He could damage his/home directory, but that's about it
Well, duh! Where does he think people keep their documents, mail and source trees?/tmp? Granted, most of my stuff is in CVS and IMAP (for mail), but few people keep copies of *everything* outside their machines.
read, save, become root, give executable permissions, run
How about: save, untar, run? Tarballs carry permission bits, and a "./configure" could carry a payload which infects, say, ~/.bashrc with, for example, a LD_PRELOAD=evil.so... Ooops, there you go trying to infect someone whenever you run something. Or maybe a simple "evil daemon attempting to replicate a-la Blaster". Or even a regular-user shell bound to 4321 (privilege escalation is easier than outside access).
Sure, MUAs won't run attachments out-of-the-box (barring MUA overflows/underruns), but dumb lusers are everywhere. There's lots of ways to use a Unix box without ever getting root permissions. Even if it's just to build some stupid DDoS network or a "cache" of open proxies/relays
Yeap. It was in Tunguska, Siberia, June 1908. IIRC, if it had happened a few hours later, and due to Earth's rotation, it would have leveled Moscow.
But small ones such as this happen rather frequently; in October 1992, there was one hitting NY, but the only thing it damaged was... a parked car's trunk:)
So... 5% of the new Win2k3 servers since January came from Linux. Considering there's around 180k Win2k3 servers, that amounts to an amazing 9000 servers in 9 months! Wow!:)
OTOH, between August and September, there was only a
0.17% increase in apache servers (here)... Since last month there were 13325183 Apache servers, that means a mere 46438 sites increase in a single month period. Hell, yeah! Unix is dying! Call the coroner!
Unless things are different in the US, ISPs do keep accounting records for quite some time.
I'm in charge of the abuse desk in the ISP I work for; as an example, we keep 5 years worth of accounting records (or more. The CDs just pile up...)
OTOH, the movie studio towel-boys (BayTSP and the like) screw up *many* times. I started disregarding most of their messages when one day a complaint came in bearing *my* personal IP address at home (a fixed IP). Guess what, boys: I don't use Kazaa, and I would NEVER see such a crappy movie (especially dubbed in spanish). I wish I could remember the movie's name, but it was some "romantic comedy". *sigh*
same thing, probably. 1 every 5 mins makes up 20/hour. leaving the mailbox unnatended for 5 hours (like during the night) will get you the same 100 copies:)
*tap tap tap tap*
BZZZT! Wrong pin! Try again!
*tap tap tap tap*
BZZZT! Wrong pin! Try again!
*tap tap tap tap*
BZZZT! Wrong pin! You failed 3 times, want me to reset the PIN to 1234?
Well... You break windows, but you can't break penguins; you beat them, or something. So maybe Tux was kicked in the ass and you just can't see it because it's facing forward:)
I would rather see this kind of effort go in to public transportation/mass transit
What, like a bus that actually gets there on time, has a seat for you, it's driver has change for your ticket fare, and doesn't drop you off right in the middle of a puddle? Hah! Might as well ask them to park themselves... hmm... waitaminute...
At least the standard US layout for QWERTY keyboards is programmer-friendly.
I, as an example, live in Portugal and use Portuguese layout keyboards (usually with a US map loaded in the OS:-) ).
The slash (/), for example, is shift+7, which totally sucks when "navigating" a unix filesystem. { and } are Alt+7 and Alt+0, and [,] are Alt+8 and Alt+9. Try programming with that:-|.
I don't know which genius created these layouts, but they're as stupid as you get. Why the f*ck do I need to press *three* keys just to get a single backtick? AAAARGH!
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He could damage his /home directory, but that's about it /tmp? Granted, most of my stuff is in CVS and IMAP (for mail), but few people keep copies of *everything* outside their machines.
Well, duh! Where does he think people keep their documents, mail and source trees?
read, save, become root, give executable permissions, run
How about: save, untar, run? Tarballs carry permission bits, and a "./configure" could carry a payload which infects, say, ~/.bashrc with, for example, a LD_PRELOAD=evil.so... Ooops, there you go trying to infect someone whenever you run something. Or maybe a simple "evil daemon attempting to replicate a-la Blaster". Or even a regular-user shell bound to 4321 (privilege escalation is easier than outside access).
Sure, MUAs won't run attachments out-of-the-box (barring MUA overflows/underruns), but dumb lusers are everywhere. There's lots of ways to use a Unix box without ever getting root permissions. Even if it's just to build some stupid DDoS network or a "cache" of open proxies/relays
Create a band named Pillage People singing "DMCA!"
Uh... no. .org/PIR)
They can actually point the TLD somewhere else. Like themselves (while they run a "contest" like they did for
Yeap. It was in Tunguska, Siberia, June 1908. IIRC, if it had happened a few hours later, and due to Earth's rotation, it would have leveled Moscow. :)
But small ones such as this happen rather frequently; in October 1992, there was one hitting NY, but the only thing it damaged was... a parked car's trunk
So... 5% of the new Win2k3 servers since January came from Linux. Considering there's around 180k Win2k3 servers, that amounts to an amazing 9000 servers in 9 months! Wow! :)
OTOH, between August and September, there was only a 0.17% increase in apache servers (here)... Since last month there were 13325183 Apache servers, that means a mere 46438 sites increase in a single month period. Hell, yeah! Unix is dying! Call the coroner!
Unless things are different in the US, ISPs do keep accounting records for quite some time.
I'm in charge of the abuse desk in the ISP I work for; as an example, we keep 5 years worth of accounting records (or more. The CDs just pile up...)
OTOH, the movie studio towel-boys (BayTSP and the like) screw up *many* times. I started disregarding most of their messages when one day a complaint came in bearing *my* personal IP address at home (a fixed IP). Guess what, boys: I don't use Kazaa, and I would NEVER see such a crappy movie (especially dubbed in spanish). I wish I could remember the movie's name, but it was some "romantic comedy". *sigh*
same thing, probably. 1 every 5 mins makes up 20/hour. leaving the mailbox unnatended for 5 hours (like during the night) will get you the same 100 copies :)
Like what?
:)
*tap tap tap tap*
BZZZT! Wrong pin! Try again!
*tap tap tap tap*
BZZZT! Wrong pin! Try again!
*tap tap tap tap*
BZZZT! Wrong pin! You failed 3 times, want me to reset the PIN to 1234?
Oh, yes. I can see how that improves security
That would be especially useful if the ATMs used an old Pentium chip (you know, those which had a "slight" problem with floating comma divisions :) )
Well... You break windows, but you can't break penguins; you beat them, or something. So maybe Tux was kicked in the ass and you just can't see it because it's facing forward :)
I would rather see this kind of effort go in to public transportation/mass transit
What, like a bus that actually gets there on time, has a seat for you, it's driver has change for your ticket fare, and doesn't drop you off right in the middle of a puddle? Hah! Might as well ask them to park themselves... hmm... waitaminute...
Almost anything. The MTA part of Exchange is actually a small part of what it does. Exchange is groupware software, sendmail is "just an MTA".
They probably think NDA stands for No Details Available.
At least the standard US layout for QWERTY keyboards is programmer-friendly. :-) ). :-|.
I, as an example, live in Portugal and use Portuguese layout keyboards (usually with a US map loaded in the OS
The slash (/), for example, is shift+7, which totally sucks when "navigating" a unix filesystem. { and } are Alt+7 and Alt+0, and [,] are Alt+8 and Alt+9. Try programming with that
I don't know which genius created these layouts, but they're as stupid as you get. Why the f*ck do I need to press *three* keys just to get a single backtick? AAAARGH!