I think the only way to get ahead of these rootkits is to make the OS its own rootkit. This is, caging. Executing the apps in virtual winxp environments and let them modify their own registry entries.
I think I saw a virtualization software out there, but I don't remember well.
Agree. This will be a breakthrough, and if anything is a mystery -- then the question, why it hasn't already happened.
Maybe because:
a) Hackers are usually interested in money, breaking into computers and not esoteric stuff like genetic algorithms. If they were, they'd be researchers at the MIT or something else, but not hackers.
b) Script kiddies don't have a f***ing clue of what a genetic algorithm is.
I'm certain that it requires an evil mastermind specialized in AI to develop such a virus. And when the day comes, be afraid. Be very afraid.
Usually the most perverted and twisted porn sites are the ones making most money. I doubt sites with pictures of naked breasts will make any money compared to the more "modern" ones.
Oh puh-leeze. You sound just like the left-wing extremists in my country, who are scared at anything that MIGHT POSSIBLY ONE DAY be used in conjunction with the REMOTE POSSIBILITY of an ADDITIONAL LAW to MAYBE (if we roll 3d20) sell the whole country (I'm talking about allowing private investment in energy generation). Those people and their doomsaying are what keeps my country (Mexico) in the stone age.
Honestly, NO ONE seems to think this is a good idea.
No one but us, unfortunately. As a programmer, I've tried to do some improvised web filters, and it's a ROYAL PAIN IN THE BACK. Blocking.xxx sites would be a walk in the park compared with all that content-based filtering madness.
Bwaa.... the DVD's are stealing our profits, mommy!!!
I wonder why the theaters don't focus instead on:
* Provide better services * Wiping the floor filled with dried sodas * Having better restrooms cleaned more often * Having better rules like getting someone out when his cellphone rings * Asking less for the popcorn ($3.00 for the big one, and $2.99 for the small one which has 50% less)
Oh, I forgot it, they still think we're money-spending idiots who want to fill their pockets. Too bad.
"The video game industry gave him a cranial menu that popped up in the blink of an eye, in that police station," says Thompson. "And that menu offered him the split-second decision to kill the officers, shoot them in the head, flee in a police car, just as the game itself trained them to do."
Perhaps if he hadn't played the game, he would have shot them in the chest where hopefully the cops couldn't have died instantly.
In other words, videogames TRAIN the players to become better and more effective criminals. I don't know about you, but the thought gives me the creeps.
I was the only good programmer in my team for a little electronic robot for a class.
I concentrated in doing the program. Another guy concentrated in doing the electronics. Another guy on assembling the robot. And another guy on doing the interface.
Our teacher wasn't pleased, since teams were supposed to be of 3, and we were four (or something, I don't remember very well). So he asked us if someone was in charge of bringing the sodas:P
In any case, I'd suggest you to assign him dedicated, controlled stuff. Like "master-slave", where you're the master and he's the slave:P. In other words, make him do the routines. Tell him "i need a function that does this and that". So he'll keep being busy, while you can concentrate on doing the more intelligent stuff.
Sorry, but I don't agree on harassing someone over e-mail. His public shame is enough, don't you think? PLUS, by posting his e-mail on the web, you just made his e-mail vulnerable to spammers.
Worse, the e-mail address will be still available AFTER he resigns or his government period finishes. Will the next mayor have to cope with this?
Imagine the millions of man-hours per day saved by people hitting that button rather than typing all that manually.
Funny, it reminds me of an idea I had thought about previously. Why not have a "first post this comment" while you're typing, so that it will encode the string inside your comment with steganography?
We damn Microsoft if they do, and damn them if they don't.
If Microsoft really wanted to support ODF, they could stop screwing around and start doing their job: programming! I want MS Word to natively support the ODF.
I agree with you on something. Remove skype and add MSN/YIM/AIM/ICQ.
These non-anonymous chat services changed the way we relate to people on the web, replacing the untrusty anonymous IRC. It gave the ability to chat to every joe user.
OK, that was the good things. Now let's remember the bad things and how they started.
- Adware. Ah.... the Gator download manager (TM). Didn't you love this thing? It was free! Only it began displaying some ads in your computer. What could possibly go wrong?
- SPAM. Funny, the other day i began receiving mails about mortgage rates. Idiots, I'm too young for that. I'll ignore it, they're 1 in a 100.
- Popups. OK, this is getting annoying. I'll have to block images from these free websites like XOOM, Geocities, Angelfire and so on.
- Web viruses. The other day something weird went on. I went to a porn website, and the next day my PC began opening popups. WTF?
- Email viruses. Ack! All I did was open my mail on Outlook express!
It's funny. We take these things for granted, but I remember the days when they didn't exist AT ALL. It was a wonderful era. Also worthy of notice is that all of them (except popups) were possible thanks to Microsoft Windows(TM).
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I think the only way to get ahead of these rootkits is to make the OS its own rootkit. This is, caging. Executing the apps in virtual winxp environments and let them modify their own registry entries.
I think I saw a virtualization software out there, but I don't remember well.
Agree. This will be a breakthrough, and if anything is a mystery -- then the question, why it hasn't already happened.
Maybe because:
a) Hackers are usually interested in money, breaking into computers and not esoteric stuff like genetic algorithms. If they were, they'd be researchers at the MIT or something else, but not hackers.
b) Script kiddies don't have a f***ing clue of what a genetic algorithm is.
I'm certain that it requires an evil mastermind specialized in AI to develop such a virus. And when the day comes, be afraid. Be very afraid.
