Security company mi2g is fond of telling customers and the media that it has been "collecting data since 1995". This is a clear distortion of facts, made up by combining their current business with the fact the business was originally founded in 1995. However, if you look at their history, you will see that they were not doing security work in 1995 and very likely not collecting attack data. Look at a brief history of mi2g and a cornerstone of their lies: Aside from selling security services and information, their other business is selling automotive information:
http://www.carlounge.com
Carlounge was one of mi2g's original businesses (circa 1996). Started as a message board/portal thingy:
http://web.archive.org/web/19981202050139/carlou ng e.com/setup.htm
They also operated a cheesy search engine called Middle East Information Database Search (MIDAS):
http://web.archive.org/web/19961228023709/midas. mi 2g.com/
At the time, Chairman DK Matai was working on his PhD in "high-performance computing (HPC)" in 1996:
"By integrating state-of-the-art software engineering technology with super computing capability, mi2g is revolutionising the world of eCommerce and for the first time maximising the return from the internet whilst minimising the risk. mi2g software is a London based eRisk management enterprise that is at the leading edge of building secure on-line trading, broking and banking architectures around the world."
At the same time Matai appears to have morphed his academic program. According to this 1999 page, Matai had dropped HPC and was "in the process of submitting his PhD thesis on The Creation and Protection of Online Wealth in Computing at Imperial College (London University)":
Matai's PHD was submitted between 1995-1999 according to one press release. In 2003, there is still no reference to Matai with a PhD title. Looking at one of the sparse references to "Matai + PhD", this March 2003 Complexity Digest quotes Matai w/o a PhD title, while quoting several others as such. I'm sure that if Matai had actually finished the PhD he had been touting, he would have requested credit as such.
mi2g is quite up front about the fact that hey learned everything they know about security from running Carlounge:
"Through the counter-attack techniques developed on mi2g lounges^U, which have 31/2 Million users to protect and grow, the SIPS team is continuously identifying where the emerging weak points are in the threat from the internet and computer dial-in."
E.g. in 1999 mi2g pulled some numbers out of its arse, "There have been over 1,700 serious attacks world-wide in the first half of this year, costing more than 4.3 billion":
Why is this figure important? Checking the Attrition defacement mirror, you will find we recorded 3746 defacements in 1999. Divide by 2 and you get 1837, which is conveniently close to their "over 1,700" number. Given they had no public quotes or evidence of being in the security field, or tracking attacks.. this number is very suspect.
In summary, mi2g has not been in the security industry since 1995. The continued claims of collecting data that far back are unsubstantiated and unverified. DK Matai's insistance of working on a PhD in information security appear to be nothing more than wishful thinking. These are cornerstones of mi2g's claims of being experts in the field, and appear to be lies.
Listen people gore got his arse kicked get the fuck over it.
PS
The West Wing is pure fantasy, yep no fucking Democrat in the white house for 4 more years!!!!
HA HA HA HA
PPS
Just in case you forgot all the Fraud scandals Enron etc happened under the watch of Hillary's bitch in case you forgot, maybe instead of getting blow jobs from Interns he should have kept his eye on the ball, well other than his own.
No matter what you say about him, the software does the business, do i care about management people?
No these are the fuckers that will outsource you in a second, fuck em glad they did not get their fucking stock options.
Oracle is were it is today because it is the best at what it does, did not have to bribe anyone or tell them if they did not use their software, they would be fucked over.
Whatever tyou may say about him, he built a company and a product that shhits over microsofts best and did it because they were the best.
Considering that dur to US suppy Taiwans forces could kick the arse of China, you sir don't know shit.
The reason that the chinese have not invaded is becuase unlike tibet, there is no chance of a surprise attack. the only way they could get their hands on the island is to nuke it, defeating the point somewhat don't you think?
I can't believe it this is exactly what I posted was most likely to have happend, someone sniffed a password and then cracked the machines from within.
Of course this went above the head of the windoze idiots all posting tripe about how linux as just as weak as windows.
By the way yet agin my winxp box has been updated becuase of an IE remote exploit. Fucking piece of shite good thing its only used for games.
If it was a keylogger and gaining access to someones password, then thats just a case of personal secuirty . The ats how they got onto the GNU servers , someone had a keylogger installed on their windows system.
Now if they manged to get though a service to compromise the machine, that would be more worrying. But at least they managed to detect it.
The major international banks where doing this sought of transaction every since the seventies. This is compolete and utter bollocks. This is what happens wehn you allow software patens to exist.
