Are good, others bad. A certain board devoted to RPGs I'm on is (actually, was, we've gone beyond mere http for the most part O_o) one of the best places I've ever been. On teh other hand, AGFF during the M30wers...
JP> He got his site shut-down by harassing a 17 year old girl, which shortly after being shutdown, Ken sold for a reported $125,000 to Kroll. Does this mean he sold the 17 year old girl? Isn't $125k a bit high-priced? ^_^
Using CT, how easy or otherwise is it to bring down or attack vital systems? What sort of skills would be needed to do so, and are they common/teachable? It depends on whether one was conducting physical or mental terrorism. While a system like a dam or a power plant has, at the very least, specialised control systems and may not be externally connected (and probably require training), "vandalistic" terrorism, to create discontent and fear among the population, or temporary "denial of service", is very easy and there are many tools for those. Commercial-off-the-shelf software: can it really do CT? It depends on the amount of skill of the user, with those skilled able to use utilities like "telnet" and "ping" included with any modern operating system. However, although less-skilled users may use specialised programs and scripts, those are available for the taking online, so... Which systems are actually attackable? Anything hooked to a network can be attacked from anywhere else on that network. However, even having an unconnected system still leaves open the possibilities of an insider job, an EMP or HERF generator (blockable by a Faraday cage), or actual physical sabotage. Can a recovery be made from such attacks? It depends. For proprietary and specialised systems, such as, say, an electric plant's controls, it's usually hard to rebuild a proprietary system quickly. For normal systems, all one needs to do is restore from backup. Thje main concern is not so much "Will it run again?", as "What are the results of it not running?". An ISP say, with 20000 customers, can easily afford to replace a $15000 machine, but will find it much harder to deal with customers angry about the loss of services temporarily. The same for the military, who may have backup systems but still suffers from the momentary loss of navigation or targeting or whatever systems.
Is it likely to improve/get worse? The amount of attacks is likely to increase, but the amount of affective attacks may decrease as provention measures are worked on. In particular, operating systems are becoming more secure as the easy holes are found. However, this may have the side effect of filtering out "John Q. Hacker" who just wants to look around while merely requiring more effore for a dedicated terrorist.
What sort of preventitive work would you recommend them to carry out? If it doesn't need a network connection, don't hook it to a network. Use strong crypto. And keep track of the lists of bugs and holes.
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That would be a dog of a processor.
(play Macintosh HD::System Folder::Sounds::sosumi.snd)
Basically, things'll fork into two worlds. There'll be the infinitely connected and automated world, but that'll only be available to the very rich. On the other hand, from the average USA citizen on down economically things'll stay as they are, except with more shiny chrome and beeping. Of course, there's the possibility of an underworld developing starting in the cities that jacks into the nets illicitly, but I've been watching too much anime lately. =p
Although it's good that he got out, there's stiull the issue of linking and the nebulous "assisting copyright crimes".
For example, say I, at school, decided to use a cd burner to record a song? Since it's their eq, would that be "assisting copyright crime"? What if I give someone a MP3->.wav converter? Or for that matter a CD ripper? Have I "assisted copyright crime"? The entire charge is both nebulous and overreaching. If I send an MP3 to someone under the assumption (which may well have been stated on his page, although I honestly don't know) that they already own the CD, and they happen not to, does that qualify?
As someone who works (well, as of a few days ago) for a RPG site, I've heard many rumours of FFIX already being in development, with a projected Japanese release of sometime within a year.
IIRC, the original NA price for a PSX back in '95 was $300. They ended up in a price war with Sega, though, and had it down to $125 by '97 when I finally gave in for a copy of FFVII. So... don't expect it to stay up for long, especially since the Dreamcast started at $200.
Sony, IIRC, was supposedly premanufacturing the "emotion engine" chips in order to compete with the Dreamcast, but, apparently... However, they have had problems like this in the past before... didn't the have a hard time getting CD-ROMs for the original PSX?
And as for the CE issue with the dreamcast, that's supposedly optional. Although I'ds like to see the licencing aggreement...
Also, delays do not necessarily mean failure. Remember, Sega released the Saturn about a half to three quarters of a year before the PSX came out, and I just bough my neighbour's for $15...
Well, depending on _what_ pos, you might want to look into windows Seriously, all you need to do is take a database system and spend a little while coding a frontend. Basically, it needs to input barcode, output price, amt left, etc., sum prices, and print a receipt. But you probably already knew that...
However, outside of the few hundred people I know, and maybe the people _they_ know, no one cares how my life goes, but if I, say, came up with demonstrable and repeatable cold fusion, that would have a large effect.
Y'have to remember, the population of that world was about 50...
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How'd it get here? O_o
ID number error or something?
Are good, others bad. A certain board devoted to RPGs I'm on is (actually, was, we've gone beyond mere http for the most part O_o) one of the best places I've ever been. On teh other hand, AGFF during the M30wers...
I know. However, it's based on his stuff. Therefore, like a doujinshi, it fulfills the otakuness requirements.
This or Project Majestic Mix? Uematsu or Amano? Agh... *punches wall* Wait! I know, Both, and don't eat lunch! ^_^
JP> He got his site shut-down by harassing a 17 year old girl, which shortly after being shutdown, Ken sold for a reported $125,000 to Kroll. Does this mean he sold the 17 year old girl? Isn't $125k a bit high-priced? ^_^
IBM
UBM
We all BM
For IBM
*runs*
Using CT, how easy or otherwise is it to bring down or attack vital systems?
