The FBI doesn't generally get involved in every case that comes along.
As regards computer related crime, they generally do. Unless the complainant is a jilted girlfriend, there is a pretty high likelihood that they will be from another state. Furthermore, since the organization subpeonaed is almost always AOL, these subpeonas are centralized through the FBI, as are other resources such as labs and professional "informants". The feds walk across the street and deliver subpeonas by the ream. It's an amazingly effective incarceration engine, especially since most defense firms plea bargain the case because they don't have access to people who know the technology.
I've been involved in several cases, and to date, none of them have survived my initial testimony. They've all been thrown out prior to trial.
Talking to the IT people at your hospital can help.
Yes, it certainly will. That screaming sound you'll hear is the sudden stark realization that they've been infiltrated by a doctor who thinks he knows what he's doing. You'll be trusted to make IT decisions within seconds of the higher ups becoming aware of your interest, and the IT department will be relegated to scurrying around in your wake fixing what you "fixed".
I couldnt' agree more, but one more point needs to be made about this. If it weren't for free software carrying the load during the recession, the bean counters would have had us back in typewriters by now. The dot com bust would be known as the end of the information age.
I see computer science being a part of this, but dwarfed by engineering, physics, and chemistry.
I don't know. It looks to me like there's a pretty good market for someone who can write a file management system for a 128Mb flash card that scales within a maximum requirement of twice as much RAM.
So you want to get into the IT field? Great. Here's some tips:
Get your buggy from a drugstore. When the cops bust your panhandling, they're less likely to care about it than if you'd taken one from Wal-Mart.
Plastic makes great insulation. ensconce yourself in piles of it in the city park to keep warm at night.
Don't work the same street corner more than once a week. It annoys the commuters and they'll give you less and less, even if you've found a really good spot.
Don't dig through trash in the summer. It isn't worth it.
Always keep your exit strategy in mind. You could always work for the mob or become an Alaskan crab fisherman.
If you're a bad guy and you want to frustrate law enforcement, use a Mac.
I am an expert witness who works against these (FBI) guys in criminal cases. They have a whole division of the D.C. computer forensics office dedicated to Macs. A stock question they ask in trial is "OK, general computer forensics dude, what percentage of your time is spent working with Macs?" For most general security experts, this is 10-20%. Then they pull somebody out who does nothing but analyze Macs.
so dismiss me as an "anti red hat activst" or whatever, if that sort of label makes you feel comfortable but you know what i really am? the kid who goes to the 7/11 in 1986 and sees shelves of "new coke".
Would you rather pay $0 and have a distro. or have people pay $174 to a company that pays people around the clock to:
Let me add something to your list:
Wake up one day and decide that you (the user of the most popular Linux distro in the world) no longer fit into their business model and cut you off at the nuts?
I've been in the IT industry since 1995, working in service related jobs such as systems integration, support, network design and implementation, and security. I have a circle of friends in the local area who pretty much do the same thing. Many of us were laid off in 2000, but only a few of us were unable to find jobs relatively quickly.
Now, all of us are working again, and making pretty much the same we were then, per capita (I am personally making more). I have been trying to figure out why were are doing so well compared to the rest of the IT community at large. (In a way, I guess I've been afraid to ask!) It seems to me that the key is that our jobs are service related, not manufacturing. When you write code, you are producing something. This can be very portable, but someone who can walk into a server room and figure out why the router went nuts isn't.
It seems to me that the end result of outsourcing is a great deal more IT actually in use in the American economy, which means a lot more people needing help to implement and support it correctly. Perhaps the answer is to stand in the gap between producers and consumers and make the technology work for people. It seems to have worked for us so far.
If we want to have the public favor OSS, reputation is also important.
Please. The average Joe knows nothing about OSS. We have no way to inform him as to our motives and principles, because he will be told what those in power want him to know. There is no PR angle we can take to affect that public perception, because we do not have the required power.
No doubt, man. It was always entertaining to watch someone walk into an auto parts store and ask for a K car part. They changed suppliers every 2 weeks during the production run to make it as cheap as possible. They'd be there for hours trying to find a match.
Sadly, it's a pastime of years gone by, as none of them are still running these days.
Hey, I like the metric system. I really do. But sticking to the english system has never caused an aircraft to run out of fuel at altitude, a roller coaster to break, or a spacecraft to crash. The zeal to enforce metric conversion, however, has caused all of those things.
A technician hired by the new judiciary chairman, Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, apparently made a mistake that allowed anyone to access newly created accounts on a Judiciary Committee server shared by both parties -- even though the accounts were supposed to restrict access only to those with the right password.
