I think Cheech would like VoIP. I mean tihnk about it who doesn't cannibus tehir own pots or place cannibus in POTS or something. When I finish smoking tihs doob I'll come back to this post dude.
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In efforts to do so please email fraud@infiltrated.net and include your full name, social security number, all known credit card numbers, and let us do the rest.
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A computer system gone amok combined with intensely competitive stock markets and indecision by Nasdaq officials to create wild trading in a single stock yesterday. As a result, some traders were left with big losses even though they had bought low and sold high.
Wow sounds intense. The corrections will be made eventually, but the way the heading sounded, I didn't know whether I should be ducking for cover in a nuclear fallout shelter or something.
AOL has recently started banning SMTP servers who don't have reverse addresses, as seen on the NANOG lists. Personally there are so many methods to eliminate spam that an administrator can take I don't see what the issue is.
Me personally, if spam makes it through my filter, I ban off the offending address working my way up towards the class c - b - a. All attempts at a port 25 connection is drop point blank, http, https, etal are kept open. I also have dontspam#somefreemailaccount.com's to use for form shit. Once in a while when registering for say an upper-crust website account, I'll use something like msndoesntspam@mydomain.com to see who exactly is sharing my addresses, then null the account if I see anything odd coming in to that account, and never trust the site again. Procmail works the most wonders though.
Pentagon halts $18bn Boeing deal
( 2003-12-03 10:06) (Agencies)
The Pentagon has postponed action on $18 billion in contracts for 100 Boeing 767 tankers until the deal is investigated after Boeing fired two officials for ethical violations, U.S. Defense Department officials said Tuesday.
U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told leaders of the Senate Armed Service Committee in a letter dated December 1 that he was ordering a "pause in the execution'' of the Air Force contracts to lease and buy the mid-air refueling tankers, a major setback in Boeing's two-year effort to sell the planes.
Following the law to the last T, Boeing should not get any defense contract for some time, so if all holds true (which I doubt) this plane should never fly for the US military... Then again money talks
I thought once a person or entity had a record or issue with court they were barred from receiving government contracts... That's funny.
By BARRIE McKENNA
Tuesday, December 2, 2003 - Page B10
WASHINGTON -- Tarnished by scandal and dwindling aircraft market share, Boeing Co. has accepted the resignation of long-time chairman and chief executive officer Phil Condit as part of a dramatic front-office management shakeup.
The abrupt departure yesterday of Mr. Condit, 62, comes amid allegations that the world's largest aircraft maker may have illegally exploited U.S. government connections to gain sealed bidding information from rival Airbus Industrie during a competition for a key Air Force order.
Since last March The SCUM Group (SCUM) has been involved in bullyish tactics over the use of something we have no real idea of what it entails. What we assert is the widespread anal actions of others involving the portions of our copyrighted Joonix source code in Penix. These controversies are petty, and we have to stoop to a lower level and ruin a good thing for others.
SCUM assumes that the GPL, under which Penix is distributed, violates our feelings, and may be harming those hidden hands who are paying our legal beagles throughout the case. Constitutionally we have no basis, and we are hoping to obscure this entire situation in efforts to make millions and drive the entire Open Source community and the evil stealing Penis Throbalds out of existence.
The software license adopted by the GPL is called "copy left " by its authors. We are left handed and are appalled the constitution grants permission for others to make fun of us. This psychological warfare was not brought on by SCUM, but rather the thieves who stole the functions in our work.
We ask that the words main, print, printf, seek, scanf, stdio, and the {}, () characters be placed under martial law against the evil GPL renegades.
Congress shall have Power... [t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
Nowhere do I recall ever reading anything on compensation, that to me is more of an ethical issue if you ask me, but IANAL so I really don't want to stick my foot in my mouth... Or the kb in my ass. As I take the Constitution regarding copyrights is just as stated 'securing for limited times the exclusive right to their work'. SCO is turning this into a circus fanfare with a) either money the underlying issue, or b) other entities are using SCO as a puppet to do their deeds.
However, there is a group of software developers in the United States, and other parts of the world, that do not believe in the approach to copyright protection mandated by Congress. In the past 20 years, the Free Software Foundation and others in the Open Source software movement have set out to actively and intentionally undermine the U.S. and European systems of copyrights and patents.
