Hmm...
Let me put it this way, I just stayed up most of the night documenting in my blog how the US government abuses its people and ignores the very laws it put in place to protect its people. Now first thing in the morning, I hear that the UN wants to turn over full control of the DNS heirarchy to the US. A Country to whom "freedom" is just a word to be filtered. A Country where a constitution is just words on some expensive paper. A Country that care little for anything except maintaining their own power.
If we turn even the slightest control over to these people, it's a surefire guarantee that they will abuse it. They would use the technology to further oppress their people (illegally, I might add) and attempt to extend their influence to elsewhere in the world.
So I'm surfing for some porn when suddenly the new window that pops up is not an ad for another porn site but for my bank, and then a JS login pops up in front of that and I type in my username and password?!
Some people drive around the barriers at (train) level crossings...
It's called evolution people, the stupid ones loose all of their money and die (hopefully without reproducing first).
When all of those favourite newsletters stop arriving in November, will people yell at the newsletter providers or Microsoft?
If Hotmail and MSN users get upset with Microsoft they could effectively kill SenderID
If people used the brains that are supposedly inside their skulls, there would be no need for these not very useful methods of 'protection.'
How many people out there would have given a thumbs up to Kazaa? My friends are great to hang out with but tend to spread the computer equivalent of STDs.
For this to work,
1) http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp must be open in another window
2) http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp must be the active tab in that other window i.e. top or visible
It will not work if:
1) http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp is open in another tab in the same window i.e. non-active or hidden
2) any other site with frames is open in the active tab in another window (e.g. http://www.turtle-express.com/)
For a successful phishing attack you must:
1) open your bank (or some other imprtant) web page in a new window
2) that web page must use frames
3) you must then switch to another window and surf to the attackers web page
4) the attacker must know which web site is open in the other window in order to spoof a part of it
5) the log-in page is the only non-unique page so even if the attacker gets past 1-4 you must have left the login page in the other window, otherwise yiou would know something has happened because the content would be different!
Well I don't have a land-line either but that is not the point it's the checking for voicemail...
In Canada only about 2% of people are in this situation so...
The CNN article says "IBM is not concerned about liability, even in cases where innocent senders might be misidentified as spammers, because all the technology does is bounce back the e-mails, said Gail." The WSJ article posted by someone above says "based on a new IBM technology called FairUCE, that uses a giant database to identify computers that are sending spam. One key feature: E-mails coming from a computer on the spam list are sent directly back to the machine, not just the e-mail account, that sent them." This sounds exactly like the DNSBL FAQ at www.spamhaus.org which reads "Doing a DNSBL lookup on a message at SMTP connect time is cheap in hardware cycles and system time. Your DNS server may even have it cached from the last time the spammer tried.
If your MTA already knows the incoming message is spam it can deny a spam message before having to pass it to mail-scanner (medium cost), through the virus scanner (medium to expensive), bayesian filtering (medium), spamassassin network tests: blacklists, DCC, pyzor, razor, etc. (medium - high).
Mail rejected by a DNSBL does not disappear into the bit bucket. A DNSBL realtime rejection creates a delivery status notification (DSN) to the sender identifying the cause of the rejection, therebye allowing troubleshooting on the sender's end.
Realtime rejection avoids the "backscatter" problem of some spam filters which accept delivery, close the connection, and then try to return the mail after it is determined to be spam. Of course, as we all know, most spam and all viruses have forged sender addresses, and so the "bounce" goes back to an innocent third party (if it is deliverable at all).
Using the SBL-XBL lists together (recommended) rejects a very large amount of spam and virus mail with very low "false positive" rejections of legitimate mail. And remember, all those rejected legitimate mails are instantly reported to the sender with a DSN.
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The IBM page says "FairUCE (which stands for "Fair use of Unsolicited Commercial Email") is a spam filter that stops spam by verifying sender identity instead of filtering content." "Technically, FairUCE tries to find a relationship between the envelope sender's domain and the IP address of the client delivering the mail." This suggests that the receiving mail server does a DNS lookup "at SMTP connect time" verifying that the from address is related to the owner of the IP address the mail is coming from i.e. email from joe@yahoo.com originating from www.msn.com "bad" email from me@myisp.net originating from www.myisp.net "good" or something like this. If the cash is of WHOIS lookups so what? IP addresses do not change hands very often (do they?), I may have a different IP every time I log on to the internet, but that IP is always comes up on a WHOIS as being assigned to my ISP.:( And onone is going to read this...
