Imperious Richard, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep a tire from flaying. Oh, that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a park t' allow the traffic’s flow!
1. Yes, an iPhone can be hacked to become a computer, but the default configuration to which your original posting was referring to, is not a personal computer but much closer to a smart terminal since it can't function properly (and by functioning properly I naturally have to include running code) without receiving the approval of a central computer. The point of my counterargument is that while Apple's whitelisting system is working fine on the iPhone, the uses of the iPhone are not as broad as the uses of a personal computer.
2. There is already a security application that acts in the way you propose: Comodo. Now, Comodo is an interesting issue in your argument because it has repeatedly failed in respected antivirus tests such as AV Test, AV Comparatives and even VB100 (which is as close to the defacto standard as it can be). It failed so bad, that it had to be removed by those tests to avoid further embarrassment.
3. Java is not the issue in browsers, since it's not part of the browsers but a plugin instead (which can be forced to work inside a sandbox as Mozilla did for Flash). Javascript is the problem since it's a real programming language that can be used to strech a browser's code to its limits and turn any flaws to possible code execution. I don't think you can whitelist websites from Javascript as well.
Finally, while sandboxing protects the rest of the system it doesn't prevent a hacked application from accessing your data and posting them through the internet.
I'm not invalidating your argument, but I wish to point out that whitelisting may work for some users who use a limited number of applications and even then it won't offer them the complete protection they would hope for. Modern high quality antivirus suites offer superior solutions without restricting the user's choice of applications.
iPhone is just a smart phone. This is about real computers that are supposed to be free to do much more than a handheld device. Try to do the same on personal computer and it's not personal anymore, its just a smart terminal connected to a central iTunes mainframe.
Furthermore, an exploit on a standard whitelisted application such as a web browser or an office suite would expose the system to unrestricted access. A better solution is to monitor running code and prevent it from doing something it wasn't supposed to be doing. For example, neither a web browser nor an office suite should be given direct disk access, driver installation privileges or system directory access.
Tested the Gmer rootkit detector, AV doesn't report it as malicious but heuristics does. And also,
The following cluster is related to your sample. The similarities between your submission and samples in our database are shown below. If one of the listed variants in the cluster is malicious, then it is likely that your submission is malicious also.
An interesting thought; yet it seems necessary for the victim to co-exist with the captor. In this case Google didn't maintain communication with the victim.
Your system is probably misconfigured. XBMC runs perfectly on an Acer netbook with 1GB RAM, Atom and an Intel 3100 onboard graphics card (with Windows XP).
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Imperious Richard, dead and turned to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep a tire from flaying.
Oh, that that earth, which kept the world in awe,
Should patch a park t' allow the traffic’s flow!
BasilBrush (and the ibubble in general) is not commercially relevant to computer security either, so we don't really have to care about him, do we ?
1. Yes, an iPhone can be hacked to become a computer, but the default configuration to which your original posting was referring to, is not a personal computer but much closer to a smart terminal since it can't function properly (and by functioning properly I naturally have to include running code) without receiving the approval of a central computer. The point of my counterargument is that while Apple's whitelisting system is working fine on the iPhone, the uses of the iPhone are not as broad as the uses of a personal computer.
2. There is already a security application that acts in the way you propose: Comodo. Now, Comodo is an interesting issue in your argument because it has repeatedly failed in respected antivirus tests such as AV Test, AV Comparatives and even VB100 (which is as close to the defacto standard as it can be). It failed so bad, that it had to be removed by those tests to avoid further embarrassment.
3. Java is not the issue in browsers, since it's not part of the browsers but a plugin instead (which can be forced to work inside a sandbox as Mozilla did for Flash). Javascript is the problem since it's a real programming language that can be used to strech a browser's code to its limits and turn any flaws to possible code execution. I don't think you can whitelist websites from Javascript as well.
Finally, while sandboxing protects the rest of the system it doesn't prevent a hacked application from accessing your data and posting them through the internet.
