To put McDanel in jail, the government adopted a rather unique interpretation of the federal computer crime statute.
The applicable language in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act make it a crime to "knowingly cause the transmission of information and as a result of such conduct, intentionally cause any impairment to the integrity or availability of data, a program, a system, or information without authorization." Ordinarily, this is used to go after people who distribute worms or viruses, mailbombs and Trojan horses: things that actually shut down or affect the computer system itself
Isn't this going a little too far. I thought a suggestion box was always welcome, or even a public message board where people could leave suggestions was A Good Thing(TM).
I may have been wrong. But this isn't right. no sir, it is not.
Just in theory, say I wrote a worm that scanned networks for unpatched systems. Once detected the program would leave a small text file on your desktop stating "READ ME TO SECURE YOUR COMPUTER". Inside the file would be an explanation on what was done in layman's terms and technical jargon also giving the URL's to microsoft's website with links to directly download to the.exe and the informational page itself. AND the source code for the worm itself (which after 7 days would terminate).
Would this be acceptable or not? IMHO it's like putting a note on someone's car door or house/apartment door saying... Please lock your door or someone could do something much worse next time.
To me this may be questionable, but I'm all for honesty and giving the user a choice.
Not everyone tells the truth all the time, and I'm no utopian but this is an accurate discription of what I'm in favor of.
Page, who unhooked the cameras after switching classrooms last winter, says he'd oppose using Webcams to provide evidence in a dispute between student and teacher. ''If it gets to the point where my word against students' isn't good, then I go find another job,'' he says.
This is exactly what I stand for. You don't trust me, I'm gone. Simple as that. And even in this economy I have done that.
I find it amazing that a webhosting server has a policy for slashdots! Quick, lets post a link to microsoft's front page!:)
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ACtually I have, but I haven't been able to find a copy of their bootable floppy (TCP or dialup) for quite a number of years. IT was on a mailing list and www.davestechnologies.com was just a small niche. It would have made it bigger than slashdot if the owner kept it up.
Anyways, if anyone has archives of that, feel free to email me (subject=slashdot) or know's where to get the old qnx demo disks as well.
i can agree with that to a point. However with the arguement about browsers, I use opera7 and mozilla. i care about the free vs free, but the main compelling reason is the pop-up stoppers, serious privacy control you have with moz/opera and even though they may not be as fast, at least when moz crashes it doesn't take out the whole system.
re: integration of a web browser, gui shell and file explorer is a pretty stupid move IMHO.
what we need is white list servers, where only those who are in your contacts list (Addressbook) can be let through to your inbox. A standard Comma Seperated Value (.cvs) document with just addresses at the least will do just fine leaving the server to do the filtering to/dev/null.
When a user sends out to a new address it's automatically added to the white.lst this can also work for domains...
Another idea... have special filtering options available so if you fill out a form on a webpage, you can add a special filter in the subject ie: subject:[special filter](in a subject.lst)so it'll get through.
not getting into what I do in my profession, this is almost completely wrong. A lot more goes into a police investigation than just the dna evidence. If that were true, your grandmother and my sister who touched the same steel bat in the sports store could be implicated if that bat were ever used to beat the tar out of someone.
Sorry to have to correct you, but that statement of yours isn't very accurate.
this is pathetic. what more of a definition do you need that "dissasemble" and "reverse engineer" ? If it's legal, it's legal.. what's with the red tape?
IS it only allowed if you do X or Y and illegal if you do Z? Seems as if someone is playing favorites...
it's been done. groups using waste have a tendancy and the ability to pinpoint "rouge" users in their membership and deal with them accordingly, preventing users from much harm.
For three or four well places waste servers and 20-30 users, changing a pub/private key isn't difficult and takes 60 seconds at best.
rotate servers, proxies and bnc's and you have almost complete security (compared to raw irc)...
private networks will work forever, until the earth explodes.
well said. the use of pki is coming and I can't say I don't mind. now for the gubbament to store biometrics on their database and in our new passports? that to me sounds outrageous.
why not just make a national standard in the state drivers licence with a smart card, leave the state up to the design, but keep a "standard" so that law enforcement can do their job a little easier.
it may be easier to get our info, but then again... all it does is save them AND us time. especially when we're sitting in front of THEIR red lights
correct. and once some dumb criminal discovers he can use it to buy a gun (insert 1,000 $, get the card with amount on it, give to gun seller then go bang-bang) and then uses that gun to say... kill a high political figure (no insinuations there!!!) or popular person etc. BAM! instant ban or regulation.
it's nice but this, I fear, will go the way of big hair and mullets... unless you live in the south.
probably so, but you could cap the limit to 50 bucks or something. enough for the kids to download their music from iTunes w/o a great risk for $$ laundering. at least not too big of a risk.
so they process the DNA... so why don't they just md5sum part of the DNA and when one sample matches the md5sum they just examine the whole thing... beats doing it every time?
