Darn ! If I would have known this issue was going to recycle, I would have modified some old Y2K tripe with "Code Red" stuff, bought some time on some religious broadcasting network and made beacoup dollars peddling fear to survivalist-types.
Darn, and here I was under the delusion that the first computer game was a socially engineered version of hide-n-go-seek developed by the Altiar loving Home-Brew club, otherwise known as "steal Bill's BASIC."
Interstingly enough, the BBC article shows a picture of hands at keyboard of what appears to be a laptop computer... a technology that might have helped "Little Nicky"... provided he packed it on his person with the same regularity as gold-plated money clip.
Did anyone else notice the article's definition of "TEMPEST", which appeared in the article that read:
"There is even a system called TEMPEST that detects electromagnetic emanations from a computer monitor." ?
Really ?! And here I thought it was a code word, perhaps even an acronymn, that that identifies a classified set of standards and endorsements for LIMITING electromagnetic emissions radiated from electronic equipment.
I'm glad that the system worked, that is, a judge was wise enough to tell the FBI to play by the rules. Still, it concerns me that the same Government that has to monitor itself restricts technologies designed to prevent such privacy intrusions asserting that they fall under the licensing jurisdiction of the Department of State, Category XI (C), Title 22 of Federal Regulations, Section 121.
Still, I'm a bit bemused by the fact a mobster was smart enough to use PGP. I can only imagine what a savvy cartoonist would do with the Mafia's idea of TEMPTEST hardware !
One approach to cleaning up dead cable might be to eyes and scales on it, and then spread a rumor amongst Asian fishermen about a large, succulent eel that resides between Austraila & New Zeland... which when boiled is a potent aphrodisiac.
If nothing else, it might keep them busy enough to save a whale or two.
my example of PERL & DBI was just that... an example... not a comprehensive or inclusive list. Certainly, I could have, and I guess in this case, should have said JDBC.
I've been coding for about 15 years. I've dealt with all sorts of companies, programmers, bosses, and projects. During that course, I've seen a parade of people who title themselves as a programmer.
At some level they are, but more often than not, I've run into many are weak in one of two ways. First, some can't handle new languages, or languages that are different from what they were originally trained on. Similar to that line, they are unable to grasp newer or changing technologies.
For example, I've seen alot of people who claim to be Windows programers, who don't have a clue about COM &/or DCOM. I've seen alot of web developers who can't make heads of tail with of Perl... let alone the DBI.
Second, I've seen many programmers who are either ignorant of the "life-cycle" concept... or just aren't willing to edure some of the hardships of maintenance phases (though I should temper that with I've seen alot of older programmers making a good living doing maintenance coding).
Likewise similar to this concept, I see alot of programmers who aren't familiar or have forgotten good design methologies. Not that they should be walking textbooks for Martin, DeMarco or Constantine... but how often have all of us had to clean-up some spagetti because thing weren't really thought through.
Like I said, these are just some observations. Your mileage may vary.
Nothing ruins a good war flick like the addition of an obligatory love scene/relationship. For example, Perl Harbor. All this great hardware flying around and blowing up things... and they mess it up with some schumltzy triangle.
Same problem with Tron. We weren't in it for Kurt Russel and whatever flavor/babe of the month Disney was offering. We wanted to see hard core hardware. Recure that binary tree... but make sure it's balanced.
But this will probably flop because they'll put some stupid love theme around the good stuff. Personally, I'd load up the cast with veloptous cyber-babes... and then... hey wait, what if the cyberbabes took an interest in each other ???......hhmmmmmm......
My employer, just yesterday, sent out a nice memo about Internet usage. It included a phrase to the effect "while we don't generally, monitor activity, we reserve the right to do so at any time"... and at least their decent enough to be up front and warn us that the E-Mail belongs to them...
... so I own a website and use their server for mail... and when my company shut down access to outside SMTP, I went over to sourceforge and got myself an online/http based e-mail program. I also installed a nice little proxy using the secure socket.
For those who can't do this, or can't affort anonymous proxy & e-mail services, I'd suggest you not do it as long as the courts say it all belongs to the boss man.
