Yeah - I particularly like Zonealarm for this sort of thing - MSAGENT.EXE is trying to contact the Internet. A Linux firewall is better for most things, particularly logging, IDS and tcpdump but Zonealarm is nice for this sort of gotcha.
I mean - how technologically advanced do these terrorists seem? They are trained in mountain camps for hand-to-hand combat and they have to have some chemistry education to make explosives, but there is a pretty steep learning curve for anyone who wishes to do more than DDOS some websites.
The computer security industry has major players in the U.S, Europe, Australia, South America and Canada but how much input comes from the Mideast? I know of no computer security companies in that region - someone please enlighten me if I am wrong.
I am not saying that our systems are not vulnerable - they obviously are. But how likely are terrorist groups to have the requisite clue to make real use of those vulnerabilities?
Someone is only going to fear opening a package when they don't know who is sending the letter/package. We will still open letters from family and friends since we recognize the return address. Likewise, when we order things by mail we are expecting them to arrive and can be reasonably sure of their safety.
I think the columnist may have an argument when it comes to *unsolicited* snail mail. This may have an impact on public figures who regularly receive unsolicited mail from lots of people, but that could be a positive impact. Right now a written letter to one's Congress-critter is considered more effective than email, but maybe this unfortunate situation will make public officials consider email more legitimate now since they might be reluctant to receive "real" mail.
Sheeit - this could easily be marked flamebait, but I will bite anyway.
do the Swedish-speaking minority see themselves as some kind of elite and tend to stick to themselves? And while we're on the subject, what position do Lapps have? And any descendants of Russians?
Hmm. While I don't purport to speak for the majority of Finn-Swedes I can relate an experience in Finland as an American of Finn-Swede descent.
My parents are from the Swedish speaking part of Finland, and consider themselves Finns, not Swedes. This is a matter of some debate. Sweden used to own Finland, and many Swedes vacation in Finland like snowbirds do in Florida. Once when I was a kid a female friend of mine screamed something that amounted to *GO HOME* at a passing car with a Swedish emblem and later explained that "we" did not like Swedes who came over and acted like they owned the place. Take from that what you will.
Finland and Russia once fought a war and it was not pretty. I don't think much love is lost there. I haven't heard much about the Lapps - it might just be so damn cold up there that they don't say much to anyone - what was the last time an American heard from an Alaskan Eskimo?
Finns on a whole are isolationist in my experience. I do not mean they keep to themselves as families - visiting friends is extremely common. However - Finns tend to mind their own business when they are not already acquainted with someone. Example - when I was about twelve I was with my family at a bus station in Pori and a tall old man carrying two suitcases tripped on the cobblestone street and fell on his face, cutting open his forehead. My older brother was standing right there and helped the man to his feet. No one else even seemed to notice. At the time I thought of this as inconsdieration, but now I think maybe they were just trying to give the man his dignity. <shrug>
This is a really good idea. For one thing, you want the prospective employer to feel that your career focus is in-line with their needs. For another it saves time. If you have multiple skills and are flexible about what interests you in a job then it only makes sense to emphasize the relevant experience/training to each employer or job type for which you apply.
The guy I referred to is in the same situation that I and many others of us are in - if you have a job in a stable company does it make sense to leave in this market? Even if the job is less than fulfilling, we are in some serious trouble economically and when you have a wife and/or kids to think about this is not a time for rash decisions.
And - if they are kept around that long, you risk the employees going through a couple of stages emotionally. What started out as mere disappointment could turn into resentment and resentful employees who are still within the building/s are a Bad Thing.
Today we have millions of qualified(?) cookie cutter tech guys (and gals) out in the workforce. They've all pretty much had the same exposure to technology as they grew up and went to school. Basically, they're interchangable. I know this is a generalization, but it holds true for 99%.
I have to disagree with this part. Technology has proliferated to the point that the techs in the workforce have to specialize to survive. I know a guy with a background in telephony who tries to do it all - MCSE, MCSE+Internet, CCNA, taking Oracle classes, and now he is even studying Netware (why I don't know). The response he is getting from consulting firms is that he must not be well-versed in any of them.
If you program, I can see knowing several languages, but how many can you call yourself an expert at? I wouldn't trust most MCSE's to admin a *nix network just because they *have* an MCSE (with a few exceptions). As technology becomes more expansive, new techs will have to pick a direction and stick with it or risk being call a "jack of all trades, master of none."
If you look at the tenor of debate in the Israeli/Palestinian debate, the US was taking a firm middle ground between both parties.
I think you have been watching a little too much CNN. The US government and our media would like you to believe we are being impartial, but we are not at all. Consider the fact that the US recently suffered the humiliation of being voted out of the UN Human Rights Commission, while even China remains a member. We stand behind Israel when most of the world thinks we should not. That needs to change or we will continue to piss off the rest of the world.
Not in the next ten years, but within the century:
2063
April 7
Cochrane breaks the light barrier with the Phoenix. Vulcan makes first contact with Earth. (Star Trek VIII: First Contact, also Mosaic) (from Star Trek Chronology)
(appypolylogies for following my own post, but...)
