Some Crackers have been doing this for a while, (we are way behind) look within your disk formats and OpenFirmware/Mac, Bios/PC, crack once - stay forever. Time to start really paying attention, look for "bad boot blocks" for pre boot networking prefs.
I'll back you up on this, as it happened to me - at a party in 1970 something - with sugarcubed LSD, still very aware of all of what reality entails. My friend and I communicated t-e-l-e-p-a-t-h-i-c-a-l-l-y for around 25 -30 seconds, just out of the blue, not trying. After the "spell had broken" we both started blurting out what had been communicated just prior (just like a regular spoken conversation) We were both blown away by what had just happened. Shocked, I believe is the word.
And, for the people that would post "bullshit", in the famous words of Stan Marsh of South Park, "Dude, I don't care". Some of you folks need to realize things are not as they seem. Dude.
The sad thing about Cliff Stoll (and several other experts) is that he's succumbed to the same poo-poo behavior as the people he complained about in his book. I was having a problem with very unique break ins last year and contacted several experts including Cliff. Having read his book many years ago and after doing "my homework" (months) I approached some of these folks, Mr. Stoll is a Teacher now and I'm sure very busy, but managed to return my call. His voice is as you would imagine, bright and cheerful, a very engaging fellow. I (began to) explained my situation and he stopped me several times to question me on some basic tenets of deductions, I continued, where he then just stopped me and (basically) started to quote from his book " when hearing hoofbeats..." where I then finished his quote "... don't think Zebras". He, then for whatever reason, without hearing (what little more) I had to say began to surmise (very) simplistic scenarios for this obvious break in.
My point here is not to malign Mr. Stoll, but to illustrate an overall complacency in the arena of security. This complacency is our Achilles' heel, and I'm not talking passwords.
People don't understand what the growing numbers of hardware Gurus have always known: Hardware trumps root.
I finally found my expert, and we're working on it now.
Little in the way of structuring data by leandrod (17766)
Everyone is talking about GoogleFS. But no one is talking about how they manage structured data. How do they do it? Some SQL stuff, some homegrow potion, or have they managed to create a sensible interface for structured data on top of GoogleFS? -- Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete DUTRA DA, DBA, SysAdmin, Data Modeller GNU Project, Debian GNU/Linux
"Hacker's, the good ones, can earn a decent living playing both sides of the game. A cheesy salary on the inside and much more lucrative compensation from the outside. An organized distribution of hackers, not necessarily organized consciously by hackers, but by an outside interest is a growing threat to corporate interests."
Yes. Forgetting this whole thread above, Slashdot and it's mindlessness - the keywords here are "not necessarily organized consciously and outside interest(s). You sir, have hit the nail squarely. Some continue to "whistle through the graveyard" and others just hope it's "just their imagination" unlike most of these commenters at least the former sense something. Think reserved APIs, and *legal* hardware calls and parse accordingly.
Start here for the first clue, SCREAM accordingly.
This is beyond political. This is about control. Get your head out of the sand.
Do you have a DVD player hooked up on a cable pipe? It updates it's firmware all by itself. Did you ever ask yourself why Sony (insert manufacturer) does this... valued customer? How many hardware techs took this knowledge with them and what did they do with it?
Company or individual?
Is this news? Maybe to you.
If you wanted to take over the WORLD how would you do it? Maaawaaahahaha!
>They recently (finally!) updated their shooting SW:
>http://www.fujifilm.com/JSP/fuji/epartners/Servic e SupportBrowse.jsp?prodcat=507205&sscucatid=664260 >
Which is complete and utter CRAP, won't even install (yes I did it right) HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE stuff. Pity, such a nice camera. Can't shoot teathered, such a waste.
Art Vanderlay writes: "Readers should not be surprised by overcoverage of Microsoft Windows since the tech writers and columnists for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and Fortune are all Windows users. According to John Dvorak of PC Mag, no one seems to point out the connection between the skewed coverage and the existence of this peculiar conflict of interest based on the national writers' use of Windows. He feels the newsroom editors are generally so out of touch that they can't see this bias and are also Windows users. "From the article: "This reality is not going to change. In fact it will only get worse as technology coverage is handed to newer, less-qualified observers who simply cannot use a Apple computer. With no Apple-centric frame of reference, Apple cannot look good. The company essentially brought this on itself with various PR and marketing policies that discouraged knowledgeable coverage. I'll save those complaints for a future gripe session."
