For how long are the teeming masses going to beat this dead horse? Microsoft's "PR" campaing is no different from what any other company does day in and day out. Does anyone really think that a company like Microsoft (this is Microsoft, fer fucks sake) would cower in fear as half a million giggling nerds say "hah! got you! u sux!!"?
And while I'm at it, let's not forget that people who appear in the Apple switch ads are real people, located by the company through god-knows-what mechanism and invited to offer "testimonials" gratis. Yeah, sure.
Let's see. The guy is saying that his method, unlike OTPs, is not susceptible to brute force attacks.
The problem is OTPs are not - I repeat not - susceptible to brute force attacks.
I can't believe that someone who made this basic incorrect assumption about encryption would be able to come up with something better than the OTP, sorry.
I do a lot of admin stuff on about ~30 W2K servers (though I'm not really an admin per se). Most of the time I use the built-in telnet server and the tools in the resource kit. In other cases I've written tools that interface with crap that is otherwise accessible through a GUI. Also, WMI is your friend. It's amazing what you can do with that. The problem is figuring it out.
There are of course some things you can't do through a CLI, but in general you can avoid using the mouse most of the time.
That's really insightful. Contrary to what you are obviously thinking, this is not an article about the two Gateway boxes your run in your parent's basement.
You apparently don't read Slashdot enough if you think they don't cover Linux worms in some attempt to make Linux look more secure than it is.
You apparently don't understand the term "security through obscurity". There have been dozens of Linux and thrid party vulnerabilities that are mentioned in passing is Slashback or delegated to one of the topic sections without making it to the front page. Off the top of my head, here's one. It doesn't matter if it's Slashcode or Apache or SSH. It's always "HEY, ANOTHER IE SECURITY HOLE!!!1!!" and 'obythewaytheresanewsshexploitkthx'
If you want to be on top of security issues, follow SecurityFocus, not Slashdot.
When one of these finally makes it to the front page, it's filled with "No, it's Symantec's fault" and "fuck Micro$oft" posts instead of recognizing the problems for what they are - plain and simple software bugs. It happens to the best of us.
Apache is far more secure than IIS and Pine is more secure than Outlook. No one is trying to deny or contest that, au contraire. But I'll be fucked if I understand why Slashdot does this sort of thing. Maybe you can explain it to us.
Funny that pretty much any "bash slashdot" post can get modded up, even if it is completely (and provably) false.
Funny that pretty much any misguided and FUD-ish post attempting to defend Slashdot from something it is clearly guilty of gets modded up.
I'm sure this article will garner accolades around here but the author is no more in tune with the politics of high-tech activism than my grandma is. Turning the 'movement' into a belief system was the worst thing that ever happened to the 'movement' in the first place, because the only thing belief systems beget is intolerance.
There's a significant difference between fighting for a cause and standing up for what's right, and attempting to force your beliefs on other people. We bemoan the strong-arm tactics employed by big business but we turn around and essentially declare "you're either eith us or against us". Not true? You haven't been reading Slashdot the past four years. We've been clapping in delight every time the house of one of our enemies collapses but we've been ignoring the termites gnawing away at our own basement.
Simply stopping internal squabbling is not going to do it either. How can we expect to 'dominate the world' when Eugenia Loli has trouble configuring the premier commercial Linux distro? When the most visible end-user Linux company (Lindows) does nothing but stumble in their tracks every time they come up with a new strategy for stealing market share from Microsoft?
No, what we need is more attention to the realities of the world. Stallman-esque idealism is nice but has gotten us exactly nothing. Radicalism is obviously not working, either. Let the technology stand on its own, and let it cater to the same type of people we attack and disparage for using 'an inferior OS', as if that was somehow indicative of terrible genetic deficiencies.
We can either break out of this vicious cycle or continue to wallow in our own little pool of muck while we shake our fists at the nice rich beautiful people that walk by.
Yes, but you must have admin privileges to use it at all, or be granted those privileges (which, I might say, is kinda complicated to begin with). It's not open to *everyone* by default.
Would you suggest that the chip makers just "don't listen" to MS when they come ofter them? Do you think it would help them? I sure as hell don't.
Your understanding of the realities of this world is frighteningly obtuse.
Like MS gives a toss about other companies. The only interest they have in the X-box is to make the X-box2 a platform for DRM; that's why they're so keen on stamping out mod chips: they're posturing to the guys in Hollywood that they can be trusted to keep user's sticky fingers out of their product when the time comes.
