Holy ----! I have been reading Slashdot for, I dunno, a couple years now and I never noticed the meaning of the Patent icon before. Patent the fork! Get it?
First off, you may not realize just how ubiquitous SSL really is. It's easy to confuse it with other new security technologies, such as SSH. Here's a big reason the guy is suing -- he wants kickbacks from IE, Mozilla, Netscape -- which means RSA and VeriSign since they're getting sent the bill payments from the client software makers.
SSL support is included in every Web browser on the market and is used to encrypt sensitive traffic to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the message. RSA and VeriSign, as well as the other original defendants, sell products that utilize SSL.
That's a huge piece of the security pie so to speak, and I can see how he's interested. Even though he may be wrong about his claim. Make sure you read all the way down though.
The case isn't over yet, however. The jury next week will begin hearing testimony on a separate phase of the suit, which will determine whether Stambler's patents are even valid.
Just like there's bogus religion, bogus reality shows, and bogus politicians.
For example, religions that claim to be "all loving" are actually responsible for more murders over all of time than any other cause.
Furthermore, many reality shows are actually scripted and use actors; the people are, in fact, barely real -- they're simply reading scripts.
Finally, many politicians don't really have the qualifications necessary to hold public office -- many of them can barely read/write at a junior high school level.
More than 1.1 billion Instant Messages are sent out worldwide every day. For no reason.
IMs are an attention-grabbing and nonsensical, not to mention unproductive, means of communication. Most people who use IMs to talk or share information also have access to other, non-IM technologies that pollute the Internet less and are cheaper.
IMs are some of the most wasteful products, in terms of resources used, that continue to be marketed on our planet. Why do we send them out by the billions? Just to enjoy the transient pleasure of saying LOL time and time again?
I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE. BETWEEN A CELLPHONE, TELEPHONE, EMAIL, AND INSTANT MESSENGER, I AM ALWAYS EXPECTED TO BE AT EVERYONE'S BECK AND CALL 24 HOURS A DAY 7 DAYS A WEEK.
I DON'T WANT TO BE A CORPORATE SLAVE ANYMORE. GOD, MY JOB IS BAD ENOUGH WITHOUT THE BOSS KNOWING EXACTLY WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING ONLINE AND HAVING A WAY TO REACH ME INSTANTLY.
SAY NO TO INSTANT MESSAGING PLEASE. IT WILL HELP US ALL, AS TECH WORKS, SAVE OUR SANITY. WE HAVE *LIVES* AT STAKE HERE!
Mark my words on this. If instant messaging is adopted by U.S. businesses, the economy will suffer like it has never suffered before. Productivity will come to a halt, and innovation will be stagnant for 10-15 years as a result.
Instant Messaging seems good at first. Always connected, always available -- I mean wow, what could possibly be bad about that?
But those of you who've chatted know what I'm talking about. We know the trap that's there.
Please stay away from enterprise IM applications. You and your boss will be glad you were able to resist the latest business fad.
Let's get back to the old bottom line and red/black calculations. Nothing -- not War, not Instant Messaging, nothing else -- will get us out of this depression that we're experiencing.
We'll have to wait it out. But when we finally escape, we'll be glad we didn't embrace IM. What a waste of time/money that'd have been.
More than 1.1 billion CDs are thrown out worldwide each year. For no reason.
CDs are an antiquated and unstable form of media storage. Most people who use CDs for music or file storage also have access to other, non-CD technologies that pollute less and are cheaper.
CDs are some of the most wasteful products that continue to be marketed on our planet. Why do we kill throw them out by the billions? Just to enjoy the transient pleasure of moving from one file storage technology to the next every few years?
The frequency we know as "blue" is much more prone to error since the wavelength and subsequent oscillating value is smaller than "red" lasers found in traditional CD players.
Wow Hemos, your grandkids will be so proud of you and your contributions to the emerging field of computers and information technology. I can just see their starry-eyed faces as you lie on your deathbed and reminisce with the family about your contributions to mankind.
"I loved Dungeon Master." -- Hemos
With that kind of critical expertise, I'm stunned...absolutely stunned...that you're not writing world-class exposes into complex areas of computer science.
