From what I've read, you don't want to use amavisd in a large-scale production environment
Their are some large-scale installs of amavisd, clamd, et-al in production environments. For example, I came into work one morning, just a few months ago, and had several hundred virus alerts. The infected emails originated from a subnet on a certain state sponsored supercomputing network. The subnet in question was their *.k12.us domain and the malware was *.somefool.
Within 15 minutes after calling their admin (which, for a change, was the same person listed in their whois info) , the alerts came to a screeching halt.
So, yes, one may not want to run this in a large-scale production environment, as it may not perform as expected either because of misconfiguration or otherwise. But, we use it where I work and so far I have been impressed.
but their anti-virus program-identifying scans could very easily pick up adware programs simply by throwing them into the definition files.
Why don't they do that?
I used to wonder the same thing and even pondered the possibility of a large AV company buying one of the Anti-Spyware/Adware vendors and incorporating the technology in future AV releases. I reached the conclusion that this probably won't happen because they would most likely get sued into oblivion by the creators of the Spyware/Adware.
This is because the creators would argue in court that the user was presented a EULA that satisfactorily disclosed the consequences of installing the software bundle. I don't know what the actual legal charges would be, but I imagine something like anticompetitive practices, theft of their revenue by deception, or something like that.
I could be wrong, but I guess it all comes down to the EULA.
I did this as well, but I got an on-campus job in the IT/Telecommunications department. Low pay, but picked up some good skills that eventually led to a decent career in IT.
Some of the duties of that job were installing/configuring some of the earlier T-1's, locating and mapping underground network cabling, and helping the boss with his "side-business" of remote tech support for banks.
Plus, the hours were great! I worked in-between classes and had every night and weekend off, but was still able to pull in an extra few hundred dollars every couple of weeks.
We were very aware of the pranksters and had been advised of the behavior of some of the repeat callers. However, I began to take some of them more seriously when the FBI showed up unannounced and claimed all the tapes as evidence (we went through the appropriate channels and didn't blindly hand them over. However, they would not leave our office until they had the tapes). I wish I could take my experience with this a little less seriously, but that type of work is about as serious as it gets and I'm glad I don't work there anymore.
On a side note, from an IT perspective, we did all this using 1980's era equipment from Comverse Technologies (StarTel for call routing and TriLogue for recording/voice-mail) if you're familiar with those antiquated systems.:)
I'm sure that sex offenders A. Congregate in the same area(s)
Yes, they do. Using the registry I located "clusters" offenders; many of them shared the same address. I am not kidding. After asking some ex-law enforcement people (that I work with) about this, they disclosed that many offenders are released they stay at a half-way house for a while. The address of the half-way house becomes the offender's first registered address. I found some locations both in and on the edge of the city limits; two of them are within 5 blocks of where I work.
Also, about ten years ago, I worked at a call-center and one of our accounts was the "Tip-Line" for an abducted child. We recorded the phone calls that came in and were absolutely not allowed to hang up on anyone no matter what they said - anything could have been a clue. I managed this account and let me be the first to say that it is not the media created hype that I bought into. I would suspect that anyone who is forced to listen to people calling in and describing what they have done/are doing/wanted to do to children would take similar precautions. Until you have repeatedly listened to accounts of rape and dismemberment without any recourse, think twice about the criticism.
Link. Not all the courses have lecture notes or othe useful stuff in them yet. When dig deeper into each course's links you may notice a nav bar on the left of the screen. Many of the courses have the "Lecture Notes" section there.
...one of my professors introduced me to Scott Savage, the creator of the OOPIC. He wanted us to brainstorm on a security implementation for his device. I suggested something similar, but since the OOPIC is most often used in robotics, he wanted something for physical access security since that has been a hot topic since 9/11 and I work company whose primary business division is security guards. Unfortuneately, he didn't go for it and I ended up submitting a P2P security article to CACM which got accepted but has not yet been printed (they advised it would be 14 months or so, so I'm anxious!).
MIT Open Courseware These are not whitepapers and the like. Rather, they are mostly lecture notes from the professors who teach the classes there - Enjoy!
Yep, I've still got it on a floppy somewhere. When I first got internet access around '91 we had to connect to our university's servers with ProComm or some other modem software and then rlogin or telnet into our shell account. I had MS Windows on my 386 SX33 for 6 months before I ever decided to check it out. Then, here comes Trumpet and the Mosaic browser. What I disliked most about Trumpet was having to mod my init string for each new modem or, IIRC, when I switched ISP's (which I did very often in the early 90's). Did anyone ever try to use their firewall?
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From what I've read, you don't want to use amavisd in a large-scale production environment
Their are some large-scale installs of amavisd, clamd, et-al in production environments. For example, I came into work one morning, just a few months ago, and had several hundred virus alerts. The infected emails originated from a subnet on a certain state sponsored supercomputing network. The subnet in question was their *.k12.us domain and the malware was *.somefool.
Within 15 minutes after calling their admin (which, for a change, was the same person listed in their whois info) , the alerts came to a screeching halt.
So, yes, one may not want to run this in a large-scale production environment, as it may not perform as expected either because of misconfiguration or otherwise. But, we use it where I work and so far I have been impressed.
Saw them both on a Sunday Double Feature in 1986. Worst 4 hours of my life.
I wonder if they'd have the ethics training handbook available.
They have been on sale on eBay for a while now.
