This is the same response verbatim that everyone who emailed about this subject got. This doesn't account for the katie.com Internet Safety courses her and her lawyer are looking to start tho.
Even better, Microsoft makes it easy for you with Cabwiz.
Seth Fogie from Airscanner gave a talk on Window's Mobile PDAs at Defcon this year. Sending CAB files is one way to easily package a trojan in with a game. Plus after installing, the CAB file self destructs. He showed that with this method you could easily replace the onscreen keyboard with your own and log it, open a port and connect with some dev tools to get VNC type access or just place a program in the startup that resets the machine. The only way out then is a hard reset to factory default.
He also mentioned some buffer overflow vulnerabilities and showed that once you got your shellcode over, you could set the flag for the aforementioned hard reset to happen during the next reboot.
As for dust, a few small changes and it goes from mostly harmless to a pretty potent virus (for example, it will no longer ask you if it's allowed to spread hehe).
With the PDAs becoming more popular in business settings (particularly with Wifi access) these problems change from minor end user inconvenience to a source of sensitive information leakage.
I always heard that Japan was considering surrender prior to the bombs. The only exception being that they keep their deified Emperor.
from site... Intercepted cables showed Japan responding positively to a U.S. offer of a surrender based on the "Atlantic Charter" as put forward in an official July 21, 1945 American radio broadcast. The key clause of the Charter promised that every nation could choose its own form of government (which would have allowed Japan to keep its Emperor). The broadcast was allowed to stand with Presidential sanction, but U.S. officials chose thereafter to ignore this indication of Japan's willingness to surrender.
and
Three days before Hiroshima was bombed President Truman and his top advisers agreed Japan was seeking peace, but the President feared Tokyo would negotiate a surrender through Russia:
The diary of Walter Brown--an assistant to Secretary of State James F. Byrnes-- records that aboard ship returning from Potsdam on August 3, 1945 the President, Byrnes and Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the President, "agrred [sic] Japas [sic] looking for peace. (Leahy had another report from Pacific) President afraid they will sue for peace through Russia instead of some country like Sweden." (See p. 415, Chapter 33)
yeah, it's called close minded 'liberalism'. You have the right to feel however you want, as long as it coincides with what they say. Otherwise you are a bigot, homophobe, racist, etc. If you're not 'PC' you become a pariah. At least the inquisition was straight about their censorship.
it seems almost pointless to have integrity (if people are going to accuse you of all sorts of nasty things, you might as well reap the benefit of doing them, right?)
The reason the office was closed is that their previous attempts to clean up had failed.
Their plan involved using nanoships to blast the debris away. Unfortunately whenever they shot them, they broke into two smaller pieces. NASA claims that difficult controls and the offices inability to use hyperspace to evade debris were two of the main reasons for failure.
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This is the same response verbatim that everyone who emailed about this subject got. This doesn't account for the katie.com Internet Safety courses her and her lawyer are looking to start tho.
Even better, Microsoft makes it easy for you with Cabwiz.
Seth Fogie from Airscanner gave a talk on Window's Mobile PDAs at Defcon this year. Sending CAB files is one way to easily package a trojan in with a game. Plus after installing, the CAB file self destructs. He showed that with this method you could easily replace the onscreen keyboard with your own and log it, open a port and connect with some dev tools to get VNC type access or just place a program in the startup that resets the machine. The only way out then is a hard reset to factory default.
He also mentioned some buffer overflow vulnerabilities and showed that once you got your shellcode over, you could set the flag for the aforementioned hard reset to happen during the next reboot.
As for dust, a few small changes and it goes from mostly harmless to a pretty potent virus (for example, it will no longer ask you if it's allowed to spread hehe).
With the PDAs becoming more popular in business settings (particularly with Wifi access) these problems change from minor end user inconvenience to a source of sensitive information leakage.
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I always heard that Japan was considering surrender prior to the bombs. The only exception being that they keep their deified Emperor.
from site...
Intercepted cables showed Japan responding positively to a U.S. offer of a surrender based on the "Atlantic Charter" as put forward in an official July 21, 1945 American radio broadcast. The key clause of the Charter promised that every nation could choose its own form of government (which would have allowed Japan to keep its Emperor).
The broadcast was allowed to stand with Presidential sanction, but U.S. officials chose thereafter to ignore this indication of Japan's willingness to surrender.
and
Three days before Hiroshima was bombed President Truman and his top advisers agreed Japan was seeking peace, but the President feared Tokyo would negotiate a surrender through Russia:
The diary of Walter Brown--an assistant to Secretary of State James F. Byrnes-- records that aboard ship returning from Potsdam on August 3, 1945 the President, Byrnes and Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the President, "agrred [sic] Japas [sic] looking for peace. (Leahy had another report from Pacific) President afraid they will sue for peace through Russia instead of some country like Sweden." (See p. 415, Chapter 33)
yeah, the hitman isn't at fault at all! hell it's the only work he can get. Damned public education!
Being an intrument in a crime doesn't excuse you from it.
I agree that if you find something unethical, DON'T DO IT.
[i]what good is it to gain the world if you lose your soul in the process?[/i]
yeah I don't smoke, but I carry around a pack of cigarettes just because everyone else is.
Don't you just love teenagers and their toys ?
no, because they never stop talking on them.
It's illegal to drive and talk on a cell phone in NY. woo hoo >:)
yeah, it's called close minded 'liberalism'. You have the right to feel however you want, as long as it coincides with what they say. Otherwise you are a bigot, homophobe, racist, etc. If you're not 'PC' you become a pariah. At least the inquisition was straight about their censorship.
it seems almost pointless to have integrity (if people are going to accuse you of all sorts of nasty things, you might as well reap the benefit of doing them, right?)
no
First, IANAL...
really? I wish my girlfriend would do that.
he must have had a BEOWULF CLUSTER of shit-hot computers *drool*
The reason the office was closed is that their previous attempts to clean up had failed.
Their plan involved using nanoships to blast the debris away. Unfortunately whenever they shot them, they broke into two smaller pieces. NASA claims that difficult controls and the offices inability to use hyperspace to evade debris were two of the main reasons for failure.