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Isn't this going a little too far. I thought a suggestion box was always welcome, or even a public message board where people could leave suggestions was A Good Thing(TM).
I may have been wrong. But this isn't right. no sir, it is not.
Just in theory, say I wrote a worm that scanned networks for unpatched systems. Once detected the program would leave a small text file on your desktop stating "READ ME TO SECURE YOUR COMPUTER". Inside the file would be an explanation on what was done in layman's terms and technical jargon also giving the URL's to microsoft's website with links to directly download to the .exe and the informational page itself. AND the source code for the worm itself (which after 7 days would terminate).
Would this be acceptable or not? IMHO it's like putting a note on someone's car door or house/apartment door saying... Please lock your door or someone could do something much worse next time.
To me this may be questionable, but I'm all for honesty and giving the user a choice.
Just me 0.02c
What do you guys think??
This is exactly what I stand for. You don't trust me, I'm gone. Simple as that. And even in this economy I have done that.
I find it amazing that a webhosting server has a policy for slashdots! Quick, lets post a link to microsoft's front page! :)
ACtually I have, but I haven't been able to find a copy of their bootable floppy (TCP or dialup) for quite a number of years. IT was on a mailing list and www.davestechnologies.com was just a small niche. It would have made it bigger than slashdot if the owner kept it up.
Anyways, if anyone has archives of that, feel free to email me (subject=slashdot) or know's where to get the old qnx demo disks as well.
Yeah but I'm sure the resolution will suck...
i can agree with that to a point. However with the arguement about browsers, I use opera7 and mozilla. i care about the free vs free, but the main compelling reason is the pop-up stoppers, serious privacy control you have with moz/opera and even though they may not be as fast, at least when moz crashes it doesn't take out the whole system.
re: integration of a web browser, gui shell and file explorer is a pretty stupid move IMHO.
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what we need is white list servers, where only those who are in your contacts list (Addressbook) can be let through to your inbox. A standard Comma Seperated Value (.cvs) document with just addresses at the least will do just fine leaving the server to do the filtering to /dev/null.
When a user sends out to a new address it's automatically added to the white.lst this can also work for domains...
Another idea... have special filtering options available so if you fill out a form on a webpage, you can add a special filter in the subject ie: subject:[special filter](in a subject.lst)so it'll get through.
even better, throw in gpg/pgp for the heck of it.
anyways, jsut my 0.02c
not getting into what I do in my profession, this is almost completely wrong. A lot more goes into a police investigation than just the dna evidence. If that were true, your grandmother and my sister who touched the same steel bat in the sports store could be implicated if that bat were ever used to beat the tar out of someone.
Sorry to have to correct you, but that statement of yours isn't very accurate.
this is pathetic. what more of a definition do you need that "dissasemble" and "reverse engineer" ? If it's legal, it's legal.. what's with the red tape?
IS it only allowed if you do X or Y and illegal if you do Z? Seems as if someone is playing favorites...
it's been done. groups using waste have a tendancy and the ability to pinpoint "rouge" users in their membership and deal with them accordingly, preventing users from much harm.
For three or four well places waste servers and 20-30 users, changing a pub/private key isn't difficult and takes 60 seconds at best.
rotate servers, proxies and bnc's and you have almost complete security (compared to raw irc)...
private networks will work forever, until the earth explodes.
1 out of 2... everyone has their price.
Go here and use their nt password recovery tool. Click here for the floppy boot disk or click here for the cd boot image (only 2.0 mb)
This works well on Win2k machines and WinXp boxes with sp 3 and 1 respectively as well as the native installs.
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well said. the use of pki is coming and I can't say I don't mind. now for the gubbament to store biometrics on their database and in our new passports? that to me sounds outrageous.
why not just make a national standard in the state drivers licence with a smart card, leave the state up to the design, but keep a "standard" so that law enforcement can do their job a little easier.
it may be easier to get our info, but then again... all it does is save them AND us time. especially when we're sitting in front of THEIR red lights
correct. and once some dumb criminal discovers he can use it to buy a gun (insert 1,000 $, get the card with amount on it, give to gun seller then go bang-bang) and then uses that gun to say... kill a high political figure (no insinuations there!!!) or popular person etc. BAM! instant ban or regulation.
it's nice but this, I fear, will go the way of big hair and mullets... unless you live in the south.
probably so, but you could cap the limit to 50 bucks or something. enough for the kids to download their music from iTunes w/o a great risk for $$ laundering. at least not too big of a risk.
:)
just my 0.02c i'll pay you anonymously
so they process the DNA... so why don't they just md5sum part of the DNA and when one sample matches the md5sum they just examine the whole thing... beats doing it every time?
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I hear your having a problem with your TPS reports...
Yeah, didn't you get that memo?
how much do you want to bet they already do this for some sort of already implimented secret database or information retrieval system?
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