Read the.pdf research paper that's the heart of this story. Scientology vs XS4ALL and others is the center-piece of the introduction. Also note the Scientology has frequently claimed copyright over stuff which very definitely isn't theirs.
Off the top of my head, they did it with Google to try and force the owner of the non-US site xenu.net to counter-claim and defend in US court.
Half serious, half joking. It sounds silly, but it makes sense sometimes. (4 bit graphing calculators? I remember when HP had 16 bit CPUs. Okay, not a single chip.)
Spamford isn't exactly new to the Internet, and this isn't a five person, two act, locked-room whodunnit murder mystery.
Don't think of Slashdot as a court of law, think of it as a biology lab. If you don't believe the described results are valid, repeat the experiment. Merely install his software on your machine and see if it turns into a stinking infectious spam sewer. Go ahead, we'll wait.
First thing to do with any Windows system is rip out the MS JVM and install one from Sun. MS JVM exploits are commonly tried and MS is never going to patch them.
When the customer has beaten upon you long enough, give him
what he asks for, instead of what he needs. This is very strong
medicine, and is normally only required once.
A highly critical and unpatched security hole in Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles) Corp.'s ubiquitous Word software could be used to launch a denial of service attack and give system access.
Discovered by HexView, the hole affects Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Office XP, Microsoft Word 2000 and Microsoft Word 2002. It was discovered Thursday and is currently unpatched. [snip]
I guess the idea is to completely numb people about secuity problems. "Oh dear, another highly critical security bug, yawn."
Learn how things work. Your whois did a global search on "google.com" and some people just happened to have that string in the names of their name servers for some other domains.
Neopets bought up something like 300 domains to cover any futures plans as well as negative domains. Strangely, they pointed the negativeones at their main page too. (They're also marketing survey spammers, so I guess they're used to not being liked.)
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Off the top of my head, they did it with Google to try and force the owner of the non-US site xenu.net to counter-claim and defend in US court.
BoingBoing also used that phrase, and it didn't make sense then either since it's about Dutch ISPs. There's no mention of Texas in the .pdf document.
Half serious, half joking. It sounds silly, but it makes sense sometimes. (4 bit graphing calculators? I remember when HP had 16 bit CPUs. Okay, not a single chip.)
Or those knives on TV that they use to cut through cans or pipes and then a tomato.
No problem! With all that extra processing power, just emulate the 8 bit CPU...
TcpClient1.RemoteHost := 'google.com'; := '80';
TcpClient1.RemotePort
TcpClient1.Connect;
TcpClient1.Sendln(sRequest);
Come on, wget is for wuzzes! Real haxors just telnet to port 80 to ask for the page! ;)
If he weighs more than a duck, then he's many witches!
Don't think of Slashdot as a court of law, think of it as a biology lab. If you don't believe the described results are valid, repeat the experiment. Merely install his software on your machine and see if it turns into a stinking infectious spam sewer. Go ahead, we'll wait.
First thing to do with any Windows system is rip out the MS JVM and install one from Sun. MS JVM exploits are commonly tried and MS is never going to patch them.
Note that he said unbillable hours. If you're not getting paid for it, it's not much of a job, is it?
It almost makes me want to try something really goofy like this: http://server.com/%25SystemRoot%25/
It's their new security feature: Security through Stupidity.
Ah, that's easy then. Do they have a suggestion for which web app platform and OS I should rewrite my apps for?
I thought they wanted help with "Dalek Coding", oops.
Like Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, there is speculation that this has already happened...
"Yuck, me new woman have ugly flat brow and high forehead!"
"Then why you sleep with her?"
"She very inventive."
I'm sure he'll tell anyone who doesn't it to 'Go stick your head in a pig'.
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I did a search, and the results showed them to be amazingly good.
Learn how things work. Your whois did a global search on "google.com" and some people just happened to have that string in the names of their name servers for some other domains.
Neopets bought up something like 300 domains to cover any futures plans as well as negative domains. Strangely, they pointed the negative ones at their main page too. (They're also marketing survey spammers, so I guess they're used to not being liked.)
Hey, those little guys are pretty tricky!