Yes but function and structure don't have to match. If you give two programmers a task to write the same program you can get two entirely different solutions but in the end they accomplish the same task.
It's simple, look at the source code, if you see the same functions and same structure in both pieces of software then it was a grab and go operation. If however DOS sports an entirely different layout with none of the exact same functions then it's original. It's black and white, either it's stolen or not.
I never said everyone is doing something wrong! You could be Jesus himself and live the most pure life ever and not want to be tracked. I was only stating that I honestly believe there is no way to truly go offline and off grid. If someone is so interested in my life that they feel watching me would help them then so be it, I'll let them watch me.
Actually oddly enough I was just talking to my roommate about installing wireless webcams with edge detection active that talk to uC's to plot the position in 3D space of our rooms and can mark where we are and upload to twitter well having the streams from the webcams upload online. It honestly doesn't bother me.
Okay your know what fair enough, I don't want you to think that I was only implying bad acts! Just personally myself and everyone I know personally wouldn't actually care if they were tracked.
Sure come over and install cameras, I live in Waterloo Ontario Canada, I'll be home at 9:00pm tonight and you can get started then. I have a pretty good server you can route them to!
Lets define troll because 99% of people on slashdot don't understand what it means, Troll: "In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory,[2] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community", so first of all my comment isn't off-topic because it's about privacy, the very topic the post is about. Extraneous its not because it means the same thing as off-topic which I already covered and inflamatory means the same thing as off-topic. So now that we've covered what a troll is and why exactly my comment is NOT a trolling a post lets continue.
First of all laws only apply on and after they get applied. So if smoking became illegal, which is prefectly fine with me as I don't smoke, then it's only illegal to smoke after the law gets passed. So you quit, if you can't quit then your weak and it's not anyone elses fault. Second, if you really care so much about who is holding your data and where your personal information is going then you would take great person duty to protect it. This means you NEVER leave a trace online, not a cookie, not a history record, not even an IP footprint and NEVER leave your MAC footprint. That will protect you online, good luck BTW as the TCP header and IP header carry all this information.
We still have an issue because I'm sure at some point you brought or leased or rented a car or put your name on paper for a transaction, So now your on a piece of paper meaning your name was writen down with identifying information and stored, so your on paper which really is no better then using the internet.
Lets say you haven't ever gone online or even so much as touched a car or anything that would require you name being recorded. Lets assume you walk up to a pay phone one day and make a call, well guess what, you've logged yourself, your on the grid, you can be tracked. Lets say you go for lunch at a little country side breakfast dive, you stop in, you have some coffee, maybe a sandwhich and leave, well again you can now be tracked because people have seen you inside the shop.
My point is that you'll never be able to fall so far off the grid and become so invisiable to everyone that you'll be untrackable. For the love of god if you have a license plate then it means you have a database storing your information. If a cop scans your plate or just goes and gets your records its the same thing, you have no control over it, you'll never have the control. If the government wants to find you they will, I'm not talking about installing camera's in everyroom of a house to watch you, they don't need to do that. Your on the grid from the moment your born, your in a phone book, your in school, your in a store, your even in a pool, your on the grid. What we as in everyone needs to think about is that if you really cared about your privacy you would do a hell of a lot more to protect it. Having your plate scanned is hardly the issue here, people just want to complain and bitch about something when they don't give a shit about the 99% of other ways they log themselves. If you want to prove my wrong then find a way to completely wipe yourself off the face of the earth so that no matter what and at all costs you can not be found, if the government invested a trillion dollar fund to find you, you could not be found, thats what you have to do, otherwise except the fact that your logged and on the grid.
I'm getting a little tired of seeing posts on retained information and person information and scanning etc.... Here's the deal, if you don't want your personal information stored by others get rid of the internet, your house, your car, all forms of non paper money, never show up anywhere there is a camera, never go to church ( God is storing your person data!!!!! ) and then crawl into a hole 50 Km under ground and stay there, and you better be naked because the government will use the tag on your jeans to find you.
The sooner people wake up and figure out that you don't have privacy anymore the better, the best question to ask in this case is what are you doing that you require such privacy?
If you do any activity which required your name be put to paper then your trackable okay, simple, easy and clear now grow up.
Jesus never killed anyone, you have to exist to have killed. Jesus is an imaginary being, nothing more then a tail or story. The Bible is just as real a book as Harry Potter.
