Telling ordinary people how a bomb is made presents negligible threat; it's impractical for them to make one themselves but does give insight into the most significant arms race of the last century. As for other nations and terrorist groups, they have spies to obtain such information for them, and it's still very difficult to obtain the relevant amounts of bomb-grade material.
**At this current time** What about in the future time when it is likely to become easier?
Chances are that time may be 50-100 years from now. However take a look back in history not everone originally had access to matches, gun powder, bullets (and military assault rifles!). History has proven over and over again that as time goes by it becomes easier and easier for people to get hold of things that in the past were only available to the select few.
I'm sorry for future generations that this information has been made public than it needs to be.
I have a test system that cannot be cracked form the outside.
To your knowledge. All it takes is for a colleague to plug a patch link cable in the wrong switch and next thing you know your machine is visable outside the firewall on the public Internet.
No system can be said to be 100% secure. Programmers/engineers occasionally (or sometimes regularly...) make mistakes and often their mistakes = security bugs. So I would suggest never assuming that something is 100% secure.
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I used to have a shitty car, and I used to leave my car doors unlocked at night. My car wasn't a good candidate for theft, but when it *was* stolen (it happened twice), it was for joyrides and at least the robbers didn't burst the locks.
Did it ever occur to you that a thief might use your shitty car as a tool to hijack another more expensive car by forcing it off the road? Or that a passing 8 year old kid might easily climb into your car, play around and then die when they accidently release your unprotected handbreak on a hill?
Basic door locks on cars are there not just to protect your own property but to also to help protect the property and safety of others.
Likewise the same is true of computers, by doing something even relatively basic to protect your computer you are helping to do something to prevent damage being caused against someone else's computer. e.g. stopping your computer being stolen and driven into someone elses computer via a distributed denial of service attack.
So I guess, the software equivalent of that would be to not leave expensive data that could interest people on networked box, and make as much as your sensitive data as possible less sensitive, by simply publishing it.
Any "open" access points (doors/windows....) into a building will simply make it even easier for someone to break further into the restricted areas of a building. So I disagree. Also by giving out setup information you are simply making it even easier for someone to hack into computers, e.g. operating system, version numbers, software installed, default installation folder names - all sound like perfectly innocent information but to a hacker information like that is invaluable when carrying out a hack.
I'm not saying everything should be released, far from it, but there's a lot of "hidden" data that could just be left readable by everybody, by changing some company policies and being a tad more open about everything, thus removing the desire/need to hack the box it's hosted on.
Many years ago people use to leave their houses unlocked. However that was in the distant past, before modern times when we regularly now have the situation that criminals spaced out of their heads on drugs commit serious crimes without any idea of what they are doing.....
Your theories are very nice in concept, and well to be honest many years ago I would have undoubtably agreed with you. The point I'm trying to make is the world has moved on:-(
Please lock both your car and your computer to help protect our property and friends! Thanks
The downside to this being that your coding productivity goes way down as you find yourself involved with exciting activities which previously as tech you have always been unable to find the time for: clothes shopping, cleaning, changing the bedding, writing christmas cards...
My own "guidance stick" is currently away and well let's just say the house has kinda noticed the difference mind you I'm productive again:-)
Any place with a decent set of fire codes, and people who are actually following them, shouldn't be worrying. FT-5/Plenum cable is simply not a danger.
In a fire any type of cable which is in a roof void and is not properly supported by some form of containment/tray/basket/ducting is can present a danger under certain circumstances, e.g. a fire.
For example using flammable ceiling tiles as a cheap way to hold up network cables is likely to cause those cables to fall onto a fireman during a fire! In the UK there are now several safety laws specifically to cover the situation of cables in fires. Any cable can present a serious danger if not installed safely.
What purpose do a glowing fish have?
1) No need to install lights in fish tanks/ponds
2) Makes nightime fishing easier
3) You can actually see your food during the candle lit dinner with your girlfriend....:-)
Sounds like a nifty piece of hardware. Put one at the front of your network, and reduce internal bandwidth wastage from propogation of virii/worms inward....
Yeah it would be amazing to have network traffic management, firewall functionality all in one handy box.... I can see a big multi billion $$$ market for this.... oh wait.....
Slashdot Mirror
Do you think he will let her take it off first? :)
Thank goodness as for a second I thought this was yet another single geek advice article on valentines... !
Some useful technical information / photos in relation to extending WLAN links can be found on the FRARS WLAN website here.
**At this current time** What about in the future time when it is likely to become easier?
Chances are that time may be 50-100 years from now. However take a look back in history not everone originally had access to matches, gun powder, bullets (and military assault rifles!). History has proven over and over again that as time goes by it becomes easier and easier for people to get hold of things that in the past were only available to the select few.
I'm sorry for future generations that this information has been made public than it needs to be.
