If he's running any old binary sent to him, why not have one of your friends send a gift in reply? All it needs to do is grab the IP and timestamp, then email those details to you. Forward that to the police who can get location data from the ISP.
I think the Senator is talking about stuff like this
No, he's talking about stuff like this. See that $52,000 worth of contributions from AOL/Time-Warner? I'm sure it's just a coincidence...
All this is is one corporation buying a politician to attack another corporation. Is this behavior acceptable this time simply because it's against The Great Satan?
Say Microsoft is taken down because AOL and Sun buy all of the politicians... then what? You thought Bill Gates was bad, imagine Steve Case and Scott McNealy with half of DC in their pockets. Yes Microsoft needs to be cut down a peg or three, but not like this. Do it with boycotts and public education. The enemy of your enemy is not your friend.
So here we have a senator who is sabotaging one company on behalf of two others, but that's a good thing because you perceive the company being affected as The Great Satan(TM). Yay double standards.
When videogames are banned by Senator X and crypto is outlawed, make sure you've got this article bookmarked so you know who to blame.
Microsoft definitely needs to be taken down a notch or two, but this way? Do the ends really justify the means, or is it just this one time?
Scientists accidentally create a blueprint for biological weapons that can be used by any number of domestic terrorists who can deploy weapons that won't be stopped by any number of "missile defense sheilds".
WRONG! The trojan in this article not a scripting exploit. It's a user exploit pure and simple. It relies on a user knowingly executing it.
I just got a user who sweared never opening any attachment has his computer infected with this.
Users always swear they "didn't do anything!" when they fuck something up. 99.9% of the time it's not true. Yes, HTML mail is evil. Yes, scripting exploits are evil. But this case is neither. So put down the bold tag and exclamation marks, there's no need to get worked up.
Incorrect. This trojan is executed by the user not the email client. It arrives as a file attachment, just like any other attachment. It comes down to the user having sense enough not to choose to double-click everything they see.
It is exactly the same as if the user downloaded the trojan from an FTP site or through Gnutella, it's strictly an application. It doesn't rely on being received via email, all it needs is for the user to choose to execute it. Now if that application (trojan) happens to be a Linux executable, it's going to run when the user tells it to run. It's going to go ahead and read whatever address book it can find and spam everyone with a copy of itself.
It's naive to think this problem only affects Windows users. It's only a matter of time before someone creates a Mac or Linux port.
No, they don't. They rely on the user executing the code. Have someone DCC the attachment or FTP it from somewhere. You have to run it, not the client. That's why it's a trojan, fool.
This sort of trojan can theoretically be ported to any platform that has an email client and an address book.
I've Been using Netscape Communicator's E-mail program for years, without a problem.
All it takes is for the trojan author to support Netscape's address book format and hey-presto, Netscape is affected. Someone ports the trojan to a Linux email client and now Linux is affected. This isn't a problem with Outlook, it's a problem with idiot users clicking on every damn thing they're emailed.
You know, for all the bitching Slashdot does about the media confusing "Hacker" with "Cracker", it's somewhat ironic that the Slashdot editors don't know the difference between a "Virus" and a "Trojan".
Of course, then the headline would have to be "Idiot Users Still Exist, Nobody Surprised" -- doesn't really have the same aire of panic though, does it?
Joe emails a rogue application to Jane, Jane runs the code which then emails itself (and an arbitrary document) to people in Jane's address book. Sounds like something that could be implemented on any OS, doesn't it? You can't patch user stupidity.
Anyhoo, let the Microsoft bashing begin! Everyone get your pitchforks and flaming torches, but leave your dictionaries at home.
Telstra retail corporate affairs manager Stuart Gray said the virus, which operated on broadband users, collected the user names and passwords, automatically sending them back to the person who had activated the virus.
"BigPond has not been hacked. What has happened is a Trojan virus has been lodged on a number of BigPond users," he told AAP tonight.
Mr Gray said the hacker responsible had placed the user names and passwords of 69 BigPond customers on websites.
BigPond had contacted the customers, changing their passwords and closing down their sites so other people couldn't use their names.
The virus had been found on the websites of the customers contacted.
"It's a real warning for broadband customers how important it is for them to have the latest anti-virus software and firewall software and protect themselves as much as possible," he said.
Telstra is evil, but this looks more like the work of idiot users.
Keep the pitchfork and flaming torches handy though, they'll fuck up sooner or later.
They're not allowing me to relay anymore? Cocksuckers! How am I supposed to spam^H^H^H^Hinform the world with news of my amazing new product, the Slashdot Overreact-O-Tron 6000?
I think a boycott is in order, somebody set us up the petition!
Daikatana wasn't "bad luck" is was bad management, bad design, bad implementation, and bad PR ("John Romero's Going to Make You His Bitch!").
IMHO, Eidos should have shitcanned Dallas two years ago. They would have saved themselves in the vicinity of $10m.
Here's a test for future Eidos executives...
When a title is years behind schedule, you're haemorrhaging staff, and company email indicates a subsidiary is screwing you, do you;
A) Cut the developers loose, or
B) Firehose more money on them in the hope that "Design is Law" and that you don't really need those whiny engineers to create a game. All you need is a "Gaming God" with a rockstar attitude.
To misquote Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back; Fuck Ion Storm Dallas, fuck them in their stupid asses.
I thought I was going crazy, that my grip on reality was slipping. Did KIllustrator really change its name to Kontour, or did I dream that I read this article yesterday?
KIllustrator is now known as 'Kontour' (after Adobe claimed that KIllustrator was too close to Adobe Illustrator, in case you haven't followed the news).
