Details of this oh so fun process can be found at http://www.pbfixit.com/. It involved the removal of around 30 screws, some of which are beyond hand tightness. You have to remove the keyboard and the entire top cover. I had to replace my hard drive two weeks ago.
Compare this with replacing the hard drive of my IBM thinkpad, which required removing four screws and sliding the hard drive out.
No, because keylogger XYZ will probably install as a Browser Helper Object or extension in the browser, so the request will be coming from the browser itself.
Its been done and defeated. Basically the keystroke logger is just modified to take a screenshot of the active application on a mouseclick. That gives your phisher a nice shot of your pointer hovering over the correct option.
This was modded insightful? Good god, someone failed high school chemistry.
You don't get much free hydrogen in the atmosphere (except in the upper layers where there is little oxygen). The vast majority of the hydrogen on earth is tied up in water molecules. Also, it hardly takes special conditions to produce water, if free oxygen and hydrogen are present, it only takes a small energy input for them to combine.
Mickey Mouse is no longer the cute character I saw as a child - now he has a hand in my pocket and a bodyguard of lawyers to make sure I don't complain.
I remember a situation in New Zealand a few years ago where there were a couple of truly free dial up ISPs.
There were two major Telcos in NZ, Telecom NZ, which is the monopoly provider of residential phone lines to the majority of the population, and Clear (now Telstraclear), which provided a few business lines and toll services. Telecom basically forced Clear to sign an interconnect agreement whereby the two companies would charge each other 2c per minute for calls terminating on the other network. Since Telecom was much larger than Clear, they were making money off the deal.
Then Clear set up ZFree, the first free dial-up ISP. Thousands of Telecom customers every day were making calls lasting several hours, terminating on the Clear network. Clear started making money off the deal.
A lot of the 419 sites use cheap or free hosting services. The goal of these tools is to exceed the allocated bandwith of the site, and possibly to make the hosting companies take notice. Every site targeted has already been brought to the attention of the hosting companies involved. If they cannot be bothered doing anything about it they should be prepared for the consequences.
I agree that the "millionair" [sic] statement is completely wrong, this would require a rate of return at around 18% after tax.
However, you are completely wrong about the average person losing money. The average person trading stocks loses money. Don't confuse investment with speculation. A diversified portfolio held over 30 years is likely to produce a decent return.
Do you use an extension to store passwords rather than the basic firefox saved passwords? If not, this is frigging hilarious.
Your bank has an onerous password policy, but neglects to follow best practise themselves by asking the browser not to store the password (I forget what the option is, it is standard practise on internet banking sites though and firefox usually respects it).
And they should know that the password is much more likely to be stolen from the users system than it is guessed.
There was a story late last year about an elderly couple who tried to use a Scottish £20 note in woolworths. Not only did they not accept it, they called the police and held them there.
I have recently moved to Scotland, and think that the scottish money is awesome. I particularly like the latin motto on the pound coin, "NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT", translates to "no-one provokes me with impunity". That is just so Scottish.
Do you have any evidence of point number 1? Or are you pulling it out of your arse like you are point number 2.
Most phishers run on compromised cable or DSL boxes on a non standard port. Very very few use free webhosting providers. In fact, I have never seen one.
A lot of people seem to be under the impression that APNIC is just Asia. APNIC also covers Oceania (Australia and New Zealand) and the Pacific Islands. APNIC headquarters are in Australia.
Wow, they gave them that long before the ban comes into effect, 2007! New Zealand's ban on smoking in bars and clubs comes into effect on Dec 10, I am looking forward to that day.
Of course bar owners are loudly proclaiming the end of the 'hospitality industry'. There are even some moronic bar owners calling emergency services as a protest when people light a cigarette in their bar.
The real downside I see to this law is that in summer, all the really good outdoor spots at cafes will be packed with smokers.
I used to run the Center for Internet Security benchmarking tools on a regular basis to audit my systems (particularly after applying patches to see what they had opened up). They can be found at http://www.cisecurity.org/.
Amen to that. This post is very timely. The built in ethernet on my G4 powerbook failed last month (within warranty). They have had it 2 weeks, and finally told me today that it is not covered by warrantly as the fault is not a result of normal use, the ethernet port has cracked off the logic board apparently.
I am incredibly pissed off with them, the ethernet cable was being plugged in and unplugged twice a day, I guess it just fatigued, but those assholes refuse to give me, the customer, the benefit of the doubt. I told them where to stick ther £600 logic board replacement. I can probably just fix it with some superglue and solder. If not, I will replace the logic board myself. At least I have an airport card, so I am not dependent on the ethernet port.
I believe that, at least in the UK, apple are staffed by a bunch of incompetent lazy bastards (they are in ireland after all). I had to call 6 times (yes, 6) in order to get the powerbook picked up at all, I have spent over an hour and a half on the phone to them, not counting the time I spent arguing my case this afternoon.
Fuck the lot of them, I'm taking my business elsewhere.
I find the existence of a 'sealed air corporation' highly amusing. Putting air into plastic bags has to be a fairly demoralising market niche. I wasn't aware they had the trademark on bubble wrap, I thought they just did the bigger bags of air.