(Downtown Toronto if you want to know)
The closest grocery stores are 5, 7 and 15 minutes away. There are two 24 hour transit lines within a 5 minute walk and 2 others which operate 06:00-01:20. My work is a quiet 20-40 minute transit ride away. I do not own a car. I spent $5000 on a high efficiency furnace which cut my gas bill by 60% and my electricity bill by 30% (with 8 months of cold weather it pays off very quickly!). I keep my house at 19C/66F. Also note, raising and lowering your house temperature actually uses more energy than keeping it at a constant temperature. I turn off the lights, if no one is in the room the lights are off.
OK I work in the market research industry and have worked on testing product names for clients but...
Wouldn't 'MoDev' be a better name? Or 'DevZilla'?
All I could think when I read this was "Mo -> 'mower -> lawnmower" and not "Mo -> Mozilla"
Whatever the name, it is good to have this content available again.
If you do not have WinRAR installed, you cannot extract the virus from the archive and execute it so you have no problem.
If you do have WinRAR installed do you really care if the files were scanned directly or temporarily unpacked and scanned?
do[es] the average computer user really need more than 4 Ghz?
My 4MHz XT ran my spreadsheet and document programs just fine... Now I need a 4GHz P4 just to run Windows XP and Office 2003 to do the same things. With the bad code bloat that comes out of Microsoft (and other software producers) every year, how can you ask if we really need this new technology in the mass market?
2 - The third (pick a 'number number') number of your zip code: 90210-1234 r - The second (from the 2) letter of your boss' name: Francis Drake 7 - The third (your 'number number') digit of your cell number: 707-555-1212 o - The seventh (from the 7) letter of your home town: Toronto Ontario 6 - the third (your 'number number') digit of your sister's street address: Apt#666-1234 Yonge Street y - The third (from the 3) letter of your car: Toyota Echo 4 - the third (your 'number number') digit of your visa: 4444 1234 1234 1234 c - the fourth (from the 4) letter of your father-in-law's name: Bruce Smith
you can generate 7 (666-1234 is the shortest) different effectively random 8 digit passwords from the above.
Slashdot Mirror
Hawaii would have been funnier.
This "news" item is from June 6. If no one cared about it six weeks ago, why would they care now?
You fail to understand that
-Photo/video editors
-music/video players
-web browsers
-IM clients
-email clients, etc.
are all necessary parts of any OS
virus, trojan, and other malware blockers are not
Are you asking what RSS is or are you asking why someone would want to add it to an email client?
Hmm... Let me put it this way, I just stayed up most of the night documenting in my blog how the US government abuses its people and ignores the very laws it put in place to protect its people. Now first thing in the morning, I hear that the UN wants to turn over full control of the DNS heirarchy to the US . A Country to whom "freedom" is just a word to be filtered. A Country where a constitution is just words on some expensive paper. A Country that care little for anything except maintaining their own power. If we turn even the slightest control over to these people, it's a surefire guarantee that they will abuse it. They would use the technology to further oppress their people (illegally, I might add) and attempt to extend their influence to elsewhere in the world.
Option 2 is quite clever and funny
Ajax has been around for 50 years...
That menu path does not exist in Firefox 1.0.4
So I'm surfing for some porn when suddenly the new window that pops up is not an ad for another porn site but for my bank, and then a JS login pops up in front of that and I type in my username and password?! Some people drive around the barriers at (train) level crossings... It's called evolution people, the stupid ones loose all of their money and die (hopefully without reproducing first).
When all of those favourite newsletters stop arriving in November, will people yell at the newsletter providers or Microsoft? If Hotmail and MSN users get upset with Microsoft they could effectively kill SenderID
If people used the brains that are supposedly inside their skulls, there would be no need for these not very useful methods of 'protection.' How many people out there would have given a thumbs up to Kazaa? My friends are great to hang out with but tend to spread the computer equivalent of STDs.
For this to work, 1) http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp must be open in another window 2) http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp must be the active tab in that other window i.e. top or visible It will not work if: 1) http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp is open in another tab in the same window i.e. non-active or hidden 2) any other site with frames is open in the active tab in another window (e.g. http://www.turtle-express.com/) For a successful phishing attack you must: 1) open your bank (or some other imprtant) web page in a new window 2) that web page must use frames 3) you must then switch to another window and surf to the attackers web page 4) the attacker must know which web site is open in the other window in order to spoof a part of it 5) the log-in page is the only non-unique page so even if the attacker gets past 1-4 you must have left the login page in the other window, otherwise yiou would know something has happened because the content would be different!
Well I don't have a land-line either but that is not the point it's the checking for voicemail... In Canada only about 2% of people are in this situation so...
I was going to make this point. Who does not check their voice-mail every time they get home?
So would you call this an intended 'feature' of IE/ActiveX/Windows or an unintended 'bug'?
