Probably not. No offense, but companies usually treat temp workers like shit and definitely do not give them the same priviledges as normal employees. Were the other employees salaried?
Well, if I recall correctly, 1999 was the year of more dot-com IPOs then ever before. So no, I don't think many of these businesses had solid business plans. They were jumping in on a hot market with something stupid plan and just happened to convince a VC that they could get in, cash in on a nice IPO, and the VC could get out before the company tanked leaving the rest of the shareholders who got in after the IPO to foot the bill. 1999 was a sickening year for the stock market and the tech industry raped it for all it was worth. Unfortunately someone had to lose money when these companies went belly up and the NASDAQ tanked and it sure as hell wasn't the angel investors! They were long gone by the time that happened with a fat return on their investment from the IPO. Analysts warned the dot-com bubble would burst and it finally did. I just hope too many people didn't lose their houses over it. I'm suprised the whole IPO ponzi scheme thing isn't illegal.:-P
You're kidding right? You shouldn't stick with a sinking ship. The CEO's don't even do that anymore.. they'll jump ship with their golden parachutes and land in another CEO job at some other company and the employees will just be another headline on fuckedcompany.com. I don't think I could handle working for a company where I didn't know if my next paycheck would bounce or not.;-)
*sigh* Apparently no one reads comments without instantly assuming they're flamebait anymore. If you'd read, what I said was to use a variety of tools. NOTHING will detect all vulnerabilities. You shouldn't expect it to, but by using multiple tools you'll increase your chances of detecting them, especially obscure stuff that maybe only some OSS hacker might have thought of including in his tool. Consider it a second opinion on the health of your network.
Well, if we just count manned US Space Shuttle launches, the error rate is only about 1% out of 100 launches. I'm not a gambler but I'd take those odds any day over Amtrak. You might survive the trip but you'll probably get mugged in the parking lot.
Commercial scanners are not produced by "a person off the street". They're produced by professionals that work for companies that have a significant motive for ensuring the accuracy of their products: money. If Joe Blow Security company said your home was secure but it wasn't, they're not going to get a very good reputation around the industry, will lose customers, and eventually get such a bad name they'll be run out of business. Definitely not something the investors like to see. Capitalism works for good and evil fortunately. Open source scanners are the ones that are more like asking a guy off the street. 95% of the time people are not going to be writing your own exploit modules for them so you have to take the word of that guy off the street you got the scanner and modules from to say that your network is secure. If you ARE skilled in writing modules and evaluating your network, then the best thing would be to use a combination of all of these methods. Get a couple of commercial scanners, get some open source stuff, and write some of your own. With the security of your network at stake there is no such thing as overkill.
Whatever. As long as I can relax on a beach on a small Carribean island with plenty of naked chicks around me. I say more power to them. Let machines do the work. I'd be happy lounging around as a pet. Remember, just because something provides all your basic necessities in life doesn't mean it is evil or corrupt or will want to ensure your doom. Pet owners and parents are two examples of that.
Well, I don't mean to sound like a pessimist, but it's human nature to hate each other. Nothing is going to change that in the next 50-100 years. Hell, nothing has changed that in the last 60,000+ years humans have walked the Earth. When humans are on the brink of peace there has always been a rallying cry coming from our "leaders" proclaiming the next threat. It's a sad state of affairs but it is in our nature. I believe Diderot said "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
Too many men have killed and died on the premise that their deeds will ensure them a position in whatever afterlife they believe in. I think that is the first hurdle we as a world need to conquer in the 3rd Millennium. Too much of the 2nd Millennium was dominated by religious leaders trying to conform the world to their views. It's time to take back the world from these people who for too long considered themselves the final arbiters of what is right and wrong in the world. Too many men have died. Too much blood has been shed. It must stop here with the dawning of a new Millennium.
Don't worry about them. If they were any good they've made more than enough in that one or two years prior to Y2K fleecing the companies out of money that all they need to do is sit back, find a nice interest rate at some banks, and retire. If they really want to live it up they may even invest some of it all in the stock market.. non-tech sector of course.;-)
Hand this man another beer. He's way too coherent to be posting to slashdot tonight. Ever hear of auto-posting? They do it all the time. Timothy's probably out puking his brains out right now.
But will it really matter? I mean, above and beyond winning money? It has already been proven that it would take years for hundreds of thousands of distributed computers to break some of these algorithms, I think Grandma's cookie secrets will be safe from anyone but the most determined cryptocracker.
