Speakeasy is my ISP and I have nothing but good things to say about them, too... including their liberal policies about customers running servers over their lines (a rarity for broadband providers).
Speakeasy is awesome! I have 2 static IPs with them, and I run a small webserver (mostly to serve IRC and mailing list stats) and a bot off of one of the IPs. The other IP is for my normal everyday internet surfing:)
The reverse dns policy of theirs is great too - makes having a custom hostmask on IRC *much* simpler and more reliable than going through BNC, or something similar. Having the occasional luser ask me, "how did you hide your address?" is always interesting, especially when I tell them I didn't:-)
The article states: its current incarnations run most of the servers on the internet - this includes *all* servers, not just httpd. This is a point that was stated more explicitly over the mailing list there.
Secondly, like it or not, sendmail *did* run practically 100% of the *internet's* (note the differentiation from *web*, as you called the net) email traffic for much of its existence, until other MTAs came along.
Queer youth have very few role-models, whereas straight youth have more role-models than you can shake a stick at, to use a tired cliche.
At least with this interview, queer youth now know of 2 more.
The links to Intel and Seagate do not reflect their personal likes/dislikes. Those links were used because most of the target audience knows of the companies.
When I install something on a friends comptuer I always get his kid over to do the install.
They [the software companies] can always claim that you implicitly agreed to the EULA by instructing the child to install the software for you. ("Just click \"OK\" or \"I accept\" to everything");
Galeon is very quick and nice, but again, no SSL/Java/Bookmarks (M18 based).
Strange,
I'm using Galeon 0.8.1, and it runs java applets, uses SSL, and has bookmarks; in fact, if I thumb-click (equivalent to middle-click), it brings up a bookmark context menu - there's even a bookmark editor in the menubar.
Go spread your FUD elsewhere.
After all, if the jury finds them innocent, there's absolutely no chance of convicting them of the same crime, ever. By symmetry, conviction should be the same: if they are found guilty, there should be no chance of them ever being declared innocent.
Let's see you maintain this when you are convicted and sentenced to death for a murder that you did not commit.
We have appeals for a reason!
Have you looked at the HTML that MS applications generate?
I have - when I was working at my previous job, I was [re]writing webpages for the company's internal website, and many, many pages were simply MS Office documents saved as html.
It's AWFUL! I sure wish I'd known about the De-Moronizer so I wouldnt have had to convert the pages by hand:(
You don't have to have the drivers installed in order to use the cuecat. I have one connected to this box right now, and I don't have the driver on this machine at all.
All the cuecat does, is pass the information in cleartext to the console - which makes it a great password authentication system:) I created a barcode, printed it out, and stuck it in my security badge. And since each cuecat has its own ID code that it passes with each scan, you have to use my cuecat with my barcode in order to log into my box.
I think it is a sad sign of the decline of the internet when cracking activity is so omniprescient that we point fingers at the admins when security is compromised.
Scenario:
You own a company, and your network is connected to the internet. Your sysadmin checks for new security issues on a daily basis, and immediately applies any fixes that need to be made. Your network gets cracked by a new exploit. Obviously this would happen before your sysadmin would have a chance to fix the hole. Do you fire him?
Second scenario:
You own a company, and your network is connected to the internet. Your sysadmin does nothing except make sure that the boxes are powered on, and the site is live. Your network gets cracked. Do you fire your sysadmin?
If you said no to the first, but yes to the second, then tell me why. If the admin isn't to blame for lapses in security, then why would you answer in this manner?
So don't give us this crap that 'we are all bad and there's nothing that can be done about it.'
What crap? I didn't say that humans are bad. I merely stated that it is in our nature to take advantage of opportunities.
I challenge you to come up with any instance of any type of opportunity that has come up that won't get taken advantage of. This could be a "good" opportunity, or a "bad" opportunity. I guarantee you'll fail in this challenge.
Humans are opportunistic - deal with it.
If a couple of bozos hack your site, yeah, it sucks, but if they are using a day zero exploit and you weren't there on Sunday,
Notice I said: If he doesn't do that and gets cracked. Checking for new security issues should be part of the sysadmin's daily routine, and it he's doing that, but gets hit before he's able to find out about the kiddies' new whiz-bang 'sploit, then it isn't his fault.
Yes, I will blame the sysadmin for poor security if he doesn't work at keeping his boxes safe from crackers - this is just plain common sense. Putting a computer onto a network entails responsibility that needs to be taken seriously. Would you have a child and not bother to educate him/her about the dangers present in society so that s/he will take common-sense precautions to remain safe?
