"The data comes from the London-based mi2g Intelligence Unit, which has been collecting data on overt digital attacks since 1995 and verifying them. Its database has tracked more than 280,000 overt digital attacks and 7,900 hacker groups."
So, its like, here we have an organisation that manage to track 7900 hacker gruops? Riighht... That should make echelon pretty jelauos. The numbers are spewed out with no explanation whyatsoever wich makes someone as paranoid as me very suspicious. I have a hard time imaging a hacker giving numbers that easily. Smart hackers tend to shut their mouth. We only see the stupid scriptkiddies who brags on irc. I hope they havent used IRC logs as a measurement even if it wouldnt surprise me at all.
"Microsoft Windows servers belonging to governments, however, were the most attacked (51.4 per cent) followed by Linux (14.3 per cent) in August."
Why arent the numbers for this accounted for? I interpret this sentence as if Windows Servers was infact more attacked at govts. Why isnt those numbers revealed? Was there like, 100 000 Windows attacks or 10? The difference is also quite amusing between the number of successfully attacked systems. It seems like the govts is better at securing their servers than comercial online shops are.
And again Riiighht...
"The economic damage from the attacks, in lost productivity and recovery costs, fell below average in August, to $707-million (U.S.)."
"The overall economic damage in August from overt and covert attacks as well as viruses and worms stood at an all-time high of $28.2-billion"
If im right here server attacks from hackers cost 707 million. Attacks from viruses/worms (Windows since how many has even seen a linux worm let alone experienced one?) cost about 27 billion.
In that retrospect its kind of annoying if mi29 pats Microsoft on the shoulder since they account for almost all lost productivity and loss of income. Since the Microsoft attacks costs so much more or are so much more expensive i find it very hard to come to no other conclusion than that the linux attacks are no more than supercicial breaches easy recovered from. Either that or the numbers just dont add up.
As i side note, yes i think linux need better security but to gain real security on cheap intel/amd there need to be some better memory protection and more belts and straps. If one security mesurement fails there should always be a backup system to catch what slips through the first line of defense. This is my strong belief drawn from my view that no system can be whitout faults. We should try and mimik the way airplanes are built and used.
Filesharing cant be stopped whitout the users.
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One thing RIAA and others seem to have a hard time understanding is that there will always be another way of sharing content. P2P is just a method out of hundred other. To stop filesharing you have to stop ALL traffic on the net and screen every mail delivered in the world. Since i can burn my files onto a DVD and swap it whit a friend instead stopping P2P isnt going to accomplish anything. Maybe they will succeed in stopping a promising communications protocol from being able to mature and start being used in other ways like in a distributed OS or other ways not yet used.
The only way to stop filesharing is to gain the trust and liking of the buyers so that they pay out of free will. RIAA has taken the opposite route wich already have proven itself futile. One can only watch sadly when they destroy great technology for no good.
No it doesnt. But it sure makes the world wich they inherit much much better to live in. What good is cheap gazoline right now if people cant brethe in 20 years whitout a mask?
Ideal and sympathy is what made the USA into a success. Todays rulers are only living out of what the founders did. And they are destroying it too.
Identify what is the source of the problem and then get rid of it. In this case i think demanding safer systems would be a wise solution. Just cut off the bosos who have infected computers.
That should make linux etc popular. Every windows user has stare at their empty nic while the nerds just keeps using the network as usual.
No, ive heard that very same thing over and over. Since im one of these oldies who have actually been around working with computers since the DOS days i have seen just the exact same hype every time a new OS has been released by MS. The hords of minions scattered all over forums posting statements like you did about something that isnt even half-ready isnt new. Even Windows ME was hyped to the absurd. By the time it came out people had so high beliefs about it that it was a major dissapointment to see just how overhyped that piece of junk really was.
Linux has nothing to do with this, Microsoft have always been hyping their OS and products like Net etc.
I remember Microsoft vrying like babies that AOL should open up their protocol to MSN. Now they are doing the very same thing and trying to blame costs. We all know that costs has nothing to do with the matter. Neither competing IM apps on windows. This is all about making life harder on competing platforms.
I will start using jabber instead and lobby to everyone i know to do the same.
