Calling it a Microsoft worm is really a distortion, and it's the kind of thing that can damage the credibility of the author.
And what is being distorted ? Truth ?
Until worms start to propagate efficiently on other platforms, this problem is strictly limited to Microsoft products and calling it "Microsoft worm" is a reflection of reality.
Where's the artistic expression in a pixel to pixel copy?
I think there has been some misunderstanding here. The guy did NOT copy anything that was Apples
He merely created a Aqua-like theme for Linux and Unix (see http://www.simweb.net/eric/projects/).
As I understood his comments, he was only pointing it out that Apple is all to happy to take input from the community, but doesn't allow the same community the freedom of artistic expression.
You don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy, any more than you do about where you go when you leave your house or who you send letters to. That's just the nature of public actions... they're not private.
I do agree with that to a certain degree, but...
What frightens me is that the *police* expects/demands that their actions are private.
Have a look at This story
"The preamble to the law said electronic devices are a danger to the privacy of all citizens. This
case turns that notion on its head because here
we had an individual trying to protect himself from a misdeed on the part of public officials and he's the one who ends up being arrested for it and prosecuted,"
Yes kiddies, this is what a troll looks like...
Darn,, where are those mod points when you realy need them......
Re:Zimmermann is either a pussy or an idiot
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Blaming Encryption
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· Score: 2
As an answer to 1):
No, we would likely also have nukes and lightbulbs if Edison and Einstein hadn't done their part. But PRZ is one of the Pioneers that did enourmous amount of work to bring the technology into our hands, and in a form wo could trust (with sourcecode).
Einstein did also have trouble sleeping at night after "The Bomb", even thought his part was only to write a letter to the president saying that it would be theoreticly possible to create such a thing.
2): No, but Zimmermann knows that China and other countries have already stated that they also want access to the escrov keys, to fight crimes and terrorists. And it's quite likely that they will get it. Resulting in still more human-rights abuses.
This looks like something that happened a few years ago where I was working.
If the driver sets the card to 4MBits (The token ring cards have different speeds) the whole ring will pop into 4 Mb/s and the ring will crash as a result.
It was at a.gov institution and afterwards everybody could just laugh (you know, the kind of laugh when people have had a near-death experience:-)
The article does absolutely nothing to justify the WTC tragedy.
It simpy says what many people outsite the USA are thinking, that here are reasons for why America is almost always the target of terrorism, and the reasons are pretty clear, but unfortunately, the American people get their reality from CNN and the state.
The article that discussed carnivore on/. yesterday clearly stated that rerrorists (bin laden) have already started to use steganography to communicate.
The messages are encrypted and added to images etc.. and are then available to everybody on a public website.
I haven't had time to fully investigate the cause but the software that came with my Canon S10 digital camera now claims that I took all my pictures on August the 26th (at different times though that day).
The software (is supposed) to read the time from a field in the images.jpg comment field.
The cause could be 1) The software in the camera that stores the dates in the images or 2) the photo viewing software itself. or 3) Something totally different. (Windows ?)
Why on earth do people think that this code can infect machines remotely over the Internet ? Does it say so anywhere in the article ?? No !!
From the article: The so-called Remote Shell Trojan spreads through email as well as replicating itself across the infected system.
It's simply a trojan that you will have to get in mail or on a floppy and execute YOURSELF.
Then it will infect other executables on your system, but in no case will it be able to infect any other systems without human assistance (i.e. executing a binary on that computer).
Whoever thought this is even remotely as scary as Code-Red is in need of some serious medication.
That's why I always regard it as half-truth when the press shouts about those crazy palestinian terrorists.
If killing a political leader in his office, with a rocket fired from a helicopter, is not terrorism, then the whole issue has been turned upside down.
Also, another thing that is always forgotten. The Israelis are fighting for peace, but the Palestinians are fighting for justice. We will never have neither until both parties understand this.
Funny, but Israel IS a terrorist state according to the USA definition:
The DOD definition of terrorism is: "the calculated use of violence or the threat of violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological."
The point of academia is fame, not fortune. People who want to make their discoveries and get paid well for them go into industry, or become entrepreneurs.
The whole issue is not about money, you are wrong there, but rather to get recognition for your ideas and inventions. After all they are YOUR ideas and inventions.
So, if you make a discovery, it will be your discovery.
My company has been a victim of spam. The "From" address was forged so the mail appeared to come from us. Finding who is actually behind "Cybernet Enterprise"is a hard thing and the telephone number only gives a cryptic ansvering machine.
