This actually is an effective tool. You would be suprised how many people I have here at my work that getting phishing attempts. Not through there work email, but from checking ther web mail accounts. Here at my non profit organization I have a RedHat server setup with Dan's Guardian/ClamAV/Squid Proxy. We don't filter for content, but do filter for viruses using ClamAV. It works great and reduces the number of downloaded viruses in our organization. An added bonus to this configuration that I discovered, is that when my users try and read their email through a web interface, DansGuardian/ClamAV appears to be smart enough to filter and block some of the phishing attempts. Now it does not matter what browser or toolbar they use.
If the kid was actually that smart he would have relized that would be cheaper to buy a replacement board, or maybe even a whole new computer than to try and repair the broke logic board.
I have an inspiron 8600 that is experiencing the same exact problem. I ordered a ne battery. After seeing the pics, I'm glad that I stopped using it until my battery arrives. Talk about roasting chest nust on an open fire....
If I notice someone poking around at my systems in such a way that looks like it's looking for exploits, I'll contact the ISP responsable and ask them to chave a chat with that user. If they blow me off, I'm likely to blacklist the ISP entirely.
Must be nice to have a lot of time on your hands. If I was to sit at work and read my FW logs all day and contact every ISP that probed my ports (That kind' sounds dirty) then I would probably be sitting in front of my PC 24x7.
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How about:
You ain't goin' a sh*t right for a week No kid, I don't want any f*ckin' sandwiches!
Exactly. Instead of DDos'ing spammers and their hosting providers, why not use the bogus accounts to collect the information to turn the spammers over to the authorities. It looks like it could be quite a lucrative deal.
"SEC. 11. IMPROVING ENFORCEMENT BY PROVIDING REWARDS FOR
INFORMATION ABOUT VIOLATIONS; LABELING.
The Commission shall transmit to the Senate Committee on
Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the House of Representatives
Committee on Energy and Commerce--
(1) a report, within 9 months after the date of enactment
of this Act, that sets forth a system for rewarding those who
supply information about violations of this Act, including--
(A) procedures for the Commission to grant a reward
of not less than 20 percent of the total civil penalty collected
for a violation of this Act to the first person that--
(i) identifies the person in violation of this Act;
and
(ii) supplies information that leads to the successful
collection of a civil penalty by the Commission;
and
(B) procedures to minimize the burden of submitting
a complaint to the Commission concerning violations of
this Act, including procedures to allow the electronic
submission of complaints to the Commission; and
(2) a report, within 18 months after the date of enactment
of this Act, that sets forth a plan for requiring commercial
electronic mail to be identifiable from its subject line, by means
of compliance with Internet Engineering Task Force Standards,
the use of the characters ''ADV'' in the subject line, or other
comparable identifier, or an explanation of any concerns the
Commission has that cause the Commission to recommend
against the plan./
The biggest thing that needs to be done is to turn-off that which isn't used; allow what's needed, deny all....
That makes me remeber when I was working for a consulting firm, and had to install a NAT/Firewall for my first client. I remeber talking to my sales person and the VP of my company and asking when I could meet with the client to discuss what services they needed to be able to access inbound/outbound. Both of them said NO! Just install it! After arguing that I needed to know what the customers' requirements were for an hour, I finally consented and installed it with the default rules of deny all in, allow all out. Guess what happened next. I was back out their cleaning up my clients network. I since no longer work for that company, but I have helped some of their techs in configuring client's firewalls with the philosphy of allow what's needed/deny all inbound at outbound to minimize the risks of being pentetrated.
Trying doing a google search before you post about things. From the actual bill:
amending s. 800.04, F.S.; providing that it is a life felony for an offender 18 years of age or older to commit lewd or lascivious molestation against a victim younger than 12 years of age;
"for being unreasonably intrusive on someone who has served their sentence..."
But having a person that has served there sentence register as a sex offender, and the government notifying the neghborhoods that he/she is moving into is not intrusive. I'm not trying to stick up for the pervs, I'm just trying to say that it may not be as easy to throw out of court.
"It establishes a mandatory sentence of at least 25 years behind bars for people convicted of certain sex crimes against children 11 and younger, with lifetime tracking by global positioning satellite after they are freed.
From the article again...
The 25-year minimum would not apply to anyone convicted of molesting older children. Those offenders would have to be monitored electronically only during their probation, not for life.
The way I read this, is that life time tracking only applies to perverts that have sex with 11 year olds.
So to use your analogy, If a user was to ignore all of the dialog boxes that pops up and just clicks on a button so that they go away, they will do damage to their computer, thus evenbtually destroying it. Now the user must buy a new computer that has another licensed copy of Micro$hit OS running on it.
Hmmmmmm..... Now I think I understand why Micro$haft does not want to make a UI like Apple's.
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This actually is an effective tool. You would be suprised how many people I have here at my work that getting phishing attempts. Not through there work email, but from checking ther web mail accounts. Here at my non profit organization I have a RedHat server setup with Dan's Guardian/ClamAV/Squid Proxy. We don't filter for content, but do filter for viruses using ClamAV. It works great and reduces the number of downloaded viruses in our organization. An added bonus to this configuration that I discovered, is that when my users try and read their email through a web interface, DansGuardian/ClamAV appears to be smart enough to filter and block some of the phishing attempts. Now it does not matter what browser or toolbar they use.