No, this does not excuse the actions of the cracker - just like a pedophile who kidnaps your son because you didnt teach him about perverts can't use that as an excuse - but it also does not excuse the lack of responsibility on the part of the sysadmin.
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I wonder if that would constitute an act of terrorism.
*ahem*
The Apollo missions never left Earth's orbit; or, do you think that the moon is not orbiting Earth?
Speakeasy is awesome! I have 2 static IPs with them, and I run a small webserver (mostly to serve IRC and mailing list stats) and a bot off of one of the IPs. The other IP is for my normal everyday internet surfing :)
:-)
The reverse dns policy of theirs is great too - makes having a custom hostmask on IRC *much* simpler and more reliable than going through BNC, or something similar. Having the occasional luser ask me, "how did you hide your address?" is always interesting, especially when I tell them I didn't
Yes. Galeon has been my primary browser for a couple of months, and I find that it rarely crashes (especially since the 0.9pre? series).
Oh, possibly because the article was posted on a site dedicated to gay youth?
Secondly, like it or not, sendmail *did* run practically 100% of the *internet's* (note the differentiation from *web*, as you called the net) email traffic for much of its existence, until other MTAs came along.
The links to Intel and Seagate do not reflect their personal likes/dislikes. Those links were used because most of the target audience knows of the companies.
They [the software companies] can always claim that you implicitly agreed to the EULA by instructing the child to install the software for you. ("Just click \"OK\" or \"I accept\" to everything");
Strange,
I'm using Galeon 0.8.1, and it runs java applets, uses SSL, and has bookmarks; in fact, if I thumb-click (equivalent to middle-click), it brings up a bookmark context menu - there's even a bookmark editor in the menubar.
Go spread your FUD elsewhere.
Let's see you maintain this when you are convicted and sentenced to death for a murder that you did not commit.
We have appeals for a reason!
I have - when I was working at my previous job, I was [re]writing webpages for the company's internal website, and many, many pages were simply MS Office documents saved as html. :(
It's AWFUL! I sure wish I'd known about the De-Moronizer so I wouldnt have had to convert the pages by hand
Check http://www.techpages.com/linux.htm for more information.
Nope. Don't need to - not when my Slackware CD serves as an emergency bootdisk :)
Welcome to Linux 2.2.17.
Cherokee login: root
Password:
WHAT "cancel" at the login prompt?
/me takes your crackpipe away
They *finally* get back up after that DoS attack, only to get slashdotted.
*shakes head*
All the cuecat does, is pass the information in cleartext to the console - which makes it a great password authentication system
< > The IPv6 protocol (EXPERIMENTAL)
Scenario:
You own a company, and your network is connected to the internet. Your sysadmin checks for new security issues on a daily basis, and immediately applies any fixes that need to be made. Your network gets cracked by a new exploit. Obviously this would happen before your sysadmin would have a chance to fix the hole. Do you fire him?
Second scenario:
You own a company, and your network is connected to the internet. Your sysadmin does nothing except make sure that the boxes are powered on, and the site is live. Your network gets cracked. Do you fire your sysadmin?
If you said no to the first, but yes to the second, then tell me why. If the admin isn't to blame for lapses in security, then why would you answer in this manner?
What crap? I didn't say that humans are bad. I merely stated that it is in our nature to take advantage of opportunities.
I challenge you to come up with any instance of any type of opportunity that has come up that won't get taken advantage of. This could be a "good" opportunity, or a "bad" opportunity. I guarantee you'll fail in this challenge.
Humans are opportunistic - deal with it.
Notice I said: If he doesn't do that and gets cracked. Checking for new security issues should be part of the sysadmin's daily routine, and it he's doing that, but gets hit before he's able to find out about the kiddies' new whiz-bang 'sploit, then it isn't his fault.
Yes, I will blame the sysadmin for poor security if he doesn't work at keeping his boxes safe from crackers - this is just plain common sense. Putting a computer onto a network entails responsibility that needs to be taken seriously. Would you have a child and not bother to educate him/her about the dangers present in society so that s/he will take common-sense precautions to remain safe?
No, this does not excuse the actions of the cracker - just like a pedophile who kidnaps your son because you didnt teach him about perverts can't use that as an excuse - but it also does not excuse the lack of responsibility on the part of the sysadmin.