You're right, but I'm sure I also read something last year about some different work Google was doing for the astronomy community. They were writing some kind of innovative image search framework for use with a new telescope array that produces huge amounts of data.
The details are all a bit hazy now, but I remember thinking this sounded really interesting at the time. After a few minutes of searching, I can't seem to find any mention of it on the web. Did I dream this? Does anybody know what the hell I'm talking about?!
Nope, it's not fishy. It actually happened to my iPod. At the time I just thought my antivirus program was on crack, and it couldn't possibly be a real virus, so this story was quite a shock to me.
consider that over 60 per cent of a person's identity can be found in his or her garbage can.
What on earth does that mean? How can you quantify identity like that? And what percentage of my identity should somebody be allowed to steal before I start worrying?
I'm gonna be equally off-topic and say: I love nano too! It's simple, intuitive, fast, unbloated, works tolerably over SSH (PuTTY in my case) and best of all, you can side-step the whole vi/emacs debate:)
Are you referring to the "21st Century Networks" project? I don't know that much about it either, but I have a friend who is working on it as a contractor for BT and he thinks the whole thing is a big waste of time. It seems to be some hugely over-ambitious project to replace the whole PSTN network with some kind of spooky half-circuit/half-packet switched network that's kinda like VoIP but not quite. Anyway, as I said before, I don't know much about it:)
Exactly. The first rule of dealing with users: Never Tell Them The Truth. (The second rule: if you absolutely have to tell them the truth, make sure your explanation is so long-winded and jargon-riddled that they'll know not to ask any more questions);)
It's certainly impossible to tell if it's legitimately public before connecting to it
Sorry, I have to disagree with that. Any reasonable-sized institution (my university, for example) will set up their Linux/Windows/etc. login screen to show a message along the lines of "If you are not authorised to be here, bugger off." I'm pretty damn sure someone like NASA or the DoD would have set up the same thing.
As far as I could tell from the few articles I've read about this, McKinnon was accessing via VNC or something similar, so he would have seen these messages.
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You're right, but I'm sure I also read something last year about some different work Google was doing for the astronomy community. They were writing some kind of innovative image search framework for use with a new telescope array that produces huge amounts of data.
The details are all a bit hazy now, but I remember thinking this sounded really interesting at the time. After a few minutes of searching, I can't seem to find any mention of it on the web. Did I dream this? Does anybody know what the hell I'm talking about?!
Sorry to be a dick, but "I was always clearful" doesn't inspire a lot of confidence! ;)
Thanks for the link. I'd never even heard of HAL/S before. Interesting stuff!r s/Appendix-II.html
Somehow your link got a bit screwed up, so here it is again:
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/compute
Nope, it's not fishy. It actually happened to my iPod. At the time I just thought my antivirus program was on crack, and it couldn't possibly be a real virus, so this story was quite a shock to me.
I'm gonna be equally off-topic and say: I love nano too! It's simple, intuitive, fast, unbloated, works tolerably over SSH (PuTTY in my case) and best of all, you can side-step the whole vi/emacs debate :)
Are you referring to the "21st Century Networks" project? I don't know that much about it either, but I have a friend who is working on it as a contractor for BT and he thinks the whole thing is a big waste of time. It seems to be some hugely over-ambitious project to replace the whole PSTN network with some kind of spooky half-circuit/half-packet switched network that's kinda like VoIP but not quite. Anyway, as I said before, I don't know much about it :)
Exactly. The first rule of dealing with users: Never Tell Them The Truth. (The second rule: if you absolutely have to tell them the truth, make sure your explanation is so long-winded and jargon-riddled that they'll know not to ask any more questions) ;)
Sorry, I have to disagree with that. Any reasonable-sized institution (my university, for example) will set up their Linux/Windows/etc. login screen to show a message along the lines of "If you are not authorised to be here, bugger off." I'm pretty damn sure someone like NASA or the DoD would have set up the same thing.
As far as I could tell from the few articles I've read about this, McKinnon was accessing via VNC or something similar, so he would have seen these messages.