How many "This is dumb, Apple is doing what you wanted and then they get screwed" posts are going to get moderated +5? It was redundant after the first one. Did you ever think that not everyone cares about whether or not you can continue to use iTMS, and is more interested in the prestige amongst their peers in their chosen hobby of circumventing security sysems? Maybe he did this just to challenge himself, Maybe he did it because it was something he wanted his machine to do.
Typical slashdot hypocrasy, "Yay for DeCSS, We hate the MPAA and not being able to play DVDs on the system we want!" but "Boo AAC DRM crack, we like Apple and you have no right to play AAC on the system you want!"
Maybe some of you might remember when we in the US had the right to do this. That's a right I that I miss, and I want back, immediately. I'll be damned if I'm about to compromise that for for an online music service, nor will I berate this guy for expressing his right, just because it *might* cause me an inconvenience.
This is just false. I myself got hit with the apache slapper worm, as did many other web servers. The worm would install itself as an executable in/tmp, scan and infect other hosts. This was a pretty widely known worm, so saying that there is no other kind of worm for apache is just plain false.
Obviously the relative size of each country has eluded you. South Korea is about half as small as Texas. How would you imagine the US lay out a GRID all across the US and it's territories? The magical money fairy? It would cost several times the full national budget. Also, you're comments don't even make sense.
South Korea: Technology is the future. Internet access is a basic human right. United States: Intellectual Property is being violated, lets greenlight tyrants like **AA to set the agenda. MP3 Downloading has to stop.
You're idea that internet access is a basic human right is as ridiculous as some of RMS's idealistic utopian society rants. South Korea never said internet was a basic human right. I think you need to learn what human rights are. Your pipes most likely lead to the city septic system. Is that a basic human right to have indoor plumbing? Thinking of a commodity as a basic human right is very American attitude for such a US basher.
The US government uses open source heavily. Yes they use Windows alot too. Just like South Korea.
All in all, none of your points are even romtely valid, and your post just goes to show that you don't really understand either the difficulty and inherent problems in rolling out a nation wide network, nor the difference in geographical size.
Heck while we are it, since it's so simple, why not just set the whole WORLD up on a 100mbps network. I mean, think of all the human right being violated in third world countries. Those people don't need food or medicine, they need broadband!
Did anyone else notice that in the post, when listing the other "killer apps" the poster only provided a link to Scribus and just listed the other ones?
I completely disagree. XSS is as dangerous if not more so than a buffer overflow, im many cases. Take this for example:
Your target is one or more users of a community web site. The site itself isn't the target, only the means to your own ends. Remember, it's the users you are after, not the site itself. So you smash the stack on the server, grap the mySQL database, and open it up. Bummber, all the passwords are md5'd and basically useless. With XSS you could conceivably alter the login for that they get, and before md5($password) is executed you export $password (still in plain text) off to your little database.
Cracking isn't about what is the most "exciting and leet" way to do it, it's about using the tools you have at your disposal to get what you want done, done. Sometimes this is a buffer overflow, sometimes it a XSS attack, sometimes an emailed trojan, and sometimes even social engineering to gain physical access (even via an unwitting human proxy).
Stupid troll, your ridiculous idea has one gaping flaw. I don't have to give you my name. In fact, if you had talked to me that way, not only would you have not gotten a name, I would have bitchslapped you straight across the Christian Music isle.
You already did pay for it, with your tax dollars. Now the phone companies have regional monopolies on equipment and infrastructure paid for largely by max tax dollars. Now your stuck paying overinflated prices, because even the resellers have to lease their lines from one of the baby bells, and they get to decide how much the service is worth. It is then justified by reporting that they implemented a $50,000 telecommunications switch that can be bought new from the manufacturer for under 10K. This is not capitalism, this is a government sponsored monopoly.
That's the point, Darl McBride and Co. don't care about what happens after they lose the case, because they'll have already walked away after dumping their stock. They are driving what used to be a decent player in the market into a litigation based enterprise for their own short term gain. I'd have expected the SEC to at least look into this by now, but if it pans out the way it looks, they will either get off scott free, no questions asked, or will be spending some quality time with bubba in an 8x10 cell.
The problem is he spams non related books in non related topics. I've seen >5 posts in the same article from this guy, posting different books that had nothing to do with the topic at hand. If he would keep it to posts like this, which IS on topic, it would be fine. However he doesn't so I try and let people know about him any time I see him, regardless if his post is ontopic or not. Just because a spammer sends one person one useful spam mail, doesn't make up for the fact that he's a dirty spammer.
Here is a link without the spam. BTW, this AC is actually This guy.
