Posted by Zonk on Saturday November 25, @05:36AM
from the hearing-some-ominous-muttering dept.
lukeknipe writes
"Guardian Unlimited reporter Charles Arthur speaks with a spammer, discussing the possibility that his colleagues may be paying people in developing countries to fill in captchas. In his report, Arthur discusses Nicholas Negroponte's gift of hand-powered laptops to developing nations and the wide array of troubles that could arise as the world's exploitable poor go online."
From the article:
"I've no doubt it will radically alter the life of many in the developing world for the better. I also expect that once a few have got into the hands of people aching to make a dollar, with time on their hands and an internet connection provided one way or another, we'll see a significant rise in captcha-solved spam. But, as my spammer contact pointed out, it's nothing personal. You have to understand: it's just business."
This can be done with VBootkit as well. Let's resurrect the BIOS viruses. Note that Nitin and Vipin Kumar are the authors of VBootkit and it was covered previously on Slahdot here: VBootkit Bypasses Vista's Code Signing.
Please post links to recent articles/papers/talks etc. about BlackBerry security (but not the RIM marketing stuff). I thought of whitepapers, recent security conferences, articles etc. covering the topic.
I am in need of evaluating the security of BlackBerries for my company.
For example, I can remember that on one security conference a few years back I was told that anyone back then could easily push a kernel module on the phone without any user interaction. But I can not find any references that back up this claim nor if it was eventually fixed.
I felt very sad when FrSirt pulled their PoC exploits off the net. It's a shame!
Generally, the whole European Cybercrime Convention is very sad. I for one do not welcome our new data retention legislation overlords, they shall go to hell!
I think it's time for someone to found a new resistance movement leading us to the revolution that will not be televised. Anyone willing to apply for the job? No? Oh, you mean, because fighting is useless as we do not have any rights anymore protecting our privacy?
Right, I will be waiting for the Cybercrime Gestapo at my door, wait - someone's already
Ask him to take a look on 802.1x http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802. 1X-2004.pdf. You can give access to different VLAN based on software policies (i.e. having AV updated and so on)
You obviously confused some things:
EEE 802.1X is an IEEE standard for port-based Network Access Control; it is part of the IEEE 802 (802.1) group of protocols. It provides authentication to devices attached to a LAN port, establishing a point-to-point connection or preventing access from that port if authentication fails.
Someone had to say it. Besides, does anyone care to calculate the real amount of theoretically available public IP addresses, subtracting all the unrouted/multicast IP addresses?
Also, does anyone know how many addresses are still left beeing available?
The less frequent variations viri and virii are virtually unknown in edited prose, and no major dictionary recognizes them as alternative forms , Hackers like to use "virii" as the plural form of virus, even if Latin scholars object that this invented term does not follow standard patterns in that language - just to refer to the plural of computer viruses opposed to the plural of biological viruses.
So, although you are correct in terms of edited prose, I still use the term virii in order to refer to the plural of computer viruses.
Boy, CERN is just 720km away from me... Not that beeing on the other side of the planet would be of much help if the produce a "mini" black hole by using bad math.
From isc.sans.org:
UPDATE #2:
That second javascript referred in the vbscript above didn't decode, it seems it's just not encoded right, but when decoding the string with a plain base64 routine, it does decode to what leads to an ANI exploit. You never know what a buggy script and a buggy browser do together.
Nope. Glad you sad you were joking. I'm having mod points.:-P
BTW, FYI, a study showed that sarcasm in emails can not be detected by anybody: 25% of the time people thought it was sarcasm while it was not and 25% of the time people thought it was sarcasm without the original author intending sarcasm. So your chance to get it if an email is sarcastic is pretty much 50%.
Yes, but he does not acknowledge it's existance but seems to be rather be satisfied by the fact that we, well, he can provid a scientific theory (inlcuding formally correct equations and such) to explain the old something called universe.
Yes, but what Hawking is saying is that the universe in itself can be explained along our laws of physics, even it's "origin" meaning the point in time where everything started from nothing.
