It seems to be heading that way, the general idea being why would you be downloading it in the first place if not to create explosives. Yes I know, curiosity and all that, besides the fact that there is a lot more to the cookbook than blowing stuff up.
Heh, I just learnt Cirth and wrote all the crib notes on my pencil case in plain sight. Not one teacher ever thought it was anything other than idle doodling.
The clever ones are not criminals, they get away with it. There are some scary smart people working on the trojans etc. out there. Some of the stuff is hand coded in assembler, which they structure in such a way that the usual debuggers get confused and either crash or start following the wrong path, all just to make it more difficult for the white hats to figure out how to shut down the botnet.
I doubt he did any of this on a major FOSS projects main trunk, it would definitely have been picked up there. He could have modified a WordPress site to add the functionality / backdoor and deployed that directly onto the server. No one would think to check that the code was not standard. I doubt he did that though, since they have an update function which would have wiped out his backdoor. I suspect this was all custom code, probably some cookie cutter website he used with a lot of his clients.
Clearly you are not a developer. All you would have to do is create webpage which when you pass it a certain variable pops up a form to upload something and run it on the server. The webpage does a legitimate task (registration for instance) but if you access it with webpage.php?action=registers instead of webpage.php?action=register it jumps to a separate section and allows you to upload a file etc. Even if someone were to give the site a once over it would be hard to pick up. To make it even more secure you can have it check for a cookie or originating IP address so that if someone else tries it, it will ignore it.
Developers have access to very sensitive stuffs, there is a very high level of trust that the developer is not going to do what this guy did. Firstly they are expensive to hire, what they produce can only be understood by another developer, so just having the code double checked (properly, not just a quick look) will almost double your costs, so it's rarely going to happen.
I'm not sure about other countries, although I imagine it's pretty much the same everywhere, but any financial institution here does a full background check before they will hire you. Any criminal record and you won't even get an interview. Bad debt is almost as bad, if you are black listed don't even bother applying. Sometimes they will make an exception for black listing, depends on the situation, but in all my years I have only heard of one.
I would imagine that the number of posts to an article may be used as some sort of performance benchmark for the editors, so posting "why is this on slashdot" is actually helping the editors, rather say nothing and move along. After a while they will shift to topics that DO get a lot of posts and hopefully it won't involve Trump.
When I was growing up I didn't get pocket money, I had to work for it. I'm also not talking about mowing the lawn around the house or doing dishes, I had to do that regardless. I'm talking about helping my father with the contract work he used to do on weekends, wiring houses, fixing fridges etc. By the time I left school even that dried up (still had to do the work though) to help pay for college. But hey I finished college with no debt and I can rewire a house, a surprisingly handy skill I never thought I would need again.
You might be right there, but the fact that it was such a high cost to send patches meant that they (management) were willing to wait for full testing to be completed. Nowadays they rush shit out the door because it can be so easily patch when the bug turns up.
Don't get me wrong, it's fucken frustrating to buy a game, install it from disk, and then it has to download a 12gb "patch". Which is why I don't bother buying physical games anymore, was also running out of physical space for the games.
IIRC when Starcraft 2 came out they released a patch for it before the game was released, so they must have sent the image to be burnt (or pressed at those volumes) and found a bug before the game was ready for release.
I grew up next to this monstrosity Hendrina power station
When you woke up in the morning you had to wash the coal dust off the car, it would eat the galvanizing off fences because of the high sulpher content.
Sure it's a bit better now, but not by much. ZA has a fvckton of coal, it will be burning it for some time.
Clearly you have never caught an Uber, or if you have you have never bothered to actually speak to the driver(s). I usually use my motorbike to get to work and back, but when the weather is really crappy I catch an Uber, and I chat with the drivers. Of all the Ubers I have caught I have only encountered one disgruntled driver, ironically he didn't like meeting all the different people and wanted to go back to driving long distance trucks. All the other drivers have been happy driving for Uber, sure the metered taxis charge twice what Uber charges and so get more out of driving, but no one uses them anymore (because they are so expensive).