What sort of skills would be needed to do so, and are they common/teachable?
It depends on whether one was conducting physical or mental terrorism. While a system like a dam or a power plant has, at the very least, specialised control systems and may not be externally connected (and probably require training), "vandalistic" terrorism, to create discontent and fear among the population, or temporary "denial of service", is very easy and there are many tools for those.
Commercial-off-the-shelf software: can it really do CT?
It depends on the amount of skill of the user, with those skilled able to use utilities like "telnet" and "ping" included with any modern operating system. However, although less-skilled users may use specialised programs and scripts, those are available for the taking online, so...
Which systems are actually attackable?
Anything hooked to a network can be attacked from anywhere else on that network. However, even having an unconnected system still leaves open the possibilities of an insider job, an EMP or HERF generator (blockable by a Faraday cage), or actual physical sabotage.
Can a recovery be made from such attacks?
It depends. For proprietary and specialised systems, such as, say, an electric plant's controls, it's usually hard to rebuild a proprietary system quickly. For normal systems, all one needs to do is restore from backup. Thje main concern is not so much "Will it run again?", as "What are the results of it not running?". An ISP say, with 20000 customers, can easily afford to replace a $15000 machine, but will find it much harder to deal with customers angry about the loss of services temporarily. The same for the military, who may have backup systems but still suffers from the momentary loss of navigation or targeting or whatever systems.
Is it likely to improve/get worse?
The amount of attacks is likely to increase, but the amount of affective attacks may decrease as provention measures are worked on. In particular, operating systems are becoming more secure as the easy holes are found. However, this may have the side effect of filtering out "John Q. Hacker" who just wants to look around while merely requiring more effore for a dedicated terrorist.
What sort of preventitive work would you recommend them to carry out?
If it doesn't need a network connection, don't hook it to a network. Use strong crypto. And keep track of the lists of bugs and holes.
That would be a dog of a processor.
(play Macintosh HD::System Folder::Sounds::sosumi.snd)
Especially considering the recent developments in the Mitnick case. If I was more paranoid, I might think it was timed to be after...
Basically, things'll fork into two worlds. There'll be the infinitely connected and automated world, but that'll only be available to the very rich. On the other hand, from the average USA citizen on down economically things'll stay as they are, except with more shiny chrome and beeping. Of course, there's the possibility of an underworld developing starting in the cities that jacks into the nets illicitly, but I've been watching too much anime lately. =p
Would anyone like to point out to the newspaper staff thier error in referring to the M$ promo as "free software"?
If I wanted to, I could print barcodes out of say, WordPerfect, and hold them up to the scanner.
All it does is freak people out, those of us who desire privacy and those who have some sort of religious objection to it.
But maybe that's the point. It might be just to distract from something else...
Although it's good that he got out, there's stiull the issue of linking and the nebulous "assisting copyright crimes".
For example, say I, at school, decided to use a cd burner to record a song? Since it's their eq, would that be "assisting copyright crime"? What if I give someone a MP3->.wav converter? Or for that matter a CD ripper? Have I "assisted copyright crime"? The entire charge is both nebulous and overreaching. If I send an MP3 to someone under the assumption (which may well have been stated on his page, although I honestly don't know) that they already own the CD, and they happen not to, does that qualify?
Sorry about mixed-upness, it's not even 1000...
As someone who works (well, as of a few days ago) for a RPG site, I've heard many rumours of FFIX already being in development, with a projected Japanese release of sometime within a year.
Yep. Different strengths. Could be kinda cool for some things, but I hope it isn't relied on too much...
IIRC, the original NA price for a PSX back in '95 was $300. They ended up in a price war with Sega, though, and had it down to $125 by '97 when I finally gave in for a copy of FFVII. So... don't expect it to stay up for long, especially since the Dreamcast started at $200.
The Dual Shock 2 supports analog input on all buttons, while the original only did on the thumbsticks.
Sony, IIRC, was supposedly premanufacturing the "emotion engine" chips in order to compete with the Dreamcast, but, apparently... However, they have had problems like this in the past before... didn't the have a hard time getting CD-ROMs for the original PSX?
And as for the CE issue with the dreamcast, that's supposedly optional. Although I'ds like to see the licencing aggreement...
Also, delays do not necessarily mean failure. Remember, Sega released the Saturn about a half to three quarters of a year before the PSX came out, and I just bough my neighbour's for $15...
Sorry about that...
I was using the acronym pos in a different way =p ...crud"
"piece of
Apologies for a twisted sense of humour...
Well, depending on _what_ pos, you might want to look into windows Seriously, all you need to do is take a database system and spend a little while coding a frontend. Basically, it needs to input barcode, output price, amt left, etc., sum prices, and print a receipt. But you probably already knew that...
If I painted a cow red and tied a rope to its rear you'd condemn it?
Heh. Keep your religion out of your tech. teminology.
like this a week after you buy a new (insert eq here)?
=p
However, outside of the few hundred people I know, and maybe the people _they_ know, no one cares how my life goes, but if I, say, came up with demonstrable and repeatable cold fusion, that would have a large effect.
Y'have to remember, the population of that world was about 50...
Can't fault your _source_ of quotes, though...