This is true. No amount of security we enforce would have prevented this attack.
What are you talking about???? Several of the hijackers were on the FBI's "known terrorists" list. If the arlines checked passenger lists against the known terrorist lists they very likely could have averted the tragedy. I don't imagine this list can be too long, it wouldn't be very hard to set up a database for the airlines to query.
The US is currently the biggest supplier of humanitarian aid to the Afghani people. They still hate the US, no matter how much food we send. If you read the article, you get a sense of the mindset of these people. They don't care if they receive material goods, they feel they are fighting for a "higher cause". Even those who are not suicide-bomber fanatics will fight viciously if their homeland is invaded.
No longer will someone need physical access to the "wire" to tap your conversations.
You don't need access to the "wire" now. Almost all calls are digitally switched, and routing a call to 2 places is almost as easy as routing it to one. Yes, the investigating agency still needs to contact the RBOC, but it is quite easy to tap your phone from a technical standpoint.
Government officials will use only lawful software
Oh, if only that were true, then maybe would have a chance at "mutual transparancy" as described by David Brin. Here is an exerpt of his book from Wired. Brin says either we can have the government watch us and we are oblivious to what they do, or we can watch each other, and demand full accountability from the government. I fear that the government WOULD NOT be using the backdoored software. They would defend it in the interest of "national security" and sadly, most people will simply accept the fact that they are restricted to backdoored software while the government has full access to heavy crypto.
Both towers have now collapsed, another plane is down in Pennsylvania. The explosion at the White House (or state department, depending on the news source) has proved to be FALSE. The Pentagon is still burning, and I can't get to ANY news web sites. This is serious stuff, folks.
I just watched World Trade center tower ?2? collapse. The top half of the building fell off into the street. Now there are unconfirmed reports of an explosion at the White House. The Pentagon, WTC -- what is next??????????????? This is a horrifying series of events. I just hope they were able to evacuate the top of tower 2 before it collapsed.
1) I think it is fantastic that the judge in the Scarfo case isn't dazzled by the FBI's "National Security" defense. This case has absolutely nothing to do with national security, the FBI is trying to establish precedent above the law. This time it is the keylogging technique, next time it is Carnivore v.2.0 that they try to hide behind the "national security" shield.
2) Being a subscriber, I am extremely happy that AT&T has lifted the ban in HTTP servers (I know I may assume too much given the anecdotal source). Most of the servers that run on the @home network are small, low traffic servers that don't cause much of a problem(unless they are infected). They must be worried about losing even the small percentage of customers that run web servers. Economic hard times are hitting everywhere...
And besides, when a TBird 1.2 is 1/2 the price of a P4 1.4, are they really in that much of a loosing spot?
That is part of AMD's problem. When a consumer sees that the AMD part is "1.2" and the Intel part is "2.0" AND the AMD part is cheaper, they assume it is cheaper because it is slower. This is not the case (as far as I have seen), but the big chipmakers don't really care what John Q. Nerd thinks, they care what John Q. Public thinks. There are more regular consumers than nerds, on an order of several magnitudes. Intel makes more money on each processor. They have higher margins than AMD, because they are not just selling a proc, they are selling a brand. AMD is just selling a proc. They have made quite a bit of market share since the introduction of the Athlon, not because it had good architecture and was a solid chip, but because they were competitive in Mhz. Now that they are not competitive in Mhz (but still very competitive in performance) they are running scared. John Q. Public does not care how many instructions the Athlon can execute in a clock cycle, he doesn't even know what an instruction is and wouldn't care if you told him. He knows what a Mhz is. That is what computers are sold on. I think AMD is waaaay off the mark here, but I certainly understand the reason they are doing it. What they should do is follow Intel's lead and produce a fantastically overclockable CPU by increasing the length of the pipeline. I don't know how much it is going to matter, hopefully there will be 64-bit chips on the market soon and the stupid Mhz race can start all over again.
Sounds like it is another asteroid in solar orbit, just like Pluto. Pluto happens to be orbiting another asteroid much like itself. Many people mistake this for a moon. Don't be fooled, Pluto is not big enough to be a planet. Might as well call Ceres a planet, and while we are at it all the moons of Jupiter and Saturn should be called planets too, they are much bigger than Pluto.
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When you buy a car, you don't have to add an extra $1000 for the included yacht.
