He probably got it from another source. I've found pay sites like that before, but a quick search through my university system academic journal system pulled up the article in question in no time.
I visited and read the entire story as posted on the justice4matt.com site, and a couple of questions emerged in my mind. Please note that I'm not saying that this kid was guility, or even supporting the continuance of this case by Maricopa County.
He confirmed that, in fact, there were child pornography images, one of which had been uploaded to Yahoo by someone with the username "mrbob1980hoopdu." This was not the name Matt used, which was joebean1988hoopdu (hoopdu was the name of an online game Matt and his friends liked to play). But there was still, mysteriously, evidence that "mrbob1980hoopdu" had sent the image from The Bandy's IP address. Additionally, it seemed that the illegal activity had coincided, roughly, with the times Matt had been active on Yahoo as joebean1988hoopdu. And, one or more images were also found on a CD-ROM.
Obviously the investigators noticed the similarity between these two usernames. How is this explained; are we to assume that the 'hacker' retrieved Matt's own Yahoo screen name, and registered one extremely similar to throw off investigators? This just seems odd to me.
Secondly, while it's obviously possible for a hacker accessing your computer remotely to do anything they'd like to with your system, WHY would this particular pedophile hacker decide to burn several child porn images to a CD-R or CD-RW that just so happened to be in the drive? As the justice4matt.com site argues, this is perfectly possible - and yet doesn't make any sense in my mind.
In the quest for Internet service and TV in our barracks area in Iraq (a tent, mind you), we did silly, silly things.
- Cat 5e running out in all directions from my tent - some partially buried in gravel/sand, some over roads, etc. At 1000ft per box, I must have strung nearly a mile of cat5e over there. (FYI, cat5e will survive a run over a moderately trafficked gravel road for about a month and a half.)
- Three different Wi-Fi access points of different models / configurations. Having no external antennas for the "primary" access point, improved signal and range was accomplished by shimmying up to the top of a tent pole and mounting the access point to a platform hung from the pole. The whole mess was then covered up with a cardboard box with vent holes cut in the side to try and keep dust from clogging the unit.
- Tons of splitters and hundreds of feet of network cable to share the few TV antennas available. Starting at the cable in my friend's trailer, I once attempted to determine which antenna he was actually hooked up to. A complete loop and a half around the entire housing complex later, I still hadn't found the actual antenna.
Being in the Army, I see ridiculously labeled things all the time. 'Front Toward Enemy' on the claymore makes me laugh every time, though (although it is actually handy). I'll have to snap a few photos at the unit tomorrow.
This is simply, dumb. In addition to DDoS'ing SCO, the worm reportedly installs a backdoor, giving full access to the computer. We all know what this means... possible stolen identities, banking information, spam relays, new targeted DDoS attacks, etc.
No worm is a good worm, even if it does happen to also attack the (other) company we all love to hate.
SCO ought to start getting hit hard today as office workers and the like start checking their email today starting around 9 Eastern, and running the virus. It'll be interesting to see what SCO's reaction will be. Almost like the calm before the storm;-)
Gah I hate those dang Dell Latitudes. I have two, and the screens are loose and starting to fall apart on both. Not to mention, the other overall assembly parts as well (built with a lot of plastic).
AOL acquired Nullsoft? Yay. Now I can look forward to my music client being plastered with icon smilies and have it crash whenever I play a malformed MP3.
Its quite a shame to see Netscape being disassembled like this. I remember the glory days of NS, back before IE was even a player on the market.
Two big differences: Technology is much more fragile. Tear a page out of a book, and you haven't lost much. Put a gash in a DVD, and you've done a lot more damage. Secondly, you can open any book and view the contents, the main limitation being knowledge of the language. It takes specialized equipment to view the contents of say, a DVD, and then to be able to decipher it's content - and THEN deal with the language.
