No, he wouldn't. He would claim that the comet is a terrorist and has WMD's. Then he would try to convince Congress to agree to a 3.2 trillion dollar spending bill to shoot it out of the sky before it strikes first.
Exactly. I was thinking about posting about this not being news when I saw your post. USBIDE adapters are a dime a dozen nowadays. To do something similar to this so-called 'innovation', all you'd need is a few multiplexer chips (74xx something series), a switch, and some hacking/butchering of an existing USB cable/header and some power wires. Heck, I think you could even rig one of those old mechanical KVM switches to do the trick. Switch position 'A': drive connected to the IDE bus on the mainboard, switch position 'B': drive connected to the USBIDE adapter.
I'm afraid the situation is much more dark and bleak (sorry for the pun) and may ultimately lie with the health insurance companies. Where I live, many of the common procedures have no or very little coverage, even with a full dental plan. Dentures, on the other hand, are fully covered by any basic plan.
Many people (including the biggest names in the IT business) agree that daylight saving changes ARE a security issue. Just do a Google search on "daylight saving security" and you will see. I think that by pushing this issue over the brink, literally, Debian may have caused security problems and possible financial liabilities to many companies and organizations that operate Debian systems (see also my post here. Combined with the fact that Debian _did_ push a similar change to U.S. daylight saving into 'stable' earlier, this may have alienated many people from Debian and its ruthless pursuit of 'policies'.
I disagree. In situations where logfiles are pertinent to the gathering and subsequent presentation of evidens (as in computer forensics, for example), correct timekeeping is essential. You may argue that this still doesn't constitute a security threat, but it remains mission-critical for some applications.
Cisco mentions other issues in a document concerning the 2007 DST changes in the U.S. here:
"For security-related devices, where logs are captured, correlated, and stored for future reference, this time change could render them incorrect for situations where they need to be recalled to rebuild a sequence of events. The incorrect timestamps might not be an issue for events that get immediate action. However, in the future, these events would reference incorrect times.
Any device with time-based controls and activities, such as a AAA servers, Content Devices (CEs), cron jobs, and video streaming servers can be impacted and should be checked with the appropriate vendor.
Other examples include calls being logged at the wrong times that could effect call detail reporting and billing information or inaccurate campaign dialing times that result in dialing customers outside FTC allotted time periods, which is a violation of FTC regulations.
Consequently, any device with time-based controls and activities, such as authentication servers, synchronization activities, and scheduled events (that is, batch jobs, timed backups, or automated dialing capabilities or scripts, etc.) that has been configured to use U.S. DST rules would be impacted during the time period when the new U.S. DST rules go into effect, but the old U.S. DST rules are still applied."
After finger works out OK, you can always ask her if it is alright to follow up with some penetration testing. but be sure to setup some port-blocking firewall rules first.
How long will it be before someone gets his guts blown off for holding a cellphone to his ear while walking around an airport? You can pack quite a punch of C4 in one of those. Or will they demand that people strip naked and be cavity-searched then x-rayed before boarding a flight while their clothes are being run over by a remote-operated steamroller in a fortified bunker? Brave new world, bro'.
If one is not so pro-active as you are (basically 99% of the planet--and I include myself) then one probably only has the original Install disk that came with the machine. Good point! This totally obliterates the whole Microsoft excuse for this stealthy update. People who reinstall Windows from original media will have just as much trouble updating their system in the future as those who choose not to install a 'normal' update. The solution? Just tell people to visit the Windows Update site. The system scan will detect the outdated version of Windows Update and offer to install a newer version.
What if the spambots _are_ operated by the terrrorists?
Just think of all the spam buzzing around the world as the shortwave radio spectrum during the Cold War. Hidden somewhere within all that spamfilter-evading filler gibberish and the Viagra / Cialis / junk stock peddling crap could be hidden information not unlike that broadcast by those funky 'number stations', just waiting to be decoded by the 'operatives'.
Other interesting sources:
- Posts to the "alt.test" newsgroup - Steganographically encoded images posted to newsgroups within e.g. the "alt.binaries.erotica.*" hierarchy - Filler text on link farms - Rarely read blogs - Googlewhacks using apparently nonsense search terms resulting in very specific results etc.
I am completely serious. This is totally plausible. So is this: The hinge has cracked because he had to open and close the lid of his laptop a bazillion times to check if that "emerge kde" he started a week ago had finally finished compiling. Obviously a case of wear and tear, not servicable under warranty.
Put the album thumbnails in the.torrent file, and put the images in all their sparkling hi-res glory in the files that make up the download proper. The only thing your site needs is a permanent 'master' seed for each album to make sure that less popular images remain available. Here I assume that people will use a modified client that can show the thumbnails (not implemented yet) and download individual files within a torrent (many slightly less bare-bones clients can do this nowadays).
