Lucky so far that the virus is such a botched hack job that it reboots the computer, if it hadn't shut down RPC and rebooted systems, people wouldn't patch until whatever next incarnation of this worm made them patch.
Alternative "fix" to the 22 steps one:
1) insert knoppix cd in drive
2) reboot computer
3) activate booting from cd in bios
You have to wonder what operating system the poor sod ran. 95% chance it was MS? This actually is an extremely good story to show people the massive dangers of insecure operating systems, browsers, email clients... and to explain what alternatives exist. Or how to run windows update..
Does anyone know if he tried to hide his trail or that he just logged in from his home puter to their ftp server? Given the speed with which they found him, seems like he did the latter.
As a former employee of one of Axciom's customers maybe he had access to this FTP server for his work using an account that wasn't then removed. Or maybe he put a trace on FTP traffic so that he could glean the passwords of other people accessing that server. I find the use of the term "FTP" in the article confusing because it implies Acxiom has plain password access there. If Axciom was lax with our customer data profiles they deserve a good slap on the fingers as well. Even though the FTP is on the outside of their firewall it is for use of their customers and it's probably a place where they store stuff for their clients to download.
It will be interesting to see to what extent he tried to gain access, what he did to hide his trail and what data he might have thus had access to. And in light of that what the severity of the penalty will be.
Lufthansa systems is a 100% lufthansa owned IT & systems implementation company - while Lufthansa certainly is one of its biggest clients they can be compared more easily to IBM global services which is IBM's services arm.
So this deal really doesn't have a lot to do with Lufthansa itself. They're only now starting to offer linux solutions which previously they didnt.
Quick note - I'm asking if the GPL is like the MS EULA in the sense of it being a legally binding contract and if there's anything really a court can do about the GPL since it itself the GPL doesn't exist unless you apply it to specific code.
Actually I think if you ask many people they'd say Linux is not moving to becoming a product it's becoming a commodity part of the computing infrastructure.
Linux is unstoppable in such a way that it will matter as much what OS runs on a machine as what brand network chip is on the motherboard. Standards matter, and because of its open standards, wide industry support, the GPL's viral nature, and 0 cost linux is going to win out against the *BSD clones. Microsoft doesn't figure at all because they have none of these advantages.
The GPL doesn't need to be declared an enforcable license; the GPL is not against the law and basically is just a contract under which you can use the source code. I don't think any judge can say that you're forbidden from setting your own source code licensing terms.
How does this work, can it only be voided in court if it violates some constitutional right? I bet the Microsoft EULAs are a zillion times more vulnerable to legal objections than the GPL.
Didn't get placed. Is it just me who thinks that mandrake only is news for the slashdot editors when they have financial reports, or when the words mandrake and bankrupcy are found in the same sentence?
I bet Mandrake is still the number one distribution measured in both install base and ease of use. It certainly has been number one over the last few years. Now Infoworld claims theyre the top enterprise linux as well. Slashdot's editor pretty much like any other publication seems to wants to see Linux as a battle between RedHat & Suse with the real geeks using debian or gentoo. Maybe its part of this silly punish the French campaign?
Usually in elections like those in Germany, Holland and Scandinavian countries you can vote for the candidate you like most, if a candidate low on the party's list gets enough individual votes he or she can get elected into parliament. It doesn't happen often but it does happen.
Your ideal voting system sounds like the French presidential elections, yeah it would give smaller candidates a platform and a lot of votes and then in the finals it would add issues that were important in the initial elections to the final elections.
heh your nickname should be the anarchist. You either have never studied what exactly the EU has done or you have the same deconstructive opinion of your own local government. I bet you're from the UK and the latter option is true - most of my UK friends are just like you!:)
Bundling a media player or a browser is not bad, it is truly a feature that many users like.
They however bundled their own browser and their own media player, claimed these couldnt be removed from the OS, and sought to destroy the market share of competitive products.
