Cricket is kinda the son of MRTG and is available from http://cricket.sourceforge.net/. I've been planning on implementing it at our network because it can monitor availablity of services and other cool things.
LOL, well I'm glad I'm not the only one to consider such a thing!! It would not be that hard to do, but there are several problems...
1. Getting people to run the darn thing after all this. Of course you could just wait a month for everybody to forget about it. 2. For it to do anygood it would have to be as prolific as ILOVEYOU was. 3. It would still cause headaches for administrators as their mail servers get over-loaded and shut them down, causing major disruptions. 4. It's still a virus so you would still be liable under the "Computer Abuse and Fraud Act". I don't think many people are that crazy. 5. Disabling scripting probably breaks other's applications and cause disruptions or damage.
On the upside though... 1. It would be self limiting, since if it was done correctly it would not be able to re-infect a PC. 2. You may be able to clain that what disruption and damamage you caused prevents others causing serious disruptions and damage, and get a reduced sentence (not likely). 3. Get the adoration of other geeks by fixing a problem Micro$oft has not been able to fix. (I hope you really don't belive that)
So what geek out there is crazy enough to pull off a stunt like this, it's feasable, but I would not want to get caught!
What I would much rather see is enforcement of starting off the subject line of an UCE with "Adv:" or "Ad:" like some other places require. This would make it much easier to filter out the junk from my inbox. Currently a filter on the above stops about 5-10% of my junk e-mail.
While were on the topic of filtering junk what about an.SEX or.XXX top level domain??
We just need to find somebody that is not easily swayed by lawyers calling host the site or a silimilar one? Hmmm, would andover be interested in hosting the site?
I think the owner of the site started a bad precedent by blocking certain domains, and once you do you can't say "NO" to the next person to come along with a complaint.
I always loved the site, and wonder if the EFF or ACLU could help the person out?
I also agree with you that getting people to download security updates, even after ILOVEYOU, is like pulling teeth.
My point is that totally disabling those was overkill on their part, and will just shift virus development to cross-app Word and Excel viruses.
One thing that was done right: adding the object model guard. One thing done wrong: changing the security setting to "restricted sites" but still leaving scripting available to "restricted sites".
Really an e-mail client should have all scripting disabled by default. Netscape has that issue too, and I always end up disabling scripting when ever I install NS Communicator.
Frankly I feel it's an over-reaction on their part totally disabling those file attachment types. All they needed to do was disable double-click/click (depending on your settings) launching & execution of those file types.
All they needed to do was change it so that it would save it out, and then the user would be able to launch it if they needed to after finding it.
For some user it would stop the viruses since they never would be able to find it one it was on the HD.;)
This is correct, the framers of the constitution were very afraid that the federal government abusing the rights of the citizens. This is the reason that during the early years of the united states that federal government did not have an army and was forced to rely on the various state mitilas.
I belive, that the "Right to bear arms" include the right to posses any just about any weapon the government posses. This includes automatic weapons, rocket launchers, what have you... yes this is an extreame opinion will likely place me as a fring kook, but when the framers on the consitution did not limit on your right for good reason.
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Well all I have to say is we don't run any version of outlook at work (we use Novell Groupwise) and I only have 95 and NT 4.0 systems stripped of IE except for a couple workstations.
We had no trouble with the virus even after receiving two copies of the virus. Our environment was hostile to it because it lacked anything for it to propigate.
The root cause for major virus attacks is that most of the world lives in a totally microsoft world and like in the natural world any mono-culture makes for easy spread of deseases. I think that it should be our responsibility to point out that if word, IE and all the other microsoft products had more competition that this kind of think would not nearly be so devastating.
This is one way that the microsoft monopoly has harmed the consumer even though they have kept prices down by.
Well that makes me wonder if the case against MP3.com was to set a precendent. Looking bac the only charge against MP3.com was:n order to create and offer this service, defendant copied every track from 45,000 commercial audio CDs onto its computer services. All or virtually all of these audio CDs are marked as copyrighted and contain explicit notices prohibiting unauthorized copying.... Included among these infringing reproductions are copies of thousands of copyrighted sound recordings owned by plaintiffs, none of whom has authorized defendant to make any such reproductions.
