I understand why terrorists attacked the WTC, because America was a major power in the middle east (both militarily and culturally, and the terrorists hate both). Furthermore OBL hoped to increase his reputation by pushing around the US military.
Why are they attacking France? What do they hope to achieve?
OK, reality check: France is pounding ISIS in Syria right now. Yes, they (we) also pounded Lybia. Terrorists consider France an ally of the USA (which it is).
These guys are simply using terrorism everywhere, because that's the only thing they know how to do.
I wonder if they are going to learn from the Swiss that a Gun Free zone is a target zone. People should be trained and armed when there are valid threats in the area. Why just be victims? They have had one mass shooting. Want to guess how it ended?
You think guns are the solution just because your sick, twisted little brain is too small to comprehend that some people don't feel the need to be armed at all times.
Oh, wait, you are just a sick twisted little sh*t that repeats everything Fox News and the NRA tells you to repeat. My bad. Now, just STFU.
By denying the evilness of islam and accusing those who dare to oppose the cruelty acts of moslems as 'evil' the liberals are actually lending a helping hand to those moslem terrorists
I live in Paris, 10 minutes away from some of the attacks. And I have one thing to say: you are dumb as a bag of bricks.
And that's insulting to a bag of bricks. Nuff said.
A more serious reply is this one: they don't want you to know you are on a watch list. If you represent a serious target, they REALLY don't want you to know. On the other hand, if you have any reason to suspect you are a serious target, assume the worst and unplug now.
OTOH, OpenBSD's kernel is about 10X the size of Xen (where the BSD mantra of 'correctness' has a much tighter focus). As isolation mechanisms go, I trust Xen before any monolithic kernel. The upshot is that Xen also gives me the rich features (incl. drivers) of Linux and Windows.
Awwwww, you are so cute. You trust Xen more than kernel xyz? Really?
You can keep your Qubes OS, thank you very much, I'll stick to OpenBSD, despite all its defaults and warts.
Words of wisdom to meditate:
You've been smoking something really mind altering, and I think you should share it.
x86 virtualization is about basically placing another nearly full kernel, full of new bugs, on top of a nasty x86 architecture which barely has correct page protection. Then running your operating system on the other side of this brand new pile of shit.
You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes.
OpenBSD is probably unbreachable but it's terribly useless as anything but a firewall; to use it as a general OS, you have to turn a lot of its security precautions off.
Which why I have been using OpenBSD on my laptops for... Let's see... About 10 years now?
I'll grant you this: I don't do video editing or 3D modeling (I am, after all, a system administrator) but OpenBSD has proved perfect to surf the net, send emails, edit complex documentation (using OpenOffice or LyX), do some serious programming, edit images (Gimp and Dia), listen to music, watch videos and even play a game or two. As well as the usual SSH and Ansible into dozens of servers. And, yes, VNC and RDP are both available, so that includes Windows servers.
And all this without changing a single things to the default security settings to OpenBSD.
As part of the focus on cybercrime the EC [European Commission] said it is important that, while the privacy of citizens should be respected, the right data for law enforcement agencies is also vital to protect Europe’s security.
“Clear rules are needed to ensure that data protection principles are respected in full, while law enforcement gains access to the data it needs to protect the privacy of citizens against cybercrime and identity theft,” the report said.
The strategy also calls for greater cooperation between all elements of society when tackling cybercrime, so that key information is shared with all relevant parties.
Crypto War II. It's what's for breakfast. Download your copy of GPG while it's hot.
Of course, the NSA is going to go after you if you are an American journalist. The thing is, they are not allowed to. What a quandary!
What can you do in that case, if you work at the NSA? You just send a memorandum to your good friends at GCHQ, and they will gladly do the spying for you!
And, of course, if GCHQ needs some juicy info on a UK citizen, NSA is happy to oblige. Scratch my back, I'll scratch yours, etc.
Repeat with all members of the "five eyes" (NSA, GCHQ, CSE, ASD,and GCSB) and you cover up pretty much the entire world. But, again, NSA is not "officially" spying on US citizens, no sirree.
