If you have a sign on your back that says "kick me", and people kick you, it isn't an attack. It is a response to an invitation.
A net-facing program which just blindly passes whatever crap is input into another programming language (sql, in this case) is simply stupid, broken, and wearing a "kick me" sign.
If my net facing program just bundled user input into 'cmd', and did "system(cmd)"; you would hardly consider that a "shell injection attack". It is simply really bad software. No need for fancy terms.
yes. Its too bad there isn't another way to keep US soldiers alive and healthy though. I thought one of the biggest military expenses was killing people.
I'm sure he did, just as he predicted everything and everyone that did and didn't happen. He even predicted the master, Bruce Lee.
At any rate, conning a bunch of execs into a pointless training is hardly worthy of note. Not even if you get them to paint their asses blue and run around naked in the forest. As a group, or one at a time, they aren't that bright and it isn't their money.
People like Kurzeil are a service to the industry. All those self-styled experts blabbering infantile gibberish about cyber ghouls and zombies distract those that could really impede the development of better technology, like directors, vps, and other riff raff.
When the British Royalty effectively traded its power to pay for its wars, who ended up richer? There is a touch of irony in that the crusades were the first of these adventures which bled power away from the ruling class.
That haemorrhage (insert haemophilia crack here) resulted in the "royal puppet family" who to this day have to perform public rituals of humiliation to remind everyone they have no say in matters.
What is stopping you from doing this? Why do you denigrate them for no fulfilling your personal wish? It isn't wikileaks responsibility to be everything to everyone, but they are setting a good example of what anyone can do. Follow the example, don't whine that your needs aren't being met. Thats what Fox is for, except they just make stuff up.
yeah, I was trying to work in the Mary of Magdalen as one of the women in Sweden, but it seemed like it was going a bit far.... Thanks for the kind words though.
It is so sad. It is a place of contrasts, the sally-fields-like desperation for acknowledgement against the smugness of not being Americans (even though nobody else can tell).
Perhaps your wives relatives should have inserted smileys into the conversation. A sense of humour requires nurturing, not just a conditioned response to a laugh track.
Given the complete ass kicking that Windows Mobile {insert favourite number here} has given the iPhone, its hard not to disagree. It is a brilliant strategy to reduce your user base to zero so you can leapfrog the competition without worrying about backwards compatibility. The mobile platform is the forefront of the user experience. That is why everybody is so desperate about so little; and why Mr Jobs sleeps well at night. Well that and his distortion field.
IOS which is OSX which is UNIX (real UNIX, not Linux) is the smart-ass kid which is making MicroSofts Mobile OS feel stupid and lonely. MicroSoft are facing assaults on all fronts, their situation seems a bit reminiscent of Sun circa 2000. Don't put anything past their ability to "innovate" - it worked well to crush netscape and only suffer a tickle on the pinky.
We also could have foreseen these vulnerabilities.
I used to work in industrial automation - in its pre-windows era, and people did put effort into isolation, access control and validation.
After having made the bad decision to deploy on Windows, when years of evidence that it had a horrendous lack of access control, how did Siemens just continue on? What were they thinking?
Ok, its slashdot, so how much respect is any article about anything M$ does going to get. The enormity of this, however, is huge. Imagine, MicroSofts groundbreaking work in security and reliability now finds that open source, even PHP apps, meet its rigourous standards. I can't help tearing up at the thought. Surely Linux viruses can't be far behind.
I vote for Iceland. They would like to embarrass Iran for giving I-countries such a bad name, during an era when I-anything sells like, well, ipods. Iceland don't want to tip anybody off to their Dr Evil-like powers.
Iceland wrote the malware, then re-implemented it to look like russian code disguised as israeli-american viruses and dispatched it under cover of the last volcanic cycle. Crafty bastards.
What people really need is dtrace. its the gold standard in this arena. Experiment with each of them for a day. Lttng is ok, but like the apostles, a bit thick and ordinary.
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If you have a sign on your back that says "kick me", and people kick you, it isn't an attack. It is a response to an invitation.
A net-facing program which just blindly passes whatever crap is input into another programming language (sql, in this case) is simply stupid, broken, and wearing a "kick me" sign.
If my net facing program just bundled user input into 'cmd', and did "system(cmd)"; you would hardly consider that a "shell injection attack". It is simply really bad software. No need for fancy terms.
yes. Its too bad there isn't another way to keep US soldiers alive and healthy though. I thought one of the biggest military expenses was killing people.
I'm sure he did, just as he predicted everything and everyone that did and didn't happen. He even predicted the master, Bruce Lee.
At any rate, conning a bunch of execs into a pointless training is hardly worthy of note. Not even if you get them to paint their asses blue and run around naked in the forest. As a group, or one at a time, they aren't that bright and it isn't their money.
