Better education of users is the answer. To coin a car analogy, most people now know not to leave their purse, computer, other valuable items visible in their car, they take extra measures like leaving it in the boot/trunk or not leaving it there in the first place.
This was (and unfortunately still is) not always the case but because of advertising campaigns people tend to know they should be more aware.
To be honest I thought you had some interesting points in your original post but now you seem like a bit of a dick. Calm your temper a bit and you won't deflect attention from the content of your post.
Ooo, snappy snappy, just like a crocodile! I'm sorry if I misinterpreted the quotes you put around "inventor of the internet" but there's no need to spit the dummy!
I'm still using a Nokia 3310. 'What? Call yourself a geek and you don't have a smart phone?' I hear you ask...
Well I quite like the idea that when I leave the office I'm NOT AT WORK any more. I'm still contactable if anyone wants to TXT/call me and I'm rarely more than 10mins away from a WiFi connection if I really need one (I have a Nexus 7 which is on me most of the time).
I also take perverse pleasure when I try calling someone on their iPhone and they hang up on me only to TXT me back to say their mic has been playing up and they can't currently receive calls.
I also ski and paraglide quite a lot and need a phone that's going to work in an emergency, potentially after a big fall...
I know I'll have to replace it eventually but it's doing fine for what I need right now.
FYI, here are some opinions of other paraglider pilots on the subject of flying with R/C models.
This is mainly about soaring with full r/c than follow-drones which would presumably have a more predictable flight path, so not exactly the same situation but I'd still imagine speedrider pilots having problems with this because they are often well below the 400ft AGL height limit.
Exactly, thinking about ski resorts the chances of your drone hitting a ski lift could cause the lift to shut down (temporarily) so I'd imagine the resorts banning them anywhere near a piste. Also I'd have thought the chances of a downed drone(s) garotting someone are fairly high.
In many Alpine ski resorts there are a lot of paraglider and speedrider pilots (of which I am one, in Chamonix).
Although we're not allowed to fly directly above pistes I can imagine these drones being very popular off-piste (i.e backcountry) where we often paraglide. A collision with an untethered drone *probably* wouldn't be too dangerous assuming the rotor blades are surrounded with a shroud but if it were tethered to the skier/boarder then the likelihood of it becoming tangled is quite high and could easily cause major problems for the paraglider pilot.
Luckily Chamonix is a very traditional resort so I'd expect these drones to be banned anywhere near the piste and (hopefully) off-piste as well, however it would be almost impossible to police off-piste!
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With a separate/home partition it's easy. I installed Mint 17 (previously Mint 15) the other day (backed up/home anyway, just in case) and went with the custom install option (i.e choose your own partitions).
During the install I re-formatted my root (/) partition for the new version and selected my existing/home partition as the new/home mount point. When asked to create a user for the new install I entered my old username and password and my (ecryptfs encrypted) home folder was recognised and decrypted.
Finally I just had to re-install a few apps, my settings stored in ~/ were automatically recognised of course. Total time, <1hr.
Seeing as it's just a phishing kit that runs on any PHP enabled server, no, only Windows users are a prerequisite, not the OS itself. (Also an email client that displays functional HTML forms helps).
How to prevent a PHP script being executed when it is being read in as an $_post element?
Simple, don't:
<?php
eval($_POST['unvalidated_user_data']);
?>
(in fact don't eval at all, if you need eval you're usually doing something wrong)
Having RTFA, I interpreted it slightly differently. I think the supplied PHP code is uploaded to another, previously compromised server and it is used to send out phishing emails.
The unwary user then enters their login details on the compromised server (or if they are using an email client that displays HTML forms(!), within the email) the data is then sent to the compromised server which forwards it on to the script kiddie. The user is then redirected to the real login page along with their POST data so when they arrive there they are automatically logged in, none the wiser...
I just sent this to a couple of friends who don't understand what hacking is. Previously I've tried to explain to them that hacking is making something do stuff it wasn't originally designed to do and they've assumed that's just a euphemism for cracking security.
Hell I *am* a technical person and I would dearly love for a database that made it as easy to create a simple database as it is to create a spreadsheet.
Eh? I may have misunderstood but if you are saying that the comment by Irish-DnB:
What happens if there are 10 times as many people with cars whose plate ends with a 'T' than those that end with a 'U'
...would never work then please explain further? I grant you 10 times is a stretch but license plates aren't random so you can't assume there will be an even spread of letters/numbers.
The current UK license plate system, introduced in 2001, has two non-random groups of characters*. If these characters were at the end of the plate (they aren't but they could have been) then you could easily end up with a disproportionate number of cars whose plate ends in the same character.
* The plate starts with a two letter area code followed by a two-digit age identifier, which changes twice a year.
On another note, the article mentions there being 36 possible 'last characters' of a number plate. That may be the case in the USA but in the UK certain letters aren't used on plates (IQ) because they are easily confused with other letters/numbers (10) when being read in a hurry.
Are you sure you replied to the correct post? I can see at least three pieces of information that weren't in the OP's post:
To promote their system, Russia decided to make new smartphones without GLONASS support illegal
Major manufacturers added that capability to all their phones since there is almost no additional cost to each unit, once the capability is designed into the chipset
There is no major CDMA networking in Russia.
If you think any of this information is incorrect then please feel free to post your version of the facts, otherwise...
fcuk it, why am I feeding a troll with a 7 digit UID!?!
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Better education of users is the answer. To coin a car analogy, most people now know not to leave their purse, computer, other valuable items visible in their car, they take extra measures like leaving it in the boot/trunk or not leaving it there in the first place.
This was (and unfortunately still is) not always the case but because of advertising campaigns people tend to know they should be more aware.
