>>I'm sure law enforcement has a better reason than "he's black!" to put these people into a database.
Gee, Whitey, I'm glad that YOU'RE so sure! Amadou Diallo and I will be so greatly comforted by your assurance of the absence of race-bias by police authorities.
>>The real purpose of this kind of database is NOT to incriminate the not guilty, or to place random people into the database just for the hell of it.
Again, I'm glad that you are privy to the thoughts behind the purpose of this database. You are probably also an expert on the controls in place to ensure that this purpose is not abused or obfuscated. Like denial of public housing, prohibition from employment, etc.
These attitudes are the road of comfort on which a the wheels of Fascism ride so smoothly in the States, these days!
It's an OPTICAL DISK - a legacy NeXT UI element, which had, until now, been left in OS X as a little 'tip of the hat' to NeXTStep 3.x.
It's understandable the Mac folks want all the niceties of post 7.2 MacOS restored to the new system. After all, these are Macintosh computers. Still, there are sentimental attachments for old NeXT users -all twelve of 'em. It's a pity to se the last of this Grey Lady slowly subsume into the Aquatic realm...
This is the only way they can get the Web to be profitable using a model built around centralized content and unidirectional delivery to end-points.
I call this "T.V. with a 'Buy' button."
This is a poor model for constructing a viable business on the Web. It plays with none of the strengths of the Internet, and is susceptible to many weaknesses.
What is a workable Web-based model? It is easier to point to an example than describe. I would submit EBay as someone who -accidentally or by design- got this right.
They have the right intelligence at the hub, to broker the intelligence at the end-points.
If your model is low-end pay-per-view, you will make money with porn, not Pets.com. If you are blasting people's e-mail, you will sell them the things they are embarrassed to buy elsewhere -- Swedish Penis Pumps, Herbal Viagra, etc...
These technology issues are not separate from any other social, political or economic threat posed to a democratic society. The issues and subject matter are sometimes daunting in complexity, and obtuse in their argument. This means that they are difficult to comprehend and absorb for people not conversant in the technology itself.
That is a real danger.
It is dangerous not to understand what is happening here on an international scale.
In terms of censorship, social control and the relegation of individual populations to a second-class of citizenship, technology issues like this will have a more direct effect than tariffs or export laws.
What you are allowed read in books and watch on TV will be subject to its profit potential for large corporations. Read that again. Anything else will be Samizdat .
This will be enforced through agreements and laws like DMCA, UCITA, and the proposed SSSCA and CBDTP. Less is known by even informed people about these laws, than say -NAFTA.
Why? Because at a cursory glance, the subject matter is dismissed as being too technical, or "just something about TV."
When second-hand bookshops are being closed - for being unable to meet the minimum payments on 'royalties for redistribution of intellectual property,' everyone will wonder what happened. It started with Internet Audio Broadcasters. You think this is far-fetched, or satirical? Go ask SOMA-FM
Both the Preamble and Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution call upon the federal government to "promote the general welfare." By extension, "we the people" are urged to promote the general welfare as well.
We may disagree as to what the general welfare requires, but the framers intended that we accept this principle as being essential to the preservation of freedom.
The question is, how long until the XP version of PGP is released?
This exists, and includes a working PGP Disk Driver under Windows XP. Check out Imad's PGP PageThe latest Build 9, Beta 3 includes XP compatability. Imad's sources are the Publicly release 6.58 branch fom NAI. His fork includes numerous bug-fixes, platform-compatibility enhancements, additional plug-ins (ICQ), and improved interoperability with GnuPG/Open PGP.
Tie the HyperCard engine -with as FEW modifications or "improvements"- to regular HTML 4.0/DHTML compliant browsers as the UI.
All of the advantages of good 'ol hypercard, and a universal model for I/O.
the bastards will manage to screw this idea to hell, using XML and XSLT and all the latest word-salad acronyms that serve to distance ordinary people from approching these technologies.
Dsniff was used as part of the practical exploit here.
The BugTraq post describes the nature of a MOTM exploit using this vulnerability.
A BugTraq reader was able to successfully demonstrate this using dsniff and OpenSSL as his tool kit. Screenshots on his site illustrate this, with his own bank account!
Client-side issue is the BIGGEST - most intractable problem. Culp said this to minimize the issue. He only reassures large commercial bodies of their liability,This does not minimize anything.
Dial-up users with ignorance of patch/upgrade will never be able to trust on-line transactions. This is the vast majority of users, and the problem is going to haunt individuals for 2+ years.
