Now the reason for the hypersecurity is clear---to mask whatever data are going *OUT* from skype and whatever it is installing. For some reason I have the suspicion that uninstalling won't completely uninstall quite everything.
There is probably some kind of Manchurian Daemon ability too---if They find somebody they really want to track. Why? Because it makes sense that they'd want to do so.
Yes but: 've hav vays tooo..' to respond to this.
How do you counter-act things??.. Well, usually with the opposite of the thing you want to counteract.
Your theory is probably more than that.. and even if not, the Government and other assorted bad guys (ie. Ceo's) have triumphed-- at least partially without even trying. This is so because people are sooo afraid to even *think* what they want to.. these daze.. let alone 'speak what's on their minds'..:(
However you also sound like either a defeatist (which I doubt, because you sound *tooo smart* for that)... or you are Fud Fed.
I'm suprised you didn't push *SELinux*.. another NSA creation..
Well to counter act the complexity..laws.. and subversive coding of 'closed source' programs, we have:
- Opened Source, liberal (as is the Arts & Sciences-- not political necessarily) thinking designers of programs and a price tag that can't be beat (free).
- We are continuing to tweak, simplify and market OSS programs, to over come these massive assaults on our basic Freedoms.
- Finally, but not necessarily the last item, would be for us to realize, that it takes *simplicity*.. and more determination than *the bad guys*.. in this matter of security, in order to win.
They may *seem* to have more money, time and resources..
And this is the ultimate weapon they use in their program of Fud, againsta us.
However we not only have more money than them (I mean, it costs us mostly our time to weed out their crimes.. so in essence our financial *resources* are unlimited..).
But we also have more people (we not only have more programmers bitting at the bit.. than the hired thugs they amass), but we have more people (on our side, I believe, whether they admit it or not...after all, it is to their betterment)..
And I *believe*, we have the most important thing.. which is determination.. based on the fact that we *know* we are right:)
--I will gladly loose all of life's battles... for the chance to win the war..
If I am not mistaken a Linux system can be made hardened enough to where even ROOT has its permissions reigned in. Now whether this feature encompasses permission changes to 'other' users.. I have not researched that yet.
Bottom line.. & like I always preach.. we NEED to move away from this mediocre system of security where we basically wait for someone to hack our sys.
This causes an inordinate, insufficient and inoperable means to protect ourselves.
Instead I have been researching and playing with the idea of actually OPENING up my systems more & more.. so that those that are interested in taking a peak will be noticed quicker, identified quicker, and stopped quicker.
Then they can either be identified for possibly prosecution, or at least shifted aways to another area of the system which is not as sensitive.
This coupled with assorted honey pots and 'false' servers, burying still more 'false' 'sensitive data' of mine, will create logs that are more likely to produce info on what/whom/where and when, someone is attempting to view or alter my system.
In brief.. opening up our systems more to the 'bad guys' will shift worry about 'locking down' our systems (a complete impossibility), and invite both good and bad guys to show more about themselves.. which will in itself reveal more about the 'bad ones'-- causing a natural 'fear' for them, than what the current systems of security now offer.
..the servers there are rented buy non-technical people, who for some reason feel qualified to run web hosting businesses...
Well they ARE more qualified than you obviously at what they do.. after all, they ARE running a web hosting business... AHHNND you are here complaining about your customers who feed you, instead of being at work, helping them.
Wave lengths under 20Mhz get extremely large (long), especially around the AM band where they approach nearly a mile long.
Amateur/Ham radio operators are dabling with this.. but they are mostly in with 'The Man' on laws and the current economic nightmare we are witnessing.
One of my pet projects is figuring out how to use the trillions of possible digital possibilities.. packed into each one of those analog wonders (ie. long wavelengths at bottom of radio spectrum), so that it would be practical to use as a backbone.
Ahhhnnd there HAS to be a better use of the 50 & 60 Hz frequencies also, other than annoying us.
We NEVER hear about the possibility of using the current *IN* the power grid.. instead of riding the magnetic field that BPL uses.
I could of swore I read somewhere it's origins were with the Gecko
engine and Mozilla (NetScape) browser projects.. but I cannot
quickly find that info right now:(
I know now they use a different engine however.
They even had a real-human return an email once with significant info on my questions to them about their *great* free mail service at: http://operamail.com/ actually:)
However I *always* keep several browsers handy just in case one does not render what I need done at that moment.
But I would not get my hopes up tooo much... after all, *The System* tends to look after its own.. unless they are throwing us a bone.. which I highly doubt they will use Bush as an example:(
The 'Investigation' needs to examine whether Microsoft was in ANYWAY responsible for this.
And even tho it seems that Canonical is partly to blame.. the investigation needs to see if Microsoft STILL played a part in the workers involved at Canonical.
Either way this will be a good wake up call for the community.. that although we enjoy the luxury of not having to be as paranoid as others when it comes to our systems.. we still need to take basic steps to keep peeps and punks from entering our servers unwanted.
--- The militancy in OSS-- *IS* its main strength..
1) To make sure you never do have anything to hide
2) To find out if anyone who does have something to hide talks to you
about it.
On your #1.. that's impossible. You (undoubtedly a Fed) are sooo scared of us, that you didn't even write down what you 'meant'.. which is, to 'scare you' into never doing anything wrong. Which is absolutely ludicrous since 'doing something wrong' is totally subjective.
On your point #2, that scenario assumes that the party that is talking to you, has something to hide, based on the government's assumption that it is something 'illegal' or in some other way nefarious.
Again the most subjective thing on earth, is *what is considered wrong, or illegal*.
This is exactly why 'oversight' is an absolute in any system.
The government, or to be more accurately put, the *few* wusses who are trying to (in vein), 'keep us all in line'.. in order to conform to their demented idea of what the world should be like.. are showing signs of great stress (as your post proves), from seeing the rest of, nearly 7 billion strong, ready to come and unseat their assumed, false, and weak, 'authority'.