To be honest I thought you had some interesting points in your original post but now you seem like a bit of a dick. Calm your temper a bit and you won't deflect attention from the content of your post.
Ooo, snappy snappy, just like a crocodile! I'm sorry if I misinterpreted the quotes you put around "inventor of the internet" but there's no need to spit the dummy!
Tim Berners-Lee didn't invent the internet, he is credited with inventing the World Wide Web.
I'm still using a Nokia 3310. 'What? Call yourself a geek and you don't have a smart phone?' I hear you ask...
Well I quite like the idea that when I leave the office I'm NOT AT WORK any more. I'm still contactable if anyone wants to TXT/call me and I'm rarely more than 10mins away from a WiFi connection if I really need one (I have a Nexus 7 which is on me most of the time).
I also take perverse pleasure when I try calling someone on their iPhone and they hang up on me only to TXT me back to say their mic has been playing up and they can't currently receive calls.
I also ski and paraglide quite a lot and need a phone that's going to work in an emergency, potentially after a big fall...
I know I'll have to replace it eventually but it's doing fine for what I need right now.
Sorry, mis-moderated...
Completely agree, I would add to point 2 that once he'd uploaded to enough peers (now seeds) there was no point in continuing to seed.
Having said that he may have been convicted on his sale of physical copies, which makes him a complete douche.
First Korean in space?!? One of these stories must be wrong then...
Probably can't be 100% sure but there are tell-tale signs such as never supplying a HTTP referrer or User Agent.
FYI, here are some opinions of other paraglider pilots on the subject of flying with R/C models.
This is mainly about soaring with full r/c than follow-drones which would presumably have a more predictable flight path, so not exactly the same situation but I'd still imagine speedrider pilots having problems with this because they are often well below the 400ft AGL height limit.
Or a drone hitting a chairlift? Even if nobody is hurt you'd still investigate, the next time you might not be so lucky...
Exactly, thinking about ski resorts the chances of your drone hitting a ski lift could cause the lift to shut down (temporarily) so I'd imagine the resorts banning them anywhere near a piste. Also I'd have thought the chances of a downed drone(s) garotting someone are fairly high.
In many Alpine ski resorts there are a lot of paraglider and speedrider pilots (of which I am one, in Chamonix).
Although we're not allowed to fly directly above pistes I can imagine these drones being very popular off-piste (i.e backcountry) where we often paraglide. A collision with an untethered drone *probably* wouldn't be too dangerous assuming the rotor blades are surrounded with a shroud but if it were tethered to the skier/boarder then the likelihood of it becoming tangled is quite high and could easily cause major problems for the paraglider pilot.
Luckily Chamonix is a very traditional resort so I'd expect these drones to be banned anywhere near the piste and (hopefully) off-piste as well, however it would be almost impossible to police off-piste!
Don't forget the Terramax.
With a separate /home partition it's easy. I installed Mint 17 (previously Mint 15) the other day (backed up /home anyway, just in case) and went with the custom install option (i.e choose your own partitions).
/home partition as the new /home mount point. When asked to create a user for the new install I entered my old username and password and my (ecryptfs encrypted) home folder was recognised and decrypted.
During the install I re-formatted my root (/) partition for the new version and selected my existing
Finally I just had to re-install a few apps, my settings stored in ~/ were automatically recognised of course. Total time, <1hr.
If you read the Netcraft article you'll see that the summary is wrong. All it is is a phishing kit that's hosted on some other compromised server.
It's nothing to do with the dating site's security, more to do with the tech savy of their users.
Seeing as it's just a phishing kit that runs on any PHP enabled server, no, only Windows users are a prerequisite, not the OS itself. (Also an email client that displays functional HTML forms helps).
How to prevent a PHP script being executed when it is being read in as an $_post element?
Simple, don't:
<?php
eval($_POST['unvalidated_user_data']);
?>
(in fact don't eval at all, if you need eval you're usually doing something wrong)
Having RTFA, I interpreted it slightly differently. I think the supplied PHP code is uploaded to another, previously compromised server and it is used to send out phishing emails.
The unwary user then enters their login details on the compromised server (or if they are using an email client that displays HTML forms(!), within the email) the data is then sent to the compromised server which forwards it on to the script kiddie. The user is then redirected to the real login page along with their POST data so when they arrive there they are automatically logged in, none the wiser...
If I had mod points...
I just sent this to a couple of friends who don't understand what hacking is. Previously I've tried to explain to them that hacking is making something do stuff it wasn't originally designed to do and they've assumed that's just a euphemism for cracking security.
Unlikely for our species, the cockroaches on the other hand...
Hell I *am* a technical person and I would dearly love for a database that made it as easy to create a simple database as it is to create a spreadsheet.
Are you sure you are "a technical person"?
Start button?
and there are no countervailing examples in TV fiction
How about Walter White (Breaking Bad) or Gregory House MD (House MD)? I'd say they are intellectual heroes (or anti-heros in the case of WW).
Interestingly House also has some of the social issues that are represented in TBBT but he's never belittled by the plot/script, far from it.
What happens if there are 10 times as many people with cars whose plate ends with a 'T' than those that end with a 'U'
The current UK license plate system, introduced in 2001, has two non-random groups of characters*. If these characters were at the end of the plate (they aren't but they could have been) then you could easily end up with a disproportionate number of cars whose plate ends in the same character.
* The plate starts with a two letter area code followed by a two-digit age identifier, which changes twice a year.
On another note, the article mentions there being 36 possible 'last characters' of a number plate. That may be the case in the USA but in the UK certain letters aren't used on plates (IQ) because they are easily confused with other letters/numbers (10) when being read in a hurry.
If you think any of this information is incorrect then please feel free to post your version of the facts, otherwise...
fcuk it, why am I feeding a troll with a 7 digit UID!?!