"because the wrong lizard might get in" is not a good enough excuse to keep repeating a mistake. voting for bush once -- hey, everyone makes a mistake, right? voting for bush twice? as they say in texas: "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice...-foo..ma...won't get fooled again."
what i'm saying is, why not try asskisser b? just for the variety?
a) work cheap b) work someplace crappy that doesn't care c) build some exp with self-made projects (OSS, make your own game, etc) d) expand the duties of your current position (depends on how viable this is in a particular job, of course, and how receptive they are to it.)
alternately, you could make your skills attractive by hitting up the keywords they want to hear (php, perl, scripting, java, c, whatever)
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Of course they want to take the actual computer away from you, they want to have control over you. If they could, your "computer" would be a mindless terminal to a Big Brother Approved mainframe that spied on everything you did.
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The infoworld links in the summary are crap -- anyone have a real suggestion or article or website or whatever? Not necessarily or exclusively about IT (c.f. How To Get Laid In Japan -- caveat, that's many years old by now. I'm sure japanese sexual mores have completely changed and they're all puritans now) although IT is what I and most other/. readers would be most interested in, obviously.
So if your dead relative (spouse, parents, whatever...) wrote a popular song, you'd be OK with an excert being used in a way you don't agree with? Say, a pro-NAMBLA documentary? or a pro-white-supremacy film? It's easy to trivialize someone else's views, especially on a subject that you're either neutral or on the other side of. Ono's rights (as the final arbiter over use of Lennon estate properties) are in fact trumped by fair-use, but she doesn't have to be happy about it.
A company's employee saying "I support John McCain and will do what I can to get him elected, including giving his campaign some of my money" is one thing; the CEO of the company that makes the voting machines saying that his company is committed to getting a particular (battleground, contested and absolutely necessary) state's electoral votes to the President is a completely different thing.
obviously a flaw in the the GPL, someone tell stallman right away! all these people trying eat or fuck their software, without the author's consent or knowledge! no wonder the mozilla foundation had to do something!
If the trust, reliability and authenticity of data on a server is compromised and has to be verified, that's "harm done". "The security team had to spend a week poring over everything, even if you only/said/ you touched 1 server" means that they couldn't be doing something else. That's time and resources wasted. Most organizations would call that "harm done". Anyone who's had a wallet lost or stolen knows that the real pain is in dealing with the security BS that goes along with it (cancelling cards, verifying that nothing got charged, getting your IDs reissued, etc). He wasn't "more competent" and this wasn't an innocent good deed, he was "more malicious" and he inconvenienced at least 40 people and handled notification poorly. He's getting burned now, and it's unfortunate for him, but there's an applicable aphorism about heat and kitchens.
For being a rogue white hat? Probably none, no; if you want to be a white hat, you have to do things the right way -- this includes treating other peoples' things as if they were, you know, other people's and therefore not yours to fuck with.
What about for saying you're a white hat? Well, that might be worth it, if I could trust his word. Of course, he just broke into a system, which tends to make people not trust you. Catch-22's like that are the reason you don't do things like this without some kind of permission.
Look, everything was fine until he started poking around. And he found a vulnerability, and appears to have done the right thing by not exploiting it and instead trying to help the sys/net admins find it and explain how he did it. But they can't know that without going over everything. So if the paper says "I got onto your protected 10.10.10/24 network by blah blah blah, and i only touched servers x, y, z and 123" you still have to check all the networks and you still have to check all the servers. If I found your wallet and gave it back, you wouldn't just check that your ID was there, right? You would check that your cash and cards were in there too. Even if I told you all I looked at was your ID.
A poweruser of mine recently found a blog server we have set for our community had been hacked -- a malicious php file dropped in because our version of the blogging software was a few versions behind (because the plugins required by the users didn't work on the new versions until recently). So I can't just clean that particular blog; I have to check the others, and I have to check the server itself, and I have to check that the backups aren't fucked, and I have to check the other servers that also run php/apache, and all the linux systems in general. 1 hack and now I've got at least a week or two worth of solid 8-hour days of forensic work.
If you don't need support, you're not a company* and are probably home-brewing anyway, yes. Or you're not rich enough for a vendor to care; note that of the companies in this field that charge (e.g. VMWare) there's a free user version.
* Companies are the ones that need assurances that they're doing things The Right Way and that Stockholders Are Protected (or whatever phrase is being used to mean "it's being done is a conservative and 'safe' manner that won't get management easily fired for being stupid assholes").
Tell it to Novell: netware was it when it came to networking. Until Windows NT built it in. It wasn't as good as Novell, but it didn't need to be: it was free. MS is going after VMWare's "casual" users -- folks who would be interested but wouldn't lay out bucks for 10 ESX servers to host thousands of VMs. Sun's not competing for VM's market, they're fighting MS and Xen for the scraps coming off the VMWare carcass. VMWare's got years in the game still -- Win2k8 adoption is not exactly lightning-fast, Sun's a technology leader but they're hardly eating up the mindshare much less the actual customers. Give it a few years and MS will be leader in marketshare, VMWare a close second and Sun closing in fast. The only people who say "who needs support if it costs money?" are those whose time is worthless.
because there aren't enough foaming-at-the-mouth religious wars about vi/emacs, windows/linux, sql/mysql/postgres/oracle, apple/everything, and all that other fucking bullshit.
