If hundreds or thousands are reporting it then it is like affecting several orders of magnitude more systems, by the sounds of things you need to be running the system continuously for a while too so I would say this is likely something easily discovered for them. Most users will simply hard boot and move on. I will never forget a technical gig I had about 20 years, I had to go into help out a design company, the users were furious as their new Windows NT machines would blue screen once a day and it was unacceptable they needed stability like their Mac's. While I was their fixing a driver problem I witnessed there Mac's mac's crash approximately every 45 mins to 1 hour, When I commented on it. they said "no they do that every hour, but we don't have to touch them they just come right back up after a few minutes", apparently the Apple engineer had convinced them this was normal behaviour. So I set Windows NT to auto reboot on blue screen of death instead of sitting there with its thumb up its arse. It is amazing what some users will put up with if they think it is normal.
a reasonable portion of the accounts are being investigated by various countries for tax fraud and other money laundering violations. I would expect over the coming couple of years there will be some significant prosecutions from it as while hiding money in an offshore account is not strictly illegal. misreporting income on tax is as is not declaring assets during various court cases.
Breaking into or executing code on a system without permission is a criminal offense.
Not if it is a system you own. Since this is a public system, the "perpetrator" is part owner, and therefore allowed.
cool so by your definition all I have to do is buy one share in every company and then I am free to hack them and am completely immune to prosecution....
yep a defense that you need to put before a judge and jury for them to determine its validity. Doesn't sound like what this guy did though, nor does it appear to match his intentions given his actions post hack and who he told.
He was arrested for hacking into the website and taking data, he was not arrested for reporting the vulnerability. though some may argue they are related he had no right or approval to hack the site and certainly no approval to take information from it after hacking it. If you are going to test a website for vulnerabilities as a security researcher you need to have the owners approval.
This is all client side. Server side supports all the standard protocols, it also used to support a proprietary connection method used by windows live mail client, that is no longer being supported. seems the live client only supports the proprietary protocol for MS servers.
It is not unnecessary in my eyes, they have shown they are untrustworthy. I fervently believe in voting with my wallet, clicks, usage, rewarding those that I deem deserve it with my patronage. I have never been one to forgive and forget. Unless I have no choice I will choose those that haven't screwed me over. Once lost as a customer they have to do something to earn me back, going back to what they should have always been is insufficient when their are plenty of choices.
perhaps you have such a flighty or fickle nature that forgives or forgets easily. I can assure you I do not, I will happily go to extra lengths to avoid dealing with companies or individuals I believe have screwed me over even if it means more work on my part.
Once upon a time tucows was my first stop to find downloads. Been more than a decade now since I even heard the name I think. The ad's, download buttons and toolbars was enough to chase me away and stop me ever recommending it again. While I applaud the effort of removing this shit I won't be going back now as once lost Trust is near impossible to earn.
I seriously doubt his mother allows him out. Takes a special kind of idiocy that is usually only present in kids to understand so little about the internet and where attacks come from yet think he has a good idea that must be voiced to fix the problem.
Sure, according to your so-called "scientific consensus".
scientific consensus? you can test it yourself in your backyard if you really wish or go to look at any building that has suffered from a sufficiently large enough fire.
The courts have a lot of problems. But this was an armed robber, stealing at gunpoint (yes he was a moron committing the crime for a pathetic amount but still armed robbery none the less). The cops got a court order. This is actually an example of the courts and police doing the right thing for the right reasons for a change.
given we have no data points or anything to base a paper on the estimated lifetime of a technological civilization I would say any paper written on it would be a pathetic joke not interesting.
Given the vast distances and time that separates anything we would identify as "us" we already know that we are for all practical purposes alone.
That is only true for our current level of technology and understanding of space and time and assumes also that others are at or below our current levels.
In local area they are more than sufficient to affect the local weather patterns, especially if relatively close to the ocean, it all comes down to how much of an area they are trying to affect. Even Tall buildings by the cost can cause the generation of fog.
while our Australian mines are huge, they are no where near the biggest or deepest. The one near salt lake city is over a kilometer deep. There is an open cut mining operation in Germany which covers an area of around 50 Square Kilometers.
mines all over the world regularly move that much material. They also have other huge operations that they can leverage experience from like building man made islands of Dubai. It would definitely be expensive but I can't see it as a huge engineering or bank breaking challenge.
comparing a good vs a bad/boring book is vastly different to ranking books in a genre, especially at the top of it. while the former is easy the later is impossible as it is subjective as the differences are personal. I hated Frankenstein but loved Dune, doesn't mean Dune is better (except for me), both a arguably exceptional pieces of literature in the genre.
I'm surprised about this amount, I guess that most people are afraid to get caught donating to this site
Or it could be that people that want something for nothing aren't willing to pay for it.
I am sure that is "part" of it. I would actually happily donate to them, they make content easily accessible that the studios refuse to make available in a consistent manner through licensing practises. HOWEVER, I am not going to go through the pain of arranging bitcoin to do it, I use piratebay because of ease of use and bitcoin is anything but that.
holding a gun to someones head and demanding they don't watch something is also clearly a method for protecting digital distribution rights. But just like Geoblocking it is against Australian law and hence if you try to claim they were avoiding you holding a gun to their head you would have a pretty tough time in court.
