Re: [funsec] finally! Re: Was the ClimateGate Hacker Justified? Join the Debate!

2009-11-27 Thread Larry Seltzer
>>> The hacker is wrong - ethically, morally and legally. > Thank you for answering the question actually asked. I agree. Was Daniel Ellsberg ethically, legally or morally wrong for leaking the Pentagon Papers? Larry Seltzer Contributing Editor, PC Magazine larry_selt...@ziffdavis.com http://bl

Re: [funsec] world's strongest beer - Tactical Nuclear Penguin

2009-11-27 Thread Jon Kibler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On the topic of interesting & strong beer... - From a brew house in the U.S. -- Kerberos Beer: http://www.flyingdogales.com/Beer-Specialty-Kerberos.aspx Jon - -- Jon R. Kibler Chief Technical Officer Advanced Systems Engineering Technology, Inc.

Re: [funsec] world's strongest beer - Tactical Nuclear Penguin

2009-11-27 Thread David Lodge
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:48:41 -, Gadi Evron wrote: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/8380412.stm > > A controversial Scottish brewery has launched what it described as the > world's strongest beer - with a 32% alcohol content. > > Tactical Nuclear Penguin has been unveile

Re: [funsec] Was the ClimateGate Hacker Justified? Join the Debate!

2009-11-27 Thread David Lodge
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:28:15 -, RandallM wrote: > someone better look in to the the "tree rings". That seems to be the > cause of the debacle. > perhaps the reason for the "blow up and hack". Didn't seem to > correlate with their plans. And the whole principle is nicely explained by the reg:

[funsec] world's strongest beer - Tactical Nuclear Penguin

2009-11-27 Thread Gadi Evron
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/8380412.stm A controversial Scottish brewery has launched what it described as the world's strongest beer - with a 32% alcohol content. Tactical Nuclear Penguin has been unveiled by BrewDog of Fraserburgh. BrewDog was previously branded irr

[funsec] Actual Climate Change Thread (was: Was the ClimateGate Hacker Justified?)

2009-11-27 Thread chris
Since you can run, but you can't hide, we can let this ranting thread be for actual CC debate. --- On Fri, 11/27/09, Martin Tomasek wrote: > Climawhores do averaging of averages of averages (...) of > weather. They call it science, I call it chutzpah. Following my own advice I have to first as

[funsec] FBI puts cyber threats in "perspective"

2009-11-27 Thread Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah
"The FBI considers the cyber threat against our nation to be one of the greatest concerns of the 21st century." OK, that's a perspective, all right ... "An increasing array of sophisticated state and non-state actors have the capability to steal, alter or destroy our sensitive data and, in t

Re: [funsec] 9/11 pager messages being published

2009-11-27 Thread Juha-Matti Laurio
This was posted on Wednesday already :) http://linuxbox.org/pipermail/funsec/2009-November/022934.html Juha-Matti RandallM [randa...@fidmail.com] kirjoitti: > not sure of the reasons or importance but it will stir memories: > > http://911.wikileaks.org/ > > -- > been great, thanks > a.k.a Sys

Re: [funsec] Was the ClimateGate Hacker Justified? Join the Debate!

2009-11-27 Thread Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah
Date sent: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:17:47 -0500 From: Larry Seltzer > Yes, absolutely it was justified to leak these e-mails because the > implications of this issue are huge for the economy and the livelihood > of millions. Especially as employment for journalists :-

Re: [funsec] WTF! Or, wow, this never happened to me before!

2009-11-27 Thread Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah
Date sent: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:48:21 + (GMT) From: Drsolly > I once spend an entire morning doing a security seminar on a computer > provided by my host, which (he didn't know either) was infected with > Vacsina. It was only when I got to the antivirus part of

Re: [funsec] Was the ClimateGate Hacker Justified? Join the Debate!

2009-11-27 Thread Ned Fleming
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:17:33 +0200, Gadi Evron wrote: >A few days ago a story broke where someone hacked into a global warming >research institute and stole all emails from the past 10 years, proving >a conspiracy. > > >- Is the action taken by the hacker legal, ethical, and/or moral? Was >the

Re: [funsec] Was the ClimateGate Hacker Justified? Join the Debate!

2009-11-27 Thread RandallM
someone better look in to the the "tree rings". That seems to be the cause of the debacle. perhaps the reason for the "blow up and hack". Didn't seem to correlate with their plans. ___ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cg

Re: [funsec] Was the ClimateGate Hacker Justified? Join the Debate!

2009-11-27 Thread G. D. Fuego
On Nov 27, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Martin Tomasek wrote: > Climawhores do averaging of averages of averages (...) of weather. > They > call it science, I call it chutzpah. Hey, it worked for mortgages. ___ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. ht

Re: [funsec] Was the ClimateGate Hacker Justified? Join the Debate!

