I also tried IE 5.5, Konquerer 2.2.2 and Lynx 2.8.5. They were all fooled by the spoof. One thing you can do is view the certificate and it will show the spoofing web site in the certificate chain. This could be a work around for the really paranoid.
Also, keep in mind that the spoofer has to have a valid certificate in order for this to work. The spoofer would have to either get a certificate (and risk getting caught) or steal one.
The Chicago Tribune ran a story on Spam last month
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It profiled "Spam King" Ronnie Scelson. Of course it is offline (unless you pay $) but the Hartford Courant also ran the article (it helps that is own by the Tribune Corp.)
http://www.ctnow.com/news/specials/hc-sp1scelson ju n30.story?coll=hc-headlines-home
This guy is bitching about people trying to stop spam and is even sueing Quest and three anti-spam organizations.
Also, if you think the service is too expensive, don't use it. The manual recording option works just like a regular VCR and no service is required. I found this out last month when my credit card expired and someone in the billing department screwed up. I had to manually enter the date, time and channel for a few weeks. It is not as convient as the "season pass manager" but if you are too cheap to pay for the service at least you have the option to do it yourself.
Why not ask John Cassidy about his book?
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He is going to be on Extension 720 (WGN, 720 am, Chicago) on Tuesday, February 26 at 9pm CST. WGN has a 50,000 watt signal that reaches about a dozen states and half of Canada at night. There is also a Real Audio stream at http://wgnradio.com/listen/index.htm
There will be a call in number given during the show. Otherwise, you can email the show at MiltRosenberg@wgnradio.com
I certainly plan to ask some question about all the typos, poor grammar and factual errors during the show.
Don't forget the interview with Conservative icon Robert Bork. He does a pretty good job of debunking the the myth that the antitrust case is anti-business liberals vs. pro-business conservatives. He points out that the case is about doing what's right instead of what is easy or popular.
I guess I'll karma whore too! On the serious side, this cas
I've waited until late so that I can fully digest and understand the
settlement. I work in the computer field, so getting a settlement that allows
competition without harming the computer industry is very important to me.
I won't rehash the current settlement proposal since that has been done
endlessly by now. I will only say that it has so many exceptions and
exclusions that is would be unenforceable. We must not make the same mistake
we made with the 1995 consent decree. The final settlement must be both
simple and enforceable.
There only needs to be two simple conditions that need to be enforced:
1) Microsoft must give everyone full and timely access to all interfaces,
data formats, protocols and APIs. Full and timely is defined by the oversite
committee, not Microsoft.
2) Microsoft must give the exact same licensing terms to all customers. It
must also disclose the terms publically. This will prevent Microsoft from
using its monopoly to reward or punish customers and vendors.
There must be real and enforceable punishment if Microsoft breaks these
terms. If they break the first condition, let everyone have access the the
offending programs source code. That would allows others to figure out the
interfaces, data formats, protocols and APIs for themselves.
Breaking the second condition would result in a fine. The fine would need to
be big enough to be a deterant. Microsoft has a large cash reserve and it the
fine it too small, they may decide to pay rather than obey.
Please let me know how I can view all the public comments and how I can find
out the final terms of the settlement.
Sincerely,
Mike McCune
Chicago, Illinoise is important to the high tech industry, so let your opinions be knwon:
A few of the old Linuxgruven (NOT Hibbits or Lebb) moved to Chicago and founded Linux Island using the same scam. In an article in the "Chicago Computer Guide", their CEO says:
"Our career changer course is geared towards taking people and training them in open source and providing them with a job. Our training actually guarantees people employment here. The reason we're trying to do this is to build our workforce by guaranteeing these people a position. We have what we consider some of the best-trained people in the industry after they finished our course. We simply hire them on to establish a base of operations for our technical support. They have to pass the tests and be certified of course. All of our people are certified and at several different levels," said Peterson.
http://www.chicago-computer.com/augclout.htm
Guaranteeing a job for an upfront fee is almost always a scam. My suspicions were confirmed when I talked to someone who used to work there. After paying about $2500 for his Linux 'training", his "job" was to sit in a boiler room and try to sign people up for classes.
