If you object to the presence of the cameras and want to make a (tiny) political statement you can go to the webpage and have a look.
That can result in 2 things:
1) If enough people go there, often enought, it will make the news that either 1) there is an enormous amount of criminals in the area or 2) (more likely) a lot of people object to the presence of the cameras.
or
2) If enought people start avoiding the cameras there is bound to be a quiet place somewhere that will suddenly be flooded with people walking by it. This can also have similar effects as (1).
Either way, it's usefulness is in giving you the ability to make a (tiny) political statement.
The real criminals have, without doubt, figured out their "least surveilled" path long time ago, and are probably just laughing at this whole thing.
Alert Symantec users !! Norton Antivirus etc...
Turns a blind eye on FBI-made viruses.
As a lot of people have found out recently, there is a virus on the loose
that logs whatever you type on your keyboard and periodicly sends it off
to specific email addresses, see (1).
Those that keep their anti-viruses up-to-date haven't had to worry to
much. AV products are stopping this virus dead in the hundreds/thousands
just as you are reading this.
Now, one anti-virus wendor is actually *building in support* for a
specific kind of such viruses. I.e. that will log your keystrokes and
send them to someplece on the internet.
The idea is that FBI will send such viruses to the "bad guys" and learn
all their passwords used to encrypt their evil plans.
But how will it work ? The FBI isn't telling, (so the "bad guys" can't
defend themselves), but logical thinking can tell us a few things.
Since each FBI case is different, it's no-way that every pice of this
virus can be hard-coded (i.e. unchangeable). The FBI will have to have
the ability to change certain things in this virus.
F.ex. where the virus stores your keystrokes before sending them,
and also the email address to send it to.
If it wouldn't be possible to change this, it would be to easy for
the "bad guys" to find out they were beeing 'bugged'.
So, the virus will be in at least 2 parts, program and data, and Symantec
AntiVirus can only check the program-part since the data-part is
always changing.
So what happens when the "bad guys" get their hands on it ? (And they
*will* since the feds will be extremely willing to send them a copy:-)
Somebody will discover this virus on his PC, modify the address to send
the keystrokes to, and send the virus off in email. And it will more
than likely, finally, end up on *your* PC !
Now, think about it. Everything you will type on your keyboard,
your passwords, your credit-card numbers, your name, your address
*everything*, will be sent off to the "bad guys" and Symantec AntiVirus
will just smile and happily keep it's mouth shut about it !
Gives you a nice and warm feeling of security, doesn't it ?
This, unfortunately, is not a joke and it's not a hoax, see (2), (3),
(4) and (5) for more info.
If you disagree with Symantec opening up a security hole on your computer,
so big that you could sail a aircraft carries through it, you should do
something about it.
Sending complains to Symantec is one way to do it, you could go to (6)
and voice your opinion on this matter.
In any case, please inform those that you think should know about this by
forwarding them this letter (I know, this sounds like a standard hoax but
unfortunately it's not, just search the web for yourself)
Do something now, tomorow the contents of your bank-account might not
be there.
Somebody please tell my why the 'blackhats' shouldn't have figured out the bug from this info below
This was posted to BugTraq on the 20th November:
From vulnhelp@securityfocus.com Tue Nov 20 15:18:29 2001
From: Vulnerability Help
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 12:49:47 -0700 (MST)
To:
Subject: Vendors For WU-FTPD Please Read
Heya all,
The SecurityFocus Vulnerability Help Team is in the process of notifying
vendors of a remotely exploitable problem in WU-FTPD . Rather than miss
any vendors we are asking vendors which read Bugtraq and ship WU-FTPD
either as a default package or a ports package to please mail us your
relevant security contact information (with a PGP key please). The WU-FTPD
has been notified already.
Cheers,
SecurityFocus
Vulnerability Help Team
So, only the 'good guys' are supposed to know what the bug is, huh ? And the rest of us has just to sit there as ducks on water ?
