well it's obviously a (stupid) toy - no tool would be that shape. Had it been a tool, maybe it would have more use... esp. if it were built into the monitor, case or Internet enabled fridge.
No I don't run a server for a huge number of users, but if I did then I'd probably not be on the bleeding edge anyway, and take the time to fsck about with dependancies.
Beside, go to pricewatch.com and check the price of memory.
WTF is wrong with statically linked binaries? The authors get to play with dependancies, and the user gets a binary that works. If you wanna fuck about with your own library combos, compile from source, since you're obviously an expert.
Please point me to the legal agreement I signed which states that
That's the nature of the beast. No legal crap required.
My system is my system, for use by me and those whom I authorise to use it, and NO-ONE ELSE
So disconnect it from the network.
The ONLY possible reason you could have for portscanning me is to probe for weaknesses in an attempt to hack my system
Scans are to find out what you're running. There is no other reasonable way to find out. If you are running SERVERS of any kind on a PUBLIC network then you automatically grant the world the right to attempt to connect to it. Note: connecting to a port is different from accessing the machine's services, which would be protected by some form of security, like username/password.
a) your lawn is private property
b) by having a server on the Internet you imply that you are willing to accept conntections from the outside world. by having a house you do not imply you are open for public trading.
c) people who can't grasp TCP/IP without resorting to stupid metaphores/analogies have no business making laws about it.
OMFG.. go rent the Mad Max movies and see how it's supposed to be done. The above (and MM: Beyond Thunderdome, don't bother with that one) are just crappy ripoffs.
You're a manager, aren't you? Well, you should be. You think security is as easy as installing something and that's it - secured. We are all laughing at you.
Firewalls don't seem up to the task
Unless TCP/IP is being exploited (malformed packets, etc), your Firewall should NOT be considered the first line of defence. Your software should be capable of validating clients all by itself, without needing to be filtered out. Treat the firewall as your backup plan only, and secure your software properly to begin with.
What sort of tools exist to prevent this sort of thing (aside from simply using OpenBSD)?
Yup, definatly upper management material. Are you saying the OS was cracked in these cases? Was root obtained through an OS bug? I'm pretty sure this is an application issue - if Apache is improperly setup on linux, the same configuration will still be improper on BSD.
There really is only one solution to this problem, and management types like you just don't want to hear it: MORE FUCKING MONEY. Money buys experienced staff and training. These staff are what will keep your systems secure, not some magic software patch.
I don't think I've seen anyone who's seen all of Star Trek and doesn't think that Voyager was the worst of them all. It certainly doesn't compare to TNG and DS9, because those were thinking shows.
You ruined the entire series for yourself, so if you want someone to blame look in the mirror. Take Voyager for what it is, and stop comparing it to the others.
Excessive 'thinking' is a waste of the entire Star Trek universe. It is the future - and the future is about new tech, toys and places, not the same old political crap that goes on today. If I want reality I can go out in the Big Blue Room. This is sci-fi. Fiction. BULLSHIT. If you want to over analyse, go debug some code.
Fuckin' hell - people think I'm uptight.
Voyager abandoned all of this. The only concerted effort to maintain a story arc, with Voyager and the Kazons, was abandoned three seasons into the show. The rest of the series was just isolated episodes
Like TOS? DS9 are just campers... they found 'emselves a high-traffic spot and pitched a tent. It's not terribly hard to keep a story line going when you're not going anywhere. Voyager is on the move, discovering brave new worlds and all that shit. The most possible would be to extend those Janeway-wants-to-go-straight-thru-enemy-space-not- around-no-matter-what-the-cost episodes into doubles or trilogies - there's only so much one can do in an hour (~40 minutes really). After that, they're out of enemy space and no longer an issue. There were only a few races in Voy that were capable of keeping up with or passing Voy, which is why the borg were relied on so much - they had the conduits. Everyone else was left behind in their own space.
