It would be just as easy to defeat this technology (if you did not want it), by using it against itself.
Any developer with a small amount of time on their hands can easily develop a firefox extension or greasemonkey script that will take all of the ping tags out of the page that is rendered to the user.
also, please don't reply to me telling me that flying cars are not able to completley solve this problem or many other problems... this is also extremley obvious.
Aside from the obvious: sticking your bomb in tupperware, washing crap, gloves, etc... the other glaring obviousity(my word) here is that, what are we really talking about when we say 'explosive residue' or whatever they are calling it?
with all of the different chemicals and things you can make bombs out of, are we really to believe there is some there some sort of magic test out there that can really determine and detect every possible type of whatever that could be used to construct bombs. it's almost guaranteed that this thing will have severe limitations or tremendous amounts of false positives.
/incidentally flying cars would help solve this matter easily
with firefox being open source we stand a better chance of finding most all of the vulnerabilities over a period of time.
also, the people at mozilla at least patch their vulnerabilities, which is much better than IE's track record of releasing patches that don't fix all their known vulnerabilities.
i'll stick with firefox because of it's features more than it's security.
if you're doing projects for work you'll tend to come under fire for taking too long and not meeting deadlines on time because you're taking all the necessary time to spend commenting, but then later on when you have to review your project to make additions or have someone else do the work you come under fire for not having spent enough time commenting it's a real catch22 situation. plus since it's for work, having it commented or not really doesn't make much difference... at least to me.
Embedding a video clip within a word document. Do many people do this? I would think that would be painfully annoying. Powerpoint, maybe, but word?
So was this the scenario?
MS Mgmt: So can we sabotage this thing?
Developer: Sure, we can do whatever we want.
MS Mgmt: How about we plan on making it so that embedded media files don't play within word properly.
Developer: Brilliant! That'll teach them.
i chose them because of their inexpensive data rates and being the first on the market with the hp6315 ipaq phone. however they end up charging you minutes for calls that you don't answer and so many other miscellaneous things that i've already paid them the money to cancel my contract.
If you install Kazaa while running MS Antispyware, do you still get the adware installed?
reguardless of whether or not you have software that catches the spyware being installed, kazaa media desktop will cease to work if it finds the adware that came with it is not installed anymore, or is being subverted in some manner.
if you really want to use kazaa, use kazaa lite. you should be able to find it on the internet, and it connects to kazaa's network using a stripped down version of the client minus all ads and spyware.... and as always, watch your back for the MPAA/RIAA
I have my SSID set to "im me joel2600". For awhile before I moved away from college i'd always get instant messages from random people telling me they saw my access point while wardriving.
What really suprised me was the amount of people out there actually looking around, but one good side effect was that it became an easy way to attract some awesome friends.
If there is some way to play the media so that it can be viewed or listened to by the end user, then there will always be some way to take that end result and place it into some sort of format that can be viewed by anyone reguardless of digital rights.
albeit illegal, technology has a long long way to go before being able to stop reproduction from happening. they're better off relying on their frivolous lawsuits to prevent pirating.
all i'm really seeing here is that it's looking for videos with your keywords in the name of the video or probably on the page related or linked to the video. then it shows you a preview, probably of the first frame of the video.
is this really that amazing? the people that built the image searches for these engines probably could have done this in a week.
Using one of my domains, I use a different e-mail address for every form i fill out like xyzcompany.com@mydomain.com or xyzcheeseoffer@mydomain.com...
using this method it becomes easy to determine where exactly each piece of e-mail originated allowing me to determine where spam was coming from. what really suprised me is that i never get any spam.
the only things i get spam from are the following
-domain registrations -offers from companies that send you e-mails because you signed up for their support forums, etc. or are an existing customer of them -guess e-mails (ie. sales@ support@ webmaster@, etc.)
the worst spam comes from the free ipod offers and things like that online, even if you opt out of everything they will still send unsolicited e-mail directly from 3rd parties so you really have no idea where it originated, and the only way to opt out of the e-mails is to find the website of the place that originated the offer and find an unsubscribe page (not listed in the e-mail) and enter in the e-mail address you used to sign up for the ipod or whatever in order to stop all the other unsolicited crap.
i use different e-mails in newsgroups and all sorts of public forums all over the internet and have never had any of them phished.
in conclusion, if anyone wants to try this, you'll see that spam is a lot easier to stop than you think, if you know where it's coming from, you can stop it, and i've never not been able to unsubscribe from anything.
maybe some other geeks will get some ideas off this as well. and if the people running this spam test wern't doing this sort of thing, then i hope they had some way of differentiating where the mail came from (i haven't read the whole article yet)
I've seen a number of different ATM's in all states of disrepair and it seems they have all been running some version of windows ranging from windows 3.x (even after the turn of the century) and some version of NT.
