In a lot of companies, IT knows who's getting fired before they do (to cut off account access). It kind of sucks especially if you see them on the walk of shame.
Despite the "funny" mod, I'm totally serious. If openmoko isn't an option I'll be buying a non-subsidized android phone from a manufacturer that doesn't install carrierIQ. I'm happy that my iPhone seems to be okay, but I know Apple will abuse it eventually.
I've been using "ip" for at least 8 years now...it actually allows you to assign multiple IP addresses to a single network device. I don't know how anyone lives with ifconfig anymore.
I live with ifconfig because ifconfig can do the exact same thing. ?
I spent the first couple of days wandering around with empty bottles in my bag, until I realised recycling just didn't happen.
Oh, it happens, but the place that accepts them will charge you to take them. They won't pay you. They'll charge you. Like they're a hazardous waste cleanup company or something.
Part of the agreement is to allow Apple and the cellular carrier to monitor and be able to diagnose problems. One has zero expectation of privacy anyway with a cell phone, so having software which is present as per a signed contract is to be expected.
Keylogging my username and password for my https or ssh connections is definitely not part of the agreement as I understood it (and a valid contract is a meeting of the minds, not an evil trap full of gotchas), no any other data that I might be typing in to encrypted or even non encrypted sessions. Sure, I admit that the non encrypted sessions might be listened to by someone, but the expectation is that the someone in that scenario is not my phone provider using a tool the installed before I bought it.
Apk showed current information which u don't disprove in each point of his on Linux being hacked on servers, hosting malware... which u and others who are Linux fans seem to avoid disproving in each documented current point from reputable sources he used to show that much. Why's that? Because you can't do it?
Actually,
I can't read the stuff that
is formatted in the way that
Random Anonymous Cowards
write with the tagline of APK
It's very jarring. I usually read the first few lines, let him rant like Gene Ray, then read the closing argument.
Its the female ones that bite. The male ones do not.
The male mosquitoes can still be food for the ecosystem.
The only thing that can go wrong is increasing the worlds population from all the lives saved from malaria.
But the females need mammal blood for their eggs. Unless they're lucky enough to walk up to a sleeping mammal and draw the blood without some other insect eating them, these wingless females aren't going to be laying too many eggs. So, the new generations of this species of mosquitoes will all be from winged females and either normal winged males, or winged males that carry the wingless-female gene. Eventually the females might start eschewing the "bad" males, but until they do, the population will continue to decline, and other mosquito species might fill in the ecological niche (hopefully ones that prefer mammals other than humans).
why would they yum update openssh, since you report they installed 5.8 from an ubuntu/debian source package.
Because the rpm database would list openssh as the latest RHEL version if it were audited, but they could modify the ubuntu source before compiling it to allow for a back door?
That makes me think twice about skipping on that Redhat license.
Perhaps the folks at Cent should be checking their logs.
It's just representative of the extra week that CentOS sometimes takes before patches are available. They've been slightly better lately, only one day behind RHEL. Of course compare that to windows machines with a sometimes multi-month lag on patches..
Sorry in advance for feeding the Troll, but he's at +4 Interesting...
Current proof that Linux's NOT "invulnerable secure" yet again, & yes, that Linux does get targetted by malwares...
(Despite all the "FUD" you see & have seen for YEARS now on this website from the "Pro-*NIX/Penguinista" around here!)
Great Scott! It's the Strawman! Hurry Robin, knock it down before Commissioner Gorden gets here!
The line of reasoning here has always been:
Linux Nut: Ha Ha! Windows has another [TCP stack / Kernel Font Rendering] vulnerability!
Microsoft nut: Well, that's only because Linux is never targeted. It's just as non-secure, but no one wants it.
Linux Nut: Linux is targeted, and it's more secure because patches are delivered in a shorter time frame (unless you're using CentOS, then patches go through two layers of slow bureaucracy after the upstreams maintainers fix the issue)
Here we have a case where someone wants Linux (usually the prime target, but always out of reach), and they had a small window of opportunity to hack badly administered boxes. These were the microsoft equivalent of Windows 2k3 boxes set up without auto-updates and username/password administrator/administrator.
Actually, the AC is at 0 and GP is at 1 (was only modded down 1 by a mod who decided that modding me redundant was more important than modding the AC up, but I had the karma bonus added in).
Nobody notices MOST ACs because most ACs don't contribute much if anything to the discussion.
Nobody notices most ACs because AC comments don't send notifications upon posting (you have to actively recheck your posts to see them), and they start 2 points under where most people read. I wanted to make sure the originator saw the response because it's good practice.
Is he saying that the universe can be likened to a computer program or that a computer program can be written which can simulate the universe? Or is he exploring metaphysics and stating that the universe *is* a computer program?
My point was that several servers do use SSH. If I rent a dedicated server, SSH is how I get things done.