I'm not invalidating your argument, but I wish to point out that whitelisting may work for some users who use a limited number of applications and even then it won't offer them the complete protection they would hope for. Modern high quality antivirus suites offer superior solutions without restricting the user's choice of applications.
iPhone is just a smart phone. This is about real computers that are supposed to be free to do much more than a handheld device. Try to do the same on personal computer and it's not personal anymore, its just a smart terminal connected to a central iTunes mainframe.
Furthermore, an exploit on a standard whitelisted application such as a web browser or an office suite would expose the system to unrestricted access. A better solution is to monitor running code and prevent it from doing something it wasn't supposed to be doing. For example, neither a web browser nor an office suite should be given direct disk access, driver installation privileges or system directory access.
Tested the Gmer rootkit detector, AV doesn't report it as malicious but heuristics does. And also,
The following cluster is related to your sample. The similarities between your submission and samples in our database are shown below. If one of the listed variants in the cluster is malicious, then it is likely that your submission is malicious also.
Cluster [W32] [Trojan]
Similarity Filename Hash AV Results
0.734592 aedbfccbfbbddcbebbcbcadf ed839568ee1c2906ea0b42612d04f6bd BC.W32.Xpaj
0.718620 deafabbcffdbdcefecffeea 151d4e03f8ffc6adc50facc2e561dab7 BC.W32.Xpaj
0.714916 bcdadffaecdeaefbdbcaccdfed f74f33bcdcff1e97048f2576abb03467 Win.Trojan.Agent-39884
How "likely" ?
Use Pale Moon. It's the Firefox you are asking for.
What about Cyberiminal ?
Why was this posted?
Ed Bott wrote it. That proves, to all his detractors, that he can multiply.
Since Altamont.
Norton Ghost and a partition manager (such as Ranish) can let you do that.
Also, some laptop manufacturers are including that as an option. Of course the OS is backed up at the hard drive not an expensive ROM chip.
is "THAT" an acronym as well ?
Bullshit. You add an accessory Bluetooth keyboard and it turns into a PC replacement that easily replaces XP for most users.
What are you talking about ? You can't even run OpenOffice on an iPad.
For wasting public air
An interesting thought; yet it seems necessary for the victim to co-exist with the captor. In this case Google didn't maintain communication with the victim.
Same here. This guy is a bit strange.
The official description: http://xbmc.org/about/
That's a "TSR program" not "TSR inc" :)
Favorite TSR program: the ping-pong virus! (Nah, Desqview really)
Some context is necessary here:
Can Blizzard swear on the US Constitution that their authentication servers will be available for free in 20 years?
No but looking at past behaviour and extrapolating when they bring the servers down they will put out a no-cd patch.
I'll buy it when the patch is out then, not a second earlier. I will not fall for mere promises.
Buying a software product with the requirement of perpetual functionality within its specifications (system requirements etc) is a principle.
My argument would continue, almost identical in philosophy, with this AC post: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1667744&cid=32378396
Some people choose principles and self-respect over satisfaction, Dog-Cow. That doesn't make them retarded shits, Dog-Cow.
No it doesn't. It stands for nothing else than "XBMC".
In the same manner "Tactical Studies Rules" became "TSR" meaning nothing else than "TSR".
Your system is probably misconfigured. XBMC runs perfectly on an Acer netbook with 1GB RAM, Atom and an Intel 3100 onboard graphics card (with Windows XP).
She feels that since she likes sex, she should feel like a whore.
And "whore" is a bad thing in your vocabulary ?
Sex=shame is one of the most fucked up things invented in order to control women and take their power away.
I think it has more to do with the higher responsibility women have with sex. Men can't get pregnant.
A sexually empowered woman is a power to behold and scares many men shitless.
A very fat woman as well. And more so in fact.
Ok. Power.
Scroogle has recently been shut down
All you had to do was type a small URI and try a search.