Does anybody recognise this ?
*** Begin Spam
We offer some of the best bulk e-mail prices on the Internet. We do all the mailing for you. You just
provide us with the ad! It's that simple!
What we offer:
*General AOL Lists or other ISPs
$200.00 for 1-million e-mails sent.
$400.00 for 3-million e-mails sent.
Snip..
...
...
Cybernet Enterprise 209-656-9143
go nettech27@excite.com to be removed. Please no mail bombs, legit removal.
The service provider is not breaking the law any more than the manufacturer of MP3 compression software.
And trust me on this one: if the copyright owners manage to pull this stunt, i.e. make ISPs self-censoring, they won't stop there. And the makers of audio cpompression software might just as well be next.
--
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D7272 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc
What should administrators really be watching for if they are concerned with potential hostile activity over the net?
Administrators should take whatever log their IDS machines produce and periodicly run some statistics on it (every day/week/month). List remote machines in decreasing order of the number of different alerts they produce.
Example:
remote.hacker.org 4 types
  smurf 127
 http-activeweb 54
 Napster_Command_Long 8
 Napster_Create_Account 1
But this is just one of the things to do, though I have found it to be one of the most useful tricks to definately mail down the ones that are scanning/attacking. And off cource you will have to go to your logfiles to find the corresponding entries to eliminate false positives.
--
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D7272 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc
Doesn't
give the 'patent' holder any rights to lawsuits, etc,
I don't know where you live, but here in the 'civilized' part of the world you don't need any special 'rights' to bring a lawsuit against practically anybody.
This is a two-edged sword since megalomaniac-corporations with almost unlimited legal budget can sue the pants of any normal person. If they, in addition have a paper to back their claims of patent on your summer-school project, you realy have no chance of justice.
Apart from that, your posting was in harmony with reality. --
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D7272 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc
Slashdot Mirror
Calling it a Microsoft worm is really a distortion, and it's the kind of thing that can damage the credibility of the author.
And what is being distorted ? Truth ?
Until worms start to propagate efficiently on other platforms, this problem is strictly limited to Microsoft products and calling it "Microsoft worm" is a reflection of reality.
Where's the artistic expression in a pixel to pixel copy?
I think there has been some misunderstanding here. The guy did NOT copy anything that was Apples
He merely created a Aqua-like theme for Linux and Unix (see http://www.simweb.net/eric/projects/).
Is he suprised he didn't get paid?
As I understood his comments, he was only pointing it out that Apple is all to happy to take input from the community, but doesn't allow the same community the freedom of artistic expression.
You don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy, any more than you do about where you go when you leave your house or who you send letters to. That's just the nature of public actions... they're not private.
I do agree with that to a certain degree, but ...
What frightens me is that the *police* expects/demands that their actions are private.
Have a look at This story
"The preamble to the law said electronic devices are a danger to the privacy of all citizens. This case turns that notion on its head because here we had an individual trying to protect himself from a misdeed on the part of public officials and he's the one who ends up being arrested for it and prosecuted,"
http://archives.nytimes.com/2001/09/25/science/ph
When ya all stop using cash, it's time for FightClub and project Mayhem...
September 11th 2001 was PopCorn compared to that ...
Yes kiddies, this is what a troll looks like ... ......
Darn,, where are those mod points when you realy need them
As an answer to 1):
No, we would likely also have nukes and lightbulbs if Edison and Einstein hadn't done their part. But PRZ is one of the Pioneers that did enourmous amount of work to bring the technology into our hands, and in a form wo could trust (with sourcecode).
Einstein did also have trouble sleeping at night after "The Bomb", even thought his part was only to write a letter to the president saying that it would be theoreticly possible to create such a thing.
2): No, but Zimmermann knows that China and other countries have already stated that they also want access to the escrov keys, to fight crimes and terrorists. And it's quite likely that they will get it. Resulting in still more human-rights abuses.
I have always regarded crypto as a way for me to communicate with my family in private
I live in France, my brother in Ireland, and the rest of the family is way up north (66N)
I wonder what % of people belives in their right to a private communication.
Add this to your in-house SnortRules file.
alert TCP $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HOME_NET 80 (msg:"AfterRed Worm"; flags: A+; content: "/cmd.exe"; nocase;)
This looks like something that happened a few years ago where I was working.