Remember though, that one of the defining characteristics of a civilization is a written language. What might happen, hundreds or thousands of years from now, when ALL 'writing' is digital? If our modern civilization ever disappears from the planet... perhaps due to natural disaster, illness, or blowing ourselves up... the history of mankind could be lost. Take into account the past... there are large periods of time (pre-history) when written language had not been developed yet. We know little to nothing of these early humans since they kept no written records.
Large, as in population. AU is mostly empty areas. US population: 290,342,554, AU population: 19,731,984.
What does the discussion about 'k' have anything to do with this, btw?:-P
This might fly in Australia, but probably not in the US or other large nations. The radio spectrum is a limited resource and as such, a highly competitive one. Amateur radio operators (myself included) are constantly trying to defend our allocated bands here in the US against commercial entities who would like to have it for their own usage.
I don't see a system that uses this much bandwidth being practical for US usage.
I'll be interested to see what comes of this. If the FCC does successfully implement regulation (read: taxation) on VoIP services, it seems like this could be the first step of further future regulation of Internet services.
With global networking technology, I think we'll be seeing a big change in telecommunication service in the coming years.
Malaysia is such a cesspool of fraud and deceit, I'm hardly surprised. Leave it to them to try to sell leaked, incomplete preview software. Back when I was in the web hosting business, I dropped routes to the country entirely (as best as I could) so they couldn't even see my webserver, much less find my credit card ordering page:-P
Unless I am misinformed, this has no impact on Google's search engine - only sponsored links (the AdWords service). Although it is pretty shady to mix in sponsored results with real results like other search engines do, Google places their sponsored links to the right of search results, clealy labeled - and it is entirely their prerogative who they will accept ads from.
Unfortunately, it's not quite as simple as keeping them in jail. With prison overcrowding such the problem that it is, many, many individuals must be released on parole (due to mandatory parole dates, regardless of behavior) or some type of alternative sentence. Most people don't know it, but as you read this, convicted criminals of every degree - even murderers - walk the streets on probation, parole, etc.
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He probably got it from another source. I've found pay sites like that before, but a quick search through my university system academic journal system pulled up the article in question in no time.
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I visited and read the entire story as posted on the justice4matt.com site, and a couple of questions emerged in my mind. Please note that I'm not saying that this kid was guility, or even supporting the continuance of this case by Maricopa County.
He confirmed that, in fact, there were child pornography images, one of which had been uploaded to Yahoo by someone with the username "mrbob1980hoopdu." This was not the name Matt used, which was joebean1988hoopdu (hoopdu was the name of an online game Matt and his friends liked to play). But there was still, mysteriously, evidence that "mrbob1980hoopdu" had sent the image from The Bandy's IP address. Additionally, it seemed that the illegal activity had coincided, roughly, with the times Matt had been active on Yahoo as joebean1988hoopdu. And, one or more images were also found on a CD-ROM.Obviously the investigators noticed the similarity between these two usernames. How is this explained; are we to assume that the 'hacker' retrieved Matt's own Yahoo screen name, and registered one extremely similar to throw off investigators? This just seems odd to me.
Secondly, while it's obviously possible for a hacker accessing your computer remotely to do anything they'd like to with your system, WHY would this particular pedophile hacker decide to burn several child porn images to a CD-R or CD-RW that just so happened to be in the drive? As the justice4matt.com site argues, this is perfectly possible - and yet doesn't make any sense in my mind.
In the quest for Internet service and TV in our barracks area in Iraq (a tent, mind you), we did silly, silly things.
- Cat 5e running out in all directions from my tent - some partially buried in gravel/sand, some over roads, etc. At 1000ft per box, I must have strung nearly a mile of cat5e over there. (FYI, cat5e will survive a run over a moderately trafficked gravel road for about a month and a half.)
- Three different Wi-Fi access points of different models / configurations. Having no external antennas for the "primary" access point, improved signal and range was accomplished by shimmying up to the top of a tent pole and mounting the access point to a platform hung from the pole. The whole mess was then covered up with a cardboard box with vent holes cut in the side to try and keep dust from clogging the unit.
