I can see perhaps in the future Blizzard may be charging for enhanced UI experiences. I imagine now they are losing a lot of customers due to people not being able to afford to play anymore. Who knows.
A whitehat would never do this kind of intrusion without first getting approval. This is what is called a Grayhat and maybe even a Blackhat. He did not have proper authorization.
Not sure what they actually expected to gain from doing this. They will likely be in legal trouble and now they have just made the anti-Scientology videos more popular than ever. What asshats.
You are not remembering to be forward thinking now, are you? They are putting a cap on advancement. This cap may be okay today but the day after tomorrow that could be another story.
I'm dropping Comcast this weekend. TV/PHONE/INTERNET
The last two have been around for a long time. This was just someone spamming a list of email addresses they had. One is even as far back as 2001. I was happy to see the first post of this last week but if it is just going to be a place to bring up old spam then yuck.
I watched a show once on Discovery channel (can't remember the name of it) where some bird was at a pond watching these kids fish. The kids would go to a bag of bread and take a piece of it and put it on the end of a hook. Then they would catch a fish. The bird walked over to the bag, broke off a piece, walked to the water, flipped the bread in the water and when a fish hit the bread he grabbed the fish.
That is just too freaking cool. The bird was very aware of his surroundings and learned something right there on the spot and implemented it.
This is perfect timing. Friday afternoon my Comcast cable TV stopped working. So I give Comcast a call only to find out my account was suspended due to no payment since June of this year. But Comcast, I sent my payment this month and am looking at my bank statement as we speak. They told me I have to send them proof so I had my bank fax it to them on Saturday. And Comcast tells me it will take up to 5 business days for them to address my problem. WTF!?!!!!!! Comcast loses my payment and I have to wait for them?
And to think I was contacting Comcast directly to complain. I thought that was how it was supposed to work. But now I guess I have to go write a blog to get something done. What is this world coming to?
And Comcast. You can go fuck yourself. I'm going to Verizon and DirecTV. I will put this in my blog as well.
"since this exploit seems to require physical access to the machine to be rooted,"
Excuse me but this is absolutely false. Anyone that has remote access to this system as a regular user can launch the exploit. Are you saying that you have to be actually sitting at the keyboard to run Apple Script? !!???
Well, it seems suing our customers isn't working. Anyone have any ideas? Hey, lets use Myspace and let them actually purchase music that way.
They should have come up with this idea a LONG time ago. After seeing the way they ruin their own customer's lives and wrongfully targetted students (AND even had a bill in Congress pass based on bogus data) they can just go get f'd. They are starting to see that their tactics in court are becoming less profitable and are trying to save their asses.
In fact, just listen to free music like garageband.com has on it. Most of those can be downloaded in MP3 format for free or streamed right from your web browser.
Unless there is some big secret I can't see how this software application is going to be ruled as infringing on Blizzard's copyright. That is pretty much a lame attack. One thing that will happen when all of this is over is that there will likely be more Warcraft users due to the increase in media attention and there will also be a LOT more gliders out there. This will likely end up backfiring on Blizzard.
This is plain silly. Maybe I should include a TOS if you have pink hair you are not allowed to use this product. The flag of 'interesting' to this comment would apply at a keg party.
If you search for "uc8010.com" in Google then click on the omit link at the bottom it shows about 94,000 "PAGES". Not Servers! One server had most of the pages infected. BTW, this is NOT a compromised 'SERVER'. The SQL database got injected with content but the actual server isn't compromised. This isn't news.
flagged as troll and flaimbait. I responded directly to the person's post. I hate seeing people post things here acting like they know what they are talking about so i responded accordingly. a troll surfs around to find things to say just to get things stirred up. this was not a troll event! but to be honest, i could care less.;)
How do I say this is a crock of shit without insulting you? You can gain a remote shell on any of the operating systems and they are all useful accordingly. There are automated attacks for all platforms. I would say Windows systems are more likely to have malware that updates itself. The malware has this function built in and doesn't care about the type of shell it is using. And how do you determine that you rarely get hackers connecting remotely to Windows boxes? I do forensics on these systems often and know that statement is not correct.
"increased diversity of unix systems" bwahahaha. no comment.
good day
I initially expected that the quote was from one of the leaked e-mails, but no, it's from some guy I've never heard of doing some very basic and inconclusive analysis of some data he doesn't actually link to. There is a link that shows the thread of emails discussing the percentages of EDU IP addresses. Did you see that?
I found a company who used an image of one of my paintings in their brochure once and had to have them take it down because they didn't credit me. Didn't care about getting money just wanted the credit for my work.
And for all of those that like free music you should check out GarageBand.com. A lot of interesting music and most of it is licensed free to download. http://www.garageband.com/artist/dlanetaylor is where I keep the music I create at. There are thousands of songs on this site and a lot are worth listening to.
I realize some of the EDU IP addresses may be from a private NAT (Network Address Translation) which enables multiple hosts on a private network to access the Internet using a single public IP address. It is safe to say the numbers are probably a bit higher than the data shows but I wouldn't imagine it would be significantly higher. My 10000 student school has only a few dozen IPs. Yeah, a "bit higher"."
This is the point I was making. I know it is higher but how much higher? Do you have a list of all the Universities that use NAT? How many of those universities ban P2P? If all using NAT also ban P2P then they aren't even in the numbers at all. Without proper numbers it is all speculation and that is why I wrote the blog. I was hoping to spark some discussion and who knows maybe someone reading this will like to dive in and get 'real' numbers. It is still going to be hard to get a number of 'infringers', however.
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I wouldn't doubt it.
