Posts by codeusirae 171 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Sep 2013
"Remember in those times you trusted the other machines on the network"
And that was a time when the firewall actually did something usefull. As in only authorized processes could open priviliged ports and if you had the same user-name on another machine you could log-in locally. Arrr, twere a kinder more innocent age ...
> Many contemporary Unix servers were running versions of sendmail featuring buggy debugging code, a shortcoming the worm exploited to devastating effect ..
"Vulnerability description: Very old installations of the Sendmail mailing system contained a feature that allows a remote attacker connecting to the SMTP port to enter the "WIZ" command and be given an interactive shell with root privileges."
http://www.iss.net/security_center/reference/vuln/Email_WIZ.htm
"The contractors confirmed that when the federal website was tested just days before its Oct. 1 launch, it crashed after just a few hundred people logged on. The decision to launch the site anyway rested solely with CMS"
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57609849/sebelius-blames-contractors-for-healthcare.gov-problems/
"The private contractors .. said the decision to launch the site anyway rested solely with the the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)."
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57609140/healthcare.gov-architects-govts-pre-launch-testing-insufficient/
Does US attorney Paul Fishman realize that the United Kingdom is an independent soverign country, with it's own laws and judicial system ...
[.. just kidding ..]
"The New Jersey U.S. Attorney’s Office has charged an alleged hacker .. with breaching thousands of computer systems .. to steal massive quantities of confidential data"
Does US attorney Paul Fishman realize that the computers are already compromised with built-in backdoors and diluted encryption. Done to make it easier for the NSA to crack the keys but very difficult for the average hacker. It's all those pecular numeric constants in the algorithms that's the give away.
“The borderless nature of Internet-based crime underscores the need for robust law enforcement alliances across the globe"
The Internet isn't to blame, its the 'computers' connected to it that's where the fault lies. A fricking Arari would be more secure.
`Love and his conspirators planned and executed the attacks in secure online chat forums known as internet relay chats, or “IRC.”'
HAAAAAAAA .. ROTFLMHO
To gain entry to the government victims’ computer servers, Love and conspirators often deployed what is known as a “SQL injection attack.”
For FucK sake .. this is getting beyond a joke ..
`A 28-year-old British man has been charged with the alleged hacking of thousands of computer systems .. Prosecutors claim that Love's activities cost the affected agencies “millions of dollars”.'
Are these 'computer systems' running the same passwordless Windows NT image that Gary McKinnon was accused of 'breaking' into.
http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1828154,00.html
So, talking up your own product is unusually pugnacious? It strikes me that it is Microsoft who has the Apple obsession, not the other way round. Same with Microsofts Google obsession. Getting into a public slannging match with the market leader doesn't necessarly make you relevent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-IkBWOpDA8
"A floppy disc is no longer used. In its place an encrypted memory stick is used for the data transfer. The method used for placing the data on the USB stick is to locate the text file and use the ‘send to’ function, not the ‘copy and paste’ method.
Therefore the file is not retained on the ‘clipboard’, which the data controller considered to be a key factor in this case. Following the successful update, the PC used to copy the file is rebooted to clear any temporary files and this is checked by trying a ‘paste’ in a Word document"
"The only way the information can be transferred from the Quantum system to the biometrics system is to carry out a ‘profile dump’ of all inmate details. The transfer is done at the start of each day by the booking clerk who locates the text file via Windows Explorer on the Quantum system and then, using the ‘copy and paste’ function, places the file on an unencrypted floppy disc.
The disc with the copy file is then removed from Quantum and physically placed in the biometric system to load the copy file to facilitate the update, which takes place by checking for differences between that file and the biometric system’s own database. Following the transfer the copy file is erased from the disc. The disc is then stored securely in a locked drawer."
http://www.ico.org.uk/news/latest_news/2013/~/media/documents/library/Data_Protection/Notices/moj-monetary-penalty-notice-20131015.pdf
@ElReg!comments!Pierre: "More like a relatively minor vuln"
How do you accidentally insert the string 'w302r_mfg' into the source code
"Attackers could take over the router and execute commands by sending a UDP packet with a special string .. They all use the same 'w302r_mfg' magic packet string,"
"Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a cross-species form of genetic transfer. It occurs when the DNA from one species is introduced into another. The idea was ridiculed when first proposed more than 50 years ago, but the advent of drug-resistant bacteria and subsequent discoveries, including the identification of a specialized protein that bacteria use to swap genes, has led to wide acceptance in recent years."
http://old.richarddawkins.net/articles/590-does-evolution-select-for-faster-evolvers-horizontal-gene-transfer-adds-to-complexity-speed-of-evolution
@Cavehomme2 : "As a Linux user I cannot run my business on Open Office and Evolution, they are unfortunately relatively shit compared to the de facto standard of MS Office"
I've been running Microsoft free (at home) for years now, can't say I've noticed any lessening in productivity.
I'm quite frankly amazed, you do seem to have lead a very eventfull life. Tell me did these episodes occur in your present life or a previous incarnation?
01. A qualified pilot who received his ticket from Sutton Bank in the early 1970s, and a member of The Yorkshire Gliding Club.
02. A Teaching Assistant for the Google founders.
03. Attended Stanford University.
04. Converted NCP ARPANet to TCP/IP.
05. Employee at DEC in Ken Olsens time.
06. Had gear on top of and in the basement of both WTC towers.
07. Helped with the search and rescue effort at WTC by providing trained dogs.
08. Linux kernel contributor for about 21 years.
09. Maintains multiple servers in Palo Alto, New York, at Sun, Palo Alto, Edinburgh, Auckland, Duluth and Nyack.
10. Member of various panels of industry professionals associated with MS prior to 2000.
11. Personal Associate with Steve Jobs.
12. Possesses several degrees including an MBA
13. Rebuilt the WRTC infrastructure in the aftermath of the disaster.
14. Steve Jobs carved his name into Jakes picnic table.
@Spasch: "It's way too expensive compared to the plastic decked out competition."