--- The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.Thomas Jefferson
But be VERY careful because if you tell Unison to copy any config files or other System files.. you may wind up having the LapTops crash!!
Unision is a *WONDROUS* program.. but it can be dangerous... its main goal is to synchronize your nodes... NOT back them up.
Also there ARE some quirks with it (not many.. it is VERY reliable and stable).. which are documented (in the Linux version anyways).
Someone else suggested SBackup (a Linux ONLY) solution.. but that may still be worth setting up with a LiveCD since Sbackup is: Automated (including Logarithmic maintenance of older backups), network aware, Graphical and most of all it is *Stable*:)
--- Trying my best to punch a hole through the bottom of/.'s Karma rating system... now I can FINALLY speak my mind..
Well put since Linus used Minux and not Unix as a starting reference.
Since I am a green horn at writing drivers, I would not start with Networking... since they seemed pretty covered-- for now.
However if they were USB or other dongle related, then this is where the need seems to be more now (with Linux).
Also, the article/thread seems to head in the very same direction that many other 'beginer' or 'how to's' are... which is.. either the writer asumes an awfule lot on what the reader knows already.. or it cover things the average programmer already knew since he fell out of his crib.
And here http://www.us.design-reuse.com/news/news8597.html is interesting tech that helps simplify the device driving process from the start, by helping programmers develop the hardware, automatically after putting in merely the algorithms.
Although this process is not directly related, the point is we have to get away from re-inventing the wheel, by using more automatic code-writing, and into the realm of letting the computer do what it does best (repetition & long calcs).. and let developers do what they do and love best... *designing*.
It's amazing that this thread, which could have been the driest all week, turned out to be the one more interesting & funniest =:]
---NO!! I am NOT trying to be a 'good boy'.. It's just that sometimes I can't help myself:)
King enraged Niggros with his talks.. who then DID commit violence, especially after his timely death.
King also enraged Whites, by boasting about the day when little Niggro boys would be holding hands with little White girls..
Even joking about giving M$ any added respect is wrong because of the seriousness of their crimes.. especially their infiltrating the Linux code, and community at large, in order to dominate or destroy it.
The good news is we outnumber M$, the United States Government who attempts to protect them, and the handful of their zombie supporters.
I just recently (temporarily) put aside trying to figure out what/why *something* was accessing my disk.. man is that annoying!!
I suspected is was my *bad* decision to move up to ext3.. knowing full well it would journel my sys..which I didn't really need.. being the good backup freak that I am.
I should have left ext2 on.. since it is (or seems) to be MUCH faster at copying larger files.
I was unhappy with the way the fs would 'check' my system every time there was some abnormal way that I shut down the sys... but what I should have done was look into preventing that, instead of changing over to a fs that I KNEW would be slower and more aggravating in other areas.
File Systems are an interesting study for me as well.. because I cannot for the life of me figure out why there are sooo many, but NONE that seem to hit-the-mark with an *overall* system that does away with alot of the old tech from yester-year.
Sun seems to be making a good atempt with ZFS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS but it still falls short on what *seems* to be capable with this area of technology.
I will posting my work soon in this fascinating area..
The article and subsequent remarks by Linus and Allen address this awsome *fix* (yes it stopped that annoying phantom disk access issue).. AHHHND it does MARKETABILITY improve over-all speed of the system, specifically with loading programs. And this is just what I noticed on the first boot after modding fstab-- with no other bench-marks!!
---/.'s moderating system is NOT broken.. it is 'Fixed'.
Are we talking about some secret club somewhere.. or silent partners who are anxiously waiting for Linux to 'Make It'??
Surely we are not talking about groups like the/. crowd.. who don't need any help in being divided, on such grave issues of the day..
There is NO such thing as a 'Linux Community'.. but there is a large segment of the computing populace that values OSS for obvious reasons.
This Thread dances around.. but clearly misses what the REAL problem facing ALL users are today.. and that is, that MicroSoft, the United States Government, and other assorted criminals, have infiltrated the OSS code, and oversite of that code, in an awful way.
High Tec, and VERY popular sites like Digg.com, are taking money from MicroSoft (for ads).. and are not ashamed to say so.
This example, along with the nonchalant way that MicroSoft is treated both here on/. and the media in general.. when it should be treated with ALL the contempt, ill will, up to and including *violence* against it's leaders, and shops where the crimes are commited.. clearly shows just how much the tide needs to turn, in order for OSS to not become 'out lawed'.
Therefore this battle, which is CLEARLY tied to the 'culture' war-- which is growing more heated by the moment.. will ONLY be won by the people who are not only more disciplined in this type of warfare.. but are more determined to 'act out'.. beyond words...
--./ management has become NOTHING but a tool for The Man.
I have used and liked Cha Cha for several months now.
They seem to find items that Ask.com either doesn't have, or doesn't have within the first few pages.
I try not to use Google anymore, because although it is fine (like most engines) for finding a lowely needle in a hay stack.. it has the absurdly knack for not being able to find a hay stack.
In other words, Google and the rest are only good at finding data, when there is little data on the subject.. but when it comes to simple, plain, everyday questions, it is always a heartache to get to the info.. if at all.
Cha Cha seems to be at least working on solving this problem.
Although apparently backed by Bozo (Amazon still hasn't really made a significant profit.. if you consider the slave conditions that exists at the company).. I find myself using Cha Cha and other alternatives more and more.. but ANYTHING but Google, since it has obviously become the dreaded evil tool that it preaches against...:(
-- No regular sig today.. since/. weighs them more than the content of posters comments and their contributions, to this once great site..
-Cd's (worms).. yea, it'll be a while before someone thinks about how to alter and copy a cd.
