Blackhats use the mainstream "hacker" and "hack", from what I've seen. Most seem to use the word for both "creative software developers" and "creative software smashers" equally.
They managed to social engineer a site network admin into giving them SSH access. Hoglund has apparently given a phone interview of some sort, but I can't find a transcription if one exists.
Things like this might be more of a "blood knight" thing, though. E.g., whomever did this might find it primarily fun to hack a security firm, and only being secondarily motivated by some ephemeral "venegance".
You could try with some other type of emo than a security emo, though - this generally seems to have been the rule rather than the exception in the past, with violent/totalitarian/controlling consequences as the result. You need some other types of emo thrown into the mix for balance, I think.
Well, I can't speak for most folks, but the main problem for me is the fact of enabling the distribution of child porn, from a moral perspective. Not from a thoughtcrime sexual-morality perspective, mind, but from the "sexual abuse/rape victims will lead the rest of their lives knowing images of their abuse circulates on the internet and is being jerked off to on a presumably daily basis" perspective.
For maximum portability, you should just be able to "telnet in". But I think this "API" thing the major sites have caught on to may be something - you could have a simple BBS type terminal interface, and then a protocol on another port giving access to the same data, so you could write/use a local client if you wanted to.
Yeah, it would be as easy as simply putting up an alternate, ultra-low-fi version of the site. Most people would use the normal version, so ad revenue probably wouldn't be an issue.
A problem I now remember with freenet-style encrypted caching is that it's highly likely you're (if even partially) hosting CP on your computer/access node.
On most current consumer-grade routers, by flooding any accessible table or cache. But you can easily and trivially fix that problem? Yes, but not thinking deviously beforehand was what allowed utterly stupid things like ARP cache poisoning to be possible in the first place. Most security issues that seem really hard to fix now due to sheer proliferation and backwards compatability could have been averted if people would just have thought about security when designing them
Yeah, but with a BBS the impetus isn't on the user to filter out all the noise that invariably will flood the system. On the other hand, usenet is/was completely distributed, which was sort of the point.
Well, there's the fact that (as I understand it) you need a license/training to use ham radio equipment. The kind of people for whom this sort of stuff would be attractive to might not really be in the mood for that. Also, how much does the equipment for, say, setting up a PC with a radio transciever/antenna/satellite antenna for digital communication cost?
Ah, but what if I jam or fool the router into thinking it has lost it's upstream, and stand ready with a high-strength antenna as the closest and strongest node that the router can see?
Text works very well for communication. Slashdot is basically a lightweight BBS with graphics and UI as convenience features. It would not lose anything by being translated into a text-only medium.
Exactly. And this is not a matter of "trading security for liberty", using existing tech/systems for something like this would result in it becoming almost instantly unusable from all the interference. It'd effectively be like letting every fucker in the world man your backbone. Maybe there's some way to circumvent this problem without using any central trusted node though, maybe using some sort of "soft core" of trusted nodes together with end-to-end encryption - I haven't given it a lot of thought.
You're either trolling, or you're missing the point of feminism completely. It's okay in this case, because "we men" are speaking sarcastically about ourselves and our self-recognized tendency to use overt aggression for dominance and claim control over stuff for safety and status. It's possible that you're one of those guys who really aren't like that, of course, but let me assure you it's a fact of life. The sarcasm is used to displace aggression, and is one of many male strategies to keep social stability and keep a fistfight from breaking out.
If I was a completely corrupt government functionary, I would at least have an eye towards utilizing disruptions in the market and replacement of key players for my own advancement. Static power relations goes for the people above me too. And I can only be lucky/healthy/alive for so long.
It could be that you're more relaxed, and that means the bloodflow to the arms and legs doesn't get cut off by the anxiety response. Me, I've got no problem there either, 4 vials I think was the most they've drawn in one go. I've got a serious phobia of lancets (those little thing that go "click" against your finger) though - last time I could have one used on me, I was half out of it from appendicitis.
This is interesting to me, because if there is such a thing as a "God Gene", I'm pretty sure I have it. Either that, or I'm low-level schizoaffective. Consider this, and consider it seriously: when those people on television and radio wring their hands and participate in sob-story spirituality programs about how "God Speaks To Them", you should probably take that statement more or less at face value, if I'm correct. When people talk about "the prescence of the Holy Spirit in the soul", I understand perfectly well what they mean.
This does not in any way mean that I follow a religion, even if I am compelled to "pray". When I concentrate and pray, it's as if a blinding light blots out my conciousness, and all negative emotions are washed away. This I percieve as closeness to "God", and that particular sensation I cannot explain properly. Ego-dissolution I guess might be part of it. As for "energy beings", I sometimes have conversations with people in my head about things. This, however, seems to be something most people just do.
