Well, for my money, anyone who blindly clicks on a link.... FTP or HTTP and runs an executable that comes from it is going to get infected regardless of what protocol was used for it.
The fact that a lot of gateways prevent certain actions based on the protocol just makes the "any key" users blindly click on stuff without worry - after all, they've "got protection"
When it comes to any infection vector that involves social engineering, your brain (should you choose to use it) is your best virus protection.
I don't know where you live, but I've got exactly two choices where I live.... the local cable company, and the local phone company. Of the two, I would rather MOVE then pay the local idiot phone co for one of their craptastic DSL "never on" connections. So, if my cable co doesn't offer IPv6, I either stay with IPv4 or I move. What a lovely choice.
It seems to me that the moment that organized crime found a way to make money off security vulnerabilities (Spam, ID theft, Ransomware, etc...) the writing was pretty much on the wall (though I'm still trying to figure out what it says). It kind of reminds me of William Gibson's cyberspace: a free-for-all, hostile environment where it was pretty much up to individual users / corporations / governments / whatever to protect themselves through whatever means necessary.
There are an awful lot of folks out there (many who were members of that church at one time) who have made some very serious allegations of cult-type activities. I do not presume to know what is going on one way or another, but my gut instinct is to agree that this particular religion is quite a bit more dangerous than your garden variety crackpots.
Google around for "Operation Clambake" and/or "scientology cult".
Just my opinion, I make no claims or allegations. (The fact that I felt the need to say that should in and of itself tell you something)
Right now the Legal System is just hanging in there like a Badly Spyware infected Wuindows XP installation.
Windows 3.1 = Magna Carta Windows 95 = Constituion Windows 98 = Bill orights Windows ME = Dred Scott Case Windows 2000 = Amendments to Constitution Windows XP = Judicial Precendent
*/
In that case:
Windows Vista = Post-911 / Homeland Security Paranoia and FUD
Seriously. It feels as if there is more abuse of the law and of our rights since 9/11, The whole system is a giant elephant in the room, but very few politicians have the guts to actually admit that they've noticed it - probably because they're afraid that the first one to point it out will be given a shovel and told that since they mentioned it, they can clean up after it.
"If they *did* make a hackproof game, only a few people would play it and it would fail financially"
Not trying to get personal or troll here, but I completely disagree with you... in order for your statement to be true, this would suggest that the vast majority of MMORPG players were using hacks/cheats.
Now, if you consider a web site that has maps or quest data to be a cheat, or if you consider those who use add-ons and UI Mods (legal ones) as part of that category, then yeah, I know very few fellow Warcraft players who don't run at least a few mods or occasionally check one of the sites like thottbot, wowwiki, wowhead, alakazam, wowplotter, etc...
Still, I think when you say "hackproof" (at least how it comes across to me) you're talking about exploits and bots and other items that are against the TOS of the given game, and I just can't agree with that kind of blanket statement.
I can see using YouTube for finding "don't taze me bro" or "Star Wars Kid" or any number of other entertaining or interesting bits of ephemera, but seriously, if you're getting your health information from YouTube, you need to be seeing a MENTAL HEALTH expert.
Let's see... someone has a drug conviction, does their time, and decides to clean up their act and get a degree to become a more productive member of society: "Oh, sorry, you got convicted for a drug offence, you can't go to school - just go back to chasing that high or dealing that dope - you're worthless for anything else."
Now, we can take otherwise law-abiding folks, throw THEM in jail for a little file sharing (cummon, you know the entertainment industry would LOVE a "war on piracy"), then deny them the ability to get a degree and thus have a chance at a decent job (where they could AFFORD to buy lots of music in the future).
BRILLIANT! wow, we really CAN recreate the worst of medieval feudalism in America. Combine this with all the terror watch lists and domestic surveilance, and we can make it have an East German Cold-war feel too!
Forgive me for replying like this, but I'm just having a really hard time believing that any company could be THAT backward. If true, that would be the most oppressive "product prevention department" that's ever existed.
I agree. It's always a hoot though when something like this gets mislabeled at the factory. I recently bought a new shop vac and for some odd reason, the | and 0 labeled positions do exactly the opposite of what I'd expect... if the big horking switch's "|" is pressed, (se-sawing the "0" up), I'd EXPECT that to turn it on, and vice versa. However, the switch shroud must have been put on backward, because I have to press "0" to turn it on and "|" to turn it off.
This isn't so hard to work out because it's ever so loud when plugged in and turned on... dead giveaway and all that.