The rest of you, who buy a $600 item and are so afraid of breaking it that you barely dare touch it, are quite simply strange. ...or quite simply poorer than you are, and can't afford to save up for another half year to buy a replacement in cause of a fsckup. Oh well, maybe we shouldn't drop $600 on a gadget, and instead save the money for when the next medical bill hits the mailbox.
Good point. Watch the documentary "Pirates of Silicon Valley". For example, both Microsoft and Apple 'borrowed' heavily from the WIMP technology[1] of Xerox PARC. While Microsoft (supposedly) admitted this wholeheartedly, Apple kept up its 'prima donna' attitude of presuming to be the greatest computing innovator on the planet.
[1] Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pointer. (Why isn't this in Wikipedia?)
...of grownups playing hide'n'seek and thinking they're the best at it. Then when one gets caught out he throws a tantrum. My advise: Either learn to hide better, like build a (camouflaged) roof over the thing, swap the propeller for a fake while in dock, or better yet, don't hide at all.
As for pictures, anyone can take a few homing pidgeons to a location where the target is in line with their roost, strap tiny cameras to their bellies and let them fly. No big deal, no high tech.
War is overrated anyway, there are more urgent concerns, like how to save the planet and such.
How can you be so sure that the silicon on those dies actually came from the US? Not unlike the current problem of fake drugs, in (embedded) electronics, there have been numerous cases of fake chips. Perfect lettering and logo on the package, performing like 'advertised' on cursory inspection, but containing entirely different hardware, only to be detected by more in-depth testing.
I hope you're not being sarcastic about this, or else I'm sorry for spoiling your joke. Your example is EXACTLY the way a manufacturer can target an individual device, any device that is in the "network data path" for that matter. Put the text of your example in an email message, then consider what will happen when a user retrieves it on a computer containing a 'primed' hard drive (let's assume data is stored unencrypted, for simplicity), and you will see.
Imagine if they put this botnet to a real use, like Seti@Home. They'd be uber-points people in no time. Just imagine a Beowulf clus... never mind.
When this botnet manages to get first post on Slashdot on each and every new article posted for a day, I will take notice. When it manages to get Slashdot Slashdotted, I'll be impressed.
...followed by some AI piggybacked on a windows update which tries to detect 'suspicious behavior' like too much mouse movement near blacklisted words in multiple languages, especially Arabic, or towards areas of the screen showing images of violence, sending real-time updates to the DHS...
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No, he wouldn't. He would claim that the comet is a terrorist and has WMD's. Then he would try to convince Congress to agree to a 3.2 trillion dollar spending bill to shoot it out of the sky before it strikes first.
...running Microsoft Bob, I'd like to add.
Exactly. I was thinking about posting about this not being news when I saw your post. USBIDE adapters are a dime a dozen nowadays. To do something similar to this so-called 'innovation', all you'd need is a few multiplexer chips (74xx something series), a switch, and some hacking/butchering of an existing USB cable/header and some power wires. Heck, I think you could even rig one of those old mechanical KVM switches to do the trick.
Switch position 'A': drive connected to the IDE bus on the mainboard, switch position 'B': drive connected to the USBIDE adapter.
Perhaps if you had phrased it as: "Your analogy blows," it wouldn't have been modded flamebait, at the rist of even fewer people getting the joke.
It is not the sucking (consuming) but the eventual blowing (sharing) of smoke that is the alleged offence here.
LOL!
(no mod points, hence the reply.)
I'm afraid the situation is much more dark and bleak (sorry for the pun) and may ultimately lie with the health insurance companies. Where I live, many of the common procedures have no or very little coverage, even with a full dental plan. Dentures, on the other hand, are fully covered by any basic plan.
Many people (including the biggest names in the IT business) agree that daylight saving changes ARE a security issue. Just do a Google search on "daylight saving security" and you will see. I think that by pushing this issue over the brink, literally, Debian may have caused security problems and possible financial liabilities to many companies and organizations that operate Debian systems (see also my post here. Combined with the fact that Debian _did_ push a similar change to U.S. daylight saving into 'stable' earlier, this may have alienated many people from Debian and its ruthless pursuit of 'policies'.
I disagree. In situations where logfiles are pertinent to the gathering and subsequent presentation of evidens (as in computer forensics, for example), correct timekeeping is essential. You may argue that this still doesn't constitute a security threat, but it remains mission-critical for some applications.
Cisco mentions other issues in a document concerning the 2007 DST changes in the U.S. here:
"For security-related devices, where logs are captured, correlated, and stored for future reference, this time change could render them incorrect for situations where they need to be recalled to rebuild a sequence of events. The incorrect timestamps might not be an issue for events that get immediate action. However, in the future, these events would reference incorrect times.