Note that this does not mean that I ever let this interfere with reality, or that am a "believer" in any sense. I am a very staunch supporter of a competely secular civil society, and I do not respect religion as an excuse for any sort of malignant behaviour. I write this only because I think religious people and staunch atheists might be talking past each other, and the bitter bile people spit at each other might be avoidable if they just where able to understand each other.
Of particular note: I can read forums dedicated to spirituality and "magick" and actually follow the conversations, since I understand what they are talking about ("Energy manipulation", etc.) and the methods discussed ("Aura cleansing, astral hygiene") seems to correspond to my experiences and coping mechanisms I assume you could call them. As for outright psychosis, schizophrenic or otherwhise, I had episodes when I was young where I... was caught between the world "I percieved" and the real world (The best description would probably be "sleeping awake", like the P.O.D song) that where quite disturbing. I also experience "magical thinking", where I am gripped by worries and anxieties that I could influence things I obviously can't. I do have OCD, which might interact with this "problem" in some manner. On the other hand, I use and consider these "energy perceptions" a bit like one would "artistic eye" or "good color sense" in daily life, because aesthetically the "energy sense" of something seems to correspond to a roundabout back-of-the-head intuition about something, which usually proves to be correct. Like your instincts trying to tell you something. If you haven't experienced this, you presumably can't imagine what I'm talking about; it's not just "visual hallucinations". It's deeper and more complicated/subtle sensations involved.
If anyone reading this has had similiar experiences, but being a person of intellect grapples with dealing with it, look at it like this: if this is *that* common, and people aren't falling down into raving psychosis to the right and left, you probably won't either.
Well, I guess as long as the contract inescapably says that the road goes back to the state if the company fails to manage it properly or lets it fall into disrepair, it could work.
Slashdot Mirror
Blackhats use the mainstream "hacker" and "hack", from what I've seen. Most seem to use the word for both "creative software developers" and "creative software smashers" equally.
That guy's a really well-known security author/researcher, mostly from his books and from the rootkit devel community rootkit.com, which now seems to be down as well. Take a look at http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/02/hbgary-federal-hacked-by-anonymous/
They managed to social engineer a site network admin into giving them SSH access. Hoglund has apparently given a phone interview of some sort, but I can't find a transcription if one exists.
Things like this might be more of a "blood knight" thing, though. E.g., whomever did this might find it primarily fun to hack a security firm, and only being secondarily motivated by some ephemeral "venegance".
You could try with some other type of emo than a security emo, though - this generally seems to have been the rule rather than the exception in the past, with violent/totalitarian/controlling consequences as the result. You need some other types of emo thrown into the mix for balance, I think.
Yes. Very scary.
Well, I can't speak for most folks, but the main problem for me is the fact of enabling the distribution of child porn, from a moral perspective. Not from a thoughtcrime sexual-morality perspective, mind, but from the "sexual abuse/rape victims will lead the rest of their lives knowing images of their abuse circulates on the internet and is being jerked off to on a presumably daily basis" perspective.
The first thing any competent security agency would do, is to get officers/agents into a position of authority and trust inside the sneakernet. If you can't trust your neighbour or your "group leader", the concept falls apart. But if the united states defense departement hadn't tracked the position of these brazilian satellite pirates, they would have gotten away with it idefinetly.
For maximum portability, you should just be able to "telnet in". But I think this "API" thing the major sites have caught on to may be something - you could have a simple BBS type terminal interface, and then a protocol on another port giving access to the same data, so you could write/use a local client if you wanted to.
Yeah, it would be as easy as simply putting up an alternate, ultra-low-fi version of the site. Most people would use the normal version, so ad revenue probably wouldn't be an issue.
A problem I now remember with freenet-style encrypted caching is that it's highly likely you're (if even partially) hosting CP on your computer/access node.
On most current consumer-grade routers, by flooding any accessible table or cache. But you can easily and trivially fix that problem? Yes, but not thinking deviously beforehand was what allowed utterly stupid things like ARP cache poisoning to be possible in the first place. Most security issues that seem really hard to fix now due to sheer proliferation and backwards compatability could have been averted if people would just have thought about security when designing them
Yeah, but with a BBS the impetus isn't on the user to filter out all the noise that invariably will flood the system. On the other hand, usenet is/was completely distributed, which was sort of the point.
Well, there's the fact that (as I understand it) you need a license/training to use ham radio equipment. The kind of people for whom this sort of stuff would be attractive to might not really be in the mood for that. Also, how much does the equipment for, say, setting up a PC with a radio transciever/antenna/satellite antenna for digital communication cost?
