True, but if your launching a game of star craft, and expecting someone to join your game, wouldn't you click YES knowing this was an expecting incoming connection?!
Thanx for summing up the "Use Linux" section of the book.. Nothing new here people!!
OBTW: If you want a catchall OS, install DOS 5, with no xms memory drivers, no TCP (UDP only), and leave it ANSI only. That'll be more secure then anything I've seen recently (except Big Iron of course), and how many DOS virus are still "in the wild"?
Whoaf for a second I was worried they'd start trying to attack my IIS server using the traverse directory attack (IIS 4, unpatched), now at least I'll know they are using port 80 to attack me, what a relief, for a minute I thought it was port 4221..:O
Common passwords? But password IS my password, what do you mean that's not secure?:O
It's laughable that anyone would need to run nmap on there OWN COMPUTERS, except maybe for mass scanning.. Never heard of NETSTAT or TCPVIEW?!
Good thing it's portable, never know when I'll be on the road and wondering "darn, how do I patch this nasty ms Office"!?!
Seriously, this book so far has had the exact information every other security book has, is there ANYTHING new about it, or are we just impressed by it's small size?!
Microsoft, you see, is electing to make WinFS not just a mere file system but a complex database engine application that will manage relational and XML data as well as file data.
Now here's my bash:
A WinFS based on a DATABASE ENGINE?! Oh that's just GREAT!! We all know how stable NTFS and FAT32 have been.. So I guess this is going to drive anyone using Partition Magic under the river huh? Can you say "My computer won't BOOT all of a sudden"? Come on, I know you can!
Actually there were other ports, that _were_ important to anyone running a network, such as, say... Netbios, or Windns (or whatever the fuc* they called it I can't even remember)..
IMHO _ALL_ inbound traffic should be blocked, if someone tries to make an inbound connection, it should be prompted (Allow Inbound to: xxx port xxx application - yes/no/always/only_from_that_host -> as most firewalls will allow set up of). For the average Windows Home Edition OS that would solve many problems.. Especially worms..
Seriously, even if this works, nothing is 100% and I'm sure they're will be some screw ups, i.e. gum infections, roots not fitting, jaw bone to destroyed to set new teeth, etc.
Having just had a root canal done recently, I can tell you, take care of your teeth cuz when things go wrong, it hurrrttts!
Yeah actually they do. It's called filtering.. Transfer speeds can be set by port. For example, I can set up my Half Life server to only send 1 packet per second to port 27015 -> Notice that's BY PORT. Same with FTP, port 21 -> Set to transfer at 1kb/s for example, same thing with a webserver...
So I guess your theory that transfer speed has nothing to do with ports is incorrect, huh? I guess transfer speeds only have to do with the size of the pipe, right? We were talking about filtering technologies, filtering CAN BE DONE by port, by IP, by host system, by application, but range, by etc. etc. etc.
Or if I'm wrong, what exactly has to do with transfer speed?
And you were modded information because of your low uid? What a crock of shit/. is sometimes... Oh well, i guess ur gonna be pissed now cuz ur wrong, and you'll get some/. mod to follow me around modding me down, like a give a rats ass..
Every single news station has some political view points they will hype.. In my home town of Toronto, we have Big Blue (Toronto Star - Backing the liberals all the way), and Big Red (Backing the Tories, or any1 else that hates the lib's for that matter, c'ept the NDP of COURSE..).
Guess what? That's the way the world works.. Do you think CNN is unbiased? How about MSNbc? Oh, Oh, I know, FOX news?!!
GIVE ME A BREAK.
If I read one more twit complaining that karma is effected by people with certain views I think I'll shit myself.. Guess what, you're acting like a karma whore, seriously, WHO THE FUCK gives a crap about karma? (err, at least/. karma, real karma is scccarrrryyy).
ps-Use of profanities specifically used to make me seem immature and to give the FCC the finger. No monkey's have actually been formed in the crafting of this witty response. - Plain text only!
What you need to do now is develop an application that can use multiple ports, to transfer 1 file. In other words the application opens x number of specified ports (say 10 for example), and then splits the transfers over all 10 ports, thereby increasing your bandwidth by 10 times. This is of course assuming they cap each individual session to the 1/k limit and not by ip address (this should be easily testable, just open up 2 or 3 FTP sessions and see if the rate decreases). It shouldn't be too hard to design an app that is capable of this..
Does it do this for all traffic? (ie. FTP and websurfing are both slowed to 1k/sec?) What if you make the FTP port > 20000, that might help because normally they leave those ports unfiltered as they are for custom applications and not your typical P2P, HTML type "student" applications.
