I would much rather have a data center that concentrates more on getting patches and other server-based security issues applied rather than chasing the very slim chance of a foreign invasion. I think it's more likely for someone to crack my colo than it is for a fire to melt it.
Your whole rant is flawed: @Home didn't go bankrupt becuase of their broadband division, they went bankrupt largely due to excite.com and AT&T pressure to bankrupt them. Bandwidth was not an issue.
What do you mean no outages? That's becuase Comcast struck a deal with @Home to keep Comcast connected to them until the end of Feb. 2002. You will then be switched to their network at the beginning of Feb., but you will still be able to access @home email until the end of that month. As for slower speeds since @Home went down; what? If anything, it should be slightly faster since all of the AT&T customers left.
I doubt you are a lawyer. The domain 'davebrenninslaw.org' doesn't even exist. You might want to register it before you use it for your email address, don't you think?
I know that wired.com has been using this advertisement scheme for quite some time. If you are using IE, you will usually see a palm pilot going back and forth across the screen and then fade away to the Palm banner at the bottom. It's very annoying.
Weren't they concerned about human rights over there in China? Why would the cooperate with a communist state? You would think with all the money they have they would develope their own space project rather than funding the Chinese.
Your lesson number 1 falls right into the hands of IBM. Guess what happens when a 'vulnerability' is found in the hardware? They sell the company a new 'solution' at a higher cost and profit margin than a software solution would provide. IBM makes more money this way. They aren't going to be held responsible for the exploit (example: Microsoft and IIS). They'll just sell a fix to the company for a nice little profit.
I downloaded it when slashdot first ran the story on it. They only produced one version of it. I'm surprised they went that quick. It had one of the best installation processes. If you combine that with apt, it makes linux easy to use for anyone. It's a shame they have to go when they had a quality product.
If you bothered to check the download page, you would see that you have the _option_ to donate. I am downloading it right now without having to donate. They just request that you do. No big deal.
Trace it back to what? You forget that you can spoof MAC addresses. The only thing you would trace it back to is a local lan IP. That will tell you nothing. That could be any computer on the face of the planet. You can't pair it with a person or a name. It's impossible. It isnt like an ISP where you have to give them your name, address, etc. You have no info on the people connecting to your network.
And even if he has logs, what is that going to tell him? There's no way to identify people using the network. This is one of the major flaws of this. People could use these type of networks as dropoff points for gaining access to other computers and/or launching viruses.
Hate to bring up the point.. But look how far windows has come. Look how far linux has come. Like you said, nothing _major_ has happened to linux is the past 10 years. I think that if linux doesnt do something, it will eventually be eclipsed by the stability of windows. Windows2000 has already proved to be extremely stable. Linux just gets a new FS here, little cleaning up in the code there. Nothing worth mentioning.
It is sad. I think it's even more sad that the company actually called the FBI for this. The FBI is merely riding the course of law. The article is skimpy on the details of how he actually went about testing this security hole (and for how long he knew about before reporting it). Those are some pretty important facts. If he removed files, or anything like that, then they are going to have an iron-clad case against this poor guy. I wish him the best luck
It says in the article that he 'tested' the secure hole to make sure it was indeed a security hole. It depends on what he did to that site during that 'testing'. If he did something illegal, then they are going to bust him down in court for that.
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I would much rather have a data center that concentrates more on getting patches and other server-based security issues applied rather than chasing the very slim chance of a foreign invasion. I think it's more likely for someone to crack my colo than it is for a fire to melt it.
An "aonymous" reader? Is that something close to 'anonymous'?
Your whole rant is flawed: @Home didn't go bankrupt becuase of their broadband division, they went bankrupt largely due to excite.com and AT&T pressure to bankrupt them. Bandwidth was not an issue.
What do you mean no outages? That's becuase Comcast struck a deal with @Home to keep Comcast connected to them until the end of Feb. 2002. You will then be switched to their network at the beginning of Feb., but you will still be able to access @home email until the end of that month. As for slower speeds since @Home went down; what? If anything, it should be slightly faster since all of the AT&T customers left.
I doubt you are a lawyer. The domain 'davebrenninslaw.org' doesn't even exist. You might want to register it before you use it for your email address, don't you think?
I know that wired.com has been using this advertisement scheme for quite some time. If you are using IE, you will usually see a palm pilot going back and forth across the screen and then fade away to the Palm banner at the bottom. It's very annoying.
Weren't they concerned about human rights over there in China? Why would the cooperate with a communist state? You would think with all the money they have they would develope their own space project rather than funding the Chinese.
Your lesson number 1 falls right into the hands of IBM. Guess what happens when a 'vulnerability' is found in the hardware? They sell the company a new 'solution' at a higher cost and profit margin than a software solution would provide. IBM makes more money this way. They aren't going to be held responsible for the exploit (example: Microsoft and IIS). They'll just sell a fix to the company for a nice little profit.
All they will be doing is adding another layer of bureaucracy to an already broken system. Why not use the existing system. Seems logical to me.
I downloaded it when slashdot first ran the story on it. They only produced one version of it. I'm surprised they went that quick. It had one of the best installation processes. If you combine that with apt, it makes linux easy to use for anyone. It's a shame they have to go when they had a quality product.
im going to put dual exhaust on that bad boy.
If you bothered to check the download page, you would see that you have the _option_ to donate. I am downloading it right now without having to donate. They just request that you do. No big deal.
I thought that Comcast was buying ATT's cable assets. Does this mean that Comcast will eventually own what ATT is buying right now?
You will be added to the Microsoft Collective.
Trace it back to what? You forget that you can spoof MAC addresses. The only thing you would trace it back to is a local lan IP. That will tell you nothing. That could be any computer on the face of the planet. You can't pair it with a person or a name. It's impossible. It isnt like an ISP where you have to give them your name, address, etc. You have no info on the people connecting to your network.
And even if he has logs, what is that going to tell him? There's no way to identify people using the network. This is one of the major flaws of this. People could use these type of networks as dropoff points for gaining access to other computers and/or launching viruses.
.. sells light bulbs and insurance!
Only a CPU can utilize ram over 4GB. An application (webserver, email server, etc) cant.
Looks like the goatse guy actually died at the age of 74 (seriously).
http://www.stileproject.com/goatse.html
The people that are going to boycott windows XP are going to be the ones that weren't going to buy it in the first place. Not that effective, eh?
Now they are slashdotted. That'll teach 'em.
Hate to bring up the point.. But look how far windows has come. Look how far linux has come. Like you said, nothing _major_ has happened to linux is the past 10 years. I think that if linux doesnt do something, it will eventually be eclipsed by the stability of windows. Windows2000 has already proved to be extremely stable. Linux just gets a new FS here, little cleaning up in the code there. Nothing worth mentioning.
I use my CD-R's for data backup. Im not going to pay anymore taxes becuase other people decide to pirate music or other stuff on that medium.
It is sad. I think it's even more sad that the company actually called the FBI for this. The FBI is merely riding the course of law. The article is skimpy on the details of how he actually went about testing this security hole (and for how long he knew about before reporting it). Those are some pretty important facts. If he removed files, or anything like that, then they are going to have an iron-clad case against this poor guy. I wish him the best luck
It says in the article that he 'tested' the secure hole to make sure it was indeed a security hole. It depends on what he did to that site during that 'testing'. If he did something illegal, then they are going to bust him down in court for that.