It's illegal to distribute circumvention tools.
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> If you own the copyright then surely all you have to do is give yourself permission to circumvent the protection mechanism and gain access.
Of course you can... but here's the catch: there's nowhere you can get the tools to do so. Indeed, as these tools can possibly be used to circumvent, their distribution is forbidden. So, unless you are not only a musicer, but also a good programmer, capable of writing your own tools, you are effectively banned from circumventing the protection mechanism. See this post for more details
Yes, but you did warn them, so that should get you off the hook. Oh, and if you're so concerned about getting sued, use the name of your favorite ennemy...
But did she actually die in the incident? Oh, btw, congrats for not getting any RHAT shares back in summer 1999: this did net you $800 after all is missed losses, no that it plummetted to $6 (pre-split $12).
> loads of posts from comp.dcom.modems.cable have been cancelled
Dejanews archives most of Usenet, and as far as I know, doesn't honor cancels... You can look up a message by its message id on this page. The message id is right there in the Cancel Request control message.
If anybody knows the URL where those documents used to be, he still can get them from google:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.somehost. org/localpath
not, the one for ordering books. So he would not have been able to pull this stunt.
You can create a hotmail address with just an IP
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It doesn't ask for any other E-mail address when you register (at least it didn't last time I created a hotmail account). Which means that you can create that hotmail account through an anonymizing Web proxy, or from a "pay cash" cybercafe, or from one of those free and unattended "Internet kiosks" that you find in supermarket, without leaving any identifying info at all. Once you have an e-mail address, this opens you the door to lots of other services which require a verified address.
invest in the RHAT IPO right from the start. While Mrsam now has plenty of Moolah, I had some last year, but lost all of my wins during the Corel, Lnux and Rhat debacles between December and April. Had I been kicked as well, I'd have a healthy loot. Well, that's life. One day you win, the next you lose.
The 8-1 vote was about whether the Supremes would take the case at all or not. It has nothing, but really nothing at all to do with the final vote, and we may very well see 4-4 eventually, or even 0-8 for that matter. Even anti Microsoft judges may have good reasons for not taking the case now:
If the case went all the way from first instance, to appeals to Supreme court, it will be stronger than if it was rushed straight to the Supremes
Even an obviously guilty company such as MSFT still has a right to fair trial, rahter than a rush job.
The lower courts will hash out a certain number of the many open issues, leaving "less work" to the Supreme Court later.
Love is my sin and thy dear virtue hate,
Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving:
O, but with mine compare thou thine own state,
And thou shalt find it merits not reproving;
Or, if it do, not from those lips of thine,
That have profaned their scarlet ornaments
And seal'd false bonds of love as oft as mine,
Robb'd others' beds' revenues of their rents.
Be it lawful I love thee, as thou lovest those
Whom thine eyes woo as mine importune thee: Root pity in thy heart, that when it grows
Thy pity may deserve to pitied be.
If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide,
By self-example mayst thou be denied!
> Sun's controversial little kit takes open source Linux drivers and converts them into Solaris binaries.
To me this sounds like the definition of a compiler. Ok, so maybe it does a bunch of additional magic to convert the API's, but nothing to get our panties in a knot over.
Sure, an unscrupulous party could use this to "compile" an open source Linux driver into a Solaris binary, and "forget" to ship the source with it, but the same is true for any compiler. So what's the problem with this? If we attack Sun for this, we should also surrender to the MPAA, because admittedly DeCSS could be used for infringment.
> To his surprise, the kit used the Linux eepro100 and Tulip network drivers as examples. Becker wrote those drivers. Sun never asked his permission to convert them to Solaris binaries.
Again, what's the problem? That's just as if an application developer complainted that sb compiled his app for an Alpha, whereas he had developped it on an Intel. Nobody does the GPL say (or intend) that applications should only be run on the platform that they were developped for. If that was the case, we would be hypocrites for denying the MPAA the right to restrict their movies to the Windows platform (or to a given regions).
> Now Perens has ruled, or should one say opined, that Sun is perfectly within its legal rights -
... and I'd say, they're within their moral rights too.
