The thing with ddos is it often spawns from a botnet, aka "I'm sorry officer, I didn't know my computer was attacking sony's website, how can I get rid of this malware on here again?"
The anon attacks were an exception and as a result led to the arrests of some individuals that weren't at the head of the attack.
1. Write your own OS, that way the government can't backdoor your OS's manufacturer without prior knowledge.
2. At a minimum flash your motherboard's firmware to something trusted or written yourself
3. Write your own anti-virus
4. Run ethernet wire to trusted locations (make sure it's outdoor grade wire)
5. Install security cameras at trusted locations and filter everything from them via DPI.
6. Surf mass pron off a random trusted location.
4G = wireless, comcast = coaxial, different level of availability and yes speed. No idea why 4g is your only option besides you maybe live more rural in which case I'd look into satellite internet (good d/l bad u/l). Also doesn't t-mobile offer unlimited 4g data? I've seriously considered telling comcast to go fuck themselves and getting t-mobile and paying the different to not deal w comcast anymore.
I think it's not so much to encourage good practice and ensure standards, as it is to discourage bad practices that are very hard to standardize later. In fact, in newer versions of Visual Studio, when you rename a variable, it gives you the option to rename everywhere else the variable is referenced. That feature probably originated out of these standards. I don't care if you name your variable studentScore, studentscore, or StudentScore, but if you name it StudentS, ss, Sscore, please die, thanks.
The military hasn't changed that much in the past 50 years in terms of culture, what the movie's about can still happen today, I don't know if the launch key protocol has been changed since in concept, I wouldn't be surprised it hasn't.
Now the fact that somebody on slashdot would down mod dr. strangelove... that's just pathetic, mods should have a requirement to check for hair on balls before assigning mod points:)
Agreed, healthy competition would be a much better alternative in the long run, but we're at a breaking point here, 4-5 companies in the states own the infrastructure for these services and are free to do with it as they please. And so far, they have, Comcast wanted to charge me $75 for basic internet if I didn't accept their promo plan, I'm pretty sure it doesn't cost them $10 (I'd love a real figure for this) to deliver this internet to me... 700%~ profit? Somethings gotta give.
P.S. this is why ISPs always have "promos", they're still making tons of money at what we think is "cheap" internet
If the FCC actually started to regulate the ISPs... it's too much to hope for. But then if even if the FCC starts regulating ISPs, look at what happened in the big pharma / FDA world, the FDA got bent over and ISPs have deep pockets like big pharma, so it may happen again.
The problem in stopping this trend costs money, and the trend hasn't directly cost us any money yet, though the superstorms coming through these last few years have. The big question is will it be reversible when people finally do start throwing money at fixing the planet.
Adapt or evolve? I own an AC thank you very much. It's the species and the ecosystems that would be in trouble... and well everybody who doesn't own an AC, which is most of the world's population.
Consider the other internet laws they're trying to pass in the UK in regards to social networks & ISP monitoring, etc... this law is relatively minor in comparison to the absurdity of it's neighbors.
I'd argue it's how the user configures it to behave (besides the mem part, that's always been a weak point, but the attacker has to have physical access to the computer, so ya...). You can set your computer to not hibernate & you can even set up a trusted external devices policy to only accept those it recognizes, but that's only for truly paranoid. And as I've said before, there's nothing revolutionary going on here, these types of attacks have been available forever and require physical access.
on hibernation, pretty sure memory and everything else shuts down, the hibernate file saves the state to reload into mem on power up, I'm curious, why don't you name some of these "a lot of ways", cause I can't think of any, besides truecrypt removing the feature and making you re-enter your password on power up from hibernation, I wonder if there's an option somewhere in there to already do so, but not feeling like checking atm.
Almost... but not quite, memory retains data for a while after the PC is powered off creating some interesting situations if the feds are banging on your door:)
Also, this is by far not the first tool of it's kind to steal keys out of various mem locations, $300 isn't a bank breaker though like some of the other tools in the biz are, or law enforcement only type stuff. I'm sure if you look hard enough, you can find free programs esp. on the linux side of the wall that can do this.
