Well known, predictable plain text messages? What do you use a VPN for - transmitting copies of the OED and Shakespeare's Sonnets? It'd be easier by a factor of 10,000:1 to land a key-logger than perform cryptanalysis on replayed SSL session traffic.
My VPN usage is about as arbitrary as any collection of web pages and SSNs. Much of the data in transit isn't even text. Binary, rather.
So, I don't get TCP window benefits ACK-ing everything. This is one of 'ye olde tradeoffes'. Security is a matter of compromises and negotiations - window performance is one of these.
How is it not an Internet standard? Four little letters: IETF. These could backed by another three: W3C.
I concede the noyion of de facto standards, and of, say, commercial standards, even office automation standards. Word.doc is probably all of these. I don't think that it is an appropriate format to use for publicly criticizing the violation of RFC's! It's a clasic "unclear on the concept".
HTML/CSS is a published format. So are PostScript and PDF. Perfectly acceptable to use, and not illustrate the problem that one is bringing attention to..
Gordon! le0! Are you still running lance-chip sparcs?
le%d: No carrier - transceiver cable problem?
The LANCE chip has lost input to its carrier
detect pin while trying to transmit a
packet.
I have these boxes, but they barely run Solaris any mo'. All converted to Linux or xBSD. Only time I see the device called le0 anymore is from OpenPROM, when there is a tranceiver error.
Besides, it's EASY to use SSL - over arbitrary ports.
Stunnel lets you do exactly this for almost any socket communications.
Sneaky is to have a wrapper script that invokes PPPD over stunnel, with x.509 PEM certs to mutually authenticate the 'left' and 'right' sides of the communication.
In the past, I have set this up to answer on port 443, via xinetd. You can guess just how useful that has proven at some times, in some locations!;-)
Traffic analyzers and HTTP proxies see this as HTTPS traffic... Something you can't say for SSH listening on a funny port.
Buy a Toshiba, Sony, IBM or other major Laptop without buying Windows. Even if you can, you will expend an extraordinary effort to do so.
That my friend, is the effect of coercion - if not directly on you as the user, then certainly as a consequence of coercive pressure on the manufacturer/OEM/vendor.
If these do not cause you to at least reflect on the implications of the article, you may as well live in Argentina, circa 1977. I'm sure plenty good citizens in Buenos Aires said "I have no real expectation of privacy, but then again, I'm not diong anything wrong, so why should I care?"
It is precisely because these sorts of behaviors have been disallowed for law-enforcement and these freedoms have been upheld for individuals, that the US was never as heinous as Argentina or Spain or....
There is no "magic" quality inherent in the United States that will guarantee the freedom and liberty of the people if you begin to trivialize or ignore the abandonment of these controls.
Eating is really awful. Mechanical, tiring, and when you are done, you feel/full/ - which is in itself a period of prolonged discomfort.
Tasting things is O.K., sometimes great, even. I just don't think its much worth the downside. If you could take pills, like the Jetsons, instead of meals... I'd get right in line.
The tragedy of Canada is that they had the opportunity to have British culture, French cuisine, and American technology. Instead they ended up with American culture, British cuisine, and French technology.
Ahhh...
I always heard they could have had French culture, British law and American economy. I guess the key being Government instead of Technology. French technology includes Dassault - who make the core avionics software in every modern military aircraft , including U.S. They also have a decent home-grown telecommunications satellite network - which the U.S. depended on sub-leasing to meet the command-and-control bandwidth requirements during Guerre d'Gulf Deux.
I have about 4 other of the "Heart-Shaped" Logitech PS/2 mice in use. These are lower-rez than the Wingman. Comfy shape + 3-buttons for X-11. I dig 'em.
Other than that, I have the over-priced Logitech mobile-optical mouse attached to the ThinkPad.
My first was a Logitech C-7... This was the three-button, "workstation" serial mouse you found on pre-MIPS SGI equipment and CAD PC's in the mid-80's. I'd attach the ASCII picture of this as an appropriate addition, but the lameness filter would block it.
Has VMWare shown they think of you as their hostage?
What will happen to the MS product if it dominates the market?
If these were questions people asked when evaluating MS vs. Ashton-Tate, Borland, Lotus, WordPerfect and Novell - things would look quite a bit different.
Vote with your dollars, and don't support the further monopolization of mid-range IT by MS. The repercussions extend deeper than one product.
Set rules in yer MDA. Alias work for this. Legitimate addressies get delivered to the appropriate box. Yer last alias is *. This one has a mailbox/dev/null.
Any mail not intended for a named recipient/will/ use bandwidth - then go "poof"...
Slashdot Mirror
My VPN usage is about as arbitrary as any collection of web pages and SSNs. Much of the data in transit isn't even text. Binary, rather.
So, I don't get TCP window benefits ACK-ing everything. This is one of 'ye olde tradeoffes'. Security is a matter of compromises and negotiations - window performance is one of these.
Doesnt ss1 have ie0 ? Memory is failing...
How is it not an Internet standard? Four little letters: IETF. These could backed by another three: W3C.
