Once he does somthing like that, no one will complain when Open Source freaks are going door to door with red fedoras and pump shotguns forcibly installing Linux or OpenBSD on every computer they can find.
PS: It looks from your sig that multiple warheads would be necessary to destroy New York City. Would you care to join my research on the subject of nuclear warheads that detonate with an oblong blast pattern, instead of the standard circular pattern?
Sorry if a strong opinion trips your internal troll alert. YHBT in that case.
Anyway, if he wins the rc5 contest, he will get $2000 (or 1k if he is on a team...). Plus the increase in lateral penile dimensions coming from all of those keys he was crunching. Installing the client on a boatload of State owned computers to increase his keyrate and chances of finding the winning key is wrong. He does not own those computers and he had no business installing the client on them.
Distributed.net has a clear policy that says that they will not tolerate this shit either. All of the keys cracked on those machines, as well as the ones cracked legitimatly on his own machine will no longer be credited to him.
You are right, however, in that he is not in the same category as kiddie porn freaks or pirates. He deserves a FAIR penalty which I think I said in my original post. (Checking back I see that I said appropriate).
It's sad that I get branded a troll by people because my opinion is unpopular.
Sure...Wonderful Magical modems from the land of fairies and elves. Looking at http://www.usr.com, the web site of a popular modem manufacturer in this universe, and indeed even on this planet, I see that their modems are mostly limited to 56 Kbps. They also have some ISDN hardware and other networking hardware that is much faster, but their modems are far behind your mystical fairy modems.
A peice of cake in the machine room. They are talking about running this shit all over town, which will make them lots of money. But they could make even more by releasing this shit at 10 Mbps and letting out the 155 Mbps version in a few years...
I doubt that very much. Since you can't have a truly useful BSD without an assload of GNU tools, Open, Net, and FreeBSD become GNU/BSD as soon as the poor user realises that he can't live without bash filename completion and colorized ls. As for GNU/Win32, that exists too: http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/. It even has gcc and XFree86.
A hydrogen bomb would be a valuble weapon in the OSS vs. Microsoft conflict, or the Linux vs. *BSD conflict (which is mostly imaginary IMO), or whatever. I hope the Debian team uses it wisely.
Seriously though...
Those maps really drive home how much of a world wide effort Debian is. The power of images I reckon...
It is generally easy to differentiate (dammit I spelled that wrong) between artistic child pornography and evil child pornography. As far as software goes, it is much harder to classify whether a program is an useful utility or an evil program of destruction, unless it is a program that sends out meaningless packets at top speed. (Even art can be exciting to a pedophile). I think the real problem is that the vast majority of people out there (unfortunatly including the people making the laws) can't tell the difference when it comes to software. The average Australian Joe-Sixpack probably feels it is a very good law which will keep the world safe for the likes of him who pays for broadband access just so he can visit espn.au once or twice a week. (Yeah, that was a rant...)
Who defines what is a hacker toolkit or virus code? Many legitimate applications and utilities can be used for evil. Would this affect people/organizations that mirror linux distros that include these programs? And what about virus code? If they ignorantly mean source code, then they will have a problem because all of the popular (mainstream popular of course) viruses are written in VBS or a similar interpreted language. So anyone infected could be guilty of a crime. The potential for abuse by vindictive law enforcement agents is obvious. If your neighbor Officer Jack decides he dislikes you, he could release a VBS worm on his own machine which would email everyone in the outlook address book (assuming you are on the list here). Then he could come and arrest you and do whatever he can to ensure that you recieve a severe penalty as a dangerous hacker.
Would be nice if they did. Not to be an anti-Australian or anything, but I'm sick of their IRC servers splitting up our networks. They should cut all of their fibers and go back to hunting kangaroos.
Seriously though, you are right about the government dudes. They are all corrupt to a degree. But thats really just humanity. Try and find someone who isn't greedy or enjoys causing people to suffer.
It also forces companies by law to reveal passwords, keys, codes, cryptographic and steganographic methods used to protect information.
If they have to reveal all passwords and whatnot, hacker tools aren't needed. Just go to the part of their site where it will say somthing like "By law we are required to post the root passwords to all of our boxes here..." and you will have all the info you need.
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Once he does somthing like that, no one will complain when Open Source freaks are going door to door with red fedoras and pump shotguns forcibly installing Linux or OpenBSD on every computer they can find.
I've been to Brooklyn; they don't do that there.
Briliant language parser exploit. I am now patched.
You could launch one right off the coast, assuming you took care of the Navy first. Right now all their ships are reeling from SirCam and Code Red.
did you check that link to make sure its not a GOATSE.CX LINK?