Voyager also abandoned continuity by completely forgetting about their limits on shuttles and photon torpedoes
OK, I'm not going to fabricate excuses.. but I'm sure more goes on on a starship than what makes an episode. Doing deals with arms traders makes for some easy and obvious plots, but it's not exactly true to the spirit of Starfleet.
they didn't come up with a witty solution like in TNG
There's only so much 'wit' can do... unless said wit leads to cool new techs, or variations on existing ones. Sooner or later you're going to need equal/better tech or you'll just get your butt kicked. Game Over.
they just inverted a new particle, or pulse, or weapon. This formula was used in 90% of the shows, including the finale
I have to agree it was excessive.. but I'll take excessive technobabble over psychobabble any day.. this is the future after all.
The Enterprise solved that with intelligent characters outwitting the Borg systems (Data "hacks" in), not powerful uber-weapons.
Maybe he could upload them a virus off the Mac in the ship's museum? If you applied your own bullshit-detection algorithms to this as you used before then you should come up with the same 'yeah, right' conclusion. Ah, but you LIKE this series, so the BS detectors are only on half power.
The largest continuity issue with the Voyager finale was that they were able to take a transwarp conduit right home to Earth
They cheated.. that pisses me off. But lots of stories end with the hero dying or other unfavorable ending... learn to live with it. This isn't a holodeck - YOU do not write the story.
The Borg are no longer menacing; they're weak and stupid.
I think they've always has a darlek (sp?) quality about them.. supposed uber-baddies, yet.. why not just.. RUN AWAY!? I think this queen bitch fucked em - they were probably stong at one point, then this ego maniac managed to separate from the collective (unamatrix 0 style) and try to run em.
There's little chance of another future series
That's a shame. I don't know much (or really anything) about the next series, but it's going to have to be overflowing with this 'thinking' shit because there's nothing else going for it.
All the cool new toys have been done in future episodes, so not only do we know what they are, we know what they DON'T HAVE. There's only so many oops-crashed-the-shuttle-into-the-planet-again episodes I can take before I start wishing for transporters.
We've seen the Klingons and whatnot, AND how it turns out. All that's left are conflicts with minor empires that either fold or become our allies quickly. Any long running conflicts would need to have been in past episodes, otherwise we run into that continuity issue you keep bringing up.
The only possible positive is the Kirk era fuck-the-Directive mentality... hoonin' about the quadrant kickin' butt. That would suit me fine. However I recall Kirk's Enterprise getting whipped and destroyed almost as often as not when attacked. I'm sure before shields are invented (given to them by God according to your logic - some magic that allows them to get shot and not depressurise instantly) they'll be avoiding conflict. I'm sure not all races invent space travel at the same time Earth did, so would probably be either more advanced and dominate, or be just starting out and be easily overpowered with little more than a nasty look.
I can just tell it's going to be mostly drawn out policical and 'character building' crap.. making allies, etc. And I know I'm going to get really tired of the Vulcans (our first contact, and who aren't bent on destroying us).
So you're saying all Cisco and Microsoft (or even Linux) users can take a few minutes to install v6 on their current hardware/OS and have everything working just fine?
That's because the ACCC is the consumer watchdog, protecting consumers within the limits of the current laws, as opposed to politicians which change laws in order to secure votes from every special interest group they can dig up.
IMO, that's too fuckin' bad.. when I hear of multimillion dollar takings in a single weekend, I don't see how they can stand there and whinge about making a few extra reels of film... they could even distribute it in digital format and be done with film (keep film for the studio).
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It is illegal to carry knives about in public here.
Is port scanning someone else's host illegal? Would it be enough prove "intent" to crack it?
Scanning of other hosts is perfectly reasonable for research IMO.
This bill still sux - one is a criminal after one breaks into someone else's property, not before.
well it's obviously a (stupid) toy - no tool would be that shape. Had it been a tool, maybe it would have more use... esp. if it were built into the monitor, case or Internet enabled fridge.