- Sys-log-boom.. sounds like a buncha cheerleaders at a nerfball champion chip:]
- Here's the funniest one yet.. 'just print them out..'.... ohhhh kay.. and then what...scan them in again for manipulation.. and reprint them...by... whoever has access to them?
Bottom line is.. and everyone knows this.. (or should).. that MANAGEMENT is ALWAYS in the best position to commit some kind of fraud at a company.. and they are probably more responsible for more crimes of theft, etc. than laymen.
If someone is THAT anxious to have logs NOT tampered with.. then I'd immediately be very suspicious of WHY. In most cases, I'm sure it is not to simply not have their mistresses fon # injected into the data, but more likely to 'seal' in concrete some nefarious actions, greed or just plain unwarranted obsessions with 'security'.
Halvy's security plan for the paranoid has 3 simple steps:
1) Don't have anything of such great value, in one area, so that one criminal could get at it all (at once).
2) Don't say or do anything that would make you ashamed.
3) Take all that money, time and worry that you put into your false 'security' plans.. and put them into honeypots, tracking & detection systems, and plans for future prosecution of anyone found tapering with your systems.
In other words, lets move away from 'prevention' somewhat..and more into detecting and gathering information that would track whoever is monitoring or attempting to alter our systems.
4) Remember that anyone who wants to get into your stuff.. can. It takes little effort for someone to flip 1's & 0's.. once they have left your system. Which is why the system of identification, needs to get beyond this insanity we have today.. where we rely on several common aspects of our lives (IE. SS#, mothers maiden name, trivial gadgets like bar codes, etc.) to identify ourselves. This makes it easy for someone to get into our stuff.. but harder for us to protect it.. or do anything about it, once it is compromised.
Therefore a system which takes into account MUCH more about ourselves would make it easier for us to 'prove' who we are.. and MUCH harder for others to know this info, when attempting to access our data.
The current system of security MUST switch the overall burden of responsibility from US, to the person (or system) that is trying to identify us. We SHOULD NOT HAVE TO constantly worry, conjure up 'passwords' and otherwise feel or be responsible, when someone else (legitimately) needs to identify us.
An example would be, lets say if someone wanted to impersonate me here on/.
Ok.. chances are VERY high that they would to this, in order to make me look bad (lol)..
Well, since I'v been around here since dirt was formed, my 'finger print' is all over/.'s archives..soooo anyone acting any different than I am known to.. would easily be identified as NOT me.
This overal philosophy can be ported over to problems like this topic presents.
-- I'm VERY proud to be considered one of the 'lowest' rated/. members of all time.. but no worries.. I will continue to try my best to drive to even 'new lows'.. in/. management's eyes =:]
..That's part of the reason why your attempt at trolling will never really hit it big on Slashdot...
LordToran, Possers, I mean Posters like him will never be crowned 'Troll' because he plays the game here.
I don't know about you, but when I read comments.. especially as important as this topic.. I want ALLLLL the comments, easily available... ESPECIALLY those that are deamed controversial. NOT buried with a -1 moderation BEFORE we even hit the submit button.. and where almost NOONE knows that they must first change their settings to reflect those posts with ratings under 0, and the 'Threshhold' to *Nested*.. for our comments to be available.
Until/. has a blood bath concerning it's corporate management, things will progressively get worse here.. which is much more serious than just you and I having to put up with being censored by some apparent M$ bitches like CowBoy Neal.
I'll be sticking around for this change of ownership, and as anyone can see, I'll continue to post.. my heart felt beliefs here and knowledge, which angers/.'s Jewish Mafia run office.. more than anything.
Most unfortunate for all of us is../.'s managements attempt at trying to get folks like you and I to conform.. whatever that might mean.. is helping M$'s hand at burying Linux, and OSS in general, forever... and...
It is helping tremendously, in bringing the dark, steal hand of the corporate monster, closer to our own homes door:(
..Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if my comments here on Slashdot are eventually used against me in some way. A lot of us have posted stuff on this site that might be considered "subversive" in some context..
I have been censored by/. for well over a year now because of continual refusal to 'please them'.
This is why I am convinced this once great site.. has been taken over by some combination of: gays, feminists, Jewish radicals, or ignorant red necks (ie. cowboy nelly).
As far as this story is concerned, I am not suprised to see someone else write about the fact that if I have nothing to hide.. then you have NO REASON to monitor me.
Further more, even if I DID have something to hide, all the more reason it is NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS since 'The Law' is the most subjective thing that man (actually the Jews again) have created.
I know alot of so-called Christians will wine about what I am going to say next.. but that will just prove them the anti-Christs that they REALLY are.
As a follower of Christ (or at least I try..) I am NOT bound by mens laws.. nor any laws.
The only rules I follow, are those that I would anyway.. without some dirt bag peeking into my life.
Common sense.. and for the sake of sanity.. it goes to reason that common sense if the ONLY rule-of-law that is necessary to be happy and survive in this life.
Every other 'rule' or 'law' is there to put us into slavery of another man or government.
--- When will someone bring justice (ie. torture & kill) bush, to prevent our government from committing genoside on those poor Iraqi people??
Lol, or you could have put it this way: 'the Jews' weren't ashamed of their greed and crimes against the Germans... sooo because of this blatent arrogance, they got more than they 'bargained' for...in the end.
This same brutal arrogance by the powers that be today (not suprisingly by yet still another 'Jewish Mafia').. will be their collapes-- once again.
Only this time, lessons ARE BEING LEARNED from the mistakes by the *LAST* leader of White people, ~~Adolf Hitler~~
-- Sometimes just a 'look' by you, will prevent the evil of another...
You can't dumb it down just because it would be nice to do so.
Well with an attitude like that..
The whole point of this story seems to be that there is a puposefully designed society which includes using unnecessary math to keep technology in the dark ages (and from the masses).