I bought a car recently (10 days ago). No auto dealership in town had the car I wanted. They were either the wrong color (I wanted black), had the wrong options(there were some things I wanted and sone things I could care less about) or had the wrong transmission. Now, I had a choice. I could buy a car that was very close to what I wanted but was on the lot, or I could order exactly what I wanted from the factory. If I ordered from the factory I would pay full list price. If I bought off the lot I would get a $2000 rebate and be able to haggle the price with the dealer. I ended up paying several thousand dollars less by buying a car with MORE options. I got things I didn't want on my original idea of the car, but they didn't cost me anything in the long run(in fact, they saved me money).
Game systems have ALWAYS been bundled with games, back to when video games were invented. The atari 2600, TI, Nintendo, PlayStation, Sega and every other platform I can think of came bundled with games. My pong game came with pong, and the company was audacious enough to not let me play any other games on it! Computer systems also come bundled with software. That does not mean I think it is right, but it is a common business practice, both in automobiles and computing. That said, I think MS is waaaaay off here if they think anybody is going to pay 2 - 4 times the MSRP of the system to have it bundled with a bunch of stupid games. There is an alternative to PCs bundled with software (build your own computer). There most likely will be retailers that forgo the extra marketing money from MS in order to sell the machines unbundled with games. I think a retailer would make more money overall, although I have no way of knowing how much of a marketing allowance MS is providing. If everone else is selling bundled systems for $600 and you are selling an unbundled system for $300 I think you would have many customers.
A case like this is exactly what we need to have this law rewritten in a way that makes more sense.
I don't think this is a good test case, because public opinion is already biased against Sklyarov. I have seen numerous stories referring to him as a "Russian Hacker" such as Russian hacker released on bail after U.S. arrest (06-Aug-01) and Hacker supporters ask Adobe to aid in defense (02-Aug-01). Even if the article explains that what he did was legal in Russia, the sentiment is already turned against him by the title. "Hacker" has become a Bad Word(tm) to the majority. While the/. crowd might not see such an evil meaning, the general public certainly does. I think we would be much better off with an academic (like Prof. Felton) as the defendant in the test case, rather than a "Russian Hacker".
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Well, perhaps we need machines that patch themselves.
How can you get a BIGGER back door than CRII?
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from the article: leaves a wider "back door" on infected machines, making them more vulnerable to future hacking.
I have no idea how you can make a wider back door than CRII. With CRII, the back door has full administrative rights and you can execute arbitrary commands. The machine is FULLY compromised. Plus, due to the nature of the worm each compromised machine broadcasts its IP address to nearby machines. The only way to get a wider back door than CRII would be to put the back door on EVERY PORT.
DHCP servers must have a MAC address memory or something because it will assign me the same IP address all the time (and its not a feature of my dhcp client)
Actually, it is a feature of the DHCP protocol. By default, you attempt to renew your address lease after 50% of it is gone. If you do not have connectivity to the DHCP server, the client will keep trying to renew the lease until it is able to contact the server again. The client will attempt to renew a lease from the same server that gave it the initial lease. Even if the lease has been expired for some time, the server will still attempt to give the same address. This is default on most DHCP servers. Of course, you can change this and automatically assign a different address each time, but it gives better overall network stability to have clients keep their ip addresses.
By using Curl, you can push more of your functionality from the server to the client
You can also deliver content to your end-users using fewer number of bytes
These 2 things seem mutually exclusive. If you are making you client take the processing load, you are going to use more bandwidth, not less. I write PHP for a living, and the scripts I write are way larger than the data (HTML) that is transferred to the client. Granted, you do save some processing load on your server, but it would be at the expense of bandwidth.
I think they are getting serious about redundant posts. This is the error I get: Easy does it! This comment has been submitted already, 276987 hours , 8 minutes ago. No need to try again.
By my reckoning, this is ~31 years ago. I had no idea/. was storing articles for that long. They must have a machine that has the date wrong and has already hit the 1.0e9 seconnd since the epoch.
Re:they DIDN'T have a judge's approval!
Yes they did. See for yourself.
From the document linked:
The seizure and retrival of key related information and encrypted file(s) ordered pursuant to this order do not involove captured communications protected under title 18, United States Code, Sections 2510 et seq..
This would indicate to me that this was an illegal wiretap. I'm not sure if there is a precedent judging whether keylogging is a wiretap or a search, but common sense says it is a wiretap.
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What are you talking about???? Several of the hijackers were on the FBI's "known terrorists" list. If the arlines checked passenger lists against the known terrorist lists they very likely could have averted the tragedy. I don't imagine this list can be too long, it wouldn't be very hard to set up a database for the airlines to query.