- Tons of splitters and hundreds of feet of network cable to share the few TV antennas available. Starting at the cable in my friend's trailer, I once attempted to determine which antenna he was actually hooked up to. A complete loop and a half around the entire housing complex later, I still hadn't found the actual antenna.
It's still available on MirrorDot http://www.mirrordot.com/stories/98b92267951eee741 f97b5b169fd1236/index.html and does indeed contain the location...
SLUG: mag/hacker DATE: 12/19/2005 PHOTOGRAPHER: Sarah L. Voisin/TWP id#: LOCATION: Roland, OK
CAPTION:
PICTURED:
The United States. Uhh, moved away from projectile weapons?? What are they using, laser beams? :-P
Being in the Army, I see ridiculously labeled things all the time. 'Front Toward Enemy' on the claymore makes me laugh every time, though (although it is actually handy). I'll have to snap a few photos at the unit tomorrow.
LOL. I'd suspect that it would be easier to embed some type of tracking device in a coin anyway, assuming that you believe the government does that.
No worm is a good worm, even if it does happen to also attack the (other) company we all love to hate.
SCO ought to start getting hit hard today as office workers and the like start checking their email today starting around 9 Eastern, and running the virus. It'll be interesting to see what SCO's reaction will be. Almost like the calm before the storm ;-)
Gah I hate those dang Dell Latitudes. I have two, and the screens are loose and starting to fall apart on both. Not to mention, the other overall assembly parts as well (built with a lot of plastic).
LOL! Thats... dirty :-P
Its quite a shame to see Netscape being disassembled like this. I remember the glory days of NS, back before IE was even a player on the market.
Two big differences: Technology is much more fragile. Tear a page out of a book, and you haven't lost much. Put a gash in a DVD, and you've done a lot more damage. Secondly, you can open any book and view the contents, the main limitation being knowledge of the language. It takes specialized equipment to view the contents of say, a DVD, and then to be able to decipher it's content - and THEN deal with the language.
Remember though, that one of the defining characteristics of a civilization is a written language. What might happen, hundreds or thousands of years from now, when ALL 'writing' is digital? If our modern civilization ever disappears from the planet... perhaps due to natural disaster, illness, or blowing ourselves up... the history of mankind could be lost. Take into account the past... there are large periods of time (pre-history) when written language had not been developed yet. We know little to nothing of these early humans since they kept no written records.
Just something to think about...
Large, as in population. AU is mostly empty areas. US population: 290,342,554, AU population: 19,731,984. What does the discussion about 'k' have anything to do with this, btw? :-P
Also, MUCH less bandwidth. 1200 baud is still quite common, and 9600 baud is newer technology. Regonal backbones are frequently 56k.
This might fly in Australia, but probably not in the US or other large nations. The radio spectrum is a limited resource and as such, a highly competitive one. Amateur radio operators (myself included) are constantly trying to defend our allocated bands here in the US against commercial entities who would like to have it for their own usage. I don't see a system that uses this much bandwidth being practical for US usage.
With global networking technology, I think we'll be seeing a big change in telecommunication service in the coming years.
Malaysia is such a cesspool of fraud and deceit, I'm hardly surprised. Leave it to them to try to sell leaked, incomplete preview software. Back when I was in the web hosting business, I dropped routes to the country entirely (as best as I could) so they couldn't even see my webserver, much less find my credit card ordering page :-P
Unless I am misinformed, this has no impact on Google's search engine - only sponsored links (the AdWords service). Although it is pretty shady to mix in sponsored results with real results like other search engines do, Google places their sponsored links to the right of search results, clealy labeled - and it is entirely their prerogative who they will accept ads from.
Unfortunately, it's not quite as simple as keeping them in jail. With prison overcrowding such the problem that it is, many, many individuals must be released on parole (due to mandatory parole dates, regardless of behavior) or some type of alternative sentence. Most people don't know it, but as you read this, convicted criminals of every degree - even murderers - walk the streets on probation, parole, etc.
Right. I work in a SCIF that processes Top Secret material, we cannot take electronics of any sort into the building.