[Full-Disclosure] Elect Homer Simpson

2004-10-30 Thread James Bliss
Re: [Full-Disclosure] Slightly off-topic... This has got to be the dumbest thread on this list so far. My two cents: Proposed write-in campaign: Elect Homer Simpson President, then put Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, etc. into the House and Senate. At the very worse, world opinion of the US and

Re: [Full-Disclosure] STOP - OFF TOPIC: antisemitic troll

2004-07-21 Thread James Bliss
Enough ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Possible First Crypto Virus Definitely Discovered!

2004-06-10 Thread James Bliss
On Thursday 10 June 2004 2:06 pm, Billy B. Bilano wrote: Since you can't get rid of a virus like this we are going to get rid of the Windows! The CEO told me to get rid of the virus and get the servers back up at whatever the cost! So now that I have a blank check I am going to do what's

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Possible First Crypto Virus Definitely Discovered!

2004-06-08 Thread James Bliss
Whatever ssl is, I don't know but it's using the so-called ssl port on the web servers. I don't think it has anything to do with whatever ssl was back in the old days of UNIX. It has a lower port number and that means it's an older port! Probably from the 1970s! Besides, why should I see any

Re: [Full-Disclosure] User bypass privs for Mysql??

2004-05-18 Thread James Bliss
What were your other privileges. If you did not have any grants then why in the heck did you have any access rights to the mysql database (not product) tables? Seems that you had a DBA error, not a product error. Jim On Tuesday 18 May 2004 9:02 am, Esler, Joel - Contractor wrote: Not having

Re: [Full-Disclosure] New therad: sasser, costs, support etc alltogether

2004-05-15 Thread James Bliss
snip 1. MS is wrongdoing by releasing (and charging for use of) software that has bugs in it. Users of such software have losses in time/money by trying to keep up with applying pathches, or just by trying to keep the uptime high. 2. Admins are wrongdoing by not applying patches to the

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Support the Sasser-author fund started

2004-05-15 Thread James Bliss
Imagine you own a home and installed a security system on all the doors and windows. You set the alarm and leave for a weekend. OK A thief comes up to your house, breaks a window, and slides through the opening. The alarm does not go off because the thief found a vulnerability in the

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Victory day - Sasser surrenders

2004-05-08 Thread james . bliss
Conspiracy Theories are a wonderful thing, yet truth is so hard to come by. On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 01:32:27PM +0200, Feher Tamas wrote: Alleged Sasser LSASS worm creator J. Sven (probably the same teenager who wrote some of the later Netsky variants) was arrested by police in the

Re: [Full-Disclosure] A sucker is born every day

2004-04-05 Thread James Bliss
Me thinks ye complainest too much... On Monday 05 April 2004 2:46 pm, Carolyn Meinel wrote: Regarding Attrition.org and its attempts at education: Does anyone believe that Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein had a gay wedding? The Weekly World News had a photo on their front cover! Would

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Important Notice about Security Watch Debate

2004-02-12 Thread James Bliss
From your email it would appear that the 'battle lines' are already drawn. Anyone submitting 'essays' may get them published and then Roberta Bragg's response to those essays is published. Will the parties submitting the essays then be provided guaranteed space to rebut Roberta's responses?

Re: [Full-Disclosure] RE: Security Watch Essay (was: (no subject))

2004-02-12 Thread James Bliss
Ah, hypocrisy from a journalist, imagine that: On Thursday 12 February 2004 07:09, Keith Ward wrote: snip ... I wouldn't have wasted my keystrokes... If you had not wasted them this email would not have been written. I would definitely trust the veracity of anything this person writes.

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Dig SCO?

2004-02-02 Thread James Bliss
In the current situation with SCO vs. IBM it would be easy for SCO to release a virus against themselves and blaim it on the open source community. Wouldn't even surprise me. And a not knoledgable judge would even recognize it as evidence against the Open Source community. Nah, a little too

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Dig SCO?

2004-02-02 Thread James Bliss
On Monday 02 February 2004 23:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 22:56:24 CST, James Bliss [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have a question, has anyone documented the number, volume, any metrics of the number of packets actually going to sco.com? Possibly the source IPs as well