Well, fair enough. But I happen to think all antivirus is crap. It's just a matter of degree of crappiness.
But Symantec and Norton both use the same definitions, as far as I know, so if their home product doesn't catch something, then Endpoint Security isn't going to, either.
And yes, you obviously do know what good practice is, although I'd do offsite backups a little more often, in your place.
And the one constant is the people in these ghettos look very differently from the people living in the suburbs around the ghettos.
I can't claim to have been to slums all around the world, but I've done a little bit of travelling.
My question to you is:
Have you ever been to Cuba? I'd guess not, as, by the demographic of this site, you're likely to be American.
In Cuba, there a ghettos of Latino people living in one room tin shacks with dirt floors. Then, there are suburbs of Latino people living in moderately nice apartments and row houses. Then, there are the upper class people, who drive Mercedes' and BMWs, but they're Latino.
As you can plainly see, each class of people looks completely different from the next.:-/
I'd guess with the exception of South Africa, the majority of African ghettos are filled with people that look the same as the suburbs around them, too.
You claim that people from slums are too poor to travel, but then seem to imply that slums are full of immigrants who look different. Well, if they're immigrants, then they must have travelled. How about ghettos that are full of people still in their cultural homeland? They do exist, you know....
While I can see how you'd say that "a cascade of failures" would be required for this to happen, the one thing you're not realizing is:
The relay control, the valid key check, and all the other checks are all performed by the computer. That computer is a single point of failure.
The only thing that would have to fail besides the computer is the brake/transmission interlock. But I wouldn't think a single mechanical failure in a car with electronics problems would be that unlikely, if the electronics failures are as widespread as claimed.
That's like saying a transmission failure and an exploding gastank are unlikely to occur in the same car.
That logic breaks down if the car in question is a Pinto.
The GP didn't make that connection. At least, I didn't read that inference from the post.
However, in this case, I think the "piracy = theft" crowd might have a point, although not the point they think they have.
When you buy a copy of Windows, or any other software, for that matter, you also buy the right to get updates, usually through some kind of online updating mechanism. If you've copied the software, you haven't stolen it; you're right: it's copyright infringement.
However, when you go to update that software, you _are_ costing the manufacturer money, directly, to support the bandwidth used by your downloading of the updates. You're not stealing the software, but an argument could definitely be made that you're stealing the update services.
Now, in the case of something like Windows, with such a massive marketshare, and massive potential for abuse, I do think the right thing for Microsoft to do would be to allow all security updates to any copy of Windows, regardless of legit status. However, I do believe this is exactly what they currently do, as long as you have automatic updates turned on. You can't go to the Windows Update website with a pirated copy of Windows (at least, not without some screwing around), but the WGA check doesn't get installed, and isn't required, for automatic updates. They just download automatically in the background, and install on the next reboot.
I think the real problem is pirated versions like BlackXP, that install with the Security Center and Automatic Updates services disabled by default. I've seen this version installed by a couple of computer shops around here, and I'm sure the customer wouldn't turn on these services.
No. Upgrading your hard drive means you should use Clonezilla and copy your old drive's contents to the new one.
For that matter, do the install, updates, and activation, then use Clonezilla to make an image of the HD, on bootable DVD media, no less. Then when your install borks and starts running like Vista on a 386, you can just reimage from the DVD, and pow, you're activated.
Seriously. If you're on/., you should probably know how to image a computer for free.
I mean ones where contracts are awarded without tenders, or advertising flyers go out with completely tasteless and possibly illegal slams against the opposing parties, or any other political BS that you can think of.
It's never the people at the top that are the problem. It's always some staff flunkie.
That means one of two things to me:
- the big shots lie about not being responsible. - the big shots never actually _do_ anything at all, so what do we pay them for?
Please tell me what technical error or incorrect terminology she used, because I can't see it.
Well, the immediate blame on a junior staffer seems suspect to me. Although it's not technically a technical error, whenever something goes wrong in government that results in a potential scandal, it always seems to be a junior staffer that's at fault, according to the government office involved.
I find it difficult to believe that a prime minister, president, premier, high ranking minister, congressman, or what have you, is never involved in something stupid like this.
Doesn't surprise me. I just got a ticket through a subcontracting chain that I'm the end link in.
It's to fix an HP LaserJet 4 Plus, made in 1995, with stripped fuser drive gears. You can buy this printer as a refurb unit for $160 with a warranty.
But no...they want to get this one fixed. I can't say the company, for obvious reasons, but suffice it to say that it's a multinational chain that is known virtually worldwide.
