There are now other real products (not the v14gra sold by spammers) like Cialis. Oddly enough, they seem to be aiming advertising at the hard of hearing. Haven't seen any spam for it.. yet.
And they don't "go away" even when some people say that they host child pornographers and other scammers. Even bad netizens got rights. Even (barf!) Darl's got rights.
But if the FBI had wanted to be bad-ass, they would have just taken the machines from the start, Steve Jackson Games style. I'd like to know more before saying that their civil rights were stepped on.
there was thousands of DDOS "drones" located at the datacenter
Doing it in-house sounds so old fashioned. They should look into out-sourcing like spammers have been doing with under-utilizied home Windows computers. Does anyone have contact information for the people who did MyDoom.A and.B? I might have a deal lined up involving a few hundred thousand dollars of business. (I could use the reward money.)
The company itself wasn't involved in the crime just their machines.
We don't know that. The machines might have been removed from CIT's control if it was felt that they were involved in the crime investigated. Or maybe someone at foonet smart-mouthed the FBI. We don't know.
I wonder too. Why waste several hours asking for the data if they'd planned to haul everything away in the first place? Think of all the extra hours that would have to be added to the budgeted time for hauling the equipment away, setting it up again, and looking for the data.
Not exactly news outlets, theWHIR had a short bit on the 16th, and it was mentioned in a thread in nanae on the 15th.
I do wonder how cooperative CIT was. After several hours of requests for the info (with a warrent) the FBI must have been riled to say "F-this-S, haul it away!". Think about how much extra work that must have been. There's more to this story, pity no news service has looked into it yet.
So? Which finger actually pressed a key? Having large hands, it's easy for me to crowd the keypad and my free hand is usually blocking most lines of sight.
Since Interbase was around long before MySQL and PostgreSQL, why did anyone bother making them? Besides, we need enough DBs to match the number of editors available.
As for people not in the theater treating operations like a game, I think we're way way late for that. The worst of this moderization of pushing pieces on a board is that the rules can (and will) be tweaked quckly during planning for real world actions and possibly made more "comfortable". Too high a body count? Let's turn down the enemy's morale a little. Their equipment can't be that good, let's fix that. Our new expensive hardware will work perfectly the first time because defence contractors never make misteaks.
This could be useful, but they need to mount big signs over all the consoles: The map is not the territory!
That sounds about right for the mission of intercepting all those terrorist midgets with Nausicaa jet flyers. Delivering four Quarter-Pounders to the target should knock them out of the air.
One thing you can try is reading newsgroups via GoogleGroups. Some people have said that the sponsored links (ads) on the right are based on some of the content (perhaps just titles) of posts rather than only the newsgroup name/subject.
Some kooks have reacted badly when after posting about the evil Them, psychs, mind-control implants and whatnot, ads for paxil and other drugs appeared. Personally I think Google was spot-on!:^P
Google mainly tries to be helpful, but sometimes it comes across as creepy. They know that I'm from Canada (IP address?) so they route me to google.ca all the time and tailor news.google.com to headline Canadian stories unless I force it not to. In an attempt to be helpful, will they start customizing what I see even more? The real question is how much data-mining does Google do with information that passes through their site. And how much data-mining will they do in the future after an IPO and a few years.
Google is a powerful force, and with great power...
I got enrolled into a fictitious hacker group called "Top 40" in Montreal in 1983. Not by name, just by association. The reporter of that story crashed a Hudson Yacht-Club Get-Together looking for the scoop on this infamous group, and was unpleasant enough at the door ("What are you trying to hide?") that they let him in so he could see that we were just harmless computer enthusiasts. Some of us were starting small companies at the time. Oddly enough, he never put that in his story, which was mainly about a vast underground network of eevil hackers. (I guess a social gathering at a yacht club didn't fit his fable.)
I wonder if that reporter was Clive in his early years?
The actual story was that 4 teenagers got busted by Bell-cops for using their Applecat modems to phreak. Woo!
Has there been any proof of SMTP relays yet? Up until now, it's mainly been proxies. I'm pretty sure spammers will/have taken the next obvious step, but I didn't think anyone had anything solid yet.
Perhaps this story doesn't mention the profit side of virus writing because no one would be fool enough to hire these whiny types to do it?
Allow me my rose coloured glasses. I might suspect that all news stories are equally flawed, but it's only the "teenage haxor angst" ones that I know are flawed.:^)
News stories are definitely like sausages and laws--never ever watch any of them being made.
Speaking of jumping the conclusions, try this link to the "Special to the Toronto Star" story. I think it's called the author of the story milking the market for everything he can get. And it brings to mind the famous line that P.T. Barnum never said.