Jesus Christ, no wonder Andover went broke. They actually pay you to make one-line jests about random news articles.
Although, I guess there's something to be said for playing in the "band" while the "ship" goes down.
Spam is only a problem for perverts, and hear me out on this please.
Listen, the only way in hell that you'll get a piece of spam mail is if you register or use your email address at pornography sites. Any credible Web site does not disclose or sell email addresses.
I mean come on, if spam is a big enough problem that people form consortiums and companies on fighting spam, I think they need to re-think the cause of the effect -- pornography-seeking Web surfers.
Without trying to deligate this discussion to silly potty jokes, I'd say that if you keep both hands on the keyboard at all times and don't spend hours upon hours browsing for porn, you'll be spam-free.
As an ISP I can tell you they're giving up on the internet, to them the cost/benefit is just not worthwhile. That's not a good trend. -- Barry Shein
So now ESR's statement that Microsoft will be dead in 6 months, Slashdot trolls' idea that BSD is already dead, some nitwit journalist's belief that Apple Computers is nearly obsolete all get joined with Barry Shein's idea that THE INTERNET IS DYING.
The Observer edited the content to conform to their British editorial standards.
Yeah, you've got that right buddy. You may want to mention that by "edited" you mean "created".
Oh, and since you seem like the kind of guy who wants to know everything, I'll let you in on a little secret: the NSA doesn't even use email. They don't use hard disks. They don't use printers. In fact, you can't even get a radio signal, microwave frequency signal, or anything else to even get through the walls of their offices.
So I sure as hell can guarantee that no emails are getting "mistakenly" sent to British tabloid newspapers.
Get a fucking clue and stop spreading FUD. I hope the CIA takes you out in your sleep.
Did you actually even read the supposed leaked email?
Let me give you some advice.
Firstly, The Register, as a work of literature, is about on par with supermarket tabloids that write about Madonna consulting with alien lifeforms and Elvis' 400th citing outside a Taco Bell in Modesta, California. It's generally 50% drivel and 50% wrong.
Secondly, if you actually read the supposed leaked NSA email, you'll see things such as European style dates (28-02-2003 instead of the America way of putting the month then date then year). Also, British spellings of works like "recognised" and "organised" just simply aren't used here in America. We use the letter "z" instead of "s" in most cases.
I mean, I realize you're trolling hoping to stir up controversy, but I get a little sick of 24/7/365 anti-American bullshit that I read on every liberal-slanted "news" show, magazine, and website.
I'm not sure how a few two-sentence factual paragraphs is considered a book review, but I'll have to let my English teacher know that the the definition of "review" may have changed.
Anyway, that flamebait aside, I'd like to offer up an actual book review that will help you decide whether to buy the book at all. I mean, that's the *point* of a review, isn't it?
Computer security made simpler......, October 15, 2002 Reviewer: Kelly Larsen from Augusta Georgia
I have been teaching Windows 2000 and Unix security for the U.S. Army for 3 years. I am constantly searching for a book that will provide true insight into the hacker mindset and methods. Most books dawdle in the routine and well known hacks and still leave you wanting. "Hack Attacks Revealed, 2nd edition", takes you to the next level. It is the single best security reference book that I've seen.
You rarely find a book that provides indepth coverage of Windows, Unix, and Linux security. Hack Attacks Revealed's information, tutorials, and tools provide you with everything you would need to test and secure a computer system or network. As a bonus, the fully licensed TigerSuite Professional (version 3.5) is included on the accompanying CD. This is an amazing grouping of tools to analyze and test the security of a computer network. In class, I routinely use TigerSuite to demonstrate security shortfalls. My students are so impressed that they immediately ask me where I got it and how can they get it.
"Hack Attacks Revealed" has something for every skill level, whether it is teaching you how to subnet, compile a security tool or walking you through a buffer overflow. The First edition was great and John Chirillo found a way to go it one better.
And we need to do everything we can to prevent system information from being released.
Security through obscurity might not be good in principle, but in practice it's well-tested and the only way to go. Just look at the CIA, FBI, NSA, etc. It works for them.
It exploded over Earth, not Middle Earth. Perhaps you should re-join the real and stay away from your sci-fi fantasy movies.
