It is do as I say NOT do as I do. That is Plain as day. Open your eyes. After all, I sure they don't have armed security (note the sarcasm). And I'm sure you do. Cough cough... Feinstein (CCW for a.38 last I heard).Reality sucks doesn't it.
I'd change the password on your account, login as you and have access to all your encrypted files?
You need the original "administrator" account password on the first domain controller for the domain (which is where the Recovery key is stored) to use your method anyway.
Last time I went to a museum (Smithsonian) is was OK to take pictures. I'll sure it's legal for me to show those pictures to friends and family. And I believe I can post them on the Internet if I'd like.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is true of all museums.
In the last few months, I've filed complaints with the FBI's Internet crimes task force about a number of things: paypal and ebay spoofed sites hosted on us servers and fraudulent sellers on ebay.
My understanding after discussion of similar issues with clients is that the FBI doesn't care unless the $$ is >100K (as of a few years ago) even for traditional white collar crime.
I've also notified commercial software companies of fraudulent software sold on ebay and offered the seller up on a silver platter (paypal invoice, packaging, product, my contact info, my testimony, etc). Veritas in particular never even returned my call.
If you ask me, these are the people that deserve to be prosecuted. The ones who are directly financially profiting from piracy. Not some poor schmuck who is doing it to be elite.
Told Mindspring about the move. They lost the move order. Put in another. Finally it's supposed to be HOT.
No sync.
So I checked the VPI/VCI number for PacBell vs. Bell$outh. Bingo they're different. That's the problem.
After some guessing, I found the modem's IP (it really had router functionality but that and it's native PPPOE support were turned off). Set my PCs nick to be on the same subnet. Telnet to the modem, try the default password. No Go.
I call Mindspring:
I explain what's going on to the 1st level tech. He immediately realizes I know way more than he does and there is nothing he can do to help.
Me: "look I'll be happy to just fix it myself, but I need the password to login to the modem and reconfigure it from the comand prompt."
So he forwards my call to 2nd level.
The Nightmare Begins:
I give the same explanation, troubleshooting and diagnosis to 2nd level.
His response, I think there is a problem with the way your network is configured.
Impossible. How else can I be sitting at a telnet login prompt for your modem. I can see other PCs, share printers, files, etc.
I try to educate him as to the basics of networking, but he obviously has NO Clue.
So I humor him, remove the hub direct connect to the modem. Same thing.
2nd level: I think it's a driver problem.
No it's not and here's why. See above.
To make a long long story short, I offer the clown any OS he wants (98, NT, 2000, linux) and any NIC I have (Intel, 3Com or junk ones).
Two hours later.
2nd level we'll have to send a tech (teleco) out to check it. If the problem is found with your stuff, there'll be a charge $$$.
I'm totally F-ing fed up. I have him transfer me to customer service so I can cancel my account and call someone who can.
Prolgue:
I downloaded a new firmware (no capability to reset to defaults the teleco issued modem) for a retail version of the modem (guessing that it's exactly the same thing). Uploaded it via serial console (which also reset the password) and bingo I'm in. I changed the VIC/VPI (using the now default password) to those required by my new DSL provider (some time later) hook it up. Spare modem.
Look, I'm going to try not to insult you, but the fact are:
If the Justice System had to convict everyone by jury trial the system would collapse.
And while you're thinking of that, how about this:
If juries were paid a REAL wage (like what they would make if they were are at their regular job) maybe you'd have competent juries. Not just retirees and the people who are too stupid or afraid to bullshit their way out of it.
Someone please tell me why the police make a living wage, the prison guard make a living wage, the attorneys make a living wage (and then some). the judge makes a living wage, but jury makes what I spend on lunch?
Tell me who would do it?
Except for retirees (nothing better to do and who better to judge high tech issues) or someone who's employer pays the difference (yea right.... not in these days).
I've been called for jury duty many times and always managed to avoid it. Is it because I don't want to do my "civic duty"?
