The article also contains some commentary from a marketing executive who conducted an informal survey of the game and discovered that 'One of the most frequently purchased items in Second Life is genitalia.'
I would toil away the hours, and mingle with the others, if I only had a groin.
I think the biggest argument *for* "I've got nothing to hide" is the fact that plenty of people will partake in illegal activity if they think noone is watching. I hate to say it, but I think it's a minor part of human nature.
I call it the halo effect. Watch it, next time your driving. People cut you off, don't use their turn signals, speed, basically drive like idiots. Place a patrol car in the mix, (in fact the second it comes into sight of any of the aforementioned asshole drivers) and suddenly, without warning, little halos appear over every car and everyone is just a cute little perfect driver doing what they're supposed to.
I love making the analogy of drivers to general society because it allows you to observe people acting privately in a public place. The isolation of the driver from everyone else (aka no real communication) gives this sense of "tunnel vision" where basically people drive as if they're the only ones on the road at all, and somehow the other cars are not really people but automatons just getting in the way.
So the major premise of the "I've got nothing to hide" crowd, is that plenty of people do, and the ones that squirm in their seats are usually the ones who just might...
I'm all for privacy, and don't want too much of my rights eroded away, but honestly, I really don't have anything to hide. I think it's the level of monitoring or whatnot that scares people.
I didn't read the essay. But I can imagine the guy is outraged at people's nonchalance. "I've got nothing to hide" may generally be perceived as "I don't care", and that's what the author is most likely trying to avoid.
Give me the middle ground... I do care if you monitor me too much, but I also do care if you do the things like drive like an asshole when you think noone is looking. With the proper checks and balances, neither side will get overconfident.
Yea no kidding. I read through the networking options carefully. I particularly love the "pipelining" part. Send requests before getting valid acknowledgments from previous requests.
This is a tactic spammers use with mail servers. It's rude, annoying and breaks the rules/protocol. Smart admins will typically put a filter on so it ignores requests that come in too fast (or in the case with sendmail, pre-greeting traffic, smtp pipelining).
I would tend to think FireFox developers know sane defaults better than the standard user. It should come with a disclaimer: use at your own risk.
...that I was sued for cutting off the arms and legs of another character in AD&D with a vorpal sword. They were looking for 87.2 megakagillion dollars in damages. At the time my character was a level 129 half-god so I only had about 12.3 megakagillion dollars. This lawsuit set an imaginary precedent for fake virtual crimes everywhere. If it were real I might have remembered what the outcome was.
Hmm someone please send me a link where I can trade in my Smartphone with 2003 SE for a Linux based one. (That's blessed by Cingular of course). I would do so in a heartbeat.
I hope none of their service providers had a constant pcap of cleartext port 25 going appending to a log file. This would create duplicates of all email for the last X amount of time it's been running.
Even if they have TLS enabled, I hope they don't use a third-party spam service. Yup, body of messages stored there too.
I bet this information is worth a lot of money.
Having only worked at a few providers across the east coast, I have no knowledge of this happening. Nope.
I love how people tend to think Computers are simple machines, like a potato peeler or something. They're complex machines, and there's people who do not take that into account. The minute you do anything with a computer (even after it's "secured") you run the risk of lowering your security.
I bet if I went and bought a nice new shiny sports car, and drove 200 mph into a brick wall, I would die. Geez! How insecure is that? I mean after all I have to engage the seatbelt? It wasn't engaged when I bought the car!
I guess my point is... plenty of security is your behavior. And many people don't even realize things they do have any kind of adverse impact.
This article should have been called "A list of default services running on different OSs that sometimes you have to enable manually".
I mean, we're talking security... why didn't they take into account any other factors? Say vulnerabilities in the different implementations of the TCP stacks.
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I have the solution to all of our security concerns.
There are two types of people in the world:
- those who care about computers
- those who don't
Chances are the first group are experts (of varying degrees). The second group are most likely the "vulnerable" ones (in terms of social engineering).
My solution -- never let group #2 touch a computer again. Ever.
The article also contains some commentary from a marketing executive who conducted an informal survey of the game and discovered that 'One of the most frequently purchased items in Second Life is genitalia.'
I would toil away the hours, and mingle with the others, if I only had a groin.
All of that is on my myspace page. Which, btw is easy to check but not easy to find.
Uhh... you've copyrighted the impressions left behind from your fingertips?
I think the biggest argument *for* "I've got nothing to hide" is the fact that plenty of people will partake in illegal activity if they think noone is watching. I hate to say it, but I think it's a minor part of human nature.
...
... I do care if you monitor me too much, but I also do care if you do the things like drive like an asshole when you think noone is looking. With the proper checks and balances, neither side will get overconfident.
