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  1. Re:Who remembers it? on L0phtCrack (v6) Rises Again · · Score: 1

    Maybe I would recast it. Used for more than 11 years, last time two weeks ago...

  2. Re:Who remembers it? on L0phtCrack (v6) Rises Again · · Score: 1

    Sincerly, if I well remember it was time limited, almost since the very beginning. If you remember the gratis version, then you are older than me :)
    Anyway... Let me push my brains.... Eeeeee, pushing... There was a command line version that seemed to be wholly free. But as I was already a *nix master of Zen (ok, bash me), I didn't had such a need to use it. John the Ripper and others did much better on *nix and were much more stable, if my memory tells me correctly the story.

    Anyway this was a great tool but a tool "on-the-fly". For me. I knew several people the used it systematically.

  3. Re:Who remembers it? on L0phtCrack (v6) Rises Again · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why do you ask? For the Cow? Make some research. You are from an .edu...

  4. Re:Am I missing something?? on L0phtCrack (v6) Rises Again · · Score: 0

    I used it in on-the-fly tests. Sometimes it came with more than 80% of passwords being cracked in minutes. Yes, it is not optimal, it is a pure Windowzz program with some bloat inside, too much brute force and a pretty bad tendency to overload the system in certain occasions. For a fast check the tool was simply ideal.

    Imagine that you have a major breakup inside a pretty critical place. Now people, as dumb as they usually are, claim everything but, it is not their fault. Don't go for John the Rippers & Co. They are for pretty serious stuff and less to check Windowzzz crappy systems. You have a job to do and it is not playing magick tricks on a circus. You pick up L0phtCrack and make some runs on the spot. And you come with a result that most passwords are "1234", others are not less smart and several people have no passwords at all. Particularly those same jerks where the break'in happened.

    Half job done...

  5. Who remembers it? on L0phtCrack (v6) Rises Again · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Loph who?...
    What cracks?
    12 years? That's pretty old stuff. Who needs it?
    Does it work on iPhone?
    Can I crack my XBox with it?

    Really people, I bet that 90% of slashdotters are still wondering what is L0phtCrack and how can you eat it.
    I waited for 10 minutes. No replies. Mute reaction.

    L0phtCrack, and their creators, the "L0pht Heavy Industries" group, were once shinning stars inside the Hacker community. Now who remembers them? There are not even scriptkiddies around, all society is a scripkiddy.

    L0pht people also created the "tool that never got its true name" - "netcat", which can only be found in most *nix systems as "nc". Pretty great tool, just two weeks ago I used it, once again, for more than 11 years.

    Hail to you guys, happy to see you around.

    And Hail to the Cow!

  6. Re:Great! on Classic Doom Coming To the iPhone Next Month · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Pal, you don't get the idea. Every single "smart" or computer stuff I ever used, since Doom came up, has to pass the Doom test. Doom runs, it's good. Doesn't run, it's glamourous high-tech trash for geeky nerds. Even my phone had to pass it :)))))

    I never used the Gameboy for some reason... Hehe...

  7. Great! on Classic Doom Coming To the iPhone Next Month · · Score: 1

    Now that makes me think of buying an iPhone

  8. Re:New military branch needed on Who Would Want To Be Obama's Cybersecurity Czar? · · Score: 1

    As someone who had a face to face with Military Intelligence I would concord with your words on MI but I would note you that the question is not capability but crime. Crime is not capability. It is a process which, at least, degradates the very frame of society in every level and form.

    If we have a crime gang going wild, we need to track not only their capabilities but also their relations motives and modus vivendi. And note, I am writing "capabilities" in plural. Now how in MI conditions can you give a solution to this problem? Sincerly? Not even the police forces have an answer for it! How the MI will have? The whole problem is to mitigate, as much as possible the threat. If you can take them down, great. If you are taking down a capability and giving them more strength... Hey, pal, you are probably creating a hurricane out of a cup of water.

    If crime is the intent, we shall fight crime, not the means. Now I agree that the means, today, are pretty near to military capabilities. Anyway, Internet is DARPA's daughter isn't it? So I do agree that MI has something to do here. But not to rule the game. That's stupid if you just count for the fact that you are dealing with a foe with "capabilities".

