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  1. Re:Stuck in the old ways on Why the CAPTCHA Approach Is Doomed · · Score: 1

    Then don't use the same field every time. Encrypt the field names with salt and a time-based password. That'll deal with the blighters.... until they start doing entity counting or the like. Then you insert chaff... Well, there's the arms race for you.

  2. Re:Unbelievable on Some DNS Requests Ruled Illegal in North Dakota · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is one way to deal with it:


    $ telnet mailin-01.mx.aol.com 25
    Trying 205.188.159.57...
    Connected to da.mx.aol.com.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    220-rly-da05.mx.aol.com ESMTP mail_relay_in-da05.2; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:03:52 -0500
    220-America Online (AOL) and its affiliated companies do not
    220- authorize the use of its proprietary computers and computer
    220- networks to accept, transmit, or distribute unsolicited bulk
    220- e-mail sent from the internet. Effective immediately: AOL
    220- may no longer accept connections from IP addresses which
    220 have no reverse-DNS (PTR record) assigned.


    All geeks are required to hate spam. It's in the by-laws, go check.

  3. Re:Yahoo on Are Spammers Giving Up? · · Score: 1

    SA-Exim can greylist based on spamassassin score. Messages with low spam scores go though without greylisting.

  4. Re:It happened before. on Best Buy Customer Gets Box Full of Bathroom Tiles Instead of Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    I saw your mention of mfm, and immediately thought "threesome" (male-female-male).

  5. Re:patents reward disclosure, not invention on Morfik Patents AJAX Compiler · · Score: 1

    No, the patent system is intended to '... promote the progress of science ...' (US Constitution, Article I) by giving inventors a monpoly on the invention for a limited amount of time, thus providing a monatary incentive to research new things.

  6. Re:Posted notice? on Archive.org Sued By Colorado Woman · · Score: 1

    That problem is dealt with using cache control HTTP headers. If you don't want it cached or only cached for a limited time, it's easy to tell the proxies that.

  7. Re:Spam fighting can be a source of income! on 5 Things the Boss Should Know About Spam Fighting · · Score: 1

    (You) CAN-SPAM nullified state laws on the matter. Only ISPs can sue now, not individual recipiants.

  8. Re:Flawed system or flawed usage? on Study Finds Bank of America SiteKey is Flawed · · Score: 1

    The secure way to do this is SSL. The problem is that users are too stupid to understand how to use SSL to verify a site.

  9. Re:Flawed all around on Study Finds Bank of America SiteKey is Flawed · · Score: 1

    They phased out SSN as username, and if you still have that, you can change your username online.

  10. Re:Flawed system or flawed usage? on Study Finds Bank of America SiteKey is Flawed · · Score: 2, Informative

    They could intentionaly suppress the image about 5% of the time, and berate users who enter thier password anyway. "If this were a real phishing site, you balance of $AMOUNT would have just been sent to $TERRORIST_ORGINIZATION. You're not a terrorist, are you?"

  11. Re:They've done this since the beginning on TiVo Selling Data on Users' Watching Habits · · Score: 1

    You can opt out of TiVo sharing your viewing habits. I did. I have a hacked unit, and I can tell that it's being respected.

  12. Re:WTF? on BBC Download Plans Approved · · Score: 1

    Yes, you can take ownership. I knew that. My point was that under windows the Administrator account normaly respects file permissions.

  13. Re:another option on BBC Download Plans Approved · · Score: 2, Informative

    Indeed, the Administrator doesn't bypass file permissions, as root accounts on mose UNIX-like systems do. I know that LOCAL SYSTEM is above Administrator in terms of privs, but I don't know if it respects file premissions or not. Power Users and Administrators can elevate their privs to LOCAL SYSTEM on XP.

  14. Re:another option on BBC Download Plans Approved · · Score: 1

    I will enjoy seeing them try to protect content from users on an operating system where the administratitive users is truely all powerful. (FYI, Administrator is not the most privledged account on a Windows system)

  15. Re:TI 89 on The Best Graphing Calculator on the Market? · · Score: 1

    I've had a TI-89 for about 8 years. Never had any problems with it. It has made me lazy, though :(

  16. Re:OpenVPN on Hotel Connectivity Provider SuperClick Tracks You · · Score: 1

    No tracking. The catch is that you've got to run your own server.

  17. Re:A true nerd on Hotel Connectivity Provider SuperClick Tracks You · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm certian I saw a patch that lets you play tetris. Ah, here it is: http://www.movementarian.org/fscktris/fscktris.htm l

  18. Re:From my cold dead hands on Second Amendment Questioned · · Score: 1

    Oh, I get it! Privilege escalation!

  19. Re:More than just social security problems here... on First-Person Account of a Social Engineering Attack · · Score: 1

    Arp posioning?

  20. Re:And why is it that way? on First-Person Account of a Social Engineering Attack · · Score: 1

    Pfft. I can memorize a randomly generated 12 character password after using it half a dozen times. Write it down, put it in my wallet, and burn it when I stop looking at it.

  21. Re:Shocking! on ISPs Offer Faster Speeds, Why Don't We Get Them? · · Score: 1

    I have 8/768 with comcast. I have looked at my modem config file, it is actualy provisioned at 8800/768

    # ./speed_down.sh
    2006-06-01 22:04:44 9091kbps

    # ./speed_up.sh
    2006-06-01 22:19:03 642kbps (note that i traffic shape outbound traffic, and did not disable it for this test.)

  22. Linux for Windows on Useful Apps for First-Time Windows Users? · · Score: 1

    You laugh, but take a look at coLinux (http://www.colinux.org/). Windows runs debian just fine.

  23. Re:Bank of America has a solution on Meng Wong's Perspectives on Antispam · · Score: 1

    No, it's fucking stupid. Thier main login page still asks for your username and password in a form that is not encrypted (if you're cookied, it only needs the username). The available secret quetions are not that tough, either.

  24. Re:That is absolutely what I was thinking, too! on GM Crops Create Herbicide-resistant "Superweed" · · Score: 1

    My girlfriend (a microbioligist) was recently offered an interview with Monsanto via a headhunter. She told the headhunter something along the lines of "I'm not working for those sleazy bastards".

  25. Re:THANK YOU CISCO/LINKSYS on Linksys Adds Linux WRT54G Model Back · · Score: 1

    You're not the only one. I have two WRT54Gs, and I would not have bought them if they weren't easily hackable.