And keep in mind 911 doesn't work on Iridium so have some numbers programmed in. The cell phone revolution seems to have rendered actually remembering someone's phone number a lost art.
This is untrue. 911 does work on Iridium and is handled by an outsourced company called Intrado. Additionally, you do not need an active account or SIM for 911 to work. Which makes an Iridium Sat phone a great emergency back-country tool.
This is something that has always made me wonder. When computer graphics reach the point where you cannot readily tell if the image you are seeing is real or synthetic, how will this affect video game violence?
Can you imaging Grant Theft Auto X with full realistic imaging? How would that affect someone when they go beat a whore to death with a baseball bat and the mind cannot as easily dismiss the disturbing imagery as virtual.
"The purpose is to create a false 911 call that appears to be coming from the residence in question and prompt a SWAT response from local law enforcement agencies, Barnes said."
It sounds to me that this was not really a systems penetration type of 'hack', rather the kid forged his Caller ID.
If they could send a person to the moon in 1969 with that technology, why, with today's technology will it take so long? Shouldn't there be some kind of Moore's Law in effect with regard to space travel.
Also worth thinking about is that responsiveness with a mouse keyboard is far greater than with a game pad. This would give anyone using a PC a definite advantage over console players.
I seem to remember hearing that when they ported Halo to the PC they had to take out a delay the enemies had in firing so it would be more challenging.
Yeah.. you really don't want to have to move to Canada. Let me tell you aboot my day today:
During the 3 hours when the sun will shine here, I emerge from my igloo to play the government required hour of hockey. Then after I have finished I go hunting for my family's dinner with my trusty bow and arrow. Once home with my cariboo meat, I will sit back down in my igloo, crack open a Molson Canadian and watch one of the two channels we get up here, CBC and the Curling network. And this was a good day, some days it is too cold to even leave the igloo. I can't wait for global warming.
So let me get this straight, you don't trust the banks so much that you make your life clearly more difficult, but you're willing to trust advice from a bunch of geeks on Slashdot? Maybe we're all out to get you too!
I always wondered why these articles focus on screenshots. I would assume most people who are running RHEL don't ever use any graphical interface at all. Servers don't need to run any graphical applications really and it is a waste of system resources to have any of that left on IMHO.
First thing I do to a shiny new Redhat install is:
I just finished watching this documentary on Movie Central here in Canada.
IMHO it is a very well presented out documentary that manages to express the technical oversights of Diebold in a way that the average person can understand. The final scenes where they prove to the election officials that the smartcard hack is possible using their machines under theit control was pretty moving. One election official lady even started to cry and I must admit I actually felt a little choked up.
This documentary does make Diebold look very bad and it will no doubt sway at least sway some favour away from the name Diebold.
homer:~$ ngrep MSG -d eth1 port 1863 interface: eth1 (10.10.10.0/255.255.255.0) filter: ip and ( port 1863 ) match: MSG ############### T 207.46.26.138:1863 -> 10.20.20.176:1319 [AP]
MSG strathcona@hotmail.com FunFun 141..MIME-Version: 1.0..Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8..X-MMS-IM-Format: FN=Arial; EF=; CO=0....I sure hope they don't start encrypting MSN traffic... what would I do at work during the down times;)
Why does anyone still use 128kbps? I hate it when I download music (legal;) and the only bitrate available for the song i want is 128. With 200GB+ hard disks being so affordable these days and everyone having high speed, I think everyone should encode their (mp3||ogg||aac) at 192 or 256.
I don't understand why critical systems were not backed up with UPSs and generators? Power failures happen everywhere. You should never be 100% reliant on utility power. A generator with adequate supply of diesel (and contract to keep it full for long term outages) is a must have for critical systems in my opinion.
IronPort's Virtual Gateway technology allows a single IronPort to deliver separate campaigns on unique IP addresses. This technology ensures that if one campaign has a problem with less than perfect spam filters at receiving ISPs, it won't impact other campaigns on separate Virtual Gateways. Each IronPort A60 supports up to 256 unique outbound IP addresses.
Doesn't this sound a but like a spamming appliance? Basically it's saying that if one of your IPs gets blacklisted for spamming, that's ok because it will use a different one automatically.
I sense a bit of hostility towards the hordes of 'unnormal people' out there who enjoy going out to clubs and having a good time dancing and going a little crazy with the opposite sex. Perhaps one day when we have reached your level of snobbery we will truly understand what it's like to be normal.
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And keep in mind 911 doesn't work on Iridium so have some numbers programmed in. The cell phone revolution seems to have rendered actually remembering someone's phone number a lost art.
This is untrue. 911 does work on Iridium and is handled by an outsourced company called Intrado. Additionally, you do not need an active account or SIM for 911 to work. Which makes an Iridium Sat phone a great emergency back-country tool.
Also a good way to make an IED trigger. In that case, you reallly don't want a telemarketer to call when your doing the final arming stages.
Maybe they should give themselves an award as they appear to be pwned by the Slashdot effect.
This is something that has always made me wonder. When computer graphics reach the point where you cannot readily tell if the image you are seeing is real or synthetic, how will this affect video game violence?