Yeah as your average single male slashdot reader is very unlikely to need to be sterlized!
Y2K *began* on January 1, 19100^H^H^H^H^H *1910* .
That's better !
To your knowledge. All it takes is for a colleague to plug a patch link cable in the wrong switch and next thing you know your machine is visable outside the firewall on the public Internet.
No system can be said to be 100% secure. Programmers/engineers occasionally (or sometimes regularly...) make mistakes and often their mistakes = security bugs. So I would suggest never assuming that something is 100% secure.
Did it ever occur to you that a thief might use your shitty car as a tool to hijack another more expensive car by forcing it off the road? Or that a passing 8 year old kid might easily climb into your car, play around and then die when they accidently release your unprotected handbreak on a hill?
Basic door locks on cars are there not just to protect your own property but to also to help protect the property and safety of others.
Likewise the same is true of computers, by doing something even relatively basic to protect your computer you are helping to do something to prevent damage being caused against someone else's computer. e.g. stopping your computer being stolen and driven into someone elses computer via a distributed denial of service attack.
So I guess, the software equivalent of that would be to not leave expensive data that could interest people on networked box, and make as much as your sensitive data as possible less sensitive, by simply publishing it.
Any "open" access points (doors/windows....) into a building will simply make it even easier for someone to break further into the restricted areas of a building. So I disagree. Also by giving out setup information you are simply making it even easier for someone to hack into computers, e.g. operating system, version numbers, software installed, default installation folder names - all sound like perfectly innocent information but to a hacker information like that is invaluable when carrying out a hack.
I'm not saying everything should be released, far from it, but there's a lot of "hidden" data that could just be left readable by everybody, by changing some company policies and being a tad more open about everything, thus removing the desire/need to hack the box it's hosted on.
Many years ago people use to leave their houses unlocked. However that was in the distant past, before modern times when we regularly now have the situation that criminals spaced out of their heads on drugs commit serious crimes without any idea of what they are doing.....
Your theories are very nice in concept, and well to be honest many years ago I would have undoubtably agreed with you. The point I'm trying to make is the world has moved on :-(
Please lock both your car and your computer to help protect our property and friends! Thanks
BTW, is the old 1981 IBM BIOS code in public domain yet?
p ?id=50185
The MASM source to a "generic" early PC BIOS has been on simtel.net for many years: http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/50185.html
http://www.simtel.net/product.download.mirrors.ph
The downside to this being that your coding productivity goes way down as you find yourself involved with exciting activities which previously as tech you have always been unable to find the time for: clothes shopping, cleaning, changing the bedding, writing christmas cards... My own "guidance stick" is currently away and well let's just say the house has kinda noticed the difference mind you I'm productive again :-)
Shame it wasn't down for longer ;-)
Any place with a decent set of fire codes, and people who are actually following them, shouldn't be worrying. FT-5/Plenum cable is simply not a danger.
In a fire any type of cable which is in a roof void and is not properly supported by some form of containment/tray/basket/ducting is can present a danger under certain circumstances, e.g. a fire.
For example using flammable ceiling tiles as a cheap way to hold up network cables is likely to cause those cables to fall onto a fireman during a fire! In the UK there are now several safety laws specifically to cover the situation of cables in fires. Any cable can present a serious danger if not installed safely.
slashdot has been recycling stories for years. And comments too !!!
Oxymoron?
I want a soundtrack for my life. Like when something goes good.... I only have this site for when I mess up.
:-)
This one might be good for when you really mess up your life.... BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP______
What purpose do a glowing fish have? 1) No need to install lights in fish tanks/ponds 2) Makes nightime fishing easier 3) You can actually see your food during the candle lit dinner with your girlfriend.... :-)
Glowing Fish are First Genetically Engineered Pets
;-)
I bet cats will indirectly become the second
Well I waiting for DCMA - Open and shut case to appear as the title of a TheInquirer article!!!!
Very help overview - Thanks. Do you know if it supports the evil bit?
Yeah it would be amazing to have network traffic management, firewall functionality all in one handy box.... I can see a big multi billion $$$ market for this.... oh wait.....
If they don't send the e-mail, can you sue them from beyond the grave?
;-)
Probably not! I would imagine the judge might be more interested if more people were affected
If they failed to send the mail(s), would that make them grave robbers?
Look on the bright side at least he didn't use the word programme ! By the way, how many clusters can the Libraries of Congress store?
These are recycled PCs? They all look identical
:-)
Maybe the photos have been recycled too !!!
Yeah... but with wireless PDA's who needs radio !?!
The sad thing is that any one of those recycled PCs is probably more powerful than the one on my desk :o(
:)
Old... I tell you about old.... If your computer and your desk are the same object then your computer can be called old !!! Besides I guess you could argue that real computer power comes from what the computer is hooked up to and not the processor itself !