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  1. Re:Watch the video on the page, informative on Mysql.com Hacked, Made To Serve Malware · · Score: 1

    A while back, I decided I don't need java, adobe acrobat or flash on my work machines (too much attack surface).

  2. Research on DHS Admits Knowledge of Infected Import Tech · · Score: 1

    Maybe they were looking for new ideas.

    Is your mouse infected?

    http://pentest.snosoft.com/2011/06/24/netragards-hacker-interface-device-hid/

  3. Re:Bethesda on LulzSec Hacks the US Senate · · Score: 1

    two words

    password reuse

  4. I got an email from EFF the other day on House Fails To Extend Patriot Act Spy Powers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was going to send a comment to my congressman demanding that he vote against this unconstitutional atrocity. Thankfully this didn't pass and hopefully has finally begun to sunset. I can only hope we can someday resurrect the Constitution.

  5. Re:Whats next? on 'No Refusal' DUI Checkpoints Coming To Florida? · · Score: 2

    I DO NOT drive impaired. Yet I choose to Not drive on "DUI enforcement holidays" because I refuse to be cowed into "showing my papers" for the privilege for driving from point A to point B. You must provide identification (at least here in California) which is another "papers please" affront and I grudgingly accept that. But as soon as you try to "exercise your rights" and refuse to tell the police where you are going, what you have doing, what your business is, you will likely be arrested. That my friends is a police state. Try it for yourself some time. If you dare. I'd suggest you have a hidden camera if you do.

    This nonsense in FL is just a case of the judge(s) "sucking up OT gravy" like all the police officers.

    In my town, most of these "papers please" checkpoints result in very few DUIs and mostly just impounds for license and registration violations, some warrants, etc (mostly "undocumented workers"). It is a "cash cow" for the cities, PD, etc. Saturation patrols have been far more effective in removing impaired drivers from the road.

  6. Re:"Genuine Advantage" is only active where it sui on Microsoft Kills Office Anti-Piracy Program · · Score: 1

    With Office 2010 MS already has Office Starter edition. You're not supposed to really talk about it and definitely not use it as a selling point. You're also supposed to pre-install it with MS Sec. Essentials, Windows Live, other stuff too. The end user either buys a license from the OEM, a retail or just decides to use the starter edition (Word & Excel "lite editions").

  7. Re:Make it static. on WikiLeaks Starts Mass Mirroring Effort · · Score: 1

    Just like with all the propaganda of the US government. I don't mind. Because I have nothing to hide. US Gov probably wishes there was a 4th amendment now.

  8. Re: Bozo the Clown on Obama Wants Broader Internet Wiretap Authority · · Score: 1

    I've been writing in Bozo the Clown for years. I use it whenever I cannot bring my self to vote for the choice(s) offered. He's probably received 100's of votes over the years from me alone.

  9. Re:Why should I worry? on GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal · · Score: 1

    This government stopped following the Constitution a long time ago.

  10. Re:Issue not with the passengers on Scientists Question Safety of New Airport Scanners · · Score: 1

    Here is an example of airport workers arrested for smuggling drugs, guns and even grenades on airplanes. And this was in 1999.

    http://articles.sfgate.com/1999-09-10/news/17698252_1_undercover-agents-baggage-handler-smuggling

    Security of any system is based upon the strength of the weakest link.

  11. Re:Wow that's surprising! on Microsoft Finally To Patch 17-Year-Old Bug · · Score: 1

    If I remember correctly, as far back as NT 4.0 NSA Security Guidelines recommended removing the 16 bit MS DOS subsystem. I believe it is also absent in 64 bit Windows 7. I wonder about 64 bit XP & 64 bit Vista.

  12. Re:Only pedantic comments here on Obama Wants Computer Privacy Ruling Overturned · · Score: 1

    I am not afraid of another terrorist attack.

    Why?

    It is 100X more likely to die from smoking
    http://thescooponsmoking.org/xhtml/faq.php

    It is 10X more likely to die in a car accident
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/22/AR2006082201152.html

    And 9/11 was a single event. There others happen every year.