2009-11-27 Thread Martin Tomasek
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > ...once you got a fit like that, you can then > pretty safely use the CO2 concentration to predict temperature. Then you > just get the annual worldwide consumption of fossil fuels, use that to > figure out what the CO2 concentration will be in 2050, and from that

Re: [funsec] Ikeee worm author gets a job developing iPhone apps

2009-11-27 Thread Jason Ross
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Robert Portvliet wrote: > Well, it's certainly not without precedent > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/17/twitter_worm_job/ > > http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/595 > > http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2000/09/va_cihauthor.html > > I'm sure

Re: [funsec] Was the ClimateGate Hacker Justified? Join the Debate!

2009-11-27 Thread RandallM
> -- > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:17:47 -0500 > From: "Larry Seltzer" > Subject: Re: [funsec] Was the ClimateGate Hacker Justified? Join the >        Debate! > To: "Gadi Evron" , "funsec" > Message-ID: >        <9b9e7ea67e1b1342b2d25f3fd1b3293002f61...@be

Re: [funsec] Was the ClimateGate Hacker Justified? Join the Debate!

2009-11-27 Thread Martin Tomasek
Larry Seltzer wrote: > PS - If you haven't guessed it already, I think that climate science is > largely full of crap. I agree with that. > Put aside for the minute that the models can't > explain why we've had *cooling* for the last 10 years; why would you > think that you can look at ice cores

[funsec] finally! Re: Was the ClimateGate Hacker Justified? Join the Debate!

2009-11-27 Thread Gadi Evron
ch...@blask.org wrote: > --- On Thu, 11/26/09, Gadi Evron wrote: > >> I agree, which is why we don't debate climate change, but >> the hacker's actions. > > My take: > > The hacker is wrong - ethically, morally and legally. Thank you for answering the question actually asked. I agree. > >

Re: [funsec] Was the ClimateGate Hacker Justified? Join the Debate!

2009-11-27 Thread Martin Tomasek
ch...@blask.org wrote: > o The global climate is anything but a single-change scenario: it is > actually a "constant multiple-factor change scenario", in which it is > conceivable that we are currently otherwise in a cooling phase and we have > just happened - by sheer dumb luck - to find ourse

Re: [funsec] Ikeee worm author gets a job developing iPhone apps

2009-11-27 Thread Robert Portvliet
Well, it's certainly not without precedent http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/17/twitter_worm_job/ http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/595 http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2000/09/va_cihauthor.html I'm sure there's other instances... On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Jason Ro

Re: [funsec] Was the ClimateGate Hacker Justified? Join the Debate!

2009-11-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:17:47 EST, Larry Seltzer said: > PS - If you haven't guessed it already, I think that climate science is > largely full of crap. Put aside for the minute that the models can't > explain why we've had *cooling* for the last 10 years; why would you > think that you can look at

Re: [funsec] Was the ClimateGate Hacker Justified? Join the Debate!

2009-11-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:17:47 EST, Larry Seltzer said: > PS - If you haven't guessed it already, I think that climate science is > largely full of crap. Put aside for the minute that the models can't > explain why we've had *cooling* for the last 10 years; why would you > think that you can look at

Re: [funsec] Ikeee worm author gets a job developing iPhone apps

2009-11-27 Thread Jason Ross
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Peter Evans wrote: > > What's wrong with it? Really. He proved a point, it got him a job by > getting his name out there. > He broke the law of a number of countries by intentionally making modifications to computing devices without authorization. Such behavior S

[funsec] 9/11 pager messages being published

2009-11-27 Thread RandallM
not sure of the reasons or importance but it will stir memories: http://911.wikileaks.org/ -- been great, thanks a.k.a System ___ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a publ

[funsec] Google wave and N3td3v

2009-11-27 Thread RandallM
for goodness sake. thats the one thing bout gmail i don't like. captures "all". now he's in my googlewave contacts! Gadi, you should start a "wave" for on the fly discussion of important or hot topics. it would be interesting and fun. -- been great, thanks a.k.a System __

Re: [funsec] Was the ClimateGate Hacker Justified? Join the Debate!

2009-11-27 Thread Greg Slade
> I look down with contempt on the inferior creatures who are dumb > enough to fall for this denialist nonsense. I can't help but think that, as a necessary first step before any atrocity, the perpetrators first had to convince themselves that the intended victims were not fully human. -- Greg S

Re: [funsec] Was the ClimateGate Hacker Justified? Join the Debate!

2009-11-27 Thread chris
--- On Thu, 11/26/09, Gadi Evron wrote: > I agree, which is why we don't debate climate change, but > the hacker's actions. My take: The hacker is wrong - ethically, morally and legally. The exposure of the information can be either good or bad, separately and distinctly from the ethics of th

Re: [funsec] WTF! Or, wow, this never happened to me before!

2009-11-27 Thread Drsolly
I once spend an entire morning doing a security seminar on a computer provided by my host, which (he didn't know either) was infected with Vacsina. It was only when I got to the antivirus part of the seminar that I discovered it. On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah

Re: [funsec] Was the ClimateGate Hacker Justified? Join the Debate!

2009-11-27 Thread Larry Seltzer
I'll take a stab at actually answering the question: Yes, absolutely it was justified to leak these e-mails because the implications of this issue are huge for the economy and the livelihood of millions. Some people may think that the science is settled and any questions are trivia but not ever