Posts by phil mcracken

It's a shame the Pi doesn't support PoE (Power over Ethernet)...

... If that was the case he could have used any PoE switch to power all of them and wouldn't have needed the 5V pinout.

Regardless, this looks like a brilliant (and fairly inexpensive) way to experiment with distributed computing.

All you need to know about Scientology....

Can be learned by doing a little reading into it's founder.

"You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion."

L Ron Hubbard in response to a question from the audience during a meeting of the Eastern Science Fiction Association on (7 November 1948)

X-Wing Alliance seems to have been left out as well...

The very best of X-Wing and TIE Fighter Collectors CDs, albeit with a massive graphical facelift and a pretty good story of it's own..

security tools for noobs...

Anon OS? Sounded slightly suspect to begin with, especially if LOIC is bundled with it. They should market that as a criminal record generation tool.

Anyone who wanted a linux OS full of security tools would probably already have Knoppix STD, Backtrack or nUbuntu, all of which are gremlin free :)

Dot Com? What a stupid surname...

I would have changed it to Jong Il for the lulz.

thats all well and good....

but can it run crysis with all the detail turned on?

Not as easy as you might think, unless the security is really appalling...

I don't know what steps the Mosman Council have taken to secure their site, but as a standard measure, I only run MySQL/PostgreSQL on localhost, meaning anything wishing to connect to it must run from the same box, I change the user permissions of each dbuser to only allow them to perform the required actions rather than the full list of actions they can carry out, I give them a randomized name and password to stop them from being guessed, and I regularly check my CMS and other software for security updates. You wouldn't be able to get direct access to one of my SQL databases from an external box unless you managed some form of SQL injection, and even then you wouldn't be able to grab the full site and all its files, just the DB and its content.

In order to pull off a complete sitedump, they'd need FTP details, and I suspect that the database username and password is probably the same as the FTP and CMS logon as people don't like lots of different passwords. Sounds to me like some sort of PHP/SQL exploit which revealed the admin logon. Facepalm ;)

Not so much hacking skill as extremely lax security. The choice of target still puzzles me though, not exactly cia.gov is it?

those that sow the wind...

shall reap the whirlwind and all that.

</popcorn>

clearly no one has explained rules 1 and 2 to him...

....newfag.

nice to see they're taking after the Russians...

In soviet russia, internet disconnects YOU.

If God had intended us to be vegetarians...

... he wouldn't have made meat so tasty.

A security consultancy pwned?

They obviously don't practice what they preach ;)

these aren't the hackers you're looking for...

....everyone knows that ebaums is responsible.

the uprising on twitter has already begun...

Hundreds of people have retweeted his original tweet using the hashtag #iamspartacus.

http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23iamspartacus

The genie is well and truly out of the bottle now...

Paris, because she recognises a joke when she hears one.

Why do you need to check the vehicle ownership via DVLA?

Surely the company name on the side of each one is a bit of a giveaway...

Clearly a troll fail...

As he didn't obey rules 1 and 2.

Andrew Crossley, you dun goofed.

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I hear that anonymous is a pretty cool guy...

doxes copyright lawyers and doesn't afraid of anything.

FAIL.

Looks like internet security isn't their strong point. The anon's ddosing the site found that when it came back up, it left the root directory exposed with an archived copy of all of their emails and logon details in plain text form, plus client contact details and even credit card details.

I seriously can't see the firm surviving this - the channers have hit the jackpot.

Looks like that "train" just smashed Andrew Crossley in the face.

it's all well and good saying you've been hacked and someone's tinkered with it...

Except you can't edit tweets. Nulabour fail.

I'd have a lot more respect for him if he admitted that it was him - at least he would be being honest and I suspect he's not the only one who thinks that.

Saying that he is a politician - honesty seems to be illegal nowadays, probably as a result of wor Mandy's meddling with the laws....

Cheap?! UK2 ain't cheap....

And it ain't good either.

Just ditched my server with them for one in the EU at half the cost and with better spec and reliability. Sick of my sites going up and down like the proverbial tart's drawers.

sitting on the fence...

I recently inherited a vbulletin forum from an admin who no longer was interested in running it. We had to pay for a licence to get the forum upgraded from 2.6.9 (hideously old) to 3.8.4 (the current version). I even had to downgrade a new server to php4/mysql4 to get the upgrade process to work.

I've been really impressed with how well written vB is in it's current form and have found the mods useful. I'm not sure I can say the same with vB4 (even though people keep jumping up and down shouting "it's only a beta!". Why are they in such a rush to roll out a beta? I wouldn't risk it, especially when they rely on their forum system on their site for support & billing, as well as comments and mods.

This whole vB4 release and sales pitch stinks of desperation and/or poor planning. Surely it would make more sense to get it working and to the point where it was fully ready and then release/demo it? Or even just to follow the old method of beta testing that they used on vb3. Instead they roll out a dog, and to pretend that it's suffering issues due to the "sheer amount of people viewing the new system". Bullshit. If the old system can handle 600-700 users viewing a board at once, why can't the new one?

And then of course there's the way they've handled the feedback - banning users who have paid for their licences and revoking their access to the support. These users aren't trolls - some of these people are the most vocal supporters of vB in it's current form.

I'm going to watch very carefully what happens over the next few months with this new software and pricing. If I don't like what I see, I'm off. I suspect I won't be alone.

@AC

"One has to wonder that if it was so easy to announce, why did Google do the thing so covertly??? Pretty shady behaviour."

And imagine if they had done that - the cars would have probably been attacked by paranoid schizo "they're all coming to get us!" tards like yourself.

Besides, I'd hardly call a car with an 8ft camera rack on the top "covert".

And there is NO expectation of privacy in a public place - people can take photos and do what they want. It's when they impinge on private property that people's privacy is affected.

You want to protect your privacy? Fine. Lock all your doors, cut your phoneline, and make sure you take your medication. Google Earth is the least of your worries.

Paris, because she loves being in front of the camera.

put the AV down....

I bought systemworks a few years ago on discount just for a deaks. I used to have utilities 3.0 and it was pretty good.

The AV was utter gash - I went and replaced it with AVG straight away.

Only thing worth buying from them is Utilities and possibly GoBack for the kiddies PC. Cleansweep is horrific and bloated for what it does, their AV is even worse.

Paris, because she likes malicious packages.

what a complete seat-belt chewer.

nevertheless I was amused by this outburst.

I hope he takes breaks from licking the windows to type stuff like this more often.