Actually, that's the messed up part. From the judge's ruling:
The court's ruling, he said, means that people who protect their homes with electric gates, fences and security booths have a large protected zone of privacy around their homes.
So only if you're rich enough to have that security booth and gated community/property, you have that right to security.
At first I had the same reaction. Then I sat and tried to remember when we get exposure to pre-algebra in a standard public school education. It's 8th grade, with some advanced courses for 7th and 6th. However, most kids won't see it until 8th. Since middle school grades typically consist of 6-8, this comes as no surprise that kids who have never had pre-algebra wouldn't know how to solve a basic algebra question.
Right, but the people who would find real value in these aren't sitting around waiting for the government to pop up saying "hey now, these are ours!" They probably are already using Wikileaks (among other sources) and are finding these, regardless of media/government/etc coverage.
Just because we're not talking about it doesn't mean someone out there isn't actively looking for them. All they have to do is read them to find out their contents, regardless if we chat about it or not. The only people who will take notice of them due to news coverage are likely people who don't actually care about their contents anyway.
The jist from the entire summary was BoingBoing wasn't the first and only company using the images this submitter created. And it's not like this is the first time a company grabbed a picture without permission and used it commercially despite the CC license (this story comes to mind). This person was just citing the most recent examples of what they felt was a violation of the non-commercial use. For all we know, other "Commercial Companies" may have been using this person's creations for more than just fluffer images in an article with banner ads.
But my response wasn't so much questioning what is and is not valid non-commercial use, but refuting the person claiming we're hypocrites about us wanting information to be free so long as it's not our own.
The first oddity is why the author believes that the data would sit around for years before being used
Some stolen information does. Credit cards and the like ("short term" data) usually is 'use as fast as possible' due to its nature (not going to be around long). However, when it comes to data that cannot be changed/very difficult to change, ie, Social Security Numbers, they sometimes sit around for years before ever being used.
My local paper ran an article about this a year or two ago. A man in his 20's apparently had his SSN stolen when he was 13, and it just started getting used. The paper covered it due to the credit institutions making the whole fight to repair his credit messy. The thieves know that this type of information isn't easily changed, so they can sit on it until it's useful.
And I'm sure those DoS attacks will cause thousands of deaths and huge infrastructural damage.
Yes, they could wage a DoS attack to stifle the economy and communications, maybe slow some business down, but people will not die. Alleging that type of attack is even remotely similar to what happened on 9/11 is grossly irresponsible.
It scratches DVDs if you move the console while it's operating
It also has a tendency to scratch discs without moving the console. It usually happens when the dvd drive is starting to fail (pretty common). I've lost a game to this problem, and I know many other that have as well.
FYI, if you just hold X (or A for the 360), your horse will maintain speed as long as you stay on the roads, no spamming needed. Also, if you get tired of riding across the map (like I did), you can just fast travel to where you need to go using your campsite.
But when it's a large corporation, we somehow think they should be held to a higher standard?
No, just the safety standards they're supposed to be held to, which they felt they should not be required to have. If you fight tooth and nail against requiring safeguards, I will blame you when your lack of those safeguards cause globally catastrophic problems.
The outsourcing centre will handle banking information 24 hours a day using a shift system
So, let me get this straight. They're knowingly, willfully giving my banking information to known, convicted criminals for processing... This can only end well.
Funny you mention the VIP code, as it's the reason they lost out on a few sales of BC2. My usual group of gaming buddies typically rent games they're on the fence about to try them out first. BC2 and its VIP code rendered multiplayer nearly unplayable for them (or so I was told; delayed matchmaking, only to be put into matches you didn't have the maps for and getting kicked, etc). So the 'on the fence' buyers opted not to buy it because of the poor experience. I ended up not buying it because the majority of my gaming friends didn't end up buying it.
So instead of increasing new game sales, their VIP content ended up actually costing them some sales.
The whole idea behind the first post is a false sense of security because, by default, umod doesn't include the execute permissions. If I'm an attacker and already have managed to write to your filesystem as you, it'd be trivial for me to chmod +x to my malicious file using utilities I can already execute, or even just run the commands without using a file. For example, I could run perl -e 'creatively packed malicious code' and be on my way.
Of course, I've been operating under the assumption that the attacker is creating and trying to run the file. Odds are, if the user downloaded and tried to execute the file, the lack of a default execute privilege isn't going to mysteriously save them. They're just going to run 'chmod +x SuparCoolCalendar' and run it again. Or, if it's a shell script, they're just going to do the same thing I did to run it without execute permissions if they're too lazy to chmod.
The point is, if the user is trying to execute something, they're going to execute it regardless of what your umod is set to.
Here and, to a broader extent, here is the best info I've read on the subject.
So far, all I can tell is that Terry Childs refused to give out passwords (private information) to somebody else who asked for those passwords.
He refused to give out the system management passwords to people who were supposedly authorized to have them. Then later, refused to give them to his successor after being reassigned to a new position. After reading what went down, he sounds more like he was being an egotistical jerk more than a champion of security.
why is there so much popular defense for this guy?
Honestly, the certain aspects of the media is selling this as Childs being a good sysadmin and refusing to give up a password to a user that just asked, which isn't even close to what actually happened.
Inflammatory news gets you more hits than actual facts. Just ask Fox.
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The court's ruling, he said, means that people who protect their homes with electric gates, fences and security booths have a large protected zone of privacy around their homes.
So only if you're rich enough to have that security booth and gated community/property, you have that right to security.
At first I had the same reaction. Then I sat and tried to remember when we get exposure to pre-algebra in a standard public school education. It's 8th grade, with some advanced courses for 7th and 6th. However, most kids won't see it until 8th. Since middle school grades typically consist of 6-8, this comes as no surprise that kids who have never had pre-algebra wouldn't know how to solve a basic algebra question.
