Right, because we all know that this technology couldn't possibly be used to analyze anything other than bittorrent traffic. It would be totally impossible to use it to inspect emails, right? That's just crazy science fiction - no way could it happen in the real world. Besides, we all know that only criminals use bittorrent. Who would possibly think of using it to distribute political documentaries or leaked government documents?
They seriously need to overcome these obstacles before illegal file sharers should worry about it being used to target people.
I strongly disagree. People need to start raising hell about this Big Brother bullshit now. Technology like this operates under the assumption that ALL users are criminals until proven innocent and blatantly violates the 4th amendment(in the U.S. at least).
Furthermore, does anyone here honestly believe that this type of technology will only be used to stop copyright infringement and kiddie porn? This technology smacks of oppression and the quashing of political dissent.
Close, but no cigar. Corporations may be people in some legal respects, but they sure as hell can't vote. It's people like us who give politicians their jobs, and it's people like us who can just as easily take them away.
You seem to be suffering from the pernicious mass delusion that politicians work for the electorate. They don't. They work for the trust fund brigade, the corporations and lobbyists who keep their campaign coffers full and their prospects for post-public-sector enrichment bright.
The voters are just a group to be pandered to, lied to, and bamboozled with rhetoric in order to maintain the illusion that we live in a representative democracy. We don't. Get used to it.
Our 'leaders' have perfected the arts of divide-and-conquer and spin to the point that the majority of the electorate have been successfully divided into opposing factions who support their respective teams, right or wrong. The pols have got the unwashed masses so busy pointing fingers at each other that nobody pays attention to the ass-raping being inflicted upon us by our elected officials and their paymasters.
Welcome to the Cleptocracy. Now bend over, break out the astroglide, grease up and take that big, throbbing, red, white and blue cock in the ass with the patriotic fervor of a True American.
Or go stand on a street corner somewhere, wave your witty sign, chant your silly slogans and be content in the knowledge that you're really giving those dirty pols the what-for, while they ignore you and continue with their looting and pillaging.
There's a reason why the founders wrote the second amendment. They understood well that there will always be greedy, selfish, and powerful people who can only be persuaded with force. Government, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Maybe it's time we remembered the founders' warning.
It doesn't matter if you have an amazing amount of goods if large percentage of the population is unemployed.
No worries. Excess population is dealt with easily enough with the time honored, tried and tested tools of war, famine, pestilence and death.
Our dear leaders have always known how to deal with excess population, just as they have long known that an unavoidable side effect of industrialization and the replacement of human labor with machine labor is a permanent underclass of the unemployed.
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.
They make money by monitoring your habits. Can any one tell me how they pay their CDN and caching servers bills for millions and millions queries everyday?
From the site:
"OpenDNS partners with hardware and service providers to deliver our award-winning security, infrastructure and navigation services."
They sale your private info.
There's nothing private about my public IP address. If they can manage to glean personal info from my IP address then, damn, they're good.
OpenDNS redirects all your Google search queries though their servers.
From the site:
"Is OpenDNS running a proxy?
Yes. Some software, including your (and our) beloved Google Toolbar, intercepts requests made via the address bar so that DNS requests never occur. This creates some usability issues, including making shortcuts - which require DNS requests to be made from the address bar - unreliable. We've designed a simple proxy that ensures the best of Google and OpenDNS work without causing problems.
When enabled, we route certain requests to a simple proxy which checks for the origin of the request. Shortcut-related traffic gets handled (and redirected) while all other traffic goes to the intended destination untouched. We are not storing or mining any of the data that passes through the proxy. The proxy does nothing malicious - it's designed to make your shortcuts work seamlessly with the Google Toolbar and similar services, giving you the best of both worlds.
Like all OpenDNS services, the proxy is respectful of your privacy. We do not track any of the searches made through the proxy. In fact, since so many people use Google we automatically rotate and delete the logs frequently. We do not store any of those logs, nor do we perform any non-operational-related analysis of the traffic sent through the proxy at any time. Protecting your privacy and delivering a fantastic navigational experience will always be two of our main goals at OpenDNS. We believe that this solution provides just that, and continues our tradition of innovative services that make your Internet experience with OpenDNS faster, safer and more reliable.
