I agree on the love to tinker, and the thing I'm amazed about is that people don't want to do the same in their own field..
Also, another poster brought this up, but if consistency and 'just working' are large goals for a desktop OS, why is Microsoft winning in the desktop market?
Really I don't think that Linux displaces Macintosh user base, I think more the opposite. I see more people who liked linux but grew tired of endless tinkering, going to OS X for sanctuary. I think it's both vs. Windows. But, number wise, I think it's inevitable that Linux will outpace Mac on the desktop...
In the end, I suspect it will be gaming that does it...
I disagree with most of your points. First, I agree that Macintosh enjoys an active zealot community. But that zealot community isn't growing. Linux also enjoys a zealot community, which is growing very rapidly.
I also disagree that Linux isn't ready for the desktop. However, if your basis for "ready for the desktop" is a "consistent" UI then please, leave me out. I want consistancy like I want the clap.
Linux's many UI's could easily be described as overwhelming, and are definely inconsistant with each other. But I consider at least 3 UI's superior to OS X's Aqua. They are (in order or superiority); Enlightenment, gnome, and kde.
I would also like to discuss, not to flame, the claim that OS X is "smooth". I have used OS X. I have a G4 running 10.2 on my desk as I type this. I respect the OS and the steps Apple has taken to solidify it's OS offering. I would say OS X is a usable operating system, and that it's options and use are definetly simple. Not intuitive, but simple. I would next say that the interface is attractive. However, XP was attractive for the first month I had it. Now it's old, boring, bland. At least in XP I can change the color of my windows (blah). How can I do this in OS X? Can it even be done? I've seen at least 50 different OS X users, many of whom are "zealots" for Apple. None of these OS X desktops have looked any different, except for the backgrounds and the order of the icons. Oh, and the hard drive icon, thrill.
In summary, OS X is slick and beautiful, but I need variety.
My desktop now is enlightenment, and with a middle click and a selection of a menu item, looks exactly like the OS X desktop. I'm sick of it. I want a new one. I am completely blown away that no graphics designer wants to overhaul his desktop's look and feel. I'm good friends with several graphic artists all of whom are mac zealots. None of them have the foggiest idea how to change my desktop. None of them have anything to constructive to say about the useability of the OS X desktop.
Linux will absorb OS X users on the desktop.
But, and more importantly, Linux will take over the desktop from Microsoft. It will take a few years. But Redmond knows it, and they're scared, and they're showing it.
I couldn't disagree more. CA roots offer nothing but false sense of security. Fooling people in the real world is 100X easier than fooling a computer. Just ask any real hacker. Social engineering is where you get in, unless you get lucky. ssh does public/private key authentication. There's no need to have a client key to establish server validity. The only downside to the way ssh works is the first connection you must choose to trust that key, which is why they present you with the hex key fingerprint. So if you're concerned about the validity of the server you're connecting to you can check it against something else. Having a verisign just provides warm fuzzies and a central place to manage who's key is what. In fact, I'd love to hear a good arguement supporting Verisign's role as opposed to me being my own CA. I would put forth the point that I, as a CA have signed many of my own SSL certificates, and never signed one for someone claiming to be microsoft when they were not, as Verisign has...
Do you know how to read?
That bit of "hex numbers" is the FINGERPRINT of the DSA/RSA public key the server is providing your client. SSH does use keys, the server has a public/private keypair and won't work without one. They NEVER should change unless you, as the server admin, WANT them to. If they do change, then something bad really is going on.
Was a nice try though, you may have fooled some n00bs into thinking your 1337....
As a side note it's INCREDIBLY humurous that this comment is to a post about a security problem that was effectively caught by ssh's public/private key authentication.
Want to see what your ssh is really doing...? Throw some -v's in the command line..
ssh -vvv bob@somehost.flonk
I've been playing it with no problems. I think the likely cause of the excessively long delay to release is due to some good QA people at Bioware.
So far everything in the game has worked flawlessly.
