I'm 19 and live in the US and hardly ever use email for personal communication. I use it a lot at work, but IM is a lot easier to use to communicate with my friends. I can't stand gossip, and don't have the "need to belong" - IM is just a faster way to get in touch with people. When i don't want the annoying intrusion - say when i'm coding or playing a game - i turn off my client or set it to silent mode with an away message.
Re:Insecure linux & Apache ?
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There are a lot of ways to break into a machine. An attacker doesn't have to get in through Apache to deface a website.
It says right in the story summary that they covered SpySweeper.
It is the one piece of software i've found that gets rid of everything i throw at it. On my client's machines, I used to run adaware and spybot, and then spysweeper if there were still popups. Now i just run spysweeper from safe mode once and it's all taken care of.
Most EA games are poorly-produced trash anyways. My favorite example is Battlefield: 1942/Vietnam. A great concept, and it is fairly fun. But the engine is one of the biggest turds in existance. The controls are about as bad as an FPS can get, the netcode is HORRID (although admittedly it is somewhat improved in Vietnam), and character movement is pure garbage. Your character feels like he's on ice when he walks. Changing weapons with your scroll wheel has NEVER worked properly. And I have actually died by walking out of a spawn and taking the 2 inch fall from the floor to the ground, with full health!
Guys, Dynamix was doing massive game environments with vehicles in Tribes YEARS ago, and that engine was excellent. There's no excuse for the stinky loaf that is the Battlefield engine.
Basically it's a CD/DVD drive emulator along the lines of Daemon Tools. You rip your game CD to an image format - Alcohol supports iso, bin&cue, clone cd images, and many more. Then you can "mount" the CD in a virutal drive, and the game thinks its in a physical drive, when really it's just being read off of your hard drive.
Most of my games that require the CD to be in the drive think that it is with Alcohol running. It even has settings for copying PlayStation 2 DVDs (although you'll still need a mod chip to run them).
But the point is that people ARE being harmed. If you spent your hard-earned money to make the next indie film, and sales were dissapointing, but people were pirating like crazy, then you would be mad as hell, and rightfully so! People would be enjoying the movie that you poured yourself into, but you would have no help paying off the 3rd mortgage that you had to take out in order to finance the film.
If enough people for you to have made your money back and then some were pirating your movie, you aren't in bad shape. Far more people pay to see a movie than pirate it. Especially those who are into the indie movie scene. They believe in supporting artists. And even if some indie filmmaker was being pirated into the ground, he would probably be thrilled that this many people are just watching his film.
You can use Alcohol 120% all you want, because the game companies know that you will use it for convenience, not piracy, and they do not care.
Actually many new games detect that Alcohol is installed and refuse to play, even if it isn't running. I copy all of my games to my hard drive for convenience - lugging a binder full of CDs to lan parties bites. I refuse to buy a game that won't play with Alcohol. Of course i wouldn't even need to worry about scratched CDs and using up HD space if the cd checks weren't in the games.
Let's say your has is two bits. Freakishly huge, i know. You have four possible combinations for this hash - 10, 01, 11, 00.
Let's say A hashes to 10, B hashes to 01, C hashes to 11, and D to 00. What happens when you hash E? It has to be one of those four. Therefore you get a duplicate.
You can't have an infinite number of possibilites correlate to a finite number of hashes without overlap.
You're more safe, but not by much. LM hashes are forced to uppercase and are split into two 7 character hashes. If your password is 8 characters, we only have to crack a 7 byte has and then a 1 byte hash. This doesn't take that long.
Re:What is the best way to increase security?
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I started typing out a 100% complete answer to this, and it's way too big. Or at least i can't think of a simple way of getting all of my points across. So i hope this will suffice:
The point of using the open source tools is to probe the network for possible vulnerabilities. Look at nmap for example. It's a port scanner, and a damn good one. Unless some cracker is really, REALLY good he won't be able to improve on it. It'll be what he's using. Not to mention it's the best that your friend has available - he can't get ahold of those custom-made tools if they're any better.
As far as finding non-published vulerabilities in the applications you use, the biggest factor is your brain.
The problem isn't even with our one router that separates us from the "mothership". Denying us access to our internal switches is the real issue. And yes, they are our switches - paid for with our budget (this small offshoot is an almost entirely separate entity, required to make its own profits, budget etc.). When the wireless bridge connecting two of our buildings went down we had to wait for the higherups to come and fix it.