I don't know what its like in the states, but over here in the UK, you get the N-Gage free with a contract!!.
Jesus christ all the people who bought them through a gaming store are fucking morons!!, the idiot gaming press are just counting stores sales because they are such clueless fuckwits that they don't know that most phones are sold with contracts.
Nokia has sold over 500,000 of these to the mobile companies, who subside them to the customers.
Its a fucking movie, good special effects, tight dialogue, did not answer everything but what the hell does.
Jesus christ, I even read one idiot going on about how there was to much kissing, they fucking kissed 3 times in the movie, and fucking adults tend to you fuckwit.
Every fucker in creation going on about how they could have done it better, if so stop whining and go do it or shut the fuck up!!!
Good movie decent and only logical ending, if someone starts harping on about plotholes, tell him to fuck and get a girlfriend you sad fucking tosspot.
Read this link which was in the article, the vilo web browser did what was specified in the paptent before it was granted, but the judge decided that preventing that evidence would have swayed the jury so it was not allowed!?!?! WTF
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.attrition.org/errata/charlatan/mi2g-his tory.html
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. mi 2g.com/
/ /w ww.mi2g.com/
/ /m i2g.com/
/ /m i2g.com/
/ /m i2g.com/
/ /m i2g.com/
Security company mi2g is fond of telling customers and the media that it has been "collecting data since 1995". This is a clear distortion of facts, made up by combining their current business with the fact the business was originally founded in 1995. However, if you look at their history, you will see that they were not doing security work in 1995 and very likely not collecting attack data. Look at a brief history of mi2g and a cornerstone of their lies:
Aside from selling security services and information, their other business is selling automotive information:
http://www.carlounge.com
Carlounge was one of mi2g's original businesses (circa 1996). Started as a message board/portal thingy:
http://web.archive.org/web/19981202050139/carlo
They also operated a cheesy search engine called Middle East Information Database Search (MIDAS):
http://web.archive.org/web/19961228023709/midas
At the time, Chairman DK Matai was working on his PhD in "high-performance computing (HPC)" in 1996:
http://web.archive.org/web/19961219220150/http:
In short, mi2g looked like a wanna-be website/e-commerce development company (motto: Bringing The Web To The World) until about 1999.
Suddenly, mi2g morphed into a "security intelligence provider":
http://web.archive.org/web/19991013062957/http:
"By integrating state-of-the-art software engineering technology with super computing capability, mi2g is revolutionising the world of eCommerce and for the first time maximising the return from the internet whilst minimising the risk. mi2g software is a London based eRisk management enterprise that is at the leading edge of building secure on-line trading, broking and banking architectures around the world."
At the same time Matai appears to have morphed his academic program. According to this 1999 page, Matai had dropped HPC and was "in the process of submitting his PhD thesis on The Creation and Protection of Online Wealth in Computing at Imperial College (London University)":
http://web.archive.org/web/19990422025805/http:
Matai's PHD was submitted between 1995-1999 according to one press release. In 2003, there is still no reference to Matai with a PhD title. Looking at one of the sparse references to "Matai + PhD", this March 2003 Complexity Digest quotes Matai w/o a PhD title, while quoting several others as such. I'm sure that if Matai had actually finished the PhD he had been touting, he would have requested credit as such.
mi2g is quite up front about the fact that hey learned everything they know about security from running Carlounge:
http://web.archive.org/web/19991013062957/http:
"Through the counter-attack techniques developed on mi2g lounges^U, which have 31/2 Million users to protect and grow, the SIPS team is continuously identifying where the emerging weak points are in the threat from the internet and computer dial-in."
E.g. in 1999 mi2g pulled some numbers out of its arse, "There have been over 1,700 serious attacks world-wide in the first half of this year, costing more than 4.3 billion":
http://web.archive.org/web/19991013062957/http:
Why is this figure important? Checking the Attrition defacement mirror, you will find we recorded 3746 defacements in 1999. Divide by 2 and you get 1837, which is conveniently close to their "over 1,700" number. Given they had no public quotes or evidence of being in the security field, or tracking attacks.. this number is very suspect.
In summary, mi2g has not been in the security industry since 1995. The continued claims of collecting data that far back are unsubstantiated and unverified. DK Matai's insistance of working on a PhD in information security appear to be nothing more than wishful thinking. These are cornerstones of mi2g's claims of being experts in the field, and appear to be lies.
