Unfortunately sometimes companies refuse to patch their products, and the only way you can make them fix the problem is by revealing it to the world. You can never assume the black hats don't already know the exploit.
I'm gonna say that someone in your company that knew the info was a victim of social engineering, rather than them actually breaking into your systems. They are much less likely to be tracked back to the source that way, and it is more likely to succeed.
And you thought they got their money how? Did you think that all their huge servers were free (original cost, and cost to keep them running), all the bandwidth they must consume, their development of GMail, Froogle, Goggle Groups just magically appeared? Did you think their employees work for free?
My dad is exactly like that, all he does is use Office and IE. He plans on getting a 3500+ AMD 64, with 1 gig of ram (he doesn't care that he will never get close to the whole speed of the AMD 64 running windows, cause it will always have to run in compatability mode).
That move will make my computer the slowest computer in the family (even though I'm the ONLY one that uses it for more than IE/Office. HL2 on a Radeon 7500 is going to be PAIN.
I never touch the scroll bar because I got a mouse w/ a scroll wheel. Also in my browser (Konqueror) if I want to go back I just right mouse click and bring it down a little and to the right (just a few pixels) and release and I will go back (cause that triggers the 'Back' entry in the right mouse context menu;-)).
This just shows that one UI isn't suitable for everyone.
Anyone could already do this... just download gaim, and create a new user, put the people u want to monitor in your buddy list, and then in Preferences -> Logging -> System Logging enable all options that you want. This will log the stuff to gaim's system log, which later you could parse w/ whatever u wanted.
Only thing w/ this is you have to be always connected (so just leave your computer on 24/7, which probably 80% of/. users already do).
Gaim-Encryption uses RSA keys. You can use keys from 512 bits all the way up to 4096 bits. Since its public key encryption it will be VERY secure.
Trillian uses the Diffie-Hellman / Blowfish (128 bit key) protocol. From what I know Diffie-Hellman is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks ("The Diffie-Hellman key exchange is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack." -- http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=224 8 ).
From what I can tell, Gaim-Encryption is far superior.
Just a little fact, Linus actually was going to release Linux as Freax (he originally referred to it as Linux before, so the guy who first hosted it for him on his FTP convinced him to release it as Linux)
You know Torrents are more reliable than FTP or HTTP downloads? Each chunk (largest chunk size I've seen is 2 megs) is compared against an MD5 sum, if its right its put into the file, if its wrong its discarded (and the source that provided that chunk often is banned after a few failed chunks). And once the whole thing is done it checks the MD5 sum against the whole original file. Torrents are somewhat the opposite of FTP & HTTP, the more people downloading, the faster they get.
Oh and some distros may not be able to afford hosting a few hundred meg ISO image on their servers, since they would get slammed whenever a new release is made.
"What's wrong with the mouse?" It's slow (I can't remember any config options for the speed), and don't give me the bs that its more 'precise,' if I have to lift the mouse up to get across the screen then its too slow. Also Apple's love of one button is creepy, having to hold a modifier key to get right mouse click doesn't make up for it.
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Unfortunately sometimes companies refuse to patch their products, and the only way you can make them fix the problem is by revealing it to the world. You can never assume the black hats don't already know the exploit.
Thats what they are doing... they are making their Palm GUI run on Linux.
"Except one thing; everyone out there can do what Red Hat can do since we all have their code..."
Yep, and White Box Linux is RHEL (minus a few things w/ RH's trademark on it).
RHEL's annual fee is for a huge amount of support. You don't have to pay it if you don't want it.
I'm gonna say that someone in your company that knew the info was a victim of social engineering, rather than them actually breaking into your systems. They are much less likely to be tracked back to the source that way, and it is more likely to succeed.
That, or make 1 uber spammer king that owns 50 million domain names and then will rule the internet.
And you thought they got their money how? Did you think that all their huge servers were free (original cost, and cost to keep them running), all the bandwidth they must consume, their development of GMail, Froogle, Goggle Groups just magically appeared? Did you think their employees work for free?
Suprnova.org didn't host any trackers, they just had links to a massive amount of .torrent files to connect to different trackers.
What happened would of only been a test of their connection, not BitTorrent.
My dad is exactly like that, all he does is use Office and IE. He plans on getting a 3500+ AMD 64, with 1 gig of ram (he doesn't care that he will never get close to the whole speed of the AMD 64 running windows, cause it will always have to run in compatability mode).
That move will make my computer the slowest computer in the family (even though I'm the ONLY one that uses it for more than IE/Office. HL2 on a Radeon 7500 is going to be PAIN.
I never touch the scroll bar because I got a mouse w/ a scroll wheel. Also in my browser (Konqueror) if I want to go back I just right mouse click and bring it down a little and to the right (just a few pixels) and release and I will go back (cause that triggers the 'Back' entry in the right mouse context menu ;-)).
This just shows that one UI isn't suitable for everyone.
Anyone could already do this... just download gaim, and create a new user, put the people u want to monitor in your buddy list, and then in Preferences -> Logging -> System Logging enable all options that you want. This will log the stuff to gaim's system log, which later you could parse w/ whatever u wanted.
/. users already do).
Only thing w/ this is you have to be always connected (so just leave your computer on 24/7, which probably 80% of
Gaim-Encryption uses RSA keys. You can use keys from 512 bits all the way up to 4096 bits. Since its public key encryption it will be VERY secure.
4 8 ).
Trillian uses the Diffie-Hellman / Blowfish (128 bit key) protocol. From what I know Diffie-Hellman is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks ("The Diffie-Hellman key exchange is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack." -- http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=22
From what I can tell, Gaim-Encryption is far superior.
The U.S. never ratified it. Mainland China though, they are exempt.
first SG-1 has to find the Furlings, theres a whole season right there!
HA! IE has better encryption than that! Just like theres now TrippleDES, IE uses DoubleROT13!
Correction: Bad UI is the easiest thing to steal in a piece of software.
Even some of the native english speakers didn't get that, or was that just me?
Thank God I don't have mod points! I wouldn't of know whether to mod you as insightful or funny... I'm happy thats a decision I didn't have to make.
Just a little fact, Linus actually was going to release Linux as Freax (he originally referred to it as Linux before, so the guy who first hosted it for him on his FTP convinced him to release it as Linux)
Google Image search isn't the media.
"The U.S. government has invaded more countries than any other in the entire history of the world."
Don't know much world history, do you?
You know Torrents are more reliable than FTP or HTTP downloads? Each chunk (largest chunk size I've seen is 2 megs) is compared against an MD5 sum, if its right its put into the file, if its wrong its discarded (and the source that provided that chunk often is banned after a few failed chunks). And once the whole thing is done it checks the MD5 sum against the whole original file. Torrents are somewhat the opposite of FTP & HTTP, the more people downloading, the faster they get.
Oh and some distros may not be able to afford hosting a few hundred meg ISO image on their servers, since they would get slammed whenever a new release is made.
I think _much_ more people were voting for kerry because they hated bush.
I agree with him and I use both Windows and KDE every day.
You seemed to skip over half of his points.
"What's wrong with the mouse?" It's slow (I can't remember any config options for the speed), and don't give me the bs that its more 'precise,' if I have to lift the mouse up to get across the screen then its too slow. Also Apple's love of one button is creepy, having to hold a modifier key to get right mouse click doesn't make up for it.