Posted on 12/22/2004 1:06:17 PM PST by backhoe
You'll see a nice basic primer on all this.
| WEP futility. There are also commonly available cracking tools that will bust open WEP with zero difficulty or expertise. Here's a more accessible comparo. hattip: Petronski |
I haven't gotten much further in this analysisI am currently analyzing hosts file, proxy and DNS tools to fight malware, such as
China’s virtual cops pinpoint web dissent
Jing Jing and Cha Cha, of course!
Linux Works Even for Total Newbies
A Free Online Encyclopedia: Digital Universe .. aims to be the most comprehensive storehouse.
Stronger Solar Storms Predicted [50% increase!]Blackouts May Result
This will probably surprise many who don’t follow goings-on overseas very closely.
Commenting on the current state of life in Great Britain a few weeks ago, Theodore Dalrymple opened an op-ed column in the UK Times Online with a stunning statement, and built on it relentlessly:
A gallop down the road to serfdom
ID cards and smoking bans are only the tip of British servitude
February 16, 2006
Free songs and videos for your iPod--A Recording Engineer's Guide to the Secrets of iTunes and iPod - great article with a few tweaks...
Geeks for the Ethical Treatment of Robots
Isaac Asimov is spinning in his grave: Slashdot | U.S. Army Robots Break Asimov’s First Law. link: 360 comments
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Iron Fist 3/15/2006 07:03PM PST |
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I say we make some of these and program them to kill Jihadis. Well, and [/do I need this thing?] I'm a programmer, but Slashdot geeks (lots of Silly Valley folks there) are so far L³eft they can only walk in circles. Issac Asimov's Laws for robots? Please. Next they'll be quoting the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition. Idiots. |
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Quilly Mammoth 3/15/2006 08:44PM PST |
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I suppose ya'll have heard of the Baen Free Library? Authors such as Drake, Niven, Pournelle and Ringo have novels there, in virtually any format, for FREE download. |
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zombie 3/19/2006 10:54PM PST |
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Ay caramba, in the middle of all this -- I'm halfway through my SF moonbat report -- the crew of hackers that have been harrassing me out of "l'Universite Sidi Med Ben Abdallah de Fes" (i.e. the University of Fez in Morocco) have again gone on a rampage of seizing control of unattended computers around the world and using them to bombard me with viruses. I just checked the email and got a fresh byte-blitz of virus-laden emails from Lebanon, American University in Wash DC, and Ben Gurion University Israel (I'm guessing from the "...@bgumail.bgu.ac.il" suffixes), and a bunch of random French sites. Either the Moroccans are partial to hacking French computers, or the French are utterly lackadaisical in protecting themselves from being hacked. But the IPs all trace back to Morocco. http://www.zombietime.com/ Zombie? take a gander at this. Looks like those DNS attacks could get a whole lot worse. "Little did I know I was a cutting-edge victim!" |
Bump for later
Another, more comprehensive option is to set your security level to "High" as opposed to "Medium" or "Custom", and then add site that require additional functionality and that you trust to the "Trusted" domain. This method creates a sort of "opt-in" method of Web safety, where essentially no site can do anything except display basic HTML unless you specifically permit it by adding it to the safe list.
Other options are switching to Firefox or Opera web browsers, or doing everyday tasks under a "User" rather than an "Administrator" account. However, these options are impractical for some people.
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