The linux distributors is the ones that should adress security in linux. Developers also have a big part but for the user it more important that the dist he is using is secure out of the box. No unwarranted ports or services should run from scratch. If nothing vulnarable is running not much can be broken into right?
Developers need to make it easier to secure the systems. Often people tend to open up every port and setting things too loose when they try to get things working. Better documentation and better configuration systems should help a great deal in those cases. Many times its not linux that is insecure but the admins dont know how to secure their systems. With more and more MCSE's using linux it need to be simpler to secure.
I think you are wrong, Novell did some really good clients before windows 98 came. I dont know but one can suspect that something new in windows "broke" novells clients or made it much harder getting them to work. I have never had any problems with Groupwise or netware.
If i compare my experiences with other OS/clients, Novell is by far the best ever. The reason they failed was that they targeted the techies instead of the clueless PHBs like Microsoft did.
While Novell was by far superior in all aspects Microsoft won because the PHBs bought the bullshit from the MS salesmen.
This sure as heck makes SCO seem like some little buttboy oMicrosoft. SCO twists linux arm and MS pops up and assure that bad things like SCO dont happen to MS users.
I have to say Mozilla/Firebird has really grown onto me. At work i have to use IE and what bugs me is that while Mozilla has evolved fast IE has been standing still. Things like popup kill, tabs, privacy and cookie management etc, i just cant be without them now that im used to them. Today Mozilla is the best browser out there without a doubt.
To the Mozilla decelopers and Netscape/AOL, thank you!
Re:X is not slow, some WM's for linux are.
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Bah! Noob!
X is not slow, some WM's for linux are.
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X in itself is very fast and pretty slick. Try yourself by kicking gnome/kde and trying OpenBox or some other fast WM. The difference on slower machines is pretty big.
I have a feeling that some n00bs confuse X with their Window Manager and Docks and Panels etc.
Having worked at two of those hellholes i can only confirm that they are cheap bastards doing anything to save a buck. Since they have so many workstations doing such simple things they are well suited to use linux. Only a handful of applications need rewriting. Funny thing, most systems i worked against was unix and even vax so using windows was in fact most "wrong".
Lately albums have been looking as a way to get rid of crap not able to stand on itself as singels. Often when i buy a record i only want 2 or three songs out of the whole album. Frankly, they push some very crappy stuff alongside the hits.
Ofcourse some artists are afraid because they will have the pressure to release good stuff and not some b-side crap as landfill in the albums.
Saddam did not one single time break the terms. The us got pissed when Iraq tossed out some of the US inspectors who was using their UN status to spy on iraq, something that the US had not demanded to be allowed to do. The US then forced the UN to withdraw ALL inspectors and they claimed that the inspectors was tossed out, a blatant lie and not some misschief from Iraq.
They havent found any illegal weapons and not more weapons of mass destruction than in any other country. The Iraqis has also proved that they arent willing to use illegal weapons since they havent even used them onto an oppressing agressive force invading their country. A onetime mistake dont make a habit, or is the US going to use nuclear on civilians again as in ww2?
This war is by definition illegal and the facts you lined up is lies and not proven facts. Just because the US lies the war dont in any way become legal. I saw a movie yesterday, where the terrorist said why he should blow up New Jersey with an A-bomb. I counldnt help myself but every word he said about the US sounded true in my ears. That was not the case before this war.
The world is NOT a safer place to live in since Bush believe me. Take a look at your rights slowly being taken away while you are defending the US regime. Dont come complaining when your freedom of speech and constitutional rights is forever gone.
There arent that many killer apps not availiable on alternative OS any longer. On a average company you can come a long way with linux if you plan for linux from day one. Same with Apple albeit more expensive hardware is required. The only problem as i can see it is if a company is tailored to run on Microsoft software. With licenses like that it sure looks as if its is well worth the pain to migrate away to ABM.
Im sitting on a friends Windows right now and i feel it lacks a lot of things. The ONLY thing Windows has is more applications, as an OS it is just an empty shell.
