I had a user call me from a Hotel. She complained she could not log on because her username/password was invalid. I checked her account and found it was locked out. I reset it, she was still getting the sam message. The account was locked again. I unlocked it. I tried resetting her password for her. Still no luck. I tried the usename/password combo. It worked for me. Hmmm. I turned on a sniffer and watched the RADIUS data going to a Domain Controller. Something was weird, the username was right, but the password hash was different for each of us trying the same password. Huh? WTF? I was stumped. She was getting tired and asked to check her mail for messages from someone. I did that and told her to bring in the laptop so I could examine it when she got back in town. She said fine. Then she told me there was a problem with the keyboard as well. I asked her the problem, and she told me a few keys popped off when she dropped her compact on the keyboard. She put them back in but one was not "springy". She had reversed the "S" and "D" keys.
Spammers operate at many levels and use many techniques. I question the use of legally murky tactics to shut them down. The community approach works best to solving this issue. Innovation from different groups each working to solve a small part of the SPAM problem. They constantly change tactics to work around anti-spam software for example. They are sophisticated and are not going to just go away. We must adapt and evolve. No one technique or strategy is going to get rid of them.
I had a roommate who starting getting packages dropped off on the porch. There were GAP jeans, shoes, camcorders and other such items. The packages were not addressed directly in her name. She started taking them and sending them back out. I saw the packages were being shipped to Nigeria. A RED light went on. There was no way she could afford all this on her own. I confronted her and found she was reshipping packages to Nigeria for someone she met on the Internet. She told me the original "buyer" could not send packages to Nigeria from where he lived in Florida. I told her she was an idiot to even believe that. When the next package came, I opened it up and looked at the invoice. There was a Florida address and a phone number on the invoice. A quick check on Superpages.com revealed the area code of the phone number in question was in Texas, not Florida. She was like "it's a cellphone". I did the old *69 and called the number. A lady with a foreign accent but passable english answered. As soon as I started talking about the shipment, she hung up on me. I was now worried that stolen property was being sent to my address. I made my roommate get some of the boxes she had recieved. Next, I started looking at the tracking info on UPS. the packages were marked as "left on porch". So no one could claim I signed for them. I said fuck this, I'm calling the stores. I began calling the stores who were shipping the packages. I found a stolen credit card was used for at leat one purchase. Other merchants would not reveal anything and did not even care if the merchandise was returned. Next, I called the local police. They came, did the paperwork and told me just to ship it all back. They came back 1.5 hours later and arrested my roommate. She had already fallen for the Nigerian check cashing scam to the tune of 3500.00. She was already reporting to the court weekly to take drug test and was awaiting trial on the check scam/bank fraud. I knew nothing of this. The police said only "drug addicts" could fall for something so stupid. I kid you not. I guess the fact she was still involved was enough to get her re-arrested. Her sister came and got her stuff. I've not heard from her since. I shipped back what I could, If the merchant did not want it back, I gave it to Goodwill, and got receipts for it.
Maybe TCP/IP was incorrectly configured or the NIC was not recognized. Was a basic ping even attempted? The post gives no specific information. I say inexperienced may be a better description than troll.
Freedom of speech and Freedom of advertising is not the same thing. I certainly think the former should be protected. But the latter? NO. I never buy anything that is unsolicited. It only encourages the weasels.
This is a bit paranoid. In Va. (Where I live) the license does not display my SSN. It also has holographic elements, and barcodes on the back. People under 21 have their picture taken using a side view. If I want to use it a proof of identity, it adds legitimacy. The RFID only needs to confirm the name and drivers license number. You have to write the license number on checks when presenting them. It's hardly a state secret.
I have the evil Verizon as my Telco. I lived in area where
Call Intercept was available. It worked pretty well at stopping Telemarketers for a while. They began to work around this issue by showing 800 numbers when they called. This allowed them to slip by the first line of defense. So I went ahead and got a caller ID modem and got CallerId from Ascendis Software. This allowed me to hang up on those 800 numbers. Life was good. Then, I had to move to new place only 10 minutes from where I was. I discovered Verizon had merged with GTE around 2000 or so and never upgraded the Central Office in the new area. So call intercept was not available in the new area.
The day I moved in to the new place, I was slammed by people selling security systems, painting, re-modeling, etc. I promptly added my new numbers to the do not call list and configured CallerId to block this crap. It's a bloody war trying to stop these bastards.
If all we ever do is try to emulate the M$ Office and other popular desktop apps, We'll will never be able to offer a superior product. It's time to add non bloating features that outshine the commercial software.
Windows 2000 or Greater Active Directory can use NTLM or Kerberos authentication. There is ONE big difference though. Kerberos supports delegation, which allows your credentials that were passed in IE to be used to access resources on other network devices. You cannot do this with NTLM! I do not think Firefox does Kerberos authentication.
Exactly right about breaking things. I found this patch broke Kerberos Authentication when double hop's are used. It broke a lot of our Intranet applications. Fortunately, we are firewalled and our internal MS machines were patched. I'm waiting on MS to resolve the issue so I can apply the updated patch.
It makes sense to test the technology that will be used for more advanced Mars missions. Also, if there is a problem, the chances of being rescued are much greater.
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Nothing. Credit cards companies are not going to change. I've had checks cashed I forgot to even sign. Sheesh.
Simply force the card owner to change the PIN when activating the card. Making the mailed PIN useless even if intercepted.
It was "Where do you want to go today?" to "What spyware did you have to remove today?"
