I know I am restating the obvious, but I find it interesting how no one is ever responsible for the security breach...
Once the lack of adequate security will start hurting enough the operators of the breach-able system, they'll start acting very responsible (and responsive) instead of sweeping the dust under the carpet.
"Anti-hacking" laws are cost externalization, as they allow the operators to relax on the security side, on the expense of tax-payers (who pay for the policing, investigations, suits and possibly the sustenance of an offender in jail). Mind you, as a tax payer, you get to pay those cost even if you aren't using the un-secured system.
In our previous posts, we recommended the utilization of tools like “rpm -Va” or “rpm -qf” or “dpkg -S” to see if the Apache modules were modified. However, those techniques won’t work against this backdoor. Since cPanel installs Apache inside/usr/local/apache and does not utilize the package managers, there is no single and simple command to detect if the Apache binary was modified.
Yeah, you'd be vulnerable if your apache installation is done using cpanel (as many hosting providers are).
What rubbish - with everyone and his brother being a programmer nowadays,
Isn't the correct term to use actually "brogrammer"? (another way of putting it: one would think that quantity doesn't necessary equate to quality).
There are plenty of 3D modeling programs out there, and a number of them have features for solid modeling.
Any detail on the topic, especially if the said application is open source, will be highly appreciated ('m not necessary lazy - at least not on the wrong side of the word - except that the missus wants the home sparkling clean).
It only takes one to break the DRM and share the content around the world to render the DRM ineffective.
to find the cracked version and is willing to risk using it, which isn't the same thing at all.
In many parts of the world, it is not the downloading that's illegal, it is the uploading. On items bound to the physical expression, it is not the buyer of a bootleg CD/DVD (or the buyer of a fake painting, or a "Rolex replica", or whatever reproduction) that is at fault, it is the vendor.
We were able to find some XP licenses in the wild but still are between a rock and a hard place. FDA certification for our EMR vendors is a pain and moving to the new version of windows is hard. I have no idea how we will overcome the sunsetting of XP.
Until you get a better idea, continue to scavenge for XP licences and run the apps in virtuals on new hardware.
Prevent those few computers that are running the program from touching the Internet in anyway. No networking services, web, email,... or anything else. Make them strictly one function standalone devices.
Problem is they should be isolated from the LAN too. 'Cause it doesn't matter if they cannot reach the internet if the "black side of the internet" can reach them via a specially crafted worn launched on another machine by a user tricked into opening an email attachment (I don't think the SCADA controllers of Iran's centrifuges were connected straight to internet).
So if you have 4 USB SS ports on a motherboard that motherboard is going to have to be able to supply 400W @ 5V? You can't be serious. We'll need dedicated power connections on the motherboard just to supply this.
You'd better believe it. For the USB4.0, we're prepared the spec for an integrated mini-generator at 1kW at least: you see, your phone is not mobile if you are not mobile; and you are not mobile unless you can at least ride a scooter. But why stop here? use 20 USB4.0 hubs and you won't need a Tesla.
I used to think the same. Until I realized that a situation in which the state can gain "state rights" (power grab) unchecked by the citizens or one in which the citizen is dependent of the state to grant their rights (and thus be free from the state influence) has the same chance of staying a democracy over time as an ice cube in hell.
This is where the question of "Can you point a democracy where everything not subject to a statute to say otherwise is forbidden" does matter: the existence of such a democracy would invalidate my assertion.
Keep this in mind - in a democracy, anything that is not subject to a law to say otherwise:
1. it is allowed for the citizens
2. it is forbidden for the state/government.
Who says? That's true of some democracies, but it's not the only model of democracy. In some democracies everything is forbidden unless there's a law to say it's permitted. They're still democracies because the public has a say in what's permitted or forbidden.
Ummmm.. Like the North Korea democracy, isn't it? I wonder, do you have other examples?