People should really stop using the word secure with Tor. Anonymous, sure, but you actually forfeit some of your security and privacy when using Tor. Anyone can snoop your outgoing connections from Exit node, or if you're using https or other secure connection, change the certificates. On top of that there's a change the exit node changes your http pages in addition to stealing or just snooping for information. Implying "secure" in news likes this gives lots of false sense of security to users, like has been seen many times before.
And this is different from regular web browsing....how, exactly? You're not forteiting any of your security or privacy. You're just not necessarily gaining any more in certain areas. But, this only applies if the exit node you happen to be using for that connection is a malicious node. Yes, governments can set up an awful lot of nodes, but the size of the network itself is going to dwarf anything a government can do. The vast majority of exit nodes are legitimate. You can also specify not to use certain exit nodes. If you're in China, and you don't want to risk government interference, then configure your node to not use any Chinese exit nodes.
Eavesdropping by exit nodes
In September 2007, Dan Egerstad, a Swedish security consultant, revealed that by operating and monitoring Tor exit nodes he had intercepted usernames and passwords for a large number of email accounts.[15] As Tor does not, and by design cannot, encrypt the traffic between an exit node and the target server, any exit node is in a position to capture any traffic passing through it which does not use end-to-end encryption, e.g. SSL. While this does not inherently violate the anonymity of the source, it affords added opportunities for data interception by self-selected third parties, greatly increasing the risk of exposure of sensitive data by users who are careless or who mistake Tor's anonymity for security.[16]
So, jerks can break your security. Big news. Film at 11. Maybe the fact that this can be done anywhere at all, unless you're using an unbreakable encryption/authentication method, means you shouldn't be worrying about Tor specifically.
Another thing is that you are still usually leaking DNS queries to your ISP, which may even return false results if you're being censored in China or something and they still see what sites you're visiting.
The summary also quickly mentions geo-aware phones. If you happen to be using that bad exit node, now your geo-location updates will be transmitted via it too. And goverments should be able to set up a lot different exit nodes all around the world easily.
So no, it's not secure. It's maybe anonymous, if you use it correctly and don't login to your banking, slashdot account or whatever with it.
This is patently incorrect. All DNS queries from a Tor-surfing browser are routed over the Tor network. There are specific instructions for the setup of a Tor exit node that state basically "If your ISP blocks access to certain sites, make sure your Tor node knows about them, otherwise Tor users will get NORECORD results from DNS queries, and think the site is down/missing. If your node knows about them, the Tor network will not use your node to attempt access to those sites."
I've stumbled across a misconfigured Tor exit node before that did this. Trying to access a site over Tor resulted in an error page, but the same site over the Internet worked fine. Waited for 10 minutes for the Tor connection to cycle to a different route, and all of a sudden I could access it over Tor, too.
A few years ago, I was running a 486. But it couldn't handle enough throughput for multiple clients.
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Not entirely stable. I'm glad you're here to tell us these things.
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Moles? Please.
Anybody could tell you that travelling down this tunnel at incredible speed in a pod will eventually take you into a vast tract of hyperspace inside the moon, containing the planet-assembling factory floor.
I wonder if there's raw whale meat near the hole.....
If this is a guy who's used to doing home and small business support, with a handful of machines at best, and kind of got thrown into the deep end by management because he's "good with them thar cmpooterz" then he may not be thinking "enterprise" search. After all, why would anybody need a search engine to find a starship?
Probably searched for "shared drive search engine" or something like that.
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I've met plenty of all of the above, and none of them think what you claim they do.
Maybe you've got a different breed of them than around here, but I doubt they're all so radically different.
My conclusion can only be, then, that you are trolling, or that you have no idea what you're talking about.
Well, fair enough.
But I happen to think all antivirus is crap. It's just a matter of degree of crappiness.
But Symantec and Norton both use the same definitions, as far as I know, so if their home product doesn't catch something, then Endpoint Security isn't going to, either.
And yes, you obviously do know what good practice is, although I'd do offsite backups a little more often, in your place.
I am DAMN good with computers........
snip ........I support our office of windows PCs and McAffee.......
These two statements are incongruous. McAfee is crap antivirus, worsted only by Norton.
Unless, of course, you work for a manager who picks products based on colour rather than the recommendation of their technical support person.
So a cynical bastard will never be infected?
That explains my lack of need for antivirus software..... :-/
And the one constant is the people in these ghettos look very differently from the people living in the suburbs around the ghettos.
I can't claim to have been to slums all around the world, but I've done a little bit of travelling.