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Defendant has willfully and with full knowledge of plaintiffs' copyrights made infringing reproductions of thousands of plaintiffs' copyrighted sound recordings for the purpose of operating its commercial My.MP3 interactive service.
So the complaint was not acually about broadcasting the music to users of the service, but just the fact that they converted CDs to MP3s for transmission to users of the service.
My opinion is we need ALOT more TLDs. Right now you have companies suing everybody else over trade marks in the.com since there can be only one, it's a very valuable commodity. You throw out a bunch of focused domains like.banc,.shop,.sex,.xxx,.inc, etc it becomes less vaulable and maybe we'll get rid of most of the domain speculation and "domain squatting" lawsuits.
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That is exactly the point... I would gladly PAY MONEY if I could download the tracks I wanted and have the ability to play it on any player at home, on the road, in the office, or on a bike. I think $1-2 per track would be more than ample payment for the right to own a copy of the music.
The problem is that the record industry knows that most people probably would only buy 2-3 tracks off of a CD if they offered such a service and it would cut into their income. They also wish to make sure they make up the losses by only publishing in electronic formats so that I have to buy a copy for each device I want to play the song on since they formats put forward are usually tied to the specific player. I just was looking at some e-books from Adobe an they are tied to my system and hard drive and so I cant copy them to my laptop to view them or if my HD dies and I try to view them after restoring the data I probably won't be able to view them.
Such a wonderful world the publishers have planned out for us, and I'm not buying it. I get my MP3s from MP3.com and other sites that give them away (sorry not many selling them yet have a link?? if you know any) or from the few CDs that have enough decent songs that I feel like paying the $13-16 that most new CDs go for.
How about a hardware device to pickup the line and drop it if it's fron an unidentified phone number? Better yet, have it play the "If this is a telemarketing call, put this number on your do not call list."
I've seen devices that automatically block your caller id by sending *67 when the phone is picked up. Anybody know of any caller-id on a chip solution and want to build such a device?
I would not worry about this too much for general QNX based systems... you have to actually have access to the system before you can decrypt the passwords. This does have implications for Netpliance since all their systems have the same root password, and obvious security breach for them and I expect to see their stock plummet again. Thankfully they should be able to update the i-openers the next time they connect to Netpliance's to check for updates.
This will of course further strain the relationship between Netpliance and the i-opener hackers. I can see them possibly going after all the people involved and sue them for trade secret violation.
This also raises problems between geek culture and the rest of society... geeks will be seen as being more dangerous and laws will be passed (or the DCMA used) to procecute more people furthering the increasing alienation of the geek culture that has created the internet & computer industry in general.
My wonder is when this will get to the poing an we will ban to gether and start an undergound to fight back against the company controled society & government.
Microsoft has acknowledged one "feature" with active directory on W2K. An andministrator in any part of the directory for that domain can become an admin for the whole domain!!
So if you have an admin for Human Resources department, and an admin for Sales, the sales admin can get full access to files in the HR part of the tree! Fine for me I would not mind seeing what everybody earns!!!. Microsoft orginally said this was a bug, but then said "Well if you loose your main admin, another can take his place".
Under Novell this type of security breach would would be considered very bad. Most organizations usually setup an admin account and put the login & password in a locked box in case you loose your admin, and only authorized & trusted individuals have assess to the safety account.
The answer is simple, it's easier to locate & sue the provider instead of the individual. Also the provider probably has more money by many orders of mangnatude than the individual has.
I've used ICECAST with liveice to stream live signals comming in g though a sound card. One thing your going to need is a recent version of LAME (1.51 or better I believe) if you want to transmit at 24K BPS instead of 16K or 32K. Also the latest versions LAME seem to provide much better sound quality.
As far as CPU power for encoding a 24Kbps stream only used about 10-15% on my AMD K6-2 350, and was able to get 96Kbps stereo stream going running the encoder and icecast on the same system streaming to three other clients with about 70% CPU usage.
