type "monitor" in gnut and you will see all the gnutella search requests going through your node. Often you see people searching for an exact filename and you know that their transfer stopped halfway through and they're looking for the rest of it, so you can get some idea of what is available out there in a completely passive manner.
The original article in Esquire magazine, October 1971. The Capt'n is still the man. He's the CTO of a company making "The Crunch Box" which is an IDS appliance running on OpenBSD.
Posted yesterday, yet another IIS sploit, I will ignore details and skip to the funniest section of the notice:
Funny:
Some people might wonder why this advisory does not contain the typical eEye
humor like most of our other advisories. Basically, the reason is that this
is our 4th remote SYSTEM level IIS vulnerability and well...we've run out of
jokes.
Yep, and eCash is forever plagued from the ideas from the early 90's, banks. I would love to be able to say to my bank "fork me some untracable electronic currency please" but it aint gunna happen. Banks would like to get rid of cash altogether IMHO, but regardless, banks dont jump on bandwagons and eCash is feeling it. So where does that leave you? As a merchant selling a payment service (ala PayPal) which results in you needing a way of getting money into and out of the system and seeing my money is in my bank that means I need a way of transfering money from my bank account to your bank account. Again we hit banks. Suprising enough PayPal has actually managed to make this happen, I can register a checking account with PayPal (if I'm in the states) and click money between my bank account and my PayPal account, great, but what about that great promise of anonymity? You know, the whole allure of "cash". We're pretty far from zero knowledge by now. The merchant I'm buying from can track who I am (look at the FreeNet donations page ffs), PayPal can browse through all my transactions at will, my bank can see how much money I've put into my PayPal account, the government can monitor my PayPal Bank account transfers and PayPal would probably give up any information they wanted after a few cool threats. Will banks ever get off their ass and give us what we want? Not really, and even if they do we're not going to get "zero knowledge" because I dont trust my bank.
Once again, history is written by the victors. May we never forget that Microsoft's "Internet Exploder" was way behind Netscape in quality and only caught up by slowing Netscape down. Not that Netscape's code wasn't crap mind you;)
You have obviously never worked for a corporation. Corporate culture is 100% about job satisfaction or in managerial speak "alienation". The idea is to alienate you from life so you wont be alienated from work. Example, John likes to hit the clubs on the weekends, go to youth clubs during the week and hang out with his friends at a local coffee house. John does not associate himself with his work. "It's just a job" says John. Occasionally someone at work will say something that John doesnt agree with and John is the kind of person who will set them straight rather than giving in to "group think". If John's skills are required and no-one else can be found to replace him then John's good performance reviews better result in a predictable raise each year or John wont feel secure. If John's basic needs arn't met he will get a job somewhere else. Steve on the other hand cannot initiate a conversation with anything other than "so what do you do?" Steve is a good employee, but he is more than that, he is a member of the corporate "family". He is a "team player" and puts in long hours because he believes in the company vision. Steve hasn't spoken to his friends from college in a few years now. Occasionally a friend will call up and ask him to go out but Steve has a deadline he has to meet. If there is a downturn Steve will be the last to go and will happily take a pay cut although he knows the company would never do that to him. Steve arranges "relaxation events" and company outings and gets upset when someone doesn't show up to the company picnic. If you ask Steve he will tell you what he does is important. Without him the company would crumble.
let me guess, you're american right? Nah, that's rude, maybe you're just under 30 years old. That seems to be around the point that you start appreciating what it means to be old. It's funny, someone who has seen what the world was like before you were even born doesn't deserve your respect. But then again, maybe you dont respect anything.
We need more maturity in the security industry dagnamit. Get those senior citizens onto these lists and they can give us some fatherly advice about how it was "in their day".
Sorry, I dont find it funny. Actually I find it kind of scary. Even if it is false someone will try to do it after reading this page and a kitten will suffer (well, that's a theological debate).
well I remember the days when Theo would get his goat on and fix something in under 2 hours. Guess he must be gettin' laid these days. How many months do you think this sploit was "in the wild" before someone decided to report it (or was independantly discovered by a white hat)?
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type "monitor" in gnut and you will see all the gnutella search requests going through your node. Often you see people searching for an exact filename and you know that their transfer stopped halfway through and they're looking for the rest of it, so you can get some idea of what is available out there in a completely passive manner.
I'm curious, which "PC" was it that you were writing programs for in 1977? The Altair?
As the first article clearly demonstrates, he was always sold out, from day one. John Draper likes money and he aint afraid to say it.
The original article in Esquire magazine, October 1971. The Capt'n is still the man. He's the CTO of a company making "The Crunch Box" which is an IDS appliance running on OpenBSD.
