The solution for that is to modify DNS to include the protocol and port. Instead of assuming port 80 for http and looking up the IP address via DNS, the query becomes, "what's the IP address and port for google.com http?"
I was at the Kennedy Space Center a couple of days ago. As part of the 'preparation' during the Shuttle Launch Experience there are lines and lines of IF a THEN b ELSE IF c AND d THEN e code scrolling up the screen for about 2 minutes. Each line was unique (as far as I could tell) which suggests it is actual NASA code rather than something just created for the ride. No loops, functions or anything else any programmer would normally use today, but it would be extremely easy to debug.
It's not the people running the financial firms that are getting the millions, it's the traders pushing the buttons. I can't imagine the traders are any harder to find than the programmers.
Presumably they need to capture at least the page that the user is visiting, as checking for malware on just the root of a site is a waste of time. As most sites these days are dynamic they'll also have to capture the parameters in a GET (and possibly POST), so there is every chance they *will* be capturing personally identifiable data.
Well, three actually. The first two times I told them to p*ss off but the third time I decided to play along so I could warn family and friends. The site they were trying to get me to sign up to was RichTek Support (www.richteksupport.com)
After giving me the spiel about my computer sending out error reports to them, the first thing they did was talk me through opening up the Event Viewer. Any entries in there were, according to them, caused by a virus.
Next they talked me through opening the DOS prompt. Apparently cmd stands for Computer Management Device. I then had to type assoc, and everything listed there were file types that were affected by a virus. At this point I told them I was short on time and really wanted to get this solved, which was when I finally got the URL of the service they were trying to sell.
Happened to me in 2003, before Flickr was even around. I received an email from a company who wanted to use an image I had posted on a website (this one) in a French-Canadian geography textbook. It's not even a particularly good photo and was only taken with a 4MP Canon S45. I was just happy to be asked; think I ended up with a name-check and a copy of the book for supplying them with the full resolution version.
Any VPN that terminates outside Australia would do exactly what you're describing; all traffic would appear to the ISP as encrypted and going to a single IP address, so they wouldn't be able to log browsing history. Yes you move the problem upstream, as the VPN provider has to comply with their local laws, but it gets around the immediate problem. There are a number of consumer-level VPN providers in the $5-$10 (US) range.
2,3 & 4 are all good reasons to dismiss his findings, but I'm not so sure about 1. Just because parts of a study are conducted unethically doesn't necessarily mean the conclusion can be dismissed.
I'd be willing to bet that some of this has been caused by, "just change it so that if the year is 10 then assume it's 20??, we'll fix it properly before then".
Well done, you referenced one article from 1994 (which mentions that they were jailed for non-payment of a fine, btw), and another about the Irish Republic.
And if you watch TV without subscribing, you will be hauled before a magistrate, fined, and maybe imprisoned. People are imprisoned all the time for doing this.
Sorry, but that's bollocks. The maximum penalty is a fine of £1000 + costs. You may go to prison for not paying the fine, but that's the same for any offence. No one has been sent to prison for not paying their TV licence.
VPN. It won't make you completely anonymous as your VPN provider will have your billing details (although some claim to decouple these from traffic logs), but all your ISP will see is an encrypted VPN tunnel.
It's not a bank in Europe, it's a Luxembourg-registered 'credit institution'. Big difference:
Since the service is limited to E-money, which does not qualify as a deposit or an investment service in the sense of the Law, customers of PayPal are not protected by the Luxembourg deposit guarantee schemes provided by the Association pour la Garantie des Dépôts Luxembourg (AGDL).
You do know you've completely missed the point, right? He is saying that in online poker you, the customer, can analyse past hands to look for statistical anomalies. Good luck getting access to the bricks & mortar casino's surveillance tapes.
VPN to a server outside the UK, either to one of the existing services (SwissVPN, Relakks) or just rent a VPS and set it up as a VPN server. All internet traffic goes via the VPN, and all the ISP sees is encrypted traffic over the VPN, and not the end points.
The company I worked for had software installed on a server kept in a customer's basement. During the installation there were a few problems that needed some changes; the telephone line hadn't yet been installed for remote access, so down I went. Half an hour later one of their employees came down and told me I needed to go back upstairs. I tried to tell him that I was fine and hadn't quite finished but he managed to change my mind - the building was in an area with a high concentration of radon gas and no one was allowed to stay down there for more than 30 minutes without protective clothing. Had I been told this before I started I might have thought twice.
If the site goes down do you lose truck loads of money or does anyone die? Load balancing and HA sounds a little overboard for a site with a thousand visitors a day. A hundred thousand and you can probably justify the expense. I would probably just be looking at a hosted dedicated server somewhere for now.
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The solution for that is to modify DNS to include the protocol and port. Instead of assuming port 80 for http and looking up the IP address via DNS, the query becomes, "what's the IP address and port for google.com http?"