This is serioulsy bold, and slanderous statement of this guy to make, and I'm wondering who's going to be the first to open a can of lawsuit ass on SCO. It's one thing to make known your beliefs, but to claim someone is intentionally breaking a law is no laughing matter. Pretty ballsy move. Stupid but ballsy.
Leaders of the FSF have spent great efforts, written numerous articles and sometimes enforced the provisions of the GPL as part of a deeply held belief in the need to undermine or eliminate software patent and copyright laws.
Know something, I couldn't even finish reading it because it's so dull, overrated, cumbersome to understand, and downright dumb at this point. Isn't it about time someone maybe IBM or some other bigwig came in the picture, did a hostile takeover and demoted this clown to mailroom janitor, or parking lot car washer.
I know this will get trolled down but I'll tell you my fav... *Nix will overtake Windows
Now look I would love for it to happen, but the sad fact is MS heaped so much bamboozlement into their OS and products, they've pretty much locked corporations into being forced to use the junk. If the corps. use it, what makes anyone think the typical homeuser is going to try something new. They'll stick with familiarity. Aside from that, try explaining to your about to retire 60'ish CTO the pros and cons about Linux when he thinks the F1 key you mentioned is the bonus Ferrari rumor he hard about.
That invisible elephant, the powerful analogy at the center of this book, will enrich the way you approach new projects and reconsider problems -- especially the parts of problems that remain invisible to you on current projects.
It's this invisible elephant I will now use and cherish when I don't get my work done. I will not gleefully explain to my CTO when he asks about why routers bork, and systems go down, that - this invisible elephant sir, you don't understand. I don't think you cherish the value of dumping a high salary in my hands without trusting my judgment, and I sir believe in invisible elephants... Now about that raise
Actually there are a shitload of rules in place to ensure the odds are high but the casino doesn't cheat you. Its pretty much regulated. As for the voting machines, they too have methods of making things secure, and a lot of research is done on the subject e.g:
A public key cryptosystem and a signature scheme based on di.. (context) - ElGamal - 1985 Receipt-free secret-ballot elections (context) - Benaloh, Tuinstra - 1994 A practical secret voting scheme for large scale election (context) - Fujioka, Okamoto et al. - 1992 Multi-authority secret ballot elections with linear work - Cramer, Franklin et al. - 1996 Verifiable secret-ballot elections (context) - Benaloh - 1987 Universally verifiable mix-net with verification work indepe.. (context) - Abe - 1998 Designated verifier proofs and their applications - Jakobsson, Sako et al. - 1996 Elections with unconditionally- secret ballots and disruptio.. (context) - Chaum - 1988 How to prevent buying of votes in computer elections (context) - Niemi, Rendall - 1994 Public-key cryptosystems based on discrete logarithms residu.. (context) - Paillier - 1999 Some remarks on a receipt-free and universally verifiable mi.. - Michels, Horster - 1996 Receipt-free electronic voting schemes for large scale elect.. - Okamoto - 1997 A secure an optimally efficient multi-authority election sch.. (context) - Cramer, Gennaro et al. - 1997 Receipt-freeness in largescale elections without untappable.. - Magkos, Burmester et al. - 2001 An Improvement on a practical secret voting scheme (context) - Ohkubo, Miura et al. - 1999
Now the state of Nevada is looking at electronic voting machines Isn't Nevada second to Florida for retirees? I get it now, confuse the elderly people they won't understand a word, get their votes, and another (p)residential term is won.
Well I too will exploit this with the introduction of the Ronald Reagan Super Simon now taking orders at the price of... I forgot.
Re:Two minds about it
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Real Security?
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· Score: 2, Insightful
As a sysadmin, though, I feel longer passwords are better. Why would this be better? (longer passwords). Consider the following...
thisismylongasspassword
thi!$1smyp4$s
Make your password as long as you want, and experience cracker could splica words together from a dictionary file easily. Regardless of even that, if your network isn't using the proper mediums (VPN's, SSH, SSL), a simple sniffer will grab anything you choose to use, evenifyoumadethisyoursocalledlongpasswordwhichyout hingisgoingtosaveyou.
