They don't have to go that far. If what they want is remote, inaccessible and dangerous, there are plenty of islands up there in Alaska where the polar bears are getting kind of hungry due to ice melt caused by global warming.
BTW, where I live, Colorado, I believe the taxpayer bills the rescuee in some instances.
One can't even begin to compare a society run by an insane religious system and anything in the West. Perfect example of the mentality is Boko Haram, a fucking religious nut cult that is perpetrating terrorism in one of the most stable and prosperous countries in Africa, Nigeria. Look to any place where there is an Islamic theocracy in power and indicate one that isn't repressive with respect to free speech and free expression.
Sherman Austin got some time in prison for weapons making instructions somebody posted on his site but no, in the West, we normally don't execute you for web pages. You might disappear, but that's another story...;-)
So what does your eminent display of legal wisdom mean, when you have to resort to ad hominem attacks? It means that they didn't teach you the dialectic, O cheese dick member (or wannabe) of the Guild.
Granny is a reasonable person. She got scammed. Honestly, are you a native speaker of American? WTF are you taking about that a reasonable person would use an antivirus. A Linux or Mac user would laugh at you. Maybe of Windows that's true. Read what I actually wrote, not what you want to read. Or please continue with the American reading lessons.
Guild Member, I get things accomplished in my neck of the woods. Like getting judges corrupt judges removed. Ever hear of Tim Masters in Fort Collins? But it's not about me, it's about those last words of the Pledge: "... and justice for all".
To the reading audience, when somebody uses the words "Perhaps you have not only a fool for a client, but a fool for a lawyer as well.", you're probably talking to a member of the Guild that has made a business of justice in America. Whatever, y'all don't win often with me, LOL!
I have four points for you Guild Member, to correct the perpetrations of the "Guild" in my local community. The self trained looser speaks fairly well, and if the voter listens, your kind will be kicked to the curb like we did with the Monarchy.
That is if you can, good buddy, without getting your knickers in a wad.
The Guild is an old ancient scourge on the West, folks, a tool that served the Crown. The problem is, the Guild no longer has a Crown to serve, so serves itself.
"despite what you learned from watching Legally Blonde"
LOL. Unless you're a lawyer don't go there, I've got over twenty years experience as a pro se litigant. I would totally disagree with your first statement. A valid counter example is an individual who is coerced into being an accessory to a crime. Further in your example, one has to establish "possession", i.e. "control over". If one has it kiestered, well obviously one is caught flagrante delicto. But if it sits in the trunk of the car, reasonable doubt is easier to establish.
Negligence only occurs if one lacks the care that a reasonably prudent individual would use. Lets say granny get suckered into downloading those fake-ware anti-virus apps that float around. Remember, that it isn't about truth or justice, but rather what you can convince a jury to believe. Good luck convincing a jury that granny was negligent in using that rootkitted computer. That will fly with a jury like a pig with little itty bitty bat wings...
... It wouldn't work for a drug mule situation, so what makes you think it should work for malware?
Lack of awareness of the contraband, and hence lack of mens rea. No dna, no fingerprints on the contraband, personal history, etc. I'd take it to a jury. Even more so with a computer than as with the mule case, well not for me, but for the average Joe Plumber.
To many people a computer is a black box that works most of the time and really pisses them off sometimes. They would have no clue, other than that the computer was slow or something was popping up...
English has x number of words. It seems trivial that as n, the number of words in all posts combined increases, the probability of word y occurring increases, also approaching unity, within certain constraints related to linguistics variables such as frequency of verbs vs. nouns, etc.
Pobrecito... BTW, How many copies of your book have you sold?
So they block piratebay.com, it becomes piratecove.org, then they block that, so it becomes piratebooty.net, then pretty soon they block every site with the word "pirate" in the name, so they use the name buccaneerbay.info, but they eventually block all sites with the word "buccaneer" in the name, and after 10 years time all words have been blocked from searches, and we are back to plain old IP addresses.
Expect the American version of the Arab Spring to come to a state near you in 2012. The difference is that in the US the founding fathers gave us the right to bear arms. Those places like Syria and Iran, well, their founding fathers let them down.
When you push Americans enough, they push back hard. An interesting year this is bound to be.
"... The Stasi was an organisation which actively recruited persons who were, well, fairly "special" in that they felt right at home in that sort of environment. The only really valid criticism of the (otherwise fantastic) film "The Lives of Others" that I have head so far is that someone like the protagonist (a Stasi officer who develops second thoughts about his "work") would never have been recruited in the first place, because the Stasi was very good at avoiding anyone who might be liable to start asking questions later...."
