For a few years, most of the spam from South Korea came from schools with a standard exploitable Linux distro. Basically, no matter the OS, that country is security basketcase.
Two additional points that I forgot:
1. I'm assuming that they'll later add some encryption. Otherwise a man-in-the-middle isn't needed for most data theft.
2. The display sign at the front of the bus runs Windows XP on HP hardware, uses wi-fi to load advertising and news and is probably a local IP address on the bus lan. I wonder if it's firewall from the bus wi-fi?
The YRT regional bus service is trying to make wi-fi access from their buses work. (Last time I checked, the AP was answering but not connecting to anything. They claim some buses are working.)
Once people get into the habit of using it, it should be easy to board the bus with a laptop and create a bandit AP that looks like the real one. (A working bandit since it could just proxy to the real AP for internet access.) A fine man-in-the-middle only "visible" to the riders, and easy to shutdown and swap buses if there's any sign someone has spotted the bandit.
Oh yes... Their standard name for the bus AP is.. default.
Lexical Contradiction: Spammers will redefine any term in order to
disguise their abuse of Internet resources.
Sharp's Corollary: Spammers attempt to re-define "spamming" as
that which they do not do.
Hopefully Rule #4 will soon follow to completion.
Rule #4: The natural course of a spamming business is to go bankrupt.
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There are a few crowned "Spam Kings". The Spam Queen, Laura Betterly has retired. I'm not sure what the spammish rules of secession are, but I'm hoping for a spam War of the Roses.
Spamford: And here I prophesy: this brawl today,
Grown to this faction in the server garden,
Shall spam, between the Red Rose and the White,
A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
-Löse25 Pöunds in30Däys-
I don't know about Shelly, but Lord "mad, bad, and dangerous to know" George Byron would probably be in jail, drug rehab, or celebrity exile. Or dead, since these party animal poets tended to die young at the dawn of the 19th C.
I'm sure there were some Rondroids asploding too. After all, the brain is just meat and it's the Thetan that does all the thinking and memory stuff back through trillions of years of past lives.
Depending on where you were, the first inning was "software stores" with copies of Apple ][ and IBM PC diskettes for "evaluation purposes". They existed for a few years in Canada until it was determined that the copyright laws extended to ones and zeros on computer disks as well as printed material.
If you're going to make b&w comix warning of the evils and sins of "piracy", and eventual but certain punishment in a short booklet format, then there's only one man for the job!
I realize that hiring Jack Chick could be tricky, but I'm sure that the right arguments will succeed.
The big Xerox printer, copier, fax, etc, ones have a submission option for sensitive docs where it keeps it spooled until you go to the printer and give it the password.
And if you had some search engine toolbar installed, and printer was visible to the outside, its config page was probably snitched to the rest of the world.
Track #5 is scratched, waaaah! The CD surface generally looks like it was attacked by a Dremel tool, but I'll bet it's the big scrape parallel to the tracks wot done it. Time to look into these "CD repair kits" to see if they're any good. (The data should still be there, but the surface needs patched with some kind of goop with the same refractive index as the CD.)
I still have my AWE32 (or is it an AWE64?) but I didn't try playing with the sound too much. Now I'd have to fix the Win98 install on my secondary box...
Hmm. Developer Keeper. "Okay, I built a cubical farm, a lunch room, an attached fun room and even dropped off t-shirts and pizza. Why aren't my peons coding?" "Your creatures need a washroom." "D'OH!"
Needlepoint patterns are a frequent copyright hot zone on the web, newsgroups, etc. Ah well, at least when the lawyertroopers of the NPAA haul some needlepointing granny into court, they've probably got the right copyright terrorist.
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For a few years, most of the spam from South Korea came from schools with a standard exploitable Linux distro. Basically, no matter the OS, that country is security basketcase.
That's how you know, not how Windows XP knows.
Annnd your XP knows that the other end is an ad-hoc network and not a WAP because? Anyone? Anyone...?