I work in the IT department of a small offshoot company of a larger corporation. For reasons that have never been explained to me, or anyone in our small company, all of our networking hardware is controlled by the IT department of our parent company. Due to some wonderful policy we aren't allowed access to any of our routers or switches. We're practically neutered when it comes to tracking down network issues.
A while back we had a user bring in a sasser-infected machine from home and plug it into the network, grinding our operation to a hault. It took us a couple hours of trial and error to find the offending machine.
Even after this incident, and other similar problems, we are still refused access to our own hardware.
Exactly. My XBox's DVD-Rom shit the bed, or started to, about 90 days after i got it. it would have read errors on brand new games etc. Thankfull replacement drives are cheap on ebay and easy to install.
That problem had nothing to do with the car being FWD. In fact FWD vs. RWD vs. AWD means very little, if anything, when you're cruising on the highway. I never mentioned anything about stability at high speeds, only traction through a turn.
In fact, in a front wheel drive car, there is so _little_ weight in the back that the tendency to "lose the back end" while cornering at speed is rather increased. A rear spoiler combats that lack of weight and improves the manuverability of the speeding car.
Incorrect. The only time your rear end will break loose in a corner in a normal FWD car is if you are braking as you begin the turn, moving all weight from the rear wheels and loading up the front outside tire. If that happens you need driving lessons, not a spoiler. In a situation like that, you just get on the gas and you'll put a stop to your oversteer right-quick.
Webroot has software the runs in the background and immediately blocks and removes spyware trying to install itself. It does a great job. I've also found that it gets rid of anything AdAware and SpyBot miss. I rarely run those two anymore - one scan w/ webroot is usually enough.
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I'm 19 and live in the US and hardly ever use email for personal communication. I use it a lot at work, but IM is a lot easier to use to communicate with my friends. I can't stand gossip, and don't have the "need to belong" - IM is just a faster way to get in touch with people. When i don't want the annoying intrusion - say when i'm coding or playing a game - i turn off my client or set it to silent mode with an away message.
There are a lot of ways to break into a machine. An attacker doesn't have to get in through Apache to deface a website.
There's a service that will let you transfer gold between games. Check it out.
It says right in the story summary that they covered SpySweeper.
It is the one piece of software i've found that gets rid of everything i throw at it. On my client's machines, I used to run adaware and spybot, and then spysweeper if there were still popups. Now i just run spysweeper from safe mode once and it's all taken care of.
Count me in as well.
Most EA games are poorly-produced trash anyways. My favorite example is Battlefield: 1942/Vietnam. A great concept, and it is fairly fun. But the engine is one of the biggest turds in existance. The controls are about as bad as an FPS can get, the netcode is HORRID (although admittedly it is somewhat improved in Vietnam), and character movement is pure garbage. Your character feels like he's on ice when he walks. Changing weapons with your scroll wheel has NEVER worked properly. And I have actually died by walking out of a spawn and taking the 2 inch fall from the floor to the ground, with full health!
Guys, Dynamix was doing massive game environments with vehicles in Tribes YEARS ago, and that engine was excellent. There's no excuse for the stinky loaf that is the Battlefield engine.
Notice i said Kismac, not Kismet. This new tool doesn't do anything special when attacking WPA. It isn't even the first to do this non-special thing.
What's the big deal? Kismac has had this feature for a while. I hope i'm missing something.
Alcohol
Basically it's a CD/DVD drive emulator along the lines of Daemon Tools. You rip your game CD to an image format - Alcohol supports iso, bin&cue, clone cd images, and many more. Then you can "mount" the CD in a virutal drive, and the game thinks its in a physical drive, when really it's just being read off of your hard drive.
Most of my games that require the CD to be in the drive think that it is with Alcohol running. It even has settings for copying PlayStation 2 DVDs (although you'll still need a mod chip to run them).
It'll also burn CDs from images.
But the point is that people ARE being harmed. If you spent your hard-earned money to make the next indie film, and sales were dissapointing, but people were pirating like crazy, then you would be mad as hell, and rightfully so! People would be enjoying the movie that you poured yourself into, but you would have no help paying off the 3rd mortgage that you had to take out in order to finance the film.
