Negroponte's project will fail for many reasons and apparently this is one of them: just like the other ones, Negroponte brought them all upon the project by himself.
He refused to let free market forces help him bring the price down: his stubborness in "not being a business" will simply lead to much higher prices for his laptops. His apparent zealotry wrt OSS will cost him the forced abandonment of many good pieces of software - Java for one. No, don't even try to say this is Sun's fault - Negroponte deliberately chose not to use anything non-OSS and Java just happens to fit this definition.
When his project finally crashes and burns, or is simply quietly forgotten, I imagine the wailing that will arise out of the fundamentalists all over the left: "Big Business hates poor children" "Developers want to ensnare starving children into their proprietary platform! OH NOES!". Of course, actually donating to his cause might further the project a bit - but hey, rich capitalists should take care of that, certainly not *me*!
Still, the point of this post is that Negroponte should learn to compromise a bit and bring the result home. Adopting Java would have done NO HARM to the children who will use his computers (if ever). But I guess RMS will approve of Negroponte's proud stance against tainted software.
Disabling the protection isn't really an issue with me as long as it's hard to do unless you know what you're doing (in which case you should be entitled to it anyway, imho).
That's exactly what I think. And it turns out I'm not the one, at work, to catch viruses and malware and whatnot, even if I've disabled the AV. Pretty soon I will switch to a more IT-adminish role in the company and I will try to respect this rule. If you're good enough to disable protected stuff... you're not the one I have to be concerned about.
Looks like the backdoor you are referencing is three years old
Yeah the episode dates back to a couple of years ago. Funnily, the vuln is not the one you pointed out on Secunia. It was more like a default password (like "sysrecovery" or something) that would always be accepted by password prompts. Oh well, goes to show there are so many!
Uhm yeah it took me all of two minutes to disable it on my box at work, even though it was locked down. The fact that TrendMicro put a backdoor (a default password for when you forget the real one) in it helped quite a bit.
Yeah, sure... 'xcept Tolkien always denied strenuously that such references were made on purpose or simply were there at all. But hey, let's not let facts get in the way of our honorary anthropology degree...
... and there's not a single feature in FF 2 that hasn't been in Opera for ages. The FF team is slacking - they're not innovating anymore. Not that they OWE me anything, of course. Just saying.
I am not going to pay for repairs to your property. I will also not ask you to pay for repairs to mine, by way of taxes etc. I will certainly want both of us to be able to defend ourselves from people assaulting us/spraying idiocy on our walls.
Most people are not offering to "pay the cost" of privacy? True. But I am not one of them. I know full well greater crime will arise, initially, from greater freedom. Cybercrime, for example, would be even easier if near-total anonimity were easily obtainable and not cracked by the government. Yet, I argue in favor of such things because I will enjoy the other part of the equation (greater freedom!) much more than I will regret the increase in stupidity.
And a shotgun could also help, in that regard;D
I want to live in a society where people don't *feel the need* to snoop into my business.
Granting what degree of camera access to which parties is just a technicality. My concern is with the underlying issue. Just like with guns in the USA: I don't care what system you use to allow or restrict weapon usage to different people. But I care about the reasons why you feel the need to be armed to the teeth. (This used to be more true sometime ago, now that I see Europe has turned into a dictatorial regime once again, I start to understand why weapons might be desired)
Yeah. So, your point is that you can take someone else's idea, rip it off, rewrite it changing some details here and there to convince yourself it's not the same thing, and then be happy because all your software is free and happy and GNU?
Yeah, Winblows is teh suX0r, whatever. Now don't forget pretty much any operating system out there: they all use some piece of code from BSD (tcp stack, SSH capabilities, utilities, what have you), and add most if not all embedded devices that operate on a net - routers, firewalls, spam boxes: they very likely use BSD, because it's the free OS.
Now, is your holy Linux still untainted by SSH? Or are you simply a shill?
But you need to put a bit of pressure onto the company, otherwise they will wait forever because after all, it's not like anyone's gonna know about this. Meanwhile blackhats discover and exploit the vuln. Zero-days would look god-sent in comparison.
We as security professional are drastically failing ourselves, our community and the people we are meant to protect.
This is quite harsh. While it is true that more could be done, it also true that it is thanks to security professionals that things are not as bad as they could be. Yeah, Norton and McAfee are doing their best to scare consumers into buying software that provides ridiculous security. But this is not what we mean by "professionals".
Also, I am not a "security professional" but I have done my fair share of configuring and securing other people's computers; sometimes thay might have been compromised anyway, but if I had done nothing, many more systems would have been at danger.
The article lists a long series of threats that endanger our systems everyday - but I fail to see how they are related to security professionals not doing their job. I'd rather blame the criminals.