Welp, let's all start getting ready for Y2038. You break out the diesel generators, I'll start seeding the Fast Company magazines with doom and gloom about the impending chaos that is Year 2038. With a little luck we'll generate enough stir to keep us all employed for the next 40 years.
I know I'm stepping into flamebait here.. but what's wrong with Windows2000? Compared to Win98 it is practically a god-send and just about the best modern OS for the PC out there. I suppose you can use Linux/*BSD as well if you're not interested in gaming or multimedia but for general purpose desktop uses it's wonderful. Rock solid.
Naw, Counter-strike doesn't run on a Playstation. That's why mine has been sitting in my stereo cabinet unused now for the last year and a half. Playstations can't hold a candle to a computer with a decent graphics card and the cool FPS games out there. If you want to play basketball or football games then a console would be fine.
I guess I'm just an old fogey, but why on earth do you need flash at all? If a site can't be view with lynx properly then something is wrong. Adding all these flashy (no pun intended) graphics and sounds is just annoying and really doesn't add any functionality over a well laid out site using simple text hyperlinks.. like slashdot for example.
What the hell were you thinking boy? Get your aluminum helmet back on before the Illuminati start sending you mind control signals again! Next thing you'll probably blab about is that the United States faked the moon landing.. we can't have the population becoming aware of these facts.. they just can't handle the let down!
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Yea, but there's no such thing as a free lunch. You're paying for Windows when you buy that box. You may be getting a drastically reduced price, but you're paying for it. If you're not paying for it then you're buying it from some small Russian clone builder who is just pirating Windows to install on it which is illegal.
That's a valid point. Short of having someone on an unfiltered connection review it for you there isn't an easy answer. I usually see people that come from Google and have seen the cached doc and ask for it to be exempted. That's a good way.:-) If you want to ask my honest opinion of the matter, I think filter software is a waste of time and resources. "Where there's a will, there's a way." There is certainly nothing stopping you from going and setting up a web server somewhere and running a CGI that proxies your web traffic ala Anonymizer.com. If you have outbound SSH access you could just forward a port to a squid proxy on a remote host, etc. The only people these filters are really blocking are those who don't have the skills necessary to bypass them.
As a network admin you have to accept a certain risk and leave it at that. Porn browsing, inappropriate network use, etc. is a management issue and it should be left to that. The same goes for schools and libraries as well as homes. A computer cannot supervise your children! A TV is not a substitute for good parenting! Somewhere along the line, someone is going to have to get off their ass and monitor these users in order to enforce the policies of your school, library, company, and home.
Actually I don't live in Texas and I was exaggerating about the shooting first part.:-P I definitely would call the police though if I found someone wandering around my property in the middle of the night, especially if they're testing my doors. I don't know if they're little Jimmy from next door or Mr. Serial Killer. Same goes for the people jiggling my ports, so to speak. I can't assume a person port scanning my machine is doing it under honorable intentions, therefore I must mistrust them and assume they are a hostile scan. Trust on the Internet went out of style about 15 years ago unfortunately.
p.s. Thanks for the notice about Texas.. I'll make sure not to wander around in a drunken stupor after an all night keg party if I'm in those parts.:-)
There is NOTHING stopping you from going up to the proxy's admin and asking that a perfectly valid site be exempted from the filtering. We use a filtering proxy at our site and it works just fine with hardly any complaints. There are perhaps 2 people a week out of 5000 that send in requests for a site to be exempted that they feel was wrongly classified. 98% of the time I agree with them and exempt it without question. Filter lists are not these static lists that Jamie likes to make them out to be. We get a new categorized list every week or so from our vendor with updated URL's and categories. So quit bitching already... if you want to jerk off to porn then go home and do it and stop wasting my tax money and resources.
I don't know about the portscans you see, but the portscans I see are more analogous to someone walking up to your back door in the middle of the night and jiggling the knob to see if it's open. I personally don't care less what your intentions are in the dead of night jiggling my door handle, I'm going to shoot you first and ask questions later. Don't do it.
Naw, this isn't your father's NASA. Today those guys would have probably died while they were fscking around rebooting their NT boxes on the ground at mission control to verify that it wasn't an anomaly in their telemetry. I'm probably just dealing with the wrong people, but these are definitely NOT the types that could improvise anything. Even suggesting some non-COTS solution is like hitting them in the head with a clue stick. They just stare at you like you're speaking Martian.