If the driver sets the card to 4MBits (The token ring cards have different speeds) the whole ring will pop into 4 Mb/s and the ring will crash as a result.
It was at a
The article does absolutely nothing to justify the WTC tragedy.
It simpy says what many people outsite the USA are thinking, that here are reasons for why America is almost always the target of terrorism, and the reasons are pretty clear, but unfortunately, the American people get their reality from CNN and the state.
Never forget that.
If this "Big Brother" shit goes on, America has a good change of becoming one giant space, where nobody feels free.
The article that discussed carnivore on
The messages are encrypted and added to images etc
I haven't had time to fully investigate the cause but the software that came with my Canon S10 digital camera now claims that I took all my pictures on August the 26th (at different times though that day).
The software (is supposed) to read the time from a field in the images
The cause could be 1) The software in the camera that stores the dates in the images or 2) the photo viewing software itself. or 3) Something totally different. (Windows ?)
Why on earth do people think that this code can infect machines remotely over the Internet ? Does it say so anywhere in the article ?? No !!
From the article:
The so-called Remote Shell Trojan spreads through email as well as replicating itself across the infected system.
It's simply a trojan that you will have to get in mail or on a floppy and execute YOURSELF.
Then it will infect other executables on your system, but in no case will it be able to infect any other systems without human assistance (i.e. executing a binary on that computer).
Whoever thought this is even remotely as scary as Code-Red is in need of some serious medication.
I absolutely agree with you.
That's why I always regard it as half-truth when the press shouts about those crazy palestinian terrorists.
If killing a political leader in his office, with a rocket fired from a helicopter, is not terrorism, then the whole issue has been turned upside down.
Also, another thing that is always forgotten. The Israelis are fighting for peace, but the Palestinians are fighting for justice. We will never have neither until both parties understand this.
Funny, but Israel IS a terrorist state according to the USA definition:
The DOD definition of terrorism is:
"the calculated use of violence or the threat of violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological."
http://www.terrorism.com/terrorism/bpart1.html
The whole issue is not about money, you are wrong there, but rather to get recognition for your ideas and inventions. After all they are YOUR ideas and inventions.
So, if you make a discovery, it will be your discovery.
My company has been a victim of spam. The "From" address was forged so the mail appeared to come from us. Finding who is actually behind "Cybernet Enterprise"is a hard thing and the telephone number only gives a cryptic ansvering machine.
Does anybody recognise this ?
*** Begin Spam
We offer some of the best bulk e-mail prices on the Internet. We do all the mailing for you. You just
provide us with the ad! It's that simple!
What we offer:
*General AOL Lists or other ISPs
$200.00 for 1-million e-mails sent.
$400.00 for 3-million e-mails sent.
Snip..
...
...
Cybernet Enterprise 209-656-9143
go nettech27@excite.com to be removed. Please no mail bombs, legit removal.
Can somebody, who knows what happened, explain to the rest of us why so many developers left the boat ?
15:1 is way above what can be regarded as "bad luck".
If TuxRacer is currently GPL'ed you realy don't have to take shit from anybody.
You can do what you want, compete with the pope if you want.
--
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D727
The service provider is not breaking the law any more than the manufacturer of MP3 compression software.
And trust me on this one: if the copyright owners manage to pull this stunt, i.e. make ISPs self-censoring, they won't stop there. And the makers of audio cpompression software might just as well be next.2 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc
--
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D727
What should administrators really be watching for if they are concerned with potential hostile activity over the net?
Administrators should take whatever log their IDS machines produce and periodicly run some statistics on it (every day/week/month). List remote machines in decreasing order of the number of different alerts they produce.
Example:
remote.hacker.org 4 types
  smurf 127
 http-activeweb 54
 Napster_Command_Long 8
 Napster_Create_Account 1
But this is just one of the things to do, though I have found it to be one of the most useful tricks to definately mail down the ones that are scanning/attacking. And off cource you will have to go to your logfiles to find the corresponding entries to eliminate false positives.2 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc
--
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D727
Doesn't give the 'patent' holder any rights to lawsuits, etc,
I don't know where you live, but here in the 'civilized' part of the world you don't need any special 'rights' to bring a lawsuit against practically anybody.
This is a two-edged sword since megalomaniac-corporations with almost unlimited legal budget can sue the pants of any normal person. If they, in addition have a paper to back their claims of patent on your summer-school project, you realy have no chance of justice.
Apart from that, your posting was in harmony with reality.2 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc
--
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D727