Ultimately, this proxy serves to enhance the OpenDNS experience and we recommend you leave it enabled.
They redirect web browser users or scripts accessing nonexistent domains to a page containing sponsored search results, ads, and a search form. The DNS protocol requires that a query for a nonexistent domain must return the "NXDOMAIN" error response.
You mean if I try to navigate to a nonexistent domain that OpenDNS will A) Inform me of my error B) Present me with a search form and C) Display a few innocuous text ads on the page?
I'm crushed. Damn, how could they?
How is that any worse than Google displaying text ads on their search results page? How hard can it be to block those text ads if they really get your panties in that big of a twist? If it bothers you that much, it's not like anyone is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to use their service.
This is just another attempt, IMHO, by Corporate America to turn the internet into a whored-out media wasteland indistinguishable from print, radio, or television. They want to become the gatekeepers of the internet because it drives them batshit insane to know that people can freely access information that hasn't first been filtered by them for content and then distributed at a premium.
You're making an excellent case for how warped our society is due to religious taboos. Why is it acceptable to expose children to violence, terror and destruction, but people freak out if they are exposed to sex - be it for pleasure or procreation? I can't be the only one who sees the disconnect of reason inherent in this situation.
KB951847 (Microsoft.NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and.NET Framework 3.5 Family Update) installs this e(vil)xtension without so much as a by-your-leave. Simple instructions on how to remove it can be found here: Microsoft force-installs Firefox extension
Microsoft are acting more and more like the kings of old who claimed Divine Right to justify their tyranny.
After seeing the plethora of articles today about the 'panic' caused by a brief error (less than an hour)in Google Search's malware detection system, I have begun to wonder if this 'global upset' is due to what has effectively become a monoculture in the realm of search engines? Perhaps Google is too popular for our own good.
True, but for a corporation, being sued for such conflict of interest could well be a death sentence in that it would damage its image with consumers. Also, you could sue them for false advertisement - another civil offense, but one that can be just as deadly to a corporation's standing with the consumer base.
Once a company becomes known as a liar and a cheat, like Microsoft, it may as well... oh, wait - nevermind!
I would have planted my boot in that professor's ass the second hands were laid on my private property - woman or no. She has absolutely no right to rummage through and seize a student's property and was obviously counting on her position as a professor to intimidate her students into complying with her bogus and illegal demands. If people weren't such sheep in the face of authority then shit like this wouldn't happen.
And if a user is stupid enough to install a pirated ware AND give said ware the root password, what on earth makes you think they will possibly be able to understand what to do if informed that process xyz is opening a connection?
The installer for the Trojan horse is launched as soon as a user begins the installation of iWork, following the installer's request of an administrator password
As I said, it's a PEBKAC error. If you give an installer your admnin password it can do whatever it pleases. Only an idiot installs pirated wares and only a supremely stupid idiot gives said warez the root password.
No security paradigm will ever be invented that cannot be undermined by human stupidity.
Since when does a PEBKAC error count as news? If you're idiot enough to install pirated software then you deserve what you get - and absolutely nobody can protect a computer system against user stupidity.
You want companies to spend millions of dollars developing open source games to compete with closed source games, knowing that they will be giving these games away with no way to recoup their R&D expenditures(except for those ever popular Linux service and support contracts, of course!)?
Sounds like a winner to me, lol. Let me know how it goes.
It seems to me that this case is just another in the long line of bullshit scare tactics used to convince the public that the internet is just too dangerous in its current state and can only be rendered safe if it's turned into a corporate owned and operated media wasteland patrolled by the jackboots.
Slashdot Mirror
Right, because we all know that this technology couldn't possibly be used to analyze anything other than bittorrent traffic. It would be totally impossible to use it to inspect emails, right? That's just crazy science fiction - no way could it happen in the real world. Besides, we all know that only criminals use bittorrent. Who would possibly think of using it to distribute political documentaries or leaked government documents?
They seriously need to overcome these obstacles before illegal file sharers should worry about it being used to target people.