Of course its nice to have a browser and media player as part of the OS and they could have included netscape 3 with win95 and realplayer with win98.
It's not about making a better product its about using your existing monopoly position and secrecy about your API to push other players out of the market.
Eu members of parliament are pretty anonymous, there aren't any famous politicians in the eu parliament, they are nominated by their national parties, then people usually vote for the same party as they voted for in natl elections. Hence campaign contributions make little if no impact on what happens in Brussels because you vote for the party platform and not for some corporate funded drone.
EU commissioners usually are well known politicians in their country of origin but relatively unknown by Europeans in general. They aren't elected but nominated by their national governments. They are usually relatively incorruptible (compared to corruption in European countries, which is low on a worldwide scale). On the whole EU commissioners are excellent representatives of the people's interests.
People often laugh or get annoyed at the "bureaucracy" in Brussels. Just like at the level of the US Federal govt it is often necessary to put the smallest of details into writing to accomodate minority interests and to be fair to all in as many cases as possible. If you review EU proposed legislation over the decades you can see that they have created extremely beneficial legislation.
As regards remedies, the Commission has provisionally identified the core disclosure obligations that would be indispensable for Microsoft's competitors in low-end servers to achieve full interoperability with Windows PCs and servers. Microsoft would be obliged to reveal the necessary interface information so that rival vendors of low-end servers are able to compete on a level playing-field with Microsoft.
Anyway that says OPEN YOUR API TOTALLY MS or face punishmnet. GREAT NEWS for interoperability! Samba and dozens of other programs will benefit immensely.
Why is this forked? Doesn't that lead to double efforts? Is it political or is there a technical reason?
Re:not the answer - you got that right!
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Replacing SMTP?
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But the connection & server is still handling all the bounces. Receiving the mail, processing it and bouncing it. Having SMTP actually check if something is a valid account on the reply-to: or from: domain would be very worthwile so the mail isn't even accepted. (or for that matter that any email sent to a non existing account isn't received at all).
Technically you are completely correct, but politically saying the NSA has its own linux makes things more interesting! Also they are distributing a modified kernel and since linux is basically is a kernel only arguably they are a linux distributor..
It has to be said though, why does one of the most crucial security related departments in the US govt choose notoriously insecure software from a convicted monopolist when its own National Security Agency has done such great work??
Concidence or not? google news' primary link to this story points to the register's article about this vulnerability. In their best sour Brit register tradition theyre none too congratulatory about "free patches". Does bandwidth cost money?
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Alternative "fix" to the 22 steps one:
1) insert knoppix cd in drive
2) reboot computer
3) activate booting from cd in bios
You have to wonder what operating system the poor sod ran. 95% chance it was MS? This actually is an extremely good story to show people the massive dangers of insecure operating systems, browsers, email clients... and to explain what alternatives exist. Or how to run windows update..
As a former employee of one of Axciom's customers maybe he had access to this FTP server for his work using an account that wasn't then removed. Or maybe he put a trace on FTP traffic so that he could glean the passwords of other people accessing that server. I find the use of the term "FTP" in the article confusing because it implies Acxiom has plain password access there. If Axciom was lax with our customer data profiles they deserve a good slap on the fingers as well. Even though the FTP is on the outside of their firewall it is for use of their customers and it's probably a place where they store stuff for their clients to download.
It will be interesting to see to what extent he tried to gain access, what he did to hide his trail and what data he might have thus had access to. And in light of that what the severity of the penalty will be.
So this deal really doesn't have a lot to do with Lufthansa itself. They're only now starting to offer linux solutions which previously they didnt.
And they might get the SEC on their tail.
Quick note - I'm asking if the GPL is like the MS EULA in the sense of it being a legally binding contract and if there's anything really a court can do about the GPL since it itself the GPL doesn't exist unless you apply it to specific code.
