While at my age (just now 24) 30 years sounds like a REALLY long time, I don't see it as impossible that I'll stay at my current job that long. I work for a state railroad, and while my salary isn't competetive with the free market, even by todays standards, it's close and I have a GREAT benefit package. Even more so, because of legacy legislation, railroads have ironclad retirment and medical benefits, and as a "manager" in a union shop, I qualify for them. (Anyone who's not union is a "manager"). I'm good at what I do, and I have every expectation of getting regular raises and more and more important projects. And I never cashed in on the 100k a year dot-com jobs(wrong part of the country), so I don't even feel cheated!
Finally, remember that the computer provisions are only a small part of ATA, and I for one don't mind tougher rules for kidnapping congressmen or attacking nuclear power plants, etc. Know what you are upset about and have good reasons why.
"Rider" legislation like this is one of the great dangers of our political system - Okay, tougher rules for attacking nuclear power plants is all well and good, but do we really need to include computer crimes under thise same bill?
From my reading of it, non-terrorist computer crimes would also be covered. Of course, a common tactic these days is redefining anything you want as "terrorism"....
Federal justice doesn't have parole per se, but it does have supervised release, which is the effecive equivilent. Kevin Mitznick(sp?) is on that program right now.
I'm afraid I can't quote you case numbers or anything, but I personally know people who've been busted for growing marijuana that never intended to sell it, use it only within the privacy of thier homes. Intent to distribute can be determined through a bunch of legal means, and you don't actually have to "prove" it in a manner that a normal person would think. For example, the person I know had it seperated into several bags (stored in freezer bags, for convenience) and that was considered proof of intent.
Obviously, what they were doing was illegal and whether or not it should have been is a different issue. However, the punishment for drug offences, particulalry non-narcotics like marijuana, FAR outweighs that damage to society, just as with computer crimes. And likewise, with certain punishments and clauses hardcoded into the law, it becomes easy to find someone guilty of a major crime when all they actually commited was a minor one.
I've always thought the drinking age and draft age should be linked. If I can be required to go out and kill and be killed, then damnit, I should be able to have a drink before I go.
Alright... so now we're talking not just a global ID permitting tracking of our movements, but the tracking and ANTICIPATION of not only our movements but those of our friends and family? I can see it now -- Police show up at my door. "I'm sorry, sir, but our records show that you were 80% likely to have accompanied your brother to the airport today, and your ID didn't get registered. Can you account for your wherebouts when you should have been at the airport?"
Right now, you legally must show ID to a police officer if you have it. If not, you are required to provide your name. I _think_ you are required to provide your home address. Of course, you can always lie and they won't know unless you really are a suspect:P. The problem I have with this ID card is that it's implied that it would be illegal to NOT carry it, and thats a problem - if it weren't, it'd be no different than a federal version of a state ID - you can get them now from the DMV, alot of people who don't drive use them for ID - and, therefore, I don't see much of a point to the system. Either (a) it'll be required and you must produce it on demand, in which case it's a clear privacy violation, or (b) it won't be, and it'll have no benefit whatsoever.
Took me a long time to get my foot in the door as well - what did it for me was the good old inside contact. Met a guy who was a security admin, started talking shop, he got me in touch with his boss, and things started to happen. Of course, it still took almost 8 months to actually get hired, but now I'm doing work I enjoy for a good salary, great benefits, and excellent job security.
The funny part is that even without all that "experience" and no college degree, I'm still a better coder than 80% of my co-workers...
I remember some people speculating back in the 80s that the first virii actually "evolved" because of line noise in modems, causing random mutations in the code...
Kinda spurious if you ask me, but fun.
I'm not a linux user (boo! hiss!) But similiar products already exist (in fact, this is exactly how ZoneAlarm works on Windows) with varying degrees of security - For example, to defeat ZoneAlarm, people name thier trojans clever things like 1explore.exe. I can imagine a linux trojan named htttpd, for example.
Making sure a program that has valid access is still the program it was before is important as well, which can be done with checksums (slow and secure) or last-modified dates (fast and less-secure). The annoying part of this is that you've gotta give it access each and every time you re-compile, which is a pain if you're coding a server or some such....
