It's GNU/Linux... okay, maybe not. I don't think it is, but GNU does.
You totally misunderstand. GNU doesn't think the kernel (where the supposedly infringing code lives) is GNU/Linux, they think thats Linux, and Linus' to do with what he likes. They think the system made up of the Linux kernel and the GNU tools/shell/compiler constitute a GNU system based on a Linux kernel, or GNU/Linux for short. That's all.
It's not really the exploit that is the deciding factor, its the ISPs response to the initial notification. If abuse@domain reply saying that they've informed the user that they've been trojaned, or taken some steps to prevent it happening again, they remain connected.
Usually, the only people who don't show such good faith are the "pink contract" ISPs you mention, and some large ISPs that lack the will to properly staff the abuse department.
I had our local setup here allowing in anything that was from our domain. Now I have to stop that.
Not if you filter on the right thing. Pretty much the *only* reliable thing to trace a spam's source is the IP address in the first Received: header.
That is inserted by *your* MTA and cannot be easily faked, without complicated IP spoofing. If that IP address is on your network, you may freely let the mail in. If you were validating on "From:" or "Sender:" headers (or any other of those that are easily and frequently forged) then... maybe Mail Admin is not the job you were cut out for.
Bayesian filters are all well and good, and are -- for now -- effective. But given these tricks, the only really reliable approach I've found is IP blacklists for repeat offenders. If your machine is used to spam me, and my complaint letter is not answered in a satisfactory way (i.e. an email saying "We are sorry. The spammer has been cut off") I don't accept mail from you any more.
And if you're on ATTBI, or Comcast, or PBI.net, or BT Openworld, or Chello, or any number of large ISPs with too much tolerance for spammers, and you're not on my whitelist, I can't read your emails.
And I don't care. Get a ISP who don't shelter spammers.
name, address, account number, bank name, and recent check #s... from there, all it takes is a routing # and that's enough information to print a check.
But almost everyone to whom I write a cheque has all the information needed to print a cheque. Plus they have a pretty good copy of my signature... They don't need my address to print a cheque (and if they're going through my rubbish, odds are they already know where I live...)
probably has your Social Security Number. The SSN is one of the most prized possessions among fraudsters
Pre-supposing I'm American, or live in America. Which I don't. I don't have an SSN. I have a National Insurance number, but it serves no purpose in identifying me to anyone except the inland revenue, when assessing how much income tax I'm due to pay after changing jobs.
then they will ask you about recent transactions, what other accounts you have with them, etc. and then assume that the fraudster is the genuine article
No, then they will ask me my pre-arranged security question, to which the fraudster will not know the answer. (unless he's a bank insider, in which case I'm bjorked anyway).
At this point, you are thoroughly hosed for life
Wow, hell of an insecure country you've got there...
It keeps people from going through your trash and getting financial information.
Enlighten me. Given that I properly destroy PIN numbers and the like, what use could my financial information (bank statements, credit card bills, etc) be to anybody else?
His contribution to nethack is a badly written out-of-date manual and, by his own admission "blindfolds" (woop-de-doo) -- all about 10 years ago.
vc-mode for emacs, (that he calls his "biggest hack till fetchmail") is nice (I use it often) but amounts to about 5 (count 'em) shortish lisp files, and that includes many contributions from the present maintainer and others. And it was so brilliantly and artfully designed, that it contained a Y2K bug, and again was 10 years ago. (Nice engineering, Eric.)
His development on NCurses came long after the bulk of the work was done (version 1.8.1 and onwards).
He's not a bad programmer, but his gift for self-promotion far outweighs anything else he may have contributed... Except, perhaps, the unintentional laugh-fest that is Sex Tips For Geeks
but stills seems to know his place in the greater scheme of all things hacking
But what exactly has he hacked? A kernel config tool that everyone else hated, fetchmail (a program that speaks POP3 and SMTP and is notorious for eating mail), and a few quick hacks for converting PNGs, some trivial solitaire-type games and a few others. (Info from here) Essentially, a bunch of applets. Not completely unimpressive, but given he's been at it 20 years, it's hardly the output of the uber-hacker he likes to present himself as.
Now compare that to Larry ("patch", "rn", "perl", "metaconfig") Wall...
Dry, funny, in touch with hacker culture, informed, astutely political, funny, broadly educated, an enthralling speaker, a brilliant coder and funny again...
Larry Wall is everything that Eric Raymond believes himself to be.
The economic boom that was built on credit, empty promises, and vaporware? The economic boom that funneled trillions of dollars to super-rich CEO's while "allowing" the huddled working masses the hope that they might get a piece of the pie too?
Hey You! Stop criticising the American Dream, you goddamn commie.
