You seem to forget that telephone records are subpoenaed all the time in criminal investigations. I just hope governments at least get the search warrant.
Likely this kind of operation (TOR), with of course no records of traffic to turn over to police, must have at least the logs seized if that's where the investigations lead police.
The police should do their best to minimize disruption my getting a forensic mirror of all the drives, retuning all non-relevant hardware, and giving TOR an image of the data.
This is the solution. You will never be able to keep data from remaining on the HDD. So, a live CD like Knoppix--my choice would be MEPIS or Ubuntu--is a much better bet. You could also use the VMware player and install an OS, then wipe the.vmdk file before it goes back to the IT people. (Other wiping may be needed if indeed it's pr0n you're keeping hidden.) With VMware I'd use an encrypted file system.
According to this article BlueSecurity is the target of a DoS attack.
Also, here's their explanation of the spammer's countermeasure:
This sounds scary, but it's not as bad as it sounds. Blue Security's email address registry remains secure contrary to what this spammer would have you believe. The way subscribers' emails were obtained was by checking the spammer's own list of emails against the Do Not Intrude registry. Normally spammers will get the emails of those who subscribe returned to them and will then remove those emails from their spamming lists. This one, however, has taken another approach. Instead of taking those hits off of his spam lists, he is sending them these intimidating emails.
Makes sense to me, and explains why only BlueSecurity users are getting the emails.
Ruhmors abound of a 700p ("p" for Palm) coming to Sprint.
Also, this was in today's news:
[Roy] Bedlow also said that the company would push on with its plans to develop products based on Windows Mobile OS, as well as its own Palm OS. It would also work with Good Technology, RIM for its Blackberry client and with Microsoft's ActiveSync as it makes mobile email it priority.
Oh for an edit button! Knoppix is OK, but what my addled brain was trying to type was Mepis (http://www.mepis.com/, http://www.mepis.org/) which I prefer over Knoppix, especially if I'm actually going to install it on the HDD.
I agree. Also, who says vapid mass-media outlets are the way to go? Cerainly there are a large number of shallow, annoying blogs. Then again, there are a large number of shallow, annoying people.
I continue to be impressed, however, by the number of interesting people who write online journals about all kinds of things. Just because you aren't interested in X doesn't mean no one is.
Also, there's something to be said for the act of writing itself. Writing well is difficult—it forces you to think. Writing about something helps you learn.
I had a really old account but can't remember the name and the hosting company I had my email account with (goodnet.com) tanked in the late 90's. Maybe in my spare time I'll troll through UIDs now that I know it's worth money on eBay.
This ties in to the fork surpassing the parent. From the SSH corporate website:
- Net sales reported for January - June totaled EUR 2.8 million, down 33.1 percent year on year (EUR 4.2 million in Q1-Q2/2004). [...]
- Operating loss was EUR 3.5 million (Q1-Q2/2004: a loss of EUR 3.8 million).
Or or could be the insane roaming charges. Yes, your phone works everywhere, but if you're SIM is from a German carrier and you drive a few hours to Austra, suddenly you're paying 2 euro a minute. No wonder SMS (at.50 per message) is used more often.
Also, if you call a cell phone in Europe, expect to pay at least.20 per minute more on *your* bill.
Many things are right in Europe (phone works everywhere and the SIM card moves your service and numbers to a new phone), but the pricing structure stinks compared to U.S. plans.
Interesting. I have some handheld radios that put out as much as 5W. Sometimes I swear I feel an effect after transmitting for a while, like a slight light-headed feeling.
Anyone else notice this? It's a different area of the RF spectrum (800MhZ is probably the highest), but public safety people use high powered radios all the time. Any epidemiological studies on them? (I remember there being some talk about radar guns and brain cancer some time ago.)
I doubt that a domestic agency would go to that kind of risk with an amateur like this guy. More likely they'll make him cooperate with any ongoing investigations as a condition of his plea and testify against any new defendants at trial. The better term is "snitch," or more politely "cooperating witness."
In fact, if you RTFA you'd find he hasn't even accepted the plea offer yet, but probably will given that he's facing a ton of jail time.
The same source also offers an explanation for the secrecy surrounding the case: the Secret Service, the source says, has offered to put the hacker to work, pleading him out to a single felony, then enlisting him to catch other computer criminals in the same manner in which he himself was caught. The source says that Jacobsen, facing the prospect of prison time, is favorably considering the offer.
One area where a DSLR would be well worth it is in capturing action. The A70 makes very good photos, but it's slow to start up and there's a lot of delay between pressing the shutter release and actually taking a picture. You can mitigate this by half-pressing the shutter release to pre-focus/meter, but that's a problem with a moving subject (like a toddler!). You end up with a lot of eyes-closed-missed-the-cute-moment photos.
Second issue: on camera flash is evil. Only a few compact cameras give you a hotshoe. DSLR's will give way better flash results with their bounce flash/diffuser capability. Almost every flash picture I have yields terrible red-eye. Photoshop Album can generally fix this, but not all the time. Even without red eye, you generally get a sterile, harshly lit result.
I think these are the two most significant shortcoming of the digital P&S camera.
[BTW -- I do recommend the A70 & up cameras. For the price they're quite good.]
Joined D2S on 12 Apr 2004 Total messages received: 16024 Messages classified as good: 3152 19.67% Messages classified as spam: 12710 79.32% Messages classified as a virus: 14 0.09% Messages not classified (unsure): 148 0.92% Unsure email re-classified as good: 24 0.15% Unsure email re-classified as spam: 105 0.66% Good email mis-classified as spam (FP): 2 0.01% Spam email mis-classified as good (FN): 108 0.67% Spam and good classification accuracy: 98.66%
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Hold you in civil contempt and put you in jail. Do you remember Judith Miller?
