I completely understand and agree with teh schools stance. Should anything have happened after the event, months or even years, you could bet that some parents group somewhere would have held the school liable for it.
I also think that the students should be commended for wanting to do something to aid the victims of this disaster. It proves that their generation isn't as disenfranchised as we are lead to believe.
I do worry about my child every waking moment, as I'm sure all parents do.
I read this one line,
There are three areas of concern. First, the illusion of anonymity
And it occured to me, that this is a good thing in identifying current and future pedophiles. By setting up something similar to "honeypots for hackers to track their movements why not do the same for traffickers of child pornography.
I mean afterall the article stated
the illusion of anonymity -- an illusion because Internet use can be easily tracked --
Seems to me the best option is to identify and track them.
Or do governing bodies not give a rats ass about our children?
Stop using you email acocunt to register for crap.
Register for a free email account at yahoo.com or hotmail, use this for when you must submit an email. This way this email address can get spammed till the cows come home, you simply dole out your real email to friends and family and tell them not to submit your email for giveaways and such.
STOP USING IE. Use Mozilla or Firefox to browse the web. I have used mozilla or firefox for the last few years and only resort to IE when absolutely necessary, and because of the popup blocker (that runs from within them not an outside program) I get ZERO popups. I run no syware blockers or popup stoppers, no anti spam tools. I simply use a second email and Mozilla or Firefox and I get no popups and my inbox takes me 3 minutes to read.
Ruling that a suspect nabbed using GPS sneaked into his vehicle by police without a warrant,
So let me make sure I understand, police can not tap your phone line without a warrant. Police can not search your private property without reasonable suspicion cause or your permission, whichever comes first. But they can install a tracking device on your car without your knowledge. Hmmm, I realize that this would do two things one it would avoid the need for 24 hour surveylance if they wanted to track your movements, and it would lessen tax dollars needed to support such. If the role was reversed and say I wanted to know where my elected local officials were going, and installed one on their cars would I be in violation of the law? Since it was deemed legal I suggest we all do that tonight.
a Texas judge ruled in favor of an anonymous political activist
Higher power bless Texas!
Finally not just portrayed as dumb hicks, and in a time when Civil Liberties are bieng crushed everywhere, hopefully this doesn't violate the Patriot Act and make our good anonymous emailer a "CYBER TERRORIST".
See not just bad things *cough BUSH cough* come out of Texas.
From reading this article it never stated if more people than just the one lawyer complained. The article said that "they were asked several times to settle down", by whom? The lawyer? Or court bailifs?
It never stated why the men were there, were they there on business meaning they had a court appearance or were they merely there to witness the days court proceedings, which is their right.
The fault is their own, wether there on business or just exercising their legal right to appear. They should have conducted themselves in a mature manner if however, the lawyer was the only one to complain and the men were not asked to leave the courts, which if they were there to simply watch, surely they would have been told to if causing a disturbance an arrest was not warranted given the facts of the article.
Seems to me one lawyer threw his weight around because the ambulance chaser was offended by a few wise cracks. The old codgers were bored and having some fun.
To the lawyer who had the gezers arrested just because you have passed a BAR exam and possibly have a law degree doesn't give you the right to be a total prick. Get your head out of your ass, it was old guys cracking jokes, you can't take a joke then bury your head back into your mothers teet you whiny little pratt.
wifi networks I have stumbled on in my area, and the staggering number that use no encryption at all, I don't think this will be a viable solution to the masses who either haven't RTFM, or did and are afraid to ask questions or research what they don't understand.
While this paint would reduce or even stop someone from plundering a wifi network, if those people would take time and enable the current WEP or whatever auth they have on their firmware it would harden their system that much more.
It's easy to sit outside a house in a parked car for 5 mins to check email or quik recon, but I doubt if anyone would spend time needed parked outside to break into a WEP enabled network.
I have toyed with a crippleware version of VMWare and had Linux running withing Windows, and Windows within Linux ( not wine ). From what I saw the product was great and really lived up to the claims they made. It was too pricey for my budget so I had to turn it loose.
And exactly how can Mr Fitch prove someone is guilty of identity theft? Simply filling out false information for an email account is far from identity theft. I mean hell 90% of the hotmail users are guilty if thats the case. Alas, I hope Joe Momma doesn't file suit against me for identity theft because I registered that name for my GMAIL account.
Sounds like what we have is the Hatfields and McCoys, Mr X or Mr Doe should remain anonymous because any name can be attached to an email. Mr Fitch should just forget about it. I sympathize with him about having the image circulated, it is in poor taste and merely demonstrates the childish nature of the aggressor.
However tieng the legal system up like this is plain stupidity. He either needs to forgive and forget or move the fuck out of town.
