I wouldn't bother pirating Democracy 2. I can buy it DRM-free for $20. I happen to own a copy in fact, though regrettably have yet to find time to play it.
Um most pirated software is clean of malware. The primary vectors are email and infected websites (often reputable ones that are compromised themselves, often due to sketchy)
The "piracy has VIRUSES!" myth is very much a content industry creation. I'm more concerned about malware in "genuine" software than pirated, and one more reason that I pirate things when I do. Of course, you -are- running an executable from a total stranger. At least "genuine" software makers have it tied to their name, so this could easily become truer.
Given that all three OSes have sudo, social engineering will ALWAYS work. Unless we take sudo away from average users (which is far easier to get away with on linux than windows and still have everything work smoothly)
If you're really paranoid, you might consider running your browser and mail client in a virtual machine
It's especially nice if such monitoring software is not "on the radar" of malware sites, since they could include a workaround for such software, as is frequently done for Norton and Symantic on Windows.
I agree, but enough companies do it often enough that I stopped caring that much. I favor openness and innovation over complete compliance with patent law/spirit of fair attributation, and though I think both are important, I feel it's more important to err on the side of innovation.
Some people go to community colleges for reasons other than "being idiots". Like, for example, saving money, staying near home, etc etc. Nor are they all terrible educational institutions, especially not for freshman and sophomore classes.
Careful with the elitism, it interferes with the meat of your message. Having taken classes both at community colleges and at a quite prestigious science school, I can tell you there is a difference in quality of instruction available, but it is dwarfed by the difference in the students who take advantage of their opportunities and those who do not.
Did I say anything about Linux being immune to viruses or crackers? Did I even imply it? You jump to conclusions far too easily, though given I'm a poster on slashdot, linux fanboi is a reasonable assumption without much further information;)
What I said applies equally well to all operating systems. It doesn't really matter that Linux is more secure and less common, nor that both can be locked down to a reasonable degree by a knowledgeable sysadmin.
For the record, I've had to deal with compromised linices, macs*, and windows boxen. I know full well that not everyone is a 1337 h4x0r who can secure their system to unix snobs' satisfaction. I only hope my doctor doesn't mock me in a similar way for not knowing how to cure myself.
I merely wanted to point out that the goals of compromise have shifted over the years, and one can easily mistake this for Windows (the target of most crackers) becoming more secure. I think the neverending flood of spam attests to the fact that there are plenty of compromised computers around the tubes.
You are, of course, right that one cannot prove a negative, and any acerbity in my earlier post should be attributed to the "ZOMG windows is so secure I odn't need to enable the security or instlal 3rd part ysoftware I'm never comporm1s3d lulz" sort I've been seeing lately, which you clearly are not.
Just because you've never noticed them doesn't mean you've never gotten a virus. Modern viruses are more intended to be quiet and do their spamming/backdoor thing these days, since users who find them may attempt to remove them.
I stick with ion3 because my screen isn't that big. 1024x768. With a tiling wm it feels big, but with gnome, kde, etc I can barely fit a single app on the screen.
Of course, the learning curve for a tiling wm is kind of intense:-)
Given that their estimates of number of downloads is completely fabricated anyway, OP is, while on questionable moral ground, not actually hurting the situation any.
Gtg, time to violate the GPL because I disagree with Richard Stallman's techniques, and don't want to use it under their terms.
It should not be that hard to follow the money generates by this malware. Infecting 8 million PC should be a crime.
It's a crime if it's spammers. It's not a crime if it's government or content industry.
Bitterness aside, the main problem is that usually the people doing it are in a country where it is, for a number of reasons, difficult to track them down. Still, I agree that, short of keeping your OS up to date (if you/must/ use Windows), following the money is the best approach.
Well I'll take Python or Haskell over both by a long shot. My preference for C/C++ is simply based on my own experience, speed (why am I using such a terrible language if not for that), and the fact that when it comes to avoiding RSI all the "sugar" that Java deems unnecessary is actually quite handy.
Of course this is just a personal opinion, unlike the indisputable fact that vi is better then emacs;)
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Best. Troll. Evar. You actually had me going until the Bonzai Buddy. But even despite this, and my comment, I'm sure/someone/ will take it seriously.
