I don't know what the fuss is about YouTube is though. Sites which allow users to post content are going to be hosting objectionable content. Governments have the choice of blocking a particular url or making a point and blocking the whole site.
Anyone actually located the video in question?
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I suspect the video's finally been removed. Reports say it was uploaded by a user named 'Paddidda' - and that account seems to have disappeared.
Rather I was using OO 2.1. OpenOffice just uninstalled it for me. Now I'm left with an uninstallable OO 2.0. Welcome to the OpenOffice downgrade wizard!
Glad this is finally available. I checked the website periodically and noticed the release date slip from 14th March to 24th March to 28th March... and then a bit more.
Anyway I still haven't managed to install.
On running the install it complained there was no disc in my CD drive. I closed it - it had a Hiren's boot disk in there - installation proceeded. Why on earth is it insisting on the CD door being closed?
Then the install tried to clean up my OO 2.0 install. (I'm using 2.1) It asked for the location - in my temp folder - of the OO 2.0 install files. Of course they were deleted long ago - they were in temp folder - where OO 2.0 put them. I pressed cancel thinking the installation would handle this gracefully but...
No, install was aborted. Still haven't checked out OpenOffice 2.2
"Is there a way to run both firefox and Paradiso without affeting firefox settings and extensions etc ?"
First of all I recommend you create a new profile for V3 (Gran Paradiso). After that it's possible to run new instances of Firefox from a batch file with the contents:
"This is equivalent to declaring that trucks carrying porn cannot drive on certain roads. It's an attack on infrastructure to solve a political problem."
Your analogy is broken. Consider that port 80 is the default port and it's like specifying that no vehicles that run on wheels may carry porn.
HP also figured in the Who Wrote, and Paid For, 2.6.20 research discussed here last week as a significant contributor to Linux. You'd guess they'd be planning on getting their money's worth.
I looked for the data mentioned in the summary and all I could find was this from the Securiteam blog (posted Jan 12). Is that it? Interestingly it says the name of the project has been changed from "Web Honeynet Project" to "Web Honeynet Task Force".
"Holy fucking shit LOL - you've never heard of SUPERMAX (pssst - it's a federal prison)?
From your link: "There are only two "purely" Supermax prisons in the United States federal system. However, many states now have created supermax prisons; either as stand alone facilities, or as secure units within lower security prisons.".
What we have here:
1) You have your facts wrong.
2) Your link basically supports the point the parent was making.
"There is nothing inherently evil about JavaScript, get a hold of yourself."
You never visit dodgy sites? No, wait a minute, you just stay on your company Intranet? 'Normal' users that get around a bit and prefer to be responsible won't subscribe to that. Try reading Security tips for Firefox users... Clue: Those tips don't just apply to Firefox users. You'd have to be daft to to allow javascript on any random site. If a site needs javascript and you deem it important enough then it's simple enough to allow them through the Noscript extension (temporarily or permanently) - in it's default mode Noscript will reload the page right there and you've got you cascading menus and links and whatnot working in two seconds.
"I am not going to remove flashblock from firefox any time soon"
Hum... I've said this before and I'll say it again: If you're relying on Flashblock (the Firefox extension?) to block Flash on any old site that means you're allowing javascript on any old site. Know what I mean? If you want to block Flash on untrusted sites then use the javascript blocker, Noscript - it has this capability, along with blocking Java as well.
I've got into the habit of saving Microsoft's advance notifications using the wonderful Scrapbook extension.
Here's the original:
Three Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows. The
highest Maximum Severity rating for these is Critical. These updates will be
detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and the Enterprise
Scan Tool. Some of these updates will require a restart.
One Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows and Microsoft
Visual Studio. The highest Maximum Severity rating for this is Important.
These updates will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security
Analyzer and the Enterprise Scan Tool. These updates will require a restart.
One Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows and Microsoft
Office. The highest Maximum Severity rating for this is Important. These
updates will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer.
These updates may require a restart.
Three Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Office. The highest
Maximum Severity rating for these is Critical. These updates will be
detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer. These updates may
require a restart.
In the end there was only one Windows patch - a critical flaw in VML - along with critical patches Outlook and Excel. The only 'important' patch was for Office 2003 but seemed to only affect the Brazilian Portugese version.
I was surprised to find, following the TFA, that eWeek got hold of this last Friday.
The reasons are, expanding from TFA: "open relay RBLs
are no longer the most effective way of preventing spam from entering
your network as spammers have changed tactics in recent years, as have
the anti-spam community."