Linux is unstoppable in such a way that it will matter as much what OS runs on a machine as what brand network chip is on the motherboard. Standards matter, and because of its open standards, wide industry support, the GPL's viral nature, and 0 cost linux is going to win out against the *BSD clones. Microsoft doesn't figure at all because they have none of these advantages.
The GPL doesn't need to be declared an enforcable license; the GPL is not against the law and basically is just a contract under which you can use the source code. I don't think any judge can say that you're forbidden from setting your own source code licensing terms.
How does this work, can it only be voided in court if it violates some constitutional right? I bet the Microsoft EULAs are a zillion times more vulnerable to legal objections than the GPL.
I submitted this story the other day, no other than infoworld has it that mandrake's enterprise edition beats redhats, suses and turbolinux' enterprise editons.
Didn't get placed. Is it just me who thinks that mandrake only is news for the slashdot editors when they have financial reports, or when the words mandrake and bankrupcy are found in the same sentence?
I bet Mandrake is still the number one distribution measured in both install base and ease of use. It certainly has been number one over the last few years. Now Infoworld claims theyre the top enterprise linux as well. Slashdot's editor pretty much like any other publication seems to wants to see Linux as a battle between RedHat & Suse with the real geeks using debian or gentoo. Maybe its part of this silly punish the French campaign?
gah!
[peeve mode off (not really)]
or let them go after this: http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/
Wow imagine a beowulf cluster of these claims! :(
Your ideal voting system sounds like the French presidential elections, yeah it would give smaller candidates a platform and a lot of votes and then in the finals it would add issues that were important in the initial elections to the final elections.
heh your nickname should be the anarchist. You either have never studied what exactly the EU has done or you have the same deconstructive opinion of your own local government. I bet you're from the UK and the latter option is true - most of my UK friends are just like you! :)
They however bundled their own browser and their own media player, claimed these couldnt be removed from the OS, and sought to destroy the market share of competitive products.
Of course its nice to have a browser and media player as part of the OS and they could have included netscape 3 with win95 and realplayer with win98.
It's not about making a better product its about using your existing monopoly position and secrecy about your API to push other players out of the market.
EU commissioners usually are well known politicians in their country of origin but relatively unknown by Europeans in general. They aren't elected but nominated by their national governments. They are usually relatively incorruptible (compared to corruption in European countries, which is low on a worldwide scale). On the whole EU commissioners are excellent representatives of the people's interests.
People often laugh or get annoyed at the "bureaucracy" in Brussels. Just like at the level of the US Federal govt it is often necessary to put the smallest of details into writing to accomodate minority interests and to be fair to all in as many cases as possible. If you review EU proposed legislation over the decades you can see that they have created extremely beneficial legislation.
That from http://europa.eu.int/rapid/start/cgi/guesten.ksh?p _action.gettxt=gt&doc=IP/03/1150%7C0%7CRAPID&lg=EN ;
hey note theres a .ksh in the URL - think they run korn shell cgi's in brussels? :)
Anyway that says OPEN YOUR API TOTALLY MS or face punishmnet. GREAT NEWS for interoperability! Samba and dozens of other programs will benefit immensely.
excuse me, it's an igloo because there are penguins!
Would you know if qmail supports that? :)
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Why is this forked? Doesn't that lead to double efforts? Is it political or is there a technical reason?
But the connection & server is still handling all the bounces. Receiving the mail, processing it and bouncing it. Having SMTP actually check if something is a valid account on the reply-to: or from: domain would be very worthwile so the mail isn't even accepted. (or for that matter that any email sent to a non existing account isn't received at all).
2xUS, 1 European & 1 Japanese probe.
Oops you think darrel will sue the NSA? :)
It has to be said though, why does one of the most crucial security related departments in the US govt choose notoriously insecure software from a convicted monopolist when its own National Security Agency has done such great work??
Concidence or not? google news' primary link to this story points to the register's article about this vulnerability. In their best sour Brit register tradition theyre none too congratulatory about "free patches". Does bandwidth cost money?