Showing posts with label exploits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exploits. Show all posts

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Shout-Out: Diebold STILL sucks


A rose, is a rose, is a rose, no matter how it smells, looks, tastes, and feels.

Diebold is still stinky whether or not it's diebold or Premier Election Systems (PES)
Shouldn't they ave named it, PMS? then they'd ave had an excuse....





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OK, you wanted a Political discussion: Here goes.

The background I believe that:
* We're HEADING into a DEPRESSION.
* It's going to be as BAD as the last one.
* According to Robert Reich (former Sec'y of Labor under Clinton): The only number that he EVER saw, defining the
depression was that the unemployment rate hovered around 25%.
* We need a new deal.
* After 58 years of NO Health Care Reform (since 1950!) it will FINALLY be coming soon...
* We've managed to WASTE a FULL generation (from Zero to thirty) with decaying social, educational, and interpersonal skills.
* Our nation is no longer DOING (producing) anything.
SO, from these few premises, I have extrapolated a great deal of items to FIX our society...

But....
We need to make sure that a number of issues are resolved ALL at once.
If we don't do them ALL at once, its like juggling three RUNNING chain saws, but dropping one!

Here's what I came up with:

We need to do the FOLLOWING to FIX our Society:
* Create A Living Wage
* Create a National Single payer Healthcare
* Create a National 3-4 year draft (or alternate service)
* Create a Federally paid Day Care starting at six months
* Implement Tax Reform on the ULTRA Rich
* Lobbying (Political Reform)
* Education
* Infrastructure (road /bridge/Systems repairs)
* Lack of Training/futures
* Truth and Reconcilliation Commission
* A new "Manhattan" project, focusing on Energy INDEPENDENCE

See my other blog: http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com for more details.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

News: Olympic Food Nightmare?


Oh, the Headaches of an Olympiad in China.
No, Really,I mean it.AP(via_ABC)reports:
(That) athletes are concerned with more than an upset stomach.

Antibiotics and growth stimulants, or steroids, are common in Chinese food production, which is poorly regulated.

Athletes fear a delicious dish of Chinese food could produce a positive doping test and, in turn, ruin their Olympic run. "I'm definitely concerned about any form of contaminated meat or anything like that," said Jessie Smith, a member of the U.S. water polo team.
"If there is a possibility of us getting tested positive for something through eating, I'm not going to take that chance," said Tony Azevado, water polo team captain. "I don't think anyone on our team will."
However, a manager the firm that controls 40 percent of the Chinese food market,
gave ABC News a rare tour of an organic farm north of Beijing.

On the farm, 65 tons of athlete-approved fruits and vegetables are being grown under tight security.

Security provisions include a computerized tracking system that details the
life history of each carrot and apple, tracking its path from the farm to the athlete's plate. (*)

Through this tracking code, we can see the entire production process of these tomatoes, from where they were grown, who grew them, to what kinds of fertilizers were used on these tomatoes, and any other manufacturing details, a manager explains.
(*) Mark wonders if the US Dept of Agriculture should license this computer system for OUR USA food safety?!!! Jalepeno Peppers Anyone???
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OK, you wanted a Political discussion: Here goes.

The background I believe that:
* We're HEADING into a DEPRESSION.
* It's going to be as BAD as the last one.
* According to Robert Reich (former Sec'y of Labor under Clinton): The only number that he EVER saw, defining the
depression was that the unemployment rate hovered around 25%.
* We need a new deal.
* After 58 years of NO Health Care Reform (since 1950!) it will FINALLY be coming soon...
* We've managed to WASTE a FULL generation (from Zero to thirty) with decaying social, educational, and interpersonal skills.
* Our nation is no longer DOING (producing) anything.
SO, from these few premises, I have extrapolated a great deal of items to FIX our society...

But....
We need to make sure that a number of issues are resolved ALL at once.
If we don't do them ALL at once, its like juggling three RUNNING chain saws, but dropping one!