But the one question remains: What did start this process? In terms of his picture of the water steam bubbles in the boiling water - what did cause the bubble to get created out of nothing in the first place? (Which others than me could claim it was God)
Well, at the end he did say the "out of nothing" thing, at least another guy said so, I personally did not hear it as well but I was not 100% concentrated at the end when he "answered" the questions, which where not answered at all.
I already knew what he taught in this lecture but am left with the same questions I had before. Basically, what he said was that he can explain how the universe started and how it developed. Now this is not a big deal in terms of imagination but might be a big deal in terms of creating a mathematical theory that describes this: within the singularity that he proofed the universe to be in it's first "moment" of existence, time "behaved" as another dimension in space. (Which in itself is a problem as nothing can "behave" without time, see below)
For whatever this means, I interpret it as: time did not exist in it's current form in that it was (more like?) a space dimension when the universe began. It then began to transform into what is time now. But what is beyond me is that: How can time progress on it's own when it is a space dimension? This would only make sense if the other space dimensions that are left today remaining in their original form would also progress on their own. Which is beyond me: how can "the length" or "the height" progress on itself? Would that describe as what is referred to as "the expanding of the universe" - all dimensions "progressing" meaning time is progressing and space is inflating in all three dimensions?
Now here is the big problem I have got with this all and where Prof. Hawking miserably fails to explain or address anything:
What is meant with "expanding universe"?!?!
I mean, it was observed that the distance between us (earth) and the stars increases. BUT this does not mean, that SPACE itself inflates: If space itself would inflate or deflate - and probably it does so - nobody would be able to tell because if space in general increases everywhere at the same rate, the ruler that you are using in order to measure length would also inflate with the same rate as space expands. So therefore your ruler would grow at the same rate as the universe does so there can be no method in order to detect the growth of space in itself at all. Furthermore, in order to be able to tell that it is getting bigger, you have to relate it to something outside of itself compared to which it gets bigger...
So, with "expanding universe" only one thing can be meant: that simply the known matter is travelling away from us. But this does not say anything about the space itself: is it finite? Or not? Matter that travels away from the centre of the universe is possible in an infinite as well in a finite universe. That leafs us with the question: if all the matter that is now known to expand (the length of the space between itself but not the space itself between itself) originally was located at the same place, how big was space back then? Was it infinite from the beginning? Or did space just begin to exist when matter occupied it?
Also, Stephen Hawking does make clear that he does not want to talk about what was "before" the universe. I can understand this as there was no "before" as there also was no time before. But he drew the pretty picture with the steam bubbles in the water that showed how the universe began. Although this is a nice analogy, it clearly leaves us with the following questions:
Why did Prof. Hawking not talk about what could be the water if the bubble is our universe? How can the bubble progress or even be created, if outside the universe there is no time but any event or action that takes place (like the creation of anything) needs some amount of progressing time as a prerequisite in order to take place because without time there cannot be change? How many other bubbles could exist in parallel (universes)?
And therefore he did not touch the question of god at all: he clearly stated that he is glad that he has found a way to explain what has happened from
Err, actually, the UK is (or was until very very recently) a net oil exporter, unlike the US or the majority of continental European countries.
That was what I meant with
not much Oil . They are more or less autarchic. If they would need USA's Oil reserves - the one that the USA had fought wars for the last decades - We (Europe) would not have asked the USA to take Britain at all. After all, we know your top priorities
We (Europe) declare to give away the UK to the US for it is much more similar to the US than it is to Europe. We would greatly appreciate it if you could also relocate the UK physically away from the continent a.k.a. Europe. Thank you. We apologize for it to not having much Oil at all but at least they constitute good American citizens, willing to give away essential freedoms for a false sense of security any minute, as well as they do support wars for the sole reason of others possessing Oil.
There will be no place where one can hide when all privacy has been abandoned in europe. I for one will apply for the citizenship of Switzerland which is less then 500km away from me now.
