I tooled around on a client of our's network the other day. We installed a server there and at their request (needed to add that to cover my butt) I had to load a file on one of their pc's for a guy to install.
(The only main difference between this scenario and mine was I had a Linux (running gentoo) server on their lan. Here the guy had vpn access and thus he could VPN in and have a linux box on their lan.)
My problem was that I had no idea what the IP address of the laptop was where I needed to place the file (a printer driver) so I pulled out a few really beginner tools to get my job done.
(I will not post actual output here since most linux geeks will know what I would see.)
nmap -sP to scan for active IP adresses.Next to the output you will see the name of the network drevice (the maker of the actual network card). Using this info I could make a guess as to what is a printer (they had an HP network printer) and their router. The rest had to be the computers/laptops.
Next up I ran nmblookup -A against some of the IP adresses until I found the one I was looking for.
At this point I ran into a possible hitch - password for a share.
I ran smbclient -L against the chosen IP address and PRESTO - open windows "Shared Documents"
So, for a "security expert" or hacker having VPN access can afford one a lot of information and opportunity for doing nasty stuff.
I had with these three tools: A list of all the devices on the network, a means to determine all the open shares, find out computer names (using these you can often determine usernames and guess passwords - "password" is still quite common), find out the workgroup/domain name, send print jobs to the printer if I chose to, access the router and harves the dsl username and password, place worms and trojans on the "Shared Documents" folders of several computers and infect a whole lan!
the basic premise of the MBTA's argument: That the students' presentation was a likely violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a 1986 federal law meant to protect computers from malicious attacks such as worms and viruses.
For the moon that might work fine - but we have not sent people to Mars. Yet. SO as soon as someone walks the surface of mars and it seems financially feasible to send rocks back I am sure it will be done.
It is still beta. But it might offer the kind of search innovation that you are talking about. It is a visual search, and actually shows you previews of the page hits.
I'd guess that they developed gradually. From a quick scan of my trivia knowledge I can't remember anything...
Software programming is such a "new" field when taken alongside Engineering, Law and Medical practice.
The question I want to ask though is what good will regulating the field of programming do? I'd wager that if it is handled incorrectly it could seriously stifle innovation.
What will the impact on Open Source software projects be?
And what guise will the regulation take on? Submitting your code for review before it is released? This will be seriously opposed by the larger proprietary software companies, and also will slow down software development to such a point that innovation and tech advances in general will slow down to a crawl.
How long before the US government insists on reviewing code under the guise of "Terrorist Threat Prevention" before allowing it to be released?
Nope, the negative implications of this makes my gut reaction say "steer clear."
I am sorry to say but CNN and BBC is not the most reliable sources on the psyche of Africans. It is also not productive to form assumptions without taking into account the behind the scenes dealing (and warmongering - notice the Chinese arms ship that was turned away from delivering arms to Zimbabwe by South Africa) that takes place.
Africans are not as bad as you make them out to be.
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What tickles me is the "hand-formatted" part. How was that done?
well... off to rtfa....
I tooled around on a client of our's network the other day. We installed a server there and at their request (needed to add that to cover my butt) I had to load a file on one of their pc's for a guy to install.
(The only main difference between this scenario and mine was I had a Linux (running gentoo) server on their lan. Here the guy had vpn access and thus he could VPN in and have a linux box on their lan.)
My problem was that I had no idea what the IP address of the laptop was where I needed to place the file (a printer driver) so I pulled out a few really beginner tools to get my job done.
(I will not post actual output here since most linux geeks will know what I would see.)
nmap -sP to scan for active IP adresses.Next to the output you will see the name of the network drevice (the maker of the actual network card). Using this info I could make a guess as to what is a printer (they had an HP network printer) and their router. The rest had to be the computers/laptops.
Next up I ran nmblookup -A against some of the IP adresses until I found the one I was looking for.
At this point I ran into a possible hitch - password for a share.