Geez.. I hope we didn't kill a kid by slashdotting their heart monitor / web server. Hardware IS tight over there you know. The entire country probably has to timeshare that Atari 800XL.
Well, since Nvidia has acquired the patents to the 3dfx stuff, we'll probably see them shift pace a little bit and start to use some of their technology. Expect the NV20 to use 6 GeForce2 GPU's on one card and require a seperate external 250 watt power supply.:-)
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Probably not. No offense, but companies usually treat temp workers like shit and definitely do not give them the same priviledges as normal employees. Were the other employees salaried?
Well, if I recall correctly, 1999 was the year of more dot-com IPOs then ever before. So no, I don't think many of these businesses had solid business plans. They were jumping in on a hot market with something stupid plan and just happened to convince a VC that they could get in, cash in on a nice IPO, and the VC could get out before the company tanked leaving the rest of the shareholders who got in after the IPO to foot the bill. 1999 was a sickening year for the stock market and the tech industry raped it for all it was worth. Unfortunately someone had to lose money when these companies went belly up and the NASDAQ tanked and it sure as hell wasn't the angel investors! They were long gone by the time that happened with a fat return on their investment from the IPO. Analysts warned the dot-com bubble would burst and it finally did. I just hope too many people didn't lose their houses over it. I'm suprised the whole IPO ponzi scheme thing isn't illegal. :-P
You're kidding right? You shouldn't stick with a sinking ship. The CEO's don't even do that anymore.. they'll jump ship with their golden parachutes and land in another CEO job at some other company and the employees will just be another headline on fuckedcompany.com. I don't think I could handle working for a company where I didn't know if my next paycheck would bounce or not. ;-)
*sigh* Apparently no one reads comments without instantly assuming they're flamebait anymore. If you'd read, what I said was to use a variety of tools. NOTHING will detect all vulnerabilities. You shouldn't expect it to, but by using multiple tools you'll increase your chances of detecting them, especially obscure stuff that maybe only some OSS hacker might have thought of including in his tool. Consider it a second opinion on the health of your network.
Well, if we just count manned US Space Shuttle launches, the error rate is only about 1% out of 100 launches. I'm not a gambler but I'd take those odds any day over Amtrak. You might survive the trip but you'll probably get mugged in the parking lot.
Commercial scanners are not produced by "a person off the street". They're produced by professionals that work for companies that have a significant motive for ensuring the accuracy of their products: money. If Joe Blow Security company said your home was secure but it wasn't, they're not going to get a very good reputation around the industry, will lose customers, and eventually get such a bad name they'll be run out of business. Definitely not something the investors like to see. Capitalism works for good and evil fortunately. Open source scanners are the ones that are more like asking a guy off the street. 95% of the time people are not going to be writing your own exploit modules for them so you have to take the word of that guy off the street you got the scanner and modules from to say that your network is secure. If you ARE skilled in writing modules and evaluating your network, then the best thing would be to use a combination of all of these methods. Get a couple of commercial scanners, get some open source stuff, and write some of your own. With the security of your network at stake there is no such thing as overkill.
Whatever. As long as I can relax on a beach on a small Carribean island with plenty of naked chicks around me. I say more power to them. Let machines do the work. I'd be happy lounging around as a pet. Remember, just because something provides all your basic necessities in life doesn't mean it is evil or corrupt or will want to ensure your doom. Pet owners and parents are two examples of that.
Too many men have killed and died on the premise that their deeds will ensure them a position in whatever afterlife they believe in. I think that is the first hurdle we as a world need to conquer in the 3rd Millennium. Too much of the 2nd Millennium was dominated by religious leaders trying to conform the world to their views. It's time to take back the world from these people who for too long considered themselves the final arbiters of what is right and wrong in the world. Too many men have died. Too much blood has been shed. It must stop here with the dawning of a new Millennium.
Don't worry about them. If they were any good they've made more than enough in that one or two years prior to Y2K fleecing the companies out of money that all they need to do is sit back, find a nice interest rate at some banks, and retire. If they really want to live it up they may even invest some of it all in the stock market.. non-tech sector of course. ;-)
Hand this man another beer. He's way too coherent to be posting to slashdot tonight. Ever hear of auto-posting? They do it all the time. Timothy's probably out puking his brains out right now.
But will it really matter? I mean, above and beyond winning money? It has already been proven that it would take years for hundreds of thousands of distributed computers to break some of these algorithms, I think Grandma's cookie secrets will be safe from anyone but the most determined cryptocracker.