Nice slashdot posting regarding copyrights and how outdated the music industry is, called "They aren't out of touch, they're out of time...". The posting is new and shiny and reuseable as well as resellable: Copy it for as many times as you want and I'll grant you to copy and resell it, in return for just small license fees.;-)
Google is partially funded by Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital. Kleiner Perkins partner Floyd Kvamme, a republican Silicon Valley legend, is the technological advisor of president Bush. His son, Mark Kvamme, works for Sequoia Capital and has personal contacts to Rumsfeld.
You can validate these facts by searching google for "google is fundend" and '"Kleiner Perkins" nsa'.
Therefore Google has (proven) strong ties to the NSA and how valuable the information collected by google is to secret services et. al. is left as an exercise to the reader. (Also consider the power connected to not only knowing who searches for what when where but also the power of beeing able to search through the e-mails of millions of people (which are coincidently stored forever - which is called a feature))
Now, call me paranoid, but if I were an intelligence agency, I would do EVERYTHING for getting my hands on that kind of power. On the other hand, if I was a company, I surely could not afford to rebell against my governments intelligence agencies as it would be pointless (because they would infiltrate my organisation anyhow) or even dangerous. Therefore I, if I were google, would cooperate with the TLAs in order to at least make more profit and have more powerful friends within governmental authorities.
AND NOW TELL ME, HOW GOOGLE COULD NOT BE EVIL?!?!
Sadly, I don't see a way for google not to be evil.
Please argue against this, if you can. Or feel free to feel scared as I feel. Thank you.
You know, back then in 2001 we had alot against echelon. I can remember beeing outraged beacause of the topic when we discussed about it on HAL2001.
Then we had a jam echelon day shortly after 9/11. Of course only few participated because everybody felt ashamed about it.
At HAL2001 lists with words that would trigger echelon were published and they included words like "steak-knife" (the codename of a double agent) or "sex". But I can't say that those were not published by TLA agents.
Slashdot Mirror
Spammers Learn To Outsource Their Captcha Needs
Posted by Zonk on Saturday November 25, @05:36AM
from the hearing-some-ominous-muttering dept.
lukeknipe writes
"Guardian Unlimited reporter Charles Arthur speaks with a spammer, discussing the possibility that his colleagues may be paying people in developing countries to fill in captchas. In his report, Arthur discusses Nicholas Negroponte's gift of hand-powered laptops to developing nations and the wide array of troubles that could arise as the world's exploitable poor go online."From the article:
"I've no doubt it will radically alter the life of many in the developing world for the better. I also expect that once a few have got into the hands of people aching to make a dollar, with time on their hands and an internet connection provided one way or another, we'll see a significant rise in captcha-solved spam. But, as my spammer contact pointed out, it's nothing personal. You have to understand: it's just business."This can be done with VBootkit as well. Let's resurrect the BIOS viruses. Note that Nitin and Vipin Kumar are the authors of VBootkit and it was covered previously on Slahdot here: VBootkit Bypasses Vista's Code Signing.
Nitin and Vipin Kumar are the creators of VBootkit and they were covered previously on Slashdot here: VBootkit Bypasses Vista's Code Signing.
Please post links to recent articles/papers/talks etc. about BlackBerry security (but not the RIM marketing stuff). I thought of whitepapers, recent security conferences, articles etc. covering the topic.
I am in need of evaluating the security of BlackBerries for my company.
For example, I can remember that on one security conference a few years back I was told that anyone back then could easily push a kernel module on the phone without any user interaction. But I can not find any references that back up this claim nor if it was eventually fixed.
Thanks in advance!
Generally, the whole European Cybercrime Convention is very sad. I for one do not welcome our new data retention legislation overlords, they shall go to hell!
I think it's time for someone to found a new resistance movement leading us to the revolution that will not be televised. Anyone willing to apply for the job? No? Oh, you mean, because fighting is useless as we do not have any rights anymore protecting our privacy?
Right, I will be waiting for the Cybercrime Gestapo at my door, wait - someone's already
So, who needs script kiddies with tools when M$ can screw up forensics?