There is a reason that the masses... indeed all individuals, are beholden to 'The Man' for such basic life giving items as: fresh running water, shelter, food, and pipped in-- everything else (ie. electric, sewers, InterNet, etc.).
The whole engineering disciplines have been designed 'to-be-hard'. But the question needs to be asked as whether they 'have-to-be' hard, in order to understand and use them.
What The Man fears most is individuals, outside of 'The System' (this acidemic 'bubble'), working together or alone, to overcome this system which has been passed on for thousands of years.
And the proof is in the statments that they make, like yours, which use fear and lack of data, to bolster this horrid system of sciences.
Some examples is the system of binary to control the computer at the most basic level. This design, we are told, is the most efficiant! (lol).
Efficiant for the machine yes.. but not for the programmer, or individual who might want to design and create..
With the processing power and low prices of today, there seems to be no reason that computers can't be designed to be programmed and controlled using normal, everyday, 'human speak'.
Another example of this system we are saddled with is the fact that technology is making things smaller and smaller, which blocks out even more individuals from being able to have the equipment or knowledge to enhance these products.
The fact of the matter is, inspite of the hoopla about how much technology has advanced the last 50 years.. it really hasn't.
Most of todays tech has been around for ages.. it has just become faster, cheaper.. and sadly protected more and more by the government and corporations from letting others improve upon it, for everyone.
--/. managment has gays and members of the 'Jewish Mafia' ruining this once great site..
It is NOT a fallacy. Bowling balls DO fall faster than pillows, and EVERYONE knows it;)
And for all intents and purposes, this is good enough for nearly everyone.
After all, noone except scientists need to know or calculate the fact that individual particals (or even items of similar size (mass) and weight (like two identical bowling balls) will fall equally.
- 99% of people are dirt poooor or in debt (if they are lucky)...sooo no one will want to steal your bank account.
- 99% of peeps on the net could not even hack into their own pc if they got locked out.. let alone yours.
Both the current system of passwords on the net (and on our own pc's) is much more detrimental to our well being, than any 'bad guys' could dream of.
In order to 'free' ourselves from this utterly rediculous system of (false) security, we need a major change.
1) Shift the emphasis from 'securing'.. to 'tracking' and aprehending those that would compremise our personal business on the net. This would take the enormous money and effort we now spend on 'defending' the undefensable, and put it on monitoring, tracing, and recovering from the very SLIGHT chance that someone will break into our systems.
And the fact is, if someone wants to break in (like the Government or other assorted 'bad guys), then they will, REGARDLESS of the walls we put up (like we veinly attempt to today).
2) Shift the burden to the few web sites that we use, to handle 'picking out' passwords or other identifying features of our person. In other words, in stead of us trying to come up with new 'good' passwords, and then trying to decide how to remember them or record them.. the web sites themself would handle both the issuing of the password (or phrase) and the bulk of the 'verification ' process.
Possible civil or criminal suits would help keep web sites (admins) in line.. which should be no problem since they want our business.
And if they don't like it.. well, you know what they say...
Common sense says this burden *should* fall on those who garner our time and efforts.. in stead of letting the masses continue to stumble on such a horrid system of identification.
3) Do away with permanent 'User Names'. Your pw, along with questions as to your past actions on their site.. should be MORE than enough to verify who you are to the sites admin. After that point a random simple temporary number (JUST for each time your are logged into the site) or if you choose, an alias (temporary also) could be had.
This could be done easily and simply enough with a system simular to ladp, but not as complicated for the end user.
An example: You register with digg.com for the first time.. with only your internet ip addy. The admins issue you a simple id or password (or pass phrase) like: digg is better than/.
There could be an option for you to use your own pw (or permanent user name).. but that would shift the burden to you both having to think about a password and remembering it.. where if the work was left to the sites admins.. if would be totaly up to them to both issue something easy for you to remember and for them to worry about identifying you, instead of you having to rack your brains trying to 'prove' who you are.
Removing the permanent 'user name' removes a clue to potential bad guys of who you are.
The sites admin can then have a system which will protect your passwords by rotating them EVERYTIME you enter the site (or even after you leave it. This would help eliminate (nearly totaly) anyone finding your piece of paper with your passwords list on it.. which if you are like me, you are even afraid to write important passwords down.. for fear of it falling into the wrong hands.
A system like this could still have a second layer or backup system where you would provide an answer to a 'secret' question that is asked when you first register (like your original or last ip addy).. or some other simple code word that you would use as a master, should the sites admin (system) require it... but frankly I believe the less we have to 'remember', write down, or prove.. and the more we shift these aspects to the sites, the better the system of security will be and the easier it will be for us to not have to be constantly chassing ghosts that are NOT there.
..SMB and storage architecture such as NTFS. Microsoft holds a patent on these, and doesn't want anyone integrating without paying a ridiculous license fee... At the end of the day, these are valid patents.
They ARE not valid patents.
There, anyone can 'say' anything;)
'Laws' are the most arbitrary, subjective thing EVER.
There is no such thing as 'The Law'.
Only people who try to impose their will on others.
Even if M$ 'wins'.. so what?
What would they win?
- They would *try* to ruin Linux code, like they've destroyed everything else they have, ON PURPOSE.
- They would NOT GET ANY MONEY.. and in fact it would cost them a fortune. However the OSS community would pay to defend Linux with huge donations from many large companies with interest in the outcome, along with myriads of volunteers.
- They would alienate themselves even further from the world, including many in their own camp and company, for being such 'Dick Cheneys' about all of this.
- They would propagate their problem with OSS competitiveness, since more people would volunteer to host and write code for Linux2 (Nunix?;)
- Trade secrets (haha) & code of M$'s secret defecation receipe would be out, and the hackers would have a field day releasing the code on torrents.
- Finally, the death knell would be hastened for M$, as Steve Bummer finally beats his bitch Billy Boy, tooo hard.. and they both realize that they cannot destroy ** TUX ** .