These are better/funnier than the stories being posted today!
...So what is the big deal?
:( And onone is going to read this...
The CNN article says "IBM is not concerned about liability, even in cases where innocent senders might be misidentified as spammers, because all the technology does is bounce back the e-mails, said Gail." The WSJ article posted by someone above says "based on a new IBM technology called FairUCE, that uses a giant database to identify computers that are sending spam. One key feature: E-mails coming from a computer on the spam list are sent directly back to the machine, not just the e-mail account, that sent them." This sounds exactly like the DNSBL FAQ at www.spamhaus.org which reads "Doing a DNSBL lookup on a message at SMTP connect time is cheap in hardware cycles and system time. Your DNS server may even have it cached from the last time the spammer tried. If your MTA already knows the incoming message is spam it can deny a spam message before having to pass it to mail-scanner (medium cost), through the virus scanner (medium to expensive), bayesian filtering (medium), spamassassin network tests: blacklists, DCC, pyzor, razor, etc. (medium - high). Mail rejected by a DNSBL does not disappear into the bit bucket. A DNSBL realtime rejection creates a delivery status notification (DSN) to the sender identifying the cause of the rejection, therebye allowing troubleshooting on the sender's end. Realtime rejection avoids the "backscatter" problem of some spam filters which accept delivery, close the connection, and then try to return the mail after it is determined to be spam. Of course, as we all know, most spam and all viruses have forged sender addresses, and so the "bounce" goes back to an innocent third party (if it is deliverable at all). Using the SBL-XBL lists together (recommended) rejects a very large amount of spam and virus mail with very low "false positive" rejections of legitimate mail. And remember, all those rejected legitimate mails are instantly reported to the sender with a DSN. "
The IBM page says "FairUCE (which stands for "Fair use of Unsolicited Commercial Email") is a spam filter that stops spam by verifying sender identity instead of filtering content." "Technically, FairUCE tries to find a relationship between the envelope sender's domain and the IP address of the client delivering the mail." This suggests that the receiving mail server does a DNS lookup "at SMTP connect time" verifying that the from address is related to the owner of the IP address the mail is coming from i.e. email from joe@yahoo.com originating from www.msn.com "bad" email from me@myisp.net originating from www.myisp.net "good" or something like this. If the cash is of WHOIS lookups so what? IP addresses do not change hands very often (do they?), I may have a different IP every time I log on to the internet, but that IP is always comes up on a WHOIS as being assigned to my ISP.
Don't forget to copyright and patent your brilliant idea before you submit it. Microsoft might use it in Longhorn and then sue you later.
(Downtown Toronto if you want to know) The closest grocery stores are 5, 7 and 15 minutes away. There are two 24 hour transit lines within a 5 minute walk and 2 others which operate 06:00-01:20. My work is a quiet 20-40 minute transit ride away. I do not own a car. I spent $5000 on a high efficiency furnace which cut my gas bill by 60% and my electricity bill by 30% (with 8 months of cold weather it pays off very quickly!). I keep my house at 19C/66F. Also note, raising and lowering your house temperature actually uses more energy than keeping it at a constant temperature. I turn off the lights, if no one is in the room the lights are off.
OK I work in the market research industry and have worked on testing product names for clients but... Wouldn't 'MoDev' be a better name? Or 'DevZilla'? All I could think when I read this was "Mo -> 'mower -> lawnmower" and not "Mo -> Mozilla" Whatever the name, it is good to have this content available again.
If you do not have WinRAR installed, you cannot extract the virus from the archive and execute it so you have no problem. If you do have WinRAR installed do you really care if the files were scanned directly or temporarily unpacked and scanned?
do[es] the average computer user really need more than 4 Ghz?
My 4MHz XT ran my spreadsheet and document programs just fine... Now I need a 4GHz P4 just to run Windows XP and Office 2003 to do the same things. With the bad code bloat that comes out of Microsoft (and other software producers) every year, how can you ask if we really need this new technology in the mass market?
2 - The third (pick a 'number number') number of your zip code: 90210-1234
r - The second (from the 2) letter of your boss' name: Francis Drake
7 - The third (your 'number number') digit of your cell number: 707-555-1212
o - The seventh (from the 7) letter of your home town: Toronto Ontario
6 - the third (your 'number number') digit of your sister's street address: Apt#666-1234 Yonge Street
y - The third (from the 3) letter of your car: Toyota Echo
4 - the third (your 'number number') digit of your visa: 4444 1234 1234 1234
c - the fourth (from the 4) letter of your father-in-law's name: Bruce Smith
you can generate 7 (666-1234 is the shortest) different effectively random 8 digit passwords from the above.