If you want quality and sane ink prices then stay away from home user printers. They are dirt cheap and as exptected plain dirt quality. Those printers arent anything but a necessary evil to sell inc cartridges. Why else would they have a cleaning routine that squirts inc into the cleaning pad everytime you use it even if you printed something a minute ago? Its all a big scam and the money spent on a real printer is well worth it. The TOS is probably much lower if you get a real laser and not a cheap one. Bubble jets should be avoided at all cost since frankly they stink botth at quality and in printing quality.
They have finally succeded in making sure that no one makes a killer app again by stealing and killing off innovative companies. Whit no one to steal from they are pretty much a sitting duck cause hey, when was the last time something, anything at all originatet from Microsoft? I can honestly not remember a single app that isnt a ripoff. Even the BSOD is a blatant ripoff (though no BSOD have been so much advertised as MS own)
If you havent noticed, things move alot quicker today than a couple of hundred years ago. Things move alot quicker today. And i think this is the BEGINNING of a downwards spiral with ups and downs on the way if nothing is done about it. A country that is built upon expansion cannot stand tall forever. Either it adjusts its intake to its outlet or it implodes by nature.
Ahh, how history repeats itself and how fast we humans forget. History is by far the most important thing to learn and what helps is humans evolve the fastest. DONT REPEAT THE SAME MISTAKES OVER AND OVER!!
Your logic has a flaw since it is applicable to every crime possible as theft, murder, forgery, fraud and economic criminality. That makes it possible to detain ANYONE at a whim wich is bound to be abused by people in power. Never ever forget that history repeats itself, power really do corrupt. If there was a timelimit it wouldnt be that bad but the notion of keeping somebody indefinitly is just to close to Kafka to be comfortable.
Unfortunatly there arent since it is debated still in this very moment. It was a number of factors like economic downfall, currency dropping, military weakening and managment issues (imagine what would happen to the dollar if all of a sudden everyone whould start trading in euro instead). What is debated is how large part the various reasons had in the downfall. My own view is that when a country starts alienating itself from its own citizens is when it is going down the tubes.
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"The data comes from the London-based mi2g Intelligence Unit, which has been collecting data on overt digital attacks since 1995 and verifying them. Its database has tracked more than 280,000 overt digital attacks and 7,900 hacker groups."
So, its like, here we have an organisation that manage to track 7900 hacker gruops?
Riighht...
That should make echelon pretty jelauos. The numbers are spewed out with no explanation whyatsoever wich makes someone as paranoid as me very suspicious. I have a hard time imaging a hacker giving numbers that easily. Smart hackers tend to shut their mouth. We only see the stupid scriptkiddies who brags on irc. I hope they havent used IRC logs as a measurement even if it wouldnt surprise me at all.
"Microsoft Windows servers belonging to governments, however, were the most attacked (51.4 per cent) followed by Linux (14.3 per cent) in August."
Why arent the numbers for this accounted for? I interpret this sentence as if Windows Servers was infact more attacked at govts. Why isnt those numbers revealed? Was there like, 100 000 Windows attacks or 10? The difference is also quite amusing between the number of successfully attacked systems. It seems like the govts is better at securing their servers than comercial online shops are.
And again Riiighht...
"The economic damage from the attacks, in lost productivity and recovery costs, fell below average in August, to $707-million (U.S.)."
"The overall economic damage in August from overt and covert attacks as well as viruses and worms stood at an all-time high of $28.2-billion"
If im right here server attacks from hackers cost 707 million. Attacks from viruses/worms (Windows since how many has even seen a linux worm let alone experienced one?) cost about 27 billion.
In that retrospect its kind of annoying if mi29 pats Microsoft on the shoulder since they account for almost all lost productivity and loss of income. Since the Microsoft attacks costs so much more or are so much more expensive i find it very hard to come to no other conclusion than that the linux attacks are no more than supercicial breaches easy recovered from. Either that or the numbers just dont add up.
As i side note, yes i think linux need better security but to gain real security on cheap intel/amd there need to be some better memory protection and more belts and straps. If one security mesurement fails there should always be a backup system to catch what slips through the first line of defense. This is my strong belief drawn from my view that no system can be whitout faults. We should try and mimik the way airplanes are built and used.