Here's what I came up with:

We need to do the FOLLOWING to FIX our Society:
* Create A Living Wage
* Create a National Single payer Healthcare
* Create a National 3-4 year draft (or alternate service)
* Create a Federally paid Day Care starting at six months
* Implement Tax Reform on the ULTRA Rich
* Lobbying (Political Reform)
* Education
* Infrastructure (road /bridge/Systems repairs)
* Lack of Training/futures
* Truth and Reconcilliation Commission
* A new "Manhattan" project, focusing on Energy INDEPENDENCE

See my other blog: http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com for more details.

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Stupid iS™: NBC Reporter for Dateline:NBC "OUTED" at Defcon!


Blonde ambition at Defcon


Reporter Michelle Madigan came to the 15th annual Defcon conference in search of a good story. Instead, she became one.

Thanks to "Robert Cringley" (The imposter at the FORMER magazine Infoworld, not the REAL Robert (X) (or bob) Cringley!)

The Chief geek at the show Jeff Moss decided to play "Spot the Reporter," asking the press person with the hidden camera to please identify herself. Once Madigan realized the jig was up, she fled the room.

She was gleefully tailed into the parking log by a dozen or so jeering Defcon attendees, which is the closest some of them had been to a girl in their lives.

For those of you in that last category, Michelle is the WOMAN, with blonde hair, and jeans at the upper right of the picture!


She is shown, quickly leaving the convention, having become today's latest celebrity gossip victim!

Of course we're talking about a group of HACKERS having a convention, so the fact that
show organizers knew Madigan was coming before she even stepped onto a plane, which is frightening but not necessarily surprising. This snippet from the IDG News story by Robert McMillan and PC World's Erik Larkin is worth repeating:

Defcon organizers identified Madigan after being tipped off by her associates, who a show organizer declined to name. After the incident, the show organizer showed reporters a complete dossier on Madigan, which included a photograph, phone number, job title and social security number. He would not say how he obtained it.

I have only two rules when dealing with the hacker community: Rule #1: Don't mess with the black hats. Rule #2: See rule #1.


'nuff said??

10 point bonus Question:

How is NBC Like the George Bush>

Answer: NBC is to George Bush, as a PERSON NOT thinking of "what comes NEXT" is to someone who is NOT CAPABLE of asking "What comes NEXT?" and has spent over 600 Billion dollars DOING it.

Thursday, May 24, 2007

DICTATOR BUSH: lookie at latest BULLTURDS-update


Thanks to SKIPPY for catching this BULLSHIT from our PRESIDENT.

Thanks to Darrin Bell (cartoonist of CANDORVILLE) for this cartoon!



What SKIPPY CAUGHT!
The original is apparently HERE

The ORIGINAL Press release from WHITE HOUSE

WHAT it MEANS


Billy Joel said:
Say GoodBye to HollyWOOD Say goodbye my baby.

I say
Say goodbye to Democracy Say Hello Dictator BUSH

OK. As USUAL a paragraph by paragraph analysis:
Captioning for the brain impaired!

President Bush, without so much as issuing a press statement,on May 9 signed a directive that granted near dictatorial powers to the office of the president in the event of a national emergency declared by the president.


President Bush, without so much as issuing a press statement,
BUSH TRIED to slip this one past by WITHOUT COMMENT

>>>on May 9
15 Days ago!

>>>signed a directive
A LAW that was NOT voted or even LOOKED at by CONGRESS

>>>that granted near dictatorial powers

dic·ta·tor:
a person exercising absolute power, esp. a ruler who has absolute, unrestricted control in a government without hereditary succession.
SO our PRESIDENT can now create a DICTATOR

>>>to the office of the president
THAT is TO HIMSELF (and his OFFICE)

>>>in the event of a national emergency

Hmmm,THE press release says:
...snip...national emergency..
..snip..."Catastrophic Emergency" means any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions;
...So, if we have EXTRAordinary disruption...

