IMO people who demonize CIQ are missing the target. You should demonize the companies who employed CIQ technology to spy on their customers.
The only thing CIQ is guilty of is being a for-profit company in a capitalist society. Where there is demand (AT&T, HTC, Samsung, Motorola) there will be supply (CIQ). Just like the spam issue.
If you don't existinguish the demand by penalizing CIQ's customers, perhaps through legislature, CIQ 2.0 will be incorporated in no time and you better believe the next root kit will be a lot harder to detect.
What I'd like to see Google announce tomorrow -- Okay NBC, Hulu, etc. our new policy: we won't index sites which decide to arbitrarily support devices due to "incompatible business models"..and poof - from one moment to the next there will be a big black smoking crater where those websites once were in the google index.
Big black smoking crater? You give Google too much credit. Have you forgotten they're just a search engine? If people want to see a video on ABC.com they just go to abc.com, they don't need Google's index for that.
I'll humor you though. Even if the only way people could reach abc.com was through a link at google.com, Google still wouldn't "block" ABC because they don't have the metal to diss the media companies like they dissed Zuckerberg. They don't need Facebook, but they need the media companies, much more than the media companies need Google, so they have to play nice and do what the media companies want ($$$), or go to court fighting for GTV's rights ($$$).
Sometimes I think for every Google Engineer who spends their 20% time on a project that might see daylight, Google should assign someone else an equal amount of time figuring out if the project will MAKE or LOSE the company money. RIP NexusOne, Wave, Buzz.
If you buy Exchange with 25 CAL's, that entitles you to run Outlook on 25 client computers. Not Office, just Outlook.
You still have to pay for the 25 seats of Windows, but if this is a business, chances are they've already bought OEM licenses of Windows from the hardware vendor (Dell/HP/IBM), which is MUCH less than $200 per seat.
Also, a small business with 25 users can just by one license of "Small Business Server" which includes AD, Exchange, SQL Server, etc, all in one package, meant to literally run on a single server, with CAL's included.
Microsoft makes their money with the Windows + Office + Active Directory + Exchange lock-in.
I live in San Francisco and a lot of people in the Bay Area currently use FastTrack to pay bridge toll, and one day it dawned on me that maybe people could use their FastTrack transmitter to pay for parking. It would require absolutely nothing to be done by the driver, assuming they have a FastTrack transmitter in their vehicle.
Imagine it: you pull up to a parking spot, a FastTrack sensor detects your car in spot #3, and it charges you for 15 minutes, you lock your car and walk away. The parking police only need to check the pay status of the parking spots on a central FastTrack terminal (or maybe an iPhone app), and if one isn't paid, they write a ticket.
This saves everyone a lot of time, and it uses technology that already exists and has proven to be reliable.
Considering how many people already have FastTrack, and that the transmitters are given away for free, I don't see why this idea wouldn't work incredibly well, at least for the SF Bay Area.
Unfortunately, MS encrypted folders use a key that is uniquely generated for your account, and once you lose the account (on the dead computer) you can't decrypt anything. There are ways to add corporate keys to the system, so that in a company setting it's possible to recover the data; however this is/way/ beyond abilities of a typical user.
If you have an encrypted file from a Windows XP computer, as long as you know the logon password for the account that encrypted the file, you can decrypt the file. Check out EFS Key.
This isn't a war. This is merely an advance in the sophistication of one rootkit. This happens all the time.
Why is this being called a "war" now?
Maybe because if they called it what it is - "Another Lame Virus Advancement" - nobody would click the link and look at their ads.
What a joke.
By the way, does anyone else find it funny that Symantec and F-Secure have "blogs" now? WTF? Why not just go the whole 9 and create a MySpace profile too?
In recent months, Microsoft has attempted to use its popular desktop applications like Internet Explorer to drive traffic to its Web sites and search engines. That drew the ire of Google, which in April complained to the Justice Dept. about unfair competitive practices.
Google didn't get much satisfaction. Less than a month later, on May 12, the Justice Dept. dismissed the complaint. It seems Google now is taking matters into its own hands.
I've been seeing Google software preloaded on Dell's long before May 12th... This sounds more like a Google PR campaign getting on the offensive...