With this and ut2003 native linux clients, Tux finally can be a gamer.
I recommend downloading Gentoo's Unreal Tournament bootable CD if you want to demo native Linux gaming for some non-believers... Sorry, can't find a direct link... It's in their livecd folder...
Also I recommend transgaming for Windows games on Linux. Warcraft 3, Ghost Recon, Max Payne to name a few games that run under Winex3...
I hope more game development companies want my money, cuz from now on the only way their getting it is if the game has a native Linux client... Unless it's a ps2 game of course..
why not hit their web sites?
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With valid requests for the content.. so you can "cache" it proactively. Have the mail server query every http link and download whatever it is a couple times... but maybe your download script is accidently broken and just keeps sending the SYN requests, it could keep a list of "active" http requests to make ever few minutes or so. Of course you would want to whitelist some sites, and do some kinds of filtering to be closer to sure that it's an actual spam.
As a seperate note, I've used popfile for a while now and I don't even notice the spam. anymore, my popfile is 99.6% accurate. Popfile is easy to use also, I setup 3 non-techies on it and they haven't called since the initial configuration. Spam is no longer the headache it used to be.
never? 2004, 2005? previews of tomorrows technology are cool, but what's with microsoft and the xbox crowd acting like halo 2 is almost here... I saw one poll over a month ago where people actually voted halo 2 the best game on the xbox... Seriously, it's not a game on the xbox...
But, that hasn't stopped either party before.. From Microsoft's lies about the xbox's polygon performance, to their bull about the advantages of having to pay to play games you already bought online..
FYI, Code green was more like code red in that it actively scanned for vulnerable servers... but there were other ones that listened for code red attacks then counter-attacked and patched... can't find any now... work and all...
I only game on Linux now, and my Linux is Gentoo
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I play UT2003, and Neverwinternights. Both run amazingly well on my 2.4.20-gaming kernel with the latest Nvidia drivers.
But the main reason I love gentoo is a good, working BSD style ports system.
I've uninstalled Windows on my desktop, which was the last place I had it running... thanks Gentoo, and everyone in the Linux community.
I will only buy games that have a native Linux port, and since UT2003 and NWN will last me a long time if nobody ports, I'll keep my money, and donate some to Gentoo and others who are advancing the cause of Freedom.
For those of you who are not familiar Code Green was an anti-code red listener that would automatically connect to an attacking code red infected server and clean it up. link to news story about code green
People in the "security community" were inflamed, and the general consensus was that this was illegal, and many people, myself included, decided not to install code green. Now, code red attacks are still common in my server logs..
Looks like it's better to ask forgiveness than seek permission.
I think this *used* to be 99%. I think now it's heading towards 90%. I ditched my windows partition for more DivX space and only game on Linux now. I mainly play UT2003, Neverwinter Nights, Quake 3, and Half-Life Counterstrike. All using their native Linux ports, except Half Life. I've subscribed to winex but have no real interest in playin the games I have that require it yet. Sure I will soon, but I'd say Linux is a viable gaming platform. The trend is more rather than less games are coming out with Linux support, and helping someone with their Windows box once a month for a half hour is about the right amount to remind me why I left the platform.
Like Hemopure?
Which, AFAIK, is made from actual biological tissue (cow's blood), and is a very effective replacement for human blood.
If you're T-cells have been modified to go after a broader range of cells you could have much more serious issues with any transplant/transfusions..
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just replaced my home phone with voip...
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I just replaced my home phone with a voip phone from packet8.net. I also considered vonage.com
Am I to understand then, that currently law enforcement could _not_ get a wiretap order to listen in on my calls? Being a privacy advocate I like this very much, maybe a temporary solution for criminals everywhere. FYI vonage uses cisco ATA's but packet8 has a proprietary solution. I hope that when people listening in on voip calls becomes more common place they upgrade to an all encrypted system.