Shoddy concept of security. Password cracking as we all (hopefully all) know is based on someone's inability to do something different with themselves. People tend to stick with familiarity, and there's nothing wrong with using say your dog's name bowser as a pass, but how about mixing it up !30w$eR... it's still familiar and most crackers aren't going to spend their time regexp'ing 100mb password files when time isn't on their side.
When the system is broken what do you do upgrade?, don't you. [smirk] (I would hope so) If you chose to use crap who would be the moron you or the vendor
Firstly here is linke to the registration free NYTimes article (so sue me). While I too think it's great that the EFF fights for genuine causes, again, why is it that when a company fights for something they believe is fair (protection of property, reputation, etal) a bad thing?. I am not protecting Diebold, but it's a farce to believe that one is advocating freedom of whatever, while bashing a company who just might truly believe they have substance.
Now realistically, Diebold's issues were exposed, so no matter what, this will affect them. After the issues surrounding Gore/Bush, if something did happen again, I wouldn't blame Diebold, I would blame those who went ahead and used the machines Diebold supplied. You remember that bringing the horse to the water story don't you? I could never explain it better. People have a short attention span, and the people would literally be the ones to blame for using Diebold's equipment from the point of the problems first being announced.
Now when you state something like a throw away the key approach, you're one of those same jurors those evil, condescending, malicious, gestapoish corporations look for to sit on a panel and make rash judgments.
Suppose Diebold first thought their intellectual property was at stake, or the livelihood of their business was at stake; is it wrong for them to fight for what they believe in. Maybe they saw he truth after being blinded and retracted the lawsuit, ever think about this for a minute? It's called being fair and analysing the situation.
Companies like Diebold and its cousin, the RIAA, know that they couldn't win an actual court case against groups like BlackBoxVoting and a bunch of college students that get in the way of their draconian agendas Apparently you know little of the court system and the psyche of the typical American juror. Yes the American juror, the one who would rather swim in brken glass than sit through a trial listening to something they know little of, eager to go home to Oprah on television. In your opinion these companies may have draconian agendas, but let's be honest now, if it were your properrty, and you sincerely believed someone damaged it in some method (if you yourself believed this), I'm sure you would take the necessary measures to counter this.
but what they can do is win a warrant to send their corporate servants, the fascist pig cops to trash the place, arrest the owners, take down their websites, and confiscate all their property, most of which is never returned.fight the power, fight the power... Oh please, you sound like a wannabe revolutionist who is blinded by your own agenda.
After the harassment, they then drop the suits or whatever so they don't have to lose in court, and move on to other targets. The students still haven't won anything, but as long as Diebold machines live, democracy loses. How does democracy lose, don't you think the students won by expsoing a flaw. I would think the people would be losers if they chose to use Diebold machines knowing about the flaw. Diebold isn't putting a gun to anyone's head forcing them to use Diebold machinery.
The only way around it is for everyone to cast an absentee ballot, which HAVE to be hand-counted -- but it's not like voting makes a difference in corporate America, anyways.:( Voting does make a difference, and I don't see how Diebold brings the voting system to such an extravagant halt such as the one your comments portray it to. Who's the fascist here thinkers like you or diebold.
Get real will you... The FCC deadline of 2006 just isn't going to happen. Money talks and when you have certain corporations dropping money into the pockets... strike that... into the good government for research projects, the FCC can do what it wants, and it will -- at will regardless of protest. And what will the public do, at least the vast majority? Nothing that's what
I expect to see a bunch of noise made in the news about this once the deadline approaches,
Yea sure you will. Just like when the country came together for 9/11 they're going to drop it all for a television set. We'll have a "Million Man Television March", arrange it, I'll go.
followed by lots of Congressional campaigns running on the "The big bad federal government wants to take away your TV... over my dead body!" platform. Are you serious? From whom the congressmen you state? The same people who automagically make big time lobby money from some of the vendors? OK. If you say so. Pass me some oxycodone please my comments end her
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I know I ramble on about a lot of things here so here is another rant. Is it me or are certs like so blown out of proportion it's not even funny? Don't get me wrong, I think they have their place somewhere, but as for counting on someone certified to actually have a clue is an altogether different case.