>>>declared by the president.

so HE can declare himself, the OFFICE of the DICTATOR!

Hey we finished a paragraph!!
The "National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive," with the dual designation of NSPD-51, as a National Security Presidential Directive, and HSPD-20, as a Homeland Security Presidential Directive, establishes under the office of president a new National Continuity Coordinator.


>>>The "National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive
Fancy talk for LAW implemented by HIMSELF, rather then by CONGRESS

>>>with the dual designation of NSPD-51, as a National Security Presidential Directive, and HSPD-20, as a Homeland Security Presidential Directive
So important, he issues the same thing TWICE!

>>>establishes under the office of president a new National Continuity Coordinator
Ah, A new bureaucratic title,the NCC.

That job, as the document describes, is to make plans for "National Essential Functions" of all federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal governments, as well as private sector organizations to continue functioning under the president's directives in the event of a national emergency.


>>>to make plans for "National Essential Functions"

The Job ...snip...makes Plans (MS-PROJECT!) for National Essential Functions"

>>> of all federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal governments,
...{review: Makes plans for} all {federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal} governments

>>> as well as private sector organizations
...and... {also plans for}private sector organizations.

>>>to continue functioning
{review: PLANS for take overs of ALL government AND private groups} so they continue to work

>>>under the president's directives
under the president's ORDERS!!!!

>>>in the event of a national emergency.
{or in case he declares an EMERGENCY!}

The executive order loosely defines "catastrophic emergency" as "any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions."

>>> doy, already covered this above..
See ABOVE, where it says "The press release"

When the president determines a catastrophic emergency has occurred, the president can take over all government functions and direct all private sector activities to ensure we will emerge from the emergency with an "enduring constitutional government."

>>>When the president determines a catastrophic emergency has occurred,
or, when he decides he wants to stay in power... after 2008 (because giving in to democrats would be giving in to TERRORISTS...

>>>the president can take over all government functions
Yeah, we get it...Like a...hmmm D*I*C*T*A*T*O*R

>>> and direct all private sector activities
Yeah, LIKE A DICTATOR...

>>>to ensure we will emerge from the emergency with an "enduring constitutional government.
Yeah RIGHT! IF the emergency EVER ends. EGYPT has been under emergency for over 27 years

And in the IRONY is Still here category
Ironically, the executive order sees no contradiction in the assumption of dictatorial powers by the president with the goal of maintaining constitutional continuity through an emergency.

>>>
No comment needed.

The directive specifies that the assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism will be designated as the National Continuity Coordinator.



...snip...specifies that ...snip...the assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism will be designated THE NEW DICTATOR of the UNITED states!
{under the instructions of the first dictator (bush the first)}

>>> Currently, the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism is Frances Fragos Townsend.

Townsend spent 13 years at the Justice Department before moving to the U.S. Coast Guard where she served as Assistant Commandant for Intelligence.
So we can technically say, MADAME dictator!


SORRY I can't finish this, I am too sick



Please forward this post to your local news agency and ask why they aren't covering this??

This has been NEWS for the short attention span!

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Voting Machines: The TRUTH about the LAST FL. Election!

Ah. It starts to get interesting again.
Despite the Register's Dislike of The Cringe (The REAL PC industry Gossip columnist for the past 20 years...)---{WAY before the REG was created of course!}

Robert Cringely reports (from HERE) that The 2006 election which lost 18,000 votes WAS CAUSED by a SECURITY lapse that was FOUR YEARS old of the SLAMMER SQL worm.

Note to self: Don't give TMI (too much information-- look HERE )
The slammer worm was essentially a security breach on servers, which quickly takes a network down!

At any rate, the VOTER IMPACT of the SCANDAL is OBVIOUS:
Republican Vern Buchanan was ultimately certified as the winner over Democrat Jennings by just 369 votes.

An ongoing investigation by state officials has been unable to determine the cause of some 18,000 so-called undervotes (votes that were reportedly cast but not recorded) registered only on Democratic-leaning Sarasota's touch-screen voting systems.
Gee. Can you SAY REPUBLICIAN monkey business???

