You are told that there is one million dollars in the house down the street. The owner is an anti-gun activist and goes out every Friday night for several hours. He also has no security system and the money is simply lying under a mattress.
House #2
You are told that there is one million dollars in the house down the street. The owner is a card carrying member of the NRA and goes to the rifle range every other weekend. He owns several pistols and a shotgun that you know about. He also has a concealed weapons permit.
Analysis
Let me preface this, IANAT(I am not a thief); however if I was desperately short on money and I knew of house #1, I would be at least tempted to take some money from there. However knowing what I know about house #2 would completely deter me from any thought of theft. To summarize the extent of the possible consequences determines the number of people willing to commit crimes.
I know I chose two extreme side of the situation, but I believe at the same time they exemplify the ideology that exists in human beings. We are a selfish people, and with that selfishness comes a desire to live. If we know that by violating someone else's rights we will endanger ourselves, we tend to behave. If that isn't enought deterant then typically these are the people that would shoot you anyways if they found you in the home they were robbing. I'm not saying you should sneak up on someone robbing your home and shoot him in the back. But if I approached someone who was robbing my home, told them to freeze and they made any sudden motions, I would not hesitate to shoot them.
My grandfather had a system for dealing with anyone who might break into his home. He had a 45 loaded by his bed. The first shell was bird shot. The second was hollow point. Just in case you need a breakdown of what that does, bird shot could kill him but most likely would just hurt like hell; hollow point would kill him. Basically you should use the necessary force required to protect yourself and your property. Any more than necessary is wrong but I don't believe it should be a punishable offense. The thief took his life into his own hands by wronging another person. If he is in your house uninvited he should expect to be removed from your property anyway you deem necessary.
Viruses I haven't heard of but there actually are a couple of genetic disorders that cause massive muscle growth. I'd google the names of them for you if I wasn't feeling so lazy right now.
There is no way that this would make an effective sparring partner. As many of the comments here have stated... it cannot make for a challenging fight at least not until maybe v.25 comes out (in or around 2012). I see this thing more effective as a warm-up tool / smart punching bag. If you have any other expectations, you are bound to be disappointed.
He needs to start by contacting the three big credit agencies and alert them to potential identity theft this will make opening a new CC or any new line of credit more difficult with only his SSN.
Please check out the section titled: "IDENTITY THEFT VICTIMS: IMMEDIATE STEPS". Tell him not to wait on this... get on it immediately because the theives will as well.
A peek at script kiddie culture Friday March 05, 2004 - [ 08:00 AM GMT ] By: Robin 'Roblimo' Miller
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Andrew D. Kirch, security administrator for AHBL, infiltrated several script kiddie groups and shared some of his findings with us via IRC. From the (edited) interview transcript, you'll learn that one of the "new waves" in DDoS coordination is hijacking corporate conference call facilities, which is really an update of good old '60s-style phone phreaking, plus some insight into why some DDoSers do what they do -- and some tips on how they might be stopped.
Roblimo:
How and why did you get started tracing DDoS perpetrators?
Andy: Part of it landed in my lap, and part of it was the attacks on the blacklists last summer. I met a [foreign] hacker a few years back on [major IRC network], and we founded an IRC network. Last March he contacted me, as I have some influence on [major IRC network]. An administrator was running illegal (against network policy) code, and they wanted someone from the outside that could independently log and prove it.
Roblimo: So this started on IRC?
Andy: Correct. Most things that these kiddies are doing are coordinated on IRC, or hijacked conference lines through carriers like AT&T or XO.
Roblimo: When you say "hijacked conference lines" do you mean phone conference lines?
Andy: Correct, business conference lines.
Roblimo: I've seen nothing in the press about this problem.
Andy: There is still an element of phone phreaking, it's simply upscaled in technology. Want to talk on one right now?:)
Roblimo: How does one go about hijacking a phone conference line?
Andy: That's one I haven't figured out yet. I'd have to assume it'd involve wardialing extensions into the system. Occasionally they're also liberated from work.
