For those who are familiar with SEO (search engine optimization); does this mean that you can be linked to from a linkfarm and then linkback to the linkfarm with this new tag, and your site will not be punished ?
Interesting question, being an old-timer i remember crews like Fairlight and Razor 1911 best for their demos in the late 80s and early 90s. The question is if these guys are the same guys or even a legitimate division of the original crew. I remember Razor had boards back in the day, but to my best knowledge the whole crew was founded in the demoscene by gius like Sector 9 and Dr No.
On request whether Google gets subpoenas for giving out personal information:
"Google does not comment on the details of legal matters involving Google," Mr. Brin responded.
This is most interesting, and one can only assume that since they're US based, at some point they will/can be forced to give out data for crossreferencing Gov't databases. Imagine [insert gov't agency here] gets hold of the IP-address of [insert (suspected unamerican/criminal/terrorist) person here] they can easily extract profiling information on the individual.
Does Knoppix have this, and do you think it's a dangerous addition, making Linux seem even more hacker friendly than it is?
In fact, Knoppix would have to be the closest thing to a "security distro" you can get your hands on;
First, you can use the elsewhere mentioned CHNTPW floppydisk to reset the sam database in NT and W2K on FAT32 and NTFS.
Secondly, a Knoppix CD is lethal in the hands of a skilled cracker, Knoppix sport a slew set of savvy tools bundled which could present it as "(cr|h)acker friendly":
john the ripper (passwordcracker w/NTLM patch)
Nessus Vulnerability Scanner
Ethereal packetsniffer
ettercap MITM tool(lets you sniff on switches too, via arp-cache poisoning)
nmap 3.0 portscanner
netcat (reverse connections, among others)
The CD also provides an excellent read-only medium for doing forensics on compromised systems.
I have been using Knoppix in securityeducation for about 3 months and have got nothing but positive reactions from even the most entrenched Microsoft techies. It comes with the latest and greatest KDE desktop which looks totally cool to the sh challenged, with GUI interfaces for most popular packages. Heck, the CD even comes bundled with 2 GB of executable software on a compressed filesystem. I got nothing but respect for Knopper and his distro, it's truly a piece of craftmanship.
The person who actually switched from Mac to XP has been identified. Even Microsoft with it's fluffy advertising campaigns realize that this is just too unlikely, maybe even a blatant lie, and demands that the person in question be reprimanded for cheating and lying and promoting bad businesspractices.
I figure once they're used to Mozilla and AbiWord under WinXP, a Linux partition would be less daunting.
I am running courses in security using the excellent Knoppix Live Linux-on-CD, which requires no installation, you just boot on the CD into a smooth KDE 3 interface, OpenOffice, XMMS, Xine media player, Mozilla, Konqueror, Galeon and another approximately 2 GB worth of OS software. At first, Windows users are impressed by the feat itself, then they discover they can reach data on the Windows partition. Then they start questioning what Windows gives them that Linux cannot give them on the desktop. IT WORKS!
Is there a new "blackhat" 0day exploit circulating that never appeared on Bugtraq ?
This is the second time the obsd-team is being targetted by hackers unknown, the first time with an unexpected exploit in Apache with a followup-0wning of monkey.org and subsequent backdooring of the dsniff/fragrouter sources (which i'm sure everybody knows about by now), and now the OpenSSH sources gets backdoored, and somebody in the obsd-team will vigourosly defend their honor and will claim that some local exploit was used to gain access. C'mon, i'm sure these security-minded people will have their system secure...
echo r00t::0:0:0wned:/root:/bin/bash fits in one packet.
Indeed. However, no sane people are using telnet anyways, and if you try to spoof ssh you will have to spoof the crypto as well, which is not feasible (unless it's SSLv1). There are quite a few tools out there you can use for testing your vulnerability to this; dsniff, hunt, ettercap etc. etc. mind you need to be on the same subnet.
They all love wacky names! rain forest puppy, aleph1, the pull, and what not. However, if Ransom H. Love IS his real name, i wonder what the H stands for;)
I forgot to mention pop-up blocker and IM-functionality. Don't know if you can turn on/off javascript/browsers/navigatorID with a shortcut (that would be nice).
