Seems like this happened before in 2008. A remarkably similar incident involving usb sticks, proving that a 370km airgap (spacegap?) isn't enough to keep malware out...
The sad guy mistook a db25 rs232 for a parallel port... sigh
I've been doing this for years, since 1997... so this must be one of the oldest tricks in the book. Here is my 4 step recipe for Ubuntu, using USB serial adapters:
1) hook up the stuff and config the terminals correctly (I used 9600 8n1 due to long cables, got weird chars at 19200+) 2) Install Ubuntu on your system 3) put the following in/etc/init/ttyUSB0.conf # ttyUSB0 - getty # # This service maintains a getty on tty1 from the point the system is # started until it is shut down again.
#start on stopped rc RUNLEVEL=[2345] #stop on runlevel [!2345]
respawn exec/sbin/getty -8 9600 ttyUSB0 vt100 ---(repeat for as many terminals you have, incrementing the 0 of ttyUSB0 to 1 to 2 etc)--- 4a) reboot
or 4b) sudo service ttyUSB0 start (repeat for as many terminals you have, incrementing 0 to 1 to 2 etc)... *) profit
Gee wiz, that was easy... So why is this on the frontpage of slashdot?
Little DRM rant here... a bit off-topic
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DRM is a tool to create artificial scarcity. Scarcity, virtual or real makes the scarce item more valuable, or so is thought.
Only one (1) person needs to crack the 'scarcity' and the whole (economic) system comes tumbling down. Let DRM be implemented, and let it be cracked, it will lead to yet another market-crash.
However, if the DRM can not or isn't cracked it will lead to the loss of the item, destroying the information locked by its DRM inside forever. An information black-out will be the result in our history.
Its a very strange thing that DRM is hailed upon by the biggest players in the 'free market'. All for profit and profit for all as they say. Money seems to be more valuable than anything else. This to me is a very freightning attitude. But reacting upon angst is even more freighting. We need to look at the root cause of the issue here, authors/creators feeling they're not duly compensated for their work. If we solve this issue there is no need for DRM.
A lot of research is being done in the field of new media and especially its distribution, but these reports don't seem to hit home (the publishers/law makers/etc).
I heard that in Germany, in places where you can not bring some piece of hardware with cam, a disabled (read: physically removed) camera isn't even allowed.
Motivation: it can be placed back into the system, when you are in the cam-free-zone. Since the cameramodules are so small I understand this.
IANAL...
If he bought the system, does he now also 'own' the information stored on it?
Presumably not since it was not what was offered and what was presumably payed for in the transaction, but still... could there be a case here?
The problem for me:
The first time I really felt ripped off was with the classic adventure Full Throttle, it was funny, well paced and had good story dynamics, but i found it was too short for what I had paid for it. Within 6 hours, one session, I had the end titles scrolling on my screen. Too short!
I want some bang for my buck, in a simple â's per minute scheme.
If I pay €60 for a game I can not return and only play for 15 mins to find out the game and I don't get along, I've paid 60 euro's for those meager 15 mins, leaving me feeling ripped off.
My experience with a lot of games I 'tried' was that I played them for less than 30 mins before I got bored with them.
Demo's only work for certain types of games, racing games (Forza/Gran Turismo), 1st person shoot-em-ups (Halo/Quake), the type of games with a high level of repetitiveness to them. With adventure games this is different, some adventureg game demo's only let you play the 1st act but that 1st act doesn't guarantee the rest of the story to be interesting.
My solution:
I'd like to see a payment method in which I put down say €5,- for the media and the 1st hour of playtime and after that a reasonable amount of € per amount of time I spend in the game, to a maximum of what a game in the store now would cost (for top ps3 titles around €60).
This solution works two ways:
1) I won't feel ripped off if I only play the 1st hour of the game and..
2) The game developer gets tasked with creating a game that keeps me intrigued long enough (for a reasonable adventure-type game I'd say between 40 and 60 hours) to get his money. This 'average playtime' should be mentioned on the box as well.
