I already did a couple of moderations in this thread, but decided to post instead. Basically, my impression is that you must be very young. I'm only just 27 (despite a 5-digit uid, which has been mine since my freshman year in high school), but even I remember life before the internet. They have this great things called phone books, which have a listing of phone numbers of businesses and individuals. They also have maps, which tell you where shit is. In the library, they tend to hoard things called books, which have editing, and often peer reviewed information in them.
If you've been so dependent on the internet that you're incapable of living life the way it was before, then either you never experienced "before", or you're just very, very sad. I use the internet to make certain things easier, and, yes, there are certain things that only the internet can do. Most of the thing on the internet, however, you can do in the real world, just slower. You know it only costs $0.42 to send a real letter, right?
Last summer I ditched Facebook and decided to only continue carrying on with people who actually answer the phone when I call, or return my call in a reasonable amount of time. I wouldn't want to do away with the internet as a whole, but if you need to cut out bad influences, it might be easier just to drop in some ACLs in your router's packet filter to keep you from being able to reach sites you need to break the habit of visiting.
Unlike self-publishing, indie labels and self-sales/recording have never had the same stigma of lack of legitimacy. However, I think there is still an impression, even among the artists, that getting signed to a major label is what "success" means. It might be due to confusion in that success and slavery both start with an 's'.
During the Cold War, many Soviet illegal agents (ie, lacking diplomatic cover; not "illegal immigrants") became naturalized US citizens. It is easier for a US citizen to get close to sensitive data, so its par for the course. If the KGB did it, you can bet the MSS is doing it, too. That's not to say he's a plant of the PRC, but I wouldn't be surprised at all. Just saying.
Well, government data is (nominally) public property and should be owned by and available to the public at large, with only certain exceptions, usually in a time of war. Fucking around the the voice mail account of a missing, underage girl who may or may not have been murdered, is a little bit different than that, don't you think? But hey, context, what's that?
The other day, after reading yet another news story about the censorship moves in Australia and more PROTECT IP stuff, I decided that it was time to try out configuring Privoxy to forward everything via SOCKS5 to Tor. I was expecting a much bigger performance hit than I actual did, though, which was a pleasant surprise. Sure, its annoying having to enter CAPTCHA tags for Google all the time, but that's really not that big of a hassle. For the less technical people, Vidalia + the Tor Button for Firefox are pretty much fool proof. Between advertisers, stories about repression of online descent in the middle east and asia, Facebook and Google tracking people all the damned time, etc, I think (or, at least, I would like to think) that it might only be a matter of time before more and more 'normal' people, even those who really, truely, have nothing to hide, start doing something similar.
When Comcast starts filtering port 9050 like they do with 25, then we'll know we've pretty much lost the Internet once and for all. But hey, at least the Department of State supports Internet freedom in China, right? pffft.
Yes, It's the National Nuclear Security Administration that has a presence at those labs. That's not to say that the NSA isn't doing something there, but they're much less likely to make that public. NNSA is under the auspices of the Department of Energy, which one would assume, since those are DOE facilities, which are traditionally associated with nuclear research (especially Los Alamos). However, claiming that the NSA is down gets more page reads, doesn't it?
Yes, my first thought was "most of these people are hackers in the old sense of the word," but when being cleaver, inventive and creative is lumped in with "and, oh yeah, a guy who committed wire fraud to steal a car", then it just makes everybody who uses a computer for more than word processing seem like a potential threat to national security. Computers are the chemistry sets of the 21st century, I suppose.
My old boss has a son who at the time was 13. He told me that he'd never seen a record or a cassette but that his parents "exposed [him] to CDs." I turn 27 this month and even I own a few records and used to have lots of cassettes when I was a kid. I think now I know how my parents must feel.
They mean "hacking tools" like tor and pgp/gpg, right? Of course, first they'll come for metasploit, then nmap, then... but we all know what the end game is.
The CISSP exam doesn't get you a CISSP. You need that plus a few years of experience which can be signed off on and verified. It can therefore be forgiven that the exam isn't perhaps as rigorous as, say, a Cisco exam, because its the experience that's really giving you the qualification and the exam is just testing whether or not you can talk about things in the common language that even managers might understand.