At one point in time i was lucky enough to be in a store where someone had dialed in and you could watch them working within windows on the screen, the technician realized this at some point and clicked a button which changed the screen on the atm to a label indicating the system was being serviced and a clever graphic of a "fix-it" man.
Anyways, if you think about it, yes these machines have always run windows, and probably will continue to do so well into the future, the thing is though, no bank is actually going to put an ATM directly onto the internet. Most all ATM's are going to be acessed over dialup.
I'm very positive that these machines are probably more vulnerable to all kinds of things than most computers on the internet, however to actually have a worm penetrate one of these machines, the affected machine would have to have a modem, the worm would have to start wardialing all kinds of numbers looking for a carrier, once a carrier is picked up, (let's say it does find an ATM machine), it would have to brute force the password (and username if there is one) and then once connected initiate the attack...
but by the time it's done all that it will have already gained access to the atm machine./realistic
by the time something like this actually gets implemented, wimax will be in the beginning stages of mass adoption. with this possibility over the immediate horizon, it would seem almost nonsensical to devote so much money to technology which will be obsolete faster than something like this project can be implemented and supported.
Yeah, there's a lot of junk out there, but can we deal with it or is it really just going to make everything collapse?
Look at the message board you are typing on right now, it's the perfect example. Yeah, there are a lot of half-wits posting nonsense, but when you look through the comments, the moderators have graciously filtered the noise so that all we see is the meat and potatoes of the better responses left by people, instead of having to filter through all the crap ourselves.
Maybe the internet will collapse in a sense, but data networks are never going away, that much should be plainly obvious. Now if such a "collapse" or mass-exodus were to occur, it would be a great thing because the internet would go back to being what it once was in the mid 90s, back when things were simpler, so I for one hope that day comes.
Perhaps with spyware and adware taking over users computers, more people will understand the joy of learning linux and taking a more active role in their computer, thus making them smarter as well to not fall for the average "click here" user, which there are so many of right now.
as long as governments stay out of this buisness, things will correct themselves
For those of you that haven't been assimliated into the borg, microsoft's new version of SQL server accomodates for a new query language called XQuery which takes a lot of the best parts of XPath and XSLT and combines them and obviously the underlying framework is XML. This will cover a lot of the shortcomings over Transact SQL for those that are willing to adopt it, and honestly, it's really not that bad.
I think we owe this man a round of applause. I mean when you really think about it, the capability of viruses can easily include a payload that could cripple your computer and destroy your documents permanently.
This is not the case of a lot of viruses released by this person or group. Granted problems arise from an increase of network traffic, and there is an inconvience associated with cleaning up the virus.
But what is the end result.
-You have your documents -You have some education about how to clean up viruses and the notion that you need to protect against them and worms (av/firewall/patches) -You fixed a potential security hole in your computer where much more malicious things could have happened.
As a younger script kiddie I could use a simple unicode exploit on windows boxes to pentrate almost any organization running that OS. Banks, Universites, Online Retailers. Bind a shell to a port, open up a remote terminal display and do as i pleased. Once code red came around, all of those avenues got closed quickly. All of these places were much better off having to deal with this worm rather than wait around for someone to do something really malicious.
I just think that viruses today, although an inconvienece, are not all that bad, and teach a valuable lesson to software vendors and also users.
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It would be just as easy to defeat this technology (if you did not want it), by using it against itself.
Any developer with a small amount of time on their hands can easily develop a firefox extension or greasemonkey script that will take all of the ping tags out of the page that is rendered to the user.
"Problem" solved.
also, please don't reply to me telling me that flying cars are not able to completley solve this problem or many other problems ... this is also extremley obvious.
Aside from the obvious: sticking your bomb in tupperware, washing crap, gloves, etc... the other glaring obviousity(my word) here is that, what are we really talking about when we say 'explosive residue' or whatever they are calling it?