My question to you is:
Have you ever been to Cuba? I'd guess not, as, by the demographic of this site, you're likely to be American.
In Cuba, there a ghettos of Latino people living in one room tin shacks with dirt floors. Then, there are suburbs of Latino people living in moderately nice apartments and row houses. Then, there are the upper class people, who drive Mercedes' and BMWs, but they're Latino.
As you can plainly see, each class of people looks completely different from the next. :-/
I'd guess with the exception of South Africa, the majority of African ghettos are filled with people that look the same as the suburbs around them, too.
You claim that people from slums are too poor to travel, but then seem to imply that slums are full of immigrants who look different. Well, if they're immigrants, then they must have travelled.
How about ghettos that are full of people still in their cultural homeland? They do exist, you know....
While I can see how you'd say that "a cascade of failures" would be required for this to happen, the one thing you're not realizing is:
The relay control, the valid key check, and all the other checks are all performed by the computer. That computer is a single point of failure.
The only thing that would have to fail besides the computer is the brake/transmission interlock. But I wouldn't think a single mechanical failure in a car with electronics problems would be that unlikely, if the electronics failures are as widespread as claimed.
That's like saying a transmission failure and an exploding gastank are unlikely to occur in the same car.
That logic breaks down if the car in question is a Pinto.
Or people who are afraid of flying?
The Prius is a hybrid. It can move with the electric motor without ever starting the gasoline one.
And yes, that could be done completely by the computer.
The GP didn't make that connection. At least, I didn't read that inference from the post.
However, in this case, I think the "piracy = theft" crowd might have a point, although not the point they think they have.
When you buy a copy of Windows, or any other software, for that matter, you also buy the right to get updates, usually through some kind of online updating mechanism.
If you've copied the software, you haven't stolen it; you're right: it's copyright infringement.
However, when you go to update that software, you _are_ costing the manufacturer money, directly, to support the bandwidth used by your downloading of the updates.
You're not stealing the software, but an argument could definitely be made that you're stealing the update services.
Now, in the case of something like Windows, with such a massive marketshare, and massive potential for abuse, I do think the right thing for Microsoft to do would be to allow all security updates to any copy of Windows, regardless of legit status. However, I do believe this is exactly what they currently do, as long as you have automatic updates turned on.
You can't go to the Windows Update website with a pirated copy of Windows (at least, not without some screwing around), but the WGA check doesn't get installed, and isn't required, for automatic updates.
They just download automatically in the background, and install on the next reboot.
I think the real problem is pirated versions like BlackXP, that install with the Security Center and Automatic Updates services disabled by default. I've seen this version installed by a couple of computer shops around here, and I'm sure the customer wouldn't turn on these services.
No. Upgrading your hard drive means you should use Clonezilla and copy your old drive's contents to the new one.
For that matter, do the install, updates, and activation, then use Clonezilla to make an image of the HD, on bootable DVD media, no less. Then when your install borks and starts running like Vista on a 386, you can just reimage from the DVD, and pow, you're activated.
Seriously. If you're on /., you should probably know how to image a computer for free.
Can't you email costumer support and sort it out?
No. Every time I talk to them, they start going on about capes, masks, and makeup.
Seriously...WTF is it about people misspelling 'customer'? I see it all the time, and inevitably, it's spelled 'costumer'.
Seems like spell check gone wrong.....
I'm not just talking about this P2P incident.
I mean ones where contracts are awarded without tenders, or advertising flyers go out with completely tasteless and possibly illegal slams against the opposing parties, or any other political BS that you can think of.
It's never the people at the top that are the problem. It's always some staff flunkie.
That means one of two things to me:
- the big shots lie about not being responsible.
- the big shots never actually _do_ anything at all, so what do we pay them for?
Please tell me what technical error or incorrect terminology she used, because I can't see it.
Well, the immediate blame on a junior staffer seems suspect to me. Although it's not technically a technical error, whenever something goes wrong in government that results in a potential scandal, it always seems to be a junior staffer that's at fault, according to the government office involved.
I find it difficult to believe that a prime minister, president, premier, high ranking minister, congressman, or what have you, is never involved in something stupid like this.
"I crashed my car because I was texting while driving. #*%?@! car...! "
Most accident reports I've ever read are worded more like:
"The driver was injured when his car left the road and hit a tree."
So, yes, it usually is worded in such a way as to mean "#*%?@! car...!". :-\
According to a VP quoted in the press release, 'Security through obfuscation and secrecy is not security.'
About time they figured that out. Although it's probably still just some marketing PR-speak, rather than what they actually think....