One thing RIAA and others seem to have a hard time understanding is that there will always be another way of sharing content. P2P is just a method out of hundred other. To stop filesharing you have to stop ALL traffic on the net and screen every mail delivered in the world. Since i can burn my files onto a DVD and swap it whit a friend instead stopping P2P isnt going to accomplish anything. Maybe they will succeed in stopping a promising communications protocol from being able to mature and start being used in other ways like in a distributed OS or other ways not yet used.
The only way to stop filesharing is to gain the trust and liking of the buyers so that they pay out of free will. RIAA has taken the opposite route wich already have proven itself futile. One can only watch sadly when they destroy great technology for no good.
No it doesnt. But it sure makes the world wich they inherit much much better to live in. What good is cheap gazoline right now if people cant brethe in 20 years whitout a mask?
Ideal and sympathy is what made the USA into a success. Todays rulers are only living out of what the founders did. And they are destroying it too.
Identify what is the source of the problem and then get rid of it. In this case i think demanding safer systems would be a wise solution. Just cut off the bosos who have infected computers.
That should make linux etc popular. Every windows user has stare at their empty nic while the nerds just keeps using the network as usual.
No, ive heard that very same thing over and over. Since im one of these oldies who have actually been around working with computers since the DOS days i have seen just the exact same hype every time a new OS has been released by MS. The hords of minions scattered all over forums posting statements like you did about something that isnt even half-ready isnt new. Even Windows ME was hyped to the absurd. By the time it came out people had so high beliefs about it that it was a major dissapointment to see just how overhyped that piece of junk really was.
Linux has nothing to do with this, Microsoft have always been hyping their OS and products like Net etc.
I think ive heard the same thing before...
Hum...
Ahh yes!
It was when DOS 3.2, 4.0, windows 1.0, 2.0, 3.11, 95, 98, 98SE, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 was released.
Damnit man stop parroting MS spindoctors, it makes you sound stupid you poor thing you.
I remember Microsoft vrying like babies that AOL should open up their protocol to MSN. Now they are doing the very same thing and trying to blame costs. We all know that costs has nothing to do with the matter. Neither competing IM apps on windows. This is all about making life harder on competing platforms.
I will start using jabber instead and lobby to everyone i know to do the same.
The linux distributors is the ones that should adress security in linux. Developers also have a big part but for the user it more important that the dist he is using is secure out of the box. No unwarranted ports or services should run from scratch. If nothing vulnarable is running not much can be broken into right?
Developers need to make it easier to secure the systems. Often people tend to open up every port and setting things too loose when they try to get things working. Better documentation and better configuration systems should help a great deal in those cases. Many times its not linux that is insecure but the admins dont know how to secure their systems. With more and more MCSE's using linux it need to be simpler to secure.
I think you are wrong, Novell did some really good clients before windows 98 came. I dont know but one can suspect that something new in windows "broke" novells clients or made it much harder getting them to work. I have never had any problems with Groupwise or netware.
If i compare my experiences with other OS/clients, Novell is by far the best ever. The reason they failed was that they targeted the techies instead of the clueless PHBs like Microsoft did.
While Novell was by far superior in all aspects Microsoft won because the PHBs bought the bullshit from the MS salesmen.
This sure as heck makes SCO seem like some little buttboy oMicrosoft. SCO twists linux arm and MS pops up and assure that bad things like SCO dont happen to MS users.
Strange indeed huh?
I have to say Mozilla/Firebird has really grown onto me. At work i have to use IE and what bugs me is that while Mozilla has evolved fast IE has been standing still. Things like popup kill, tabs, privacy and cookie management etc, i just cant be without them now that im used to them. Today Mozilla is the best browser out there without a doubt.
To the Mozilla decelopers and Netscape/AOL, thank you!
Bah! Noob!
X in itself is very fast and pretty slick. Try yourself by kicking gnome/kde and trying OpenBox or some other fast WM. The difference on slower machines is pretty big.
I have a feeling that some n00bs confuse X with their Window Manager and Docks and Panels etc.
That man looks like a car salesman or someone belonging to the pirayah club from Ernie.
He makes me think about American Psycho, dunno why,
Having worked at two of those hellholes i can only confirm that they are cheap bastards doing anything to save a buck. Since they have so many workstations doing such simple things they are well suited to use linux. Only a handful of applications need rewriting. Funny thing, most systems i worked against was unix and even vax so using windows was in fact most "wrong".
