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dave562 writes:
Stratfor analyst Sean Noonan shares his commentary on the capabilities of China's cyberwarfare capabilities, and the challenges and threats that those same capabilities bring to maintaining social order within the country.
A recent batch of WikiLeaks cables led Der Spiegel and The New York Times to print front-page stories on China’s cyber-espionage capabilities Dec. 4 and 5. While China’s offensive capabilities on the Internet are widely recognized, the country is discovering the other edge of the sword.
China is no doubt facing a paradox as it tries to manipulate and confront the growing capabilities of Internet users. Recent arrests of Chinese hackers and People’s Liberation Army (PLA) pronouncements suggest that China fears that its own computer experts, nationalist hackers and social media could turn against the government.
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dave562 writes:
Goldman Sachs' lawyers have asked the Federal judge to seal the court room during the trial of Sergey Aleynikov. Aleynikov was one of the programmers who developed Goldman's High Frequency Trading (HFT) programs. What does this say about the state of the financial indudstry? Given the problems HFT seems to have caused over the last few years, shouldn't more light be shone into the dark corners of how it works?
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dave562 writes:
Dr. Foaud Ajami was recently interviewed by Stanford University. He is a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution and the Chair of the working group on Islamism and the International Order. Among the topics discussed were Twitter and Facebook. Dr. Ajami seems skeptical about enacting regime change in Iran via the social media. He says that he is "worried about people who believe that Twitter and Facebook and so on will overthrow the Iranian regime."
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dave562 writes:
I have to admit that despite getting Slackware running on a 486 in the mid-1990s, I never really picked up on Linux. At this point I've realized that the handwriting is on the wall, and I need to get with the program (better late than never, right?).
My first project has been to setup Ubuntu (8.04) and get Subversion running. The Ubuntu install went flawlessly. Subversion has been a struggle, but I finally got it to work with TortoiseSVN and was able to upload files into my repository. The experience required tweaking some permissions via chmod. I've realized that I'm very uncomfortable with integrating Linux into the Windows world, and I don't have any idea of where to start.
I've read vague descriptions of OpenLDAP, and I have a feeling that I should be looking in that direction.
Can any of you recommend some good books about integrating Linux and Windows? What I am specifically interested in is being able to control the access of Windows (Active Directory) groups to resources on the Linux box. I will be looking into Samba as well, but I need to control access to more than just network file shares. For example, to be able to get TortoiseSVN to transfer (Import) files into the repository, I had to give the "world" rxw rights to some of the sub-directories in the Subversion repository. I'm fairly certain that is a huge security hole right now. In an ideal world, I would have liked to create a group in Windows, and only allow those people access to the directories. Longer term it would be great to be able to replace Active Directory with something else that can handle access controls to the Windows boxes and network file shares. Where I work Windows will never go away because of some industry specific applications, but it would be great if I can minimize the role that it plays on the backend.
Beyond books, what are some of the real world tools and solutions that you guys are using when you have to make Linux live in an Active Directory environment?
If it matters, I'm not married to Ubuntu and have already considered giving CentOS a try. I work at a shop with a heavy investment in HP hardware, and HP has great support for RHEL, so I figure CentOS will probably be a good foundation for where I am working.
