They probably dont want to support linux because the code they wrote isn't written to be portable. If they migrate their code to be portable, then linux and macosx (as well as other unix's)should be no problem to use as a make target.
A better idea would be to offer a plugin (which might be included by default but turned off by the user at installation time) that periodically syncronizes with a remote database of "bad" sites. This is basically what AdBlock + FilterSet.g plugin does for firefox, only it deals with ad blocking instead of phishing sites....
I'm sure a large number of people use the internet primarly as a tool to generate income and wealth... If the length of time one spends on the internet is equal to the amount of money that one makes, it makes sense for these money-oriented people to spend as much time as they can on the internet, working. I wouldn't call that an addiction to the internet, I would call it an addiction to money. Is being addicted to making money a psychological disorder? Maybe to the "money isnt everything" crowd, but not me.
This technology has been used successfully on AMPS (analog cellular network) to get rid of ESN/MIN spoofing and it for the most part works. The result is that when spoofing calls with acoustic fingerprinting enabled, the call will get torn down if a fingprint for that cell phone exists in HLR (Home Location Register -- the central database that authenticates the subscriber).
Get as many W-2's as you can and get as many mortgage loans as you can afford simultaneously. Buy houses that appraise for at least 30K above what it is listed for and you will make a profit, otherwise the money gets eaten up in closing costs. Its hard to find good deals, but they are out there every day if you are looking, or if you wrote software that does this for you. You can get really rich buying houses for $100K that are really worth $300K after $40K of renovations.
Why would I want to virtualize Linux under Microsoft Windows? The main benefit of linux is a stable kernel versus an unstable kernel (microsoft). I would rather virtualize Windows under Linux, not the other way around.
How do you obtain their numbers? Are they using DNS? Are they putting sniffers on all the core routers? Is this even possible to any degree of accuracy? It seems this junk science is probably about as reliable as Neilsen ratings...
This whole thing is a publicity stunt/joke to make Microsoft look like they can be run on automobile control systems.
In the real world, power and CPU utilization are primary factors considered in the design phase of any of these types of projects. Microsoft would never be even considered on the drawing board for anything like this in the real world.
When you build a system half assed from the ground up, it tends to fail sooner at a faster rate than if you designed it properly from the beginning. This project reminds me of those Microsoft "smart phones" that they released, which fail more than they work, and juice the batteries. Too much CPU utilization and too little performance for realtime applications. Nice try.
"Shiva Sharma was probably one of the first, and he was certainly one of the first to get caught," said Diane M. Peress, a former Queens County prosecutor who handled all three of Mr. Sharma's cases and who is now the chief of economic crimes with the Nassau County district attorney's office.
This guy is from New York. What about New York's Masters Of Deception (MOD) group in the 1980's? I would say they were probably one of the first. Its pretty naive to make such statements that in 2006, this guy is "one of the first". He is 22 years old. I know guys that are in their late 30's early 40's that were doing computer based identity theft back in their teens and early 20's.
Landmines using a radio to communicate? all you have to do is use a frequency counter in the area to find what frequency they are transmitting on, and I bet its vulnerable to many network based attacked (replay attacks, man in the middle, injection, etc). Next someone will write a program that makes them all relocate themselves on top of one another, causing them to all explode.
sourceforge.net, freshmeat.net, tinyapps.org, packetstormsecurity.org, etc, etc have been around for a number of years and do this task well. I checked out that site, and it looks like they are attempting to use a vanilla CMS for the task of managing the titles... You really need some custom software to do it right (check freshmeat.net for an example of a good custom interface).
police are public servants of the state government, and as such they are not treated the same way with respect to monitoring of audio/video that ordinary citizens do. The same way that the police have the ability to record their communications with the public, the public also has the right to record their communications with the police, or any other state government agency acting on the public's behalf for that matter. This recording occurred on the private property owned by this individual, so just in the same way that a corporation can monitor the actions of employees working on their private property, citizens also have this right. There was a sign in plain view with clear notification that monitoring was taking place on the private property of this individual.
You lack understanding on several grounds. First, you forget that police are public servants of the state government, and as such they are not treated the same way with respect to monitoring of audio/video that ordinary citizens do. The same way that the police have the ability to record their communications with the public, the public also has the right to record their communications with the police, or any other state government agency acting on the public's behalf for that matter. Secondly, this recording occurred on the private property owned by this individual, so just in the same way that a corporation can monitor the actions of employees working on their private property, citizens also have this right. Thirdly, there was a sign in plain view with clear notification that monitoring was taking place on the private property of this individual.
It sounds like a coverup to me. They never found that laptop, and if they did, it wasn't the one that was missing. I bet after a whole bunch of politicians got in hot water over this story when it first broke, they quietly orchestrated a nice plan to sweep this mess back under the carpet where it belongs! While this case quietly goes away, the real issues (data security, privacy of sensitive data, etc, etc, etc) do not have to be addressed.
Anyone who takes thier data seriously would never think of doing such a thing. You have no idea what happens when your files get copied to some third party network.