That's because mods spend all their time bitchslapping /. posters, rather than watching old movies.....
Doesn't surprise me. I just got a ticket through a subcontracting chain that I'm the end link in.
It's to fix an HP LaserJet 4 Plus, made in 1995, with stripped fuser drive gears.
You can buy this printer as a refurb unit for $160 with a warranty.
But no...they want to get this one fixed.
I can't say the company, for obvious reasons, but suffice it to say that it's a multinational chain that is known virtually worldwide.
People should really stop using the word secure with Tor. Anonymous, sure, but you actually forfeit some of your security and privacy when using Tor. Anyone can snoop your outgoing connections from Exit node, or if you're using https or other secure connection, change the certificates. On top of that there's a change the exit node changes your http pages in addition to stealing or just snooping for information. Implying "secure" in news likes this gives lots of false sense of security to users, like has been seen many times before.
And this is different from regular web browsing....how, exactly? You're not forteiting any of your security or privacy. You're just not necessarily gaining any more in certain areas. But, this only applies if the exit node you happen to be using for that connection is a malicious node. Yes, governments can set up an awful lot of nodes, but the size of the network itself is going to dwarf anything a government can do. The vast majority of exit nodes are legitimate.
You can also specify not to use certain exit nodes. If you're in China, and you don't want to risk government interference, then configure your node to not use any Chinese exit nodes.
Eavesdropping by exit nodes
In September 2007, Dan Egerstad, a Swedish security consultant, revealed that by operating and monitoring Tor exit nodes he had intercepted usernames and passwords for a large number of email accounts.[15] As Tor does not, and by design cannot, encrypt the traffic between an exit node and the target server, any exit node is in a position to capture any traffic passing through it which does not use end-to-end encryption, e.g. SSL. While this does not inherently violate the anonymity of the source, it affords added opportunities for data interception by self-selected third parties, greatly increasing the risk of exposure of sensitive data by users who are careless or who mistake Tor's anonymity for security.[16]
So, jerks can break your security. Big news. Film at 11. Maybe the fact that this can be done anywhere at all, unless you're using an unbreakable encryption/authentication method, means you shouldn't be worrying about Tor specifically.
Another thing is that you are still usually leaking DNS queries to your ISP, which may even return false results if you're being censored in China or something and they still see what sites you're visiting.
The summary also quickly mentions geo-aware phones. If you happen to be using that bad exit node, now your geo-location updates will be transmitted via it too. And goverments should be able to set up a lot different exit nodes all around the world easily.
So no, it's not secure. It's maybe anonymous, if you use it correctly and don't login to your banking, slashdot account or whatever with it.
This is patently incorrect. All DNS queries from a Tor-surfing browser are routed over the Tor network. There are specific instructions for the setup of a Tor exit node that state basically "If your ISP blocks access to certain sites, make sure your Tor node knows about them, otherwise Tor users will get NORECORD results from DNS queries, and think the site is down/missing. If your node knows about them, the Tor network will not use your node to attempt access to those sites."
I've stumbled across a misconfigured Tor exit node before that did this. Trying to access a site over Tor resulted in an error page, but the same site over the Internet worked fine. Waited for 10 minutes for the Tor connection to cycle to a different route, and all of a sudden I could access it over Tor, too.
It still has some advantages.
Ease of install, completely cross platform, doesn't kick the remote user like RDP does, etc.
I use VNC for remote support (along with a VPN) so the customer can see what I'm doing.
That's what the link in my sig is.
P3? Sheesh. Kids today.
Mine's a Pentium Pro 200MHz.
Idles somewhat lower than 30W.
A few years ago, I was running a 486. But it couldn't handle enough throughput for multiple clients.
Not entirely stable. I'm glad you're here to tell us these things.
Moles? Please.
Anybody could tell you that travelling down this tunnel at incredible speed in a pod will eventually take you into a vast tract of hyperspace inside the moon, containing the planet-assembling factory floor.
I wonder if there's raw whale meat near the hole.....
Bingo, I guess Palegray has a much larger budget than most of us when it comes to storage. Afterall why have a single copy when you can have fifty.
Well, at least that way you don't have to screw with tape drives......
Maybe search, but didn't know what to search for.
If this is a guy who's used to doing home and small business support, with a handful of machines at best, and kind of got thrown into the deep end by management because he's "good with them thar cmpooterz" then he may not be thinking "enterprise" search.
After all, why would anybody need a search engine to find a starship?
Probably searched for "shared drive search engine" or something like that.
Maybe so, but apparently nobody uses Sharepoint.