PS: Trickle down economics works. [This saves me from having to append a:) to show I'm just joking]
Number of Clinton officials indicted or convicted in Whitewater, Travel Office, FBI files, Monica Lewinsky, Bruce Babbit, Michael Espy investigations: 0 (none, zero, zip, nada) (Asst. Attorney-General Webster Hubbell was convicted of embezzlement, a crime he committed before joining Clinton Administration.)
Number of Reagan appointees convicted (not just indicted, but actually convicted) during his time in office: 29! Caspar Weinberger was indicted 5 times, but pardoned by his old boss.
The ship is named after Ronald Reagan and he has alzheimers so he has memory loss.
Reagan's memory loss occured long before he suffered from Alzheimers. I suggest you read his testimony to the Iran-Contra affair, in which he (somewhat conveniently) "failed to recall" how much he knew about the deal. He also "forgot" many other facets of it, such as his requirement to inform Congress...
Rugby jargon isn't something you need to know to function in society
Neithers tech jargon. It might be in your world, working in tech, but not out here.
Also, automotive jargon doesn't change much on monthly timescales. Who, outside the industry, has time to remember if Bluetooth supercedes Firewire, or whether SCSI is better than USB 2.0, OGGS beat MP3s. People know how to use computers, at least as well as they know how to program their VCRs.
After a tackle in Rugby League, the tackled player stands up and rolls the ball backwards with his foot (this is the "play the ball" -- equivalent to "the snap" in the NFL). The player stood behind the tackled player, who receives the ball and picks it up (and it can be any player on the team) is the "dummy half" (for that play-the-ball).
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It's not really the exploit that is the deciding factor, its the ISPs response to the initial notification. If abuse@domain reply saying that they've informed the user that they've been trojaned, or taken some steps to prevent it happening again, they remain connected.
Usually, the only people who don't show such good faith are the "pink contract" ISPs you mention, and some large ISPs that lack the will to properly staff the abuse department.
That is inserted by *your* MTA and cannot be easily faked, without complicated IP spoofing.
If that IP address is on your network, you may freely let the mail in. If you were validating on "From:" or "Sender:" headers (or any other of those that are easily and frequently forged) then
Bayesian filters are all well and good, and are -- for now -- effective. But given these tricks, the only really reliable approach I've found is IP blacklists for repeat offenders. If your machine is used to spam me, and my complaint letter is not answered in a satisfactory way (i.e. an email saying "We are sorry. The spammer has been cut off") I don't accept mail from you any more.
And if you're on ATTBI, or Comcast, or PBI.net, or BT Openworld, or Chello, or any number of large ISPs with too much tolerance for spammers, and you're not on my whitelist, I can't read your emails.
And I don't care. Get a ISP who don't shelter spammers.
I used this system, with 5 different inkblots to generate my 5 most important passwords. They are, in turn:
o ther
MyMother.
Mom.
MyMother.
Momagain.
and
MyM
And the key phrase is "Other People's Software".
His contribution to nethack is a badly written out-of-date manual and, by his own admission "blindfolds" (woop-de-doo) -- all about 10 years ago.
vc-mode for emacs, (that he calls his "biggest hack till fetchmail") is nice (I use it often) but amounts to about 5 (count 'em) shortish lisp files, and that includes many contributions from the present maintainer and others. And it was so brilliantly and artfully designed, that it contained a Y2K bug, and again was 10 years ago. (Nice engineering, Eric.)
His development on NCurses came long after the bulk of the work was done (version 1.8.1 and onwards).
He's not a bad programmer, but his gift for self-promotion far outweighs anything else he may have contributed... Except, perhaps, the unintentional laugh-fest that is Sex Tips For Geeks
Now compare that to Larry ("patch", "rn", "perl", "metaconfig") Wall...
Dry, funny, in touch with hacker culture, informed, astutely political, funny, broadly educated, an enthralling speaker, a brilliant coder and funny again...
Larry Wall is everything that Eric Raymond believes himself to be.
PS: Trickle down economics works. [This saves me from having to append a
And now those same cronies are back in the saddle, manipulating another well-meaning but dim President. What fun.
Rose Lawfirm was bad, but no one was indicted.
Number of Clinton officials indicted or convicted in Whitewater, Travel Office, FBI files, Monica Lewinsky, Bruce Babbit, Michael Espy investigations: 0 (none, zero, zip, nada)
(Asst. Attorney-General Webster Hubbell was convicted of embezzlement, a crime he committed before joining Clinton Administration.)
Number of Reagan appointees convicted (not just indicted, but actually convicted) during his time in office: 29!
Caspar Weinberger was indicted 5 times, but pardoned by his old boss.
Thats OK. In Bureaucratic Germany they use the Plan Nein operating system.
Also, automotive jargon doesn't change much on monthly timescales. Who, outside the industry, has time to remember if Bluetooth supercedes Firewire, or whether SCSI is better than USB 2.0, OGGS beat MP3s. People know how to use computers, at least as well as they know how to program their VCRs.