I don't actually understand what's new about this... speaking as an Australian:
First of all, the plans to privatise Telstra have been around for AGES and this is certainly nothing new.
Secondly and perhaps more notably, I thought that the telco was already split into wholesale/retail. At least, there is currently a wholesale and retail website, which are presumably registered and separate businesses...:
Seriously, when I'm doing malware removal, it makes you look much more like a computer expert, what with the black-background-white-text thing. (Often IE is so fucked-up you can't even download HijackThis or Google the spyware to find out how to kill it.):P
cd c:\ ftp ftp.mozilla.org anonymous binary cd pub cd mozilla.org cd firefox cd releases cd 1.0.6 cd win32 cd en-US get "Firefox Setup 1.0.6.exe" *wait for transfer to complete* bye exit And there you go, you have a copy of the Firefox installer at C:\Firefox Setup 1.0.6.exe.
Or better yet, use the FTP of the ISP you're on, if applicable. iiNet (AU) has one: ftp://ftp.iinet.net.au and it also has an HTTP interface incase the FTP support is crappy on the browser you're using http://ftp.iinet.net.au/
But the next time someone says "OSS only copies from Microsoft", remind them of IE7.
I believe that it's more like "OSS only copies from existing paid software". Which is a lot closer to the truth; and I'm not complaining - OSS doesn't have and R+D team.
I have yet to see some original feature in Firefox. The only things I can think of right now that I like about Firefox are the 'Clear' buttons in the Privacy dialog, and the icon/name. 'Firefox' is a lot cooler than 'Opera';)
But it's the little things about Opera that make me stick with it. (I use Opera on my main PC, and Firefox/IE on everything else.)
Do you see a hundred different rips made by each of the hundred different people sharing a copy?
No, I see mislabelled bestiality porn, the Paris Hilton sex video, and 200MB TMD divx rips.
I don't know about everyone else, but I think an article advising you that going out in the sun is a good thing could do better than being posted on slashdot.:-/
Alright, let's see here. Time for me to tell my story.:)
I attend a reasonably big and very expensive private school in Australia. We supposedly have one of the biggest computer networks in this city (which is not really that big), and in my second year of high school I discovered (with the help of some friends) a really easy-to-use exploit on the system.
Basically, we all had custom Start menus (the network runs on Windows) and the Run command was disabled. Notepad wasn't one of the programs we had access to but we found a way into it; using "View Source" in IE. (Our school is still using that browser and the exploit is still possible, IIRC.)
We deleted all the HTML from the window and wrote this (extremely) basic batch script, which infact is pretty useless:P
@echo off
echo Loading MS-DOS...
cmd
So it loads up cmd for you when you save it as a.bat and we basically had full command-line access. This allowed us to use NET commands and spam other people's PCs with pop-ups from the Messenger service, but later we discovered that we could telnet into the mail server.
IIRC the address for the mail server was mx1.school.**.edu.au. (mx1 I think was Mail eXchange 1, the other servers were all named after Star Trek ships according to a friend (not a Trekkie myself)). We worked out the syntax for using SMTP over telnet and discovered that when using MAIL and inserting someone else's email address, the server would somehow translate that into that person's name (not familiar with mail servers, this may be related to Exchange?) and to the average user who did not have access to the headers, etc. this was indistinguishable from a legit email.
Being 13 years old or around that we sent the usual emails from some strange kid to some other kid soliciting some 'fun' and all that. Unfortunately the admins somehow discovered us (don't know how really) and made us read out the somewhat obscene messages to the year co-ordinator:(
The punishment we received, fortunately, wasn't a criminal conviction unlike what TFA appears to state, but I'm pretty sure the seriousness of what happened wasn't that different.
We did however have a seven-hour weekend detention and I had to do about 30 hours of community service at a school for the disabled over the semester..
Really? This is news to me.
As far as USB goes, my USB external hard disk is substantially faster, but I don't know about the chipset that runs the mass storage device class.
Having said that, my drive is quite old - that might have something to do with it (in the range of 23 months or so..)
I would mod parent up as Funny, but I want to post.
As someone else mentioned, summary states that flash memory is 'faster'. WTF? Maybe RAM is, but the last time I chekced my USB flash drive was a shitload slower than my hard disk.;)
Found your comment interesting as reading this article it seems to me to be complete bullshit.
In the logs, he found that "nail.exe" and "aurora.exe" were always listed alongside "btdownloadgui.exe," the user interface that downloads/uploads when using BitTorrent.
Okay, this is only for BitTorrent, the mainline client that Cohen wrote. What about the hundreds of other BT clients available? javaw.exe for example: Azureus, but it could be a variety of other Java programs too..