Bull. If they are not able to layout their thoughts decently in another language, they should a. refrain from posting crap on/. and use a localized portal to discuss (I'm sure there is a/. in my native language, another one in Spanish, one in Japanese...) or b. study some more. Not being a native speaker is not an excuse for (piss-)poor spelling, when nobody's forcing you to post to the front page.
And yes, I do speak more than a language. That's *precisely* the reason why I am allowed to make such comments.
WTF! Are you on crack? You call Baldur's Gate (2) "boring, pointless wastes of time with little story and a complete lack of fun"? Did you even bother *playing* it? Sheesh... the heresy.
Yes, I did. I don't usually give up troubleshooting easily:D Anyway it's been "fixed" by reinstalling and disabling updates (meh) because my "final" switch to Opera was not so final after all. But thanks for the suggestion!
Right, it should, however it doesn't. Actually... their last suggestion is to wipe FF and reinstall it (duh) and even then, a fresh installation of FF with a grand total of 3-4 extensions fails to update.
The system has just booted. No firefox process has been started. The first thing to come up is the update dialog. THIS is the only thing that can have an open handle on firefox and therefore the updating mechanism must be locking itself. It would help if it lasted for more than half a second or left a log somewhere so I could check at least what the particular file that needs to be unlocked is.
I don't know how it works but it's b0rken. It's the second time already that i've been forced to uninstall FF and reinstall it, because after updating it was stuck in an endless loop and complaining that some resources were locked. Rebooting, removing the extension folder, checking for any open handles leading to firefox did not help. Coupling this with the general slowness and unresponsiveness and crash-prone-ness of FF, I've switched to Opera and I have no regrets. Heck, even a beta (an Opera one, I mean) is better than FF nowadays. What happened to Phoenix?
This implies that law should work as a disincentive, as you say, rather than a way to reimburse society for the damage done. Which is completely stupid. Why don't you just admit that you want to punish the rich because you suck?
Yeah right. Now let me go crawl back into my undercivilized cave in America, where the theory of relativity isn't known... oh wait. Turns out I'm from Europe. OMG. I also know about the theory of relativity. SHOCK! I have studied long and hard, too! This is amazing! ... troll.
WTF! So, if I'm succesful and you suck, somehow by speeding I have mysteriously broken "more" law than you? I have inflicted greater damage to society *how exactly*?
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Negroponte's project will fail for many reasons and apparently this is one of them: just like the other ones, Negroponte brought them all upon the project by himself.
He refused to let free market forces help him bring the price down: his stubborness in "not being a business" will simply lead to much higher prices for his laptops. His apparent zealotry wrt OSS will cost him the forced abandonment of many good pieces of software - Java for one. No, don't even try to say this is Sun's fault - Negroponte deliberately chose not to use anything non-OSS and Java just happens to fit this definition.
When his project finally crashes and burns, or is simply quietly forgotten, I imagine the wailing that will arise out of the fundamentalists all over the left: "Big Business hates poor children" "Developers want to ensnare starving children into their proprietary platform! OH NOES!". Of course, actually donating to his cause might further the project a bit - but hey, rich capitalists should take care of that, certainly not *me*!
Still, the point of this post is that Negroponte should learn to compromise a bit and bring the result home. Adopting Java would have done NO HARM to the children who will use his computers (if ever). But I guess RMS will approve of Negroponte's proud stance against tainted software.
Disabling the protection isn't really an issue with me as long as it's hard to do unless you know what you're doing (in which case you should be entitled to it anyway, imho).
That's exactly what I think. And it turns out I'm not the one, at work, to catch viruses and malware and whatnot, even if I've disabled the AV. Pretty soon I will switch to a more IT-adminish role in the company and I will try to respect this rule. If you're good enough to disable protected stuff... you're not the one I have to be concerned about.
Looks like the backdoor you are referencing is three years old
Yeah the episode dates back to a couple of years ago. Funnily, the vuln is not the one you pointed out on Secunia. It was more like a default password (like "sysrecovery" or something) that would always be accepted by password prompts. Oh well, goes to show there are so many!
Uhm yeah it took me all of two minutes to disable it on my box at work, even though it was locked down. The fact that TrendMicro put a backdoor (a default password for when you forget the real one) in it helped quite a bit.
Yeah, sure... 'xcept Tolkien always denied strenuously that such references were made on purpose or simply were there at all. But hey, let's not let facts get in the way of our honorary anthropology degree...
OK, this game is flamefest material. It will put people's belief in Free Speech to test.
Opera lacks extension. However it has adblock (and more generally content blocking) and widgets.
A link's tooltip will show both the title of the link and the URL it links to. That's the way Opera's been doing it for ages.
... and there's not a single feature in FF 2 that hasn't been in Opera for ages. The FF team is slacking - they're not innovating anymore. Not that they OWE me anything, of course. Just saying.
