These kinds of issues were addressed for SSH long long ago.
I appreciate your response, but with more than the due respect, would you please provide some information to back up your statement? I'm not very knowlegeable in this area - encryption is an incredibly complex field - but I/am/ concerned about the security of my communications.
I wonder about this as well. If what I've been reading is accurate, and the info can be cracked by watching the same text repeatedly encrypted and sent over the network, then I would think SSH is affected.
Each login to the SSH server requires that you send your login name and password. Yeah, it isn't as frequent as an e-mail program checking every five minutes, but it isn't our place to judge how often is "often enough". A vulnerability is a vulnerability, so IMHO, if you're vulnerable at 12 times a minute, then you're vulnerable at 2 times a day.
About the apartment vs. house thing - I understand completely.
I live in a complex and my car was broken into - I came outside to find the driver side door not completely closed and the trunk not completely closed.. no evidence of slim-jimming (dust on the weatherstripping was undisturbed and the strip wasn't streched, no scratches on the glass) - only the driver side door was unlocked so it's unlikely that power locks were used to get in (unless they bothered to lock the passenger door before they left). The funny thing is that they took 2 power inverters and a wireless keyboard, but they left behind the keyboard RECIEVER and the IN-CAR COMPUTER SYSTEM (worth more than everything else put together).
After thinking about it, I realized just how un-suspicious the whole break-in would have looked, due to the fact that it's an apartment complex. People come and go all night, and to see somebody getting stuff out of a car looks completely normal.
Since we're on the topic, and we've probably got a lot of phone/radio phreaks reading this thread, I must hiijack it for my own question, which is too lame to ever be posted on Ask Slashdot! (or rather, with the quality of the usual questions, perhaps it isn't):)
I've got an automatic-recording device that plugs into my phone line and into my computer's sound card. Basically, I use it to convert telephone audio into a headset-type jack. I have a program called RecAll running, that starts logging MP3's to the hard drive when the line noise breaks squelch.
The problem is that the person on the other end of the line sounds hella quiet, my end of the line sounds hella loud.
Is this a common problem, and if so, how can it be solved? Are there any other (cheap) devices for bridging telephone and traditional audio equipment?
Simply substituting pirate radiowaves for narcotics, both illegal in the US, showed that there was very little difference between the article they posted and my comment.
Dear sir, correct me if I've overlooked something, please, but I didn't see anything in that text that even suggestedpirate radio waves. In fact, I also saw no mention of radio waves. My perception actually (yes, honestly) was that he wanted to make it an Internet radio station (over shoutcast or something). I do realize that Internet radio is not actually "radio" at all, but the word has been generalized.
And if the gentleman was, in fact, referring to actual radio, how do you know he didn't mean a low-power radio station, one low-power enough to be legal? Yes, in fact, I believe he used the phrase "low power" in his first sentence.
Was your assumption that he was asking for help in running a pirate radio station just that, an 'assumption', perhaps?
Highly descriptive ALT tags on everything, even spacer images.
I am web designer for a small Northern California company, and I chose to use highly descriptive ALT tags on everything - even spacer images.
I'm aware that it doesn't help screen readers or people who browse without graphics, and LYNX as well; and I'm not happy about that. My aim has always been accessibility and platform-agnosticism, which is part of the reason I use Opera (Mouse gestures being the other part).
But look at the company's viewpoint - they want to be found in search engines, they want it so bad they can taste it. It's my JOB to do everything I can to get our Google ranking higher. Among other methods I employ to further this pursuit, filling ALT tags with keyword-rich text is one that is theorized as a good way to get this done.
If everybody else stopped doing it, I probably could, because then nobody would have an unfair advantage over me. But if other people do it, I have a choice: A) Don't sink to their level and allow myself to be buried in search results, or B) Do the same thing and maintain an advantage.
So, here I am, betraying a principle I believe in so I can pay my DSL bill every month. I'm not proud of it, but what would you do in my situation?