You might also want to look at www.live365.com to do actual streaming to the clients. This was the solution I had recommended for a local radio station, but they decided to go to Micro$oft solution instead.
the people who go their to disrupt will just rig up their client of choice to look like the customized one and then it will start again. Also you will have made sure that the ones that are being disruptive are the smarter ones (at least at first).
Looks like the original article allows for free mirroring of the orginal article also. I don't know if that can be taken away once it's given by the copyright holder. I know once a version of a program is GPLed and released the licence can't be changed retroactively and made non-GPL, does the same applies to the orginal article?
Well it's interesting to note that the CP4hack software is licenced under the GNU GPL and so it really can't be pulled off the internet no mater what the orginal writers agreed to in court. You don't even have to fork it, you could of course if you wanted and make your own version of it.
I wonder what Paul McCartny's e-mail address is to see if we could get him to have them pull the case. That would send a positive message.
I think Beatle albums are still one of the largest selling groups even after 30+ years. The Beatles formed their own record company because they got tired of getting a raw deal from record companies. The problem is that they were taken advantage of by some less scrupulous artists and ended up folding up the buisness. Maybe Paul could be convinced into investing in and sponsering MP3.com.
PS I cary around several CD-Rs full of MP3s, these are either downloaded from sites like MP3.com or music from my own collection.
I've seen one person come up with some better one... a few days ago someone posted the anology of books being published in a secret language so that you had to take it to a translator to have it read to you. Then somebody publishes the translation key to the secret language (CSS) so that you can read you book yourself whenever you wish.
This one seemed to be pretty good especially when somebody else brought up the analogy with the secret language and latin where it was considered blasphy to read the bible unless you were a member of the clurgy in the middle ages.
Another note: This may not help us with the NY case, but may very well help us with the one in california. If you follow this link you will discover that Cirrus Logic has patented a circuit implementing the CSS algorithm and thus making it public, and no-longer a trade secret.
I don't know if this patent would effect a software decoder or not... I don't think so, but IANAL so that may not be the case. If the California case is based on the keys being trade secret (even though they are on every DVD) then this may not get us directly out of hot water, but I have an idea that may work...
Since there are only 64K actual decoding keys, and there probably is a signature in the MPEG2 frames that could be keyed off of 1. I would think it would be possible to brute force the decryption keys for a disk down to a manageable number without using the key information stored on the DVD. 2. You could setup a database on the net like CDDB that your open source DVD player could get the key for playing the disk from. Then once the key was found an individual would not have to manually sift though the possible keys to play their disk, but if they were the first one to run accross a disk they could submit it to the database for everybody else to use.
Somebody also posted that the studios have a right to require you to use players that they bless... I just read though all the accompaning documentation for my dozen or so DVDs and no place do I see where there is a statement of any of the following: 1. that I can only use licenced players 2. that reverse engineering is not allowed 3. I'm not allowed to make copies for personal use 4. That the disks use or contain Trade Secret or patented information There are notes that the works are copyrighted and that I'm not allowed to make Illeagal copies, and that public performance or re-distribution is not allowed without permission from the copyright holder.
Well a good place to find out more than you want to know, including the document it self is at Info World in this art icle.
The UCITA stands for Computer Information Transactions Act... this was passed by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in July I belive. I live in wisconsin, one of the two states that abstained from approving the new proposed legislation. It is currently being set to the state legislatures for approval. I remember reading that there are currently two states ready to vote on it.
Originally it started out being sponsored by cable , movie, music, and software publishers. But the software publishers started making changes to it that even the movie & music publishers thought were bad so they dropped out. At least that is my recollection from reading about it for the past year.
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1. Getting people to run the darn thing after all this. Of course you could just wait a month for everybody to forget about it.
2. For it to do anygood it would have to be as prolific as ILOVEYOU was.
3. It would still cause headaches for administrators as their mail servers get over-loaded and shut them down, causing major disruptions.
4. It's still a virus so you would still be liable under the "Computer Abuse and Fraud Act". I don't think many people are that crazy.
5. Disabling scripting probably breaks other's applications and cause disruptions or damage.
On the upside though...