Officials locked out the user accounts and swapped in a new front page featuring a Secret Service banner, an image of a prison cell, and a list of federal charges against some site members.
Isn't that defamation of character? I mean if the suspects hadn't been subpoenaed can they do that? And what of the Cyber Crime guys? Sounds like they essentially hacked the ShadowCrew site. Not that all this matters that much to me, I mean I may know how to make a bomb from household chemicals, but it doesn't mean I make them in the bath tub to set off at 4th of July to impress people.
I see nothing wrong with people wanting to "know" how to compromise systems, when they cross that line between a quest for knowledge and criminal mischief it's their own damn fault.
You can find tons of wargames on the web that encourage you to circumvent their securities legally. These are perfectly fine for me, though I find they are wrought with leet skript kiddies and self righteous arrogant asses that have the social skills of a tomato.
In which case I have found a few people who I engage in wargames with, where we each setup a box exchange IP's and first one to root the others box wins.
No one's systems are damaged, no DoSsing occurs. Just good old fashioned bragging rights are earned, plus I have learned a ton about insecurities in deploying my system for attack and have gained a wealth of knowledge on how to prevent ( as much as possible ) system compromise.
I was about to scream it's his right, but according to the unwritten rules of finding bugs, he should have first contacted them notifying them of the flaws then given them ample time to produce a patch or research his claims. Of which I didn't see anywhere where he stated that he did either, in fact I gathered from the article that he bypassed that step and went straight to releasing the exploit code.
In this instance I side with the software company, as I'm sure the courts will. It appears to me that his motives were not to further the product and have the company produce a better product, but to publicly humiliate them, or to appear leet to his "2600-style" ragazine.
I realize that consumer groups monitor product quality for things we buy and use, the national governments inspects the food we eat, police patrol our city streets, even the people of a country monitor their elected officials.
I realize that most softwares TOU forbid you to reverse engineer the product but isn't that more to protect their IP? I mean if someone doesn't dissect it and break it apart to expose flaws, will their next release be any better?
If people didn't tear open Windows would the product be worse today?
Slashdot Mirror
I believe it is called braille. And it isn't new.
anyone else of the comic book Punisher 2099?
I completely understand and agree with teh schools stance. Should anything have happened after the event, months or even years, you could bet that some parents group somewhere would have held the school liable for it.
I also think that the students should be commended for wanting to do something to aid the victims of this disaster. It proves that their generation isn't as disenfranchised as we are lead to believe.
Good job gamers!
I read this one line,
And it occured to me, that this is a good thing in identifying current and future pedophiles.
By setting up something similar to "honeypots for hackers to track their movements why not do the same for traffickers of child pornography.
I mean afterall the article stated
Seems to me the best option is to identify and track them.
Or do governing bodies not give a rats ass about our children?
Move out of CA
If the people lead, the leaders will follow.
Stop using you email acocunt to register for crap.
Register for a free email account at yahoo.com or hotmail, use this for when you must submit an email. This way this email address can get spammed till the cows come home, you simply dole out your real email to friends and family and tell them not to submit your email for giveaways and such.
STOP USING IE. Use Mozilla or Firefox to browse the web. I have used mozilla or firefox for the last few years and only resort to IE when absolutely necessary, and because of the popup blocker (that runs from within them not an outside program) I get ZERO popups. I run no syware blockers or popup stoppers, no anti spam tools. I simply use a second email and Mozilla or Firefox and I get no popups and my inbox takes me 3 minutes to read.
I guess the lawyer should have used this to paint his car http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/14/002820 8&tid=193&tid=126&tid=1
So let me make sure I understand, police can not tap your phone line without a warrant. Police can not search your private property without reasonable suspicion cause or your permission, whichever comes first. But they can install a tracking device on your car without your knowledge. Hmmm, I realize that this would do two things one it would avoid the need for 24 hour surveylance if they wanted to track your movements, and it would lessen tax dollars needed to support such. If the role was reversed and say I wanted to know where my elected local officials were going, and installed one on their cars would I be in violation of the law? Since it was deemed legal I suggest we all do that tonight.
Higher power bless Texas!
Finally not just portrayed as dumb hicks, and in a time when Civil Liberties are bieng crushed everywhere, hopefully this doesn't violate the Patriot Act and make our good anonymous emailer a "CYBER TERRORIST".
See not just bad things *cough BUSH cough* come out of Texas.
From reading this article it never stated if more people than just the one lawyer complained. The article said that "they were asked several times to settle down", by whom? The lawyer? Or court bailifs?
It never stated why the men were there, were they there on business meaning they had a court appearance or were they merely there to witness the days court proceedings, which is their right.