However, I'm so programmed as to the meaning of | and 0 on a switch that I often forget and end up plugging in the vacuum while it's actually set to on. The usual hilarity of the big sucky end immediately attaching itself to whatever happens to be nearby (sheets of paper, small dogs, big angry dogs, etc...) is somewhat lost on me like a tired joke I've heard one too many times.
"there's just something about Zope and Plone that I find difficult to grok"
Zope and Plone have notoriously steep learning curves... in fact, my former boss said they were more like cliffs or mountains than curves.
For me, the key to success was to take a bit of time to learn Python. If you can "think in Python" suddenly Zope and Plone make a lot more sense. The Zope Object DataBase (ZODB) is essentially just a big collection of Python objects, so using Python can give you a lot more precise control over just about everything in the environment.
Unfortunately, if you have a web page that sells stuff, and your competitors find ways of making their sites more interesting to those search engines, you lose business to them. So, while in theory, you've got a point... the harsh reality is that if you don't optimize for the search engines, you will miss business.
Honestly, if everyone followed all the RFCs for email and didn't adapt, spam would probably bring everything to a grinding halt. As it is, with countermeasures and counter-countermeasures in an escalating spiral in the "spam wars", I sometimes marvel that email even still works at all.
Granted, security through obscurity isn't really effective, but why should they bother telling spammers how small to make their batches in order to get things through? Make the bastards work a little bit.
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Well, for my money, anyone who blindly clicks on a link.... FTP or HTTP and runs an executable that comes from it is going to get infected regardless of what protocol was used for it.
The fact that a lot of gateways prevent certain actions based on the protocol just makes the "any key" users blindly click on stuff without worry - after all, they've "got protection"
When it comes to any infection vector that involves social engineering, your brain (should you choose to use it) is your best virus protection.
Actually, I believe Mit Romney already did that to us in Massachusetts
Basically, if you don't buy insurance, they fine you... GET ME OUTTA THIS STATE... AND DON'T DO IT TO THE WHOLE COUNTRY
That may just be the most rational and insightful post on religion I've ever read.
Thank you.
I don't know where you live, but I've got exactly two choices where I live.... the local cable company, and the local phone company. Of the two, I would rather MOVE then pay the local idiot phone co for one of their craptastic DSL "never on" connections. So, if my cable co doesn't offer IPv6, I either stay with IPv4 or I move. What a lovely choice.
It seems to me that the moment that organized crime found a way to make money off security vulnerabilities (Spam, ID theft, Ransomware, etc...) the writing was pretty much on the wall (though I'm still trying to figure out what it says). It kind of reminds me of William Gibson's cyberspace: a free-for-all, hostile environment where it was pretty much up to individual users / corporations / governments / whatever to protect themselves through whatever means necessary.
Welcome to the wild, wild net.
I think you're missing something.
There are an awful lot of folks out there (many who were members of that church at one time) who have made some very serious allegations of cult-type activities. I do not presume to know what is going on one way or another, but my gut instinct is to agree that this particular religion is quite a bit more dangerous than your garden variety crackpots.
Google around for "Operation Clambake" and/or "scientology cult".
Just my opinion, I make no claims or allegations. (The fact that I felt the need to say that should in and of itself tell you something)
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Right now the Legal System is just hanging in there like a Badly Spyware infected Wuindows XP installation.
Windows 3.1 = Magna Carta
Windows 95 = Constituion
Windows 98 = Bill orights
Windows ME = Dred Scott Case
Windows 2000 = Amendments to Constitution
Windows XP = Judicial Precendent
*/
In that case:
Windows Vista = Post-911 / Homeland Security Paranoia and FUD
Seriously. It feels as if there is more abuse of the law and of our rights since 9/11, The whole system is a giant elephant in the room, but very few politicians have the guts to actually admit that they've noticed it - probably because they're afraid that the first one to point it out will be given a shovel and told that since they mentioned it, they can clean up after it.
Oh, and the emperor - he has no clothes either.
Goodwin's Law ... FTL!
Nice idea, but there's something just so ... sexy about it being a giant robot arm.
I like the vision-control guidance system too. Some MAJOR geek points in all of that in my book.
I was kind of feeling the same thing... Really felt like an infomercial.
I didn't have too much of a problem with the topics, but the way he gives credit to his books for changing the security world? PLEASE!
Can anyone say Narcissism? (I'm not sure if I can even spell it) Ok, how about a side helping of hubris? mmm. Mix with [troll sweat] and simmer.
"If they *did* make a hackproof game, only a few people would play it and it would fail financially"
Not trying to get personal or troll here, but I completely disagree with you... in order for your statement to be true, this would suggest that the vast majority of MMORPG players were using hacks/cheats.
