server should be retained for as long as necessay - sometimes, for months. But every publicly facing server should routinely delete logs that aren't central to the server's main mission. VPS and proxy servers main mission being to protect the anonymity of it's users.
Shouldn't it be considered a fraud, to advertise they you will protect a user's identity, then maintain logs which can be seized by any government agency that demands them?
Well, I'm certainly happy to learn that you have attended classes, lectures, and talks given by all of the college professors in this nation. And, I'm very happy that you're able to post an unbiased, statistical analysis of your experiences. Without you, I would have continued to believe that liberals and conservatives are equally asinine. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
EDIT: I've argued with idiots who claim that America's cost of living has DECREASED in the past few decades.
God, I hate making glaringly stupid mistakes like that!
I've argued with idiots who claim that America's cost of living has increased in the past few decades. I never though to use college tuition as part of my argument. College is only one of many things that have tripled in price, or more, since I graduated high school.
As a high school sophomore, I pumped gasoline at a local gas station. Sunoco - if you're familiar with them. They have (or had) two tanks in the ground. The cheap stuff, or "regular" was 27 cents. The racing fuel was 33 cents. And, you could choose your blend, because the pump took suction from both tanks at the same time.
Today, I pay ten times the price of racing fuel, for ethanol laced, low octane gasoline. Phhht.
Yeah, the cost of living has gone down in the last 30 years, if you're into some kind of ultra-conservative math, where powers of ten are ignored, and multiplication is restricted to two digits on either side of the decimal point, always rounded down. There may be a few more rules I need to learn, before I can make the math work for me.
I've an attitude. Someday, it could cause me trouble, but so far, it hasn't. I do NOT acknowledge that my employer has any authority to "discipline" me. In fact, we recently got a new Employee's handbook. It states that the company employs people "at will". If and when the company or myself finds that further employment is not to our benefit, I walk. Simple as that. Discipline? No fekkiing way. I spent my time in the service, I was taught self discipline, and I exercise self discipline. The bunch of weenies who sit in the front office, whiling away the day on the phone, throwing darts, and drinking cold drinks has nothing to teach me about discipline. Nothing. Like the book says, when I get tired of working for them, I walk. When they get tired of me and my attitude, I walk. If any of those weenies gets uppity, and tries to teach me "discipline", I walk. And, I'd be happy to tell any or all of them, to their faces. There will never be a "disciplinary hearing" of which I am the subject. ;^)
Exactly. What I do, what I say, or what I don't do or say, for x number of hours each day, is the business of my employer. When I clock out, nothing that I do, or don't do, is any business of theirs. Nothing. If I want to dress in tights, and swing from the chandoliers at the local watering hole, that is the business of myself, the owner of the watering hole, and any customers who might be present. The ONLY thing my employer needs to know, is whether I am competent to perform my duties while on the job. Nothing more, nothing less.
Yeah - but you're still stuck with a population that grows exponentially. You'll notice that despite the educated peoples in Europe and North America slowing their growth rate, the human race continues to reproduce at an unsustainable rate. China leads the world, with their negative growth rate, but still we have the masses of Asia, Africa, and South America plus Mexico producing around 5 babies per woman.
I guess you need to get out there and start educating people!
Meanwhile, I still ask, what good does it do to solve all of humankind's ills, just to have a huge ass rock fall on all of our heads?
How 'bout we continue to push for space exploration, and space settlement, while some other people work on mankind's diseases and hunger problems?
Something that Window's defrag tools never seem to do, is to defrag the metadata, and the swap file. I've found that the metafile defrag has been overhyped by some vendors, but that data can be fragmented all over the disk. It's nice to defrag it into only a few pieces, rather than hundreds. Performance does improve. The swap file? I can defrag that, manually, by deleting the swap file, reboot, then create a new, static swap file. I can't believe the number of people who allow Windows to manage that file, only to have it broken up into dozens of bits and pieces! Seek times measured in seconds just suck!
So - Windows defrag leaves something to be desired.
As has been pointed out already, the article deals with MS servers. MSSE is not available for servers, and I don't think that Avast free version is available for servers. ClamAV is free, for servers, for desktops, for workstations, for home use, for enterprise. No restrictions.
