Cosmic rays are essentially depleted atomic nuclei. They don't penetrate much of shit, they tend to smash into another atom and that's the end of it. We detect them on the ground by secondary effects.
"Where do hosts get bypassed no mind? Windows Update ONLY stupid fuck!"
And every browser, and any program can be programmed to bypass HOSTs, proven time and time again with a simple GOOGLE SEARCH - how? Ignore fucking DNS resolution in the OS and do it yourself (ever hear of ZenMate for Chrome? It does exactly that.)
USELESS. This is why IP blocking works best.
BTW, you can simply bypass HOSTs if a piece of malware simply removes the user permissions from HOSTs. Pretty shitty 'security.'
Meanwhile, as Vice President of one of the oldest mineralogical societies in California, I've secured their entire network exactly as I described and ran a full-out attempt to get any ad to display on our computers.
ZERO ADS DISPLAYED.
I just block the largest ad networks off the bat by wildcard IP and it's fucking done in my router. ZERO ADS TOUCH ME.
Apparently, you're not smart enough to figure out that the ad companies paid for static IPs for easy configuration, in whole blocks. Just block the entire fucking range.
Code line reduction by four fucking orders of magnitude.
If you can read memory arbitrarily via this exploit, your sandbox is most certainly NOT secure. It's just another step to modifying memory contents after that and getting a full breakout.
This exploit looks to be especially effective against cloud architecture as it currently stands.
A whole lot of machines are inherently more compromised as a result of this, too. Because the idiot manufacturers do things like hard-locking a 64-bit system to 2GB of RAM (TOSHIBA and DELL and HP,) it makes ASLR essentially fucking useless, as it's a lot easier to attack the machine since there's much lower surface area to attack via the MMU.
"Here's a news flash: Iran is mountainous. Mountains provide cover against air power. Mountains block armour."
Here's a bigger news flash - we've had the stuff to not give a fuck about mountains AT ALL since the 70's. Not my problem your commanders refuse to give you proper fucking outfitting.
My grandfather was Lt. Col USMC. I've been on plenty of bases. You've got the fucking equipment, you just are not given it because you're too stupid to requisition it (which is why you're a soldier in the first place.)
"By the way, Khyber - Are YOU doing better than I have on this front?"
I've never had an attack or network penetration, ever, because I'm smarter than you. I've never had to write a HOSTs program, because unlike you, I'm not stupid enough to get infected by anything, and I'm smart enough to use dedicated hardware that's impervious to OS workarounds.
You, on the other hand, and your outdated security friends, have tried to beat my system, and you've all failed miserably. So, please, come back when you're actually competent at breaking into systems, then you can talk about security.
"There are no possible jokes that can be made about the Holocaust."
Please. Tragedy plus Time equals Comedy. Anyone can joke about anything. The real joke as of current, speaking of time, is your disingenuous nonsense.
"The fact that you do not understand why this is so shows that you are at risk of something like it happening in your lifetime."
You mean the several other genocides which have happened since WWII, most fucking recent one being the Srebrenica massacre? That you're so blind to think that not one other genocide has happened, let alone in their lifetime, is yet another comedic tragedy, and it's your ignorance that perpetuates and furthers the possibility of these genocides happening.
"How could it be that less than a year ago it would be unimaginable that you could end up dying in a chemical weapons attack in Iran?"
Bullshit, son. They've got ammonia and bleach and aluminum over there, in great fucking quantities. Chlorine gas is easily manufactured in the home, and is ALWAYS a persistent threat due to the ready availability of the three substances needed. Yet another comedic example of your tragic dysfunctional logic processes. Looks like you can only go one or two steps ahead - you'd be a poor chess player.
"How do you feel about going off to fight Iran?"
You know exactly jack about our military capability, eh? Roughly three days of US Air Superiority would guarantee that it wouldn't be much of a fucking fight, let me tell you. It would essentially be as simple as rolling in and dropping the conventional explosives equivalent of a few nukes. Reality, we could simply take the entirety of the Middle East within two weeks, spend about a year fighting a ground war wiping out every possible bit of opposition using our advanced satellite technology to track targets and scan for them, and then that area is simply ours.
Assuming one had a competent leader and plan for them to execute, anyways. Can't say that with our current chief-of-leaks.
"You have absolutely no idea how easy it is for society to turn on a pin and exterminate millions of people."
I'm pretty sure the entire world was watching our election and is just waiting for the second part to happen.
"Tell me, grab a person off the street and ask them to say, replace the motherboard on your laptop.
That's it', you'll walk them though it, but you will not be allowed to comment on what they're doing. You'll demonstrate, they'll mimic. They are allowed to use anything they have.
Would you do it? Would you risk your computer? You can show them how to take it apart and provide all the replacement parts, they can watch you take it apart."
Guess how most of your current big-industry repair shops work? Flextronics, Solectron, etc.