Then all we'd need to do is get more people using PGP/GPG for email and all the spy power in the world isn't gonna help big brother. boo hoo.
http://www.theagonist.org/
thoughtful, global, timely
I've been glued to this site since the war started. A great "war blog" with plenty of good comments, and excellent information.
I love E! Always have, always will. I've just got over my last round of excitement for E 17.. Why do you torture me with E 17 news!! WHY WHY WHY!!!
On a side note, the link in the article does not work for me, I get ERROR, forum not found...
If you haven't tried E, I highly recommend it.
OSS everyone does not mean Free. A GPL'd product CAN be sold for money, just the source must be made available.
Bill would be wise to make a linux kernel based distro of Winders. Get all the Free/OSS/Linux apps, the stability and advanced features of the Linux kernel, and detract people from switching to Linux. I'd pay $80 to get directX on Linux.
I agree with many people that this is unlikely, I don't think M$ is agile enough to commit to such a change. But it could happen, and I would _not_ be surprised if it did happen...
As for open sourcing their office apps, this would be a definite change from their current strategy of obfuscating the document API so others couldn't clone it. But it seems that strategy to be failing, it's not unheard of for a business to CHANGE a FAILING strategy...
(imagine the drawing of poor quality stick figures on the board)
Joe lives with his wife Susan on the North side of the river in Anytown, USA. One day Joe is getting ready for work and his wife, Susan, is feeling very lonely, and begs him to stay with her for the day. She begs and begs, but Joe leaves for work nonetheless. Feeling lonely, and in dire need of intimacy, Susan leaves her house and crosses the nearby bridge to the other side of the river. She knows it's not the best part of town as there are frequently shady characters hanging about. On the other side of the bridge Susan goes to Tom's house, where she seduces him and spends the entire day in his arms making passionate love.
Night comes and Susan realizes she better get home ASAP. Scared to cross the bridge alone in the dark she asks Tom to walk her home. Tom declines, saying he's got too much work to catch up on, having been distracted all day by Susan. So, she walks home alone. While crossing the bridge she's mugged and killed.
The the teacher asked the class "who's FAULT is it that Susan is dead?"
Of course everyone would argue all types of things about the bastard husband, or the jerk of a lover. After that went on for a while the teacher asked another questions, "What about the mugger, who KILLED her...?"
isn't it the person attacking you's liability for the harm they caused? I can't catch them, but my upstream likely could.. if only they had some sort of... incentive... say it cost them $$$...
So, stick them with the bill, and maybe they'll get off their hind quarters and start catching people for attacking others...
FYI Nissan.com is _not_ for nissan motors, makers of the Xterra...
You want nissanusa.com
Nissan.com is quite a funny story, however... Uzi Nissan, an Israeli I think, registered the domain well before Nissan Motors, and they sued him and lost, but in the battle he lost the ability to use the domain for any commercial purpose. Now it's a chilling reminder of who controls your mind... get your afdb ASAP (not at afdb.org)
I have a (non-illegal I think) idea to combat the 419 Nigeria scam, it goes like this. Everyone is welcome to forward their emails to a domain setup specifically for this(nigeriascam.org), all emails are parsed by a program to discern it is a scam and the sender of the original email (the scammer). Then an automatic reply is sent informing the scammer that I'm very interested in helping them with their money problems and please contact me further. The replies are parsed and the conversation continues until they give up or realize we're wasting their time. The goal of this is to waste their time, since they're likely a real person reading through most replies (at least the positive ones that make it past their mail filters). The secondary goal would be to collect information about them from various tactics which I won't reveal at this point (is there a copy of/. in Nigerian?).
There are 2 main problems I see right now. First is getting the time to write the thing (in perl), and second the reply addresses could/would give it away to the scammers, if they track the messages sent, or if they catch on to the several domains I use to reply from. A possible work around to the second is to setup mail accounts on various free servers and have them forward, or get other like minded people to donate free accounts on their mail server that simply forward email to an address at my domain, which has no MX entry... yet...