No wonder none of the victims (or spyware experts) seemed to know what site Aurora was coming from--there was no site. It would have never occurred to the end users that it could have crept in by another means altogether," he said.
Oooh, make it sound all secretive and stuff. Here's a tip asshole - you need to download a torrent file to use BT and 99% of the time this torrent comes from a web site. (I guess you could get them off P2P apps or friends but that ruins most of BTs allure insofar as there is some sort of responsibility attributed the uploaders, and people will post comments about a bad release, at least on tbsource-based sites).
Because BitTorrent strips digital files into tiny shreds and reassembles them locally once a user completes a download, it has emerged as the perfect place to bundle adware programs among the bits, without the end user ever knowing.
This is the main thing that's pissing me off. It makes it sound as if dodgy pieces are being sent around the net and reasssembled into a legit file, infecting it with spyware. BitTorrent uses SHA-1 hashing to check the validity of the pieces. The ONLY way that such a thing could happen is if there was no hashing on your client, or if the ORIGINAL torrent was infected. Some people have claimed to be able to generate SHA-1 hash collisions but there is no current practical implementation (and LOTS of processing power is needed). Additionally, for these collisions to be meaningful is MUCH harder, just read the recent/. article on Meaningful MD5 collisions and see how long it has taken for the long-since-broken MD5 algorithm to be so 'hacked'. Additionally, this is a far cry from embedding a full-blown executable to an unrelated file. And how exactly do you make it execute? e.g. if the users are on Windows, how do you change the.rars or whatever the file is packaged in to have a.exe extension? Doesn't work at all.
A BitTorrent user downloading a movie clip only becomes aware of the associated adware after the files are reassembled.
See above point: the supposed infected files aren't even executables to start with.
"Although Bit Torrent is a file format and not a P2P Network... [it] is the fastest growing protocol for file sharing online. Many top Bit Torrent sites such as SuprNova, Lokitorren and Bit Tower support millions of downloads daily," said MMG, which lists PartyPoker.com and Hotbar.com among other clients on its roster.
Glad to see the article is so up-to-date.
TorrentBits.org and SuprNova.org Go Dark LokiTorrent Shut Down
And BitTower? Can't say I've heard of it but googling for it yields this (haha, "Here are your heroic search results"?) and this, which appears to be down.
This article is FUD and the people who believe it all need to learn a little more a
writeable windows\system and other writeable directories. ACLs are nice, but you do have to set sensible defaults..
I disagree. I'm not really sure if this is a fault in the Windows code itself but there are several things in these folders that you may want to edit without rebooting into DOS or whatever.
I would suggest that an 'advanced' mode be togglable so that all directories are writable. Same with disabling that 'System File Protection' BS. Ever tried to replace notepad with metapad or something? It's a complete pain in the ass.
Fair enough, but I wouldn't say that's the only reason it hasn't "completely dominated" eMule (or eD2K more accurately).
What about the fact that a lot of the stuff seeded on BT is in a format that requires extraction? People don't usually keep the original files they downloaded...
I think this is a joke that I was too retarded to understand, but I'll bite anyway..
Use the tag, 'cos it's correct HTML.:-) I think <strong> was deprecated by W3C a while back, in any even strong can have a range of effects but b is always bold.
I already knew about this.. but it's not all that useful.
I'm sure there is a way to implement automatically adding a big list of blocked sites to every Google query you make with Opera, or something (I could do it myself with search.ini) but it all seems a little impractical..
Yep. Not too hard, you have to run some sort of patch on it. I saw it a little while ago when I was trying to play the game but I got bored of it fast:-(
(Keep in mind I was like, eight when Jazz was a fun game;-))
Umm, a quick google search yields this. Good luck:-)
Me too. I have IE installed for WU and Office Update. I have Opera installed for general browsing and used to have Firefox installed as backup but don't need it anymore.
Like another child said, I'm really impressed with the Firefox project, but not really with FF itself. Having said that, I install FF on every IE-using computer I see because people generally find it easier to use than Opera, coming from IE. Once they are competent with FF, if they are still interested, I put them onto Opera.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't actually understand what's new about this... speaking as an Australian:
First of all, the plans to privatise Telstra have been around for AGES and this is certainly nothing new.
Secondly and perhaps more notably, I thought that the telco was already split into wholesale/retail. At least, there is currently a wholesale and retail website, which are presumably registered and separate businesses...:
Completely different as far as I can see...