Right, but the people who would find real value in these aren't sitting around waiting for the government to pop up saying "hey now, these are ours!" They probably are already using Wikileaks (among other sources) and are finding these, regardless of media/government/etc coverage.
Just because we're not talking about it doesn't mean someone out there isn't actively looking for them. All they have to do is read them to find out their contents, regardless if we chat about it or not. The only people who will take notice of them due to news coverage are likely people who don't actually care about their contents anyway.
The jist from the entire summary was BoingBoing wasn't the first and only company using the images this submitter created. And it's not like this is the first time a company grabbed a picture without permission and used it commercially despite the CC license (this story comes to mind). This person was just citing the most recent examples of what they felt was a violation of the non-commercial use. For all we know, other "Commercial Companies" may have been using this person's creations for more than just fluffer images in an article with banner ads.
But my response wasn't so much questioning what is and is not valid non-commercial use, but refuting the person claiming we're hypocrites about us wanting information to be free so long as it's not our own.
This is not so much "My information shouldn't be free" but "stop using my works for profit when the license explicitly says for non-commercial use."
The first oddity is why the author believes that the data would sit around for years before being used
Some stolen information does. Credit cards and the like ("short term" data) usually is 'use as fast as possible' due to its nature (not going to be around long). However, when it comes to data that cannot be changed/very difficult to change, ie, Social Security Numbers, they sometimes sit around for years before ever being used.
My local paper ran an article about this a year or two ago. A man in his 20's apparently had his SSN stolen when he was 13, and it just started getting used. The paper covered it due to the credit institutions making the whole fight to repair his credit messy. The thieves know that this type of information isn't easily changed, so they can sit on it until it's useful.
And I'm sure those DoS attacks will cause thousands of deaths and huge infrastructural damage.
Yes, they could wage a DoS attack to stifle the economy and communications, maybe slow some business down, but people will not die. Alleging that type of attack is even remotely similar to what happened on 9/11 is grossly irresponsible.
It scratches DVDs if you move the console while it's operating
It also has a tendency to scratch discs without moving the console. It usually happens when the dvd drive is starting to fail (pretty common). I've lost a game to this problem, and I know many other that have as well.
Knowing our luck, we're going to just crash some crap into Titan, either killing off whatever lives there or starting a war with it.
FYI, if you just hold X (or A for the 360), your horse will maintain speed as long as you stay on the roads, no spamming needed. Also, if you get tired of riding across the map (like I did), you can just fast travel to where you need to go using your campsite.
But when it's a large corporation, we somehow think they should be held to a higher standard?
No, just the safety standards they're supposed to be held to, which they felt they should not be required to have. If you fight tooth and nail against requiring safeguards, I will blame you when your lack of those safeguards cause globally catastrophic problems.
The outsourcing centre will handle banking information 24 hours a day using a shift system
So, let me get this straight. They're knowingly, willfully giving my banking information to known, convicted criminals for processing... This can only end well.
What do Bus Stops have to do with this?
Has piracy destroyed public transportation as well!?
Funny you mention the VIP code, as it's the reason they lost out on a few sales of BC2. My usual group of gaming buddies typically rent games they're on the fence about to try them out first. BC2 and its VIP code rendered multiplayer nearly unplayable for them (or so I was told; delayed matchmaking, only to be put into matches you didn't have the maps for and getting kicked, etc). So the 'on the fence' buyers opted not to buy it because of the poor experience. I ended up not buying it because the majority of my gaming friends didn't end up buying it.
So instead of increasing new game sales, their VIP content ended up actually costing them some sales.
The whole idea behind the first post is a false sense of security because, by default, umod doesn't include the execute permissions. If I'm an attacker and already have managed to write to your filesystem as you, it'd be trivial for me to chmod +x to my malicious file using utilities I can already execute, or even just run the commands without using a file. For example, I could run perl -e 'creatively packed malicious code' and be on my way.
Of course, I've been operating under the assumption that the attacker is creating and trying to run the file. Odds are, if the user downloaded and tried to execute the file, the lack of a default execute privilege isn't going to mysteriously save them. They're just going to run 'chmod +x SuparCoolCalendar' and run it again. Or, if it's a shell script, they're just going to do the same thing I did to run it without execute permissions if they're too lazy to chmod.
The point is, if the user is trying to execute something, they're going to execute it regardless of what your umod is set to.
Test it for yourself. Write a script on a Linux machine and try to execute it without adding execute permissions. You can't do it.
$echo 'whoami' > test.sh
$sh test.sh
themoof
$
Just sayin....
Obviously, she has a strong opinion about whatever it is we're talking about...
Unless it's a boy named Sue. In which case, you're in for a hell of a brawl.
I am a battle hardened motherfucker in the work place
That's going on my next resume.
So far, all I can tell is that Terry Childs refused to give out passwords (private information) to somebody else who asked for those passwords.
He refused to give out the system management passwords to people who were supposedly authorized to have them. Then later, refused to give them to his successor after being reassigned to a new position. After reading what went down, he sounds more like he was being an egotistical jerk more than a champion of security.
why is there so much popular defense for this guy?
Honestly, the certain aspects of the media is selling this as Childs being a good sysadmin and refusing to give up a password to a user that just asked, which isn't even close to what actually happened.
Inflammatory news gets you more hits than actual facts. Just ask Fox.
The FCC has the jurisdiction
The FCC does not have the jurisdiction.
You are factually incorrect. You are not required to produce any form of ID on demand in the United States
You are also factually incorrect. "Stop and Identify" laws vary by state.
Just because I'm not surprised doesn't mean I shouldn't raise hell every time it happens.
I'm not following. Can you somehow relate this to me with an analogy, preferable about cars?