Let's see... NetBSD offers much better performances than OpenBSD, and performances that are sometimes even better than FreeBSD. It's also a smaller installation than either FreeBSD or OpenBSD: the base installation of NetBSD is simply ridiculously small.
It offers npf (the NetBSD packet filter), which is a fully-SMP capable version of pf, with a much more modern syntax than pfSense (which runs an oooooold version of OpenBSD pf). And, in general, its SMP support seems to be much better than OpenBSD and on a par with FreeBSD at the very least (including USB!).
Its Hardware Abstraction Layer seems, at least to my untrained eyes, much better than either FreeBSD and OpenBSD's HAL. And it does include support for Itanium, but only in source code form -- it's right there in the 7.0 announcement.
Other stuff I am not so sure about include kernel programming using Lua and the new blacklistd, which sounds like an interesting idea. Oh, and pkgsrc, its packaging system, just rocks.
Yep, mass immigration - that's what America is founded on. And look how it turned out.
Yep, one of only a few countries where much of the population actually believe the Earth is 6000 years old, and fundamentalism is common.
And please don't forget that the jury is still out on the Earth being round. And where is Obama birth certificate anyway? Dinosaurs? Who needs stinking dinosaurs? Etc... etc... etc... Ad nauseam.
Only a complete fucking moron would think that this mass immigration is anything but a future crime and terrorist attack in the making.
Yep, mass immigration - that's what America is founded on. And look how it turned out.
Well... On the other hand, there was George W. Bush. But he was not an immigration problem, the following is a better definition of the problem he represented:
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
H.L. Mencken
Sending them back to their nation of origin would work fine, and requires no killing.
Of course, they are leaving their nations of origin largely because of killing there, But that is the problem that should have been solved.
And of course, the mass killings are happening because some nations (*cough cough* USA UK France, etc *cough cough*) have tried to do some ''nation building'' in the Middle East.
You make it sound like the EU approached us collectively as a country and we flipped them the bird. Because I don't remember anyone asking me.
Who is "US" in this context? Verizon/AT&T/Sprint/T-Mobile? FCC? Donald Trump?
Nope, the Europeans just decided to do the sensible thing and define a pan-european standard. Hence, they created GSM, which begat 2G, which begat 3G, etc.
Now, they also did the other sensible thing, which is to say to the rest of the world: "There you go, here is our standard, free of charge, this is what we use and it works pretty well for us". Korea, Japan, China, and pretty much everyone else ran with it, and made money hand over fist, selling cheap phones to everyone and their dog.
It's really not rocket science: create a solid standard, with a clear evolution path, and publish it for everyone to use. The only caveat, of course, is that your phone must be GSM-compliant of you want to sell it anywhere in Europe. But that's a 700+ million market, so you know you are going to make money anyway.
In the US, every single phone operator had to have its own little standard, just to f*ck their customers for as much money as possible. Because MURICA, free enterprise, and gouging the customers are all christian values, or something.
Maybe a while ago, Europe and the US would have gotten together and define a common standard, no matter how loud the US operators yelped. That time is long past.
Gosh, it felt like MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! Coke vs claret?? Whatever, there is only so much bullshit one can take in a day.
The fact is, if Airbus had not been put together by Europeans, Boeing would still be milking the 747 for all it is worth... Competition has been good for the two companies, I dare say.
And another thing: ''Airbus'' is (and sounds) a lot more democratic and proletarian. After all, Boeing has not been able to put something together against the mighty A380.
Yup, the biggest, most proletarian jet out there is made by... Airbus. Not Boeing. How the mighty have fallen.
Really, an entire VM for a little old ssh? Is it really that hard for nowaday people to fetch an older version and configure/make/make install a single piece of software?
Yeah, well, I blame Ubuntu and Virtual Box. apt-get install openssh, oh fsck, I can't connect to my old router anymore... Damn you, OpenSSH devs! Damn you all to heck!!!