Now, if you consider a web site that has maps or quest data to be a cheat, or if you consider those who use add-ons and UI Mods (legal ones) as part of that category, then yeah, I know very few fellow Warcraft players who don't run at least a few mods or occasionally check one of the sites like thottbot, wowwiki, wowhead, alakazam, wowplotter, etc...
Still, I think when you say "hackproof" (at least how it comes across to me) you're talking about exploits and bots and other items that are against the TOS of the given game, and I just can't agree with that kind of blanket statement.
I can see using YouTube for finding "don't taze me bro" or "Star Wars Kid" or any number of other entertaining or interesting bits of ephemera, but seriously, if you're getting your health information from YouTube, you need to be seeing a MENTAL HEALTH expert.
You know, you have a point...
Let's see... someone has a drug conviction, does their time, and decides to clean up their act and get a degree to become a more productive member of society: "Oh, sorry, you got convicted for a drug offence, you can't go to school - just go back to chasing that high or dealing that dope - you're worthless for anything else."
Now, we can take otherwise law-abiding folks, throw THEM in jail for a little file sharing (cummon, you know the entertainment industry would LOVE a "war on piracy"), then deny them the ability to get a degree and thus have a chance at a decent job (where they could AFFORD to buy lots of music in the future).
BRILLIANT! wow, we really CAN recreate the worst of medieval feudalism in America. Combine this with all the terror watch lists and domestic surveilance, and we can make it have an East German Cold-war feel too!
~sigh~
Forgive me for replying like this, but I'm just having a really hard time believing that any company could be THAT backward. If true, that would be the most oppressive "product prevention department" that's ever existed.
I agree. It's always a hoot though when something like this gets mislabeled at the factory. I recently bought a new shop vac and for some odd reason, the | and 0 labeled positions do exactly the opposite of what I'd expect... if the big horking switch's "|" is pressed, (se-sawing the "0" up), I'd EXPECT that to turn it on, and vice versa. However, the switch shroud must have been put on backward, because I have to press "0" to turn it on and "|" to turn it off.
This isn't so hard to work out because it's ever so loud when plugged in and turned on... dead giveaway and all that.
However, I'm so programmed as to the meaning of | and 0 on a switch that I often forget and end up plugging in the vacuum while it's actually set to on. The usual hilarity of the big sucky end immediately attaching itself to whatever happens to be nearby (sheets of paper, small dogs, big angry dogs, etc...) is somewhat lost on me like a tired joke I've heard one too many times.
Darwin's having a good chuckle for himself... guess he's finally gotten over being pissed off about those Intelligent Design idiots.
"there's just something about Zope and Plone that I find difficult to grok"
Zope and Plone have notoriously steep learning curves... in fact, my former boss said they were more like cliffs or mountains than curves.
For me, the key to success was to take a bit of time to learn Python. If you can "think in Python" suddenly Zope and Plone make a lot more sense. The Zope Object DataBase (ZODB) is essentially just a big collection of Python objects, so using Python can give you a lot more precise control over just about everything in the environment.
I think you're on to something there...
Wish I had some mod points cuz that's +1 insightful
That whole "taking time, trying to HELP them, only to find that it was a wasted effort" thing would piss me off too.
:)
Guess they should have used TEXT instead of VARCHAR(255).
And they degrade imperceptibly every time you play them, so that over time, they wear out from use...
PROFIT!
Who the F*** lets pays these asshats to come up with such useless drivel. It makes me wanna $*&*#*# swear. Oh, nevermind, I feel better now.
In other news: breathing makes you live.
Unfortunately, if you have a web page that sells stuff, and your competitors find ways of making their sites more interesting to those search engines, you lose business to them. So, while in theory, you've got a point... the harsh reality is that if you don't optimize for the search engines, you will miss business.
:)
From the "Sad, but true" department.
Maybe if we translated the sentence into Japanese, it would make more sense.
Either way, too bad you didn't grab a screenshot so you could submit it to www.engrish.com
I for one welcome our gramatically confused M$ Overlords*
*not really
Honestly, if everyone followed all the RFCs for email and didn't adapt, spam would probably bring everything to a grinding halt. As it is, with countermeasures and counter-countermeasures in an escalating spiral in the "spam wars", I sometimes marvel that email even still works at all.
Granted, security through obscurity isn't really effective, but why should they bother telling spammers how small to make their batches in order to get things through? Make the bastards work a little bit.
Wow, I've gotten cynical.
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