Can someone please explain to me why it makes sense to buy specific versions of redhat? What makes them different from just downloading the ISO's yourself and customizing via the install program?
Do they do heavy system modification to change how Advanced server handles memory or threads or something? Sorry, I'm ignorant here, I have always used redhat from the ISOs and pay for entitlement.
Everyone's read Applied Cryptography
Some have read Handbook of Applied Cryptography
I've read Security Engineering also, which a lot haven't seen and has a good amount of crypto in it.
Can you recommend some good hardcore books, or journals to follow for what's going on currently in the crypto scientific community?
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Will china be able to make from source? If not, they don't know!
The incentive for invention was thought itself, not profits.
I'm reminded of an Edison quote that counters this: "Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success."
Sad. I agree with Tesla's approach more, but look at him, one of the greatest minds of the century who I consider 10x the genius Edison was and he died broke and lived most of his life the same way.
We don't have science anymore. We don't have any Teslas, just a bunch of corporate whores. I'm bored, disgusted and scared.
Wait until the DOD or department of homeland defense, gets its hands on tons of computerized spy flies.
Adds a whole new meaning to getting bugged, or on the other hand, can you do a full bug sweep of your house with a can of raid, or your own computerized spiders?
I was running smoothwall for a firewall on a piece of crap old pentium 2 with a tiny hard drive that I got used out of a bin at a pc parts recycler. I stuffed the box full of ram (256), and let it go. It ran for several weeks, and then started to slow down network traffic going through it by about 50%. I was lazy and not using the net much, and didn't care to look into it too much. I finally went into the room where the firewall was and heard a terrible clanking. the hard drive had completely died, and the heads were just banging all over the place inside. The firewall was still running, but it was generating massive console errors whenever there was attempted disk activity by the kernel. I guess the firewall ruleset and the kernel and all the drivers were in memory, and the box remained running albeit slowed by massive I/O errors. I was pretty damn impressed. Once the box was shut off it was dead for good until i put a new hard drive in.
Somebody defined reality once as that which does not go away when you stop believing in it...
I have to pitch in and give credit to the late, great Philip K. Dick. I believe the quote is documented in some of his essays; The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick. I think it was something he originally said in a speaking engaement somewhere.
Do yourself a favor and read him. He's introduced me to an insanely interesting future. I suggest you start with VALIS to jump right in and see how strange he is.
When I think about this, the fact that this post was modded as "insightful" by someone is perhaps the most frightening thing I've seen in a long time.
I agree. I'm frightened myself, and had a high level of sarcasm when I wrote it, but I feel that this basic sales pitch is done over and over again to the mass public and for the most part they buy it! The moderators probably picked up on that and agreed.
Sounds to me like this company took a copy of Snort, set up a few rules for the "fingerprints" and sold it to the University of Wisconsin. What a waste of money!
And I bet the engineers and admins all said it was a piece of crap and waste of money from the start, but the head cheese thought it was foolproof!
Why would I care if police can see my heat signature?
If you are a weed grower you certainly do. This is what the particular case was about. Police were using infrared to detect excess heat put off by the lights and equipment used in weed grow operations. They were basically getting inside houses and arresting people on the basis of what they found w/o a warrant. Whatever your stance on 'the war on drugs', wouldn't you agree that due process is important?
Simple, I think. Because BSD works in security at the kernel level. Look at the levels of paranoia evident in their design... MS had long ignored this, and counted on application security, now they've just started to pay attention, but it comes as terrible palladium.
Ever see "Coupon: the Movie?" You MUST see it! Season 2 Episode 6. Scroll down to 'Greenlight Gang'. Seeing it is a hell of a lot funnier than reading it however.
The first and second season of Mr. Show are available on DVD, most of you can figure out where to find the rest of the seasons if you like. Bob Odenkirk and David Cross are comic geniuses.
Bob: [bangs gavel] I sentence each and every person in the United States to one viewing of "Coupon: The Movie." And may God have mercy...on your souls. Who wants to go Friday?
You want a judge to sign every one of thousands of search warrant
Do you want a judge to sign every single of thousands of search warrants for drug dealers or to approve wiretaps? It is all based on the same set of evidence. You are just using bureaucracy to proctect criminals!
Just because it is digital does NOT mean it is ANY different.
I am lothe to defend MS, but I know of one reason that is not a complete lie:
When using IE with IIS and using authentication modes other than basic, the browser authenticates with the server in the background automtically with the currently logged on user's credentials. If Sun's Java is installed and there is some Java element on the page, Sun will pop up a authentication box that confuses and annoys the poor user and is clearly made by Sun(tm). This is a problem for a lot of corporate users and admins.
Think of all the corporate Intranets using some of IE's special authentication modes..... Some of them have Java, nicht?