If your getting 1k/sec you may want to just use a modem, you'll get better speeds.. Personally I would never surf at 1k/sec, that's like using a 14.4 modem...
So just make an outbound connection.. All because your blocked from incoming doesn't mean you can't get incoming files, it just means that a socket can't be established from outside in. If you establish a socket to your friends computer (say FTP for example), or say, a kazaa type server/network then they will not block it, and you can download files.
Is the most political game.. I mean come on, you go around eating pills, you get attacked by ghosts that are semi-transparent, you can send the ghosts to jail by eating a super pill and then tracking them down...
Funny part is, _ALL_ programming languages use upper case ONLY during linkage and compilation. The reason for it, is if you break it all down to pneumonics and machine code, it's all assembler, and assembler is only programmed in upper case (You use ebidic or ascii or whatever to get case sensitivity at a higher level).
What I want to know is why can't the lameness filter block out that crappy html formatting problem? (YOU HAVE NO LINE BREAKS YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!) *NOTE* Use "Plain Old Text", or for us basic folks, simply "Plain Text" (When I see "Plain Old Text" I always think, so what, do they consider html NEW text??
Haha, actually it does relate to me.. But if your going to the same concerts I am (Sex Pistols, AC/DC, etc..) you have to expect that kind of behaviour, if your going to see the Nylons, then I see your point.. (Yes, I have been to a Nylons concert, and I only had 1 beer!)
Well look at it this way, with most windows administration programs, and knowledge of the os, most techie's won't need to consult manuals or documentation to set it up. Take a DNS server, since you mentioned it, as long as you know how to set up your zone files, you can set up ms's DNS server pretty much by just poking around, I don't know if this is true for linux or not, maybe you could comment?
You're right though, I was mostly speaking from a desktop perspective...
You've obviously never been to a "Sex Pistols" concert then, eh? Half the fun is getting drunk enough to spit on the stage and give "the man" the finger!
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True, but if your launching a game of star craft, and expecting someone to join your game, wouldn't you click YES knowing this was an expecting incoming connection?!
How do you have a wireless LAN with no access points? WTF?!! Your right, that IS secure!
Thanx for summing up the "Use Linux" section of the book.. Nothing new here people!!
OBTW: If you want a catchall OS, install DOS 5, with no xms memory drivers, no TCP (UDP only), and leave it ANSI only. That'll be more secure then anything I've seen recently (except Big Iron of course), and how many DOS virus are still "in the wild"?
Whoaf for a second I was worried they'd start trying to attack my IIS server using the traverse directory attack (IIS 4, unpatched), now at least I'll know they are using port 80 to attack me, what a relief, for a minute I thought it was port 4221.. :O
:O
Common passwords? But password IS my password, what do you mean that's not secure?
It's laughable that anyone would need to run nmap on there OWN COMPUTERS, except maybe for mass scanning.. Never heard of NETSTAT or TCPVIEW?!
Good thing it's portable, never know when I'll be on the road and wondering "darn, how do I patch this nasty ms Office"!?!
Seriously, this book so far has had the exact information every other security book has, is there ANYTHING new about it, or are we just impressed by it's small size?!
Okay here's one we haven't hashed out:
Microsoft, you see, is electing to make WinFS not just a mere file system but a complex database engine application that will manage relational and XML data as well as file data.
Now here's my bash:
A WinFS based on a DATABASE ENGINE?! Oh that's just GREAT!! We all know how stable NTFS and FAT32 have been.. So I guess this is going to drive anyone using Partition Magic under the river huh? Can you say "My computer won't BOOT all of a sudden"? Come on, I know you can!
Actually there were other ports, that _were_ important to anyone running a network, such as, say... Netbios, or Windns (or whatever the fuc* they called it I can't even remember)..
IMHO _ALL_ inbound traffic should be blocked, if someone tries to make an inbound connection, it should be prompted (Allow Inbound to: xxx port xxx application - yes/no/always/only_from_that_host -> as most firewalls will allow set up of). For the average Windows Home Edition OS that would solve many problems.. Especially worms..
Outsourced a crappy job? Have you ever met a professional "ad-clicker?" Or even someone that claims to do part-time "ad-clicking"??
This is going to put every bored "home-maker" out of work... oh right..
Anywhere between 2 and 4 AM.
Thank god he didn't realize that Pay-As-You-Go phones don't require you to give them any personal information, and accept cash..
Funny, I was thinking "Leisure Suit Larry", wasn't he Larry Laffer?
Patient: Do I have to floss all my teeth?
Dentist: No just the ones you want to keep.
Seriously, even if this works, nothing is 100% and I'm sure they're will be some screw ups, i.e. gum infections, roots not fitting, jaw bone to destroyed to set new teeth, etc.