    By the way, about 500 people a year are hit by lightening
    http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/users/holle/public_html/phx6.html

    I'm not worried about that either

  13. Re:Instead of referring to just "Blue Hippo" on BlueHippo Scam Collected $15M, Only Shipped One PC · · Score: 1

    Just like with Madoff. I wonder, WTF was the "exit strategy"? Since the FTC has shut them down. I assume more than 1 person sent that final payment. It's a house of cards. When you build it. Don't you think about getting out before it collapses?

  14. Re:more reason for the FCC's Internet neutrality r on Internet Traffic Shifting Away From Tier-1 Carriers · · Score: 1

    I wonder if most of the traffic to Microsoft occurs around the 2nd Tuesday of every month.

    > Google, Microsoft, Facebook. Arbor says there are about 30 of these 'hyper giant' companies that generate and consume about 30% of all Internet traffic.'

  15. I don't get it on Details Emerge of 2006 Wal-Mart Hack · · Score: 1

    Surely they could have dumped the user accounts from AD (like the SAM under NT) and crack all the accounts on a remote machine. Then maybe it wouldn't have even been noticed. And if the POS software was secure, it should not matter if someone downloaded the source code.

  16. Re:So let me get this right... on Null-Prefix SSL Certificate For PayPal Released · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the info. I assume you could exact the capicom.dll as if you were going to slipstream SP2 into office 2007.

    Actually I was referring to KB967723.

    And interestingly enough, the patch for windows 2003 (64bit) installs on XP (64 bit) but it's download is not referenced from the KB. And apparently MS has said they won't provide a patch for XP (either 64 or 32).

  17. Re:So let me get this right... on Null-Prefix SSL Certificate For PayPal Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wow.

    "not technically feasible" to patch at least XP 64 bit which was release after 2003 32-bit server and before 2003 server 64-bit. I thought the code base was really similar. Especially since it uses the same Service Pack (WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB914961-SP2-x64-ENU.exe)

    General Availability Dates from Microsoft

    Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86) 5/28/2003
    Windows XP Professional x64 Edition 4/24/2005
    Windows Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition 5/28/2005

    This cannot be anything less than a ploy to kill XP (and 2000 server) and bring on the new era of Windows Play Skool Edition (Windows Visa 2009 aka Windows 7)

  18. Re:Really that bad of a thing? on Korean DDoS Bots To Self-Destruct · · Score: 4, Interesting

    hhhmmm

    I wonder if the backbone network admins are going to block access to that "set of web servers" or just let nature take it course.

  19. IMHO on Moblin Will Run X Server As Logged-In User, Not Root · · Score: 1

    This is something that is long overdue.

  20. Re:Sounds like the OS/2 stories from 10 years ago! on One Year Later, "Dead" XP Still Going Strong · · Score: 1

    I saw OS2 running on an ATM in a 3rd world country about 2 years ago. It had crashed and was rebooting.

  21. Re:Count me in on One Year Later, "Dead" XP Still Going Strong · · Score: 1

    I remember install Trumpet Winsock and then downloading netscape via ftp commands from the command prompt. Maybe that was under Windows 3.1

    If you could not do that, there was AOL and Compuserve.

  22. Forget National Security Letters on National Security Letters Reform Act Reintroduced · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That is supposed to be what the courts and judges are for. Try reading the constitution some time.

  23. Re:TweakUI anyone? on US-CERT Says Microsoft's Advice On Downadup Worm Bogus · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know for certain if disabling autorun on all drives using tweakui eliminates the attack vector?

  24. Re:Bavarian police invading privacy!?! on Bavarian Police Seeking Skype Trojan Informant · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I would not be surprised if the NSA has something similar at work here in the US.

  25. Re:Thanks, washington on US No Longer the World's Internet Hub · · Score: 1

    I have never and will never vote for a single one of those traitors. Example: I probably invalidated my ballot (Nov 2006 IIRC) when I "wrote in" Bozo the Clown to vote against Diane Feinstein (she was unopposed).