You'd be better to check the evil bit on the packets.Note to self: turn off sonic screwdriver sound-effect when Palm is scanning.
Hmm. How big is the user id gap lost in the Great Fire or Big Whoops (where my first uid was lost)?
Two additional points that I forgot:
1. I'm assuming that they'll later add some encryption. Otherwise a man-in-the-middle isn't needed for most data theft.
2. The display sign at the front of the bus runs Windows XP on HP hardware, uses wi-fi to load advertising and news and is probably a local IP address on the bus lan. I wonder if it's firewall from the bus wi-fi?
The YRT regional bus service is trying to make wi-fi access from their buses work. (Last time I checked, the AP was answering but not connecting to anything. They claim some buses are working.)
Once people get into the habit of using it, it should be easy to board the bus with a laptop and create a bandit AP that looks like the real one. (A working bandit since it could just proxy to the real AP for internet access.) A fine man-in-the-middle only "visible" to the riders, and easy to shutdown and swap buses if there's any sign someone has spotted the bandit.
Oh yes... Their standard name for the bus AP is .. default.
And don't worry, it's not spam because... (Pick one or many)
It's covered under the Rules of Spam
Rule #1: Spammers lie.Hopefully Rule #4 will soon follow to completion.
Rule #4: The natural course of a spamming business is to go bankrupt.There are a few crowned "Spam Kings". The Spam Queen, Laura Betterly has retired. I'm not sure what the spammish rules of secession are, but I'm hoping for a spam War of the Roses.
I don't know about Shelly, but Lord "mad, bad, and dangerous to know" George Byron would probably be in jail, drug rehab, or celebrity exile. Or dead, since these party animal poets tended to die young at the dawn of the 19th C.
Posterity will ne'er survey
A nobler grave than this;
Here lie the bones of Castlereagh;
Stop, traveler, and piss.
-- Lord Byron, on Lord Castlereagh
I'm sure there were some Rondroids asploding too. After all, the brain is just meat and it's the Thetan that does all the thinking and memory stuff back through trillions of years of past lives.
Depending on where you were, the first inning was "software stores" with copies of Apple ][ and IBM PC diskettes for "evaluation purposes". They existed for a few years in Canada until it was determined that the copyright laws extended to ones and zeros on computer disks as well as printed material.
If you're going to make b&w comix warning of the evils and sins of "piracy", and eventual but certain punishment in a short booklet format, then there's only one man for the job!
I realize that hiring Jack Chick could be tricky, but I'm sure that the right arguments will succeed.
The guys from the Wayback Machine come round and archive it.
Mind you, if both sides have these robots and snipers, counter snipers, counter-counter snipers, ... it could get real ugly.
The big Xerox printer, copier, fax, etc, ones have a submission option for sensitive docs where it keeps it spooled until you go to the printer and give it the password.
"I usually don't believe the letters in Pentcube, but one day..."
And if you had some search engine toolbar installed, and printer was visible to the outside, its config page was probably snitched to the rest of the world.
Track #5 is scratched, waaaah! The CD surface generally looks like it was attacked by a Dremel tool, but I'll bet it's the big scrape parallel to the tracks wot done it. Time to look into these "CD repair kits" to see if they're any good. (The data should still be there, but the surface needs patched with some kind of goop with the same refractive index as the CD.)
I still have my AWE32 (or is it an AWE64?) but I didn't try playing with the sound too much. Now I'd have to fix the Win98 install on my secondary box...
Hmm. Developer Keeper. "Okay, I built a cubical farm, a lunch room, an attached fun room and even dropped off t-shirts and pizza. Why aren't my peons coding?" "Your creatures need a washroom." "D'OH!"
Needlepoint patterns are a frequent copyright hot zone on the web, newsgroups, etc. Ah well, at least when the lawyertroopers of the NPAA haul some needlepointing granny into court, they've probably got the right copyright terrorist.
Yeah, it's not like UUCP was broken or anything.
Were there any munchkins running around chanting "Ding Dong, the Witch is dead"?