Hmm well Jeffrey Dahmer didn't have facebook, Charles Manson didn't have book:O OMG!!!!!! Hmmm but Jesus didn't have book either....... Glad pesudo science still rules!
Actually using RS-232 Revision F the correct voltage ratings for a line is 15+/- volts:-). Revision C ( outdated ) is 12+/- volts, I've never tried but you could actually interface a hard disk controller with a USB input, it would work prefectly fine.
I will agree I never said that I was only quoting for SATA disk drives, I've never had a reason to go back and get information from a IDE drive but the process would be the same you just need the correct controller and the correct pinout. Oh and I should mention that my friend ( Steve ) does this for a living so I'm not pulling this out of my ass.
The first idea is to replace the controller on the back, this would be the PCB, as long as you have a controller of the same revision you can swap them. This wont always work but I've seen it unbrick a good number of drives.
Having clearly not read my post, just look above. You need to use a controller from the same revision! If your going to slap any old PCB on the hard disk and power it up then it's your fault, hell you even called a PCB, why don't I just a rasberry pi or I could use an xbox controller or maybe a mother board, the correct word is controller and you need to have the right one which I mention above.
As for the four little pin they have the following pin out
You can power it safety off 5 volts, in fact you can even power it off 12 volts and not damange most desktop drives.
As for my last option just attempt it on old drives for fun, I've seen it kick a drive over.
So I don't really know where the bullshit is coming from, clearly you have absolutely no idea what your talking about at all. The first two options I gave are real solutions that infact a lot of hard disk repair shops will use. As soon as you can actually prove I provided a bullshit response I'll recant my post but you'll never manage to do that.
Everything I posted is safe enough that even if it doesn't work your data wont be effected. If a hard drive recovery professional can't fix a removed controller then I seriously would recommends staying clear. Of course there are off the shelfs software and hardware you can buy but your right, if your really really smart just get someone to do it for you. However I've managed to save a ton of drives by just hacking a solution up.
First of all anyone who said No is wrong. You can attempt to fix a hard disk using several methods.
The first idea is to replace the controller on the back, this would be the PCB, as long as you have a controller of the same revision you can swap them. This wont always work but I've seen it unbrick a good number of drives.
The second method I've seen work is to take a molex connector cable to serial, it attaches to the four little pins on the back of the drive and allows firmware access through a terminal program like hyper terminal or minicom. I've seen drives corrupt there firmware and this is really the only way to get into the settings and play with it, you can sometimes unlock a drive and get it spinning up, however copy the data off ASAP and swap the drive, it's at it's lifes end.
The last method I've used and had work is to solder the controller from one hard disk to another using a flywire setup. This is a hack job and it is really a last attempt, you can take wire and solder it from the pins of one controller to the pins of another controller that is working. I've only ever had one disk kick over this way but I was able to copy data from it.
Apart from all the garage hacks I just talked about there is alway the manufactures tools, they usually will allow you to download a disk image full of apps that can talk to the drive and try to recover it. If you don't care about the data you can always try a LOW level format, not a format! This is a special kind of high risk format, it will nuke the drive and if you get a power outage can brick the drive but again might work.
For going all of that, hard disks are cheap just buy a new one.
yes, in order to implement my method of gun control. I have never, will never and can never see a reason to need a gun, unless your going to use it to harm someone or something.
Simple, any one found holding a gun who does not belong to law enforcement ( This includes the public, goverment and miltary ) is shot on sight, no if and's or buts. Simple, effective and corrective all at once!
I think Asian's man most help desks. I once had to call dlink to solve a router issue and literally the lady on the other end just kept saying "So what is it's IP address". The issue was the router couldn't get an IP address, she was sure that if you had a router it had an IP, I finally had to yell at her for being dumb as nails and she hung up the phone. This is the "quality" we've come to expect from the help desk.
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If he wrote it then he owns it. Even if he wrote it for the company he works at he still owns it. You can only steal code that you don't type.
Yes but function and structure don't have to match. If you give two programmers a task to write the same program you can get two entirely different solutions but in the end they accomplish the same task.
It's simple, look at the source code, if you see the same functions and same structure in both pieces of software then it was a grab and go operation. If however DOS sports an entirely different layout with none of the exact same functions then it's original. It's black and white, either it's stolen or not.
