Don't forget: "Have you accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour?"
I heard this backfired on someone once. The telemarketer was excited to find another Christian and the callee got into a 10 minute conversation about religion.
Heh, I worked at bookstore when Oprah started her book club. I didn't really enjoy being yelled at by lots of middle aged women who were peeved that we sold our single copy of "The Deep End of the Ocean" to someone else already. ("What do you mean you're out? It was on TV!")I was firmly convinced that if Oprah recommended the Chilton's 1985 Volvo repair guide that thousands of mindless Oprah watchers would have bought that too.
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FTC vs Spammers
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I'm a bit confused about how these addresses were both "bogus (but real)?" Would someone like to clarify the author's intent with this comment?
I think that the author means that the "From" address was a real, working email address. It just didn't happen to belong to the spammer. I believe this is called getting "Joe-Jobbed".
I have a tiny amount of AS/400 operator experience. I found the names of the commands to be difficult to remember. For example, "ps" in Unix is "WRKACTJOB" in OS/400. All of our code is in RPG, which looks to me like FORTRAN without all those pesky numerical functions. All of the files are limited to 8 character names. Most of the IBM supplied files start with Q. "Messages", which in the Unix world would probably get written to syslog, can "break" into the operators terminal session which is annoying. Those messages have also interrupted our backup process more than once. However, I have never ever seen a piece of hardware on the thing fail.
If Slashdot users are the "Rest of Us" who are the other Linux users?
I doubt Slashdot readers are the "Rest of Us". I would think Slashdotters might buy this book and give it to those poor souls who don't like Windows but don't know how to run anything else.
The Internet was primarily designed for use by researchers who were collaborating on similar projects, and so security was not part of the design. Would you advocate designing and building another Internet where security was a major design goal? Or can we tweak the current Internet to reduce that amount of maliciousness that goes on now?
Review who is looking at your credit report, and report suspicious activity to them. Having seen a few personal credit reports of people who were using their personal credit to establish a business line of credit, I've seen statements on them like: "Don't issue any credit to this person before contacting me at 111-222-3333".
Nevertheless, Congress has failed to pass any of the 19 national antispam bills introduced since 1999, thanks in part to lobbying efforts of the business community.
No antispam bill has passed because the DMA wanted to reserve the right for their members to spam you.
Personally, I find myself enjoying the TV series more, because they have more time to develop the characters and storylines. A character can evolve over the course of a series, and threads of stories can continue to emerge over the length of the show. Movies, on the other hand, need to tell one compelling story in a short amount of time. That's also why short stories tend to translate well to movies, but novels don't.
RMS would prefer that you use.nano instead of.pico.
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Ask Kevin Mitnick
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Kevin,
Have you considered writing about your pursuit by system admins and law enforcement types? I read about you in a few "hacker" books. The only title I can remember now is
"Takedown" by Tsutomu Shimomoura. I would find it interesting to read about how much you knew about his pursuit of you. Do the terms of your release even allow to do this? (Slashdot readers, don't buy Takedown. It's a travesty of a book. Tsutomu comes across as extremely annoying, and spends half the book describing where they went to lunch. I was cheering for Kevin by the end.)
This first thing I though of was if I was "Mr. Evil Hacker", I would attack company A's server with spoofed packets from company B. Then company A strikes back at company B. Company B responds, and there's your loop.
I'm pretty sure no one liked it.(I think the creator got bashed for it actually.)
That's probably because the author, "Max Vision", programmed his worm to leave a backdoor open on your system - after it patched BIND to a safe version. He's in jail now.
I believe Mitnick once confessed that he was never a very good hacker, but he did happen to be good at getting people to give him the information he wanted. Who needs a buffer overflow when you can just get the Telco tech to give you the password?
Slashdot Mirror
I heard this backfired on someone once. The telemarketer was excited to find another Christian and the callee got into a 10 minute conversation about religion.
Heh, I worked at bookstore when Oprah started her book club. I didn't really enjoy being yelled at by lots of middle aged women who were peeved that we sold our single copy of "The Deep End of the Ocean" to someone else already. ("What do you mean you're out? It was on TV!")I was firmly convinced that if Oprah recommended the Chilton's 1985 Volvo repair guide that thousands of mindless Oprah watchers would have bought that too.
