Comment Re:Well, if they did save the images ... (Score 2, Insightful) 560
Nobody said they were women. Let's not give them the benefit of the doubt.
Comment Re:I would like to help, but why kid myself (Score 1) 536
Those days are gone. The people are completely stripped of power. We are all slaves, every last one of us. There is nothing the "powers that be" wouldn't do to maintain their power. And I mean nothing. They would burn every baby on the planet if they could make another 1/2% on their money. Hope, faith and optimism are for children and fools.
But you know what, don't listen to me. Go out and work towards a better world. I hope you succeed were every single human before you has failed.
Diebold Leaks 2008 Election Results 196
samzenpus writes "With all the scrutiny that Diebold has received in past few years you'd think that they would be more careful but apparently due to a malfunction in some machines, they have leaked the results to the 2008 presidential race early. Hopefully this will be the nail in Diebold's coffin. Surely we have another company in this country that can run a sham election better."
Submission + - Gamefly sold my e-mail address!
An anonymous reader writes: I own a few domains for my own vanity and amusement. When signing up for any service online, I use the format [unique-servicename]@[mydomain]. Even slashdot doesn't get a hold of my 'home' address. This is great for filtering, redirection, etc. It's also a great tool to see who has been selling my e-mail address.
During a bored moment, I was perusing through my junk mail to see which addresses spammers were using. Lo and behold, a great number (about 33%, actually) of the spam I found was sent to gamefly@[mydomain]. According to their privacy policy, they may from time to time share my information with game related third-party vendors. However, at no point did they say, "you will receive ads for viagra and porn sites." Since most people utilizing the service are probably still in high school, is it appropriate for them to be receiving such material? Someone, please! Think of the children!
Has anyone had any experience similar to this? What are the legal (if not moral) implications of such a practice?
During a bored moment, I was perusing through my junk mail to see which addresses spammers were using. Lo and behold, a great number (about 33%, actually) of the spam I found was sent to gamefly@[mydomain]. According to their privacy policy, they may from time to time share my information with game related third-party vendors. However, at no point did they say, "you will receive ads for viagra and porn sites." Since most people utilizing the service are probably still in high school, is it appropriate for them to be receiving such material? Someone, please! Think of the children!
Has anyone had any experience similar to this? What are the legal (if not moral) implications of such a practice?
Submission + - Slashdot Content Filter
Dolphinzilla writes: As I was perusing Slashdot this morning it occurred to me how absolutely sick I am of reading about censorship, the RIAA, politics, and the war on this venue, I realize that a large portion of Slashdot readers like this and enjoy the back and forth chatter that it generates. But I doubt I am the only one who is tired of the constant deluge from all forms of media. My main reason for subscribing to Slashdot is for the technical/science content — so here is my thought — how about the Slashdot guru's give us the ability to filter the Main page content thus allowing us to only see the types of stories that we want to see ? Would any other Slashdot readers use this feature ?
Submission + - Owner of Rizon to serve time for DDOS attacks. (spamfighter.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A man from Kentucky is sentenced for prison after being convicted in Detroit of charges that he carried out attacks on computers numbering in thousands and cutting them off from the Internet, as per the news published by Crime-research on June 22, 2007.
Jason Michael Downey, 24 and belonging to Dry Ridge, Kentucky admitted having committed computer fraud in order to operate a botnet. When Downey was pleading guilty in the court, the information presented there served as evidence of Downey's ownership of the Rizon.net Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network from June 18, 2004 to September 5, 2004.
Downey infected large number of computers with various kinds of bot viruses after which the computers responded to Downey's commands. He built a network with about 6,000 computers he had infected.
Through the Internet Relay Chat network, Downey controlled and issued commands to the botnet to hurl a series of 'Denial of Service' (DoS) attacks on different kinds of computer systems connected to the Internet. The attacks overloaded the systems with network data and therefore could not operate properly.
Rizon themselves have not issued any statements regarding the charges, they can be found at http://www.rizon.net/
More of the story can be read at http://www.spamfighter.com/News-8671-Man-Pleads-Gu ilty-To-Cyber-Crime.htm
The full U.S. Department of Justice briefing and sentencing guidelines can be found at the following address.
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/mie/press/2007/2007-6-20 _mdowney.pdf
Jason Michael Downey, 24 and belonging to Dry Ridge, Kentucky admitted having committed computer fraud in order to operate a botnet. When Downey was pleading guilty in the court, the information presented there served as evidence of Downey's ownership of the Rizon.net Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network from June 18, 2004 to September 5, 2004.
