"28% actively teach evolution as it is a correct theory"
Beyond that, I can't imagine anything more depressing than a biology high school teacher giving instruction on something so fundamentally anti-science and disingenuous as "ID". No matter what claims are made about validity. The very fact it's mentioned gives it credence.
Creationism is not so bad, at least it's honest about what it is. But totally out of scope in a science class. Do history teachers cover trigonometry? So what's a religious subject doing in a biology class?
Probably less a case of admins "bringing it back" and more a case of admins forgetting, or being oblivious to it being there in the first place. More and more admins will have scarcely used telnet ever in their professional lives, and so will overlook its presence on their servers. Ideal for hackers.
The best filtering of all is to use duff links! Nothing beats a 404 error for all-family viewer suitability!
Anyway, what value is there to a report that covers an obsolete OS that no-one can buy anymore? And everyone knows that the only reason Vista scores well is it makes everything difficult for everyone. That doesn't mean it's "safe", it means it's a horrible user experience.
If Vista counts as safe I have an even better tool to enhance that safety; squirt insulating foam in through your computer's fan outlets. Give it an hour and I can guarantee it will never display anything remotely child-unfriendly, to anyone, ever again. Not even Vista can promise that level of total safety. Although it tries, it really tries.
You paid for these films on VHS video in 1994. You were aware of the limitations of that format when you bought it. No-one forced you into a purchase. You still have them on VHS video to enjoy in their full fuzzy wavy glory, at any time you wish.
So how then do the film manufacturers owe you anything?
Oh, I see. You want them in a better format. Well that's your choice. Again, no-one is forcing you into a purchase. Just don't expect any greater sympathy when they're released in 2030 as 3D holograms injected directly into your neural cortex. You were aware of the limitations of Blue-ray when you bought them, and will still be free to view them.
It pisses me off how this abstract reads just like it's own name.
It goes even deeper than that. Here's a game called "Patent". Players submit a description of something obvious and already existing to a database drive online tournament. If they get in first before other players they are rewarded with points which allows them to submit more descriptions of something obvious and already existing. If they don't get their patent into the tournament first, they lose points to other players. The winner is the one to first manage to patent the idea of the universe and everything it contains.
Clearly Walker Digital have patented the concept of the game "Patents", and the patent office has breached that patent. Patents issued by the US patent Office are therefore invalid, including Walker Digital's patent. The who shebang disappears up its own fundamental and can be ignored by everyone of any sense.
Step 1. Contribute lots of shoddy obfuscated code that no-one will follow without a lot of effort. Comment code minimally with suggestions that what it's doing is so obvious to anyone who knows anything, it's hardly worth mentioning
Step 2. Conceal deep in your shoddy obfuscated code your backdoor. Do not call it Back_door_func.
Step 3. As long as your code works no-one will touch it or try to pick it apart. Hope no other coder is brave enough to suggests your code is beyond all understanding.
Because, Duh, conspiracy's are fun. People like hearing conspiracies. Conspiracies are news. Knowing it's all conspiracy makes you the smart one when all others are blind.
Conversely, boring old facts such as companies don't like spending money, if they can avoid it, are dull and nothing we didn't already know. News that some companies also are a bit rubbish is not news. No-one wants to read that.
Unless, of course, that's what they want you to think...
Next step; ringing Mastercard's doorbell then running away.
I joke, of course. That would mean the "hacktivists" doing something involving actual personal effort, and there are limits to what anyone will do in the name of freedom.
Your analysis rather pre-supposes two things. Neither of which, I suspect, you can prove;
1/ Paypal weren't going to release the funds anyway. Everyone knows that Paypal can be jerks when it comes to this, but they're not about to simply steal someone's money. At least not when everyone's looking. So the DDoS probably made absolutely no difference to events.
2/ The point of the DDoS was to secure the release of the funds. Everything I read suggested that it was the same deal as Mastercard; this was to punish the organisation for having the temerity to decide they didn't want Wikileak's business.
But I guess if you can change your mind about why you did something, and what it was you wanted, you can always claim victory afterwards. No matter what happens.
It's like a crowd gathering in front of a service window all trying to get an order - only most of them purposely asking for things they don't offer there, but repeatedly rejoining the queue with the same request.
If the company can tell who are the genuine customers, they can inform the rest that they are not welcome and invite them to leave. After which point they are trespassing.
Does Clarkson get shot? His insistence at taking all corners sideways would make for a lovely wide target. That would definitely be worth seeing. Otherwise... meh.
If you read the "story" you will see that the entire DMZ angle is entirely speculation. The writer doesn't know if this weapon is used there or not, but that doesn't stop him waffling on about it, before admitting its all speculation at the end.
The seeders are as motivated by greed as any of the leechers. They too want stuff without paying. The only difference is that they see the bigger picture, and realise that someone has to upload the content if the free-for-all is to continue. If no-one provides, no-one gets anything, and that includes them.
Which is, of course, the height of irony, since the ultimate ones really providing the content are the original creators. The ones the seeders are ripping off. But I guess their "altrusim" can't see that far.
organizations which are widely considered to be evil,
I think you need get out more and broaden your horizons a little, your "widely considered" is pathetically narrow. In the real world we usually save words like "evil" for mass-murders, dictators, and criminals. You know, war-criminals, bankers who run ponzi schemes and people who are cruel to animals.
Not people who infringe our universal human right to watch the latest movies without paying.
I think you'll find that as soon as it becomes a viable and valuable resource the outside world will reveal its previously hidden deep concerns about North African politics. Intervention will be needed to liberate the oil^H^H^H sunlight^H^H^H^H^H^H poor oppressed people of the Sahara, remove their leaders^H^H^H^H^H dictators and introduce them to free-world trade.
For their own good, you understand. Protecting their human rights.
It is passed 2pm. At least where I am. And no-one else reads slashdot anywhere else but where I am, otherwise the headline would give a time zone, wouldn't it?
At least, I have always thought that saying "unflattering" things behind people's backs isn't the way to behave.
You seem to be unclear on the meaning and function of diplomacy. Diplomacy means sometimes having reasonable discussions with unreasonable people. If that person/politician/nation is being a jerk, then it's your job to make your boss aware that you are dealing with a jerk. You do this "behind their back", because saying it to their face is likely to bring a very sudden and unsatisfactory end to discussions. As a diplomat you are a total failure.
If diplomats need to be ever so polite about what they report back, how are anyone ever supposed to know what's really going on? "I'm sorry, Mr President, about this sudden war with Koristan. But all our reports from embassy staff there suggested that the His Excellency the Great Leader was a mighty fine fellow, a delightful conversationalist, who loves peace, his mother and kittens. Turns out he is a murderous megalomaniac with a evil temper. Embassy staff didn't tell us because that would be talking behind his back, which isn't polite. If only we'd known, we wouldn't have sold him those missiles."
I have already owned these as albums, tapes and CDs and I am NOT buying them again.
And no-one is asking you to.
Do you go complaining to the management every time a new shop opens in your area? "Hey you! Flunky! How dare you came here offering me more consumer choice at my convenience???!!! I already own your wide selection of high quality goods at low low prices and I'm NOT buying them again!!"
And if he's not a liar, he's seriously lacking in moral fibre. It's depressing that he uses the tired old argument "I am not the reason your students cheat". Perhaps you are not, but you are the one doing it. That makes you personally involved and attempt to claim you're just a cog in the machinery is pathetic avoidance of your personal responsibility.
.. or stick a Post-it note in the middle of your screen before launching the application, so your eyes are never assaulted by the eeeeevil company's logo. Better still, use generic sticky paper pad, lest you replace the tyranny of Oracle with that of 3M.
The very fact that the submitter of this question feels he has to first justify his need to read a Word document, lest anyone think it was a regular habit of his, which would make him a slave to eeeeevil software company Microsoft, tells me all I need to know.
Sometimes having an over-developed sense of principles is an inconvenience and costs time, effort and money. This is one of these times. If your principles are so highly tuned that you must, at all costs, never sully yourself with the slightest suggestion of any involvement with devil-spawn of the Evil Corporate Empires, then you've set yourself an impossible task that can only end in living in a cave. Your principles will be intact, but you are going to have to do without a few comforts.
If you RTFA you'd see we have no idea how many they caught by this trick, but it wasn't "these guys". They didn't get caught. If they had got caught they'd probably not know it, and wouldn't be in a position to tell anyone about it. That's how honeypots work.
So really the more accurate title for this article would be "Zeus Attackers Tried To Turn the Tables On Researchers". Which isn't nearly as clever.
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"28% actively teach evolution as it is a correct theory"
Beyond that, I can't imagine anything more depressing than a biology high school teacher giving instruction on something so fundamentally anti-science and disingenuous as "ID". No matter what claims are made about validity. The very fact it's mentioned gives it credence.
Creationism is not so bad, at least it's honest about what it is. But totally out of scope in a science class. Do history teachers cover trigonometry? So what's a religious subject doing in a biology class?
Probably less a case of admins "bringing it back" and more a case of admins forgetting, or being oblivious to it being there in the first place. More and more admins will have scarcely used telnet ever in their professional lives, and so will overlook its presence on their servers. Ideal for hackers.
The best filtering of all is to use duff links! Nothing beats a 404 error for all-family viewer suitability!
Anyway, what value is there to a report that covers an obsolete OS that no-one can buy anymore? And everyone knows that the only reason Vista scores well is it makes everything difficult for everyone. That doesn't mean it's "safe", it means it's a horrible user experience.
If Vista counts as safe I have an even better tool to enhance that safety; squirt insulating foam in through your computer's fan outlets. Give it an hour and I can guarantee it will never display anything remotely child-unfriendly, to anyone, ever again. Not even Vista can promise that level of total safety. Although it tries, it really tries.
You paid for these films on VHS video in 1994. You were aware of the limitations of that format when you bought it. No-one forced you into a purchase. You still have them on VHS video to enjoy in their full fuzzy wavy glory, at any time you wish.
So how then do the film manufacturers owe you anything?
Oh, I see. You want them in a better format. Well that's your choice. Again, no-one is forcing you into a purchase. Just don't expect any greater sympathy when they're released in 2030 as 3D holograms injected directly into your neural cortex. You were aware of the limitations of Blue-ray when you bought them, and will still be free to view them.
It pisses me off how this abstract reads just like it's own name.
It goes even deeper than that. Here's a game called "Patent". Players submit a description of something obvious and already existing to a database drive online tournament. If they get in first before other players they are rewarded with points which allows them to submit more descriptions of something obvious and already existing. If they don't get their patent into the tournament first, they lose points to other players. The winner is the one to first manage to patent the idea of the universe and everything it contains.
Clearly Walker Digital have patented the concept of the game "Patents", and the patent office has breached that patent. Patents issued by the US patent Office are therefore invalid, including Walker Digital's patent. The who shebang disappears up its own fundamental and can be ignored by everyone of any sense.
Step 1. Contribute lots of shoddy obfuscated code that no-one will follow without a lot of effort. Comment code minimally with suggestions that what it's doing is so obvious to anyone who knows anything, it's hardly worth mentioning
Step 2. Conceal deep in your shoddy obfuscated code your backdoor. Do not call it Back_door_func.
Step 3. As long as your code works no-one will touch it or try to pick it apart. Hope no other coder is brave enough to suggests your code is beyond all understanding.
Because, Duh, conspiracy's are fun. People like hearing conspiracies. Conspiracies are news. Knowing it's all conspiracy makes you the smart one when all others are blind.
Conversely, boring old facts such as companies don't like spending money, if they can avoid it, are dull and nothing we didn't already know. News that some companies also are a bit rubbish is not news. No-one wants to read that.
Unless, of course, that's what they want you to think...
Next step; ringing Mastercard's doorbell then running away.
I joke, of course. That would mean the "hacktivists" doing something involving actual personal effort, and there are limits to what anyone will do in the name of freedom.
Your analysis rather pre-supposes two things. Neither of which, I suspect, you can prove;
1/ Paypal weren't going to release the funds anyway. Everyone knows that Paypal can be jerks when it comes to this, but they're not about to simply steal someone's money. At least not when everyone's looking. So the DDoS probably made absolutely no difference to events.
2/ The point of the DDoS was to secure the release of the funds. Everything I read suggested that it was the same deal as Mastercard; this was to punish the organisation for having the temerity to decide they didn't want Wikileak's business.
But I guess if you can change your mind about why you did something, and what it was you wanted, you can always claim victory afterwards. No matter what happens.
No it's not.
It's like a crowd gathering in front of a service window all trying to get an order - only most of them purposely asking for things they don't offer there, but repeatedly rejoining the queue with the same request.
If the company can tell who are the genuine customers, they can inform the rest that they are not welcome and invite them to leave. After which point they are trespassing.
Which is why DDoS is illegal.
Does Clarkson get shot? His insistence at taking all corners sideways would make for a lovely wide target. That would definitely be worth seeing. Otherwise... meh.
If you read the "story" you will see that the entire DMZ angle is entirely speculation. The writer doesn't know if this weapon is used there or not, but that doesn't stop him waffling on about it, before admitting its all speculation at the end.
The seeders are as motivated by greed as any of the leechers. They too want stuff without paying. The only difference is that they see the bigger picture, and realise that someone has to upload the content if the free-for-all is to continue. If no-one provides, no-one gets anything, and that includes them.
Which is, of course, the height of irony, since the ultimate ones really providing the content are the original creators. The ones the seeders are ripping off. But I guess their "altrusim" can't see that far.
organizations which are widely considered to be evil,
I think you need get out more and broaden your horizons a little, your "widely considered" is pathetically narrow. In the real world we usually save words like "evil" for mass-murders, dictators, and criminals. You know, war-criminals, bankers who run ponzi schemes and people who are cruel to animals.
Not people who infringe our universal human right to watch the latest movies without paying.
I think you'll find that as soon as it becomes a viable and valuable resource the outside world will reveal its previously hidden deep concerns about North African politics. Intervention will be needed to liberate the oil^H^H^H sunlight^H^H^H^H^H^H poor oppressed people of the Sahara, remove their leaders^H^H^H^H^H dictators and introduce them to free-world trade.
For their own good, you understand. Protecting their human rights.
It is passed 2pm. At least where I am. And no-one else reads slashdot anywhere else but where I am, otherwise the headline would give a time zone, wouldn't it?
You have an interesting point there, you should apply for a grant to fund a study.
Hypothesis; Thefts are most successful before anyone notices they are happening. Afterwards... not so much.
Recommendations; Delay thefts until after they are noticed.
"...now watch this drive."
At least, I have always thought that saying "unflattering" things behind people's backs isn't the way to behave.
You seem to be unclear on the meaning and function of diplomacy. Diplomacy means sometimes having reasonable discussions with unreasonable people. If that person/politician/nation is being a jerk, then it's your job to make your boss aware that you are dealing with a jerk. You do this "behind their back", because saying it to their face is likely to bring a very sudden and unsatisfactory end to discussions. As a diplomat you are a total failure.
If diplomats need to be ever so polite about what they report back, how are anyone ever supposed to know what's really going on? "I'm sorry, Mr President, about this sudden war with Koristan. But all our reports from embassy staff there suggested that the His Excellency the Great Leader was a mighty fine fellow, a delightful conversationalist, who loves peace, his mother and kittens. Turns out he is a murderous megalomaniac with a evil temper. Embassy staff didn't tell us because that would be talking behind his back, which isn't polite. If only we'd known, we wouldn't have sold him those missiles."
The point is if a foreign government can redirect even a few messages that it chooses it is not good.
So if it wasn't a foreign government it would be ok? Remember, all governments are foreign to some of us.
I have already owned these as albums, tapes and CDs and I am NOT buying them again.
And no-one is asking you to.
Do you go complaining to the management every time a new shop opens in your area? "Hey you! Flunky! How dare you came here offering me more consumer choice at my convenience???!!! I already own your wide selection of high quality goods at low low prices and I'm NOT buying them again!!"
And if he's not a liar, he's seriously lacking in moral fibre. It's depressing that he uses the tired old argument "I am not the reason your students cheat". Perhaps you are not, but you are the one doing it. That makes you personally involved and attempt to claim you're just a cog in the machinery is pathetic avoidance of your personal responsibility.
.. or stick a Post-it note in the middle of your screen before launching the application, so your eyes are never assaulted by the eeeeevil company's logo. Better still, use generic sticky paper pad, lest you replace the tyranny of Oracle with that of 3M.
The very fact that the submitter of this question feels he has to first justify his need to read a Word document, lest anyone think it was a regular habit of his, which would make him a slave to eeeeevil software company Microsoft, tells me all I need to know.
Sometimes having an over-developed sense of principles is an inconvenience and costs time, effort and money. This is one of these times. If your principles are so highly tuned that you must, at all costs, never sully yourself with the slightest suggestion of any involvement with devil-spawn of the Evil Corporate Empires, then you've set yourself an impossible task that can only end in living in a cave. Your principles will be intact, but you are going to have to do without a few comforts.
What security researchers? RTFA. It just says that this is what the fake admin panel was designed to do. No one is saying that it fooled anyone.
If you RTFA you'd see we have no idea how many they caught by this trick, but it wasn't "these guys". They didn't get caught. If they had got caught they'd probably not know it, and wouldn't be in a position to tell anyone about it. That's how honeypots work.
So really the more accurate title for this article would be "Zeus Attackers Tried To Turn the Tables On Researchers". Which isn't nearly as clever.