Please respond to this thread with your comments on this idea, or if you're willing to help me out.
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Ideally we could use several mail servers and just put them all in the MX entries for the domain, even several domains, since we don't need to worry about forwarding emails to correct accounts each mail server could be configured to think it's the best MX for the domain and parse/reply locally, thereby speeding up transmissions.
We could also record the information collected about the scammers and submit it monthly to the FBI/secret service. I believe information we could gather could be IP addresses with times on that IP (usefuly for locating a person in meatspace), names and phone numbers (names will likely be phoney, but phone numbers may be correct). Data integrity assurances will be needed to ensure any evidence collected is admissable in a court.
Care will need to be taken to ensure nobody abuses this to harrass non-scammers, a human must be available to be contacted for complaints due to abuses of the system. Reply messages should be kept short, sweet, and be highly randomized, and replies to the replies should be monitored for false positives in the first round.
I'm not sure the legal standing of an idea like this, there may be SPAM laws that cover these uses of email.. although since the emails are generally replies and this is definetly not a commercial endeavour, I think we're safe here.
There is no real useful information at
nigeriascam.org as of yet, so don't/. me..
Process accounting and restricting would also be a nice default on Linux. I was winning CTF at Defcon last year when people found out this lil jewel...
perl -e 'while(1){fork();}'
last thing I saw was no more file handles...
This is roughly as bad as having administrative privileges on Windows..
I told mine I'm against the DMCA, it makes me a criminal and if all David Rocci did was sell mod chips allowing people to use devices they BOUGHT in whatever way they wanted then he should be released. I mentioned that piracy is WRONG and should be ILLEGAL. But doing what I want with things I pay for (eg. fair use) is MORAL, and should be LEGAL.
The only way you're going to keep the guys with guns from hauling you off for your Linux DVD player is to get the bad laws changed.
"Who'd ever want to use PERL in PRODUCTION?" he says without noting the URL in his own web browser...
"http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?...."
Not a uber geek place like/.
using... gasp.... perl... in... gasp.. production
well I guess this isn't production, either that OR the.pl is just an extension, and in this case comments.pl is a just a compiled C program... with a.pl extension.. for backwards compatibility..
give it up, production usable is a myth, plenty of systems widely used are extensions of trials or prototypes that were useful so people jumped on and then they couldn't be taken down becuase they were in production. The least you can do is write them in a language that is easy,fast,powerful,extensible, and let's not forget just plain cool..
production is what works, it's like what language should you use? The one that can get the job done is the only correct answer. If it's perl, it's perl, if it's C, probably should look at perl again.. course if it's java... damn... did you even look at perl?
I've yet to see a cool sig in C/C++, and I've seen dozens in perl...
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I agree on the love to tinker, and the thing I'm amazed about is that people don't want to do the same in their own field..
Also, another poster brought this up, but if consistency and 'just working' are large goals for a desktop OS, why is Microsoft winning in the desktop market?
Really I don't think that Linux displaces Macintosh user base, I think more the opposite. I see more people who liked linux but grew tired of endless tinkering, going to OS X for sanctuary. I think it's both vs. Windows. But, number wise, I think it's inevitable that Linux will outpace Mac on the desktop...
In the end, I suspect it will be gaming that does it...
First, I agree that Macintosh enjoys an active zealot community. But that zealot community isn't growing. Linux also enjoys a zealot community, which is growing very rapidly.
I also disagree that Linux isn't ready for the desktop. However, if your basis for "ready for the desktop" is a "consistent" UI then please, leave me out. I want consistancy like I want the clap.
Linux's many UI's could easily be described as overwhelming, and are definely inconsistant with each other. But I consider at least 3 UI's superior to OS X's Aqua. They are (in order or superiority); Enlightenment, gnome, and kde.
