Actually - it would be a good thing. For example, if the jet that hit the pentagon was electrically powered rather than by aviation fuel, then it would not have done anywhere near as much damage. A great deal of the damage was due to to the fact that jets are essentially a flying fuel tank. All that fuel is heavy, and it's explosive.
...the contest would consist of a nice new box in the crusher and the hacker who gets in and saves it from destruction gets to keep it!
We do this (sans crusher however I think I'll mention it!) at DNSCon - it's called Hack The Flag and each year during the conference there is a box with a default install of an OS on the wireless LAN and whoever hacks it gets to keep it. Last year I won the event and got a SPARC Classic running a very old version of Solaris.
Incidentally I heard that Rolls Royce in the early days used to rush out and put a cover over any of their cars that broke down to maintain their image.
We have to pay £107 a year to be able to watch TV, for which the BBC has no adverts as its paid for by the license fee, and the odd corrupt deal I'm sure.
Personally I wont pay it and so I dont watch TV. I dont see why I should fund the coke habits of BBC staff, nor do I see why I should pay for my own mind control.
Spam? Hell, if the U.S. Post Office stopped all "third class" mail (spam), they'd be broke and out of business tomorrow. I've always looked at online spam as an opportunity -- ISPs should do more research into filtering spam and offer it as a premium service.
Yes but someone has to pay to send that junkmail. Spammers do not pay to send their crap anywhere - with one account they can send 10 or 10,000,000 porn adverts with no benefit to the ISP.
I've been running an exchange server v5.5 for three years now - it's never crashed. The anti virus has crashed three times, and it's been rebooted about 6 times total. This is with an 800 user workload, used continuously every day.
Well I must say it's quite refreshing to see someone presenting a sensible appraisal of the situation, plus you seem to know what you are doing. I agree with your solution - have it hosted by a third party, however in my experience with this sort of thing the main problem is unauthorised services running on networks without the knowledge of the organisation. Obviously the mere presence of a good sysadmin should make this sort of thing impossible but I'm sure you are aware of the issues.
As for portsentry, it wont protect you from sideways scans for vulnerable services, such as what would happen if someone were looking for vulnerable NWN servers for example. (_if_ any vulnerability were to be discovered - I'm not suggesting they are vulnerable).
I agree with what you are saying, however NWN is not "just a computer game". The server component _could_ very well contain a buffer overflow or two for all anyone knows leading to boxen being rooted.
I think people like ID releasing old source is an excellent idea which can only lead to higher quality code in the future as coders can consult it for ideas.
All well and good, however how many Linux network admins will allow a non open source server product (that _could_ contain security vulnerabilities) to run on their networks I wonder?
But will it be open source? I'm guessing not and for good reason - obviously bioware will not want to share its coding techniques with the world.
Somehow I suspect that this will be 'ok' with the Linux community which is interesting considering the fuss everyone normally makes about open source, but hey what do I know.
I think it's great that decent games are making it to Linux, and with RedHat7.3 Linux is definitely becoming a more attractive option to the average user. I just need Steinberg to port Cubase SX to Linux and I'm ready to move!
"Eliminates the need for bulky CDs, tapes and LPs. Frees up CDs and tapes for use in the car or portable players."(2)
(2) Home network file transfers, analog recording of LPs, cassettes, etc., and S-Link changer control will be available via a free, automatic upgrade available in the near future.
So in other words it will be connected to the net, from which I think we can realistically infer that it will title all your tracks that you record into it, and send that information to persons unknown. Same Internet connection to be used for 'automatic updates' (and I think you can bet your life the thing will not work without a net connection).
"(For years I refused to get a store card, but now I moved and the only two close grocery stores have store cards; it's pay up, drive far or give in, and I gave in, put I'm pissed off about it and will switch in a second if something better comes by.)"
There is a simple solution to store cards - swap your card with a complete stranger. Imagine the confusion of the statistical profilers as a healthy eating family of four turns into a single guy who only eats tofu....
'a person must not gain access to, or enter, a computer system or part of a computer system without lawful authority to do so'
The whole POINT of the new bill is to GIVE them 'lawful authority to do so' so how does this law apply? I think they will need to make it more specific.
In the Tivo, perhaps one could flip the cables so that it only stored content that you WANTED rather than the forced stuff that they recently had a lot of trouble with...
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Actually - it would be a good thing. For example, if the jet that hit the pentagon was electrically powered rather than by aviation fuel, then it would not have done anywhere near as much damage. A great deal of the damage was due to to the fact that jets are essentially a flying fuel tank. All that fuel is heavy, and it's explosive.
...the contest would consist of a nice new box in the crusher and the hacker who gets in and saves it from destruction gets to keep it!
We do this (sans crusher however I think I'll mention it!) at DNSCon - it's called Hack The Flag and each year during the conference there is a box with a default install of an OS on the wireless LAN and whoever hacks it gets to keep it. Last year I won the event and got a SPARC Classic running a very old version of Solaris.
