Yah.. These were designed by scientists at IBM's Almaden Research Center.
"Scientists in the lab discovered a way to manipulate the crystal's structure with lasers and store data three-dimensionally in holograms within the crystal's volume. The greatest benefit of holographic storage is that huge amounts of data locked in the crystal matrix can be accessed instantaneously. The iron-doped lithium niobate crystals are grayish in color and the size of Las Vegas dice. Although still in the experimental stage, they may one day replace hard drive platters as a storage medium."
also:
"The only rewritable material that could replace a hard drive is single-crystal lithium niobate, and writing to it requires an argon-ion laser that's about 4 feet long and weighs 10 pounds. But the real reason Kryder has doubts about holographic storage is because regular old hard-drive technology may make it unnecessary. Using new materials and magnetizing methods, he believes that a one-terabyte (1000GB) notebook hard drive could be a reality in five to six years."
(both quotes from pcworld.com articles)
Take a look at some of the pictures of the prototypes and much more technical information HERE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2590279.stm A little more info.. Goes over some uses.. Also the hope to eleviate the christians ignorance^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H moral problems.
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20021219-122 30 4-2447r another article.. but doesn't really say anything new.. they just piped it through rev a couple of times, sort and uniq.. and added a few quotation marks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/11/business/11STE M. html?ex=1040706000&en=9beb56832bf1fbe1&ei=5062&par tner=GOOGLE This one was posted on Dec 16th.. and appears to be the original article that set these off. Has more info on who is doing it, why, etc.
Gail is just someone who doesn't have a life.. She's a reporter for the Dallas Star.. Maybe she gets off on Amazon reviews or something.. Or, since she can't write about any real stories, she just makes stuff up for these products.. Longing to be 'someone', but being a top 10 reviewer.
Yah.. Eli wasn't responsible. And likely his box wasn't hacked.. more likely, a user account was compromised.. if at all.
You mention that you were "slimed".. was your system compromised, or did you just run the infected Build? If it was comrpomised, care to tell us anything you found in the forensics?
His Ip/hostname was posted to Vulndiscuss earlier today..
The trojan doesn't work like that, look at the code. It compiles and runs when you run "./Build". It doesn't matter what sendmail runs.
THe moral of the story is, Check the SIG files.. AND don't configure/compile software as ROOT. At least then it would have only been user level compromise.
If everyone ignored him, he would go away. His site wouldn't get hits, he'd be out of cash and funding, and poof, he is some stupid kid again saying "Wow.. Sucks that thousands of people would laugh if I died in a terrible plane crash". Everyone already knows he is a fake, and nobody gives him credit anyway. He doesn't offer any services that will get his site anywhere. THe only things making him money is us going to his site.
Here are a couple of definitions I feel I'd like to share:
> Assumption \As*sump"tion\ (?; 215), n. [OE. assumpcioun a taking > up into heaven, L. assumptio a taking, fr. assumere: cf. F. > assomption. See {Assume}.] > 1. The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the > act of taking up or adopting. > The assumption of authority. --Whewell.
And> Accusation \Ac`cu*sa"tion\, n. [OF. acusation, F. accusation, L. > accusatio, fr. accusare. See {Accuse}.] > 1. The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a > lighter offense.
After the statute of limitations is over for the HFG hacks, will you finally admit to being HFG?
Also, once the statute of limitations is over for the sites you paid people to hack, will you admit to those? Is this your companies life long plan, is to sit being poor for 8 years, and then make these announcements in the mid 200x era, and then get a ton of hits from those announcements? That is a BRILLIANT plan. Wow, you are far more intelligent than I had thought!
Also, what exactly do you have to say about your interferance with packet storm? Did you find them to be a big competition with you, so you figured you would cry and moan and threaten until they were shut down?
What do you plan to do when a company with money gets sick of your girlish whining and pissing, and sinks you like Jimmy Hoffa?
Could you please reply to every single thing that attrition.org says on their dedicated section to you, and try to prove them wrong? (with as little lying as possible if you could).