I strongly disagree. People need to start raising hell about this Big Brother bullshit now. Technology like this operates under the assumption that ALL users are criminals until proven innocent and blatantly violates the 4th amendment(in the U.S. at least).
Furthermore, does anyone here honestly believe that this type of technology will only be used to stop copyright infringement and kiddie porn? This technology smacks of oppression and the quashing of political dissent.
Close, but no cigar. Corporations may be people in some legal respects, but they sure as hell can't vote. It's people like us who give politicians their jobs, and it's people like us who can just as easily take them away.
You seem to be suffering from the pernicious mass delusion that politicians work for the electorate. They don't. They work for the trust fund brigade, the corporations and lobbyists who keep their campaign coffers full and their prospects for post-public-sector enrichment bright.
The voters are just a group to be pandered to, lied to, and bamboozled with rhetoric in order to maintain the illusion that we live in a representative democracy. We don't. Get used to it.
Our 'leaders' have perfected the arts of divide-and-conquer and spin to the point that the majority of the electorate have been successfully divided into opposing factions who support their respective teams, right or wrong. The pols have got the unwashed masses so busy pointing fingers at each other that nobody pays attention to the ass-raping being inflicted upon us by our elected officials and their paymasters.
Welcome to the Cleptocracy. Now bend over, break out the astroglide, grease up and take that big, throbbing, red, white and blue cock in the ass with the patriotic fervor of a True American.
Or go stand on a street corner somewhere, wave your witty sign, chant your silly slogans and be content in the knowledge that you're really giving those dirty pols the what-for, while they ignore you and continue with their looting and pillaging.
There's a reason why the founders wrote the second amendment. They understood well that there will always be greedy, selfish, and powerful people who can only be persuaded with force. Government, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Maybe it's time we remembered the founders' warning.
---- Teach Peace. It's Cheaper Than War.
Yes, but not nearly as profitable.
Welcome to the Cleptocracy.
It doesn't matter if you have an amazing amount of goods if large percentage of the population is unemployed.
No worries. Excess population is dealt with easily enough with the time honored, tried and tested tools of war, famine, pestilence and death.
Our dear leaders have always known how to deal with excess population, just as they have long known that an unavoidable side effect of industrialization and the replacement of human labor with machine labor is a permanent underclass of the unemployed.
Fancy another world war, anyone?
Or the wife's hoo-hoo?
Yes, but observations have confirmed that the more distant the object the faster it is receding from us.
Epic fail.
Article V
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.
U.S. Constitution Online - Cornell University Law School
They make money by monitoring your habits. Can any one tell me how they pay their CDN and caching servers bills for millions and millions queries everyday?
From the site:
"OpenDNS partners with hardware and service providers to deliver our award-winning security, infrastructure and navigation services."
They sale your private info.
There's nothing private about my public IP address. If they can manage to glean personal info from my IP address then, damn, they're good.
OpenDNS redirects all your Google search queries though their servers.
From the site:
"Is OpenDNS running a proxy?
Yes. Some software, including your (and our) beloved Google Toolbar, intercepts requests made via the address bar so that DNS requests never occur. This creates some usability issues, including making shortcuts - which require DNS requests to be made from the address bar - unreliable. We've designed a simple proxy that ensures the best of Google and OpenDNS work without causing problems.
When enabled, we route certain requests to a simple proxy which checks for the origin of the request. Shortcut-related traffic gets handled (and redirected) while all other traffic goes to the intended destination untouched. We are not storing or mining any of the data that passes through the proxy. The proxy does nothing malicious - it's designed to make your shortcuts work seamlessly with the Google Toolbar and similar services, giving you the best of both worlds.
Like all OpenDNS services, the proxy is respectful of your privacy. We do not track any of the searches made through the proxy. In fact, since so many people use Google we automatically rotate and delete the logs frequently. We do not store any of those logs, nor do we perform any non-operational-related analysis of the traffic sent through the proxy at any time. Protecting your privacy and delivering a fantastic navigational experience will always be two of our main goals at OpenDNS. We believe that this solution provides just that, and continues our tradition of innovative services that make your Internet experience with OpenDNS faster, safer and more reliable.