> If I were a security firm charged with taking money from banks and transferring it to a safe location every evening, would it be sane for me to hire a bunch of convicted bank robbers to do it?
They shouldn't, but unfortunately, many do. Indeed, who else would want to work such a dangerous job with so little pay? Problem: occasionnally this backfires. Recently, a security firm around here was robbed. The perps did know very well how to do it, where the weak points were, were the cash was kept etc. Turned out, they were former employees, who were fired just weeks before...
More info here. That's dated August 17th, so given the usual lead times of dead-tree publications, it makes sense that it appeared in this week's edition.
One year? That is a helluva lot of time. Melissa and I love you were discovered within days,
if not hours. Every single computer will have been cleaned before your virus activates...
unless...
you make yours much more discrete than Melissa and Iluvu. Do not mail yourself to every address book entry. No, just hook yourself into MAPI, and silently infect outgoing messages which the user sends. But only do it if the intended receiver has Outlook too (easy to find out by scanning the inbox and the archive for the last message by that user and looking at its headers). Even with this slow spread, one week should be enough to acquire a sizeable target market. One day before activation, go into "fast mode", and fire off automatic messages to all users who recently mailed us, and who have outlook. Subject would be Re: Subject of last received messages. Text would be entire quoted text of last received message. And then, let that puppy bark.
... an Outlook+Word worm that uploads every document from the local C: drive, and from any shared network drives to a Web site. Or better: that posts them to Usenet (pointing a Worm to Web site is stoopid, as
the web site can be shut down too easily
it gives away your identity
).
Or even better: only upload those documents that contain the words company confidential, for internal use only, trade secret or series of long numbers that look like bank account numbers. That way, you make better use of bandwidth.
Ouch, that would hurt. Better buy those MSFT puts right away...
Technically someone could build a program based on fast save that could delete each layer one by one and "turn back the clock"
I've heard that it was as easy as opening the document and repeatedly clicking undo..., no special program needed... Sorry, I cannot doublecheck it though, as I'm at home right now, on a Linux box;-)
finger? To a box which is probably an MS-Windows (tm) PC? I'd like to see that. A far better bet would be if you somehow sniffed out their network beforehand, and have the info that you gathered ready in a text file or a DB of your own.
However, would a company that is so insecure as to allow such intrusive sniffing from outside security concious enough to adequately value your superior security skills?
This weeks' Computerbild has a story about a new virus sniffing SBS (a Swiss bank) e-banking usernames and passwords using a similar technique. This is scary stuff, as real money is involved. Wanna bet that this e-banking service was marketed as "100% secure, because Bill Gates himself said so"?
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Of course you can... but here's the catch: there's nowhere you can get the tools to do so. Indeed, as these tools can possibly be used to circumvent, their distribution is forbidden. So, unless you are not only a musicer, but also a good programmer, capable of writing your own tools, you are effectively banned from circumventing the protection mechanism. See this post for more details
Yes, but you did warn them, so that should get you off the hook. Oh, and if you're so concerned about getting sued, use the name of your favorite ennemy...
But did she actually die in the incident? Oh, btw, congrats for not getting any RHAT shares back in summer 1999: this did net you $800 after all is missed losses, no that it plummetted to $6 (pre-split $12).
What if the technique misfires, and brings the asteroid on a much more disastrous course than it is now? Like, a 30% chance of a collision in 2010 ?
Dejanews archives most of Usenet, and as far as I know, doesn't honor cancels... You can look up a message by its message id on this page. The message id is right there in the Cancel Request control message.
If anybody knows the URL where those documents used to be, he still can get them from google:. org/localpath
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.somehost
penguin... no, into a rabbit, ... no into a frog, no into an elephant!
not, the one for ordering books. So he would not have been able to pull this stunt.
It doesn't ask for any other E-mail address when you register (at least it didn't last time I created a hotmail account). Which means that you can create that hotmail account through an anonymizing Web proxy, or from a "pay cash" cybercafe, or from one of those free and unattended "Internet kiosks" that you find in supermarket, without leaving any identifying info at all. Once you have an e-mail address, this opens you the door to lots of other services which require a verified address.