You mention a real huge downside to this type of law and that's non-tech savvy sex offender's have one more reason to get tech savvy and learn how to subvert the police, so this brings us to two evils: offender offends using the internet and is caught: a horrible act was committed and justice is served right? but... offender uses the internet to find victims, isn't caught, does it again and again. I'd say the latter is a lot more damage to society. This goes into the whole the justice system makes hardened criminals out of minor offenders bit because I believe that most of the sex offender's we care most about never seeing again are serving decades/life terms in prison. This is just a witch hunt with potentially horrible consequences in creating more victims.
An electronics DIY kit? Check out these to begin with. DIY radios are pretty cool, so is anything dealing with a DIY motor. Another idea is one of those christmas lights programming kits, but that might be a bit much.
Gentlemen, I've actually trained a lady under me at a dif job and have a very good idea of how it works, I never assigned her super complicated crap I knew she'd struggle with, more like write a simple select and you can find your datafields in the following queries type stuff, or add this field to the corp app (I had to teach her MVP basics / resharper real quick for that one).
Let's be realistic though, it takes one dumbass mgr. or even sr. dev. to completely turn a beginner's job into a nightmare, especially with a tech illiterate motivated by greed CEO at the helm.
If you're still blowing up db's as a sr. dev., cudos, you're making way more than your worth (+1 to test & stage env.).
I completely agree on the view of investment on a beginner individual, it's like rolling dice and hoping you get a 6 on who you're hiring, but are willing to settle for a 3 knowing that a 1 or 2 are just as likely. Now about company practices to keep that individual with promotions and competitive salary, that I haven't seen a whole lot of (change your job every 3 years if you like to be at the top end of your salary range (it goes up yearly no shit), requires self-marketing).
Agreed, it's w/e knowledge is available in the public domain that you can use to gather intelligence with, I've heard of people tracing spam emails back to origin and accumulating information on the spammer with OSI. There's a lot of grey here too like sites that offer you lookup information for a fee, but are available to anyone.
One thing I can't seem to wrap my head around is how did he figure out passwords from the public domain? So say I'm known by syn, but I set my password to syn24, OSI has nothing to let you guess that, those must've either been some very weak passwords, or he was trying a very large # of accounts with all sorts of semi-relative password and these victims had the weakest passwords.
Doesn't matter though, what he did is plain out wrong on all levels, I wonder if he went far enough down the rabbit hole to not even realize it, and that he was affecting real people, but the DOJ is not one to care. A very similar case not too long ago had a teenage girl committing suicide over such things, so the potential consequences of the actions he took are very real.
The courses I've seen start you off with flow charts to try and explain the flow and concept of stuff like boolean logic, variables, variable types, basic operators (+/-/*//), etc... moving into local applications, which I guess is the basis for a game. I remember though, when I took AP Java in HS, we wrote the fishes game in a command window towards the end of that course, and I think I spent most of college going "duh, that's how you do it" as a result of the challenge level of that class. So maybe there's simpler games to write, I remember some guy in that class wrote a game for his ti-84 which was pretty cool, but as a general piece of advice, it's not the place to start, it's something to strive towards. It can lead to some very bad habits that are difficult to fix, especially when you start googling answers on how to write it, you gotta be able to separate good code from all the people who started out thinking they're hot enough to write games and who wind up writing 10 lines for every 2 cause they don't actually "understand" what's going on in the code. And don't get me started on game algorithms, some of those went famous like from Quake. Remember we're talking about an OP who has been out of coding a while, and wasn't one of those people that MUST have a coding job out of college, 6 years is a long time to go without if you have a strong passion and knack for it. I'd probably say f' it and start coding on the side for OS, or self projects during those 6 years to stay sharp.
Oh, and it's probably important to state your case beforehand somewhere between getting a job offer and getting hired that you're a true beginner, consider that the "beginner" leaving before you has probably learned their stuff and is moving on since nobody ever promotes inside IT, so that they don't expect you as a "beginner" programmer to fully dive in MVC or something. I've seen things more retarded in my career, and people either get canned or run out screaming.
Right... but ideally a beginner programmer wouldn't be doing mid/sr. programmer work, it's more like add a textbox here & write this report here, not build this module or create this ETL process. Everybody's gotta start somewhere, but again I must stress, that approach isn't for most people.
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Pretty much...
The thing with ddos is it often spawns from a botnet, aka "I'm sorry officer, I didn't know my computer was attacking sony's website, how can I get rid of this malware on here again?"
