We can expect the attacker to tailor the message to the Tibetan gov't. In fact, such an example was given in an article I read about this, the subject said, it was something like "Preliminary report on UN summit on Tibet sovereignty."
That's why those advices are completely bogus, if not downright dangerous.
In fact it's probably much less secure than windows, since it doesn't deploy counter-measure such as non-exec stacks, address randomization and the like. However it gets much fewer malware because of lower marketshare. So it looks more secure as far as generic, endemic malware is concerned; but it's going to be much easier to crack for an attacker with a specific agenda. Linux has the same countermeasures as Windows and then some.
That's a stupid advice, one that has been repeated since the first email worms, even though even the very first email worms forged the sender to trick the recipient into opening it.
This is really stupid advice.
(I'm inferring you mean "attachment from ppl you know", because "attachments you know" doesn't make any sense to begin with.)
# don't store your confidential data on your laptop
Yeah better let those on a publicly accessible server, you wouldn't want those chinese spy to have to waste time physically getting hold of the laptop.
Thank you very much for those advices. They really help. Really. Seriously. Hmpf.
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it's compromised. And having to type a password too often is not added security, because it only adds minimal, easily circumvented security in the rare case where you're already fucked, but it annoys the hell out of users *all* the time, causing them to have unsafe practices.
It's security theater. There are good reason for allowing (private key only) root login, allong with autorized_keys command= directives. Furthermore password+ssh keys is rather pointless.
are not such a burden in countries with sufficient competition? It's fascinating how when there's only one broadband provider, somehow, people start downloading much more... or something.
That's just insane. It makes it 10 times more expensive than to send a burnt DVD ($.5?) through the mail (~$1 I guess?). That pricing scheme is about as out of touch as Dr Evil in that scene where he asks for a ridiculous $1 million ransom for not blowing up the planet. You can get internet transit in a datacenter on the order of $6 per Mbps per month wholesale; peering is way below that. That mean that for $6 you can transfer ~320GB a month; Warner is going to charge 50 times that. Sure, it's not the same thing entirely obviously, but the main difference is that you have to build a line to the customer, and you're paying for that already whether you use it very little or a lot. The only remaining difference therefore is the connection between local concentrators and the backbone; nothing special and particularly expensive about it. Therefore this is a total rip-off, and most likely monopoly abuse.
1. It makes the gov't look foolish, and it's attracted lots of media attention 2. This will push the final vote back to just before the European Parliament election; it will either cost Sarkozy's party quite a few votes, or make them want to give it up 3. It will give time to the EP to vote their anti-3 strike amendment once more.
Frederic Lefebvre is the biggest douchebag and a major proponent of that law. That idiot had left the parliament for lunch and missed the vote. I need you all to send him an email at: flefebvre@assemblee-nationale.fr, ask him if he enjoyed his lunch. You can do it in english.
The opposition took advantage of the very low attendance by the majority party: a dozen opposition MPs showed up at the last minute (apparently coordinated by my deputy, Mr Bloche), preventing the majority from gathering its troops. The vote failed 15 to 21 (there are 577 members in the lower chamber). The law is not rejected for good, because the government can (and probably will) push for a second reading in both chambers, and it has a large enough majority to get it through. But this event is going to push the issue into the spotlight, and may also allow the European Parliament to once again vote its opposition to the principle (amendment 46 to the Telecom Package), while the opposition gains team. Indeed, just a few days ago, a few prominent actors and directors such as Catherine Deneuve or Victoria Abril signed an open letter opposing the law, thereby disproving the main talking point of the proponents: not all artists are united behind Sarkozy-Universal.
It's the brits that are always pushing Europe into their nightmare surveillance society. No other country in Europe has nowhere near as many CCTV cams, by several orders of magnitude. As far as I'm concerned, you can GTFO and keep your Thatcher (isn't that witch dead already?) and your Coalition of the Willing to Bend Over.
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I don't know wtf they were thinking, hosting in Europe is cheap, typically with unlimited traffic.
The suggestion is not to trust any attachment,
That wasn't the suggestion. Maybe that's yours? Well it's a different one, then. And not a terribly practical nor useful one.
Not generic 'I love you' viruses.
We can expect the attacker to tailor the message to the Tibetan gov't. In fact, such an example was given in an article I read about this, the subject said, it was something like "Preliminary report on UN summit on Tibet sovereignty."
That's why those advices are completely bogus, if not downright dangerous.
This is getting stupider and stupider.