What? Compiling software? By hand? My dear man, you cannot be serious, I have better things to do with my time...
If you have old SSH1 only type devices (like old switches and routers), you might not be able to talk to them anymore after this update. You might want to keep a version of 6.6 around as ssh1 to talk to the old stuff that can't be upgraded to newer stuff.
OK, here is a hint for you: SSH v1 is a compile option.
Simply enter:./configure --with-ssh1 ; make ; sudo make install and you will have the latest version of OpenSSH, with SSH v1 baked in.
Add a couple of options to your personal ~/.ssh/config (you do have a personal SSH config, right?) for these obsolete hosts, or simply add -1 to your ssh command and you are good to go.
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I understand why terrorists attacked the WTC, because America was a major power in the middle east (both militarily and culturally, and the terrorists hate both). Furthermore OBL hoped to increase his reputation by pushing around the US military.
Why are they attacking France? What do they hope to achieve?
OK, reality check: France is pounding ISIS in Syria right now. Yes, they (we) also pounded Lybia. Terrorists consider France an ally of the USA (which it is).
These guys are simply using terrorism everywhere, because that's the only thing they know how to do.
I wonder if they are going to learn from the Swiss that a Gun Free zone is a target zone. People should be trained and armed when there are valid threats in the area. Why just be victims? They have had one mass shooting. Want to guess how it ended?
http://world.time.com/2012/12/...
You think guns are the solution just because your sick, twisted little brain is too small to comprehend that some people don't feel the need to be armed at all times.
Oh, wait, you are just a sick twisted little sh*t that repeats everything Fox News and the NRA tells you to repeat. My bad. Now, just STFU.
How about 100 meters off the coast and see if God chooses to save them.
How about you just get yourself a nice cup of STFU, you bleating idiot.
This means that we must have actually nailed Jihadi John.
Time for Europeans to round up the 'refugees' and ship them back. The coast of Libya would not be a bad place to dump them.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we get it, you are an armchair general. STFU, you sick imbecile.
By denying the evilness of islam and accusing those who dare to oppose the cruelty acts of moslems as 'evil' the liberals are actually lending a helping hand to those moslem terrorists
I live in Paris, 10 minutes away from some of the attacks. And I have one thing to say: you are dumb as a bag of bricks.
And that's insulting to a bag of bricks. Nuff said.
You are already on a watch list. Somewhere.
After all, most NSA people are geeks, and so they read Slashdot. To the point they did a MITM using a fake Slashdot page.
Oh, and by the way: hi NSA!
A more serious reply is this one: they don't want you to know you are on a watch list. If you represent a serious target, they REALLY don't want you to know. On the other hand, if you have any reason to suspect you are a serious target, assume the worst and unplug now.
OTOH, OpenBSD's kernel is about 10X the size of Xen (where the BSD mantra of 'correctness' has a much tighter focus). As isolation mechanisms go, I trust Xen before any monolithic kernel. The upshot is that Xen also gives me the rich features (incl. drivers) of Linux and Windows.
Awwwww, you are so cute. You trust Xen more than kernel xyz? Really?
First of all, please read this.
Then take a look at this.
There are, let's see... right now, 35 CVEs assigned to the Xen project, in 2015 alone? 40 CVEs in 2014?
Compare and contrast with the number of CVEs published for OpenBSD. And the number of patches available for the latest version (5.8) of OpenBSD.. Here is a hint: 99% of these patches do not imply your machine is going to be ''owned'' by someone exploiting the bugs found. Yes, even the OpenSMTPD patches are pretty mild.
You can keep your Qubes OS, thank you very much, I'll stick to OpenBSD, despite all its defaults and warts.
Words of wisdom to meditate:
You've been smoking something really mind altering, and I think you should share it.
x86 virtualization is about basically placing another nearly full kernel, full of new bugs, on top of a nasty x86 architecture which barely has correct page protection. Then running your operating system on the other side of this brand new pile of shit.
You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes.
(Source.)
Say what you will of this guy, he has got a point. Virtualization is great, but not for security. Period.
