You mean the same routers that shipwithremote administration enabled by default ? Even just telling people to plug their comps into a router still leaves them vulnerable in other ways if they just so happen to end up with the routers that ship with broken settings by default. With routers shipping with such badly configured default settings, it isn't too hard for the next worm to auto-probe for those specific routers and then do a full port scan of people behind the very router that they thought was protecting them.
According to AOL, you can use any IMAP capable client to send and receive emails on AOL. So, it looks like you don't need Netscape to send/receive emails on AOL.
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and the Mail component can check your AOL mailbox directly.
You taught someone about using GPG including the concepts of key expiration, key signing, how to deal with key compromises, and what to do if some third party pretending to be someone else claims their key changed in a mere 5 minutes? Properly using encryption is more than just "hit a button to encrypt."
there is only a matter of time or a matter of a new platform release before someone else devises another medium to push their product in an "In your face method".
Have you tried looking inside the Mail folder for the ".msf" file with the name of the affected mailbox (Example: the 'Inbox' folder has a mailbox file named Inbox and another file named 'Inbox.msf') then temporarily moving it out and restarting Mozilla Mail to see if it finally sees the message(s) ?
Texturizer's FAQ is outdated since Thunderbird 0.7 when it comes to the need to hand modify the paths in prefs.js. Thunderbird 0.7 and newer support relative profile directories so you no longer have to hand-modify the prefs.js with new paths everytime you move the profile around, which also means you can load a windows-generated profile directly in the linux version of Thunderbird without making a single hand-modification to prefs.js. All you have to do is start thunderbird with the "-P" option and point it to the path where your profile is in windows. Once done, any changes to anything (new/deleted mailboxes, account settings, and other preferences) in the linux version will be visible in the windows version.
I guess you guys aren't using SuSE. Setting up networking and file sharing to windows in SuSE is braindead easy with its wizards in YaST. All I need to do to share files and printers is YaST -> Network Services -> Samba Server. It then installs samba, then brings up the wizard for configuring its settings. I then choose "Enable Samba Server" and tell it what type of sharing I want to do and my computer's domain or workgroup to be then hit "Next." It then has two checkboxes. One says to "Share Homes" which shares home directories, the other says to "Share Printers" which shares any printer you setup. If all I wanted to do is share my user's homedirs and my printer(s), I just hit "finish" Allowing a user to login to their homedir share does still require the command line to run "smbpasswd" and add the user and set their password in samba's user/password database.
For me, connecting to my own LAN just worked out of the box in SuSE on its first boot in its Network Device Configuration wizard.
I really don't see how making a site appear in a popup that could work exactly the same in the main window adds anything to one's browsing experience. None of my banks use popups for basic page navigation.
Then again, as the article said, cookies still only count computers. Someone could visit the same site again on a machine that previously visited a site and pass along the same session ID in the cookie and it wouldn't provide much info other than someone else from the same browser/machine visited the site before which could have been more than one person still.
The only problem with URL based sessions is you are issued a new one on every visit, whereas a cookie would persist between multiple visits. Just by me closing my browser and reopening it, I look like a completely different person to that site and get issued a completely new ID. Does that then mean I am two completely different people visiting the site at two different times? With a cookie, they would know I am the same person revisiting the site from a previous visit (provided cookies are even accepted by the user's web browser at all).
I regularily go through my cookies. Anything that looks like it is coming from an ad site I delete and block
Isn't it easier to just set mozilla to force all cookies to be session cookies, then use the Permit Cookies hotkey extension on sites you do want to accept longer lasting cookies from? That way you'll practically have no cookies to prune through since any cookie you didn't use the hotkey to allow would be erased when you close your browser.
I've never really understood the paranoia about cookies. It is not very hard to do server-side, cookie-less profiling: they have your IP address and their access log. Any decent data mining solution would give them a site traversal graph for your visits. Plotting multiple site traversal graphs against time would give a pretty good idea whether one or more users were browsing their site from the same IP address. Cross-site profiling is possible by simply sharing access logs.
