And Before Sept 10, 2001, exactly zero terrorist driven passenger aircraft had flown into the World Trade Centre.
And that is BEFORE all citizens became suspected terrorists and thus are now all automatically spied upon.
The real question is, Do you really feel safer now that you are being spied on ?
Will 9-11 Really Never Happen Again ?
Tape your now half laptop to the windshield of your car.
Now, when-ever you drive to the airport, your half laptop will be there to remind you to NEVER Check Your Laptop Again
Well, ok, maybe War by iRemote control.
Courtesy of Apple Computer.
"So now, we will refer to anyone who does anything we don't like as "pirates"?"
Yeah, The Feds have overused the term 'terrorists" so much lately that it has little effect anymore.
'Pirates' is the new 'terrorists'.
From what I understand, all ISP's get money from the feds to continuously improve, upgrade, and expand their services.
Said money comes by way of fees added to all current customers monthly bills.
So we're already paying for better, faster, and more service, that we aren't getting.
I for one am sick of seeing that money disappear while the biggest and greediest ISP's cry that they need to raise costs and limit bandwidth.
They are lying. And Stealing. And Cheating.
IMHO, They are fired.
Maybe it was MSDOS.
Would that make Microsoft officially Evil ?
Seen how insecure web browsers are, what would be a good way to surf under Linux?
I have an account that I use only for GMail and my bank's website (the latter using a physical device answering cryptographic challenge so nobody is abusing that [when wiring money to a new account number, the account number of the recipient itself is part of the cryptographic challenge, there's no MITM, no nothing that can work against that]).
Then I have an account only for browsing. The user owning this account on my machine has user ID 1007.
This user is not even allowed to connect to localhost. I don't want to know. All he can do is surf the web, using iptables like this:
iptables -I OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner 1007 -j REJECT iptables -I OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner 1007 -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT iptables -I OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner 1007 -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT iptables -I OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner 1007 -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
Are there others simple things I could do to deal with security hazard that these browsers are?
Things I could do about this user's home directory permissions? Disable his SSH? etc.
Basically I think I'd like to have an account that can "do nothing but run Firefox".
Or is there an easy, lightweight (lightweight as in "I don't necessarily want to virtualize a full OS just to run a browser", way to sandbox a browser?
In other words, I consider the "security" of all the browsers to be a bad joke and I regard running a browser basically the same as executing "omgWindozeServer2012Crack.exe" on my machine and I'd like any hint from people who are surfing in a "safer" way.
Wow, if you're that paranoid, here's something you might want to try.
Install PCLinuxOS 2007 onto a hard drive. Now update it, install your your favorite programs, tune your personal settings, add your bookmarks, email accounts, software updates, and such.
When you get it to where you like it, then
( in PCLinuxOS ) do a remaster onto a CD or DVD.
( sudo, remasterme )
When finished, remove your remastered CD/DVD and shut your machine down.
You now have a live cd version of your operating system, WITH all of your personal settings and preferences.
For all subsequent boots and browsing sessions, you can now just pop your remastered CD/DVD into your machine, boot into the LiveCD ( or DVD ), and browse to your hearts content. You'll have your bookmarks, email account settings and all right there on the CD / DVD, which can't be over written. Viruses and trojans have not figured out how to write to a burn once CD or DVD yet, so anything you get exposed to will not infect your system, As long as you do not mount any of your hard drives.
As you use your LiveCD/DVD, Put any changes you want to keep ( emails you want to keep, new bookmarks, etc ) onto a flash drive.
Once a week, or once a month, update your LiveCD/DVD with the info you've been saving on the flash drive, and then remaster a new CD/DVD with your updates.
So now you have a Operating System that works well, has all of your personal settings, bookmarks, emails and account settings, is portable ( you can most likely boot your LiveCD/DVD in most any other computer with a reboot ), can't be over written by malware since it's burned onto a CD/DVD, can be updated as often as you like, or not, and if you do update and remaster weekly, you now have weekly backups on the older remasters.
Just an option for you that should keep your browser and OS fairly safe.