People like Kurzeil are a service to the industry. All those self-styled experts blabbering infantile gibberish about cyber ghouls and zombies distract those that could really impede the development of better technology, like directors, vps, and other riff raff.
When the British Royalty effectively traded its power to pay for its wars, who ended up richer? There is a touch of irony in that the crusades were the first of these adventures which bled power away from the ruling class.
That haemorrhage (insert haemophilia crack here) resulted in the "royal puppet family" who to this day have to perform public rituals of humiliation to remind everyone they have no say in matters.
What is stopping you from doing this? Why do you denigrate them for no fulfilling your personal wish? It isn't wikileaks responsibility to be everything to everyone, but they are setting a good example of what anyone can do. Follow the example, don't whine that your needs aren't being met. Thats what Fox is for, except they just make stuff up.
I would like a copy of these documents. Anybody got a tracker for it?
I probably would have said the Americans were descendants of religious insanity; a curse that seems to plague them to this day.
But whether its criminally or religiously insane, someone ends up in a vat of nitric acid.
yeah, I was trying to work in the Mary of Magdalen as one of the women in Sweden, but it seemed like it was going a bit far....
Thanks for the kind words though.
It is so sad. It is a place of contrasts, the sally-fields-like desperation for acknowledgement against the smugness of not being Americans (even though nobody else can tell).
Not just that, Wikileaks founder, has some uncanny similarities to a famous religious character:
His name begins with a J.
He has upset those in power by speaking the truth.
He is being persecuted for the company he keeps.
There is an inconceivably complicated convolution of his name that can be equated to "Son of Man".
He comes from modest heritage [ all Australians are descendants of criminals ].
Apparently, he is pretty handy with wood.
Perhaps your wives relatives should have inserted smileys into the conversation. A sense of humour requires nurturing, not just a conditioned response to a laugh track.
People who actually do something are anything but wimps.
Hop to man; wikileaks can't cover everything, they have their niche. Open up "BhCompyLeaks" and get started. Show wikileaks how it should be done.
yes, it isn't certified; but it is the same source. IOS is OSX, reduced with chocolate and balsamic....
Given the complete ass kicking that Windows Mobile {insert favourite number here} has given the iPhone, its hard not to disagree. It is a brilliant strategy to reduce your user base to zero so you can leapfrog the competition without worrying about backwards compatibility.
The mobile platform is the forefront of the user experience. That is why everybody is so desperate about so little; and why Mr Jobs sleeps well at night. Well that and his distortion field.
IOS which is OSX which is UNIX (real UNIX, not Linux) is the smart-ass kid which is making MicroSofts Mobile OS feel stupid and lonely.
MicroSoft are facing assaults on all fronts, their situation seems a bit reminiscent of Sun circa 2000. Don't put anything past their ability to "innovate" - it worked well to crush netscape and only suffer a tickle on the pinky.
Mac is UNIX
Linux is unix-ish
Windows is vms-ish
They are all based on old technologies.
VMS was heavily based on shared memory; thus was Windows, and that shared kernel data has been the vector of so much hurt.
Windows New Technology => WNT
(V+1)(M+1)(S+1) == WNT
Cutler didn't even pretend it was new.
We also could have foreseen these vulnerabilities.
I used to work in industrial automation - in its pre-windows era, and people did put effort into isolation, access control and validation.
After having made the bad decision to deploy on Windows, when years of evidence that it had a horrendous lack of access control, how did Siemens just continue on? What were they thinking?
How long before the access control to this is subverted and nationwide penis enhancement texts start arriving?
I'll take 3 weeks after deployment.
Ok, its slashdot, so how much respect is any article about anything M$ does going to get.
The enormity of this, however, is huge.
Imagine, MicroSofts groundbreaking work in security and reliability now finds that open source, even PHP apps, meet its rigourous standards. I can't help tearing up at the thought.
Surely Linux viruses can't be far behind.
There is a market for John Brauer designed wastebaskets, which may not be any better at holding waste than a cardboard box lined with wax paper.
Sipping shade grown free trade coffee while listening to the Beatles on your i-thing is a straw man. Toss it in your wax-paper lined cardboard box.
I vote for Iceland. They would like to embarrass Iran for giving I-countries such a bad name, during an era when I-anything sells like, well, ipods. Iceland don't want to tip anybody off to their Dr Evil-like powers.
Iceland wrote the malware, then re-implemented it to look like russian code disguised as israeli-american viruses and dispatched it under cover of the last volcanic cycle. Crafty bastards.
What people really need is dtrace. its the gold standard in this arena. Experiment with each of them for a day. Lttng is ok, but like the apostles, a bit thick and ordinary.
the joke was about feminine hygiene products. Not a great joke, and like the dissected frog, it will not recover.
(whoosh), and linux isn't unix.