The policies on [major IRC network] allow quite a bit of freedom and privacy and make an excellent place to coordinate actions if they're to be taken off the network, or start "wars" with each other. Largely these actions have been ignored up to now. These kiddies band together into groups that have something between a street gang and Mafia personality. Friends of friends type stuff. When there's a major war, as there was a month or so ago, alliances get changed. The same occurred when the RPC.DCOM exploit came out last May. (And no, May isn't a typo.)
Editor's note: per the link above, the RPC.DOM exploit wasn't known to most of the world until September 2003.
The [hacker] group I've been monitoring just picked up a few people who are into that sort of thing, but I haven't seen them work much yet. A common theme is everyone switches sides about once every 6-7 months.
Roblimo: Switches sides?
Andy: Consider the people and the medium. You've got a lot of adolescents, and young adults with minimal if any social life. The interaction is not going to be on the same level as people with broader social experience. Considering that, and the ability to cripple a medium-sized ISP, there's going to be relationship issues, especially when you throw the sparse quantity of girls into the mix.
There was a girl in the channel, went by the nick ricki [name changed to maintain confidentiality]. Along with the phone conference aspect, there's also the prank calls. Friends even prank each other. Well, one of the guys pranked ricki. She took offense, and convinced two members of the channel to take it over. Both sides started firing packets, and my line was down for about 2 hours until the channel was sorted.
The war isn't really won on IRC. A win looks something like this: (if it's still up) http://www.geocities.com/kylegotpwnt/. This guy hung up on a conf when it was decided to prank him. So the general course of a war is that words get exchanged over whatever the current "drama" is. Packets are fired, and shellhosts or IPv6 tunnels go down. Then there's a mad rush to "pull dox
Same thing worked for me. Got DSL and phone linegot sick of the phone bill and disconnected the phone I had my DSL working for several months after that, before I moved.
Ok I'm well known as a geek but that article flew right over my head. I guess now I know how people feel now when I start talking about tweaking bios settings.
From the question you asked you could need a dozen different things: are you needing to keep outsiders from joining the channel or maybe you need a way of "taking role call" or maybe you don't want one employee pretending to be someone else???
If you are simply trying to keep outside people from getting into the channel set a channel password and send that out via email...internal memo...fax whatever works for you and your company.
If you need to know that each user is who they say they are find a bot/script that will manage your channel or write you own for that(they are not that complicated). There are many script out there for manageing an irc channel you just need to find the one that fits your requirement, or maybe someone else knows of a specific script that will work for you.
There are many other solutions for this but unless you already have your own irc server setup, it would be much simpler/efficient to just for a bot/script to control the channel.
The best thing to do would be to either send them to your webmail page or if you don't have webmail setup send them to www.mail2web.com That site used to save me all of the time when I was using dialup.
To save yourself a "help me" call just setup a simple Support page and put direction with screenshots and most people will be able to handle the problem themselves(or at least only have to call about it once).
I'm not too sure about nationally or even locally but I know that personally my unemployment rate is running at %100. Thanks for the painful reminder!:P
Forgive me if I'm wrong but I believe that power is related to bandwidth because it would take a larger channel to transmit more data which involves more signal going over the line at once.
I think basically what I'm trying to say is that it would take more power to fill a 12 MHZ channel than a 6 MHZ channel.
My phone is equiped with this "feature". And it has two GPS Location options "Always On" & "911 only". Obviously I keep it on 911 only. The phone goes into emergency mode when you dial 911 and I assume that the GPS activates while in "Emergency Mode"
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Ok let me give you two situations to think about.
House #1
You are told that there is one million dollars in the house down the street. The owner is an anti-gun activist and goes out every Friday night for several hours. He also has no security system and the money is simply lying under a mattress.
House #2
You are told that there is one million dollars in the house down the street. The owner is a card carrying member of the NRA and goes to the rifle range every other weekend. He owns several pistols and a shotgun that you know about. He also has a concealed weapons permit.
Analysis
Let me preface this, IANAT(I am not a thief); however if I was desperately short on money and I knew of house #1, I would be at least tempted to take some money from there. However knowing what I know about house #2 would completely deter me from any thought of theft. To summarize the extent of the possible consequences determines the number of people willing to commit crimes.