I know this is hard to believe, but it's Iraq that we're going to invade, not Iran. Iran is so '80s.
The world will never be totally fixed. That's why we need to study Space and find out how to get the hell off Earth before it's too late;-)
Seek solace in My love
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Everyday of our lives we are taught the same lesson: Don't fight the system, Don't speak out, Don't dress differently. Be part of the crowd, But don't make a scene. Don't be a blip on the radar of humanity. Blend in. This message has been etched in stone And continues to repress and distress. The hatred multiplies As those "freaks", those cancer on the popular skin, Must comply. But it is this silence That feeds the violence. All of the Doom Brought forth by a volatile human Quake May seem Unreal But this is no game, And it was no game that caused this. It was the repression, the deception, The correction, the depression. If the undesirables make a stand, Raise their collective hand, If they even dare to breathe, Push them down; make them desirable. That's the American way. If something is wrong, just point blame On television or a video game. There's no shame in that. It's not the parents' fault: They are symbols of perfection, Models for the youth. To tell you the truth, Why am I even writing this poem? It's not about talent or scholarship, But conformity and censorship. 1984 is not too far-fetched. Let's just hope that all the dreamers, All the geeks, all the freaks, Stay true to themselves Because they can emancipate the slaves Hopefully without filling up the graves. They are the key To making this nation what it claims to be: The land of the free. -- T.V.
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It's all about how you value things, e.g. how you value things.
I'd rather have a hot girlfriend and live a happy life as a bartender or sport athlete/coach.
Most of you prefer to be tired, over-worked, miserable computer geeks with carpal tunnel syndrome. I'm sorry, but I don't see the appeal to that.
While you're working your 75 hour weeks, I'm at the Knicks game with a few friends and some seriously cute women. We have a few drinks, watch a great game, then go back to my place and party a bit more, collapse into ecstasy onto my L-shaped sofa, and crash for 10 hours.
Somehow, I doubt I'll see this on the DrudgeReport
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NEWSFLASH **EXCLUSIVE** Ugly kids from broken homes are very angry and don't have many friends.
What's fictional about this book? Name one computer guru who has a life away from his keyboard. Still thinking? Thought so.
Slashdot Mirror
Holy ----! I have been reading Slashdot for, I dunno, a couple years now and I never noticed the meaning of the Patent icon before. Patent the fork! Get it?
;-)
I'm not joking either, I never realized it!
I'd rather be rich and safe during a time like this than a poor, obsessive-compulsive porn-craving Slashdot geek.
Just like there's bogus religion, bogus reality shows, and bogus politicians.
For example, religions that claim to be "all loving" are actually responsible for more murders over all of time than any other cause.
Furthermore, many reality shows are actually scripted and use actors; the people are, in fact, barely real -- they're simply reading scripts.
Finally, many politicians don't really have the qualifications necessary to hold public office -- many of them can barely read/write at a junior high school level.
"Apple Patches Sendmail Bug Quickly".
I'm sure if it were Microsoft, it would have been
"Microsoft Takes 48 Entire Hours To Fix Its Huge Security Exploit".
Sorry, but the bias around here really wears thin after a while. Grow up and start acting like real journalists.
More than 1.1 billion Instant Messages are sent out worldwide every day. For no reason.
IMs are an attention-grabbing and nonsensical, not to mention unproductive, means of communication. Most people who use IMs to talk or share information also have access to other, non-IM technologies that pollute the Internet less and are cheaper.
IMs are some of the most wasteful products, in terms of resources used, that continue to be marketed on our planet. Why do we send them out by the billions? Just to enjoy the transient pleasure of saying LOL time and time again?
I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE. BETWEEN A CELLPHONE, TELEPHONE, EMAIL, AND INSTANT MESSENGER, I AM ALWAYS EXPECTED TO BE AT EVERYONE'S BECK AND CALL 24 HOURS A DAY 7 DAYS A WEEK.
I DON'T WANT TO BE A CORPORATE SLAVE ANYMORE. GOD, MY JOB IS BAD ENOUGH WITHOUT THE BOSS KNOWING EXACTLY WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING ONLINE AND HAVING A WAY TO REACH ME INSTANTLY.