Obviously, you get spammed. :)
My answer would be "Kryptonite", but that probably wouldn't get me the job.
or how about Copycat?
I think that the author means that the "From" address was a real, working email address. It just didn't happen to belong to the spammer. I believe this is called getting "Joe-Jobbed".
I have a tiny amount of AS/400 operator experience. I found the names of the commands to be difficult to remember. For example, "ps" in Unix is "WRKACTJOB" in OS/400. All of our code is in RPG, which looks to me like FORTRAN without all those pesky numerical functions. All of the files are limited to 8 character names. Most of the IBM supplied files start with Q. "Messages", which in the Unix world would probably get written to syslog, can "break" into the operators terminal session which is annoying. Those messages have also interrupted our backup process more than once. However, I have never ever seen a piece of hardware on the thing fail.
If Slashdot users are the "Rest of Us" who are the other Linux users?
I doubt Slashdot readers are the "Rest of Us". I would think Slashdotters might buy this book and give it to those poor souls who don't like Windows but don't know how to run anything else.
Now the Internet is slow because of American "agression" against Iraq?!?!!?
:)
Americans created the Internet, we should be able to slow it down once in a while.
Russell Pavlicek has an article on his web site about turning an old PC into a Linux-PVR.
of the Dixie Chicks now has another Texan to be embarrassed about. We're starting to make Arkansas look good.
The Internet was primarily designed for use by researchers who were collaborating on similar projects, and so security was not part of the design. Would you advocate designing and building another Internet where security was a major design goal? Or can we tweak the current Internet to reduce that amount of maliciousness that goes on now?
How long until you need to sign up for the Federal Identify Network to get a credit card? A drivers license? A job?
Would you rather have to sign up for a MS Passport ID instead? If the Liberty Project is evil, it's probabily the lesser of two.
- Experian
- Equifax
- Trans Union
Review who is looking at your credit report, and report suspicious activity to them. Having seen a few personal credit reports of people who were using their personal credit to establish a business line of credit, I've seen statements on them like: "Don't issue any credit to this person before contacting me at 111-222-3333".Has microsoft finally gotten copyrights on all words ending in "dows"?
After a quick meeting of the lawyers, Microsoft also obtained copyrights on: "blows", "doze", and "d'ohs".
Look out for that Janeway chick. She's gonna try and ruin this whole thing by ramming our timeship.
IN SOVIET RUSSIA Dave Barry thinks YOU are funny.
"A long time ago, in a galaxy that is much farther away now..."?
Nevertheless, Congress has failed to pass any of the 19 national antispam bills introduced since 1999, thanks in part to lobbying efforts of the business community.
No antispam bill has passed because the DMA wanted to reserve the right for their members to spam you.
Personally, I find myself enjoying the TV series more, because they have more time to develop the characters and storylines. A character can evolve over the course of a series, and threads of stories can continue to emerge over the length of the show. Movies, on the other hand, need to tell one compelling story in a short amount of time. That's also why short stories tend to translate well to movies, but novels don't.
RMS would prefer that you use .nano instead of .pico.
Kevin,
Have you considered writing about your pursuit by system admins and law enforcement types? I read about you in a few "hacker" books. The only title I can remember now is "Takedown" by Tsutomu Shimomoura. I would find it interesting to read about how much you knew about his pursuit of you. Do the terms of your release even allow to do this? (Slashdot readers, don't buy Takedown. It's a travesty of a book. Tsutomu comes across as extremely annoying, and spends half the book describing where they went to lunch. I was cheering for Kevin by the end.)
This first thing I though of was if I was "Mr. Evil Hacker", I would attack company A's server with spoofed packets from company B. Then company A strikes back at company B. Company B responds, and there's your loop.
I'm pretty sure no one liked it.(I think the creator got bashed for it actually.)
That's probably because the author, "Max Vision", programmed his worm to leave a backdoor open on your system - after it patched BIND to a safe version. He's in jail now.
I believe Mitnick once confessed that he was never a very good hacker, but he did happen to be good at getting people to give him the information he wanted. Who needs a buffer overflow when you can just get the Telco tech to give you the password?