These specific articles and amendments apply specifically to the U.S.A. and do not apply generally to the concept of a "democracy" in the general sense.
I argue that they apply to the general sense. No democracy will last without them - even if having them is not a still not a guarantee for a stable democracy (this requires the citizens to actively resist the laws that will reduce their rights).
Can you imagine a "democracy" where the citizens have no rights? How long before their "right to vote" will mean absolutely nothing for the guys that have the power? (some facts: the people in the former communist countries have had the right to vote. Did you know that Cuba still has elections? Do you call them democracies?)
Athenian democracy: instituted about 550 BC, lasted 'til the end of life of Pericle (about 430 BC): this gives a total of 80 years before succumbing to oligarchs power. Besides, have a look on how athenian democracy worked.
the Romans attempt to democracy fared better: lasted about 200 years and brought into the scene the referendum. Ended with the new Plebeian aristocrats being as uninterested in the average Plebeian as the old Patrician aristocrats had always been.
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Send them to Norway
By perpetuating stupidity they doom their descendents to lives of insignificance and eventual extinction.
What can one say other then "God help them, they'll need it"?
I know I am restating the obvious, but I find it interesting how no one is ever responsible for the security breach...
Once the lack of adequate security will start hurting enough the operators of the breach-able system, they'll start acting very responsible (and responsive) instead of sweeping the dust under the carpet.
"Anti-hacking" laws are cost externalization, as they allow the operators to relax on the security side, on the expense of tax-payers (who pay for the policing, investigations, suits and possibly the sustenance of an offender in jail). Mind you, as a tax payer, you get to pay those cost even if you aren't using the un-secured system.
rpm -V httpd ?
Not that difficult to put in a cron job.
Cited FA:
In our previous posts, we recommended the utilization of tools like “rpm -Va” or “rpm -qf” or “dpkg -S” to see if the Apache modules were modified. However, those techniques won’t work against this backdoor. Since cPanel installs Apache inside /usr/local/apache and does not utilize the package managers, there is no single and simple command to detect if the Apache binary was modified.
Yeah, you'd be vulnerable if your apache installation is done using cpanel (as many hosting providers are).
That is the thing. How hard is it to just make a mould to mass produce regular plastic stuff.
Ummm... good question. Would you like to try making a mold for this?
What? You say it's art but doesn't have a practical use? mmmm?!
You will NEVER go to best buy to pick up a new 3D printer cartridge.
You are right, but for the wrong reasons: it's not the patents that will stop you getting a cartridge from best buy, it's the best buy bankruptcy.
What rubbish - with everyone and his brother being a programmer nowadays,
Isn't the correct term to use actually "brogrammer"?
(another way of putting it: one would think that quantity doesn't necessary equate to quality).
There are plenty of 3D modeling programs out there, and a number of them have features for solid modeling.
Any detail on the topic, especially if the said application is open source, will be highly appreciated ('m not necessary lazy - at least not on the wrong side of the word - except that the missus wants the home sparkling clean).
It only takes one to break the DRM and share the content around the world to render the DRM ineffective.
to find the cracked version and is willing to risk using it, which isn't the same thing at all.
In many parts of the world, it is not the downloading that's illegal, it is the uploading.
On items bound to the physical expression, it is not the buyer of a bootleg CD/DVD (or the buyer of a fake painting, or a "Rolex replica", or whatever reproduction) that is at fault, it is the vendor.
But I see no massive outrage there.
Is this a sign that "nothing of value was lost"?
Basically, past a threshold current, it starts to emit electrons instead of more photons (look up "auger effect").
Thanks again to "editors", illiterate both in English and science.
Actually, you need to look for Auger recombination - a bit different than Auger effect.
Sequestration is what the pubs want
Who? How sad... did the truck fail this year again mate?
We were able to find some XP licenses in the wild but still are between a rock and a hard place. FDA certification for our EMR vendors is a pain and moving to the new version of windows is hard. I have no idea how we will overcome the sunsetting of XP.