SAY NO TO INSTANT MESSAGING PLEASE. IT WILL HELP US ALL, AS TECH WORKS, SAVE OUR SANITY. WE HAVE *LIVES* AT STAKE HERE!
Mark my words on this. If instant messaging is adopted by U.S. businesses, the economy will suffer like it has never suffered before. Productivity will come to a halt, and innovation will be stagnant for 10-15 years as a result.
Instant Messaging seems good at first. Always connected, always available -- I mean wow, what could possibly be bad about that?
But those of you who've chatted know what I'm talking about. We know the trap that's there.
Please stay away from enterprise IM applications. You and your boss will be glad you were able to resist the latest business fad.
Let's get back to the old bottom line and red/black calculations. Nothing -- not War, not Instant Messaging, nothing else -- will get us out of this depression that we're experiencing.
We'll have to wait it out. But when we finally escape, we'll be glad we didn't embrace IM. What a waste of time/money that'd have been.
More than 1.1 billion CDs are thrown out worldwide each year. For no reason.
CDs are an antiquated and unstable form of media storage. Most people who use CDs for music or file storage also have access to other, non-CD technologies that pollute less and are cheaper.
CDs are some of the most wasteful products that continue to be marketed on our planet. Why do we kill throw them out by the billions? Just to enjoy the transient pleasure of moving from one file storage technology to the next every few years?
The frequency we know as "blue" is much more prone to error since the wavelength and subsequent oscillating value is smaller than "red" lasers found in traditional CD players.
Count me out.
Wow Hemos, your grandkids will be so proud of you and your contributions to the emerging field of computers and information technology. I can just see their starry-eyed faces as you lie on your deathbed and reminisce with the family about your contributions to mankind.
"I loved Dungeon Master." -- Hemos
With that kind of critical expertise, I'm stunned...absolutely stunned...that you're not writing world-class exposes into complex areas of computer science.
Jesus Christ, no wonder Andover went broke. They actually pay you to make one-line jests about random news articles.
Although, I guess there's something to be said for playing in the "band" while the "ship" goes down.
Spam is only a problem for perverts, and hear me out on this please.
Listen, the only way in hell that you'll get a piece of spam mail is if you register or use your email address at pornography sites. Any credible Web site does not disclose or sell email addresses.
I mean come on, if spam is a big enough problem that people form consortiums and companies on fighting spam, I think they need to re-think the cause of the effect -- pornography-seeking Web surfers.
Without trying to deligate this discussion to silly potty jokes, I'd say that if you keep both hands on the keyboard at all times and don't spend hours upon hours browsing for porn, you'll be spam-free.
As an ISP I can tell you they're giving up on the internet, to them the cost/benefit is just not worthwhile. That's not a good trend. -- Barry Shein
;-)
So now ESR's statement that Microsoft will be dead in 6 months, Slashdot trolls' idea that BSD is already dead, some nitwit journalist's belief that Apple Computers is nearly obsolete all get joined with Barry Shein's idea that THE INTERNET IS DYING.
Wow, what a way to start a Monday morning
The Observer edited the content to conform to their British editorial standards.
Yeah, you've got that right buddy. You may want to mention that by "edited" you mean "created".
Oh, and since you seem like the kind of guy who wants to know everything, I'll let you in on a little secret: the NSA doesn't even use email. They don't use hard disks. They don't use printers. In fact, you can't even get a radio signal, microwave frequency signal, or anything else to even get through the walls of their offices.
So I sure as hell can guarantee that no emails are getting "mistakenly" sent to British tabloid newspapers.
Get a fucking clue and stop spreading FUD. I hope the CIA takes you out in your sleep.
But how do I go about figuring out what really lies beneath?
It's the 21st century, and some things just aren't what they seem anymore!
Did you actually even read the supposed leaked email?
Let me give you some advice.
Firstly, The Register, as a work of literature, is about on par with supermarket tabloids that write about Madonna consulting with alien lifeforms and Elvis' 400th citing outside a Taco Bell in Modesta, California. It's generally 50% drivel and 50% wrong.