"I'm searching for where SANS has recommended the Heise Security Offline update script and cannot seem to find this information anywhere on the SANS site. If I can find this evidence it would go a long way towards convincing my security group that my IT organization can use this to develope iso cds."
The SANS homepage changed shortly after the editors published this story. For the last few hours it's been the somewhat underwhelming account: "Microsoft Office 2004 (Mac OS X) update was a accident. (NEW)"... and only that.
Would I be trolling here if I wondered out loud: Did Microsoft really not find and fix anything with IE7 during the last month that they considered worthy of pushing out with this latest bulletin? Consider that this is the first set of updates since IE7 was pushed out to the whole world and how the inclusion of a patch for IE7 would be met with a jaundiced 'business as usual'. I suppose Microsoft just can't win on this can they?
The product I used for a long time, Outpost, is there. It's good but it has too many issues. However where's Core Force? It's not a decent roundup if they didn't test that.
"Vietnam has one of the highest literacy rates in the world.
Hum... yes they do design those tests quite well. One should pity the commune leader who admits that his flock is one jot under 90% literate. He'd be a very sleepless commune leader. By the same token they churn out a helluva lot of 'university' graduates (if you don't make it into uni you risk getting conscripted) and English 'B' level certificates are handed out like confetti - sometimes I wonder if they're just handed out at the supermarket with certain purchases.
"...and the quality of talent is rising every day."
Some days it goes down. Depends on the airline schedules or the efficiency or the visa-processing sections. There are 2.5 million Vietnamese in the US, Canada, Australia, France and Cambodia & Laos. But you're not going to see great leaps - the population is now stable and the education system is still shocking.
Microsoft have just given advance notification of what their bundle of patches to be released next Tuesday will contain. There are five general Windows bulletins there - no surprise that the most severe is 'critical' - but I'm kind of surprised to see they have no intention of shipping any Office-related fixes.
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"You may recall YouTube being in trouble with more than few countries in the past"
Yup. Still blocked in Thailand.
I don't know what the fuss is about YouTube is though. Sites which allow users to post content are going to be hosting objectionable content. Governments have the choice of blocking a particular url or making a point and blocking the whole site.
I suspect the video's finally been removed. Reports say it was uploaded by a user named 'Paddidda' - and that account seems to have disappeared.
Story links to an archived version of the Wikipedia page. What's going on there? Here is the current version
"When Google refused to remove the 'offending' clip the website was redirected to a different page"
Oh by the way I'm in Thailand right now and YouTube isn't redirecting anywhere - it's just failing. (ISP is TTTMaxnet.)
"I'm using 2.1"
... hum
Rather I was using OO 2.1. OpenOffice just uninstalled it for me. Now I'm left with an uninstallable OO 2.0. Welcome to the OpenOffice downgrade wizard!
'a real alternative to Office 2007'
Glad this is finally available. I checked the website periodically and noticed the release date slip from 14th March to 24th March to 28th March ... and then a bit more.
...
Anyway I still haven't managed to install.
On running the install it complained there was no disc in my CD drive. I closed it - it had a Hiren's boot disk in there - installation proceeded. Why on earth is it insisting on the CD door being closed?
Then the install tried to clean up my OO 2.0 install. (I'm using 2.1) It asked for the location - in my temp folder - of the OO 2.0 install files. Of course they were deleted long ago - they were in temp folder - where OO 2.0 put them. I pressed cancel thinking the installation would handle this gracefully but
No, install was aborted. Still haven't checked out OpenOffice 2.2
First of all I recommend you create a new profile for V3 (Gran Paradiso). After that it's possible to run new instances of Firefox from a batch file with the contents:
"This is equivalent to declaring that trucks carrying porn cannot drive on certain roads. It's an attack on infrastructure to solve a political problem."
Your analogy is broken. Consider that port 80 is the default port and it's like specifying that no vehicles that run on wheels may carry porn.
HP also figured in the Who Wrote, and Paid For, 2.6.20 research discussed here last week as a significant contributor to Linux. You'd guess they'd be planning on getting their money's worth.
I looked for the data mentioned in the summary and all I could find was this from the Securiteam blog (posted Jan 12). Is that it? Interestingly it says the name of the project has been changed from "Web Honeynet Project" to "Web Honeynet Task Force".
"Holy fucking shit LOL - you've never heard of SUPERMAX (pssst - it's a federal prison)?
From your link: "There are only two "purely" Supermax prisons in the United States federal system. However, many states now have created supermax prisons; either as stand alone facilities, or as secure units within lower security prisons.".
What we have here:
1) You have your facts wrong. 2) Your link basically supports the point the parent was making.
