Convincing a open source project to merge in your trojan...
or...
paying Green Hills Software a couple of million dollars to merge in your trojan.
What on earth makes it easier to trust closed source? Doesn't it make better sense to go with the code base that has the most eyes of accountability on it??
Perhaps Green Hills is the first patron saint of close source? Perhaps Green Hills is our messiah? Green Hills is our savior... Green Hills loves us... they'd never do anything bad to us! Only trust them, only trust them... only trust them now....
The only solution, if this bothers folks, is to not allow computing equipment at all or at least for them to not have some kind of shared network.
They could setup a network that did not allow connection apart from their own equipment and then allow people to check out equipment, but most people will want access to their data, and you really couldn't allow that and be secure.
Trucks monitoring wireless aren't the answer and would not keep out the experienced hacker.
Newbury is clearly trying to make a dishonest buck. If they're smart, they'd hire em and then sue the pants off them for being stupid.
The quarantine and certifying of laptop idea is totally bogus. These folks are clearly security amateurs.
I only wish I was stating the obvious.
And Ms. Garcia (or whoever is in charge of DNS security), who apparently feels that the DNC's best bet is security by obscurity... well... I suppose there's always a job for you in Redmond. It's no surprise that they chose Cisco and M$ for their "security"... trust me... there will NO SECURITY at the DNC for anyone with even rudimentary hacking skills if they allow folks to use their own equipment (laptops, PDAs, etc.).
If they allow outside devices of any kind and are planning on a "secure" network, they don't understand security and deserve the end result.
Of course, we're talking about politicians... so arguably, there's nothing on the network of any real value anyway.
...But WEP used predictable session id's, a tiny key space, and a whole host of recomended but "optional" wep concepts...
The weak key problem has been addressed by all manufacturers via firmware updates. You are now forced to do dictionary attacks which require a large number of packets and resources. Still hackable, but not nearly as easy.
I didn't read the article, this was just me bitching at the slashdot post, and people who believe fancy new encryption = security automagically.
You need to read the article (which I didn't read). I don't need to read it since I know about the changes already. You'll find the key exchanges when combined with a true AAA provide a secure solution.
With that said, we're talking about transmissions that are easily monitored and disrupted at will. So while 802.11i is a step forward for wireless, just being wireless means that it will always be less "secure". I certainly wouldn't want wireless as a part of a critical availibility network.
I have most all of the Humongous (sp?) games (Freddi Fish, Putt-Putt, Spyfox) running perfectly. Don't know about Reader Rabbit, etc... have had good success with Math/Reading Blaster sw.
I called the police and told them that my wife was trying to kill our daughter (just to see what would happen). When the police came to our house, my wife was cutting the roast for dinner, the police saw the knife and shot her dead.
Stupid, stupid, people. Glad I'm not stupid.
It's true. I saw an advanced screening of a Michael Moore film on the topic. However, you'll never see it. Disney is blocking its general release. Just fyi.
SUSE 9.1 on a large machine
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Suse 9.1 Reviews?
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· Score: 2, Informative
LSI Megaraid 1600 Elite with 8 73.4G Atlas 10K III drives
Sony U10A DVD RW/R+- (everything)
Plextor 48x CDRW
OnStream 120G tape unit
Nvidia Ti4600 128M
SUSE 9.1 works great on this. I installed it on 250G RAID0 off the megaraid controller.... however, I have had a few X lockups... probably due to the nvidia drivers (running with the latest) or XFree86.
In general, it's a minor upgrade (despite the move to the 2.6 kernel) from 9.0. Anyone who has 9.0 and it satisfied with 9.0, won't gain too much with 9.1 (unless you want to go thru a few annoyances with 2.6.. like SCSI device abstraction abstracting your LVM devices a 2nd time!!).
IMHO, 9.0 users can live without it. 8.2 users might want to consider the upgrade. Anyone using SUSE before 8.2 should definitely consider the upgrade. I'll probably stick it out with my more predictable 9.0 and leave 9.1 for just testing.
Just remember... this is the same "scientific elite" that told us global warming would melt the polar ice caps by 1995 and that there would be radical changes to our coastline. And yes... these same "elite" said it was a "fact" and said that preventing it was "impossible". Elite? I don't think so. Ignorant, perhaps.
I've always been annoyed by the fact that SuSE has never made regular full-install ISOs available.
Blah blah ftp install blah blah... I've heard it before.
You must be very, very young my friend. SUSE stopped making ISOs with version 7 which dates WAY back to Q3 of the year 2000!! Since any "friend" will gladly make you a copy, what's the big deal? In fact, it saves you the download time and everything!!
Hmmm... I guess there is the requirement that you have to have at least one friend though... may be tougher than I thought.
Oh... I guess this went in one ear and out the other... let me rephrase so you can understand:
hmmm... I pray for our "scientfic elite" then. Perhaps true scientists do not exist anymore. But as intended, it seems to have taken in the unwashed (that would be you).
Exactly how is questioning the scientific elite at any time in history "detrimental"? Many of the greatest discoveries came from just such opposition and debate.
Uhhh.. seems that only the "scientists"(editors) at Scientific American are upset... what on earth does that have to do with "scientific elite"??
Slashdot Mirror
Office 2003 SP1 switches your default browser to MSIE to make it easier to receive future MyDOOM updates. Duh.
Finally I can get rid of Mosaic. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!
or...
paying Green Hills Software a couple of million dollars to merge in your trojan.