I concede the noyion of de facto standards, and of, say, commercial standards, even office automation standards. Word .doc is probably all of these. I don't think that it is an appropriate format to use for publicly criticizing the violation of RFC's! It's a clasic "unclear on the concept".
HTML/CSS is a published format. So are PostScript and PDF. Perfectly acceptable to use, and not illustrate the problem that one is bringing attention to..
One more thing for people NOT to use from MS? That sounds like a fair situation. I was tired of blocking this *rap at the various firewalls anyway.
This is obvious PR cover for them retracting a service. I hope this sets a precedent for them withdrawing altogether... I can dream.
I have these boxes, but they barely run Solaris any mo'. All converted to Linux or xBSD. Only time I see the device called le0 anymore is from OpenPROM, when there is a tranceiver error.
I'm looking forward to TDK shipping CD-R Media with KNOPPIX pre-burned. ;-)
I keep giving 'em away faster than I can write 'em anyway.
That's one I won't be reading...
Stunnel lets you do exactly this for almost any socket communications.
Sneaky is to have a wrapper script that invokes PPPD over stunnel, with x.509 PEM certs to mutually authenticate the 'left' and 'right' sides of the communication.
In the past, I have set this up to answer on port 443, via xinetd. You can guess just how useful that has proven at some times, in some locations! ;-)
Traffic analyzers and HTTP proxies see this as HTTPS traffic... Something you can't say for SSH listening on a funny port.
I gess if I need 8+ way Oracle with 32GB RAM, I will build on Sun again.
For about a year, maybe.
That my friend, is the effect of coercion - if not directly on you as the user, then certainly as a consequence of coercive pressure on the manufacturer/OEM/vendor.
But, your handle marks you 9/10ths troll already.
More like Coercive (Microsoft) vs. Cooperative (Linux).
All them little Marxists at IBM seem to be in agreement. ;-)
Three words:
"Slippery Slope"
"Warrant"
If these do not cause you to at least reflect on the implications of the article, you may as well live in Argentina, circa 1977. I'm sure plenty good citizens in Buenos Aires said "I have no real expectation of privacy, but then again, I'm not diong anything wrong, so why should I care?"
It is precisely because these sorts of behaviors have been disallowed for law-enforcement and these freedoms have been upheld for individuals, that the US was never as heinous as Argentina or Spain or ....
There is no "magic" quality inherent in the United States that will guarantee the freedom and liberty of the people if you begin to trivialize or ignore the abandonment of these controls.
Tasting things is O.K., sometimes great, even. I just don't think its much worth the downside. If you could take pills, like the Jetsons, instead of meals... I'd get right in line.
Food is poison.
It's every sysadmn's duty to block the IP's of MS Bots.
Maybe if this Joone were the one just discovered, you'd "sneak" some time, no?
I always heard they could have had French culture, British law and American economy. I guess the key being Government instead of Technology. French technology includes Dassault - who make the core avionics software in every modern military aircraft , including U.S. They also have a decent home-grown telecommunications satellite network - which the U.S. depended on sub-leasing to meet the command-and-control bandwidth requirements during Guerre d'Gulf Deux.
Now- as for French Government...
Yeah,
I'm using this right now.
I have about 4 other of the "Heart-Shaped" Logitech PS/2 mice in use. These are lower-rez than the Wingman. Comfy shape + 3-buttons for X-11. I dig 'em.
Other than that, I have the over-priced Logitech mobile-optical mouse attached to the ThinkPad.
My first was a Logitech C-7... This was the three-button, "workstation" serial mouse you found on pre-MIPS SGI equipment and CAD PC's in the mid-80's. I'd attach the ASCII picture of this as an appropriate addition, but the lameness filter would block it.
For a trip back see:
LINK
LINK
LINK
and
LINK!
Who is crazee enough to fill those shoes today? I guess we'll be saying the same about "Darl McBride" in 2007.
Damn, I /miss/ those two!
I like the new "feature" that prevents restoral of a downed system to new, bare hardware for recovery! That's innovating the $H1+ out of it!
How about having to have THE WHOLE OS up and running to restore from tape?
INNOVATION!
Send me your invoice. I'll send you one of my BMs...
Has VMWare shown they think of you as their hostage?
What will happen to the MS product if it dominates the market?
If these were questions people asked when evaluating MS vs. Ashton-Tate, Borland, Lotus, WordPerfect and Novell - things would look quite a bit different.
Vote with your dollars, and don't support the further monopolization of mid-range IT by MS. The repercussions extend deeper than one product.
There may
be a way to use a print-to-file/pdf route around this - but it will be tough, and they will lock this soon enough.BOYCOTT.
This guy's worried about LIGHTNING hitting his backups!
I figure if that's what happens, you were supposed to lose that data!
Set rules in yer MDA. Alias work for this. Legitimate addressies get delivered to the appropriate box. Yer last alias is *. This one has a mailbox /dev/null.
Any mail not intended for a named recipient /will/ use bandwidth - then go "poof"...