Ah, but what if I jam or fool the router into thinking it has lost it's upstream, and stand ready with a high-strength antenna as the closest and strongest node that the router can see?
Text works very well for communication. Slashdot is basically a lightweight BBS with graphics and UI as convenience features. It would not lose anything by being translated into a text-only medium.
You could use a distributed caching system, like freenet. But that seems to have worked out to be very clunky.
Exactly. And this is not a matter of "trading security for liberty", using existing tech/systems for something like this would result in it becoming almost instantly unusable from all the interference. It'd effectively be like letting every fucker in the world man your backbone. Maybe there's some way to circumvent this problem without using any central trusted node though, maybe using some sort of "soft core" of trusted nodes together with end-to-end encryption - I haven't given it a lot of thought.
The lawful-chaotic axis is independent of the good-evil axis. Out of the nine hells, into the abyss...
You're either trolling, or you're missing the point of feminism completely. It's okay in this case, because "we men" are speaking sarcastically about ourselves and our self-recognized tendency to use overt aggression for dominance and claim control over stuff for safety and status. It's possible that you're one of those guys who really aren't like that, of course, but let me assure you it's a fact of life. The sarcasm is used to displace aggression, and is one of many male strategies to keep social stability and keep a fistfight from breaking out.
If I was a completely corrupt government functionary, I would at least have an eye towards utilizing disruptions in the market and replacement of key players for my own advancement. Static power relations goes for the people above me too. And I can only be lucky/healthy/alive for so long.
Because occasionally it's warranted. Think about "nerds" and PE class, for example. Yes, I actually think that's an example.
You are coddled. I find this place to be overwhelmingly positive and constructive, on average.
It could be that you're more relaxed, and that means the bloodflow to the arms and legs doesn't get cut off by the anxiety response. Me, I've got no problem there either, 4 vials I think was the most they've drawn in one go. I've got a serious phobia of lancets (those little thing that go "click" against your finger) though - last time I could have one used on me, I was half out of it from appendicitis.
This is interesting to me, because if there is such a thing as a "God Gene", I'm pretty sure I have it. Either that, or I'm low-level schizoaffective. Consider this, and consider it seriously: when those people on television and radio wring their hands and participate in sob-story spirituality programs about how "God Speaks To Them", you should probably take that statement more or less at face value, if I'm correct. When people talk about "the prescence of the Holy Spirit in the soul", I understand perfectly well what they mean.
This does not in any way mean that I follow a religion, even if I am compelled to "pray". When I concentrate and pray, it's as if a blinding light blots out my conciousness, and all negative emotions are washed away. This I percieve as closeness to "God", and that particular sensation I cannot explain properly. Ego-dissolution I guess might be part of it. As for "energy beings", I sometimes have conversations with people in my head about things. This, however, seems to be something most people just do.
Note that this does not mean that I ever let this interfere with reality, or that am a "believer" in any sense. I am a very staunch supporter of a competely secular civil society, and I do not respect religion as an excuse for any sort of malignant behaviour. I write this only because I think religious people and staunch atheists might be talking past each other, and the bitter bile people spit at each other might be avoidable if they just where able to understand each other.
Of particular note: I can read forums dedicated to spirituality and "magick" and actually follow the conversations, since I understand what they are talking about ("Energy manipulation", etc.) and the methods discussed ("Aura cleansing, astral hygiene") seems to correspond to my experiences and coping mechanisms I assume you could call them. As for outright psychosis, schizophrenic or otherwhise, I had episodes when I was young where I... was caught between the world "I percieved" and the real world (The best description would probably be "sleeping awake", like the P.O.D song) that where quite disturbing. I also experience "magical thinking", where I am gripped by worries and anxieties that I could influence things I obviously can't. I do have OCD, which might interact with this "problem" in some manner. On the other hand, I use and consider these "energy perceptions" a bit like one would "artistic eye" or "good color sense" in daily life, because aesthetically the "energy sense" of something seems to correspond to a roundabout back-of-the-head intuition about something, which usually proves to be correct. Like your instincts trying to tell you something. If you haven't experienced this, you presumably can't imagine what I'm talking about; it's not just "visual hallucinations". It's deeper and more complicated/subtle sensations involved.
If anyone reading this has had similiar experiences, but being a person of intellect grapples with dealing with it, look at it like this: if this is *that* common, and people aren't falling down into raving psychosis to the right and left, you probably won't either.
Well, I guess as long as the contract inescapably says that the road goes back to the state if the company fails to manage it properly or lets it fall into disrepair, it could work.