For those on mailing lists (I'm on isp-lists*, sec*focus*, nanog, sunmanagers, etc), how many times do you see someone with a sig with all their grewvy certs asking dumb assed questions that any good sysadmin/secadmin/network admin could answer? Come on I know I'm not the only one. I've seen plenty of people in the industry with certs galore who didn't know squat, I've read about CCIE's who didn't even know the command line syntax to null route.
Maybe I should pick up the books and just take my certs for the hell of it, but I see no need to. I make money, and haven't had problems with anything. If I need something done and I don't know, then I'm learning it for my own sake immediately. I've never felt the need to get a cert, so am I rambling on... Or... Are certs like soooooo yesterday?
I'm pretty sure that these systems were secured against all known local root exploits; if they weren't, this probably would have happened long ago.
Apparently not so secure they were now were they.
So, what's going on here? Are these simply two unrelated attacks? Is it an attempt by an immature highschooler with some cracking talent to boast to his friends "LOL 1 hax0rred debian.org!?" Is it an attempt by some sort of anti-Linux commandoes to undermine Linux's public image? I almost suspect the latter, but the prime suspect there is Microsoft, who have far too much to lose by going that route and plenty of money for traditional FUD that will make it into "traditional" news channels better anyway. SCO might be crazy enough to do it, but they probably wouldn't want to divert resources away from spewing lawsuits at everyone in existence.
This is the most far out shit I've seen to date and it's sickening to think someone took this bullshit and mod'ed this trollish "Bill Gates hates Linux so much he gcc -o vixie vixie.c ;./vixie'd kernel dot org"... Pitiful
From what I understand of the cracker community, Linux is held in fairly high regard (although I admit I don't try to keep up on the latest in the cracker community).
FYI if you took some vitamin clue you would know Linux is not that far behind MS on security exploits. Now now now, before the Linux zealots bash get real and look it up. Linux is the second most attacked machine, now you're going to say because it's what the second highest used OS? Let's see, I have about 200k visitors for the month on one of my sites, first place for OS visits MS, second.. OSX you see what I typed there, followed by Linux, sure content wise would make the diff if you want to go there, but you'd be looking for an excuse to justify the shoddy security put into Linux.
Now I won't go into the BSD's, because I just won't nor will I go into Solaris, but do your homework, Linux `used to be` all that, nowadays I look at it as LiNuX vErSiOn v.666... A toy nothing more and don't even use it anymore, nor will I advocate it. It went from something cool into the new MS'like farce
You'd think that black-hats, who tend to be rather immature, when armed with a brand new exploit, would attack a site seen by the general public and post goatse.cx images on the front page, rather than subtly changing Debian packages.
You think about this instead of your lame MS conspiracy theory... If you're an attacker, and wanted to make a name for yourself, you would probably target a heavy site, an entire operating system spread throughout the world, and you would be an underground legend.
A criminal looking for a backdoor worldwide, and you would be rich. The possibilities are endless. Do you think that a man with so much to lose by committing such an asinine crime as the one you mentioned would stoop so low? You must be smoking oxy with Rush.
So, who's behind all this?
Better call my lawyer again before I get blamed for this shit too
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I think Cheech would like VoIP. I mean tihnk about it who doesn't cannibus tehir own pots or place cannibus in POTS or something.
When I finish smoking tihs doob I'll come back to this post dude.
All I know is, I hope this 'E-Governance' is not using Diebold machinery or based in Florida. S'all I'm saying.
oops SSC my bad
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Wow sounds intense. The corrections will be made eventually, but the way the heading sounded, I didn't know whether I should be ducking for cover in a nuclear fallout shelter or something.