To all who said "RAM usage":
No I don't run a server for a huge number of users, but if I did then I'd probably not be on the bleeding edge anyway, and take the time to fsck about with dependancies.
Beside, go to pricewatch.com and check the price of memory.
WTF is wrong with statically linked binaries? The authors get to play with dependancies, and the user gets a binary that works. If you wanna fuck about with your own library combos, compile from source, since you're obviously an expert.
Linus controls Linux - the word anyway. Anyone can do anything with the code, but if Linus says not to use the name Linux, then you're fscked.
So disconnect it from the network.
Scans are to find out what you're running. There is no other reasonable way to find out. If you are running SERVERS of any kind on a PUBLIC network then you automatically grant the world the right to attempt to connect to it. Note: connecting to a port is different from accessing the machine's services, which would be protected by some form of security, like username/password.
a) your lawn is private property
b) by having a server on the Internet you imply that you are willing to accept conntections from the outside world. by having a house you do not imply you are open for public trading.
c) people who can't grasp TCP/IP without resorting to stupid metaphores/analogies have no business making laws about it.
bunnies can shave just fine, as far as I can tell...
making sure you don't make a mess on the opposite wall. glass is easy to clean.
Waterworld" or "The Postman".
OMFG.. go rent the Mad Max movies and see how it's supposed to be done. The above (and MM: Beyond Thunderdome, don't bother with that one) are just crappy ripoffs.
I second the motion for dubbing.
I don't watch subtitled movies at all - I just turn the TV off on the spot.
You're a manager, aren't you? Well, you should be. You think security is as easy as installing something and that's it - secured. We are all laughing at you.
Firewalls don't seem up to the task
Unless TCP/IP is being exploited (malformed packets, etc), your Firewall should NOT be considered the first line of defence. Your software should be capable of validating clients all by itself, without needing to be filtered out. Treat the firewall as your backup plan only, and secure your software properly to begin with.
What sort of tools exist to prevent this sort of thing (aside from simply using OpenBSD)?
Yup, definatly upper management material. Are you saying the OS was cracked in these cases? Was root obtained through an OS bug? I'm pretty sure this is an application issue - if Apache is improperly setup on linux, the same configuration will still be improper on BSD.
There really is only one solution to this problem, and management types like you just don't want to hear it: MORE FUCKING MONEY. Money buys experienced staff and training. These staff are what will keep your systems secure, not some magic software patch.
the mobiles then use a 128 bit key
I see your Schwar[t]z is as big as mine!
I don't think I've seen anyone who's seen all of Star Trek and doesn't think that Voyager was the worst of them all. It certainly doesn't compare to TNG and DS9, because those were thinking shows.
- around-no-matter-what-the-cost episodes into doubles or trilogies - there's only so much one can do in an hour (~40 minutes really). After that, they're out of enemy space and no longer an issue. There were only a few races in Voy that were capable of keeping up with or passing Voy, which is why the borg were relied on so much - they had the conduits. Everyone else was left behind in their own space.
You ruined the entire series for yourself, so if you want someone to blame look in the mirror. Take Voyager for what it is, and stop comparing it to the others.
Excessive 'thinking' is a waste of the entire Star Trek universe. It is the future - and the future is about new tech, toys and places, not the same old political crap that goes on today. If I want reality I can go out in the Big Blue Room. This is sci-fi. Fiction. BULLSHIT. If you want to over analyse, go debug some code.
Fuckin' hell - people think I'm uptight.
