"People will not understand your code, they will misuse it, and then they will blame you when it gets them in trouble."
Thank $DEITY Linus et al. do not share the same view with your advisor...
He should have not been arrested/contained at the first place! He had every right (freedom of speech anybody?) to resist his unlawful arrest.
If one day you wake up and you see US Marines entering the White house with tanks and arresting the elected president, you will sit there doing nothing, because it would be perceived as not abiding by the imposed military rule? Why do you think the constitution allows Americans the right to bear arms?
Disturbing is the fact that those sheep fellow students did not protest
when those fascist police officers were arresting the guy. Instead they
were laughing!
Even more disturbing is that this happened in front of a presidential
candidate that almost become the president. Kerry caused this poor
fellow's arrest and did nothing to stop it.
Anything less than the end of the political career of Kerry and the
imprisonment of the police pigs is unsatisfactory. In addition, the UF
owes a public apology and to institure mandatory courses on US history,
constitution, sociology etc for all its ignorant students!
"Our study of the Diebold source code found that the system does not meet the requirements
for a security-critical system. It is built upon an inherently fragile design and suffers from
implementation flaws that can expose the entire voting system to attacks. These vulnerabilities, if
exploited, could jeopardize voter privacy and the integrity of elections. An attack could plausibly
be accomplished by a single skilled individual with temporary access to a single voting machine.
The damage could be extensive--malicious code could spread to every voting machine in polling
places and to county election servers. Even with a paper trail, malicious code might be able to
subtly influence close elections, and it could disrupt elections by causing widespread equipment
failure on election day.
We conclude that these problems arose because of a failure to design and build the system
with security as a central focus, which led to the inconsistent application of accepted security
engineering practices. For this reason, the safest way to repair the Diebold system is to reengineer
it so that it is secure by design.
We discussed a number of limited solutions and procedural changes that may improve the
security of the system, but we warn that implementing any particular set of technical or procedural
safeguards may still be insufficient. Similarly, fixing individual flaws in the system--even all of the
issues identified in this report--may not yield a secure voting system because of the possibility that
unidentified problems will be exploited. We are also concerned that future updates to the system
may introduce new, unknown vulnerabilities or fail to adequately correct known ones. We urge
the state to conduct further studies to determine whether any new or updated voting systems are
secure."
Out of the 33 papers in SIGCOMM 2007, there are 29 papers from American research centers (MIT, UCB, UCSD, Cornell, CMU, SDSC etc ). There are only 4 from Europe (Polytechnico di Torino, TUD, Delft, INRIA).
The truth is that the number of European and Chinese Publications in top Networking and Systems Conferences has increased substantially (there used to be a time that a top conference would have at most one non-US publication).
This however, by no means can be interpreted as the quality of US research in communication networks degrading. It simply means that the rest of the world is beginning to realize the benefits of fundamental communication networks research. Still, Europe and Asia have long way to go.
"I have around 70 facebook friends- most of which happen to be real friends. Anyone with 200/300+ facebook friends is most likely just adding anyone they know."
I have around _15_ facebook friends most of which are real friends. Anyone with 60/70+ facebook friends is most likely just adding anyone they know...
Actually, several people did not watch someone get murdered without anyone calling 911,
What most likely happened is listed here (linked in fact by the site you cited):
http://www.oldkewgardens.com/kitty_genovese-001.ht ml
"At its prime, the Elite Torrents network attracted more than 133,000 members and facilitated the illegal distribution of more than 2 million copies of movies, software, music, and games."
The guy was a partner of Elite Torrents. Lots of profit to be made there...
In reality, Google has access to everything that crosses our minds, since this is greatly correlated to what you search and write in your emails. The truth is that if one bad guy manages to get access to Google's data center, he can learn everything about us.
However, Google has absolutely no right to use this information against us in any way. This is in all respects illegal. In addition, if something like "My employer fired me, because an ex-google employee told him that I search for animal porn online" happens, this would be the end of Google's business model. It would result in 10's of billions $ in losses.
I am 100% sure that Google does whatever it is in her power to keep your information private. They have very little to gain by going public with our insignificant lives, but everything to lose if they breach their privacy contract.