Precisely my thought. Allow me to attempt to say the same thing in a different way:
Driving is a privilige, not a right. Therefore, living without a car should be a perfectly viable situation to be in. Yet think of it, who doesn't have a car? Few people. Cars have become a necessity, and the government can now use our dependency on them to manipulate us.
Do you have taxes due? No problem, we'll just take away your license until you pay up! Back around the early 20th century; if they did that, you'd be a little bummed, but you'd live, because society hadn't yet come to "assume" that everyone owned a car. You could still walk anywhere you needed to go.
But now, try living without a car. It's the same with credit cards. Checking accounts. Try living without a checking account, I have for the last few years (ChexSystems sucks!), and it's damn hard!!! Try it yourself, for a month, try living without a checking account. Pay $50 each paycheck just to cash it! Buy money orders to pay your bills. No more card-swiping at the pump, you hafta go INSIDE to pay for your gas (and then inside again, to collect your change).
The "completely voluntary" excuse is an excellent way to sneak something in, in plain view of everybody, without raising many objections. Then, make it easier and easier for people to use the offending system, and make it harder and hard to use the older system. The only drawback for the government is that it takes a bit longer to solidify into "completely involuntary".
We just feel that he should be rewarded a bit more fairly for his innovation. While, agreed, he is entitled to no more than what he recieved; he might deserve something more.
I say this, because, think about it: If every company everywhere was so cheap in rewarding innovation, people would stop innovating (while part of a company, at least). And then companies would no longer get in-house innovations like this, and they would consequently be very sad and would weep bitterly.
On the other hand, if we, as employees, were hearing about companies generously rewarding innovators left and right; we would be climbing all over each other trying to come up with something innovative!
This writer's opinion is that companies as stingy as this one are only hurting themselves in the long run by discouraging smart employees; and shortsightedness doesn't sound typical of the japanese at all. Maybe they're picking up some bad habits from their friends across the Pacific.
"In politics as well as society, a little revolution is good every now and then." - Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson's view was that periodic revolution is healthy for democracy. After being in power for a while, a government tends to forget what it originally stood for, as our seems to be starting to do.
I'm against big brotherism because, while our government still does seem to have our best interests in mind, we can't let them limit our ability to revolt, just in case they decide to do something that we, the people, disagree with.
This is why we still desperately cling to our right to bear arms, because someday, we may need them to protect ourselves from a government who we slowly allowed to nickel-and-dime our human rights from us.
Americans must ALWAYS maintain their power to join together and overcome the government if it is to stop serving us. I'm not suggesting that we do so, by any means, but if we lose our option to unite and fight, then we've lost our right to anything. And these things don't happen quickly, they happen gradually; most people don't tend to notice.
Some people seem to think that reduction of freedom is temporary. What, do you think that in ten years, the US Government is gonna say,"Okay everybody, thanks for your patience! We're gonna stop wiretapping you now, we're gonna restrain ourselves again and respect your privacy, since the terrorist threat is long dead!"??
"Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State." -- Heinrich Himmler
Okay, I hear clips of movie audio played during radio station morning shows and as sweepers between songs advertising the radio station (god, how they annoy me!) and yet nobody says a word, nobody complains, nobody sues - is it illegal? It sure SEEMS illegal; using somebody else's copyrighted data to your own benefit without (I assume) reimbursing them or even getting their approval...
Likewise, I hear music dubbed into low-budget films and shows on public TV; yet I somehow doubt that proper authorization was secured before they did so.
Does anybody know if I'm correct in my assumption that these things are, indeed illegal; and if so, why people get away with it and practice it so blatantly?
If you're correct, which I hope you are, prove it by pointing me out to the software and pinouts/adapter cables. I'll be eternally grateful, as I've been searching for ANYTHING like that for quite some time. Thanks!
First, it's OBD (OnBoard Diagnostics) not ODB (OnDiagnostic Boards) just for future reference.
I agree totally that OBD-II rocks, standards rock, etc.. but I'll bet you can't point out a single website explaining how it works, what the pinouts are, or (praying for a miracle here) downloadable software to interface with!
