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I've found nothing, but I got curious, so I made a backup and installed it anyway.That's a pretty great way to get your system infected-Curt (November 27, 2015, 06:31 PM)
It's fairly straightforward to design security into a system, which basically comes down to controlling access to memory and the supervisor. The old mainframe security was virtually bulletproof in that regard.That's only a very small part of the whole picture, though... there's a Whole Lot Of Horrible in that world because people mess up the (complicated!) security settings and then expose the boxes to the internet. Like when Anakata of PirateBay fame hacked the central Danish police mainframe.-40hz (November 11, 2015, 11:27 AM)
Great, thanks!Also, if I find a way to automate the cold-cache testing (suggestions would be very welcome!), I'll throw in stats from my old dualcore-with-SSD laptop.I found a way (a while ago, I just keep forgetting to update this thread).-f0dder (January 19, 2013, 02:49 PM)
This is done by flushing "Standby list" of Windows Memory Manager. For example, with Sysinternals' RAMMap -
It can also be done with NtSetSystemInformation from within the app if needed.-apankrat (September 27, 2015, 03:43 PM)
They can see what's in your drive? Yes, many of these 'services' can. Especially for de-duping. The big row over that happened a while ago.And it's something that should be complained about again and again and...-wraith808 (November 05, 2015, 11:03 AM)
It truly is aggravating when a few idiots fail to use a little common sense, self police their actions, and screw it up for everybody.If you're in reality not going to offer unlimited storage, stop your marking drones from trying to gain goodwill with their usual lies. Simple as that.-Stoic Joker (November 05, 2015, 06:36 AM)
I'm on a 40Mb symmetrical fiber connection, at my house ... But if I tried pushing anywhere close to 5TB up the wire I'd end up having a very unpleasant conversation with my ISP. So... 75TB!!! That had to have come from some clown on a commercial connection, because there's no way in hell a - classically upstream capped for a reason... - residential provider would have tolerated that volume of traffic coming from a single IP.Depends on provider. There's plenty of ISPs in Denmark that don't have silly caps, and give you the flatrate you pay for - including high-speed fibre providers.-Stoic Joker (November 05, 2015, 07:11 AM)
Since we started to roll out unlimited cloud storage to Office 365 consumer subscribers, a small number of users backed up numerous PCs and stored entire movie collections and DVR recordings. In some instances, this exceeded 75 TB per user or 14,000 times the average.-Microsoft
Worked perfectly - Thank You!!You're welcome - I'm glad it worked-Stoic Joker (November 03, 2015, 11:31 AM)
However I fear we may have slightly different perceptions of what is trivial..Here you go, my friend - trivial-Stoic Joker (November 03, 2015, 06:49 AM)
Yes ... But as to how to go about extracting it, I've not a clue.It might be possible by doing a memory dump, or by sniffing network traffic while connecting to the database. Also, I'd be surprised if there isn't a tool out there somewhere to do it, but a few quick google searches just gave me "reset root password" stuff.-Stoic Joker (November 02, 2015, 03:13 PM)
The second part I may consider down the road, if Postgre is also free...and has the same level of readily available documentation. Is there a specific issue with MySQL that you're picking at here?Gratis and Libre, and not entangled in whOracle's nasty tentacles - also a proper database, and one I see much fewer horror stories about on our techies mailing-list than MySQL/MariaDB-Stoic Joker (November 02, 2015, 03:13 PM)
The pw is stored in a copy MySQL workbench, so hopefully there are 2 possible angles of attack."Stored"? As in, you can start the workbench, and it will authenticate against the database? Then it should definitely be possible to extract.-Stoic Joker (November 02, 2015, 09:22 AM)
Fair enough. Though by "business user" I didn't quite mean 'enterprise' or 'corporate' use. I was wondering what was MS's main proposition to convince someone to switch from Win7 to Win10 who uses it for work, rather than just play. The article itself was kind of suggesting that there wasn't one.I can't really recall the last time an OS upgrade had a killer feature - the thing that comes closest is probably Vista moving the graphics stack mostly back into usermode, improving stability over XP immensively. It's really been just gradual improvements (and a few warts).-dr_andus (October 29, 2015, 07:21 PM)
