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Living Room / Re: Homeland Security: Disable UPnP

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 30, 2013, 03:20 PM »

It's still a pointlessly dangerous protocol IMO. Because anything that shows up on/from a web page is already on the LAN, and this "service" is just begging to be exploited. How many people really need to open a port that often?? Damn few I'd suspect.

Most people leave their home routers with the default password...because it's "easier to deal with". So add to that a handy-dandy helper that's just begging to play poke-N-hope and Um... Yeah -Gee Wiz- can't fathom why that wouldn't get beaten like a dead horse at a zombie christmas party.

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Living Room / Re: Homeland Security: Disable UPnP

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 29, 2013, 09:15 PM »

(hay DHS-> Holy no shit batman!

...and they're here to "protect" us. [facepalm]

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 29, 2013, 09:12 PM »

Found this interesting

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Developer's Corner / Practical Use for IE Porno Mode

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 29, 2013, 06:03 PM »

Okay, wasn't quite sure where to put this, but I ran across it during an Office365->Exchange OnLine Cloud Migration (which I'm currently in the middle of).

We've all had fun making fun of IE's InPrivate/Porno Mode feature ... but apparently it is actually useful if you need to log into multiple accounts simultaneously on a remote (Cloud) system. Especially if you want to do it without disturbing your own settings.

I'm experimenting with the Exchange OnLine Shared Calendars functionality trying to figure out the best way to export/map/replicate the client's current Google calendar maze (of like 25 highly populated calendars) into an Exchange shared calendar solution (suggestions welcome), when it occurred to me I needed to be several people at once on a single machine...and I didn't want to use VMs for reasons I don't want to go into.

So, I opened porno mode, and logged into the first users account. Opening a second porno mode window yielded a copy of the same session I had in the first window (damn). However...I discovered...If you go to File New Session in the first (porno mode) window the resulting second window is completely isolated from both the main browser settings, and the first porno mode windows session. Which allows you to logon simultaneously as a completely different user. So I'm now logged into the remote system as 3 entirely different users all from (and on) the same single desktop session.

Hay, maybe it's friggin obvious for some, but I figured what the hell ...(not the first time I looked foolish)... I'll give it a share and see what happens.


Oh and if anyone is wondering... I'm really liking - and am rather impressed with - this Exchange OnLine cloud thing.

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Living Room / Re: MISSING images or pics ?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 24, 2013, 11:30 AM »

What's the story... removed, broken link, my browser...

-crabby3 (January 24, 2013, 09:04 AM)

Yes.

Granted it depends on how many images are not appearing how often, so if it's only a few here or there, now and then. Then sure any of the above could be the culprit. But if it's a bunch of them frequently...more digging/detail is most likely advisable.

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Living Room / Re: Computer science student expelled for testing university software security

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 24, 2013, 07:01 AM »

Alex Simonelis said his department forbids hacking as an 'extreme example' of 'behavior that is unacceptable in a computing professional.'

-the Article

Alex, is retarded. But that's a common trap for academics...no access to the real world. Just a lot of time in a rarefied bubble of their own little world.

Anybody who's spent any amount of time doing administrative level site work knows that hacking is flatout part of the job. Nobody ever documents anything properly, keeps support agreements current, or (frequently) has the slightest clue of what actually happens in the magical world behind the lit screen. So if you want to get done with a "5 minute" job in less than a week ... You damn well better know how to gently probe and disassemble something quickly without crashing it. Obviously this clown has never heard of the CEH classification (but it's on my to-do list).

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: The only difference between a hacker and an administrator is a paycheck and a pair of handcuffs. Because you'll never be able to keep people out, if you don't know how and where they get in.

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 24, 2013, 06:42 AM »

For the calendar's week number set the (miscellaneous tab) first week of year back to 0
For the Clock use Ww to use the SWN (Simple Week Number) option

That should get both to display week 4

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Living Room / Re: Computer science student expelled for testing university software security

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 23, 2013, 11:57 AM »

m much more interested in how you could "bleach" a server. That's a new one for me.

-40hz (January 23, 2013, 09:59 AM)

A superficial google search implies that 'Bleach' is a type of MineCraft server ... ... So I guess (in Canada) if a server goes past a certain point they just give up and play video games on it.

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Living Room / Re: Computer science student expelled for testing university software security

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 23, 2013, 11:52 AM »

Wow... if that's the real series of events, I withdraw my statement that he did anything wrong.  This timeline is pretty damning.

-wraith808 (January 22, 2013, 11:11 PM)

Ditto. And that's from my own sysadmin perspective.

-40hz (January 23, 2013, 09:46 AM)

 

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Living Room / Re: Computer science student expelled for testing university software security

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 23, 2013, 11:49 AM »

I'm missing what the domain has to do with anything.

Could one of the sysadmins here explain how DNS resolution compromises a server? (Well, other than MTM and all that - which seems to me like a different issue.)

-Renegade (January 23, 2013, 09:25 AM)

Perhaps it's in reference to the externally facing public (www...) domain, and not the internal LAN/AD domain.

The link was publicly recorded in Aug., 2011, at Zone-h, an open source mirror frequented by #AntiSec factions, who frequently record f** files to independents, who then confirm, store and register the hack with public search engines indicating a given domain has been compromised.

-article

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Living Room / Re: Computer science student expelled for testing university software security

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 22, 2013, 03:43 PM »

MONTREAL — The Dawson Student Union is demanding immediate reinstatement of Hamed Al-Khabaz as a computer-science student at the Montreal CEGEP.

