There have been a number of comments on this topic on a closed list for academic sites here in the UK and the analyses point to Sobig DDoS attacks, specifically against spamhaus.org in these cases. Sobig-F was a very well written piece of binary code, encrypted and compressed to 76k AFAIR, and a description of its functionality shows this. In particular, the possibility that it could act as a portal for Trojan downloads reinforces the claim.
I was trapping infected workstations by monitoring perimeter firewall logs for DNS calls to the root servers, as this is a feature of its activity. Pity I didn't have time to find out what it wanted to resolve, because that could have been interesting.
Eh, everyone likes whichever doctor they saw first, best.
Hmm. I saw it from the first episode, but I still have to say Patrick Troughton was my favourite. William Hartnell was a tad too grumpy to be popular with a child my age.
You raise an interesting point. In UK law, there was a test case some years ago in which the view was taken that computer data cannot be stolen. It can be criminally damaged (altered, deleted) but copying does not constitute theft, as the original data is left intact in the appropriate place.
"Theft of Data" is nonetheless still popularly believed to be an offence in the UK, as the judgement alluded to above is not immediately intuitive without some detail. I'll admit to being surprised myself when I first learned of it, though it's satisfyingly thoughtful.
I daresay the idea might not find favour in the US.
Well, of course the vast majority of users don't know what their problem is. That's why they call tech support. I'm in exactly this position with a well-known brand of firewall software; everything is configured correctly, verified by level 2 support, and it still don't do what it says on the tin. If I knew what the problem really was, I'd fix it without any support. (This problem is in week 10 or so).
I've also found a new bug in the process, so the beta-tester angle is bang on too.
Large organisations take time to take up ideas. My employers are now agreed on Mozilla mail and its successors after some delay, but this was largely to do with the absence of a spellchecker at the time.
The spam filtering is the other big attraction. Employees are becoming increasingly offended by and vociferous about porm spam. They expect Something to be Done.
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Jacqueline Pierce.
That role did her in. I listened to a BBC radio doc about her a while back; AFAIR she apparently got into the role so deeply she became more Servalan than herself and the character took over her life. I think she's had a nervous breakdown or three in the intervening years, all caused by this, so you can't be too harsh on her. Respect - if you were into dominant babes in the 80s, she's still an icon.
No Virginia, Mrs. Thatcher wasn't a babe. Never liked her, did we precious?
We see this is the UK, where the railway's "passengers" suddenly became "customers" and got the shittier, more expensive services brought to us be privatisation. I haven't had a TV in 15 years and it's noticeable how the majority of my fellow countryfolk are driven by the values presumably presented by TV; the average personal debt (excluding mortgages) per adult is now about 25,000 UKP. The message is "spend spend spend and they that have run out of spending power are dead (and thus deeply unattractive)".
Bleugh!
Now, where's my credit card? Gotta get over to Vulture Central for the new product....
Someone posted this method of goat prevention (after the fact in this case) a while ago - this goes in the mozilla chrome directory and is called userContent.css. Cut along the dotted line:
An open source exploit? You mean, like an exploit published under the GPL? Are you serious? Or are you saying that open source libraries are Dangerous and ought to be Banned? Or something? Kindly explain.
Laugh and the world laughs with you; fart and you're all alone.
I remember that first distro well - the awe at all those packages and would it fit on my 110 Meg RLL drive and hmm, gotta recompile this here kernel it says here and all the new and exciting things, well, wow. It was just so different from DOS and OS/2, it was mindblowing.
I wonder how many of us can look back at that and say "Without Slackware 1.0 then, I wouldn't be doing the cool job I do now"? It certainly applies to me and I'm thankful for it. Big respect to the man Patrick and the Slackware crew.
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I was trapping infected workstations by monitoring perimeter firewall logs for DNS calls to the root servers, as this is a feature of its activity. Pity I didn't have time to find out what it wanted to resolve, because that could have been interesting.
Hmm. I saw it from the first episode, but I still have to say Patrick Troughton was my favourite. William Hartnell was a tad too grumpy to be popular with a child my age.
And future.
Get your facts straight before you flame more than half of the United States population.
Gotcha! (tee-hee)
Saturn 5, Ariane 4.