(yes, I know there are tools to do so, often AV software are getting warnings, false positives, etc)Which is a pretty good reason why it shouldn't be added to ScreenShot Captor. The feature doesn't really make sense either, anyway - use one of the dedicated tools.-dcwul62 (October 30, 2015, 12:51 AM)
Most of these seem to me primarily consumer-oriented features. Not much there to convince a business user (in fact they're likely to wind them up with the forced download and reminders).A consumer newspaper probably focuses on features of consumer interests? :-)-dr_andus (October 29, 2015, 12:51 PM)
Although many have Apple flat screen monitors. I guess the Apple flat screen is tough to beat? A friend has a Mac Laptop and the screen is paper thin, very lightweight, and high quality.Haven't seen many laptops that can beat the macbook screens, but dunno why you'd buy an external monitor from Apple, really.-MilesAhead (October 29, 2015, 12:59 PM)
Seems like quite a hole...Not really, since you need admin privileges to perform the trick. Not having admin have SYSTEM privileges is more about making it difficult to blow off your legs by accident-wraith808 (October 21, 2015, 02:51 PM)
Oh and Renegade, you DID mismatch the two devices right? RAID1 of SSDs is not safe if you ordered both devices around the same time and they have been together in the raid the whole time. The result is that they will die by way of media wearout within a few days of one another usually.I really wouldn't be worried about an SSD dying from wear-out unless have really heavy workloads... in which case you know you're abusing the drive, and thus have an orderly plan for swapping them out in good time.-SeraphimLabs (June 25, 2015, 12:08 PM)
Instead, we got emails from grown adults using their corporate email addresses, replete with management job titles. These people actually pirated a $20 piece of software, and then had, again, the gall to email the uBar team for support. Example, with identifying information mercifully redacted:Emphasis is mine...-wraith808 (October 23, 2015, 01:45 PM)
(As an aside, there's a cheat for logging in as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. Let me know if you're interested).A new one, or the usual of running cmd.exe as a scheduled job?-wraith808 (October 21, 2015, 01:23 PM)
And when you do it, you turn it completely off until you reboot again and turn it on. It's hard enough to get people not to run as admin when they don't have to- rebooting? Not going to happen.Well, while I'm not fond of the way Apple is doing this, you don't really need SYSTEM/root privileges often, neither on OSX nor Windows. And normal admin privileges don't (yet...) require this switcharoo, so it's not too bad in and by itself. It's the reason behind it that's worrying-wraith808 (October 21, 2015, 01:23 PM)
UEFI isn't exactly the same. Imagine if you couldn't modify anything in the windows directory. No installing unsigned assemblies to the GAC. No installing unsigned drivers at all.You can't install unsigned drivers on (64bit) Windows unless you're running in TESTSIGNING mode.-wraith808 (October 20, 2015, 10:15 AM)
It's not just Apple. Microsoft has a built in account that's a level above Administrator now. If it creates a file or folder, you can't delete or modify it even if you are the admin (i.e. root) on your system.Hasn't NT always had the SYSTEM AUTHORITY?-40hz (October 21, 2015, 11:17 AM)
I don't know why (?) you settled on µBlock instead of µBlock Origin, but I thought I'd try them both out, starting with µBlock Origin first.I'm sticking with uBlock Origin - here's why.
I'd be interested in any advice/thoughts you might have on this.
(This subject seems a bit off-topic. Maybe I need to put it in a new/separate topic/thread.)-IainB (October 18, 2015, 06:17 PM)
That much I had already gathered, and I've considered looking into uMatrix as a replacement for RequestPolicy. Anyway, you skipped the second part of that line of text - "and lets me control whether the HTTP Referer [sic] header is set for the domains I allow to be contacted.".The combination of RefControl + Request Policy lets me control which 3rd-party domains get contacted at allThat's the whole point of uMatrix.-f0dder (October 18, 2015, 04:57 PM)-Tuxman (October 18, 2015, 05:32 PM)
