What port? Bittorrent isn't restricted to any particular ranges of ports and can be listening on any port a person running it wishes to have it listen on, making port-based traffic restrictions ineffective at slowing it down (unless, the majority of people still use it on its default port range of 6881 to 6999).
Judging by how secure some NAT routers are, it definitely is possible to compromise a NAT router and do that. Some NAT routers that default to having remote administration enabled on the internet side could allow for an attacker to reroute DNS queries to their own machine. That attacker could then silently log the user's DNS queries for a little while, while the attacker returns perfectly valid DNS responses of the real IP addresses of the hosts they are resolving so their normal browsing is unaffected. When they are ready to do an attack later, they could have the DNS queries respond back with their own IP address that they are attacking from and hijack a connection attempt to something a user just resolved. If the bank's security software doesn't do good enough man in the middle attack prevention (as in validating keys before using them), the attacker could, potentially, replace the SSL keys being used to make the secure connection with his own and decrypt all traffic going in and coming out.
That really depends on what distribution you are "apt-get upgrade"'ing in. Distributions like Ubuntu Linux already have Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2 packages in their "hoary" devel release's "main" apt repository.
Do you also buy legit copies of windows and software for windows to install on those people's machines when you build them so they get to see the real price of windows and all its software?
I recommend a max physical memory of no more than 1/4 physical memory, preferrably less.
What would happen if someone then loads Unreal Tournament 2004 if you limit max physical memory usage to no more than 1/4th of physical memory (assuming people are using 768 megs or less of memory)?
It is probably quite complicated, technically speaking, because these machines now have to be scanned for every possible trojan, logger, virus in existance, but it's not impossible. Can an antivirus company, say, get a grant from a government to run a job like that?
This "script" would have to do a remote reformat and reinstall of windows + install all its patches + download and install the required drivers for the machine + install all the programs the computer's owner/user used again. It is hard enough doing that on identical machines on a local network, but across the internet on machines whose hardware you aren't sure of and you have no clue what software the user uses or the software in question isn't available to you to easily slipstream...good luck.
Try browsing through the messages of any Yahoo! Group and you'll see exactly what the parent poster is talking about. Yahoo randomly interrupts your viewing of messages posted on their groups with massive animating, flash ads. It is quite hard to miss and is very annoying. You never see that with Google Groups and get much less intrusive ads.
Except Trillian's SecureIM is susceptible to man in the middle attacks. It does key exchange right when you enable it without any kind of verification of the keys being exchanged. What stops AOL's servers from simply replacing the keys you exchange with their own and having both ends encrypt to their fake SecureIM keys? Your conversation would still be "encrypted" yet AOL could still sniff what is being encrypted.
If you've ever used AT&T CallVantage, you can use your computer to dial numbers on your VoIP adapter (no matter which of the 3 adapters you use from AT&T) right from their web site. Choosing a number and dialing from their web site rings your phone that is connected to the adapter, then when you pick up, it then rings the number you wanted to dial. So the parent poster's idea of tying that feature with dialing numbers that are in the results of searches isn't that far fetched.
-- my CD doesn't play == cable not connected to player
For some people, the CD audio cable not being connected to their CD drive doesn't cause a problem playing CDs in Windows, since some Windows apps default to playing CDs by basically ripping them on the fly ("digital" playing instead of "analog"). No special audio cable is needed, yet very few linux apps (if any?) do that by default or even have the option to.
I found a forum post of someone having the exact same issue as you and someone replied it may be because they installed Firefox 1.0.1 on top of an existing 1.0 installation.
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How many of those permutated passwords can you remember before you start having to write them down?
What port? Bittorrent isn't restricted to any particular ranges of ports and can be listening on any port a person running it wishes to have it listen on, making port-based traffic restrictions ineffective at slowing it down (unless, the majority of people still use it on its default port range of 6881 to 6999).
Judging by how secure some NAT routers are, it definitely is possible to compromise a NAT router and do that. Some NAT routers that default to having remote administration enabled on the internet side could allow for an attacker to reroute DNS queries to their own machine. That attacker could then silently log the user's DNS queries for a little while, while the attacker returns perfectly valid DNS responses of the real IP addresses of the hosts they are resolving so their normal browsing is unaffected. When they are ready to do an attack later, they could have the DNS queries respond back with their own IP address that they are attacking from and hijack a connection attempt to something a user just resolved. If the bank's security software doesn't do good enough man in the middle attack prevention (as in validating keys before using them), the attacker could, potentially, replace the SSL keys being used to make the secure connection with his own and decrypt all traffic going in and coming out.
What web sites have you had problems copying text from, since I've never once had that problem in any version of Firefox ?
That really depends on what distribution you are "apt-get upgrade"'ing in. Distributions like Ubuntu Linux already have Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2 packages in their "hoary" devel release's "main" apt repository.
Do you also buy legit copies of windows and software for windows to install on those people's machines when you build them so they get to see the real price of windows and all its software?
OpenOffice uses Java?
Or maybe 1996.
Wow. What GUI are you running in linux that can fit in 385 megs of ram with 4 copies loaded?
What would happen if someone then loads Unreal Tournament 2004 if you limit max physical memory usage to no more than 1/4th of physical memory (assuming people are using 768 megs or less of memory)?
Documentation? What documentation?
It might be a bit hard to change the wallpaper on a system that no longer has an O/S or a BIOS.
Then they'll come up with a reason to charge you for opening each port through the firewall.
Try browsing through the messages of any Yahoo! Group and you'll see exactly what the parent poster is talking about. Yahoo randomly interrupts your viewing of messages posted on their groups with massive animating, flash ads. It is quite hard to miss and is very annoying. You never see that with Google Groups and get much less intrusive ads.
Except Trillian's SecureIM is susceptible to man in the middle attacks. It does key exchange right when you enable it without any kind of verification of the keys being exchanged. What stops AOL's servers from simply replacing the keys you exchange with their own and having both ends encrypt to their fake SecureIM keys? Your conversation would still be "encrypted" yet AOL could still sniff what is being encrypted.
If you've ever used AT&T CallVantage, you can use your computer to dial numbers on your VoIP adapter (no matter which of the 3 adapters you use from AT&T) right from their web site. Choosing a number and dialing from their web site rings your phone that is connected to the adapter, then when you pick up, it then rings the number you wanted to dial. So the parent poster's idea of tying that feature with dialing numbers that are in the results of searches isn't that far fetched.
In what reality?
What sound? Isn't space a vacuum?
For some people, the CD audio cable not being connected to their CD drive doesn't cause a problem playing CDs in Windows, since some Windows apps default to playing CDs by basically ripping them on the fly ("digital" playing instead of "analog"). No special audio cable is needed, yet very few linux apps (if any?) do that by default or even have the option to.
My calendar must be off...Is it April 1st already?
I found a forum post of someone having the exact same issue as you and someone replied it may be because they installed Firefox 1.0.1 on top of an existing 1.0 installation.
Quite odd. I am having no issues with this in Firefox 1.0.1 in Windows XP with Service Pack 2 installed.
Have you tried creating a new firefox profile and seeing if the problem still persists?
Or some of us can no longer stand the 10 minutes of commercials every 30 minutes.