You missed a great opportunity though. The rainbow apple with a bite taken out is thought by many [citation needed][weasel words] to be an homage to celebrated computer scientist Alan Turing. Turing was homosexual, and died (thought to be a suicide) by eating an apple laced with cyanide.
The linux kernel does (I believe, IANA Kernel Hacker) scramble the key storage at least on shutdown, but it is possible to interrupt the power to the system before the kernel can react.
Um...physical access only is owned if you have an unencrypted root. Against an encrypted root on an unpowered system you're pretty much SOL short of adding a hardware keylogger. Or I suppose you could modify their kernel, but a TPM can thwart that.
Well the simple version of the attack is to put a microkernel in a netboot/usbkey and boot their computer to it, if they didn't disable that in BIOS. Hope you don't overwrite key storage with the microkernel (unlikely), then just dump ram for later analysis. Grep it for the linux key storage struct...and you win. It could be made almost plug and play.
Against a disabled boot order, it would take someone with undergrad-ish electrical engineering and computer science training to pull off such an attack, given a week or two to prepare. Build a dram access board, pull out the DRAM (no N2 is really needed to be honest, DRAM can actually hold its contents for minutes with minimal loss, though this varies widely by type. The stuff I used in my intro EE classes was still like 80% accurate after 30 minutes unpowered, despite the specs asking for a refresh cycle thousands of times per second.) Put the ram into the reader board, dump it to your computer, and grep for the key struct.
Enough people can pull off this attack that pretty much anyone who has a serious interest in getting your data could probably do so with a bit of time and money investment. Personally, I encrypt to deter casual thiefs, not the KGB.
Now now, I'm sure we can trust companies to act in good faith rather than self interest at the cost of morality and the interest of their customers. No need to be so cynical, Commie scum.
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I wouldn't bother pirating Democracy 2. I can buy it DRM-free for $20. I happen to own a copy in fact, though regrettably have yet to find time to play it.
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You spelled yy, p, and :w wrong.
Um most pirated software is clean of malware. The primary vectors are email and infected websites (often reputable ones that are compromised themselves, often due to sketchy)
The "piracy has VIRUSES!" myth is very much a content industry creation. I'm more concerned about malware in "genuine" software than pirated, and one more reason that I pirate things when I do. Of course, you -are- running an executable from a total stranger. At least "genuine" software makers have it tied to their name, so this could easily become truer.
Given that all three OSes have sudo, social engineering will ALWAYS work. Unless we take sudo away from average users (which is far easier to get away with on linux than windows and still have everything work smoothly)
If you're really paranoid, you might consider running your browser and mail client in a virtual machine
As long as there are crackers without girlfriends in the world, they don't need to.
But to fuel your paranoia, maybe *that*'s why they sometimes used to offer jobs to prominent crackers;)
It's especially nice if such monitoring software is not "on the radar" of malware sites, since they could include a workaround for such software, as is frequently done for Norton and Symantic on Windows.
I agree, but enough companies do it often enough that I stopped caring that much. I favor openness and innovation over complete compliance with patent law/spirit of fair attributation, and though I think both are important, I feel it's more important to err on the side of innovation.
But when Apple copies something it's innovation. When Microsoft does it, it's child porn.
Some people go to community colleges for reasons other than "being idiots". Like, for example, saving money, staying near home, etc etc. Nor are they all terrible educational institutions, especially not for freshman and sophomore classes.
Careful with the elitism, it interferes with the meat of your message. Having taken classes both at community colleges and at a quite prestigious science school, I can tell you there is a difference in quality of instruction available, but it is dwarfed by the difference in the students who take advantage of their opportunities and those who do not.
Aside from that last line, I agree completely.
Did I say anything about Linux being immune to viruses or crackers? Did I even imply it? You jump to conclusions far too easily, though given I'm a poster on slashdot, linux fanboi is a reasonable assumption without much further information;)
What I said applies equally well to all operating systems. It doesn't really matter that Linux is more secure and less common, nor that both can be locked down to a reasonable degree by a knowledgeable sysadmin.
For the record, I've had to deal with compromised linices, macs*, and windows boxen. I know full well that not everyone is a 1337 h4x0r who can secure their system to unix snobs' satisfaction. I only hope my doctor doesn't mock me in a similar way for not knowing how to cure myself.