All I see is yet another ignorant illiterate tool who doesn't know a damn thing about communism but is willing to use it as an insult.
Posted yesterday, yet another IIS sploit, I will ignore details and skip to the funniest section of the notice:
Funny:
Some people might wonder why this advisory does not contain the typical eEye
humor like most of our other advisories. Basically, the reason is that this
is our 4th remote SYSTEM level IIS vulnerability and well...we've run out of
jokes.
Slashdot me and my kernel panics, fun.
Or banks have no marketing skills. There's only a few tens of thousands of people who would give their first born for truely anonymous eCash.
woah. Wonder if they wrote their own gunzip code.. hmm.. probably licensed it from WinZip :)
Yep, and eCash is forever plagued from the ideas from the early 90's, banks. I would love to be able to say to my bank "fork me some untracable electronic currency please" but it aint gunna happen. Banks would like to get rid of cash altogether IMHO, but regardless, banks dont jump on bandwagons and eCash is feeling it. So where does that leave you? As a merchant selling a payment service (ala PayPal) which results in you needing a way of getting money into and out of the system and seeing my money is in my bank that means I need a way of transfering money from my bank account to your bank account. Again we hit banks. Suprising enough PayPal has actually managed to make this happen, I can register a checking account with PayPal (if I'm in the states) and click money between my bank account and my PayPal account, great, but what about that great promise of anonymity? You know, the whole allure of "cash". We're pretty far from zero knowledge by now. The merchant I'm buying from can track who I am (look at the FreeNet donations page ffs), PayPal can browse through all my transactions at will, my bank can see how much money I've put into my PayPal account, the government can monitor my PayPal Bank account transfers and PayPal would probably give up any information they wanted after a few cool threats. Will banks ever get off their ass and give us what we want? Not really, and even if they do we're not going to get "zero knowledge" because I dont trust my bank.
sigh
"theregister" should be a trigger in the lameness filter.
Once again, history is written by the victors. May we never forget that Microsoft's "Internet Exploder" was way behind Netscape in quality and only caught up by slowing Netscape down. Not that Netscape's code wasn't crap mind you ;)
3am and we dont even get mnt dew in our free fridge, god damn it.
You have obviously never worked for a corporation. Corporate culture is 100% about job satisfaction or in managerial speak "alienation". The idea is to alienate you from life so you wont be alienated from work. Example, John likes to hit the clubs on the weekends, go to youth clubs during the week and hang out with his friends at a local coffee house. John does not associate himself with his work. "It's just a job" says John. Occasionally someone at work will say something that John doesnt agree with and John is the kind of person who will set them straight rather than giving in to "group think". If John's skills are required and no-one else can be found to replace him then John's good performance reviews better result in a predictable raise each year or John wont feel secure. If John's basic needs arn't met he will get a job somewhere else. Steve on the other hand cannot initiate a conversation with anything other than "so what do you do?" Steve is a good employee, but he is more than that, he is a member of the corporate "family". He is a "team player" and puts in long hours because he believes in the company vision. Steve hasn't spoken to his friends from college in a few years now. Occasionally a friend will call up and ask him to go out but Steve has a deadline he has to meet. If there is a downturn Steve will be the last to go and will happily take a pay cut although he knows the company would never do that to him. Steve arranges "relaxation events" and company outings and gets upset when someone doesn't show up to the company picnic. If you ask Steve he will tell you what he does is important. Without him the company would crumble.
The american misunderstanding of irony strikes again. Never mind vegan, I laughed.
It's called a difference of opinion. Deal.
let me guess, you're american right? Nah, that's rude, maybe you're just under 30 years old. That seems to be around the point that you start appreciating what it means to be old. It's funny, someone who has seen what the world was like before you were even born doesn't deserve your respect. But then again, maybe you dont respect anything.
what a man, he can read my web page. Moron.
We need more maturity in the security industry dagnamit. Get those senior citizens onto these lists and they can give us some fatherly advice about how it was "in their day".
Sorry, I dont find it funny. Actually I find it kind of scary. Even if it is false someone will try to do it after reading this page and a kitten will suffer (well, that's a theological debate).
I hear ya. The motherfuck put a phone number on the page too.
well I remember the days when Theo would get his goat on and fix something in under 2 hours. Guess he must be gettin' laid these days. How many months do you think this sploit was "in the wild" before someone decided to report it (or was independantly discovered by a white hat)?
This document is only a guide containing recommended security settings. It is not meant to replace well-structured policy or sound judgment.
Really? Well, I guess I shouldn't kiss this rattle snake then. Lucky I read the legal notice.
I guess that settles it. Canadians > Scientologists, who would of thought?