Part of the answer is that most DAs, attorneys and their jury insultantant (yes I spelled it wrong) can't read how I'll vote and will pre-emotively challenge me. If it even gets that far. The various exemptions have worked great for many many years.
Here's a novel thought:
How about if you pay the juries the same as you pay the attorneys, judges, cops, etc.
There'd be no problem filling jury pools then. You'd probably have a problem with professional jurists then.
I mean seriously you could make more money with a sign at a freeway off ramp than you could pulling jury duty.
Welcome to America land of the Free (or is it Flea Bargain).
Personally I feel there should be NO PLEA BARGAINS . IIRC that is a recent invention. This would force the prosecutors to enforce the laws as they are on the books and ensure that everyone has a fair trial (if you can call judgement by a group of uninformed/unknowledgeable peers a fair trial).
And if the the laws are opressive, maybe it'll overwhelm the "Injustice System". (the Flea Bargain System was instituted to prevent just this sort of thing).
That's not to say that innocent people won't still be convicted.
See:
http://www.innocenceproject.com/
But I think it will level the playing field a little and force the "injustice department" to realize that there is a problem that needs to be addressed.
Featuring a new, mind-blowing gaming engine from John Carmack, the closely guarded DOOM 3 is in development for the PC, and in true id fashion, will be released "when it's done."
http://www.idsoftware.com/business/history/
However you apparently can pre-order it. But then again I seem to remember you could pre-order it before last Christmas too.
The way I guesstimate it, the race for the releases of Duke Nuk'em Forever and Doom3 Forever is neck and neck.
One of the best defenses I use in corporate (NT and unix based) envirnoments is to force all users to have unprivledged accounts. 9X boxes are much harder to lock down.
My read on this is that the browser cache was either deleted or overflowed.
That is something I do on most machines I touch. In addition to clear history, delete temp files, etc.
I've seen porn pop-ups on the PCs of people from all walks of life: young, old, professional (attorneys, etc), cops, CEO, retirees, women, you name it.
I can't say if any of them contained kiddie porn, don't know, don't want to know, not my yob man.
I believe the prosecutor is required by law to turn over excuplatory evidence to the defence. But incompentence could go a long way toward excusing the failure to turn over said evidence.
In all corporate environments that I manage, there are Only users with Standard User accounts. Nobody has local admin. That reduces the likelyhood of compromise, however it increases the amount of support requests.
That has been done.
I was interested in a decent checksum util for win32. I know every service pack and update would change these check sums, but with knowing what files are changed, and the checksum of the 'new' files, any other altered system files would stand out like a sore thumb.
Thanks for your input, but I have those boxes already checked.
Allowing everything in %systemroot% is not an option, since a lot of spy ware and virii install to that locale. Having users run as unprivledged should take care of the permissions issue to begin with (done).
The thing is it gets a little more complicated when you have users on RDP, VPN, local, etc.
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"The Patriot Act can never, under any circumstances, supercede the Constitution of these United States."
Sure it can. You just have to stack the court (supreme court) with people who will authorize just such actions.
Bravo!
Best comment in this entire thread.
Mods and meta mods. Do your job.
It is do as I say NOT do as I do. That is Plain as day. Open your eyes. After all, I sure they don't have armed security (note the sarcasm). And I'm sure you do. Cough cough ... Feinstein (CCW for a .38 last I heard).Reality sucks doesn't it.
Don't worry, your boss isn't reading this discussion.
A human brain encased in a robot running linux?
Sledgehammer followed by a bonfire or wood burning stove ought to do it. Ever wonder why there are no harddrives at government auctions?
US needs to follow that path.
Why?
I'd change the password on your account, login as you and have access to all your encrypted files?
You need the original "administrator" account password on the first domain controller for the domain (which is where the Recovery key is stored) to use your method anyway.
Or is there something I'm missing?
Last time I went to a museum (Smithsonian) is was OK to take pictures. I'll sure it's legal for me to show those pictures to friends and family. And I believe I can post them on the Internet if I'd like.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is true of all museums.
