In other words, stupid people and people who dont care about security punish the rest of us. How nice.
You dont know how much I would appreciate a "Internet License" to show basic security and protections on the net. WIth the financial nets and traffic nets as they are, I'd say that hauling a 2 tom missle down a highway and doing this would be similar.
In the criminal proceeding, OJ Simpson was found "Not Guilty". This is different than saying "Innocent". He may as well have did it, but the courts can only find no guilt. That doesn't mean there isn't any guilt.
In fact, the civil proceeding found him criminally negligent. Because of this ruling, his 'juicy book' "I did it" was granted to the plantiffs.
In mathematical terms: Criminal proceedings need 99% proof. Civil proceedings need (50%+1) proof.
A FreeBSD jail does almost what you ask for. It can shut off kernel commands from the get-go, stop root progression, eliminate fs mounting tricks as seen in Linux chroot, and many other nasties. In the security modes, then we get into apphend-only files and not being able to mount kernel structures.
> And let's remember that in the big-dog multi domain server world, a Windows server fails.
---Er no! It certainly doesn't. Millions of companies use Windows mail servers with no problems or complaints. It's only linux fanboys that think that Windows keeps crashing. Usually that's because they don't actually use it themselves and don't really have a clue if it crashes often or not. Personally, I've never seen a blue screen of death in my entire life. I've never had to reboot a server because it's just crashed (except for our one Linux box, which runs out of RAM every few weeks for reasons that not even RedHat are able to tell us). Even my Vista workstation hasn't been rebooted for three weeks (and even that was only so I could flash my RAID controller BIOS).
There is a major problem with Windows and Microsoft that you do not talk about: licensing for a server. Good luck dealing with the cost for 100 people on a domain, with mail server. And if you accept the corporate agreement, you accept that the BSA goons can invade your business. As a case study, look at that guitar string manufacturer in northern Indiana.
Also, what is an experienced admin (I assume you are either that, or a consultant) using Vista on your work computer? Most Windows admins I know run 2k for getting the job done, or XP for some game compatibility (ahem). None that I know would touch Vista, and have outright told companies that getting it would be ruinious.
However, I can perfectly understand running Vista in a virtual computer environment, or an el-cheapo machine from Circuit City. We do need to keep up on the times, even if we do not agree with it. How else can we make proper assessments without looking at it? I'm just frankly shocked that you are running it in a corporate environment (where else would you run a workstation?).
And about that Linux issue, have you upgraded your kernel? That sounds surely a memory leak vs the kernel. Try recompiling the kernel using what's on Kernel.org . It's been well known that Red Hat adds a lot more in than the standard kernel. If not, try recompiling the server daemons you commonly use vs lint.
Frankly, there's no reason why a Linux machine needs rebooting every 3-4 weeks. Thats what we see in the Windows world far more often. Do a little footwork and you can turn 3-4 weeks to 3-4 years.
> So in essence your comparing "Current Crap (Windows)"
---It's spelt "you're". Why do people stop taking English after the age of 8.
If the grammar is the most you can point out, it must have been a rather sturdy statement.
---I'm not comparing any Windows "Crap". The mail server software I use on Windows is FAR from crap (no I'm not talking about Exchange). You're assuming the software I'm using is crap without even knowing what it is!
SInce you did not state what mail server you DO use, what have we to expect but Exchange? That is the de-facto standard for Windows Server installations.
---The only linux boxes I've seen which have uptimes of a year, are unmaintained ones which aren't being used. How can you patch a kernel without rebooting the machine? I've NEVER EVER seen a modern Windows server crash or lock up. The only reason my servers ever go down is because I've told them to. I think you're thinking of Windows 3.1 from 10 years ago which admittedly crashed fairly often.
I think we can come to a consensus on this issue concerning servers: Graphical display code is inherently unstable. Remote graphical interfaces take a magnatude more bandwidth than an interactive text based interface. Why are you using servers that will not function if the graphical subsystem fails to init, or crashes due to a Admin based bug from 3rd party software?
