All you people who are parroting off "Bios Password" have no idea what you are talking about. Many bioses have default passwords and often time, a little social engineering can get it out of the BIOS manufacturer. In addition to that, there are tools availble that will allow you to edit your BIOS from within the OS
You guys are a joke. Try learning something instead of chiming in with the same wrong two cents.
If you're going to open the computer's case, it is easier to remove the HD and use a jury-rigged "external usb enclosure" canabalized guts to connect it to your laptop
Having once found myself in the aforementioned postition, with the added difficulty of a locked box, in addition to live monitoring of "chassis intrusions", with people around, I can tell you it's much faster to feel for the battery by touch and rip it out, then to mess with cables
I didn't mean to say that the WAPs for for the registers, merely that there are WAPs present, and sooner or later, I'm sure, once you get on their network, you can get in their network
If someone has access to Walmart's database and/or registration data, why can't this someone just get a pre-paid card, and change its value with all matching/tracking records in the database?
There might be a system of checks and balances, like the card not being activated unless/until the til is checked at the end of the day, to prevent the employees simply issuing themselves cards. It might even check against a different database..other than the above pure speculation, I agree.
Replying to the post about how Wal-Mart gift cards work, I've noticed this cards before. (This is all speculation, I read the article) One possiblity is that, the person doing this, for instance, has a bar code printer (if their smart). If they are stupid, they have an in on the database, and are transferring the credit to their card, then using it. Easy to track even if Wal-Mart isn't logging transactions, and even tho I agree that their probably stupid, big companies are usually smart to pay lots of money for security (expensive != good, of course). So, they print out a card, (or a sticker for a card) go to a store, buy it up. Looks like they are sticking to a store in Cali, so unless they are reading slashdot, they are screwed if they go there too often, unless they have a crew (have a girl, makes guys stupid) and even then, they are screwed, it'll just take longer.
As for the sniffing idea, well shit, every Wal-Mart I've seen has at least 4 WAPs with antenees. Good ones too, Cisco 1500s which pump out a lot more power than linksys (at least the default ones). I can't imagine that the registers (which have to send info over the wire somewhere) send them encrypted or anything like that. Personally, I'm surprised that we are just now hearing about it.
Oh, and don't be surprised if this going at any number of stores. I see WAPs everywhere. Brave New World.
No, you will have to reformat. However, I recommend the upgrade; I've seen a number of studies showing that the performance of ext3 is awful compared to reiserfs. The only arguable advantage of ext3 is its compatibility with the baseline ext2.
I have to take exception to this, as according to everything I know, this is a bit deceptive. As you would normally want to use a journaling filesystem on very large discs (whether this be regular hard drives, which is bad enough, but can get very large when dealing with raid arrays, for instance). This is the single most important factor when it came to deciding what filesystem to run, namely, can reiserfs 4 be upgraded to new versions easily? In the past, the only way to upgrade rieiserfs was to reformat the device. This is a point that I don't think people pay enough attention to, especially in production enviroments. Say I have a 500 Gig raid array. I use reiserfs, (which is an excellent filesystem) and it is later discovered to have a security flaw or a bug that causes data corruption. In order to upgrade to a new version of reiserfs, you have to reformat the entire array. With ext3, you unmount the device, mount it as ext2, unmount it and remount it as ext3. Done. This is hugely important. I am completely uninterested in having to maintain a 1Tb of drive space, in order to upgrade a 500G array. Well, that wouldn't happen, you say? It did. Google
Also, I do seem to remember some problems running LVM and NFS on reiserfs as well, but I am willing to be corrected.
SealBeater
P.S. I am only really interested in knowing if I can upgrade a reiserfs filesystem without having to reformat.
Why not use that same ssh session to create a tunnel to that box on the outside of the firewall? Then you can run any number of graphical client securely.
Because text uses up less bandwidth than graphics? Because I might not want to suffer through the lag of multiple gui clients over ssh over a network? Because I can have all the apps I want running on a single VT without having to startx?
Yes, nohup works, but you have to know that you are planning to detach before you run anything, screen will allow you to handle disconnects (intentional and otherwise) gracefully.
Ever see the movie Southpark? Remember the device that zapped Cartman everytime he cursed? I wonder how long, given human nature, something like this is used for evil purposes. I don't mean to cast a shadow over what could be a very worthy achivement, but it behooves us to properly consider the possible...adverse reprocussions.