Welp, let's all start getting ready for Y2038. You break out the diesel generators, I'll start seeding the Fast Company magazines with doom and gloom about the impending chaos that is Year 2038. With a little luck we'll generate enough stir to keep us all employed for the next 40 years.
I know I'm stepping into flamebait here.. but what's wrong with Windows2000? Compared to Win98 it is practically a god-send and just about the best modern OS for the PC out there. I suppose you can use Linux/*BSD as well if you're not interested in gaming or multimedia but for general purpose desktop uses it's wonderful. Rock solid.
Naw, Counter-strike doesn't run on a Playstation. That's why mine has been sitting in my stereo cabinet unused now for the last year and a half. Playstations can't hold a candle to a computer with a decent graphics card and the cool FPS games out there. If you want to play basketball or football games then a console would be fine.
I guess I'm just an old fogey, but why on earth do you need flash at all? If a site can't be view with lynx properly then something is wrong. Adding all these flashy (no pun intended) graphics and sounds is just annoying and really doesn't add any functionality over a well laid out site using simple text hyperlinks.. like slashdot for example.
What the hell were you thinking boy? Get your aluminum helmet back on before the Illuminati start sending you mind control signals again! Next thing you'll probably blab about is that the United States faked the moon landing.. we can't have the population becoming aware of these facts.. they just can't handle the let down!
Yea, but there's no such thing as a free lunch. You're paying for Windows when you buy that box. You may be getting a drastically reduced price, but you're paying for it. If you're not paying for it then you're buying it from some small Russian clone builder who is just pirating Windows to install on it which is illegal.
As a network admin you have to accept a certain risk and leave it at that. Porn browsing, inappropriate network use, etc. is a management issue and it should be left to that. The same goes for schools and libraries as well as homes. A computer cannot supervise your children! A TV is not a substitute for good parenting! Somewhere along the line, someone is going to have to get off their ass and monitor these users in order to enforce the policies of your school, library, company, and home.
Actually I don't live in Texas and I was exaggerating about the shooting first part. :-P I definitely would call the police though if I found someone wandering around my property in the middle of the night, especially if they're testing my doors. I don't know if they're little Jimmy from next door or Mr. Serial Killer. Same goes for the people jiggling my ports, so to speak. I can't assume a person port scanning my machine is doing it under honorable intentions, therefore I must mistrust them and assume they are a hostile scan. Trust on the Internet went out of style about 15 years ago unfortunately.
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p.s. Thanks for the notice about Texas.. I'll make sure not to wander around in a drunken stupor after an all night keg party if I'm in those parts.
There is NOTHING stopping you from going up to the proxy's admin and asking that a perfectly valid site be exempted from the filtering. We use a filtering proxy at our site and it works just fine with hardly any complaints. There are perhaps 2 people a week out of 5000 that send in requests for a site to be exempted that they feel was wrongly classified. 98% of the time I agree with them and exempt it without question. Filter lists are not these static lists that Jamie likes to make them out to be. We get a new categorized list every week or so from our vendor with updated URL's and categories. So quit bitching already... if you want to jerk off to porn then go home and do it and stop wasting my tax money and resources.
I don't know about the portscans you see, but the portscans I see are more analogous to someone walking up to your back door in the middle of the night and jiggling the knob to see if it's open. I personally don't care less what your intentions are in the dead of night jiggling my door handle, I'm going to shoot you first and ask questions later. Don't do it.
Unfortunately it's a problem of supply and demand. The 50,000 Sony Playstation 2 nodes they're using in the cluster are backordered.
Naw, this isn't your father's NASA. Today those guys would have probably died while they were fscking around rebooting their NT boxes on the ground at mission control to verify that it wasn't an anomaly in their telemetry. I'm probably just dealing with the wrong people, but these are definitely NOT the types that could improvise anything. Even suggesting some non-COTS solution is like hitting them in the head with a clue stick. They just stare at you like you're speaking Martian.
Geez.. I hope we didn't kill a kid by slashdotting their heart monitor / web server. Hardware IS tight over there you know. The entire country probably has to timeshare that Atari 800XL.
Well, since Nvidia has acquired the patents to the 3dfx stuff, we'll probably see them shift pace a little bit and start to use some of their technology. Expect the NV20 to use 6 GeForce2 GPU's on one card and require a seperate external 250 watt power supply. :-)