Posted on 02/18/2014 8:14:40 AM PST by Candor7
Conservative Websites are being subjected to denial of service attacks and worm virus infection. In particular Freeper Beckwith is fighting this battle right this moment. The left is ginning up to limit free speech of Conservatives, treating them as they would terrorists, using sophisticated software likely provided by the Obama Campaign, with hacker research likely funded by Tax Payer dollars for Community Workers.
Whether we win in November depends on our success in protecting our internet speech rights.If anyone has techniques which would protect from these attacks, including encryption or the use of alternate OS such as LINUX, and mirror sites, lets get some resources together and help folks like Beckwith.
I ran into a Globe Magazine article about Obama that contained a virus. Fortunately, my AV software “took it out”. There’s no doubt in my mind Obama’s minions are spending a lot of energy attacking their perceived adversaries.
HF
Thanks, I will look at it.
I bookmarked the home page for Ironsides and downloaded the files for study.
Thanks again.
I think Beck has become a bit paranoid. His Samsung HD died and he is blaming his “enemies”. Hard drives die all the time.
and in such diverse colors ;)
Maybe. But you know, glass houses and all that.
Every Windows client here is being repeatedly hammered by malware. One client was hijacked in November by Cryptolocker, reformatted and reinstalled, and then reinfected by Smart Guard Protection and a zoo of associated rootkits, trojans, backdoors, and you name it. With the assistance of the anti-malware experts the latest threats are being removed, but the malware scanners are having a difficult time detecting all of the threats. just when one set of malware scanners report no malware objects detected, another scanner detects more trojans. So even the experts are having difficulties combatting these threats.
The first "D" in DDOS stands for distributed, so no.
How that works is hackers embed remote administration bots in pirate software. Thousands of people download the software for "free" and install it on their computers. Then the hacker can control all those computers remotely. They have those computers ping the crap out the websites, overloading the servers. It's as if thousands of people attempted to view the website at once.
Distributed Denial of Service.
Think about that the next time you come across a "free" copy of Photoshop, or some game.
That is true.
Thanks for the ping Candor...
Nope, you want OpenVMS1... Security is not something that can be bolted on
, and this is unfortunately the case with *nix systems.
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
[Jamie Zawinski]
1 Actually what you really want is a formally verified OS, built by a formally verified compiler… which sadly doesn't yet exist.
These types of attacks go on every day, all of the time against virtually all outward facing networks. They usually originate from overseas, or appear to, and are probing for weaknesses in firewalls or OS exploits against those dumb enough to have a server or PC directly connected to the internet.
Chances are, this has absolutely nothing to do with politics, ect.
Nope, you want OpenVMS1... Security is not something that can be bolted on, and this is unfortunately the case with *nix systems. Linux is only free if your time has no value. [Jamie Zawinski]
1 Actually what you really want is a formally verified OS, built by a formally verified compiler… which sadly doesn't yet exist.
Unix on the other hand was developed by Bell Labs for DARPA If memory serves me, VMS and later OpenVMS
was the DEC code stolen by Microsoft for NT which is Windows 8.
to operate successfully in a hostile enemy controlled network
TECH BUMP
Yes, Windows NT has some commonalities with VMS — just like Delphi/Turbo Pascal has commonalities with C#, and for the same reason, they were developed by [mostly] the same group of people — to say that the two languages have the same flaws would indicate that you really don't know what you're talking about. (Even in the simple realm of syntax, with Pascal's := you cannot have the C-style if (x = 1)/if (x == 1) problem; which still exists in C#1 [though admittedly limited from int condition-tests.])
The same thing exists in comparing VMS vs NT — though I lack actual user-experience w/ VMS, I'm interested in OSes (I'd like to make my own, eventually) and have done research into several.
Unix on the other hand was developed by Bell Labs for DARPA to operate successfully in a hostile enemy controlled network.
I don't think so. I've never heard of Unix having roots in DARPA; everything I've read says it came from Bell Labs and the name was a play on Multics which was a MIT/GE/Bell-Labs project. (Multics had the high-availability [fault-tolerant] of resources as a design-goal.) .... Your description sounds more like the IP protocol to me than Unix.
1 — C# Example: public class Test
{
void example()
{
Boolean k = true;
if (k = getbool())
{ /* Whatever. */ };
}
Boolean getbool()
{ return false; }
}
PING!
You must be 16 yo and live in your parents basement.
Double that, oh and I'm not living in my parent's basement… I put myself through college as part of my enlistment deal w/ Uncle Sam with zero money from the parents. — I've been interested in OSes for more than a decade, and actually got one up to the point where it could recognize user-input, execute [internal] commands, and change screen-modes (it was pure TP7, save for two or three lines [IIRC] of inline-assembly) before I got stumped on memory-management and swamped with "real-life".
Domo for the Ping.
I have to go no further than the mod squad for that DOS thingy.
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