Yes it does. Since the applet only runs within the context of a given page makes it spyware unfriendly.
Spyware generally sits in the backround gathering information on what you do. Since applets are limited to one page this eliminates spyware possiblities.
An applet can only communicate with the server it originated from also. (Unless you click those grant permission things) This also makes it difficult send information to spyware hq.
Generally applets have little if any information about the page they reside on.
If you make a call the details are recorded by the phone company anyway!
You wouldn't be able to make an anonymous call anymore, because even public phones would have to be unblocked.
Wrong and irrelevent. Its the numbers that are whitelisted to everyone. You could request the number to be unblocked for a genuine reason. and,one hopes, comreg will make an intellegent decision to unblock it. It not being a premium 4/min number would probably be their first criteria. You can then go about your shady activities on a public phone with your handfulls of euro coins.
Of course, there's always the question 'Why would you want to make an anonymous call'
(figures are only for demonstration purposes)
Population of ireland around 4 million.
Amount of phone calls to these tiny islands [fuck all]
amount of genuine calls to these islands [fuck all]/80
amount of genuine calls to these islands that need to be made anonymously [fuck all]/80/80
So in summary there is not going to be many people affected by this.
Mods: parent doesn't have a clue what he is talking about b4 u mod me flamebait
I totally agree with comreg.
The vast majority of these phone calls are intended to rip the customer off.
As an interesting thought,
now with direct dialling gone, will you have to use the operator to get all those seedy 3.50 / minute sex lines in the Sunday World newspaper:). Cause that would be interesting to explain to the operator!
I doubt that this will have any impact on those dialers. What was the research done to determine that most of these dialers are infact dialing to South Pacific islands?
Of course it will. If the dialers can't dial these numbers the custoemr can't get ripped off.
Numerous complaints about these charges to Eircom (Our countries defacto telecomunications monopoly) have been ignored. Many customers have been left out of pocket. Thats why the usually toothless ComReg has taken action.
The best way, as a starter, would be to educate Joe average how harmful these dialers can be, and instead of going on blocking direct dialing to specific zones, wouldn't it also help much better if the user knew how to recognize, avoid, detect and eliminate such scams?
The people tha have been ripped off are generally not the tech savvy kind. They are not going to listen to this "education" anymore than they listen to traffic laws. Generally people will only care about it after they have been done over. These trojan dialers go to great lengths to conceal their presence.
Yes and they also mentioned that this wasn't as big a deal as people think.
For one the the valid credit cards numbers will be rapidly be made useless as 3rd parties use them and they are cancelled. The bottom line is very few customers will be liable for any of these fraudulent transactions.
The majority of the credit card numbers are on semi underground script kiddy sites. Where they are posted to gain cred or access to pr0n. I'd like to bet that most of these are invalid or the product of a credit card number generator.
Lastly this article implies (and a number of posters here) that the credit card numbersfound are the result of carelessness by credit card holders on the web and therfor it is their own fault. This is not the case. Google did not expose any mass stupidity by internet users, it simply exposed some of the sites that havest credit card numbers.
Siemens shares were up 0.35 percent at 56.50 euros ($68) in late trading on the Frankfurt exchange.
Looks like phones that make you deaf are a winner with the shareholders!
I think you are understating the differences in regional dialects and accents.
I live in Ireland a reletivly small country and I have sometimes have difficulty understanding people from different regions!
Its already here. WPA uses AES (implimented using the Rinjdeal or however its spelt,algorithm). FYI there was nothing seriously wrong with the encryption in WEP. RC4 is a strong algorithm.
However the poor key exchange and flawed generation of Initilisation vectors within WEP are the cause of the flaws. The algorithm itself is solid.
For all intents and purposes WEP would be just as insecure if it used AES insted of RC4.
Thats exactilly it.
Check out microsoft's response to the PC World article. IMHO the treat is exagerated. The malicious program would already have to have bypassed the security features to interfere with the security panel.
X in Windows?
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What I'd really like to see is some support for X type connections in the next version of windows. I don't mean basing all of windows on X11 but perhaps allow remote windows sessions that are native. Not based on screen redraws like VNC.
Some of the things in java are terribly verbose. especially when going to design GUIs.
Using the language you just "feel" as if there should be an easier way.
I'm no fan of microsofts products but I think C# is an excellent language to program in. It addresses alot of Java's shortcomings and it is a joy to program in.
I want to be a SIM person!
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Are they doing the merchandise yet?
I want to get one of those green diamond things above my head!
Ìf you did RTFA you would see that the virus was a proof of concept released on an antivirus newsgroup.
In other words these people have discovered the problem and given it some publicity by making a basicly useless virus. Their intent is not malicious
Its like the first virus for the.NET platform. It existed just because it could.
Well I'm sure its a concern when they are trying to cause stack overflows and the like. Since the memory is shifted around in bigger chuncks they will have to readadjust their code to pump more useless data to reach the memory address they want.
Many exploits / worms are made with specific memory locations in mind inorder to inject malicious code into them.
I think if you are stupid enough to submit one of those papers without knowing anything about the subject there is a good chance you will be caught.
If you are quized about part of the paper you are supposed to have written and can't answer basic questions... Well you deserve what you get..
This is not the worst kind.
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I have also seen sites that advertise (for greater expense) to write papers individually for you.
These (if they are individually written) will NOT be caught by any technical means. Its still down to the professor/lecturer to make a judgment based on the persons grades.
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Yes it does. Since the applet only runs within the context of a given page makes it spyware unfriendly. Spyware generally sits in the backround gathering information on what you do. Since applets are limited to one page this eliminates spyware possiblities. An applet can only communicate with the server it originated from also. (Unless you click those grant permission things) This also makes it difficult send information to spyware hq. Generally applets have little if any information about the page they reside on.