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If hundreds or thousands are reporting it then it is like affecting several orders of magnitude more systems, by the sounds of things you need to be running the system continuously for a while too so I would say this is likely something easily discovered for them. Most users will simply hard boot and move on. I will never forget a technical gig I had about 20 years, I had to go into help out a design company, the users were furious as their new Windows NT machines would blue screen once a day and it was unacceptable they needed stability like their Mac's. While I was their fixing a driver problem I witnessed there Mac's mac's crash approximately every 45 mins to 1 hour, When I commented on it. they said "no they do that every hour, but we don't have to touch them they just come right back up after a few minutes", apparently the Apple engineer had convinced them this was normal behaviour. So I set Windows NT to auto reboot on blue screen of death instead of sitting there with its thumb up its arse. It is amazing what some users will put up with if they think it is normal.
a reasonable portion of the accounts are being investigated by various countries for tax fraud and other money laundering violations. I would expect over the coming couple of years there will be some significant prosecutions from it as while hiding money in an offshore account is not strictly illegal. misreporting income on tax is as is not declaring assets during various court cases.
Breaking into or executing code on a system without permission is a criminal offense.
Not if it is a system you own. Since this is a public system, the "perpetrator" is part owner, and therefore allowed.
cool so by your definition all I have to do is buy one share in every company and then I am free to hack them and am completely immune to prosecution....
yep a defense that you need to put before a judge and jury for them to determine its validity. Doesn't sound like what this guy did though, nor does it appear to match his intentions given his actions post hack and who he told.
He was arrested for hacking into the website and taking data, he was not arrested for reporting the vulnerability. though some may argue they are related he had no right or approval to hack the site and certainly no approval to take information from it after hacking it. If you are going to test a website for vulnerabilities as a security researcher you need to have the owners approval.
This is all client side. Server side supports all the standard protocols, it also used to support a proprietary connection method used by windows live mail client, that is no longer being supported. seems the live client only supports the proprietary protocol for MS servers.
It is not unnecessary in my eyes, they have shown they are untrustworthy. I fervently believe in voting with my wallet, clicks, usage, rewarding those that I deem deserve it with my patronage. I have never been one to forgive and forget. Unless I have no choice I will choose those that haven't screwed me over. Once lost as a customer they have to do something to earn me back, going back to what they should have always been is insufficient when their are plenty of choices.
perhaps you have such a flighty or fickle nature that forgives or forgets easily. I can assure you I do not, I will happily go to extra lengths to avoid dealing with companies or individuals I believe have screwed me over even if it means more work on my part.
Once upon a time tucows was my first stop to find downloads. Been more than a decade now since I even heard the name I think. The ad's, download buttons and toolbars was enough to chase me away and stop me ever recommending it again. While I applaud the effort of removing this shit I won't be going back now as once lost Trust is near impossible to earn.
I seriously doubt his mother allows him out. Takes a special kind of idiocy that is usually only present in kids to understand so little about the internet and where attacks come from yet think he has a good idea that must be voiced to fix the problem.
Better add the US to the list you are cutting off as they are one of the top 3.
Sure, according to your so-called "scientific consensus".
scientific consensus? you can test it yourself in your backyard if you really wish or go to look at any building that has suffered from a sufficiently large enough fire.
definition of fame : 1.the state of being known by many people:
The courts have a lot of problems. But this was an armed robber, stealing at gunpoint (yes he was a moron committing the crime for a pathetic amount but still armed robbery none the less). The cops got a court order. This is actually an example of the courts and police doing the right thing for the right reasons for a change.
Caching, proxies, performance, bandwidth, certificate management, filtering, inspection etc etc. Why encrypt public content that has no value?
given we have no data points or anything to base a paper on the estimated lifetime of a technological civilization I would say any paper written on it would be a pathetic joke not interesting.
Given the vast distances and time that separates anything we would identify as "us" we already know that we are for all practical purposes alone.
That is only true for our current level of technology and understanding of space and time and assumes also that others are at or below our current levels.
In local area they are more than sufficient to affect the local weather patterns, especially if relatively close to the ocean, it all comes down to how much of an area they are trying to affect. Even Tall buildings by the cost can cause the generation of fog.
while our Australian mines are huge, they are no where near the biggest or deepest. The one near salt lake city is over a kilometer deep. There is an open cut mining operation in Germany which covers an area of around 50 Square Kilometers.
mines all over the world regularly move that much material. They also have other huge operations that they can leverage experience from like building man made islands of Dubai. It would definitely be expensive but I can't see it as a huge engineering or bank breaking challenge.
comparing a good vs a bad/boring book is vastly different to ranking books in a genre, especially at the top of it. while the former is easy the later is impossible as it is subjective as the differences are personal. I hated Frankenstein but loved Dune, doesn't mean Dune is better (except for me), both a arguably exceptional pieces of literature in the genre.
I'm surprised about this amount, I guess that most people are afraid to get caught donating to this site
Or it could be that people that want something for nothing aren't willing to pay for it.
I am sure that is "part" of it. I would actually happily donate to them, they make content easily accessible that the studios refuse to make available in a consistent manner through licensing practises. HOWEVER, I am not going to go through the pain of arranging bitcoin to do it, I use piratebay because of ease of use and bitcoin is anything but that.
news too me, when the fuck did someone backport a start menu to win 3.11?
holding a gun to someones head and demanding they don't watch something is also clearly a method for protecting digital distribution rights. But just like Geoblocking it is against Australian law and hence if you try to claim they were avoiding you holding a gun to their head you would have a pretty tough time in court.
I actually thought we geoblocked that shit for the wealthfare of the rest of the world. I honestly don't know how anyone can stand to watch that shit.