So which is it? Aren't they using IP addy to verify the identity of the sucker? Or is their some other source (their unique URL that they post)?
We've started seeing some of these newfangled phishing emails over the last few days. The victim's email address is used as an identifier. It is simply appended to the URL by the mailer bot, so that the link sent to the victim will look something like this:
That URL would lead to a script hosted on a compromised site, which looks up the email address in a whitelist before serving either a credential-collecting scam page or a bogus 404 error.
But this is all very basic stuff, and it is not hindering forensic investigators in the least. The folks investigating such scams don't just stumble upon them by accident; they rely instead on vigilant users and admins who take the time to report phishing emails. Once they get a report they already have a whitelisted URL to begin with.
Ever had to enter the ANSI escape sequences manually in DOS's edit?;)
Even though I wasn't in the scene, the name Lord Jazz does ring a bell... I'll be sure to look for the others. I still have lots of ACiD packs stored away on backup tapes somewhere, as I used to offer them for download on my board.
Wrong. Thedraw's only supported 25line Ansi, or was it 50? AcidDraw had a 1000 line limit
Actually, TheDraw's limit was 100 lines. You could configure it for either 23, 25, 50 or 100... Can you tell that I used it a lot?
But from the perspective of an ANSi artist, I'm sure that AcidDraw and the other editors meant for artists were more convenient. However, speaking as an ex-SysOp (for 7 years) I can assure you that SysOps preferred TheDraw and its interface -- simple yet powerful.
As a programmer, I also used it to draw menus and backgrounds for my text mode apps. It could save in many useful formats, such as straight to C or Pascal source.
Non-artists had no use for huge line limits, since BBS screens and textmode apps were limited to 25 lines... Unless of course you really wished to annoy your users.;)
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ANSI animation of the Energizer Bunny
Although it wasn't an animation per se, I remember using a huge, scrolling picture of the Energizer Bunny as my board's logoff screen. I had probably borrowed it from an <ACiD> art pack. (ANSi Creators in Demand.)
ACiD, iCE and the myriads of smaller groups were probably best known for making ANSI ads for "elite" boards. That was the term used for a BBS carrying pirated software... Sadly, this reminds me that people were already pirating programs online -- back in the days when 2400 baud was considered high speed.
Cheers.
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TheDraw will always remain the best ANSi editor of all time.
You want the best books for free?
alt.binaries.e-book.technical
Or you can just stop by your local bookstore and pocket them. Well, that only applies to those wonderful O'Reilly pocket references.
The other computer books will be far too big to hide in your pockets... So you will probably have to carry a bag with you. When the security guards try to come after you, just shoot them. You're a criminal after all, so what do you care?
Come to think of it, why pay for anything when you can steal it? Why even work for a living when you can rob people instead? Yep, the parent poster has it all figured out!
What that brief article fails to mention, however, is that blasphemy has always been illegal here in Italy. Believe it or not, you could theoretically be arrested for yelling "Porco Dio" (the equivalent of "Goddamnit") on the street!
The irony is that using extremely blasphemous language is very common in Italy -- much more so than anywhere else in the world. We have some of the most colorful blasphemies known to man; most of which involve the virgin Mary and various sexual acts that would make the other Madonna blush.
Sadly, we seem to have a very different definition of "free speech" in this country. There have been many similar instances of government intervention in the past, as well as privacy violations that would have everyone up in arms if this were another country -- like America for example.
No need to duck... I just wanted to add that we have not become fully civilized just yet.;)
The evil fascist dictator's name was Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, btw. Or "il Duce" for short. Unfortunately, he still has many admirers in this country.
But they're time compressed in a different way... they actually simply cut content.
No, I was referring to actual time-compression, which is used in addition to editing out content. Nowadays time-compression is usually obtained by dropping frames; but an even worse method was to slightly speed up the whole program.
As I mentioned above, this has been standard practice on syndicated TV shows for quite some time...
To spot dropped frames, try looking for artifacts such as combing or unusually jagged edges. The average TV viewer will probably never notice this however, as most cable and DBS providers introduce plenty of other nasty artifacts in the image. (Like those resulting from over-compressing a digital signal, for example.)
This particular machine has been around for a long time.
True... The actual device might be a new/fancier model, but the practice of time-compression has been around for many years. You'd think the folks at TechTV would know this, being broadcasters themselves.
Many TV shows in syndication (such as The Simpsons and Seinfeld) are routinely time-compressed to squeeze in an extra commercial spot.
But the butchering of TV shows does not stop here unfortunately... Usually syndicators will also edit out a brief scene or two from each episode, in order to gain even more commercial time.
Needless to say, "artistic integrity" has never been part of a syndicator's vocabulary...
I remember having to use DESQVIEW to multitask when I was running my BBS off of MSDOS.
Ahh the memories! You haven't lived until you've tried to set up a two-node board and a FidoNet mailer under DESQview 386.;)
I ran such a setup for many years with TriBBS, until I finally switched to PCBoard and OS/2 3.0... Everything was much smoother under OS/2 -- no more random lock-ups and slowdowns!
I miss ANSi art tremendously, too. Used to spend way too much time messing around in TheDraw...
I'm in downtown Toronto as well... And despite the overcast skies, fog and light pollution, I still managed to see quite a few meteorites during the Leonid shower! Fortunately the skies cleared up a bit, right around 5am.
Here are some hilarious images of this classic f**cked company.
Thanks for the pix!!;)
Seeing that pathetic sign is quite saddening, actually. It boggles the mind to think that a company with so much potential could run itself into the ground so quickly...
