SCC's Sidewinder firewall was supposed to "Strikeback." That was around 1994. This was supposed to go out and do nasty things to an intruder's machine. Since then, it's still called "Strikeback," but now it just tries to identify machines.
Some of their exciting "Strikeback" tools referenced on the page: traceroute, finger, and dig.
Why not run a little compressor into a little bottle and use it to blow off the dust? If it takes months to build up, you don't have to be able to get rid of it very fast, and it doesn't take much of a bottle to hold 20psi or so. That at least skips the "wiping doesn't work on dust" objections so we can move to the "that's too heavy" one.
I'd really like one of these, but I should be able to put anything in there and etch it. And while they're at it, remove the CD size restriction by just letting me set it on something. The possibilities for custom brand/tattoos are obvious, not to mention the vandalism potential.
There's this guy that keeps parking his crap SUV (a Ford Extrusion) in two spots near the door. I could cover his windshield with etched-in fake parking tickets (you know, the ones that say something like "you are guilty of excessive rudeness and low genetic potential).
I'd go to a thousand bucks for a unit. For CDs, I'll just keep using a Sharpie, thanks.
I've tried to read some of these Salon things by using their "watch an ad, get a day free" interface and it never works. I have no idea how it is supposed to work, and no interest in debugging their software. Aren't there enough articles to comment on in fora that sorta kinda work?
P.S., I suppose if I used Inyerneck Exploder that it would Just Work, but after having to use Microsoft Outlook at work, I've decided to never voluntarily use any of Bill's stuff again.
Har har. I'm wondering if it's just noobs that perpetuate the "funny" tropes like this and "what about a Beowulf cluster of X" and "Slashdot
readers have no girlfriend and a right hand calloused like a rhino's ass?"
Perhaps we could have some kind of ratings preference like "-6 stale gag," since there's no reason to spoil their fun just so we can skip the Milton Berle stuff.
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The Chamelon Card system uses a fingerprint reader to secure the data vault. Fingerprint readers can be defeated using a simple hack involving common household items.
The gelatin hack requires a sample fingerprint. I wonder how the readers work and if there's a way to hack one *without* a print? Clearly they look for some distinguishing characteristics to identify your print, and with the processing power available they probably simplify a lot. How long do you have to present a print and could you do it using some kind of display? And how many distinct prints cover the space of all prints they recognise?
If you could search the space of all prints in a few days, one of these might make a really attractive theft target (especially if you could convince the owner that it was destroyed instead of stolen). Details are left as an exercise for the reader....
I see the parent is modded as "funny," but this is actually a realistic threat. If someone steals my current batch of credit cards, all they need to do is forge my signature, or maybe not even that. No real inducement to harm me, and actually an inducement to keep me from even knowing a theft took place. Now there's a bonus for taking my thumb.
My suggestion: use your little finger. Then either you'll be able to convince them that they should take the less valuable digit, or if they're real Dr. Doom types, they'll mistrust you enough to just take both entire hands. D'oh!
Secondary suggestion: use a toe. This will also put a lid on those impulse buys that have been blowing your budget, since it takes more effort to take off your shoe during a purchase....
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..it will not be implemented because it would be far to easy to use the little bugger as a swipe-and-steal device.
And no vendor would manufacture anything that could be used for an illegal purpose. In fact, that would probably increase the market for them considerably, especially if they came with a little embosser gizmo and a supply of various "decorator" chameleon cards that happen to look like legitimate VISA, Amex, and so forth....
Slightly off topic..
I am a paramedic in Ohio, and the OnStar system called our dispatchers stating there was an accident with ejection, giving us the freeway the guy was on and what exit he was at. I guarantee this guy didn't hit his OnStar button, as he was shot twice and ejected, then subsequently turned into about 6 pieces of hamburger meat as he hit the exit sign.
Apparantly, OnStar calls the police and EMS to an accident when your airbag goes off, and they have a sensor to detect when you're sitting in the driver's seat. Airbag went off, senors in the seat said 'hey wait, no driver no more' and called the correct ambulance company to respond. Kind of neat when you think about it.