Your post appears to be written in the style of another abstractly composed math book, "The Education of T.C. Mits."
Here are some more links.
... tin foil hat and used car sales skyrocket.
but their anti-virus program-identifying scans could very easily pick up adware programs simply by throwing them into the definition files.
Why don't they do that?
I used to wonder the same thing and even pondered the possibility of a large AV company buying one of the Anti-Spyware/Adware vendors and incorporating the technology in future AV releases. I reached the conclusion that this probably won't happen because they would most likely get sued into oblivion by the creators of the Spyware/Adware.
This is because the creators would argue in court that the user was presented a EULA that satisfactorily disclosed the consequences of installing the software bundle. I don't know what the actual legal charges would be, but I imagine something like anticompetitive practices, theft of their revenue by deception, or something like that.
I could be wrong, but I guess it all comes down to the EULA.
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
Heh, Cheat codes for Contra on Nintendo - missed a week of class in 1990 thanks to that game... Aah, the memories.
Proof that Andy is evil.
Find a dedicated concept or conceptual area to exploit. How to do this? Simply ask folks what areas they are having problems with software needs.
Interesting site can be found here.
So what is the reference?
Deliverance. Here are some more refs.
I did this as well, but I got an on-campus job in the IT/Telecommunications department. Low pay, but picked up some good skills that eventually led to a decent career in IT.
Some of the duties of that job were installing/configuring some of the earlier T-1's, locating and mapping underground network cabling, and helping the boss with his "side-business" of remote tech support for banks.
Plus, the hours were great! I worked in-between classes and had every night and weekend off, but was still able to pull in an extra few hundred dollars every couple of weeks.
It seems to be real. Probably due to all the responses from this old poll.
And a new one...
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heh.
We were very aware of the pranksters and had been advised of the behavior of some of the repeat callers. However, I began to take some of them more seriously when the FBI showed up unannounced and claimed all the tapes as evidence (we went through the appropriate channels and didn't blindly hand them over. However, they would not leave our office until they had the tapes). I wish I could take my experience with this a little less seriously, but that type of work is about as serious as it gets and I'm glad I don't work there anymore.
:)
On a side note, from an IT perspective, we did all this using 1980's era equipment from Comverse Technologies (StarTel for call routing and TriLogue for recording/voice-mail) if you're familiar with those antiquated systems.
I'm sure that sex offenders A. Congregate in the same area(s)
Yes, they do. Using the registry I located "clusters" offenders; many of them shared the same address. I am not kidding. After asking some ex-law enforcement people (that I work with) about this, they disclosed that many offenders are released they stay at a half-way house for a while. The address of the half-way house becomes the offender's first registered address. I found some locations both in and on the edge of the city limits; two of them are within 5 blocks of where I work.
Also, about ten years ago, I worked at a call-center and one of our accounts was the "Tip-Line" for an abducted child. We recorded the phone calls that came in and were absolutely not allowed to hang up on anyone no matter what they said - anything could have been a clue. I managed this account and let me be the first to say that it is not the media created hype that I bought into. I would suspect that anyone who is forced to listen to people calling in and describing what they have done/are doing/wanted to do to children would take similar precautions. Until you have repeatedly listened to accounts of rape and dismemberment without any recourse, think twice about the criticism.
Here is the link to them all.
Stop Sex offenders
I used the registry for my home state when I was house-hunting. I don't want my children or wife to be anywhere near these people.
I suppose it's fair because the filesharers aren't paying them either? I still disagree with their double standard of suing/using the data.
Link. Not all the courses have lecture notes or othe useful stuff in them yet. When dig deeper into each course's links you may notice a nav bar on the left of the screen. Many of the courses have the "Lecture Notes" section there.
...one of my professors introduced me to Scott Savage, the creator of the OOPIC. He wanted us to brainstorm on a security implementation for his device. I suggested something similar, but since the OOPIC is most often used in robotics, he wanted something for physical access security since that has been a hot topic since 9/11 and I work company whose primary business division is security guards. Unfortuneately, he didn't go for it and I ended up submitting a P2P security article to CACM which got accepted but has not yet been printed (they advised it would be 14 months or so, so I'm anxious!).
MIT Open Courseware These are not whitepapers and the like. Rather, they are mostly lecture notes from the professors who teach the classes there - Enjoy!
p.s. - Check out the link in my earlier post
NTRS - Enjoy!
Yep, I've still got it on a floppy somewhere. When I first got internet access around '91 we had to connect to our university's servers with ProComm or some other modem software and then rlogin or telnet into our shell account. I had MS Windows on my 386 SX33 for 6 months before I ever decided to check it out. Then, here comes Trumpet and the Mosaic browser. What I disliked most about Trumpet was having to mod my init string for each new modem or, IIRC, when I switched ISP's (which I did very often in the early 90's). Did anyone ever try to use their firewall?
so now we're teaching college students how to hack?
Yes, an article from a few months ago has some info.
Then when we're licking reovirus lollipops and gulping down reovirus power shakes, that's when it reveals it's true agenda: World domination.
Have you been unfortuneate enough to see "The Stuff"?
I'm using Mandrake as well. I used RH 7.3 & 8.0 but switched.
/. story, source RPM's for RHEL are available for download so that they are in compliance with the GPL.
However, as commented on in a previous
The comment I am referring to is a couple of posts down on the first page of comments.