"So get a static IP address if you don't already have one, and setup iptables to only allow that IP address access to port 22." -Sibling AC
(reposted sibling AC since it's a good idea, and no one notices ACs)
This to me sounds like it could be bordering on illegal
Bordering? It might be legal federally, but if I recall correctly (not a lawyer), there are States where recording such data is a violation of wiretap unless both parties are aware of the recording. And such some people here on/. are pointing to contract clauses where "data necessary to the functioning of the network" or similar are spelled out and saying that people consented (and are thus aware, which is suspect in itself). But let's take this a step further. CarrierIQ says in plain English that they're not logging keystrokes. Any customer who knows about carrierIQ and has seen carrierIQ's statement has a reasonable expectation that "logging keystrokes" is not part of the data logging they're agreeing to. "Aha!" says the weasel lawyer "the ordinary people didn't know about carrierIQ! Only our execs knew it was installed on our phones." To which I say, "did carrierIQ misrepresent its logging nature to those execs?" if it did, then carrierIQ might be logging keystrokes between a user and the phone company when the phone company execs have a reasonable expectation that carrierIQ isn't doing that. Then carrierIQ is in trouble in two-party states.
"And I want it to be implemented in less than four years. Then we can change all government records to show that presidents can have four terms in office. Then we'll change it to four decades. I call it my 4-4-4-4 plan. Get out your little red kindles, children. We're going to read about democracy."
Nobody has 300 real friends, I promise you that much.
Nobody has 300 *close* friends. I have way more than 300 real friends: old friends, work friends, church friends, family friends, ex girlfriends, close friends. That's not counting acquaintances or friends of those friends. To me, someone I was friends with in high school does stop being my friend just because our lives diverged. At reunions, we happily get back into old patterns while discussing the latest happenings in our lives. If one of them came back into regular contact (and some have), I'd be very happy and welcome their presence.
I know the joke about slashdotters, but we really don't live in basements.
As CmdrPony noted above, the internet has stabilized quite a bit....
MySpace might have made themselves more than a stepping stone to social networking stabilization, but they did not. Facebook, on the other hand, has done so.
Facebook did it by initially providing a site with stable appearance instead of personalized backgounds and music loading on everyone's pages. Then they started changing things, and rapidly. I'm seeing my non-technical friend drop facebook lately because they're fed up with the changes (not the privacy changes that I disliked, but instead UI changes that confuse them).
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In a lot of companies, IT knows who's getting fired before they do (to cut off account access). It kind of sucks especially if you see them on the walk of shame.
My boss considers it overtime if I just read my work email after hours.
Despite the "funny" mod, I'm totally serious. If openmoko isn't an option I'll be buying a non-subsidized android phone from a manufacturer that doesn't install carrierIQ. I'm happy that my iPhone seems to be okay, but I know Apple will abuse it eventually.
I've been using "ip" for at least 8 years now...it actually allows you to assign multiple IP addresses to a single network device. I don't know how anyone lives with ifconfig anymore.
I live with ifconfig because ifconfig can do the exact same thing. ?
I'd pay more for a phone without CarrierIQ
Ugh. Don't remind me of wevtutil.
I spent the first couple of days wandering around with empty bottles in my bag, until I realised recycling just didn't happen.
Oh, it happens, but the place that accepts them will charge you to take them. They won't pay you. They'll charge you. Like they're a hazardous waste cleanup company or something.
"And that sandwich you're eating is made out of old, discarded sandwiches."
That's funny cause I don't remember Goggle, HTC, etc. telling anyone about this on Android phones. Oh, I forgot. Apple baaaaaad!
Google never installed it. HTC neither. Sprint, AT&T, etc. did. In Apple's case Apple is the one that installed it (if it's there).
Part of the agreement is to allow Apple and the cellular carrier to monitor and be able to diagnose problems. One has zero expectation of privacy anyway with a cell phone, so having software which is present as per a signed contract is to be expected.
Keylogging my username and password for my https or ssh connections is definitely not part of the agreement as I understood it (and a valid contract is a meeting of the minds, not an evil trap full of gotchas), no any other data that I might be typing in to encrypted or even non encrypted sessions. Sure, I admit that the non encrypted sessions might be listened to by someone, but the expectation is that the someone in that scenario is not my phone provider using a tool the installed before I bought it.
How does "the first life" kill "almost everything alive"?
Mempto rays.
Apk showed current information which u don't disprove in each point of his on Linux being hacked on servers, hosting malware ... which u and others who are Linux fans seem to avoid disproving in each documented current point from reputable sources he used to show that much. Why's that? Because you can't do it?
Actually,
I can't read the stuff that
is formatted in the way that
Random Anonymous Cowards
write with the tagline of APK
It's very jarring. I usually read the first few lines, let him rant like Gene Ray, then read the closing argument.
Its the female ones that bite. The male ones do not. The male mosquitoes can still be food for the ecosystem. The only thing that can go wrong is increasing the worlds population from all the lives saved from malaria.
But the females need mammal blood for their eggs. Unless they're lucky enough to walk up to a sleeping mammal and draw the blood without some other insect eating them, these wingless females aren't going to be laying too many eggs. So, the new generations of this species of mosquitoes will all be from winged females and either normal winged males, or winged males that carry the wingless-female gene. Eventually the females might start eschewing the "bad" males, but until they do, the population will continue to decline, and other mosquito species might fill in the ecological niche (hopefully ones that prefer mammals other than humans).
why would they yum update openssh, since you report they installed 5.8 from an ubuntu/debian source package.