Anthony Martin, (310) 532-8393, 17450 Van Ness Ave, Torrance, CA 90504
Any time you see this guy spam slashdot, post his info. Maybe when his inbox is full of junkmail he'll think twice before degrading the quality of our community for his own personal gain.
..of over engineering. This is seriously just a stupid idea from a network management point of view, all ethical questions aside.
UofF IT: Let's build a killer VB app that automagically disconnects connections based on bandwidth usage and port scans! It will be new and exciting and make us look leet.
Competent IT: We already have several options available to curb p2p abuse and prevent viral infection, used widely throughout the industry with great effectiveness while keeping end users happy.
I realize I don't know the whole story, so I can't say this wasn't their only option with any certainty, EXCEPT for this..
Disconnecting the user is ridiculous. The punishment doesn't come close to fitting the crime, actual copyright infringement not withstanding. In the real world, where companies don't have the luxury of giving a big "FUCK YOU BITCH!" to our customers, bandwidth abusers are capped, not severed from the network. Keep the policy but change the rules to
1. The first time a notice will come up to cease and desist.
2. Second time bandwidth is capped at 28800bps. Let them live with old modem speeds for a few days, and see what life will be like.
3. Third and final infraction: Bandiwdth permanently capped at 28.8. If they want a greater level of service they can either pay for it, or find another service provider.
This seriously smells like a case of too much self importance of the IT staff. This can (and quite possible should) be maintained and managed away from the application layer.
Or maybe Icarus is just some super duper app that we'll all be switching over to windows to run on our corporate networks, because it is just that badass.
Just sell him all your crap computer equipment you haven't done anything with in years. Throw it all in a big box and tell him it's a do it yourself robot or something. Don't forget to include unreadable instructions in korean, to finish of the authentic feel.
I used to use clark connect, but switched to smoothwall. They have basically the same feature set, but smoothwall just feels more cohesive to me. I've since replaced smoothwall with a gentoo box built from scratch to be a firewall/gateway and couldn't be happier.
What? You wont go to jail because *I* sent her an email. You didn't ask me to do it, I did it of my own accord. You should go have a meeting with her clients, explain to them how they have been defrauded and maybe point them in the direction of some legal counseling. Then you should go have meetings with the SEC, BBB, CPA, as well as regular law enforcement. Perhaps you can get her clients to file a class action that will put her out of business?
But seriously, if you let her get away with this, you become an accessory, and if someone else decides to blow the whistle she could very well blame you. I've been in a similar situation with an ex employer, so PLEASE take my advice and do something about it. Hell, give me a list of her clients and I'll do something about it.
Dude, I read your page, and I gotta say that fucking sucks man. I'm going to send the bitch an email with a slightly threatning overtone.:) tracy@datausainc.com right?
Gentoo doesn't use any specialized startup system. The rc-update script simply adds or removes services from startup. These are still good ol' init scripts that can be modified to suit your purpose. You aren't required to use rc-update to add or remove services easier, just like you aren't required to use emerge to install software. Redhat has management capabilities like this, I beleive within serviceconf.
But you do make a good point about Gentoo, in a round about way. While the install isn't neccessarily for newbs, Gentoo is the easiest distro I have found to maintain and administor. In fact, it's made me somewhat lazy, to the point where I get annoyed having to download, extract, configure, compile, and install software manually.
"Its just a matter of time, as with any opensource product."
It's just a matter of time, as with any product, regardless of whether it is open or closed. Windows is closed source, but we see exploits for it every single day, now don't we? qmail is open source, but to this day not a single remote hole has been found, even with the author offering a substantial chunk of change for anyone who finds one.
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How are you going to compile apache without GCC? I think you should reverse that order..
re-read my post. I said I doubt there would be a great deal of people ADDING the drive, so obviously I know it's possible, I just don't think it's likely. I'm sure a few will, but a majority will leave it as is.
Seriously, would it be possible for ISP's to file a class action suit? I have spent ALL day (so far) dealing with the repurcussions of this blatant misuse of authority. I know others out there are dealing with the same. I also had two customers get.ws websites rather than AVAILABLE.com sites because they use the method of putting the name in the browser and seeing if a site comes up. They figured verisign was squatting on the domain, and thought they would have to pay verisign for the use of the domain.
On a side note...
Our mail servers are filling up with spam, and with the recent loss of SPEWS, our spam filtering system is basically useless.. save for the few other blacklist sites still out there. Spammers must be rejoicing today.
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How many "This is dumb, Apple is doing what you wanted and then they get screwed" posts are going to get moderated +5? It was redundant after the first one. Did you ever think that not everyone cares about whether or not you can continue to use iTMS, and is more interested in the prestige amongst their peers in their chosen hobby of circumventing security sysems? Maybe he did this just to challenge himself, Maybe he did it because it was something he wanted his machine to do.