That sounds a lot more like fucked up permissions than computer hacking. How can you have an expectation of privacy when you share the same server with your enemy?
I don't know, man. Although his comment record isn't stellar, he doesn't have a history of blatant trolling. Particularly disturbing is that he had posted more than one comment indicating religious zealotry.
If the ISP ignores complaints, THEN the listing is progressively expanded, but they don't start out by listing a whole block.
Okay, so if I am a spammer and I don't like somebody, I can buy accounts from their ISP and spam from them. It should only take 3 or 4 accounts for the ISP to "ignore" the complaints (or just make the problem continue despite those complaints, depending on how quickly arrogance makes you jump to the required conclusions), as long as I use them in sequence, and a few weeks apart.
It's so disgustingly biased that I fear for your critical thinking skills and wonder what mods where thinking when modding you insightful.
I want to believe that it is a group of slashdotters who view posting and moderating as subjects of fashion - what's cool one moment is passe the next - and that they are backlashing against the popular pro-privacy mindset around here.
What I am afraid of is that pro-capitalism has become a blind zealotry and that we're seeing more and more people who equate money with virtue.
Are you an idiot, or just totally lacking of perspective?
Neither. I understand what a metaphor is, and didn't even posit the original metaphor that kicked off this conversation.
The invasion of the Mongols evicted tens of thousands of people from their homes... (blah blah blah)
The Pearl Harbor attack taught the United States that it cannot leave the rest of the world to itself and expect to be left alone. It culminated in the only nuclear attack (yet) in world history. What's your point? Does the metaphor break the rules only when the comparison happens to matter to you personally?
The problem with the idea of a "digital pearl harbor" is the question of whether anyone would notice it. The metaphor suggests a peaceful world where computers and computer users are free to play in the wild with no fear until black Sunday finally comes and takes away all our innocence. The problem is that we don't have that innocence.
Try to bring up a Windows2000 workstation, freshly installed with no patches, and connect it to the Internet. In minutes it will be infected by a virus. Any one of the major security stories of the past five years would far exceed Pearl Harbor in terms of actual impact upon the information world. In fact, problems such as SQL slammer are more like the invasion of the Mongols, and the spam problem is global thermonuclear war.
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The FBI doesn't generally get involved in every case that comes along.
As regards computer related crime, they generally do. Unless the complainant is a jilted girlfriend, there is a pretty high likelihood that they will be from another state. Furthermore, since the organization subpeonaed is almost always AOL, these subpeonas are centralized through the FBI, as are other resources such as labs and professional "informants". The feds walk across the street and deliver subpeonas by the ream. It's an amazingly effective incarceration engine, especially since most defense firms plea bargain the case because they don't have access to people who know the technology.
I've been involved in several cases, and to date, none of them have survived my initial testimony. They've all been thrown out prior to trial.
Talking to the IT people at your hospital can help.
Yes, it certainly will. That screaming sound you'll hear is the sudden stark realization that they've been infiltrated by a doctor who thinks he knows what he's doing. You'll be trusted to make IT decisions within seconds of the higher ups becoming aware of your interest, and the IT department will be relegated to scurrying around in your wake fixing what you "fixed".
I couldnt' agree more, but one more point needs to be made about this. If it weren't for free software carrying the load during the recession, the bean counters would have had us back in typewriters by now. The dot com bust would be known as the end of the information age.
I see computer science being a part of this, but dwarfed by engineering, physics, and chemistry.
I don't know. It looks to me like there's a pretty good market for someone who can write a file management system for a 128Mb flash card that scales within a maximum requirement of twice as much RAM.
If you're a bad guy and you want to frustrate law enforcement, use a Mac.
I am an expert witness who works against these (FBI) guys in criminal cases. They have a whole division of the D.C. computer forensics office dedicated to Macs. A stock question they ask in trial is "OK, general computer forensics dude, what percentage of your time is spent working with Macs?" For most general security experts, this is 10-20%. Then they pull somebody out who does nothing but analyze Macs.
so dismiss me as an "anti red hat activst" or whatever, if that sort of label makes you feel comfortable but you know what i really am? the kid who goes to the 7/11 in 1986 and sees shelves of "new coke".
Fucking brilliant comment. Mod Parent Up!
Let me add something to your list:
I've been in the IT industry since 1995, working in service related jobs such as systems integration, support, network design and implementation, and security. I have a circle of friends in the local area who pretty much do the same thing. Many of us were laid off in 2000, but only a few of us were unable to find jobs relatively quickly.