After seeing the news story on Linuxgruven, I decided to check to see how Linux Island was doing. Their Web site (www.linuxisland.com) is down and their phone (630-724-9210) is disconnected. Their scam collapsed even faster than Linuxgruven's scam did!
It seems ironic that a paper promoting "open source" software is only available in closed formats (PDF and Word) and is available on servers running proprietary software (Windows NT).
The kernel modifications are released under GPL but the administration tools are traditional closed source, which complies with the GPL. Anyone is free to write their own administration tools if the wish. Many large companies would prefer the support of HP rather than "rolling their own".
Using another unpatched security whole in IIS, hackers broke into MS owned site MSNBC and reposted an article from BBSPOT.COM.
"This has been an outrage," snorted an unidentified MS spokesman. "The thought that we would give away our intellectual property is just outrageous! Who do they think we are, the Free Software Foundation."
A press release from MSNBC apologized for the bad news coverage.
If M$ is giving 1.1 billion and and.9 billion is in software, where is the missing.2 billion? M$ only makes software.
Well, to solve this problem, I am going to copyright this comment and value it at $200. I then give M$ permission to distribute 1 million copies of this comment to public schools.
There, I feel better now!
This post (c) Mike McCune. All rights reserved without expressed written permission (or is that implied verbal permission?).
Hell, I just bounce any spam that I get. It plugs up the spammer's mailbox and makes them think that they have an invalid email address (easy to do if you run your own mail server - www.postfix.org). Now if any spammer is stupid enough to put an 800 number on their email...!
I do something similar except I use OpenSSH (www.openssh.org) to open a session on my home PC then fire up my favorite browser (www.mozilla.org or lynx.browser.org). It even works through a proxy if you tunnel the connection through port 21 (FTP) or port 80 (http).
If you are worried about snooping on the other end, just clear the cookies and cache at the end of the session. Of course it can be traced, but as long as you are not doing anything illegal, it would be too much of a bother.
I think Microsoft is more like Digital (DEC for us old timers) than IBM. Digital made a product that did most of what Mainframes did at a much lower price. They were enormously profitable and refused to give up those profits when even cheaper PCs got to the point where they could do most of what DECs computers could do. DEC soon started bleeding money like a stuck pig and eventually got bought out by a PC company (Compaq).
Microsoft has ridden the PC wave to the top and is now facing OSS, which can do most of what Microsoft's products can do but at a cheaper price. Will Microsoft continue to milk money out of a declining business or embrace change in order to survive long term? IBM was enormously profitable in the early '90s then rapidly declined because it couldn't adapt quickly enough to the declining mainframe market. Today, IBM is one of the few large tech companies that is still growing because they have adapted to the OSS model. IBM supports OSS because they realize that software is rapidly becoming a commodity and the real money is in service.
The real question is, will Microsoft become like DEC or IBM?
I totally agree but authors (I am one BTW) need to make money or they will do something else with their time.
One company that seems to get it right is Fictionwise (www.fictionwise.com). They sell popular books at a low price in a wide variety of formats and most books are not copy protected. They specialize in Science Fiction with many former Nebula and Hugo nominees. Almost all books are under $10 with many under $1. Many of the ebooks are also short stories, which are easy to read during spare moments.
This is probably why Fictionwise is thriving while other ebooks sellers are still trying to find a viable business model. They have found a way to deliver cheap, popular ebooks to the readers and still pay the authors for their work.
Slashdot Mirror
Go to http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_simpl e_form.html
e r. pdf .
and enter the URL of the paper
http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/misc/asay-pap
I got the same error using Mozilla 1.1b.
I also tried IE 5.5, Konquerer 2.2.2 and Lynx 2.8.5. They were all fooled by the spoof. One thing you can do is view the certificate and it will show the spoofing web site in the certificate chain. This could be a work around for the really paranoid.
Also, keep in mind that the spoofer has to have a valid certificate in order for this to work. The spoofer would have to either get a certificate (and risk getting caught) or steal one.
It profiled "Spam King" Ronnie Scelson. Of course it is offline (unless you pay $) but the Hartford Courant also ran the article (it helps that is own by the Tribune Corp.)
n ju n30.story?coll=hc-headlines-home
http://www.ctnow.com/news/specials/hc-sp1scelso
This guy is bitching about people trying to stop spam and is even sueing Quest and three anti-spam organizations.
