"(19) `protected computer' has the meaning set forth in section 1030
"(20) `computer trespasser' means a person who accesses a protected computer without authorization and thus has no reasonable expectation of privacy in any communication transmitted to, through, or from the protected computer.";
From Title 18 Chapter 47 Sec. 1030:
(2) the term ''protected computer'' means a computer -
(A) exclusively for the use of a financial institution or the
United States Government, or, in the case of a computer not
exclusively for such use, used by or for a financial
institution or the United States Government and the conduct
constituting the offense affects that use by or for the
financial institution or the Government; or
(B) which is used in interstate or foreign commerce or
communication;
Used in interstate or foreing communication? How many of you connect to machines and/or through machines without crossing state lines?
Further from the bill:
""SS 25. Federal terrorism offense defined
"As used in this title, the term `Federal terrorism offense' means a violation of, or an attempt or conspiracy to violate-
-snip-
1030(a)(1), (a)(4), (a)(5)(A), or (a)(7) (relating to protection of computers)
-snip-
Okay, so now *maliciously* breaking into basically any computer system is a terrorist act. Couple this with the rest of the increases in anti-terroism this bill contains, and you're doing *LIFE* in FEDERAL PRISON (aka "no parole") because your Anti-CodeRed Perl script took down some dipshit's enterprise server. Meanwhile child molestors get time off for good behavior.
I don't think anyone thinks "computer crime" shouldn't be punished. Just not to this ridiculous degree.
Re:microsoft reliability
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Er... Sega is an X-Box developer, so, someday, they may very well *HAVE* Sonic.
More likely than not, this is actually just some cracker trying the Directory Traversal attack on you. Since Nimda was designed to piggyback off of Code Red II, and Code Red II wasn't seen in the wild as of the 12th of July, I wouldn't think this would be Nimda at all. Since it is only your most popular box being probed, this further indicates an actual Human(TM) behind the attack.
The Directory Traversal attack, however, has been around for a while.:)
I recently came across a program that'd let strip the payload off of the attachment, allowing you to read the "confidential information" therein, but I doubt an article from Foreign Policy magazine would really be that juicy.
If you really want to read it, just open it up as text. The document should still be in there somewhere.
"They've described the activity they're seeing as somewhat strange. The backbone is, according to them, at about 80% utilization -- they've never seen it above 40% before. However, the main portal sites such as Yahoo aren't having substantively higher than normal traffic. They're working on doing some traffic analysis but haven't completed that effort yet"
The data at Internet Health Report would lead me to believe that, other than a higher-than-usual web browsing traffic to specific sites, it's business as usual for the majority of the internet.
I'd like to see any contrary information, though.
"Technology turns planes into weapons???"
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You high?
How is this *remotely* a case of "technology" turning planes into weapons? It seems more to be fanatics turning planes into weapons.
KEEP reading the text. You'll come across this conditional in Sec. 512.
{ISP has no liabilty}
-if the conditions set forth in paragraph (2) are met.
(2) CONDITIONS- The conditions referred to in paragraph (1) are that--
-snip-
`(E) if the person described in paragraph (1)(A) makes that material available online without the authorization of the copyright owner of the material, the service provider responds expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material that is claimed to be infringing upon notification of claimed infringement as described in subsection (c)(3),
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If you receive an attachment preceeded by text in broken Engrish, you're probably *not* going to want to open it up. ;)
Until it spills out into the air via the "optional Acer InviLink IEEE802.11b wireless LAN PC Card." ;)
"Encrypting the hard drive or portions of it as with PGPDisk is still the most secure."
"Users must train the recognition system, which is then used to boot the machine or to decrypt files stored on the hard disk."
... so, a hack to make your PC look like a ReplayTV at the end of the cable would be miiiiiiighty useful. :)
Replace all those X10 popups with "WTF D00D PLZ DONT H4X0R ROFFLL!!!!" ;-)
Loop your line-out to your line-in, dump that all to WAV, encode to Ogg Vorbis.
Ta-da.
What, are they going to outlaw a deck of cards?
No, it isn't.