It has been shown before that's enough to state that *there is a bug*, and somebody will find it. And it only takes one 14 year old...
No, seriously, do it !
Print it out and hand it on the wall, then put a post-it note on top of it saying : "The best example of 'blaiming the messenger' ever !!!"
A friend sat down with me and helped me install slackware from a bunch of 5.25" floppyes..
The most used commands during my first year were "man" and "vi", and still today it's those I most frequently use. My advice to those who realy want to become Unix/Network/Security admins: read, read a lot, and study how the system realy works, so when things go wrong, you know where and what the problem is.
Oh, and *never*, *ever* reboot a system just to se if the problem goeas away... Instead use the opportunity to learn some new stuff.
If the AMD enginers can design a 'processor' that detects what application is running, *and* cheats on the performance, then Intel doesn't have a showballs change in hell.
As long as I am mayor of this city [Jersey City, New Jersey] the great
industries are secure. We hear about constitutional rights, free speech
and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, "That
man is a Red, that man is a Communist". You never hear a real American
talk like that.
-- Frank Hague, 1896-1956
I *don't* want someone else to filter my news. I read Swedish newspapers [aftonbladet.se], American newspapers [cnn.com], independant newspapers [indymedia.org] and _I_ then judge based on lots of facts and opinions what I want to believe in.
You should talk to Jim Allchin, he has some non-biased views on open source and he's an industry leader.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-4833927.html
This has to be a coincidence;-)
The article is about Microsoft blasting open source, and on the right side I get an ad from Gartner group saying "Need to control your IT costs ?" and some guy holding a pice of paper begging for "more money";-)
Should the virus scanning-and-removal also be delayed until the end user receives the mail ?
What is the difference anyway, UCE or Viruses, both are unwanted (the 'U' in UCE) and eat up bot the users and the ISPs resources, time/disk space/cpu/bandwith.
I came to work once, and was greeted by 13000 bounces in my mailbox, somebody had discovered a client's open sendmail who forwarded everything to our backup MX server, who then sent it to the promary MX, who happily processed it;-(
Those who deliberatly run open mail-relays deserve to be either blacklisted by MAPS or simply shot.
What we need, and now more than ever, are laws that bind the police/FBI/CIA/NSA/whoever, to disclose all information on surveilance/monitoring to any and all persons who were subject to it, immediately when the the investigation is closed, and no longer than 5 years after it took place.
along with the precision-bomb photos, and satellite shots
I guess the illusion of "surgical strikes" can now be put into the dustbin.
The US airforce just blew up the United Nations building, close to Kabul in afghanistan.
But strangely, I can't find a word about it on US websites ??
The closest is This article but it doesn't mention a word about that the people were in the UN building outside Kabul.
When you make a request do download blabla.html, the web server makes a conneciton to the server that serves the ads to see if your IP address has downloaded/gci/ads?ad12345&UniqueID. If it doesn't receive a response in 30 secs, it assumes that you didn't download the ad and you don't get to download blabla.html.
Artistic freedom would be inventing your
own theme that was as creative and unique as Aqua, not implimenting a copy of someone else's creative content on
another system.
People have always had their 'opinions' on what should be called 'art'.
When Van Gogh and the other impressionists started painting, the cultural-elite stated that since it didn't involve months and months of work, it realy wasn't art at all.
And now you are stating that since it imitades something that already exists, it isn't art ??
Slashdot Mirror
Remember: freedom is about having choices, and then choosing.
If you object to the presence of the cameras and want to make a (tiny) political statement you can go to the webpage and have a look.
That can result in 2 things:
1) If enough people go there, often enought, it will make the news that either 1) there is an enormous amount of criminals in the area or 2) (more likely) a lot of people object to the presence of the cameras.
or
2) If enought people start avoiding the cameras there is bound to be a quiet place somewhere that will suddenly be flooded with people walking by it. This can also have similar effects as (1).
Either way, it's usefulness is in giving you the ability to make a (tiny) political statement.