What makes you think all porn will be in .xxx?
Usually the most perverted and twisted porn sites are the ones making most money. I doubt sites with pictures of naked breasts will make any money compared to the more "modern" ones.
to being forced to use .xxx for "obscene speech"
Oh puh-leeze. You sound just like the left-wing extremists in my country, who are scared at anything that MIGHT POSSIBLY ONE DAY be used in conjunction with the REMOTE POSSIBILITY of an ADDITIONAL LAW to MAYBE (if we roll 3d20) sell the whole country (I'm talking about allowing private investment in energy generation). Those people and their doomsaying are what keeps my country (Mexico) in the stone age.
Honestly, NO ONE seems to think this is a good idea.
.xxx sites would be a walk in the park compared with all that content-based filtering madness.
No one but us, unfortunately. As a programmer, I've tried to do some improvised web filters, and it's a ROYAL PAIN IN THE BACK. Blocking
you know, people psychologically UNABLE to recognize other people's emotions.
you copied a Jack Thompson quote.
Well, the difference here is that I want to find the truth, not push a political agenda. As idiot as Jack Thompson might be, perhaps he's got a point.
Bwaa.... the DVD's are stealing our profits, mommy!!!
I wonder why the theaters don't focus instead on:
* Provide better services
* Wiping the floor filled with dried sodas
* Having better restrooms cleaned more often
* Having better rules like getting someone out when his cellphone rings
* Asking less for the popcorn ($3.00 for the big one, and $2.99 for the small one which has 50% less)
Oh, I forgot it, they still think we're money-spending idiots who want to fill their pockets. Too bad.
the phrase "don't give them ideas" is commonly used?
The problem isn't if the game MADE him do it, but if the game helped him do it MORE EFFICIENTLY.
From the original CBS News link (not TFA) :
"The video game industry gave him a cranial menu that popped up in the blink of an eye, in that police station," says Thompson. "And that menu offered him the split-second decision to kill the officers, shoot them in the head, flee in a police car, just as the game itself trained them to do."
Perhaps if he hadn't played the game, he would have shot them in the chest where hopefully the cops couldn't have died instantly.
In other words, videogames TRAIN the players to become better and more effective criminals. I don't know about you, but the thought gives me the creeps.
Well, I guess you're right. It's just that I'm tired of people falling in scams. I suppose banks should do more stuff for educating their customers.
the phishers or the idiots who follow them.
I was the only good programmer in my team for a little electronic robot for a class.
:P
:P. In other words, make him do the routines. Tell him "i need a function that does this and that". So he'll keep being busy, while you can concentrate on doing the more intelligent stuff.
I concentrated in doing the program.
Another guy concentrated in doing the electronics.
Another guy on assembling the robot.
And another guy on doing the interface.
Our teacher wasn't pleased, since teams were supposed to be of 3, and we were four (or something, I don't remember very well). So he asked us if someone was in charge of bringing the sodas
In any case, I'd suggest you to assign him dedicated, controlled stuff. Like "master-slave", where you're the master and he's the slave
Sorry, but I don't agree on harassing someone over e-mail. His public shame is enough, don't you think? PLUS, by posting his e-mail on the web, you just made his e-mail vulnerable to spammers.
Worse, the e-mail address will be still available AFTER he resigns or his government period finishes. Will the next mayor have to cope with this?
Attacks, Crashes, Trojans, Infections, Vulnerabilities, and EXploits.
(Why didn't I think of it earlier?)
"iPod sucks! Whatever we... design... ur... is better... i mean those... youknow... erm... music... screw it! what CD's you wanna buy?"
Worst nights' sleep I've ever gotten, I constantly felt like I was falling
Wait, isn't that zero-G?
I was serious! :(
BTW, can you implement a "mod parent up/down" request, where you can select which tags to be used? as in informative, insightful, troll etc.?
Ah, so THAT's what you guys used! I didn't know and used the <i> tag instead.
Funny, it reminds me of an idea I had thought about previously. Why not have a "first post this comment" while you're typing, so that it will encode the string inside your comment with steganography?
Automatically delete the comments (and replies) with goatse and similar links, please!
We damn Microsoft if they do, and damn them if they don't.
If Microsoft really wanted to support ODF, they could stop screwing around and start doing their job: programming! I want MS Word to natively support the ODF.
I usually hate to play the stock Mac fanboy on /. but...
Pardon me? I don't own a Mac. I'm a MS prisoner, and this lack of options (Linux is still NOT usable for me) is killing me.
I agree with you on something. Remove skype and add MSN/YIM/AIM/ICQ.
These non-anonymous chat services changed the way we relate to people on the web, replacing the untrusty anonymous IRC. It gave the ability to chat to every joe user.
OK, that was the good things. Now let's remember the bad things and how they started.
- Adware. Ah.... the Gator download manager (TM). Didn't you love this thing? It was free! Only it began displaying some ads in your computer. What could possibly go wrong?
- SPAM. Funny, the other day i began receiving mails about mortgage rates. Idiots, I'm too young for that. I'll ignore it, they're 1 in a 100.
- Popups. OK, this is getting annoying. I'll have to block images from these free websites like XOOM, Geocities, Angelfire and so on.
- Web viruses. The other day something weird went on. I went to a porn website, and the next day my PC began opening popups. WTF?
- Email viruses. Ack! All I did was open my mail on Outlook express!
It's funny. We take these things for granted, but I remember the days when they didn't exist AT ALL. It was a wonderful era. Also worthy of notice is that all of them (except popups) were possible thanks to Microsoft Windows(TM).