I was just thumbing through a JC Whitney catalog and the only thing they offer is a $300 unit (a dumbed-down PC in a cute little case with an LCD screen). Oh, and look at this! The unit can interface with your PC to give you even MORE information! (addressing manufacturers of such units) Dumbasses!!!!!!! Stop pretending that your lame little $50 device can do more than a top of the line PC and start making SOFTWARE!!!
Wow, if I had mod power, I'd put you down as "insightful"!
I'd never thought of that, but it's probably accurate! On the other hand, perhaps we could assume that the human mind is self-repairing, and by aging several hundred years, we would become VERY wise - I mean, think of how wise most 80 year olds turn out to be (if Alzheimers doesn't claim them first), and multiply that a few times. Perhaps our maximum age of ~100 is mere infancy in absolute terms, and by, let's say 300, we grow mature enough to drop grudges and consider war pure lunacy.
One life cycle simply isn't enough time - I'm already 20 years old (so, with my cholesterol/caffiene intake my life is about 30% complete) and I can tell that I am NOT gonna have enough time on this earth to learn all I want to and DO all I want to! It's a suffocating, clostrophobic feeling.. so maybe if you just give a human a chance, they mature and balance out into wonderful people!
I suggest you change your solution to run on Win2k.
Ah, yes, if you want to increase your security, run a Microsoft OS. And if you want to increase your protection against STD's, use condoms manufactured by Firestone.
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These kinds of issues were addressed for SSH long long ago.
/am/ concerned about the security of my communications.
I appreciate your response, but with more than the due respect, would you please provide some information to back up your statement? I'm not very knowlegeable in this area - encryption is an incredibly complex field - but I
I wonder about this as well. If what I've been reading is accurate, and the info can be cracked by watching the same text repeatedly encrypted and sent over the network, then I would think SSH is affected.
Each login to the SSH server requires that you send your login name and password. Yeah, it isn't as frequent as an e-mail program checking every five minutes, but it isn't our place to judge how often is "often enough". A vulnerability is a vulnerability, so IMHO, if you're vulnerable at 12 times a minute, then you're vulnerable at 2 times a day.
I'd like to see the SSH implications addressed.
When companies make blanket statements like that, they'll get blanket rejections as a response.
It should be that way, agreed. But you'll find that precedent is quite to the contrary!
Heh heh.... "mule".
About the apartment vs. house thing - I understand completely.
I live in a complex and my car was broken into - I came outside to find the driver side door not completely closed and the trunk not completely closed.. no evidence of slim-jimming (dust on the weatherstripping was undisturbed and the strip wasn't streched, no scratches on the glass) - only the driver side door was unlocked so it's unlikely that power locks were used to get in (unless they bothered to lock the passenger door before they left). The funny thing is that they took 2 power inverters and a wireless keyboard, but they left behind the keyboard RECIEVER and the IN-CAR COMPUTER SYSTEM (worth more than everything else put together).
After thinking about it, I realized just how un-suspicious the whole break-in would have looked, due to the fact that it's an apartment complex. People come and go all night, and to see somebody getting stuff out of a car looks completely normal.
I need an alarm.
WORST - ARTICLE - EVER!!!
Since we're on the topic, and we've probably got a lot of phone/radio phreaks reading this thread, I must hiijack it for my own question, which is too lame to ever be posted on Ask Slashdot! (or rather, with the quality of the usual questions, perhaps it isn't) :)
I've got an automatic-recording device that plugs into my phone line and into my computer's sound card. Basically, I use it to convert telephone audio into a headset-type jack. I have a program called RecAll running, that starts logging MP3's to the hard drive when the line noise breaks squelch.
The problem is that the person on the other end of the line sounds hella quiet, my end of the line sounds hella loud.
Is this a common problem, and if so, how can it be solved? Are there any other (cheap) devices for bridging telephone and traditional audio equipment?
Thank you!
If I had moderation points I'd give you a "funny"!