"A mere two weeks after the iPhone 5C launched nationwide, Best Buy is offering the device for only $50 today"
http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/3/4800318/best-buy-puts-iphone-5c-on-sale-just-two-weeks-after-launch
@RyokuMas: "Google and Amazon are already working on systems to the same effect... and yet the howls of outrage are directed almost solely at Microsoft."
I do know Google uses redirects in their search results that tells them what you find interesting. What else do Google and Amazon use in these systems to same effect?
Does anyone of us want our browsing data stored in Redmond's own servers or shared with third parties. I fail to understand how a company that hands over data to the NSA is in the business of "maintaining customer privacy". If they're not using cookies then I assume this replacement technology is using some kind of hidden web bugs. Personally I couldn't give a fig about the needs of businesses who rely on cookies. A much bigger priority and what I do care about is my rights to privacy, as such I will be opting out of any such system. There is a way of opting out isn't there. You did ask them?
"Some drug dealers have simply moved to other anonymous online services to beat the police, with an alternative market called Sheep now listing roughly three times as many drugs vendors as before the demise of Silk Road, according to the administrator of yet another anonymous drugs market, Atlantis."
"UK banks, the stock market and payment providers will undergo extensive stress tests in November that are designed to test their responses to cyber-attacks
Do they mean DDOS attacks or something else.
DDOS attacks are enabled by masses of compromised Windows out there on the Intertubes.
We don't usually see the terms cyber-attack or cyberwar in the serious technical press.
"It looks like I am being forced down the open your own business track. Doing so without resources isn't easy. Everything is too expensive. And if a person becomes successful, how do you manage employees?"
People are genetically programmed to be a hierarchical animal, so they'll do exactly what you tell them. Soon they'll begin to copy your dress sense and mannerisms.
"An early design patent [PDF] for the cylindrical doorway, filed in July 2010, has few details about the structure beyond some sketches. Steve Jobs is listed among its inventors. It was submitted shortly before the Shanghai store opened to the public in mid-2010, and was approved by US officials in March 2012. But the billionaire was missing from the list of applicants in the patent granted yesterday" ..
Perhaps the reason his name is missing is he wasn't involved in drawing up the patent as he was too busy dying of pancreatic cancer. In you desperation to find anything derogatory to say about Apple, you're really grasping here. Where's the picture of Jobs grave that should accompany these stories?
"Republicans wanted to see a public healthcare scheme dubbed Obamacare delayed by at least a year - something the Democrats just wouldn't agree to, because"
The Obamacare bill had passed all legal requirements and was duly signed into law, and has no connection with Republican attempts to blackmail Obamo by threatening to shutdown the economy if they didn't get their own way. If the democrats had tried this then wails of 'anti-American traitors' would have gone up all over Washington.
"Having entered prison looking every bit the plump-faced, well-heeled corporate exec, the 64-year-old Nacchio's body has been hardened by weightlifting and he now sports a shaved head and goatee reminiscent of Breaking Bad's Walter White."
Good Grief, for a minute there I thought I was reading the SUN
"This can be a bit of a problem — especially when the two NICs share the same parent network and you’re trying to preserve sane traffic flows. In a nutshell, this post will explain how you can ensure traffic going into eth0 goes out only on eth0, as well as enforce all traffic going into eth1 goes out only on eth1."
http://kindlund.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/configuring-multiple-default-routes-in-linux/
"Microsoft has not yet handed over the content of any Skype conversations to regular law enforcement requests in the last six months"
Why is Microsoft routing all Skype communications through super-nodes in North America? And don't say it's for efficiency, in peer-to-peer communications, that doesn't make sense. As such all such assurances out of Microsoft and the rest, are totally bogus and false ...
"In July last year, nine months after Microsoft bought Skype, the NSA boasted that a new capability had tripled the amount of Skype video calls being collected through Prism"
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data
"So we could have had a single button, but the guy who did the IBM keyboard design didn't want to give us our single button,"
"So what we had, we programmed at a low level. It was a mistake."
I don't recall ever hearing this, does anyone else apart from Gates recall a dialog over the 'single button' issue?
"with Cygnus around 15km from the ISS, a problem was noted with the GPS readings between Cygnus and the ISS .. information acquired by L2 cite the two ways of specifying GPS time as key to the problem on Sunday."
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/09/cygnus-cots-graduation-iss-berthing/
This austere financial climate is totally bogus, is a financial instrument thought up by the banking sector where states "borrow" from the banks, only they first give three times that amount up front to the self same financial institutions. The states invent these funds by printing money and, this is the funny bit, lending the money up-front to the banks, which lend it back to them -- it's described as quantitative easing.
August 11, 2013 == 4294967296 tenths of seconds, if tenths of a second are stored in a 32 bit INT, then 2^32 will wrap-round on August 11, 2013. Deep Impact launched in Jan 2005, uses the RAD750 CPU, radiation hardened PowerPC 750 clone. Which it says below was a 64 bit CPU, which is curious as to why it used 32 bit arithmetic for measuring the time.
http://www.petervis.com/Vintage%20Chips/PowerPC%20750/PowerPC%20750.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/23/deep_impact_succumbs_to_hal_bug_as_bug_messes_with_antenna/
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