Because the rpm database would list openssh as the latest RHEL version if it were audited, but they could modify the ubuntu source before compiling it to allow for a back door?
That makes me think twice about skipping on that Redhat license. Perhaps the folks at Cent should be checking their logs.
It's just representative of the extra week that CentOS sometimes takes before patches are available. They've been slightly better lately, only one day behind RHEL. Of course compare that to windows machines with a sometimes multi-month lag on patches..
Current proof that Linux's NOT "invulnerable secure" yet again, & yes, that Linux does get targetted by malwares... (Despite all the "FUD" you see & have seen for YEARS now on this website from the "Pro-*NIX/Penguinista" around here!)
Great Scott! It's the Strawman! Hurry Robin, knock it down before Commissioner Gorden gets here!
The line of reasoning here has always been: Linux Nut: Ha Ha! Windows has another [TCP stack / Kernel Font Rendering] vulnerability!
Microsoft nut: Well, that's only because Linux is never targeted. It's just as non-secure, but no one wants it. Linux Nut: Linux is targeted, and it's more secure because patches are delivered in a shorter time frame (unless you're using CentOS, then patches go through two layers of slow bureaucracy after the upstreams maintainers fix the issue)
Here we have a case where someone wants Linux (usually the prime target, but always out of reach), and they had a small window of opportunity to hack badly administered boxes. These were the microsoft equivalent of Windows 2k3 boxes set up without auto-updates and username/password administrator/administrator.
LOL! You're sitting at 0, and he's at +3.
Actually, the AC is at 0 and GP is at 1 (was only modded down 1 by a mod who decided that modding me redundant was more important than modding the AC up, but I had the karma bonus added in).
Nobody notices MOST ACs because most ACs don't contribute much if anything to the discussion.
Nobody notices most ACs because AC comments don't send notifications upon posting (you have to actively recheck your posts to see them), and they start 2 points under where most people read. I wanted to make sure the originator saw the response because it's good practice.
Is he saying that the universe can be likened to a computer program or that a computer program can be written which can simulate the universe? Or is he exploring metaphysics and stating that the universe *is* a computer program?
My point was that several servers do use SSH. If I rent a dedicated server, SSH is how I get things done.
"So get a static IP address if you don't already have one, and setup iptables to only allow that IP address access to port 22." -Sibling AC
(reposted sibling AC since it's a good idea, and no one notices ACs)
This to me sounds like it could be bordering on illegal
Bordering? It might be legal federally, but if I recall correctly (not a lawyer), there are States where recording such data is a violation of wiretap unless both parties are aware of the recording. And such some people here on /. are pointing to contract clauses where "data necessary to the functioning of the network" or similar are spelled out and saying that people consented (and are thus aware, which is suspect in itself). But let's take this a step further. CarrierIQ says in plain English that they're not logging keystrokes. Any customer who knows about carrierIQ and has seen carrierIQ's statement has a reasonable expectation that "logging keystrokes" is not part of the data logging they're agreeing to. "Aha!" says the weasel lawyer "the ordinary people didn't know about carrierIQ! Only our execs knew it was installed on our phones." To which I say, "did carrierIQ misrepresent its logging nature to those execs?" if it did, then carrierIQ might be logging keystrokes between a user and the phone company when the phone company execs have a reasonable expectation that carrierIQ isn't doing that. Then carrierIQ is in trouble in two-party states.
"Stricter enforcement of Internet usage restrictions"
Somehow that strikes me as fostering an environment hostile to online business.
"And I want it to be implemented in less than four years. Then we can change all government records to show that presidents can have four terms in office. Then we'll change it to four decades. I call it my 4-4-4-4 plan. Get out your little red kindles, children. We're going to read about democracy."
To me, someone I was friends with in high school doesn't stop being my friend just because our lives diverged.
Sigh. I blame autocorrect, but secretly I blame myself.
Nobody has 300 real friends, I promise you that much.
Nobody has 300 *close* friends. I have way more than 300 real friends: old friends, work friends, church friends, family friends, ex girlfriends, close friends. That's not counting acquaintances or friends of those friends. To me, someone I was friends with in high school does stop being my friend just because our lives diverged. At reunions, we happily get back into old patterns while discussing the latest happenings in our lives. If one of them came back into regular contact (and some have), I'd be very happy and welcome their presence.
I know the joke about slashdotters, but we really don't live in basements.
As CmdrPony noted above, the internet has stabilized quite a bit. ...
MySpace might have made themselves more than a stepping stone to social networking stabilization, but they did not. Facebook, on the other hand, has done so.
Facebook did it by initially providing a site with stable appearance instead of personalized backgounds and music loading on everyone's pages. Then they started changing things, and rapidly. I'm seeing my non-technical friend drop facebook lately because they're fed up with the changes (not the privacy changes that I disliked, but instead UI changes that confuse them).