What on earth makes it easier to trust closed source? Doesn't it make better sense to go with the code base that has the most eyes of accountability on it??
Perhaps Green Hills is the first patron saint of close source? Perhaps Green Hills is our messiah? Green Hills is our savior... Green Hills loves us... they'd never do anything bad to us! Only trust them, only trust them... only trust them now....
This guy must play golf with Darl or something...
The only solution, if this bothers folks, is to not allow computing equipment at all or at least for them to not have some kind of shared network.
They could setup a network that did not allow connection apart from their own equipment and then allow people to check out equipment, but most people will want access to their data, and you really couldn't allow that and be secure.
Trucks monitoring wireless aren't the answer and would not keep out the experienced hacker.
Newbury is clearly trying to make a dishonest buck. If they're smart, they'd hire em and then sue the pants off them for being stupid.
The quarantine and certifying of laptop idea is totally bogus. These folks are clearly security amateurs.
I only wish I was stating the obvious.
And Ms. Garcia (or whoever is in charge of DNS security), who apparently feels that the DNC's best bet is security by obscurity... well... I suppose there's always a job for you in Redmond. It's no surprise that they chose Cisco and M$ for their "security"... trust me... there will NO SECURITY at the DNC for anyone with even rudimentary hacking skills if they allow folks to use their own equipment (laptops, PDAs, etc.).
If they allow outside devices of any kind and are planning on a "secure" network, they don't understand security and deserve the end result.
Of course, we're talking about politicians... so arguably, there's nothing on the network of any real value anyway.
What ever happened to science? We truly live in an age where science fiction has become accepted as reality. Beam me up, Scotty!!
The weak key problem has been addressed by all manufacturers via firmware updates. You are now forced to do dictionary attacks which require a large number of packets and resources. Still hackable, but not nearly as easy.
You need to read the article (which I didn't read). I don't need to read it since I know about the changes already. You'll find the key exchanges when combined with a true AAA provide a secure solution.
With that said, we're talking about transmissions that are easily monitored and disrupted at will. So while 802.11i is a step forward for wireless, just being wireless means that it will always be less "secure". I certainly wouldn't want wireless as a part of a critical availibility network.
On my machine it's named:
THE_VAX_W.TXT;253
My VAX has been up for a LONG, LONG time.
Sincerely,
Jerome
Navigator
Well.. the biggest are the LinuxWorld Expos on the East and West coasts... but the best, IMHO were the early ALS shows.
Perhaps they need to contact NERF about getting some safer and healthier weapons developed. They've even got a rail gun prototype weapon.
I have most all of the Humongous (sp?) games (Freddi Fish, Putt-Putt, Spyfox) running perfectly. Don't know about Reader Rabbit, etc... have had good success with Math/Reading Blaster sw.
You can hold it in your lap for 8.3 minutes??!! Who makes your underwear?
Step 1: Steel Saturn V
Step 2: Steel phantom WMD from Iraq
Step 3: Put up a tent in some desert hell hole
Step 4: ???
Step 5: PROFIT!!
I think Step 4 is "SteAl Spell Checker"... or perhaps I'm just not reading right. The Saturn V might be steel and the WMD's might be steel as well...
I called the police and told them that my wife was trying to kill our daughter (just to see what would happen). When the police came to our house, my wife was cutting the roast for dinner, the police saw the knife and shot her dead. Stupid, stupid, people. Glad I'm not stupid.
Come one! Are you kidding? Folks have been using this for years... even among /.'ers.
Abestos Underwear
... and apparently the unused half have to do with security!! That'll teach them not to use coin toss based decision making again.
It's true. I saw an advanced screening of a Michael Moore film on the topic. However, you'll never see it. Disney is blocking its general release. Just fyi.
SUSE 9.1 works great on this. I installed it on 250G RAID0 off the megaraid controller.... however, I have had a few X lockups... probably due to the nvidia drivers (running with the latest) or XFree86.
In general, it's a minor upgrade (despite the move to the 2.6 kernel) from 9.0. Anyone who has 9.0 and it satisfied with 9.0, won't gain too much with 9.1 (unless you want to go thru a few annoyances with 2.6.. like SCSI device abstraction abstracting your LVM devices a 2nd time!!).
IMHO, 9.0 users can live without it. 8.2 users might want to consider the upgrade. Anyone using SUSE before 8.2 should definitely consider the upgrade. I'll probably stick it out with my more predictable 9.0 and leave 9.1 for just testing.
Sincerely,
Dim Sun Geeks
If you really want to keep people away from it, run NT 3.51.
Just remember... this is the same "scientific elite" that told us global warming would melt the polar ice caps by 1995 and that there would be radical changes to our coastline. And yes... these same "elite" said it was a "fact" and said that preventing it was "impossible". Elite? I don't think so. Ignorant, perhaps.
You must be very, very young my friend. SUSE stopped making ISOs with version 7 which dates WAY back to Q3 of the year 2000!! Since any "friend" will gladly make you a copy, what's the big deal? In fact, it saves you the download time and everything!!
Hmmm... I guess there is the requirement that you have to have at least one friend though... may be tougher than I thought.
Oh... I guess this went in one ear and out the other... let me rephrase so you can understand:
Blah blah friend blah burn me a copy blah blah
...for Longhorn!!
hmmm... I pray for our "scientfic elite" then. Perhaps true scientists do not exist anymore. But as intended, it seems to have taken in the unwashed (that would be you).
Uhhh.. seems that only the "scientists"(editors) at Scientific American are upset... what on earth does that have to do with "scientific elite"??