Posts by Dan Finch

A glitch in the Matrix, or a hungry exploit?

Yet Another Internet FUD

Yeah, here is goes again. Another news article that goes on about something trouble the internet. I wonder how long before the Symantec FUD crew comes rolling out alerting everyone to a major security problem with the internet? I figure at least 3 weeks after everyone else does. 3 weeks after that, CERT be releasing their alert as well.

Frankly, anyone running ActiveX deserved what they get. A security fix is not patching something to ask a user (who has no idea of the implications) to decide if its safe to run on their box. Hell, 90% of people won't open e-mails that aren't from someone they know these days because of that.

Come on people, we hear all the time about this kind of thing, and nothing becomes of it. The internet isn't run by a bunch of retards, it just got a large population of them inhabiting it, and they just happen to be more vocal.

I highly doubt the NSA has gotten a packet sniffer of that caliber online. It'd take one hell of a cluster to sniff that kind of data and with all the wrist slapping going on with their wiretapping lately, I imagine they're just doing business as usual, waiting for the right time to slip a bill in to take away some more freedom from the people.

Dan Finch

Gods of NOS

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Core 2 Duo: Intel's insecurity blanket

Lots of bs in this industry.

I'm getting really tired of all the crap people fling around at each other in this industry. Theo is an arrogant prick as far as I'm concerned. Anyone can write about possibilities of things being insecure, its showing proof that matters.

Whining about a CPU being insecure and not providing any actual proof of concept as a programmer is rediculous. This is the type of thing I would have expected to hear from Steve Gibson.

75% of this industry follows a bunch of Media Queens who'd die if they didn't get their 5 minutes of fame. 20% of the Industry just follows anyone who throws them a bone, and there are 5% in the industry that know what they are doing, and rely on people who are actual "Experts."

Just my two cents really, but I think Theo needs to shut up. I'm sick of hearing about Page Colouring from Terry.

Dan Finch

Gods of NOS