Interesting! Using a defunct laptop, this is exactly the attack I outlined to our no. 1 financial client as the hole in their proposals for an Internet stack security architecture. They have crypto on EVERYTHING on disk - web files to DB. But traffic travels in the plain between hosts.
Here is a GREAT reason to use IPSec with AH for ALL connects in your application/DB LAN segments.
Almost trivial with Windows 2000 and Global Policy Templates. Very doable with the IPSec and LDAP upgrades in Solaris 9. Key management is still a Royal PITA on other platforms.
I have always wanteda cluster of 4 to 6 Shuttle-type P4 MicroATX MoBos in one of my SGI Indigo Elan chassis. The thing that's tripped me up is putting all the PS in!
Maybe I can fit this with some kind of Passive PCI plane, and add multiple Single-board computers... HMMMMmmmmmmm....
Veritas Foundation Suite is available for Windows 2K. I know it is expensive.
What would it cost for your company to reconstruct the lost data?
Risk Analysis argument over!
Seriously, the Win2K volume management and "enhanced disk format" you worry about are a subset of the Veritas VM, licensed by MS. It's crippled without many of the data-recovery features, and doesn't include the file-system enhancements. When you convert a Windows volume from "Basic", you are essentially performing the same operation as "Encapsulating" a native volume with Veritas on Solaris or HP/UX.
I guess Pudge's "Not sharing a LAN with someone who'd do that was meant to be enclosed in tags!
<sarcasm>
Well, one workaround for this particular exploit is to not share a LAN with someone who would do that sort of thing.
</sarcasm>
These exploit techniques could be used by a good blackhat to affect everyone on, let's say Rogers Cable, in a specific geographic region. Face, it: since this became a one-protocol world with fat pipes, we all trust upstream.
Are you big enough for your home DNS to point only at root?
I worked like a dog on an old slab in the early 'nineties, but it had no NeXT peer in the SFSU media lab for this kind of stuff...
To think, I had no opportunity to send bit-mapped roaches scurrying on the lab-techs mega-pixel displays! (That's what the SS2's with color were for)
Old timers will remember...
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Many years ago, when Slashdot was young, and moderation not yet a dream...
There were endless discussions of Berlin, and how it was going to sweep Linux and the BSD's into the graphical future, from the chains of a graphical past.
X is still here in 2002, and its progeny will be in place 15 years from now. It will be worked on by CS students who got their MS working on various "Berlin's".
BTW: Who remembers Sun's NeWS - a DPS-based windowing system with network transparency? Why doesn't Apple license the old sources for a model at extending Aqua on the wire? They will just re-invent this stuff again on the Quartz layer of 2005. Oh, well....
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Gee, Whitey, I'm glad that YOU'RE so sure! Amadou Diallo and I will be so greatly comforted by your assurance of the absence of race-bias by police authorities.
>>The real purpose of this kind of database is NOT to incriminate the not guilty, or to place random people into the database just for the hell of it.
Again, I'm glad that you are privy to the thoughts behind the purpose of this database. You are probably also an expert on the controls in place to ensure that this purpose is not abused or obfuscated. Like denial of public housing, prohibition from employment, etc.
These attitudes are the road of comfort on which a the wheels of Fascism ride so smoothly in the States, these days!
Whatever you say, Mister T^HButtle...
Hot Damn! It uses the installer/loader for NeXTStep Intel, with a couple of cosmetic changes on logos, etc.
Think the original release of OS X Server, with a transparent NeXT-dock..., and most of the old UI cues for application launch, etc...
It's an OPTICAL DISK - a legacy NeXT UI element, which had, until now, been left in OS X as a little 'tip of the hat' to NeXTStep 3.x.
It's understandable the Mac folks want all the niceties of post 7.2 MacOS restored to the new system. After all, these are Macintosh computers. Still, there are sentimental attachments for old NeXT users -all twelve of 'em. It's a pity to se the last of this Grey Lady slowly subsume into the Aquatic realm...
This is the only way they can get the Web to be profitable using a model built around centralized content and unidirectional delivery to end-points.
I call this "T.V. with a 'Buy' button."
This is a poor model for constructing a viable business on the Web. It plays with none of the strengths of the Internet, and is susceptible to many weaknesses.
What is a workable Web-based model? It is easier to point to an example than describe. I would submit EBay as someone who -accidentally or by design- got this right.
They have the right intelligence at the hub, to broker the intelligence at the end-points.
If your model is low-end pay-per-view, you will make money with porn, not Pets.com. If you are blasting people's e-mail, you will sell them the things they are embarrassed to buy elsewhere -- Swedish Penis Pumps, Herbal Viagra, etc...