I use Linux and FreeBSD because I can rely on a single program doing that one thing well. I can then separate those processes so a Linux/BSD machine will run 5 "apps" for every Windows based machine. If I use Xen, I could separate those processes further by virtual computer rather than a
As long as a process can see the starting inode of a file, one can start to copy it. Once a program copies after inode 0, it can procced to the next linked inode. Easy enough.
While this process is copying, we can use the "rm" program which removes inode 0 from the superblock tables. inode 1 still links to 2 and on and on. rm just removes the start block.
I'm betting that Apple's finder does exactly this: cp/here/there || true && rm/here
How do you store data? If you're not using some sort of light loop or some trick of storing data over latency-based pipes. you use physical matter.
When I buy a copyrighted piece, I OWN the matter on it, but not the data pattern provided. The data pattern is provided control via Copyright statutes and I am granted and restricted by the US government ALONE.
If my medium is destroyed or made unusable, I have a right, under copyright statutes to re-obtain what I have legal control over (1 data copy).
A better question should be thus: How can one prove that somebody legitimately owns a copy of data (but is not extended full copyright privs)? Is a receipt acceptable? Is the physical medium acceptable? Some sort of 'ownership' checking service?
---ah but you see that is where you are wrong. You are buying the disk, not the media on the disk. The media on the disk you are only being licensed to use. . . in conjunction with that disk. Loose or damage your disk and well, you violate your licensing agreement with them, because you no longer can use the media in conjunction with the disk.
Ok. So you accept the EULAs, even when they do not exist? Interesting.
I follow copyright law. I buy one "copy" along with the medium the information resides. If my medium becomes corrupt, I have a right to maintain my "copy".
We know for sure, that a One Time Pad is unbreakable if the key is as long/longer than the data and that you never reuse the key. The key also must be complete random.
We can apply that to something else completely: Spam. WTF?
Out of speculation, say person A was a terrorist who needed to communicate with a congruent cell with terrorist B. We know that NSA (Eve) is listening in and we cant tell what or what not they hear. Fine. We can trade books. Textbooks, sci-fi, cooking books.. you name it. Use a RNG to generate letters to pull, or words to use. That is your transformed message. We cant use traditional encryption as to just alerting the authorities. Encryption screams "Im Guilty!!". Stego via pictures or whitespace is either weak with known images (its not hard to find originals to xor) and its still a guilt tripper.
Now what about that spam?
In many spam mails, we see jibberish at the bottom or top to defeat spam filters. Perhaps it is jibberish.. Perhaps not.
So.. Does the sooper dooper NSA spycrackers crack codebooks and OTP based setups along with trading via spam? I dont think so.
---The new web, including Google to search it, is vastly more useful.
Google doesnt search the web.
Google searches its index. Big difference.
The only things that Google has that searches the web are its spiders, and you have limited/no control over them. I'd bet that Google itself has little control over them, as I'd see them as self-learning systems and to spider through the web following only basic schematics found in the W3C.
But oh well. And frankly, if you dont block ads, you are implying that your time is worth that ad. Is it? If your time is not worth that AD and you dont attempt to block it, you are stupid.
Most stuff is 'engineered' to die right after warranty, unless they offer extensive warranty support. Then its good for as long as you can 'extend the warranty'.
He was tried under animal cruelty statues and theft. Note at that time there was no bestiality law in effect, so Indiana could not try him on a law that did not exist at the time of said crime. Now, there is a bestiality law on the books (thanks to the chicken fucker).
Why should I pay via advertisement, to keep a website living? If their donation isnt enough, or they cannot make money (assuming profit-making), why do they deserve to live?
Slashdot for example: There's ads here. One can buy a "premium membership" to temporially rid themselves of ads, or one can use the impressive DNS blockers OR Firefox plugins to just remove the HTML. They get money from ads, obviously, but who provides the content? We the numbered users do.
Slashdot needs us to profit on us.
---I'm only part serious, of course (although that is what I do)... my point is to stop being smug about what you're doing, attitudes like that make life worse for everyone.
I may sound smug, but I also have a cool toolkit that I give my friends to instal that do the exact same thing I have set up here (well... with exception of a real linux/BIND solution). I instead have them set up with Proxymitron and Firefox. I provide the proper blocking lists and the proper Firefx plugins to prevent website stupidity.