*after* I hit "submit" I saw the heading on your message. If these are attacks from Nimba the people on the other end are sure to be clueless about the problem and advertising their IP address will, uh, do no good.
You might try a phone call the the administrative contact for the host.
That reminds me of this photo I saw while rummaging through footage from the disaster. How old can this kid be? I bet he already knows what a jihad is.
Well, that is the real question, isn't it? I think the first thing we have to do is tighten FAA security. I am sure you must have heard about the poor security audits in our airports. Compare La Guardia's security to that in Heathrow. Compare JFK to Tel Aviv. We need some major changes and I think the FAA is working feverishly on it.
When it comes to our place in the global economy and terrorist activities, I may have spoken too soon. Someone sent me this and I will pass it along since it seems appropriate:
Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:
"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth.
Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these
countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their
reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped.
The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars! into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans.
I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States
dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes?
Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles.
You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon -! not once, but several times -
and safely home again.
You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here.
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke.
I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get
kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those."
Heh - say what you like about me, but mess with my wife and I'll step on ya:)
She is 5'9", blond and placed in the Miss Poland beauty pageant when she was 21 - if you saw here you would stare. She speaks three languages, has traveled to China, Thailand, USSR, Israel, Africa and probably plenty more places I haven't heard about yet. She learned English in London.
She has a degree in programming and knows UNIX, too (seriously). Although she has forgotten a lot since she hasn't used it in ten years.
My BEFSR41 (router/4 port switch) works just spiffy. A cinch to setup and no problems with online games, DHCP, port forwarding, MAC address cloning, or any other feature I have tried.
There is an expoit in which the admin password is in clear text within the html config screen, but that is only accessible *after* entering the password - so if the default p/w is changed, WTF?
It is not a suitable replacement for a linux firewall, which can do *so* much more, but it is a nice, relatively low-cost ($160), stable solution for SOHO(small/home office) networks.
This is exactly the point my wife (who is Polish) made to me (an American citizen) when we discussed the tragedy. I was shocked, but the European perspective (at least her and her friends) is that America has stood idly by while terrorism has gripped the rest of the world for so long. She went on to say that the same was true of WWII, in which we declined to participate until we ourselves were at risk.
Perhaps the United States has been accused of acting like the global police department, but only for our own ends. It appears we can no longer rely on our own media to bring us news from around the world, because they don't. If you watch BBC television or surf the world's news websites, you will see a greater picture than the AOL/Time Warner machine is presenting to the majority of Americans.
Maybe it is time we wake up and start acting like part of a global problem.
How many dot-coms have but no longer use perfectly good equipment that they could donate for the cause. Of course, the government can sweeten the deal for everyone concerned by offering tax incentives for donations.
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Heh - let the battle begin.
Yeah - I particularly like Zonealarm for this sort of thing - MSAGENT.EXE is trying to contact the Internet. A Linux firewall is better for most things, particularly logging, IDS and tcpdump but Zonealarm is nice for this sort of gotcha.
The computer security industry has major players in the U.S, Europe, Australia, South America and Canada but how much input comes from the Mideast? I know of no computer security companies in that region - someone please enlighten me if I am wrong.
I am not saying that our systems are not vulnerable - they obviously are. But how likely are terrorist groups to have the requisite clue to make real use of those vulnerabilities?
You shred your garbage? Talk about paranoid! j/k
Seriously tho - I can only dream of such a world ... wouldn't it be nice?
I think the columnist may have an argument when it comes to *unsolicited* snail mail. This may have an impact on public figures who regularly receive unsolicited mail from lots of people, but that could be a positive impact. Right now a written letter to one's Congress-critter is considered more effective than email, but maybe this unfortunate situation will make public officials consider email more legitimate now since they might be reluctant to receive "real" mail.
That must be one big pussy :)
do the Swedish-speaking minority see themselves as some kind of elite and tend to stick to themselves? And while we're on the subject, what position do Lapps have? And any descendants of Russians?
Hmm. While I don't purport to speak for the majority of Finn-Swedes I can relate an experience in Finland as an American of Finn-Swede descent.
My parents are from the Swedish speaking part of Finland, and consider themselves Finns, not Swedes. This is a matter of some debate. Sweden used to own Finland, and many Swedes vacation in Finland like snowbirds do in Florida. Once when I was a kid a female friend of mine screamed something that amounted to *GO HOME* at a passing car with a Swedish emblem and later explained that "we" did not like Swedes who came over and acted like they owned the place. Take from that what you will.
Finland and Russia once fought a war and it was not pretty. I don't think much love is lost there. I haven't heard much about the Lapps - it might just be so damn cold up there that they don't say much to anyone - what was the last time an American heard from an Alaskan Eskimo?