And btw, having a bot going through your emails and discovering patterns is not a privacy violation. As long as no human with malicious intend is able to harvest information that is damning for me, Google is welcome to automatically detect my preferences and send me relevant advertisements.
If u don't like Google, you can always switch to msn, yahoo, ask or whatever other crappy search engine. Still, they are as likely to mine your private data as Google.
"When early man first discovered that a wheel could roll down a hill, how much closer did it bring them to modern day technology used in cars?"
When the early 20th century man first discovered controlled flight, how much closer did it bring them to the Boeing 747's and the Apollo program?
When early 20th century man first discovered computational models, how much closer did it bring them to.... and so on...
I was under the impression that people who testify in front of Congress are authorities in their field.
So one may think that this Safwat Fahmy is an authority in the field.
Absolutely not. This person has not published a single document in any single respectable publication venue
(including academic ones).
A simple google search reveals that he has not been involved in any important project and his only previous
experience in Information Technology was founding an utterly failed company called WiZnet.
That company produced nothing but a site which is nothing more than an electric-electronics product.
Hey Congress, what about inviting people like V. Cerf, D. Clark, and tens of others successful academics
and businessmen to clarify to you how the Internet and its tubes works?
Even Bram Cohen would be a much more appropriate person for the task.
And we expect this bunch of amateur, gullible, uninformed, corrupted bunch of representatives to solve
the much more complicated Middle Eastern problems? sigh...
Good thing, the US was not governed by such an incompetent bunch in the second half of the 20th century, or
we would all be dead or forced to be Nazis of Stalinist Communists by now.
The advisory indeed speaks only of using DC++ to launch DDoS http://www.prolexic.com/news/20070514-alert.php
However, the New Scientist article refers to two academic studies that discuss how eMule and BitTorrent
can be misused for the same purpose:
a) N. Naoumov, and K.W. Ross, Exploiting P2P Systems for DDoS Attacks, International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Information Management, May 2006 http://cis.poly.edu/~ross/papers/p2pddos.pdf
They show that one can subvert Overnet traffic (applicable to eMule that uses the same DHT as Overnet)
b) Karim El Defrawy, Minas Gjoka, Athina Markopoulou, "BotTorrent: Misusing BitTorrent to Launch DDoS Attacks", USENIX SRUTI, June 2007.
They show that one can subvert BitTorrent traffic by submitting to torrent aggregators fake torrent files that advertize the IP of
the victim instead of a legitimate tracker's.
"Whats the deal? In Germany its recently discussed that gouvernment intends to develop a virus to spy on their OWN citizens, google for Bundestrojaner..."
It appears that the US has developed a way to spy on the citizens of the whole world too. Google for... google
"Er, Ukraine. Chernobyl is in Ukraine. Ukraine most definitely is not Russia.",
"Yes these days Chernobyl is in Ukraine, which is not in Russia, but in 1986 when the melt down occurred, it was in Russia and back then it was Soviet Russia, the the GP was correct:
Remember, Chernobyl was in Soviet Russia.
and that's my two cents"
Er, Ukraine was a _state_ in the Soviet _Union_, thus Chernobyl was in Soviet Ukraine, not Soviet Russia
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"People will not understand your code, they will misuse it, and then they will blame you when it gets them in trouble." Thank $DEITY Linus et al. do not share the same view with your advisor ...
Check out anti-personnel mine. Hint: it's not like the movies...
"And then... Which distro(s) should they support?"
That's easy: (K)Ubuntu
"How pathetic to ONLY aspire to money. Why not aspire to be Nelson Mandela or ...."
...
Because Sadam Hussein killed all the Mandelas
He should have not been arrested/contained at the first place! He had every right (freedom of speech anybody?)
to resist his unlawful arrest.
If one day you wake up and you see US Marines entering the White house with tanks and arresting the elected
president, you will sit there doing nothing, because it would be perceived as not abiding by the imposed
military rule? Why do you think the constitution allows Americans the right to bear arms?