Now, all of us are working again, and making pretty much the same we were then, per capita (I am personally making more). I have been trying to figure out why were are doing so well compared to the rest of the IT community at large. (In a way, I guess I've been afraid to ask!) It seems to me that the key is that our jobs are service related, not manufacturing. When you write code, you are producing something. This can be very portable, but someone who can walk into a server room and figure out why the router went nuts isn't.
It seems to me that the end result of outsourcing is a great deal more IT actually in use in the American economy, which means a lot more people needing help to implement and support it correctly. Perhaps the answer is to stand in the gap between producers and consumers and make the technology work for people. It seems to have worked for us so far.
cough... astroturf... cough cough....
If we want to have the public favor OSS, reputation is also important.
Please. The average Joe knows nothing about OSS. We have no way to inform him as to our motives and principles, because he will be told what those in power want him to know. There is no PR angle we can take to affect that public perception, because we do not have the required power.
No doubt, man. It was always entertaining to watch someone walk into an auto parts store and ask for a K car part. They changed suppliers every 2 weeks during the production run to make it as cheap as possible. They'd be there for hours trying to find a match.
Sadly, it's a pastime of years gone by, as none of them are still running these days.
That's the event I was talking about. From the link you cited:
The metric changeover in Canada should have been accompanied by further education on the airline's part.
What was your point again?
Hey, I like the metric system. I really do. But sticking to the english system has never caused an aircraft to run out of fuel at altitude, a roller coaster to break, or a spacecraft to crash. The zeal to enforce metric conversion, however, has caused all of those things.
This ad shows how everything has changed.
That isn't just spin, my friend. That is spaghettification.
Is it your fault that you forgot to lock the door?
If he's my friggin roomate, it doesn't really matter.
A technician hired by the new judiciary chairman, Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, apparently made a mistake that allowed anyone to access newly created accounts on a Judiciary Committee server shared by both parties -- even though the accounts were supposed to restrict access only to those with the right password.
That sounds a lot more like fucked up permissions than computer hacking. How can you have an expectation of privacy when you share the same server with your enemy?
How cool is that?
I mean, if you were schizophren, wouldn't you be writing exaclty this ? ;-)
What about the possibility that we may all be in on it?
I don't know, man. Although his comment record isn't stellar, he doesn't have a history of blatant trolling. Particularly disturbing is that he had posted more than one comment indicating religious zealotry.
I think this is the real thing.
I once had my office on a sales floor with about 20 women. You think a jet engine is annoying, try that out for size!
Two words: private shitter.
If the ISP ignores complaints, THEN the listing is progressively expanded, but they don't start out by listing a whole block.
Okay, so if I am a spammer and I don't like somebody, I can buy accounts from their ISP and spam from them. It should only take 3 or 4 accounts for the ISP to "ignore" the complaints (or just make the problem continue despite those complaints, depending on how quickly arrogance makes you jump to the required conclusions), as long as I use them in sequence, and a few weeks apart.
It's so disgustingly biased that I fear for your critical thinking skills and wonder what mods where thinking when modding you insightful.
I want to believe that it is a group of slashdotters who view posting and moderating as subjects of fashion - what's cool one moment is passe the next - and that they are backlashing against the popular pro-privacy mindset around here.
What I am afraid of is that pro-capitalism has become a blind zealotry and that we're seeing more and more people who equate money with virtue.
Are you an idiot, or just totally lacking of perspective?
Neither. I understand what a metaphor is, and didn't even posit the original metaphor that kicked off this conversation.
The invasion of the Mongols evicted tens of thousands of people from their homes... (blah blah blah)
The Pearl Harbor attack taught the United States that it cannot leave the rest of the world to itself and expect to be left alone. It culminated in the only nuclear attack (yet) in world history. What's your point? Does the metaphor break the rules only when the comparison happens to matter to you personally?
The problem with the idea of a "digital pearl harbor" is the question of whether anyone would notice it. The metaphor suggests a peaceful world where computers and computer users are free to play in the wild with no fear until black Sunday finally comes and takes away all our innocence. The problem is that we don't have that innocence.
Try to bring up a Windows2000 workstation, freshly installed with no patches, and connect it to the Internet. In minutes it will be infected by a virus. Any one of the major security stories of the past five years would far exceed Pearl Harbor in terms of actual impact upon the information world. In fact, problems such as SQL slammer are more like the invasion of the Mongols, and the spam problem is global thermonuclear war.