I first saw Mozilla 1.0 today, seems like they stole (some of) the good features from Opera. Attaching G to google bookmark with %s input is Opera-style. Tabs is Opera. Mousegestures is Opera.
The RIAA also has copyright suits pending against Napster, StreamCast Networks and its Morpheus software, Amsterdam-based Kazaa BV, West Indies-based Grokster, MP3Board and Madster (formerly known as Aimster).
A) I choose to use what i like. Vi is not exactly intuitive with it's cryptic keycombos. I'd rather use my creativity and learningskills to learn something that i actually am i able to grok. This particular software was one of my first encounters when starting to learn linux. I quickly learned that pico was much more intuitive, so i stuck with that for a while, as it supported all my needs at that point. Now, after groking linux to some extent I moved on to learning about FreeBSD, and i always had the opportunity of cd'ing into/usr/ports/editors/pico/;make;make install;
completely avoiding reinventing the wheel or even relearning the basics, if you will.
If it works, stick with it.
B) My "learning" curve, as you refer to it, does not always hit a brick wall. Sometimes it does, which puts me in a situation where i choose to either:
1) continue using that piece of software, forcing myself to learn it, even tho i'd rather spend my time doing something that i enjoy.
It took me several years to actually learn to use Vi(m). How many people actually uses Vim and knows more than how to insert characters delete a line or a character here and there and save the miserable output from this horrid piece of software ?
msn.com.br looks much like msn.com "new" design. It even lets in my Opera browser AND (surprise, surprise) it even renders perfectly with their little "slashboxes" and all...
Fuck it, most of the redesign of MSN was converting to CSS. Haakon Wium Lie, the inventor of CSS even works for Opera Software. How's that for poetic justice ?
Slashdot Mirror
can be found on this site here:
/ globalization/goldenShieldEng.html
http://www.ichrdd.ca/english/commdoc/publications
this is truly some 1984'esque reading
For those who are familiar with SEO (search engine optimization); does this mean that you can be linked to from a linkfarm and then linkback to the linkfarm with this new tag, and your site will not be punished ?
Interesting question, being an old-timer i remember crews like Fairlight and Razor 1911 best for their demos in the late 80s and early 90s. The question is if these guys are the same guys or even a legitimate division of the original crew. I remember Razor had boards back in the day, but to my best knowledge the whole crew was founded in the demoscene by gius like Sector 9 and Dr No.
you made it! you are a Winner!
Darling McBride
More likely, Microsoft wrote the original MSBlaster worm, after all the code was amateurish and had serious bugs
What exactly are the protocols 53,55,77, 103 and where can i read up on them ?
url is not working
On request whether Google gets subpoenas for giving out personal information:
"Google does not comment on the details of legal matters involving Google," Mr. Brin responded.
This is most interesting, and one can only assume that since they're US based, at some point they will/can be forced to give out data for crossreferencing Gov't databases. Imagine [insert gov't agency here] gets hold of the IP-address of [insert (suspected unamerican/criminal/terrorist) person here] they can easily extract profiling information on the individual.
Scary
I don't subscribe to this.
Commence copy/paste acrobatics (Karma whoring)!
In fact, Knoppix would have to be the closest thing to a "security distro" you can get your hands on;
First, you can use the elsewhere mentioned CHNTPW floppydisk to reset the sam database in NT and W2K on FAT32 and NTFS.
Secondly, a Knoppix CD is lethal in the hands of a skilled cracker, Knoppix sport a slew set of savvy tools bundled which could present it as "(cr|h)acker friendly":
john the ripper (passwordcracker w/NTLM patch)
Nessus Vulnerability Scanner
Ethereal packetsniffer
ettercap MITM tool(lets you sniff on switches too, via arp-cache poisoning)
nmap 3.0 portscanner
netcat (reverse connections, among others)
The CD also provides an excellent read-only medium for doing forensics on compromised systems.
I have been using Knoppix in securityeducation for about 3 months and have got nothing but positive reactions from even the most entrenched Microsoft techies. It comes with the latest and greatest KDE desktop which looks totally cool to the sh challenged, with GUI interfaces for most popular packages. Heck, the CD even comes bundled with 2 GB of executable software on a compressed filesystem. I got nothing but respect for Knopper and his distro, it's truly a piece of craftmanship.
