The gaunt and grizzled Hill is a former NYPD captain, and he testifies like a pro, giving short quick answers and volunteering little. "I remember investigating many cases of this nature," Hill says. "We would generally check to see that all the programming on the complainant's line was in order... We determined in every case that there was no unauthorized call-forwarding."
so what was the 'authorised' call forwarding then?
Anyway as a previous poster says..
Sounds like the hotel's PABX's where hacked not Sprint's as it only effects calls from hotels not cell or other land lines..
(2 hrs a week in the middle of the night - not such a big deal)
With ebay being a truely global site which version of 'night' are you thinking about?
There is not opportunity for downtime AFAIK, but I don;t know their architecture and this sort of thing should have been designed in..
Just because we don't understand how something works, doesn't mean it doesn't work.
As a previous poster says there's plenty of evidence (including clinical trials) that these therapies do work, sometimes better sometimes not as well as 'conventional' medicine.
I gotta say my first reaction was ahah so that's the (expletive deleted) who started all this.
But then if it wasn't them then it would have been someone else. I get junk mail through my letter box so thid is just the logical extension for the internet.
Sure it's a pain in the bum, a total waste of bandwidth etc but given that the problem lays with ISP's allowing this stuff to go on (ie the spammers are their customers!) I can't see any solution to it (apart from ignoring and deleting it).
Well looks like the US PO wasn't that brilliant even in 1980. This Slashdot article shows MIT demonstrating the idea back on Dec 9 1968.
Given BT's cash problems I think they are trying it just in case they can get some money.
Re: "Buffer Overflow" security problems (Baker, RISKS-21.84)
"Nicholas C. Weaver"
Sat, 5 Jan 2002 13:15:52 -0800 (PST)
I agree with Henry Baker's basic assessment that buffer overflows, especially in code which listens to the outside world (and therefore vulnerable to remote attacks) should be classed as legally negligent.
However, it seems to be nigh-impossible to get programmers to write in more semantically solid languages.
There is another solution: software fault isolation [1]. If the C/C++ compilers included the sandboxing techniques as part of the compilation process, this would eliminate the most deleterious effects of stack and heap buffer overflows: the ability to run an attacker's arbitrary code, with a relatively minor hit in performance (under 10% in execution time).
An interesting question, and one for the lawyers to settle, is why haven't these techniques been widely deployed? The techniques were being commercialized by Colusa Software as part of their mobile code substrate [2] in the mid 1990s. In March 1996, Colusa software was purchased by Microsoft and it seems effectively digested, thereby eliminating another potential mobile-code competitor, something Microsoft seemed to fear at the time.
The interesting RISK, and one which is probably best left to the lawyers, is that as a result, for over half a decade, Microsoft has owned the patent rights and the developments required to eliminate two of their biggest security headaches: unchecked buffer overflows and Active-X's basic "compiled C/C++" nature, yet seems to have done nothing with them.
What is the liability involved when a company owns the rights to a technology which could greatly increase safety, at an acceptable (sub 10%) performance penalty, but does nothing to use it in their own products? Especially when the result is serious, widespread security problems which
could otherwise be prevented?
[1] "Efficient Software-Based Fault Isolation", Robert Wahbe, Steven Lucco, Thomas E. Anderson, Susan L. Graham, in *ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review*, volume 27, number 5, December 1993, pp 203--216,
[2] "Omniware: A universal substrate for mobile code"
I hate to brag but we've had Digital radio in the Uk for a while now..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/digitalradio/
Of course we have slightly less red tape to go through, but it's interesting wrt to broadcast/cellphones how you guys in the US seem to lagging behind other countries. I guess making the frequencies available is the main problem??
Slashdot Mirror
One more thing - ring up the CC people get them to refuse any further charge - just in case!
so what was the 'authorised' call forwarding then?
Anyway as a previous poster says..
Sounds like the hotel's PABX's where hacked not Sprint's as it only effects calls from hotels not cell or other land lines..
well I'm UK and I speak English so....:-)
Its a region thing for the studios. UK is in Europe and therefore we have to wait for the regional release!
Not my decission, just telling you how it is.
err no..
l #P ublicizingVulnerabilities
http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0002.htm
slow....
its a European thing.
Films in Europe get release later so all the dubbing etc can be done - and believe it or not the UK is in Europe.
(2 hrs a week in the middle of the night - not such a big deal) With ebay being a truely global site which version of 'night' are you thinking about? There is not opportunity for downtime AFAIK, but I don;t know their architecture and this sort of thing should have been designed in..
Jeez, let me see I need to keep my
My company needs to keep
Am I getting stiffed here or what?
About the only thing left of the dot com bubble that hasn't burst are domain registras.
:-(
Just because we don't understand how something works, doesn't mean it doesn't work.
As a previous poster says there's plenty of evidence (including clinical trials) that these therapies do work, sometimes better sometimes not as well as 'conventional' medicine.