Please note that this is not a WoW type subscription to a game, but a 'pay for play' solution with a maximum amount of money i, as the consumer, will pour into the game. After I've payed the max (and spent the required amount of time in the game), I can play the game as long as I like (adding to the replay value).
Arstechnica has a nice article which links to the Kirn article as well.
Intro: 2008: Year of Information Overload?
Interruptions aren't merely annoying; they're also bad for productivity. And when you multiply the interruptions made possible by e-mail, phone calls, text messages, and Twitters across the entire US, the result is lost productivity on a massive scale: $650 billion in a single year.
Why a cellphone? so that everyone can see who's calling me? I see a lot of other cool possibilities, perhaps a new market for personal portable media.
What about adding this projector to portable videoplayers/camera's or a (video) iPod (iPhone as well)
Or build it into a car / (portable) gps navigation system so you can use your cars windscreen as a transparent heads up display!
Another cool application could be a replacement of the virtual laser keyboard creating a virtual optimus with dynamic keys:)
Could this be the start of a new 'hype' a lot of people are waiting for?
This concept was already thought of and used in the 1983 (non-HIT) TV-series 'Terrahawks', as the 'Cubes from Zelda'. The Terrahawks was the not so successful successor to the well-known Thunderbirds series by the same creator.
Thunderbirds @ imdb: http://imdb.com/title/tt0085099/
Cubes: http://www.fab1.net/t-hawks/a-craft.htm (on the image you can see them portray as a gun and a forcefield generator WHOA how'bout them apples?!)
Obfuscating emailaddresses on websites is one way of tackling the spam harvesters problem. Training filters by becoming somewhat of a spam-magnet is another way. The only problem herein lies in the differentiation between ham and spam. Spam is here and will be here for a long time to come because people do make (a lot of) money with it. SO you could say detecting it is more sensible compared to avoiding it.
I've been experimenting by adding an automatically generated code to my email adresses on my page (recipientDELIMcode@domain.ext). Spammers keep on sending me spam on these addresses, and i accept, and train my mailfilter this way. The only thing I have to do is add 'contaminated' email addresses to my shitlist once i've found spam being sent to it. As you might already have guessed... the shitlist is a simple forward to sa-learn.
Adding an auto whitelister based on my own address book (LDAP is sweet) tackles the problem of addressbook harvesters, mail from these sources will not be fed to sa-learn, even if the email address its received on is shitlisted.
A friend of mine, who listens to the name of 'the wanker who cant keep his antivir up to date'/Paul created the need for me implement this feature by becoming infected by a _addressbook_leechin_virus_
To receive even more spam to feed to my hungry sa-learn there's a set of email addresses on my site (>50% of all email addresses there are in hidden fields/autogen'd pages) which are passed thru to sa-learn by default.
I've also been thinking of combining the unique id email address with a database in which i store served (generated) email addresses and giving them a grace period of N mins. If i recieve an email within these N mins i assume this email was sent by a visitor on my site who clicked the mailto: link and the message is passed to my mailbox and the unique id generated email address is flagged as non-spam source.
However.. if I recieve mail on that email address after the N mins i assume its a spam-run and feed it to sa-learn I'm not sure on ROI (code-time/overhead/extra dependencies serverside) with this technique because what i have now works well enough for me.
The downside is you can't give out your email address on things like a business card (lastname@domain.ext). A possible solution to this is replacing your email address with an URL like http://lastname.domain.ext/ on which a mailto: refresh is generated with the unique id'ed email address.
Or trusting the intelligence of the lean-mean-(and pretty well trained)-spamkilling-machine, which is good enough for me.
Slashdot Mirror
So... when are people figuring out that the US isn't a 1st world country anymore?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3358263/Computer-virus-infects-International-Space-Station-laptops.html
Seems like this happened before in 2008. A remarkably similar incident involving usb sticks, proving that a 370km airgap (spacegap?) isn't enough to keep malware out...
The latest image of the thing
The sad guy mistook a db25 rs232 for a parallel port... sigh
I've been doing this for years, since 1997... so this must be one of the oldest tricks in the book.
