Like anyone gives a shit what some freetard smelly hippie thinks. The fact of the matter is that DRM is *critical* to protecting the commercial interests of content developers in the modern age. If you freetards don't like that, then start making your OWN popular shows like Mad Men and give it away.
Ron Paul 2016. Take back America from liberals, leftists and freetards.
I don't want Mad Men for free, much less for not free.
Depends on what network you are on, Freenode has nickserv so you can register your nick, ok the account expires after n days (iirc 90) without a login, but then again if that is an issue for you, you are not really active on that network are you
NickServ does not preclude anyone from using your nickname, at least for a short period of time. Maybe it will kill you in 60 seconds, of eventually change your nickname, but there is still that little period of time.
Shut up, NERRRRRRRRRRRD! That's not marketable to venture capitalists! It's not CamelCased! You can't even pronounce it! And... oh my GOD. Is that protocol seriously more than SIX MONTHS OLD? Time to replace it with something new, GRANDPA!!! GRANDPA NERD. NERD. You're a huge nerd. Please give me venture capital money for my social network now kthx.
Then again those behind the times old nerds over at Google seem to be having a pretty good time with XMPP and Google Talk...
So should we stop kicking each other in the back seat? (He started it!)
I have certainly heard both of the mentioned reasons, and many more for the STS to have flown upside down. The fact is that they are all probably right to a degree, or at least great advantages discovered in hindsight.
So I was right: it's not about using the heat shield to keep it cool. It's about the fact that the radiator was kept in the cargo bay and deployed from the top.
I won't even seriously consider them until I can read their books on my tablet and phone. I was an early adopter of eBooks, buying my first Rocket eBook reader back around 1998, so I don't have anything against dedicated devices, but there's no longer any need, and I already carry a phone and a tablet which both work great as eBook readers... and with all three of the eBook reader apps I use I can even bounce back and forth between devices, reading on my tablet when it's handy or on my phone when the tablet isn't nearby.
I will not seriously consider them until they make a point of supporting the Kindle as an eBook reader.
$10 says this was militant tea baggers. They all post so much crazy shit about killing people on facebook and eventually one of them snaps and acts on it.
By the way, I think even the most idiotic gun nuts think we should have some legislation covering guns like, you know, background checks to weed out felons.
Luckily, we passed those laws a couple decades ago.
Not to mention all of the laws on the books that have made the crimes you commit with guns illegal for centuries...
there were no drones in the 80's and 90's and the same people went from hijacking planes and cruise liners to blowing up sky scrapers in NYC and US Navy destroyers
Issuing a custom radio firmware for a data only device, so that it responds to a telephone network signal demonstrates that verizon is willing to place nonstandard firmware on devices on their network, for the express purposes of aiding investigations that lack proper warrants.
This is a very bad thing Verizon. A Very Bad Thing.
Don't underestimate the impact that losing public confidence can have on your business. Being so self-conceited as to feel that you don't have to worry because you have cornered the market would only add fuel to the fire.
Plan you PR damage control messages carefully. Smile, you're on candid camera.
This case will not affect my continued usage of Verizon in any way.
I actually did mention the DOS scenario in my comment. Still, just ignoring a DOSable problem is not sound business... this is kind of a don't shoot the messenger situation.
That said, a perfectly rational and adult response to a DOS problem would be to notify the auditors, and only take action if they refuse to stop.
Actually it's often easy because it's only Anonymous and similar that does DDoS for purely political reasons. Most DDoS are cybercriminals extorting money in some way or disgruntled customers seeking revenge, and both can be identified outside the attack itself using regular investigative methods.
That certainly is the only way to find the source of DOS attacks now. In cases where the malefactor does not attempt extortion, or otherwise brag about their attack, this path of inquiry is impossible. Even when they do find this person, the sticky bit of proving guilt beyond reasonable doubt (remember the court of law) remains tenuous at best. Even if every router on the path of our spoofed packets kept exceptionally (unreasonably) detailed logs, the peer-to-peer nature of IP would require a subpoena for each hop! Add to this the fact that most of the packets come from botnet computers, and we have a law which is essentially unenforceable. Recall, a law is only useful if it can result in a court conviction.