I would also like to discuss, not to flame, the claim that OS X is "smooth". I have used OS X. I have a G4 running 10.2 on my desk as I type this. I respect the OS and the steps Apple has taken to solidify it's OS offering. I would say OS X is a usable operating system, and that it's options and use are definetly simple. Not intuitive, but simple. I would next say that the interface is attractive. However, XP was attractive for the first month I had it. Now it's old, boring, bland. At least in XP I can change the color of my windows (blah). How can I do this in OS X? Can it even be done? I've seen at least 50 different OS X users, many of whom are "zealots" for Apple. None of these OS X desktops have looked any different, except for the backgrounds and the order of the icons. Oh, and the hard drive icon, thrill.
In summary, OS X is slick and beautiful, but I need variety. My desktop now is enlightenment, and with a middle click and a selection of a menu item, looks exactly like the OS X desktop. I'm sick of it. I want a new one. I am completely blown away that no graphics designer wants to overhaul his desktop's look and feel. I'm good friends with several graphic artists all of whom are mac zealots. None of them have the foggiest idea how to change my desktop. None of them have anything to constructive to say about the useability of the OS X desktop.
Linux will absorb OS X users on the desktop. But, and more importantly, Linux will take over the desktop from Microsoft. It will take a few years. But Redmond knows it, and they're scared, and they're showing it.
I couldn't disagree more. CA roots offer nothing but false sense of security. Fooling people in the real world is 100X easier than fooling a computer. Just ask any real hacker. Social engineering is where you get in, unless you get lucky. ssh does public/private key authentication. There's no need to have a client key to establish server validity. The only downside to the way ssh works is the first connection you must choose to trust that key, which is why they present you with the hex key fingerprint. So if you're concerned about the validity of the server you're connecting to you can check it against something else. Having a verisign just provides warm fuzzies and a central place to manage who's key is what. In fact, I'd love to hear a good arguement supporting Verisign's role as opposed to me being my own CA. I would put forth the point that I, as a CA have signed many of my own SSL certificates, and never signed one for someone claiming to be microsoft when they were not, as Verisign has...
Was a nice try though, you may have fooled some n00bs into thinking your 1337....
As a side note it's INCREDIBLY humurous that this comment is to a post about a security problem that was effectively caught by ssh's public/private key authentication.
Want to see what your ssh is really doing...? Throw some -v's in the command line..
ssh -vvv bob@somehost.flonk
I've been playing it with no problems. I think the likely cause of the excessively long delay to release is due to some good QA people at Bioware.
So far everything in the game has worked flawlessly. With this and ut2003 native linux clients, Tux finally can be a gamer.
I recommend downloading Gentoo's Unreal Tournament bootable CD if you want to demo native Linux gaming for some non-believers... Sorry, can't find a direct link... It's in their livecd folder...
Also I recommend transgaming for Windows games on Linux. Warcraft 3, Ghost Recon, Max Payne to name a few games that run under Winex3...
I hope more game development companies want my money, cuz from now on the only way their getting it is if the game has a native Linux client... Unless it's a ps2 game of course..
With valid requests for the content.. so you can "cache" it proactively. Have the mail server query every http link and download whatever it is a couple times... but maybe your download script is accidently broken and just keeps sending the SYN requests, it could keep a list of "active" http requests to make ever few minutes or so. Of course you would want to whitelist some sites, and do some kinds of filtering to be closer to sure that it's an actual spam.
As a seperate note, I've used popfile for a while now and I don't even notice the spam. anymore, my popfile is 99.6% accurate. Popfile is easy to use also, I setup 3 non-techies on it and they haven't called since the initial configuration. Spam is no longer the headache it used to be.
But, that hasn't stopped either party before.. From Microsoft's lies about the xbox's polygon performance, to their bull about the advantages of having to pay to play games you already bought online..
FYI, Code green was more like code red in that it actively scanned for vulnerable servers... but there were other ones that listened for code red attacks then counter-attacked and patched... can't find any now... work and all...
