Since keyloggers don't track mouse movements or clicks, the phisher wouldn't be able to breakdown and harvest the password from the keylogger.
I believe the "Perfect Key Logger" from Blazing Tools takes a screenshot everytime you click the mouse. Their web page also says it captures passwords typed in fields obscured with asterisks.
The local station only shows the shows I want to watch when they're doing a beg-a-thon.
That's odd. My local PBS station takes away the shows I want to see during the "beg-a-thon". So every quarter or so, Red Dwarf disappears for two weeks and is replaced by the same stupid concert they showed the last two pledge drives. I've come to think of it as Hostage TV.
Ad-Aware runs on a BartPE Boot CD. I've heard Spybot also runs on BartPE, but I don't think there are handy instructions for adding it to the image.
NPR commentary
on
Spam as Poetry
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· Score: 3, Interesting
I heard a commentary on NPR by Andrei Codrescu a few weeks ago about spam as poetry. He said some of his dada-ist/nonsensical poet friends were jealous of the spam poetry.
users who don't secure their networks are often the very people who don't keep their computers up to date with the latest security patches and antivirus software
I wonder if this would be a new, easy way for people to start a new worm/virus infection. Wardrive down the street, map a few hundred potential victims, and come back later and put the bugger in the "Startup" menu on Windows PCs. Ack.
Is it true that some states have prohibited Microsoft from issuing MSCEs? I heard this somewhere but I can't remember. Something about Microsoft not having the authority to certify engineers.
In Texas, you can't legally call yourself an Engineer until you've passed the Professional Engineering examination. I haven't heard of anyone in Texas who had to stop calling themselves an MCSE, however.
Bayesian classification of commercials sounds like a brilliant idea to me, if it could be made to work. You could press an "annoying" button on your remote for every commercial you hate, and the PVR would eventually learn that there might be some commercials that actually *want* to watch. That might even lead to companies making more commercials that you want to watch, when they know what types of commericals people actually like.
I did a little testing of Bayesian filtering on my own, and I used the
Ling-Spam Corpus from Dr. Ion Androutsopoulos. He's collected about one thousand messages which consist of "legitimate" messages to a linguistics mailing list, and "spam" messages. They are preclassified, and divided into ten parts to make ten-cross-fold-validation easier. Check out his
publications. Scroll down to the "Document filtering" section.
I think Tom Mitchell did a good job in explaining the math in his book Machine
Learning. It's a very pricy book, so maybe you can look for a used copy.
When you can't get anyone to care, perhaps it's time to try out Tim Mullen's strikeback proposal. He wrote about defending yourself from worms actively attacking you, but I think shutting down a passive attack is worth contemplating.
Why on earth would someone need a 1000+ node cluster?
The Atlas Project at CERN, when it comes online, is supposed to produce a petabyte of data every year. I doubt one 1000 node cluster would be enough to process that data quickly.
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Hmm, that may explain the unnatural rise of:
Am I the only one imagining a dark side Sir Humphrey trying to assist him?
Since keyloggers don't track mouse movements or clicks, the phisher wouldn't be able to breakdown and harvest the password from the keylogger.
I believe the "Perfect Key Logger" from Blazing Tools takes a screenshot everytime you click the mouse. Their web page also says it captures passwords typed in fields obscured with asterisks.
Thus, the word "ham" could be written as "|-|4/\/\"
I didn't know script kiddies loved to talk about pork. Or is that pr0k?
Star Trek has inspired us, and particularly Enterprise, with its superb theme song...
WTF?
(I agree with the sentiment of the song, but I really dislike the song itself.)
The local station only shows the shows I want to watch when they're doing a beg-a-thon.
That's odd. My local PBS station takes away the shows I want to see during the "beg-a-thon". So every quarter or so, Red Dwarf disappears for two weeks and is replaced by the same stupid concert they showed the last two pledge drives. I've come to think of it as Hostage TV.
Ad-Aware runs on a BartPE Boot CD. I've heard Spybot also runs on BartPE, but I don't think there are handy instructions for adding it to the image.
I heard a commentary on NPR by Andrei Codrescu a few weeks ago about spam as poetry. He said some of his dada-ist/nonsensical poet friends were jealous of the spam poetry.
users who don't secure their networks are often the very people who don't keep their computers up to date with the latest security patches and antivirus software
I wonder if this would be a new, easy way for people to start a new worm/virus infection. Wardrive down the street, map a few hundred potential victims, and come back later and put the bugger in the "Startup" menu on Windows PCs. Ack.
According to Merriam Webster it is:
Main Entry: learnt
Pronunciation: 'l&rnt
chiefly British past and past participle of LEARN
Who knewt?
In Texas, you can't legally call yourself an Engineer until you've passed the Professional Engineering examination. I haven't heard of anyone in Texas who had to stop calling themselves an MCSE, however.
Bayesian classification of commercials sounds like a brilliant idea to me, if it could be made to work. You could press an "annoying" button on your remote for every commercial you hate, and the PVR would eventually learn that there might be some commercials that actually *want* to watch. That might even lead to companies making more commercials that you want to watch, when they know what types of commericals people actually like.
Don't forget Spinal Tap fans.
Neil Gaiman is not the James Joyce of the twenty-first century.
Thank God. I've met plenty of people who've read "American Gods" all the way through. I've never met anyone who got through "Ulysses", however.
Please help me decide who to cheer for.
I did a little testing of Bayesian filtering on my own, and I used the Ling-Spam Corpus from Dr. Ion Androutsopoulos. He's collected about one thousand messages which consist of "legitimate" messages to a linguistics mailing list, and "spam" messages. They are preclassified, and divided into ten parts to make ten-cross-fold-validation easier. Check out his publications. Scroll down to the "Document filtering" section.
I think Tom Mitchell did a good job in explaining the math in his book Machine Learning. It's a very pricy book, so maybe you can look for a used copy.
When you can't get anyone to care, perhaps it's time to try out Tim Mullen's strikeback proposal. He wrote about defending yourself from worms actively attacking you, but I think shutting down a passive attack is worth contemplating.
sounds perfect for pr0n...
Why on earth would someone need a 1000+ node cluster?
The Atlas Project at CERN, when it comes online, is supposed to produce a petabyte of data every year. I doubt one 1000 node cluster would be enough to process that data quickly.
I had high hopes for Solar, until Homer told me it was a pipe dream.
- Don't buy a computer.
- If you do buy a computer, don't turn it on.
Thanks.It's probably entertaining to everyone but the guy who gets shocked.
1) Given that BSD is dying...
:)
2) Given that the Internet runs on BSD
3) The Internet is dying (1, 2, Modus Ponens)
There's that sorted out.