Typical slashdot hypocrasy, "Yay for DeCSS, We hate the MPAA and not being able to play DVDs on the system we want!" but "Boo AAC DRM crack, we like Apple and you have no right to play AAC on the system you want!"
Maybe some of you might remember when we in the US had the right to do this. That's a right I that I miss, and I want back, immediately. I'll be damned if I'm about to compromise that for for an online music service, nor will I berate this guy for expressing his right, just because it *might* cause me an inconvenience.
"Do you see any other kind of worm on Apache? No"
/tmp, scan and infect other hosts. This was a pretty widely known worm, so saying that there is no other kind of worm for apache is just plain false.
This is just false. I myself got hit with the apache slapper worm, as did many other web servers. The worm would install itself as an executable in
Obviously the relative size of each country has eluded you. South Korea is about half as small as Texas. How would you imagine the US lay out a GRID all across the US and it's territories? The magical money fairy? It would cost several times the full national budget. Also, you're comments don't even make sense.
South Korea: Technology is the future. Internet access is a basic human right.
United States: Intellectual Property is being violated, lets greenlight tyrants like **AA to set the agenda. MP3 Downloading has to stop.
You're idea that internet access is a basic human right is as ridiculous as some of RMS's idealistic utopian society rants. South Korea never said internet was a basic human right. I think you need to learn what human rights are. Your pipes most likely lead to the city septic system. Is that a basic human right to have indoor plumbing? Thinking of a commodity as a basic human right is very American attitude for such a US basher.
The US government uses open source heavily. Yes they use Windows alot too. Just like South Korea.
All in all, none of your points are even romtely valid, and your post just goes to show that you don't really understand either the difficulty and
inherent problems in rolling out a nation wide network, nor the difference in geographical size.
Heck while we are it, since it's so simple, why not just set the whole WORLD up on a 100mbps network. I mean, think of all the human right being violated in third world countries. Those people don't need food or medicine, they need broadband!
Did anyone else notice that in the post, when listing the other "killer apps" the poster only provided a link to Scribus and just listed the other ones?
I completely disagree. XSS is as dangerous if not more so than a buffer overflow, im many cases. Take this for example:
Your target is one or more users of a community web site. The site itself isn't the target, only the means to your own ends. Remember, it's the users you are after, not the site itself. So you smash the stack on the server, grap the mySQL database, and open it up. Bummber, all the passwords are md5'd and basically useless. With XSS you could conceivably alter the login for that they get, and before md5($password) is executed you export $password (still in plain text) off to your little database.
Cracking isn't about what is the most "exciting and leet" way to do it, it's about using the tools you have at your disposal to get what you want done, done. Sometimes this is a buffer overflow, sometimes it a XSS attack, sometimes an emailed trojan, and sometimes even social engineering to gain physical access (even via an unwitting human proxy).
Stupid troll, your ridiculous idea has one gaping flaw. I don't have to give you my name. In fact, if you had talked to me that way, not only would you have not gotten a name, I would have bitchslapped you straight across the Christian Music isle.
You already did pay for it, with your tax dollars. Now the phone companies have regional monopolies on equipment and infrastructure paid for largely by max tax dollars. Now your stuck paying overinflated prices, because even the resellers have to lease their lines from one of the baby bells, and they get to decide how much the service is worth. It is then justified by reporting that they implemented a $50,000 telecommunications switch that can be bought new from the manufacturer for under 10K. This is not capitalism, this is a government sponsored monopoly.
Right, the number #5 should be said as RMS/Linus.
That's the point, Darl McBride and Co. don't care about what happens after they lose the case, because they'll have already walked away after dumping their stock. They are driving what used to be a decent player in the market into a litigation based enterprise for their own short term gain. I'd have expected the SEC to at least look into this by now, but if it pans out the way it looks, they will either get off scott free, no questions asked, or will be spending some quality time with bubba in an 8x10 cell.
The problem is he spams non related books in non related topics. I've seen >5 posts in the same article from this guy, posting different books that had nothing to do with the topic at hand. If he would keep it to posts like this, which IS on topic, it would be fine. However he doesn't so I try and let people know about him any time I see him, regardless if his post is ontopic or not. Just because a spammer sends one person one useful spam mail, doesn't make up for the fact that he's a dirty spammer.
Here is a link without the spam. BTW, this AC is actually
This guy.
Anthony Martin, (310) 532-8393, 17450 Van Ness Ave, Torrance, CA 90504
Any time you see this guy spam slashdot, post his info. Maybe when his inbox is full of junkmail he'll think twice before degrading the quality of our community for his own personal gain.