I prefer to do it using ftp.exe. ;)
:P
Seriously, when I'm doing malware removal, it makes you look much more like a computer expert, what with the black-background-white-text thing. (Often IE is so fucked-up you can't even download HijackThis or Google the spyware to find out how to kill it.)
cd c:\
ftp ftp.mozilla.org
anonymous
binary
cd pub
cd mozilla.org
cd firefox
cd releases
cd 1.0.6
cd win32
cd en-US
get "Firefox Setup 1.0.6.exe"
*wait for transfer to complete*
bye
exit
And there you go, you have a copy of the Firefox installer at C:\Firefox Setup 1.0.6.exe.
Or better yet, use the FTP of the ISP you're on, if applicable. iiNet (AU) has one:
ftp://ftp.iinet.net.au
and it also has an HTTP interface incase the FTP support is crappy on the browser you're using
http://ftp.iinet.net.au/
But the next time someone says "OSS only copies from Microsoft", remind them of IE7. I believe that it's more like "OSS only copies from existing paid software". Which is a lot closer to the truth; and I'm not complaining - OSS doesn't have and R+D team. I have yet to see some original feature in Firefox. The only things I can think of right now that I like about Firefox are the 'Clear' buttons in the Privacy dialog, and the icon/name. 'Firefox' is a lot cooler than 'Opera' ;)
But it's the little things about Opera that make me stick with it. (I use Opera on my main PC, and Firefox/IE on everything else.)
Is it really necessary to mod everyone who Googles computer-related song lyrics and CTRL-Vs them into a comment +5 Funny?
What the hell is 'apno'?
:-(
Do you see a hundred different rips made by each of the hundred different people sharing a copy? No, I see mislabelled bestiality porn, the Paris Hilton sex video, and 200MB TMD divx rips.
I don't know about everyone else, but I think an article advising you that going out in the sun is a good thing could do better than being posted on slashdot. :-/
God dammit should have previewed that. There were supposed to be breaks somewhere there. :(
Fucking in-between post wait.. *sigh*
Alright, let's see here. Time for me to tell my story. :)
I attend a reasonably big and very expensive private school in Australia. We supposedly have one of the biggest computer networks in this city (which is not really that big), and in my second year of high school I discovered (with the help of some friends) a really easy-to-use exploit on the system.
Basically, we all had custom Start menus (the network runs on Windows) and the Run command was disabled. Notepad wasn't one of the programs we had access to but we found a way into it; using "View Source" in IE. (Our school is still using that browser and the exploit is still possible, IIRC.)
We deleted all the HTML from the window and wrote this (extremely) basic batch script, which infact is pretty useless :P
@echo off
echo Loading MS-DOS...
cmd
So it loads up cmd for you when you save it as a .bat and we basically had full command-line access. This allowed us to use NET commands and spam other people's PCs with pop-ups from the Messenger service, but later we discovered that we could telnet into the mail server.
IIRC the address for the mail server was mx1.school.**.edu.au. (mx1 I think was Mail eXchange 1, the other servers were all named after Star Trek ships according to a friend (not a Trekkie myself)). We worked out the syntax for using SMTP over telnet and discovered that when using MAIL and inserting someone else's email address, the server would somehow translate that into that person's name (not familiar with mail servers, this may be related to Exchange?) and to the average user who did not have access to the headers, etc. this was indistinguishable from a legit email.
Being 13 years old or around that we sent the usual emails from some strange kid to some other kid soliciting some 'fun' and all that. Unfortunately the admins somehow discovered us (don't know how really) and made us read out the somewhat obscene messages to the year co-ordinator :(
The punishment we received, fortunately, wasn't a criminal conviction unlike what TFA appears to state, but I'm pretty sure the seriousness of what happened wasn't that different.
We did however have a seven-hour weekend detention and I had to do about 30 hours of community service at a school for the disabled over the semester..
Really? This is news to me. As far as USB goes, my USB external hard disk is substantially faster, but I don't know about the chipset that runs the mass storage device class. Having said that, my drive is quite old - that might have something to do with it (in the range of 23 months or so..)
I would mod parent up as Funny, but I want to post. As someone else mentioned, summary states that flash memory is 'faster'. WTF? Maybe RAM is, but the last time I chekced my USB flash drive was a shitload slower than my hard disk. ;)
That wasn't my point, the point was the difficulty in manually replacing notepad.exe with something else.
metapad is a single executable that you can rename to notepad.exe and have replace notepad. But WinXP's file protection makes it difficult to do this.
Found your comment interesting as reading this article it seems to me to be complete bullshit.
/. article on Meaningful MD5 collisions and see how long it has taken for the long-since-broken MD5 algorithm to be so 'hacked'. Additionally, this is a far cry from embedding a full-blown executable to an unrelated file. And how exactly do you make it execute? e.g. if the users are on Windows, how do you change the .rars or whatever the file is packaged in to have a .exe extension? Doesn't work at all.