Until you get a better idea, continue to scavenge for XP licences and run the apps in virtuals on new hardware.
Prevent those few computers that are running the program from touching the Internet in anyway. No networking services, web, email, ... or anything else. Make them strictly one function standalone devices.
Problem is they should be isolated from the LAN too. 'Cause it doesn't matter if they cannot reach the internet if the "black side of the internet" can reach them via a specially crafted worn launched on another machine by a user tricked into opening an email attachment (I don't think the SCADA controllers of Iran's centrifuges were connected straight to internet).
You can probably count on one hand all the directly life critical software running as a regular app on XP, in the whole world.
Life critical software... Ummm, like the "next gen" command center of the UK's nuclear subs?
So if you have 4 USB SS ports on a motherboard that motherboard is going to have to be able to supply 400W @ 5V? You can't be serious. We'll need dedicated power connections on the motherboard just to supply this.
You'd better believe it.
For the USB4.0, we're prepared the spec for an integrated mini-generator at 1kW at least: you see, your phone is not mobile if you are not mobile; and you are not mobile unless you can at least ride a scooter. But why stop here? use 20 USB4.0 hubs and you won't need a Tesla.
You almost had me, but this looks like it could be dangerously close to exercise. Pass.
This is why I prefer RTS over FPS: no chance for someone to actually come with a Zerg Brood or Dwarf forges simulators.
Will it detect a pressure cooker?
If you swallow it, no.
I used to think the same. Until I realized that a situation in which the state can gain "state rights" (power grab) unchecked by the citizens or one in which the citizen is dependent of the state to grant their rights (and thus be free from the state influence) has the same chance of staying a democracy over time as an ice cube in hell.
This is where the question of "Can you point a democracy where everything not subject to a statute to say otherwise is forbidden" does matter: the existence of such a democracy would invalidate my assertion.
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I understand that "everything is forbidden unless it's permitted" is to some extent true in German law (Wikipedia agrees).
Are you sure the extends is significant enough?
Keep this in mind - in a democracy, anything that is not subject to a law to say otherwise: 1. it is allowed for the citizens 2. it is forbidden for the state/government.
Who says? That's true of some democracies, but it's not the only model of democracy. In some democracies everything is forbidden unless there's a law to say it's permitted. They're still democracies because the public has a say in what's permitted or forbidden.
Ummmm.. Like the North Korea democracy, isn't it? I wonder, do you have other examples?
These specific articles and amendments apply specifically to the U.S.A. and do not apply generally to the concept of a "democracy" in the general sense.
I argue that they apply to the general sense. No democracy will last without them - even if having them is not a still not a guarantee for a stable democracy (this requires the citizens to actively resist the laws that will reduce their rights).
Can you imagine a "democracy" where the citizens have no rights? How long before their "right to vote" will mean absolutely nothing for the guys that have the power? (some facts: the people in the former communist countries have had the right to vote. Did you know that Cuba still has elections? Do you call them democracies?)
Athenian democracy: instituted about 550 BC, lasted 'til the end of life of Pericle (about 430 BC): this gives a total of 80 years before succumbing to oligarchs power. Besides, have a look on how athenian democracy worked.
the Romans attempt to democracy fared better: lasted about 200 years and brought into the scene the referendum. Ended with the new Plebeian aristocrats being as uninterested in the average Plebeian as the old Patrician aristocrats had always been.
And the existence of the 8th and 9th amendments that you pointed... proves exactly what?
What's your point?
'Rhetorical' aside,
So, what's wrong with it?
isn't the definition of terrorism to spread, you know, TERROR for terrorist's gain?
You mean the lost of 80% of one's servers should cause an unfettered burst of joy for the one?
Way to construct a straw man and burn it down, girl. Can you please show me were did I say: "democracy IS..."?
I said "... in a democracy... " (it's like saying: "A required condition(s) for democracy is/are...").