1. It would be self limiting, since if it was done correctly it would not be able to re-infect a PC.
2. You may be able to clain that what disruption and damamage you caused prevents others causing serious disruptions and damage, and get a reduced sentence (not likely).
3. Get the adoration of other geeks by fixing a problem Micro$oft has not been able to fix. (I hope you really don't belive that)
So what geek out there is crazy enough to pull off a stunt like this, it's feasable, but I would not want to get caught!
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While were on the topic of filtering junk what about an .SEX or .XXX top level domain??
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Possibly that's what Sony's problem is.
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We just need to find somebody that is not easily swayed by lawyers calling host the site or a silimilar one? Hmmm, would andover be interested in hosting the site?
I think the owner of the site started a bad precedent by blocking certain domains, and once you do you can't say "NO" to the next person to come along with a complaint.
I always loved the site, and wonder if the EFF or ACLU could help the person out?
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I also agree with you that getting people to download security updates, even after ILOVEYOU, is like pulling teeth.
My point is that totally disabling those was overkill on their part, and will just shift virus development to cross-app Word and Excel viruses.
One thing that was done right: adding the object model guard.
One thing done wrong: changing the security setting to "restricted sites" but still leaving scripting available to "restricted sites".
Really an e-mail client should have all scripting disabled by default. Netscape has that issue too, and I always end up disabling scripting when ever I install NS Communicator.
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All they needed to do was change it so that it would save it out, and then the user would be able to launch it if they needed to after finding it.
For some user it would stop the viruses since they never would be able to find it one it was on the HD. ;)
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I belive, that the "Right to bear arms" include the right to posses any just about any weapon the government posses. This includes automatic weapons, rocket launchers, what have you ... yes this is an extreame opinion will likely place me as a fring kook, but when the framers on the consitution did not limit on your right for good reason.
Hears helicopters flying overhead, looks out window to see black helicopters landing in front yard ;-)
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We had no trouble with the virus even after receiving two copies of the virus. Our environment was hostile to it because it lacked anything for it to propigate.
The root cause for major virus attacks is that most of the world lives in a totally microsoft world and like in the natural world any mono-culture makes for easy spread of deseases. I think that it should be our responsibility to point out that if word, IE and all the other microsoft products had more competition that this kind of think would not nearly be so devastating.
This is one way that the microsoft monopoly has harmed the consumer even though they have kept prices down by.
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Well that makes me wonder if the case against MP3.com was to set a precendent. Looking bac the only charge against MP3.com was: n order to create and offer this service, defendant copied every track from 45,000 commercial audio CDs onto its computer services. All or virtually all of these audio CDs are marked as copyrighted and contain explicit notices prohibiting unauthorized copying. ... Included among these infringing reproductions are copies of thousands of copyrighted sound recordings owned by plaintiffs, none of whom has authorized defendant to make any such reproductions.
and
Defendant has willfully and with full knowledge of plaintiffs' copyrights made infringing reproductions of thousands of plaintiffs' copyrighted sound recordings for the purpose of operating its commercial My.MP3 interactive service.
So the complaint was not acually about broadcasting the music to users of the service, but just the fact that they converted CDs to MP3s for transmission to users of the service.
Kinda scarry.
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The problem is that the record industry knows that most people probably would only buy 2-3 tracks off of a CD if they offered such a service and it would cut into their income. They also wish to make sure they make up the losses by only publishing in electronic formats so that I have to buy a copy for each device I want to play the song on since they formats put forward are usually tied to the specific player. I just was looking at some e-books from Adobe an they are tied to my system and hard drive and so I cant copy them to my laptop to view them or if my HD dies and I try to view them after restoring the data I probably won't be able to view them.
Such a wonderful world the publishers have planned out for us, and I'm not buying it. I get my MP3s from MP3.com and other sites that give them away (sorry not many selling them yet have a link?? if you know any) or from the few CDs that have enough decent songs that I feel like paying the $13-16 that most new CDs go for.
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I've seen devices that automatically block your caller id by sending *67 when the phone is picked up. Anybody know of any caller-id on a chip solution and want to build such a device?