"We should give you a pass on not understanding the role of alcohol in turning traffic mistakes into deaths, because you're still psychologically damaged from your own experience with a drunk driver?"
That you reach for such an astoundingly stupid conclusion belies your very low mental functioning.
Having actually watched the crash video, I got some real bad news for your sorry ass. If anything, the reality is the dumbass going the WRONG FUCKING WAY DOWN A ONE WAY STREET is the one truly at fault for not OBEYING TRAFFIC LAWS. You can point the finger at the drunk driver all you want and that's fair, but you fucktards are ignoring the other half of the story, which just makes you a disingenuous fuckwit.
1. Turn the phones power on and get to the normal screen where you can enter phone numbers.
2. Enter into the phone the following sequence:
" *3001#12345# "
You're now in your phone's debug mode. You can turn on the Field Test function, which will give you all the data from cell towers nearby, including the ones police use to spy on you or surreptitiously update your phone firmware.
Which is how I found out it was backdoored by the gov't. You learn pretty quickly what the carrier tower names are, and which signals are re-broadcasts, and more just with that one debug option.
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Cosmic rays are essentially depleted atomic nuclei. They don't penetrate much of shit, they tend to smash into another atom and that's the end of it. We detect them on the ground by secondary effects.
"An oft-cited IBM study from the 90s"
When the cells were much larger and easier targets...
"ECC memory doesn't do anything to help when the bits that get flipped are in the CPU"
Guess what the SRAM used in CPUs is? Fucking ECC, dumbass.
Almost every cosmic ray is an atomic nuclei that's been stripped down. It's not an EM-spectrum object.
"Where do hosts get bypassed no mind? Windows Update ONLY stupid fuck!"
And every browser, and any program can be programmed to bypass HOSTs, proven time and time again with a simple GOOGLE SEARCH - how? Ignore fucking DNS resolution in the OS and do it yourself (ever hear of ZenMate for Chrome? It does exactly that.)
USELESS. This is why IP blocking works best.
BTW, you can simply bypass HOSTs if a piece of malware simply removes the user permissions from HOSTs. Pretty shitty 'security.'
"Windows doesn't block hosts fool (only 4 windows update)"
I didn't say Windows blocks HOSTs - now you're putting words in my mouth you incompetent fuck.
But it still bypasses it for Windows update? THAT IS EXACTLY WHY HOSTS IS USELESS!
If I fucking say YOU DO NOT GO THERE and yet the computer STILL GOES THERE, then HOSTs is BROKEN.
That you cannot accept this logic is proof that you're insane, untrustworthy, and a FRAUD.
>fake name and fake life
Meanwhile, as Vice President of one of the oldest mineralogical societies in California, I've secured their entire network exactly as I described and ran a full-out attempt to get any ad to display on our computers.
ZERO ADS DISPLAYED.
I just block the largest ad networks off the bat by wildcard IP and it's fucking done in my router. ZERO ADS TOUCH ME.
Apparently, you're not smart enough to figure out that the ad companies paid for static IPs for easy configuration, in whole blocks. Just block the entire fucking range.
Code line reduction by four fucking orders of magnitude.
Meanwhile, back to my job as Vice President and certified gemologist, LOSER.
>submitter
>gloves are off
>still sitting on his bitch ass behind the keyboard instead of going out and trying to affect real change
I bet you throw bitch punches, too.
"Documented facts"
>nothing but a bunch of other 3rd world 'security' people having their words repeated by you
Meanwhile, as I've proven (and as Microsoft has proven) time and time again, HOSTs is bypassed by the OS and browsers AT WILL.
You fucking moron.
I've built my own protocols. This is why you can't touch my stuff.
It's called PROPER PROGRAMMING - something your 16,000 lines of code is not.
If you can read memory arbitrarily via this exploit, your sandbox is most certainly NOT secure. It's just another step to modifying memory contents after that and getting a full breakout.
This exploit looks to be especially effective against cloud architecture as it currently stands.
A whole lot of machines are inherently more compromised as a result of this, too. Because the idiot manufacturers do things like hard-locking a 64-bit system to 2GB of RAM (TOSHIBA and DELL and HP,) it makes ASLR essentially fucking useless, as it's a lot easier to attack the machine since there's much lower surface area to attack via the MMU.
"Here's a news flash: Iran is mountainous. Mountains provide cover against air power. Mountains block armour."
Here's a bigger news flash - we've had the stuff to not give a fuck about mountains AT ALL since the 70's. Not my problem your commanders refuse to give you proper fucking outfitting.
My grandfather was Lt. Col USMC. I've been on plenty of bases. You've got the fucking equipment, you just are not given it because you're too stupid to requisition it (which is why you're a soldier in the first place.)
"And... y'know... assuming we were comfortable with all the civilian deaths that such an attack would cause"
We're pretty fucking comfy killing our own citizens, so where's that problem again?
Hey, guess what? My internal to router block list is only TEN lines long and runs a thousand times faster than your shitty hosts file.