    And besides, military are very, very approachable by crime gangs of all sorts. You may try to tell me that these are unfortunate exceptions and sad cases. You may even stand high for your brass and state, straightforwardly, that such thing ain't possible on MI. Unfortunately I know of a MI group, in a certain country, that has been using cybergangs and being used by them. What I saw is too far from the usual MI task and looks like a pornographic variant of "Catch 22".

    Oh, btw. An US staunch ally but likes to use US resources... Wonder what your cybercommand would do with them.

  9. Go to the very beginning of 'Evil' on How Common Is Scientific Misconduct? · · Score: 1

    It starts while you are graduating.

    A big chunk, quite a huge piece of graduation diploms, certificates etc. (depends on each country) are based in the most rabid form of falsifications - "copy/past". They are presented as something new, at least as a "new" variation of a well known theme, however there is nothing new on it. Just the same stufff written in different words.

    The sad fact is that faculties and science departments accept it.

    The good thing is that the large majority of these graduates will stay well away from science. Yes, they still will make damage, ex. CEO I had to deal with. He claimed in every possible corner he finished Oxford in finances (he did study in Oxford) but was unable to calculate an average. The guy sent the company 2 million dollars directly under the bottom and we had a great time, full of all sorts of fun, to recover the damage.

    But some of these people do enter science! And that's where things start to go boost. I saw some people getting high positions on faculties just for one fact - they write too much and speak a lot. Really, nothing else. A seminar costs money, you send this bla-bla-bla over there. It is not a big matter that he hasn't found nothing new except a new way to describe gravity in words and funny pics. He goes there, makes his new discovery a literature best-seller, puts everyone wondering about his colorful PowerPoint diagrams. That's all folks! Seminar's monny is in the safe. And your bla-bla-bla will be published in the next Annals. So, more monny-monny may come.

    Really I think that analysis are terribly skewed. My belief is that we have a lot more crap going around, desguised in small and very specific publications that no ones take into account. Why? Because it's crap from the very start! So why to take the task to read it? But such attitude hides the real dimension of the problem.

  10. Re:hurt the wrong people more on Microsoft Not the Only Firm Blocking IM Service To US Enemies · · Score: 1

    I would note that during both Iraq wars there were reports that US & Allies could not completely take down Irak's network grid. There was even some anecdotical evidence due to fiber optics being used.

    "As far as it can be cut off"... Well the last on the list will probably be those with the weapons, which makes such moves rather unproductive. Civilians loose phone and network links while the military or terrorist keep browsing Google Maps.

    One doesn't need to go so far as to Iraq... Pakistan, Swat. Taliban carries a whole spectra of communication devices, they even directly call CNN for their "daily comment". Meanwhile there are hundreds of thousands of civilians stranded in the valley nearly without anything. Each time any one of them reaches a working phone it is a call of despair and anger.

  11. Re:"U.S. Enemies"? on Microsoft Not the Only Firm Blocking IM Service To US Enemies · · Score: 1

    Agree. But one shall take into account that Syria, while helping organisations clearly linked to terrorism, does not make threats against the US. On the contrary it has a policy to avoid directly harassing the US. On the other side, there is that interesting country of Libya.... That did not only made threats... Right?

    Where are they now?

    BTW, no long ago I took a look at a large book made in the US about Libya's mineral resources. Really fantastic, a super-detailed report on the best of the best Libya has "to offer" the Am... the world, the world.

    So, it seems that the question is no only about who supports what.
     

  12. Re:"U.S. Enemies"? on Microsoft Not the Only Firm Blocking IM Service To US Enemies · · Score: 2, Informative

    The problem is purely economical. If one gets the chronology right, things went bad between US and Cuba when Fidel wanted to get a little bit of Cuba for cubans themselves. Back them 99,9% of Cuba was US, the "little garden" on the Caribbean.

    Was it a burst of emotion or something else? The fact is that Fidel nationalized all Cuba! And the US made a pretty messy fuss out of that. Upon which Fidel answered with a fuss of world proportions. Remember the Missile Crisis?