I have NO guilt in using or sharing what I do, or my hand crafted blocking lists. I just remember the old days before the web was commercialized, and what a site(g) it was.
---We all pay for our internet connection and then a significant portion of our bandwidth is used solely for the benefit and profit of Google to stream ads all over your screen.
Try rephrasing that. The Unintelligent pay for the ads streamed all over their screens.
The intelligent run their own cut and dry DNS server with "Does Not Exist" on ad servers. Along with that, the intelligent use Firefox with strong ad blockers and HTML 'cleaners' to prevent stupid Javascript (when we even allow it).
The intelligent hear no ads, speak no ads, see no ads. mizaru, kikazaru, iwazaru
An ATA password is kept on a certain part of the disk that is normally inaccessible. The HD will not work if you dont provide that ATA password, whether or not you switch machines with that HD.
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Well... That was not supposed to be a joke. Freudian slip. 2 ton missle = car/van
2 tom misle = damn scientologists.
In other words, stupid people and people who dont care about security punish the rest of us. How nice.
You dont know how much I would appreciate a "Internet License" to show basic security and protections on the net. WIth the financial nets and traffic nets as they are, I'd say that hauling a 2 tom missle down a highway and doing this would be similar.
Well, perhaps, if you were talking about FM or AM signal reception, you would be true.
However, almost everybody has an EM coherent beam emitter: a Microwave oven.
It is a MASER. Well... a laser for microwaves.
By that alone, the second most common radio is that of a radio-oven that emits coherent invisible light.
Yeah. Verizon makes em.
Light IS radio.
It's just EM spectrum that we have receptors for (our eyes).
And it is now known that birds can see magnetic fields... and in red at that.
That statement is factually incorrect.
In the criminal proceeding, OJ Simpson was found "Not Guilty". This is different than saying "Innocent". He may as well have did it, but the courts can only find no guilt. That doesn't mean there isn't any guilt.
In fact, the civil proceeding found him criminally negligent. Because of this ruling, his 'juicy book' "I did it" was granted to the plantiffs.
In mathematical terms: Criminal proceedings need 99% proof. Civil proceedings need (50%+1) proof.
A FreeBSD jail does almost what you ask for. It can shut off kernel commands from the get-go, stop root progression, eliminate fs mounting tricks as seen in Linux chroot, and many other nasties. In the security modes, then we get into apphend-only files and not being able to mount kernel structures.
It really gets "nasty" for the hackers.
> And let's remember that in the big-dog multi domain server world, a Windows server fails.
---Er no! It certainly doesn't. Millions of companies use Windows mail servers with no problems or complaints. It's only linux fanboys that think that Windows keeps crashing. Usually that's because they don't actually use it themselves and don't really have a clue if it crashes often or not. Personally, I've never seen a blue screen of death in my entire life. I've never had to reboot a server because it's just crashed (except for our one Linux box, which runs out of RAM every few weeks for reasons that not even RedHat are able to tell us). Even my Vista workstation hasn't been rebooted for three weeks (and even that was only so I could flash my RAID controller BIOS).
There is a major problem with Windows and Microsoft that you do not talk about: licensing for a server. Good luck dealing with the cost for 100 people on a domain, with mail server. And if you accept the corporate agreement, you accept that the BSA goons can invade your business. As a case study, look at that guitar string manufacturer in northern Indiana.
Also, what is an experienced admin (I assume you are either that, or a consultant) using Vista on your work computer? Most Windows admins I know run 2k for getting the job done, or XP for some game compatibility (ahem). None that I know would touch Vista, and have outright told companies that getting it would be ruinious.
However, I can perfectly understand running Vista in a virtual computer environment, or an el-cheapo machine from Circuit City. We do need to keep up on the times, even if we do not agree with it. How else can we make proper assessments without looking at it? I'm just frankly shocked that you are running it in a corporate environment (where else would you run a workstation?).