Secondly, if you actually read the supposed leaked NSA email, you'll see things such as European style dates (28-02-2003 instead of the America way of putting the month then date then year). Also, British spellings of works like "recognised" and "organised" just simply aren't used here in America. We use the letter "z" instead of "s" in most cases.
I mean, I realize you're trolling hoping to stir up controversy, but I get a little sick of 24/7/365 anti-American bullshit that I read on every liberal-slanted "news" show, magazine, and website.
I'm not sure how a few two-sentence factual paragraphs is considered a book review, but I'll have to let my English teacher know that the the definition of "review" may have changed.
Anyway, that flamebait aside, I'd like to offer up an actual book review that will help you decide whether to buy the book at all. I mean, that's the *point* of a review, isn't it?
Computer security made simpler......, October 15, 2002
Reviewer: Kelly Larsen from Augusta Georgia
I have been teaching Windows 2000 and Unix security for the U.S. Army for 3 years. I am constantly searching for a book that will provide true insight into the hacker mindset and methods. Most books dawdle in the routine and well known hacks and still leave you wanting. "Hack Attacks Revealed, 2nd edition", takes you to the next level. It is the single best security reference book that I've seen.
You rarely find a book that provides indepth coverage of Windows, Unix, and Linux security. Hack Attacks Revealed's information, tutorials, and tools provide you with everything you would need to test and secure a computer system or network. As a bonus, the fully licensed TigerSuite Professional (version 3.5) is included on the accompanying CD. This is an amazing grouping of tools to analyze and test the security of a computer network. In class, I routinely use TigerSuite to demonstrate security shortfalls. My students are so impressed that they immediately ask me where I got it and how can they get it.
"Hack Attacks Revealed" has something for every skill level, whether it is teaching you how to subnet, compile a security tool or walking you through a buffer overflow. The First edition was great and John Chirillo found a way to go it one better.
The first edition was reviewed before, but this article is about the second edition.
:-]
Now, time to see how much has actually changed between the two releases
And we need to do everything we can to prevent system information from being released.
Security through obscurity might not be good in principle, but in practice it's well-tested and the only way to go. Just look at the CIA, FBI, NSA, etc. It works for them.
Everyday of our lives we are taught the same lesson:
Don't fight the system,
Don't speak out,
Don't dress differently.
Be part of the crowd,
But don't make a scene.
Don't be a blip on the radar of humanity.
Blend in.
This message has been etched in stone
And continues to repress and distress.
The hatred multiplies
As those "freaks", those cancer on the popular skin,
Must comply.
But it is this silence
That feeds the violence.
All of the Doom
Brought forth by a volatile human Quake
May seem Unreal
But this is no game,
And it was no game that caused this.
It was the repression, the deception,
The correction, the depression.
If the undesirables make a stand,
Raise their collective hand,
If they even dare to breathe,
Push them down; make them desirable.
That's the American way.
If something is wrong, just point blame
On television or a video game.
There's no shame in that.
It's not the parents' fault:
They are symbols of perfection,
Models for the youth.
To tell you the truth,
Why am I even writing this poem?
It's not about talent or scholarship,
But conformity and censorship.
1984 is not too far-fetched.
Let's just hope that all the dreamers,
All the geeks, all the freaks,
Stay true to themselves
Because they can emancipate the slaves
Hopefully without filling up the graves.
They are the key
To making this nation what it claims to be:
The land of the free.
-- T.V.
It's all about how you value things, e.g. how you value things.
I'd rather have a hot girlfriend and live a happy life as a bartender or sport athlete/coach.
Most of you prefer to be tired, over-worked, miserable computer geeks with carpal tunnel syndrome. I'm sorry, but I don't see the appeal to that.
While you're working your 75 hour weeks, I'm at the Knicks game with a few friends and some seriously cute women. We have a few drinks, watch a great game, then go back to my place and party a bit more, collapse into ecstasy onto my L-shaped sofa, and crash for 10 hours.
NEWSFLASH **EXCLUSIVE**
Ugly kids from broken homes are very angry and don't have many friends.
What's fictional about this book? Name one computer guru who has a life away from his keyboard. Still thinking? Thought so.
Sports like mens' wrestling almost encourage these kinds of super-bacteria.
We've all switched to Macs!