Montreal college student union defends expelled computer science student

Or just sign the petition to reinstate him http://www.hamedhelped.com/petition/

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Living Room / Re: FBI ALERT SCAM - Malware or Virus ?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 22, 2013, 02:08 PM »

I quit dumping the prefetch folder back in the XP days (as it's self cleaning), and I usually dump the Windows temp manually so I can get some idea of what sort of history the machine has had.

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Living Room / Re: FBI ALERT SCAM - Malware or Virus ?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 22, 2013, 12:01 PM »

A variation on the same theme is ATF-Cleaner which I've been using for a few years. It says it's only good for 2000/XP but I've used it frequently on Vista & 7 without any problems...so it's still a favorite of mine.

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Living Room / Re: Computer science student expelled for testing university software security

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 22, 2013, 07:06 AM »

@Mouser - FWIW I am on record a few posts back for saying I thought the response seemed unusually harsh and possibly excessive based on the facts made public so far.

-40hz (January 22, 2013, 06:03 AM)

Which is pretty much where this keeps going in a circle:
Everyone seems to agree that the punishment was excessive.
Everyone seems to agrees that he totally screwed up.

Yet we're debating what exactly?

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Living Room / Re: Computer science student expelled for testing university software security

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 21, 2013, 06:16 PM »

The machine never falters in voting for itself...(as that is its primary purpose)...So if I gotta pick a direction coming outta the gate, Damn Straight I'm backing the dog.

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Living Room / Re: Computer science student expelled for testing university software security

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 21, 2013, 03:58 PM »

Better yet, having already by way of their own vote assigned a quantity of guilt to said situation ... The professors should be forced to share in said quantum of guilt for improperly teaching him what not to do.

If outrage is not to be conserved, then it should be allowed to expand proportionately across all involved in the interest of fair play (my version).

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Living Room / Re: Computer science student expelled for testing university software security

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 21, 2013, 03:15 PM »

The fact that he, on his own, informed them about the vulnerabilities the first time, tells you everything you need to know about his intentions, his moral character, and the nature of the "threat" he supposedly posed.

-mouser (January 21, 2013, 03:06 PM)

+1 - Agreed. Now if he'd have polked it twice all sneeky and quiet...then I'd be up for a BBQ. But that ain't what happened.

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Living Room / Re: PowerPwn: Power strip by day, Hacking device by night!

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 21, 2013, 03:09 PM »

Of course the brass doesn't care about that, after all its my job to keep it alive no matter what. Just, they certainly don't put any effort into making my job easier.

-SeraphimLabs (January 21, 2013, 01:24 PM)

Around here the brass are the ones most likely to plug in some dumb shit and take the network down. Like the day 'Our Leader X' decided to plug a dangling cable into the switch (and. not. tell. anybody...) because they couldn't figure out why it wasn't/didn't "appear to Go anywhere"...(as it's such a bitch to trace a 3' cable, to find out it was already plugged into self same switch)... That shit cost me an hour trying to figure out why half the network had gone black.

I seriously considered strangling then with said cable when the issue was found.

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Living Room / Re: Computer science student expelled for testing university software security

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 21, 2013, 02:39 PM »

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, I'm familiar with the rap...

I have very little sympathy for this particular kid's self-caused problems even if I do think the school's response borders on being capricious and excessive.

-40hz (January 21, 2013, 02:10 PM)

  (Do I even have to say it...?) Exxaactly ... Hence my comment about "Counting Coo". Sit the boy down, have a little quality "Scared Straight" lecture time with him, and then... Let. It. Go. They didn't need to crucify his ass. That just invites a PR nightmare...Kinda like what they appear to be having a bit of now.

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Living Room / Re: Computer science student expelled for testing university software security

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 21, 2013, 12:03 PM »

Just because it's predictable (true), doesn't make it right.

I'm with Mouser & Ren - They should have just counted coo on the kid...not take him out and shoot him - this is crap.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 20, 2013, 01:37 PM »

  Precisely why I maintain that statistics are BS because you can easily twist them to prove anything with anything.

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Living Room / Re: TOO AWESOME FOR WORDS!

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 17, 2013, 06:58 AM »

Gave me a good laugh this morning when I heard it on the radio. Nice kick in the teeth to the corporation.

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Living Room / Re: Kaspersky - Clandestine State Sponsored Hacking

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 17, 2013, 06:40 AM »

What good are hacking laws if the worst culprits are governments?

-Renegade (January 15, 2013, 07:47 PM)

It keeps out the riffraff and maintains the playing field at a manageable size?

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Living Room / Re: Name 1 Technological Feature That You Think Is Good

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 16, 2013, 11:25 AM »

2) The CPU chip. It changed *everything* for the better and worse. Mostly for the better.

-40hz

I just read this thread more carefully. What did the CPU chip made worse?

-Paul Keith (January 16, 2013, 06:51 AM)

Our lives by allowing this to happen.

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Living Room / Re: SGS3 Advertising Fail

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 14, 2013, 06:23 PM »

Power glitch at the store? Lazy employees that pulls plugs instead of proper shutdown?

-f0dder (January 14, 2013, 06:40 AM)

Um... shouldn't a tablet type device having a battery negate those options? *Shrug* I got no problem calling it a crash ... Shit happens, Ya know?

-Stoic Joker (January 14, 2013, 11:29 AM)

Sure, if it was a tablet - that thing looks more like a man-sized advertising flatscreen (driven by some commodity windows software) with a tablet/phone-like frame on it?

-f0dder (January 14, 2013, 12:29 PM)

Could be ... I wasn't really paying attention to the scale disparity.