The short answer: No. The terms of the SCO license expressly forbid porting libraries and other such adaptation. You need copyright permission to adapt software for other platforms.
This is one of the problems the GPL was designed to deal with, BTW. The GPL gives you porting permission.:)
Sure, most people's email is on their ISP's mailserver. However, most ISPs have routers (well, all, actually). Any router can be compromised, and programmed to log all the packets it processes for the benefit of a cracker. Assume any routers that you use that you do not maintain personally are compromised. It's safer that way.
BTW, normally the machine that picks up the phone when you dial an ISP is a router, or a close neighbour to one. It is not your ISP's email server, unless your ISP is dangerously insane.
Other comments have mentioned the security/performance tradeoff, so I won't go into that.
Part of the difference with OpenBSD is that it runs on way more platforms than FreeBSD does. It's not as many as NetBSD (its parent) but it's a lot closer to NetBSD than FreeBSD.
This guy works for a Fortune 500 company. If you think their lawyers can't overcome a shrinkwrap EULA... well, let's just say there'd be a settlement in about 30 seconds if something big broke, EULA or no EULA.
The sysadmin was really lucky nobody was clued-in enough to login with/NOCOM.
However, how much do you want to bet the DECnet account had SYSPRV? Far too many systems where dumb sysadmins exist have that set up. I'm not sure if it's a default VMS hole, but it's a really big one. Anybody with a copy of tell.com can login/NOCOM to a NETMBX-enabled account, upload tell.com, and run AUTHORIZE over DECnet. Authorize the non-captive passwordless user for SETPRV, and everything goes nuts in a hurry.:)
The original 286-friendly version of Windoze I think was released around '85. That is, Windows 1.0. Nobody used it before 3.0, I know, but it was out before.
Also, keep in mind that all new Macs ship with OS X installed as default now. Those Jaguar sales are an indication that people are keeping OS X as the default, I think.
Probably most of them are upgrading from OS 8/9. However, it's still Unix, which the oldschool Mac OS wasn't.
Sony launched legal proceedings against a Sydney man, Eddy Stevens, for
allegedly selling pirated games and also providing and installing modification chips.
This is a private lawsuit, whereas the Ottawa man was charged criminally. However, Sony claimed Mr. Stevens was doing exactly the same thing as the Ottawa guy.
Perhaps the evidence wasn't there. Maybe this Australian is just better at covering his tracks, or maybe Sony just had the wrong guy.
Assuming he's not busted this time; he should go to DefCon or another blackhat-ish conference and give a talk.
That'll get out of the "other specialists in the field" category, and might make him look like enough of a target.
It would also nail home the point: Hackers, phreaks and so on are researchers. Some of them are pretty lame, but so are many undergraduates and professors talk to them all the time.
However, the phrasing makes me think it was probably s. 342.1 of the Criminal Code. I reproduce the section in full below.
342.1(1) Unauthorized use of computer 342.1 (1) Every one who, fraudulently and without colour of right, (a) obtains, directly or indirectly, any computer service, (b) by means of an electro-magnetic, acoustic, mechanical or other device, intercepts or causes to be intercepted, directly or indirectly, any function of a computer system, or (c) uses or causes to be used, directly or indirectly, a computer system with intent to commit an offence under paragraph (a) or (b) or an offence under section 430 in relation to data or a computer system is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, or is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction. 342.1(2) Definitions (2) In this section, computer program means data representing instructions or statements that, when executed in a computer system, causes the computer system to perform a function; computer service includes data processing and the storage or retrieval of data; computer system means a device that, or a group of interconnected or related devices one or more of which, (a) contains computer programs or other data, and (b) pursuant to computer programs, (i) performs logic and control, and (ii) may perform any other function; data means representations of information or of concepts that are being prepared or have been prepared in a form suitable for use in a computer system; electro-magnetic, acoustic, mechanical or other device means any device or apparatus that is used or is capable of being used to intercept any function of a computer system, but does not include a hearing aid used to correct subnormal hearing of the user to not better than normalhearing; function includes logic, control, arithmetic, deletion, storage and retrieval and communication or telecommunication to, from or within a computer
system; intercept includes listen to or record a function of a computer system,
or acquire the substance, meaning or purport thereof. R.S., 1985, c. 27 (1st Supp.), s. 45.
He was also convicted of straightforward, old-style piracy; he was apparently selling pirated games on CDRs.
Actually, MPEG-1 video quality can be very good. You're right about USB though. If you had a dedicated USB channel just for the PVR, then it might be OK; but if you have that, then odds are you're a PowerMac user with a couple extra USB PCI cards, and you expect more.
However, I think it should be possible to do a FireWire PVR on a Mac with currently available hardware. See this post of mine.