Nobody has been reading slashdot for very long, it is a young site. I have known of it for quite sometime, but never really read much on it except for the past year or so. SO don't even try and assume things, you are very bad at it. I think it would have been in their best interest to have NOT posted it. There are intelligent people who read slashdot, but the facts of the world are, there are more stupid people out there than we know what to do with. They will follow some idiots to the end of the world. If JP gains one single friend from slashdot posting this, then it was a tragedy. I'm more so familiar with JP then the majority of people. I have worked with Attrition, and HNN on stories and news about JP, and I was the one who featured him on netcriminals.org and past out fliers at defcon about him and how to shun him. Never once giving the domain name for people to surf his web site, and click on his little banners, and add to his statistics, so his so called funding companies can see that the site is doing so well. Hell, if you really want to, go ahead and look at the site, notice how anything that doens't run from a cron job, hasn't been modified since mid last week, and most of his sections haven't been touched for over a month, unless updated with a cron. Nobody is answering the phones there, it is a waste of time. Better to 100% forget. The media makes everything now a days, the media spreads the word. If the media had never mentioned slashdot.org even one time, it certainly wouldn't be as popular as it is today. Granted, the site gets a lot of hits,a nd a lot of people found them from links, but a good majority probably hit this site for their first time from links from sites like wired, and other major news sites. ANyway, I firmly believe that if you just never mention, don't speak and forget about a site, it will die. Check out JP's stats tommorow, I bet they sky rocketed today.
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Yah.. These were designed by scientists at IBM's Almaden Research Center.
"Scientists in the lab discovered a way to manipulate the crystal's structure with lasers and store data three-dimensionally in holograms within the crystal's volume. The greatest benefit of holographic storage is that huge amounts of data locked in the crystal matrix can be accessed instantaneously. The iron-doped lithium niobate crystals are grayish in color and the size of Las Vegas dice. Although still in the experimental stage, they may one day replace hard drive platters as a storage medium."
also:
"The only rewritable material that could replace a hard drive is single-crystal lithium niobate, and writing to it requires an argon-ion laser that's about 4 feet long and weighs 10 pounds. But the real reason Kryder has doubts about holographic storage is because regular old hard-drive technology may make it unnecessary. Using new materials and magnetizing methods, he believes that a one-terabyte (1000GB) notebook hard drive could be a reality in five to six years."
(both quotes from pcworld.com articles)
Take a look at some of the pictures of the prototypes and much more technical information HERE
I did the same thing.. I set it up as something like "ihatespamsomuchyoushouldalldie@earthlink.net"
and sure enough.. a year later, a TON of spam. But, they swear they dont sell their user lists.
yah, sure.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=stem+cell+marr ow&btnG=Search+News
2 30 4-2447r
E M. html?ex=1040706000&en=9beb56832bf1fbe1&ei=5062&par tner=GOOGLE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2590279.stm
A little more info.. Goes over some uses.. Also the hope to eleviate the christians ignorance^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H moral problems.
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20021219-12
another article.. but doesn't really say anything new.. they just piped it through rev a couple of times, sort and uniq.. and added a few quotation marks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/11/business/11ST
This one was posted on Dec 16th.. and appears to be the original article that set these off. Has more info on who is doing it, why, etc.
Gail is just someone who doesn't have a life.. She's a reporter for the Dallas Star.. Maybe she gets off on Amazon reviews or something.. Or, since she can't write about any real stories, she just makes stuff up for these products.. Longing to be 'someone', but being a top 10 reviewer.
Yah.. Eli wasn't responsible. And likely his box wasn't hacked.. more likely, a user account was compromised.. if at all.
You mention that you were "slimed".. was your system compromised, or did you just run the infected Build? If it was comrpomised, care to tell us anything you found in the forensics?
His Ip/hostname was posted to Vulndiscuss earlier today..
The trojan doesn't work like that, look at the code. It compiles and runs when you run "./Build". It doesn't matter what sendmail runs.