You needed 16,000 lines to do what I could do in ten. You're fucking PATHETIC and so are the people that trust and support you.
"By the way, Khyber - Are YOU doing better than I have on this front?"
I've never had an attack or network penetration, ever, because I'm smarter than you. I've never had to write a HOSTs program, because unlike you, I'm not stupid enough to get infected by anything, and I'm smart enough to use dedicated hardware that's impervious to OS workarounds.
You, on the other hand, and your outdated security friends, have tried to beat my system, and you've all failed miserably. So, please, come back when you're actually competent at breaking into systems, then you can talk about security.
Looks like someone below just busted your ass wide open. Another AC, at that.
"I thought you said you found government loaded firmware by doing a ROM dump."
Wouldn't have known to do the ROM dump until I learned that the phone was not connecting to a Cricket tower when it's on a Cricket service.
Nice to know your logic is a failure like most everyone else around here.
Too bad you hae no ability to discern real life from your own fantasy of me having no life.
Meanwhile, as I hold a $30,000 ruby in my fucking hands...
"There are no possible jokes that can be made about the Holocaust."
Please. Tragedy plus Time equals Comedy. Anyone can joke about anything. The real joke as of current, speaking of time, is your disingenuous nonsense.
"The fact that you do not understand why this is so shows that you are at risk of something like it happening in your lifetime."
You mean the several other genocides which have happened since WWII, most fucking recent one being the Srebrenica massacre? That you're so blind to think that not one other genocide has happened, let alone in their lifetime, is yet another comedic tragedy, and it's your ignorance that perpetuates and furthers the possibility of these genocides happening.
"How could it be that less than a year ago it would be unimaginable that you could end up dying in a chemical weapons attack in Iran?"
Bullshit, son. They've got ammonia and bleach and aluminum over there, in great fucking quantities. Chlorine gas is easily manufactured in the home, and is ALWAYS a persistent threat due to the ready availability of the three substances needed. Yet another comedic example of your tragic dysfunctional logic processes. Looks like you can only go one or two steps ahead - you'd be a poor chess player.
"How do you feel about going off to fight Iran?"
You know exactly jack about our military capability, eh? Roughly three days of US Air Superiority would guarantee that it wouldn't be much of a fucking fight, let me tell you. It would essentially be as simple as rolling in and dropping the conventional explosives equivalent of a few nukes. Reality, we could simply take the entirety of the Middle East within two weeks, spend about a year fighting a ground war wiping out every possible bit of opposition using our advanced satellite technology to track targets and scan for them, and then that area is simply ours.
Assuming one had a competent leader and plan for them to execute, anyways. Can't say that with our current chief-of-leaks.
"You have absolutely no idea how easy it is for society to turn on a pin and exterminate millions of people."
I'm pretty sure the entire world was watching our election and is just waiting for the second part to happen.
"Apple will just jack up the price of their replacement parts to the point that it'd be cheaper to buy a new computer."
As if the price of a new PC wasn't already cheaper than that of a similarly-configured Apple product?
"Tell me, grab a person off the street and ask them to say, replace the motherboard on your laptop.
That's it', you'll walk them though it, but you will not be allowed to comment on what they're doing. You'll demonstrate, they'll mimic. They are allowed to use anything they have.
Would you do it? Would you risk your computer? You can show them how to take it apart and provide all the replacement parts, they can watch you take it apart."
Guess how most of your current big-industry repair shops work? Flextronics, Solectron, etc.
"We should give you a pass on not understanding the role of alcohol in turning traffic mistakes into deaths, because you're still psychologically damaged from your own experience with a drunk driver?"
That you reach for such an astoundingly stupid conclusion belies your very low mental functioning.
Having actually watched the crash video, I got some real bad news for your sorry ass. If anything, the reality is the dumbass going the WRONG FUCKING WAY DOWN A ONE WAY STREET is the one truly at fault for not OBEYING TRAFFIC LAWS. You can point the finger at the drunk driver all you want and that's fair, but you fucktards are ignoring the other half of the story, which just makes you a disingenuous fuckwit.
None of your HOSTs files protects against state-sponsored attacks. That one got proven by plenty of state actors already.
Give up on your shitty outdated 'security' as this modern world barely even uses HOSTs any longer.
Got a 3310?
1. Turn the phones power on and get to the normal screen where you can enter phone numbers.
2. Enter into the phone the following sequence:
" *3001#12345# "
You're now in your phone's debug mode. You can turn on the Field Test function, which will give you all the data from cell towers nearby, including the ones police use to spy on you or surreptitiously update your phone firmware.
Which is how I found out it was backdoored by the gov't. You learn pretty quickly what the carrier tower names are, and which signals are re-broadcasts, and more just with that one debug option.
Shitty job that pays on average $250/hr and where my office is primarily mother nature?
You must not do a lot of mining, let alone leave your desk chair enough to have even come up with such a thought.