Carter, now in his first term in the House, served as a state district judge for 20 years in Williamson County, known as the Lone Star State's toughest county for criminals. If rampant file sharing was going on back home, he said, people would likely be prosecuted.
Funny, I seem to be recall some irl mates, whom are some of the biggest p2p and dcc leeches Round Rock Texas has to offer.:)
Actually, those some students I know at Texas A & M College Station are the absurdly abusive with their resnet regarding traffic bottlenecks. Thanks #!!!!p0rn2goDCC on DALnet.;)
I think even more interesting is the impact instant messaging has had upon the social lives of the connected geek roommates and college dormitory life. Using aim/icq to speak to a roommate whom is not 6 feet away in a dorm room just screams that there has been a huge culture shift. I know I am guilty of talking to roommates online versus in person WHEN THEY ARE NO MORE THAN A DOZEN OR SO FEET AWAY. The lone thing that is that my justification for doing so is convenience. Why make the effort to move when I can accomplish a similar feat digitally?!;)
Hark! Not only is this impacting the conversation industry, but also the telephone industry! I personally also much rather prefer to speak to friends or mates online via instant messaging as opposed to the phone (most of the time). The justification for doing so is my ability to multitask. I would much rather be able to a.) have a cache of our conversation, b.) be able to reply at my leisure, and c.) not have a neckache from holding the silly tele.
We will see what happens when corporate AIM succeeds and im becomes pay.;)
ITS is relying on those individuals with SSNs whom SUSPECT they have been compromised. ITS recommends these persons establish contact with the ITS Help Desk in 3 ways:
*e-mail (bad, plaintext; dont send your SSN) *https secure form on the datatheft page *via telephone (beware giving out SSN on a non-landline phone).
The big kicker is ITS' persons at the help desk will remark that their method of contacting you back is plaintext e-mail.:/
From the moment of discovery, much work has gone into identifying the perpetrator(s) and impounding their equipment. This work has involved the vigorous participation of federal and local law enforcement officials. Search warrants were served the evening of March 5. More information on the ongoing investigation will be forthcoming.
Within a few days, we expect to know more about whether the stolen data went anywhere beyond those who captured it.
We will contact individuals whose social security numbers were stolen with information about the level of risk when the risk is evaluated. We will help each such person to take protective steps.
Wheeeee.. Hopefully the skinbeef didnt buy a Jaguar with my credit before the Federales nabbed his/her ass.;)
Damn Dutch. Always the fastest connected peoples, those Europeans. And always the most eager to disregard the intellectual property rights of others.;)
With IDE hard disks moving towards limited one year warranties, one would tend to wonder if this move is economically grounded in an effort to combat class action suits over these faster and faster IDE drives spontaneously bursting into flames. Any faster, and AMD will grow angry at their loss of the Heat Champion Throne.;)
UTexas instituted a weekly resnet bandwidth quota during Christmas of 2000. 3GB/week with a 500mb grace quota. In the event an ACO went over the three gig mark, every hour auditing scripts would take notice and disable said port. To access the 500mb grace, a person had to logon to a pesky resnet port authentication page to request the grace quota. What is funny is I have no idea how they expected people to do as such without access to the net. Hooray for public terminals.;)
Also, UTexas has been charging residents for ResNet. When I left the dorms, I was paying ~$6-7/mo for access. According to my mates in the dorms now, a.) the cost is over double that, and b.) ports must be paid for _IN ADVANCE_. Ouch.-
To all those who fear their SSN has been pilfered.
From the UT DataTheft Nexus *** Am I Affected?
Is your SSN in the following ranges?
* 449-31-98xx - 450-91-24xx
* 451-12-32xx - 451-20-35xx
* 451-20-64xx - 452-20-40xx
If so, within these ranges, 55,200 people of the following types, including but not limited to:
* Current students, faculty and staff
* Former students, faculty and staff
* Job applicants
* Retirees
may be affected.
If you believe you are affected, please contact us.
***
To contact ITS:
How to Contact Us
By E-mail
datatheft@its.utexas.edu (Do not send your Social Security number in any e-mail message.)
Use our secure form
https://www.utexas.edu/datatheft/inquire.html
By Phone
Local: 475-9020
Toll free: 866-657-9400
***
I also recommend to those who feel they are susceptible to contact the 3 main credit reporting houses' fraud and abuse departments. Do so via landline telephone and place a security/fraud alert upon your credit report. By doing so, this will have the credit reporting houses pressure lenders to contact you personally via telephone with a security schema to validate your identity. A rep at TransUnion did notify me that lenders are not _required_ to do as such, but they are usually very suspicious when the credit report has been flagged as being fraud suspect.
-Equifax
800.525.6285
-Experian
888.397.3742
-TransUnion
800.680.7289
Externally, the SSN is still used at UTexas. Students and staff/faculty find their SSN dabbed all over financial, registration, grading, housing, and employment information. Internally, the SSN is the identification method that makes the world go round in many MANY aspects on campus.
Such a transition will be entirely difficult and time-consuming. The university is interested in making the transition, but the issues which arise from a multitude of departmental management techniques are wide-ranging and difficult to tackle.
The recent changes to the UT EID system (a unified login scheme to manage campus life and services) are just the beginning og a long uphill IT battle that is being tackled (...we hope;).
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Carter, now in his first term in the House, served as a state district judge for 20 years in Williamson County, known as the Lone Star State's toughest county for criminals. If rampant file sharing was going on back home, he said, people would likely be prosecuted.
:)
;)
Funny, I seem to be recall some irl mates, whom are some of the biggest p2p and dcc leeches Round Rock Texas has to offer.
