But what good would be alerting the common person that they are infected? Most modern malware comes coupled with a rootkit of some sort that subverts AV protection so just running AV would be out of the question. Asking a standard user to reformat their own machine is also out of the question as most users aren't comfortable with that. So basically I feel that you would have to relinquish control of your machine to the ISP for any type of effective treatment to take place. Not that I agree with such big brother antics.
Researchers at Texas A&M are crawling the web and finding such statistics such as these. I do believe they have found that around 20% of websites on the internet are porn sites.
If this whole kill switch policy keeps getting more and more popular, big businesses will take interest in keeping limited network communications with one another in order to keep their money making power houses running. This will lead to them building their own infrastructure and eventually will have a small internet of their own. Soon they realize, they can make a shit ton of money with all this and start leasing it out to the public for a fee and then they are the new ISPs. The moral of the story is this, you can't stop the internet because the technology is there and many people know how to use and implement it. All these kill switches will lead to a more centralized business world. Can you imagine a Mc Donalds being an ISP? "Hey can I take your order? Would you like some internet with that value meal sir?"
I say Australia should have the ISPs refuse service to anybody running a windows box. This would remove at least 70% of the malware and would improve customer satisfaction!
If the BOFH has taught the IT world anything, it's to always monitor your co-workers. This provides potential means for extortion if there would ever be talk about you being fired or replaced as well as an easy and effective way to climb to the top at startling speeds.
I can totally see this. If I drive after about an hour or two playing GTA and I see a cop car, my first instinct is to ram into the cop car, wait for the cop to get out, jump into his car, speed off, find a hooker and sleep with her (killing her promptly after), and repeat.
You can't really prosecute the person responsible for the DDoS attack, for obvious reasons, without spending way more time and resources than it is actually worth. I think that is something we can all agree on. But instead of attempting to receive some form of justice from the incidence, why not take measures from being DDoSed by the same computers. For instance, blocking the mac addresses suspected to be involved in the DDoS which you can acquire from a simple connection log could help prevent. You would have to of course have some way of helping legitimate users regain access to your site but that shouldn't be that big of a hassle. Or you could try to alert the owners of the MAC addresses and tell them that there is reason to believe their system in infected etc.
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But what good would be alerting the common person that they are infected? Most modern malware comes coupled with a rootkit of some sort that subverts AV protection so just running AV would be out of the question. Asking a standard user to reformat their own machine is also out of the question as most users aren't comfortable with that. So basically I feel that you would have to relinquish control of your machine to the ISP for any type of effective treatment to take place. Not that I agree with such big brother antics.
wut?
I suppose >.
Korea's theme song should be Linkin Park's Closer.
Researchers at Texas A&M are crawling the web and finding such statistics such as these. I do believe they have found that around 20% of websites on the internet are porn sites.
If this whole kill switch policy keeps getting more and more popular, big businesses will take interest in keeping limited network communications with one another in order to keep their money making power houses running. This will lead to them building their own infrastructure and eventually will have a small internet of their own. Soon they realize, they can make a shit ton of money with all this and start leasing it out to the public for a fee and then they are the new ISPs. The moral of the story is this, you can't stop the internet because the technology is there and many people know how to use and implement it. All these kill switches will lead to a more centralized business world. Can you imagine a Mc Donalds being an ISP? "Hey can I take your order? Would you like some internet with that value meal sir?"
I say Australia should have the ISPs refuse service to anybody running a windows box. This would remove at least 70% of the malware and would improve customer satisfaction!
THE BOFH NEVER FALLS!
Did anyone else see how that definition of a social network can easily be abstracted to the internet and its remote hosts?
If the BOFH has taught the IT world anything, it's to always monitor your co-workers. This provides potential means for extortion if there would ever be talk about you being fired or replaced as well as an easy and effective way to climb to the top at startling speeds.
I thought the whole point of chatroulette was a gamble between seeing an actual person or just a dude jacking off.
I can totally see this. If I drive after about an hour or two playing GTA and I see a cop car, my first instinct is to ram into the cop car, wait for the cop to get out, jump into his car, speed off, find a hooker and sleep with her (killing her promptly after), and repeat.
It's about time Chocolate rain, star wars kid, numa numa, and fart in the duck get the intellectual respect they deserve.
You can't really prosecute the person responsible for the DDoS attack, for obvious reasons, without spending way more time and resources than it is actually worth. I think that is something we can all agree on. But instead of attempting to receive some form of justice from the incidence, why not take measures from being DDoSed by the same computers. For instance, blocking the mac addresses suspected to be involved in the DDoS which you can acquire from a simple connection log could help prevent. You would have to of course have some way of helping legitimate users regain access to your site but that shouldn't be that big of a hassle. Or you could try to alert the owners of the MAC addresses and tell them that there is reason to believe their system in infected etc.
Try getting them into coding either hacks or mods for the game he plays the most. It would seem relevant and cool to him... I guess :/