I know I chose two extreme side of the situation, but I believe at the same time they exemplify the ideology that exists in human beings. We are a selfish people, and with that selfishness comes a desire to live. If we know that by violating someone else's rights we will endanger ourselves, we tend to behave. If that isn't enought deterant then typically these are the people that would shoot you anyways if they found you in the home they were robbing. I'm not saying you should sneak up on someone robbing your home and shoot him in the back. But if I approached someone who was robbing my home, told them to freeze and they made any sudden motions, I would not hesitate to shoot them.
My grandfather had a system for dealing with anyone who might break into his home. He had a 45 loaded by his bed. The first shell was bird shot. The second was hollow point. Just in case you need a breakdown of what that does, bird shot could kill him but most likely would just hurt like hell; hollow point would kill him. Basically you should use the necessary force required to protect yourself and your property. Any more than necessary is wrong but I don't believe it should be a punishable offense. The thief took his life into his own hands by wronging another person. If he is in your house uninvited he should expect to be removed from your property anyway you deem necessary.
And that was different from everyother day how? ;)
Viruses I haven't heard of but there actually are a couple of genetic disorders that cause massive muscle growth. I'd google the names of them for you if I wasn't feeling so lazy right now.
There is no way that this would make an effective sparring partner. As many of the comments here have stated ... it cannot make for a challenging fight at least not until maybe v.25 comes out (in or around 2012). I see this thing more effective as a warm-up tool / smart punching bag. If you have any other expectations, you are bound to be disappointed.
OK, I have three mod points left ... can anyone help me find the +1 Dirty mod for this one?
Oh Man me with mod points and somebody removed the (-1) Pathetic Mod
He needs to start by contacting the three big credit agencies and alert them to potential identity theft this will make opening a new CC or any new line of credit more difficult with only his SSN.
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... get on it immediately because the theives will as well.
Contact info:
# Equifax: 1-800-525-6285; www.equifax.com; P.O. Box 740241, Atlanta, GA 30374-0241
# Experian: 1-888-EXPERIAN (397-3742); www.experian.com; P.O. Box 9532, Allen, TX 75013
# TransUnion: 1-800-680-7289; www.transunion.com; Fraud Victim Assistance Division, P.O. Box 6790, Fullerton, CA 92834-6790
More information about what to do is at the FTC's website
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/credit/idthef
Please check out the section titled: "IDENTITY THEFT VICTIMS: IMMEDIATE STEPS". Tell him not to wait on this
You almost had me there ... until I looked at your /. number ...
So you're telling me ... there's a chance! ;-)
As interesting of an idea as this is ... a smoke detector is the last thing I would be "tweaking" to save power.
A peek at script kiddie culture
:)
Friday March 05, 2004 - [ 08:00 AM GMT ]
By: Robin 'Roblimo' Miller
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Andrew D. Kirch, security administrator for AHBL, infiltrated several script kiddie groups and shared some of his findings with us via IRC. From the (edited) interview transcript, you'll learn that one of the "new waves" in DDoS coordination is hijacking corporate conference call facilities, which is really an update of good old '60s-style phone phreaking, plus some insight into why some DDoSers do what they do -- and some tips on how they might be stopped.
Roblimo:
How and why did you get started tracing DDoS perpetrators?
Andy: Part of it landed in my lap, and part of it was the attacks on the blacklists last summer. I met a [foreign] hacker a few years back on [major IRC network], and we founded an IRC network. Last March he contacted me, as I have some influence on [major IRC network]. An administrator was running illegal (against network policy) code, and they wanted someone from the outside that could independently log and prove it.
Roblimo: So this started on IRC?
Andy: Correct. Most things that these kiddies are doing are coordinated on IRC, or hijacked conference lines through carriers like AT&T or XO.
Roblimo: When you say "hijacked conference lines" do you mean phone conference lines?
Andy: Correct, business conference lines.
Roblimo: I've seen nothing in the press about this problem.
Andy: There is still an element of phone phreaking, it's simply upscaled in technology. Want to talk on one right now?
Roblimo: How does one go about hijacking a phone conference line?
Andy: That's one I haven't figured out yet. I'd have to assume it'd involve wardialing extensions into the system. Occasionally they're also liberated from work.