UofF IT: Let's build a killer VB app that automagically disconnects connections based on bandwidth usage and port scans! It will be new and exciting and make us look leet.
Competent IT: We already have several options available to curb p2p abuse and prevent viral infection, used widely throughout the industry with great effectiveness while keeping end users happy.
I realize I don't know the whole story, so I can't say this wasn't their only option with any certainty, EXCEPT for this..
Disconnecting the user is ridiculous. The punishment doesn't come close to fitting the crime, actual copyright infringement not withstanding. In the real world, where companies don't have the luxury of giving a big "FUCK YOU BITCH!" to our customers, bandwidth abusers are capped, not severed from the network. Keep the policy but change the rules to
1. The first time a notice will come up to cease
and desist.
2. Second time bandwidth is capped at 28800bps. Let them live with old modem speeds for a few days, and see what life will be like.
3. Third and final infraction: Bandiwdth permanently capped at 28.8. If they want a greater level of service they can either pay for it, or find another service provider.
This seriously smells like a case of too much self importance of the IT staff. This can (and quite possible should) be maintained and managed away from the application layer.
Or maybe Icarus is just some super duper app that we'll all be switching over to windows to run on our corporate networks, because it is just that badass.
Just sell him all your crap computer equipment you haven't done anything with in years. Throw it all in a big box and tell him it's a do it yourself robot or something. Don't forget to include unreadable instructions in korean, to finish of the authentic feel.
I used to use clark connect, but switched to smoothwall. They have basically the same feature set, but smoothwall just feels more cohesive to me. I've since replaced smoothwall with a gentoo box built from scratch to be a firewall/gateway and couldn't be happier.
What? You wont go to jail because *I* sent her an email. You didn't ask me to do it, I did it of my own accord. You should go have a meeting with her clients, explain to them how they have been defrauded and maybe point them in the direction of some legal counseling. Then you should go have meetings with the SEC, BBB, CPA, as well as regular law enforcement. Perhaps you can get her clients to file a class action that will put her out of business?
:)
But seriously, if you let her get away with this, you become an accessory, and if someone else decides to blow the whistle she could very well blame you. I've been in a similar situation with an ex employer, so PLEASE take my advice and do something about it. Hell, give me a list of her clients and I'll do something about it.
Also, finish you site, I wanna see how it ends
Dude, I read your page, and I gotta say that fucking sucks man. I'm going to send the bitch an email with a slightly threatning overtone. :) tracy@datausainc.com right?
Gentoo doesn't use any specialized startup system. The rc-update script simply adds or removes services from startup. These are still good ol' init scripts that can be modified to suit your purpose. You aren't required to use rc-update to add or remove services easier, just like you aren't required to use emerge to install software. Redhat has management capabilities like this, I beleive within serviceconf.
But you do make a good point about Gentoo, in a round about way. While the install isn't neccessarily for newbs, Gentoo is the easiest distro I have found to maintain and administor. In fact, it's made me somewhat lazy, to the point where I get annoyed having to download, extract, configure, compile, and install software manually.
This is a flat out lie, at least in the US. ISP's are not required to keep ANY logs on customer usage.
"Its just a matter of time, as with any opensource product."
It's just a matter of time, as with any product, regardless of whether it is open or closed. Windows is closed source, but we see exploits for it every single day, now don't we? qmail is open source, but to this day not a single remote hole has been found, even with the author offering a substantial chunk of change for anyone who finds one.
How are you going to compile apache without GCC? I think you should reverse that order..
wtf?!?!
RTFA, this is based on open source and open standards. They'd be hardpressed to pirate Linux.
re-read my post. I said I doubt there would be a great deal of people ADDING the drive, so obviously I know it's possible, I just don't think it's likely. I'm sure a few will, but a majority will leave it as is.
He even looks like a prick! Funny, he seems to have mistakenly listed himself as a programmer, instead of spammer.
In case you want to thank him personally for his services:
Here's a handy map.
Anthony Martin, (310) 532-8393, 17450 Van Ness Ave, Torrance, CA 90504
Seriously, would it be possible for ISP's to file a class action suit? I have spent ALL day (so far) dealing with the repurcussions of this blatant misuse of authority. I know others out there are dealing with the same. I also had two customers get .ws websites rather than AVAILABLE .com sites because they use the method of putting the name in the browser and seeing if a site comes up. They figured verisign was squatting on the domain, and thought they would have to pay verisign for the use of the domain.
On a side note...
Our mail servers are filling up with spam, and with the recent loss of SPEWS, our spam filtering system is basically useless.. save for the few other blacklist sites still out there. Spammers must be rejoicing today.
Fuck you VeriSign, Fuck you very much.