Actually, those some students I know at Texas A & M College Station are the absurdly abusive with their resnet regarding traffic bottlenecks. Thanks #!!!!p0rn2goDCC on DALnet.
... and dont forget about the NDA you signed when you were hired. :)
About as long as it would take to wipe your box and install Debian. :)
I think even more interesting is the impact instant messaging has had upon the social lives of the connected geek roommates and college dormitory life. Using aim/icq to speak to a roommate whom is not 6 feet away in a dorm room just screams that there has been a huge culture shift. I know I am guilty of talking to roommates online versus in person WHEN THEY ARE NO MORE THAN A DOZEN OR SO FEET AWAY. The lone thing that is that my justification for doing so is convenience. Why make the effort to move when I can accomplish a similar feat digitally?! ;)
;)
Hark! Not only is this impacting the conversation industry, but also the telephone industry! I personally also much rather prefer to speak to friends or mates online via instant messaging as opposed to the phone (most of the time). The justification for doing so is my ability to multitask. I would much rather be able to a.) have a cache of our conversation, b.) be able to reply at my leisure, and c.) not have a neckache from holding the silly tele.
We will see what happens when corporate AIM succeeds and im becomes pay.
ITS is relying on those individuals with SSNs whom SUSPECT they have been compromised. ITS recommends these persons establish contact with the ITS Help Desk in 3 ways:
:/
*e-mail
(bad, plaintext; dont send your SSN)
*https secure form on the datatheft page
*via telephone
(beware giving out SSN on a non-landline phone).
The big kicker is ITS' persons at the help desk will remark that their method of contacting you back is plaintext e-mail.
From the UT Datatheft homepage as of 11:13 Central on 6.6.2003.
;)
Data Theft Incident Response: Latest News
From the moment of discovery, much work has gone into identifying the perpetrator(s) and impounding their equipment. This work has involved the vigorous participation of federal and local law enforcement officials. Search warrants were served the evening of March 5. More information on the ongoing investigation will be forthcoming.
Within a few days, we expect to know more about whether the stolen data went anywhere beyond those who captured it.
We will contact individuals whose social security numbers were stolen with information about the level of risk when the risk is evaluated. We will help each such person to take protective steps.
Wheeeee.. Hopefully the skinbeef didnt buy a Jaguar with my credit before the Federales nabbed his/her ass.
Damn Dutch. Always the fastest connected peoples, those Europeans. And always the most eager to disregard the intellectual property rights of others. ;)
With IDE hard disks moving towards limited one year warranties, one would tend to wonder if this move is economically grounded in an effort to combat class action suits over these faster and faster IDE drives spontaneously bursting into flames. Any faster, and AMD will grow angry at their loss of the Heat Champion Throne. ;)
And I bet the motivation for the engineers was 3D pr0n boobies.
This isnt an isolated incident, rather its a trend. Big state universities are a target for hack attacks unfortunately.
Kansas University was hit hard in late January. SEVIS was pilfered, Student Exchange Visitor Information System; part of the Patriot Act)
Info here.
...since I'd go through a two gigs of quota on pr0n alone. ;)
UTexas instituted a weekly resnet bandwidth quota during Christmas of 2000. 3GB/week with a 500mb grace quota. In the event an ACO went over the three gig mark, every hour auditing scripts would take notice and disable said port. To access the 500mb grace, a person had to logon to a pesky resnet port authentication page to request the grace quota. What is funny is I have no idea how they expected people to do as such without access to the net. Hooray for public terminals. ;)
Also, UTexas has been charging residents for ResNet. When I left the dorms, I was paying ~$6-7/mo for access. According to my mates in the dorms now, a.) the cost is over double that, and b.) ports must be paid for _IN ADVANCE_. Ouch.-
To all those who fear their SSN has been pilfered.
From the UT DataTheft Nexus
***
Am I Affected?
Is your SSN in the following ranges?
* 449-31-98xx - 450-91-24xx
* 451-12-32xx - 451-20-35xx
* 451-20-64xx - 452-20-40xx
If so, within these ranges, 55,200 people of the following types, including but not limited to:
* Current students, faculty and staff
* Former students, faculty and staff
* Job applicants
* Retirees
may be affected.
If you believe you are affected, please contact us.
***
To contact ITS:
How to Contact Us
By E-mail
datatheft@its.utexas.edu (Do not send your Social Security number in any e-mail message.)
Use our secure form
https://www.utexas.edu/datatheft/inquire.html
By Phone
Local: 475-9020
Toll free: 866-657-9400
***
I also recommend to those who feel they are susceptible to contact the 3 main credit reporting houses' fraud and abuse departments. Do so via landline telephone and place a security/fraud alert upon your credit report. By doing so, this will have the credit reporting houses pressure lenders to contact you personally via telephone with a security schema to validate your identity. A rep at TransUnion did notify me that lenders are not _required_ to do as such, but they are usually very suspicious when the credit report has been flagged as being fraud suspect.
-Equifax
800.525.6285
-Experian
888.397.3742
-TransUnion
800.680.7289
Yes, Jenna Bush does attend UTexas. We just aren't proud of it.
;)
UT... doesnt advertise!
Externally, the SSN is still used at UTexas. Students and staff/faculty find their SSN dabbed all over financial, registration, grading, housing, and employment information. Internally, the SSN is the identification method that makes the world go round in many MANY aspects on campus.
;).
Such a transition will be entirely difficult and time-consuming. The university is interested in making the transition, but the issues which arise from a multitude of departmental management techniques are wide-ranging and difficult to tackle. The recent changes to the UT EID system (a unified login scheme to manage campus life and services) are just the beginning og a long uphill IT battle that is being tackled (...we hope