OE, or oppertunistic encryption, which is a good thing, in the sense of providing seamless ipsec without configuration, depends on having control of your reverse dns. A lot of ISPs won't allow you to change or won't change for you the reverse, as this is often encoded with useful info for the ISP, such as node id, and geographic location. This has had as big an effect at slowing down the spread of it as anything else. Some are cool, and I am actually very disappointed cause I recommended it to a friend of mine, and even tho I know it'll be useful for more time to come, I am planning on installing it on all my boxes, (I have control of the reverse for my lan, if not for my dsl ip, which I will inquire about).
15. List the top one or two possible improvements that you would like to see made to Windows.
Nothing. You don't understand, your whole design philosiphy is flawed. You are presenting to the user little boxes that say "this far and no further" Such boxes do not exist with Linux. For instance, I can network every computer in my home, multiple firewire, multiple ethernet, SCSI if I want to, bond them all into one virtual interface, install openmosix, have a cluster, have it serve a webpage or my mp3s and I can do it from the internet cafe. From the command line. For free. I don't have to worry about viruses. I don't have to worry about a document I write containing identifying information about me. I don't have to worry about what's the next thing that is going to attack my box, due to your screw ups. I don't have to worry about my computer doing things that you want it to do rather that what I want it to do. Free upgrades, for life. Don't like something? Change it. Would you like to have no bloat? Rip out X Would you like your apps to be optimized to your CPU? OK, change your $CFLAGS. Got old hardware? No problem, what do you want to do? Mail? Web? Game server? GUI overhead? What's that? You don't understand. Windows is a fisher price toy.
16. List the top one or two improvements that you would like to see made to Linux.
Gnome, stop trying to be another microsoft. Don't walk down the same road. Some of us don't want binary format registry file configuration files that can't be edited by hand.
GTK, some of us like to run./configure --disable-nls and not have the script ignore us. We don't want all the translations and some of us do notice and don't like it when we tell software to do something basic like this and it ignores us.
Glibc, modualize the security options. Let the user choose the level of encryption. There is a project that replaced the stock md5 with blowfish. This is a good idea.
Let's not forget however, that concern for the possibility of earthquakes in Japan, and Japan's financial ability to implement and maintain it are both valid points against thier suitability as a site.
If you think that France and Germany were operating on a purely moral plain, your'e missing the fact that they had the largest financial stakes in Saddams Iraq.
I think Russia has the largest finanacial stake, at $8 billion U.S.
Yea, but there is a difference between a house cat and a predator cat. For instance, I've seen cats that were as big as botcats. That doesn't mean I want a bobcat for a pet.
Ok, there was something simular in a recent Batman comic book I read. Basically, he wore these little lcd projecter things over his eyes, and had a pair of Minority Report gautlet things, and the information he needed was superimposed in front of him, monitors, virtual keyboard, everything you need floating right in front of you. He was able to type in the air, as if it were actually there. Imagine being to intensity or decrease the transparency of the controls, and you got something I would give a lot to play with.
When will humanity come to the conclusion that we have not evolved enough socially and morally to handle this type of knowlege in a safe manner? Yes, I could have adhered to the tenets of political correctness and/or eloquence, but skill in word smithing also includes the ability to speak in terms your audience can understand. Not that the intelligence of most of/. is in doubt, but I am very disappointed in humanity right now. Everywhere I look, all I seem to see is willful ignorance and stupidity. Consider it blowing off steam. I am well and truly sick and tired of it.
On top of that, sometimes you just have to say "fuck". Try it, it truly does relieve tension.
As for the mice being used for research comment, my point was that since the test animals are chosen for their simular responses, it seems silly to me to assume that this thing is confined soley to mice, esp, without further testing. Of course, this begs the question, who is going to be first. My stating of the obvious was to illustrate the point that picking an animal subject that bears close simularity to humans and then assuming that it couldn't effect humans is blatent scientific arrogance.
Slashdot Mirror
Slackware is be the distro to begin with.
Amen.
SealBeater
All you people who are parroting off "Bios Password" have no idea what you are
talking about. Many bioses have default passwords and often time, a little
social engineering can get it out of the BIOS manufacturer. In addition to
that, there are tools availble that will allow you to edit your BIOS from
within the OS
You guys are a joke. Try learning something instead of chiming in with the
same wrong two cents.