So that $400 per year really paid off for him, eh? His "six lumps of hamburger" didn't have to wait for someone to just stumble across him.
When you add a customer (either urban or rural) to the telephone network, the network becomes that much more functional for all customers, both urban and rural.
Aren't these extra people the ones that can't afford to pay the full price of a network connection? In what way do they increase the economic prospects of the net, then? Either they don't have any money as others have claimed, or they can pay for their connection.
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Just a random sampling of U.S. aircraft that have been used for toss bombing, though never in anger (thank goodness): F-100 Super Sabre.
F-105 Thunderchief (this was originally designed for nuclear strike, even though that wasn't what it became famous for).
F-105. F-101 Voodoo (the toss computer was made by Mergenthaler Linotype of all people)!
B-47 Stratojet (a pretty big aircraft for this kind of maneuver).
It would be really nice if the HP48 emulator ran on the Linux PDAs, e.g., the Sharp Zaurus 5500. Anyone know if there's a plan to do that? I've used one that runs on MacOS X for two years now and it is really sweet (especially compared to that one-lung four function guy that you got under OS 9).
That will save all that time you waste on your girlfriend, too!
Seriously though, no one with cats could ever play with these. As soon as the cats see one moving around, they'll be on it like monopoly abuse of powers on Microsoft. And someone *did* say they were "a little fragile."
A playground sandbox, a few quarts of 10w40, and you've got your very own miniature Iraq to "liberate"!
Unfortunately, the tracks are apparently a little more delicate than the M1A1's--you can't run them on sand or on thick pile carpeting. If you really had the army man robots, they could pull the carpet fibers out. I imagine that's the next innovation....
Whenever I hear about a profession trying to come up with a new title, I think of "sanitary engineer," so in the spirit of the century, I propose sanitary administrator.
They could wear those cool bubble-boy suits, too.
Really, it seems a little silly. If you're not getting respect in your job, having a new title doesn't usually fix the problem. You need to crush them in your grip of steel! (Just ask yourself: "what would Stan Lee write?")
Heck, they were talking about this stuff after 9/11/2001. Using this technology so a ground pilot can fly a plane that has been comprimised. Quite an interesting idea.
If that's the audience's idea of "insightful," then I guess none of them work in the technology arena. Just imagine that all commercial airliners have some kind of "security override" that allows them to be controlled from the ground. Of course, there'll be magic crypto dust sprinkled over it so that it Can't Be Used Without Authority.
I'm going to prepare my comp.risks posting now, so I can just hit "send" the day after they turn the system on....
That's because it IS ludicrous, at least the "ascend into orbit" part. It has been a while since I read anything about Project Orion, but I'm pretty confident that this propulsion technique was intended for use only in space. The spacecraft would most likely have been assembled in orbit, or possibly launched from Earth by one mother of a big chemical rocket.
Another person that should read the book. The intent was most assuredly to launch from the ground. Later in the program there were some proposals to use chemical launch, but there were some pretty big economies to be had with larger vessels that were ground-launched. One interesting passage discusses the fact that in the Cold War times, the tradeoff that ten a hundred people might die from cancer (spread evenly over the surface of the globe) was considered an acceptable trade for launching a 4,000 ton ship that could go to Mars or Jupiter.
I'm not so sure it isn't a good tradeoff, when you look at the hidden costs of coal-fired power plants (and probably solar cells, biodiesel,...).
It is exploded some distance behind the craft. The Orion has an ultra-heavy pusher plate (one of it's main drawbacks) that has a thick coating of graphite. With each blast, some of the graphite is ablated.
You should read the book. A suprising result was that with a little bit of an oil coating, there would be no ablation. Well, I was suprised, anyway.
I think so. I'm not a lawyer, but the patents appear to discuss hardware, not software. Would they apply to SELinux in that case?
Of course, whether a patent is ultimately enforcable has little to do with anything--if you can cost someone millions of bucks in litigation, that has to be taken as a pretty realistic threat.
It doesn't exist in any of the searches I made.... maybe I made a mistake.