"Why, for example, would midwesterners grasp technology so much better than northeasterners?"
Katz is a Northeasterner and Cmdr Taco and Hemos are Midwesterners. Enough said?
Also, if you think the service is too expensive, don't use it. The manual recording option works just like a regular VCR and no service is required. I found this out last month when my credit card expired and someone in the billing department screwed up. I had to manually enter the date, time and channel for a few weeks. It is not as convient as the "season pass manager" but if you are too cheap to pay for the service at least you have the option to do it yourself.
He is going to be on Extension 720 (WGN, 720 am, Chicago) on Tuesday, February 26 at 9pm CST. WGN has a 50,000 watt signal that reaches about a dozen states and half of Canada at night. There is also a Real Audio stream at http://wgnradio.com/listen/index.htm
There will be a call in number given during the show. Otherwise, you can email the show at MiltRosenberg@wgnradio.com
I certainly plan to ask some question about all the typos, poor grammar and factual errors during the show.
Don't forget the interview with Conservative icon Robert Bork. He does a pretty good job of debunking the the myth that the antitrust case is anti-business liberals vs. pro-business conservatives. He points out that the case is about doing what's right instead of what is easy or popular.
/ 40 20/3/
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions
I guess I'll karma whore too! On the serious side, this cas
I've waited until late so that I can fully digest and understand the
settlement. I work in the computer field, so getting a settlement that allows
competition without harming the computer industry is very important to me.
I won't rehash the current settlement proposal since that has been done
endlessly by now. I will only say that it has so many exceptions and
exclusions that is would be unenforceable. We must not make the same mistake
we made with the 1995 consent decree. The final settlement must be both
simple and enforceable.
There only needs to be two simple conditions that need to be enforced:
1) Microsoft must give everyone full and timely access to all interfaces,
data formats, protocols and APIs. Full and timely is defined by the oversite
committee, not Microsoft.
2) Microsoft must give the exact same licensing terms to all customers. It
must also disclose the terms publically. This will prevent Microsoft from
using its monopoly to reward or punish customers and vendors.
There must be real and enforceable punishment if Microsoft breaks these
terms. If they break the first condition, let everyone have access the the
offending programs source code. That would allows others to figure out the
interfaces, data formats, protocols and APIs for themselves.
Breaking the second condition would result in a fine. The fine would need to
be big enough to be a deterant. Microsoft has a large cash reserve and it the
fine it too small, they may decide to pay rather than obey.
Please let me know how I can view all the public comments and how I can find
out the final terms of the settlement.
Sincerely,
Mike McCune
Chicago, Illinoise is important to the high tech industry, so let your opinions be knwon:
"Compensation plans of Microsoft product engineers, such as raises and bonuses, will also be tied to how secure their products are."
Hmmm Maybe this is just a way of cutting labor cost to conserve money for legal fees...
Actually, the 'net has been full of brainwashed M$ trolls lately:
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/09/162
A few of the old Linuxgruven (NOT Hibbits or Lebb) moved to Chicago and founded Linux Island using the same scam. In an article in the "Chicago Computer Guide", their CEO says:
"Our career changer course is geared towards taking people and training them in open source and providing them with a job. Our training actually guarantees people employment here. The reason we're trying to do this is to build our workforce by guaranteeing these people a position. We have what we consider some of the best-trained people in the industry after they finished our course. We simply hire them on to establish a base of operations for our technical support. They have to pass the tests and be certified of course. All of our people are certified and at several different levels," said Peterson.
http://www.chicago-computer.com/augclout.htm
Guaranteeing a job for an upfront fee is almost always a scam. My suspicions were confirmed when I talked to someone who used to work there. After paying about $2500 for his Linux 'training", his "job" was to sit in a boiler room and try to sign people up for classes.
After seeing the news story on Linuxgruven, I decided to check to see how Linux Island was doing. Their Web site (www.linuxisland.com) is down and their phone (630-724-9210) is disconnected. Their scam collapsed even faster than Linuxgruven's scam did!