You will find parallels to that above statement throughout sheriff departments in the US. I've been commenting locally recently as to how I noticed they all looked the same, almost like clones of one phenotype. Same build, facial structure, body motion, speech, demeanor. I don't believe that the Stasi are the only ones applying the hiring criteria you mention. I've never been a believer in the idea of genetic propensity for certain behaviors, but...
Remember, the shire reeve never served the people, only the Courts and Crown. Well we have no Crown in America, so whom does the court and shire reeves serve now?
Having noticed this years ago, I removed any software that was proprietary. Ain't there, can't spy. At least with Linux, I have a lot more ability to monitor transmission of data, as opposed to any other OS. Regular penetration testing with tools like OPENVas and hacking at my own systems insures that they are as clean as possible.
Can I guarantee data or communication security? No, to think so is foolish. At best I can mitigate threats such as this by using all available tools.
The main problem with what you are saying, however, is that the license terms aren't on the outside of the box, they are in the box, and you don't see that until you open the box. I've not these issues with Linux, ever.
Sad to say, from attack logs dating back over three months, that the predominant system being used by bot-nets appears to be LINUX. I've been tracking it on the BackHacker blog at happycattech.com. The reason I know is if you sniff around the shell or try to proxy through the testing server, you get penetration tested. Not that I want to hack you, but to understand the weaknesses in attacking systems and how they get seized by bot-controllers. After geoiplookup, of course, and with different "tools" depending on country of origin...;-)
The percentage of Windows machines in the bot-nets, at least the ones that brute force or try to proxy, are in the low single digits, if even 1% recently, and those all older XPs. The sample set includes most countries in the world, over that time, with significantly increased hits from CN, RU, IN, and MY. Tunisia is the latest attacker that came from an unusual place. Probably new freedom has allowed access to the pr0n sites, LOL.
I give Microsoft a lot of good natured ribbing, due to their corporate mentality and "environment", but I have to say in all honesty that when it comes to penetration testing, Windows 7 seems damn good. However, as usual, the wetware is not amendable to any of the normal security protocols, and hence if you install some bullshit from your favorite pr0n site, well, you're SOL. Personally, I think that the Linux issue is that it has gotten too complex to configure correctly, thereby allowing easy penetration and privilege escalation, resulting in a compromised machine.
You've obviously not read much in the nuclear sciences. The mechanisms of a nuclear bomb have been common knowledge for decades. It's truly not that hard. What is truly hard is refining the reactive material. Even that is fairly common knowledge, though exceedingly hard technically.
I agree with sociocapitalist. Gov by fear leads to things like the Third Reich and the McCarthy era... Neyt!
My favorite OS for penetration testing and back-tracking those pesky shell attackers and phishers. If you really want to learn the "dark arts" go through some of their online/manuals and courses, like the Metaspoit one. BT5 has some awesome tools. Ones that Anonymous themselves would be proud of. Things like zenmap, openvas, maltego, msf, siege, etc. That is what gets installed in every laptop I own.
Lets see, using that I back-track every single shell attacker. The commonalities are HTTP TRACE, lots of open ports, usually mail servers. At least three attack vectors running in the wild. Fast single IP attacks, multiple-domain attacks, and these new Hail Mary's that are round robbing through numerous countries with a cycle time of 15 minutes to hours. These are trying to bypass tools like fail2ban.
So far I've knocked out the database on one, it hasn't bothered me again. Left a calling card on another, it hasn't bothered me again. I've fixed a few sites in the US via phone that the users where available on, and fixed a few via email. The rest, I log data and post the most interesting on my business website's BackHacker Blog. One can't fix all the compromised servers in the world, but we fix the ones we can, LOL!
"English is necessary to convey information"
No, only in those countries where it is the native tongue. I'm bilingual. Does that mean that the mother tongue no longer conveys information? How is English necessary to convey information whereas German, Japanese, Spanish, or American don't suffice?
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They don't have to go that far. If what they want is remote, inaccessible and dangerous, there are plenty of islands up there in Alaska where the polar bears are getting kind of hungry due to ice melt caused by global warming.
BTW, where I live, Colorado, I believe the taxpayer bills the rescuee in some instances.
One can't even begin to compare a society run by an insane religious system and anything in the West. Perfect example of the mentality is Boko Haram, a fucking religious nut cult that is perpetrating terrorism in one of the most stable and prosperous countries in Africa, Nigeria. Look to any place where there is an Islamic theocracy in power and indicate one that isn't repressive with respect to free speech and free expression.
