I don't mind it as long as it requires my consent to read it. I am sure there is $ out there for the first company to provide the ability to enable/disable the functionality of the chip on demand. If you need the RFID, I biometrically turn it on. Otherwise, it stays dormant.
In the meantime, it's probably not the best tech to be putting on a drivers license.
You aren't the only one. As the story progressed I started loosing interest which is quite rare for me while reading this genre. I have tried re-reading it a number of times and seem incapable of liking it. His more recent books, Idoru and Parties, I found much more enjoyable.
I just had an epiphany. I knew I had seen/heard all this before. It's during a Simpsons episode when Bart goes to Mad magazine headquarters and looks through the door.
I can imagine the exact scene happening at SCO.
At some point there is going to be a press release saying either "Surprise! We fooled you" or "SCO executives under investigation for fraud"//Paul
published: 2002-09-13 OpenSSL, the collection of libraries and programs used by many popular programs, has had a number of security problems recently. It looks like the problems are not over yet.
It has been discussed on several mailing lists, that aside from the exploit known for openssl 0.9.6d, there are exploits available for even the most recent version (0.9.6g).
As a precaution, we recommend to disable programs that use openssl as much as possible. The exploits available so far focus on apache, which is probably the most common exposed service that is using openssl. As a precaution, we recommend disabling SSLv2, if you have to run an Apache server with mod_ssl enabled. The magic configuration lines are:
SSLProtocol all -SSLv2 SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!NULL:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:-LO W:+SSLv3:+TLSv1:-SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL
One of the openssl apache exploits was found to install a DDOS agent called 'bugtraq.c'. It uses port 2002 to communicate and can be used to launch a variety of DDOS attacks. This program uses UDP packets on port 2002 to communicate, not necessarily to attack.
I can just imagine a bureaucrat giggling (or laughing manically) while pushing a big red button labeled"Google access" repeatedly. "This should screw/.! hahaha"
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I don't mind it as long as it requires my consent to read it. I am sure there is $ out there for the first company to provide the ability to enable/disable the functionality of the chip on demand. If you need the RFID, I biometrically turn it on. Otherwise, it stays dormant.
In the meantime, it's probably not the best tech to be putting on a drivers license.
You aren't the only one. As the story progressed I started loosing interest which is quite rare for me while reading this genre. I have tried re-reading it a number of times and seem incapable of liking it. His more recent books, Idoru and Parties, I found much more enjoyable.
I can see what everyone is complaining about. Even jokes about Perl are hard to read.
I just had an epiphany. I knew I had seen/heard all this before. It's during a Simpsons episode when Bart goes to Mad magazine headquarters and looks through the door.
//Paul
I can imagine the exact scene happening at SCO.
At some point there is going to be a press release saying either "Surprise! We fooled you" or "SCO executives under investigation for fraud"
I can Ghost an 80 gig drive in under 10 minutes. There are other commercial products.
//cow
I have far too many other projects that could use 6-7 hours...
Seems a bit more detailed.
O W:+SSLv3:+TLSv1:-SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL
//cow
Here is the alert:
published: 2002-09-13
OpenSSL, the collection of libraries and programs used by many popular
programs, has had a number of security problems recently. It looks like
the problems are not over yet.
It has been discussed on several mailing lists, that aside from the
exploit known for openssl 0.9.6d, there are exploits available for
even the most recent version (0.9.6g).
As a precaution, we recommend to disable programs that use openssl as
much as possible. The exploits available so far focus on apache, which
is probably the most common exposed service that is using openssl.
As a precaution, we recommend disabling SSLv2, if you have to run an
Apache server with mod_ssl enabled. The magic configuration lines
are:
SSLProtocol all -SSLv2
SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!NULL:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:-L
One of the openssl apache exploits was found to install a DDOS agent
called 'bugtraq.c'. It uses port 2002 to communicate and can be used
to launch a variety of DDOS attacks. This program uses UDP packets on
port 2002 to communicate, not necessarily to attack.
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cow's go muu~
Net goes up! Net goes down!
/.! hahaha"
I can just imagine a bureaucrat giggling (or laughing manically) while pushing a big red button labeled"Google access" repeatedly. "This should screw
Maybe it's a campaign to drive geeks crazy?