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I think Windows with passwords is going to be a bit like a pale imitation of KDE.
While we're on the topic of making up uses for LCD technology, I'd like to propose the LCD Restroom Stall. Finally, something to look at besides those inane scribblings on the wall.
Can I have some money now? Or how about some of what Zonk's smoking?
Some of my technical peers work for different companies. If I have external IM, I can go to them for technical assistance (and they can come to me: it's a two way street).
The keyword there is technical.
Generally speaking, technical users aren't at risk when using IM. You and I aren't going to open boobies.exe from a stranger, IM or not. But some guy in HR or Marketing might. Or they could just sit around the whole day wasting company time trading warez/yapping with friends. Chances are they'll use it for something not work-related, while at the same time putting company data at risk. This is generally reason enough not to deploy external IM clients in a company.
For certain people and certain occassions, sure, IM might be okay. On the whole - absolutely not.
Why would you assume these IM/P2P applications are even installed in the first place?
In most corporate environments, software policies are already in place to restrict users from installaing any software on their own. In addition, generally any requests for installation of IM/P2P apps are quickly denied citing company policy (the reasons for which should be painfully obvious).
There's really no need for IM at work, but if you really really want it, use a corporate IM solution (such as Exchange IM or Apple iChat) to keep things local. Problem solved.
shovelware? wtf? the author used "rootkit" because the DRM software:
-was installed without the users knowledge -hid itself deep inside the registry/filesystem -hooked itself to system calls -monitored its components at the cost of the user's CPU resources -protected itself "" -didn't include an uninstall method -had the potential to destroy the machine (if they attempted to incorrectly remove it)
it ran under the localsystem account ("root") and wasn't a single binary - it had several components all maliciously working together (a "kit").
You don't need a Google IM client. Nor do you need any of Google's other offerings.
Its like a guy driving up to a BMW dealership in his Honda Accord - sure he doesn't need a new BMW 3-series because hes already got a car that works. But if cost wasn't an issue, he would probably pick the better-engineered, better-looking BMW over the Accord.
I used My Yahoo, YIM and Yahoo Mail for over 5 years - and still do on occassion (only because it became of a force of habit). Now I use Google.
The chief distinction between Yahoo and Google is the former has a more cluttered - and therefore uglier - appearance. Beyond that, Google's services just seem more efficient and functional.
"My Yahoo" startpages are full of ugly and annoying graphic ads. YIM has a very bulky interface (just like MSN) and glitchy A/V support. Notice how much spam shows up in your Yahoo Mail "Bulk" folder? Notice the number of false positives? Try Gmail and we'll see how much longer you put up with that.
If Yahoo's service offerings were even on par (not even 'better') with Google, then yes, all of these Google announcements wouldn't be a big deal. But the truth of the matter is that Google comes out on top everytime. Just look at the rapid growth of their userbase/popularity/coverage/$$$$/bandwidth/etc.
Google is not "old news". Yahoo, on the other hand...
That's a major loss for Apple, and things will get worse before they get better as Microsoft pushes DirectX to more and more game developers to lock-in gamers to their platform.
Touting OSX as a gamer-friendly platform is all talk and not much walk at this point - and it will remain so until the most popular, most played games, become compatible with OSX.
IEEE 802.11 - The original 1 Mbit/s and 2 Mbit/s, 2.4 GHz RF and IR standard IEEE 802.11a - 54 Mbit/s, 5 GHz standard (1999, shipping products in 2001) IEEE 802.11b - Enhancements to 802.11 to support 5.5 and 11 Mbit/s (1999) IEEE 802.11d - International (country-to-country) roaming extensions IEEE 802.11e - Enhancements: QoS, including packet bursting IEEE 802.11F - Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP) IEEE 802.11g - 54 Mbit/s, 2.4 GHz standard (backwards compatible with b) (2003) IEEE 802.11h - 5 GHz spectrum, Dynamic Channel/Frequency Selection (DCS/DFS) and Transmit Power Control (TPC) for European compatibility IEEE 802.11i (ratified 24 June 2004) - Enhanced security IEEE 802.11j - Extensions for Japan IEEE 802.11k - Radio resource measurement enhancements IEEE 802.11n - Higher throughput improvements IEEE 802.11p - WAVE - Wireless Access for the Vehicular Environment (such as ambulances and passenger cars) IEEE 802.11r - Fast roaming IEEE 802.11s - Wireless mesh networking IEEE 802.11T - Wireless Performance Prediction (WPP) - test methods and metrics IEEE 802.11u - Interworking with non-802 networks (e.g., cellular) IEEE 802.11v - Wireless network management IEEE 802.11w - Protected Management Frames
Note that 802.11x is not a standard or task group. Rather, it is a colloquial term used to denote any current or future 802.11 standard, in cases where further precision is not necessary.