Me personally, if spam makes it through my filter, I ban off the offending address working my way up towards the class c - b - a. All attempts at a port 25 connection is drop point blank, http, https, etal are kept open. I also have dontspam#somefreemailaccount.com's to use for form shit. Once in a while when registering for say an upper-crust website account, I'll use something like msndoesntspam@mydomain.com to see who exactly is sharing my addresses, then null the account if I see anything odd coming in to that account, and never trust the site again. Procmail works the most wonders though.
calculate Thrust Coefficient from lift and drag coefficient :
:
dT = dL*cos(phi) - dD*sin(phi)
where (phi), is induced angle of Attack. also follow equation calculate Torque coefficient:
dQ = (dL*sin(phi) + dD*cos(phi))*r
and CT , CQ are
CT = T / ((Vtip)^2*A*density)
CQ = Q / ((Vtip)^2 * A * R* density)
http://aero.sharif.edu/~moayyedi/HeliA ero.html
A baby could have figured that out... um yea
I thought once a person or entity had a record or issue with court they were barred from receiving government contracts... That's funny.
Guess someone had a nice check this year.</arrogance>
December 4, 2003
An Open Letter:
Since last March The SCUM Group (SCUM) has been involved in bullyish tactics over the use of something we have no real idea of what it entails. What we assert is the widespread anal actions of others involving the portions of our copyrighted Joonix source code in Penix. These controversies are petty, and we have to stoop to a lower level and ruin a good thing for others.
SCUM assumes that the GPL, under which Penix is distributed, violates our feelings, and may be harming those hidden hands who are paying our legal beagles throughout the case. Constitutionally we have no basis, and we are hoping to obscure this entire situation in efforts to make millions and drive the entire Open Source community and the evil stealing Penis Throbalds out of existence.
The software license adopted by the GPL is called "copy left " by its authors. We are left handed and are appalled the constitution grants permission for others to make fun of us. This psychological warfare was not brought on by SCUM, but rather the thieves who stole the functions in our work.
We ask that the words main, print, printf, seek, scanf, stdio, and the {}, () characters be placed under martial law against the evil GPL renegades.
Sincerely,
Mike Hock
President & CEO
The SCUM Group, Inc.
Nowhere do I recall ever reading anything on compensation, that to me is more of an ethical issue if you ask me, but IANAL so I really don't want to stick my foot in my mouth... Or the kb in my ass. As I take the Constitution regarding copyrights is just as stated 'securing for limited times the exclusive right to their work'. SCO is turning this into a circus fanfare with a) either money the underlying issue, or b) other entities are using SCO as a puppet to do their deeds.
However, there is a group of software developers in the United States, and other parts of the world, that do not believe in the approach to copyright protection mandated by Congress. In the past 20 years, the Free Software Foundation and others in the Open Source software movement have set out to actively and intentionally undermine the U.S. and European systems of copyrights and patents.
This is serioulsy bold, and slanderous statement of this guy to make, and I'm wondering who's going to be the first to open a can of lawsuit ass on SCO. It's one thing to make known your beliefs, but to claim someone is intentionally breaking a law is no laughing matter. Pretty ballsy move. Stupid but ballsy.
Leaders of the FSF have spent great efforts, written numerous articles and sometimes enforced the provisions of the GPL as part of a deeply held belief in the need to undermine or eliminate software patent and copyright laws.
Know something, I couldn't even finish reading it because it's so dull, overrated, cumbersome to understand, and downright dumb at this point. Isn't it about time someone maybe IBM or some other bigwig came in the picture, did a hostile takeover and demoted this clown to mailroom janitor, or parking lot car washer.
Now look I would love for it to happen, but the sad fact is MS heaped so much bamboozlement into their OS and products, they've pretty much locked corporations into being forced to use the junk. If the corps. use it, what makes anyone think the typical homeuser is going to try something new. They'll stick with familiarity. Aside from that, try explaining to your about to retire 60'ish CTO the pros and cons about Linux when he thinks the F1 key you mentioned is the bonus Ferrari rumor he hard about.