Local community college offers several "Computer Science" classes - complete with diplomas. One of them is Web Design and Programming, which I considered taking until I read the course list - It deals exclusively with Front Page, ASP, and IIS. When I read the catalog in more detail, they offer exactly one(1) class that promotes non-MS products - a basic computer skills class for senior citizens that teaches Netscape Mail.
My version of win2k Pro, at least, installed IIS, and FTP services by default. No telnet, tho. You can start and stop them just like any other service, and you can add/remove them entirely from the Add/Remove Programs menu.
Simple. It'll become illegal to send random data. Next time you're at an airport check out the little signs all over - It's all almost as illegal to pretend to try to hijack an airplane as it is to actually attempt it. Under the umbrella of that law, creating false positives in the encryption detection algorithms (mangled/partial compressed files, random noise, etc...) would be a felony. Finally, a way to even the race/class balance of our jails:)
At the risk of getting modded down, thats bullshit. I work in Manhattan and saw it out my office window, a hell of a lot closer than "across the river." And I think that knee-jerk emotional reactions that result in war, even more innocent deaths (Yes, Palestinians count) and giving away our rights is NOT the correct reaction. It's times like these, more than any other, that we need to NOT let our pain and emotion rule our actions. We need to remember the trials of the past and prepare for the trials of the future. Letting our anger blind us devalues the deaths of people and means that the terrorists have won.
Alot of the anger towards the ACLU comes from the fact that they defend ALL civil liberties violations - they helped defend some KKK members a while back, as I recall.
Another quote, to go with all those Ben Franklin ones floating around... to bad I can't remember who said it:P
"Sir, I would die before I agree with what you say. But I will fight to the death to defend your right to say it."
As I read it, the bill is mainly to enforce copyright protection - the intent seems to be the outlawing of devices that could be used to, for example, save streamed content rather than just showing it, or cracking application specific file content (RealPlayer, for example). "Security" isn't meant as such, and therefore these specifications will not be written by security professionals. They will be written by lawyers and people like MS engineers, who want the proteciton hardcoded it, and impossible to remove - thus making open source, in effect, illegal. MS would just wet itself if this bill passes.
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While at my age (just now 24) 30 years sounds like a REALLY long time, I don't see it as impossible that I'll stay at my current job that long. I work for a state railroad, and while my salary isn't competetive with the free market, even by todays standards, it's close and I have a GREAT benefit package. Even more so, because of legacy legislation, railroads have ironclad retirment and medical benefits, and as a "manager" in a union shop, I qualify for them. (Anyone who's not union is a "manager"). I'm good at what I do, and I have every expectation of getting regular raises and more and more important projects. And I never cashed in on the 100k a year dot-com jobs(wrong part of the country), so I don't even feel cheated!
Finally, remember that the computer provisions are only a small part of ATA, and I for one don't mind tougher rules for kidnapping congressmen or attacking nuclear power plants, etc. Know what you are upset about and have good reasons why.
"Rider" legislation like this is one of the great dangers of our political system - Okay, tougher rules for attacking nuclear power plants is all well and good, but do we really need to include computer crimes under thise same bill?
From my reading of it, non-terrorist computer crimes would also be covered. Of course, a common tactic these days is redefining anything you want as "terrorism"....
Federal justice doesn't have parole per se, but it does have supervised release, which is the effecive equivilent. Kevin Mitznick(sp?) is on that program right now.
I'm afraid I can't quote you case numbers or anything, but I personally know people who've been busted for growing marijuana that never intended to sell it, use it only within the privacy of thier homes. Intent to distribute can be determined through a bunch of legal means, and you don't actually have to "prove" it in a manner that a normal person would think. For example, the person I know had it seperated into several bags (stored in freezer bags, for convenience) and that was considered proof of intent. Obviously, what they were doing was illegal and whether or not it should have been is a different issue. However, the punishment for drug offences, particulalry non-narcotics like marijuana, FAR outweighs that damage to society, just as with computer crimes. And likewise, with certain punishments and clauses hardcoded into the law, it becomes easy to find someone guilty of a major crime when all they actually commited was a minor one.
I've always thought the drinking age and draft age should be linked. If I can be required to go out and kill and be killed, then damnit, I should be able to have a drink before I go.