-implement uniform dresscode -ban cellphones/video games/calculators -improve student:teacher ratio
That should set the tone... and once you have their attention, start improving core curriculum.
Focus most on math, science and english. Make algebra a prerequisite for highschool. Give more importance to good penmanship. Stop handing out letter grades - use percentages instead.. they're simple, standard and precise.
The US educational system is so far behind, most people would consider just the aforementioned changes 'too rigid'. For those people, please take note: on a global scale, we're getting our asses kicked.
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IMO people who demonize CIQ are missing the target. You should demonize the companies who employed CIQ technology to spy on their customers.
The only thing CIQ is guilty of is being a for-profit company in a capitalist society. Where there is demand (AT&T, HTC, Samsung, Motorola) there will be supply (CIQ). Just like the spam issue.
If you don't existinguish the demand by penalizing CIQ's customers, perhaps through legislature, CIQ 2.0 will be incorporated in no time and you better believe the next root kit will be a lot harder to detect.
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What I'd like to see Google announce tomorrow -- ..and poof - from one moment to the next there will be a big black smoking crater where those websites once were in the google index.
Okay NBC, Hulu, etc. our new policy: we won't index sites which decide to arbitrarily support devices due to "incompatible business models"
Big black smoking crater? You give Google too much credit. Have you forgotten they're just a search engine? If people want to see a video on ABC.com they just go to abc.com, they don't need Google's index for that.
I'll humor you though. Even if the only way people could reach abc.com was through a link at google.com, Google still wouldn't "block" ABC because they don't have the metal to diss the media companies like they dissed Zuckerberg. They don't need Facebook, but they need the media companies, much more than the media companies need Google, so they have to play nice and do what the media companies want ($$$), or go to court fighting for GTV's rights ($$$).
Sometimes I think for every Google Engineer who spends their 20% time on a project that might see daylight, Google should assign someone else an equal amount of time figuring out if the project will MAKE or LOSE the company money. RIP NexusOne, Wave, Buzz.
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If you buy Exchange with 25 CAL's, that entitles you to run Outlook on 25 client computers. Not Office, just Outlook.
You still have to pay for the 25 seats of Windows, but if this is a business, chances are they've already bought OEM licenses of Windows from the hardware vendor (Dell/HP/IBM), which is MUCH less than $200 per seat.
Also, a small business with 25 users can just by one license of "Small Business Server" which includes AD, Exchange, SQL Server, etc, all in one package, meant to literally run on a single server, with CAL's included.
Microsoft makes their money with the Windows + Office + Active Directory + Exchange lock-in.
(Exchange requires Outlook, requires Windows, requires AD).
I live in San Francisco and a lot of people in the Bay Area currently use FastTrack to pay bridge toll, and one day it dawned on me that maybe people could use their FastTrack transmitter to pay for parking. It would require absolutely nothing to be done by the driver, assuming they have a FastTrack transmitter in their vehicle.
Imagine it: you pull up to a parking spot, a FastTrack sensor detects your car in spot #3, and it charges you for 15 minutes, you lock your car and walk away. The parking police only need to check the pay status of the parking spots on a central FastTrack terminal (or maybe an iPhone app), and if one isn't paid, they write a ticket.
This saves everyone a lot of time, and it uses technology that already exists and has proven to be reliable.
Considering how many people already have FastTrack, and that the transmitters are given away for free, I don't see why this idea wouldn't work incredibly well, at least for the SF Bay Area.