The real criminals have, without doubt, figured out their "least surveilled" path long time ago, and are probably just laughing at this whole thing.
what did you expect ?
Subject: Magic Lantern and you.
Alert Symantec users !! Norton Antivirus etc
Turns a blind eye on FBI-made viruses.
As a lot of people have found out recently, there is a virus on the loose
that logs whatever you type on your keyboard and periodicly sends it off
to specific email addresses, see (1).
Those that keep their anti-viruses up-to-date haven't had to worry to
much. AV products are stopping this virus dead in the hundreds/thousands
just as you are reading this.
Now, one anti-virus wendor is actually *building in support* for a
specific kind of such viruses. I.e. that will log your keystrokes and
send them to someplece on the internet.
The idea is that FBI will send such viruses to the "bad guys" and learn
all their passwords used to encrypt their evil plans.
But how will it work ? The FBI isn't telling, (so the "bad guys" can't
defend themselves), but logical thinking can tell us a few things.
Since each FBI case is different, it's no-way that every pice of this
virus can be hard-coded (i.e. unchangeable). The FBI will have to have
the ability to change certain things in this virus.
F.ex. where the virus stores your keystrokes before sending them,
and also the email address to send it to.
If it wouldn't be possible to change this, it would be to easy for
the "bad guys" to find out they were beeing 'bugged'.
So, the virus will be in at least 2 parts, program and data, and Symantec
AntiVirus can only check the program-part since the data-part is
always changing.
So what happens when the "bad guys" get their hands on it ? (And they
*will* since the feds will be extremely willing to send them a copy
Somebody will discover this virus on his PC, modify the address to send
the keystrokes to, and send the virus off in email. And it will more
than likely, finally, end up on *your* PC !
Now, think about it. Everything you will type on your keyboard,
your passwords, your credit-card numbers, your name, your address
*everything*, will be sent off to the "bad guys" and Symantec AntiVirus
will just smile and happily keep it's mouth shut about it !
Gives you a nice and warm feeling of security, doesn't it ?
This, unfortunately, is not a joke and it's not a hoax, see (2), (3),
(4) and (5) for more info.
If you disagree with Symantec opening up a security hole on your computer,
so big that you could sail a aircraft carries through it, you should do
something about it.
Sending complains to Symantec is one way to do it, you could go to (6)
and voice your opinion on this matter.
In any case, please inform those that you think should know about this by
forwarding them this letter (I know, this sounds like a standard hoax but
unfortunately it's not, just search the web for yourself)
Do something now, tomorow the contents of your bank-account might not
be there.
References:
1) http://www.cert.org/incident_notes/IN-2001-14.htm
2) http://www.politechbot.com/p-02851.html
3) http://cryptome.org/fbi-dirt.htm
4) http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/23057.htm
5) http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/28/17320
6) http://www.symantec.com/feedback/comment.html
Somebody please tell my why the 'blackhats' shouldn't have figured out the bug from this info below
This was posted to BugTraq on the 20th November:
From vulnhelp@securityfocus.com Tue Nov 20 15:18:29 2001
...
From: Vulnerability Help
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 12:49:47 -0700 (MST)
To:
Subject: Vendors For WU-FTPD Please Read
Heya all,
The SecurityFocus Vulnerability Help Team is in the process of notifying
vendors of a remotely exploitable problem in WU-FTPD . Rather than miss
any vendors we are asking vendors which read Bugtraq and ship WU-FTPD
either as a default package or a ports package to please mail us your
relevant security contact information (with a PGP key please). The WU-FTPD
has been notified already.
Cheers,
SecurityFocus
Vulnerability Help Team
So, only the 'good guys' are supposed to know what the bug is, huh ? And the rest of us has just to sit there as ducks on water ?
It has been shown before that's enough to state that *there is a bug*, and somebody will find it. And it only takes one 14 year old
No, seriously, do it !
Print it out and hand it on the wall, then put a post-it note on top of it saying : "The best example of 'blaiming the messenger' ever !!!"
