I live in Philly and the cops can certainly be downright creepy sometimes. It's not at all uncommon to see them roving in packs of 5 of more cops in some sort of post-apocalyptic gang style. I guess they're going by the "safety in numbers" thing but I can't help but think we'd need far less cops if they didn't insist on clumping together like that.
Generally speaking, standards like that arn't created by a joint OS vendor conference or whatever. Stuff like WPA is an IEEE standard (IEEE 802.11i-2004). I expect anything devised outside of a formal standardization process to be terribly broken and completely non-standard.
If you only target people at random that's probably the best you'd get.
However, if you have specific targets with specific things you want, something such as this is definetly a possible attack vector. This sort of social engineering is certainly out there and used in the wild though the "I'm here to fix your wifi" variation may be new.
I believe "ram raid" is probably like what the bad dudes did in the movie Heat (excellent movie btw). ie, ram an armoured car with a truck and then rob it. Not sure how effective that'd be with just a small little car and I haven't really heard of that sort of thing happening in real life.
People should reinstall their Windows from scratch at least once a year. Any less frequent than that and the successive patches to patches to patches become too much for the system to bear. The successive software installs and uninstalls leave hanging dependencies that slow the system to even worse of a crawl than it was at first install. An "upgraded" system drags with it the legacy rootkits previously installed, and those cause issues even in the best case. In the worst case the malware and crudware bog down the system so much you're lucky to get any work done at all.
Wow, that's probably the best sales pitch I've heard for windows yet. Congrats.
Kind of unfair. "Only" posting your email on slashdot (in un-obscfucated plaintext I might add...) is for all intents and purposes "posting for the entire internet to see". It's not like seperate websites are some sort of mystical barrier that will somewhat hold at bay any amount of email scrappers, certainly not on a site as large as slashdot anyways.
I'm not very familar with this sort of thing at all, but I thought the problem with DC in powerlines was you'd need absolutely massive lines to properly transmit power any sort of real distance.
I will send you $20 to stay in a hole, write software and restrict yourself from communicating with the outside world. Really, the world would be a better place.
Wow, that's a bit harsh. Who's the asshole again?...
I'm pretty sure you'd change your desision making process if one plane company started firing all of their engineers and had HR types design and build their planes.;)
The two are in no way mutually exclusive. My personal project is also an alternative to proprietary software.
Now, does it do everything the proprietary counterpart does, or do things in the same way? By no means. For most people it probably wouldn't be what you'd call a good alternative, but for me it's perfect.
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I live in Philly and the cops can certainly be downright creepy sometimes. It's not at all uncommon to see them roving in packs of 5 of more cops in some sort of post-apocalyptic gang style. I guess they're going by the "safety in numbers" thing but I can't help but think we'd need far less cops if they didn't insist on clumping together like that.
Generally speaking, standards like that arn't created by a joint OS vendor conference or whatever. Stuff like WPA is an IEEE standard (IEEE 802.11i-2004). I expect anything devised outside of a formal standardization process to be terribly broken and completely non-standard.
But yeah, it would probably be a good idea.
You're comparing leaving your wifi unsecured with an analogy involving a locked house? I'm not sure but I think one of us probably needs more sleep.
Also, I'm not sure what sort of fascist country you live in, but as the others have already said, "burden of proof" man.
If you only target people at random that's probably the best you'd get.
However, if you have specific targets with specific things you want, something such as this is definetly a possible attack vector. This sort of social engineering is certainly out there and used in the wild though the "I'm here to fix your wifi" variation may be new.
I believe "ram raid" is probably like what the bad dudes did in the movie Heat (excellent movie btw). ie, ram an armoured car with a truck and then rob it. Not sure how effective that'd be with just a small little car and I haven't really heard of that sort of thing happening in real life.
My important files are data files. I don't execute my data files.
Of course I use a real operating system that makes a distinction between data files and executables so I guess the point is mute.
Troll? That movie is hilarious, I guess mods these days have no taste.
I'd love to see a text file give me a virus.
No really, I'd actually enjoy seeing that happen.
Wow, that's probably the best sales pitch I've heard for windows yet. Congrats.
Kind of unfair. "Only" posting your email on slashdot (in un-obscfucated plaintext I might add...) is for all intents and purposes "posting for the entire internet to see". It's not like seperate websites are some sort of mystical barrier that will somewhat hold at bay any amount of email scrappers, certainly not on a site as large as slashdot anyways.
Probably would have been cooler if you hadn't read this...
Awwww.... :(
This is probably what uuencode is for.
Opinions are not facts and should not be expressed as such. Try something more adult, like... "I don't like Slashdot 2.0 because of X and Y".
You are an overreactive and offtopic ass. How's that for fact?
I take it you've never actually tried to use slashdot's search function.
LIES
We're talking about you, not me.
I'm not very familar with this sort of thing at all, but I thought the problem with DC in powerlines was you'd need absolutely massive lines to properly transmit power any sort of real distance.
Says a lot about the competence of the majority of these so called professionals doesn't it?
Then what's the big deal? Just let them use their little license and ignore them.
Honestly I just don't understand the hostility from any side, coding is supposed to be fun people, stop getting all worked up!
Wow, that's a bit harsh. Who's the asshole again?...
How terribly grotesque on multiple levels.
Maybe your country's real problem is people like you who are unwilling to take responsibility for what your own government does.
Sure, that's what they say anyways. The real reason is pure economics though.
I'm pretty sure you'd change your desision making process if one plane company started firing all of their engineers and had HR types design and build their planes. ;)
The two are in no way mutually exclusive. My personal project is also an alternative to proprietary software.
Now, does it do everything the proprietary counterpart does, or do things in the same way? By no means. For most people it probably wouldn't be what you'd call a good alternative, but for me it's perfect.