From the bill:
"(19) `protected computer' has the meaning set forth in section 1030
"(20) `computer trespasser' means a person who accesses a protected computer without authorization and thus has no reasonable expectation of privacy in any communication transmitted to, through, or from the protected computer.";
From Title 18 Chapter 47 Sec. 1030:
(2) the term ''protected computer'' means a computer -
(A) exclusively for the use of a financial institution or the
United States Government, or, in the case of a computer not
exclusively for such use, used by or for a financial
institution or the United States Government and the conduct
constituting the offense affects that use by or for the
financial institution or the Government; or
(B) which is used in interstate or foreign commerce or
communication;
Used in interstate or foreing communication? How many of you connect to machines and/or through machines without crossing state lines?
Further from the bill:
""SS 25. Federal terrorism offense defined
"As used in this title, the term `Federal terrorism offense' means a violation of, or an attempt or conspiracy to violate-
-snip-
1030(a)(1), (a)(4), (a)(5)(A), or (a)(7) (relating to protection of computers)
-snip-
Okay, so now *maliciously* breaking into basically any computer system is a terrorist act. Couple this with the rest of the increases in anti-terroism this bill contains, and you're doing *LIFE* in FEDERAL PRISON (aka "no parole") because your Anti-CodeRed Perl script took down some dipshit's enterprise server. Meanwhile child molestors get time off for good behavior.
I don't think anyone thinks "computer crime" shouldn't be punished. Just not to this ridiculous degree.
Er... Sega is an X-Box developer, so, someday, they may very well *HAVE* Sonic.
:-p
Then again, so will all the other consoles.
More likely than not, this is actually just some cracker trying the Directory Traversal attack on you. Since Nimda was designed to piggyback off of Code Red II, and Code Red II wasn't seen in the wild as of the 12th of July, I wouldn't think this would be Nimda at all. Since it is only your most popular box being probed, this further indicates an actual Human(TM) behind the attack.
:)
The Directory Traversal attack, however, has been around for a while.
That'd be Sircam.
I recently came across a program that'd let strip the payload off of the attachment, allowing you to read the "confidential information" therein, but I doubt an article from Foreign Policy magazine would really be that juicy.
If you really want to read it, just open it up as text. The document should still be in there somewhere.
"They've described the activity they're seeing as somewhat strange. The backbone is, according to them, at about 80% utilization -- they've never seen it above 40% before. However, the main portal sites such as Yahoo aren't having substantively higher than normal traffic. They're working on doing some traffic analysis but haven't completed that effort yet"
The data at Internet Health Report would lead me to believe that, other than a higher-than-usual web browsing traffic to specific sites, it's business as usual for the majority of the internet.
I'd like to see any contrary information, though.
You high?
How is this *remotely* a case of "technology" turning planes into weapons? It seems more to be fanatics turning planes into weapons.
And fanatics are nothing new.
"Sometimes we share the blacklists with a few of our competitors"
Mmmmmm... collusion...
This isn't insightful. If anything, it's funny, since this is obviously a gag.
The "Lessis Moore" algorithm?
The "PLACeBO" algorith?
The "Free Object Oriented License" (FOOL)?
They let you use the Sybian at work?
:p
I knew Europe was a little more sexually free than the United States, but how the hell are you supposed to get any work done?
If you could get this Win CE Apache port working with the Dreamcast Win CE EXE loader and possibly, the Dreamcast hard drive hack.
A DC'll run you 79 bucks. The keyboard and mouse, another 40 or so.
"Here's the corproate SWAT scenario. Graphic, but true"
Oh, really?
KEEP reading the text. You'll come across this conditional in Sec. 512.
{ISP has no liabilty}
-if the conditions set forth in paragraph (2) are met.
(2) CONDITIONS- The conditions referred to in paragraph (1) are that--
-snip-
`(E) if the person described in paragraph (1)(A) makes that material available online without the authorization of the copyright owner of the material, the service provider responds expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material that is claimed to be infringing upon notification of claimed infringement as described in subsection (c)(3),
If you're going to mock one's mastery of the English language, you should probably spell "sentence" and "edited" correctly.
http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/crates/crates 1.shtml
The best thing about that line is that she suddenly acquires a British accent. Who the hell does she think she is, Madonna? :p
You mean... Big Brother is still ON?
Of course, inadvertently open AP's are free beer, while the ones in the article are free speech. ;)
Just for kicks, do a google search on "war driving."
Hey, my fishing controller brings the true-to-life experience of Sega Marine Fishing right into my living room. :p