In the glory days of 8-bit home computing, you could just turn the machine on, and in three or four lines of code, just switch to graphics mode and start drawing stuff on the screen - squares, charts, dot patterns, whatever. What's the fast way to do this on modern PCs, either Windows or Linux? I've got a BBC Basic Interpreter for the PC that my dad and I wrote, and that has stuff like "MODE 1" and "PLOT 69,100,100", so I can do it, but the BBC basic language is a bit klunky nowadays.
Terrorism is killing innocent people in the name of a political objective.
I disagree that terrorism requires killing, but the rest of your post is insightful. It isn't hacking or cracking, but it is DoS though. It is deliberately abusing a service in order to degrade it, on a suspicion of illegal activity, with no due process.
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Ever since Phil Zimmerman left because of of "differences" with NAI, I was extremely reluctant to upgrade to future versions for fear of "backdoors" that might have been included in the product
Yet Zimmerman said "PGP users should rest assured that I would still not acquiesce to any back doors in PGP"here - what's going on?
If he encrypted files for his own use, he would be able to decrypt them. Maybe his messages were encrypted for multiple recipients, one of whom was himself.
If Scarfo did the encryption/decryption while he was online the KeyLogger would be useless
And I, for one, write nearly all of my emails while offline, then send them when online. It would be capturing all my electronic communications, which they were trying to avoid.
If you're using Windows, you can hold down [Alt] and type in the ASCII code on the numeric keypad, and get characters that way. I don't think this works in Linux. Another tactic for GUI users would be to pop up a virtual keyboard that sends the appropriate message to the active window when the buttons are clicked with the mouse. I suppose this could be made to work with console apps as well, esp. if it is in a console window. Or, just click away from the window and enter some gibberish in a text editor, click back and enter the next character of your password, click away, rinse, repeat.
Those pictures are pretty cool, but the stratification is a bit on the heavy side. It works on the plateau sides, but not where the land is shallow - it would be covered by dust or vegetation, hiding the strata.
I think the only thing to do now when an aircraft is hijacked in mid-air is to shoot it down before it gets near a city. Sorry, all you passengers, but it's too much of a risk. And yes, I'm prepared to take that risk myself. I'm thinking of coming to NY next month. Any recommendations?
Why? IBM are just another evil megacorp, and would be as abusive as Microsoft are today if they could get away with it. They lost the battle to be the biggest, Bill beat them at their own game. So now they make great laptops - does that make them good guys? No. So now they're supporting Linux - does that make them good guys? No.
I just realized how these attacks could all have been prevented: fair market forces. If Microsoft had to sell IIS competetively, they'd have about a 2% market share. Remind me, how much does Apache cost?
Imposing restrictions on technologies that can be used to secure messages will do little to combat terrorism... but could seriously erode personal privacy.
Why has nobody either sent out a worm to patch machines, or created a script to patch the sender of a worm?
Already happening. Unfortunately I think that self-destructing worms are by definition going to be less virulent than worms that take over a machine completely and keep trying to spread until they are removed.
Nobody likes spam. People frequently bandy around statements like "Die spammer die". Maybe the ones behind these kinds of scam deserve that kind of virtiol, but don't let it spill over onto regular bulk emailers who would not stoop to take advantage of a situation like this. You can question their business ethics, but this twist really is outrageous, and I think it's important that we don't mix up the two groups.
Even google's cache is a hack page! And the page doesn't appear to be a spoof - it's registered to "Afghan Taleban Mission to the U.N.". It looks like ry_den@land.ru has been doing this for some time.
Slashdot Mirror
ps. Anyone want a copy?
It's a mistake in the HTML, the 250 should be -250, but they put a soft hyphen in instead of a minus sign or a dash.
Got a mirror?
All the best sites with images have been taken down - any mirrors out there?
And as ever Google is your friend. I suppose two comedy pictures on one poster is too much to ask.
If he encrypted files for his own use, he would be able to decrypt them. Maybe his messages were encrypted for multiple recipients, one of whom was himself.
If you're using Windows, you can hold down [Alt] and type in the ASCII code on the numeric keypad, and get characters that way. I don't think this works in Linux. Another tactic for GUI users would be to pop up a virtual keyboard that sends the appropriate message to the active window when the buttons are clicked with the mouse. I suppose this could be made to work with console apps as well, esp. if it is in a console window. Or, just click away from the window and enter some gibberish in a text editor, click back and enter the next character of your password, click away, rinse, repeat.
Those pictures are pretty cool, but the stratification is a bit on the heavy side. It works on the plateau sides, but not where the land is shallow - it would be covered by dust or vegetation, hiding the strata.
I think the only thing to do now when an aircraft is hijacked in mid-air is to shoot it down before it gets near a city. Sorry, all you passengers, but it's too much of a risk. And yes, I'm prepared to take that risk myself. I'm thinking of coming to NY next month. Any recommendations?
Why? IBM are just another evil megacorp, and would be as abusive as Microsoft are today if they could get away with it. They lost the battle to be the biggest, Bill beat them at their own game. So now they make great laptops - does that make them good guys? No. So now they're supporting Linux - does that make them good guys? No.
I still run Elite on the Horizon BBC emulator (oops - that page is now dead)
Netscape on Solaris. According to Netcraft.
(and this is to get past the lameness filter)
I just realized how these attacks could all have been prevented: fair market forces. If Microsoft had to sell IIS competetively, they'd have about a 2% market share. Remind me, how much does Apache cost?
Yes, but unethical, even dishonest or illegal business practices pale next to profiteering on the back of 5,000+ murders.
Nobody likes spam. People frequently bandy around statements like "Die spammer die". Maybe the ones behind these kinds of scam deserve that kind of virtiol, but don't let it spill over onto regular bulk emailers who would not stoop to take advantage of a situation like this. You can question their business ethics, but this twist really is outrageous, and I think it's important that we don't mix up the two groups.
If the moderator reads this, I'd just like to know.
Even google's cache is a hack page! And the page doesn't appear to be a spoof - it's registered to "Afghan Taleban Mission to the U.N.". It looks like ry_den@land.ru has been doing this for some time.
http://www.panynj.gov/pr/9-99.html