It seems ironic that a paper promoting "open source" software is only available in closed formats (PDF and Word) and is available on servers running proprietary software (Windows NT).
o vt alk.gov.uk
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.g
The site www.govtalk.gov.uk is running Minstrel-httpd/16 on NT4/Windows 98.
Just what is Minstrel? It looks like they switched to it last August.
The kernel modifications are released under GPL but the administration tools are traditional closed source, which complies with the GPL. Anyone is free to write their own administration tools if the wish. Many large companies would prefer the support of HP rather than "rolling their own".
Using another unpatched security whole in IIS, hackers broke into MS owned site MSNBC and reposted an article from BBSPOT.COM.
"This has been an outrage," snorted an unidentified MS spokesman. "The thought that we would give away our intellectual property is just outrageous! Who do they think we are, the Free Software Foundation."
A press release from MSNBC apologized for the bad news coverage.
If M$ is giving 1.1 billion and and .9 billion is in software, where is the missing .2 billion? M$ only makes software.
Well, to solve this problem, I am going to copyright this comment and value it at $200. I then give M$ permission to distribute 1 million copies of this comment to public schools.
There, I feel better now!
This post (c) Mike McCune. All rights reserved without expressed written permission (or is that implied verbal permission?).
Hell, I just bounce any spam that I get. It plugs up the spammer's mailbox and makes them think that they have an invalid email address (easy to do if you run your own mail server - www.postfix.org). Now if any spammer is stupid enough to put an 800 number on their email...!
I do something similar except I use OpenSSH (www.openssh.org) to open a session on my home PC then fire up my favorite browser (www.mozilla.org or lynx.browser.org). It even works through a proxy if you tunnel the connection through port 21 (FTP) or port 80 (http).
If you are worried about snooping on the other end, just clear the cookies and cache at the end of the session. Of course it can be traced, but as long as you are not doing anything illegal, it would be too much of a bother.
I think Microsoft is more like Digital (DEC for us old timers) than IBM. Digital made a product that did most of what Mainframes did at a much lower price. They were enormously profitable and refused to give up those profits when even cheaper PCs got to the point where they could do most of what DECs computers could do. DEC soon started bleeding money like a stuck pig and eventually got bought out by a PC company (Compaq).
Microsoft has ridden the PC wave to the top and is now facing OSS, which can do most of what Microsoft's products can do but at a cheaper price. Will Microsoft continue to milk money out of a declining business or embrace change in order to survive long term? IBM was enormously profitable in the early '90s then rapidly declined because it couldn't adapt quickly enough to the declining mainframe market. Today, IBM is one of the few large tech companies that is still growing because they have adapted to the OSS model. IBM supports OSS because they realize that software is rapidly becoming a commodity and the real money is in service.
The real question is, will Microsoft become like DEC or IBM?
Let's also lobby Rio, since their players are firmware upgradable. They added support for WMA, so adding support for OGG should be a simple upgrade.
I wrote SonicBlue (the makers of Rio) a while back and got this rather luckwarm response:
"Dear Valued Customer,
We cannot comment about possible updates until said updates are released.Currently, there are no new plans on adding additional formats."
here:
http://www.rense.com/general14/flagburn.htm
They pay you for it because you wouldn't do it otherwise. If it was fun, you would pay them to do it.
It would probably be cheaper to buy them on ebay. After all, it tore up Biohazard. Imagine what it could do on the Taliban troups!
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/04/223
Fictionwise has several Hugo nominees available for a short time, including the winners for Novella, novelette and short story:
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/freebooks.htm
I agree that the Harry Potter is not the usual hard SciFi that usually wins the Hugo but it is the fans that are voting...
Who needs Elcomsoft to decrypte PDF files? Ghostscript is free (in both senses of the word)and works just fine:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
I totally agree but authors (I am one BTW) need to make money or they will do something else with their time.
One company that seems to get it right is Fictionwise (www.fictionwise.com). They sell popular books at a low price in a wide variety of formats and most books are not copy protected. They specialize in Science Fiction with many former Nebula and Hugo nominees. Almost all books are under $10 with many under $1. Many of the ebooks are also short stories, which are easy to read during spare moments.
This is probably why Fictionwise is thriving while other ebooks sellers are still trying to find a viable business model. They have found a way to deliver cheap, popular ebooks to the readers and still pay the authors for their work.