Lots of people possess pictures of the planes hitting the World Trade Center.
Now this is a very interesting argument. Especially since the #1 argument for criminalization of kiddie porn pictures is that it's the demand of pictures that drives their creation. Terrorism is largely done for show. The actual physical damage pales in comparison to the psychological. Terrorists choose high-profile, not high-damage targets.
So, in a way, making TV reports, photographs and newspaper articles about terrorist acts illegal would follow the same argument, right?
...giving you a free needle to go with your heroin?
Unless I misunderstood, they give you the tool for free, but the required OS, the required SQL server and other stuff is not included.
It's certainly more useful than minesweeper, but I'm sure the ROI is still positive. If it weren't one of those "think of the chiiiiiildren" topics, it wouldn't even be news.
Actually, Microsoft has never said that open source is bad for commercial work. They have consistently said that BSD type licenses are fine but GPL is bad.
And the short explanation is:
BSD code they can legally steal, GPL code they can not.
First, privacy and anonymity "only within your own 4 walls" is stupid, pointless and something that nobody but a Bush-brain could come up with. For one, who would I be anonymous to in my home? It's not like there'd be many people there who don't know me. Besides, my name's right on the bell sign.
It's exactly when you leave your home that anonymity enters the picture.
Now, anonymity is not, though there are some of the same letters in both words, the same as invisibility. Seing someone (walking down the streets or committing a crime, doesn't matter, any kind of seing someone) does not in any way touch their anonymity. In fact, seing someone and not knowing who they are is exactly what anonymity is all about.
Then the old "what are you afraid of?" strawman, aka "honest people have nothing to hide". Man, I do have a whole bunch of perfectly legal things to hide. In fact, I'd rather confess that I broke into that server thing some years ago than publishing some of the totally legal things I do. Do I have something to hide? Well, if you want to call it that, yes. I prefer to call it it's none of your damn business.
And that's what privacy is about. Keeping the things private that I want to have kept private. It includes the right to not having to justify why I want to keep them private.
Now we've come a long way from anonymity (which is one way to secure privacy, pseudonimity is one other and there are more). I hope I haven't lost you somewhere on the road.
And then the "nobody cares, you're not important, relax" argument. I have 20 pounds of legal papers to prove that some asshole in California cares what I post on my website in Germany. I have a hundred or so people in my social circle who care - many of whom don't need to know about the details of my love life or other private information.
Someone, somewhere, always cares about you. If that's not true for you then you should really ask yourself some very serious questions.
I work for a company that launched an IPTV service about 4 years ago. Aside form lots of porn (come on, what is the #1 advantage of not having to go to a rental and face live clerks?) content was mostly B movies and stuff.
Funny thing is, it wasn't security or piracy the content providers were concerned about. They simply didn't think it would be a market large enough to "waste" their blockbusters on.
Remember, that was four years ago. Thinks have changed a little, and we're about to re-launch the service. Let's see how it goes this time around.
Respect is an odd currency. Those who understand absolutely nothing of what I do, and should give me respect when they enter my territory, offer the least.
In general, respect has declined during the past years, even though my abilities and credentials inside my profession have increased.
There are also different kinds of respect. I have learnt to not give much on statements of respect. My boss tells me five times daily that I'm the most knowledgable security dude in the company - but my advise on security matters is apparently not important enough to warrant action.
Two former bosses had the proper method for expressing respect towards techies: Not only did they say "you guys know best how to do this, just get it done", they also followed through with it and got out of our ways. One was the CTO, the other was brilliant in keeping other trouble (higher-ups, users, other bosses) away from us while we worked on the problem.
You're lying to yourself, though, if you suggest that the driving force behind P2P is anything other than illegal file sharing.
Don't put them all in the same basket. It never occured to me that BitTorrent was for anything but distributing Linux isos before the first articles about Suprnova etc. appeared on/. Maybe I was naive, but not for the fact that I didn't know edonkey and the likes. I just thought BitTorrent is generally used for different stuff, and I still think it was designed for Linux isos.
Now that's an entirely different animal. The reason why the war on drugs has not and will never end is that too many people profit from its continuation. And I don't mean the drug lords, I mean the police, special forces, their suppliers and everyone in the game. I mean, your cool anti-drug special force would be dissolved if the drug problem were solved, wouldn't it?
If spammers were to actually abide by the laws, we'd be a huge step further.
Next law would say: You can not send me any e-mail unless I initiated contact first and you can prove it. And if I tell you to never send me mail again, you have to do so.