I had a user call me from a Hotel. She complained she could not log on because her username/password was invalid. I checked her account and found it was locked out. I reset it, she was still getting the sam message. The account was locked again. I unlocked it. I tried resetting her password for her. Still no luck. I tried the usename/password combo. It worked for me. Hmmm. I turned on a sniffer and watched the RADIUS data going to a Domain Controller. Something was weird, the username was right, but the password hash was different for each of us trying the same password. Huh? WTF? I was stumped. She was getting tired and asked to check her mail for messages from someone. I did that and told her to bring in the laptop so I could examine it when she got back in town. She said fine. Then she told me there was a problem with the keyboard as well. I asked her the problem, and she told me a few keys popped off when she dropped her compact on the keyboard. She put them back in but one was not "springy". She had reversed the "S" and "D" keys.
Can I just get a parrot instead?
Spammers operate at many levels and use many techniques. I question the use of legally murky tactics to shut them down. The community approach works best to solving this issue. Innovation from different groups each working to solve a small part of the SPAM problem.
They constantly change tactics to work around anti-spam software for example. They are sophisticated and are not going to just go away.
We must adapt and evolve. No one technique or strategy is going to get rid of them.
I had a roommate who starting getting packages dropped off on the porch. There were GAP jeans, shoes, camcorders and other such items. The packages were not addressed directly in her name. She started taking them and sending them back out. I saw the packages were being shipped to Nigeria. A RED light went on. There was no way she could afford all this on her own. I confronted her and found she was reshipping packages to Nigeria for someone she met on the Internet. She told me the original "buyer" could not send packages to Nigeria from where he lived in Florida. I told her she was an idiot to even believe that. When the next package came, I opened it up and looked at the invoice. There was a Florida address and a phone number on the invoice. A quick check on Superpages.com revealed the area code of the phone number in question was in Texas, not Florida. She was like "it's a cellphone". I did the old *69 and called the number. A lady with a foreign accent but passable english answered. As soon as I started talking about the shipment, she hung up on me. I was now worried that stolen property was being sent to my address. I made my roommate get some of the boxes she had recieved. Next, I started looking at the tracking info on UPS. the packages were marked as "left on porch". So no one could claim I signed for them. I said fuck this, I'm calling the stores. I began calling the stores who were shipping the packages. I found a stolen credit card was used for at leat one purchase. Other merchants would not reveal anything and did not even care if the merchandise was returned. Next, I called the local police. They came, did the paperwork and told me just to ship it all back. They came back 1.5 hours later and arrested my roommate. She had already fallen for the Nigerian check cashing scam to the tune of 3500.00. She was already reporting to the court weekly to take drug test and was awaiting trial on the check scam/bank fraud. I knew nothing of this. The police said only "drug addicts" could fall for something so stupid. I kid you not. I guess the fact she was still involved was enough to get her re-arrested. Her sister came and got her stuff. I've not heard from her since. I shipped back what I could, If the merchant did not want it back, I gave it to Goodwill, and got receipts for it.
Maybe TCP/IP was incorrectly configured or the NIC was not recognized. Was a basic ping even attempted? The post gives no specific information. I say inexperienced may be a better description than troll.
I'd rather have an underhood EMP generator I could use to fry the electronics of those damn cars with overly powerful and obnoxiously loud subwoofers.
Someone could just break in and steal his hardware. What about backups? How about sniffing the wire and grabbing those FTP and POP passwords?
Freedom of speech and Freedom of advertising is not the same thing. I certainly think the former should be protected. But the latter? NO. I never buy anything that is unsolicited. It only encourages the weasels.
MySpace.com, soon to be MySpim.com?
Well, that's why they make keystroke loggers.
I mean why wait for "permission".
This is a bit paranoid. In Va. (Where I live) the license does not display my SSN. It also has holographic elements, and barcodes on the back. People under 21 have their picture taken using a side view. If I want to use it a proof of identity, it adds legitimacy. The RFID only needs to confirm the name and drivers license number. You have to write the license number on checks when presenting them. It's hardly a state secret.
I have the evil Verizon as my Telco. I lived in area where Call Intercept was available. It worked pretty well at stopping Telemarketers for a while. They began to work around this issue by showing 800 numbers when they called. This allowed them to slip by the first line of defense. So I went ahead and got a caller ID modem and got CallerId from Ascendis Software. This allowed me to hang up on those 800 numbers. Life was good. Then, I had to move to new place only 10 minutes from where I was. I discovered Verizon had merged with GTE around 2000 or so and never upgraded the Central Office in the new area. So call intercept was not available in the new area. The day I moved in to the new place, I was slammed by people selling security systems, painting, re-modeling, etc. I promptly added my new numbers to the do not call list and configured CallerId to block this crap. It's a bloody war trying to stop these bastards.
If all we ever do is try to emulate the M$ Office and other popular desktop apps, We'll will never be able to offer a superior product. It's time to add non bloating features that outshine the commercial software.
Is this so called "Electronic Voting". In my day, we drew straws, and we liked it like that.
Windows 2000 or Greater Active Directory can use NTLM or Kerberos authentication. There is ONE big difference though. Kerberos supports delegation, which allows your credentials that were passed in IE to be used to access resources on other network devices. You cannot do this with NTLM!
I do not think Firefox does Kerberos authentication.
Exactly right about breaking things. I found this patch broke Kerberos Authentication when double hop's are used. It broke a lot of our Intranet applications. Fortunately, we are firewalled and our internal MS machines were patched. I'm waiting on MS to resolve the issue so I can apply the updated patch.
It makes sense to test the technology that will be used for more advanced Mars missions. Also, if there is a problem, the chances of being rescued are much greater.
So, 7.5 seconds in 18 months?
Remember this one from an earlier story? RC Toys
3 dots, 4 dots, 2 dots, dah
Radio, Radio RAH, RAH,RAH
defibrillator
You can actually bypass GPS tracking. Installer.com I've got a 2003 Buick Ultra with Onstar and I like the service.