I call it the halo effect. Watch it, next time your driving. People cut you off, don't use their turn signals, speed, basically drive like idiots. Place a patrol car in the mix, (in fact the second it comes into sight of any of the aforementioned asshole drivers) and suddenly, without warning, little halos appear over every car and everyone is just a cute little perfect driver doing what they're supposed to.
I love making the analogy of drivers to general society because it allows you to observe people acting privately in a public place. The isolation of the driver from everyone else (aka no real communication) gives this sense of "tunnel vision" where basically people drive as if they're the only ones on the road at all, and somehow the other cars are not really people but automatons just getting in the way.
So the major premise of the "I've got nothing to hide" crowd, is that plenty of people do, and the ones that squirm in their seats are usually the ones who just might
I'm all for privacy, and don't want too much of my rights eroded away, but honestly, I really don't have anything to hide. I think it's the level of monitoring or whatnot that scares people.
I didn't read the essay. But I can imagine the guy is outraged at people's nonchalance. "I've got nothing to hide" may generally be perceived as "I don't care", and that's what the author is most likely trying to avoid.
Give me the middle ground
No, because (sooner or later) you're giving it back to the community. They can collect that as tax.
I think we should all play a game called "Give the Google Van the Finger", then we can see how many of us show up on the Internet with the finger.
If this comes up in an interview, swear up and down "that isn't me".
Yea no kidding. I read through the networking options carefully. I particularly love the "pipelining" part. Send requests before getting valid acknowledgments from previous requests.
This is a tactic spammers use with mail servers. It's rude, annoying and breaks the rules/protocol. Smart admins will typically put a filter on so it ignores requests that come in too fast (or in the case with sendmail, pre-greeting traffic, smtp pipelining).
I would tend to think FireFox developers know sane defaults better than the standard user. It should come with a disclaimer: use at your own risk.
...now he's "bandwidth bankrupt" too. At least for his blog site.
WTF is this? A cross between Doogie Houser and a LARP? What do they call it, "Fantasy Medicine"?
...son of a BITS.
Ahh yes the inevitable techy vs non-techy argument. I say we start a war, death to all stupid people!
Well hey let's just not stop at Civil War... let's go all out World War 3! Viva la resistance, er something.
If you can work a scientific calculator and your VCR (DVD/DVR, car, watch, cat, etc) isn't flashing 12:00, come with me!
Wonder what other sort of medieval torture devices they can think of to force us to watch ads?
...that I was sued for cutting off the arms and legs of another character in AD&D with a vorpal sword. They were looking for 87.2 megakagillion dollars in damages. At the time my character was a level 129 half-god so I only had about 12.3 megakagillion dollars. This lawsuit set an imaginary precedent for fake virtual crimes everywhere. If it were real I might have remembered what the outcome was.
Hmm someone please send me a link where I can trade in my Smartphone with 2003 SE for a Linux based one. (That's blessed by Cingular of course). I would do so in a heartbeat.
How weird and ironic is it that we posted the same exact idea just about the same exact time?
Hmm sounds like a conspiracy.
I don't know you, I swear!
I hope none of their service providers had a constant pcap of cleartext port 25 going appending to a log file. This would create duplicates of all email for the last X amount of time it's been running.
Even if they have TLS enabled, I hope they don't use a third-party spam service. Yup, body of messages stored there too.
I bet this information is worth a lot of money.
Having only worked at a few providers across the east coast, I have no knowledge of this happening. Nope.
I guess the whole point of this (without RTFA or even the posts, in fact just the /. comments) is that developers are still only human?
... that they're also looking for an elusive character to subpoena, his name is "Honest Truth".
I love how people tend to think Computers are simple machines, like a potato peeler or something. They're complex machines, and there's people who do not take that into account. The minute you do anything with a computer (even after it's "secured") you run the risk of lowering your security.
... plenty of security is your behavior. And many people don't even realize things they do have any kind of adverse impact.
... why didn't they take into account any other factors? Say vulnerabilities in the different implementations of the TCP stacks.
I bet if I went and bought a nice new shiny sports car, and drove 200 mph into a brick wall, I would die. Geez! How insecure is that? I mean after all I have to engage the seatbelt? It wasn't engaged when I bought the car!
I guess my point is
This article should have been called "A list of default services running on different OSs that sometimes you have to enable manually".
I mean, we're talking security
More Nerd, less "news" please.
It was a "mouse on the street" segment... didn't even get that much airplay...
Noone ever connects to my wide open wireless with an SSID of "Honeypot".
So you're saying "Data are either impregnated with anonymity or they ain't?"
I need another cup of coffee.
First when I saw it slashdotted, I thought ... bet the server is not running Linux!
/ /www.itbusinessedge.com
Check it out:
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:
time sox song.mp3 song.ogg
22.845u 0.336s 0:23.19 99.9% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
Not bad, cpu is only 2.4ghz. This was a 3.5mb mp3 and it ended up as a 2.9mb ogg.