OpenBSD is probably unbreachable but it's terribly useless as anything but a firewall; to use it as a general OS, you have to turn a lot of its security precautions off.
Which why I have been using OpenBSD on my laptops for... Let's see... About 10 years now?
I'll grant you this: I don't do video editing or 3D modeling (I am, after all, a system administrator) but OpenBSD has proved perfect to surf the net, send emails, edit complex documentation (using OpenOffice or LyX), do some serious programming, edit images (Gimp and Dia), listen to music, watch videos and even play a game or two. As well as the usual SSH and Ansible into dozens of servers. And, yes, VNC and RDP are both available, so that includes Windows servers.
And all this without changing a single things to the default security settings to OpenBSD.
A single binary blob, accessible of course by APIs, mostly APIs written for desktop operating systems, for all of your system config needs!
Oh, come on, I am all for blowing the whistle and all, but do you really have to come out and reveal all their plans? You are not fun.
And you forgot one very important point: systemd-nsakey, for all your law enforcement needs!!
Is this the sort of thing that the EU could override?
Of course not. The European Union wants the exact same thing. They just take a more circuitous route to reach the same conclusion.
Don't believe me? Read it and weep.
Money quote from the above link:
As part of the focus on cybercrime the EC [European Commission] said it is important that, while the privacy of citizens should be respected, the right data for law enforcement agencies is also vital to protect Europe’s security.
“Clear rules are needed to ensure that data protection principles are respected in full, while law enforcement gains access to the data it needs to protect the privacy of citizens against cybercrime and identity theft,” the report said.
The strategy also calls for greater cooperation between all elements of society when tackling cybercrime, so that key information is shared with all relevant parties.
Crypto War II. It's what's for breakfast. Download your copy of GPG while it's hot.
You are so naive it's almost painful.
Of course, the NSA is going to go after you if you are an American journalist. The thing is, they are not allowed to. What a quandary!
What can you do in that case, if you work at the NSA? You just send a memorandum to your good friends at GCHQ, and they will gladly do the spying for you!
And, of course, if GCHQ needs some juicy info on a UK citizen, NSA is happy to oblige. Scratch my back, I'll scratch yours, etc.
Repeat with all members of the "five eyes" (NSA, GCHQ, CSE, ASD,and GCSB) and you cover up pretty much the entire world. But, again, NSA is not "officially" spying on US citizens, no sirree.
Let's see... NetBSD offers much better performances than OpenBSD, and performances that are sometimes even better than FreeBSD. It's also a smaller installation than either FreeBSD or OpenBSD: the base installation of NetBSD is simply ridiculously small.
It offers npf (the NetBSD packet filter), which is a fully-SMP capable version of pf, with a much more modern syntax than pfSense (which runs an oooooold version of OpenBSD pf). And, in general, its SMP support seems to be much better than OpenBSD and on a par with FreeBSD at the very least (including USB!).
Its Hardware Abstraction Layer seems, at least to my untrained eyes, much better than either FreeBSD and OpenBSD's HAL. And it does include support for Itanium, but only in source code form -- it's right there in the 7.0 announcement.
Other stuff I am not so sure about include kernel programming using Lua and the new blacklistd, which sounds like an interesting idea. Oh, and pkgsrc, its packaging system, just rocks.
Yep, mass immigration - that's what America is founded on. And look how it turned out.
Yep, one of only a few countries where much of the population actually believe the Earth is 6000 years old, and fundamentalism is common.
And please don't forget that the jury is still out on the Earth being round. And where is Obama birth certificate anyway? Dinosaurs? Who needs stinking dinosaurs? Etc... etc... etc... Ad nauseam.
Only a complete fucking moron would think that this mass immigration is anything but a future crime and terrorist attack in the making.
Yep, mass immigration - that's what America is founded on. And look how it turned out.