Nope, the third line has a few s's thrown in:
ha hahsa hsahs ashas ah hsha hhha h aha hha hhaaha hahahahahaha ah a ahahahahahahahah ahahahah ahah
invest in the RHAT IPO right from the start. While Mrsam now has plenty of Moolah, I had some last year, but lost all of my wins during the Corel, Lnux and Rhat debacles between December and April. Had I been kicked as well, I'd have a healthy loot. Well, that's life. One day you win, the next you lose.
mother itself. It's already been weeks since it's extinct and gone.
... which self-respecting hacker would work in a bank? Boring job, lousy pay, and Anderson Consultants all over the place...
Why didn't they just say forty-too then? A much nicer number.
Love is my sin and thy dear virtue hate,
Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving:
O, but with mine compare thou thine own state,
And thou shalt find it merits not reproving;
Or, if it do, not from those lips of thine,
That have profaned their scarlet ornaments
And seal'd false bonds of love as oft as mine,
Robb'd others' beds' revenues of their rents.
Be it lawful I love thee, as thou lovest those
Whom thine eyes woo as mine importune thee:
Root pity in thy heart, that when it grows
Thy pity may deserve to pitied be.
If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide,
By self-example mayst thou be denied!
To me this sounds like the definition of a compiler. Ok, so maybe it does a bunch of additional magic to convert the API's, but nothing to get our panties in a knot over.
Sure, an unscrupulous party could use this to "compile" an open source Linux driver into a Solaris binary, and "forget" to ship the source with it, but the same is true for any compiler. So what's the problem with this? If we attack Sun for this, we should also surrender to the MPAA, because admittedly DeCSS could be used for infringment.
> To his surprise, the kit used the Linux eepro100 and Tulip network drivers as examples. Becker wrote those drivers. Sun never asked his permission to convert them to Solaris binaries.
Again, what's the problem? That's just as if an application developer complainted that sb compiled his app for an Alpha, whereas he had developped it on an Intel. Nobody does the GPL say (or intend) that applications should only be run on the platform that they were developped for. If that was the case, we would be hypocrites for denying the MPAA the right to restrict their movies to the Windows platform (or to a given regions).
> Now Perens has ruled, or should one say opined, that Sun is perfectly within its legal rights -
That link was even in the original story...
They shouldn't, but unfortunately, many do. Indeed, who else would want to work such a dangerous job with so little pay? Problem: occasionnally this backfires. Recently, a security firm around here was robbed. The perps did know very well how to do it, where the weak points were, were the cash was kept etc. Turned out, they were former employees, who were fired just weeks before...
More info here. That's dated August 17th, so given the usual lead times of dead-tree publications, it makes sense that it appeared in this week's edition.
One year? That is a helluva lot of time. Melissa and I love you were discovered within days, if not hours. Every single computer will have been cleaned before your virus activates...
unless...
you make yours much more discrete than Melissa and Iluvu. Do not mail yourself to every address book entry. No, just hook yourself into MAPI, and silently infect outgoing messages which the user sends. But only do it if the intended receiver has Outlook too (easy to find out by scanning the inbox and the archive for the last message by that user and looking at its headers). Even with this slow spread, one week should be enough to acquire a sizeable target market. One day before activation, go into "fast mode", and fire off automatic messages to all users who recently mailed us, and who have outlook. Subject would be Re: Subject of last received messages. Text would be entire quoted text of last received message. And then, let that puppy bark.
- the web site can be shut down too easily
- it gives away your identity
). Or even better: only upload those documents that contain the words company confidential, for internal use only, trade secret or series of long numbers that look like bank account numbers. That way, you make better use of bandwidth.Ouch, that would hurt. Better buy those MSFT puts right away...
I've heard that it was as easy as opening the document and repeatedly clicking undo..., no special program needed... Sorry, I cannot doublecheck it though, as I'm at home right now, on a Linux box ;-)
However, would a company that is so insecure as to allow such intrusive sniffing from outside security concious enough to adequately value your superior security skills?
This weeks' Computerbild has a story about a new virus sniffing SBS (a Swiss bank) e-banking usernames and passwords using a similar technique. This is scary stuff, as real money is involved. Wanna bet that this e-banking service was marketed as "100% secure, because Bill Gates himself said so"?