References for my previous here
You raise an interesting point. In UK law, there was a test case some years ago in which the view was taken that computer data cannot be stolen. It can be criminally damaged (altered, deleted) but copying does not constitute theft, as the original data is left intact in the appropriate place.
"Theft of Data" is nonetheless still popularly believed to be an offence in the UK, as the judgement alluded to above is not immediately intuitive without some detail. I'll admit to being surprised myself when I first learned of it, though it's satisfyingly thoughtful.
I daresay the idea might not find favour in the US.
Mod the above redundant, Mr. Moderator please. The original spoof was "Porn for nerds, stuff that splatters", AFAIR.
...40,000 metres (40 kilometres) up in a balloon 381 metres tall...
And philosophers will become kings. One of those neat ideas that'll never happen.
Well I blew it on #3.
"Weird noises"? Hell yeah, and when I drop my guts....
Ha!
There are plenty of stupid schemes that people will come up with where a "NO!" is the correct response and a promise to schedule means "Yes".
Pulling a gun on your users reinforces the idea that "no = never ever and never ask me for that again". Very effective.
Well, of course the vast majority of users don't know what their problem is. That's why they call tech support. I'm in exactly this position with a well-known brand of firewall software; everything is configured correctly, verified by level 2 support, and it still don't do what it says on the tin. If I knew what the problem really was, I'd fix it without any support. (This problem is in week 10 or so).
I've also found a new bug in the process, so the beta-tester angle is bang on too.
What, like the informed and intelligent analysts that handled the dot.com boom? Right.
This may be redundant but...
Large organisations take time to take up ideas. My employers are now agreed on Mozilla mail and its successors after some delay, but this was largely to do with the absence of a spellchecker at the time.
The spam filtering is the other big attraction. Employees are becoming increasingly offended by and vociferous about porm spam. They expect Something to be Done.
Jacqueline Pierce.
That role did her in. I listened to a BBC radio doc about her a while back; AFAIR she apparently got into the role so deeply she became more Servalan than herself and the character took over her life. I think she's had a nervous breakdown or three in the intervening years, all caused by this, so you can't be too harsh on her. Respect - if you were into dominant babes in the 80s, she's still an icon.
No Virginia, Mrs. Thatcher wasn't a babe. Never liked her, did we precious?
bumpled = damaged in very low speed collision.
You are DEAD RIGHT!! (copyright Jeff Marchi)
We see this is the UK, where the railway's "passengers" suddenly became "customers" and got the shittier, more expensive services brought to us be privatisation. I haven't had a TV in 15 years and it's noticeable how the majority of my fellow countryfolk are driven by the values presumably presented by TV; the average personal debt (excluding mortgages) per adult is now about 25,000 UKP. The message is "spend spend spend and they that have run out of spending power are dead (and thus deeply unattractive)".
Bleugh!
Now, where's my credit card? Gotta get over to Vulture Central for the new product....
Someone posted this method of goat prevention (after the fact in this case) a while ago - this goes in the mozilla chrome directory and is called userContent.css. Cut along the dotted line:
---Snip---
a[href*="goatse.cx/"]
{
text-decoration: line-through ! important;
color: brown ! important;
}
a[href*="tubgirl.com/"]
{
text-decoration: line-through ! important;
color: brown ! important;
}
a[href*="www.hick.org/goat/"]
{
text-decoration: line-through ! important;
color: brown ! important;
}
---Snip---
thanks to the original poster for this useful brainsaver.
You're not bitter, then?
Jolly good.
No.
An open source exploit? You mean, like an exploit published under the GPL? Are you serious? Or are you saying that open source libraries are Dangerous and ought to be Banned? Or something? Kindly explain.
Laugh and the world laughs with you; fart and you're all alone.
What has Cisco's IOS got to do with open source?
Options:
a/ I'm missing something.
b/ You're a dickbrain.
c/ CowboyNeal
d/ All of the above.
I remember that first distro well - the awe at all those packages and would it fit on my 110 Meg RLL drive and hmm, gotta recompile this here kernel it says here and all the new and exciting things, well, wow. It was just so different from DOS and OS/2, it was mindblowing.
I wonder how many of us can look back at that and say "Without Slackware 1.0 then, I wouldn't be doing the cool job I do now"? It certainly applies to me and I'm thankful for it. Big respect to the man Patrick and the Slackware crew.
I'm standing on the shoulders of giants..