While US spammers can reasonably be expected to evolve over time to collaborate with their host society, foreign spammers don't...exist!
Please stop this strawman already. There are virtually no non-US spammers. Look at the ROKSO list - of the top 200 spammers, over 150 are in the US. Another 20 or so are in Canada, UK or Australia. Only about 10% are in any difficult-to-reach legislations, and most of them are further down the list, not at the top.
The USA is, by a wide margin, the #1 source of the spam problem.
Let's differentiate between security technology and security management. Technology is only a part of the equation. One part of a serious security effort is to analyze which information is needed where, and limiting access to that.
Example: One way SSH is more secure than Telnet is because it gives you the option to never transfer your password over the wire, encrypted or not. You can do key authentication and know that your password has never left the machine you're sitting at.
Putting a huge database of sensitive information on a laptop is a security breach, no matter the technology installed on said laptop. Unless there is a very good reason to do it, the answer isn't technology.
a) the US (where most of these problems happen) is not a member of the EU b) the US has put immense pressure and bought/bribed some politicians in the EU to bypass the EU directive, even where it would apply to US businesses (i.e. transfer of data from EU to the US). I say bribed because the affair (about a year ago) was quite similar to what's happening with the software patents right now - only insanity or bribery can explain the behaviour of some key persons. If I recall correctly, there was even talk of criminal prosecution of the responsible EU director, but I fear like all such things nothing came of it once it had dropped out of the public interest.
Let's hope the sheer amount of identify theft problems will spearhead a push for more privacy protection. I don't just mean everyone gathering less personal information, I also mean making sure that what they do gather is adequately protected. You have a resonsibility to your clients, customers, whatever.
I fail to see why they would care what MS calls the product
You must've missed the earlier stories. Their original ideas where to market the reduced version labelled, essentially "DON'T BUY THIS ONE, BUY THE OTHER VERSION".
Remember when being a consumer didn't mean being a mindless drone? Sure, having your DSL, phone company and breakfast pre-selected by the government or some monopoly corporation is much easier. Heck, how often have I opened my fridge and found nothing I liked. Certainly being told what to like would've been advantageous!
Depends on your use, I figure. Does it already hurt after writing 2-3 mails? (if so, maybe you shouldn't hit the keyboard as hard, it's not a wife:) ).
Of course they peaked. After Slammer, mail is just way too slow. The next generation worms are spreading much faster than mail could ever allow, and will continue to pick up speed. I've done some research and a publication more than a year ago on just how fast these beasts could be.
Mail. Pah. Malware authors move with the time, too.
Actually, it does. At least the model I have can also simulate a sunset (i.e. dim down slowly). I haven't noticed any special effects there, but then it's been some years since I last had trouble going to sleep.
Not only do I know the problem (I used to need almost an hour to get out of bed), I also was wasted for the first 2-3 hours of every day.
Until I bought a "dawn simulator". here's one, there are many others. Essentially, it's just a bright light, with a matte glass so it spreads out a little (you can actually look into it without hurting your eyes, even though it's bright enough to light up the room). What it does is dim it up slowly. Really slowly. Mine can be programmed to start at 90, 60 or 30 minutes prior to "wakeup time". So I need to get up at 7 am. At 6:30, it will start to slowly dim up the light, reaching full brightness at 7 am, at which time it also sounds a soft alarm. By that time, however, I'm usually already awake.
I was a bit reluctant until I said "what the heck" one day and just tried it (found a vendor with a 21-day money-back-no-questions-asked policy).
The concept is that it simulates dawn, triggering your natural processes of waking up. A normal alarm clock just shakes you out of bed, and leaves it to you to become awake over the next few hours or so.
So everything that makes up Longhorn is being backported to XP. Does anyone else get the impression we will never see Longhorn arrive? Someone at M$ has decided that Longhorn will be either a failure or too late, and they're now salvaging the parts worth salvaging. I can just about hear a voice saying "it's dead, Bill".
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Lots of people possess pictures of the planes hitting the World Trade Center.
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Now this is a very interesting argument. Especially since the #1 argument for criminalization of kiddie porn pictures is that it's the demand of pictures that drives their creation.
Terrorism is largely done for show. The actual physical damage pales in comparison to the psychological. Terrorists choose high-profile, not high-damage targets.
So, in a way, making TV reports, photographs and newspaper articles about terrorist acts illegal would follow the same argument, right?