Fuji FinePix S2 Pro has a problem with their CCD, it goes black and doesn't recover. Fuji, New York, fixed it, never batting an eye. The camera shoots BEA-utiful colour, top notch organization.
They recently (finally!) updated their shooting SW:
I think everyone's stumped, the defenders keep bolting down the furniture, chaining up the TV and generally fastening down all these individual objects. What's needed is a BOUNCER.
Lock the damn door [doggie door too]. I'M WITH THE BAND! shouldn't get them backstage. Stamp their hand at the entrance and watch them so they don't try to feel up your sister.
You get the idea. These guys have a handle on this approach, I only wish I had enough money to get it. Hell, I'd even by a wintel box to run the damn thing (and that's drastic)
Really good experience, run by white hat geeks in Berkley. If you call them with a problem they will help you. WOW, WHAT A CONCEPT! Cool Colocation Services (whatever HW you want) they speak fluent FreeBSD. You can walk in and Security won't decend on you like a pack of locust. Did I mention they acually know what their doing? Wonders never cease.
I think they're stumped, the defenders keep bolting down the furniture, chaining up the TV and generally fastening down all these individual objects. What's needed is a BOUNCER.
Lock the damn door [doggie door too]. I'M WITH THE BAND! shouldn't get them backstage. Stamp their hand at the entrance and watch them so they don't try to feel up your sister.
You get the idea. These guys have a handle on this approach, I only wish I had enough money to get it.
"Not that I'm going to be able to prove this easily, but I came up with the invocation mechanism, and wrote the patch to the Drag Manager that enabled the "secret about box" mechanism. We had the breakout game ready to go, but nobody could come up with a good way to invoke it. We had a number of code reviews until everyone was satisified it wouldn't break anything. Fun times...
That was my first significant addition to the OS.:-)"
Greg, is that you? If you are Greg, please put your "spies" info on folklore with the "not a parade" stuff and tell us all the gory details of MacsBug. Tell us why "Math is Hard" - so funny. If you're not Greg, you are at least BLUE - spill the beans Buddy;-) We need an easteregg section. Personally, I want to know about the emulation egg(?) that is so spooky in 7.5.5 (nuKernal - Quadra-Centris/68k). (I found it and it's weird) Star Trek? Bodies please.
Slashdot Mirror
Some Crackers have been doing this for a while, (we are way behind) look within your disk formats and OpenFirmware/Mac, Bios/PC, crack once - stay forever.
Time to start really paying attention, look for "bad boot blocks" for pre boot networking prefs.
This guy's got a clue:
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/402
Check the comments too.
Think about an intentional miconfig of your monitor settings (UNIX) now.
Required reading:
Reflections on Trusting Trust
Ken Thompson
http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/
More Diebold Voting Machine Fun
s installs
YMMV
http://www.votergate.tv/
http://www.equalccw.com/dieboldtestnotes.html
http://www.equalccw.com/dieboldtestnotes.html#gem
http://midnightspaghetti.com/newsDiebold.php
http://www.archive.org/details/TheCageBushKerry
hylas
I'll back you up on this, as it happened to me - at a party in 1970 something - with sugarcubed LSD, still very aware of all of what reality entails. My friend and I communicated t-e-l-e-p-a-t-h-i-c-a-l-l-y for around 25 -30 seconds, just out of the blue, not trying.
After the "spell had broken" we both started blurting out what had been communicated just prior (just like a regular spoken conversation)
We were both blown away by what had just happened.
Shocked, I believe is the word.
And, for the people that would post "bullshit", in the famous words of Stan Marsh of South Park, "Dude, I don't care".
Some of you folks need to realize things are not as they seem.
Dude.
Why you get the results you do.
. low.html
n t
Double-slit experiment
http://www.whatthebleep.com/trailer/doubleslit.wm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experime
Keep it off the network!!!