Here is my 4 step recipe for Ubuntu, using USB serial adapters:
1) hook up the stuff and config the terminals correctly (I used 9600 8n1 due to long cables, got weird chars at 19200+) /etc/init/ttyUSB0.conf
2) Install Ubuntu on your system
3) put the following in
# ttyUSB0 - getty
#
# This service maintains a getty on tty1 from the point the system is
# started until it is shut down again.
#start on stopped rc RUNLEVEL=[2345]
#stop on runlevel [!2345]
respawn /sbin/getty -8 9600 ttyUSB0 vt100 ...
exec
---(repeat for as many terminals you have, incrementing the 0 of ttyUSB0 to 1 to 2 etc)---
4a) reboot
or
4b) sudo service ttyUSB0 start
(repeat for as many terminals you have, incrementing 0 to 1 to 2 etc)
*) profit
Here is my setup with a WYSE vt420 compatible and two vt320's
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rickdeckardt/4748415699/
Gee wiz, that was easy... So why is this on the frontpage of slashdot?
DRM is a tool to create artificial scarcity. Scarcity, virtual or real makes the scarce item more valuable, or so is thought. Only one (1) person needs to crack the 'scarcity' and the whole (economic) system comes tumbling down. Let DRM be implemented, and let it be cracked, it will lead to yet another market-crash. However, if the DRM can not or isn't cracked it will lead to the loss of the item, destroying the information locked by its DRM inside forever. An information black-out will be the result in our history.
Its a very strange thing that DRM is hailed upon by the biggest players in the 'free market'. All for profit and profit for all as they say. Money seems to be more valuable than anything else. This to me is a very freightning attitude. But reacting upon angst is even more freighting. We need to look at the root cause of the issue here, authors/creators feeling they're not duly compensated for their work. If we solve this issue there is no need for DRM.
A lot of research is being done in the field of new media and especially its distribution, but these reports don't seem to hit home (the publishers/law makers/etc).
Need an example on how stuff can change? Watch this lecture,1st part is a dull intro to bittorrent, after that it really gets interesting: pt1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxCoCTc3T5Q pt2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIqG7WgqQ-w
The data is not sent to a non-EU country, the builders of the system (placed in the Netherlands) are Israëli.
a cryptophone. Sure, the call will be logged, but it'll be encrypted, care for some speech to text on noise?
[V] Embrace
[V] Extend
[ ] Extinguish
Tonight pinky, we try to TAKE OVER THE WORLD
I heard that in Germany, in places where you can not bring some piece of hardware with cam, a disabled (read: physically removed) camera isn't even allowed. Motivation: it can be placed back into the system, when you are in the cam-free-zone. Since the cameramodules are so small I understand this.
*loads iPod with Wolfenstein 3d samples* -MEIN LEBEN!-
The hint is in his name:
Pablo Francisco
http://youtube.com/watch?v=m0Q83I0Nyvc
IANAL... If he bought the system, does he now also 'own' the information stored on it? Presumably not since it was not what was offered and what was presumably payed for in the transaction, but still... could there be a case here?
The problem for me:
The first time I really felt ripped off was with the classic adventure Full Throttle, it was funny, well paced and had good story dynamics, but i found it was too short for what I had paid for it. Within 6 hours, one session, I had the end titles scrolling on my screen. Too short!
I want some bang for my buck, in a simple â's per minute scheme.
If I pay €60 for a game I can not return and only play for 15 mins to find out the game and I don't get along, I've paid 60 euro's for those meager 15 mins, leaving me feeling ripped off.
My experience with a lot of games I 'tried' was that I played them for less than 30 mins before I got bored with them.
Demo's only work for certain types of games, racing games (Forza/Gran Turismo), 1st person shoot-em-ups (Halo/Quake), the type of games with a high level of repetitiveness to them. With adventure games this is different, some adventureg game demo's only let you play the 1st act but that 1st act doesn't guarantee the rest of the story to be interesting.
My solution:
I'd like to see a payment method in which I put down say €5,- for the media and the 1st hour of playtime and after that a reasonable amount of € per amount of time I spend in the game, to a maximum of what a game in the store now would cost (for top ps3 titles around €60).