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This is one of the problems the GPL was designed to deal with, BTW. The GPL gives you porting permission. :)
I can't believe you admitted to that in public. Good god, get Agent or something. OE is maybe the worst newsreader in the history of Usenet.
Sure, most people's email is on their ISP's mailserver. However, most ISPs have routers (well, all, actually). Any router can be compromised, and programmed to log all the packets it processes for the benefit of a cracker. Assume any routers that you use that you do not maintain personally are compromised. It's safer that way.
BTW, normally the machine that picks up the phone when you dial an ISP is a router, or a close neighbour to one. It is not your ISP's email server, unless your ISP is dangerously insane.
Mozilla doesn't forget my passwords. :)
The point here is: if Pine can do it, everybody can. :)
This article is about as cheeky as Kronkite.
Am I the only one who looked at the title on this story and thought of this?
I guess that would probably be enough...
Run a wget -r type of attack (only dump the resulting files into /dev/null). This module would seem to have no effect.
Part of the difference with OpenBSD is that it runs on way more platforms than FreeBSD does. It's not as many as NetBSD (its parent) but it's a lot closer to NetBSD than FreeBSD.
It's good to have the old config file Just In Case.
I see a future when all the hackers can run apt-get from their Debian GNU/Camaro dashboards.
This guy works for a Fortune 500 company. If you think their lawyers can't overcome a shrinkwrap EULA... well, let's just say there'd be a settlement in about 30 seconds if something big broke, EULA or no EULA.
The sysadmin was really lucky nobody was clued-in enough to login with /NOCOM.
However, how much do you want to bet the DECnet account had SYSPRV? Far too many systems where dumb sysadmins exist have that set up. I'm not sure if it's a default VMS hole, but it's a really big one. Anybody with a copy of tell.com can login /NOCOM to a NETMBX-enabled account, upload tell.com, and run AUTHORIZE over DECnet. Authorize the non-captive passwordless user for SETPRV, and everything goes nuts in a hurry. :)
The original 286-friendly version of Windoze I think was released around '85. That is, Windows 1.0. Nobody used it before 3.0, I know, but it was out before.
Also, keep in mind that all new Macs ship with OS X installed as default now. Those Jaguar sales are an indication that people are keeping OS X as the default, I think.
Probably most of them are upgrading from OS 8/9. However, it's still Unix, which the oldschool Mac OS wasn't.
And another thing. If you upgrade your OpenSSL, do you then need to recompile OpenSSH to link to the new libraries?
Perhaps the evidence wasn't there. Maybe this Australian is just better at covering his tracks, or maybe Sony just had the wrong guy.
That'll get out of the "other specialists in the field" category, and might make him look like enough of a target.
It would also nail home the point: Hackers, phreaks and so on are researchers. Some of them are pretty lame, but so are many undergraduates and professors talk to them all the time.
Yes, it's really that broad.
342.1(1) Unauthorized use of computer
342.1 (1) Every one who, fraudulently and without colour of right,
(a) obtains, directly or indirectly, any computer service,
(b) by means of an electro-magnetic, acoustic, mechanical or other device, intercepts or causes to be intercepted, directly or indirectly, any function of a computer system, or
(c) uses or causes to be used, directly or indirectly, a computer system with intent to commit an offence under paragraph (a) or (b) or an offence under section 430 in relation to data or a computer system is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, or is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.
342.1(2) Definitions
(2) In this section,
computer program means data representing instructions or statements that, when executed in a computer system, causes the computer system to perform a function;
computer service includes data processing and the storage or retrieval of data;
computer system means a device that, or a group of interconnected or related devices one or more of which,
(a) contains computer programs or other data, and
(b) pursuant to computer programs,
(i) performs logic and control, and
(ii) may perform any other function;
data means representations of information or of concepts that are being prepared or have been prepared in a form suitable for use in a computer system;
electro-magnetic, acoustic, mechanical or other device means any device or apparatus that is used or is capable of being used to intercept any function of a computer system, but does not include a hearing aid used to correct subnormal hearing of the user to not better than normalhearing;
function includes logic, control, arithmetic, deletion, storage and retrieval and communication or telecommunication to, from or within a computer system;
intercept includes listen to or record a function of a computer system, or acquire the substance, meaning or purport thereof.
R.S., 1985, c. 27 (1st Supp.), s. 45.
He was also convicted of straightforward, old-style piracy; he was apparently selling pirated games on CDRs.
When I was, 4.7 read PNGs fine. I think 4.x does in general actually.
However, I believe QuickTime for Windows/Macintosh will display PNGs. I would expect most Linux/*BSD browsers to just display them natively, though.
iMacs, of course, lack slots (except for RAM and AirPort), although the built-in video cards have been AGP-based in them for several years now.
However, I think it should be possible to do a FireWire PVR on a Mac with currently available hardware. See this post of mine.