Sherman Austin got some time in prison for weapons making instructions somebody posted on his site but no, in the West, we normally don't execute you for web pages. You might disappear, but that's another story...;-)
So what does your eminent display of legal wisdom mean, when you have to resort to ad hominem attacks?
It means that they didn't teach you the dialectic, O cheese dick member (or wannabe) of the Guild.
Granny is a reasonable person. She got scammed. Honestly, are you a native speaker of American? WTF are you taking about that a reasonable person would use an antivirus. A Linux or Mac user would laugh at you. Maybe of Windows that's true. Read what I actually wrote, not what you want to read. Or please continue with the American reading lessons.
Guild Member, I get things accomplished in my neck of the woods. Like getting judges corrupt judges removed. Ever hear of Tim Masters in Fort Collins? But it's not about me, it's about those last words of the Pledge: "... and justice for all".
To the reading audience, when somebody uses the words "Perhaps you have not only a fool for a client, but a fool for a lawyer as well.", you're probably talking to a member of the Guild that has made a business of justice in America. Whatever, y'all don't win often with me, LOL!
I have four points for you Guild Member, to correct the perpetrations of the "Guild" in my local community. The self trained looser speaks fairly well, and if the voter listens, your kind will be kicked to the curb like we did with the Monarchy.
http://coloradoan-anti-censorship.net/forum/ballot-ideas-insure-local-justice
That is if you can, good buddy, without getting your knickers in a wad.
The Guild is an old ancient scourge on the West, folks, a tool that served the Crown. The problem is, the Guild no longer has a Crown to serve, so serves itself.
Nothing new. Does anyone remember Sherman Austin?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Austin
They haven't even set foot on US soil yet, and that Fat Lady has to sing first, before any other.
"despite what you learned from watching Legally Blonde"
LOL. Unless you're a lawyer don't go there, I've got over twenty years experience as a pro se litigant. I would totally disagree with your first statement. A valid counter example is an individual who is coerced into being an accessory to a crime. Further in your example, one has to establish "possession", i.e. "control over". If one has it kiestered, well obviously one is caught flagrante delicto. But if it sits in the trunk of the car, reasonable doubt is easier to establish.
Negligence only occurs if one lacks the care that a reasonably prudent individual would use. Lets say granny get suckered into downloading those fake-ware anti-virus apps that float around. Remember, that it isn't about truth or justice, but rather what you can convince a jury to believe. Good luck convincing a jury that granny was negligent in using that rootkitted computer. That will fly with a jury like a pig with little itty bitty bat wings...
... It wouldn't work for a drug mule situation, so what makes you think it should work for malware?
Lack of awareness of the contraband, and hence lack of mens rea. No dna, no fingerprints on the contraband, personal history, etc. I'd take it to a jury. Even more so with a computer than as with the mule case, well not for me, but for the average Joe Plumber.
To many people a computer is a black box that works most of the time and really pisses them off sometimes. They would have no clue, other than that the computer was slow or something was popping up...
Available everywhere throughout the world for probably 5 quid a month... The good thing out of this might just be the explosion of the Freenet.
English has x number of words. It seems trivial that as n, the number of words in all posts combined increases, the probability of word y occurring increases, also approaching unity, within certain constraints related to linguistics variables such as frequency of verbs vs. nouns, etc.
Hence, I can agree with last paragraph in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law totally.
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"To escape the grizzly, I don't have to run fast, I just have to run faster than you." - Unknown
Where are you at? Put the following address in your browser address bar
https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q=piratebay.org+tron
If you hover over the ">>" you get the right frame to pop up with a display that says the page is cached...
Pobrecito... BTW, How many copies of your book have you sold?
So they block piratebay.com, it becomes piratecove.org, then they block that, so it becomes piratebooty.net, then pretty soon they block every site with the word "pirate" in the name, so they use the name buccaneerbay.info, but they eventually block all sites with the word "buccaneer" in the name, and after 10 years time all words have been blocked from searches, and we are back to plain old IP addresses.
Arrrggggg matey....
"You can't trick adults!"
Really? How did President Bush serve two terms, and had us fight a war in Iraq based on WMD?
"Good thing for rulers that the masses don't think." Goebbels or Hitler, I can't remember which offhand.
It's going to be funny as shit when that there threat database gets hacked by Anonymous or somebody, to ribald rib-breaking laughter online...
Expect the American version of the Arab Spring to come to a state near you in 2012. The difference is that in the US the founding fathers gave us the right to bear arms. Those places like Syria and Iran, well, their founding fathers let them down. When you push Americans enough, they push back hard. An interesting year this is bound to be.
nmap...
