This Star Trek episode crossed my mind too. These types of automated weapons could be a step in that direction. I must say though, in that episode, it was not entirely electronic. People voluntarily stepped into the death chambers when marked as "casualties".
Perhaps something more sinister is at work here, and I've not had a chance to launch a conspiracy theory for some time, so here goes: once we begin selectively breeding our children via genetic manipulation, and they mature to be adults, what better way to rid the planet of "mundane" people like ourselves but to get us to voluntarily enter some kind of death chamber? I'm usually no luddite, but the human genome map, and the inevitable opportunities to manipulate it really scare the shit out of me.
And somehow the boldface portion you posted shows that he did not do anything that could be interpreted as someone checking to see if their hack is still in place?
I'm sorry this guy got his stuff swiped by the FBI. Still, his acts provide the appearance of someone checking up to see if their hack is still in place, and this is probably enough grounds for a search warrant.
Speaking of grounds, I believe my coffee is ready.
Being investigated is a long way from being a criminal, so I suggest all you mind readers out here pipe down with all the rants "innocent till proven guilty", etc.etc.etc... Nobody is saying this man is guilty of anything at this time. It could be that the only reason FBI wants his system is to have a look/see if someone was bouncing traffic off his system.
now there are more defacements of Linux sites than NT sites
I like to checkout the attrition.org stats once in a while too. Swimming around the link you provided, there was a period from early August - mid September where Linux cracks outnumbered NT, (reference) but IIRC, this is when the WU-FTPD exploits were publicized. Is this not to be expected? I mean, so the script kiddies saw the bug on bugtraq, reviewed their nmap logs for Linux hosts and then went to town. Not too impressive. What is impressive is the sheer number and variety of ways the white hats keep discovering to get M$ internet software to execute code without user intervention or knowledge.
Also, a look at the pie chart shows NT with a 57% share of all defacements. I am not sure how you draw the conclusion that there are more Linux defacements than NT. Care to fill in the blanks for me?
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While you're at it, pull that power cable too =)
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Dude, you need to go read some Bugtraq and grok how it is possible to send an Outlook user an email, and without them even reading it, execute code on their system.
I dunno if the 1/2 click would fly, because you still have to release the button eventually. Well, maybe not. How about "0-click" shopping? onMouseOver="javascript: submitme();" If minimizing clicks is truly innovative, eliminating them must be genius.
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deadend depending on the level of cooperation the foreign access point is willing to provide
Let us not forget how Interpol was manipulated into raiding anon.penet.fi, simply to reveal the identity of an individual posting "copyrighted" material on usenet. The link
Corporate Research? What, you mean run your DUNS number through D&B and run a Whois to see if company name matches on both records? OK, I am coming off with a bit of an attitude, but isn't this about the extent that Verisign "researches" its applicants? I really think they issued my moms certificate way too fast to do much else.
I'll probably get flamed for this, but... RH is the only distro I use, so please be assured I am not RH-bashing. What the major issue here is the implication that nobody left a system running with this distro for 3 weeks before release. Otherwise, they would have found the bug!
This and the gcc fiasco, and what we hear from the RH camp is that.0 releases are always buggy. This is a piss poor excuse if you ask me, they don't say "Don't trust this, it's a.0 release" during installation, do they? How are the uninitiated supposed to "know" this?
Not to degrade your most funny conspiracy theory in any way, I present mine: This story posted by CmdrTaco. We all know he's installed Linux once or twice, at least that's what I have read out here. Could any geek resist finding out what "SYN Cookies" are while cruising the menuconfig options? I think not. Well, at least I could not. And given the inevitability that CmdrTaco already knew about SYN Cookies, we of course trust that he would not be trolling. This leaves only one conclusion: CmdrTaco's account has been hijacked by the trolls and they are now trolling from the front page! Get out while you still can!
When say, a site sends an email to a visitor, like an order confirmation, the receiving mail server will likely do a reverse lookup in the my-ip-octets.in-addr.arpa domain, as an anti-SPAM countermeasure. Other reverse-lookup situations apply too.
If ARIN gets its way, the response to one of these lookups will return possibly up to 2500 hostnames. This is if a single server is hosting 800 sites (not uncommon) on one IP, with 3 or 4 hostnames (www, ftp, mail and plain old mydomain.com) for each domain hosted on the server.
Seems a bit short sighted, although maybe they hope to push IPv6 down everyone's throat. What they should probably focus more on is all the Class C's handed out by ISPs to their clients, who can really get by with 4 or 8 IPs and IP Masquerading.
That's very interesting. A dance to cure a Tarantula bite. Who woulda thought. Ok, I'm an American..
The image that came to my mind was a sort of divey italian restaurant, replete with the red/white checkerboard tablecloths, that is owned by Tarantulas, oops I mean having Tarantulas integrated into some kind of Gothic motif.
Could it be that Mr. Heckler is trolling? Naw. Probably not. Probably just another megalomaniac that will likely croak in his sub-60s due to a heart attack or a stroke. Thing is, these organizations are like a can of worms, pick the head off of one...
No more money for Sony from me either.