Lie my friend, lie!! :)
FIRST AGAIN
Your wrong, and you have been corrected.
Listen people gore got his arse kicked get the fuck over it.
PS
The West Wing is pure fantasy, yep no fucking Democrat in the white house for 4 more years!!!!
HA HA HA HA
PPS
Just in case you forgot all the Fraud scandals Enron etc happened under the watch of Hillary's bitch in case you forgot, maybe instead of getting blow jobs from Interns he should have kept his eye on the ball, well other than his own.
No matter what you say about him, the software does the business, do i care about management people?
No these are the fuckers that will outsource you in a second, fuck em glad they did not get their fucking stock options.
Oracle is were it is today because it is the best at what it does, did not have to bribe anyone or tell them if they did not use their software, they would be fucked over.
Whatever tyou may say about him, he built a company and a product that shhits over microsofts best and did it because they were the best.
Jesus man keep up with the times.
Considering that dur to US suppy Taiwans forces could kick the arse of China, you sir don't know shit.
The reason that the chinese have not invaded is becuase unlike tibet, there is no chance of a surprise attack. the only way they could get their hands on the island is to nuke it, defeating the point somewhat don't you think?
You sir are a plant!!!
The pencil lead trick does not work becuase we use pens fuckwit.
We also have multiple people counting the ballot, and to spoil it you have to do more than write a
line somewhere on the outside.
Plus you'd also have to do this hundreds of times while being watched as you count.
So stopmaking up spurious reasons to defned your assine voting system.
Jesus people everyone else in the fukcing world
uses papaer ballots. They are simple get the
job done and a lot less prone to fraud.
For fucks sake why are you people so fucking stupid!
Fucking India with a population of a billion manages
to do this for fucks sake.
About 400,000 thousand people at least who got them
free with there mobile contracts, well at least in
europe they did.
What kind of moron would go into a store and buy
them at the full retail price, you'd have to be
a complete fuckwit!!!.
Get it through yor fucking skulls, its sold mostly
by the mobile companies, not fucking game stores you
fuckwits...Jesus... get a clue poeple!!!
Complete bollocks, you can create a compatible format just as long as you don't use the method they described.
come on people this is no rocket science.
You use IE, you get what you deserve!!
Nuff Said.
I can't believe it this is exactly what I posted was
most likely to have happend, someone sniffed a
password and then cracked the machines from within.
Of course this went above the head of the windoze idiots all posting tripe about how linux as just
as weak as windows.
By the way yet agin my winxp box has been updated becuase of an IE remote exploit. Fucking piece of shite good thing its only used for games.
I'm sorry its boring poeple, its about fuck all, and in the end ther's not even a face off with the main evil.
Yes this may be the souce of all D&D but its still fucking boring crap.
By the way Liked Matrix 3, better than the second, less than the first.
If it was a keylogger and gaining access to someones password, then thats just a case of personal secuirty . The ats how they got onto the GNU servers , someone had a keylogger installed on their windows system.
Now if they manged to get though a service to compromise the machine, that would be more worrying.
But at least they managed to detect it.
The major international banks where doing this sought of transaction every since the seventies.
This is compolete and utter bollocks. This is what
happens wehn you allow software patens to exist.
I don't know what its like in the states, but over here in the UK, you get the N-Gage free with a contract!!.
Jesus christ all the people who bought them through a gaming store are fucking morons!!, the idiot gaming press are just counting stores sales because they are such clueless fuckwits that they don't know that most phones are sold with contracts.
Nokia has sold over 500,000 of these to the mobile companies, who subside them to the customers.
Jesus people get a fucking clue!!
Its a fucking movie, good special effects, tight dialogue, did not answer everything but what the hell does.
Jesus christ, I even read one idiot going on about how there was to much kissing, they fucking kissed 3 times in the movie, and fucking adults tend to you fuckwit.
Every fucker in creation going on about how they could have done it better, if so stop whining and go do it or shut the fuck up!!!
Good movie decent and only logical ending, if someone starts harping on about plotholes, tell him to fuck and get a girlfriend you sad fucking tosspot.
get a life...jesus single i bet.
10-1 says the lawyers got involved and someone mention the DCMA
Read this link which was in the article,
e .h tml
the vilo web browser did what was specified in the
paptent before it was granted, but the judge decided
that preventing that evidence would have swayed the
jury so it was not allowed!?!?! WTF
http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~wei/viola/violaHom
http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~wei/viola/violaHom