Which would work how well for people on AOL (or any ISP with a transparent proxy) who regularly browse behind their proxies where two requests for content on the same page by the same user could come from different proxy IP addresses?
"A Virtual Private Network, or VPN, is a private communications network usually used within a company, or by several different companies or organisations, communicating over a public network. VPN message traffic is carried on public networking infrastructure (ie, the Internet) using standard (possibly unsecure) protocols.
VPNs use cryptographictunneling protocols to provide the necessary confidentiality (preventing snooping), sender authentication (preventing identity spoofing), and message integrity (preventing message alteration) to achieve the privacy intended. When properly chosen, implemented, and used, such techniques can indeed provide secure communications over unsecure networks.
Note that such choice, implementation, and use are not trivial and there are many unsecure VPN schemes on the market. Users are cautioned to investigate products they propose to use very carefully. 'VPN' is a label which, by itself, provides little except a marketing tag.
VPN technologies may also be used to enhance security as a 'security overlay' within dedicated networking infrastructures.
VPN protocols include:
* IPSec (IP security), an obligatory part of IPv6.
* PPTP (point-to-point tunneling protocol), developed by Microsoft.
* L2F (Layer 2 Forwarding), developed by Cisco.
* L2TP (Layer 2 Tunnelling Protocol), including work by both Microsoft and Cisco.
Here is what the developer of a bittorrent client named BitTornado says about this:
"Try disconnecting your router and connecting your computer straight to your uplink."on his forum.
If that works, here is the explanation as to why:
"Some routers have been implicated in consistently corrupting data inside TCP packets, either when running in game mode or simply due to lousy firmware coding. They'll replace any instance of the external IP to the internal one for incoming data, and vice-versa for outgoing."
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You mean the same routers that ship with remote administration enabled by default ? Even just telling people to plug their comps into a router still leaves them vulnerable in other ways if they just so happen to end up with the routers that ship with broken settings by default. With routers shipping with such badly configured default settings, it isn't too hard for the next worm to auto-probe for those specific routers and then do a full port scan of people behind the very router that they thought was protecting them.
According to AOL, you can use any IMAP capable client to send and receive emails on AOL. So, it looks like you don't need Netscape to send/receive emails on AOL.
You taught someone about using GPG including the concepts of key expiration, key signing, how to deal with key compromises, and what to do if some third party pretending to be someone else claims their key changed in a mere 5 minutes? Properly using encryption is more than just "hit a button to encrypt."
Have you tried looking inside the Mail folder for the ".msf" file with the name of the affected mailbox (Example: the 'Inbox' folder has a mailbox file named Inbox and another file named 'Inbox.msf') then temporarily moving it out and restarting Mozilla Mail to see if it finally sees the message(s) ?
Texturizer's FAQ is outdated since Thunderbird 0.7 when it comes to the need to hand modify the paths in prefs.js. Thunderbird 0.7 and newer support relative profile directories so you no longer have to hand-modify the prefs.js with new paths everytime you move the profile around, which also means you can load a windows-generated profile directly in the linux version of Thunderbird without making a single hand-modification to prefs.js. All you have to do is start thunderbird with the "-P" option and point it to the path where your profile is in windows. Once done, any changes to anything (new/deleted mailboxes, account settings, and other preferences) in the linux version will be visible in the windows version.
I guess you guys aren't using SuSE. Setting up networking and file sharing to windows in SuSE is braindead easy with its wizards in YaST. All I need to do to share files and printers is YaST -> Network Services -> Samba Server. It then installs samba, then brings up the wizard for configuring its settings. I then choose "Enable Samba Server" and tell it what type of sharing I want to do and my computer's domain or workgroup to be then hit "Next." It then has two checkboxes. One says to "Share Homes" which shares home directories, the other says to "Share Printers" which shares any printer you setup. If all I wanted to do is share my user's homedirs and my printer(s), I just hit "finish" Allowing a user to login to their homedir share does still require the command line to run "smbpasswd" and add the user and set their password in samba's user/password database.