Don't dismiss what you can't explain.
The now defunct British Rail invented these years ago.
:-)
Now used a ballast under the tracks
OAHHH errent return...
anyway as I was saying...
would be nice to have NIS or LDAP for authentication besides Windows Domain...
AS per usual something hal;f decent and we can't get it in the good ole United States Of Europe.
I gotta say my first reaction was ahah so that's the (expletive deleted) who started all this.
But then if it wasn't them then it would have been someone else. I get junk mail through my letter box so thid is just the logical extension for the internet.
Sure it's a pain in the bum, a total waste of bandwidth etc but given that the problem lays with ISP's allowing this stuff to go on (ie the spammers are their customers!) I can't see any solution to it (apart from ignoring and deleting it).
Just my 2 pence worth.
That's what I meant - DMCA is a silly law being abused buy a US based organisation against a US company (Google).
If google pulled out of the US they wouldn't have to put up with this c^&p
Given all silly uses of the silly DCMA Law, why don't some of the bigger boys move out the USA???
Yes I know it's a big move, but the internet is available outside the US
Just a thought...
Interesting....
they call for an immediate transfer to an existing non-profit organation. Who would they like this to be then???
Themselves?
www.newsnow.co.uk does similar stuff I guess, but is the summary builder the thing here?
Sounds about right given Intel's previous mathematics 'errata' for everything about the 386.
:-)
martin
Well looks like the US PO wasn't that brilliant even in 1980. This Slashdot article shows MIT demonstrating the idea back on Dec 9 1968.
Given BT's cash problems I think they are trying it just in case they can get some money.
So??
I don't move that often. It takes about 3 months for things to happen, then junk mail starts to die off.
Like you say can take upto a year or more, but it works for me.
They are the ...
mail preference society
phone preference society
Both listed in the from the the phone directories.
Takes at least three months for things to happen once you've filled in the formed.
This is covered in the UK for years with the DP act.
Also we can 'opt out' of junk mail (the physical stuff) and junk phone calls (buy your windows from us etc) by signing up with a couple of lists.
Its great I never get any junk mail, well Ok very rarely, and I never get cold called on the phone to buy stuff.
Saves me time, saves the postman's back
all in all about time you guys in the 'state got it.
From the risks digest....
Re: "Buffer Overflow" security problems (Baker, RISKS-21.84)
"Nicholas C. Weaver"
Sat, 5 Jan 2002 13:15:52 -0800 (PST)
I agree with Henry Baker's basic assessment that buffer overflows, especially in code which listens to the outside world (and therefore vulnerable to remote attacks) should be classed as legally negligent.
However, it seems to be nigh-impossible to get programmers to write in more semantically solid languages.
There is another solution: software fault isolation [1]. If the C/C++ compilers included the sandboxing techniques as part of the compilation process, this would eliminate the most deleterious effects of stack and heap buffer overflows: the ability to run an attacker's arbitrary code, with a relatively minor hit in performance (under 10% in execution time).
An interesting question, and one for the lawyers to settle, is why haven't these techniques been widely deployed? The techniques were being commercialized by Colusa Software as part of their mobile code substrate [2] in the mid 1990s. In March 1996, Colusa software was purchased by Microsoft and it seems effectively digested, thereby eliminating another potential mobile-code competitor, something Microsoft seemed to fear at the time.
The interesting RISK, and one which is probably best left to the lawyers, is that as a result, for over half a decade, Microsoft has owned the patent rights and the developments required to eliminate two of their biggest security headaches: unchecked buffer overflows and Active-X's basic "compiled C/C++" nature, yet seems to have done nothing with them.
What is the liability involved when a company owns the rights to a technology which could greatly increase safety, at an acceptable (sub 10%) performance penalty, but does nothing to use it in their own products? Especially when the result is serious, widespread security problems which
could otherwise be prevented?
[1] "Efficient Software-Based Fault Isolation", Robert Wahbe, Steven Lucco, Thomas E. Anderson, Susan L. Graham, in *ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review*, volume 27, number 5, December 1993, pp 203--216,
[2] "Omniware: A universal substrate for mobile code"
Nicholas C. Weaver nweaver@cs.berkeley.edu
I hate to brag but we've had Digital radio in the Uk for a while now..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/digitalradio/
Of course we have slightly less red tape to go through, but it's interesting wrt to broadcast/cellphones how you guys in the US seem to lagging behind other countries. I guess making the frequencies available is the main problem??
He's done massive amounts on Datawarehousing and has abook on the subject of looking at clickstream wrt to datawarehouse techniques.
check out www.rkimball.com and also stuff on datawarehousing if you are going to really get into all this
that already is running lots of ATM's out there. Do you ever see a BSOD on a cashpoint - I haven't?
Given the increase in complexity and code size its going to be interesting to see how it goes into devices.