Of course Machine A has to see Machine B's MAC address. This is how data is directed to you. I just feel that if cracker X wants to get it s/he should have to work for it. Why make it even easer than it already is? This is not to say that security by obscurity is OK, but restricting the information given out is a good general security policy.
I looked at your setup and I was supprised to clearly see the MAC address. Don't reveral any more information about yourself than you have to. Better to be safe and guard your privacy. To make this on-topic, IMHO every wirless connection needs to encript it's data stream.
I don't want to sound like an advertisement but I've noticed that F-Secure has a Linux version of their anti-virus software. Haven't used it yet so no further comment except to say I had a gerneral idea that the normal wintel type of virus did not work under GNU/Linux. If this info has been posted already, please don't moderate this up.
We all should think long and hard about starting the arms race in Cyberwarfare. The world has lived far to long under ther MAD policy in respect to nuclear bombs. Do we want to legitimize (sp) the internet as a target in war? Who has the most targets on the internet? The US, no? People in glass (digital) houses should not be the first to throw stones (Cyberwarfare). As other have pointed out, you don't need massive Goverment Military spending to conduct Cyberterrerism, any individual with the right equipment will do. LOpht claimed that any one of the group can bring down the internet in 30 minutes. Certanly not all computer genisus(sp) live and work in a Democracy and have strong moral convections that Cyberwarfare is wrong. The Military has opened a Pandora's Box by introducing cracking as a wepon of war and we are all going to be worse off because they did. Perhaps the only sane response is for the Open Source community to adapt FreeBSD's philosophy of 'security is number one' and concentrate on makeing GNU/Linux and all GPL applications as secure and crack proof as possiable.
GNU/Linux if gree for anybody to use if they accept and abide by the GPL license it is released under. This includes Cuba and China weather it tis the 'Official OSS' of anything or just 'the peoples choice'. A very fundamental freedom that RMS rightly won't let us forget is very important. Information wants to be free. This freedom is exactly what PRC, Cuba, and any other Communist or dictatoral State cannot allow. I don't worry about what China can do to GNU/Linux, I worry about what GNU/Linux (and the 'free speech, not free beer' concept) can do to China.
I have been doing research in the 'computer security' and related topics for a few months now. The entire area really interests me. While I do have a BS in Mathematics, I know my limitations and I could never get a PHd so goodby Dr. Zenay. Will the NSA get every PHD in this field? What chance do you have working in this field in a strictly non-goverment capacity? Would teaching at the University level be the only option?
Mr. Whitmore makes the point 'What if Solaris was free?' without fully defining what he means. Free as in a full GPL release with all source code or Sun's version of 'free'? If indeed the full source code was GPLed the viability of GNU/Linux might be questioned. At least we would have a interesting choice and a real pro / con evaluation of GNU/Linux vs Solaris can be made. If the free release would be binarys only then it would be only a small blip on the OS screen and most GNU/Linux users won't even notice it.
Only slightly off topic. Check out, if you can, DOD5220.22-M, the data recovery countermeasures document. Ever here of it? Its the specs on how to covery your tracks and not leave any evidence of your crimes. I mean, how to stop spys from finding out what I was up to. The goverment can do what the general population cannot.
If this ID tatto ever was forced on me I think I'd get it on my a**. That way I'd at least get the satifaction of mooning anybody that forced me to show it. Just a random thought. The two-D barcode is being used by Panasonic as part of their document imaging system. Once this technology is matured, I predict it will be tied into a world wide database to ID everybody. Some states have plans to put it on their drivers licenses. And we all know where digital data in state databases actualy goes, don't we? It won't happen soon, but in the name of 'protecting the children from perverts' or 'protecting the world from terrorists' I can see it happening. I don't like it but what can we do?
make the problem worse. Since the average alphabet head in DC has no clue how the internet works ANYTHING they do will solve no problems - as others have pointed out, there exists laws enough already. If the folks in DC really cared about our children they would start listening to the kids more. I caught a report from TV about mental and physical abuse by boys against their girlfrends is a serious problem, Dear Abby (or Ann Landers, I can't tell them apart) had a coloum in today's paper about BUILLIES in school. Jon Katz and the new HELLMOUTH web site has plenty of violence against geeks to really worry me. Big Brother says they want to protect the children but they won't talk to them or listen to their problems.
When the Security professionals misuse the term hacker to mean cracker there is no hope for mainstream people to know the difference. Try not to be to conserned about names. In the/. world you're not a hacker untill other hackers call you one - according to ESR, et al other hackers. This is based on your coding skill and how much you give bask to OSS. When a hacker stops coding how long is it untill they are no longer hackers? If other hackers need to call you a hacker before you are acknowledged as one, when they stop calling you a hacker are you no longer a hacker?
Given the sad fact that most of the file formats for word processing and spreadsheets comes from Micro~1 makes Echelon's job easer. I would not be supprised if Mr. Gates & Co. activally co-operates with, maybe even funds, Echelon. After all, is he not richer that most coutries? Perhaps not, so please don't sue me. Anyway, if the OSS standard file format becomes universally accepted would not that make Echelon's job easer? Perhaps what we need to protect our on-line privicy is ?????? BTW, check out http://www.oss.net it is not what you think.
It matters not if KDE or GNOME is used exactly. It matters that us end users have well documented, easy to use applications that take the place of MS Office and MS Outlook. When both run the same apps the selection of desktops will be a personel one to make. Soon, I hope.