... [it] is the fastest growing protocol for file sharing online. Many top Bit Torrent sites such as SuprNova, Lokitorren and Bit Tower support millions of downloads daily," said MMG, which lists PartyPoker.com and Hotbar.com among other clients on its roster.
Glad to see the article is so up-to-date.
TorrentBits.org and SuprNova.org Go Dark
In the logs, he found that "nail.exe" and "aurora.exe" were always listed alongside "btdownloadgui.exe," the user interface that downloads/uploads when using BitTorrent. Okay, this is only for BitTorrent, the mainline client that Cohen wrote. What about the hundreds of other BT clients available? javaw.exe for example: Azureus, but it could be a variety of other Java programs too..
No wonder none of the victims (or spyware experts) seemed to know what site Aurora was coming from--there was no site. It would have never occurred to the end users that it could have crept in by another means altogether," he said. Oooh, make it sound all secretive and stuff. Here's a tip asshole - you need to download a torrent file to use BT and 99% of the time this torrent comes from a web site. (I guess you could get them off P2P apps or friends but that ruins most of BTs allure insofar as there is some sort of responsibility attributed the uploaders, and people will post comments about a bad release, at least on tbsource-based sites).
Because BitTorrent strips digital files into tiny shreds and reassembles them locally once a user completes a download, it has emerged as the perfect place to bundle adware programs among the bits, without the end user ever knowing. This is the main thing that's pissing me off. It makes it sound as if dodgy pieces are being sent around the net and reasssembled into a legit file, infecting it with spyware. BitTorrent uses SHA-1 hashing to check the validity of the pieces. The ONLY way that such a thing could happen is if there was no hashing on your client, or if the ORIGINAL torrent was infected. Some people have claimed to be able to generate SHA-1 hash collisions but there is no current practical implementation (and LOTS of processing power is needed). Additionally, for these collisions to be meaningful is MUCH harder, just read the recent
A BitTorrent user downloading a movie clip only becomes aware of the associated adware after the files are reassembled. See above point: the supposed infected files aren't even executables to start with.
"Although Bit Torrent is a file format and not a P2P Network
LokiTorrent Shut Down
And BitTower? Can't say I've heard of it but googling for it yields this (haha, "Here are your heroic search results"?) and this, which appears to be down.
This article is FUD and the people who believe it all need to learn a little more a
writeable windows\system and other writeable directories. ACLs are nice, but you do have to set sensible defaults.. I disagree. I'm not really sure if this is a fault in the Windows code itself but there are several things in these folders that you may want to edit without rebooting into DOS or whatever. I would suggest that an 'advanced' mode be togglable so that all directories are writable. Same with disabling that 'System File Protection' BS. Ever tried to replace notepad with metapad or something? It's a complete pain in the ass.
I'm sorry, but those promo vids were hardly "extremely funny". The Firefox fanboyism here is incredible.
DAMN that is one fast mirror. 200KB/s under a slashdotting? o_O
Fair enough, but I wouldn't say that's the only reason it hasn't "completely dominated" eMule (or eD2K more accurately). What about the fact that a lot of the stuff seeded on BT is in a format that requires extraction? People don't usually keep the original files they downloaded...
We call them baby teeth, at least here in Australia.. ;-)
No shit, how else do you think empty space gets modded +5 Informative? :-/ I saw this like three months ago, and it wasn't even on Slashdot. :-/
I think this is a joke that I was too retarded to understand, but I'll bite anyway.. Use the tag, 'cos it's correct HTML. :-) I think <strong> was deprecated by W3C a while back, in any even strong can have a range of effects but b is always bold.
I already knew about this.. but it's not all that useful. I'm sure there is a way to implement automatically adding a big list of blocked sites to every Google query you make with Opera, or something (I could do it myself with search.ini) but it all seems a little impractical..
Yep. Not too hard, you have to run some sort of patch on it. I saw it a little while ago when I was trying to play the game but I got bored of it fast :-(
(Keep in mind I was like, eight when Jazz was a fun game ;-))
Umm, a quick google search yields this. Good luck :-)
Am I the only person here who thinks of the Xbox, rather than any other MS product, when you say that?
Or, you could just highlight, right-click and select "Go to URL".
:-)
Same effect, without an extension. In Opera of course.
Me too. I have IE installed for WU and Office Update. I have Opera installed for general browsing and used to have Firefox installed as backup but don't need it anymore.
Like another child said, I'm really impressed with the Firefox project, but not really with FF itself. Having said that, I install FF on every IE-using computer I see because people generally find it easier to use than Opera, coming from IE. Once they are competent with FF, if they are still interested, I put them onto Opera.