This question almost seems moot to me. There is no question in my mind that a worm targeted at linux systems will some day (sooner rather then later) spread as fast as the last few windows worms did.
People seem to forget that in this case the time between the security builletin(+patch) and the release of the worm was barely 1 *friggin* month!
Worm makers are getting "smarter" all the time, the last 2 blaster variants demonstrated new strategies of infection like scanning both for public ip's and private ip's. And there was the nice feature of renewing your payload to stay active. There's no doubt that in a few years worms will become more modular and be able to alter their payload and their scanning algorithms just to make your life a bit more miserable.
The only thing that can save you is updating your system once a day, and just pray to $fav_deity that some blackhat evildoer isn't gonna find some big ugly gaping hole in some generic app.
If a worm can't survive more than 24Hrs by default I would think all the fun is over for the worm writers.
I'm not trying to troll here but:
Don't tell me we have to explain this law/proposal again?!
I'm getting the feeling people are posting these skewed stories just so they can reply as AC's with comments about how great the US system is. I guess it's just hard dealing with other countries when 86% of your population has never been over the border.
Please don't bother giving advice to nation-states where governments are still elected by citizens instead of bought by special interest groups. (well ok, except Italy that is).
If I remember correctly ESA is already both marketleader launching commercial sattelites AND making money while doing it. The biggest threat to ESA's position right now is not NASA but country's like China and India.
That's what happens when you keep launching something that was designed over 30 years ago and never reached it's design goals, like for example being a reusable vehicle(!). The current space "shuttle" is more like a pod sitting on top a big rocket that can land by itself. Almost everything else needs to be build again.
It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
effective today, without any warning.
My suspicion is this happened because I made anti-war statements in a
Canadian newspaper article in the Globe & Mail, but I am not an
American citizen so I cannot claim to have free speech there (even
made "quote of the day").
In a phone call a few days ago it was expressed to me that there were
people inside DARPA and UPENN who were very uncomfortable with the
article, but I was not told specifically what upset them.
We have 60 developers flying in from around the world (they bought
their own tickets, non-refundable) for a Hackathon May 8 - 20, where
we do a major part of our development; since DARPA is now forcing
UPENN to cancel those Hotel accomodations, I would be very grateful if
anyone can find a way to help us. I'm going to need to pay for it
myself, since these people are going to come.
Thanks.
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The anti-war statements that were made can be found here
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Full steam ahead, stoke the boiler with more kittens! -- Bluey, Dragon Tails
Could you elaborate on your opinion of new laws like the DMCA in the US and the variants thereof that are being introduced in Europe and the rest of the world.
What would have happened differently if laws like the DMCA were in force during your first phreaking sessions?
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XFS support is already in the 2.6.x kernel... no need to to patch anymore... rejoice!
/dev/urandom > /opt/slashdot.sig
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This question almost seems moot to me. There is no question in my mind that a worm targeted at linux systems will some day (sooner rather then later) spread as fast as the last few windows worms did.
People seem to forget that in this case the time between the security builletin(+patch) and the release of the worm was barely 1 *friggin* month!
Worm makers are getting "smarter" all the time, the last 2 blaster variants demonstrated new strategies of infection like scanning both for public ip's and private ip's. And there was the nice feature of renewing your payload to stay active. There's no doubt that in a few years worms will become more modular and be able to alter their payload and their scanning algorithms just to make your life a bit more miserable.
The only thing that can save you is updating your system once a day, and just pray to $fav_deity that some blackhat evildoer isn't gonna find some big ugly gaping hole in some generic app.
If a worm can't survive more than 24Hrs by default I would think all the fun is over for the worm writers.
I'm not trying to troll here but: Don't tell me we have to explain this law/proposal again?!
I'm getting the feeling people are posting these skewed stories just so they can reply as AC's with comments about how great the US system is. I guess it's just hard dealing with other countries when 86% of your population has never been over the border.
Please don't bother giving advice to nation-states where governments are still elected by citizens instead of bought by special interest groups. (well ok, except Italy that is).
If I remember correctly ESA is already both marketleader launching commercial sattelites AND making money while doing it. The biggest threat to ESA's position right now is not NASA but country's like China and India.
That's what happens when you keep launching something that was designed over 30 years ago and never reached it's design goals, like for example being a reusable vehicle(!). The current space "shuttle" is more like a pod sitting on top a big rocket that can land by itself. Almost everything else needs to be build again.
Theo's message follows:
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FYI,
It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons, effective today, without any warning.
My suspicion is this happened because I made anti-war statements in a Canadian newspaper article in the Globe & Mail, but I am not an American citizen so I cannot claim to have free speech there (even made "quote of the day").
In a phone call a few days ago it was expressed to me that there were people inside DARPA and UPENN who were very uncomfortable with the article, but I was not told specifically what upset them.
We have 60 developers flying in from around the world (they bought their own tickets, non-refundable) for a Hackathon May 8 - 20, where we do a major part of our development; since DARPA is now forcing UPENN to cancel those Hotel accomodations, I would be very grateful if anyone can find a way to help us. I'm going to need to pay for it myself, since these people are going to come.
Thanks.
- - - -
The anti-war statements that were made can be found here
--
Full steam ahead, stoke the boiler with more kittens! -- Bluey, Dragon Tails
Could you elaborate on your opinion of new laws like the DMCA in the US and the variants thereof that are being introduced in Europe and the rest of the world.
What would have happened differently if laws like the DMCA were in force during your first phreaking sessions?
Microsoft ads on slashdot?
/. especially since they still do their own ad sales if i recall correctly
it's not really something one would expect from
Is it just me or is this new?
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