Unfortunately, MS encrypted folders use a key that is uniquely generated for your account, and once you lose the account (on the dead computer) you can't decrypt anything. There are ways to add corporate keys to the system, so that in a company setting it's possible to recover the data; however this is /way/ beyond abilities of a typical user.
If you have an encrypted file from a Windows XP computer, as long as you know the logon password for the account that encrypted the file, you can decrypt the file. Check out EFS Key.
That said, does anyone know a way of automatically detecting software packages installed on a Windows PC?
Check out PSInfo
"psinfo -s \\remote_computer" connects to the Remote Registry service (on by default on XP) and shows you the "Add/Remove Programs" list.
"Rootkit Wars" ??
This isn't a war. This is merely an advance in the sophistication of one rootkit. This happens all the time.
Why is this being called a "war" now?
Maybe because if they called it what it is - "Another Lame Virus Advancement" - nobody would click the link and look at their ads.
What a joke.
By the way, does anyone else find it funny that Symantec and F-Secure have "blogs" now? WTF? Why not just go the whole 9 and create a MySpace profile too?
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In recent months, Microsoft has attempted to use its popular desktop applications like Internet Explorer to drive traffic to its Web sites and search engines. That drew the ire of Google, which in April complained to the Justice Dept. about unfair competitive practices.
Google didn't get much satisfaction. Less than a month later, on May 12, the Justice Dept. dismissed the complaint. It seems Google now is taking matters into its own hands.
I've been seeing Google software preloaded on Dell's long before May 12th... This sounds more like a Google PR campaign getting on the offensive...
I think Windows with passwords is going to be a bit like a pale imitation of KDE.
Yeah. Windows imitates KDE. Right.
While we're on the topic of making up uses for LCD technology, I'd like to propose the LCD Restroom Stall. Finally, something to look at besides those inane scribblings on the wall.
Can I have some money now? Or how about some of what Zonk's smoking?
Odds that Steve Jobs won't wear black:
999999999-1
Some of my technical peers work for different companies. If I have external IM, I can go to them for technical assistance (and they can come to me: it's a two way street).
The keyword there is technical.
Generally speaking, technical users aren't at risk when using IM. You and I aren't going to open boobies.exe from a stranger, IM or not. But some guy in HR or Marketing might. Or they could just sit around the whole day wasting company time trading warez/yapping with friends. Chances are they'll use it for something not work-related, while at the same time putting company data at risk. This is generally reason enough not to deploy external IM clients in a company.
For certain people and certain occassions, sure, IM might be okay. On the whole - absolutely not.
Why would you assume these IM/P2P applications are even installed in the first place?
In most corporate environments, software policies are already in place to restrict users from installaing any software on their own. In addition, generally any requests for installation of IM/P2P apps are quickly denied citing company policy (the reasons for which should be painfully obvious).
There's really no need for IM at work, but if you really really want it, use a corporate IM solution (such as Exchange IM or Apple iChat) to keep things local. Problem solved.
Is this really an issue for most IT departments?
"HTML isn't a very good language for making Web pages."
Sounds like one of those stupid True/False questions from my highschool computer class
shovelware? wtf? the author used "rootkit" because the DRM software:
-was installed without the users knowledge
-hid itself deep inside the registry/filesystem
-hooked itself to system calls
-monitored its components at the cost of the user's CPU resources
-protected itself ""
-didn't include an uninstall method
-had the potential to destroy the machine (if they attempted to incorrectly remove it)
it ran under the localsystem account ("root") and wasn't a single binary - it had several components all maliciously working together (a "kit").
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit for more
My thoughts exactly.
does it run apache?
In Windows, open up a folder containing some Word .doc's, hit F3 to bring up Search, then type your string in the "Containing text" field.
It's beyond me why people find this complicated.
AllofMP3 lets you preview the entire song at 128kbps.. just one of the many reasons I prefer it over iTunes.
You don't need a Google IM client. Nor do you need any of Google's other offerings.
Its like a guy driving up to a BMW dealership in his Honda Accord - sure he doesn't need a new BMW 3-series because hes already got a car that works. But if cost wasn't an issue, he would probably pick the better-engineered, better-looking BMW over the Accord.
