I'm not sure who's wrong, but your account of what Belkin did is very different from what the article states.
Ok I said one connection in a thousand, actually it was one every 8 hours with an opt out if you actually click 'no', which nobody would do in practice.
Belkin have a history of dodgy behavior and should be avoided where possible. Their last trick was hijacking something like 1 in every thousand http connections and directing them to an advertising site.
Every single windows systems is vulnerable to something, it's just a matter of time until the right attack vector is tried.
If you use windows you will get some kind of malware sooner or later. If you are lucky this will be something relatively harmless. If you are unlucky you have already been sending personal and company data to organized crime groups for some time.
The big picture has not changed in many years. Windows is not fit to hold anything you don't want made public. Anti-virus software and firewalls are a band-aid not a fix.
Personality tests, handwritting analysis, and all the other voodoo some companies ARE useful tests.
They are a very good measure of how gullible and naive the management of these companies are. Thats useful information in an interview, it tells you how fast you should walk out the door.
Then why not drop the case and focus more fully on your 'core product business'
Because the core product is hopelessly obsolete and only used by a very small and fast shrinking customer base. SCO started this case because their core business was no longer viable.
It's a real shame. They just failed to keep up with the competition.
Believe it or not, virtual desktops have never ever made me more productive. For me it's just a useless extra step in switching windows or applications.
Just because you don't want to use them doesn't mean they are useless.
I find virtual desktops a very useful way to group applications, I believe lots of other people do too.
That's because nobody's asked for them. It's not some grand conspiracy against you, and its not as if Microsoft doesn't have the technical resources to provide it, it's just not a very popular feature.
Multiple desktops are one of the most useful things X window managers do. I see windows users struggling to find the right application on a over-crammed screen all the time. They are so used to suffering with this that the concept of multiple desktops seems strange and weird to them.
As to technical resources maybe microsoft don't have the resources to implement this without dropping something else. Windows is such a thrown together mess that changing anything takes a huge amount of staff time.
Is this the end then? Has the government cryptofascism got so bad that even normal geeks are designing terrorist plots just as response to the outrage of hearing the latest news criminalising anyone who disagrees with the policies?
...and by the standard of jabber on here designing them badly.
Don't use keys. Copying and pasting messages, usernames, and passwords from a USB stick would work perfectly well for a terrorist at a cybercafe.
Thats just silly. The real answer is one time passwords.
However you really can't do much with a computer you mistrust, they know everything that happens in your session and they might be able to remote control it in the middle of your session.
My Debian lenny laptop froze showing 00:59 (CET). Wouldn't respond to mouse, keyboard or ssh.
Thats right when the leap second hit. Time changes can cause arts to freakout which can be nasty if it's running with realtime priority. Maybe other software does the same?
I would upgrade it to Linux and Samba but the adaptec raid card has no stable drivers for Linux. so I either downgrade to software raid or stick with what is working.
Software RAID isn't a bad thing. If your hardware RAID card blows up tomorrow can you replace it?
One day whoever controls all these botnets is going to realize the data on the machines they already control is worth -WAY- more than what they make out of spam. All the botnet herders need is some decent indexing technology and/or keystroke loggers and they have access to all kinds of profitable stuff.
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It's not like this is a new idea...
Web 2.0 is useful for one thing. It's an easy way to tell the buzzword merchants from the IT professionals.
Of course it's sad to see people fooled into believing there is any substance to it.
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I'm not sure who's wrong, but your account of what Belkin did is very different from what the article states.
Ok I said one connection in a thousand, actually it was one every 8 hours with an opt out if you actually click 'no', which nobody would do in practice.
Belkin have a history of dodgy behavior and should be avoided where possible. Their last trick was hijacking something like 1 in every thousand http connections and directing them to an advertising site.
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1039_3-5104863.html
This company should be avoided where possible.
All routers need to do some type of NAT period, it is how a router works.
Your ignorance is shocking. There are some good books and many internet sites explaining basic networking. There is even a 'for Dummies' book.
MS is not the flaw.. it's the users!
Just because average users are at fault does not imply Microsoft is not also at fault.
Every single windows systems is vulnerable to something, it's just a matter of time until the right attack vector is tried.
If you use windows you will get some kind of malware sooner or later. If you are lucky this will be something relatively harmless. If you are unlucky you have already been sending personal and company data to organized crime groups for some time.
The big picture has not changed in many years. Windows is not fit to hold anything you don't want made public. Anti-virus software and firewalls are a band-aid not a fix.