...
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||| Been there, done that, please believe.dat
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"believe.dat"
Dude, they'll never get it unless you s-p-e-l-l i-t o-u-t for them.
Really, they're not that bright.
Unless of course
The sad thing about Cliff Stoll (and several other experts) is that he's succumbed to the same poo-poo behavior as the people he complained about in his book. ..." where I then finished his quote "... don't think Zebras". He, then for whatever reason, without hearing (what little more) I had to say began to surmise (very) simplistic scenarios for this obvious break in.
I was having a problem with very unique break ins last year and contacted several experts including Cliff.
Having read his book many years ago and after doing "my homework" (months) I approached some of these folks, Mr. Stoll is a Teacher now and I'm sure very busy, but managed to return my call. His voice is as you would imagine, bright and cheerful, a very engaging fellow. I (began to) explained my situation and he stopped me several times to question me on some basic tenets of deductions, I continued, where he then just stopped me and (basically) started to quote from his book " when hearing hoofbeats
My point here is not to malign Mr. Stoll, but to illustrate an overall complacency in the arena of security.
This complacency is our Achilles' heel, and I'm not talking passwords.
People don't understand what the growing numbers of hardware Gurus have always known:
Hardware trumps root.
I finally found my expert, and we're working on it now.
Pleeeeze enlighten us (with your zero background).
http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/
See link:
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http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=190798&cid
Little in the way of structuring data
x .html
by leandrod (17766)
Everyone is talking about GoogleFS. But no one is talking about how they manage structured data. How do they do it? Some SQL stuff, some homegrow potion, or have they managed to create a sensible interface for structured data on top of GoogleFS?
--
Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete DUTRA
DA, DBA, SysAdmin, Data Modeller
GNU Project, Debian GNU/Linux
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Wild Guess® ?
Rob Pike?
http://herpolhode.com/rob/
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Papers/inde
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/
http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/
http://herpolhode.com/rob/hotchips.html
leandrod,
You might find this especially interesting considering your affiliation.
SubVirt is the training wheels version, check this:
/ 33600#33600
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/402
Want to Talk?
http://www.securityfocus.com/comments/columns/402
"Hacker's, the good ones, can earn a decent living playing both sides of the game. A cheesy salary on the inside and much more lucrative compensation from the outside. An organized distribution of hackers, not necessarily organized consciously by hackers, but by an outside interest is a growing threat to corporate interests."
:-)
Yes.
Forgetting this whole thread above, Slashdot and it's mindlessness - the keywords here are "not necessarily organized consciously and outside interest(s).
You sir, have hit the nail squarely.
Some continue to "whistle through the graveyard" and others just hope it's "just their imagination" unlike most of these commenters at least the former sense something.
Think reserved APIs, and *legal* hardware calls and parse accordingly.
Start here for the first clue, SCREAM accordingly.
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/402
Not just ALL your base.
Got Facts?
... valued customer?
n bow.asp
2 00.28-STD.html
It's been there all along, hardware trumps root.
Recent article with clues:
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/402
This is beyond political.
This is about control.
Get your head out of the sand.
Do you have a DVD player hooked up on a cable pipe? It updates it's firmware all by itself. Did you ever ask yourself why Sony (insert manufacturer) does this
How many hardware techs took this knowledge with them and what did they do with it?
Company or individual?
Is this news?
Maybe to you.
If you wanted to take over the WORLD how would you do it?
Maaawaaahahaha!
Start one fire or many little ones?
http://www.answers.com/topic/orange-book
http://www.palowireless.com/wireless/security_rai
http://www.radium.ncsc.mil/tpep/library/rainbow/
http://www.radium.ncsc.mil/tpep/library/rainbow/5
>They recently (finally!) updated their shooting SW:
c e SupportBrowse.jsp?prodcat=507205&sscucatid=664260
>http://www.fujifilm.com/JSP/fuji/epartners/Servi
>
Which is complete and utter CRAP, won't even install (yes I did it right) HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE stuff.
Pity, such a nice camera.
Can't shoot teathered, such a waste.