Also, why the fuck does DNS run on UDP?
Legacy. It also runs on TCP now but started out UDP only.
It is true that they were able to get away with it through naivete, but why? How did nobody see the security implications of an untrustworthy DNS system? Furthermore, what was the real attraction to UDP for this application?
you guys get ripped off in the states. even the 300USD fee or "free" internet is kinda pricey. in frankfurt, i pay €30/mo for 50/1 service and 30 720p channels. the 50/1 service is only €19/mo with telephone for free. those prices also contain the 20% sales tax.
The 50mbps down sounds interesting, but 1mbps up is total crap for such a large downlink.
One thing to note: If they manage to get in, the it's a good thing to know about how they did it.
In the meantime, you want to talk to the crew that's doing the intrusion testing and make sure that they'll be keeping anything they find confidential, and that you'll get the results of the work that they're doing. What they're doing is annoying, but it's better to have it done by friendlies than to have someone truly hostile find some day-0s that they can use against you (presuming that you're willing to close any holes that they find).
I do not even understand how it is annoying. Is Timothy concerned that his network will be found insecure? Maybe if they were mistakenly denying service during their testing, but surely he would have mentioned that!
Personally, I would love to get free security testing and auditing. From that lens, this article sounds like troll/flame bait.
They feel like they must do something and do it right now. It's more important to appear to be doing something to fix the problem than to actually fix the problem.
Too bad there is no possible way for them to actually figure out who is responsible for a DDOS attack, because the headers are spoofed. Also, why the fuck does DNS run on UDP?
Under the Obama whitehouse, open transparent government translates to a plethora of propaganda websites with no substantial information, and certainly nothing embarrassing.
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Like anyone gives a shit what some freetard smelly hippie thinks. The fact of the matter is that DRM is *critical* to protecting the commercial interests of content developers in the modern age. If you freetards don't like that, then start making your OWN popular shows like Mad Men and give it away.
Ron Paul 2016. Take back America from liberals, leftists and freetards.
I don't want Mad Men for free, much less for not free.
Ron Paul does have my vote though.
Right now, on the desktop, everyone uses Skype.
I have never, ever, not even once, been able to stand Skype for long enough to use it.
Depends on what network you are on, Freenode has nickserv so you can register your nick, ok the account expires after n days (iirc 90) without a login, but then again if that is an issue for you, you are not really active on that network are you
NickServ does not preclude anyone from using your nickname, at least for a short period of time. Maybe it will kill you in 60 seconds, of eventually change your nickname, but there is still that little period of time.
No?
Shut up, NERRRRRRRRRRRD! That's not marketable to venture capitalists! It's not CamelCased! You can't even pronounce it! And... oh my GOD. Is that protocol seriously more than SIX MONTHS OLD? Time to replace it with something new, GRANDPA!!! GRANDPA NERD. NERD. You're a huge nerd. Please give me venture capital money for my social network now kthx.
Then again those behind the times old nerds over at Google seem to be having a pretty good time with XMPP and Google Talk...
I am pretty sure that you were both right.
So should we stop kicking each other in the back seat? (He started it!)
I have certainly heard both of the mentioned reasons, and many more for the STS to have flown upside down. The fact is that they are all probably right to a degree, or at least great advantages discovered in hindsight.
So I was right: it's not about using the heat shield to keep it cool. It's about the fact that the radiator was kept in the cargo bay and deployed from the top.
I am pretty sure that you were both right.
Nice try, but the space shuttle does not fly to Lagrange points. It take a tiny wee bit more fuel to get there.... and back...
Now if you had a one way vehicle it would be much cheaper....... :)
More fuel to get there anyways....
In the CS program where I was studying, having a degree could just mean that you are good at freeloading on group work.
I would downmod this, and trust me... I don't have any clue who you are.
I won't even seriously consider them until I can read their books on my tablet and phone. I was an early adopter of eBooks, buying my first Rocket eBook reader back around 1998, so I don't have anything against dedicated devices, but there's no longer any need, and I already carry a phone and a tablet which both work great as eBook readers... and with all three of the eBook reader apps I use I can even bounce back and forth between devices, reading on my tablet when it's handy or on my phone when the tablet isn't nearby.