AOL has been doing these low ball tactics for since around the time when they started bundling AOL with Winsock. They have gone way out of their way to make sure that you have a really really difficult time uninstalling their software from your machine, by attempting to make it a "requirement" that the AOL winsock driver replaces your TCP/IP stack on windows. If you try to remove it, you basically wind up with an unusable TCP/IP stack. Granted, because of widespread outrage at this practice, they actually through the revisions of their software have made it easier to uninstall, but for many years it was not like this. In fact, most of the 1990's it was not like that.
Then there was the aftermath of when AOL bought Time Warner Cable. They attempted to keep their market share by falsely advertising that people had to keep paying for AOL even after they upgraded to the high speed cable modem Road Runner service offered by Time Warner. I remember one time talking to an employee that had this setup on their machine and they were under the impression that this was a "requirement" in order to have high speed internet. It was a big revelation at the time to this person that they could indeed have a high speed internet cable modem connection *without* the AOL installed..... I then remember very vividly calling up AOL on behalf of this employee and having a very hard time having them remove the AOL and cancel the account. The rep went into grand detail with false statements of how the cable modem connection would not work properly if AOL was not running on the computer.
All I'm saying is that AOL is a shady company, they lost alot of market share after people went to high speed internet and thus got rid of dialup, and to retain that market share, they devolved into these types of tactics to scare people into keeping the service. I'm sure everyone who has ever had a run-in with the AOL people at some point has a bad story to tell.
Given the fact that remotely exploitable holes are found with Internet Explorer almost on a daily basis, would having your machine constantly backdoored by BackWeb, BonziBuddy, Gator, Hotbar, Ezula, Weather Cast, GAIN, Claria, etc. be enough to switch?
The article is lacking many details, like specifically which browsers seem to be vulnerable to this problem, or even if this is a browser bug that it is exploiting.... It could be a server side problem they are exploiting, or a client side browser bug. It says the vulnerable systems are every Windows OS, so it appears to be a client side problem with Internet Exploder, although from the article it is impossible to determine this.
The author Tom Giovanetti is under the assumption that network access providers do not have packet throttling enabled on their routers. This is not true. Most routers today are already configured to perform rate limiting on traffic inbound and outbound. Another thing is that in any properly designed network, the users will never be able to flood off the other users. The users will always have a pipe that is limited to the bandwidth that they paid for (i.e. $59.00/month for 5Mbit down / 1Mbit up) and as long as thier pipes are big enough to handle the aggregate maximum bandwidth of each user, the provider should have no problems passing traffic for every user at that maximum sustainable burst rate without any packet loss.
His article lacks a lot of facts and assumes other opinions which are not true and can be verified to not be true, and have not been true for at least 15 years now, since packet filtering and rate limiting software became public.
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They probably dont want to support linux because the code they wrote isn't written to be portable. If they migrate their code to be portable, then linux and macosx (as well as other unix's)should be no problem to use as a make target.
sounds alot like d0xmaster :)
I don't think this is anything new... Targeted attacks for financial gain were going on since at least the 1980's, so whats new about this?
A better idea would be to offer a plugin (which might be included by default but turned off by the user at installation time) that periodically syncronizes with a remote database of "bad" sites. This is basically what AdBlock + FilterSet.g plugin does for firefox, only it deals with ad blocking instead of phishing sites....
I'm sure a large number of people use the internet primarly as a tool to generate income and wealth... If the length of time one spends on the internet is equal to the amount of money that one makes, it makes sense for these money-oriented people to spend as much time as they can on the internet, working. I wouldn't call that an addiction to the internet, I would call it an addiction to money. Is being addicted to making money a psychological disorder? Maybe to the "money isnt everything" crowd, but not me.
This technology has been used successfully on AMPS (analog cellular network) to get rid of ESN/MIN spoofing and it for the most part works. The result is that when spoofing calls with acoustic fingerprinting enabled, the call will get torn down if a fingprint for that cell phone exists in HLR (Home Location Register -- the central database that authenticates the subscriber).
Get as many W-2's as you can and get as many mortgage loans as you can afford simultaneously. Buy houses that appraise for at least 30K above what it is listed for and you will make a profit, otherwise the money gets eaten up in closing costs. Its hard to find good deals, but they are out there every day if you are looking, or if you wrote software that does this for you. You can get really rich buying houses for $100K that are really worth $300K after $40K of renovations.
i'll believe it when I see it... Microsoft cares about Microsoft (and whoever pays them the most money)...
Why would I want to virtualize Linux under Microsoft Windows? The main benefit of linux is a stable kernel versus an unstable kernel (microsoft). I would rather virtualize Windows under Linux, not the other way around.
How do you obtain their numbers? Are they using DNS? Are they putting sniffers on all the core routers? Is this even possible to any degree of accuracy? It seems this junk science is probably about as reliable as Neilsen ratings...
We've been hearing vaporware mram chip stories for almost a decade now... When is it going to be on the market for people to purchase and use?
This whole thing is a publicity stunt/joke to make Microsoft look like they can be run on automobile control systems. In the real world, power and CPU utilization are primary factors considered in the design phase of any of these types of projects. Microsoft would never be even considered on the drawing board for anything like this in the real world. When you build a system half assed from the ground up, it tends to fail sooner at a faster rate than if you designed it properly from the beginning. This project reminds me of those Microsoft "smart phones" that they released, which fail more than they work, and juice the batteries. Too much CPU utilization and too little performance for realtime applications. Nice try.