And if this motherfucker is even thinking about buying up all the ISPs, and a really far-fetched IF they develop some multi-gigabit backbone routers that can route packets AND filter them too, you'll find me in the trees, on the roofs and down in the storm drains, pulling Cat 5 to my various friend's houses.
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Thomson == Microsoft in German Multimedia Co. clothing
Call it...Tivotella
I hope these things don't start assimilating us. =)
Perhaps something more sinister is at work here, and I've not had a chance to launch a conspiracy theory for some time, so here goes: once we begin selectively breeding our children via genetic manipulation, and they mature to be adults, what better way to rid the planet of "mundane" people like ourselves but to get us to voluntarily enter some kind of death chamber? I'm usually no luddite, but the human genome map, and the inevitable opportunities to manipulate it really scare the shit out of me.
With all these < $200 "DSL" routers on the mkt, you don't need to know how.
And somehow the boldface portion you posted shows that he did not do anything that could be interpreted as someone checking to see if their hack is still in place?
Mebbe...mebbe not. I think Verizon decided cutting 2600 off the net was more expedient.
seems to me skcussseniug.com would not infringe their trademark, but may cause confusion
Speaking of grounds, I believe my coffee is ready.
Being investigated is a long way from being a criminal, so I suggest all you mind readers out here pipe down with all the rants "innocent till proven guilty", etc.etc.etc... Nobody is saying this man is guilty of anything at this time. It could be that the only reason FBI wants his system is to have a look/see if someone was bouncing traffic off his system.
I like to checkout the attrition.org stats once in a while too. Swimming around the link you provided, there was a period from early August - mid September where Linux cracks outnumbered NT, (reference) but IIRC, this is when the WU-FTPD exploits were publicized. Is this not to be expected? I mean, so the script kiddies saw the bug on bugtraq, reviewed their nmap logs for Linux hosts and then went to town. Not too impressive. What is impressive is the sheer number and variety of ways the white hats keep discovering to get M$ internet software to execute code without user intervention or knowledge.
Also, a look at the pie chart shows NT with a 57% share of all defacements. I am not sure how you draw the conclusion that there are more Linux defacements than NT. Care to fill in the blanks for me?
While you're at it, pull that power cable too =)
Dude, you need to go read some Bugtraq and grok how it is possible to send an Outlook user an email, and without them even reading it, execute code on their system.
Better get this guy (the Bad RAM webpage dude), he said Linux was "open source" software.
I dunno if the 1/2 click would fly, because you still have to release the button eventually. Well, maybe not. How about "0-click" shopping? onMouseOver="javascript: submitme();" If minimizing clicks is truly innovative, eliminating them must be genius.
Let us not forget how Interpol was manipulated into raiding anon.penet.fi, simply to reveal the identity of an individual posting "copyrighted" material on usenet. The link
Corporate Research? What, you mean run your DUNS number through D&B and run a Whois to see if company name matches on both records? OK, I am coming off with a bit of an attitude, but isn't this about the extent that Verisign "researches" its applicants? I really think they issued my moms certificate way too fast to do much else.
Given the bloat rate of ms software, he better be talking about really high bandwidth.
This and the gcc fiasco, and what we hear from the RH camp is that .0 releases are always buggy. This is a piss poor excuse if you ask me, they don't say "Don't trust this, it's a .0 release" during installation, do they? How are the uninitiated supposed to "know" this?
Not to degrade your most funny conspiracy theory in any way, I present mine: This story posted by CmdrTaco. We all know he's installed Linux once or twice, at least that's what I have read out here. Could any geek resist finding out what "SYN Cookies" are while cruising the menuconfig options? I think not. Well, at least I could not. And given the inevitability that CmdrTaco already knew about SYN Cookies, we of course trust that he would not be trolling. This leaves only one conclusion: CmdrTaco's account has been hijacked by the trolls and they are now trolling from the front page! Get out while you still can!
If ARIN gets its way, the response to one of these lookups will return possibly up to 2500 hostnames. This is if a single server is hosting 800 sites (not uncommon) on one IP, with 3 or 4 hostnames (www, ftp, mail and plain old mydomain.com) for each domain hosted on the server.
Seems a bit short sighted, although maybe they hope to push IPv6 down everyone's throat. What they should probably focus more on is all the Class C's handed out by ISPs to their clients, who can really get by with 4 or 8 IPs and IP Masquerading.
Make your own CPU, that'll fix it.
The image that came to my mind was a sort of divey italian restaurant, replete with the red/white checkerboard tablecloths, that is owned by Tarantulas, oops I mean having Tarantulas integrated into some kind of Gothic motif.
Yep. I think the name for this network is SuperFido (raise your voice and speak from the belly when pronouncing it)
Where's the obligatory "I'd like to have a Beowulf cluster of those" post?
No more money for Sony from me either.
And if this motherfucker is even thinking about buying up all the ISPs, and a really far-fetched IF they develop some multi-gigabit backbone routers that can route packets AND filter them too, you'll find me in the trees, on the roofs and down in the storm drains, pulling Cat 5 to my various friend's houses.