How does the Google Cache avoid legal entanglements, both for stuff like cc numbers and copyright/trademark infringement?
Huh, ? Maby because it isn't illegal at all ?
Think about it, where does it say it's illegal ?
A friend sat down with me and helped me install slackware from a bunch of 5.25" floppyes
The most used commands during my first year were "man" and "vi", and still today it's those I most frequently use.
My advice to those who realy want to become Unix/Network/Security admins: read, read a lot, and study how the system realy works, so when things go wrong, you know where and what the problem is.
Oh, and *never*, *ever* reboot a system just to se if the problem goeas away... Instead use the opportunity to learn some new stuff.
I am displeased to see so many of you people replying and asking why this would be a good idea.
The point is that this is *l337*. *That* is the point.
Somehow I'm sure I could find a similar phrase in a "famous last words" collection somewhere ;-)
IBM is already running 15000+ linux servers (seperate kernel and all) on a single iron
If the AMD enginers can design a 'processor' that detects what application is running, *and* cheats on the performance, then Intel doesn't have a showballs change in hell.
Next: Ballmer says Amazon is run by Communists !
As long as I am mayor of this city [Jersey City, New Jersey] the great
industries are secure. We hear about constitutional rights, free speech
and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, "That
man is a Red, that man is a Communist". You never hear a real American
talk like that.
-- Frank Hague, 1896-1956
I agree that information has to get out there,
This is something that everybody needs to read right now: http://cryptome.org/dont-panic.htm
Then you should also read this!
Somebody should give this guy a medal !
From a retired military weapons, munitions, and training expert : The truth about Bio/Terror/Chem Weapons.
You should talk to Jim Allchin, he has some non-biased views on open source and he's an industry leader.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-4833927.html
This has to be a coincidence ;-)
The article is about Microsoft blasting open source, and on the right side I get an ad from Gartner group saying "Need to control your IT costs ?" and some guy holding a pice of paper begging for "more money" ;-)
Should the virus scanning-and-removal also be delayed until the end user receives the mail ?
What is the difference anyway, UCE or Viruses, both are unwanted (the 'U' in UCE) and eat up bot the users and the ISPs resources, time/disk space/cpu/bandwith.
I came to work once, and was greeted by 13000 bounces in my mailbox, somebody had discovered a client's open sendmail who forwarded everything to our backup MX server, who then sent it to the promary MX, who happily processed it ;-(
Those who deliberatly run open mail-relays deserve to be either blacklisted by MAPS or simply shot.
What we need, and now more than ever, are laws that bind the police/FBI/CIA/NSA/whoever, to disclose all information on surveilance/monitoring to any and all persons who were subject to it, immediately when the the investigation is closed, and no longer than 5 years after it took place.
That is in the interest of the people.
Will the hottest T-shirt at thinkgeek.com in 2003 be "Legalize Linux" ?
Bytes per second != bits per second
Somebody please correct the story.
along with the precision-bomb photos, and satellite shots
I guess the illusion of "surgical strikes" can now be put into the dustbin.
The US airforce just blew up the United Nations building, close to Kabul in afghanistan.
But strangely, I can't find a word about it on US websites ??
The closest is This article but it doesn't mention a word about that the people were in the UN building outside Kabul.
I hope they lift the Estonia next. And expose the Swedish role and responsability in the "accident".
When you make a request do download blabla.html, the web server makes a conneciton to the server that serves the ads to see if your IP address has downloaded /gci/ads?ad12345&UniqueID. If it doesn't receive a response in 30 secs, it assumes that you didn't download the ad and you don't get to download blabla.html.
This is already beeing done ...
Artistic freedom would be inventing your own theme that was as creative and unique as Aqua, not implimenting a copy of someone else's creative content on another system.
People have always had their 'opinions' on what should be called 'art'.
When Van Gogh and the other impressionists started painting, the cultural-elite stated that since it didn't involve months and months of work, it realy wasn't art at all.
And now you are stating that since it imitades something that already exists, it isn't art ??