I merely wanted to point out that the goals of compromise have shifted over the years, and one can easily mistake this for Windows (the target of most crackers) becoming more secure. I think the neverending flood of spam attests to the fact that there are plenty of compromised computers around the tubes.
You are, of course, right that one cannot prove a negative, and any acerbity in my earlier post should be attributed to the "ZOMG windows is so secure I odn't need to enable the security or instlal 3rd part ysoftware I'm never comporm1s3d lulz" sort I've been seeing lately, which you clearly are not.
* only incidentally involved
So we need to stop selling cameras.
Just because you've never noticed them doesn't mean you've never gotten a virus. Modern viruses are more intended to be quiet and do their spamming/backdoor thing these days, since users who find them may attempt to remove them.
And no, antivirus is not much protection.
So the X-10 system does consume energy as well, though probably less.
I stick with ion3 because my screen isn't that big. 1024x768. With a tiling wm it feels big, but with gnome, kde, etc I can barely fit a single app on the screen.
Of course, the learning curve for a tiling wm is kind of intense:-)
Given that their estimates of number of downloads is completely fabricated anyway, OP is, while on questionable moral ground, not actually hurting the situation any.
Gtg, time to violate the GPL because I disagree with Richard Stallman's techniques, and don't want to use it under their terms.
It should not be that hard to follow the money generates by this malware. Infecting 8 million PC should be a crime.
It's a crime if it's spammers. It's not a crime if it's government or content industry.
Bitterness aside, the main problem is that usually the people doing it are in a country where it is, for a number of reasons, difficult to track them down. Still, I agree that, short of keeping your OS up to date (if you /must/ use Windows), following the money is the best approach.
Upholding the second amendment doesn't make one a gun nut.
Well I'll take Python or Haskell over both by a long shot. My preference for C/C++ is simply based on my own experience, speed (why am I using such a terrible language if not for that), and the fact that when it comes to avoiding RSI all the "sugar" that Java deems unnecessary is actually quite handy.
Of course this is just a personal opinion, unlike the indisputable fact that vi is better then emacs;)
Wow I got metatrolled. And I was feeling so proud of myself:-(
Best. Troll. Evar. You actually had me going until the Bonzai Buddy. But even despite this, and my comment, I'm sure /someone/ will take it seriously.
You missed a great opportunity though. The rainbow apple with a bite taken out is thought by many [citation needed][weasel words] to be an homage to celebrated computer scientist Alan Turing. Turing was homosexual, and died (thought to be a suicide) by eating an apple laced with cyanide.
The linux kernel does (I believe, IANA Kernel Hacker) scramble the key storage at least on shutdown, but it is possible to interrupt the power to the system before the kernel can react.
Um...physical access only is owned if you have an unencrypted root. Against an encrypted root on an unpowered system you're pretty much SOL short of adding a hardware keylogger. Or I suppose you could modify their kernel, but a TPM can thwart that.
Well the simple version of the attack is to put a microkernel in a netboot/usbkey and boot their computer to it, if they didn't disable that in BIOS. Hope you don't overwrite key storage with the microkernel (unlikely), then just dump ram for later analysis. Grep it for the linux key storage struct...and you win. It could be made almost plug and play.
Against a disabled boot order, it would take someone with undergrad-ish electrical engineering and computer science training to pull off such an attack, given a week or two to prepare. Build a dram access board, pull out the DRAM (no N2 is really needed to be honest, DRAM can actually hold its contents for minutes with minimal loss, though this varies widely by type. The stuff I used in my intro EE classes was still like 80% accurate after 30 minutes unpowered, despite the specs asking for a refresh cycle thousands of times per second.) Put the ram into the reader board, dump it to your computer, and grep for the key struct.
Enough people can pull off this attack that pretty much anyone who has a serious interest in getting your data could probably do so with a bit of time and money investment. Personally, I encrypt to deter casual thiefs, not the KGB.
I'll take C++ over Java any day when it comes to avoiding verbosity. I do miss garbage collection though.
Now now, I'm sure we can trust companies to act in good faith rather than self interest at the cost of morality and the interest of their customers. No need to be so cynical, Commie scum.