What is the cost for Avast on an enterprise server, anyway? Hmmm - looks like $175 for the bargain basement deal, and $250 for the more robust business version. http://www.avast.com/business
That's not a lot of money - unless your business runs on a financial shoestring. In today's economy, a lot of businesses are run on shoestrings!
Haven't looked at HyperV in ages. I remember when it was trash. Every other virtualization tool available at the time was better suited to the job. Things change, though. Maybe HyperV is worth looking at again - but I tend to stick with what works for me. I'll stick with VirtualBox, and dabble with VMWare, thank you.
That's a question I've often asked. Code writers really don't appear to be engineers to me. They look more like liberal arts students. Computer engineers are the people who work hard to increase bandwidth to and from the memory, to and from the GPU, they work at combining the CPU and GPU into a single unit, they work at creating faster memory, more compact memory, faster and more compact storage. You know, all those trivial "engineering" things that engineers do.
Once the technicians have assembled the hardware that the engineers have designed, everything else is just so much liberal arts. That includes all those "techs" at tech support, LMAO! They feel so important with that little title, but they do little more than tell dumb consumers how to mix the paint on their pallets. Liberal arts, to be sure.
You've been reading the 'Nutter's Weekly' again, haven't you?
Take any culture, be it human, canine, rodents, or whatever. Allow that culture to breed without restraint, and soon, that culture will have consumed all available resources. Worse, it will probably poison itself with it's own waste products. Go get yourself a petrie dish, and try it out. Just put one little organism in the dish, with unlimited nutritional resources. You can even replenish those resources every day if you wish. Just watch, and see how long it takes your culture to poison itself.
No, you can't solve the world's hunger problem permanently, unless you execute all the people of reproductive age. Don't talk so crazy, man!
Dr. Bob. The one and only.
Hey, Bob - what if you cure all of humanity's ills, just to have an asteroid half the size of the moon crash into the earth the next day? Just think - all that wasted time solving one set of problems, just to have another, bigger problem dropped on your head, out of nowhere.
I'll deal with the flu, staph, and strep, if I can just get OFF THIS ROCK! It's a deathtrap, I tell you! I've beaten the flu a couple dozen times now, but I have little idea how to beat a few million tons of rock falling on my head. Don't you think that would really screw up your chiropractics?
And, why do I always read "homeopathic" as "homopathic"? Is my gaydar messed up, or is it you?
This question should have been asked at http://www.myopenrouter.com/forums/
I recently bought a WNR3500, flashed it to DD-WRT, then flashed it again to Tomato. Enabled QOS, and haven't made a single change to Toastman's default QOS settings. His settings were developed for precisely the environment into which the author intends to deploy his router.
Netgear's open source routers are awesome!
Surveillance, in any sane definition of it, would be included under "search". They are searching for evidence to be used against you.
My wife has the RFID thing, as part of her ID card. She never has to clock in, or clock out. As she enters and leaves the building, it makes a log entry to that effect. The apparently reads a short distance from the building that she works in, but that is no more than 1/2 mile, probably less than 1/4 mile. I'm not even sure what the maximum range is on those things. Once the computer picks her up though, it pinpoints her location pretty damned close, and she is never clocked in more than a minute before or after she actually walks through the gate, nor clocked out more than a minute before or after she walks back through the gate.
That sort of tracking is acceptable to me.
It is acceptable if they track a government owned car. Putting a GPS into the car is fine with me. Private car? They have no right, period. They want to track me, personally? During business hours, that's somewhat acceptable, but they aren't going to implant a GPS behind my ear, or hide it in my shoe. Good grief - if they can't keep track of employees without resorting to 24/7 GPS, then they are doing something terribly wrong.
First good post in this thread. Yes, most of the laws on our books today should be stricken. We have outrageously stupid laws that simply don't apply anymore, we have outrageously stupid laws that never did apply, we still have racist laws, we have some less stupid laws that have simply outlived their usefulness, and we even have laws that are blatantly unconstitutional.
Yes, laws should age. Around ten years, they should be reviewed, then again at twenty years, and scheduled to be stricken unless they actually contribute to society's health and welfare.
Imagine - a printed copy of US Code or state law that can actually be carried by an individual without straining himself!