Alright... so now we're talking not just a global ID permitting tracking of our movements, but the tracking and ANTICIPATION of not only our movements but those of our friends and family? I can see it now -- Police show up at my door. "I'm sorry, sir, but our records show that you were 80% likely to have accompanied your brother to the airport today, and your ID didn't get registered. Can you account for your wherebouts when you should have been at the airport?"
Right now, you legally must show ID to a police officer if you have it. If not, you are required to provide your name. I _think_ you are required to provide your home address. Of course, you can always lie and they won't know unless you really are a suspect :P. The problem I have with this ID card is that it's implied that it would be illegal to NOT carry it, and thats a problem - if it weren't, it'd be no different than a federal version of a state ID - you can get them now from the DMV, alot of people who don't drive use them for ID - and, therefore, I don't see much of a point to the system. Either (a) it'll be required and you must produce it on demand, in which case it's a clear privacy violation, or (b) it won't be, and it'll have no benefit whatsoever.
Took me a long time to get my foot in the door as well - what did it for me was the good old inside contact. Met a guy who was a security admin, started talking shop, he got me in touch with his boss, and things started to happen. Of course, it still took almost 8 months to actually get hired, but now I'm doing work I enjoy for a good salary, great benefits, and excellent job security. The funny part is that even without all that "experience" and no college degree, I'm still a better coder than 80% of my co-workers...
The Q33NY thing is nonsense, but try typing in
NYC instead, and see what you get.... Less disturbing but equally funny, try NYC in webdings also.
I remember some people speculating back in the 80s that the first virii actually "evolved" because of line noise in modems, causing random mutations in the code... Kinda spurious if you ask me, but fun.
I'm not a linux user (boo! hiss!) But similiar products already exist (in fact, this is exactly how ZoneAlarm works on Windows) with varying degrees of security - For example, to defeat ZoneAlarm, people name thier trojans clever things like 1explore.exe. I can imagine a linux trojan named htttpd, for example. Making sure a program that has valid access is still the program it was before is important as well, which can be done with checksums (slow and secure) or last-modified dates (fast and less-secure). The annoying part of this is that you've gotta give it access each and every time you re-compile, which is a pain if you're coding a server or some such....
Local community college offers several "Computer Science" classes - complete with diplomas. One of them is Web Design and Programming, which I considered taking until I read the course list - It deals exclusively with Front Page, ASP, and IIS. When I read the catalog in more detail, they offer exactly one(1) class that promotes non-MS products - a basic computer skills class for senior citizens that teaches Netscape Mail.
My version of win2k Pro, at least, installed IIS, and FTP services by default. No telnet, tho. You can start and stop them just like any other service, and you can add/remove them entirely from the Add/Remove Programs menu.
Simple. It'll become illegal to send random data. Next time you're at an airport check out the little signs all over - It's all almost as illegal to pretend to try to hijack an airplane as it is to actually attempt it. Under the umbrella of that law, creating false positives in the encryption detection algorithms (mangled/partial compressed files, random noise, etc...) would be a felony. Finally, a way to even the race/class balance of our jails :)
At the risk of getting modded down, thats bullshit. I work in Manhattan and saw it out my office window, a hell of a lot closer than "across the river." And I think that knee-jerk emotional reactions that result in war, even more innocent deaths (Yes, Palestinians count) and giving away our rights is NOT the correct reaction. It's times like these, more than any other, that we need to NOT let our pain and emotion rule our actions. We need to remember the trials of the past and prepare for the trials of the future. Letting our anger blind us devalues the deaths of people and means that the terrorists have won.
Alot of the anger towards the ACLU comes from the fact that they defend ALL civil liberties violations - they helped defend some KKK members a while back, as I recall.
:P
Another quote, to go with all those Ben Franklin ones floating around... to bad I can't remember who said it
"Sir, I would die before I agree with what you say. But I will fight to the death to defend your right to say it."
I guess we get a Forth entry in the "Programming languages as hammers" list...
As I read it, the bill is mainly to enforce copyright protection - the intent seems to be the outlawing of devices that could be used to, for example, save streamed content rather than just showing it, or cracking application specific file content (RealPlayer, for example). "Security" isn't meant as such, and therefore these specifications will not be written by security professionals. They will be written by lawyers and people like MS engineers, who want the proteciton hardcoded it, and impossible to remove - thus making open source, in effect, illegal. MS would just wet itself if this bill passes.