This reminds me of a document I read at university for my Reliability Management paper. It referenced a survey of NASA engineers and management on the chance of catastrophic failures.
Management were estimating 1/10000, Engineers were estimating 1/100. I think the survey was done just after Challenger blew up (or just before, I'm a little hazy on that).
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Compare this with replacing the hard drive of my IBM thinkpad, which required removing four screws and sliding the hard drive out.
No, because keylogger XYZ will probably install as a Browser Helper Object or extension in the browser, so the request will be coming from the browser itself.
Its been done and defeated. Basically the keystroke logger is just modified to take a screenshot of the active application on a mouseclick. That gives your phisher a nice shot of your pointer hovering over the correct option.
You don't get much free hydrogen in the atmosphere (except in the upper layers where there is little oxygen). The vast majority of the hydrogen on earth is tied up in water molecules. Also, it hardly takes special conditions to produce water, if free oxygen and hydrogen are present, it only takes a small energy input for them to combine.
So, a bit like Michael Jackson then?
Funnily enough, that pretty much sums up the job of one of my co-workers. And no, we are not hiring.
Come catalyst? Is that like the "Special Sauce" the spotty teen at McDonalds deposits in the mayo when noone is looking.
There were two major Telcos in NZ, Telecom NZ, which is the monopoly provider of residential phone lines to the majority of the population, and Clear (now Telstraclear), which provided a few business lines and toll services. Telecom basically forced Clear to sign an interconnect agreement whereby the two companies would charge each other 2c per minute for calls terminating on the other network. Since Telecom was much larger than Clear, they were making money off the deal.
Then Clear set up ZFree, the first free dial-up ISP. Thousands of Telecom customers every day were making calls lasting several hours, terminating on the Clear network. Clear started making money off the deal.
A full description of what happened can be found at http://www.wlug.org.nz/ZFree.
There was also a second ISP called I4Free, they had a revenue sharing arrangement with Clear.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/09/jablotron_ big_mobile/
You may want to get a stronger belt though.
A lot of the 419 sites use cheap or free hosting services. The goal of these tools is to exceed the allocated bandwith of the site, and possibly to make the hosting companies take notice. Every site targeted has already been brought to the attention of the hosting companies involved. If they cannot be bothered doing anything about it they should be prepared for the consequences.
Actually, Asda is UK's WalMart.
However, you are completely wrong about the average person losing money. The average person trading stocks loses money. Don't confuse investment with speculation. A diversified portfolio held over 30 years is likely to produce a decent return.
Your bank has an onerous password policy, but neglects to follow best practise themselves by asking the browser not to store the password (I forget what the option is, it is standard practise on internet banking sites though and firefox usually respects it).
And they should know that the password is much more likely to be stolen from the users system than it is guessed.
I'm reminded of the Despair Inc consulting poster. "If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem".
I have recently moved to Scotland, and think that the scottish money is awesome. I particularly like the latin motto on the pound coin, "NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT", translates to "no-one provokes me with impunity". That is just so Scottish.
Thank god, now I won't have to sterilize the next iPod I purchase.
Most phishers run on compromised cable or DSL boxes on a non standard port. Very very few use free webhosting providers. In fact, I have never seen one.
In this case, the material wasn't even uploaded. A user on the site was offering VCD copies of the video for sale.
I believe there was also a series of books by another author called Meg and Mog about a witch and her cat (I used to work in a bookshop).
A lot of people seem to be under the impression that APNIC is just Asia. APNIC also covers Oceania (Australia and New Zealand) and the Pacific Islands. APNIC headquarters are in Australia.
Of course bar owners are loudly proclaiming the end of the 'hospitality industry'. There are even some moronic bar owners calling emergency services as a protest when people light a cigarette in their bar.
The real downside I see to this law is that in summer, all the really good outdoor spots at cafes will be packed with smokers.
I used to run the Center for Internet Security benchmarking tools on a regular basis to audit my systems (particularly after applying patches to see what they had opened up). They can be found at http://www.cisecurity.org/.
I am incredibly pissed off with them, the ethernet cable was being plugged in and unplugged twice a day, I guess it just fatigued, but those assholes refuse to give me, the customer, the benefit of the doubt. I told them where to stick ther £600 logic board replacement. I can probably just fix it with some superglue and solder. If not, I will replace the logic board myself. At least I have an airport card, so I am not dependent on the ethernet port.
I believe that, at least in the UK, apple are staffed by a bunch of incompetent lazy bastards (they are in ireland after all). I had to call 6 times (yes, 6) in order to get the powerbook picked up at all, I have spent over an hour and a half on the phone to them, not counting the time I spent arguing my case this afternoon.
Fuck the lot of them, I'm taking my business elsewhere.
I find the existence of a 'sealed air corporation' highly amusing. Putting air into plastic bags has to be a fairly demoralising market niche. I wasn't aware they had the trademark on bubble wrap, I thought they just did the bigger bags of air.
Management were estimating 1/10000, Engineers were estimating 1/100. I think the survey was done just after Challenger blew up (or just before, I'm a little hazy on that).