I never said everyone is doing something wrong! You could be Jesus himself and live the most pure life ever and not want to be tracked. I was only stating that I honestly believe there is no way to truly go offline and off grid. If someone is so interested in my life that they feel watching me would help them then so be it, I'll let them watch me.
Actually oddly enough I was just talking to my roommate about installing wireless webcams with edge detection active that talk to uC's to plot the position in 3D space of our rooms and can mark where we are and upload to twitter well having the streams from the webcams upload online. It honestly doesn't bother me.
You don't have to agree with me, so thats fine! I respect your opinion but just don't agree with it.
Okay your know what fair enough, I don't want you to think that I was only implying bad acts! Just personally myself and everyone I know personally wouldn't actually care if they were tracked.
Sure come over and install cameras, I live in Waterloo Ontario Canada, I'll be home at 9:00pm tonight and you can get started then. I have a pretty good server you can route them to!
Lets define troll because 99% of people on slashdot don't understand what it means, Troll: "In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory,[2] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community", so first of all my comment isn't off-topic because it's about privacy, the very topic the post is about. Extraneous its not because it means the same thing as off-topic which I already covered and inflamatory means the same thing as off-topic. So now that we've covered what a troll is and why exactly my comment is NOT a trolling a post lets continue.
First of all laws only apply on and after they get applied. So if smoking became illegal, which is prefectly fine with me as I don't smoke, then it's only illegal to smoke after the law gets passed. So you quit, if you can't quit then your weak and it's not anyone elses fault. Second, if you really care so much about who is holding your data and where your personal information is going then you would take great person duty to protect it. This means you NEVER leave a trace online, not a cookie, not a history record, not even an IP footprint and NEVER leave your MAC footprint. That will protect you online, good luck BTW as the TCP header and IP header carry all this information.
We still have an issue because I'm sure at some point you brought or leased or rented a car or put your name on paper for a transaction, So now your on a piece of paper meaning your name was writen down with identifying information and stored, so your on paper which really is no better then using the internet.
Lets say you haven't ever gone online or even so much as touched a car or anything that would require you name being recorded. Lets assume you walk up to a pay phone one day and make a call, well guess what, you've logged yourself, your on the grid, you can be tracked. Lets say you go for lunch at a little country side breakfast dive, you stop in, you have some coffee, maybe a sandwhich and leave, well again you can now be tracked because people have seen you inside the shop.
My point is that you'll never be able to fall so far off the grid and become so invisiable to everyone that you'll be untrackable. For the love of god if you have a license plate then it means you have a database storing your information. If a cop scans your plate or just goes and gets your records its the same thing, you have no control over it, you'll never have the control. If the government wants to find you they will, I'm not talking about installing camera's in everyroom of a house to watch you, they don't need to do that. Your on the grid from the moment your born, your in a phone book, your in school, your in a store, your even in a pool, your on the grid. What we as in everyone needs to think about is that if you really cared about your privacy you would do a hell of a lot more to protect it. Having your plate scanned is hardly the issue here, people just want to complain and bitch about something when they don't give a shit about the 99% of other ways they log themselves. If you want to prove my wrong then find a way to completely wipe yourself off the face of the earth so that no matter what and at all costs you can not be found, if the government invested a trillion dollar fund to find you, you could not be found, thats what you have to do, otherwise except the fact that your logged and on the grid.
After all, if you have nothing to hide, what do you have to fear?
.....Thats right, I have nothing to hide, which is my point.
I'm getting a little tired of seeing posts on retained information and person information and scanning etc.... Here's the deal, if you don't want your personal information stored by others get rid of the internet, your house, your car, all forms of non paper money, never show up anywhere there is a camera, never go to church ( God is storing your person data!!!!! ) and then crawl into a hole 50 Km under ground and stay there, and you better be naked because the government will use the tag on your jeans to find you.
The sooner people wake up and figure out that you don't have privacy anymore the better, the best question to ask in this case is what are you doing that you require such privacy?
If you do any activity which required your name be put to paper then your trackable okay, simple, easy and clear now grow up.
Jesus never killed anyone, you have to exist to have killed. Jesus is an imaginary being, nothing more then a tail or story. The Bible is just as real a book as Harry Potter.