As a former Charter customer all I can say is that they should just sell off all that company's assets wholesale. There's a reason why this company is hemorrhaging money, it's not just because of their massive amounts of debt, it's the crappy way they treat their customers.
Of Course ! Charter let's you know right from the start that the customer doesn't mean crap to them. Before you can even start an account with Charter they let you know that they do not trust you, and that they can break federal laws before they open your account. They do this by insisting that you provide your social security number and running a credit check on you to see if you are worthy of their service. Last I knew, it was against federal laws to insist on obtaining ones social security number before providing a service. Your SSN is your bank account number for the day you retire. It is NOT supposed to be handed out to a cable company for month to month service. Before you can even become a customer, Charter, and it's ilk, are letting you know that they do not trust you to pay your monthly bill, nor are you worth a damn to them, they just want to insure that you can and will always send your money to them regardless of the service they provide. Service which they can deny or reduce at any time of their own discretion. Like throttling your connection at their discretion. When I moved into my new home 4 years ago and went to open an account with my local cable service, and they asked me for my SSN to do a credit check, I refused. I reminded them of the law they were breaking, which I discovered that they were aware of, and, in the end, I never gave them my SSN, and I did not open an account with them. Just Screw them faster than they will screw you. And steer well clear of such an ignorant company.
The internet is clearly "interstate". People pay money for it. Accordingly, it falls within the purview of interstate commerce as it has come to be defined. Contrariwise, the most outrageous extension of the commerce clause that was upheld by the Supreme Court was back during the depression and one of the great legacies left by the FDR administration. Crop controls were placed upon farmers through a federal bill limiting the amount of grain that a farmer could grow. A farmer in Illinois, if I recall correctly, grew more than he was permitted, but he didn't sell it or anything. He just grew the grain for his own use on his own farm. The Supreme Court at the time opined that because the farmer grew more than he was permitted, he would buy less from the general market decreasing the interstate demand for grain. Accordingly, his actions on his own private land for his own private needs and uses affected interstate commerce and the law was enforceable. The point is: the use of the internet is clearly within the purview of the interstate commerce clause and is subject to regulation by the federal government. While I don't like this idea in the least, technical limitations aside, I would prefer it if the individual users maintained the logs instead of the ISPs. That way, the Feds have to get a warrant to get your logs instead of just asking your ISP nicely.
That'd be good, until the Feds decide that they don't need a warrant to come crashing into ones home and grabbing ones logs, as they've apparently decided that they don't need a warrant to grab the logs from the ISP's.
As to the farmer growing extra crop, don't the Fed's pay farmers for not growing the extra crop ? I believe so.
So if they pass this law, if they are going to require everyone with a router to keep logs for them, then they can pay everyone with a router to keep said logs for them...
just like they pay the farmers to have idle land.
IMHO.
So, I'll figure the cost for configuring MY router to keep logs, and then my having to save said logs on a regular basis, backing up those logs, and of course the use of My space on My hard drives to save and backup these logs, should come to, oh, $50,000.00 a year.
My time isn't cheap. And if they want to turn every average user with a router into a forced partial sysadmin now, they should have to pony up the cash.
In my opinion.
I'm personally longing to find some billionair-head gullable enough to fund an expedition and pay me for months to cruise the oceans. the dialogue I imagine would run as follows: "hey guy, I found amelia earheart on mapquest" "here's ten million dollars and a barge" "sweet"
That thought crossed my mind as well.
It wouldn't take much for somebody to post such an article in preparation of asking for funding to go check it out personally. The requirements would be a Research ship with hot tubs and an open bar, scuba suits, and a neat little mini sub for those deep, hard to reach places.
This one wasn't me though.
Too cold for my tastes.
If I were to ask for funds to swim around and look for artifacts, I'd want to be funded to research the Caribbean for a long term, 15 year study.
The water there is so much warmer
Pictures are never deleted off disk. Their storage infrastructure doesnt do it as they use a custom filesystem (There was a talk about it published a while ago).
Replace. Overwrite. Overwrite using pictures of nursing babies. That should get pics deleted and account closed.
"It says he made us all to be just like him. So if we're dumb, then god is dumb, and maybe even a little ugly on the side." -- Frank Zappa
