By obscuring something about our environment, we force an attacker to possibly go through more effort to learn that information before he can execute his attack.
Exactly. Security is about appropriate protection. As an example, you will have had to both determine the key for the simple Caesar Shift Cipher I've used to encode this as ROT-13 and then actually go to the trouble of decoding it (which may or may not be easy for you, depending upon the tools you actually have available to you).
And I'm willing to bet that you're pretty unusual: most people will have skipped past this to read the next post in English, because they can't be bothered... so unless this post gets modded up I've effectively prevented most people from arguing my point. QED.;)
It provides little obscurity because the information is still available... Once one guy found your service, he could tell others.
The point of running on a non-standard port is to keep 31337 script kidde h4x0r5 running an exploit scanner that checks port x on a server and moves on if it's not open. If you're running on a different port, you won't get hit. This won't stop anyone who really wants to hack your computer, because they'll run a port scan. Do you really think there are cracker sites where people post "IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is running a web server on port 92"? Crackers look for easy to crack systems running on standard ports.
(1) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that -
(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work or a portion thereof;
As I see it, this piece of the law has no meaning at all, since copy protection does not effectively protect the rights of the owner if there is a way to circumvent it.
A throbber is the animated icon in the upper left corner that moves when the program is doing something, like the flying comets in Netscape and the rotating earth/E in IE.
All M$ needs to do is take out TV ads that flash.NET code on the screen for a moment... anyone that sees them will be legally unable to contribute code to Mono.
That's because Microsoft is a monopoly. Eeryone uses Windows, so all programs are written for Windows, so everyone uses Windows...
People know about the MacOS and Linux, but Joe Sixpack thinks of the Mac as a cult thing and Linux as an elitist nerd thing. Microsoft software is the normal thing and what Mr. Sixpack uses at work, and as long as it stays that way, open source doesn't have a chance at taking over the general desktop market. The best thing for Linux would be for corporations to start adopting Linux and getting their employees used to it.
I don't think they're banning TCP/IP. Their grounds for banning the Internet is that it is a source of immoral and unclean things, so they shouldn't have a problem with clean, "approved" uses of TCP/IP.
WTF does this have to do with Konq? ActiveX and DirectX are NOT the same thing. DirectX is a 3D graphics library and ActiveX is a system for embedding objects, similar to KParts and Bonobo. WINE does support DirectX, but that's completely irrelevent.
I'm not a web developer, so I might be wrong, but:
When you login to site A, it shows you a page with web bugs on it from sites B, C, etc. You now have session cookies logging you into all of the sites.
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Is it legal to steal someone else's computing power without their knowledge or consent? I know I wouldn't want it happening to me.
In Galeon 11.0, go to Settings > Preferences > Advanced > Filtering and uncheck the Allow Popups check box.
31337 is script-kiddie h4x0r speak for "elite". Variants include 1337 and l33t.
Why doesn't he mention the dotGNU project, which is doing exactly that?
That's why everyone munges their email address on /.
They are, but you need to link to the math library. Add -lm to your gcc command.
LIDS.
Glimmer and KDevelop are both quite good.
If he's dumb enough to get Outlook viruses, would he know how to use Linux? I don't think so.
I should have made it clear ... The parent is a rot13'd version of its parent (not my own writing).
Exactly. Security is about appropriate protection. As an example, you will have had to both determine the key for the simple Caesar Shift Cipher I've used to encode this as ROT-13 and then actually go to the trouble of decoding it (which may or may not be easy for you, depending upon the tools you actually have available to you).
And I'm willing to bet that you're pretty unusual: most people will have skipped past this to read the next post in English, because they can't be bothered... so unless this post gets modded up I've effectively prevented most people from arguing my point. QED. ;)
The point of running on a non-standard port is to keep 31337 script kidde h4x0r5 running an exploit scanner that checks port x on a server and moves on if it's not open. If you're running on a different port, you won't get hit. This won't stop anyone who really wants to hack your computer, because they'll run a port scan. Do you really think there are cracker sites where people post "IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is running a web server on port 92"? Crackers look for easy to crack systems running on standard ports.
Wine won't run on a non-x86 CPU. Why not just run minesweeper for PocketPC?
(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work or a portion thereof;
As I see it, this piece of the law has no meaning at all, since copy protection does not effectively protect the rights of the owner if there is a way to circumvent it.
A throbber is the animated icon in the upper left corner that moves when the program is doing something, like the flying comets in Netscape and the rotating earth/E in IE.
No, the square root of -1 is imaginary. Pi is irrational.
Imaginary numbers don't exist, irrational numbers just can't be written as a fraction.
All M$ needs to do is take out TV ads that flash .NET code on the screen for a moment ... anyone that sees them will be legally unable to contribute code to Mono.
That's because Microsoft is a monopoly. Eeryone uses Windows, so all programs are written for Windows, so everyone uses Windows...
People know about the MacOS and Linux, but Joe Sixpack thinks of the Mac as a cult thing and Linux as an elitist nerd thing. Microsoft software is the normal thing and what Mr. Sixpack uses at work, and as long as it stays that way, open source doesn't have a chance at taking over the general desktop market. The best thing for Linux would be for corporations to start adopting Linux and getting their employees used to it.
I don't think they're banning TCP/IP. Their grounds for banning the Internet is that it is a source of immoral and unclean things, so they shouldn't have a problem with clean, "approved" uses of TCP/IP.
For those who don't know, RFC1149 describes an implementation of TCP/IP using carrier pigeons.
CmdrTaco wants you to use Debian.
WTF does this have to do with Konq? ActiveX and DirectX are NOT the same thing. DirectX is a 3D graphics library and ActiveX is a system for embedding objects, similar to KParts and Bonobo. WINE does support DirectX, but that's completely irrelevent.
I forget who said it, but it's something about "standing on the shoulders of giants".
"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." --Isaac Newton
When you login to site A, it shows you a page with web bugs on it from sites B, C, etc. You now have session cookies logging you into all of the sites.
just a thought
so does junkbuster, and it's free