Yup Windows will die is my fav
It's this invisible elephant I will now use and cherish when I don't get my work done. I will not gleefully explain to my CTO when he asks about why routers bork, and systems go down, that - this invisible elephant sir, you don't understand. I don't think you cherish the value of dumping a high salary in my hands without trusting my judgment, and I sir believe in invisible elephants... Now about that raise
Actually there are a shitload of rules in place to ensure the odds are high but the casino doesn't cheat you. Its pretty much regulated. As for the voting machines, they too have methods of making things secure, and a lot of research is done on the subject e.g:
.. - Magkos, Burmester et al. - 2001
A public key cryptosystem and a signature scheme based on di.. (context) - ElGamal - 1985
Receipt-free secret-ballot elections (context) - Benaloh, Tuinstra - 1994
A practical secret voting scheme for large scale election (context) - Fujioka, Okamoto et al. - 1992
Multi-authority secret ballot elections with linear work - Cramer, Franklin et al. - 1996
Verifiable secret-ballot elections (context) - Benaloh - 1987
Universally verifiable mix-net with verification work indepe.. (context) - Abe - 1998
Designated verifier proofs and their applications - Jakobsson, Sako et al. - 1996
Elections with unconditionally- secret ballots and disruptio.. (context) - Chaum - 1988
How to prevent buying of votes in computer elections (context) - Niemi, Rendall - 1994
Public-key cryptosystems based on discrete logarithms residu.. (context) - Paillier - 1999
Some remarks on a receipt-free and universally verifiable mi.. - Michels, Horster - 1996
Receipt-free electronic voting schemes for large scale elect.. - Okamoto - 1997
A secure an optimally efficient multi-authority election sch.. (context) - Cramer, Gennaro et al. - 1997
Receipt-freeness in largescale elections without untappable
An Improvement on a practical secret voting scheme (context) - Ohkubo, Miura et al. - 1999
Well I too will exploit this with the introduction of the Ronald Reagan Super Simon now taking orders at the price of... I forgot.
- thisismylongasspassword
- thi!$1smyp4$s
Make your password as long as you want, and experience cracker could splica words together from a dictionary file easily. Regardless of even that, if your network isn't using the proper mediums (VPN's, SSH, SSL), a simple sniffer will grab anything you choose to use, evenifyoumadethisyoursocalledlongpasswordwhichyouShoddy concept of security. Password cracking as we all (hopefully all) know is based on someone's inability to do something different with themselves. People tend to stick with familiarity, and there's nothing wrong with using say your dog's name bowser as a pass, but how about mixing it up !30w$eR ... it's still familiar and most crackers aren't going to spend their time regexp'ing 100mb password files when time isn't on their side.
I would go on, but work calls...
</twocoppercoins>
Now realistically, Diebold's issues were exposed, so no matter what, this will affect them. After the issues surrounding Gore/Bush, if something did happen again, I wouldn't blame Diebold, I would blame those who went ahead and used the machines Diebold supplied. You remember that bringing the horse to the water story don't you? I could never explain it better. People have a short attention span, and the people would literally be the ones to blame for using Diebold's equipment from the point of the problems first being announced.
Now when you state something like a throw away the key approach, you're one of those same jurors those evil, condescending, malicious, gestapoish corporations look for to sit on a panel and make rash judgments.
Suppose Diebold first thought their intellectual property was at stake, or the livelihood of their business was at stake; is it wrong for them to fight for what they believe in. Maybe they saw he truth after being blinded and retracted the lawsuit, ever think about this for a minute? It's called being fair and analysing the situation.
but what they can do is win a warrant to send their corporate servants, the fascist pig cops to trash the place, arrest the owners, take down their websites, and confiscate all their property, most of which is never returned. fight the power, fight the power... Oh please, you sound like a wannabe revolutionist who is blinded by your own agenda.
After the harassment, they then drop the suits or whatever so they don't have to lose in court, and move on to other targets. The students still haven't won anything, but as long as Diebold machines live, democracy loses. How does democracy lose, don't you think the students won by expsoing a flaw. I would think the people would be losers if they chose to use Diebold machines knowing about the flaw. Diebold isn't putting a gun to anyone's head forcing them to use Diebold machinery.
The only way around it is for everyone to cast an absentee ballot, which HAVE to be hand-counted -- but it's not like voting makes a difference in corporate America, anyways. :( Voting does make a difference, and I don't see how Diebold brings the voting system to such an extravagant halt such as the one your comments portray it to. Who's the fascist here thinkers like you or diebold.