But the main reason I love gentoo is a good, working BSD style ports system. I've uninstalled Windows on my desktop, which was the last place I had it running... thanks Gentoo, and everyone in the Linux community. I will only buy games that have a native Linux port, and since UT2003 and NWN will last me a long time if nobody ports, I'll keep my money, and donate some to Gentoo and others who are advancing the cause of Freedom.
Looks like it's better to ask forgiveness than seek permission.
I think this *used* to be 99%. I think now it's heading towards 90%. I ditched my windows partition for more DivX space and only game on Linux now. I mainly play UT2003, Neverwinter Nights, Quake 3, and Half-Life Counterstrike. All using their native Linux ports, except Half Life. I've subscribed to winex but have no real interest in playin the games I have that require it yet. Sure I will soon, but I'd say Linux is a viable gaming platform. The trend is more rather than less games are coming out with Linux support, and helping someone with their Windows box once a month for a half hour is about the right amount to remind me why I left the platform.
But on ebay you could snag a DSLAM for your 160 units for under a grand. That's a DEAL. ebay search for DSLAM
Amen! I agree 100% with your well written comments. How did this [erroneous] moral imperative evolve along side it's practiced opposite?
Like Hemopure?
Which, AFAIK, is made from actual biological tissue (cow's blood), and is a very effective replacement for human blood.
If you're T-cells have been modified to go after a broader range of cells you could have much more serious issues with any transplant/transfusions.. ??
I just replaced my home phone with a voip phone from packet8.net. I also considered vonage.com
Am I to understand then, that currently law enforcement could _not_ get a wiretap order to listen in on my calls? Being a privacy advocate I like this very much, maybe a temporary solution for criminals everywhere. FYI vonage uses cisco ATA's but packet8 has a proprietary solution. I hope that when people listening in on voip calls becomes more common place they upgrade to an all encrypted system.
Then all we'd need to do is get more people using PGP/GPG for email and all the spy power in the world isn't gonna help big brother. boo hoo.
http://www.theagonist.org/
thoughtful, global, timely
I've been glued to this site since the war started. A great "war blog" with plenty of good comments, and excellent information.
I love E! Always have, always will. I've just got over my last round of excitement for E 17.. Why do you torture me with E 17 news!! WHY WHY WHY!!!
On a side note, the link in the article does not work for me, I get ERROR, forum not found...
If you haven't tried E, I highly recommend it.
Bill would be wise to make a linux kernel based distro of Winders. Get all the Free/OSS/Linux apps, the stability and advanced features of the Linux kernel, and detract people from switching to Linux. I'd pay $80 to get directX on Linux.
I agree with many people that this is unlikely, I don't think M$ is agile enough to commit to such a change. But it could happen, and I would _not_ be surprised if it did happen...
As for open sourcing their office apps, this would be a definite change from their current strategy of obfuscating the document API so others couldn't clone it. But it seems that strategy to be failing, it's not unheard of for a business to CHANGE a FAILING strategy...
(imagine the drawing of poor quality stick figures on the board)
Joe lives with his wife Susan on the North side of the river in Anytown, USA. One day Joe is getting ready for work and his wife, Susan, is feeling very lonely, and begs him to stay with her for the day. She begs and begs, but Joe leaves for work nonetheless. Feeling lonely, and in dire need of intimacy, Susan leaves her house and crosses the nearby bridge to the other side of the river. She knows it's not the best part of town as there are frequently shady characters hanging about. On the other side of the bridge Susan goes to Tom's house, where she seduces him and spends the entire day in his arms making passionate love.
Night comes and Susan realizes she better get home ASAP. Scared to cross the bridge alone in the dark she asks Tom to walk her home. Tom declines, saying he's got too much work to catch up on, having been distracted all day by Susan. So, she walks home alone. While crossing the bridge she's mugged and killed.
The the teacher asked the class "who's FAULT is it that Susan is dead?"