Personality tests, handwritting analysis, and all the other voodoo some companies ARE useful tests.
They are a very good measure of how gullible and naive the management of these companies are. Thats useful information in an interview, it tells you how fast you should walk out the door.
Then why not drop the case and focus more fully on your 'core product business'
Because the core product is hopelessly obsolete and only used by a very small and fast shrinking customer base. SCO started this case because their core business was no longer viable.
It's a real shame. They just failed to keep up with the competition.
Believe it or not, virtual desktops have never ever made me more productive. For me it's just a useless extra step in switching windows or applications.
Just because you don't want to use them doesn't mean they are useless.
I find virtual desktops a very useful way to group applications, I believe lots of other people do too.
That's because nobody's asked for them. It's not some grand conspiracy against you, and its not as if Microsoft doesn't have the technical resources to provide it, it's just not a very popular feature.
Multiple desktops are one of the most useful things X window managers do. I see windows users struggling to find the right application on a over-crammed screen all the time. They are so used to suffering with this that the concept of multiple desktops seems strange and weird to them.
As to technical resources maybe microsoft don't have the resources to implement this without dropping something else. Windows is such a thrown together mess that changing anything takes a huge amount of staff time.
They used exchange and got screwed, just like -everyone- who uses exchange.
This happens all the time just most companies cover up stuff like this because it's not good for the share price.
Is this the end then? Has the government cryptofascism got so bad that even normal geeks are designing terrorist plots just as response to the outrage of hearing the latest news criminalising anyone who disagrees with the policies?
...and by the standard of jabber on here designing them badly.
Or use steganographic messages.
Are you really suggesting creating or decoding them on a computer you don't trust? There is no security in that.
Don't use keys. Copying and pasting messages, usernames, and passwords from a USB stick would work perfectly well for a terrorist at a cybercafe.
Thats just silly. The real answer is one time passwords.
However you really can't do much with a computer you mistrust, they know everything that happens in your session and they might be able to remote control it in the middle of your session.
Encryted zip the file.
You can't be serious. The weak XOR on encrypted zips can be broken with script kiddie tools.
My Debian lenny laptop froze showing 00:59 (CET). Wouldn't respond to mouse, keyboard or ssh.
Thats right when the leap second hit. Time changes can cause arts to freakout which can be nasty if it's running with realtime priority. Maybe other software does the same?
ipchains is Linux's 2.2 kernel firewall protection. BSD uses 'IPF'.
OpenBSD uses PF not IPF.
FreeBSD uses PF or IPF.
Linux uses iptables. It's not been ipchains since a few major kernel versions back.
Pf rules. It's far clearer, more sensible, and more configurable than iptables.
How would the botnet know they are attacking an OpenBSD box (vs Linux or something else)?
OpenBSD runs native OpenSSH, the version number in the banner doesn't have a 'p...' extention.
Telnet 22 to an OpenBSD machine:
SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1
Everything else runs a portable OpenSSH, the banner does have a 'p...' extension and likely some other info too.
Telnet 22 to a Linux machine:
SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.3p2 [OS version may be appended]
I would upgrade it to Linux and Samba but the adaptec raid card has no stable drivers for Linux. so I either downgrade to software raid or stick with what is working.
Software RAID isn't a bad thing. If your hardware RAID card blows up tomorrow can you replace it?
Sooner or later ISPs will be forced to block all TCP port 25 except to and from their own mail servers.
It will be a shame for those people who run their mail servers off a DSL line.
And of course the above means the government gets a copy of everything.
* It costs the same amount to send literally an infinite amount of unsolicited commercial e-mail messages as it does to send 1.
That could be changed. There was the idea to add some kind of encryption challenge in the SMTP transaction so that mail delivery had some cost.
It would be useful as part of a spam scoring system.
Believe it or not spam is a very minor problem.
One day whoever controls all these botnets is going to realize the data on the machines they already control is worth -WAY- more than what they make out of spam. All the botnet herders need is some decent indexing technology and/or keystroke loggers and they have access to all kinds of profitable stuff.
It's not like this is a new idea...
Web 2.0 is useful for one thing. It's an easy way to tell the buzzword merchants from the IT professionals.
Of course it's sad to see people fooled into believing there is any substance to it.
First Google hit: http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/
That must be an art school, the website is UGLY.
Piet Zwart Institute of the Willem de Kooning Academy.
That sounds just like a joke name but this place does seem to exist. 'Zwarte Piet' is dutch for santas helper.
I don't think courts normally allow the 'My school has a stupid name' defense.