An anonymous P2P network will never work. As soon as you get critical mass, the bad guys will be there. And then law enforcement will shut you down. If you're lucky, you'll stay out of jail.
There has to be accountability in a civilized society.
If they have GSM coverage then you might want to look at secure GSM phones. As other people have mentioned, you really need to get out of that hotel room.
The article says "A program written from scratch to express the function of an existing program in a new way does not infringe the original program's copyright."
What about the "Look-and-Feel" of Unix. Could that be a legal case for copyright?
This may be a silly notion, but can you rig a password function so it won't work at all until the user enters a new password??
I am not sure I understand your question, but it seems to be similar to a default install of any secure *nix system. Root has by default no password and sshd disallows login with no password. That means that you won't get in unless you set a password.
Those aren't backdoors they're default passwords. A very different animal, indeed.
No, there is no difference between an enabled default password and a backdoor. Not even if it's printed in the manual that nobody reads.
Take a look at that list again and tell me how many of those password you think were printed in the manual. There are pw's like "secret" and "240653C9467E45" which you don't usually see in a manual!
If you really want cellular phone then a DECT network will be lot cheaper to setup. Of course, if you want to call somebody outside your cell (you didn't say that) then you still need a trunk line coming in. Cable, radio or satellite are the obvious choices.
You don't need a new government agency. If it's illegal to spam then law enforcement should take care of it, just like any other crime.
Tracing the spam is indeed diffcult, but the police wouldn't have to use that approach. They could instead "follow the money." Since every spam has a payment button, you just have to send them some money and arrest the person who receives the money.
Think of how law enforcement would act if somebody was selling kiddie porn or assasinations or drugs. They could use the same method when dealing with spammers, if the laws were properly written.
Don't bet on that kind of price reduction due to quantity. You have to get the quantity first, before the prices go down. But until the prices go down you can't get the quantity.
Wrong. You have to get the demand first, but not necessarily the quantity.
I expect MS to fix their shit for a reasonable amount of time - say 5 years or so from date of last sale.
And your point is? They already do that! Exchange 2000 was released in the summer of 2000, so you would assume that 5.5 had its last sale in mid 2000. And regarding your complaint about design flaws, if you didnt like the design then you shouldn't have bought the product, right?
If you bought a car before they invented seat belts and airbags and ABS, would you expect to get those features added for free when they were invented?
And yes, I REALLY believe that M$ is beginning to realize that poor security hurts their bottom line. And that means they will start to do something about it.
They don't even verify your identity. These guys just ask for your email address, and if it's "webmaster" (or 10 other common user names) then you get the cert in the mail!
You don't have to wait for the domain to expire. Just change your registrar, which you can do right now. I have had good experience with DirectNIC where you can change the owner of a domain with a few web clicks, zero paper work. They are also a lot cheaper than NetSol.
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C# is free (for a year), and you don't have to learn Basic.
It's not "San Fransico". The name of the city is spelled "San Francisco."
They spell the city like the router company, which makes the spelling easy to remember.
There are great chess software for free that you can install on a phone.- P800
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Sure you can have privacy, up to a point.
Why do you think phone calls can be traced?
An anonymous P2P network will never work. As soon as you get critical mass, the bad guys will be there. And then law enforcement will shut you down. If you're lucky, you'll stay out of jail.
There has to be accountability in a civilized society.
If you just want your conferencing partner to see both your cameras, then why don't you simply launch two copies of the application?
If they have GSM coverage then you might want to look at secure GSM phones. As other people have mentioned, you really need to get out of that hotel room.
Global Teck has some stuff.
if I want to share my own copyrighted works free of charge, would that make me a felon?
What do you mean, "your own"? Stuff you bought, or stuff you created?
Obviously, if you create something then you don't need permission to give it away. Who could grant you such a permission???
The article says "A program written from scratch to express the function of an existing program in a new way does not infringe the original program's copyright."
What about the "Look-and-Feel" of Unix. Could that be a legal case for copyright?
What is .NET exactly?
I can tell you what it is not.
The real challenge is to come up with a sim-environment that would encourage a complexity of behaviour closer to the real world
What is The Matrix?
if you have fast Windows XP box...
I have a VM on my fast XP gaming machine just for this reason, to compile stuff for my BSD server.
Who really speaks for computer users here?
EFF is one you should join. Now.
This may be a silly notion, but can you rig a password function so it won't work at all until the user enters a new password??
I am not sure I understand your question, but it seems to be similar to a default install of any secure *nix system. Root has by default no password and sshd disallows login with no password. That means that you won't get in unless you set a password.
Those aren't backdoors they're default passwords. A very different animal, indeed.
No, there is no difference between an enabled default password and a backdoor. Not even if it's printed in the manual that nobody reads.
Take a look at that list again and tell me how many of those password you think were printed in the manual. There are pw's like "secret" and "240653C9467E45" which you don't usually see in a manual!
Here's a list of 1090 backdoors.
If you really want cellular phone then a DECT network will be lot cheaper to setup. Of course, if you want to call somebody outside your cell (you didn't say that) then you still need a trunk line coming in. Cable, radio or satellite are the obvious choices.
IPsec in the default kernel.
You don't need a new government agency. If it's illegal to spam then law enforcement should take care of it, just like any other crime.
Tracing the spam is indeed diffcult, but the police wouldn't have to use that approach. They could instead "follow the money." Since every spam has a payment button, you just have to send them some money and arrest the person who receives the money.
Think of how law enforcement would act if somebody was selling kiddie porn or assasinations or drugs. They could use the same method when dealing with spammers, if the laws were properly written.
Complain to your congressman, not your ISP!
Don't bet on that kind of price reduction due to quantity. You have to get the quantity first, before the prices go down. But until the prices go down you can't get the quantity.
Wrong. You have to get the demand first, but not necessarily the quantity.
I expect MS to fix their shit for a reasonable amount of time - say 5 years or so from date of last sale.
And your point is? They already do that! Exchange 2000 was released in the summer of 2000, so you would assume that 5.5 had its last sale in mid 2000. And regarding your complaint about design flaws, if you didnt like the design then you shouldn't have bought the product, right?
Security updates will be available until the end of the Exchange 5.5 extended support period, December 31, 2005.
If you bought a car before they invented seat belts and airbags and ABS, would you expect to get those features added for free when they were invented?
And yes, I REALLY believe that M$ is beginning to realize that poor security hurts their bottom line. And that means they will start to do something about it.
Perhaps it's too obvious, but Exchange 2003 and Windows Server 2003 share the goal to be secure by design, secure by default, and secure in deployment.
They don't even verify your identity. These guys just ask for your email address, and if it's "webmaster" (or 10 other common user names) then you get the cert in the mail!
You don't have to wait for the domain to expire. Just change your registrar, which you can do right now. I have had good experience with DirectNIC where you can change the owner of a domain with a few web clicks, zero paper work. They are also a lot cheaper than NetSol.