Ultimately, this proxy serves to enhance the OpenDNS experience and we recommend you leave it enabled.
They redirect web browser users or scripts accessing nonexistent domains to a page containing sponsored search results, ads, and a search form. The DNS protocol requires that a query for a nonexistent domain must return the "NXDOMAIN" error response.
You mean if I try to navigate to a nonexistent domain that OpenDNS will A) Inform me of my error B) Present me with a search form and C) Display a few innocuous text ads on the page?
I'm crushed. Damn, how could they?
How is that any worse than Google displaying text ads on their search results page? How hard can it be to block those text ads if they really get your panties in that big of a twist? If it bothers you that much, it's not like anyone is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to use their service.
All you've really done is shown that you're a noob, slashdot gets these troll post in every story.
Did you buy your account off ebay?
Really? Because I don't recall *ever* seeing these particular brands of posts until after President Obama was elected and sworn in.
This is just another attempt, IMHO, by Corporate America to turn the internet into a whored-out media wasteland indistinguishable from print, radio, or television. They want to become the gatekeepers of the internet because it drives them batshit insane to know that people can freely access information that hasn't first been filtered by them for content and then distributed at a premium.
Go fuck yourselves, ESPN.
when we finally see the year of Linux on the desktop.
In other words, don't hold your breath just yet.
You're making an excellent case for how warped our society is due to religious taboos. Why is it acceptable to expose children to violence, terror and destruction, but people freak out if they are exposed to sex - be it for pleasure or procreation? I can't be the only one who sees the disconnect of reason inherent in this situation.
KB951847 (Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Family Update) installs this e(vil)xtension without so much as a by-your-leave. Simple instructions on how to remove it can be found here: Microsoft force-installs Firefox extension
Microsoft are acting more and more like the kings of old who claimed Divine Right to justify their tyranny.
After seeing the plethora of articles today about the 'panic' caused by a brief error (less than an hour)in Google Search's malware detection system, I have begun to wonder if this 'global upset' is due to what has effectively become a monoculture in the realm of search engines? Perhaps Google is too popular for our own good.
Google Search seems to be working just fine now. Whatever caused the problem, they seem to have fixed it.
"Conflict of Interest" is not a criminal offense.
True, but for a corporation, being sued for such conflict of interest could well be a death sentence in that it would damage its image with consumers. Also, you could sue them for false advertisement - another civil offense, but one that can be just as deadly to a corporation's standing with the consumer base.
Once a company becomes known as a liar and a cheat, like Microsoft, it may as well... oh, wait - nevermind!
Maybe the eugenics crowd is on to something. Eliminating fucktards like the above could only serve to improve the species.
Mod parent down, please. Better yet, just erase the fucking post.
I would have planted my boot in that professor's ass the second hands were laid on my private property - woman or no. She has absolutely no right to rummage through and seize a student's property and was obviously counting on her position as a professor to intimidate her students into complying with her bogus and illegal demands. If people weren't such sheep in the face of authority then shit like this wouldn't happen.
And if a user is stupid enough to install a pirated ware AND give said ware the root password, what on earth makes you think they will possibly be able to understand what to do if informed that process xyz is opening a connection?
The installer for the Trojan horse is launched as soon as a user begins the installation of iWork, following the installer's request of an administrator password
As I said, it's a PEBKAC error. If you give an installer your admnin password it can do whatever it pleases. Only an idiot installs pirated wares and only a supremely stupid idiot gives said warez the root password. No security paradigm will ever be invented that cannot be undermined by human stupidity.
Since when does a PEBKAC error count as news? If you're idiot enough to install pirated software then you deserve what you get - and absolutely nobody can protect a computer system against user stupidity.
You want companies to spend millions of dollars developing open source games to compete with closed source games, knowing that they will be giving these games away with no way to recoup their R&D expenditures(except for those ever popular Linux service and support contracts, of course!)? Sounds like a winner to me, lol. Let me know how it goes.
It seems to me that this case is just another in the long line of bullshit scare tactics used to convince the public that the internet is just too dangerous in its current state and can only be rendered safe if it's turned into a corporate owned and operated media wasteland patrolled by the jackboots.