Damn, I hope little Bush doesn't read
...giving you a free needle to go with your heroin?
Unless I misunderstood, they give you the tool for free, but the required OS, the required SQL server and other stuff is not included.
It's certainly more useful than minesweeper, but I'm sure the ROI is still positive. If it weren't one of those "think of the chiiiiiildren" topics, it wouldn't even be news.
Actually, Microsoft has never said that open source is bad for commercial work. They have consistently said that BSD type licenses are fine but GPL is bad.
And the short explanation is:
BSD code they can legally steal, GPL code they can not.
You are one confused guy.
First, privacy and anonymity "only within your own 4 walls" is stupid, pointless and something that nobody but a Bush-brain could come up with. For one, who would I be anonymous to in my home? It's not like there'd be many people there who don't know me. Besides, my name's right on the bell sign.
It's exactly when you leave your home that anonymity enters the picture.
Now, anonymity is not, though there are some of the same letters in both words, the same as invisibility. Seing someone (walking down the streets or committing a crime, doesn't matter, any kind of seing someone) does not in any way touch their anonymity. In fact, seing someone and not knowing who they are is exactly what anonymity is all about.
Then the old "what are you afraid of?" strawman, aka "honest people have nothing to hide".
Man, I do have a whole bunch of perfectly legal things to hide. In fact, I'd rather confess that I broke into that server thing some years ago than publishing some of the totally legal things I do.
Do I have something to hide? Well, if you want to call it that, yes. I prefer to call it it's none of your damn business.
And that's what privacy is about. Keeping the things private that I want to have kept private. It includes the right to not having to justify why I want to keep them private.
Now we've come a long way from anonymity (which is one way to secure privacy, pseudonimity is one other and there are more). I hope I haven't lost you somewhere on the road.
And then the "nobody cares, you're not important, relax" argument.
I have 20 pounds of legal papers to prove that some asshole in California cares what I post on my website in Germany. I have a hundred or so people in my social circle who care - many of whom don't need to know about the details of my love life or other private information.
Someone, somewhere, always cares about you. If that's not true for you then you should really ask yourself some very serious questions.
Some custom-made crap from our (former) italian corporate mother. Most of it is Linux, except for the actual video streamers which run VxWorks.
The relaunch will be using something different, I think Alcatel made the run.
We are. We're a Telco.
http://www.hansenet.com/
(this is in Germany)
Oh, really? Whowoulddhavethought?[/sarcasm]
I work for a company that launched an IPTV service about 4 years ago. Aside form lots of porn (come on, what is the #1 advantage of not having to go to a rental and face live clerks?) content was mostly B movies and stuff.
Funny thing is, it wasn't security or piracy the content providers were concerned about. They simply didn't think it would be a market large enough to "waste" their blockbusters on.
Remember, that was four years ago. Thinks have changed a little, and we're about to re-launch the service. Let's see how it goes this time around.
Respect is an odd currency. Those who understand absolutely nothing of what I do, and should give me respect when they enter my territory, offer the least.
In general, respect has declined during the past years, even though my abilities and credentials inside my profession have increased.
There are also different kinds of respect. I have learnt to not give much on statements of respect. My boss tells me five times daily that I'm the most knowledgable security dude in the company - but my advise on security matters is apparently not important enough to warrant action.
Two former bosses had the proper method for expressing respect towards techies: Not only did they say "you guys know best how to do this, just get it done", they also followed through with it and got out of our ways. One was the CTO, the other was brilliant in keeping other trouble (higher-ups, users, other bosses) away from us while we worked on the problem.
You're lying to yourself, though, if you suggest that the driving force behind P2P is anything other than illegal file sharing.
/.
Don't put them all in the same basket. It never occured to me that BitTorrent was for anything but distributing Linux isos before the first articles about Suprnova etc. appeared on
Maybe I was naive, but not for the fact that I didn't know edonkey and the likes. I just thought BitTorrent is generally used for different stuff, and I still think it was designed for Linux isos.
Think about the war on drugs.
Now that's an entirely different animal. The reason why the war on drugs has not and will never end is that too many people profit from its continuation. And I don't mean the drug lords, I mean the police, special forces, their suppliers and everyone in the game. I mean, your cool anti-drug special force would be dissolved if the drug problem were solved, wouldn't it?
If spammers were to actually abide by the laws, we'd be a huge step further.
Next law would say: You can not send me any e-mail unless I initiated contact first and you can prove it. And if I tell you to never send me mail again, you have to do so.