    Now the fact is that not only Fidel, or the Castros don't want the US in Cuba. Every single cuban I talked with, strongly stated - everything but the US back. Till now they cannot forgive the US what happened till the Castros. Also they cannot forgive the US what happened later, in the way on how it happened. The word "Pigs" are usually strongly remarked when a cuban talks about a specific bay.

    They will support the Castros even if the US becomes communist. Really. Because their wish is nil economic US presence on Cuba. That's how they see things after what happened. Yes it is mostly allergy but that's the way things came into what we have now in Cuba.

    But can the US even imagine to accept this?

  13. Re:Residents, not citizens on Microsoft Not the Only Firm Blocking IM Service To US Enemies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or use relative tools from third countries. There is no access to google.com? Well, let's try yandex.ru.

    These rulings give me a weird sense of the Chinese Big Wall of Internet in a mirror image

  14. Re:"U.S. Enemies"? on Microsoft Not the Only Firm Blocking IM Service To US Enemies · · Score: 1

    There were and probably still are several american interests in Myanmar/Burma. Not matter the presence, the regime there is still the same. And the response they made to the huge cyclone that slashed nearly all the country is, at least, barbaric.

    Cuba, with its record, had recently to deal with a no less damaging hurricane. Their response was such that I read, a few months ago, that Texas officials were eager to go to Havana to get acquainted with their methods.

  15. Silly rules on Microsoft Not the Only Firm Blocking IM Service To US Enemies · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Anyway that will not impair Fidel Castro of browsing Google News through Chavez's personal proxy, right?
    Or it will not stop Ahmenidjad of reading all those funny books on US rocket programs he already got from googling... Besides he already bookmarked all the stuff.
    Anyway I think it will be more damaging the fact that information, on what people think of these countries, is being blocked to them...

    Eeeee, stop... North Korea was taken out of terrorism support list a little before they started to mess around with missiles and nukes. Well, missiles and nukes, they already had isn't it? Yes, it could be possible that Kim just decided to google a little bit and found the reason for that litlte meany bug that was plaguing his rockets. But the man went really mad, he is blasting a rocket every day and scrapping every piece of paper he signed. He's cursing the whole world and threatening pure harakiri. Maybe because of such things as this?:

    http://www.nkeconwatch.com/north-korea-uncovered-google-earth/

    So long for secretive North Korea...

  16. Re:A no win situation on Who Would Want To Be Obama's Cybersecurity Czar? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Really? I remember that Windows NT & Sons had a too classical and nearly eternal flaw, which did not give a chance for a guaranteed secure environment - the internal messaging between progs. I met it a few times and it was really painful.

    Yes Vista & Sons probably have solved this. But after 15 years on Windows I didn't wait for them.

    Besides, you don't make backbones on Windows or *nixes. Anyway you don't use *just* Windows or *nix
    ----

    A backbone admin

  17. Re:Czar fetish on Who Would Want To Be Obama's Cybersecurity Czar? · · Score: 1

    Simple buddy... Czar is synonim to Samoderzhec, something like "the power in himself by himself". Much like the "L'Etat c'est moi..."

  18. Re:New military branch needed on Who Would Want To Be Obama's Cybersecurity Czar? · · Score: 1

    A military branch to fight crime? While I agree th US doesn't need a "czar" and even agree with your arguments, your alternative is not brighter.

    Crime shall no be fought by the military in any possible way. First they will shoot and then... They will not give themselves the question "whom are we shooting at"! They will keep shooting until the field is flat.

    Second, a military environment is always preemable to crime. BTW, I have already had to deal with such a case on Internet: military+cybergangs. If you want a pure "catch 22" burning under your... You know where... Just give the military a free hand on this field.

    Third, military will never give themselves the trouble of building an infrastructure of databases and longterm tracking procedures. Their methods are simple - there is a foe, track him and shoot on the spot.

    Oh, I nearly forgot to mention. Military intelligence is usually... Not so intelligent. Even foes are so badly defined, that things go wrong from the very start. They call it "colateral", I call it "dumbasses".

  19. Morrison! on Who Would Want To Be Obama's Cybersecurity Czar? · · Score: 1

    Mitnick is a great guy. But he is too specific on creating a mess. Besides, too private and he seems even shy...

    Go for Morrison... He knows how to make a real worldwide mess out of Internet.

