If some kid steals his Dad's cc then the Dad is going to see the charge on the bill and start asking questions.
Are you kidding? You apparently have no many pre-teens do have secured credit cards that hold their allowance, and how little people look at low dollar purchases on their bills...
I've dated online, and that gave me my fill of phony crap from people online from that. I've looked at it once or twice, at the encouragement of a few friends, but it just makes me feel, well, like admitting you had a mullet and wore parachute pants to the D&D club back in the 80's.
I just can't imagine thinking myspace is cool.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not pro-people my any stretch of the imagination, except when it comes to security. Sure people are lying, crooked, cheating, thieves, but they're still a lot smarter than computers. The question needs to be are we turning our information and lives over to the security of an algorithm, or to a person? The bank teller used to know your name, and that worked, then we needed photo ID's, then we need biometric ID's, smartcards, magnetic cards, backed and controlled complicated computer systems (outsourced to India), and know our money is less secure.
I'm designing a development lab for some programmers. They work on a closed system, not in any way connected to the outside world or internet. It exists on a highly secured base. It is guarded by guys with big guns. Only about 10 people need access to the room. They wanted PKI and smartcard verification for login. Uh, dudes, you'd be better off just telling the guys with the guns to shoot anyone he doesn't know and keeping the door locked.
Sometimes, simple is better, and every once in a while, people are more capable than the machines they work on.
Just do what I do - make up phone numbers as your 'alternate'. Best is when they read the reciept as they hand it to me (a tall white guy) and say "Thanks for shopping xxxxx Ms. Chin...."
I've administered a few exchange servers and understand your pain, but business marches on. I don't control the security policies that allow large PGP emails, but disallow shares accessible through the web. If I have a guy with limited access in his hotel in Azerbaijan, Taiwan, or Jordan, who needs the latest proposal/briefing/deliverable/software version - email it is.
If being an admin was easy, they wouldn't pay us as much.
Didn't they go under years ago? Huh. Sure I drooled over their machines when Alias did things other platforms weren't dreaming of yet. I also drooled over my first 40 MB Hard Disk Drive, and I now send email larger than that. If you're not running ahead, you're falling behind, and no IT director cares (or should care) who was good 10 years ago.
OK, so SGI is down, shall we bet which dedicated, hard-core, cutting edge, cultist hardware company goes in the next years to come? Sun? Apple? Ohter nominees?
My roommate recently started a blog, and belongs to several of the social networking sites. When he ask me why I didn't join him, I simply explained that thought history we've always had the ability to list all our friends and thoughts in a diary and leave it on our front porch for anyone to read, but nobody ever wanted to.
Just because we can doesn't mean we should...
Why would anyone put things on the internet (at any security level) that could prevent them from getting a job? Sounds Darwinian to me, if you're too dumb to protect your private life, you're probably related to the person taking home a laptop with 25,000 social security numbers on it, so good riddance!
That's right I'm white and almost spelled the N word. If you don't like it, don't read Tom Sawyer. If you want to read the classic book and the very word, even in context offends you, tough, don't republish the work with editing, it's just plain heathen.
I also don't want to find a copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales with happy endings, or a version of the Da Vinci Code that's acceptable to the Vatican.
You don't have to like it all, in fact you don't have to pick it up at all, but you really can't change the work to suit you if it isn't your work, and it's a VERY slipery slope.
attacks are by untrained 'script kiddies' using programs from the internet
I think that this is a niave viewpoint of the world. People hack for reasons (money, fame, boredom), ease of ability being low on the list.
*NIX may be inherantly more secure, and there huge base to build upon to attack windows, but if *NIX is the OS of choice, it will get attacked. Period.
If you really wanted to keep OSX/*nix secure, quit telling everyone to use it. Mac and the Nix crowd are less attacked because, well, it's not worth the effort. Why attack a few hundred users when you can go after hundreds of millions on the Windows platform? If everyone switches to NIX, more hackers will try to attack it at the same time the added users demand more functionality.
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Liesure Suit Larry was out before we had the ability to quickly google or wiki virtually any small fact for something like this...