Disturbing is the fact that those sheep fellow students did not protest when those fascist police officers were arresting the guy. Instead they were laughing! Even more disturbing is that this happened in front of a presidential candidate that almost become the president. Kerry caused this poor fellow's arrest and did nothing to stop it. Anything less than the end of the political career of Kerry and the imprisonment of the police pigs is unsatisfactory. In addition, the UF owes a public apology and to institure mandatory courses on US history, constitution, sociology etc for all its ignorant students!
It seems very related to a work published in the USENIX Technical Conference 07 as well as an SOSP 06 one. http://www.ics.uci.edu/~msirivia/publications/dand elion-usenix.pdf
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/lorenzo/papers/bar- gossip.pdf
I cannot believe that nobody mentioned it yet.
The only reason i reboot to linux is Powerpoint.
Give me a decent MS Office replacement and I will never load those dlls again.
Really, why is it so difficult to make OpenOffice actually functional?
I heard that Starbucks plans to offer this deal 500 hears in the future ...
Taken from the experts' review:
"Our study of the Diebold source code found that the system does not meet the requirements for a security-critical system. It is built upon an inherently fragile design and suffers from implementation flaws that can expose the entire voting system to attacks. These vulnerabilities, if exploited, could jeopardize voter privacy and the integrity of elections. An attack could plausibly be accomplished by a single skilled individual with temporary access to a single voting machine. The damage could be extensive--malicious code could spread to every voting machine in polling places and to county election servers. Even with a paper trail, malicious code might be able to subtly influence close elections, and it could disrupt elections by causing widespread equipment failure on election day.
We conclude that these problems arose because of a failure to design and build the system with security as a central focus, which led to the inconsistent application of accepted security engineering practices. For this reason, the safest way to repair the Diebold system is to reengineer it so that it is secure by design.
We discussed a number of limited solutions and procedural changes that may improve the security of the system, but we warn that implementing any particular set of technical or procedural safeguards may still be insufficient. Similarly, fixing individual flaws in the system--even all of the issues identified in this report--may not yield a secure voting system because of the possibility that unidentified problems will be exploited. We are also concerned that future updates to the system may introduce new, unknown vulnerabilities or fail to adequately correct known ones. We urge the state to conduct further studies to determine whether any new or updated voting systems are secure."
US continues to lead Networking and Networked Systems research by a large margin.
Take SIGCOMM for example. It is arguably the top conference in networking. It is the most reputable
among computer networks researchers and it happens to be among the top 4 most cited conferences
in computer science in general ( http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/impact.html
http://libra.msra.cn/conf_category_24.htm).
Out of the 33 papers in SIGCOMM 2007, there are 29 papers from American research centers
(MIT, UCB, UCSD, Cornell, CMU, SDSC etc ). There are only 4 from Europe (Polytechnico di Torino, TUD, Delft, INRIA).
The truth is that the number of European and Chinese Publications in top Networking and Systems Conferences
has increased substantially (there used to be a time that a top conference would have at most one non-US publication).
This however, by no means can be interpreted as the quality of US research in communication networks degrading.
It simply means that the rest of the world is beginning to realize the benefits of fundamental communication
networks research. Still, Europe and Asia have long way to go.
... and this people, is why we read /. !
"I have around 70 facebook friends- most of which happen to be real friends. Anyone with 200/300+ facebook friends is most likely just adding anyone they know."
...
I have around _15_ facebook friends most of which are real friends. Anyone with 60/70+ facebook friends is most likely just adding anyone they know
Actually, several people did not watch someone get murdered without anyone calling 911, What most likely happened is listed here (linked in fact by the site you cited): http://www.oldkewgardens.com/kitty_genovese-001.ht ml
What you fail to see is that laughing bullets is a 2 stage weapon:
stage 1: agitate people and get them high, thus getting a crowd that is uncontrollable
by moderate means.
stage 2: attack the agitated crowd with the only weapon that can push them back: real bullets.
I think it is more like ROFL ...
"At its prime, the Elite Torrents network attracted more than 133,000 members and facilitated the illegal distribution of more than 2 million copies of movies, software, music, and games."
...