In fact it's probably much less secure than windows, since it doesn't deploy counter-measure such as non-exec stacks, address randomization and the like. However it gets much fewer malware because of lower marketshare.
So it looks more secure as far as generic, endemic malware is concerned; but it's going to be much easier to crack for an attacker with a specific agenda.
Linux has the same countermeasures as Windows and then some.
# do not open attachments you don't know
That's a stupid advice, one that has been repeated since the first email worms, even though even the very first email worms forged the sender to trick the recipient into opening it.
This is really stupid advice.
(I'm inferring you mean "attachment from ppl you know", because "attachments you know" doesn't make any sense to begin with.)
# don't store your confidential data on your laptop
Yeah better let those on a publicly accessible server, you wouldn't want those chinese spy to have to waste time physically getting hold of the laptop.
Thank you very much for those advices. They really help. Really. Seriously. Hmpf.
And they got something for it in return, fuck Rand-bots and that bathtub drowning retard (what's his face again?)
I don't think so.
For real,
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phorm-is-a-fraud.com
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Fuck you very much!
This is stunningly devious. The bastards.
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And forcing users to go through hoops for a negligeable gain in security is worse than nothing.
Good luck with that.
it's compromised.
And having to type a password too often is not added security, because it only adds minimal, easily circumvented security in the rare case where you're already fucked, but it annoys the hell out of users *all* the time, causing them to have unsafe practices.
It's security theater.
There are good reason for allowing (private key only) root login, allong with autorized_keys command= directives.
Furthermore password+ssh keys is rather pointless.
... then there's no need to bruteforce it, and therefore blocking a botnet doing that is futile.
are not such a burden in countries with sufficient competition? ... or something.
It's fascinating how when there's only one broadband provider, somehow, people start downloading much more
That's just insane. It makes it 10 times more expensive than to send a burnt DVD ($.5?) through the mail (~$1 I guess?).
That pricing scheme is about as out of touch as Dr Evil in that scene where he asks for a ridiculous $1 million ransom for not blowing up the planet.
You can get internet transit in a datacenter on the order of $6 per Mbps per month wholesale; peering is way below that.
That mean that for $6 you can transfer ~320GB a month; Warner is going to charge 50 times that.
Sure, it's not the same thing entirely obviously, but the main difference is that you have to build a line to the customer, and you're paying for that already whether you use it very little or a lot.
The only remaining difference therefore is the connection between local concentrators and the backbone; nothing special and particularly expensive about it.
Therefore this is a total rip-off, and most likely monopoly abuse.
1. It makes the gov't look foolish, and it's attracted lots of media attention
2. This will push the final vote back to just before the European Parliament election; it will either cost Sarkozy's party quite a few votes, or make them want to give it up
3. It will give time to the EP to vote their anti-3 strike amendment once more.
Frederic Lefebvre is the biggest douchebag and a major proponent of that law. That idiot had left the parliament for lunch and missed the vote.
I need you all to send him an email at: flefebvre@assemblee-nationale.fr, ask him if he enjoyed his lunch. You can do it in english.
Christian Paul represents the Nevers' district, and he was one of the major opponents :)
The opposition took advantage of the very low attendance by the majority party: a dozen opposition MPs showed up at the last minute (apparently coordinated by my deputy, Mr Bloche), preventing the majority from gathering its troops. The vote failed 15 to 21 (there are 577 members in the lower chamber).
The law is not rejected for good, because the government can (and probably will) push for a second reading in both chambers, and it has a large enough majority to get it through. But this event is going to push the issue into the spotlight, and may also allow the European Parliament to once again vote its opposition to the principle (amendment 46 to the Telecom Package), while the opposition gains team.
Indeed, just a few days ago, a few prominent actors and directors such as Catherine Deneuve or Victoria Abril signed an open letter opposing the law, thereby disproving the main talking point of the proponents: not all artists are united behind Sarkozy-Universal.
From what I remember from electrical engineering classes, it seemed rather simple.
It's the brits that are always pushing Europe into their nightmare surveillance society. No other country in Europe has nowhere near as many CCTV cams, by several orders of magnitude.
As far as I'm concerned, you can GTFO and keep your Thatcher (isn't that witch dead already?) and your Coalition of the Willing to Bend Over.
I thought he meant a lawyer shouldn't write to another lawyer directly, but apparently he mean a lawyer shouldn't write ...
Well actually I'm not sure anymore what he meant:
a letter to the another lawyer's cleint and it is really the client you want to get to