You obviously confused some things:
EEE 802.1X is an IEEE standard for port-based Network Access Control; it is part of the IEEE 802 (802.1) group of protocols. It provides authentication to devices attached to a LAN port, establishing a point-to-point connection or preventing access from that port if authentication fails.
You might want to read the documents you refer to. I guess, what you meant was NAC - Network Admission Control
16.78 million IPv4 addresses remain in the global pool, I looked it up in TFA myself.
ought to be enough for anybody.
Someone had to say it. Besides, does anyone care to calculate the real amount of theoretically available public IP addresses, subtracting all the unrouted/multicast IP addresses?
Also, does anyone know how many addresses are still left beeing available?
javascript:x='Nothing';y='preferences';try{if(con
Or else, google for GoogleAnon
Although Wikipedia states that:
The less frequent variations viri and virii are virtually unknown in edited prose, and no major dictionary recognizes them as alternative forms , Hackers like to use "virii" as the plural form of virus, even if Latin scholars object that this invented term does not follow standard patterns in that language - just to refer to the plural of computer viruses opposed to the plural of biological viruses.So, although you are correct in terms of edited prose, I still use the term virii in order to refer to the plural of computer viruses.
Also this has been covered in some way on /. here
Boy, CERN is just 720km away from me... Not that beeing on the other side of the planet would be of much help if the produce a "mini" black hole by using bad math.
Nope. Glad you sad you were joking. I'm having mod points. :-P
BTW, FYI, a study showed that sarcasm in emails can not be detected by anybody: 25% of the time people thought it was sarcasm while it was not and 25% of the time people thought it was sarcasm without the original author intending sarcasm. So your chance to get it if an email is sarcastic is pretty much 50%.
Yes, but he does not acknowledge it's existance but seems to be rather be satisfied by the fact that we, well, he can provid a scientific theory (inlcuding formally correct equations and such) to explain the old something called universe.
You mean freedom files, right?
Yes, but what Hawking is saying is that the universe in itself can be explained along our laws of physics, even it's "origin" meaning the point in time where everything started from nothing.
But the one question remains: What did start this process? In terms of his picture of the water steam bubbles in the boiling water - what did cause the bubble to get created out of nothing in the first place? (Which others than me could claim it was God)
disclaimer: the following is "IMHO"
Well, at the end he did say the "out of nothing" thing, at least another guy said so, I personally did not hear it as well but I was not 100% concentrated at the end when he "answered" the questions, which where not answered at all.
I already knew what he taught in this lecture but am left with the same questions I had before. Basically, what he said was that he can explain how the universe started and how it developed. Now this is not a big deal in terms of imagination but might be a big deal in terms of creating a mathematical theory that describes this: within the singularity that he proofed the universe to be in it's first "moment" of existence, time "behaved" as another dimension in space. (Which in itself is a problem as nothing can "behave" without time, see below)
For whatever this means, I interpret it as:
time did not exist in it's current form in that it was (more like?) a space dimension when the universe began. It then began to transform into what is time now. But what is beyond me is that: How can time progress on it's own when it is a space dimension? This would only make sense if the other space dimensions that are left today remaining in their original form would also progress on their own. Which is beyond me: how can "the length" or "the height" progress on itself? Would that describe as what is referred to as "the expanding of the universe" - all dimensions "progressing" meaning time is progressing and space is inflating in all three dimensions?
Now here is the big problem I have got with this all and where Prof. Hawking miserably fails to explain or address anything:
What is meant with "expanding universe"?!?!
I mean, it was observed that the distance between us (earth) and the stars increases. BUT this does not mean, that SPACE itself inflates: If space itself would inflate or deflate - and probably it does so - nobody would be able to tell because if space in general increases everywhere at the same rate, the ruler that you are using in order to measure length would also inflate with the same rate as space expands. So therefore your ruler would grow at the same rate as the universe does so there can be no method in order to detect the growth of space in itself at all. Furthermore, in order to be able to tell that it is getting bigger, you have to relate it to something outside of itself compared to which it gets bigger...