Hmm well Jeffrey Dahmer didn't have facebook, Charles Manson didn't have book :O OMG!!!!!! Hmmm but Jesus didn't have book either ....... Glad pesudo science still rules!
Actually using RS-232 Revision F the correct voltage ratings for a line is 15+/- volts :-). Revision C ( outdated ) is 12+/- volts, I've never tried but you could actually interface a hard disk controller with a USB input, it would work prefectly fine.
I will agree I never said that I was only quoting for SATA disk drives, I've never had a reason to go back and get information from a IDE drive but the process would be the same you just need the correct controller and the correct pinout. Oh and I should mention that my friend ( Steve ) does this for a living so I'm not pulling this out of my ass.
What about that episode of MacGyver where he used a gun as a wrench?
HAHA Okay props to that! +5 funny.
The first idea is to replace the controller on the back, this would be the PCB, as long as you have a controller of the same revision you can swap them. This wont always work but I've seen it unbrick a good number of drives.
Having clearly not read my post, just look above. You need to use a controller from the same revision! If your going to slap any old PCB on the hard disk and power it up then it's your fault, hell you even called a PCB, why don't I just a rasberry pi or I could use an xbox controller or maybe a mother board, the correct word is controller and you need to have the right one which I mention above.
As for the four little pin they have the following pin out
- 1.5Gbps limitation jumper
- Ground
- Rx (serial terminal input)
- Tx (serial terminal output)
You can power it safety off 5 volts, in fact you can even power it off 12 volts and not damange most desktop drives.
As for my last option just attempt it on old drives for fun, I've seen it kick a drive over.
So I don't really know where the bullshit is coming from, clearly you have absolutely no idea what your talking about at all. The first two options I gave are real solutions that infact a lot of hard disk repair shops will use. As soon as you can actually prove I provided a bullshit response I'll recant my post but you'll never manage to do that.
Everything I posted is safe enough that even if it doesn't work your data wont be effected. If a hard drive recovery professional can't fix a removed controller then I seriously would recommends staying clear. Of course there are off the shelfs software and hardware you can buy but your right, if your really really smart just get someone to do it for you. However I've managed to save a ton of drives by just hacking a solution up.
First of all anyone who said No is wrong. You can attempt to fix a hard disk using several methods.
The first idea is to replace the controller on the back, this would be the PCB, as long as you have a controller of the same revision you can swap them. This wont always work but I've seen it unbrick a good number of drives.
The second method I've seen work is to take a molex connector cable to serial, it attaches to the four little pins on the back of the drive and allows firmware access through a terminal program like hyper terminal or minicom. I've seen drives corrupt there firmware and this is really the only way to get into the settings and play with it, you can sometimes unlock a drive and get it spinning up, however copy the data off ASAP and swap the drive, it's at it's lifes end.
The last method I've used and had work is to solder the controller from one hard disk to another using a flywire setup. This is a hack job and it is really a last attempt, you can take wire and solder it from the pins of one controller to the pins of another controller that is working. I've only ever had one disk kick over this way but I was able to copy data from it.
Apart from all the garage hacks I just talked about there is alway the manufactures tools, they usually will allow you to download a disk image full of apps that can talk to the drive and try to recover it. If you don't care about the data you can always try a LOW level format, not a format! This is a special kind of high risk format, it will nuke the drive and if you get a power outage can brick the drive but again might work.
For going all of that, hard disks are cheap just buy a new one.
Oh BTW this was in NO way a troll comment, but good job slashdot!
yes, in order to implement my method of gun control. I have never, will never and can never see a reason to need a gun, unless your going to use it to harm someone or something.
Simple, any one found holding a gun who does not belong to law enforcement ( This includes the public, goverment and miltary ) is shot on sight, no if and's or buts. Simple, effective and corrective all at once!
This just shows why we need to radically change gun laws, as in ban all guns!
I think Asian's man most help desks. I once had to call dlink to solve a router issue and literally the lady on the other end just kept saying "So what is it's IP address". The issue was the router couldn't get an IP address, she was sure that if you had a router it had an IP, I finally had to yell at her for being dumb as nails and she hung up the phone. This is the "quality" we've come to expect from the help desk.
That's not offensive, that's funny :-). If you didn't laugh then it either means your immature or over sensitive.
LOL I tip my hat to you :P