I went to a LAN once and as usual there is a bunch of file copying going on at the start, so I grabbed a bunch of stuff, games, movies and yes some pron. Months later I was running out of space and started clearing stuff out. Buried deep in the dump folder was a whole bunch of bestiality pron, shift deleted that, but to this day I cannot remember which friend I copied it from, always wondered if they were also unaware of it, or if they had a darker side I was not aware of.
I agree with you, on not being on the same page that is. Khallow has a valid point, one you are failing to even attempt to acknowledge. You are clearly in the "Nuclear BAD!" camp and refuse to even consider anything which does not support your opinion.
What sucks about it? the most painful things is adjusting the default settings so that the window is bigger, buffer longer and quick edit is on. Other than that, it's.... well it's cmd.
Perhaps not, but that has clearly been irritating a lot of people. I started a blue ray collection of all my favourite movies, till I realised that I would rather watch the same movie from my media server than pop the disk in and sit through all the drek. Much easier and faster to simply watch it from the server, even if at times it was of a lower quality. So I stopped, I was just wasting money. Also a pet peeve is the bloody menu, you fall asleep watching a movie and you wake up with the menu music stuck in your head for hours.
It has to be something I can't wait to watch, and that only happens about once every 5 years or so.
At home I have a big ass TV, surround sound and I can pause and get up and get a beer from the fridge, and maybe make some more popcorn without missing anything. No queues, assholes on their cellphones or giggling teenagers either. Then there is the cost factor, the last time I went to watch a movie the popcorn and drinks cost more than the movie tickets (and it was a 3D movie). To be honest cost is not that big a deal, I earn more than enough money to absorb it, but I don't like being ripped off. Where I live the streaming available is limited, so I still end up having to pirate, I wouldn't if I didn't have to, but since it's the only way to watch certain things...
You are just getting old. You have forgotten the crap we had to put up with then. Trying to get software home with a bunch of fucken floppy disks where one out of ten would fuck out and you would have to wait to go back to where you got it from (a friend or whatever). Want to code in assembly, buy the manual, can't afford it? Tough. Now you can just download what you need. Just because you have lost interest in the art is no reason to say that it has lost it's allure to others. Go into management like most old people do and leave the coding to the people who enjoy it. I started my working career on an AS/400 mainframe, things have only gotten better since. I am now dabbling in hacking memory sticks. Did you know that each memory stick has a 8 bit cpu in it? The one I am currently messing with runs at 250mhz and has a 1 mb of RAM, that is more processing power and memory than my first PC (by a LARGE margin), how the fuck can you be bored? I own two Wii consoles because you can hack the crap out of them and make them dance. I've literally lost count of how many RPI's I have, I'm messing with microchips because I want to get into the IOT when I retire in a couple years and make some money on the side by automating shit. If you are bored you have lost the interest in learning new things and should just move into management, or become a business analyst.
Man you are so spot on with this - I am currently working with a system that has this exact same disease. Very flexible and dynamic, but SO over engineered it boggles the mind.
The Uber drivers where I live have all been meticulously decent drivers, WAY better than most IMHO, and I have been catching a lot of Ubers lately what with the silly season putting pissed people on the road.
I don't get it, you Americans are ALL in a fucking database already, you have a no fly list (in a database) that has children on it. What's one more? I would rather be in a muslim database then on your oh so secret no fly list database. You don't actually think they are going to create ANOTHER database just for muslims, no, they are going add a foreign key and move on (if it's not there already). Do you honestly think your NSA doesn't already track all muslims? Standing on your soap box and wailing that you won't stand for it (pun intended) is fucking retarded. It's already done, this is just more anti trump hysteria - the very reason why people who support some of trumps views keep that to themselves, because if you do agree with some trumpism you get viciously attacked. So you shut your mouth and walk away, but vote for trump anyway. (I am not American btw, but I can see why he was a surprise winner of the election).
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Then how the hell did he win the election?
It seems to be heading that way, the general idea being why would you be downloading it in the first place if not to create explosives. Yes I know, curiosity and all that, besides the fact that there is a lot more to the cookbook than blowing stuff up.