Someone made a mistake, but it wasn't you. The right number is 4621321. I wonder if the mistake was intentional, so they could later enforce that patent and claim they're still in compliance with their statement. That doesn't make much sense, but I guess it isn't impossible.
BTW, you'll notice I never mentioned who'd developed it.
Spooder Rubinstone (his gag about Proxmire's name was so funny I'll use it too) claims the pen was developed with NASA dollars and that it was used to fix "the ignition switch."
The ascent engine for the LM used hypergolic propellants. No ignition switch.
Spitter even signals that the whole story is bullshit in the first sentence where he claims it is "honest to God, a true story." As a semi-professional author, Spudster knows that the only time you say that is when you're signalling a fish story.
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Some of their exciting "Strikeback" tools referenced on the page: traceroute, finger, and dig.
Why not run a little compressor into a little bottle and use it to blow off the dust? If it takes months to build up, you don't have to be able to get rid of it very fast, and it doesn't take much of a bottle to hold 20psi or so. That at least skips the "wiping doesn't work on dust" objections so we can move to the "that's too heavy" one.
There's this guy that keeps parking his crap SUV (a Ford Extrusion) in two spots near the door. I could cover his windshield with etched-in fake parking tickets (you know, the ones that say something like "you are guilty of excessive rudeness and low genetic potential).
I'd go to a thousand bucks for a unit. For CDs, I'll just keep using a Sharpie, thanks.
P.S., I suppose if I used Inyerneck Exploder that it would Just Work, but after having to use Microsoft Outlook at work, I've decided to never voluntarily use any of Bill's stuff again.
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3. blah
4. Profit!
Har har. I'm wondering if it's just noobs that perpetuate the "funny" tropes like this and "what about a Beowulf cluster of X" and "Slashdot readers have no girlfriend and a right hand calloused like a rhino's ass?"
Perhaps we could have some kind of ratings preference like "-6 stale gag," since there's no reason to spoil their fun just so we can skip the Milton Berle stuff.
The gelatin hack requires a sample fingerprint. I wonder how the readers work and if there's a way to hack one *without* a print? Clearly they look for some distinguishing characteristics to identify your print, and with the processing power available they probably simplify a lot. How long do you have to present a print and could you do it using some kind of display? And how many distinct prints cover the space of all prints they recognise?
If you could search the space of all prints in a few days, one of these might make a really attractive theft target (especially if you could convince the owner that it was destroyed instead of stolen). Details are left as an exercise for the reader....
I see the parent is modded as "funny," but this is actually a realistic threat. If someone steals my current batch of credit cards, all they need to do is forge my signature, or maybe not even that. No real inducement to harm me, and actually an inducement to keep me from even knowing a theft took place. Now there's a bonus for taking my thumb.
My suggestion: use your little finger. Then either you'll be able to convince them that they should take the less valuable digit, or if they're real Dr. Doom types, they'll mistrust you enough to just take both entire hands. D'oh!
Secondary suggestion: use a toe. This will also put a lid on those impulse buys that have been blowing your budget, since it takes more effort to take off your shoe during a purchase....
And no vendor would manufacture anything that could be used for an illegal purpose. In fact, that would probably increase the market for them considerably, especially if they came with a little embosser gizmo and a supply of various "decorator" chameleon cards that happen to look like legitimate VISA, Amex, and so forth....
Slightly off topic.. I am a paramedic in Ohio, and the OnStar system called our dispatchers stating there was an accident with ejection, giving us the freeway the guy was on and what exit he was at. I guarantee this guy didn't hit his OnStar button, as he was shot twice and ejected, then subsequently turned into about 6 pieces of hamburger meat as he hit the exit sign.
Apparantly, OnStar calls the police and EMS to an accident when your airbag goes off, and they have a sensor to detect when you're sitting in the driver's seat. Airbag went off, senors in the seat said 'hey wait, no driver no more' and called the correct ambulance company to respond. Kind of neat when you think about it.
So that $400 per year really paid off for him, eh? His "six lumps of hamburger" didn't have to wait for someone to just stumble across him.
This sounds like a really bad job a friend had once.... You need to explore your options.