/incidentally flying cars would help solve this matter easily
with all of the different chemicals and things you can make bombs out of, are we really to believe there is some there some sort of magic test out there that can really determine and detect every possible type of whatever that could be used to construct bombs. it's almost guaranteed that this thing will have severe limitations or tremendous amounts of false positives.
with firefox being open source we stand a better chance of finding most all of the vulnerabilities over a period of time. also, the people at mozilla at least patch their vulnerabilities, which is much better than IE's track record of releasing patches that don't fix all their known vulnerabilities. i'll stick with firefox because of it's features more than it's security.
Does anyone remember the movie waterworld? I remember that a lot of people thought it was a horrible movie, and I don't think it ever did that well.
Guess people weren't ready to face the real possibilty of an entire planet covered in water.
all your kevin costner are belong to us.
don't forget Microsoft CRM. Microsoft CRM was completley built from the ground up using the .NET architecture.
if you're doing projects for work you'll tend to come under fire for taking too long and not meeting deadlines on time because you're taking all the necessary time to spend commenting, but then later on when you have to review your project to make additions or have someone else do the work you come under fire for not having spent enough time commenting
it's a real catch22 situation. plus since it's for work, having it commented or not really doesn't make much difference... at least to me.
Embedding a video clip within a word document. Do many people do this? I would think that would be painfully annoying. Powerpoint, maybe, but word?
/yes, i replied to my own post
So was this the scenario?
MS Mgmt: So can we sabotage this thing?
Developer: Sure, we can do whatever we want.
MS Mgmt: How about we plan on making it so that embedded media files don't play within word properly.
Developer: Brilliant! That'll teach them.
Embedding a video clip within a word document. Do many people do this? I would think that would be painfully annoying. Powerpoint, maybe, but word?
"He also says AIM communiques are never stored on AOL's hard drives."
/super obvious?
of course not... they don't have the need... all of the "communiques" are stored on the NSA's servers.
i have them as a cellphone provider right now.
i chose them because of their inexpensive data rates and being the first on the market with the hp6315 ipaq phone. however they end up charging you minutes for calls that you don't answer and so many other miscellaneous things that i've already paid them the money to cancel my contract.
can one of you cell phone providers not suck?
If you install Kazaa while running MS Antispyware, do you still get the adware installed?
... and as always, watch your back for the MPAA/RIAA
reguardless of whether or not you have software that catches the spyware being installed, kazaa media desktop will cease to work if it finds the adware that came with it is not installed anymore, or is being subverted in some manner.
if you really want to use kazaa, use kazaa lite. you should be able to find it on the internet, and it connects to kazaa's network using a stripped down version of the client minus all ads and spyware.
I have my SSID set to "im me joel2600". For awhile before I moved away from college i'd always get instant messages from random people telling me they saw my access point while wardriving.
What really suprised me was the amount of people out there actually looking around, but one good side effect was that it became an easy way to attract some awesome friends.
If there is some way to play the media so that it can be viewed or listened to by the end user, then there will always be some way to take that end result and place it into some sort of format that can be viewed by anyone reguardless of digital rights.
albeit illegal, technology has a long long way to go before being able to stop reproduction from happening. they're better off relying on their frivolous lawsuits to prevent pirating.
... have you seen my baseball ??
yes, the article is definitley vague...
but would you expect anything else from john markoff?
all i'm really seeing here is that it's looking for videos with your keywords in the name of the video or probably on the page related or linked to the video. then it shows you a preview, probably of the first frame of the video.
is this really that amazing? the people that built the image searches for these engines probably could have done this in a week.
Using one of my domains, I use a different e-mail address for every form i fill out like xyzcompany.com@mydomain.com or xyzcheeseoffer@mydomain.com ...
using this method it becomes easy to determine where exactly each piece of e-mail originated allowing me to determine where spam was coming from. what really suprised me is that i never get any spam.
the only things i get spam from are the following
-domain registrations
-offers from companies that send you e-mails because you signed up for their support forums, etc. or are an existing customer of them
-guess e-mails (ie. sales@ support@ webmaster@, etc.)
the worst spam comes from the free ipod offers and things like that online, even if you opt out of everything they will still send unsolicited e-mail directly from 3rd parties so you really have no idea where it originated, and the only way to opt out of the e-mails is to find the website of the place that originated the offer and find an unsubscribe page (not listed in the e-mail) and enter in the e-mail address you used to sign up for the ipod or whatever in order to stop all the other unsolicited crap.