Good thing the U.S. modified it's policy on exporting encryption technologies (a.k.a. munitions).
Otherwise we'd have to ask those of you reading the featured article apply some mental floss and forget what you've just read, shred any hard-copies you took to the bathroom with you, and format hard drive just to insure that you haven't accidentally cached it somewhere.
Consider this, if I'm going to create a program, let's say using PERL and a library like LWP. Then I really don't care if your e-mail address is a hidden variable or up there as a mailto... if I build my regular expression correctly... you're mine.
Third, if unedited, versions of FormMail as exampled by your site, can become a major spam producer. In large part FormMail uses that HTTP variable for your e-mail address we talked about earlier. This allows Spammers to easily abuse your form to distribute their messages. Moreover, unless you capture and forward their IP, you give then the anonymity.
Finally, why write so much stinking (and unsecure code) ? By using CGI.pm, you can address some other security issues. You can avoid having to put your 'hidden' arguments in your HTML. With the addition of a few other libraries, you can address a variety of other security issues while significantly reducing your effort.
I agree. I mean, if I really want to do the serious, low-level heavy lifting, I've got C/C++.
In fact, it is Perl's simplicity that turned me onto it years ago. It's why most of my web-based reporting, in fact most of my web-based anything is done in Perl.
I mean, I can't imagine what's going to happen with repositories such as CPAN when 6 comes out. I know I'll be screwed.
Washington D.C. - Shortly after an interview with Italian authorities, congressman Gary Condit held a press conference in which he flatly denied any knowledge of the iceman, his whereabouts or who may have wacked him in the back with an arrow.
Amazing. Considering all the noise Chuck Schumer made about Windows XP yesterday, you'd think this member of the judiciary commitee spend his valuable time on something important like the Sklyarov situation.
What I find so pathetic is the lost opportunity by Radio Shack to capture a market. Had they not originally just treated their Trash80 line like a "hobby-thing" imagine the world we might be living in now ?
Unfortunately, for them, by the time they actualized the Tandy/small business approach, they had already lost the market to the upstart IBM product, and it's competing Compaq luggable/sowing machine.
Yeah, I remember the Trash80. Whatta machine, some horrible mutant word processor that made vi look fun. Fortunately, my boss at the time had enough sense to install Pickles & Trout CP/M with CrossTalk and dBase II. Then we were cooking !
Yes, but where would you find that "sexy" Logan's Run-like voice ? And if you found it, wouldn't there be a temptation just to run the audio files and dream ?
What, you think the communist genocide is limited to 1949 ? One of the reasons the Japanese were able to take China so easily was due to factional/political in-fighting amongst the Chinese, including the commies.
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Darn ! If I would have known this issue was going to recycle, I would have modified some old Y2K tripe with "Code Red" stuff, bought some time on some religious broadcasting network and made beacoup dollars peddling fear to survivalist-types.
Don't forget all those neat missle programs and satellite firmware !-)
Darn, and here I was under the delusion that the first computer game was a socially engineered version of hide-n-go-seek developed by the Altiar loving Home-Brew club, otherwise known as "steal Bill's BASIC."
Interstingly enough, the BBC article shows a picture of hands at keyboard of what appears to be a laptop computer ... a technology that might have helped "Little Nicky" ... provided he packed it on his person with the same regularity as gold-plated money clip.
"There is even a system called TEMPEST that detects electromagnetic emanations from a computer monitor." ?
Really ?! And here I thought it was a code word, perhaps even an acronymn, that that identifies a classified set of standards and endorsements for LIMITING electromagnetic emissions radiated from electronic equipment.
So for all you confused members of the press:
Still, I'm a bit bemused by the fact a mobster was smart enough to use PGP. I can only imagine what a savvy cartoonist would do with the Mafia's idea of TEMPTEST hardware !
If nothing else, it might keep them busy enough to save a whale or two.
my example of PERL & DBI was just that ... an example ... not a comprehensive or inclusive list. Certainly, I could have, and I guess in this case, should have said JDBC.