:)
It's the thought that counts, right?
Please respect others.
Simply substituting pirate radiowaves for narcotics, both illegal in the US, showed that there was very little difference between the article they posted and my comment.
Dear sir, correct me if I've overlooked something, please, but I didn't see anything in that text that even suggested pirate radio waves. In fact, I also saw no mention of radio waves. My perception actually (yes, honestly) was that he wanted to make it an Internet radio station (over shoutcast or something). I do realize that Internet radio is not actually "radio" at all, but the word has been generalized.
And if the gentleman was, in fact, referring to actual radio, how do you know he didn't mean a low-power radio station, one low-power enough to be legal? Yes, in fact, I believe he used the phrase "low power" in his first sentence.
Was your assumption that he was asking for help in running a pirate radio station just that, an 'assumption', perhaps?
"'Join the army!', they said."
"'See the world!', they said."
"I'd rather be sailing."
Interesting point. Habit, I suppose. My human declination towards change. Something like that :)
Highly descriptive ALT tags on everything, even spacer images.
I am web designer for a small Northern California company, and I chose to use highly descriptive ALT tags on everything - even spacer images.
I'm aware that it doesn't help screen readers or people who browse without graphics, and LYNX as well; and I'm not happy about that. My aim has always been accessibility and platform-agnosticism, which is part of the reason I use Opera (Mouse gestures being the other part).
But look at the company's viewpoint - they want to be found in search engines, they want it so bad they can taste it. It's my JOB to do everything I can to get our Google ranking higher. Among other methods I employ to further this pursuit, filling ALT tags with keyword-rich text is one that is theorized as a good way to get this done.
If everybody else stopped doing it, I probably could, because then nobody would have an unfair advantage over me. But if other people do it, I have a choice: A) Don't sink to their level and allow myself to be buried in search results, or B) Do the same thing and maintain an advantage.
So, here I am, betraying a principle I believe in so I can pay my DSL bill every month. I'm not proud of it, but what would you do in my situation?
Same here, I was thinking of the kind you get at the store. Huge ice cubes.
If anybody mods this comment as anything other than "waste of bandwidth", it just goes to prove that user moderation doesn't work.
Precisely my thought. Allow me to attempt to say the same thing in a different way:
Driving is a privilige, not a right. Therefore, living without a car should be a perfectly viable situation to be in. Yet think of it, who doesn't have a car? Few people. Cars have become a necessity, and the government can now use our dependency on them to manipulate us.
Do you have taxes due? No problem, we'll just take away your license until you pay up! Back around the early 20th century; if they did that, you'd be a little bummed, but you'd live, because society hadn't yet come to "assume" that everyone owned a car. You could still walk anywhere you needed to go.
But now, try living without a car. It's the same with credit cards. Checking accounts. Try living without a checking account, I have for the last few years (ChexSystems sucks!), and it's damn hard!!! Try it yourself, for a month, try living without a checking account. Pay $50 each paycheck just to cash it! Buy money orders to pay your bills. No more card-swiping at the pump, you hafta go INSIDE to pay for your gas (and then inside again, to collect your change).
The "completely voluntary" excuse is an excellent way to sneak something in, in plain view of everybody, without raising many objections. Then, make it easier and easier for people to use the offending system, and make it harder and hard to use the older system. The only drawback for the government is that it takes a bit longer to solidify into "completely involuntary".
You're 100% correct in your reasoning!
We just feel that he should be rewarded a bit more fairly for his innovation. While, agreed, he is entitled to no more than what he recieved; he might deserve something more.
I say this, because, think about it: If every company everywhere was so cheap in rewarding innovation, people would stop innovating (while part of a company, at least). And then companies would no longer get in-house innovations like this, and they would consequently be very sad and would weep bitterly.
On the other hand, if we, as employees, were hearing about companies generously rewarding innovators left and right; we would be climbing all over each other trying to come up with something innovative!