Although Rogers have recently setup their own mail/news/dhcp/dns/proxy servers, customers are still being routed through the @Home network for now.
As part of their contingency plan, Rogers have activated a new link to Teleglobe... Presumably that link will serve as an improvised backbone, should negotiations with @Home fail.
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So which is it? Aren't they using IP addy to verify the identity of the sucker? Or is their some other source (their unique URL that they post)?
We've started seeing some of these newfangled phishing emails over the last few days. The victim's email address is used as an identifier. It is simply appended to the URL by the mailer bot, so that the link sent to the victim will look something like this:
hxxp://compromisedsite.ru/joe33/somebank/?victim@gmail.com
That URL would lead to a script hosted on a compromised site, which looks up the email address in a whitelist before serving either a credential-collecting scam page or a bogus 404 error.
But this is all very basic stuff, and it is not hindering forensic investigators in the least. The folks investigating such scams don't just stumble upon them by accident; they rely instead on vigilant users and admins who take the time to report phishing emails. Once they get a report they already have a whitelisted URL to begin with.
Ever had to enter the ANSI escape sequences manually in DOS's edit? ;)
Even though I wasn't in the scene, the name Lord Jazz does ring a bell... I'll be sure to look for the others. I still have lots of ACiD packs stored away on backup tapes somewhere, as I used to offer them for download on my board.
Cheers.
But from the perspective of an ANSi artist, I'm sure that AcidDraw and the other editors meant for artists were more convenient. However, speaking as an ex-SysOp (for 7 years) I can assure you that SysOps preferred TheDraw and its interface -- simple yet powerful.
As a programmer, I also used it to draw menus and backgrounds for my text mode apps. It could save in many useful formats, such as straight to C or Pascal source.
Non-artists had no use for huge line limits, since BBS screens and textmode apps were limited to 25 lines... Unless of course you really wished to annoy your users. ;)
ACiD, iCE and the myriads of smaller groups were probably best known for making ANSI ads for "elite" boards. That was the term used for a BBS carrying pirated software... Sadly, this reminds me that people were already pirating programs online -- back in the days when 2400 baud was considered high speed.
Cheers.
TheDraw will always remain the best ANSi editor of all time.
I haven't even looked at a computer magazine since the demise of BYTE. It was the only magazine worth reading, imho.
Cheers.
They also used to publish a huge BBS list... I remember how excited I was when my board finally made it in there!
Cheers.
Cheers.
At the risk of sounding pedantic... Shouldn't an author possess, at the very least, a basic grasp of spelling and grammar?
Yes, I'm a smartass and an asshole. Would you expect any less from a Slashdot poster? ;)
Cheers.
The other computer books will be far too big to hide in your pockets... So you will probably have to carry a bag with you. When the security guards try to come after you, just shoot them. You're a criminal after all, so what do you care?
Come to think of it, why pay for anything when you can steal it? Why even work for a living when you can rob people instead? Yep, the parent poster has it all figured out!
Aptly said! I was beginning to think we'd never live to see this day.
But seriously, a big thank you to all the diligent Debian people responsible for this!
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What that brief article fails to mention, however, is that blasphemy has always been illegal here in Italy. Believe it or not, you could theoretically be arrested for yelling "Porco Dio" (the equivalent of "Goddamnit") on the street!
The irony is that using extremely blasphemous language is very common in Italy -- much more so than anywhere else in the world. We have some of the most colorful blasphemies known to man; most of which involve the virgin Mary and various sexual acts that would make the other Madonna blush.
Sadly, we seem to have a very different definition of "free speech" in this country. There have been many similar instances of government intervention in the past, as well as privacy violations that would have everyone up in arms if this were another country -- like America for example.
Cheers.
The evil fascist dictator's name was Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, btw. Or "il Duce" for short. Unfortunately, he still has many admirers in this country.
Cheers.
- Thanks to CIHF, a Global affiliate in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, I saw the finale 3 hours before most people did...
:-)
Amateur.Cheers,
- i wonder if i could get away with applaying for a patent on leaning back on a chair like the simpsons B Franklin episode, but without the supports
:)
Franklin?! Everyone knows that Thomas A. Edison invented those supports...As I mentioned above, this has been standard practice on syndicated TV shows for quite some time...
To spot dropped frames, try looking for artifacts such as combing or unusually jagged edges. The average TV viewer will probably never notice this however, as most cable and DBS providers introduce plenty of other nasty artifacts in the image. (Like those resulting from over-compressing a digital signal, for example.)
Cheers.
Many TV shows in syndication (such as The Simpsons and Seinfeld) are routinely time-compressed to squeeze in an extra commercial spot. But the butchering of TV shows does not stop here unfortunately... Usually syndicators will also edit out a brief scene or two from each episode, in order to gain even more commercial time.
Needless to say, "artistic integrity" has never been part of a syndicator's vocabulary...
Cheers.
I ran such a setup for many years with TriBBS, until I finally switched to PCBoard and OS/2 3.0... Everything was much smoother under OS/2 -- no more random lock-ups and slowdowns!
I miss ANSi art tremendously, too. Used to spend way too much time messing around in TheDraw...
Cheers.
Cheers,
Seeing that pathetic sign is quite saddening, actually. It boggles the mind to think that a company with so much potential could run itself into the ground so quickly...
As part of their contingency plan, Rogers have activated a new link to Teleglobe... Presumably that link will serve as an improvised backbone, should negotiations with @Home fail.
Cheers,
LOL! Is there any chance that someone from that area could take a picture of it? Please? I'd love to see this...Cheers,