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-- I will gladly loose all of life's battles... for the chance to win the war..
There is probably some kind of Manchurian Daemon ability too---if They find somebody they really want to track. Why? Because it makes sense that they'd want to do so.
Yes but: 've hav vays tooo..' to respond to this.
How do you counter-act things??.. Well, usually with the opposite of the thing you want to counteract.
Your theory is probably more than that.. and even if not, the Government and other assorted bad guys (ie. Ceo's) have triumphed-- at least partially without even trying. This is so because people are sooo afraid to even *think* what they want to.. these daze.. let alone 'speak what's on their minds'..
However you also sound like either a defeatist (which I doubt, because you sound *tooo smart* for that)... or you are Fud Fed.
I'm suprised you didn't push *SELinux*.. another NSA creation..
Well to counter act the complexity..laws.. and subversive coding of 'closed source' programs, we have:
- Opened Source, liberal (as is the Arts & Sciences-- not political necessarily) thinking designers of programs and a price tag that can't be beat (free).
- We are continuing to tweak, simplify and market OSS programs, to over come these massive assaults on our basic Freedoms.
- Finally, but not necessarily the last item, would be for us to realize, that it takes *simplicity*.. and more determination than *the bad guys*.. in this matter of security, in order to win.
They may *seem* to have more money, time and resources..
And this is the ultimate weapon they use in their program of Fud, againsta us.
However we not only have more money than them (I mean, it costs us mostly our time to weed out their crimes.. so in essence our financial *resources* are unlimited..).
But we also have more people (we not only have more programmers bitting at the bit.. than the hired thugs they amass), but we have more people (on our side, I believe, whether they admit it or not...after all, it is to their betterment)..
And I *believe*, we have the most important thing.. which is determination.. based on the fact that we *know* we are right
--I will gladly loose all of life's battles... for the chance to win the war..
If I am not mistaken a Linux system can be made hardened enough to where even ROOT has its permissions reigned in. Now whether this feature encompasses permission changes to 'other' users.. I have not researched that yet.
Bottom line.. & like I always preach.. we NEED to move away from this mediocre system of security where we basically wait for someone to hack our sys.
This causes an inordinate, insufficient and inoperable means to protect ourselves.
Instead I have been researching and playing with the idea of actually OPENING up my systems more & more.. so that those that are interested in taking a peak will be noticed quicker, identified quicker, and stopped quicker.
Then they can either be identified for possibly prosecution, or at least shifted aways to another area of the system which is not as sensitive.
This coupled with assorted honey pots and 'false' servers, burying still more 'false' 'sensitive data' of mine, will create logs that are more likely to produce info on what/whom/where and when, someone is attempting to view or alter my system.
In brief.. opening up our systems more to the 'bad guys' will shift worry about 'locking down' our systems (a complete impossibility), and invite both good and bad guys to show more about themselves.. which will in itself reveal more about the 'bad ones'-- causing a natural 'fear' for them, than what the current systems of security now offer.
Well they ARE more qualified than you obviously at what they do.. after all, they ARE running a web hosting business... AHHNND you are here complaining about your customers who feed you, instead of being at work, helping them.
Wave lengths under 20Mhz get extremely large (long), especially around the AM band where they approach nearly a mile long.
Amateur/Ham radio operators are dabling with this.. but they are mostly in with 'The Man' on laws and the current economic nightmare we are witnessing.
However here are some of their projects of late http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Radio_Linkin g_Project
And http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_radio
One of my pet projects is figuring out how to use the trillions of possible digital possibilities.. packed into each one of those analog wonders (ie. long wavelengths at bottom of radio spectrum), so that it would be practical to use as a backbone.
Ahhhnnd there HAS to be a better use of the 50 & 60 Hz frequencies also, other than annoying us.
We NEVER hear about the possibility of using the current *IN* the power grid.. instead of riding the magnetic field that BPL uses.
Small home networking has used this on a very small scale, with our 120/240 volts for years now.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomePlug_Powerline_Al liance
-- I'm tooo tired to think of a good sig tanight :)
http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/
I could of swore I read somewhere it's origins were with the Gecko engine and Mozilla (NetScape) browser projects.. but I cannot quickly find that info right now
I know now they use a different engine however.
They even had a real-human return an email once with significant info on my questions to them about their *great* free mail service at: http://operamail.com/ actually :)
However I *always* keep several browsers handy just in case one does not render what I need done at that moment.
But I would not get my hopes up tooo much... after all, *The System* tends to look after its own.. unless they are throwing us a bone.. which I highly doubt they will use Bush as an example :(
-- Silence is NOT golden.. it is deadly...
OHH YES IT IS!!
-- Firmly entrenched at the bottom of /.'s Karma rating system.. now I can FINALLY speak my mind..
They must be desperate for income, for them to attack a company who can afford to pony up to their legal-blackmail.
So if the Company in question pointed the employees to the web site where the same info was, would that be 'breaking the spirit of the law' as well?
The fact that *News* can be copyrighted at all.. shows the glaring foolishness and danger of copyrights.
-- The Jewish Mafia MUST and WILL be destroyed.
The 'Investigation' needs to examine whether Microsoft was in ANYWAY responsible for this.
And even tho it seems that Canonical is partly to blame.. the investigation needs to see if Microsoft STILL played a part in the workers involved at Canonical.
Either way this will be a good wake up call for the community.. that although we enjoy the luxury of not having to be as paranoid as others when it comes to our systems.. we still need to take basic steps to keep peeps and punks from entering our servers unwanted.
--- The militancy in OSS-- *IS* its main strength..
You want the real answer?
1) To make sure you never do have anything to hide
2) To find out if anyone who does have something to hide talks to you about it.