And about that Linux issue, have you upgraded your kernel? That sounds surely a memory leak vs the kernel. Try recompiling the kernel using what's on Kernel.org . It's been well known that Red Hat adds a lot more in than the standard kernel. If not, try recompiling the server daemons you commonly use vs lint.
Frankly, there's no reason why a Linux machine needs rebooting every 3-4 weeks. Thats what we see in the Windows world far more often. Do a little footwork and you can turn 3-4 weeks to 3-4 years.
> So in essence your comparing "Current Crap (Windows)"
---It's spelt "you're". Why do people stop taking English after the age of 8.
If the grammar is the most you can point out, it must have been a rather sturdy statement.
---I'm not comparing any Windows "Crap". The mail server software I use on Windows is FAR from crap (no I'm not talking about Exchange). You're assuming the software I'm using is crap without even knowing what it is!
SInce you did not state what mail server you DO use, what have we to expect but Exchange? That is the de-facto standard for Windows Server installations.
---The only linux boxes I've seen which have uptimes of a year, are unmaintained ones which aren't being used. How can you patch a kernel without rebooting the machine? I've NEVER EVER seen a modern Windows server crash or lock up. The only reason my servers ever go down is because I've told them to. I think you're thinking of Windows 3.1 from 10 years ago which admittedly crashed fairly often.
I think we can come to a consensus on this issue concerning servers: Graphical display code is inherently unstable. Remote graphical interfaces take a magnatude more bandwidth than an interactive text based interface. Why are you using servers that will not function if the graphical subsystem fails to init, or crashes due to a Admin based bug from 3rd party software?
I use Linux and FreeBSD because I can rely on a single program doing that one thing well. I can then separate those processes so a Linux/BSD machine will run 5 "apps" for every Windows based machine. If I use Xen, I could separate those processes further by virtual computer rather than a
Sorry, I was drunk and sleepy at that time I posted that.
I knew what I was talking about... well, sorta.
As long as a process can see the starting inode of a file, one can start to copy it. Once a program copies after inode 0, it can procced to the next linked inode. Easy enough.
/here /there || true && rm /here
While this process is copying, we can use the "rm" program which removes inode 0 from the superblock tables. inode 1 still links to 2 and on and on. rm just removes the start block.
I'm betting that Apple's finder does exactly this: cp
I've got a penetration testing company, and Im the CEO.
Cause Im da pimp!
If you have to watch over-hyped pop trash, something is wrong with you.
As responding to your sig:
Piracy is no different than threatening to shoot a ship down at the high seas in order to steal its cargo and/or kill everybody on board.
Piracy is very very different than simple copyright violation: "Dont copy that Floppy" is just a joke compared to true high seas murder/theft.
Or are you comparing Kazaa to Murder?
So a sci fi dictates near/future technlogy? Wonderful
Its easy to create electrical current. The Iranians did it during the First Century.
Now what would be hard would be hard to repair is EMP damaged hardware.... that would be hard indeed without 20th century hardware or know how.
Of course, one needs a capacitor explosion ~1km above ground level before severe EM destruction takes place.
How do you store data? If you're not using some sort of light loop or some trick of storing data over latency-based pipes. you use physical matter.
When I buy a copyrighted piece, I OWN the matter on it, but not the data pattern provided. The data pattern is provided control via Copyright statutes and I am granted and restricted by the US government ALONE.
If my medium is destroyed or made unusable, I have a right, under copyright statutes to re-obtain what I have legal control over (1 data copy).
A better question should be thus: How can one prove that somebody legitimately owns a copy of data (but is not extended full copyright privs)? Is a receipt acceptable? Is the physical medium acceptable? Some sort of 'ownership' checking service?
---ah but you see that is where you are wrong. You are buying the disk, not the media on the disk. The media on the disk you are only being licensed to use. . . in conjunction with that disk. Loose or damage your disk and well, you violate your licensing agreement with them, because you no longer can use the media in conjunction with the disk.
Ok. So you accept the EULAs, even when they do not exist? Interesting.
I follow copyright law. I buy one "copy" along with the medium the information resides. If my medium becomes corrupt, I have a right to maintain my "copy".
Guess how I'll do that? Any damn way I please.
I like G-spot better.