I ran smbclient -L against the chosen IP address and PRESTO - open windows "Shared Documents"
So, for a "security expert" or hacker having VPN access can afford one a lot of information and opportunity for doing nasty stuff.
I had with these three tools: A list of all the devices on the network, a means to determine all the open shares, find out computer names (using these you can often determine usernames and guess passwords - "password" is still quite common), find out the workgroup/domain name, send print jobs to the printer if I chose to, access the router and harves the dsl username and password, place worms and trojans on the "Shared Documents" folders of several computers and infect a whole lan!
Layers of security my left foot.
YES.
Real Question: WHY?
Maybe because they did it wrong before?
I read TFA and it seems that this is not a bug. It is rather a compromise as a result of illicit access to the servers.
Exactly HOW or WHO did this is not mentioned in TFA.
Btw - what does the "i" have to do with apple anyhow?
But fluctuating magnetic fields affect bees.
Think of the bees man!
Yeah - real successful law that.
Hey - I thought the OP was being serious. But I get that a lot - subtle humor is often lost on me...
Thats what you get for replying to a post without checking what is was modded as.
I second your last sentence.
Daring is a dying art. Someone - I forget who - said "Youth is wasted on the young."
Today I am thinking it is more of "youthfulness is suppressed in the young."
I want my kids to do things like this one day, and guide them rather than stop them completely.
For the moon that might work fine - but we have not sent people to Mars. Yet. SO as soon as someone walks the surface of mars and it seems financially feasible to send rocks back I am sure it will be done.
You missed it.
It's right next to the Lego miniatures of politicians looking the other way.
You forgot Ensign Gomez. He beams over to the Alien ship and gets killed, slaughtered and eaten by them.
Like they did with IE? Shut out competitors by mimicking another product and making it a default install of their own?
Didn't they JUST begin to do that with Apache?
I disagree - for the average geek the DOING of something is an end in itself.
Geeks are the pioneers of today, we do stuff because it is there to do.
AND a dodgy offer.
It's all hype and no substance.
http://www.searchme.com/
It is still beta. But it might offer the kind of search innovation that you are talking about. It is a visual search, and actually shows you previews of the page hits.
Kind of nifty animation as well.
I'd guess that they developed gradually. From a quick scan of my trivia knowledge I can't remember anything...
Software programming is such a "new" field when taken alongside Engineering, Law and Medical practice.
The question I want to ask though is what good will regulating the field of programming do? I'd wager that if it is handled incorrectly it could seriously stifle innovation.
What will the impact on Open Source software projects be?
And what guise will the regulation take on? Submitting your code for review before it is released? This will be seriously opposed by the larger proprietary software companies, and also will slow down software development to such a point that innovation and tech advances in general will slow down to a crawl.
How long before the US government insists on reviewing code under the guise of "Terrorist Threat Prevention" before allowing it to be released?
Nope, the negative implications of this makes my gut reaction say "steer clear."
Ah, and here I thought you were up for intelligent discussion.
Maybe I am incorrect, if you are ready for a frank discussion on this, head over
to the GodGab forum.
No it is not a Christian Forum, atheists hang out there as well as Buddhists and the occasional Muslim.
And yes I am interested in your thoughts (sans attempts at flaming), but /. is not the place for such discussion.
How do you pull bullshit from that?
Strange that they are only doing that now - haven't they seen Contact?
Surely a family tree would be considered prior art?
Then why can't I use a mouse to drag my mother-in-law to the recycle bin?
'cause not even your mouse will touch dat
And you base this on what, exactly?
I am sorry to say but CNN and BBC is not the most reliable sources on the psyche of Africans. It is also not productive to form assumptions without taking into account the behind the scenes dealing (and warmongering - notice the Chinese arms ship that was turned away from delivering arms to Zimbabwe by South Africa) that takes place.
Africans are not as bad as you make them out to be.
And I thought only software patents were frivolous...
Isn't that mekano, or mechano?