Well... On the other hand, there was George W. Bush. But he was not an immigration problem, the following is a better definition of the problem he represented:
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
H.L. Mencken
citations?
boston bombinb
ft hood
those are the biggest terroristic acts since 9/11
were they white and christian???
didnt think so
Oh, I see. Well, there you go, enjoy. You are welcome.
Sending them back to their nation of origin would work fine, and requires no killing.
Of course, they are leaving their nations of origin largely because of killing there, But that is the problem that should have been solved.
And of course, the mass killings are happening because some nations (*cough cough* USA UK France, etc *cough cough*) have tried to do some ''nation building'' in the Middle East.
Wait a minute... Oktoberfest has been cancelled? What planet are you from?
Seriously, this is insane. You have no idea what you are talking about.
75% of these so-called refugees are military age men.
And I guess 75% of your statistics are just pulled out of your.. err... back side?
Either the NSA has some good shit on everyone in power, and/or everyone in power values convenience over the interests of the people.
No, they have some good shit on everyone. They have said as much, without really coming out and saying it outright, if you see what I mean.
Read all about it here and here.
You make it sound like the EU approached us collectively as a country and we flipped them the bird. Because I don't remember anyone asking me.
Who is "US" in this context? Verizon/AT&T/Sprint/T-Mobile? FCC? Donald Trump?
Nope, the Europeans just decided to do the sensible thing and define a pan-european standard. Hence, they created GSM, which begat 2G, which begat 3G, etc.
Now, they also did the other sensible thing, which is to say to the rest of the world: "There you go, here is our standard, free of charge, this is what we use and it works pretty well for us". Korea, Japan, China, and pretty much everyone else ran with it, and made money hand over fist, selling cheap phones to everyone and their dog.
It's really not rocket science: create a solid standard, with a clear evolution path, and publish it for everyone to use. The only caveat, of course, is that your phone must be GSM-compliant of you want to sell it anywhere in Europe. But that's a 700+ million market, so you know you are going to make money anyway.
In the US, every single phone operator had to have its own little standard, just to f*ck their customers for as much money as possible. Because MURICA, free enterprise, and gouging the customers are all christian values, or something.
Maybe a while ago, Europe and the US would have gotten together and define a common standard, no matter how loud the US operators yelped. That time is long past.
The US will adopt a closed standard, with royalties, that will work only in the US. That'll keep the eurotrash out.
Yup, and you will keep on paying 10x more than anywhere else in the world.
The US is becoming more and more irrelevant each step along the way.
What? No more discount on ThinkGeek for /. employees?
Man, that's harsh.
Gosh, it felt like MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! Coke vs claret?? Whatever, there is only so much bullshit one can take in a day.
The fact is, if Airbus had not been put together by Europeans, Boeing would still be milking the 747 for all it is worth... Competition has been good for the two companies, I dare say.
And another thing: ''Airbus'' is (and sounds) a lot more democratic and proletarian. After all, Boeing has not been able to put something together against the mighty A380.
Yup, the biggest, most proletarian jet out there is made by... Airbus. Not Boeing. How the mighty have fallen.
Really, an entire VM for a little old ssh? Is it really that hard for nowaday people to fetch an older version and configure/make/make install a single piece of software?
Yeah, well, I blame Ubuntu and Virtual Box. apt-get install openssh, oh fsck, I can't connect to my old router anymore... Damn you, OpenSSH devs! Damn you all to heck!!!
What? Compiling software? By hand? My dear man, you cannot be serious, I have better things to do with my time...
If you have old SSH1 only type devices (like old switches and routers), you might not be able to talk to them anymore after this update. You might want to keep a version of 6.6 around as ssh1 to talk to the old stuff that can't be upgraded to newer stuff.
OK, here is a hint for you: SSH v1 is a compile option.
Simply enter: ./configure --with-ssh1 ; make ; sudo make install and you will have the latest version of OpenSSH, with SSH v1 baked in.
Add a couple of options to your personal ~/.ssh/config (you do have a personal SSH config, right?) for these obsolete hosts, or simply add -1 to your ssh command and you are good to go.
There... That was not so hard now, was it?