Say they ARE doing that. Ok.
We know for sure, that a One Time Pad is unbreakable if the key is as long/longer than the data and that you never reuse the key. The key also must be complete random.
We can apply that to something else completely: Spam. WTF?
Out of speculation, say person A was a terrorist who needed to communicate with a congruent cell with terrorist B. We know that NSA (Eve) is listening in and we cant tell what or what not they hear. Fine. We can trade books. Textbooks, sci-fi, cooking books.. you name it. Use a RNG to generate letters to pull, or words to use. That is your transformed message. We cant use traditional encryption as to just alerting the authorities. Encryption screams "Im Guilty!!". Stego via pictures or whitespace is either weak with known images (its not hard to find originals to xor) and its still a guilt tripper.
Now what about that spam?
In many spam mails, we see jibberish at the bottom or top to defeat spam filters. Perhaps it is jibberish.. Perhaps not.
So.. Does the sooper dooper NSA spycrackers crack codebooks and OTP based setups along with trading via spam? I dont think so.
or.. they do now.
---The new web, including Google to search it, is vastly more useful.
Google doesnt search the web.
Google searches its index. Big difference.
The only things that Google has that searches the web are its spiders, and you have limited/no control over them. I'd bet that Google itself has little control over them, as I'd see them as self-learning systems and to spider through the web following only basic schematics found in the W3C.
But oh well. And frankly, if you dont block ads, you are implying that your time is worth that ad. Is it? If your time is not worth that AD and you dont attempt to block it, you are stupid.
Are there ever any "good consumer" devices?
Most stuff is 'engineered' to die right after warranty, unless they offer extensive warranty support. Then its good for as long as you can 'extend the warranty'.
The Ex Post Facto exclusion meaning is thus:
Now, it is legal to fart in the Capitol Building. You fart in there.
They pass a law saying it is illegal to fart in the Capitol Building, pre-dating the bill, so you are arrested. Nuh-huh-huh.
Ex Post Facto means literally "After the fact".
Case in point: Indiana Chicken 'rapist'
He was tried under animal cruelty statues and theft. Note at that time there was no bestiality law in effect, so Indiana could not try him on a law that did not exist at the time of said crime. Now, there is a bestiality law on the books (thanks to the chicken fucker).
I guess it comes down to it.
Why should I pay via advertisement, to keep a website living? If their donation isnt enough, or they cannot make money (assuming profit-making), why do they deserve to live?
Slashdot for example: There's ads here. One can buy a "premium membership" to temporially rid themselves of ads, or one can use the impressive DNS blockers OR Firefox plugins to just remove the HTML. They get money from ads, obviously, but who provides the content? We the numbered users do.
Slashdot needs us to profit on us.
---I'm only part serious, of course (although that is what I do)... my point is to stop being smug about what you're doing, attitudes like that make life worse for everyone.
I may sound smug, but I also have a cool toolkit that I give my friends to instal that do the exact same thing I have set up here (well... with exception of a real linux/BIND solution). I instead have them set up with Proxymitron and Firefox. I provide the proper blocking lists and the proper Firefx plugins to prevent website stupidity.
I have NO guilt in using or sharing what I do, or my hand crafted blocking lists. I just remember the old days before the web was commercialized, and what a site(g) it was.
---We all pay for our internet connection and then a significant portion of our bandwidth is used solely for the benefit and profit of Google to stream ads all over your screen.
Try rephrasing that. The Unintelligent pay for the ads streamed all over their screens.
The intelligent run their own cut and dry DNS server with "Does Not Exist" on ad servers. Along with that, the intelligent use Firefox with strong ad blockers and HTML 'cleaners' to prevent stupid Javascript (when we even allow it).
The intelligent hear no ads, speak no ads, see no ads. mizaru, kikazaru, iwazaru
An ATA password is kept on a certain part of the disk that is normally inaccessible. The HD will not work if you dont provide that ATA password, whether or not you switch machines with that HD.
If the creditors cared about slowing fraud, they'd make every credit app require signing by a notary public.
What exactly are notary publics there for, if not document security? There here for a reason. Use em!