Apple: Are Media Writers Biased Towards Windows?
Art Vanderlay writes:
"Readers should not be surprised by overcoverage of Microsoft Windows since the tech writers and columnists for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and Fortune are all Windows users.
According to John Dvorak of PC Mag, no one seems to point out the connection between the skewed coverage and the existence of this peculiar conflict of interest based on the national writers' use of Windows. He feels the newsroom editors are generally so out of touch that they can't see this bias and are also Windows users.
"From the article:
"This reality is not going to change. In fact it will only get worse as technology coverage is handed to newer, less-qualified observers who simply cannot use a Apple computer. With no Apple-centric frame of reference, Apple cannot look good.
The company essentially brought this on itself with various PR and marketing policies that discouraged knowledgeable coverage. I'll save those complaints for a future gripe session."
Fuji FinePix S2 Pro has a problem with their CCD, it goes black and doesn't recover. Fuji, New York, fixed it, never batting an eye. The camera shoots BEA-utiful colour, top notch organization.
e SupportBrowse.jsp?prodcat=507205&sscucatid=664260
They recently (finally!) updated their shooting SW:
http://www.fujifilm.com/JSP/fuji/epartners/Servic
See for yourself Skippy.
= 11856718
http://www.equalccw.com/dieboldtestnotes.html
http://midnightspaghetti.com/newsDiebold.php
http://www.votergate.tv/
Previously on "As the R00T is Hacked" . . .
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=141514&cid
I think everyone's stumped, the defenders keep bolting down the furniture, chaining up the TV and generally fastening down all these individual objects.
What's needed is a BOUNCER.
Lock the damn door [doggie door too].
I'M WITH THE BAND! shouldn't get them backstage.
Stamp their hand at the entrance and watch them so they don't try to feel up your sister.
You get the idea.
These guys have a handle on this approach, I only wish I had enough money to get it.
Hell, I'd even by a wintel box to run the damn thing (and that's drastic)
http://www.forescout.com/activescout.html
LMI
Rating 8
http://www.lmi.net/support/index.php
Really good experience, run by white hat geeks in Berkley.
If you call them with a problem they will help you.
WOW, WHAT A CONCEPT!
Cool Colocation Services (whatever HW you want) they speak fluent FreeBSD.
You can walk in and Security won't decend on you like a pack of locust.
Did I mention they acually know what their doing?
Wonders never cease.
Watch for spaces below on URL.
1 23 53545
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147388&cid=
You all said that last time too.
Remember?
http://www.phys.uconn.edu/faculty/mallett.html
I think they're stumped, the defenders keep bolting down the furniture, chaining up the TV and generally fastening down all these individual objects.
What's needed is a BOUNCER.
Lock the damn door [doggie door too].
I'M WITH THE BAND! shouldn't get them backstage.
Stamp their hand at the entrance and watch them so they don't try to feel up your sister.
You get the idea.
These guys have a handle on this approach, I only wish I had enough money to get it.
http://www.forescout.com/activescout.html
http://www.forescout.com/activescout.html
The NEW $7 dollar bill!
http://www.moneyfactory.com/section.cfm/4
http://www.johncage.info/workscage/433.html
I can't seem to find the words.
Anyone?
"Not that I'm going to be able to prove this easily, but I came up with the invocation mechanism, and wrote the patch to the Drag Manager that enabled the "secret about box" mechanism. We had the breakout game ready to go, but nobody could come up with a good way to invoke it. We had a number of code reviews until everyone was satisified it wouldn't break anything. Fun times...
:-)"
;-)
That was my first significant addition to the OS.
Greg, is that you?
If you are Greg, please put your "spies" info on folklore with the "not a parade" stuff and tell us all the gory details of MacsBug.
Tell us why "Math is Hard" - so funny.
If you're not Greg, you are at least BLUE - spill the beans Buddy
We need an easteregg section.
Personally, I want to know about the emulation egg(?) that is so spooky in 7.5.5 (nuKernal - Quadra-Centris/68k).
(I found it and it's weird)
Star Trek?
Bodies please.
http://www.folklore.org/index.py