I am not going to pay for repairs to your property. I will also not ask you to pay for repairs to mine, by way of taxes etc. I will certainly want both of us to be able to defend ourselves from people assaulting us/spraying idiocy on our walls. ;D
Most people are not offering to "pay the cost" of privacy? True. But I am not one of them. I know full well greater crime will arise, initially, from greater freedom. Cybercrime, for example, would be even easier if near-total anonimity were easily obtainable and not cracked by the government. Yet, I argue in favor of such things because I will enjoy the other part of the equation (greater freedom!) much more than I will regret the increase in stupidity.
And a shotgun could also help, in that regard
I want to live in a society where people don't *feel the need* to snoop into my business.
Granting what degree of camera access to which parties is just a technicality. My concern is with the underlying issue. Just like with guns in the USA: I don't care what system you use to allow or restrict weapon usage to different people. But I care about the reasons why you feel the need to be armed to the teeth. (This used to be more true sometime ago, now that I see Europe has turned into a dictatorial regime once again, I start to understand why weapons might be desired)
Yeah. So, your point is that you can take someone else's idea, rip it off, rewrite it changing some details here and there to convince yourself it's not the same thing, and then be happy because all your software is free and happy and GNU?
Yeah, Winblows is teh suX0r, whatever. Now don't forget pretty much any operating system out there: they all use some piece of code from BSD (tcp stack, SSH capabilities, utilities, what have you), and add most if not all embedded devices that operate on a net - routers, firewalls, spam boxes: they very likely use BSD, because it's the free OS.
Now, is your holy Linux still untainted by SSH? Or are you simply a shill?
But you need to put a bit of pressure onto the company, otherwise they will wait forever because after all, it's not like anyone's gonna know about this. Meanwhile blackhats discover and exploit the vuln. Zero-days would look god-sent in comparison.
blacks have a considerably lower drug use percentage as evidenced by...?
Just wait for the singularity, man...
We as security professional are drastically failing ourselves, our community and the people we are meant to protect.
This is quite harsh. While it is true that more could be done, it also true that it is thanks to security professionals that things are not as bad as they could be. Yeah, Norton and McAfee are doing their best to scare consumers into buying software that provides ridiculous security. But this is not what we mean by "professionals".
Also, I am not a "security professional" but I have done my fair share of configuring and securing other people's computers; sometimes thay might have been compromised anyway, but if I had done nothing, many more systems would have been at danger.
The article lists a long series of threats that endanger our systems everyday - but I fail to see how they are related to security professionals not doing their job. I'd rather blame the criminals.
Bull. If they are not able to layout their thoughts decently in another language, they should a. refrain from posting crap on /. and use a localized portal to discuss (I'm sure there is a /. in my native language, another one in Spanish, one in Japanese...) or b. study some more. Not being a native speaker is not an excuse for (piss-)poor spelling, when nobody's forcing you to post to the front page.
And yes, I do speak more than a language. That's *precisely* the reason why I am allowed to make such comments.
WTF! Are you on crack? You call Baldur's Gate (2) "boring, pointless wastes of time with little story and a complete lack of fun"? Did you even bother *playing* it? Sheesh... the heresy.
Yes, I did. I don't usually give up troubleshooting easily :D Anyway it's been "fixed" by reinstalling and disabling updates (meh) because my "final" switch to Opera was not so final after all. But thanks for the suggestion!
Right, it should, however it doesn't. Actually... their last suggestion is to wipe FF and reinstall it (duh) and even then, a fresh installation of FF with a grand total of 3-4 extensions fails to update.
The system has just booted. No firefox process has been started. The first thing to come up is the update dialog. THIS is the only thing that can have an open handle on firefox and therefore the updating mechanism must be locking itself. It would help if it lasted for more than half a second or left a log somewhere so I could check at least what the particular file that needs to be unlocked is.
I don't know how it works but it's b0rken. It's the second time already that i've been forced to uninstall FF and reinstall it, because after updating it was stuck in an endless loop and complaining that some resources were locked. Rebooting, removing the extension folder, checking for any open handles leading to firefox did not help. Coupling this with the general slowness and unresponsiveness and crash-prone-ness of FF, I've switched to Opera and I have no regrets. Heck, even a beta (an Opera one, I mean) is better than FF nowadays. What happened to Phoenix?
So when I'm poor I can do whatever I want because my fine will be 0.50 euros. Oh the wonders of "equality".
This implies that law should work as a disincentive, as you say, rather than a way to reimburse society for the damage done. Which is completely stupid. Why don't you just admit that you want to punish the rich because you suck?
Yeah right. Now let me go crawl back into my undercivilized cave in America, where the theory of relativity isn't known... oh wait. Turns out I'm from Europe. OMG. I also know about the theory of relativity. SHOCK! I have studied long and hard, too! This is amazing!
... troll.
WTF! So, if I'm succesful and you suck, somehow by speeding I have mysteriously broken "more" law than you? I have inflicted greater damage to society *how exactly*?