i use different e-mails in newsgroups and all sorts of public forums all over the internet and have never had any of them phished.
in conclusion, if anyone wants to try this, you'll see that spam is a lot easier to stop than you think, if you know where it's coming from, you can stop it, and i've never not been able to unsubscribe from anything.
maybe some other geeks will get some ideas off this as well. and if the people running this spam test wern't doing this sort of thing, then i hope they had some way of differentiating where the mail came from (i haven't read the whole article yet)
hope this helps someone
I've seen a number of different ATM's in all states of disrepair and it seems they have all been running some version of windows ranging from windows 3.x (even after the turn of the century) and some version of NT.
/realistic
At one point in time i was lucky enough to be in a store where someone had dialed in and you could watch them working within windows on the screen, the technician realized this at some point and clicked a button which changed the screen on the atm to a label indicating the system was being serviced and a clever graphic of a "fix-it" man.
Anyways, if you think about it, yes these machines have always run windows, and probably will continue to do so well into the future, the thing is though, no bank is actually going to put an ATM directly onto the internet. Most all ATM's are going to be acessed over dialup.
I'm very positive that these machines are probably more vulnerable to all kinds of things than most computers on the internet, however to actually have a worm penetrate one of these machines, the affected machine would have to have a modem, the worm would have to start wardialing all kinds of numbers looking for a carrier, once a carrier is picked up, (let's say it does find an ATM machine), it would have to brute force the password (and username if there is one) and then once connected initiate the attack...
but by the time it's done all that it will have already gained access to the atm machine.
by the time something like this actually gets implemented, wimax will be in the beginning stages of mass adoption. with this possibility over the immediate horizon, it would seem almost nonsensical to devote so much money to technology which will be obsolete faster than something like this project can be implemented and supported.
Yeah, there's a lot of junk out there, but can we deal with it or is it really just going to make everything collapse? Look at the message board you are typing on right now, it's the perfect example. Yeah, there are a lot of half-wits posting nonsense, but when you look through the comments, the moderators have graciously filtered the noise so that all we see is the meat and potatoes of the better responses left by people, instead of having to filter through all the crap ourselves. Maybe the internet will collapse in a sense, but data networks are never going away, that much should be plainly obvious. Now if such a "collapse" or mass-exodus were to occur, it would be a great thing because the internet would go back to being what it once was in the mid 90s, back when things were simpler, so I for one hope that day comes. Perhaps with spyware and adware taking over users computers, more people will understand the joy of learning linux and taking a more active role in their computer, thus making them smarter as well to not fall for the average "click here" user, which there are so many of right now. as long as governments stay out of this buisness, things will correct themselves
don't forget that most all of the Windows source code leak was actually most, if not all of the code for internet explorer.
a zillion bugs? you better get cracking.
For those of you that haven't been assimliated into the borg, microsoft's new version of SQL server accomodates for a new query language called XQuery which takes a lot of the best parts of XPath and XSLT and combines them and obviously the underlying framework is XML. This will cover a lot of the shortcomings over Transact SQL for those that are willing to adopt it, and honestly, it's really not that bad.
Has anyone figured out how to make multiple g-mail drives on one (windows) computer?
I'd really like to try and take advantage of this to it's fullest extent.
I think we owe this man a round of applause. I mean when you really think about it, the capability of viruses can easily include a payload that could cripple your computer and destroy your documents permanently.
This is not the case of a lot of viruses released by this person or group. Granted problems arise from an increase of network traffic, and there is an inconvience associated with cleaning up the virus.
But what is the end result.
-You have your documents
-You have some education about how to clean up viruses and the notion that you need to protect against them and worms (av/firewall/patches)
-You fixed a potential security hole in your computer where much more malicious things could have happened.
As a younger script kiddie I could use a simple unicode exploit on windows boxes to pentrate almost any organization running that OS. Banks, Universites, Online Retailers. Bind a shell to a port, open up a remote terminal display and do as i pleased. Once code red came around, all of those avenues got closed quickly. All of these places were much better off having to deal with this worm rather than wait around for someone to do something really malicious.
I just think that viruses today, although an inconvienece, are not all that bad, and teach a valuable lesson to software vendors and also users.