Having just had a root canal done recently, I can tell you, take care of your teeth cuz when things go wrong, it hurrrttts!
Yes it's exactly what DirecTV did with the records regarding people who purchased smart card readers.
1. Send threatening letters. Have user implicate himselves simply by trying to defend themselves.
2. ???
3. Profit!
Yeah actually they do. It's called filtering.. Transfer speeds can be set by port. For example, I can set up my Half Life server to only send 1 packet per second to port 27015 -> Notice that's BY PORT. Same with FTP, port 21 -> Set to transfer at 1kb/s for example, same thing with a webserver...
/. is sometimes... Oh well, i guess ur gonna be pissed now cuz ur wrong, and you'll get some /. mod to follow me around modding me down, like a give a rats ass..
So I guess your theory that transfer speed has nothing to do with ports is incorrect, huh? I guess transfer speeds only have to do with the size of the pipe, right? We were talking about filtering technologies, filtering CAN BE DONE by port, by IP, by host system, by application, but range, by etc. etc. etc.
Or if I'm wrong, what exactly has to do with transfer speed?
And you were modded information because of your low uid? What a crock of shit
NEWS FLASH: You are a retard.
/. karma, real karma is scccarrrryyy).
Every single news station has some political view points they will hype.. In my home town of Toronto, we have Big Blue (Toronto Star - Backing the liberals all the way), and Big Red (Backing the Tories, or any1 else that hates the lib's for that matter, c'ept the NDP of COURSE..).
Guess what? That's the way the world works.. Do you think CNN is unbiased? How about MSNbc? Oh, Oh, I know, FOX news?!!
GIVE ME A BREAK.
If I read one more twit complaining that karma is effected by people with certain views I think I'll shit myself.. Guess what, you're acting like a karma whore, seriously, WHO THE FUCK gives a crap about karma? (err, at least
ps-Use of profanities specifically used to make me seem immature and to give the FCC the finger. No monkey's have actually been formed in the crafting of this witty response. - Plain text only!
What you need to do now is develop an application that can use multiple ports, to transfer 1 file. In other words the application opens x number of specified ports (say 10 for example), and then splits the transfers over all 10 ports, thereby increasing your bandwidth by 10 times. This is of course assuming they cap each individual session to the 1/k limit and not by ip address (this should be easily testable, just open up 2 or 3 FTP sessions and see if the rate decreases). It shouldn't be too hard to design an app that is capable of this..
Does it do this for all traffic? (ie. FTP and websurfing are both slowed to 1k/sec?) What if you make the FTP port > 20000, that might help because normally they leave those ports unfiltered as they are for custom applications and not your typical P2P, HTML type "student" applications.
If your getting 1k/sec you may want to just use a modem, you'll get better speeds.. Personally I would never surf at 1k/sec, that's like using a 14.4 modem...
So just make an outbound connection.. All because your blocked from incoming doesn't mean you can't get incoming files, it just means that a socket can't be established from outside in. If you establish a socket to your friends computer (say FTP for example), or say, a kazaa type server/network then they will not block it, and you can download files.
Is the most political game.. I mean come on, you go around eating pills, you get attacked by ghosts that are semi-transparent, you can send the ghosts to jail by eating a super pill and then tracking them down...
Okay maybe not..
Haha, good one!
Funny part is, _ALL_ programming languages use upper case ONLY during linkage and compilation. The reason for it, is if you break it all down to pneumonics and machine code, it's all assembler, and assembler is only programmed in upper case (You use ebidic or ascii or whatever to get case sensitivity at a higher level).
What I want to know is why can't the lameness filter block out that crappy html formatting problem? (YOU HAVE NO LINE BREAKS YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!) *NOTE* Use "Plain Old Text", or for us basic folks, simply "Plain Text" (When I see "Plain Old Text" I always think, so what, do they consider html NEW text??
Lmao, this is what happens when BASIC meets HTML, and oh what an ugly face indeed.
Haha, actually it does relate to me.. But if your going to the same concerts I am (Sex Pistols, AC/DC, etc..) you have to expect that kind of behaviour, if your going to see the Nylons, then I see your point.. (Yes, I have been to a Nylons concert, and I only had 1 beer!)
Well look at it this way, with most windows administration programs, and knowledge of the os, most techie's won't need to consult manuals or documentation to set it up. Take a DNS server, since you mentioned it, as long as you know how to set up your zone files, you can set up ms's DNS server pretty much by just poking around, I don't know if this is true for linux or not, maybe you could comment?
You're right though, I was mostly speaking from a desktop perspective...
You've obviously never been to a "Sex Pistols" concert then, eh? Half the fun is getting drunk enough to spit on the stage and give "the man" the finger!