"I'm shocked at how dumb our users are, as a whole."
I'm shocked at how dumb your network administrators are, as a whole!
In my university, we have an authentication system to log on to the network. All traffic is scanned against port-scans by pseudo-hackers and viruses. Once your computer is cought spreading a virus or portscanning, you get logged off the network within 5 minutes, and your packets are only routed to the weblogin page (login denied + instructions to follow), page to download antivirus software and a web-based interface to your university e-mail.
Got a virus? -> clean it up, before they let you in again.
And yes, you may reactivate once every day your account (when cleaned from viruses) so that the network administrators have nothing to deal with you.
uhh.. is this a windows or a unix-like box? the author speaks about a "root" account, but he mentiones a "tracert" tool, not traceroute..
also what's the importance of a traceroute? i don't care what routers stay on my way to the intruders. i care what are the results of the ripe whois and how to contact their isp, what country they are from etc.
I'm actually interested in reading the same e-mails on my dual-boot machine (windows + linux). It's very time consuming to have to switch to linux to find some important e-mail, because you have it in your linux e-mail client.
As mozilla is a cross platform application, it should be able to work with the same offline e-mails.. lets say stored in a fat32 partition, so we could write to it from linux as from windows.
This is a practice, that is a fact for years already in certain dutch speaking universities. Users have to make a https login in order to gain access to the intranet and internet from their home pc's. Once a worm or virus or any network distributed threat has been detected, the computer in question is revoked his access to the internet having routing rights only to a website containing some antivirus software and webmail. Also an e-mail with an explanation is sent to the e-mail address.
At this point this news is nothing new for me. I've been blocked several times to use the internet when I was submitting some virus variants to cert (from linux).. But it is not a commercial internet access I had.
If somebody is paying for the internet, does he have to get blocked each time his computer gets infected? One could have paid the 400 euro for a windows crap and not be willing to spend another 400 for an antivirus software, just keeps spreading viruses? Do we have to stop such people?
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"I'm shocked at how dumb our users are, as a whole."
I'm shocked at how dumb your network administrators are, as a whole!
In my university, we have an authentication system to log on to the network. All traffic is scanned against port-scans by pseudo-hackers and viruses. Once your computer is cought spreading a virus or portscanning, you get logged off the network within 5 minutes, and your packets are only routed to the weblogin page (login denied + instructions to follow), page to download antivirus software and a web-based interface to your university e-mail.
Got a virus? -> clean it up, before they let you in again.
And yes, you may reactivate once every day your account (when cleaned from viruses) so that the network administrators have nothing to deal with you.
One can get an exotic marsian girlfriend there.
What if i'm looking to it from firefox ?
Am I immune to this threat ?
Yeah. Now we know the title of the next James Bond movie.
How does it comes this post got to the front page??
Weight:
about 1188 g (without packaging)
baout 2200 g (with packaging)
Well.. it's a lot more than copy and paste, given the weight!
if the keyboard is as big as the picture, i'm not buying it!
j/k, no bigger photo than this ??
and yes, one of the 2 links in the story DO has a picture.
Lets just follow "Die Wired Nachrichten" and make a "Die Google Suchemaschine"
uhh.. is this a windows or a unix-like box?
the author speaks about a "root" account, but he mentiones a "tracert" tool, not traceroute..
also what's the importance of a traceroute? i don't care what routers stay on my way to the intruders. i care what are the results of the ripe whois and how to contact their isp, what country they are from etc.
No, I'm not just joking.. I'm just Fuecking joking.
.. we all download MP3's.
I'm actually interested in reading the same e-mails on my dual-boot machine (windows + linux). It's very time consuming to have to switch to linux to find some important e-mail, because you have it in your linux e-mail client.
As mozilla is a cross platform application, it should be able to work with the same offline e-mails.. lets say stored in a fat32 partition, so we could write to it from linux as from windows.
Any suggestions how to do this?
nah.. get a girlfriend!
When gmail will be wide-spread.. imagine a virus, digging all your 1GB e-mails to get addresses..
This could be a real disaster..
yes
I am particularily excited about Scheme.. a language that do not support loops like while and for loops in C.
But wait! Scheme understands a tail-recursion!! An infinite self-calling function that will reuse it's memory and never run out of it!
Great! Writing meta-circular evaluators with Scheme used to be a didactic masterpiece of annoyance. Now we get it in production for real work!
What's next? Perl compiler in Prolog?
Actually no.
There is a microsoft wireless keyboard and mouse instead of the windows..
how is this post funny ?
verisign are willing to redirect all unresolved requests to a website.. no, it's not funny..
it's still a lame "doubleclick" distro!
oh yes, we all love google and their search for litigious bastards
mcdonalds and many others WILL use linux, not their software.
E: Couldn't find package champagne
correct me if i'm wrong but a code dump is make from the memory.. you got 2 processors, not 2 memories..
You didn't get it!
You have to block the user's access!
Every computer is provided with an account to connect.. and yes, there is a thing called MAC address.
This is a practice, that is a fact for years already in certain dutch speaking universities.
Users have to make a https login in order to gain access to the intranet and internet from their home pc's. Once a worm or virus or any network distributed threat has been detected, the computer in question is revoked his access to the internet having routing rights only to a website containing some antivirus software and webmail. Also an e-mail with an explanation is sent to the e-mail address.
At this point this news is nothing new for me. I've been blocked several times to use the internet when I was submitting some virus variants to cert (from linux).. But it is not a commercial internet access I had.
If somebody is paying for the internet, does he have to get blocked each time his computer gets infected? One could have paid the 400 euro for a windows crap and not be willing to spend another 400 for an antivirus software, just keeps spreading viruses? Do we have to stop such people?