Can you imaging Grant Theft Auto X with full realistic imaging? How would that affect someone when they go beat a whore to death with a baseball bat and the mind cannot as easily dismiss the disturbing imagery as virtual.
"The purpose is to create a false 911 call that appears to be coming from the residence in question and prompt a SWAT response from local law enforcement agencies, Barnes said."
It sounds to me that this was not really a systems penetration type of 'hack', rather the kid forged his Caller ID.
If they could send a person to the moon in 1969 with that technology, why, with today's technology will it take so long? Shouldn't there be some kind of Moore's Law in effect with regard to space travel.
Can they not just:
/etc/bind/zones
# scp bkuser@backupserver:/etc/bind/zones/gov.ca.zonefile
# service named reload
voila!
Also worth thinking about is that responsiveness with a mouse keyboard is far greater than with a game pad. This would give anyone using a PC a definite advantage over console players.
I seem to remember hearing that when they ported Halo to the PC they had to take out a delay the enemies had in firing so it would be more challenging.
One step closer to a working tricorder.
The author himself has said that he is only calling it a rootkit for SEO reasons.
From the comments:
"Using "rootkit" brings the traffic. It's all about the SEO, and is why this article is on top in Google."
Although I believe this is nastyware.. It surely does not meet the definition or rootkit.
Yeah.. you really don't want to have to move to Canada. Let me tell you aboot my day today:
During the 3 hours when the sun will shine here, I emerge from my igloo to play the government required hour of hockey. Then after I have finished I go hunting for my family's dinner with my trusty bow and arrow. Once home with my cariboo meat, I will sit back down in my igloo, crack open a Molson Canadian and watch one of the two channels we get up here, CBC and the Curling network. And this was a good day, some days it is too cold to even leave the igloo. I can't wait for global warming.
So let me get this straight, you don't trust the banks so much that you make your life clearly more difficult, but you're willing to trust advice from a bunch of geeks on Slashdot? Maybe we're all out to get you too!
I always wondered why these articles focus on screenshots. I would assume most people who are running RHEL don't ever use any graphical interface at all. Servers don't need to run any graphical applications really and it is a waste of system resources to have any of that left on IMHO.
/etc/inittab
First thing I do to a shiny new Redhat install is:
perl -i -p -e s/id\:6\:in/id\:3\:in/
To disable X11 completely. You should to.
I just finished watching this documentary on Movie Central here in Canada.
IMHO it is a very well presented out documentary that manages to express the technical oversights of Diebold in a way that the average person can understand. The final scenes where they prove to the election officials that the smartcard hack is possible using their machines under theit control was pretty moving. One election official lady even started to cry and I must admit I actually felt a little choked up.
This documentary does make Diebold look very bad and it will no doubt sway at least sway some favour away from the name Diebold.
homer:~$ ngrep MSG -d eth1 port 1863 ;)
interface: eth1 (10.10.10.0/255.255.255.0)
filter: ip and ( port 1863 )
match: MSG
###############
T 207.46.26.138:1863 -> 10.20.20.176:1319 [AP]
MSG strathcona@hotmail.com FunFun 141..MIME-Version: 1.0..Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8..X-MMS-IM-Format: FN=Arial; EF=; CO=0....I sure hope they don't start encrypting MSN traffic... what would I do at work during the down times
Let me get this straight; you read Slashdot, but are still on dial-up? That's unpossible.
Wikipedia explains what Extreme Programming is at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Programming
One reason that many companies need to use a commercial security tool is because of Visa and Mastercard CISP and SDP compliance.
In order to comply you must have various levels of security testing done and certified by an approved vendor.
it looks great too!
The event was held at the Flint Center
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Why does anyone still use 128kbps? I hate it when I download music (legal ;) and the only bitrate available for the song i want is 128. With 200GB+ hard disks being so affordable these days and everyone having high speed, I think everyone should encode their (mp3||ogg||aac) at 192 or 256.
The headline wasn't clear on what position I am supposed to be taking on this. Will somebody please let me know so I can rant about it. Thank you.
I don't understand why critical systems were not backed up with UPSs and generators? Power failures happen everywhere. You should never be 100% reliant on utility power. A generator with adequate supply of diesel (and contract to keep it full for long term outages) is a must have for critical systems in my opinion.
From Ironport's Webpage:
IronPort's Virtual Gateway technology allows a single IronPort to deliver separate campaigns on unique IP addresses. This technology ensures that if one campaign has a problem with less than perfect spam filters at receiving ISPs, it won't impact other campaigns on separate Virtual Gateways. Each IronPort A60 supports up to 256 unique outbound IP addresses.
Doesn't this sound a but like a spamming appliance? Basically it's saying that if one of your IPs gets blacklisted for spamming, that's ok because it will use a different one automatically.
I sense a bit of hostility towards the hordes of 'unnormal people' out there who enjoy going out to clubs and having a good time dancing and going a little crazy with the opposite sex. Perhaps one day when we have reached your level of snobbery we will truly understand what it's like to be normal.