What are you talking about? I burn software all the time! I also burn movies, TV shows and system backups.
Redundancy
*Sigh* Now I'll probably get modded down as "redundant"
I think you are thinking of Futurama... DS9 had Dax and Kira.
Like the "war" on drugs? I don't see that as a battle that can even be won. (See prohibition)
The US is currently the biggest supplier of humanitarian aid to the Afghani people. They still hate the US, no matter how much food we send. If you read the article, you get a sense of the mindset of these people. They don't care if they receive material goods, they feel they are fighting for a "higher cause". Even those who are not suicide-bomber fanatics will fight viciously if their homeland is invaded.
You don't need access to the "wire" now. Almost all calls are digitally switched, and routing a call to 2 places is almost as easy as routing it to one. Yes, the investigating agency still needs to contact the RBOC, but it is quite easy to tap your phone from a technical standpoint.
Oh, if only that were true, then maybe would have a chance at "mutual transparancy" as described by David Brin. Here is an exerpt of his book from Wired. Brin says either we can have the government watch us and we are oblivious to what they do, or we can watch each other, and demand full accountability from the government. I fear that the government WOULD NOT be using the backdoored software. They would defend it in the interest of "national security" and sadly, most people will simply accept the fact that they are restricted to backdoored software while the government has full access to heavy crypto.
Both towers have now collapsed, another plane is down in Pennsylvania. The explosion at the White House (or state department, depending on the news source) has proved to be FALSE. The Pentagon is still burning, and I can't get to ANY news web sites. This is serious stuff, folks.
I just watched World Trade center tower ?2? collapse. The top half of the building fell off into the street. Now there are unconfirmed reports of an explosion at the White House. The Pentagon, WTC -- what is next??????????????? This is a horrifying series of events. I just hope they were able to evacuate the top of tower 2 before it collapsed.
1) I think it is fantastic that the judge in the Scarfo case isn't dazzled by the FBI's "National Security" defense. This case has absolutely nothing to do with national security, the FBI is trying to establish precedent above the law. This time it is the keylogging technique, next time it is Carnivore v.2.0 that they try to hide behind the "national security" shield.
2) Being a subscriber, I am extremely happy that AT&T has lifted the ban in HTTP servers (I know I may assume too much given the anecdotal source). Most of the servers that run on the @home network are small, low traffic servers that don't cause much of a problem(unless they are infected). They must be worried about losing even the small percentage of customers that run web servers. Economic hard times are hitting everywhere...
This reminds me of a sig I have frequently seen on /.:
Intellectual property is to property what fools gold is to gold
That is part of AMD's problem. When a consumer sees that the AMD part is "1.2" and the Intel part is "2.0" AND the AMD part is cheaper, they assume it is cheaper because it is slower. This is not the case (as far as I have seen), but the big chipmakers don't really care what John Q. Nerd thinks, they care what John Q. Public thinks. There are more regular consumers than nerds, on an order of several magnitudes. Intel makes more money on each processor. They have higher margins than AMD, because they are not just selling a proc, they are selling a brand. AMD is just selling a proc. They have made quite a bit of market share since the introduction of the Athlon, not because it had good architecture and was a solid chip, but because they were competitive in Mhz. Now that they are not competitive in Mhz (but still very competitive in performance) they are running scared. John Q. Public does not care how many instructions the Athlon can execute in a clock cycle, he doesn't even know what an instruction is and wouldn't care if you told him. He knows what a Mhz is. That is what computers are sold on. I think AMD is waaaay off the mark here, but I certainly understand the reason they are doing it. What they should do is follow Intel's lead and produce a fantastically overclockable CPU by increasing the length of the pipeline. I don't know how much it is going to matter, hopefully there will be 64-bit chips on the market soon and the stupid Mhz race can start all over again.
Sounds like it is another asteroid in solar orbit, just like Pluto. Pluto happens to be orbiting another asteroid much like itself. Many people mistake this for a moon. Don't be fooled, Pluto is not big enough to be a planet. Might as well call Ceres a planet, and while we are at it all the moons of Jupiter and Saturn should be called planets too, they are much bigger than Pluto.
Yes. At least with AT&T@home the Tech Support people are authorized to give refunds for outages. At least that was the way it was when I worked there.