The anon attacks were an exception and as a result led to the arrests of some individuals that weren't at the head of the attack.
he's technically correct... poor presentation though. You can't DDOS a DDOS attack.
1. Write your own OS, that way the government can't backdoor your OS's manufacturer without prior knowledge.
2. At a minimum flash your motherboard's firmware to something trusted or written yourself
3. Write your own anti-virus
4. Run ethernet wire to trusted locations (make sure it's outdoor grade wire)
5. Install security cameras at trusted locations and filter everything from them via DPI.
6. Surf mass pron off a random trusted location.
4G = wireless, comcast = coaxial, different level of availability and yes speed. No idea why 4g is your only option besides you maybe live more rural in which case I'd look into satellite internet (good d/l bad u/l). Also doesn't t-mobile offer unlimited 4g data? I've seriously considered telling comcast to go fuck themselves and getting t-mobile and paying the different to not deal w comcast anymore.
I think it's not so much to encourage good practice and ensure standards, as it is to discourage bad practices that are very hard to standardize later. In fact, in newer versions of Visual Studio, when you rename a variable, it gives you the option to rename everywhere else the variable is referenced. That feature probably originated out of these standards. I don't care if you name your variable studentScore, studentscore, or StudentScore, but if you name it StudentS, ss, Sscore, please die, thanks.
The military hasn't changed that much in the past 50 years in terms of culture, what the movie's about can still happen today, I don't know if the launch key protocol has been changed since in concept, I wouldn't be surprised it hasn't.
:)
Now the fact that somebody on slashdot would down mod dr. strangelove... that's just pathetic, mods should have a requirement to check for hair on balls before assigning mod points
Agreed, healthy competition would be a much better alternative in the long run, but we're at a breaking point here, 4-5 companies in the states own the infrastructure for these services and are free to do with it as they please. And so far, they have, Comcast wanted to charge me $75 for basic internet if I didn't accept their promo plan, I'm pretty sure it doesn't cost them $10 (I'd love a real figure for this) to deliver this internet to me... 700%~ profit? Somethings gotta give.
P.S. this is why ISPs always have "promos", they're still making tons of money at what we think is "cheap" internet
Any questions on why to not ever put this in the hands of the military?
It's never too late to start with yourself AC... or you can submit and serve quietly, thanks.
If the FCC actually started to regulate the ISPs... it's too much to hope for. But then if even if the FCC starts regulating ISPs, look at what happened in the big pharma / FDA world, the FDA got bent over and ISPs have deep pockets like big pharma, so it may happen again.
The problem in stopping this trend costs money, and the trend hasn't directly cost us any money yet, though the superstorms coming through these last few years have. The big question is will it be reversible when people finally do start throwing money at fixing the planet.
Adapt or evolve? I own an AC thank you very much. It's the species and the ecosystems that would be in trouble... and well everybody who doesn't own an AC, which is most of the world's population.
Consider the other internet laws they're trying to pass in the UK in regards to social networks & ISP monitoring, etc... this law is relatively minor in comparison to the absurdity of it's neighbors.
I'd argue it's how the user configures it to behave (besides the mem part, that's always been a weak point, but the attacker has to have physical access to the computer, so ya...). You can set your computer to not hibernate & you can even set up a trusted external devices policy to only accept those it recognizes, but that's only for truly paranoid. And as I've said before, there's nothing revolutionary going on here, these types of attacks have been available forever and require physical access.
on hibernation, pretty sure memory and everything else shuts down, the hibernate file saves the state to reload into mem on power up, I'm curious, why don't you name some of these "a lot of ways", cause I can't think of any, besides truecrypt removing the feature and making you re-enter your password on power up from hibernation, I wonder if there's an option somewhere in there to already do so, but not feeling like checking atm.
Almost... but not quite, memory retains data for a while after the PC is powered off creating some interesting situations if the feds are banging on your door :)
Also, this is by far not the first tool of it's kind to steal keys out of various mem locations, $300 isn't a bank breaker though like some of the other tools in the biz are, or law enforcement only type stuff. I'm sure if you look hard enough, you can find free programs esp. on the linux side of the wall that can do this.