What about the internet? If a poorly installed/configured computer is hooked up to the 'net, the damage to other people's/corporate/public systems could be huge.
you just got me thinking....
1. Regulate the computer industry
2. Create government agency to oversee regulation (like NTSB for autos)
3. Government agency forces recall on Windows OSes, they are unsafe at any speed, fail crash tests and pollute the net.
4. profit?
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Thank you. I do not practice Tai Chi or claim to know as much about it as anyone who has studied for some time. I do know, however, that it is much, much , more than simple movements or basic forms, and I just gave one example of how my wife's master astonished me. The entire art is pretty amazing. I will be sure to show this thread to my wife to hopefully help in her studies.
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This was a truly scary demonstration of this kind of technology being used by private industry, namely casinos, to track relationships between people.
Real stream available at: rtsp://media-1.datamerica.com/blackhat/bh-usa-02/v ideo/BH-USA-02-JEFF-JONAS.rm
Do they do heavy system modification to change how Advanced server handles memory or threads or something? Sorry, I'm ignorant here, I have always used redhat from the ISOs and pay for entitlement.
Can you recommend some good hardcore books, or journals to follow for what's going on currently in the crypto scientific community?
Will china be able to make from source? If not, they don't know!
Imagine the first time you get the crap scared out of you by a 3d X-10 popup ad.
Sad. I agree with Tesla's approach more, but look at him, one of the greatest minds of the century who I consider 10x the genius Edison was and he died broke and lived most of his life the same way.
We don't have science anymore. We don't have any Teslas, just a bunch of corporate whores. I'm bored, disgusted and scared.
ummm, IBM? ;)
Adds a whole new meaning to getting bugged, or on the other hand, can you do a full bug sweep of your house with a can of raid, or your own computerized spiders?
how's that for stability?
I have to pitch in and give credit to the late, great Philip K. Dick. I believe the quote is documented in some of his essays; The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick. I think it was something he originally said in a speaking engaement somewhere.
Do yourself a favor and read him. He's introduced me to an insanely interesting future. I suggest you start with VALIS to jump right in and see how strange he is.
Dick won the Hugo award for best SF novel for The Man In The High Castle
I agree. I'm frightened myself, and had a high level of sarcasm when I wrote it, but I feel that this basic sales pitch is done over and over again to the mass public and for the most part they buy it! The moderators probably picked up on that and agreed.
Your money is safe.
The world is simple.
You are with us or against us.
Go buy yourself something, you deserve it.
Those in charge know what they are doing and will take care of you.
You mean there is enough room on your desktop for free space on one side of the screen? That seems strange to me, the king of desktop clutter.
And I bet the engineers and admins all said it was a piece of crap and waste of money from the start, but the head cheese thought it was foolproof!
Why does everyone forget about ARP poisoning attacks for sniffing across switched segments? check http://ettercap.sourceforge.net
wasn't it a hyperdimensional p-32 explosive space modulator? That's stuck in my memory, could be wrong.
I would really say, if it were harassing or not, could only accurately be judged by one who was a peer of the person in the community being tried. :)
Simple, I think. Because BSD works in security at the kernel level. Look at the levels of paranoia evident in their design... MS had long ignored this, and counted on application security, now they've just started to pay attention, but it comes as terrible palladium.
Ever see "Coupon: the Movie?" You MUST see it! Season 2 Episode 6. Scroll down to 'Greenlight Gang'. Seeing it is a hell of a lot funnier than reading it however.
The first and second season of Mr. Show are available on DVD, most of you can figure out where to find the rest of the seasons if you like. Bob Odenkirk and David Cross are comic geniuses.
Do you want a judge to sign every single of thousands of search warrants for drug dealers or to approve wiretaps? It is all based on the same set of evidence. You are just using bureaucracy to proctect criminals!
Just because it is digital does NOT mean it is ANY different.
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When using IE with IIS and using authentication modes other than basic, the browser authenticates with the server in the background automtically with the currently logged on user's credentials. If Sun's Java is installed and there is some Java element on the page, Sun will pop up a authentication box that confuses and annoys the poor user and is clearly made by Sun(tm). This is a problem for a lot of corporate users and admins.
Think of all the corporate Intranets using some of IE's special authentication modes..... Some of them have Java, nicht?
I think you are right. Thanks for finishing.
you just got me thinking....
1. Regulate the computer industry
2. Create government agency to oversee regulation (like NTSB for autos)
3. Government agency forces recall on Windows OSes, they are unsafe at any speed, fail crash tests and pollute the net.
4. profit?
Thank you. I do not practice Tai Chi or claim to know as much about it as anyone who has studied for some time. I do know, however, that it is much, much , more than simple movements or basic forms, and I just gave one example of how my wife's master astonished me. The entire art is pretty amazing. I will be sure to show this thread to my wife to hopefully help in her studies.