  20. Eee PC regular user on Asus Slaps Linux In the Face · · Score: 1

    Bought it with Windows pre-installed.

    For two weeks my biggest fear was when this crap will finally fry the machine. And just for nothing. The launching of some pretty secondary programs was enough to see things going really hot, stupidly slow and disk stressing.

    Oh. And I didn't mention that battery lasted for less than half an hour? That's pretty powerful when you are running on public transport and get a emergency call from the office.

    Linux did not solve certain risks. However, it made them completely manageable. Besides, it gave several working scenarios. Pretty important if you are looking to be on batteries for a few hours.

    So, I my opinion is that "unfamiliar environment" and "major compatibility issues' are advertinsing calls for braindead jerks who really don't have a need for a netbook, except for some exciting glamour of dubious nature. No one likes to see a machine freezing in the middle of a serious issue. I had this with Windows twice in a week. And while on Windows, I had to think not only on my work but also on which next step I should not do or else the machine goes down.

    On Linux, I had only one hangup in nearly a year and fortunately not related to a emergency. Just hanged up, I could not find a clear reason for it.

    I'll keep using the Eee PC and probably buy a new one. They are the little powerhorses I've been waiting for long. But that "Better With Windows"... In a biomedical environment there are no "betters with". It works,,, Or it is pure crap.

    Windows IS pure crap on my Eee PC.

  21. nanoSETI? on Nanotech Memory Could Hold Data For 1 Billion Years · · Score: 1

    Could this mean that we should be looking for crystals instead of radiowaves?

    Oh!.. We may even find data from the very beginning of the times! And the message is: "Oooops... Sorry..."

  22. Re:Where's the V-1? on Robot Warfare Going Open Source · · Score: 1

    Yes, but they seem of little effect to those palestinian rockets from Gaza, btw.

    Besides. Building today a V-1 would surely no stop by copying it. Probably someone would make some efforts to use some modern stuff, new radios, a camera. Anyway, the probability that some smart guy would do it in the middle of the desert is stupidly minimal. Even the palestinian Kasav's (just don't remember the correct name right now) seem to have developed from a "ready" design and suffered too little evolution in time.

    It's a big expense to build weapons, more, to maintain them. Just think, You have a big problem with your neighbor. To give him a lesson, you may build 10000 all-weather super-drones, full of plastic badabum. Now you use one. The other guy gets it over its head and curses you to Hell. Next day, his yard is full of all sort of anti-aircraft paraphernalia, Your drone is shot just after lift-off. What to do? You still have 9999 drones, now completely useless if you don't make a way to overcome his defenses.

    So, things are not simply - "you can build it". In military terms, you have also to hold it.

  23. Re:Where's the V-1? on Robot Warfare Going Open Source · · Score: 1

    That's a Scud. It's forefather was V-2/A-4, not V-1.

  24. Re:Where's the V-1? on Robot Warfare Going Open Source · · Score: 1

    No one builds V-1's because of a few things:

    1. It's out of fashion.
    2. To build one you need to do some homework on mechanics, aerodynamics and engines.
    3. If you know all this, you would probably spend your knowledge on something more useful for society.
    4. No wonder that the large part of terrorists come from humanitarian fields. They don't have to consider the "price" of putting all their knowledge on building bombs to kill people.
    5. High-tech isn't really the thing terrorists and rogues aim for. In most cases, quite the contrary - no TV, no radio, no photos, no Internet.

    Under these conditions, it is no wonder that these guys cannot build even reasonable good bombs or other weapons. Has anyone ever seen a "home-made" terrorist automatic gun? What talk can be about V-1?

  25. From here to... on Should We Just Call Dog Breeds a Different Species? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Homo Waspus
    Homo Niggerus
    Homo Chinataunus...

    and so on...

    And no one will consider that pygmy and maasai are different species... Because both are just pitch black as tar... Why we would make them different, isn't it? Because for the hordes that is much more important than a wicked psychoanalitic question of climbing, at the edge of zoofilia in the middle of scientific pornography. That way evolutionists will get millions of adepts... With a little defect of stiffness at right hand and ex-promptu drop[ing "Mein Fuhrer"...

    Scientific American would do a greater job to Science by keeping those homo dumbus scientificii a little bit ashore.