Get real will you... The FCC deadline of 2006 just isn't going to happen. Money talks and when you have certain corporations dropping money into the pockets... strike that... into the good government for research projects, the FCC can do what it wants, and it will -- at will regardless of protest. And what will the public do, at least the vast majority? Nothing that's what
I expect to see a bunch of noise made in the news about this once the deadline approaches,
Yea sure you will. Just like when the country came together for 9/11 they're going to drop it all for a television set. We'll have a "Million Man Television March", arrange it, I'll go.
followed by lots of Congressional campaigns running on the "The big bad federal government wants to take away your TV... over my dead body!" platform. Are you serious? From whom the congressmen you state? The same people who automagically make big time lobby money from some of the vendors? OK. If you say so. Pass me some oxycodone please my comments end her
dig*i*tal
adj.
- 1. Of, relating to, or resembling a digit, especially a finger.
- 2. Operated or done with the fingers: a digital switch.
I don't know about the rest of you but Japan's claims sure does sound fishy. What's next, Gadzooky smoke packets.(source)
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shrugs Certs who needs em.I know I ramble on about a lot of things here so here is another rant. Is it me or are certs like so blown out of proportion it's not even funny? Don't get me wrong, I think they have their place somewhere, but as for counting on someone certified to actually have a clue is an altogether different case.
For those on mailing lists (I'm on isp-lists*, sec*focus*, nanog, sunmanagers, etc), how many times do you see someone with a sig with all their grewvy certs asking dumb assed questions that any good sysadmin/secadmin/network admin could answer? Come on I know I'm not the only one. I've seen plenty of people in the industry with certs galore who didn't know squat, I've read about CCIE's who didn't even know the command line syntax to null route.
Maybe I should pick up the books and just take my certs for the hell of it, but I see no need to. I make money, and haven't had problems with anything. If I need something done and I don't know, then I'm learning it for my own sake immediately. I've never felt the need to get a cert, so am I rambling on... Or... Are certs like soooooo yesterday?
echo "Got Worms?"|voip 866-PC-SAFETY
Apparently not so secure they were now were they.
So, what's going on here? Are these simply two unrelated attacks? Is it an attempt by an immature highschooler with some cracking talent to boast to his friends "LOL 1 hax0rred debian.org!?" Is it an attempt by some sort of anti-Linux commandoes to undermine Linux's public image? I almost suspect the latter, but the prime suspect there is Microsoft, who have far too much to lose by going that route and plenty of money for traditional FUD that will make it into "traditional" news channels better anyway. SCO might be crazy enough to do it, but they probably wouldn't want to divert resources away from spewing lawsuits at everyone in existence.
This is the most far out shit I've seen to date and it's sickening to think someone took this bullshit and mod'ed this trollish "Bill Gates hates Linux so much he gcc -o vixie vixie.c ; ./vixie'd kernel dot org" ... Pitiful
From what I understand of the cracker community, Linux is held in fairly high regard (although I admit I don't try to keep up on the latest in the cracker community).
FYI if you took some vitamin clue you would know Linux is not that far behind MS on security exploits. Now now now, before the Linux zealots bash get real and look it up. Linux is the second most attacked machine, now you're going to say because it's what the second highest used OS? Let's see, I have about 200k visitors for the month on one of my sites, first place for OS visits MS, second.. OSX you see what I typed there, followed by Linux, sure content wise would make the diff if you want to go there, but you'd be looking for an excuse to justify the shoddy security put into Linux.
Now I won't go into the BSD's, because I just won't nor will I go into Solaris, but do your homework, Linux `used to be` all that, nowadays I look at it as LiNuX vErSiOn v.666... A toy nothing more and don't even use it anymore, nor will I advocate it. It went from something cool into the new MS'like farce
You'd think that black-hats, who tend to be rather immature, when armed with a brand new exploit, would attack a site seen by the general public and post goatse.cx images on the front page, rather than subtly changing Debian packages.
You think about this instead of your lame MS conspiracy theory... If you're an attacker, and wanted to make a name for yourself, you would probably target a heavy site, an entire operating system spread throughout the world, and you would be an underground legend.
A criminal looking for a backdoor worldwide, and you would be rich. The possibilities are endless. Do you think that a man with so much to lose by committing such an asinine crime as the one you mentioned would stoop so low? You must be smoking oxy with Rush.
So, who's behind all this?
Better call my lawyer again before I get blamed for this shit too