Are you kidding? You apparently have no many pre-teens do have secured credit cards that hold their allowance, and how little people look at low dollar purchases on their bills...
I've dated online, and that gave me my fill of phony crap from people online from that. I've looked at it once or twice, at the encouragement of a few friends, but it just makes me feel, well, like admitting you had a mullet and wore parachute pants to the D&D club back in the 80's.
I just can't imagine thinking myspace is cool.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not pro-people my any stretch of the imagination, except when it comes to security. Sure people are lying, crooked, cheating, thieves, but they're still a lot smarter than computers. The question needs to be are we turning our information and lives over to the security of an algorithm, or to a person? The bank teller used to know your name, and that worked, then we needed photo ID's, then we need biometric ID's, smartcards, magnetic cards, backed and controlled complicated computer systems (outsourced to India), and know our money is less secure.
I'm designing a development lab for some programmers. They work on a closed system, not in any way connected to the outside world or internet. It exists on a highly secured base. It is guarded by guys with big guns. Only about 10 people need access to the room. They wanted PKI and smartcard verification for login. Uh, dudes, you'd be better off just telling the guys with the guns to shoot anyone he doesn't know and keeping the door locked.
Sometimes, simple is better, and every once in a while, people are more capable than the machines they work on.
Just do what I do - make up phone numbers as your 'alternate'. Best is when they read the reciept as they hand it to me (a tall white guy) and say "Thanks for shopping xxxxx Ms. Chin...."
I've administered a few exchange servers and understand your pain, but business marches on. I don't control the security policies that allow large PGP emails, but disallow shares accessible through the web. If I have a guy with limited access in his hotel in Azerbaijan, Taiwan, or Jordan, who needs the latest proposal/briefing/deliverable/software version - email it is.
If being an admin was easy, they wouldn't pay us as much.
Didn't they go under years ago? Huh. Sure I drooled over their machines when Alias did things other platforms weren't dreaming of yet. I also drooled over my first 40 MB Hard Disk Drive, and I now send email larger than that. If you're not running ahead, you're falling behind, and no IT director cares (or should care) who was good 10 years ago. OK, so SGI is down, shall we bet which dedicated, hard-core, cutting edge, cultist hardware company goes in the next years to come? Sun? Apple? Ohter nominees?
My roommate recently started a blog, and belongs to several of the social networking sites. When he ask me why I didn't join him, I simply explained that thought history we've always had the ability to list all our friends and thoughts in a diary and leave it on our front porch for anyone to read, but nobody ever wanted to.
Just because we can doesn't mean we should...
Why would anyone put things on the internet (at any security level) that could prevent them from getting a job? Sounds Darwinian to me, if you're too dumb to protect your private life, you're probably related to the person taking home a laptop with 25,000 social security numbers on it, so good riddance!
That's right I'm white and almost spelled the N word. If you don't like it, don't read Tom Sawyer. If you want to read the classic book and the very word, even in context offends you, tough, don't republish the work with editing, it's just plain heathen. I also don't want to find a copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales with happy endings, or a version of the Da Vinci Code that's acceptable to the Vatican. You don't have to like it all, in fact you don't have to pick it up at all, but you really can't change the work to suit you if it isn't your work, and it's a VERY slipery slope.
Just because the conversation outclassed and/or confused you is no reason to attack the quality of the typing.
1) Never heard of Linux eh? 2) Yes, Sun does make a laptop
attacks are by untrained 'script kiddies' using programs from the internet I think that this is a niave viewpoint of the world. People hack for reasons (money, fame, boredom), ease of ability being low on the list. *NIX may be inherantly more secure, and there huge base to build upon to attack windows, but if *NIX is the OS of choice, it will get attacked. Period.
If you really wanted to keep OSX/*nix secure, quit telling everyone to use it. Mac and the Nix crowd are less attacked because, well, it's not worth the effort. Why attack a few hundred users when you can go after hundreds of millions on the Windows platform? If everyone switches to NIX, more hackers will try to attack it at the same time the added users demand more functionality.