"There is nothing inherently evil about JavaScript, get a hold of yourself."
... Clue: Those tips don't just apply to Firefox users. You'd have to be daft to to allow javascript on any random site. If a site needs javascript and you deem it important enough then it's simple enough to allow them through the Noscript extension (temporarily or permanently) - in it's default mode Noscript will reload the page right there and you've got you cascading menus and links and whatnot working in two seconds.
You never visit dodgy sites? No, wait a minute, you just stay on your company Intranet? 'Normal' users that get around a bit and prefer to be responsible won't subscribe to that. Try reading Security tips for Firefox users
"I am not going to remove flashblock from firefox any time soon"
... I've said this before and I'll say it again: If you're relying on Flashblock (the Firefox extension?) to block Flash on any old site that means you're allowing javascript on any old site. Know what I mean? If you want to block Flash on untrusted sites then use the javascript blocker, Noscript - it has this capability, along with blocking Java as well.
Hum
"I have to remember to read it later."
No worries, the dupe'll be around in a couple of days.
"should we spend the money trying to educate people to recognize when they are being sent to a phishing site?"
The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security - See #5 - 'Educating Users'.
Here's the original:
- Three Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows. The
highest Maximum Severity rating for these is Critical. These updates will be
detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and the Enterprise
Scan Tool. Some of these updates will require a restart.
- One Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows and Microsoft
Visual Studio. The highest Maximum Severity rating for this is Important.
These updates will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security
Analyzer and the Enterprise Scan Tool. These updates will require a restart.
- One Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows and Microsoft
Office. The highest Maximum Severity rating for this is Important. These
updates will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer.
These updates may require a restart.
- Three Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Office. The highest
Maximum Severity rating for these is Critical. These updates will be
detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer. These updates may
require a restart.
In the end there was only one Windows patch - a critical flaw in VML - along with critical patches Outlook and Excel. The only 'important' patch was for Office 2003 but seemed to only affect the Brazilian Portugese version.I was surprised to find, following the TFA, that eWeek got hold of this last Friday.
The reasons are, expanding from TFA: "open relay RBLs are no longer the most effective way of preventing spam from entering your network as spammers have changed tactics in recent years, as have the anti-spam community."
I concur.
"I'm searching for where SANS has recommended the Heise Security Offline update script and cannot seem to find this information anywhere on the SANS site. If I can find this evidence it would go a long way towards convincing my security group that my IT organization can use this to develope iso cds."
... and only that.
= 584e460f1a298753d999481d6d2d81f8 ... which points to this: http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1939 - hope it helps.
The SANS homepage changed shortly after the editors published this story. For the last few hours it's been the somewhat underwhelming account: "Microsoft Office 2004 (Mac OS X) update was a accident. (NEW)"
The links under 'Diary Archive' at the bottom right of the main page omit the Heise references. Odd. However a search for Heise does bring up two results at the bottom which both point to this: http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2006-12-12&isc
Would I be trolling here if I wondered out loud: Did Microsoft really not find and fix anything with IE7 during the last month that they considered worthy of pushing out with this latest bulletin? Consider that this is the first set of updates since IE7 was pushed out to the whole world and how the inclusion of a patch for IE7 would be met with a jaundiced 'business as usual'. I suppose Microsoft just can't win on this can they?
The product I used for a long time, Outpost, is there. It's good but it has too many issues. However where's Core Force? It's not a decent roundup if they didn't test that.
"Vietnam has one of the highest literacy rates in the world. ... yes they do design those tests quite well. One should pity the commune leader who admits that his flock is one jot under 90% literate. He'd be a very sleepless commune leader. By the same token they churn out a helluva lot of 'university' graduates (if you don't make it into uni you risk getting conscripted) and English 'B' level certificates are handed out like confetti - sometimes I wonder if they're just handed out at the supermarket with certain purchases.
Hum
"...and the quality of talent is rising every day."
Some days it goes down. Depends on the airline schedules or the efficiency or the visa-processing sections. There are 2.5 million Vietnamese in the US, Canada, Australia, France and Cambodia & Laos. But you're not going to see great leaps - the population is now stable and the education system is still shocking.
Microsoft have just given advance notification of what their bundle of patches to be released next Tuesday will contain. There are five general Windows bulletins there - no surprise that the most severe is 'critical' - but I'm kind of surprised to see they have no intention of shipping any Office-related fixes.
From University of Washington. And a good writeup from Wired.
Related: Plasmoid ( Ball Lightning ) generation with Microwaves
Try YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=microw ave
I really doubt it. Care to reword that?