Downey infected large number of computers with various kinds of bot viruses after which the computers responded to Downey's commands. He built a network with about 6,000 computers he had infected.
Through the Internet Relay Chat network, Downey controlled and issued commands to the botnet to hurl a series of 'Denial of Service' (DoS) attacks on different kinds of computer systems connected to the Internet. The attacks overloaded the systems with network data and therefore could not operate properly.
Rizon themselves have not issued any statements regarding the charges, they can be found at http://www.rizon.net/
More of the story can be read at http://www.spamfighter.com/News-8671-Man-Pleads-G
The full U.S. Department of Justice briefing and sentencing guidelines can be found at the following address.
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/mie/press/2007/2007-6-2
Submission + - Global Warming Concerts May Do More Harm Than Good
An anonymous reader writes: A column from the Guardian newspaper criticizes Al Gore's Live Earth rock concerts for being hypocritical. The rock concerts consume very large amounts of carbon-emitting energy, and the celebrities chosen to deliver the global warming message have wealthy extravagant lifestyles. Bob Geldof, who organized the Live Aid and Live 8 concerts, criticized its aims. 'We are all fucking conscious of global warming,' he said. 'It's just an enormous pop concert for the umpteenth time that, say, Madonna or Coldplay get on stage.'
Submission + - Swedish Police Will Censor The Pirate Bay (brokep.com)
Sixdays writes: "Working online gives you a lot of friends. Some of those gives you heads up when something big is going on, and sometimes really big things happen. A couple of hours ago I got one of those — The Swedish Police is going to put The Pirate Bay in it's Child porn filter!
Read the full story HERE"
Submission + - ISP Leaks contact information
tikka writes: "I contacted an ISP today, easyspeedy.com in regard to a harvested email address database weighing in with probably around a million valid email addresses that I found by querying google for my email address. I did this after noticing a sudden increase in phishing and spam activity in my mail box.
I sent my abuse report to them and they sent this report directly to the spammer without hiding my identitiy.
If I had sent more contact information, such as my company details or perhaps even more personal information that too would have been forwarded.
Now I do understand that chances are it is simply a compromised box and their client has no knoledge of it but what if this is not the case and a torrent of abuse comes my way?
The abuse team at easyspeedy.com, were so lazy they simply sent the following mail to me and cc'd their client..
from Abuse 11:01am GMT
to me
cc josephkshXXXXX@XXXXXXXX.XXX
date 05-Jul-2007 11:01
subject Re: Abuse report (Phishing+Spam)
mailed-by easyspeedy.com
Hi,
Please take a look at this issue adn report to us what you have done to solve
the issue.
EasySpeedy ApS
Abuse Team
33, Hoesterkoebvej
DK-2970 Hoersholm
Phone: +45 4594 1401
http://easyspeedy.com/
_______________________________________
Linux/BSD Dedicated Server Hosting
Advanced Server Tools included
Maximum Server Control with no Limits
_______________________________________
- Hide quoted text -
On Thursday 05 July 2007 11:49:50 you wrote:
> One of your servers are hosting an open to the public, directory of
> harvested email addresses..
>
> google query:
> inurl:frogs.php gmail
> http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=inurl%3Afrogs.php +gmail
>
> the result is: www_the-cafe_biz/frogs_php
> * Dns resolved 82.103.130.113 to e82-103-130-113s.easyspeedy.com
>
> I know, that is a spam list because of a few reasons.
> 1: I do not give my email address out to be used for anything besides
> communication and it is in that list
> 2: I have been receiving a LOT of phishing emails lately.
>
> Thanks for looking into this, please reply to confirm you have received and
> are proceeding to take care of this as I am worried.
>
> Warm Regards,
> Morris.
—"
I sent my abuse report to them and they sent this report directly to the spammer without hiding my identitiy.
If I had sent more contact information, such as my company details or perhaps even more personal information that too would have been forwarded.
Now I do understand that chances are it is simply a compromised box and their client has no knoledge of it but what if this is not the case and a torrent of abuse comes my way?
The abuse team at easyspeedy.com, were so lazy they simply sent the following mail to me and cc'd their client..
from Abuse 11:01am GMT
to me
cc josephkshXXXXX@XXXXXXXX.XXX
date 05-Jul-2007 11:01
subject Re: Abuse report (Phishing+Spam)
mailed-by easyspeedy.com
Hi,
Please take a look at this issue adn report to us what you have done to solve
the issue.