Cable internet is delivered over the same run of "cable" that TV uses. DSL runs over phone lines. Not the same thing at all. I used to have cable before I moved and now I have FIOS, which is Verizon's (Bell Atlantic + GTE) fibre optic service brand. I've never had DSL, but since speed is dependent on proximity to the CO and degrades over distance due to signal attenuation, for the majority of people it's never going to be as fast as cable can be. However, cable is more or less a "shared" medium not far up-stream from the end point and so heavy users in a neighborhood can possibly affect service for others.
Or sell matte displays for a $50 upgrade premium. And if most people really want the anti-glare display, then chances are they're willing to just pay the $50 rather than hate their laptop forever.
I think he means, say we have an American company and an Albanian company. They both own trademarks on "ACME" in their respective countries. The Albanian company gets acme.net first. The American company then comes along and gets the domain hijacked from a perfectly legitimate claim holder and it costs them so little its barely an item in the ledger.
Also, vice versa, the Albanian company could pull that same maneuver on the American company. Also, what if someone registers a trademark in a foreign country where it's easy to get one. They could then, as a "trademark holder" hijack a domain name that they have their eyes on for whatever purpose.
Whether that'll actually happen or not, I have no way of knowing. But this whole plan wreaks. I suspect the public comment period is just for show anyway. Not that it matters, as there appear to be so few public comments that they'll have no reason not to proceed.
If you plan on fixing bugs, the source is great. If you plan on exploiting bugs, it doesn't really matter. I may be in a security research department at well-know network security company based on a popular open source tool and not just someone talking completely out of my ass. Again, just saying.
I'd venture to guess that the majority of vulns are found using a debugger/disassembler such as Ole, IDA, or WinDBG rather than looking at the source code. The source can lead you only so far. The binary is what matters. Check out the ABO exercises some time, just as an example. Just saying.
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I already did a couple of moderations in this thread, but decided to post instead. Basically, my impression is that you must be very young. I'm only just 27 (despite a 5-digit uid, which has been mine since my freshman year in high school), but even I remember life before the internet. They have this great things called phone books, which have a listing of phone numbers of businesses and individuals. They also have maps, which tell you where shit is. In the library, they tend to hoard things called books, which have editing, and often peer reviewed information in them.
If you've been so dependent on the internet that you're incapable of living life the way it was before, then either you never experienced "before", or you're just very, very sad. I use the internet to make certain things easier, and, yes, there are certain things that only the internet can do. Most of the thing on the internet, however, you can do in the real world, just slower. You know it only costs $0.42 to send a real letter, right?
Last summer I ditched Facebook and decided to only continue carrying on with people who actually answer the phone when I call, or return my call in a reasonable amount of time. I wouldn't want to do away with the internet as a whole, but if you need to cut out bad influences, it might be easier just to drop in some ACLs in your router's packet filter to keep you from being able to reach sites you need to break the habit of visiting.
Unlike self-publishing, indie labels and self-sales/recording have never had the same stigma of lack of legitimacy. However, I think there is still an impression, even among the artists, that getting signed to a major label is what "success" means. It might be due to confusion in that success and slavery both start with an 's'.
Douglas MacArthur has nothing to do with Joseph McCarthy. If you are going to complain, at least complain about the right thing.
During the Cold War, many Soviet illegal agents (ie, lacking diplomatic cover; not "illegal immigrants") became naturalized US citizens. It is easier for a US citizen to get close to sensitive data, so its par for the course. If the KGB did it, you can bet the MSS is doing it, too. That's not to say he's a plant of the PRC, but I wouldn't be surprised at all. Just saying.
Well, government data is (nominally) public property and should be owned by and available to the public at large, with only certain exceptions, usually in a time of war. Fucking around the the voice mail account of a missing, underage girl who may or may not have been murdered, is a little bit different than that, don't you think? But hey, context, what's that?
Torrent or it didn't happen ;)
The other day, after reading yet another news story about the censorship moves in Australia and more PROTECT IP stuff, I decided that it was time to try out configuring Privoxy to forward everything via SOCKS5 to Tor. I was expecting a much bigger performance hit than I actual did, though, which was a pleasant surprise. Sure, its annoying having to enter CAPTCHA tags for Google all the time, but that's really not that big of a hassle. For the less technical people, Vidalia + the Tor Button for Firefox are pretty much fool proof. Between advertisers, stories about repression of online descent in the middle east and asia, Facebook and Google tracking people all the damned time, etc, I think (or, at least, I would like to think) that it might only be a matter of time before more and more 'normal' people, even those who really, truely, have nothing to hide, start doing something similar.