On your #1.. that's impossible. You (undoubtedly a Fed) are sooo scared of us, that you didn't even write down what you 'meant'.. which is, to 'scare you' into never doing anything wrong. Which is absolutely ludicrous since 'doing something wrong' is totally subjective.
On your point #2, that scenario assumes that the party that is talking to you, has something to hide, based on the government's assumption that it is something 'illegal' or in some other way nefarious.
Again the most subjective thing on earth, is *what is considered wrong, or illegal*.
This is exactly why 'oversight' is an absolute in any system.
The government, or to be more accurately put, the *few* wusses who are trying to (in vein), 'keep us all in line'.. in order to conform to their demented idea of what the world should be like.. are showing signs of great stress (as your post proves), from seeing the rest of, nearly 7 billion strong, ready to come and unseat their assumed, false, and weak, 'authority'.
--- The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson
Unision is a *WONDROUS* program.. but it can be dangerous... its main goal is to synchronize your nodes... NOT back them up.
Also there ARE some quirks with it (not many.. it is VERY reliable and stable).. which are documented (in the Linux version anyways).
Someone else suggested SBackup (a Linux ONLY) solution.. but that may still be worth setting up with a LiveCD since Sbackup is: Automated (including Logarithmic maintenance of older backups), network aware, Graphical and most of all it is *Stable* :)
--- Trying my best to punch a hole through the bottom of /.'s Karma rating system... now I can FINALLY speak my mind..
Well put since Linus used Minux and not Unix as a starting reference.
Since I am a green horn at writing drivers, I would not start with Networking... since they seemed pretty covered-- for now.
However if they were USB or other dongle related, then this is where the need seems to be more now (with Linux).
Also, the article/thread seems to head in the very same direction that many other 'beginer' or 'how to's' are... which is.. either the writer asumes an awfule lot on what the reader knows already.. or it cover things the average programmer already knew since he fell out of his crib.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4786 is an attempt at helping those interested in working with developing USB drivers and it's associated aspects.
And here http://www.us.design-reuse.com/news/news8597.html is interesting tech that helps simplify the device driving process from the start, by helping programmers develop the hardware, automatically after putting in merely the algorithms.
Although this process is not directly related, the point is we have to get away from re-inventing the wheel, by using more automatic code-writing, and into the realm of letting the computer do what it does best (repetition & long calcs).. and let developers do what they do and love best... *designing*.
It's amazing that this thread, which could have been the driest all week, turned out to be the one more interesting & funniest =:]
---NO!! I am NOT trying to be a 'good boy'.. It's just that sometimes I can't help myself :)
King enraged Niggros with his talks.. who then DID commit violence, especially after his timely death.
King also enraged Whites, by boasting about the day when little Niggro boys would be holding hands with little White girls..
Even joking about giving M$ any added respect is wrong because of the seriousness of their crimes.. especially their infiltrating the Linux code, and community at large, in order to dominate or destroy it.
The good news is we outnumber M$, the United States Government who attempts to protect them, and the handful of their zombie supporters.
--- Back to the BatCave..
I suspected is was my *bad* decision to move up to ext3.. knowing full well it would journel my sys..which I didn't really need.. being the good backup freak that I am.
I should have left ext2 on.. since it is (or seems) to be MUCH faster at copying larger files.
I was unhappy with the way the fs would 'check' my system every time there was some abnormal way that I shut down the sys... but what I should have done was look into preventing that, instead of changing over to a fs that I KNEW would be slower and more aggravating in other areas.
File Systems are an interesting study for me as well.. because I cannot for the life of me figure out why there are sooo many, but NONE that seem to hit-the-mark with an *overall* system that does away with alot of the old tech from yester-year.
Sun seems to be making a good atempt with ZFS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS but it still falls short on what *seems* to be capable with this area of technology.
I will posting my work soon in this fascinating area..
The article and subsequent remarks by Linus and Allen address this awsome *fix* (yes it stopped that annoying phantom disk access issue).. AHHHND it does MARKETABILITY improve over-all speed of the system, specifically with loading programs. And this is just what I noticed on the first boot after modding fstab-- with no other bench-marks!!
--- /.'s moderating system is NOT broken.. it is 'Fixed'.
Surely we are not talking about groups like the
There is NO such thing as a 'Linux Community'.. but there is a large segment of the computing populace that values OSS for obvious reasons.
This Thread dances around.. but clearly misses what the REAL problem facing ALL users are today.. and that is, that MicroSoft, the United States Government, and other assorted criminals, have infiltrated the OSS code, and oversite of that code, in an awful way.
High Tec, and VERY popular sites like Digg.com, are taking money from MicroSoft (for ads).. and are not ashamed to say so.
This example, along with the nonchalant way that MicroSoft is treated both here on /. and the media in general.. when it should be treated with ALL the contempt, ill will, up to and including *violence* against it's leaders, and shops where the crimes are commited.. clearly shows just how much the tide needs to turn, in order for OSS to not become 'out lawed'.
Therefore this battle, which is CLEARLY tied to the 'culture' war-- which is growing more heated by the moment.. will ONLY be won by the people who are not only more disciplined in this type of warfare.. but are more determined to 'act out'.. beyond words...
-- ./ management has become NOTHING but a tool for The Man.
They seem to find items that Ask.com either doesn't have, or doesn't have within the first few pages.
I try not to use Google anymore, because although it is fine (like most engines) for finding a lowely needle in a hay stack.. it has the absurdly knack for not being able to find a hay stack.
In other words, Google and the rest are only good at finding data, when there is little data on the subject.. but when it comes to simple, plain, everyday questions, it is always a heartache to get to the info.. if at all.
Cha Cha seems to be at least working on solving this problem.
