My upgrade from Dapper to Edgy went great. The only issue was with Evolution. The app ran fine but had a slight problem with the data store and would lock up. After a force quit or two, it came back and hasn't been a problem since.
I've been using Linux since Red Hat 6.1 and have used a boatload of different distros (All the major ones and a few minor ones too). Out of all of them, Ubuntu has been the best. Ubuntu even knocked Slackware off my favorite distro pedestal.
I have seen the bulletin. In it they indicate that they conducted a test and placed an order to get the records of one of the agency's own cell phones. A little while later an unknown person called that cell number and said they worked for the cell phone provider. The person then asked for some information about the subscriber. Some time later they got an email with "call records".
A little social engineering can go a long way. If a "service technician" calls asking me for information, I'm going to tell him I'm George W. Bush.
I recently bought a Dell Dimension E310 with the intention of blowing away the drive and installing Linux. I played with XP for a week or two until I uninstalled a piece of the pre-installed bloatware and it broke Windows. A fresh pair of Slackware 10.2 disks fixed all those pesky Windows annoyances for good.
I'd have bought a Dell with no OS from the get go if it wasn't cheaper to go this route.
Don't even get me started on the preinstalled Corel photo crapware.
There was a burglar in Texas last year that was breaking into city hall buildings all over the state. In almost every one he managed to get access to the safe or safes kept in the building without prying or damaging the safes.
When he finally got caught be debriefed and gave up his MO. He would get in to the building be defeating a usually inadequate door lock with a screw driver. Then once inside he would look in all the desk drawers for sticky notes with numbers on them. In almost every one he would find a sticky note with the combination to the safe. This guy hit over 50 different city halls and got into the safe(s) in almost all of them.
The best safes in the world won't keep people from being clueless about security.
"It's a myth that hackers find the holes," said Nigel Beighton
If they don't issue a patch, that must mean those script kiddies are finding a new 'feature'.
No, but I work for a police agency where someone did. A dispatcher was training a new dispatcher late one night and she did it to show the newbie how to do a query.
Minutes later they got a rather heated call from the state sysop about why they were doing such a thing.
I later learned that certain records are flagged in order to help them protect those persons. They even use that example when teaching NLETS schools of what not to do.
Most of the codes are actually to enter stolen property. To query a CCH on a person you need a name, sex and DOB. You can also use a SSN.
Most of the info you get back is kinda boring. With the exception of juvenile arrest data, it's all public record. But you'd have to know what court house to go to. the NCIC CCH file brings it all into one place.
You'd get, name, race, sex, dob, ssn and dl info, along with height, weight, hair and eye color, fingerprint classification along with a listing of arrests, and court dispositions of those arrests.
If you are going to steal someone's identity, you could do better than stealing a crook's.
If you know someone has been arrested by the Anytown Police Department. Go to their records section and do an open records act request for the last arrest's booking sheet. Most likely you'll get most of their identifying info except the SSN.
But whatever you do, don't ever run the President's DL. The Secret Service gets real nasty about that!
NCIC is a closed system. It's one thing to have the codes to query computerized criminal history (CCH) information. It's another thing to get into the system to make the query.
It'd be easier to social engineer a police dispatcher and get her/him to run it for you.
I'm all for great caffeine free coffee. My doctor took me off caffeine. The pain of his Rx was bad, but not quite as bad as the pain of the ulcer that was forming. It's dang hard to find really good whole bean decaf. For now I'm living off Starbuck's decaf House Blend. And I do realize that decaf espresso is quite a contradiction.
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My upgrade from Dapper to Edgy went great. The only issue was with Evolution. The app ran fine but had a slight problem with the data store and would lock up. After a force quit or two, it came back and hasn't been a problem since.
I've been using Linux since Red Hat 6.1 and have used a boatload of different distros (All the major ones and a few minor ones too). Out of all of them, Ubuntu has been the best. Ubuntu even knocked Slackware off my favorite distro pedestal.
Ubuntu rocks!
I have seen the bulletin. In it they indicate that they conducted a test and placed an order to get the records of one of the agency's own cell phones. A little while later an unknown person called that cell number and said they worked for the cell phone provider. The person then asked for some information about the subscriber. Some time later they got an email with "call records".
A little social engineering can go a long way. If a "service technician" calls asking me for information, I'm going to tell him I'm George W. Bush.
I recently bought a Dell Dimension E310 with the intention of blowing away the drive and installing Linux. I played with XP for a week or two until I uninstalled a piece of the pre-installed bloatware and it broke Windows. A fresh pair of Slackware 10.2 disks fixed all those pesky Windows annoyances for good. I'd have bought a Dell with no OS from the get go if it wasn't cheaper to go this route. Don't even get me started on the preinstalled Corel photo crapware.
Here's a link to the official Texas AG's press release.
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http://www.oag.state.tx.us/oagNews/release.php?id
They even have an online complaint form. Be the first on your block to get in on the lawsuit!
There was a burglar in Texas last year that was breaking into city hall buildings all over the state. In almost every one he managed to get access to the safe or safes kept in the building without prying or damaging the safes.
When he finally got caught be debriefed and gave up his MO. He would get in to the building be defeating a usually inadequate door lock with a screw driver. Then once inside he would look in all the desk drawers for sticky notes with numbers on them. In almost every one he would find a sticky note with the combination to the safe. This guy hit over 50 different city halls and got into the safe(s) in almost all of them.
The best safes in the world won't keep people from being clueless about security.
"It's a myth that hackers find the holes," said Nigel Beighton If they don't issue a patch, that must mean those script kiddies are finding a new 'feature'.
No, but I work for a police agency where someone did. A dispatcher was training a new dispatcher late one night and she did it to show the newbie how to do a query.
Minutes later they got a rather heated call from the state sysop about why they were doing such a thing.
I later learned that certain records are flagged in order to help them protect those persons. They even use that example when teaching NLETS schools of what not to do.
Most of the codes are actually to enter stolen property. To query a CCH on a person you need a name, sex and DOB. You can also use a SSN.
Most of the info you get back is kinda boring. With the exception of juvenile arrest data, it's all public record. But you'd have to know what court house to go to. the NCIC CCH file brings it all into one place.
You'd get, name, race, sex, dob, ssn and dl info, along with height, weight, hair and eye color, fingerprint classification along with a listing of arrests, and court dispositions of those arrests.
If you are going to steal someone's identity, you could do better than stealing a crook's.
If you know someone has been arrested by the Anytown Police Department. Go to their records section and do an open records act request for the last arrest's booking sheet. Most likely you'll get most of their identifying info except the SSN.
But whatever you do, don't ever run the President's DL. The Secret Service gets real nasty about that!NCIC is a closed system. It's one thing to have the codes to query computerized criminal history (CCH) information. It's another thing to get into the system to make the query. It'd be easier to social engineer a police dispatcher and get her/him to run it for you.
I'm all for great caffeine free coffee. My doctor took me off caffeine. The pain of his Rx was bad, but not quite as bad as the pain of the ulcer that was forming. It's dang hard to find really good whole bean decaf. For now I'm living off Starbuck's decaf House Blend. And I do realize that decaf espresso is quite a contradiction.