End of spam.
but does he really deserve to owe $49 million?
Absolutely. By any estimate, that's a fraction of the damage he has done to the public at large.
While US spammers can reasonably be expected to evolve over time to collaborate with their host society, foreign spammers don't ...exist!
Please stop this strawman already. There are virtually no non-US spammers. Look at the ROKSO list - of the top 200 spammers, over 150 are in the US. Another 20 or so are in Canada, UK or Australia. Only about 10% are in any difficult-to-reach legislations, and most of them are further down the list, not at the top.
The USA is, by a wide margin, the #1 source of the spam problem.
Let's differentiate between security technology and security management. Technology is only a part of the equation. One part of a serious security effort is to analyze which information is needed where, and limiting access to that.
Example: One way SSH is more secure than Telnet is because it gives you the option to never transfer your password over the wire, encrypted or not. You can do key authentication and know that your password has never left the machine you're sitting at.
Putting a huge database of sensitive information on a laptop is a security breach, no matter the technology installed on said laptop. Unless there is a very good reason to do it, the answer isn't technology.
The problem here being that
a) the US (where most of these problems happen) is not a member of the EU
b) the US has put immense pressure and bought/bribed some politicians in the EU to bypass the EU directive, even where it would apply to US businesses (i.e. transfer of data from EU to the US).
I say bribed because the affair (about a year ago) was quite similar to what's happening with the software patents right now - only insanity or bribery can explain the behaviour of some key persons.
If I recall correctly, there was even talk of criminal prosecution of the responsible EU director, but I fear like all such things nothing came of it once it had dropped out of the public interest.
Let's hope the sheer amount of identify theft problems will spearhead a push for more privacy protection.
I don't just mean everyone gathering less personal information, I also mean making sure that what they do gather is adequately protected. You have a resonsibility to your clients, customers, whatever.
I fail to see why they would care what MS calls the product
You must've missed the earlier stories. Their original ideas where to market the reduced version labelled, essentially "DON'T BUY THIS ONE, BUY THE OTHER VERSION".
Remember the consumer?
Remember when being a consumer didn't mean being a mindless drone?
Sure, having your DSL, phone company and breakfast pre-selected by the government or some monopoly corporation is much easier.
Heck, how often have I opened my fridge and found nothing I liked. Certainly being told what to like would've been advantageous!
Choice implies an activity, you know?
Oops, URL is fucked. Other reply has the right one. I'm in the same domain here, so I use short names.
Depends on your use, I figure. Does it already hurt after writing 2-3 mails? (if so, maybe you shouldn't hit the keyboard as hard, it's not a wife :) ).
Of course they peaked. After Slammer, mail is just way too slow.
The next generation worms are spreading much faster than mail could ever allow, and will continue to pick up speed. I've done some research and a publication more than a year ago on just how fast these beasts could be.
Mail. Pah. Malware authors move with the time, too.
Actually, it does. At least the model I have can also simulate a sunset (i.e. dim down slowly). I haven't noticed any special effects there, but then it's been some years since I last had trouble going to sleep.
Not only do I know the problem (I used to need almost an hour to get out of bed), I also was wasted for the first 2-3 hours of every day.
Until I bought a "dawn simulator". here's one, there are many others.
Essentially, it's just a bright light, with a matte glass so it spreads out a little (you can actually look into it without hurting your eyes, even though it's bright enough to light up the room).
What it does is dim it up slowly. Really slowly. Mine can be programmed to start at 90, 60 or 30 minutes prior to "wakeup time".
So I need to get up at 7 am. At 6:30, it will start to slowly dim up the light, reaching full brightness at 7 am, at which time it also sounds a soft alarm. By that time, however, I'm usually already awake.
I was a bit reluctant until I said "what the heck" one day and just tried it (found a vendor with a 21-day money-back-no-questions-asked policy).
The concept is that it simulates dawn, triggering your natural processes of waking up. A normal alarm clock just shakes you out of bed, and leaves it to you to become awake over the next few hours or so.
So everything that makes up Longhorn is being backported to XP. Does anyone else get the impression we will never see Longhorn arrive? Someone at M$ has decided that Longhorn will be either a failure or too late, and they're now salvaging the parts worth salvaging. I can just about hear a voice saying "it's dead, Bill".
I wonder which marketing clowns created that piece of FUD.
I mean, just for starters, EMC's storage devices come with a built-in administration system - which runs on RedHat Linux.