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  1. Re:cryptolocker solution on Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Antivirus, Exactly? · · Score: 1

    The annoying thing with "Previous Versions" is that you need to have the server service started. Which is weird
    since there is no service level dependency it provides to the Volume Shadow Copy Service.

  2. Re:Dead as a profit source for Symantec, well, ... on Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Antivirus, Exactly? · · Score: 1

    But they are ! Antivirus programs run most of their program as a service (services.msc). A quick look reveals Mcafee uses 4 services
    Framework, Shield, Task Manager, Validation Trust protection.

    The avg user program and tray icon's are just front-ends to control some aspects of these services or to start custom scans.

  3. Re:It works on Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Antivirus, Exactly? · · Score: 1

    What happens when said AV solution quarantines svchost.exe ?

  4. Re:Dead as a profit source for Symantec, well, ... on Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Antivirus, Exactly? · · Score: 2

    p.s. it is perfectly viable for a literate individual to not use an antivirus. It is also possible to not use AV on a PC in a corporate environment, but it has its implications. T

    I think using the OS supplied security controls the Windows Vista/7/8 family provides: Applocker/SRS, Group Policy, App-V
    is preferable to running antivirus in an OR scenario. It's also a lot more complicated.

  5. Re:Ipv6 is the fix ? on The IPv4 Internet Hiccups · · Score: 1

    Aah so instead of John doe owning 1.1.1.0/24,1.2.0.0/16, 6.6.6.0/24, etc ... he only owns one. OK thanks.

  6. Ipv6 is the fix ? on The IPv4 Internet Hiccups · · Score: 1

    Can someone explain me how a protocol with bigger addresses and bigger routes fixes
    a hardware resource problem.

  7. Re:Physical destruction on Ask Slashdot: Datacenter HDD Wipe Policy? · · Score: 1

    And takes a very long time /dev/{u}random does not have a lot of bandwith. In my opinion a single dd if=/dev/zero suffices for drives going out of the company.
    But for a reinstallation of a system in the company I just format and reinstall again because a zero pass takes a long time as well.

  8. Disgusting on Verizon Throttles Data To "Provide Incentive To Limit Usage" · · Score: 1

    They milk their data-usage plan subscribers as much as they can even going so far as reducing the bandwith of their premium paid-up front users.
    And then they try to convince everybody it's for guaranting that everyone has (some) connectivity.
    Douchebags ! Verizon customers vote with your money !

  9. Re:Hamas are Terrorists on The High-Tech Warfare Behind the Israel - Hamas Conflict · · Score: 1

    Yes these are just 'born' troublemakers: Bohemians and barbarians. It's not like men have fought each other for resources before.

  10. Re: Hamas are Terrorists on The High-Tech Warfare Behind the Israel - Hamas Conflict · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You can't expect them to collaborate with their 'enemy'
    The only thing they can do is guerilla warfare or agree to the occupation.
    If they didn't have the support from the palestinian public eg: if Israel was actually civil
    with these people instead of raiding them en masse and 'interrogating' their children then Hamas
    wouldn't exist as it is now anyway. Punishing everybody for the crimes of a few is wrong policy.

    Threat the people like people, work your informants
    and send special ops to the actual terrorists, that's how you get them.

  11. Re: You're welcome to them. on Comparison: Linux Text Editors · · Score: 1

    Just out of curiosity which workloads are better suited to vim than Sublime and vice versa ? When do you decide to switch editors.

  12. Re: NFS + SSH is a security hole on Ask Slashdot: Linux Login and Resource Management In a Computer Lab? · · Score: 1

    No, he was putting public keys (not private) into a home directory. Specifically, the user was root which was only possible because a) /root was exported (via exporting /), b) root squash wasn't enabled. Yes, nfs3 is fundamentally insecure. Any vaguely competent sysadmin knows this and knows to take appropriate precautions.

    And what's the appropriate action besides root_squash and proper host access control (/etc/exports,tcp wrappers, firewall, etc ...) ?
    It still doesn't do any real authentication.