You mention a real huge downside to this type of law and that's non-tech savvy sex offender's have one more reason to get tech savvy and learn how to subvert the police, so this brings us to two evils: offender offends using the internet and is caught: a horrible act was committed and justice is served right? but... offender uses the internet to find victims, isn't caught, does it again and again. I'd say the latter is a lot more damage to society. This goes into the whole the justice system makes hardened criminals out of minor offenders bit because I believe that most of the sex offender's we care most about never seeing again are serving decades/life terms in prison. This is just a witch hunt with potentially horrible consequences in creating more victims.
An electronics DIY kit? Check out these to begin with. DIY radios are pretty cool, so is anything dealing with a DIY motor. Another idea is one of those christmas lights programming kits, but that might be a bit much.
I wonder if the myers-brigg is taken by int* types as 90% of it's test taking volume :)
Gentlemen, I've actually trained a lady under me at a dif job and have a very good idea of how it works, I never assigned her super complicated crap I knew she'd struggle with, more like write a simple select and you can find your datafields in the following queries type stuff, or add this field to the corp app (I had to teach her MVP basics / resharper real quick for that one).
Let's be realistic though, it takes one dumbass mgr. or even sr. dev. to completely turn a beginner's job into a nightmare, especially with a tech illiterate motivated by greed CEO at the helm.
If you're still blowing up db's as a sr. dev., cudos, you're making way more than your worth (+1 to test & stage env.).
I completely agree on the view of investment on a beginner individual, it's like rolling dice and hoping you get a 6 on who you're hiring, but are willing to settle for a 3 knowing that a 1 or 2 are just as likely. Now about company practices to keep that individual with promotions and competitive salary, that I haven't seen a whole lot of (change your job every 3 years if you like to be at the top end of your salary range (it goes up yearly no shit), requires self-marketing).
Agreed, it's w/e knowledge is available in the public domain that you can use to gather intelligence with, I've heard of people tracing spam emails back to origin and accumulating information on the spammer with OSI. There's a lot of grey here too like sites that offer you lookup information for a fee, but are available to anyone.
One thing I can't seem to wrap my head around is how did he figure out passwords from the public domain? So say I'm known by syn, but I set my password to syn24, OSI has nothing to let you guess that, those must've either been some very weak passwords, or he was trying a very large # of accounts with all sorts of semi-relative password and these victims had the weakest passwords.
Doesn't matter though, what he did is plain out wrong on all levels, I wonder if he went far enough down the rabbit hole to not even realize it, and that he was affecting real people, but the DOJ is not one to care. A very similar case not too long ago had a teenage girl committing suicide over such things, so the potential consequences of the actions he took are very real.
The courses I've seen start you off with flow charts to try and explain the flow and concept of stuff like boolean logic, variables, variable types, basic operators (+/-/*//), etc... moving into local applications, which I guess is the basis for a game. I remember though, when I took AP Java in HS, we wrote the fishes game in a command window towards the end of that course, and I think I spent most of college going "duh, that's how you do it" as a result of the challenge level of that class. So maybe there's simpler games to write, I remember some guy in that class wrote a game for his ti-84 which was pretty cool, but as a general piece of advice, it's not the place to start, it's something to strive towards. It can lead to some very bad habits that are difficult to fix, especially when you start googling answers on how to write it, you gotta be able to separate good code from all the people who started out thinking they're hot enough to write games and who wind up writing 10 lines for every 2 cause they don't actually "understand" what's going on in the code. And don't get me started on game algorithms, some of those went famous like from Quake. Remember we're talking about an OP who has been out of coding a while, and wasn't one of those people that MUST have a coding job out of college, 6 years is a long time to go without if you have a strong passion and knack for it. I'd probably say f' it and start coding on the side for OS, or self projects during those 6 years to stay sharp.
Oh, and it's probably important to state your case beforehand somewhere between getting a job offer and getting hired that you're a true beginner, consider that the "beginner" leaving before you has probably learned their stuff and is moving on since nobody ever promotes inside IT, so that they don't expect you as a "beginner" programmer to fully dive in MVC or something. I've seen things more retarded in my career, and people either get canned or run out screaming.
Right... but ideally a beginner programmer wouldn't be doing mid/sr. programmer work, it's more like add a textbox here & write this report here, not build this module or create this ETL process. Everybody's gotta start somewhere, but again I must stress, that approach isn't for most people.