Clive Thompson has been shopping this story around. The two-parter in the Toronto Star was billed as "SPECIAL TO THE STAR". Special reformating of the same article as far as I can tell.
I'm always skeptical of stories like this. Everytime there was a story where I knew the people and facts directly, the story was usually a mish-mash mixed or invented to sex up the story.
No, but when you're reading your email, there will be small text ads on the right side of the screen targeted to the content of your email.
For example, if someone is emailing you about overcoming the Great Satan, perhaps some of the ads will be for flight schools in your area. It's just helpful search routines with no privacy issues at all. Nothing to worry about citizen, the computer is your friend.
I finally replaced my old Rage-II video card, does that help? (Then again, it just moved downstream to my P1-266, but the SVGA from that box is definitely gone!)
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There are now other real products (not the v14gra sold by spammers) like Cialis. Oddly enough, they seem to be aiming advertising at the hard of hearing. Haven't seen any spam for it .. yet.
But if the FBI had wanted to be bad-ass, they would have just taken the machines from the start, Steve Jackson Games style. I'd like to know more before saying that their civil rights were stepped on.
Doing it in-house sounds so old fashioned. They should look into out-sourcing like spammers have been doing with under-utilizied home Windows computers. Does anyone have contact information for the people who did MyDoom.A and .B? I might have a deal lined up involving a few hundred thousand dollars of business. (I could use the reward money.)
The company itself wasn't involved in the crime just their machines. We don't know that. The machines might have been removed from CIT's control if it was felt that they were involved in the crime investigated. Or maybe someone at foonet smart-mouthed the FBI. We don't know.
I wonder too. Why waste several hours asking for the data if they'd planned to haul everything away in the first place? Think of all the extra hours that would have to be added to the budgeted time for hauling the equipment away, setting it up again, and looking for the data.
I do wonder how cooperative CIT was. After several hours of requests for the info (with a warrent) the FBI must have been riled to say "F-this-S, haul it away!". Think about how much extra work that must have been. There's more to this story, pity no news service has looked into it yet.
Just what Australians need, GNU Taxes!
So? Which finger actually pressed a key? Having large hands, it's easy for me to crowd the keypad and my free hand is usually blocking most lines of sight.
Four digit PINs are for wimps. Mine are five and six digits. Of course, I'm fscked if I'm travelling in Europe and a camera might still get it all.
And why wouldn't most open source projects port to QNX about as easily as anything else, especially if we're talking about embedded applications?
And we should trust that web site as authoritative because...? The all-caps page title doesn't inspire confidence. Is this "Proof by Google"?
Since Interbase was around long before MySQL and PostgreSQL, why did anyone bother making them? Besides, we need enough DBs to match the number of editors available.
Quake? I want to watch people's faces when the system announces that North Korea has launched a zergling rush.
This could be useful, but they need to mount big signs over all the consoles: The map is not the territory!
That sounds about right for the mission of intercepting all those terrorist midgets with Nausicaa jet flyers. Delivering four Quarter-Pounders to the target should knock them out of the air.
It's only a matter of time, and I'm pretty sure that they're already doing it--just don't ask me to prove it. :^)
Some kooks have reacted badly when after posting about the evil Them, psychs, mind-control implants and whatnot, ads for paxil and other drugs appeared. Personally I think Google was spot-on! :^P
Google mainly tries to be helpful, but sometimes it comes across as creepy. They know that I'm from Canada (IP address?) so they route me to google.ca all the time and tailor news.google.com to headline Canadian stories unless I force it not to. In an attempt to be helpful, will they start customizing what I see even more? The real question is how much data-mining does Google do with information that passes through their site. And how much data-mining will they do in the future after an IPO and a few years.
Google is a powerful force, and with great power...
I wonder if that reporter was Clive in his early years?
The actual story was that 4 teenagers got busted by Bell-cops for using their Applecat modems to phreak. Woo!
Look over there, it's Bigfoot!
Perhaps this story doesn't mention the profit side of virus writing because no one would be fool enough to hire these whiny types to do it?
News stories are definitely like sausages and laws--never ever watch any of them being made.
Speaking of jumping the conclusions, try this link to the "Special to the Toronto Star" story. I think it's called the author of the story milking the market for everything he can get. And it brings to mind the famous line that P.T. Barnum never said.
I'm always skeptical of stories like this. Everytime there was a story where I knew the people and facts directly, the story was usually a mish-mash mixed or invented to sex up the story.
For example, if someone is emailing you about overcoming the Great Satan, perhaps some of the ads will be for flight schools in your area. It's just helpful search routines with no privacy issues at all. Nothing to worry about citizen, the computer is your friend.
I finally replaced my old Rage-II video card, does that help? (Then again, it just moved downstream to my P1-266, but the SVGA from that box is definitely gone!)