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This will of course further strain the relationship between Netpliance and the i-opener hackers. I can see them possibly going after all the people involved and sue them for trade secret violation.
This also raises problems between geek culture and the rest of society ... geeks will be seen as being more dangerous and laws will be passed (or the DCMA used) to procecute more people furthering the increasing alienation of the geek culture that has created the internet & computer industry in general.
My wonder is when this will get to the poing an we will ban to gether and start an undergound to fight back against the company controled society & government.
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So if you have an admin for Human Resources department, and an admin for Sales, the sales admin can get full access to files in the HR part of the tree! Fine for me I would not mind seeing what everybody earns!!!. Microsoft orginally said this was a bug, but then said "Well if you loose your main admin, another can take his place".
Under Novell this type of security breach would would be considered very bad. Most organizations usually setup an admin account and put the login & password in a locked box in case you loose your admin, and only authorized & trusted individuals have assess to the safety account.
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Rule #1: Laws suits go were the money is.
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As far as CPU power for encoding a 24Kbps stream only used about 10-15% on my AMD K6-2 350, and was able to get 96Kbps stereo stream going running the encoder and icecast on the same system streaming to three other clients with about 70% CPU usage.
You might also want to look at www.live365.com to do actual streaming to the clients. This was the solution I had recommended for a local radio station, but they decided to go to Micro$oft solution instead.
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Beware wrath of Barbie!!!
I think Beatle albums are still one of the largest selling groups even after 30+ years. The Beatles formed their own record company because they got tired of getting a raw deal from record companies. The problem is that they were taken advantage of by some less scrupulous artists and ended up folding up the buisness. Maybe Paul could be convinced into investing in and sponsering MP3.com.
PS I cary around several CD-Rs full of MP3s, these are either downloaded from sites like MP3.com or music from my own collection.
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I've seen one person come up with some better one ... a few days ago someone posted the anology of books being published in a secret language so that you had to take it to a translator to have it read to you. Then somebody publishes the translation key to the secret language (CSS) so that you can read you book yourself whenever you wish.
This one seemed to be pretty good especially when somebody else brought up the analogy with the secret language and latin where it was considered blasphy to read the bible unless you were a member of the clurgy in the middle ages.
Another note: This may not help us with the NY case, but may very well help us with the one in california. If you follow this link you will discover that Cirrus Logic has patented a circuit implementing the CSS algorithm and thus making it public, and no-longer a trade secret.
I don't know if this patent would effect a software decoder or not ... I don't think so, but IANAL so that may not be the case. If the California case is based on the keys being trade secret (even though they are on every DVD) then this may not get us directly out of hot water, but I have an idea that may work...
Since there are only 64K actual decoding keys, and there probably is a signature in the MPEG2 frames that could be keyed off of
1. I would think it would be possible to brute force the decryption keys for a disk down to a manageable number without using the key information stored on the DVD.
2. You could setup a database on the net like CDDB that your open source DVD player could get the key for playing the disk from.
Then once the key was found an individual would not have to manually sift though the possible keys to play their disk, but if they were the first one to run accross a disk they could submit it to the database for everybody else to use.
Somebody also posted that the studios have a right to require you to use players that they bless ... I just read though all the accompaning documentation for my dozen or so DVDs and no place do I see where there is a statement of any of the following:
1. that I can only use licenced players
2. that reverse engineering is not allowed
3. I'm not allowed to make copies for personal use
4. That the disks use or contain Trade Secret or patented information
There are notes that the works are copyrighted and that I'm not allowed to make Illeagal copies, and that public performance or re-distribution is not allowed without permission from the copyright holder.
Just FWIW...
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The UCITA stands for Computer Information Transactions Act ... this was passed by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in July I belive. I live in wisconsin, one of the two states that abstained from approving the new proposed legislation. It is currently being set to the state legislatures for approval. I remember reading that there are currently two states ready to vote on it.
Originally it started out being sponsored by cable , movie, music, and software publishers. But the software publishers started making changes to it that even the movie & music publishers thought were bad so they dropped out. At least that is my recollection from reading about it for the past year.
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