For me, connecting to my own LAN just worked out of the box in SuSE on its first boot in its Network Device Configuration wizard.
So you compromise your security that much just to browse one page?
Pee all that you can pee, in the army!
Does SuSE still lockup during install even during "Safe Settings" install mode?
I really don't see how making a site appear in a popup that could work exactly the same in the main window adds anything to one's browsing experience. None of my banks use popups for basic page navigation.
What are these "informational popups" that people keep referring to?
That really depends on your source. There are various places you can point yast to as an "installation source" and it will pick up the new packages in their software installer. Such as the supplementary apps folder on their ftp server for gnome apps and this folder for kde apps and this folder for misc. apps. (please use a mirror!)
Well, how can you be sure one of the pieces of spyware didn't compromise the system in ways you didn't think of other than wiping a machine clean?
Are there different levels of lactose intolerance? Some people I know of that are lactose intolerant, have no problems with eating cheese.
Zone Alarm causes more problems than it solves. Sygate Personal Firewall is ok though.
Then again, as the article said, cookies still only count computers. Someone could visit the same site again on a machine that previously visited a site and pass along the same session ID in the cookie and it wouldn't provide much info other than someone else from the same browser/machine visited the site before which could have been more than one person still.
The only problem with URL based sessions is you are issued a new one on every visit, whereas a cookie would persist between multiple visits. Just by me closing my browser and reopening it, I look like a completely different person to that site and get issued a completely new ID. Does that then mean I am two completely different people visiting the site at two different times? With a cookie, they would know I am the same person revisiting the site from a previous visit (provided cookies are even accepted by the user's web browser at all).
You don't have to wait 24 hours to get out of everyone's queues?
Isn't it easier to just set mozilla to force all cookies to be session cookies, then use the Permit Cookies hotkey extension on sites you do want to accept longer lasting cookies from? That way you'll practically have no cookies to prune through since any cookie you didn't use the hotkey to allow would be erased when you close your browser.
Which would work how well for people on AOL (or any ISP with a transparent proxy) who regularly browse behind their proxies where two requests for content on the same page by the same user could come from different proxy IP addresses?
"A Virtual Private Network, or VPN, is a private communications network usually used within a company, or by several different companies or organisations, communicating over a public network. VPN message traffic is carried on public networking infrastructure (ie, the Internet) using standard (possibly unsecure) protocols.
VPNs use cryptographic tunneling protocols to provide the necessary confidentiality (preventing snooping), sender authentication (preventing identity spoofing), and message integrity (preventing message alteration) to achieve the privacy intended. When properly chosen, implemented, and used, such techniques can indeed provide secure communications over unsecure networks.
Note that such choice, implementation, and use are not trivial and there are many unsecure VPN schemes on the market. Users are cautioned to investigate products they propose to use very carefully. 'VPN' is a label which, by itself, provides little except a marketing tag.
VPN technologies may also be used to enhance security as a 'security overlay' within dedicated networking infrastructures.
VPN protocols include:
* IPSec (IP security), an obligatory part of IPv6.
* PPTP (point-to-point tunneling protocol), developed by Microsoft.
* L2F (Layer 2 Forwarding), developed by Cisco.
* L2TP (Layer 2 Tunnelling Protocol), including work by both Microsoft and Cisco.
Multi-protocol label switching can be used to build VPNs."
"Try disconnecting your router and connecting your computer straight to your uplink." on his forum.
If that works, here is the explanation as to why: "Some routers have been implicated in consistently corrupting data inside TCP packets, either when running in game mode or simply due to lousy firmware coding. They'll replace any instance of the external IP to the internal one for incoming data, and vice-versa for outgoing."
hmm...unless the blocking has something to do with whether you get cable service direct from them or pay for it through another ISP.