  13. Re: NFS + SSH is a security hole on Ask Slashdot: Linux Login and Resource Management In a Computer Lab? · · Score: 1

    I think he means you can spoof uid of some known user and get the private keys in his .ssh directory.

  14. I guess it means that the apk's run on Dalvik or Art straight on the machine instead of in the emulator.

  15. Re:Antivirus on Critroni Crypto Ransomware Seen Using Tor for Command and Control · · Score: 1

    All trojans/bots/ransomsware is designed to circumvent antivirus. It is a arms wars between viri and anti-virus. At the moment the viri are winning it :(.

    Well it's a reactive business (hopefully) so that's to be expected.

  16. Re:Systemd? Not on my system... on X.Org Server 1.16 Brings XWayland, GLAMOR, Systemd Integration · · Score: 1

    TCP isn't noticably more secure than UDP - the extra fields in TCP are unsigned and can be spoofed too.

    But it's a lot harder since you need to have the server believe you've established a connection and can't just dump spoofded data on the wire like with UDP.

    Thus, security is implemented on top of the transport layer, where it works just as well for udp as tcp. The advantage of udp then is that you get more payload per encrypted or signed unit, thus higher speed.

    What are you talking about: NFSv4 ?, ipsec ? What is this security you speak of.

  17. Re:Systemd? Not on my system... on X.Org Server 1.16 Brings XWayland, GLAMOR, Systemd Integration · · Score: 1

    Also, avoid distros that set up NFS to use tcp instead of the default udp. That's a huge performance killer, and not needed unless you use hubs instead of switches or need to tunnel the traffic.)

    I'm not avoiding a distro if it chooses tcp over udp.
    Isn't using UDP instead of TCP removing that last bit of pseudo-security NFS has ?
    Aren't you now vulnerable to all sort of spoofing mayhem now ?

  18. Re:So... on X.Org Server 1.16 Brings XWayland, GLAMOR, Systemd Integration · · Score: 1

    init doesn't manage services. Services are either managed by inetd or by themselves. init only has to start the services.

    That's not completely true: init (re)spawns (a|min)getties on the ttys. So it does some monitoring of its "special" children.
    Wether this is feature creep and/or an exception I don't know.

  19. Re:Soon... on X.Org Server 1.16 Brings XWayland, GLAMOR, Systemd Integration · · Score: 1

    The only problem with Macs is that people hoard them instead of throwing them in the trash where they belong. Else I would have picked up a Mac Mini on the ground, install BootCamp on it and then it would be about good enough as a DHCP server and porn storage unit.

    So you want one but can't get one through "dumpster diving". Oh, poor you.

  20. Re:Systemd? Not on my system... on X.Org Server 1.16 Brings XWayland, GLAMOR, Systemd Integration · · Score: 1

    NFS is crap too and in my testing also slower.

  21. Re: Systemd? Not on my system... on X.Org Server 1.16 Brings XWayland, GLAMOR, Systemd Integration · · Score: 1

    Cgroups are used by VPS resellers IIRC.

  22. Re:And the dirfference is? on X.Org Server 1.16 Brings XWayland, GLAMOR, Systemd Integration · · Score: 1

    So the solution is to hand the critical stuff to systemd-logind which I assume has root privileges.
    Why didn't the Xorg folks split their root sections from the server themselves ?

  23. Re:Systemd? Not on my system... on X.Org Server 1.16 Brings XWayland, GLAMOR, Systemd Integration · · Score: 1

    Are you insulting the samba project ?

  24. Re:Another misleading headline on Nearly 25 Years Ago, IBM Helped Save Macintosh · · Score: 1

    Time to send them my resumee.

  25. Re:Systemd? Not on my system... on X.Org Server 1.16 Brings XWayland, GLAMOR, Systemd Integration · · Score: 1

    You run X on servers ? Nevermind, ... what was your (inital) opinion of Apple creating launchd to replace
    init, cron, at, ... ?