Of course everyone would argue all types of things about the bastard husband, or the jerk of a lover. After that went on for a while the teacher asked another questions, "What about the mugger, who KILLED her...?"
isn't it the person attacking you's liability for the harm they caused? I can't catch them, but my upstream likely could.. if only they had some sort of ... incentive... say it cost them $$$...
So, stick them with the bill, and maybe they'll get off their hind quarters and start catching people for attacking others...
FYI Nissan.com is _not_ for nissan motors, makers of the Xterra... You want nissanusa.com
Nissan.com is quite a funny story, however... Uzi Nissan, an Israeli I think, registered the domain well before Nissan Motors, and they sued him and lost, but in the battle he lost the ability to use the domain for any commercial purpose. Now it's a chilling reminder of who controls your mind... get your afdb ASAP (not at afdb.org)
There are 2 main problems I see right now. First is getting the time to write the thing (in perl), and second the reply addresses could/would give it away to the scammers, if they track the messages sent, or if they catch on to the several domains I use to reply from. A possible work around to the second is to setup mail accounts on various free servers and have them forward, or get other like minded people to donate free accounts on their mail server that simply forward email to an address at my domain, which has no MX entry ... yet...
Please respond to this thread with your comments on this idea, or if you're willing to help me out.
---end of main thread, more rambling about ideas after---
Ideally we could use several mail servers and just put them all in the MX entries for the domain, even several domains, since we don't need to worry about forwarding emails to correct accounts each mail server could be configured to think it's the best MX for the domain and parse/reply locally, thereby speeding up transmissions.
We could also record the information collected about the scammers and submit it monthly to the FBI/secret service. I believe information we could gather could be IP addresses with times on that IP (usefuly for locating a person in meatspace), names and phone numbers (names will likely be phoney, but phone numbers may be correct). Data integrity assurances will be needed to ensure any evidence collected is admissable in a court.
Care will need to be taken to ensure nobody abuses this to harrass non-scammers, a human must be available to be contacted for complaints due to abuses of the system. Reply messages should be kept short, sweet, and be highly randomized, and replies to the replies should be monitored for false positives in the first round.
I'm not sure the legal standing of an idea like this, there may be SPAM laws that cover these uses of email.. although since the emails are generally replies and this is definetly not a commercial endeavour, I think we're safe here.
There is no real useful information at nigeriascam.org as of yet, so don't /. me..
Process accounting and restricting would also be a nice default on Linux. I was winning CTF at Defcon last year when people found out this lil jewel... perl -e 'while(1){fork();}'
last thing I saw was no more file handles...
This is roughly as bad as having administrative privileges on Windows..
I told mine I'm against the DMCA, it makes me a criminal and if all David Rocci did was sell mod chips allowing people to use devices they BOUGHT in whatever way they wanted then he should be released. I mentioned that piracy is WRONG and should be ILLEGAL. But doing what I want with things I pay for (eg. fair use) is MORAL, and should be LEGAL.
The only way you're going to keep the guys with guns from hauling you off for your Linux DVD player is to get the bad laws changed.
"http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?...."
Not a uber geek place like /.
... gasp.... perl... in ... gasp .. production
.pl is just an extension, and in this case comments.pl is a just a compiled C program... with a .pl extension.. for backwards compatibility..
using
well I guess this isn't production, either that OR the
give it up, production usable is a myth, plenty of systems widely used are extensions of trials or prototypes that were useful so people jumped on and then they couldn't be taken down becuase they were in production. The least you can do is write them in a language that is easy,fast,powerful,extensible, and let's not forget just plain cool..
production is what works, it's like what language should you use? The one that can get the job done is the only correct answer. If it's perl, it's perl, if it's C, probably should look at perl again.. course if it's java... damn... did you even look at perl?
I've yet to see a cool sig in C/C++, and I've seen dozens in perl...
There is no room to claim the RIAA has it tough.. They're screwing the artists plain and simple, and they're screwing the public.
Do you think the extra money the RIAA took from this mythical band actually went to the artists of the 29,872 other albums? doubtful.