You're grabbing medical records from unsecure places (like doctors offices and homes)? They'll have their password written on a post-it next to the monitor, trust me. Some type of token based key is probably the best bet.
To cement the argument...all the way back to Firewalls and Internet Security : Repelling the Wily Hacker , username / password security has been noted to be insecure. It's *convenient,* but convenience has no place in a secure network unless you're spending big money on, say, smart cards or token based security. Or biometrics.
Don't forget "Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World" by Carl Hiaasen. Great book, delves a lot into the manipulation of technology to satisfy the immediate (entertainment) need....without actually mentioning "technology" "manipulation" or "need."
...will slashdot interview me as well? Or will I have to piss everyone in the Community (security and otherwise) off first? Or maybe just prove loudly that I have no idea what I'm talking about, and that I'm in it for the money?
Why not interview someone who is actually involved with computer and network security instead of sensationalism? Someone important, like Cheswick? Or a team of decent security people, like the folks who make raptor firewalls? Or anyone in the entire freaking world besides JP?
...and didn't get any comments written on his paper. The teacher gave him extra credit for reading it in front of the class (a pre-emtpive grade...she gave the credit before she knew the content) and then handed it over to the school bigwigs...who immediately had him jailed for five days for his terrible grammar. Or at least that's how it should have read.
I don't think anyone here has argued any "America is Holier than Thou" statements. So far, I've read a lot of "Us folks in the UK had the first" and one scottish / canadian rant. But no "america is holier than thou" statements at all. Short of the book itself, which isn't nationalistic...just interesting reading about two guys who made a computer back when "a computer" was whatever the hell you wanted it to be.
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It's actually in the specs...part of the original military design and intent. Newer systems were suppossed to be in place by now.....
I actually got busted this morning for running NetBus on my system...NAV had picked it up and notified my admins, who use both SMS and PC Anywhere to "spy" on our systems. The really funny thing: as local administrator, I can uninstall NetBus Pro (actually has an uninstall routine) but I cannot uninstall SMS.
Let's see how many "this sounds like project X" type comments pop up, count them at the end of the day, and compare it to the number of opensource projects in progress...this will give us a nice percentage, and answer the original question.
By the way, it sounds a lot like the ncurses project...but what the hell do I know?
jason
new hampshire motto is live free or die, yet they do neither. what gives?
Do you still work for QNX? The "purpose" behind QNX is typically a narrow-focus, high-dollar custom written realtime app. The purpose behind Linux is powerful, versatile, customizable, no-limits computing 1) for free 2) for everyone that wants something really different 3) for anyone who wants to be able to create, on their own, the environment of their choice...whether this is a bloated windowmanager or a good fast and clean CLI. The focus is on the user with Linux. Where's QNX's focus? What is QNX's purpose? To make a buck.
jason (all my opinions have been filtered through 3 years of worcester, mass)
Try a tracert....I get loops between two routers. Looks like a nice router problem (all traffic being static routed back and forth till TTL dies). Doubt if it was spontaneous.
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You're grabbing medical records from unsecure places (like doctors offices and homes)? They'll have their password written on a post-it next to the monitor, trust me.
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Some type of token based key is probably the best bet.
To cement the argument...all the way back to Firewalls and Internet Security : Repelling the Wily Hacker , username / password security has been noted to be insecure. It's *convenient,* but convenience has no place in a secure network unless you're spending big money on, say, smart cards or token based security. Or biometrics.
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Don't forget "Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World" by Carl Hiaasen. Great book, delves a lot into the manipulation of technology to satisfy the immediate (entertainment) need....without actually mentioning "technology" "manipulation" or "need."
...will slashdot interview me as well? Or will I have to piss everyone in the Community (security and otherwise) off first? Or maybe just prove loudly that I have no idea what I'm talking about, and that I'm in it for the money?
Why not interview someone who is actually involved with computer and network security instead of sensationalism? Someone important, like Cheswick? Or a team of decent security people, like the folks who make raptor firewalls? Or anyone in the entire freaking world besides JP?
...and didn't get any comments written on his paper. The teacher gave him extra credit for reading it in front of the class (a pre-emtpive grade...she gave the credit before she knew the content) and then handed it over to the school bigwigs...who immediately had him jailed for five days for his terrible grammar. Or at least that's how it should have read.
I don't think anyone here has argued any "America is Holier than Thou" statements. So far, I've read a lot of "Us folks in the UK had the first" and one scottish / canadian rant. But no "america is holier than thou" statements at all. Short of the book itself, which isn't nationalistic...just interesting reading about two guys who made a computer back when "a computer" was whatever the hell you wanted it to be.
It's actually in the specs...part of the original military design and intent. Newer systems were suppossed to be in place by now.....
I actually got busted this morning for running NetBus on my system...NAV had picked it up and notified my admins, who use both SMS and PC Anywhere to "spy" on our systems. The really funny thing: as local administrator, I can uninstall NetBus Pro (actually has an uninstall routine) but I cannot uninstall SMS.
Hrm. Wonder which one acts more like a virus.
Let's see how many "this sounds like project X" type comments pop up, count them at the end of the day, and compare it to the number of opensource projects in progress...this will give us a nice percentage, and answer the original question.
By the way, it sounds a lot like the ncurses project...but what the hell do I know?
jason
new hampshire motto is live free or die, yet they do neither. what gives?
Do you still work for QNX? The "purpose" behind QNX is typically a narrow-focus, high-dollar custom written realtime app. The purpose behind Linux is powerful, versatile, customizable, no-limits computing 1) for free 2) for everyone that wants something really different 3) for anyone who wants to be able to create, on their own, the environment of their choice...whether this is a bloated windowmanager or a good fast and clean CLI. The focus is on the user with Linux. Where's QNX's focus? What is QNX's purpose? To make a buck.
jason
(all my opinions have been filtered through 3 years of worcester, mass)
Constructive forgiveness? Get bent.
Try a tracert....I get loops between two routers. Looks like a nice router problem (all traffic being static routed back and forth till TTL dies). Doubt if it was spontaneous.
It's ok beef. Some of us got the joke.