Heh, I just learnt Cirth and wrote all the crib notes on my pencil case in plain sight. Not one teacher ever thought it was anything other than idle doodling.
Or at best it's an irritant that they don't want (or think they don't).
The clever ones are not criminals, they get away with it. There are some scary smart people working on the trojans etc. out there. Some of the stuff is hand coded in assembler, which they structure in such a way that the usual debuggers get confused and either crash or start following the wrong path, all just to make it more difficult for the white hats to figure out how to shut down the botnet.
I doubt he did any of this on a major FOSS projects main trunk, it would definitely have been picked up there. He could have modified a WordPress site to add the functionality / backdoor and deployed that directly onto the server. No one would think to check that the code was not standard. I doubt he did that though, since they have an update function which would have wiped out his backdoor. I suspect this was all custom code, probably some cookie cutter website he used with a lot of his clients.
Clearly you are not a developer. All you would have to do is create webpage which when you pass it a certain variable pops up a form to upload something and run it on the server. The webpage does a legitimate task (registration for instance) but if you access it with webpage.php?action=registers instead of webpage.php?action=register it jumps to a separate section and allows you to upload a file etc. Even if someone were to give the site a once over it would be hard to pick up. To make it even more secure you can have it check for a cookie or originating IP address so that if someone else tries it, it will ignore it.
Developers have access to very sensitive stuffs, there is a very high level of trust that the developer is not going to do what this guy did. Firstly they are expensive to hire, what they produce can only be understood by another developer, so just having the code double checked (properly, not just a quick look) will almost double your costs, so it's rarely going to happen.
I'm not sure about other countries, although I imagine it's pretty much the same everywhere, but any financial institution here does a full background check before they will hire you. Any criminal record and you won't even get an interview. Bad debt is almost as bad, if you are black listed don't even bother applying. Sometimes they will make an exception for black listing, depends on the situation, but in all my years I have only heard of one.
I would imagine that the number of posts to an article may be used as some sort of performance benchmark for the editors, so posting "why is this on slashdot" is actually helping the editors, rather say nothing and move along. After a while they will shift to topics that DO get a lot of posts and hopefully it won't involve Trump.
When I was growing up I didn't get pocket money, I had to work for it. I'm also not talking about mowing the lawn around the house or doing dishes, I had to do that regardless. I'm talking about helping my father with the contract work he used to do on weekends, wiring houses, fixing fridges etc. By the time I left school even that dried up (still had to do the work though) to help pay for college. But hey I finished college with no debt and I can rewire a house, a surprisingly handy skill I never thought I would need again.
You might be right there, but the fact that it was such a high cost to send patches meant that they (management) were willing to wait for full testing to be completed. Nowadays they rush shit out the door because it can be so easily patch when the bug turns up.
Don't get me wrong, it's fucken frustrating to buy a game, install it from disk, and then it has to download a 12gb "patch". Which is why I don't bother buying physical games anymore, was also running out of physical space for the games.
IIRC when Starcraft 2 came out they released a patch for it before the game was released, so they must have sent the image to be burnt (or pressed at those volumes) and found a bug before the game was ready for release.
Still annoying though.
WRONG!
Medupi power station
Kusile power station
Both still under construction (and running behind schedule and over budget)
I grew up next to this monstrosity
Hendrina power station
When you woke up in the morning you had to wash the coal dust off the car, it would eat the galvanizing off fences because of the high sulpher content.
Sure it's a bit better now, but not by much. ZA has a fvckton of coal, it will be burning it for some time.
Clearly you have never caught an Uber, or if you have you have never bothered to actually speak to the driver(s). I usually use my motorbike to get to work and back, but when the weather is really crappy I catch an Uber, and I chat with the drivers. Of all the Ubers I have caught I have only encountered one disgruntled driver, ironically he didn't like meeting all the different people and wanted to go back to driving long distance trucks. All the other drivers have been happy driving for Uber, sure the metered taxis charge twice what Uber charges and so get more out of driving, but no one uses them anymore (because they are so expensive).