THe moral of the story is, Check the SIG files.. AND don't configure/compile software as ROOT. At least then it would have only been user level compromise.
I have made the backdoor'd sendmail code available at http://www.enzotech.net/files/sm.backdoor.patch and the base64 portion is decoded at http://www.enzotech.net/files/sm.backdoor.base64.t xt
This was diff'd from a previously downloaded tar ball that we were using for analysis of another bug.
What I like best, is how Marty stands to profit so much, where others like Dragos who have commited so much time and code to the project, get nothing.
Yah, marty sure does rule. Even when he's standing behind you while you're bent over an IDS server.
Sure am. Doesn't it seem logical I would follow up on my own posts?
If everyone ignored him, he would go away.
His site wouldn't get hits, he'd be out
of cash and funding, and poof, he is some stupid
kid again saying "Wow.. Sucks that thousands
of people would laugh if I died in a terrible
plane crash". Everyone already knows he is a fake,
and nobody gives him credit anyway. He doesn't
offer any services that will get his site anywhere. THe only things making him money is us
going to his site.
Here are a couple of definitions I feel I'd
like to share:
> Assumption \As*sump"tion\ (?; 215), n. [OE. assumpcioun a taking
> up into heaven, L. assumptio a taking, fr. assumere: cf. F.
> assomption. See {Assume}.]
> 1. The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the
> act of taking up or adopting.
> The assumption of authority. --Whewell.
And> Accusation \Ac`cu*sa"tion\, n. [OF. acusation, F. accusation, L.
> accusatio, fr. accusare. See {Accuse}.]
> 1. The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a
> lighter offense.
Here is a valid question:
After the statute of limitations is over for
the HFG hacks, will you finally admit to being
HFG?
Also, once the statute of limitations is over
for the sites you paid people to hack, will you
admit to those? Is this your companies life long
plan, is to sit being poor for 8 years, and then
make these announcements in the mid 200x era,
and then get a ton of hits from those
announcements? That is a BRILLIANT plan. Wow,
you are far more intelligent than I had thought!
Also, what exactly do you have to say about
your interferance with packet storm? Did
you find them to be a big competition with
you, so you figured you would cry and moan
and threaten until they were shut down?
What do you plan to do when a company
with money gets sick of your girlish
whining and pissing, and sinks you
like Jimmy Hoffa?
Could you please reply to every single thing
that attrition.org says on their dedicated
section to you, and try to prove them wrong?
(with as little lying as possible if you could).
"We do for the web, what tabloids do for
the super market check out lane"
Nobody has been reading slashdot for very long,
it is a young site. I have known of it for
quite sometime, but never really read much
on it except for the past year or so. SO don't
even try and assume things, you are very bad at
it. I think it would have been in their best
interest to have NOT posted it. There are
intelligent people who read slashdot, but the
facts of the world are, there are more stupid
people out there than we know what to do with.
They will follow some idiots to the end of the world. If JP gains one single friend from slashdot
posting this, then it was a tragedy. I'm more
so familiar with JP then the majority of people.
I have worked with Attrition, and HNN on stories
and news about JP, and I was the one who featured
him on netcriminals.org and past out fliers at
defcon about him and how to shun him. Never once
giving the domain name for people to surf his web site, and click on his little banners, and add
to his statistics, so his so called funding companies can see that the site is doing so well.
Hell, if you really want to, go ahead and look at
the site, notice how anything that doens't run from a cron job, hasn't been modified since mid last week, and most of his sections haven't been touched for over a month, unless updated with a cron. Nobody is answering the phones there, it is a waste of time. Better to 100% forget. The media
makes everything now a days, the media spreads the word. If the media had never mentioned slashdot.org even one time, it certainly wouldn't
be as popular as it is today. Granted, the site
gets a lot of hits,a nd a lot of people found them
from links, but a good majority probably hit this
site for their first time from links from sites like wired, and other major news sites. ANyway,
I firmly believe that if you just never mention, don't speak and forget about a site, it will die.
Check out JP's stats tommorow, I bet they sky rocketed today.