Thats some really good ideas! I especially like that referer one.
Oh dear....
,one hopes, comreg will make an intellegent decision to unblock it. It not being a premium 4 /min number would probably be their first criteria. You can then go about your shady activities on a public phone with your handfulls of euro coins.
/80
/80 /80
If you make a call the details are recorded by the phone company anyway!
You wouldn't be able to make an anonymous call anymore, because even public phones would have to be unblocked.
Wrong and irrelevent. Its the numbers that are whitelisted to everyone. You could request the number to be unblocked for a genuine reason. and
Of course, there's always the question 'Why would you want to make an anonymous call'
(figures are only for demonstration purposes)
Population of ireland around 4 million.
Amount of phone calls to these tiny islands [fuck all]
amount of genuine calls to these islands [fuck all]
amount of genuine calls to these islands that need to be made anonymously [fuck all]
So in summary there is not going to be many people affected by this.
Mods: parent doesn't have a clue what he is talking about b4 u mod me flamebait
I totally agree with comreg. :). Cause that would be interesting to explain to the operator!
The vast majority of these phone calls are intended to rip the customer off.
As an interesting thought, now with direct dialling gone, will you have to use the operator to get all those seedy 3.50 / minute sex lines in the Sunday World newspaper
I doubt that this will have any impact on those dialers. What was the research done to determine that most of these dialers are infact dialing to South Pacific islands?
Of course it will. If the dialers can't dial these numbers the custoemr can't get ripped off.
Numerous complaints about these charges to Eircom (Our countries defacto telecomunications monopoly) have been ignored. Many customers have been left out of pocket. Thats why the usually toothless ComReg has taken action.
The best way, as a starter, would be to educate Joe average how harmful these dialers can be, and instead of going on blocking direct dialing to specific zones, wouldn't it also help much better if the user knew how to recognize, avoid, detect and eliminate such scams?
The people tha have been ripped off are generally not the tech savvy kind. They are not going to listen to this "education" anymore than they listen to traffic laws. Generally people will only care about it after they have been done over. These trojan dialers go to great lengths to conceal their presence.
See also Ireland offline for more info.
fdc9e07d05ed33212e41456b7b9c155e ?
This is the name for the British surveilance system.
More info here
Yes and they also mentioned that this wasn't as big a deal as people think.
For one the the valid credit cards numbers will be rapidly be made useless as 3rd parties use them and they are cancelled. The bottom line is very few customers will be liable for any of these fraudulent transactions.
The majority of the credit card numbers are on semi underground script kiddy sites. Where they are posted to gain cred or access to pr0n. I'd like to bet that most of these are invalid or the product of a credit card number generator.
Lastly this article implies (and a number of posters here) that the credit card numbersfound are the result of carelessness by credit card holders on the web and therfor it is their own fault. This is not the case. Google did not expose any mass stupidity by internet users, it simply exposed some of the sites that havest credit card numbers.
Not unless it was written and tested with SMP support....
Siemens shares were up 0.35 percent at 56.50 euros ($68) in late trading on the Frankfurt exchange.
Looks like phones that make you deaf are a winner with the shareholders!
I'm sure if he intentionally skipped bail it wouldn't be to a country that it would be easy to get extradited from :)
I think you are understating the differences in regional dialects and accents.
I live in Ireland a reletivly small country and I have sometimes have difficulty understanding people from different regions!
Its already here.
WPA uses AES (implimented using the Rinjdeal or however its spelt,algorithm). FYI there was nothing seriously wrong with the encryption in WEP. RC4 is a strong algorithm.
However the poor key exchange and flawed generation of Initilisation vectors within WEP are the cause of the flaws. The algorithm itself is solid.
For all intents and purposes WEP would be just as insecure if it used AES insted of RC4.
Thats exactilly it.
Check out microsoft's response to the PC World article.
IMHO the treat is exagerated. The malicious program would already have to have bypassed the security features to interfere with the security panel.
What I'd really like to see is some support for X type connections in the next version of windows. I don't mean basing all of windows on X11 but perhaps allow remote windows sessions that are native. Not based on screen redraws like VNC.
Select Extrans from the drop down box :)
The there is the old trick of putting html in the middle of dodgey words.
Like: viag<!--xyz -->ra
Yes and aparently there are 600,426,974,379,824,381,951 different ways to spell viagra!
;)
Will your algorithm do it with polynomial complexity
Some of the things in java are terribly verbose. especially when going to design GUIs.
Using the language you just "feel" as if there should be an easier way.
I'm no fan of microsofts products but I think C# is an excellent language to program in. It addresses alot of Java's shortcomings and it is a joy to program in.
Are they doing the merchandise yet?
I want to get one of those green diamond things above my head!
Ìf you did RTFA you would see that the virus was a proof of concept released on an antivirus newsgroup. .NET platform. It existed just because it could.
In other words these people have discovered the problem and given it some publicity by making a basicly useless virus. Their intent is not malicious
Its like the first virus for the
Well I'm sure its a concern when they are trying to cause stack overflows and the like.
Since the memory is shifted around in bigger chuncks they will have to readadjust their code to pump more useless data to reach the memory address they want.
Many exploits / worms are made with specific memory locations in mind inorder to inject malicious code into them.
Put a fork it it, Its done.
Those jokes are tired my man. Get some new material!
I think if you are stupid enough to submit one of those papers without knowing anything about the subject there is a good chance you will be caught.
If you are quized about part of the paper you are supposed to have written and can't answer basic questions... Well you deserve what you get..
I have also seen sites that advertise (for greater expense) to write papers individually for you. These (if they are individually written) will NOT be caught by any technical means. Its still down to the professor/lecturer to make a judgment based on the persons grades.