So, with "expanding universe" only one thing can be meant: that simply the known matter is travelling away from us. But this does not say anything about the space itself: is it finite? Or not? Matter that travels away from the centre of the universe is possible in an infinite as well in a finite universe. That leafs us with the question: if all the matter that is now known to expand (the length of the space between itself but not the space itself between itself) originally was located at the same place, how big was space back then? Was it infinite from the beginning? Or did space just begin to exist when matter occupied it?
Also, Stephen Hawking does make clear that he does not want to talk about what was "before" the universe. I can understand this as there was no "before" as there also was no time before. But he drew the pretty picture with the steam bubbles in the water that showed how the universe began. Although this is a nice analogy, it clearly leaves us with the following questions:
Why did Prof. Hawking not talk about what could be the water if the bubble is our universe?
How can the bubble progress or even be created, if outside the universe there is no time but any event or action that takes place (like the creation of anything) needs some amount of progressing time as a prerequisite in order to take place because without time there cannot be change?
How many other bubbles could exist in parallel (universes)?
And therefore he did not touch the question of god at all: he clearly stated that he is glad that he has found a way to explain what has happened from
That was what I meant with
not much Oil . They are more or less autarchic. If they would need USA's Oil reserves - the one that the USA had fought wars for the last decades - We (Europe) would not have asked the USA to take Britain at all. After all, we know your top prioritiesWe (Europe) declare to give away the UK to the US for it is much more similar to the US than it is to Europe. We would greatly appreciate it if you could also relocate the UK physically away from the continent a.k.a. Europe. Thank you. We apologize for it to not having much Oil at all but at least they constitute good American citizens, willing to give away essential freedoms for a false sense of security any minute, as well as they do support wars for the sole reason of others possessing Oil.
Hmmm... opening doors from a mile away, what fun could that be!
Hallo Martin, dachte mir schon, dass du dich mal googeln würdest :-)
There will be no place where one can hide when all privacy has been abandoned in europe. I for one will apply for the citizenship of Switzerland which is less then 500km away from me now.
I hearby claim the rights of the parent post.
;-)
Does anyone happen to have interest in buying it?
Nice slashdot posting regarding copyrights and how outdated the music industry is, called "They aren't out of touch, they're out of time...". The posting is new and shiny and reuseable as well as resellable: Copy it for as many times as you want and I'll grant you to copy and resell it, in return for just small license fees.
Google is partially funded by Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital. Kleiner Perkins partner Floyd Kvamme, a republican Silicon Valley legend, is the technological advisor of president Bush. His son, Mark Kvamme, works for Sequoia Capital and has personal contacts to Rumsfeld.
You can validate these facts by searching google for "google is fundend" and '"Kleiner Perkins" nsa'.
Therefore Google has (proven) strong ties to the NSA and how valuable the information collected by google is to secret services et. al. is left as an exercise to the reader. (Also consider the power connected to not only knowing who searches for what when where but also the power of beeing able to search through the e-mails of millions of people (which are coincidently stored forever - which is called a feature))
Now, call me paranoid, but if I were an intelligence agency, I would do EVERYTHING for getting my hands on that kind of power. On the other hand, if I was a company, I surely could not afford to rebell against my governments intelligence agencies as it would be pointless (because they would infiltrate my organisation anyhow) or even dangerous. Therefore I, if I were google, would cooperate with the TLAs in order to at least make more profit and have more powerful friends within governmental authorities.
AND NOW TELL ME, HOW GOOGLE COULD NOT BE EVIL?!?!
Sadly, I don't see a way for google not to be evil.
Please argue against this, if you can. Or feel free to feel scared as I feel. Thank you.
Then we had a jam echelon day shortly after 9/11. Of course only few participated because everybody felt ashamed about it.
At HAL2001 lists with words that would trigger echelon were published and they included words like "steak-knife" (the codename of a double agent) or "sex". But I can't say that those were not published by TLA agents.
But mostly we were concerned with the european cybercrime convention act.
Ahh, those were the times...