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Of course Machine A has to see Machine B's MAC address. This is how data is directed to you. I just feel that if cracker X wants to get it s/he should have to work for it. Why make it even easer than it already is? This is not to say that security by obscurity is OK, but restricting the information given out is a good general security policy.
I looked at your setup and I was supprised to clearly see the MAC address. Don't reveral any more information about yourself than you have to. Better to be safe and guard your privacy. To make this on-topic, IMHO every wirless connection needs to encript it's data stream.
I don't want to sound like an advertisement but I've noticed that F-Secure has a Linux version of their anti-virus software. Haven't used it yet so no further comment except to say I had a gerneral idea that the normal wintel type of virus did not work under GNU/Linux. If this info has been posted already, please don't moderate this up.
We all should think long and hard about starting the arms race in Cyberwarfare. The world has lived far to long under ther MAD policy in respect to nuclear bombs. Do we want to legitimize (sp) the internet as a target in war? Who has the most targets on the internet? The US, no? People in glass (digital) houses should not be the first to throw stones (Cyberwarfare). As other have pointed out, you don't need massive Goverment Military spending to conduct Cyberterrerism, any individual with the right equipment will do. LOpht claimed that any one of the group can bring down the internet in 30 minutes. Certanly not all computer genisus(sp) live and work in a Democracy and have strong moral convections that Cyberwarfare is wrong. The Military has opened a Pandora's Box by introducing cracking as a wepon of war and we are all going to be worse off because they did. Perhaps the only sane response is for the Open Source community to adapt FreeBSD's philosophy of 'security is number one' and concentrate on makeing GNU/Linux and all GPL applications as secure and crack proof as possiable.
GNU/Linux if gree for anybody to use if they accept and abide by the GPL license it is released under. This includes Cuba and China weather it tis the 'Official OSS' of anything or just 'the peoples choice'. A very fundamental freedom that RMS rightly won't let us forget is very important. Information wants to be free. This freedom is exactly what PRC, Cuba, and any other Communist or dictatoral State cannot allow. I don't worry about what China can do to GNU/Linux, I worry about what GNU/Linux (and the 'free speech, not free beer' concept) can do to China.
I have been doing research in the 'computer security' and related topics for a few months now. The entire area really interests me. While I do have a BS in Mathematics, I know my limitations and I could never get a PHd so goodby Dr. Zenay. Will the NSA get every PHD in this field? What chance do you have working in this field in a strictly non-goverment capacity? Would teaching at the University level be the only option?
Mr. Whitmore makes the point 'What if Solaris was free?' without fully defining what he means. Free as in a full GPL release with all source code or Sun's version of 'free'? If indeed the full source code was GPLed the viability of GNU/Linux might be questioned. At least we would have a interesting choice and a real pro / con evaluation of GNU/Linux vs Solaris can be made. If the free release would be binarys only then it would be only a small blip on the OS screen and most GNU/Linux users won't even notice it.
Only slightly off topic. Check out, if you can, DOD5220.22-M, the data recovery countermeasures document. Ever here of it? Its the specs on how to covery your tracks and not leave any evidence of your crimes. I mean, how to stop spys from finding out what I was up to. The goverment can do what the general population cannot.
If this ID tatto ever was forced on me I think I'd get it on my a**. That way I'd at least get the satifaction of mooning anybody that forced me to show it. Just a random thought.
The two-D barcode is being used by Panasonic as part of their document imaging system. Once this technology is matured, I predict it will be tied into a world wide database to ID everybody. Some states have plans to put it on their drivers licenses. And we all know where digital data in state databases actualy goes, don't we? It won't happen soon, but in the name of 'protecting the children from perverts' or 'protecting the world from terrorists' I can see it happening. I don't like it but what can we do?
make the problem worse. Since the average alphabet head in DC has no clue how the internet works ANYTHING they do will solve no problems - as others have pointed out, there exists laws enough already. If the folks in DC really cared about our children they would start listening to the kids more. I caught a report from TV about mental and physical abuse by boys against their girlfrends is a serious problem, Dear Abby (or Ann Landers, I can't tell them apart) had a coloum in today's paper about BUILLIES in school. Jon Katz and the new HELLMOUTH web site has plenty of violence against geeks to really worry me. Big Brother says they want to protect the children but they won't talk to them or listen to their problems.
When the Security professionals misuse the term hacker to mean cracker there is no hope for mainstream people to know the difference. Try not to be to conserned about names. In the /. world you're not a hacker untill other hackers call you one - according to ESR, et al other hackers. This is based on your coding skill and how much you give bask to OSS. When a hacker stops coding how long is it untill they are no longer hackers? If other hackers need to call you a hacker before you are acknowledged as one, when they stop calling you a hacker are you no longer a hacker?
Given the sad fact that most of the file formats for word processing and spreadsheets comes from Micro~1 makes Echelon's job easer. I would not be supprised if Mr. Gates & Co. activally co-operates with, maybe even funds, Echelon. After all, is he not richer that most coutries? Perhaps not, so please don't sue me. Anyway, if the OSS standard file format becomes universally accepted would not that make Echelon's job easer? Perhaps what we need to protect our on-line privicy is ??????
BTW, check out http://www.oss.net it is not what you think.
It matters not if KDE or GNOME is used exactly.
It matters that us end users have well documented,
easy to use applications that take the place of
MS Office and MS Outlook. When both run the same
apps the selection of desktops will be a personel
one to make. Soon, I hope.