If the kid was actually that smart he would have relized that would be cheaper to buy a replacement board, or maybe even a whole new computer than to try and repair the broke logic board.
...BUt your wish may come true. It appears that the brother drops him at the end. One can only hope
Only real geeks would look past the beutiful women and only see the KDE desktop of the computer she is using to run her porn site. Jeez.
Try this one....
Stupid User Story
I have an inspiron 8600 that is experiencing the same exact problem. I ordered a ne battery. After seeing the pics, I'm glad that I stopped using it until my battery arrives. Talk about roasting chest nust on an open fire....
3D - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_dimensional
I believe atoms have all 3 dimensions?
You can do the samething with mv.
/myjunk /dev/null
:)
mv
rm is for n00bs
...It doesn't even matter to some if the occasional one is plastic. Why bother checking?
Damn, I thought something looked wrong with my hat. It's made out of plastic wrap!!!!!!
If I notice someone poking around at my systems in such a way that looks like it's looking for exploits, I'll contact the ISP responsable and ask them to chave a chat with that user. If they blow me off, I'm likely to blacklist the ISP entirely.
Must be nice to have a lot of time on your hands. If I was to sit at work and read my FW logs all day and contact every ISP that probed my ports (That kind' sounds dirty) then I would probably be sitting in front of my PC 24x7.
How about:
You ain't goin' a sh*t right for a week
No kid, I don't want any f*ckin' sandwiches!
Yeah, I heard that Al Gore was going to go over to the EU and set it up for them....
Have you ever done this. It hurts like hell, and the current is enought to begin to weld the wrench to the terminals.
As such you can touch both terminals of a 12 volt car battery and not feel a thing
How about if you cross the terminals with a steel socket wrench. YOU DEFINETILY FEEL SOMETHING THEN!!!
There are already laws...
Exactly. Instead of DDos'ing spammers and their hosting providers, why not use the bogus accounts to collect the information to turn the spammers over to the authorities. It looks like it could be quite a lucrative deal.
From the CAN-SPAM bill:
"SEC. 11. IMPROVING ENFORCEMENT BY PROVIDING REWARDS FOR INFORMATION ABOUT VIOLATIONS; LABELING. The Commission shall transmit to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce-- (1) a report, within 9 months after the date of enactment of this Act, that sets forth a system for rewarding those who supply information about violations of this Act, including-- (A) procedures for the Commission to grant a reward of not less than 20 percent of the total civil penalty collected for a violation of this Act to the first person that-- (i) identifies the person in violation of this Act; and (ii) supplies information that leads to the successful collection of a civil penalty by the Commission; and (B) procedures to minimize the burden of submitting a complaint to the Commission concerning violations of this Act, including procedures to allow the electronic submission of complaints to the Commission; and (2) a report, within 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, that sets forth a plan for requiring commercial electronic mail to be identifiable from its subject line, by means of compliance with Internet Engineering Task Force Standards, the use of the characters ''ADV'' in the subject line, or other comparable identifier, or an explanation of any concerns the Commission has that cause the Commission to recommend against the plan./
The biggest thing that needs to be done is to turn-off that which isn't used; allow what's needed, deny all....
That makes me remeber when I was working for a consulting firm, and had to install a NAT/Firewall for my first client. I remeber talking to my sales person and the VP of my company and asking when I could meet with the client to discuss what services they needed to be able to access inbound/outbound. Both of them said NO! Just install it! After arguing that I needed to know what the customers' requirements were for an hour, I finally consented and installed it with the default rules of deny all in, allow all out. Guess what happened next. I was back out their cleaning up my clients network. I since no longer work for that company, but I have helped some of their techs in configuring client's firewalls with the philosphy of allow what's needed/deny all inbound at outbound to minimize the risks of being pentetrated.
That's modding the user... not the device.
Would that be called social engineering???
Can you say:
"Your computer is now stoned!!"
....or Cow Chips.
Knoppix???
Trying doing a google search before you post about things. From the actual bill:
amending s. 800.04, F.S.; providing that it is a life felony for an offender 18 years of age or older to commit lewd or lascivious molestation against a victim younger than 12 years of age;
You can find the bill at HERE
"for being unreasonably intrusive on someone who has served their sentence..."
But having a person that has served there sentence register as a sex offender, and the government notifying the neghborhoods that he/she is moving into is not intrusive. I'm not trying to stick up for the pervs, I'm just trying to say that it may not be as easy to throw out of court.
RTFA....
from the article:
"It establishes a mandatory sentence of at least 25 years behind bars for people convicted of certain sex crimes against children 11 and younger, with lifetime tracking by global positioning satellite after they are freed.
From the article again...
The 25-year minimum would not apply to anyone convicted of molesting older children. Those offenders would have to be monitored electronically only during their probation, not for life.
The way I read this, is that life time tracking only applies to perverts that have sex with 11 year olds.
So to use your analogy, If a user was to ignore all of the dialog boxes that pops up and just clicks on a button so that they go away, they will do damage to their computer, thus evenbtually destroying it. Now the user must buy a new computer that has another licensed copy of Micro$hit OS running on it.
Hmmmmmm..... Now I think I understand why Micro$haft does not want to make a UI like Apple's.
Only if you are inventing a product. If you are providing services, where would a patenet be involved. Not all startups invent things.