At some level they are, but more often than not, I've run into many are weak in one of two ways. First, some can't handle new languages, or languages that are different from what they were originally trained on. Similar to that line, they are unable to grasp newer or changing technologies.
For example, I've seen alot of people who claim to be Windows programers, who don't have a clue about COM &/or DCOM. I've seen alot of web developers who can't make heads of tail with of Perl ... let alone the DBI.
Second, I've seen many programmers who are either ignorant of the "life-cycle" concept ... or just aren't willing to edure some of the hardships of maintenance phases (though I should temper that with I've seen alot of older programmers making a good living doing maintenance coding).
Likewise similar to this concept, I see alot of programmers who aren't familiar or have forgotten good design methologies. Not that they should be walking textbooks for Martin, DeMarco or Constantine ... but how often have all of us had to clean-up some spagetti because thing weren't really thought through.
Like I said, these are just some observations. Your mileage may vary.
Same problem with Tron. We weren't in it for Kurt Russel and whatever flavor/babe of the month Disney was offering. We wanted to see hard core hardware. Recure that binary tree ... but make sure it's balanced.
But this will probably flop because they'll put some stupid love theme around the good stuff. Personally, I'd load up the cast with veloptous cyber-babes ... and then ... hey wait, what if the cyberbabes took an interest in each other ??? ......hhmmmmmm......
For those who can't do this, or can't affort anonymous proxy & e-mail services, I'd suggest you not do it as long as the courts say it all belongs to the boss man.
Otherwise we'd have to ask those of you reading the featured article apply some mental floss and forget what you've just read, shred any hard-copies you took to the bathroom with you, and format hard drive just to insure that you haven't accidentally cached it somewhere.
Second, while your approach may have cut it back in 1996 when Matt Wright gave it away, it doesn't address many of the security issues that have crept up, some of which are listed in an article Lincoln Stein wrote for the W3C.
Third, if unedited, versions of FormMail as exampled by your site, can become a major spam producer. In large part FormMail uses that HTTP variable for your e-mail address we talked about earlier. This allows Spammers to easily abuse your form to distribute their messages. Moreover, unless you capture and forward their IP, you give then the anonymity.
Finally, why write so much stinking (and unsecure code) ? By using CGI.pm, you can address some other security issues. You can avoid having to put your 'hidden' arguments in your HTML. With the addition of a few other libraries, you can address a variety of other security issues while significantly reducing your effort.
IN other words, work SMART and HARD !
While I'm sure most harversters avoid such addresses, I have seen it catch the stupid spammer who thinks they're hot stuff using LWP::UserAgent.
In fact, it is Perl's simplicity that turned me onto it years ago. It's why most of my web-based reporting, in fact most of my web-based anything is done in Perl.
I mean, I can't imagine what's going to happen with repositories such as CPAN when 6 comes out. I know I'll be screwed.
Washington D.C. - Shortly after an interview with Italian authorities, congressman Gary Condit held a press conference in which he flatly denied any knowledge of the iceman, his whereabouts or who may have wacked him in the back with an arrow.
something else to shoot myself in the foot with !
Amazing. Considering all the noise Chuck Schumer made about Windows XP yesterday, you'd think this member of the judiciary commitee spend his valuable time on something important like the Sklyarov situation.
For all of us pining nostagically for the 'good-old-days', here's a link that will lurch us back into reality: http://www.pattosoft.com.au/jason/Articles/History OfComputers/1980s.html
Unfortunately, for them, by the time they actualized the Tandy/small business approach, they had already lost the market to the upstart IBM product, and it's competing Compaq luggable/sowing machine.
Yeah, I remember the Trash80. Whatta machine, some horrible mutant word processor that made vi look fun. Fortunately, my boss at the time had enough sense to install Pickles & Trout CP/M with CrossTalk and dBase II. Then we were cooking !
Just wonderful. From the same executives that screwed up the Redskins and the Capitals.
Yes, but where would you find that "sexy" Logan's Run-like voice ? And if you found it, wouldn't there be a temptation just to run the audio files and dream ?
Books don't cause revolutions ... people do.
And what, being a war casualty makes it okay ?