The guy was a partner of Elite Torrents. Lots of profit to be made there
http://imagespar.com/view.php?img=9b170467ca20cf4e 8d63903db87051b0
In reality, Google has access to everything that crosses our minds, since
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this is greatly correlated to what you search and write in your
emails. The truth is that if one bad guy manages to get access to
Google's data center, he can learn everything about us.
However, Google has absolutely no right to use this information
against us in any way. This is in all respects illegal. In addition,
if something like "My employer fired me, because an ex-google employee
told him that I search for animal porn online" happens, this would
be the end of Google's business model. It would
result in 10's of billions $ in losses.
I am 100% sure that Google does whatever it is in her power to keep
your information private. They have very little to gain by going
public with our insignificant lives, but everything to lose if
they breach their privacy contract.
And btw, having a bot going through your emails and discovering
patterns is not a privacy violation. As long as no human with
malicious intend is able to harvest information that is damning for
me, Google is welcome to automatically detect my preferences and send
me relevant advertisements.
If u don't like Google, you can always switch to msn, yahoo, ask or
whatever other crappy search engine. Still, they are as likely to mine
your private data as Google.
For the paranoid, here is one cool gmail encryption firefox plugin:
http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/0
"When early man first discovered that a wheel could roll down a hill, how much closer did it bring them to modern day technology used in cars?"
.... and so on ...
When the early 20th century man first discovered controlled flight, how much closer did it bring them to the Boeing 747's and the Apollo program?
When early 20th century man first discovered computational models, how much closer did it bring them to
Your argument is invalid
I was under the impression that people who testify in front of Congress are authorities in their field.
...
So one may think that this Safwat Fahmy is an authority in the field.
Absolutely not. This person has not published a single document in any single respectable publication venue (including academic ones).
A simple google search reveals that he has not been involved in any important project and his only previous experience in Information Technology was founding an utterly failed company called WiZnet. That company produced nothing but a site which is nothing more than an electric-electronics product.
Hey Congress, what about inviting people like V. Cerf, D. Clark, and tens of others successful academics and businessmen to clarify to you how the Internet and its tubes works? Even Bram Cohen would be a much more appropriate person for the task.
And we expect this bunch of amateur, gullible, uninformed, corrupted bunch of representatives to solve the much more complicated Middle Eastern problems? sigh
Good thing, the US was not governed by such an incompetent bunch in the second half of the 20th century, or we would all be dead or forced to be Nazis of Stalinist Communists by now.
The advisory indeed speaks only of using DC++ to launch DDoS http://www.prolexic.com/news/20070514-alert.php However, the New Scientist article refers to two academic studies that discuss how eMule and BitTorrent can be misused for the same purpose:
a) N. Naoumov, and K.W. Ross, Exploiting P2P Systems for DDoS Attacks, International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Information Management, May 2006 http://cis.poly.edu/~ross/papers/p2pddos.pdf
They show that one can subvert Overnet traffic (applicable to eMule that uses the same DHT as Overnet)
b) Karim El Defrawy, Minas Gjoka, Athina Markopoulou, "BotTorrent: Misusing BitTorrent to Launch DDoS Attacks", USENIX SRUTI, June 2007.
They show that one can subvert BitTorrent traffic by submitting to torrent aggregators fake torrent files that advertize the IP of the victim instead of a legitimate tracker's.
"Whats the deal? In Germany its recently discussed that gouvernment intends to develop a virus to spy on their OWN citizens, google for Bundestrojaner..."
... google
It appears that the US has developed a way to spy on the citizens of the whole world too. Google for
"Er, Ukraine. Chernobyl is in Ukraine. Ukraine most definitely is not Russia.", "Yes these days Chernobyl is in Ukraine, which is not in Russia, but in 1986 when the melt down occurred, it was in Russia and back then it was Soviet Russia, the the GP was correct: Remember, Chernobyl was in Soviet Russia. and that's my two cents" Er, Ukraine was a _state_ in the Soviet _Union_, thus Chernobyl was in Soviet Ukraine, not Soviet Russia
Just replace "en" with "simple"
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television