Any device with time-based controls and activities, such as a AAA servers, Content Devices (CEs), cron jobs, and video streaming servers can be impacted and should be checked with the appropriate vendor.
Other examples include calls being logged at the wrong times that could effect call detail reporting and billing information or inaccurate campaign dialing times that result in dialing customers outside FTC allotted time periods, which is a violation of FTC regulations.
Consequently, any device with time-based controls and activities, such as authentication servers, synchronization activities, and scheduled events (that is, batch jobs, timed backups, or automated dialing capabilities or scripts, etc.) that has been configured to use U.S. DST rules would be impacted during the time period when the new U.S. DST rules go into effect, but the old U.S. DST rules are still applied."
After finger works out OK, you can always ask her if it is alright to follow up with some penetration testing. but be sure to setup some port-blocking firewall rules first.
How long will it be before someone gets his guts blown off for holding a cellphone to his ear while walking around an airport? You can pack quite a punch of C4 in one of those. Or will they demand that people strip naked and be cavity-searched then x-rayed before boarding a flight while their clothes are being run over by a remote-operated steamroller in a fortified bunker?
Brave new world, bro'.
The solution? Just tell people to visit the Windows Update site. The system scan will detect the outdated version of Windows Update and offer to install a newer version.
What if the spambots _are_ operated by the terrrorists?
Just think of all the spam buzzing around the world as the shortwave radio spectrum during the Cold War. Hidden somewhere within all that spamfilter-evading filler gibberish and the Viagra / Cialis / junk stock peddling crap could be hidden information not unlike that broadcast by those funky 'number stations', just waiting to be decoded by the 'operatives'.
Other interesting sources:
- Posts to the "alt.test" newsgroup
- Steganographically encoded images posted to newsgroups within e.g. the "alt.binaries.erotica.*" hierarchy
- Filler text on link farms
- Rarely read blogs
- Googlewhacks using apparently nonsense search terms resulting in very specific results
etc.
He did say he used Gentoo, so...
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How about 'image torrents'?
.torrent file, and put the images in all their sparkling hi-res glory in the files that make up the download proper. The only thing your site needs is a permanent 'master' seed for each album to make sure that less popular images remain available. Here I assume that people will use a modified client that can show the thumbnails (not implemented yet) and download individual files within a torrent (many slightly less bare-bones clients can do this nowadays).
Put the album thumbnails in the
Oh well, maybe we shouldn't drop $600 on a gadget, and instead save the money for when the next medical bill hits the mailbox.
Is an apple still an apple if you take a bite out of it? If you say no to this, then the Apple logo doesn't depict an apple either...
How about an orange?
Good point. Watch the documentary "Pirates of Silicon Valley". For example, both Microsoft and Apple 'borrowed' heavily from the WIMP technology[1] of Xerox PARC. While Microsoft (supposedly) admitted this wholeheartedly, Apple kept up its 'prima donna' attitude of presuming to be the greatest computing innovator on the planet.
[1] Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pointer. (Why isn't this in Wikipedia?)
...of grownups playing hide'n'seek and thinking they're the best at it. Then when one gets caught out he throws a tantrum.
My advise: Either learn to hide better, like build a (camouflaged) roof over the thing, swap the propeller for a fake while in dock, or better yet, don't hide at all.
As for pictures, anyone can take a few homing pidgeons to a location where the target is in line with their roost, strap tiny cameras to their bellies and let them fly. No big deal, no high tech.
War is overrated anyway, there are more urgent concerns, like how to save the planet and such.
The Universe is dying! Netcraft confirms it!
Isn't the free version of LogMeIn a 'hosted' service? Or: who is watching over your shoulder?
For my reply, I'll let my .sig do the talking...
How can you be so sure that the silicon on those dies actually came from the US? Not unlike the current problem of fake drugs, in (embedded) electronics, there have been numerous cases of fake chips. Perfect lettering and logo on the package, performing like 'advertised' on cursory inspection, but containing entirely different hardware, only to be detected by more in-depth testing.
I hope you're not being sarcastic about this, or else I'm sorry for spoiling your joke. Your example is EXACTLY the way a manufacturer can target an individual device, any device that is in the "network data path" for that matter. Put the text of your example in an email message, then consider what will happen when a user retrieves it on a computer containing a 'primed' hard drive (let's assume data is stored unencrypted, for simplicity), and you will see.
When this botnet manages to get first post on Slashdot on each and every new article posted for a day, I will take notice. When it manages to get Slashdot Slashdotted, I'll be impressed.
...followed by some AI piggybacked on a windows update which tries to detect 'suspicious behavior' like too much mouse movement near blacklisted words in multiple languages, especially Arabic, or towards areas of the screen showing images of violence, sending real-time updates to the DHS...