You might want to try to pull your head out of your ass, get off the zealot train and look around. It helps sometimes.
It's the only language they understand.
Let me know when you're finished with them. Bring your BFG2000. I'm sure there will be blood and gore and all that.
Item 'W10 Windows Scripting Host' lists the 'solution' to be removing WSH. This is about as useful as removing Perl from a Unix box - it's not viable. The WSH is an important tool and the knee-jerk "let's get rid of it!" reaction will eventually be more trouble than not given how many other Microsoft and third-party software requires it. Also, the WSH is only a hosting implementation. The VBScript and JScript interpreters are not removed when you disable the WSH.
Plus, you don't even need to spend on AV software from snake oil vendors.
All that's needed is to make the 'Edit' command the default in the registry for all types of WSH-recognized extensions, such as.js and.wsh. Unfortunately the default is 'Open', which executes the script.
Once you do this you can simply sit there and watch the script worms hit - the only thing you'll see are instances of Notepad all over the place (with the code, to boot). Quite funny (in a sick sort of way).
Exactly: why should MS be allowed to tell you what you can do with YOUR applicance any more than a toaster maker can?
Sigh. They can't. Do you listen to the fucking toaster manufacturer? No. Do you listen to Microsoft? Nope. They can bitch and moan all they like, and they can go after a few big mod chip marketers, and how does that make a difference? Do you honestly think this is the end of the modchip-for-Xbox market? I sure as hell don't.
"Opening case may invalidate the warranty" is where MS's rights end in this case.
Exactly. But there's a flip side here - if you want to go online with XBox Live (once they finally get it off the goddamn ground), you'll be screwed. Just like you were screwed if you wanted to play online with a cracked copy of Command & Conquer. That is where they can fuck you.
The other thing to consider of course is that Microsoft is not doing this just because they're bored - they have a responsibility to the companies that make games for their console. Want us to write games for the XBox? Then make it harder to pirate the damn thing. So while we're all bitching at The Evil Empire we might as well attack the game makers. I mean, god forbid they make any money!
I'd argue that Microsoft has a right to do this, and that the actual number of people they're affecting with this move is insignificant. This is an appliance folks, much like a VCR or a toaster. How many XBox users are running Linux on their appliances or buying mod chips? I suspect not very many.
But in any case, this is pointless. I can buy a PS2 with a pirate mod chip in Mexico City for $100. Pirated games are $4 a pop. Microsoft can only go after the high-profile ones but they can't completely choke off piracy. Just like Sony can't, either.
There will be other people in other countries that can and will do this sort of thing and there's nothing anyone can do to stop them. When you get big enough, of course, expect the BSA or whatever to come knocking on the door. Duh.
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Thought so. Chiken and egg thing, hmmmm?
And while I'm at it, let's not forget that people who appear in the Apple switch ads are real people, located by the company through god-knows-what mechanism and invited to offer "testimonials" gratis. Yeah, sure.
If #1 my condolences. If #2, you're obviously lying because you have a /. login.
The problem is OTPs are not - I repeat not - susceptible to brute force attacks.
I can't believe that someone who made this basic incorrect assumption about encryption would be able to come up with something better than the OTP, sorry.
Hmmm. Except this looks a bit uglier.
Of course, the headline for that was very different. A bit more, let's say, sensationalistic. Yeah, that's the word I was looking for.
The only thing that is more pathetic than a Linux zealot is an AC Lunix zealot. Don't waste keyboard lubricant on these people.
As long as I'm behind the firewall, yes.
There are of course some things you can't do through a CLI, but in general you can avoid using the mouse most of the time.
That's really insightful. Contrary to what you are obviously thinking, this is not an article about the two Gateway boxes your run in your parent's basement.
Oh-oh. The moral high ground. Can't fight against that
OMG, you are so smart. Thanks for sharing.
You apparently don't understand the term "security through obscurity". There have been dozens of Linux and thrid party vulnerabilities that are mentioned in passing is Slashback or delegated to one of the topic sections without making it to the front page. Off the top of my head, here's one. It doesn't matter if it's Slashcode or Apache or SSH. It's always "HEY, ANOTHER IE SECURITY HOLE!!!1!!" and 'obythewaytheresanewsshexploitkthx'
If you want to be on top of security issues, follow SecurityFocus, not Slashdot.