EasySpeedy ApS
Abuse Team
33, Hoesterkoebvej
DK-2970 Hoersholm
Phone: +45 4594 1401
http://easyspeedy.com/
_______________________________________
Linux/BSD Dedicated Server Hosting
Advanced Server Tools included
Maximum Server Control with no Limits
_______________________________________
- Hide quoted text -
On Thursday 05 July 2007 11:49:50 you wrote:
> One of your servers are hosting an open to the public, directory of
> harvested email addresses..
>
> google query:
> inurl:frogs.php gmail
> http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=inurl%3Afrogs.ph
>
> the result is: www_the-cafe_biz/frogs_php
> * Dns resolved 82.103.130.113 to e82-103-130-113s.easyspeedy.com
>
> I know, that is a spam list because of a few reasons.
> 1: I do not give my email address out to be used for anything besides
> communication and it is in that list
> 2: I have been receiving a LOT of phishing emails lately.
>
> Thanks for looking into this, please reply to confirm you have received and
> are proceeding to take care of this as I am worried.
>
> Warm Regards,
> Morris.
—"
Submission + - MS Security Grunt or Whale Feces Researcher?
An anonymous reader writes: Computerworld is running a story discussing Popular Science's Top 10 Worst Jobs In Science for 2007. According to the list, it seems having a job studying whale feces is better than being a security grunt at Microsoft. A Microsoft security grunt's job is "like wearing a big sign that reads 'Hack Me,'" according to the magazine.
Submission + - OSI to crack down on "open source" abusers (businessreviewonline.com)
munchola writes: According to CBRonline
the Open Source Initiative is going to "open a can of whup ass on any vendors that claim to be open source despite not actually using a license approved by the OSI". In a blog post OSI president Michael Tiemann wrote: "Enough is enough. Open Source has grown up. Now it is time for us to stand up. I believe that when we do, the vendors who ignore our norms will suddenly recognize that they really do need to make a choice: to label their software correctly and honestly, or to license it with an OSI-approved license that matches their open source label."
Submission + - Hospitals Vulnerable to IT Security Threats (advanceweb.com)
MickBrew writes: http://health-information.advanceweb.com/common/Ed itorialSearch/AViewer.aspx?AN=HI_07jun18_hip16.htm l&AD=06-18-2007
Is your hospital vulnerable to IT security threats? How you can prevent it ? Some companies, like Scriptlogic, offer software solutions for securing environment and audit sensitive information access.
Submission + - Court Says Email Private (enquirer.com)
carpdeus writes: "The unanimous opinion of a three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit US Court of Appeals upheld U.S. District Judge Susan Dlott's finding last July that prosecutors violated the Constitution when they persuaded a federal magistrate to give them access to Steve Warshak's e-mail accounts at Nuvox Communications and Yahoo!
The argument was that the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable search and seizure applies to electronic communications. The government had used the Stored Communications Act of 1986 to obtain a sealed order and never let Warshak know that his privacy had been violated.
At the moment, this ruling only applies to emails in the southern half of Ohio covered by the Sixth Circuit."
The argument was that the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable search and seizure applies to electronic communications. The government had used the Stored Communications Act of 1986 to obtain a sealed order and never let Warshak know that his privacy had been violated.
At the moment, this ruling only applies to emails in the southern half of Ohio covered by the Sixth Circuit."
Submission + - Venezula to produce its own Linux PCs (digitaltippingpoint.com)
christian.einfeldt writes: "The Venezuelan Government announced the roll-out of four different models of Linux-powered consumer computers, consisting of three desktop models and one notebook model. Brand-named "Bolivarian Computers", these computers will be will be produced by a joint venture of a Chinese company named Lang Chao and the Venezuelan Ministry of Light Industry and Commerce. The goal of the project is to jump start a domestic IT industry and become an IT exporter. According to Chris Carlson of Venezuelanalysis.com,
The computers will first be assembled in Venezula out of Chinese-built parts, but the joint venture plans on substituting domestic-made parts by the end of the year."'Until now Venezuela has always imported computers both from well-known brands and generic brands from the developed world. With this new venture the Venezuelan government hopes to diversify national production, integrate national productive chains, and work towards technological independence for the country.'
Submission + - CatCam reveals kitty's secret adventures (tripod.com)
Matthew Skala writes: "J. Perthold attaches a ruggedized USB still camera with an enhanced battery and a microcontroller to click the shutter, to his cat, Mr. Lee — then sends Mr. Lee out into the neighbourhood. Intrigue: secret feline agents meet under cars. Romance: a visit to the lady cat next door. Action: motion-blurred high-speed shots as the camera bounces along inches from the ground. Also, it's a nice little hardware hack. Now to combine this with the Flo Control cat door..."