Voyager abandoned all of this. The only concerted effort to maintain a story arc, with Voyager and the Kazons, was abandoned three seasons into the show. The rest of the series was just isolated episodes
Like TOS? DS9 are just campers... they found 'emselves a high-traffic spot and pitched a tent. It's not terribly hard to keep a story line going when you're not going anywhere. Voyager is on the move, discovering brave new worlds and all that shit. The most possible would be to extend those Janeway-wants-to-go-straight-thru-enemy-space-not
Voyager also abandoned continuity by completely forgetting about their limits on shuttles and photon torpedoes
OK, I'm not going to fabricate excuses.. but I'm sure more goes on on a starship than what makes an episode. Doing deals with arms traders makes for some easy and obvious plots, but it's not exactly true to the spirit of Starfleet.
they didn't come up with a witty solution like in TNG
There's only so much 'wit' can do... unless said wit leads to cool new techs, or variations on existing ones. Sooner or later you're going to need equal/better tech or you'll just get your butt kicked. Game Over.
they just inverted a new particle, or pulse, or weapon. This formula was used in 90% of the shows, including the finale
I have to agree it was excessive.. but I'll take excessive technobabble over psychobabble any day.. this is the future after all.
The Enterprise solved that with intelligent characters outwitting the Borg systems (Data "hacks" in), not powerful uber-weapons.
Maybe he could upload them a virus off the Mac in the ship's museum? If you applied your own bullshit-detection algorithms to this as you used before then you should come up with the same 'yeah, right' conclusion. Ah, but you LIKE this series, so the BS detectors are only on half power.
The largest continuity issue with the Voyager finale was that they were able to take a transwarp conduit right home to Earth
They cheated.. that pisses me off. But lots of stories end with the hero dying or other unfavorable ending... learn to live with it. This isn't a holodeck - YOU do not write the story.
The Borg are no longer menacing; they're weak and stupid.
I think they've always has a darlek (sp?) quality about them.. supposed uber-baddies, yet.. why not just.. RUN AWAY!? I think this queen bitch fucked em - they were probably stong at one point, then this ego maniac managed to separate from the collective (unamatrix 0 style) and try to run em.
There's little chance of another future series
That's a shame. I don't know much (or really anything) about the next series, but it's going to have to be overflowing with this 'thinking' shit because there's nothing else going for it.
All the cool new toys have been done in future episodes, so not only do we know what they are, we know what they DON'T HAVE. There's only so many oops-crashed-the-shuttle-into-the-planet-again episodes I can take before I start wishing for transporters.
We've seen the Klingons and whatnot, AND how it turns out. All that's left are conflicts with minor empires that either fold or become our allies quickly. Any long running conflicts would need to have been in past episodes, otherwise we run into that continuity issue you keep bringing up.
The only possible positive is the Kirk era fuck-the-Directive mentality... hoonin' about the quadrant kickin' butt. That would suit me fine. However I recall Kirk's Enterprise getting whipped and destroyed almost as often as not when attacked. I'm sure before shields are invented (given to them by God according to your logic - some magic that allows them to get shot and not depressurise instantly) they'll be avoiding conflict. I'm sure not all races invent space travel at the same time Earth did, so would probably be either more advanced and dominate, or be just starting out and be easily overpowered with little more than a nasty look.
I can just tell it's going to be mostly drawn out policical and 'character building' crap.. making allies, etc. And I know I'm going to get really tired of the Vulcans (our first contact, and who aren't bent on destroying us).
Sorry, I didn't realise Microsoft filed for bankrupcy and *BSD took control of the desktop.
So you're saying all Cisco and Microsoft (or even Linux) users can take a few minutes to install v6 on their current hardware/OS and have everything working just fine?
Didn't think so.
At 32 bit color, with 8 bits per channel
Except in Quake, where all 32bits are reserved for Brown.
It's nice when they make it easy for you
/.'ers, etc. about security by obscurity, closed/proprietary protocols, etc.
If they didn't I'm sure they'd get many angry emails from
That's because the ACCC is the consumer watchdog, protecting consumers within the limits of the current laws, as opposed to politicians which change laws in order to secure votes from every special interest group they can dig up.
IMO, that's too fuckin' bad.. when I hear of multimillion dollar takings in a single weekend, I don't see how they can stand there and whinge about making a few extra reels of film... they could even distribute it in digital format and be done with film (keep film for the studio).