I went to a LAN once and as usual there is a bunch of file copying going on at the start, so I grabbed a bunch of stuff, games, movies and yes some pron. Months later I was running out of space and started clearing stuff out. Buried deep in the dump folder was a whole bunch of bestiality pron, shift deleted that, but to this day I cannot remember which friend I copied it from, always wondered if they were also unaware of it, or if they had a darker side I was not aware of.
I agree with you, on not being on the same page that is. Khallow has a valid point, one you are failing to even attempt to acknowledge. You are clearly in the "Nuclear BAD!" camp and refuse to even consider anything which does not support your opinion.
What sucks about it? the most painful things is adjusting the default settings so that the window is bigger, buffer longer and quick edit is on. Other than that, it's .... well it's cmd.
Perhaps not, but that has clearly been irritating a lot of people. I started a blue ray collection of all my favourite movies, till I realised that I would rather watch the same movie from my media server than pop the disk in and sit through all the drek. Much easier and faster to simply watch it from the server, even if at times it was of a lower quality. So I stopped, I was just wasting money. Also a pet peeve is the bloody menu, you fall asleep watching a movie and you wake up with the menu music stuck in your head for hours.
It has to be something I can't wait to watch, and that only happens about once every 5 years or so.
At home I have a big ass TV, surround sound and I can pause and get up and get a beer from the fridge, and maybe make some more popcorn without missing anything. No queues, assholes on their cellphones or giggling teenagers either. Then there is the cost factor, the last time I went to watch a movie the popcorn and drinks cost more than the movie tickets (and it was a 3D movie). To be honest cost is not that big a deal, I earn more than enough money to absorb it, but I don't like being ripped off. Where I live the streaming available is limited, so I still end up having to pirate, I wouldn't if I didn't have to, but since it's the only way to watch certain things...
Well I hope to still be alive by then, but retired. Would make for interesting times methinks.
Nothing wrong with that, makes the drivel they are told to spew out more interesting to watch.
Until the first real A.I. comes out, then you too (and me) will be out of a job. A real A.I. would be able to write code WAY faster then a puny human.
You are just getting old. You have forgotten the crap we had to put up with then. Trying to get software home with a bunch of fucken floppy disks where one out of ten would fuck out and you would have to wait to go back to where you got it from (a friend or whatever). Want to code in assembly, buy the manual, can't afford it? Tough. Now you can just download what you need. Just because you have lost interest in the art is no reason to say that it has lost it's allure to others. Go into management like most old people do and leave the coding to the people who enjoy it. I started my working career on an AS/400 mainframe, things have only gotten better since. I am now dabbling in hacking memory sticks. Did you know that each memory stick has a 8 bit cpu in it? The one I am currently messing with runs at 250mhz and has a 1 mb of RAM, that is more processing power and memory than my first PC (by a LARGE margin), how the fuck can you be bored? I own two Wii consoles because you can hack the crap out of them and make them dance. I've literally lost count of how many RPI's I have, I'm messing with microchips because I want to get into the IOT when I retire in a couple years and make some money on the side by automating shit. If you are bored you have lost the interest in learning new things and should just move into management, or become a business analyst.
Man you are so spot on with this - I am currently working with a system that has this exact same disease. Very flexible and dynamic, but SO over engineered it boggles the mind.
The Uber drivers where I live have all been meticulously decent drivers, WAY better than most IMHO, and I have been catching a lot of Ubers lately what with the silly season putting pissed people on the road.
I don't get it, you Americans are ALL in a fucking database already, you have a no fly list (in a database) that has children on it. What's one more? I would rather be in a muslim database then on your oh so secret no fly list database. You don't actually think they are going to create ANOTHER database just for muslims, no, they are going add a foreign key and move on (if it's not there already). Do you honestly think your NSA doesn't already track all muslims? Standing on your soap box and wailing that you won't stand for it (pun intended) is fucking retarded. It's already done, this is just more anti trump hysteria - the very reason why people who support some of trumps views keep that to themselves, because if you do agree with some trumpism you get viciously attacked. So you shut your mouth and walk away, but vote for trump anyway. (I am not American btw, but I can see why he was a surprise winner of the election).
And you are an asshole. Go crawl back under your rock.