When one of these finally makes it to the front page, it's filled with "No, it's Symantec's fault" and "fuck Micro$oft" posts instead of recognizing the problems for what they are - plain and simple software bugs. It happens to the best of us.
Apache is far more secure than IIS and Pine is more secure than Outlook. No one is trying to deny or contest that, au contraire. But I'll be fucked if I understand why Slashdot does this sort of thing. Maybe you can explain it to us.
Funny that pretty much any "bash slashdot" post can get modded up, even if it is completely (and provably) false.
Funny that pretty much any misguided and FUD-ish post attempting to defend Slashdot from something it is clearly guilty of gets modded up.
Of course not. This is Slashdot, after all.
Oh, wait...
There's a significant difference between fighting for a cause and standing up for what's right, and attempting to force your beliefs on other people. We bemoan the strong-arm tactics employed by big business but we turn around and essentially declare "you're either eith us or against us". Not true? You haven't been reading Slashdot the past four years. We've been clapping in delight every time the house of one of our enemies collapses but we've been ignoring the termites gnawing away at our own basement.
Simply stopping internal squabbling is not going to do it either. How can we expect to 'dominate the world' when Eugenia Loli has trouble configuring the premier commercial Linux distro? When the most visible end-user Linux company (Lindows) does nothing but stumble in their tracks every time they come up with a new strategy for stealing market share from Microsoft?
No, what we need is more attention to the realities of the world. Stallman-esque idealism is nice but has gotten us exactly nothing. Radicalism is obviously not working, either. Let the technology stand on its own, and let it cater to the same type of people we attack and disparage for using 'an inferior OS', as if that was somehow indicative of terrible genetic deficiencies.
We can either break out of this vicious cycle or continue to wallow in our own little pool of muck while we shake our fists at the nice rich beautiful people that walk by.
Yes, but you must have admin privileges to use it at all, or be granted those privileges (which, I might say, is kinda complicated to begin with). It's not open to *everyone* by default.
If you have ActivePerl installed (recent build) you might want to do the same to the .pl extension, just in case.
Wow! Thanks for sharing.
Your understanding of the realities of this world is frighteningly obtuse.
Like MS gives a toss about other companies. The only interest they have in the X-box is to make the X-box2 a platform for DRM; that's why they're so keen on stamping out mod chips: they're posturing to the guys in Hollywood that they can be trusted to keep user's sticky fingers out of their product when the time comes.
You might want to try to pull your head out of your ass, get off the zealot train and look around. It helps sometimes.
It's the only language they understand.
Let me know when you're finished with them. Bring your BFG2000. I'm sure there will be blood and gore and all that.
Plus, you don't even need to spend on AV software from snake oil vendors.
All that's needed is to make the 'Edit' command the default in the registry for all types of WSH-recognized extensions, such as .js and .wsh. Unfortunately the default is 'Open', which executes the script.
Once you do this you can simply sit there and watch the script worms hit - the only thing you'll see are instances of Notepad all over the place (with the code, to boot). Quite funny (in a sick sort of way).
Sigh. They can't. Do you listen to the fucking toaster manufacturer? No. Do you listen to Microsoft? Nope. They can bitch and moan all they like, and they can go after a few big mod chip marketers, and how does that make a difference? Do you honestly think this is the end of the modchip-for-Xbox market? I sure as hell don't.
"Opening case may invalidate the warranty" is where MS's rights end in this case.
Exactly. But there's a flip side here - if you want to go online with XBox Live (once they finally get it off the goddamn ground), you'll be screwed. Just like you were screwed if you wanted to play online with a cracked copy of Command & Conquer. That is where they can fuck you.
The other thing to consider of course is that Microsoft is not doing this just because they're bored - they have a responsibility to the companies that make games for their console. Want us to write games for the XBox? Then make it harder to pirate the damn thing. So while we're all bitching at The Evil Empire we might as well attack the game makers. I mean, god forbid they make any money!
Kill them all, that's what I say.
Thanks for your insight.
What are you? 12 years old?
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Read my post again.
'GNU/Linux'. It's just 'Linux', thankyouverymuch.
But in any case, this is pointless. I can buy a PS2 with a pirate mod chip in Mexico City for $100. Pirated games are $4 a pop. Microsoft can only go after the high-profile ones but they can't completely choke off piracy. Just like Sony can't, either.
There will be other people in other countries that can and will do this sort of thing and there's nothing anyone can do to stop them. When you get big enough, of course, expect the BSA or whatever to come knocking on the door. Duh.