Especially since mp3s will not compress anyway.
You seem to forget that telephone records are subpoenaed all the time in criminal investigations. I just hope governments at least get the search warrant.
Likely this kind of operation (TOR), with of course no records of traffic to turn over to police, must have at least the logs seized if that's where the investigations lead police.
The police should do their best to minimize disruption my getting a forensic mirror of all the drives, retuning all non-relevant hardware, and giving TOR an image of the data.
I fail to see why the parent was modded flamebait. I found it informative, though perhaps off-topic.
Oh, and as others mentioned, do not use the office LAN (or VPN) for anything private (unless you SSH tunnel out of the corporate network first).
This is the solution. You will never be able to keep data from remaining on the HDD. So, a live CD like Knoppix--my choice would be MEPIS or Ubuntu--is a much better bet. You could also use the VMware player and install an OS, then wipe the .vmdk file before it goes back to the IT people. (Other wiping may be needed if indeed it's pr0n you're keeping hidden.) With VMware I'd use an encrypted file system.
According to this article BlueSecurity is the target of a DoS attack.
Also, here's their explanation of the spammer's countermeasure:
Makes sense to me, and explains why only BlueSecurity users are getting the emails.
Although Shadowmite has since moved to the Windows-based PPC-6700.
Also look at http://www.mepis.org/. Nicely done distro!
As I said in another thread, MEPIS is a really well designed distro that installs from a live-CD.
http://www.mepis.com/
http://www.mepis.org/
Oh for an edit button! Knoppix is OK, but what my addled brain was trying to type was Mepis (http://www.mepis.com/, http://www.mepis.org/) which I prefer over Knoppix, especially if I'm actually going to install it on the HDD.
Try KNOPPIX http://www.knoppix.com/, http://www.knoppix.org/. The live-CD is great and it installs like a champ.
Busted!!
I agree. Also, who says vapid mass-media outlets are the way to go? Cerainly there are a large number of shallow, annoying blogs. Then again, there are a large number of shallow, annoying people.
I continue to be impressed, however, by the number of interesting people who write online journals about all kinds of things. Just because you aren't interested in X doesn't mean no one is.
Also, there's something to be said for the act of writing itself. Writing well is difficult—it forces you to think. Writing about something helps you learn.
I will concede that the word “blog” is ugly.
I had a really old account but can't remember the name and the hosting company I had my email account with (goodnet.com) tanked in the late 90's. Maybe in my spare time I'll troll through UIDs now that I know it's worth money on eBay.
http://www.ssh.com/company/newsroom/article/663/
Or or could be the insane roaming charges. Yes, your phone works everywhere, but if you're SIM is from a German carrier and you drive a few hours to Austra, suddenly you're paying 2 euro a minute. No wonder SMS (at .50 per message) is used more often.
.20 per minute more on *your* bill.
Also, if you call a cell phone in Europe, expect to pay at least
Many things are right in Europe (phone works everywhere and the SIM card moves your service and numbers to a new phone), but the pricing structure stinks compared to U.S. plans.
Interesting. I have some handheld radios that put out as much as 5W. Sometimes I swear I feel an effect after transmitting for a while, like a slight light-headed feeling.
Anyone else notice this? It's a different area of the RF spectrum (800MhZ is probably the highest), but public safety people use high powered radios all the time. Any epidemiological studies on them? (I remember there being some talk about radar guns and brain cancer some time ago.)
It is a good link, just need to fix the space inserted by Slash.
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http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4li
Mod parent AC up. This is a good link.
I doubt that a domestic agency would go to that kind of risk with an amateur like this guy. More likely they'll make him cooperate with any ongoing investigations as a condition of his plea and testify against any new defendants at trial. The better term is "snitch," or more politely "cooperating witness."
In fact, if you RTFA you'd find he hasn't even accepted the plea offer yet, but probably will given that he's facing a ton of jail time.
My guess is that http://sentencing.typepad.com/sentencing_law_and_p olicy/2005/01/scotus_speaks_e.html Booker/FanFan will delay any sentencing in this case (and many other federal criminal cases).
I have a Canon A70 which I like a lot.
One area where a DSLR would be well worth it is in capturing action. The A70 makes very good photos, but it's slow to start up and there's a lot of delay between pressing the shutter release and actually taking a picture. You can mitigate this by half-pressing the shutter release to pre-focus/meter, but that's a problem with a moving subject (like a toddler!). You end up with a lot of eyes-closed-missed-the-cute-moment photos.
Second issue: on camera flash is evil. Only a few compact cameras give you a hotshoe. DSLR's will give way better flash results with their bounce flash/diffuser capability. Almost every flash picture I have yields terrible red-eye. Photoshop Album can generally fix this, but not all the time. Even without red eye, you generally get a sterile, harshly lit result.
I think these are the two most significant shortcoming of the digital P&S camera.
[BTW -- I do recommend the A70 & up cameras. For the price they're quite good.]
Another glaring omission: http://death2spam.net/. Very effective (almost 99% for me).
My stats (as of the time of this post):
http://www.emedicine.com/MED/topic31.htm
Prognosis:
* When actinomycosis is diagnosed early and treated with appropriate antibiotic therapy, the prognosis is excellent.
* The more advanced and complicated actinomycotic forms require aggressive antibiotic and surgical therapy for optimal outcome; however, deaths can occur despite such therapy.