...a technological plateau, the aging of the 'Original Gamers' audience, and the slew of games that are just copies of the same game from last year, but with a new title and different cars/guns/bikinis/etc
One can say the same about music and movies. Trends repeat.
All of whom were stamped out within hours of being found.
That's the strength of open source.
I believe this is more correctly stated:
"...stamped out with hours of being released"
Not every person who finds a bug immediately tells the open source community.
A better defense, which I admit is more costly in terms of CPU is to run border IDS systems and simply have rulesets to filter this kind of traffic out.
No, a better defense is a solid firewall, a border ids, host based detection measures, anti-virus, and additional barriers such as honeypots and LaBrea
No security technology you mention will solve all problems. To provide good security, one must deploy many different technologies depending on their business or personal needs. LaBrea is another tool in the box to throw up in the way of attacks. It happens to be good with worms and scans, while weak in other areas. That's why a variety of barriers should be used. Even then, there is always more that could be done.
Many people are writing about how this is worthless because:
- It can be circumvented by future worms
- It does not protect your current hosts
- Other worm threads continue to scan
- etc
While all of these comments are valid, they miss the point of a solid security strategy - defense in depth. This seems to be a valuable addition to an existing security infrastructure. One thing in particular is sequential port scans. A port scan would most definitely get snagged by such a host if it were scanning ip's sequentially.
Of course virus writers can circumvent tarpits with thread timeouts, etc. but that requires much more code and skill. It would also create a larger amount of code that may be easier to detect.
This program, just like any other security product, does not prevent any sort of attack, but if installed enough places, it will raise the bar for future attacks.
The problem is....
I can uninstall Warp. And I can uninstall HatJava. But I can't uninstall IE.
What I want to know is, can you uninstall Konquerer? All of this talk about how Microsoft killed the little guy by integrating IE in to Windows, then other OS's go and copy it. I like having my web browser and file manager the same... so do a lot of people.
I agree that Microsoft has done "unfair" practices, but this isn't one of them.
Mod me down as a troll, but you know I have an interesting point...
No, but it's a good start. Unfortunately, any Mac can be accessed by anyone with a copy of the Mac OS 9 cd. All they need to do is put the cd into the tray and hold down the "c" key after hitting the reset switch. The machine will boot off the cd, and allow access to any file on any of the drives attached. Copy, delete, do what you like.
The same is true for AIX (with an AIX cd and a couple different keys of course)
I am glad to see that BBS games haven't died... they rock. I was thinking the other day that turn based BBS games (Tradewars, etc.) would make excellent PDA games. Each night when I sync up, it would upload my turns, and reset for the next morning.
I wanted to code this myself, but I don't have any free time right now. Does anybody else think this may catch on?
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I stopped reading your post right there. Really.
...a technological plateau, the aging of the 'Original Gamers' audience, and the slew of games that are just copies of the same game from last year, but with a new title and different cars/guns/bikinis/etc
One can say the same about music and movies. Trends repeat.
ep (early post)
Oh come on......
No NFS support
Ok, no good free clients that I know of, but plenty of commercial ones - or you could use samba
broken kerberos support
Non-windows clients and servers can communicate using the GSS-API (RFC 1964) protocol
no NIS support that I know of
If you don't know then don't say it
no ssh client or server
Ok, you really are clueless - ever heard of Cygwin?
no X server
See above
Ok, I feel better now.
And hey, who doesn't like a half-obscure OS (MPE/ix) running on a 48MHz machine supporting 200+ users?
The users.... but who cares what they think?
How about making products that are intuitive to configure and use? Instead we have things like sendmail. Oh well.
All of whom were stamped out within hours of being found. That's the strength of open source.
I believe this is more correctly stated: "...stamped out with hours of being released" Not every person who finds a bug immediately tells the open source community.
Remember, the same things that keep you from getting fired, keep you from getting promoted...
A better defense, which I admit is more costly in terms of CPU is to run border IDS systems and simply have rulesets to filter this kind of traffic out.
No, a better defense is a solid firewall, a border ids, host based detection measures, anti-virus, and additional barriers such as honeypots and LaBrea
No security technology you mention will solve all problems. To provide good security, one must deploy many different technologies depending on their business or personal needs. LaBrea is another tool in the box to throw up in the way of attacks. It happens to be good with worms and scans, while weak in other areas. That's why a variety of barriers should be used. Even then, there is always more that could be done.
Many people are writing about how this is worthless because:
- It can be circumvented by future worms
- It does not protect your current hosts
- Other worm threads continue to scan
- etc
While all of these comments are valid, they miss the point of a solid security strategy - defense in depth. This seems to be a valuable addition to an existing security infrastructure. One thing in particular is sequential port scans. A port scan would most definitely get snagged by such a host if it were scanning ip's sequentially.
Of course virus writers can circumvent tarpits with thread timeouts, etc. but that requires much more code and skill. It would also create a larger amount of code that may be easier to detect.
This program, just like any other security product, does not prevent any sort of attack, but if installed enough places, it will raise the bar for future attacks.
The problem is.... I can uninstall Warp. And I can uninstall HatJava. But I can't uninstall IE.
What I want to know is, can you uninstall Konquerer? All of this talk about how Microsoft killed the little guy by integrating IE in to Windows, then other OS's go and copy it. I like having my web browser and file manager the same... so do a lot of people.
I agree that Microsoft has done "unfair" practices, but this isn't one of them.
Mod me down as a troll, but you know I have an interesting point...
No, but it's a good start. Unfortunately, any Mac can be accessed by anyone with a copy of the Mac OS 9 cd. All they need to do is put the cd into the tray and hold down the "c" key after hitting the reset switch. The machine will boot off the cd, and allow access to any file on any of the drives attached. Copy, delete, do what you like.
The same is true for AIX (with an AIX cd and a couple different keys of course)
The solution is left as an exercise for the reader.
Easy:
One word: MARKETING
(Like it or not, the world DOES run on money)
I think it is more like having to pay to park my car at a national park that is funded by taxes.
Oh wait... doesn't it cost 20 bucks to see the Grand Canyon?
I am glad to see that BBS games haven't died... they rock. I was thinking the other day that turn based BBS games (Tradewars, etc.) would make excellent PDA games. Each night when I sync up, it would upload my turns, and reset for the next morning.
I wanted to code this myself, but I don't have any free time right now. Does anybody else think this may catch on?