I will not seriously consider them until they make a point of supporting the Kindle as an eBook reader.
If you want to do business in this neighborhood, a certain payment is required for protection. Protection from whom? Me.
$10 says this was militant tea baggers. They all post so much crazy shit about killing people on facebook and eventually one of them snaps and acts on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_bag_(sexual_act) profit?
Luckily, we passed those laws a couple decades ago.
Not to mention all of the laws on the books that have made the crimes you commit with guns illegal for centuries...
there were no drones in the 80's and 90's and the same people went from hijacking planes and cruise liners to blowing up sky scrapers in NYC and US Navy destroyers
Stop asking questions peon!
Issuing a custom radio firmware for a data only device, so that it responds to a telephone network signal demonstrates that verizon is willing to place nonstandard firmware on devices on their network, for the express purposes of aiding investigations that lack proper warrants.
This is a very bad thing Verizon. A Very Bad Thing.
Don't underestimate the impact that losing public confidence can have on your business. Being so self-conceited as to feel that you don't have to worry because you have cornered the market would only add fuel to the fire.
Plan you PR damage control messages carefully. Smile, you're on candid camera.
This case will not affect my continued usage of Verizon in any way.
I actually did mention the DOS scenario in my comment. Still, just ignoring a DOSable problem is not sound business... this is kind of a don't shoot the messenger situation.
That said, a perfectly rational and adult response to a DOS problem would be to notify the auditors, and only take action if they refuse to stop.
WTF does this have to do with a lawyer?
Actually it's often easy because it's only Anonymous and similar that does DDoS for purely political reasons. Most DDoS are cybercriminals extorting money in some way or disgruntled customers seeking revenge, and both can be identified outside the attack itself using regular investigative methods.
That certainly is the only way to find the source of DOS attacks now. In cases where the malefactor does not attempt extortion, or otherwise brag about their attack, this path of inquiry is impossible. Even when they do find this person, the sticky bit of proving guilt beyond reasonable doubt (remember the court of law) remains tenuous at best. Even if every router on the path of our spoofed packets kept exceptionally (unreasonably) detailed logs, the peer-to-peer nature of IP would require a subpoena for each hop! Add to this the fact that most of the packets come from botnet computers, and we have a law which is essentially unenforceable. Recall, a law is only useful if it can result in a court conviction.
Also, why the fuck does DNS run on UDP?
Legacy. It also runs on TCP now but started out UDP only.
It is true that they were able to get away with it through naivete, but why? How did nobody see the security implications of an untrustworthy DNS system? Furthermore, what was the real attraction to UDP for this application?
you guys get ripped off in the states. even the 300USD fee or "free" internet is kinda pricey. in frankfurt, i pay €30/mo for 50/1 service and 30 720p channels. the 50/1 service is only €19/mo with telephone for free. those prices also contain the 20% sales tax.
The 50mbps down sounds interesting, but 1mbps up is total crap for such a large downlink.
One thing to note: If they manage to get in, the it's a good thing to know about how they did it.
In the meantime, you want to talk to the crew that's doing the intrusion testing and make sure that they'll be keeping anything they find confidential, and that you'll get the results of the work that they're doing. What they're doing is annoying, but it's better to have it done by friendlies than to have someone truly hostile find some day-0s that they can use against you (presuming that you're willing to close any holes that they find).
I do not even understand how it is annoying. Is Timothy concerned that his network will be found insecure? Maybe if they were mistakenly denying service during their testing, but surely he would have mentioned that! Personally, I would love to get free security testing and auditing. From that lens, this article sounds like troll/flame bait.
They feel like they must do something and do it right now. It's more important to appear to be doing something to fix the problem than to actually fix the problem.
Too bad there is no possible way for them to actually figure out who is responsible for a DDOS attack, because the headers are spoofed. Also, why the fuck does DNS run on UDP?
Under the Obama whitehouse, open transparent government translates to a plethora of propaganda websites with no substantial information, and certainly nothing embarrassing.