In the last few months, I've filed complaints with the FBI's Internet crimes task force about a number of things: paypal and ebay spoofed sites hosted on us servers and fraudulent sellers on ebay.
My understanding after discussion of similar issues with clients is that the FBI doesn't care unless the $$ is >100K (as of a few years ago) even for traditional white collar crime.
I've also notified commercial software companies of fraudulent software sold on ebay and offered the seller up on a silver platter (paypal invoice, packaging, product, my contact info, my testimony, etc). Veritas in particular never even returned my call.
If you ask me, these are the people that deserve to be prosecuted. The ones who are directly financially profiting from piracy. Not some poor schmuck who is doing it to be elite.
Read all about it here:
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/06
Should we forward ALL the spam we get in our inboxes to the FBI to (caugh .. caugh) Help with the investigation?
The Background:
I moved from FL->CA.
Told Mindspring about the move. They lost the move order. Put in another. Finally it's supposed to be HOT.
No sync.
So I checked the VPI/VCI number for PacBell vs. Bell$outh. Bingo they're different. That's the problem.
After some guessing, I found the modem's IP (it really had router functionality but that and it's native PPPOE support were turned off). Set my PCs nick to be on the same subnet. Telnet to the modem, try the default password. No Go.
I call Mindspring:
I explain what's going on to the 1st level tech. He immediately realizes I know way more than he does and there is nothing he can do to help.
Me: "look I'll be happy to just fix it myself, but I need the password to login to the modem and reconfigure it from the comand prompt."
So he forwards my call to 2nd level.
The Nightmare Begins:
I give the same explanation, troubleshooting and diagnosis to 2nd level.
His response, I think there is a problem with the way your network is configured.
Impossible. How else can I be sitting at a telnet login prompt for your modem. I can see other PCs, share printers, files, etc.
I try to educate him as to the basics of networking, but he obviously has NO Clue.
So I humor him, remove the hub direct connect to the modem. Same thing.
2nd level: I think it's a driver problem.
No it's not and here's why. See above.
To make a long long story short, I offer the clown any OS he wants (98, NT, 2000, linux) and any NIC I have (Intel, 3Com or junk ones).
Two hours later.
2nd level we'll have to send a tech (teleco) out to check it. If the problem is found with your stuff, there'll be a charge $$$.
I'm totally F-ing fed up. I have him transfer me to customer service so I can cancel my account and call someone who can.
Prolgue:
I downloaded a new firmware (no capability to reset to defaults the teleco issued modem) for a retail version of the modem (guessing that it's exactly the same thing). Uploaded it via serial console (which also reset the password) and bingo I'm in. I changed the VIC/VPI (using the now default password) to those required by my new DSL provider (some time later) hook it up. Spare modem.
Look, I'm going to try not to insult you, but the fact are:
If the Justice System had to convict everyone by jury trial the system would collapse.
And while you're thinking of that, how about this:
If juries were paid a REAL wage (like what they would make if they were are at their regular job) maybe you'd have competent juries. Not just retirees and the people who are too stupid or afraid to bullshit their way out of it.
Someone please tell me why the police make a living wage, the prison guard make a living wage, the attorneys make a living wage (and then some). the judge makes a living wage, but jury makes what I spend on lunch?
Tell me who would do it?
Except for retirees (nothing better to do and who better to judge high tech issues) or someone who's employer pays the difference (yea right.... not in these days).
I've been called for jury duty many times and always managed to avoid it. Is it because I don't want to do my "civic duty"?
Part of the answer is that most DAs, attorneys and their jury insultantant (yes I spelled it wrong) can't read how I'll vote and will pre-emotively challenge me. If it even gets that far. The various exemptions have worked great for many many years.
Here's a novel thought:
How about if you pay the juries the same as you pay the attorneys, judges, cops, etc.
There'd be no problem filling jury pools then. You'd probably have a problem with professional jurists then.