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"because the wrong lizard might get in" is not a good enough excuse to keep repeating a mistake. voting for bush once -- hey, everyone makes a mistake, right? voting for bush twice? as they say in texas: "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice...-foo..ma...won't get fooled again."
what i'm saying is, why not try asskisser b? just for the variety?
a) work cheap
b) work someplace crappy that doesn't care
c) build some exp with self-made projects (OSS, make your own game, etc)
d) expand the duties of your current position (depends on how viable this is in a particular job, of course, and how receptive they are to it.)
alternately, you could make your skills attractive by hitting up the keywords they want to hear (php, perl, scripting, java, c, whatever)
....just like when the drug czar was appointed over the War On Drugs and now illegal drugs are impossible to find...
Port mirroring, look it up.
The infoworld links in the summary are crap -- anyone have a real suggestion or article or website or whatever? Not necessarily or exclusively about IT (c.f. How To Get Laid In Japan -- caveat, that's many years old by now. I'm sure japanese sexual mores have completely changed and they're all puritans now) although IT is what I and most other /. readers would be most interested in, obviously.
either your grocery store is much different than mine, or your kid's diet is in dire need of revision
So if your dead relative (spouse, parents, whatever...) wrote a popular song, you'd be OK with an excert being used in a way you don't agree with? Say, a pro-NAMBLA documentary? or a pro-white-supremacy film? It's easy to trivialize someone else's views, especially on a subject that you're either neutral or on the other side of. Ono's rights (as the final arbiter over use of Lennon estate properties) are in fact trumped by fair-use, but she doesn't have to be happy about it.
they call it a "court of law" not "court of justice".
I've found a remarkable proof of this, but there is not enough space in the margin to write it.
#!/bin/sh
echo "scanning for viruses..."
sleep 10
echo "no viruses found...no false positives."
exit 0
Sources: CNN, CBS, Mother Jones.
obviously no sharks, they're already talking about lawyers.
i had an old xbox set up with xbmc but hosed the install (keeps trying Live on boot but chokes) might have to see how to re-image the damn thing
obviously a flaw in the the GPL, someone tell stallman right away! all these people trying eat or fuck their software, without the author's consent or knowledge! no wonder the mozilla foundation had to do something!
If the trust, reliability and authenticity of data on a server is compromised and has to be verified, that's "harm done". "The security team had to spend a week poring over everything, even if you only /said/ you touched 1 server" means that they couldn't be doing something else. That's time and resources wasted. Most organizations would call that "harm done". Anyone who's had a wallet lost or stolen knows that the real pain is in dealing with the security BS that goes along with it (cancelling cards, verifying that nothing got charged, getting your IDs reissued, etc). He wasn't "more competent" and this wasn't an innocent good deed, he was "more malicious" and he inconvenienced at least 40 people and handled notification poorly. He's getting burned now, and it's unfortunate for him, but there's an applicable aphorism about heat and kitchens.
So you'd prefer selective laws? People generally dislike those, is why I ask. (cf: "telecom immunity")
For being a rogue white hat? Probably none, no; if you want to be a white hat, you have to do things the right way -- this includes treating other peoples' things as if they were, you know, other people's and therefore not yours to fuck with.
What about for saying you're a white hat? Well, that might be worth it, if I could trust his word. Of course, he just broke into a system, which tends to make people not trust you. Catch-22's like that are the reason you don't do things like this without some kind of permission.
A poweruser of mine recently found a blog server we have set for our community had been hacked -- a malicious php file dropped in because our version of the blogging software was a few versions behind (because the plugins required by the users didn't work on the new versions until recently). So I can't just clean that particular blog; I have to check the others, and I have to check the server itself, and I have to check that the backups aren't fucked, and I have to check the other servers that also run php/apache, and all the linux systems in general. 1 hack and now I've got at least a week or two worth of solid 8-hour days of forensic work.
If you don't need support, you're not a company* and are probably home-brewing anyway, yes. Or you're not rich enough for a vendor to care; note that of the companies in this field that charge (e.g. VMWare) there's a free user version.
* Companies are the ones that need assurances that they're doing things The Right Way and that Stockholders Are Protected (or whatever phrase is being used to mean "it's being done is a conservative and 'safe' manner that won't get management easily fired for being stupid assholes").
Tell it to Novell: netware was it when it came to networking. Until Windows NT built it in. It wasn't as good as Novell, but it didn't need to be: it was free. MS is going after VMWare's "casual" users -- folks who would be interested but wouldn't lay out bucks for 10 ESX servers to host thousands of VMs. Sun's not competing for VM's market, they're fighting MS and Xen for the scraps coming off the VMWare carcass. VMWare's got years in the game still -- Win2k8 adoption is not exactly lightning-fast, Sun's a technology leader but they're hardly eating up the mindshare much less the actual customers. Give it a few years and MS will be leader in marketshare, VMWare a close second and Sun closing in fast. The only people who say "who needs support if it costs money?" are those whose time is worthless.
lol ur still using xyz?
because there aren't enough foaming-at-the-mouth religious wars about vi/emacs, windows/linux, sql/mysql/postgres/oracle, apple/everything, and all that other fucking bullshit.
did he at least fill up the tank? I mean, he's got all that cheap gas...
"Illegal wiretaps we can believe in"
Well just reboot the workstation, I'm sure it'll come up again. Security by inaccessibility: the new paradigm.