When Comcast starts filtering port 9050 like they do with 25, then we'll know we've pretty much lost the Internet once and for all. But hey, at least the Department of State supports Internet freedom in China, right? pffft.
Yes, It's the National Nuclear Security Administration that has a presence at those labs. That's not to say that the NSA isn't doing something there, but they're much less likely to make that public. NNSA is under the auspices of the Department of Energy, which one would assume, since those are DOE facilities, which are traditionally associated with nuclear research (especially Los Alamos). However, claiming that the NSA is down gets more page reads, doesn't it?
The faceless gods of the economy demand that the game devs make up for all the productivity lost due to people playing their product.
Yes, my first thought was "most of these people are hackers in the old sense of the word," but when being cleaver, inventive and creative is lumped in with "and, oh yeah, a guy who committed wire fraud to steal a car", then it just makes everybody who uses a computer for more than word processing seem like a potential threat to national security. Computers are the chemistry sets of the 21st century, I suppose.
My old boss has a son who at the time was 13. He told me that he'd never seen a record or a cassette but that his parents "exposed [him] to CDs." I turn 27 this month and even I own a few records and used to have lots of cassettes when I was a kid. I think now I know how my parents must feel.
They mean "hacking tools" like tor and pgp/gpg, right? Of course, first they'll come for metasploit, then nmap, then... but we all know what the end game is.
Clearly, you don't get how double standards work.
The CISSP exam doesn't get you a CISSP. You need that plus a few years of experience which can be signed off on and verified. It can therefore be forgiven that the exam isn't perhaps as rigorous as, say, a Cisco exam, because its the experience that's really giving you the qualification and the exam is just testing whether or not you can talk about things in the common language that even managers might understand.
a "well-seasoned *NIX admin" isn't the target market for the "desktop" distributions, anyway.
Cable internet is delivered over the same run of "cable" that TV uses. DSL runs over phone lines. Not the same thing at all. I used to have cable before I moved and now I have FIOS, which is Verizon's (Bell Atlantic + GTE) fibre optic service brand. I've never had DSL, but since speed is dependent on proximity to the CO and degrades over distance due to signal attenuation, for the majority of people it's never going to be as fast as cable can be. However, cable is more or less a "shared" medium not far up-stream from the end point and so heavy users in a neighborhood can possibly affect service for others.
$410,000,000 and they could only get one horse? Talk about inflation...
Or sell matte displays for a $50 upgrade premium. And if most people really want the anti-glare display, then chances are they're willing to just pay the $50 rather than hate their laptop forever.
What's that in Klingon? (I doubt I'd be surprised to get a correct answer to that).
I guess because he spent all that money on lawyers he hasn't been able to afford a web designer since 1996?
Well, puns being the lowest form of comedy, they are uniquely suited to Slashdot posts.
I think he means, say we have an American company and an Albanian company. They both own trademarks on "ACME" in their respective countries. The Albanian company gets acme.net first. The American company then comes along and gets the domain hijacked from a perfectly legitimate claim holder and it costs them so little its barely an item in the ledger.
Also, vice versa, the Albanian company could pull that same maneuver on the American company. Also, what if someone registers a trademark in a foreign country where it's easy to get one. They could then, as a "trademark holder" hijack a domain name that they have their eyes on for whatever purpose.
Whether that'll actually happen or not, I have no way of knowing. But this whole plan wreaks. I suspect the public comment period is just for show anyway. Not that it matters, as there appear to be so few public comments that they'll have no reason not to proceed.
If you plan on fixing bugs, the source is great. If you plan on exploiting bugs, it doesn't really matter. I may be in a security research department at well-know network security company based on a popular open source tool and not just someone talking completely out of my ass. Again, just saying.
I'd venture to guess that the majority of vulns are found using a debugger/disassembler such as Ole, IDA, or WinDBG rather than looking at the source code. The source can lead you only so far. The binary is what matters. Check out the ABO exercises some time, just as an example. Just saying.
Ah, Communism -- The One True Scotsman of political philosophy.