I used My Yahoo, YIM and Yahoo Mail for over 5 years - and still do on occassion (only because it became of a force of habit). Now I use Google.
The chief distinction between Yahoo and Google is the former has a more cluttered - and therefore uglier - appearance. Beyond that, Google's services just seem more efficient and functional.
"My Yahoo" startpages are full of ugly and annoying graphic ads. YIM has a very bulky interface (just like MSN) and glitchy A/V support. Notice how much spam shows up in your Yahoo Mail "Bulk" folder? Notice the number of false positives? Try Gmail and we'll see how much longer you put up with that.
If Yahoo's service offerings were even on par (not even 'better') with Google, then yes, all of these Google announcements wouldn't be a big deal. But the truth of the matter is that Google comes out on top everytime. Just look at the rapid growth of their userbase/popularity/coverage/$$$$/bandwidth/etc.
Google is not "old news". Yahoo, on the other hand...
From a gamers perspective, the main problem with OSX is all the really popular games still don't work with it.
Look at games like Counter-Strike or Battlefield2 - these are two of the biggest online FPS games at the moment, and neither one runs on OSX.
The games that DO run on OSX are generally the less popular kind - such as UT04 and Wolfenstein.
In comparison, the number of people who play CS online is more than three times greater than UT04 and Wolfenstein COMBINED.
Check these numbers out for yourself.
NONE of the top 3 games on that list run on OSX.
That's a major loss for Apple, and things will get worse before they get better as Microsoft pushes DirectX to more and more game developers to lock-in gamers to their platform.
Touting OSX as a gamer-friendly platform is all talk and not much walk at this point - and it will remain so until the most popular, most played games, become compatible with OSX.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11 :
IEEE 802.11 - The original 1 Mbit/s and 2 Mbit/s, 2.4 GHz RF and IR standard
IEEE 802.11a - 54 Mbit/s, 5 GHz standard (1999, shipping products in 2001)
IEEE 802.11b - Enhancements to 802.11 to support 5.5 and 11 Mbit/s (1999)
IEEE 802.11d - International (country-to-country) roaming extensions
IEEE 802.11e - Enhancements: QoS, including packet bursting
IEEE 802.11F - Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP)
IEEE 802.11g - 54 Mbit/s, 2.4 GHz standard (backwards compatible with b) (2003)
IEEE 802.11h - 5 GHz spectrum, Dynamic Channel/Frequency Selection (DCS/DFS) and Transmit Power Control (TPC) for European compatibility
IEEE 802.11i (ratified 24 June 2004) - Enhanced security
IEEE 802.11j - Extensions for Japan
IEEE 802.11k - Radio resource measurement enhancements
IEEE 802.11n - Higher throughput improvements
IEEE 802.11p - WAVE - Wireless Access for the Vehicular Environment (such as ambulances and passenger cars)
IEEE 802.11r - Fast roaming
IEEE 802.11s - Wireless mesh networking
IEEE 802.11T - Wireless Performance Prediction (WPP) - test methods and metrics
IEEE 802.11u - Interworking with non-802 networks (e.g., cellular)
IEEE 802.11v - Wireless network management
IEEE 802.11w - Protected Management Frames
Note that 802.11x is not a standard or task group. Rather, it is a colloquial term used to denote any current or future 802.11 standard, in cases where further precision is not necessary.
Try designing a tshirt, select a bgcolor for the logo from the pop-up swatch, then hit "submit" on the right and the app crashes.
Then everything else stops working. This happened in Opera 8 and IE.
Brilliant.
For starters:
-implement uniform dresscode
-ban cellphones/video games/calculators
-improve student:teacher ratio
That should set the tone... and once you have their attention, start improving core curriculum.
Focus most on math, science and english. Make algebra a prerequisite for highschool. Give more importance to good penmanship. Stop handing out letter grades - use percentages instead.. they're simple, standard and precise.
The US educational system is so far behind, most people would consider just the aforementioned changes 'too rigid'. For those people, please take note: on a global scale, we're getting our asses kicked.
Everything up to and including 5a is legal.
(research "white hat security" for more info)