Although apparently backed by Bozo (Amazon still hasn't really made a significant profit.. if you consider the slave conditions that exists at the company).. I find myself using Cha Cha and other alternatives more and more.. but ANYTHING but Google, since it has obviously become the dreaded evil tool that it preaches against... :(
-- No regular sig today.. since /. weighs them more than the content of posters comments and their contributions, to this once great site..
-Cd's (worms).. yea, it'll be a while before someone thinks about how to alter and copy a cd.
- Sys-log-boom.. sounds like a buncha cheerleaders at a nerfball champion chip :]
- Here's the funniest one yet.. 'just print them out..'.... ohhhh kay.. and then what...scan them in again for manipulation.. and reprint them...by... whoever has access to them?
Bottom line is.. and everyone knows this.. (or should).. that MANAGEMENT is ALWAYS in the best position to commit some kind of fraud at a company.. and they are probably more responsible for more crimes of theft, etc. than laymen.
If someone is THAT anxious to have logs NOT tampered with.. then I'd immediately be very suspicious of WHY. In most cases, I'm sure it is not to simply not have their mistresses fon # injected into the data, but more likely to 'seal' in concrete some nefarious actions, greed or just plain unwarranted obsessions with 'security'.
Halvy's security plan for the paranoid has 3 simple steps:
1) Don't have anything of such great value, in one area, so that one criminal could get at it all (at once).
2) Don't say or do anything that would make you ashamed.
3) Take all that money, time and worry that you put into your false 'security' plans.. and put them into honeypots, tracking & detection systems, and plans for future prosecution of anyone found tapering with your systems.
In other words, lets move away from 'prevention' somewhat..and more into detecting and gathering information that would track whoever is monitoring or attempting to alter our systems.
4) Remember that anyone who wants to get into your stuff.. can. It takes little effort for someone to flip 1's & 0's.. once they have left your system. Which is why the system of identification, needs to get beyond this insanity we have today.. where we rely on several common aspects of our lives (IE. SS#, mothers maiden name, trivial gadgets like bar codes, etc.) to identify ourselves. This makes it easy for someone to get into our stuff.. but harder for us to protect it.. or do anything about it, once it is compromised.
Therefore a system which takes into account MUCH more about ourselves would make it easier for us to 'prove' who we are.. and MUCH harder for others to know this info, when attempting to access our data.
The current system of security MUST switch the overall burden of responsibility from US, to the person (or system) that is trying to identify us. We SHOULD NOT HAVE TO constantly worry, conjure up 'passwords' and otherwise feel or be responsible, when someone else (legitimately) needs to identify us.
An example would be, lets say if someone wanted to impersonate me here on /.
Ok.. chances are VERY high that they would to this, in order to make me look bad (lol)..
Well, since I'v been around here since dirt was formed, my 'finger print' is all over /.'s archives..soooo anyone acting any different than I am known to.. would easily be identified as NOT me.
This overal philosophy can be ported over to problems like this topic presents.
-- I'm VERY proud to be considered one of the 'lowest' rated /. members of all time.. but no worries.. I will continue to try my best to drive to even 'new lows'.. in /. management's eyes =:]
LordToran, Possers, I mean Posters like him will never be crowned 'Troll' because he plays the game here.
I don't know about you, but when I read comments.. especially as important as this topic.. I want ALLLLL the comments, easily available... ESPECIALLY those that are deamed controversial. NOT buried with a -1 moderation BEFORE we even hit the submit button.. and where almost NOONE knows that they must first change their settings to reflect those posts with ratings under 0, and the 'Threshhold' to *Nested*.. for our comments to be available.
Until /. has a blood bath concerning it's corporate management, things will progressively get worse here.. which is much more serious than just you and I having to put up with being censored by some apparent M$ bitches like CowBoy Neal.
I'll be sticking around for this change of ownership, and as anyone can see, I'll continue to post.. my heart felt beliefs here and knowledge, which angers /.'s Jewish Mafia run office.. more than anything.
Most unfortunate for all of us is.. /.'s managements attempt at trying to get folks like you and I to conform.. whatever that might mean.. is helping M$'s hand at burying Linux, and OSS in general, forever... and...
It is helping tremendously, in bringing the dark, steal hand of the corporate monster, closer to our own homes door :(
I have been censored by
This is why I am convinced this once great site.. has been taken over by some combination of: gays, feminists, Jewish radicals, or ignorant red necks (ie. cowboy nelly).
As far as this story is concerned, I am not suprised to see someone else write about the fact that if I have nothing to hide.. then you have NO REASON to monitor me.
Further more, even if I DID have something to hide, all the more reason it is NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS since 'The Law' is the most subjective thing that man (actually the Jews again) have created.
I know alot of so-called Christians will wine about what I am going to say next.. but that will just prove them the anti-Christs that they REALLY are.
As a follower of Christ (or at least I try..) I am NOT bound by mens laws.. nor any laws.
The only rules I follow, are those that I would anyway.. without some dirt bag peeking into my life.
Common sense.. and for the sake of sanity.. it goes to reason that common sense if the ONLY rule-of-law that is necessary to be happy and survive in this life.
Every other 'rule' or 'law' is there to put us into slavery of another man or government.
--- When will someone bring justice (ie. torture & kill) bush, to prevent our government from committing genoside on those poor Iraqi people??
Lol, or you could have put it this way: 'the Jews' weren't ashamed of their greed and crimes against the Germans... sooo because of this blatent arrogance, they got more than they 'bargained' for...in the end.
This same brutal arrogance by the powers that be today (not suprisingly by yet still another 'Jewish Mafia').. will be their collapes-- once again.
Only this time, lessons ARE BEING LEARNED from the mistakes by the *LAST* leader of White people, ~~Adolf Hitler~~
-- Sometimes just a 'look' by you, will prevent the evil of another...
Well with an attitude like that..
The whole point of this story seems to be that there is a puposefully designed society which includes using unnecessary math to keep technology in the dark ages (and from the masses).