Couldnt the guys at The Dialectizer write a "backwards" dialect for their system? Viewing elgooG through that would sort it out.
...it was a joke silly! Everyone knows how nothing EVER gets warezed from China...
So you think they sent it to China for dubbing already? You would think they would have learned their lesson by now.
It does indeed - thanks for posting that I thought I was going mad.
Hear Hear.
Incidentally I heard that Rolls Royce in the early days used to rush out and put a cover over any of their cars that broke down to maintain their image.
Kind of reminds me of something.
You've seen the old movies when you were a kid - it's the year 2002 and I _still_ dont have a flying car. It's just not fair.
Call me what you wish - it doesn't change the truth.
I'm available for consultancy if you need help with your systems...
We have this in the UK - it's called a TV License
We have to pay £107 a year to be able to watch TV, for which the BBC has no adverts as its paid for by the license fee, and the odd corrupt deal I'm sure.
Personally I wont pay it and so I dont watch TV. I dont see why I should fund the coke habits of BBC staff, nor do I see why I should pay for my own mind control.
Spam? Hell, if the U.S. Post Office stopped all "third class" mail (spam), they'd be broke and out of business tomorrow. I've always looked at online spam as an opportunity -- ISPs should do more research into filtering spam and offer it as a premium service.
Yes but someone has to pay to send that junkmail. Spammers do not pay to send their crap anywhere - with one account they can send 10 or 10,000,000 porn adverts with no benefit to the ISP.
I've been running an exchange server v5.5 for three years now - it's never crashed. The anti virus has crashed three times, and it's been rebooted about 6 times total. This is with an 800 user workload, used continuously every day.
Perhaps I'm just lucky?
Well I must say it's quite refreshing to see someone presenting a sensible appraisal of the situation, plus you seem to know what you are doing. I agree with your solution - have it hosted by a third party, however in my experience with this sort of thing the main problem is unauthorised services running on networks without the knowledge of the organisation. Obviously the mere presence of a good sysadmin should make this sort of thing impossible but I'm sure you are aware of the issues.
As for portsentry, it wont protect you from sideways scans for vulnerable services, such as what would happen if someone were looking for vulnerable NWN servers for example. (_if_ any vulnerability were to be discovered - I'm not suggesting they are vulnerable).
I agree with what you are saying, however NWN is not "just a computer game". The server component _could_ very well contain a buffer overflow or two for all anyone knows leading to boxen being rooted.
I think people like ID releasing old source is an excellent idea which can only lead to higher quality code in the future as coders can consult it for ideas.
All well and good, however how many Linux network admins will allow a non open source server product (that _could_ contain security vulnerabilities) to run on their networks I wonder?
But will it be open source? I'm guessing not and for good reason - obviously bioware will not want to share its coding techniques with the world.
Somehow I suspect that this will be 'ok' with the Linux community which is interesting considering the fuss everyone normally makes about open source, but hey what do I know.
I think it's great that decent games are making it to Linux, and with RedHat7.3 Linux is definitely becoming a more attractive option to the average user. I just need Steinberg to port Cubase SX to Linux and I'm ready to move!
"Eliminates the need for bulky CDs, tapes and LPs. Frees up CDs and tapes for use in the car or portable players."(2)
(2) Home network file transfers, analog recording of LPs, cassettes, etc., and S-Link changer control will be available via a free, automatic upgrade available in the near future.
So in other words it will be connected to the net, from which I think we can realistically infer that it will title all your tracks that you record into it, and send that information to persons unknown. Same Internet connection to be used for 'automatic updates' (and I think you can bet your life the thing will not work without a net connection).
So in other words, Say Hello to DRM.
"(For years I refused to get a store card, but now I moved and the only two close grocery stores have store cards; it's pay up, drive far or give in, and I gave in, put I'm pissed off about it and will switch in a second if something better comes by.)"
There is a simple solution to store cards - swap your card with a complete stranger. Imagine the confusion of the statistical profilers as a healthy eating family of four turns into a single guy who only eats tofu....
Arn't there devices now that can track eye movements? Perhaps a special 'hot' area could be set up where she could look to trigger an alert?
'a person must not gain access to, or enter, a computer system or part of a computer system without lawful authority to do so'
The whole POINT of the new bill is to GIVE them 'lawful authority to do so' so how does this law apply? I think they will need to make it more specific.
..the earth will be flat and the flat earthers will say
I told you so!
Whats to stop someone creating a RAM disk, placing a defacement page in there along with httpd and httpd.conf to point to the defaced page?
In the Tivo, perhaps one could flip the cables so that it only stored content that you WANTED rather than the forced stuff that they recently had a lot of trouble with...
And now we hit the bottom of the barrel. Funny how any critisism of the mac is met with normally one of two arguments:
1. (for newer macs) "I think it looks better therefore it must work better."
2. (for older macs) "My computer is older than yours so it must be better."
and when those collapse, good old fashioned abuse.
So speaketh another whiney mac user from the 'my computer is better than yours because it's older' bridage.