Never could pass up a challenge :)
Mensa
I bought a car recently (10 days ago). No auto dealership in town had the car I wanted. They were either the wrong color (I wanted black), had the wrong options(there were some things I wanted and sone things I could care less about) or had the wrong transmission. Now, I had a choice. I could buy a car that was very close to what I wanted but was on the lot, or I could order exactly what I wanted from the factory. If I ordered from the factory I would pay full list price. If I bought off the lot I would get a $2000 rebate and be able to haggle the price with the dealer. I ended up paying several thousand dollars less by buying a car with MORE options. I got things I didn't want on my original idea of the car, but they didn't cost me anything in the long run(in fact, they saved me money).
Game systems have ALWAYS been bundled with games, back to when video games were invented. The atari 2600, TI, Nintendo, PlayStation, Sega and every other platform I can think of came bundled with games. My pong game came with pong, and the company was audacious enough to not let me play any other games on it! Computer systems also come bundled with software. That does not mean I think it is right, but it is a common business practice, both in automobiles and computing. That said, I think MS is waaaaay off here if they think anybody is going to pay 2 - 4 times the MSRP of the system to have it bundled with a bunch of stupid games. There is an alternative to PCs bundled with software (build your own computer). There most likely will be retailers that forgo the extra marketing money from MS in order to sell the machines unbundled with games. I think a retailer would make more money overall, although I have no way of knowing how much of a marketing allowance MS is providing. If everone else is selling bundled systems for $600 and you are selling an unbundled system for $300 I think you would have many customers.
I don't think this is a good test case, because public opinion is already biased against Sklyarov. I have seen numerous stories referring to him as a "Russian Hacker" such as Russian hacker released on bail after U.S. arrest (06-Aug-01) and Hacker supporters ask Adobe to aid in defense (02-Aug-01). Even if the article explains that what he did was legal in Russia, the sentiment is already turned against him by the title. "Hacker" has become a Bad Word(tm) to the majority. While the /. crowd might not see such an evil meaning, the general public certainly does. I think we would be much better off with an academic (like Prof. Felton) as the defendant in the test case, rather than a "Russian Hacker".
Well, perhaps we need machines that patch themselves.
leaves a wider "back door" on infected machines, making them more vulnerable to future hacking.
I have no idea how you can make a wider back door than CRII. With CRII, the back door has full administrative rights and you can execute arbitrary commands. The machine is FULLY compromised. Plus, due to the nature of the worm each compromised machine broadcasts its IP address to nearby machines. The only way to get a wider back door than CRII would be to put the back door on EVERY PORT.
Actually, it is a feature of the DHCP protocol. By default, you attempt to renew your address lease after 50% of it is gone. If you do not have connectivity to the DHCP server, the client will keep trying to renew the lease until it is able to contact the server again. The client will attempt to renew a lease from the same server that gave it the initial lease. Even if the lease has been expired for some time, the server will still attempt to give the same address. This is default on most DHCP servers. Of course, you can change this and automatically assign a different address each time, but it gives better overall network stability to have clients keep their ip addresses.
You can also deliver content to your end-users using fewer number of bytes
These 2 things seem mutually exclusive. If you are making you client take the processing load, you are going to use more bandwidth, not less. I write PHP for a living, and the scripts I write are way larger than the data (HTML) that is transferred to the client. Granted, you do save some processing load on your server, but it would be at the expense of bandwidth.
900 - - - - -$65 - 13.85 Mhz/$
1000 - - - - $85 - 11.76 Mhz/$
1200 - - - - $100 - 12.00 Mhz/$
1333 - - - - $130 - 10.25 Mhz/$
1400 - - - - $175 - 8.00 Mhz/$
It seems to me the best value for the dollar is the 900 Mhz CPU, followed closely by the 1.2 Ghz.
I look to buy the one just below the major increase in slope. there is ALWAYS this trend.
You say this, but then you say "It only makes sense" to opt for the 1.3 Ghz when in actuality the 900 Mhz and the 1.2 Ghz are much better values.
I think they are getting serious about redundant posts. This is the error I get: /. was storing articles for that long. They must have a machine that has the date wrong and has already hit the 1.0e9 seconnd since the epoch.
Easy does it! This comment has been submitted already, 276987 hours , 8 minutes ago. No need to try again.
By my reckoning, this is ~31 years ago. I had no idea
Yes they did. See for yourself.
From the document linked:
The seizure and retrival of key related information and encrypted file(s) ordered pursuant to this order do not involove captured communications protected under title 18, United States Code, Sections 2510 et seq..
This would indicate to me that this was an illegal wiretap. I'm not sure if there is a precedent judging whether keylogging is a wiretap or a search, but common sense says it is a wiretap.
Enigma