They are not "ISSUING" takedown notices. The RIAA is doing the 'ISSUING'. AT&T is 'FORWARDING' them. Where is the news story here?
I can see perhaps in the future Blizzard may be charging for enhanced UI experiences. I imagine now they are losing a lot of customers due to people not being able to afford to play anymore. Who knows.
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A whitehat would never do this kind of intrusion without first getting approval. This is what is called a Grayhat and maybe even a Blackhat. He did not have proper authorization.
Not sure what they actually expected to gain from doing this. They will likely be in legal trouble and now they have just made the anti-Scientology videos more popular than ever. What asshats.
You are not remembering to be forward thinking now, are you? They are putting a cap on advancement. This cap may be okay today but the day after tomorrow that could be another story. I'm dropping Comcast this weekend. TV/PHONE/INTERNET
The last two have been around for a long time. This was just someone spamming a list of email addresses they had. One is even as far back as 2001. I was happy to see the first post of this last week but if it is just going to be a place to bring up old spam then yuck.
I watched a show once on Discovery channel (can't remember the name of it) where some bird was at a pond watching these kids fish. The kids would go to a bag of bread and take a piece of it and put it on the end of a hook. Then they would catch a fish. The bird walked over to the bag, broke off a piece, walked to the water, flipped the bread in the water and when a fish hit the bread he grabbed the fish. That is just too freaking cool. The bird was very aware of his surroundings and learned something right there on the spot and implemented it.
If you want to see how it would feel to cloak; roll a Rogue or a Druid.
This is perfect timing. Friday afternoon my Comcast cable TV stopped working. So I give Comcast a call only to find out my account was suspended due to no payment since June of this year. But Comcast, I sent my payment this month and am looking at my bank statement as we speak. They told me I have to send them proof so I had my bank fax it to them on Saturday. And Comcast tells me it will take up to 5 business days for them to address my problem. WTF!?!!!!!! Comcast loses my payment and I have to wait for them? And to think I was contacting Comcast directly to complain. I thought that was how it was supposed to work. But now I guess I have to go write a blog to get something done. What is this world coming to? And Comcast. You can go fuck yourself. I'm going to Verizon and DirecTV. I will put this in my blog as well.
"since this exploit seems to require physical access to the machine to be rooted," Excuse me but this is absolutely false. Anyone that has remote access to this system as a regular user can launch the exploit. Are you saying that you have to be actually sitting at the keyboard to run Apple Script? !!???
Well, it seems suing our customers isn't working. Anyone have any ideas? Hey, lets use Myspace and let them actually purchase music that way. They should have come up with this idea a LONG time ago. After seeing the way they ruin their own customer's lives and wrongfully targetted students (AND even had a bill in Congress pass based on bogus data) they can just go get f'd. They are starting to see that their tactics in court are becoming less profitable and are trying to save their asses. In fact, just listen to free music like garageband.com has on it. Most of those can be downloaded in MP3 format for free or streamed right from your web browser.
Unless there is some big secret I can't see how this software application is going to be ruled as infringing on Blizzard's copyright. That is pretty much a lame attack. One thing that will happen when all of this is over is that there will likely be more Warcraft users due to the increase in media attention and there will also be a LOT more gliders out there. This will likely end up backfiring on Blizzard.
This is plain silly. Maybe I should include a TOS if you have pink hair you are not allowed to use this product. The flag of 'interesting' to this comment would apply at a keg party.
I'm going back to Verizon or Cavtel. Screw this.
If you search for "uc8010.com" in Google then click on the omit link at the bottom it shows about 94,000 "PAGES". Not Servers! One server had most of the pages infected. BTW, this is NOT a compromised 'SERVER'. The SQL database got injected with content but the actual server isn't compromised. This isn't news.
flagged as troll and flaimbait. I responded directly to the person's post. I hate seeing people post things here acting like they know what they are talking about so i responded accordingly. a troll surfs around to find things to say just to get things stirred up. this was not a troll event! but to be honest, i could care less. ;)
How do I say this is a crock of shit without insulting you? You can gain a remote shell on any of the operating systems and they are all useful accordingly. There are automated attacks for all platforms. I would say Windows systems are more likely to have malware that updates itself. The malware has this function built in and doesn't care about the type of shell it is using. And how do you determine that you rarely get hackers connecting remotely to Windows boxes? I do forensics on these systems often and know that statement is not correct. "increased diversity of unix systems" bwahahaha. no comment. good day
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How the hell did this get /.? A teacher basically told a student to quit surfing the web and do their work. This is news?!
I found a company who used an image of one of my paintings in their brochure once and had to have them take it down because they didn't credit me. Didn't care about getting money just wanted the credit for my work.
And for all of those that like free music you should check out GarageBand.com. A lot of interesting music and most of it is licensed free to download. http://www.garageband.com/artist/dlanetaylor is where I keep the music I create at. There are thousands of songs on this site and a lot are worth listening to.
"This guy is an idiot
I realize some of the EDU IP addresses may be from a private NAT (Network Address Translation) which enables multiple hosts on a private network to access the Internet using a single public IP address. It is safe to say the numbers are probably a bit higher than the data shows but I wouldn't imagine it would be significantly higher.
My 10000 student school has only a few dozen IPs. Yeah, a "bit higher"."
This is the point I was making. I know it is higher but how much higher? Do you have a list of all the Universities that use NAT? How many of those universities ban P2P? If all using NAT also ban P2P then they aren't even in the numbers at all. Without proper numbers it is all speculation and that is why I wrote the blog. I was hoping to spark some discussion and who knows maybe someone reading this will like to dive in and get 'real' numbers. It is still going to be hard to get a number of 'infringers', however.