Aren't these extra people the ones that can't afford to pay the full price of a network connection? In what way do they increase the economic prospects of the net, then? Either they don't have any money as others have claimed, or they can pay for their connection.
F-100 Super Sabre.
F-105 Thunderchief (this was originally designed for nuclear strike, even though that wasn't what it became famous for).
F-105. F-101 Voodoo (the toss computer was made by Mergenthaler Linotype of all people)!
B-47 Stratojet (a pretty big aircraft for this kind of maneuver).
It would be really nice if the HP48 emulator ran on the Linux PDAs, e.g., the Sharp Zaurus 5500. Anyone know if there's a plan to do that? I've used one that runs on MacOS X for two years now and it is really sweet (especially compared to that one-lung four function guy that you got under OS 9).
That will save all that time you waste on your girlfriend, too!
Seriously though, no one with cats could ever play with these. As soon as the cats see one moving around, they'll be on it like monopoly abuse of powers on Microsoft. And someone *did* say they were "a little fragile."
Unfortunately, the tracks are apparently a little more delicate than the M1A1's--you can't run them on sand or on thick pile carpeting. If you really had the army man robots, they could pull the carpet fibers out. I imagine that's the next innovation....
up with a new title, I think of "sanitary engineer," so in the spirit of the century, I propose
sanitary administrator.
They could wear those cool bubble-boy suits, too.
Really, it seems a little silly. If you're not getting respect in your job, having a new title doesn't usually fix the problem. You need to crush them in your grip of steel! (Just ask yourself: "what would Stan Lee write?")
Heck, they were talking about this stuff after 9/11/2001. Using this technology so a ground pilot can fly a plane that has been comprimised. Quite an interesting idea.
If that's the audience's idea of "insightful," then I guess none of them work in the technology arena. Just imagine that all commercial airliners have some kind of "security override" that allows them to be controlled from the ground. Of course, there'll be magic crypto dust sprinkled over it so that it Can't Be Used Without Authority.
I'm going to prepare my comp.risks posting now, so I can just hit "send" the day after they turn the system on....
Another person that should read the book. The intent was most assuredly to launch from the ground. Later in the program there were some proposals to use chemical launch, but there were some pretty big economies to be had with larger vessels that were ground-launched. One interesting passage discusses the fact that in the Cold War times, the tradeoff that ten a hundred people might die from cancer (spread evenly over the surface of the globe) was considered an acceptable trade for launching a 4,000 ton ship that could go to Mars or Jupiter.
I'm not so sure it isn't a good tradeoff, when you look at the hidden costs of coal-fired power plants (and probably solar cells, biodiesel,...).
You should read the book. A suprising result was that with a little bit of an oil coating, there would be no ablation. Well, I was suprised, anyway.
I think so. I'm not a lawyer, but the patents appear to discuss hardware, not software. Would they apply to SELinux in that case?
Of course, whether a patent is ultimately enforcable has little to do with anything--if you can cost someone millions of bucks in litigation, that has to be taken as a pretty realistic threat.
Someone made a mistake, but it wasn't you. The right number is 4621321. I wonder if the mistake was intentional, so they could later enforce that patent and claim they're still in compliance with their statement. That doesn't make much sense, but I guess it isn't impossible.
Spooder Rubinstone (his gag about Proxmire's name was so funny I'll use it too) claims the pen was developed with NASA dollars and that it was used to fix "the ignition switch."
The ascent engine for the LM used hypergolic propellants. No ignition switch.
Spitter even signals that the whole story is bullshit in the first sentence where he claims it is "honest to God, a true story." As a semi-professional author, Spudster knows that the only time you say that is when you're signalling a fish story.
I don't think it will be pink noise. I think it will be an electronic-sounding voice saying "free beer ... free beer ... free beer ..."
. . . well, it would work with me.
Did you really want to tell everyone on /. where you carry your phone? If you did, do you think we wanted to know?
By the way, I bought Starship Titanic after hearing Douglas Adams on NPR talking about how revolutionary its text-recognition and "AI" was. Bah.
I guess I should have known better, but I didn't think that he would just be shilling for a game. After all, he was Douglas Adams....