The policies on [major IRC network] allow quite a bit of freedom and privacy and make an excellent place to coordinate actions if they're to be taken off the network, or start "wars" with each other. Largely these actions have been ignored up to now. These kiddies band together into groups that have something between a street gang and Mafia personality. Friends of friends type stuff. When there's a major war, as there was a month or so ago, alliances get changed. The same occurred when the RPC.DCOM exploit came out last May. (And no, May isn't a typo.)
Editor's note: per the link above, the RPC.DOM exploit wasn't known to most of the world until September 2003.
The [hacker] group I've been monitoring just picked up a few people who are into that sort of thing, but I haven't seen them work much yet. A common theme is everyone switches sides about once every 6-7 months.
Roblimo: Switches sides?
Andy: Consider the people and the medium. You've got a lot of adolescents, and young adults with minimal if any social life. The interaction is not going to be on the same level as people with broader social experience. Considering that, and the ability to cripple a medium-sized ISP, there's going to be relationship issues, especially when you throw the sparse quantity of girls into the mix.
There was a girl in the channel, went by the nick ricki [name changed to maintain confidentiality]. Along with the phone conference aspect, there's also the prank calls. Friends even prank each other. Well, one of the guys pranked ricki. She took offense, and convinced two members of the channel to take it over. Both sides started firing packets, and my line was down for about 2 hours until the channel was sorted.
The war isn't really won on IRC. A win looks something like this: (if it's still up) http://www.geocities.com/kylegotpwnt/. This guy hung up on a conf when it was decided to prank him. So the general course of a war is that words get exchanged over whatever the current "drama" is. Packets are fired, and shellhosts or IPv6 tunnels go down. Then there's a mad rush to "pull dox
Yea, Yea
...
:P
and in Soviet Russia
We got already
Same thing worked for me. Got DSL and phone linegot sick of the phone bill and disconnected the phone I had my DSL working for several months after that, before I moved.
For the speaker or the Girl friend?
Ok I'm well known as a geek but that article flew right over my head. I guess now I know how people feel now when I start talking about tweaking bios settings.
From the question you asked you could need a dozen different things: are you needing to keep outsiders from joining the channel or maybe you need a way of "taking role call" or maybe you don't want one employee pretending to be someone else???
If you are simply trying to keep outside people from getting into the channel set a channel password and send that out via email...internal memo...fax whatever works for you and your company.
If you need to know that each user is who they say they are find a bot/script that will manage your channel or write you own for that(they are not that complicated). There are many script out there for manageing an irc channel you just need to find the one that fits your requirement, or maybe someone else knows of a specific script that will work for you.
There are many other solutions for this but unless you already have your own irc server setup, it would be much simpler/efficient to just for a bot/script to control the channel.
For those of you who have just eaten ...
My doctor recommends a 1 to 2 hour wait before viewing!
The best thing to do would be to either send them to your webmail page or if you don't have webmail setup send them to www.mail2web.com
That site used to save me all of the time when I was using dialup.
To save yourself a "help me" call just setup a simple Support page and put direction with screenshots and most people will be able to handle the problem themselves(or at least only have to call about it once).
I'm not too sure about nationally or even locally but I know that personally my unemployment rate is running at %100. Thanks for the painful reminder! :P
Forgive me if I'm wrong but I believe that power is related to bandwidth because it would take a larger channel to transmit more data which involves more signal going over the line at once.
I think basically what I'm trying to say is that it would take more power to fill a 12 MHZ channel than a 6 MHZ channel.
(just my 2 cents)
Look what I stepped in ...
Now I gotta go wash this dupe off my shoes
that saw this article and started to hear Forest yell "Don't go Jennay"
Hate to burst your bubble but
"two Japanese users of the Winny P2P application"
Emphasis Mine
They were only users and the article is saying that the software didn't protect their identity.
My phone is equiped with this "feature". And it has two GPS Location options "Always On" & "911 only". Obviously I keep it on 911 only. The phone goes into emergency mode when you dial 911 and I assume that the GPS activates while in "Emergency Mode"
Actually I think I got it ....
....
Dude, your getting screwed!
Ok that's enough back to my cave.