"... The Stasi was an organisation which actively recruited persons who were, well, fairly "special" in that they felt right at home in that sort of environment. The only really valid criticism of the (otherwise fantastic) film "The Lives of Others" that I have head so far is that someone like the protagonist (a Stasi officer who develops second thoughts about his "work") would never have been recruited in the first place, because the Stasi was very good at avoiding anyone who might be liable to start asking questions later. ..."
You will find parallels to that above statement throughout sheriff departments in the US. I've been commenting locally recently as to how I noticed they all looked the same, almost like clones of one phenotype. Same build, facial structure, body motion, speech, demeanor. I don't believe that the Stasi are the only ones applying the hiring criteria you mention. I've never been a believer in the idea of genetic propensity for certain behaviors, but...
Remember, the shire reeve never served the people, only the Courts and Crown. Well we have no Crown in America, so whom does the court and shire reeves serve now?
Having noticed this years ago, I removed any software that was proprietary. Ain't there, can't spy. At least with Linux, I have a lot more ability to monitor transmission of data, as opposed to any other OS. Regular penetration testing with tools like OPENVas and hacking at my own systems insures that they are as clean as possible.
Can I guarantee data or communication security? No, to think so is foolish. At best I can mitigate threats such as this by using all available tools.
The main problem with what you are saying, however, is that the license terms aren't on the outside of the box, they are in the box, and you don't see that until you open the box. I've not these issues with Linux, ever.
True, however, if it communicates with anything, packet sniffers such as Wireshark will find the packets it is sending.
Sad to say, from attack logs dating back over three months, that the predominant system being used by bot-nets appears to be LINUX. I've been tracking it on the BackHacker blog at happycattech.com. The reason I know is if you sniff around the shell or try to proxy through the testing server, you get penetration tested. Not that I want to hack you, but to understand the weaknesses in attacking systems and how they get seized by bot-controllers. After geoiplookup, of course, and with different "tools" depending on country of origin...;-)
The percentage of Windows machines in the bot-nets, at least the ones that brute force or try to proxy, are in the low single digits, if even 1% recently, and those all older XPs. The sample set includes most countries in the world, over that time, with significantly increased hits from CN, RU, IN, and MY. Tunisia is the latest attacker that came from an unusual place. Probably new freedom has allowed access to the pr0n sites, LOL.
I give Microsoft a lot of good natured ribbing, due to their corporate mentality and "environment", but I have to say in all honesty that when it comes to penetration testing, Windows 7 seems damn good. However, as usual, the wetware is not amendable to any of the normal security protocols, and hence if you install some bullshit from your favorite pr0n site, well, you're SOL. Personally, I think that the Linux issue is that it has gotten too complex to configure correctly, thereby allowing easy penetration and privilege escalation, resulting in a compromised machine.
You've got a better chance of seeing UFOs or LGMs this year...;-)
And what the fuck is wrong with passing around a bong and thinking about things?
You've obviously not read much in the nuclear sciences. The mechanisms of a nuclear bomb have been common knowledge for decades. It's truly not that hard. What is truly hard is refining the reactive material. Even that is fairly common knowledge, though exceedingly hard technically.
I agree with sociocapitalist. Gov by fear leads to things like the Third Reich and the McCarthy era... Neyt!
My favorite OS for penetration testing and back-tracking those pesky shell attackers and phishers. If you really want to learn the "dark arts" go through some of their online/manuals and courses, like the Metaspoit one. BT5 has some awesome tools. Ones that Anonymous themselves would be proud of. Things like zenmap, openvas, maltego, msf, siege, etc. That is what gets installed in every laptop I own.
Lets see, using that I back-track every single shell attacker. The commonalities are HTTP TRACE, lots of open ports, usually mail servers. At least three attack vectors running in the wild. Fast single IP attacks, multiple-domain attacks, and these new Hail Mary's that are round robbing through numerous countries with a cycle time of 15 minutes to hours. These are trying to bypass tools like fail2ban.
So far I've knocked out the database on one, it hasn't bothered me again. Left a calling card on another, it hasn't bothered me again. I've fixed a few sites in the US via phone that the users where available on, and fixed a few via email. The rest, I log data and post the most interesting on my business website's BackHacker Blog. One can't fix all the compromised servers in the world, but we fix the ones we can, LOL!
Viva la wetware!
"English is necessary to convey information"
No, only in those countries where it is the native tongue. I'm bilingual. Does that mean that the mother tongue no longer conveys information? How is English necessary to convey information whereas German, Japanese, Spanish, or American don't suffice?