Finns on a whole are isolationist in my experience. I do not mean they keep to themselves as families - visiting friends is extremely common. However - Finns tend to mind their own business when they are not already acquainted with someone. Example - when I was about twelve I was with my family at a bus station in Pori and a tall old man carrying two suitcases tripped on the cobblestone street and fell on his face, cutting open his forehead. My older brother was standing right there and helped the man to his feet. No one else even seemed to notice. At the time I thought of this as inconsdieration, but now I think maybe they were just trying to give the man his dignity. <shrug>
Great - maybe they can even get on-site support from Linus when he visits on vacation :)
This is a really good idea. For one thing, you want the prospective employer to feel that your career focus is in-line with their needs. For another it saves time. If you have multiple skills and are flexible about what interests you in a job then it only makes sense to emphasize the relevant experience/training to each employer or job type for which you apply.
The guy I referred to is in the same situation that I and many others of us are in - if you have a job in a stable company does it make sense to leave in this market? Even if the job is less than fulfilling, we are in some serious trouble economically and when you have a wife and/or kids to think about this is not a time for rash decisions.
My brother did the same thing with his law degreee - painting, carpentry, etc. until he started with a law firm 9 months after the bar.
And - if they are kept around that long, you risk the employees going through a couple of stages emotionally. What started out as mere disappointment could turn into resentment and resentful employees who are still within the building/s are a Bad Thing.
I have to disagree with this part. Technology has proliferated to the point that the techs in the workforce have to specialize to survive. I know a guy with a background in telephony who tries to do it all - MCSE, MCSE+Internet, CCNA, taking Oracle classes, and now he is even studying Netware (why I don't know). The response he is getting from consulting firms is that he must not be well-versed in any of them.
If you program, I can see knowing several languages, but how many can you call yourself an expert at? I wouldn't trust most MCSE's to admin a *nix network just because they *have* an MCSE (with a few exceptions). As technology becomes more expansive, new techs will have to pick a direction and stick with it or risk being call a "jack of all trades, master of none."
I think you have been watching a little too much CNN. The US government and our media would like you to believe we are being impartial, but we are not at all. Consider the fact that the US recently suffered the humiliation of being voted out of the UN Human Rights Commission, while even China remains a member. We stand behind Israel when most of the world thinks we should not. That needs to change or we will continue to piss off the rest of the world.
Not in the next ten years, but within the century:
2063
April 7
Cochrane breaks the light barrier with the Phoenix. Vulcan makes first contact with Earth. (Star Trek VIII: First Contact, also Mosaic)
(from Star Trek Chronology)
;)
*after* I hit "submit" I saw the heading on your message. If these are attacks from Nimba the people on the other end are sure to be clueless about the problem and advertising their IP address will, uh, do no good.
You might try a phone call the the administrative contact for the host.
Sure - post the attacker's ip address on alt.2600.hackerz and let the kiddies play around with it.
meta NAME="KeyWords" CONTENT="islam, muslims, quran, arabic, radio, audio, sound, hadith, sunnah, lessons, anasheed, songs, love, sex, prayers, fasting, saudi, arabia, egypt"
Looks OK to me, not that I would expect keywords like "bomb", "Bin Ladden" and "pilot lessons". WAIT! "lessons" - what exactly are they teaching, eh?
That reminds me of this photo I saw while rummaging through footage from the disaster. How old can this kid be? I bet he already knows what a jihad is.
If you are a Tolkien fan and haven't already seen it, please check out this site.
Wish I had a pic...
Well, that is the real question, isn't it? I think the first thing we have to do is tighten FAA security. I am sure you must have heard about the poor security audits in our airports. Compare La Guardia's security to that in Heathrow. Compare JFK to Tel Aviv. We need some major changes and I think the FAA is working feverishly on it.
When it comes to our place in the global economy and terrorist activities, I may have spoken too soon. Someone sent me this and I will pass it along since it seems appropriate:
Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:
"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth.
Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped.
The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars! into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans.
I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes?
Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles.
You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon -! not once, but several times - and safely home again.
You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here.
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke.
I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those."
Stand proud, America!
She is 5'9", blond and placed in the Miss Poland beauty pageant when she was 21 - if you saw here you would stare. She speaks three languages, has traveled to China, Thailand, USSR, Israel, Africa and probably plenty more places I haven't heard about yet. She learned English in London.
She has a degree in programming and knows UNIX, too (seriously). Although she has forgotten a lot since she hasn't used it in ten years.
Who's the retard? =)
There is an expoit in which the admin password is in clear text within the html config screen, but that is only accessible *after* entering the password - so if the default p/w is changed, WTF?
It is not a suitable replacement for a linux firewall, which can do *so* much more, but it is a nice, relatively low-cost ($160), stable solution for SOHO(small/home office) networks.
Perhaps the United States has been accused of acting like the global police department, but only for our own ends. It appears we can no longer rely on our own media to bring us news from around the world, because they don't. If you watch BBC television or surf the world's news websites, you will see a greater picture than the AOL/Time Warner machine is presenting to the majority of Americans.
Maybe it is time we wake up and start acting like part of a global problem.
How many dot-coms have but no longer use perfectly good equipment that they could donate for the cause. Of course, the government can sweeten the deal for everyone concerned by offering tax incentives for donations.