Why should a (web)server be allowed to issue any request ? It should be configured to answer queries only, no ? iptables is great and easy to set up for that task. Even for software update, one may push the package needed to the target server in place of the usual pull from the target; so no exceptions are needed on the firewall.
For desktops it's a little bit more complicated... but using a home partition mounted with noexec should suffice. Installing a new software is not a casual issue but a real event and should be taken care of by someone knowing what he's doing. That's why root was invented, isn't it ?
I don't have the capacity to resist posting...
The only place I've ever seen LED light bulbs is at http://www.ccrane.com/lights/led-light-bulbs/. Not associated with this company at all, they just send me a catalog every now and then. I'd definitely be interested in these, but the cost is still to high.
Can we stop with dumbasses giving health advice?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_fluorescent_lamp#Broken_and_discarded_lamps
at some stage, manufacturers will realize the hidden cost of using GNU/Linux in their embedded platforms... For commodity gadgets and tools, it will not be an issue to share the internals are the hardware will be the added value. But for unique items that should not be the case and therefore some other toolkit with no ogligation to share modifications should be preferred.
And I'm making my living with GNU/Linux tools only
More often, I see my customers using GNU/Linux because it's without licenses to pay for the final product. But they do not realize theyr obligation to share... And it'is very difficult to educate them.
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what if one uses a dedicated VoIP network with strong encryption and white noise generator when idle so you may not know when in use or not?
How could interception works if no key where exchanged on the wire?
How could law be written to take care of this while keeping some reserve for legitimate uses?
I like the suggestion that people are somehow lax in security because their mail client remembers their password. Who are these guys who type the password in every 3 minutes when they check their mail?
once per session is enough... the client may keep the password in RAM never writing it to a file.
Christmas is a religious time. As far as religion can be envisionned without any deity. Santa Claus is not a god in any fashion. It's more an impersonnation of some fundamental principe. It's all about the winter solstice. It's the time to celebrate hope. The hope of the return of the light. This is taking place in the longest night of the year. When men are about to forfeit hope against darkness. This celebration uses a evergreen tree illuminated by lights. All girl are called "lucy" and running with lights in their hairs. and so on...
Christianity just put the birth of JC at the same time because is also celebration for hope from they point of view.
PS: I'm not native english speaker, so forgive any language mistakes.
8 Catfish = 1 Octo-puss