PS: It looks from your sig that multiple warheads would be necessary to destroy New York City. Would you care to join my research on the subject of nuclear warheads that detonate with an oblong blast pattern, instead of the standard circular pattern?
How? I assume you used some weird ass characters in your name that we cant see?
This will make both RMS and WHG spin in their graves. Oh..wait. Would someone please kill RMS and WHG?
Time to get off the helldesk...
Why does she have a computer? She is obviously not willing to learn how to use it.
You're right. Piracy is still piracy. But you are going to get modded down as a troll like I did (if anyone actually sees your post).
Sorry if a strong opinion trips your internal troll alert. YHBT in that case.
Anyway, if he wins the rc5 contest, he will get $2000 (or 1k if he is on a team...). Plus the increase in lateral penile dimensions coming from all of those keys he was crunching. Installing the client on a boatload of State owned computers to increase his keyrate and chances of finding the winning key is wrong. He does not own those computers and he had no business installing the client on them.
Distributed.net has a clear policy that says that they will not tolerate this shit either. All of the keys cracked on those machines, as well as the ones cracked legitimatly on his own machine will no longer be credited to him.
You are right, however, in that he is not in the same category as kiddie porn freaks or pirates. He deserves a FAIR penalty which I think I said in my original post. (Checking back I see that I said appropriate).
It's sad that I get branded a troll by people because my opinion is unpopular.
damn. I thought they were just too stupid to use an M instead of an m. :P
Sure...Wonderful Magical modems from the land of fairies and elves. Looking at http://www.usr.com, the web site of a popular modem manufacturer in this universe, and indeed even on this planet, I see that their modems are mostly limited to 56 Kbps. They also have some ISDN hardware and other networking hardware that is much faster, but their modems are far behind your mystical fairy modems.
A peice of cake in the machine room. They are talking about running this shit all over town, which will make them lots of money. But they could make even more by releasing this shit at 10 Mbps and letting out the 155 Mbps version in a few years...
That sounds like a pretty messy operation. I'd hate to be the guy who pulls the tongue through the slit...
I doubt that very much. Since you can't have a truly useful BSD without an assload of GNU tools, Open, Net, and FreeBSD become GNU/BSD as soon as the poor user realises that he can't live without bash filename completion and colorized ls. As for GNU/Win32, that exists too: http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/. It even has gcc and XFree86.
A hydrogen bomb would be a valuble weapon in the OSS vs. Microsoft conflict, or the Linux vs. *BSD conflict (which is mostly imaginary IMO), or whatever. I hope the Debian team uses it wisely.
Seriously though...
Those maps really drive home how much of a world wide effort Debian is. The power of images I reckon...
It is generally easy to differentiate (dammit I spelled that wrong) between artistic child pornography and evil child pornography. As far as software goes, it is much harder to classify whether a program is an useful utility or an evil program of destruction, unless it is a program that sends out meaningless packets at top speed. (Even art can be exciting to a pedophile). I think the real problem is that the vast majority of people out there (unfortunatly including the people making the laws) can't tell the difference when it comes to software. The average Australian Joe-Sixpack probably feels it is a very good law which will keep the world safe for the likes of him who pays for broadband access just so he can visit espn.au once or twice a week. (Yeah, that was a rant...)
Who defines what is a hacker toolkit or virus code? Many legitimate applications and utilities can be used for evil. Would this affect people/organizations that mirror linux distros that include these programs? And what about virus code? If they ignorantly mean source code, then they will have a problem because all of the popular (mainstream popular of course) viruses are written in VBS or a similar interpreted language. So anyone infected could be guilty of a crime. The potential for abuse by vindictive law enforcement agents is obvious. If your neighbor Officer Jack decides he dislikes you, he could release a VBS worm on his own machine which would email everyone in the outlook address book (assuming you are on the list here). Then he could come and arrest you and do whatever he can to ensure that you recieve a severe penalty as a dangerous hacker.
Would be nice if they did. Not to be an anti-Australian or anything, but I'm sick of their IRC servers splitting up our networks. They should cut all of their fibers and go back to hunting kangaroos.
Seriously though, you are right about the government dudes. They are all corrupt to a degree. But thats really just humanity. Try and find someone who isn't greedy or enjoys causing people to suffer.
It also forces companies by law to reveal passwords, keys, codes, cryptographic and steganographic methods used to protect information.
If they have to reveal all passwords and whatnot, hacker tools aren't needed. Just go to the part of their site where it will say somthing like "By law we are required to post the root passwords to all of our boxes here..." and you will have all the info you need.