Landmines using a radio to communicate? all you have to do is use a frequency counter in the area to find what frequency they are transmitting on, and I bet its vulnerable to many network based attacked (replay attacks, man in the middle, injection, etc). Next someone will write a program that makes them all relocate themselves on top of one another, causing them to all explode.
sourceforge.net, freshmeat.net, tinyapps.org, packetstormsecurity.org, etc, etc have been around for a number of years and do this task well. I checked out that site, and it looks like they are attempting to use a vanilla CMS for the task of managing the titles... You really need some custom software to do it right (check freshmeat.net for an example of a good custom interface).
Hard to compete with "vi" editor?
police are public servants of the state government, and as such they are not treated the same way with respect to monitoring of audio/video that ordinary citizens do. The same way that the police have the ability to record their communications with the public, the public also has the right to record their communications with the police, or any other state government agency acting on the public's behalf for that matter. This recording occurred on the private property owned by this individual, so just in the same way that a corporation can monitor the actions of employees working on their private property, citizens also have this right. There was a sign in plain view with clear notification that monitoring was taking place on the private property of this individual.
You lack understanding on several grounds. First, you forget that police are public servants of the state government, and as such they are not treated the same way with respect to monitoring of audio/video that ordinary citizens do. The same way that the police have the ability to record their communications with the public, the public also has the right to record their communications with the police, or any other state government agency acting on the public's behalf for that matter. Secondly, this recording occurred on the private property owned by this individual, so just in the same way that a corporation can monitor the actions of employees working on their private property, citizens also have this right. Thirdly, there was a sign in plain view with clear notification that monitoring was taking place on the private property of this individual.
It sounds like a coverup to me. They never found that laptop, and if they did, it wasn't the one that was missing. I bet after a whole bunch of politicians got in hot water over this story when it first broke, they quietly orchestrated a nice plan to sweep this mess back under the carpet where it belongs! While this case quietly goes away, the real issues (data security, privacy of sensitive data, etc, etc, etc) do not have to be addressed.
Anyone who takes thier data seriously would never think of doing such a thing. You have no idea what happens when your files get copied to some third party network.
AOL has been doing these low ball tactics for since around the time when they started bundling AOL with Winsock. They have gone way out of their way to make sure that you have a really really difficult time uninstalling their software from your machine, by attempting to make it a "requirement" that the AOL winsock driver replaces your TCP/IP stack on windows. If you try to remove it, you basically wind up with an unusable TCP/IP stack. Granted, because of widespread outrage at this practice, they actually through the revisions of their software have made it easier to uninstall, but for many years it was not like this. In fact, most of the 1990's it was not like that.
Then there was the aftermath of when AOL bought Time Warner Cable. They attempted to keep their market share by falsely advertising that people had to keep paying for AOL even after they upgraded to the high speed cable modem Road Runner service offered by Time Warner. I remember one time talking to an employee that had this setup on their machine and they were under the impression that this was a "requirement" in order to have high speed internet. It was a big revelation at the time to this person that they could indeed have a high speed internet cable modem connection *without* the AOL installed..... I then remember very vividly calling up AOL on behalf of this employee and having a very hard time having them remove the AOL and cancel the account. The rep went into grand detail with false statements of how the cable modem connection would not work properly if AOL was not running on the computer.
All I'm saying is that AOL is a shady company, they lost alot of market share after people went to high speed internet and thus got rid of dialup, and to retain that market share, they devolved into these types of tactics to scare people into keeping the service. I'm sure everyone who has ever had a run-in with the AOL people at some point has a bad story to tell.
Given the fact that remotely exploitable holes are found with Internet Explorer almost on a daily basis, would having your machine constantly backdoored by BackWeb, BonziBuddy, Gator, Hotbar, Ezula, Weather Cast, GAIN, Claria, etc. be enough to switch?
The Blu-Ray devices have been selling for at least several years.
The article is lacking many details, like specifically which browsers seem to be vulnerable to this problem, or even if this is a browser bug that it is exploiting.... It could be a server side problem they are exploiting, or a client side browser bug. It says the vulnerable systems are every Windows OS, so it appears to be a client side problem with Internet Exploder, although from the article it is impossible to determine this.
The author Tom Giovanetti is under the assumption that network access providers do not have packet throttling enabled on their routers. This is not true. Most routers today are already configured to perform rate limiting on traffic inbound and outbound. Another thing is that in any properly designed network, the users will never be able to flood off the other users. The users will always have a pipe that is limited to the bandwidth that they paid for (i.e. $59.00/month for 5Mbit down / 1Mbit up) and as long as thier pipes are big enough to handle the aggregate maximum bandwidth of each user, the provider should have no problems passing traffic for every user at that maximum sustainable burst rate without any packet loss. His article lacks a lot of facts and assumes other opinions which are not true and can be verified to not be true, and have not been true for at least 15 years now, since packet filtering and rate limiting software became public.