This writer's opinion is that companies as stingy as this one are only hurting themselves in the long run by discouraging smart employees; and shortsightedness doesn't sound typical of the japanese at all. Maybe they're picking up some bad habits from their friends across the Pacific.
"In politics as well as society, a little revolution is good every now and then." - Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson's view was that periodic revolution is healthy for democracy. After being in power for a while, a government tends to forget what it originally stood for, as our seems to be starting to do.
I'm against big brotherism because, while our government still does seem to have our best interests in mind, we can't let them limit our ability to revolt, just in case they decide to do something that we, the people, disagree with.
This is why we still desperately cling to our right to bear arms, because someday, we may need them to protect ourselves from a government who we slowly allowed to nickel-and-dime our human rights from us.
Americans must ALWAYS maintain their power to join together and overcome the government if it is to stop serving us. I'm not suggesting that we do so, by any means, but if we lose our option to unite and fight, then we've lost our right to anything. And these things don't happen quickly, they happen gradually; most people don't tend to notice.
Some people seem to think that reduction of freedom is temporary. What, do you think that in ten years, the US Government is gonna say,"Okay everybody, thanks for your patience! We're gonna stop wiretapping you now, we're gonna restrain ourselves again and respect your privacy, since the terrorist threat is long dead!"??
"Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State." -- Heinrich Himmler
Okay, I hear clips of movie audio played during radio station morning shows and as sweepers between songs advertising the radio station (god, how they annoy me!) and yet nobody says a word, nobody complains, nobody sues - is it illegal? It sure SEEMS illegal; using somebody else's copyrighted data to your own benefit without (I assume) reimbursing them or even getting their approval...
Likewise, I hear music dubbed into low-budget films and shows on public TV; yet I somehow doubt that proper authorization was secured before they did so.
Does anybody know if I'm correct in my assumption that these things are, indeed illegal; and if so, why people get away with it and practice it so blatantly?
Thanks!!
Forgive me father, for I have sinned. Wait.. I'm not your child... why did you say that?
If you're correct, which I hope you are, prove it by pointing me out to the software and pinouts/adapter cables. I'll be eternally grateful, as I've been searching for ANYTHING like that for quite some time. Thanks!
First, it's OBD (OnBoard Diagnostics) not ODB (OnDiagnostic Boards) just for future reference.
I agree totally that OBD-II rocks, standards rock, etc.. but I'll bet you can't point out a single website explaining how it works, what the pinouts are, or (praying for a miracle here) downloadable software to interface with!
I was just thumbing through a JC Whitney catalog and the only thing they offer is a $300 unit (a dumbed-down PC in a cute little case with an LCD screen). Oh, and look at this! The unit can interface with your PC to give you even MORE information! (addressing manufacturers of such units) Dumbasses!!!!!!! Stop pretending that your lame little $50 device can do more than a top of the line PC and start making SOFTWARE!!!
We should all storm Wal-Mart, show an interest in the software there, but refuse to purchase it until we can read the EULA.
I'm confused, how did it cost you $4,000 to update your bank's address record?
Wow, if I had mod power, I'd put you down as "insightful"!
I'd never thought of that, but it's probably accurate! On the other hand, perhaps we could assume that the human mind is self-repairing, and by aging several hundred years, we would become VERY wise - I mean, think of how wise most 80 year olds turn out to be (if Alzheimers doesn't claim them first), and multiply that a few times. Perhaps our maximum age of ~100 is mere infancy in absolute terms, and by, let's say 300, we grow mature enough to drop grudges and consider war pure lunacy.
One life cycle simply isn't enough time - I'm already 20 years old (so, with my cholesterol/caffiene intake my life is about 30% complete) and I can tell that I am NOT gonna have enough time on this earth to learn all I want to and DO all I want to! It's a suffocating, clostrophobic feeling.. so maybe if you just give a human a chance, they mature and balance out into wonderful people!
I suggest you change your solution to run on Win2k.
Ah, yes, if you want to increase your security, run a Microsoft OS. And if you want to increase your protection against STD's, use condoms manufactured by Firestone.