What if I run this identd server, which appears to give perfectly valid ident responses (though they're completely random strings of gibberish)? There are others in the FreeBSD ports collection and in Debian's dpkg list (and, I'm sure, elsewhere) that allow me to do the same.
If I run mIRC, it's even easier to change my ident response. I don't even need to compile or install anything, let alone enable it in/etc/inetd.conf.
I've yet to see how any one person can cause havoc and destruction on the Internet. Has anyone ever heard of a death directly attributed to someone hacking a computer? Is such a situation even fathomable for any of you? Did you need to smoke anything special to envision such a situation? Please, help me out, here.
You have obviously no CLUE. CDE was written by SUN dude, they could easily opensource that one and get help from the Motif community to enchance it.
Here's my main beef with slashbots: none of you live in the real world. Yes, Sun should just take what is probably millions of man-hours worth of work, and, hell, just make it free! Why the hell can't Sun do that? What evil, evil corporate bullies: not willing to give away source code they spent millions upon millions of dollars to develop!
And, what Motif community? Does anyone still develop in Motif anymore? Every real UNIX software package I've seen (in the real world, a place you Slashbots ought to spend some time in) uses its own widget libraries. Nobody develops in pure Motif anymore. Hell, CDE isn't even Motif, for the most part.
Slashbots tend to think everything is so easy, and why haven't they done it yet?, but, in this fun place the rest of us like to call reality, not everything is so simple and black-and-white.
Sun is not Evil simply because they won't give you shit for free. Please get over yourselves.
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Your use of the pseudo-technical and absolutely made-up "reverse honeypot" term confused the living snot out of me; I still can't wrap my head around the concept of what a "reverse honeypot" might do, but I'm sure it's nothing like what you're describing, which is just packet filtering and modification.
Why do you assume that someone who runs a Microsoft product instead of the corresponding Open Source analog is underqualified? Setting up Apache is by no means a measure of one's sysadmin prowess. You could train a retarded monkey to do it.
You know, they make 200 gig drives now... I hope I'm not sounding elitist when I offer the suggestion that you purchase something larger, shove it in one of them, and share it via NFS, SAMBA, and any other protocols your computers speak.
Sometimes you need to make sacrifices in order to make money. If this guy really is living hand-to-mouth, he ought to look into getting a research grant or small business loan, if he's really serious about it. If he isn't serious about it (which is honestly what it sounds like, to me), he should pack it in and let the professionals handle it. Nobody is going to take him seriously if he waltzes into a meeting with a cardboard tablet PC demo box.
Now there is something that will alert me when a website is no longer worth visiting. Thank you, Anti-Leech Dot Com! I am sure your IPO will net you hundreds of dollars.
Actually, I use my cell phone, pager, *and* my PDA. Imagine that! It's pretty nice to be able to download driving directions from Mapquest to my PDA, and have a full set of directions to wherever I happen to be driving. It's also nice to have the password to every machine at work encrypted in my pocket at all times. It's also nice for writing notes down on. I feel bad for people who use their PDAs as cock-hangers; they're actually pretty useful when you're not using them in a futile attempt to score chicks.
I can't believe this story has engendered 750 pissed-off slashbot comments already. You're absolutely right, it's costing them money. It's also against the law. Why the hell would anyone have a problem with Microsoft banning modded XBoxes from their network? I would really like to hear a rational argument from the one or two people out there who actually mod their XBox so they can do something other than steal things.
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What if I run this identd server, which appears to give perfectly valid ident responses (though they're completely random strings of gibberish)? There are others in the FreeBSD ports collection and in Debian's dpkg list (and, I'm sure, elsewhere) that allow me to do the same.
/etc/inetd.conf.
If I run mIRC, it's even easier to change my ident response. I don't even need to compile or install anything, let alone enable it in
- A.P.
it goes ALL YOUR BASES ARE BELONGING TO US!!!
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!! SO funny!!!!
- A.P.
I've yet to see how any one person can cause havoc and destruction on the Internet. Has anyone ever heard of a death directly attributed to someone hacking a computer? Is such a situation even fathomable for any of you? Did you need to smoke anything special to envision such a situation? Please, help me out, here.
- A.P.
My American Vaio came with Corel Office.