This solution works two ways:
1) I won't feel ripped off if I only play the 1st hour of the game and..
2) The game developer gets tasked with creating a game that keeps me intrigued long enough (for a reasonable adventure-type game I'd say between 40 and 60 hours) to get his money. This 'average playtime' should be mentioned on the box as well.
Please note that this is not a WoW type subscription to a game, but a 'pay for play' solution with a maximum amount of money i, as the consumer, will pour into the game. After I've payed the max (and spent the required amount of time in the game), I can play the game as long as I like (adding to the replay value).
Do these three words sound familiar? embrace extend extinguish
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Arstechnica has a nice article which links to the Kirn article as well.
Intro:
2008: Year of Information Overload?
Interruptions aren't merely annoying; they're also bad for productivity. And when you multiply the interruptions made possible by e-mail, phone calls, text messages, and Twitters across the entire US, the result is lost productivity on a massive scale: $650 billion in a single year.
Don't underestimate the amount of people who have a social life :]
Why a cellphone? so that everyone can see who's calling me? I see a lot of other cool possibilities, perhaps a new market for personal portable media.
What about adding this projector to portable videoplayers/camera's or a (video) iPod (iPhone as well) :)
Could this be the start of a new 'hype' a lot of people are waiting for?Or build it into a car / (portable) gps navigation system so you can use your cars windscreen as a transparent heads up display!
Another cool application could be a replacement of the virtual laser keyboard creating a virtual optimus with dynamic keys
MS is giving up after 3 days? wow!
This concept was already thought of and used in the 1983 (non-HIT) TV-series 'Terrahawks', as the 'Cubes from Zelda'. The Terrahawks was the not so successful successor to the well-known Thunderbirds series by the same creator. Thunderbirds @ imdb: http://imdb.com/title/tt0085099/ Cubes: http://www.fab1.net/t-hawks/a-craft.htm (on the image you can see them portray as a gun and a forcefield generator WHOA how'bout them apples?!)
Obfuscating emailaddresses on websites is one way of tackling the spam harvesters problem. Training filters by becoming somewhat of a spam-magnet is another way. The only problem herein lies in the differentiation between ham and spam. Spam is here and will be here for a long time to come because people do make (a lot of) money with it. SO you could say detecting it is more sensible compared to avoiding it.
I've been experimenting by adding an automatically generated code to my email adresses on my page (recipientDELIMcode@domain.ext). Spammers keep on sending me spam on these addresses, and i accept, and train my mailfilter this way. The only thing I have to do is add 'contaminated' email addresses to my shitlist once i've found spam being sent to it. As you might already have guessed... the shitlist is a simple forward to sa-learn.
Adding an auto whitelister based on my own address book (LDAP is sweet) tackles the problem of addressbook harvesters, mail from these sources will not be fed to sa-learn, even if the email address its received on is shitlisted.
A friend of mine, who listens to the name of 'the wanker who cant keep his antivir up to date'/Paul created the need for me implement this feature by becoming infected by a _addressbook_leechin_virus_
To receive even more spam to feed to my hungry sa-learn there's a set of email addresses on my site (>50% of all email addresses there are in hidden fields/autogen'd pages) which are passed thru to sa-learn by default.
I've also been thinking of combining the unique id email address with a database in which i store served (generated) email addresses and giving them a grace period of N mins. If i recieve an email within these N mins i assume this email was sent by a visitor on my site who clicked the mailto: link and the message is passed to my mailbox and the unique id generated email address is flagged as non-spam source. However.. if I recieve mail on that email address after the N mins i assume its a spam-run and feed it to sa-learn I'm not sure on ROI (code-time/overhead/extra dependencies serverside) with this technique because what i have now works well enough for me.
The downside is you can't give out your email address on things like a business card (lastname@domain.ext). A possible solution to this is replacing your email address with an URL like http://lastname.domain.ext/ on which a mailto: refresh is generated with the unique id'ed email address. Or trusting the intelligence of the lean-mean-(and pretty well trained)-spamkilling-machine, which is good enough for me.
My 2ct.