Thursday, May 03, 2007

Tech: DVD Codes



Don't worry.
Be Happy. Enjoy the Davinci DVD codes.

Just doing my little part to keep our country FREE from Censorship!

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

IRAQ: Gen Anthony Zinny (Ret). My hero

Got an HOUR? Listen to the LATEST US general to TRASH the current administration

Damning without ANY praise...

Listen here: Sorry, it's in "REAL Audio" (Yecch!)

Friday, March 30, 2007

PoliticS: SICK SICK SICK Impeach ALL of WASHINGTON

OK. Now I REALLY want to throw up... OL' Froth shows us a 10 min clip of
REAL REPUBLICANs at work....
GOT 10 minutes? l want to throw up.... REALLY and as a TRUE DEMOCRAT of OUR COUNTRY.

Ms. Lurita Doran, the HEAD of the GSA(Government Services Administration) that HUGE supposedly NON-PARTISAN agency that RUNS the ENTIRE government (and provides copiers, computers, and paper clips too)

Is sitting thru a scathing session on CSPAN3 dated yesterday, of Congressman Bruce Braley (D-Iowa), asking her about a POWER-point presentation on GSA property, DURING work hours from a WHITE house (non-career) employee, talking about HOW the GSA can help
take back the SENATE and Congress in 2008

YOU've gotta take the 10 minutes this clip will go, and just watch, and ...
YOU'll be as mortified as I was at her CRASS BULLSHIT

Summary...

It starts with her saying,
yes I guess that my office gave YOU this powerpoint.
Yes, I understand that the powerpoint was presented
NO I don't remember a thing.
No, I didnt know waht that slide meant, I dont recall ever seeing this before
No, I dont recognize this
Yes, this was given by a political operative of the white house, as a "team building" exercise
No, I dont remember getting up after the presentation and saying anything
OH, you have sworn statements that I said, LETS give 100% of the GSA to get the TEAM going from now ON???

OH I dont remember that

OH, I'm under oath? are you saying I'm lying?
NO, we have statements from multiple parties at taht meeting that you said similar comments.

and SQUIRM squirm, squirm she does.

Monday, March 19, 2007

TecH: IE 7 Urgent BUG Report (hee hee)

OK. SO I am a FIREFOX phreak.
(go here) to be updated in future-- to learn how to get firefox and
STOP using Microsoft's IE 6 or (IE 7)...

Oh, and Microsoft LIED when they said in 2001, that windows 2000 was the preferred corporate solution and would be Supported till 2010.

They Lied because I can't RUN IE7, because I have windows 2000
They lied because they DIDN't provide FREE daylight savings time Fixes for the bug last week
They lied because EVERYTHING about IE has been a lie.

Am I angry? Nah...

the REG reports that a slimy exploit exists that will replace a local (on your pc) page, with one that says, please click to retry (originating from a foreign site)

Ah the wonders of IE7.

Bet you can't remove it from your pc, either!

Friday, February 16, 2007

Tech: The Smoker's back BACK door

AUGH, and GRRRR...


As someone who's been an email/UNIX/LINUX administrator for over 15 years, I just can't believe what I read at times...

Social Engineering :The term has been popularized in recent years by well known (reformed) computer criminal and security consultant Kevin Mitnick who points out that it's much easier to trick someone into giving you his or her password for a system than to spend the effort to hack in. He claims it to be the single most effective method in his arsenal.

Workplace smoke ban a 'gift' for hackers

In a recent social engineering test undertaken by aUK-based security group, a tester was able to easily gain access to a corporate building through a back door that was left open for smokers.

Once inside, the penetration tester was able to easily bluff his way into a meeting room, claiming the IT department had sent him.

Even without an ID card, he gained access unchallenged and was then able to connect his laptop to the firm's network.

ARGUH!


Original Article here at The Register: