Some Christian pastors affiliated with my church are currently being tortured over there for talking about Christianity. Maybe that's not evil to you, or a necessary freedom, but most of us think it's a basic right.
Well here in the US it's now openly OK to torture people now up to the point of organ failure. Condoleza Rice's successor never DID _change_ his definition of torture, just justified it.
Apparantly we're ripping out fingernails in the name of God and Country, just like the "bad guys" do.
Brought to you in part by a fundie pastor near you who brags about controlling the Republican party http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040925/n ews_1n25christ.html
The point being not to make fun of pastors (not totally anyway:) but to point out, it's pretty hard to take the moral high ground with the US imprisoning people without representation or evidence, defining tortures that are allowable, etc.
Our "street credibility" on these issues is pretty low, in other words.
I'll offer the thought that any economic system is basically a scheme that benefits some more than others. Anything anyone does to amek money costs the system and the people in the system.
And that perhaps the trick is to find a spot that you can exploit and come out ahead, for a while.
I've been with Comcast since before the MediaOne buyout. 4 years this August, I guess, that I've had cable broadband.
MediaOne gave me 10? hrs of global dialup access thru MCI WorldNet, which was convenient when travelling. Comcast killed that quickly. I still miss it.
incoming port 80 was open until Nimda, at which point it got shut down due to the huge amount of traffic that thing generated. I forget if that was mediaone or comcast era; I think comcast.
All the other ports (except one Windows networking vulnerability) are open (8080, etc). I run a family-photo web page, sftp server, SMTP/POP3, stuff like that, no problem. I forward 4 or 5 ports thru to my server box.
The TOS is what is is; but each time I have asked their text support, they said just do what I wanted, as long as I didn't spam anyone or do illegal stuff they did not care.
I'm sure they notice my traffic, that's what automated network analysis tools are for. I'm sure also that they care not.
The biggest reason for the broadband is to archive large multimedia development files between home and work. If they turn off my port 22, I turn off their service, and use someone else. No biggie.
In the meantime, they've been great. A little bouncy when the network was growing into our area, but it's been fine for years.
I would call them and talk to them about servers, then set up what you want. So you have to use 8080 not 80. You can blame Windows for that. And it's trivial to either put the right port in the URL you send to your family users, or to redirect 80 using dyndng.org or similar.
My interpretations, it doesn't have to be a binary executable to be spyware.
The cookies like these and the google cookie that track everything you do, everything you search for, etc. and are used to report it back- it's spying on me. It's spyware. IT's not a spyware TROJAN as Sanford Wallace set up, correct.
Different issue than this main article in some ways, similar in others. In hindsight maybe it was a little stretched but I found it ironic to have those blocks popup at that time.
I agree that publishing domestic data for public servants just doesn't sit well with me.
But still, part of me sees it as just desserts, in a way, for congresscritters who keep allowing more and more of our personal rights (in the US) to be waived: less need for warrants, undisclosed reasons for arrest, secret trials, etc. etc. all all supposed to be fine for US, the common folk.
I recall clearly the NPR radio host asking John Ashcroft why on earth that we the public could not expect the invasive Patriot Act powers to be used improperly- there were no checks or balances left!.
Ashcroft replied,"Well you'll just have to trust us".
Recall a while back, they allowed some public disclosure of social security numbers etc, and some wags got all the SENATORS info of that sort and put it on the web? (it was something like that- it made slashdot). IIRC, THAT info got locked down in a hurry.
If we are supposed to trust THEM with broad powers and the removal of checks and balances that used to be present in our system, then they maybe can trust US, too. If not, then we should not have to trust them, either.
>This is dumb ownership, if this bug becomes prevalent
???
Are you saying that few people who have Office installed, ever open jpegs on their own???
I see this as one of the best ways to involve users in the spread of unwanted payloads.
SP2 is going to take a long time to be applied (it doesn't work well, isn't very secure, and is a HUGE download for non-broadband).
And even if you have SP2, users have to have patched Office as well.
I see this as being a problem for a good long time to come. There are so many things that can be done with it.
The best thing for me about this contest, was that I could come up with a solution.
do I have time to implement it? no.
Do I even have a compiler on my system that I could use? no.
But do I relish the fact that my 2+ years in a comp sci degree path provided me with enough math and general knowledge to describe how to do (solve) this? you bet.
Even though I do different things now (immunology research) the basic grounding in math and logic is always useful.
Thanks google!
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Some Christian pastors affiliated with my church are currently being tortured over there for talking about Christianity. Maybe that's not evil to you, or a necessary freedom, but most of us think it's a basic right.
Well here in the US it's now openly OK to torture people now up to the point of organ failure. Condoleza Rice's successor never DID _change_ his definition of torture, just justified it.
Apparantly we're ripping out fingernails in the name of God and Country, just like the "bad guys" do.
Brought to you in part by a fundie pastor near you who brags about controlling the Republican party http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040925/
The point being not to make fun of pastors (not totally anyway
Our "street credibility" on these issues is pretty low, in other words.
I'll offer the thought that any economic system is basically a scheme that benefits some more than others. Anything anyone does to amek money costs the system and the people in the system.
And that perhaps the trick is to find a spot that you can exploit and come out ahead, for a while.
I've been with Comcast since before the MediaOne buyout. 4 years this August, I guess, that I've had cable broadband.
MediaOne gave me 10? hrs of global dialup access thru MCI WorldNet, which was convenient when travelling. Comcast killed that quickly. I still miss it.
incoming port 80 was open until Nimda, at which point it got shut down due to the huge amount of traffic that thing generated. I forget if that was mediaone or comcast era; I think comcast.
All the other ports (except one Windows networking vulnerability) are open (8080, etc). I run a family-photo web page, sftp server, SMTP/POP3, stuff like that, no problem. I forward 4 or 5 ports thru to my server box.
The TOS is what is is; but each time I have asked their text support, they said just do what I wanted, as long as I didn't spam anyone or do illegal stuff they did not care.
I'm sure they notice my traffic, that's what automated network analysis tools are for. I'm sure also that they care not.
The biggest reason for the broadband is to archive large multimedia development files between home and work. If they turn off my port 22, I turn off their service, and use someone else. No biggie.
In the meantime, they've been great. A little bouncy when the network was growing into our area, but it's been fine for years.
I would call them and talk to them about servers, then set up what you want. So you have to use 8080 not 80. You can blame Windows for that. And it's trivial to either put the right port in the URL you send to your family users, or to redirect 80 using dyndng.org or similar.
Just my experiences.
The radiator will clog up pretty quickly with rust if run without antifreeze mix to keep down corrision.
at least, my 1980 Subaru radiator did
My interpretations, it doesn't have to be a binary executable to be spyware. The cookies like these and the google cookie that track everything you do, everything you search for, etc. and are used to report it back- it's spying on me. It's spyware. IT's not a spyware TROJAN as Sanford Wallace set up, correct. Different issue than this main article in some ways, similar in others. In hindsight maybe it was a little stretched but I found it ironic to have those blocks popup at that time.
Spyblot blocked Avenue A,Inc and Doubleclick installs when viewing this article.
I agree that publishing domestic data for public servants just doesn't sit well with me.
But still, part of me sees it as just desserts, in a way, for congresscritters who keep allowing more and more of our personal rights (in the US) to be waived: less need for warrants, undisclosed reasons for arrest, secret trials, etc. etc. all all supposed to be fine for US, the common folk.
I recall clearly the NPR radio host asking John Ashcroft why on earth that we the public could not expect the invasive Patriot Act powers to be used improperly- there were no checks or balances left!.
Ashcroft replied,"Well you'll just have to trust us".
Recall a while back, they allowed some public disclosure of social security numbers etc, and some wags got all the SENATORS info of that sort and put it on the web? (it was something like that- it made slashdot). IIRC, THAT info got locked down in a hurry.
If we are supposed to trust THEM with broad powers and the removal of checks and balances that used to be present in our system, then they maybe can trust US, too. If not, then we should not have to trust them, either.
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>This is dumb ownership, if this bug becomes prevalent
???
Are you saying that few people who have Office installed, ever open jpegs on their own???
I see this as one of the best ways to involve users in the spread of unwanted payloads.
SP2 is going to take a long time to be applied (it doesn't work well, isn't very secure, and is a HUGE download for non-broadband).
And even if you have SP2, users have to have patched Office as well.
I see this as being a problem for a good long time to come. There are so many things that can be done with it.
The best thing for me about this contest, was that I could come up with a solution. do I have time to implement it? no. Do I even have a compiler on my system that I could use? no. But do I relish the fact that my 2+ years in a comp sci degree path provided me with enough math and general knowledge to describe how to do (solve) this? you bet. Even though I do different things now (immunology research) the basic grounding in math and logic is always useful. Thanks google!