SealBeater
Having once found myself in the aforementioned postition, with the added
difficulty of a locked box, in addition to live monitoring of "chassis
intrusions", with people around, I can tell you it's much faster to feel for
the battery by touch and rip it out, then to mess with cables
SealBeater
I bet I could get past this guys set up. Give me a knoppix cd.
I didn't mean to say that the WAPs for for the registers, merely that there are
WAPs present, and sooner or later, I'm sure, once you get on their network, you
can get in their network
SealBeater
There might be a system of checks and balances, like the card not being
activated unless/until the til is checked at the end of the day, to prevent the
employees simply issuing themselves cards. It might even check against a different
database..other than the above pure speculation, I agree.
SealBeater
Replying to the post about how Wal-Mart gift cards work, I've noticed this
cards before. (This is all speculation, I read the article) One possiblity
is that, the person doing this, for instance, has a bar code printer (if
their smart). If they are stupid, they have an in on the database, and are
transferring the credit to their card, then using it. Easy to track even if
Wal-Mart isn't logging transactions, and even tho I agree that their probably
stupid, big companies are usually smart to pay lots of money for security
(expensive != good, of course). So, they print out a card, (or a sticker for a
card) go to a store, buy it up. Looks like they are sticking to a store in
Cali, so unless they are reading slashdot, they are screwed if they go there
too often, unless they have a crew (have a girl, makes guys stupid) and even
then, they are screwed, it'll just take longer.
As for the sniffing idea, well shit, every Wal-Mart I've seen has at least 4
WAPs with antenees. Good ones too, Cisco 1500s which pump out a lot more power
than linksys (at least the default ones). I can't imagine that the registers
(which have to send info over the wire somewhere) send them encrypted or
anything like that. Personally, I'm surprised that we are just now hearing
about it.
Oh, and don't be surprised if this going at any number of stores. I see WAPs
everywhere. Brave New World.
SealBeater
I have to take exception to this, as according to everything I know, this is a bit deceptive. As you would normally want to use a journaling
filesystem on very large discs (whether this be regular hard drives, which is bad enough, but can get very large when dealing with raid arrays, for
instance). This is the single most important factor when it came to deciding what filesystem to run, namely, can reiserfs 4 be upgraded to new
versions easily? In the past, the only way to upgrade rieiserfs was to reformat the device. This is a point that I don't think people pay enough
attention to, especially in production enviroments. Say I have a 500 Gig raid array. I use reiserfs, (which is an excellent filesystem) and it is
later discovered to have a security flaw or a bug that causes data corruption. In order to upgrade to a new version of reiserfs, you have to
reformat the entire array. With ext3, you unmount the device, mount it as ext2, unmount it and remount it as ext3. Done. This is hugely important.
I am completely uninterested in having to maintain a 1Tb of drive space, in order to upgrade a 500G array.
Well, that wouldn't happen, you say? It did. Google
Also, I do seem to remember some problems running LVM and NFS on reiserfs as well, but I am willing to be corrected.
SealBeater
P.S. I am only really interested in knowing if I can upgrade a reiserfs filesystem without having to reformat.
Hear hear.
SealBeater
Why not use that same ssh session to create a tunnel to that box on the outside
of the firewall? Then you can run any number of graphical client
securely.
Because text uses up less bandwidth than graphics?
Because I might not want to suffer through the lag of multiple gui clients over
ssh over a network?
Because I can have all the apps I want running on a single VT without having to
startx?
SealBeater
Yes, nohup works, but you have to know that you are planning to detach before
you run anything, screen will allow you to handle disconnects (intentional and
otherwise) gracefully.
SealBeater
I call it speaking to your audience. 8*)
SealBeater
Ever see the movie Southpark? Remember the device that zapped Cartman
everytime he cursed? I wonder how long, given human nature, something like
this is used for evil purposes. I don't mean to cast a shadow over what could
be a very worthy achivement, but it behooves us to properly consider the
possible...adverse reprocussions.
SealBeater
OE, or oppertunistic encryption, which is a good thing, in the sense of
providing seamless ipsec without configuration, depends on having control of
your reverse dns. A lot of ISPs won't allow you to change or won't change for
you the reverse, as this is often encoded with useful info for the ISP, such as
node id, and geographic location. This has had as big an effect at slowing
down the spread of it as anything else. Some are cool, and I am actually very
disappointed cause I recommended it to a friend of mine, and even tho I know
it'll be useful for more time to come, I am planning on installing it on all my
boxes, (I have control of the reverse for my lan, if not for my dsl ip, which I
will inquire about).