The person who actually switched from Mac to XP has been identified. Even Microsoft with it's fluffy advertising campaigns realize that this is just too unlikely, maybe even a blatant lie, and demands that the person in question be reprimanded for cheating and lying and promoting bad businesspractices.
You reap what you sow.
I figure once they're used to Mozilla and AbiWord under WinXP, a Linux partition would be less daunting.
I am running courses in security using the excellent Knoppix Live Linux-on-CD, which requires no installation, you just boot on the CD into a smooth KDE 3 interface, OpenOffice, XMMS, Xine media player, Mozilla, Konqueror, Galeon and another approximately 2 GB worth of OS software. At first, Windows users are impressed by the feat itself, then they discover they can reach data on the Windows partition. Then they start questioning what Windows gives them that Linux cannot give them on the desktop. IT WORKS!
No, this is _not_ flamebait, just my 2 cents :-)
Is there a new "blackhat" 0day exploit circulating that never appeared on Bugtraq ?
This is the second time the obsd-team is being targetted by hackers unknown, the first time with an unexpected exploit in Apache with a followup-0wning of monkey.org and subsequent backdooring of the dsniff/fragrouter sources (which i'm sure everybody knows about by now), and now the OpenSSH sources gets backdoored, and somebody in the obsd-team will vigourosly defend their honor and will claim that some local exploit was used to gain access. C'mon, i'm sure these security-minded people will have their system secure...
History keeps repeating itself..
blah blah
echo r00t::0:0:0wned:/root:/bin/bash fits in one packet.
Indeed. However, no sane people are using telnet anyways, and if you try to spoof ssh you will have to spoof the crypto as well, which is not feasible (unless it's SSLv1). There are quite a few tools out there you can use for testing your vulnerability to this; dsniff, hunt, ettercap etc. etc. mind you need to be on the same subnet.
They all love wacky names! rain forest puppy, aleph1, the pull, and what not. However, if Ransom H. Love IS his real name, i wonder what the H stands for ;)
"This is a hostage situation. We demand Ransom."
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oh yeah, zooming too :)
If there are any more features, please tell me.
I forgot to mention pop-up blocker and IM-functionality. Don't know if you can turn on/off javascript/browsers/navigatorID with a shortcut (that would be nice).
I first saw Mozilla 1.0 today, seems like they stole (some of) the good features from Opera. Attaching G to google bookmark with %s input is Opera-style. Tabs is Opera. Mousegestures is Opera.
According to the previously posted link:
The RIAA also has copyright suits pending against Napster, StreamCast Networks and its Morpheus software, Amsterdam-based Kazaa BV, West Indies-based Grokster, MP3Board and Madster (formerly known as Aimster).
So there. Those are obviously next.
Nice troll.
Doesn't most free software, GPL'd or not come with a huge:
This program is provided as is. There is NO warranty, not even for merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, or similar ?
A) I choose to use what i like. Vi is not exactly intuitive with it's cryptic keycombos. I'd rather use my creativity and learningskills to learn something that i actually am i able to grok. This particular software was one of my first encounters when starting to learn linux. I quickly learned that pico was much more intuitive, so i stuck with that for a while, as it supported all my needs at that point. Now, after groking linux to some extent I moved on to learning about FreeBSD, and i always had the opportunity of cd'ing into /usr/ports/editors/pico/;make;make install;
completely avoiding reinventing the wheel or even relearning the basics, if you will.
If it works, stick with it.
B) My "learning" curve, as you refer to it, does not always hit a brick wall. Sometimes it does, which puts me in a situation where i choose to either:
1) continue using that piece of software, forcing myself to learn it, even tho i'd rather spend my time doing something that i enjoy.
or;
2) spend my time doing something that i enjoy.
Hope that sorts things out for ya!
It took me several years to actually learn to use Vi(m). How many people actually uses Vim and knows more than how to insert characters delete a line or a character here and there and save the miserable output from this horrid piece of software ?
msn.com.br looks much like msn.com "new" design. It even lets in my Opera browser AND (surprise, surprise) it even renders perfectly with their little "slashboxes" and all...
Fuck it, most of the redesign of MSN was converting to CSS. Haakon Wium Lie, the inventor of CSS even works for Opera Software. How's that for poetic justice ?
Not that I ever visit msn anyways...