The fault is their own, wether there on business or just exercising their legal right to appear. They should have conducted themselves in a mature manner if however, the lawyer was the only one to complain and the men were not asked to leave the courts, which if they were there to simply watch, surely they would have been told to if causing a disturbance an arrest was not warranted given the facts of the article.
Seems to me one lawyer threw his weight around because the ambulance chaser was offended by a few wise cracks. The old codgers were bored and having some fun.
To the lawyer who had the gezers arrested just because you have passed a BAR exam and possibly have a law degree doesn't give you the right to be a total prick. Get your head out of your ass, it was old guys cracking jokes, you can't take a joke then bury your head back into your mothers teet you whiny little pratt.
wifi networks I have stumbled on in my area, and the staggering number that use no encryption at all, I don't think this will be a viable solution to the masses who either haven't RTFM, or did and are afraid to ask questions or research what they don't understand.
While this paint would reduce or even stop someone from plundering a wifi network, if those people would take time and enable the current WEP or whatever auth they have on their firmware it would harden their system that much more.
It's easy to sit outside a house in a parked car for 5 mins to check email or quik recon, but I doubt if anyone would spend time needed parked outside to break into a WEP enabled network.
I know someone who calls bandwidth bandwitch.
So now if I'm at someones house and they have spyware slowing them down, I tell 'em "something is eating your bandwitch". It gets a chuckle.
Our hero Flynn has just released his disk to cut-off the MCP, when just before it gets there it gets B.S.O.D.ed and returns a divide by 0 error.
Better luck in another 15 years Flynn.
End of line...
Brightening /. users days one chuckle at a time ;P
I have toyed with a crippleware version of VMWare and had Linux running withing Windows, and Windows within Linux ( not wine ). From what I saw the product was great and really lived up to the claims they made. It was too pricey for my budget so I had to turn it loose.
I didnt read this the last time you posted it, could you please post it once more?
Defamation is spoken, we have a case of liable (printed slander) here.
Your Abe Froman, the sausage king of Chicago?
And exactly how can Mr Fitch prove someone is guilty of identity theft? Simply filling out false information for an email account is far from identity theft. I mean hell 90% of the hotmail users are guilty if thats the case. Alas, I hope Joe Momma doesn't file suit against me for identity theft because I registered that name for my GMAIL account.
Sounds like what we have is the Hatfields and McCoys, Mr X or Mr Doe should remain anonymous because any name can be attached to an email. Mr Fitch should just forget about it. I sympathize with him about having the image circulated, it is in poor taste and merely demonstrates the childish nature of the aggressor.
However tieng the legal system up like this is plain stupidity. He either needs to forgive and forget or move the fuck out of town.
Isn't that defamation of character? I mean if the suspects hadn't been subpoenaed can they do that? And what of the Cyber Crime guys? Sounds like they essentially hacked the ShadowCrew site.
Not that all this matters that much to me, I mean I may know how to make a bomb from household chemicals, but it doesn't mean I make them in the bath tub to set off at 4th of July to impress people.
I see nothing wrong with people wanting to "know" how to compromise systems, when they cross that line between a quest for knowledge and criminal mischief it's their own damn fault.
You can find tons of wargames on the web that encourage you to circumvent their securities legally. These are perfectly fine for me, though I find they are wrought with leet skript kiddies and self righteous arrogant asses that have the social skills of a tomato.
In which case I have found a few people who I engage in wargames with, where we each setup a box exchange IP's and first one to root the others box wins.
No one's systems are damaged, no DoSsing occurs. Just good old fashioned bragging rights are earned, plus I have learned a ton about insecurities in deploying my system for attack and have gained a wealth of knowledge on how to prevent ( as much as possible ) system compromise.
She who lives in "GLASS HOUSES" should cast no stones.
I was about to scream it's his right, but according to the unwritten rules of finding bugs, he should have first contacted them notifying them of the flaws then given them ample time to produce a patch or research his claims. Of which I didn't see anywhere where he stated that he did either, in fact I gathered from the article that he bypassed that step and went straight to releasing the exploit code.
In this instance I side with the software company, as I'm sure the courts will. It appears to me that his motives were not to further the product and have the company produce a better product, but to publicly humiliate them, or to appear leet to his "2600-style" ragazine.
I realize that consumer groups monitor product quality for things we buy and use, the national governments inspects the food we eat, police patrol our city streets, even the people of a country monitor their elected officials.
I realize that most softwares TOU forbid you to reverse engineer the product but isn't that more to protect their IP? I mean if someone doesn't dissect it and break it apart to expose flaws, will their next release be any better?
If people didn't tear open Windows would the product be worse today?
I saw one someone name "Thug"
and another that someone had named "PISS_OFF"
I for one welcome our new frozen overlords.