This isn't press release. Look at the disassembler output from eEye: http://www.securityfocus.com/external/http://www.e eye.com/html/advisories/codered.zip.
In either case, the IP address is hard-coded, and whitehouse.gov simply changed their A records. Good thing the worm doesn't do nslookups.
Using a tool is different from making and maintaining a tool
Which is very different from configuring the tool.
Would you want a car which was difficult and expensive to service, which expected you the driver adjust the fuel air mix, to rebuild the engine yourself.
If Windows was a car that is the sort of car it would be. With a unix style car all the complex bits would only be accessable with a mechanics key...
I don't see how you can even make such a statement. If Windows was a car, I'd get in, and it'd go, maybe with a couple breakdowns, depending on how reckless I drive. Unix would be the one where you have to control everything. But I guess you've never used UNIX before. And the mechanics key would be held by root, so unless you have someone else configging your boxes, you're going to need to use that key quite extensively.
First of all, no one is obligated to share their source code. The Win32 Platform SDK is more than appropriate for programming Windows. MS has a ton more SDKs for programming it as well. Furthermore, the MSDN is the best programming reference site I've ever seen. Not everything in life is just handed to you. I don't blame MS for not giving its source away anymore than I don't blame idsoft for not giving the Quake III engine away.
Second, MS does license the source to educational institutions for free. Search the bugtraq archives for the link.
I love how someone makes fun of microsoft, and they get a 5. Someone makes fun of linux and they get a -1. Just goes to show how bias runs on both sides.
If the users didn't want your "Winblows", the OS wouldn't be installed. You stop living in a dreamworld. Companies care about one thing: turning out profit. If Windows didn't do that for them, there is no way in hell that the IS dept. would use Windows machines.
And you can say whatever you want about the OS costing them money, but when you weigh that cost against the cost of training users in a new system, and then converting legacy data, it's not even comparable.
Bottom line is, if the end users would honestly be more productive with an OS other than Windows, than an OS other than Windows would be installed.
Well, I got www.google.com to come up. So, who's right here? Are the people that didn't get the MSN page wrong? I'm sick of hearing the "well it didn't happen to me, so it couldn't have happened to you" crap.
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I think it should be noted as well that Richard Blum never once got in touch with Wietse Venema, the creator and maintainer of Postfix. I am willing to bet there are a number of bugs in the book that could have been avoided.
Likewise, some of the more esoteric issues, such as DNS issues are completely cut out. For these, the postfix-users mailing list has to be used.
Personally, I'd save my money and wait until the book with Wietse's blessing is released (and there is apparently one author working with him now -- though no other info has been released).
The problem here is that it's MS, not that it's Smart Tags. Programs like this have been around for some time now. nbci has had theirs widely available, and many people use it. There wasn't a huge ruckus when other companies did it. One could argue that the nbci implementation (for example), is optionally installed, whereas the MS one is in XP regardless. But at least I know with a meta tag I can kill the MS one. I'll never be able to stop what my page looks like to nbci (whose links I would imagine carry a certain amount of of bias as well).
Yeah, if it's on your network, you own the machine. No problem there. Think a little before you post. And by the way, if attornies have the IQs of slugs, I would certainly hate to see what you have, after reading that second paragraph.
When you quit your job and then do free software for a living, then you'll earn the right to make such a bold statement. You can't feed a family off valor.
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This isn't press release. Look at the disassembler output from eEye: http://www.securityfocus.com/external/http://www.e eye.com/html/advisories/codered.zip.
In either case, the IP address is hard-coded, and whitehouse.gov simply changed their A records. Good thing the worm doesn't do nslookups.
Using a tool is different from making and maintaining a tool Which is very different from configuring the tool. Would you want a car which was difficult and expensive to service, which expected you the driver adjust the fuel air mix, to rebuild the engine yourself. If Windows was a car that is the sort of car it would be. With a unix style car all the complex bits would only be accessable with a mechanics key... I don't see how you can even make such a statement. If Windows was a car, I'd get in, and it'd go, maybe with a couple breakdowns, depending on how reckless I drive. Unix would be the one where you have to control everything. But I guess you've never used UNIX before. And the mechanics key would be held by root, so unless you have someone else configging your boxes, you're going to need to use that key quite extensively.
First of all, no one is obligated to share their source code. The Win32 Platform SDK is more than appropriate for programming Windows. MS has a ton more SDKs for programming it as well. Furthermore, the MSDN is the best programming reference site I've ever seen. Not everything in life is just handed to you. I don't blame MS for not giving its source away anymore than I don't blame idsoft for not giving the Quake III engine away. Second, MS does license the source to educational institutions for free. Search the bugtraq archives for the link.
I love how someone makes fun of microsoft, and they get a 5. Someone makes fun of linux and they get a -1. Just goes to show how bias runs on both sides.
If the users didn't want your "Winblows", the OS wouldn't be installed. You stop living in a dreamworld. Companies care about one thing: turning out profit. If Windows didn't do that for them, there is no way in hell that the IS dept. would use Windows machines. And you can say whatever you want about the OS costing them money, but when you weigh that cost against the cost of training users in a new system, and then converting legacy data, it's not even comparable. Bottom line is, if the end users would honestly be more productive with an OS other than Windows, than an OS other than Windows would be installed.
Well, I got www.google.com to come up. So, who's right here? Are the people that didn't get the MSN page wrong? I'm sick of hearing the "well it didn't happen to me, so it couldn't have happened to you" crap.
I think it should be noted as well that Richard Blum never once got in touch with Wietse Venema, the creator and maintainer of Postfix. I am willing to bet there are a number of bugs in the book that could have been avoided. Likewise, some of the more esoteric issues, such as DNS issues are completely cut out. For these, the postfix-users mailing list has to be used. Personally, I'd save my money and wait until the book with Wietse's blessing is released (and there is apparently one author working with him now -- though no other info has been released).
The problem here is that it's MS, not that it's Smart Tags. Programs like this have been around for some time now. nbci has had theirs widely available, and many people use it. There wasn't a huge ruckus when other companies did it. One could argue that the nbci implementation (for example), is optionally installed, whereas the MS one is in XP regardless. But at least I know with a meta tag I can kill the MS one. I'll never be able to stop what my page looks like to nbci (whose links I would imagine carry a certain amount of of bias as well).
Yeah, if it's on your network, you own the machine. No problem there. Think a little before you post. And by the way, if attornies have the IQs of slugs, I would certainly hate to see what you have, after reading that second paragraph.
When you quit your job and then do free software for a living, then you'll earn the right to make such a bold statement. You can't feed a family off valor.
There's something to be said for humbleness.
And what does a URI issue that attacks the server have to do with the OS? This kind of an attack is what gives IIS a bad name.