I was at the Kennedy Space Center a couple of days ago. As part of the 'preparation' during the Shuttle Launch Experience there are lines and lines of IF a THEN b ELSE IF c AND d THEN e code scrolling up the screen for about 2 minutes. Each line was unique (as far as I could tell) which suggests it is actual NASA code rather than something just created for the ride. No loops, functions or anything else any programmer would normally use today, but it would be extremely easy to debug.
But that would activate it every time someone near you says, "click, my crow phone, I con." It would be a lawsuit waiting to happen.
It's not the people running the financial firms that are getting the millions, it's the traders pushing the buttons. I can't imagine the traders are any harder to find than the programmers.
Presumably they need to capture at least the page that the user is visiting, as checking for malware on just the root of a site is a waste of time. As most sites these days are dynamic they'll also have to capture the parameters in a GET (and possibly POST), so there is every chance they *will* be capturing personally identifiable data.
Well, three actually. The first two times I told them to p*ss off but the third time I decided to play along so I could warn family and friends. The site they were trying to get me to sign up to was RichTek Support (www.richteksupport.com)
After giving me the spiel about my computer sending out error reports to them, the first thing they did was talk me through opening up the Event Viewer. Any entries in there were, according to them, caused by a virus.
Next they talked me through opening the DOS prompt. Apparently cmd stands for Computer Management Device. I then had to type assoc, and everything listed there were file types that were affected by a virus. At this point I told them I was short on time and really wanted to get this solved, which was when I finally got the URL of the service they were trying to sell.
Happened to me in 2003, before Flickr was even around. I received an email from a company who wanted to use an image I had posted on a website (this one) in a French-Canadian geography textbook. It's not even a particularly good photo and was only taken with a 4MP Canon S45. I was just happy to be asked; think I ended up with a name-check and a copy of the book for supplying them with the full resolution version.
Any VPN that terminates outside Australia would do exactly what you're describing; all traffic would appear to the ISP as encrypted and going to a single IP address, so they wouldn't be able to log browsing history. Yes you move the problem upstream, as the VPN provider has to comply with their local laws, but it gets around the immediate problem. There are a number of consumer-level VPN providers in the $5-$10 (US) range.
How do they know which third-party web services you used to use, unless it's one of your old clients?
2,3 & 4 are all good reasons to dismiss his findings, but I'm not so sure about 1. Just because parts of a study are conducted unethically doesn't necessarily mean the conclusion can be dismissed.
the year is 10
Less than 10, damn /.'s filtering.
I'd be willing to bet that some of this has been caused by, "just change it so that if the year is 10 then assume it's 20??, we'll fix it properly before then".
Well done, you referenced one article from 1994 (which mentions that they were jailed for non-payment of a fine, btw), and another about the Irish Republic.
And if you watch TV without subscribing, you will be hauled before a magistrate, fined, and maybe imprisoned. People are imprisoned all the time for doing this.
Sorry, but that's bollocks. The maximum penalty is a fine of £1000 + costs. You may go to prison for not paying the fine, but that's the same for any offence. No one has been sent to prison for not paying their TV licence.
VPN. It won't make you completely anonymous as your VPN provider will have your billing details (although some claim to decouple these from traffic logs), but all your ISP will see is an encrypted VPN tunnel.
I think you're on to something there. I'm not sure what you'd call it though; maybe 'survival of the fittest' or something like that.
Since the service is limited to E-money, which does not qualify as a deposit or an investment service in the sense of the Law, customers of PayPal are not protected by the Luxembourg deposit guarantee schemes provided by the Association pour la Garantie des Dépôts Luxembourg (AGDL).
It might not be Ubuntu's fault, but it's Ubuntu's problem.
At least read the summary, if to TFA! How will that help against phishing and keyloggers?
There's more to the internet than just the www.
You do know you've completely missed the point, right? He is saying that in online poker you, the customer, can analyse past hands to look for statistical anomalies. Good luck getting access to the bricks & mortar casino's surveillance tapes.
VPN to a server outside the UK, either to one of the existing services (SwissVPN, Relakks) or just rent a VPS and set it up as a VPN server. All internet traffic goes via the VPN, and all the ISP sees is encrypted traffic over the VPN, and not the end points.
The company I worked for had software installed on a server kept in a customer's basement. During the installation there were a few problems that needed some changes; the telephone line hadn't yet been installed for remote access, so down I went. Half an hour later one of their employees came down and told me I needed to go back upstairs. I tried to tell him that I was fine and hadn't quite finished but he managed to change my mind - the building was in an area with a high concentration of radon gas and no one was allowed to stay down there for more than 30 minutes without protective clothing. Had I been told this before I started I might have thought twice.
Dad?
If the site goes down do you lose truck loads of money or does anyone die? Load balancing and HA sounds a little overboard for a site with a thousand visitors a day. A hundred thousand and you can probably justify the expense. I would probably just be looking at a hosted dedicated server somewhere for now.