I mean seriously you could make more money with a sign at a freeway off ramp than you could pulling jury duty.
That's what I'd call a fair trial. Right.
The DA's MO is to charge everyone with the most trumped up bullshit anyone could ever imagine.
Then get you to Flea Bargain down to what you are really guilt of and maybe cut you a break for admitting to it. If you are not Too Big of a Shitbag.
The Facts are: People Lie. Almost everyone does it (almost everyday).
Cops are people. Shitbags are people. Sorting out the truth from the lies is nearly impossible.
When have you ever seen an EU (End User) admit to surfing porn and that is why all this shit is popping up on his/her computer.
Answer: Never
It's always someone else. It was a temp, the other guy, the guy who sold me this computer from ebay, the neighbor's kid (not mine, etc, etc).
I call Bullshit.
Experts cost $$$$$.
Vampires (I mean Attorneys) Cost $$$$$.
$$$$$ Buys Justice.
Lack of $$$$$--->Flea Bargain
Simple as That.
Welcome to America land of the Free (or is it Flea Bargain).
Personally I feel there should be NO PLEA BARGAINS . IIRC that is a recent invention. This would force the prosecutors to enforce the laws as they are on the books and ensure that everyone has a fair trial (if you can call judgement by a group of uninformed/unknowledgeable peers a fair trial).
And if the the laws are opressive, maybe it'll overwhelm the "Injustice System". (the Flea Bargain System was instituted to prevent just this sort of thing).
That's not to say that innocent people won't still be convicted.
See:
http://www.innocenceproject.com/
But I think it will level the playing field a little and force the "injustice department" to realize that there is a problem that needs to be addressed.
And maybe a few poor fucks won't be railroaded.
Microsoft normally supports the current and previous service pack for it's NT code based OS.
f h; [ln];lifesupsps
more info here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=
In other words there will (almost certainly) be future patches for SP1 and SP2 versions of Windows XP until SP3 comes along.
If you can't install SP2, just remove it from your windows Update list if that's how you patch your system.
Doom3 .....
Featuring a new, mind-blowing gaming engine from John Carmack, the closely guarded DOOM 3 is in development for the PC, and in true id fashion, will be released "when it's done."
http://www.idsoftware.com/business/history/
However you apparently can pre-order it. But then again I seem to remember you could pre-order it before last Christmas too.
The way I guesstimate it, the race for the releases of Duke Nuk'em Forever and Doom3 Forever is neck and neck.
One of the best defenses I use in corporate (NT and unix based) envirnoments is to force all users to have unprivledged accounts. 9X boxes are much harder to lock down.
My read on this is that the browser cache was either deleted or overflowed.
That is something I do on most machines I touch. In addition to clear history, delete temp files, etc.
I've seen porn pop-ups on the PCs of people from all walks of life: young, old, professional (attorneys, etc), cops, CEO, retirees, women, you name it.
I can't say if any of them contained kiddie porn, don't know, don't want to know, not my yob man.
I've heard it called a Public Pretender.
I believe the prosecutor is required by law to turn over excuplatory evidence to the defence. But incompentence could go a long way toward excusing the failure to turn over said evidence.
a journalist got the name and identity of an undercover CIA operative and released it.
In all corporate environments that I manage, there are Only users with Standard User accounts. Nobody has local admin. That reduces the likelyhood of compromise, however it increases the amount of support requests.
That has been done.
I was interested in a decent checksum util for win32. I know every service pack and update would change these check sums, but with knowing what files are changed, and the checksum of the 'new' files, any other altered system files would stand out like a sore thumb.
Thanks for your input, but I have those boxes already checked.
Thanks, for the effort, but I already knew that.
Allowing everything in %systemroot% is not an option, since a lot of spy ware and virii install to that locale. Having users run as unprivledged should take care of the permissions issue to begin with (done).
The thing is it gets a little more complicated when you have users on RDP, VPN, local, etc.
Rodger