Was that a figment of my fevered mind? Apparently not.
I found this story on The Register about how KIllustrator is changing it's name to Kontour
The only problem was that there was no commercially available Linux PDA in June 2000, when Richards started the project. Sun solved that problem by outsourcing hardware and software development to other companies. Symbol Technologies Inc.'s model 2700 PDA and a custom port from Linux provider Red Hat Inc. formed the basis of the platform.
If it were really diverse, they wouldn't just have music professionals on the board. They'd have a deaf person, some giggling schoolgirls, a super-intelligent killbot, and maybe a monkey.
Attacking the folks who are helping MySQL perform better and become more widely used?
MySQL AB need to think about how that looks to companies who are evaluating database software. Do you think behavior like that will fill them with confidence?
But kickass technology is worthless without quality and content. Going by every review I've seen, they are the things in which Final Fantasy is sorely lacking in.
Someone should put a CG film review generator together, the template can be; "[film x] is a technological masterpiece, however..."
Bender: Clem Johnson? That sack of skin wouldn't have lasted one pitch in the old Robot Leagues. Now, Wireless Joe Jackson, there was a blern-hitting machine. Leela: Exactly. He was a machine designed to hit blerns. I mean, come on, Wireless Joe was nothing but a programmable bat on wheels. Bender: Oh, and I suppose Pitch-O-Mat 5000 was just a modified Howitzer? Leela: Yep. Bender: You know, you humans are so scared of a little robot competition you won't even let us on the field.
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If he's running any old binary sent to him, why not have one of your friends send a gift in reply? All it needs to do is grab the IP and timestamp, then email those details to you. Forward that to the police who can get location data from the ISP.
All this is is one corporation buying a politician to attack another corporation. Is this behavior acceptable this time simply because it's against The Great Satan?
Say Microsoft is taken down because AOL and Sun buy all of the politicians... then what? You thought Bill Gates was bad, imagine Steve Case and Scott McNealy with half of DC in their pockets. Yes Microsoft needs to be cut down a peg or three, but not like this. Do it with boycotts and public education. The enemy of your enemy is not your friend.
When videogames are banned by Senator X and crypto is outlawed, make sure you've got this article bookmarked so you know who to blame.
Microsoft definitely needs to be taken down a notch or two, but this way? Do the ends really justify the means, or is it just this one time?
Scientists accidentally create a blueprint for biological weapons that can be used by any number of domestic terrorists who can deploy weapons that won't be stopped by any number of "missile defense sheilds".
Now I can buy a mecha replacement for my favorite red ball that's in a coma.
If it were a Linux binary it would. And what if it is a CLR binary? If you want a reason to fear Mono/.NET, there it is.
It is exactly the same as if the user downloaded the trojan from an FTP site or through Gnutella, it's strictly an application. It doesn't rely on being received via email, all it needs is for the user to choose to execute it. Now if that application (trojan) happens to be a Linux executable, it's going to run when the user tells it to run. It's going to go ahead and read whatever address book it can find and spam everyone with a copy of itself.
It's naive to think this problem only affects Windows users. It's only a matter of time before someone creates a Mac or Linux port.
This sort of trojan can theoretically be ported to any platform that has an email client and an address book.
Of course, then the headline would have to be "Idiot Users Still Exist, Nobody Surprised" -- doesn't really have the same aire of panic though, does it?
Joe emails a rogue application to Jane, Jane runs the code which then emails itself (and an arbitrary document) to people in Jane's address book. Sounds like something that could be implemented on any OS, doesn't it? You can't patch user stupidity.
Anyhoo, let the Microsoft bashing begin! Everyone get your pitchforks and flaming torches, but leave your dictionaries at home.
From NineMSN;
Telstra is evil, but this looks more like the work of idiot users.
Keep the pitchfork and flaming torches handy though, they'll fuck up sooner or later.
I think a boycott is in order, somebody set us up the petition!
Sigh...
IMHO, Eidos should have shitcanned Dallas two years ago. They would have saved themselves in the vicinity of $10m.
Here's a test for future Eidos executives...
When a title is years behind schedule, you're haemorrhaging staff, and company email indicates a subsidiary is screwing you, do you;
A) Cut the developers loose, or
B) Firehose more money on them in the hope that "Design is Law" and that you don't really need those whiny engineers to create a game. All you need is a "Gaming God" with a rockstar attitude.
To misquote Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back; Fuck Ion Storm Dallas, fuck them in their stupid asses.
What are the odds that the presenters will "vote off" the losers in the category?
*sigh*
And people wonder why Joe Public doesn't take web-based news sources seriously...
If it were really diverse, they wouldn't just have music professionals on the board. They'd have a deaf person, some giggling schoolgirls, a super-intelligent killbot, and maybe a monkey.
There are articles here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Hope this helps.
MySQL AB need to think about how that looks to companies who are evaluating database software. Do you think behavior like that will fill them with confidence?
Someone should put a CG film review generator together, the template can be; "[film x] is a technological masterpiece, however..."
Bender: Clem Johnson? That sack of skin wouldn't have lasted one pitch in the old Robot Leagues. Now, Wireless Joe Jackson, there was a blern-hitting machine.
Leela: Exactly. He was a machine designed to hit blerns. I mean, come on, Wireless Joe was nothing but a programmable bat on wheels.
Bender: Oh, and I suppose Pitch-O-Mat 5000 was just a modified Howitzer?
Leela: Yep.
Bender: You know, you humans are so scared of a little robot competition you won't even let us on the field.
Sure, it's cool now but reusable rockets are the first step towards GIANT, REUSABLE, WORLD-DOMINATING ROBOTS!