...When there are enough KIDS on /. to hack 'em off the planet?
Well,
They got better chairs !
This means that they are difficult to comprehend and absorb for people not conversant in the technology itself.
That is a real danger.
It is dangerous not to understand what is happening here on an international scale.
In terms of censorship, social control and the relegation of individual populations to a second-class of citizenship, technology issues like this will have a more direct effect than tariffs or export laws.
What you are allowed read in books and watch on TV will be subject to its profit potential for large corporations. Read that again. Anything else will be Samizdat .
This will be enforced through agreements and laws like DMCA, UCITA, and the proposed SSSCA and CBDTP. Less is known by even informed people about these laws, than say -NAFTA.
Why? Because at a cursory glance, the subject matter is dismissed as being too technical, or "just something about TV."
When second-hand bookshops are being closed - for being unable to meet the minimum payments on 'royalties for redistribution of intellectual property,' everyone will wonder what happened. It started with Internet Audio Broadcasters. You think this is far-fetched, or satirical? Go ask SOMA-FM
We may disagree as to what the general welfare requires, but the framers intended that we accept this principle as being essential to the preservation of freedom.
This exists, and includes a working PGP Disk Driver under Windows XP. Check out Imad's PGP PageThe latest Build 9, Beta 3 includes XP compatability. Imad's sources are the Publicly release 6.58 branch fom NAI. His fork includes numerous bug-fixes, platform-compatibility enhancements, additional plug-ins (ICQ), and improved interoperability with GnuPG/Open PGP.
Joe-Bob says, "Check it out."
All of the advantages of good 'ol hypercard, and a universal model for I/O.
the bastards will manage to screw this idea to hell, using XML and XSLT and all the latest word-salad acronyms that serve to distance ordinary people from approching these technologies.
The BugTraq post describes the nature of a MOTM exploit using this vulnerability.
A BugTraq reader was able to successfully demonstrate this using dsniff and OpenSSL as his tool kit. Screenshots on his site illustrate this, with his own bank account!
Dial-up users with ignorance of patch/upgrade will never be able to trust on-line transactions. This is the vast majority of users, and the problem is going to haunt individuals for 2+ years.
You have nothing to hide? The Agency is terribly sorry Mrs. Buttle...
Interesting!
Using a defunct laptop, this is exactly the attack I outlined to our no. 1 financial client as the hole in their proposals for an Internet stack security architecture.
They have crypto on EVERYTHING on disk - web files to DB. But traffic travels in the plain between hosts.
Almost trivial with Windows 2000 and Global Policy Templates.
Very doable with the IPSec and LDAP upgrades in Solaris 9.
Key management is still a Royal PITA on other platforms.
Maybe I can fit this with some kind of Passive PCI plane, and add multiple Single-board computers...
HMMMMmmmmmmm....
What would it cost for your company to reconstruct the lost data?
Risk Analysis argument over!
Seriously, the Win2K volume management and "enhanced disk format" you worry about are a subset of the Veritas VM, licensed by MS. It's crippled without many of the data-recovery features, and doesn't include the file-system enhancements.
When you convert a Windows volume from "Basic", you are essentially performing the same operation as "Encapsulating" a native volume with Veritas on Solaris or HP/UX.
I'm looking for the rest of this series:
Asbestos
P.C.B
Dioxin
These exploit techniques could be used by a good blackhat to affect everyone on, let's say Rogers Cable, in a specific geographic region. Face, it: since this became a one-protocol world with fat pipes, we all trust upstream.
Are you big enough for your home DNS to point only at root?
We get enough grief honoring International conventions here on Earth!
Sync on green? No problem! All my SGI equipment does this - As well as Sun Monitors around here with the 'clasic' 13DW3 connectors.
If the system is called "Asterisk", I hope that they are prepared to be sued by overzealous, dyslexic Frenchmen!
I worked like a dog on an old slab in the early 'nineties, but it had no NeXT peer in the SFSU media lab for this kind of stuff...
To think, I had no opportunity to send bit-mapped roaches scurrying on the lab-techs mega-pixel displays! (That's what the SS2's with color were for)
There were endless discussions of Berlin, and how it was going to sweep Linux and the BSD's into the graphical future, from the chains of a graphical past.
X is still here in 2002, and its progeny will be in place 15 years from now. It will be worked on by CS students who got their MS working on various "Berlin's".
BTW: Who remembers Sun's NeWS - a DPS-based windowing system with network transparency? Why doesn't Apple license the old sources for a model at extending Aqua on the wire? They will just re-invent this stuff again on the Quartz layer of 2005. Oh, well....