Lately albums have been looking as a way to get rid of crap not able to stand on itself as singels. Often when i buy a record i only want 2 or three songs out of the whole album. Frankly, they push some very crappy stuff alongside the hits.
Ofcourse some artists are afraid because they will have the pressure to release good stuff and not some b-side crap as landfill in the albums.
Saddam did not one single time break the terms. The us got pissed when Iraq tossed out some of the US inspectors who was using their UN status to spy on iraq, something that the US had not demanded to be allowed to do. The US then forced the UN to withdraw ALL inspectors and they claimed that the inspectors was tossed out, a blatant lie and not some misschief from Iraq.
They havent found any illegal weapons and not more weapons of mass destruction than in any other country. The Iraqis has also proved that they arent willing to use illegal weapons since they havent even used them onto an oppressing agressive force invading their country. A onetime mistake dont make a habit, or is the US going to use nuclear on civilians again as in ww2?
This war is by definition illegal and the facts you lined up is lies and not proven facts. Just because the US lies the war dont in any way become legal. I saw a movie yesterday, where the terrorist said why he should blow up New Jersey with an A-bomb. I counldnt help myself but every word he said about the US sounded true in my ears. That was not the case before this war.
The world is NOT a safer place to live in since Bush believe me. Take a look at your rights slowly being taken away while you are defending the US regime. Dont come complaining when your freedom of speech and constitutional rights is forever gone.
Run something else!
There arent that many killer apps not availiable on alternative OS any longer. On a average company you can come a long way with linux if you plan for linux from day one. Same with Apple albeit more expensive hardware is required. The only problem as i can see it is if a company is tailored to run on Microsoft software. With licenses like that it sure looks as if its is well worth the pain to migrate away to ABM.
Im sitting on a friends Windows right now and i feel it lacks a lot of things. The ONLY thing Windows has is more applications, as an OS it is just an empty shell.
If you want quality and sane ink prices then stay away from home user printers. They are dirt cheap and as exptected plain dirt quality. Those printers arent anything but a necessary evil to sell inc cartridges. Why else would they have a cleaning routine that squirts inc into the cleaning pad everytime you use it even if you printed something a minute ago? Its all a big scam and the money spent on a real printer is well worth it. The TOS is probably much lower if you get a real laser and not a cheap one. Bubble jets should be avoided at all cost since frankly they stink botth at quality and in printing quality.
They have finally succeded in making sure that no one makes a killer app again by stealing and killing off innovative companies. Whit no one to steal from they are pretty much a sitting duck cause hey, when was the last time something, anything at all originatet from Microsoft? I can honestly not remember a single app that isnt a ripoff. Even the BSOD is a blatant ripoff (though no BSOD have been so much advertised as MS own)
If you havent noticed, things move alot quicker today than a couple of hundred years ago. Things move alot quicker today. And i think this is the BEGINNING of a downwards spiral with ups and downs on the way if nothing is done about it. A country that is built upon expansion cannot stand tall forever. Either it adjusts its intake to its outlet or it implodes by nature.
You know, the world isnt endless like space.
Ahh, how history repeats itself and how fast we humans forget. History is by far the most important thing to learn and what helps is humans evolve the fastest. DONT REPEAT THE SAME MISTAKES OVER AND OVER!!
Your logic has a flaw since it is applicable to every crime possible as theft, murder, forgery, fraud and economic criminality. That makes it possible to detain ANYONE at a whim wich is bound to be abused by people in power. Never ever forget that history repeats itself, power really do corrupt. If there was a timelimit it wouldnt be that bad but the notion of keeping somebody indefinitly is just to close to Kafka to be comfortable.
Unfortunatly there arent since it is debated still in this very moment. It was a number of factors like economic downfall, currency dropping, military weakening and managment issues (imagine what would happen to the dollar if all of a sudden everyone whould start trading in euro instead). What is debated is how large part the various reasons had in the downfall. My own view is that when a country starts alienating itself from its own citizens is when it is going down the tubes.
Rome had infact declined long before that and was a puny fraction of its former greatness.