SealBeater
So I got one wrong.
SealBeater
since I doubt he runs Linux or any OS that doesn't support speech-to-text software.)
One should always be careful of making bold statements in public forums that
are glaringly wrong.
See for yourself.
Festival
ViaVoice
SealBeater
sadly single or just single? The state of being the one doesn't necessitate
the following of the other.
SealBeater
You're right, gconf does use an xml based text format, I stand corrected.
SealBeater
15. List the top one or two possible improvements that you would like to see made to Windows.
./configure --disable-nls and not have the script ignore us. We don't want all the translations and some of us do notice and don't like it when we tell software to do something basic like this and it ignores us.
Nothing. You don't understand, your whole design philosiphy is flawed. You are presenting to the user little boxes that say "this far and no further" Such boxes do not exist with Linux. For instance, I can network every computer in my home, multiple firewire, multiple ethernet, SCSI if I want to, bond them all into one virtual interface, install openmosix, have a cluster, have it serve a webpage or my mp3s and I can do it from the internet cafe. From the command line. For free.
I don't have to worry about viruses. I don't have to worry about a document I write containing identifying information about me. I don't have to worry about what's the next thing that is going to attack my box, due to your screw ups. I don't have to worry about my computer doing things that you want it to do rather that what I want it to do. Free upgrades, for life. Don't like something? Change it. Would you like to have no bloat? Rip out X Would you like your apps to be optimized to your CPU? OK, change your $CFLAGS. Got old hardware? No problem, what do you want to do? Mail? Web? Game server? GUI overhead? What's that? You don't understand. Windows is a fisher price toy.
16. List the top one or two improvements that you would like to see made to Linux.
Gnome, stop trying to be another microsoft. Don't walk down the same road. Some of us don't want binary format registry file configuration files that can't be edited by hand.
GTK, some of us like to run
Glibc, modualize the security options. Let the user choose the level of encryption. There is a project that replaced the stock md5 with blowfish. This is a good idea.
SealBeater
Let's not forget however, that concern for the possibility of earthquakes in
Japan, and Japan's financial ability to implement and maintain it are both
valid points against thier suitability as a site.
SealBeater
If you think that France and Germany were operating on a purely moral plain,
your'e missing the fact that they had the largest financial stakes in Saddams
Iraq.
I think Russia has the largest finanacial stake, at $8 billion U.S.
SealBeater
Yea, but there is a difference between a house cat and a predator cat. For
instance, I've seen cats that were as big as botcats. That doesn't mean I want
a bobcat for a pet.
SealBeater
Ok, there was something simular in a recent Batman comic book I read.
Basically, he wore these little lcd projecter things over his eyes, and had a
pair of Minority Report gautlet things, and the information he needed was
superimposed in front of him, monitors, virtual keyboard, everything you need
floating right in front of you. He was able to type in the air, as if it were
actually there. Imagine being to intensity or decrease the
transparency of the controls, and you got something I would give a lot to play with.
SealBeater
When will humanity come to the conclusion that we have not evolved /. is
enough socially and morally to handle this type of knowlege in a safe
manner?
Yes, I could have adhered to the tenets of political correctness and/or
eloquence, but skill in word smithing also includes the ability to speak in
terms your audience can understand. Not that the intelligence of most of
in doubt, but I am very disappointed in humanity right now. Everywhere I look,
all I seem to see is willful ignorance and stupidity. Consider it blowing off steam. I
am well and truly sick and tired of it.
On top of that, sometimes you just have to say "fuck". Try it, it truly does
relieve tension.
As for the mice being used for research comment, my point was that since the
test animals are chosen for their simular responses, it seems silly to me to
assume that this thing is confined soley to mice, esp, without further testing.
Of course, this begs the question, who is going to be first. My stating of the
obvious was to illustrate the point that picking an animal subject that bears
close simularity to humans and then assuming that it couldn't effect humans is
blatent scientific arrogance.
SealBeater
Yea, and we bombed Iraq cause they had WMD. Sure. Believe whatever the govt.
tells you. Good sheep.
SealBeater