If enough people for you to have made your money back and then some were pirating your movie, you aren't in bad shape. Far more people pay to see a movie than pirate it. Especially those who are into the indie movie scene. They believe in supporting artists. And even if some indie filmmaker was being pirated into the ground, he would probably be thrilled that this many people are just watching his film.
You can use Alcohol 120% all you want, because the game companies know that you will use it for convenience, not piracy, and they do not care.
Actually many new games detect that Alcohol is installed and refuse to play, even if it isn't running. I copy all of my games to my hard drive for convenience - lugging a binder full of CDs to lan parties bites. I refuse to buy a game that won't play with Alcohol. Of course i wouldn't even need to worry about scratched CDs and using up HD space if the cd checks weren't in the games.
And my point was, no, you can't do that. No matter how you slice it, you can't put 5 liters of water in a 4 liter bottle.
Not to mention you can crack open an XBox and see that MS has folded the cables the exact same way.
Think of it this way.
Let's say your has is two bits. Freakishly huge, i know. You have four possible combinations for this hash - 10, 01, 11, 00.
Let's say A hashes to 10, B hashes to 01, C hashes to 11, and D to 00. What happens when you hash E? It has to be one of those four. Therefore you get a duplicate.
You can't have an infinite number of possibilites correlate to a finite number of hashes without overlap.
You're more safe, but not by much. LM hashes are forced to uppercase and are split into two 7 character hashes. If your password is 8 characters, we only have to crack a 7 byte has and then a 1 byte hash. This doesn't take that long.
I started typing out a 100% complete answer to this, and it's way too big. Or at least i can't think of a simple way of getting all of my points across. So i hope this will suffice:
The point of using the open source tools is to probe the network for possible vulnerabilities. Look at nmap for example. It's a port scanner, and a damn good one. Unless some cracker is really, REALLY good he won't be able to improve on it. It'll be what he's using. Not to mention it's the best that your friend has available - he can't get ahold of those custom-made tools if they're any better.
As far as finding non-published vulerabilities in the applications you use, the biggest factor is your brain.
Except its his own fault if he lets her get to him like that. He needs to man up and kick the bitch to the curb.
The problem isn't even with our one router that separates us from the "mothership". Denying us access to our internal switches is the real issue. And yes, they are our switches - paid for with our budget (this small offshoot is an almost entirely separate entity, required to make its own profits, budget etc.). When the wireless bridge connecting two of our buildings went down we had to wait for the higherups to come and fix it.
Actually the very first 100% homemade watercooling setups used old car radiators.
I work in the IT department of a small offshoot company of a larger corporation. For reasons that have never been explained to me, or anyone in our small company, all of our networking hardware is controlled by the IT department of our parent company. Due to some wonderful policy we aren't allowed access to any of our routers or switches. We're practically neutered when it comes to tracking down network issues.
A while back we had a user bring in a sasser-infected machine from home and plug it into the network, grinding our operation to a hault. It took us a couple hours of trial and error to find the offending machine.
Even after this incident, and other similar problems, we are still refused access to our own hardware.
Exactly. My XBox's DVD-Rom shit the bed, or started to, about 90 days after i got it. it would have read errors on brand new games etc. Thankfull replacement drives are cheap on ebay and easy to install.
I'm not ashamed to be a geek. I certainly hope that my friends will be kind enough to shoot me where i stand if i ever become "goth."
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That problem had nothing to do with the car being FWD. In fact FWD vs. RWD vs. AWD means very little, if anything, when you're cruising on the highway. I never mentioned anything about stability at high speeds, only traction through a turn.
In fact, in a front wheel drive car, there is so _little_ weight in the back that the tendency to "lose the back end" while cornering at speed is rather increased. A rear spoiler combats that lack of weight and improves the manuverability of the speeding car.
Incorrect. The only time your rear end will break loose in a corner in a normal FWD car is if you are braking as you begin the turn, moving all weight from the rear wheels and loading up the front outside tire. If that happens you need driving lessons, not a spoiler. In a situation like that, you just get on the gas and you'll put a stop to your oversteer right-quick.
Webroot has software the runs in the background and immediately blocks and removes spyware trying to install itself. It does a great job. I've also found that it gets rid of anything AdAware and SpyBot miss. I rarely run those two anymore - one scan w/ webroot is usually enough.