Sony's been shipping stuff other than office for a long time.
- A.P.
You have obviously no CLUE. CDE was written by SUN dude, they could easily opensource that one and get help from the Motif community to enchance it.
Here's my main beef with slashbots: none of you live in the real world. Yes, Sun should just take what is probably millions of man-hours worth of work, and, hell, just make it free! Why the hell can't Sun do that? What evil, evil corporate bullies: not willing to give away source code they spent millions upon millions of dollars to develop!
And, what Motif community? Does anyone still develop in Motif anymore? Every real UNIX software package I've seen (in the real world, a place you Slashbots ought to spend some time in) uses its own widget libraries. Nobody develops in pure Motif anymore. Hell, CDE isn't even Motif, for the most part.
Slashbots tend to think everything is so easy, and why haven't they done it yet?, but, in this fun place the rest of us like to call reality, not everything is so simple and black-and-white.
Sun is not Evil simply because they won't give you shit for free. Please get over yourselves.
- A.P.
...you'd be hurting right now.
- A.P.
Could they edit the Nazis out of "Indiana Jones"?
- A.P.
Yes, because the sum of two opposite extremes must equal zero.
- A.P.
Your use of the pseudo-technical and absolutely made-up "reverse honeypot" term confused the living snot out of me; I still can't wrap my head around the concept of what a "reverse honeypot" might do, but I'm sure it's nothing like what you're describing, which is just packet filtering and modification.
- A.P.
Things that perform well don't always have to look ugly. Just look at this. I wouldn't cover that with duct tape, either.
- A.P.
Yeah, duct tape will look great wrapped all over the wires on my new G4.
Not all of us build our computer desks out of sawhorses and discarded dining-room doors.
- A.P.
You never know.
- A.P.
Why do you assume that someone who runs a Microsoft product instead of the corresponding Open Source analog is underqualified? Setting up Apache is by no means a measure of one's sysadmin prowess. You could train a retarded monkey to do it.
- A.P.
You know, they make 200 gig drives now... I hope I'm not sounding elitist when I offer the suggestion that you purchase something larger, shove it in one of them, and share it via NFS, SAMBA, and any other protocols your computers speak.
- A.P.
This is probably what computer-based terrorist profiling has in store for you!
- A.P.
Sometimes you need to make sacrifices in order to make money. If this guy really is living hand-to-mouth, he ought to look into getting a research grant or small business loan, if he's really serious about it. If he isn't serious about it (which is honestly what it sounds like, to me), he should pack it in and let the professionals handle it. Nobody is going to take him seriously if he waltzes into a meeting with a cardboard tablet PC demo box.
- A.P.
I don't want to spend $2,300 on one just to test out my idea.
This really means "my idea isn't worth $2300 to me."
- A.P.
I remember reading about this here in August.
- A.P.
...but this is like buying a car because you needed a cigarette lighter.
- A.P.
Now there is something that will alert me when a website is no longer worth visiting. Thank you, Anti-Leech Dot Com! I am sure your IPO will net you hundreds of dollars.
- A.P.
Actually, I use my cell phone, pager, *and* my PDA. Imagine that! It's pretty nice to be able to download driving directions from Mapquest to my PDA, and have a full set of directions to wherever I happen to be driving. It's also nice to have the password to every machine at work encrypted in my pocket at all times. It's also nice for writing notes down on. I feel bad for people who use their PDAs as cock-hangers; they're actually pretty useful when you're not using them in a futile attempt to score chicks.
- A.P.
if you play burned games you cost them money.
I can't believe this story has engendered 750 pissed-off slashbot comments already. You're absolutely right, it's costing them money. It's also against the law. Why the hell would anyone have a problem with Microsoft banning modded XBoxes from their network? I would really like to hear a rational argument from the one or two people out there who actually mod their XBox so they can do something other than steal things.
- A.P.
Clearly. Maybe some of them are still recovering from 4:20 PM today.
From the page:
Greetings go out to bok who quickly coded this up at 4:30 in the morning and got us laughing.
I wonder what Bok was doing at 4:20 in the morning...
- A.P.
I have 4 of them in this machine (Fujitsu MAN-series drives), and they're quieter than anything I've ever used.
- A.P.