There is a reason that the masses... indeed all individuals, are beholden to 'The Man' for such basic life giving items as: fresh running water, shelter, food, and pipped in-- everything else (ie. electric, sewers, InterNet, etc.).
The whole engineering disciplines have been designed 'to-be-hard'. But the question needs to be asked as whether they 'have-to-be' hard, in order to understand and use them.
What The Man fears most is individuals, outside of 'The System' (this acidemic 'bubble'), working together or alone, to overcome this system which has been passed on for thousands of years.
And the proof is in the statments that they make, like yours, which use fear and lack of data, to bolster this horrid system of sciences.
Some examples is the system of binary to control the computer at the most basic level. This design, we are told, is the most efficiant! (lol).
Efficiant for the machine yes.. but not for the programmer, or individual who might want to design and create..
With the processing power and low prices of today, there seems to be no reason that computers can't be designed to be programmed and controlled using normal, everyday, 'human speak'.
Another example of this system we are saddled with is the fact that technology is making things smaller and smaller, which blocks out even more individuals from being able to have the equipment or knowledge to enhance these products.
The fact of the matter is, inspite of the hoopla about how much technology has advanced the last 50 years.. it really hasn't.
Most of todays tech has been around for ages.. it has just become faster, cheaper.. and sadly protected more and more by the government and corporations from letting others improve upon it, for everyone.
-- /. managment has gays and members of the 'Jewish Mafia' ruining this once great site..
It is NOT a fallacy. Bowling balls DO fall faster than pillows, and EVERYONE knows it
And for all intents and purposes, this is good enough for nearly everyone.
After all, noone except scientists need to know or calculate the fact that individual particals (or even items of similar size (mass) and weight (like two identical bowling balls) will fall equally.
http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae6.c fm?CFID=18326416&CFTOKEN=61672591
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- 99% of people are dirt poooor or in debt (if they are lucky)...sooo no one will want to steal your bank account.
- 99% of peeps on the net could not even hack into their own pc if they got locked out.. let alone yours.
Both the current system of passwords on the net (and on our own pc's) is much more detrimental to our well being, than any 'bad guys' could dream of.
In order to 'free' ourselves from this utterly rediculous system of (false) security, we need a major change.
1) Shift the emphasis from 'securing'.. to 'tracking' and aprehending those that would compremise our personal business on the net. This would take the enormous money and effort we now spend on 'defending' the undefensable, and put it on monitoring, tracing, and recovering from the very SLIGHT chance that someone will break into our systems.
And the fact is, if someone wants to break in (like the Government or other assorted 'bad guys), then they will, REGARDLESS of the walls we put up (like we veinly attempt to today).
2) Shift the burden to the few web sites that we use, to handle 'picking out' passwords or other identifying features of our person. In other words, in stead of us trying to come up with new 'good' passwords, and then trying to decide how to remember them or record them.. the web sites themself would handle both the issuing of the password (or phrase) and the bulk of the 'verification ' process.
Possible civil or criminal suits would help keep web sites (admins) in line.. which should be no problem since they want our business.
And if they don't like it.. well, you know what they say...
Common sense says this burden *should* fall on those who garner our time and efforts.. in stead of letting the masses continue to stumble on such a horrid system of identification.
3) Do away with permanent 'User Names'. Your pw, along with questions as to your past actions on their site.. should be MORE than enough to verify who you are to the sites admin. After that point a random simple temporary number (JUST for each time your are logged into the site) or if you choose, an alias (temporary also) could be had.
This could be done easily and simply enough with a system simular to ladp, but not as complicated for the end user.
An example: You register with digg.com for the first time.. with only your internet ip addy. The admins issue you a simple id or password (or pass phrase) like: digg is better than /.
There could be an option for you to use your own pw (or permanent user name).. but that would shift the burden to you both having to think about a password and remembering it.. where if the work was left to the sites admins.. if would be totaly up to them to both issue something easy for you to remember and for them to worry about identifying you, instead of you having to rack your brains trying to 'prove' who you are.
Removing the permanent 'user name' removes a clue to potential bad guys of who you are.
The sites admin can then have a system which will protect your passwords by rotating them EVERYTIME you enter the site (or even after you leave it. This would help eliminate (nearly totaly) anyone finding your piece of paper with your passwords list on it.. which if you are like me, you are even afraid to write important passwords down.. for fear of it falling into the wrong hands.
A system like this could still have a second layer or backup system where you would provide an answer to a 'secret' question that is asked when you first register (like your original or last ip addy).. or some other simple code word that you would use as a master, should the sites admin (system) require it... but frankly I believe the less we have to 'remember', write down, or prove.. and the more we shift these aspects to the sites, the better the system of security will be and the easier it will be for us to not have to be constantly chassing ghosts that are NOT there.
This abso
They ARE not valid patents.
There, anyone can 'say' anything ;)
'Laws' are the most arbitrary, subjective thing EVER.
There is no such thing as 'The Law'.
Only people who try to impose their will on others.
Even if M$ 'wins'.. so what?
What would they win?
- They would *try* to ruin Linux code, like they've destroyed everything else they have, ON PURPOSE.
- They would NOT GET ANY MONEY .. and in fact it would cost them a fortune. However the OSS community would pay to defend Linux with huge donations from many large companies with interest in the outcome, along with myriads of volunteers.
- They would alienate themselves even further from the world, including many in their own camp and company, for being such 'Dick Cheneys' about all of this.
- They would propagate their problem with OSS competitiveness, since more people would volunteer to host and write code for Linux2 (Nunix? ;)
- Trade secrets (haha) & code of M$'s secret defecation receipe would be out, and the hackers would have a field day releasing the code on torrents.
- Finally, the death knell would be hastened for M$, as Steve Bummer finally beats his bitch Billy Boy, tooo hard.. and they both realize that they cannot destroy ** TUX ** .
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