Hi All, If you can mod and post all this, only if it helps the cause, you have my permission.
Just trying to help :) , you are going up against a monster BT, and just thoughts as I haven't had a chance to work with you much... I think as much as I'm starting to like the Gnome having never used it before that it is top heavy... A strange thought maybe, how difficult would it be to force a desktop change when moving from normal work i.e. spreadsheets etc... to security work... you could change the desktop's for all the normal stuff but would be locked into a specialized desktop/sandbox with additional security but less top heavy i.e. fluxbox etc... but stay consistent on the security desktop as that will create a psychological comfort once they got used to using something more minimalistic and long term, create a fixation on how things should be done, make them feel elite in that world... This would also provide them with the additional computing power needed to do the deed. Make it explicit why you do it that way, like having two desktops in one, just the other is more secure... It should automatically put them under multiple proxy, cover tracks, change mac's, VPN, stealth, covert etc... unless they chose otherwise, but I think that should be the default... It would be comforting for them to spread their wings knowing they were in a specialized environment... BT right now is shifting all over the place and is going to scare some off do to the changing of desktops over the next few years and there bunch of dick head mods... not that I don't understand and actually appreciate their forcing people to flee because they haven't even taken the time to research the problem, show the research and ask good questions (logical framework)... Google is my best friend other than my wife ;) They just approach it in such a shitty, snobby way... but they didn't really have a competitor so it worked for them... In sales we call it the push pull... we push you away to gather more info and make you feel stupid if you don't already, and then when you do show back up we in a sense greet you into the family... as the ultimate goal is to bring you into training and if i can't get you to do some work/research on your own then you probably are not a good candidate for school as it is intense and cost money... Sorry, now I'm wandering all over the place... Adult ADD with hi IQ is a bad mixture... I know what I'm thinking... how come you don't... lol ;) Later, if nothing else maybe you got a laugh out of it ;0 Sincerely Bill Baker ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bill Baker <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:57 AM Subject: Fwd: sorta of a bug "ramzswap" To: [email protected] HI All, If this is a big hassle just yell, I had other plans... you sidetracked me :) Plus if I'm yelling... cause I'm an ass about this stuff... That means there are probably others who say nothing and give up... And yes I researched your site and others and couldn't find a way to do it with out having to mess with the kernel and I'm just not ready for that yet... soon though ;) Toshiba is an a105-s101, if you need reports yell but damn it seems like it would be easy after all the ready i did because it all comes down to that equation... probably oversimplify it... everything touches everything else ;) ramzswap compcache Googled<http://www.google.com/search?q=ramzswap&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a> Might be a good link to check out on ramzswap...<http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/3050/compcache-ramzswap/> In case not clear this was regarding blackbuntu, I will also be dual or tri-booting and testing virtual scenarios on 3 to four laptops with a router, switch and all hard wired sp as to harden security along with other measures. Other than bios which I will find a solution for soon... maybe coreboot(linuxboot), seabios, smartboot, efi, uefi, rxboot, marsboooot(just kidding). I was hacked badly just recently which required changing my life basically... I had to DOD wipe drive on everything. change bank accts etc... It was fun to watch and educational and I probably stayed around too long... It's not often as a budding pentester, hacker, coder etc... that you get to watch it real time happening.... for many days and accessing my admin email in windows which i never considered to send reports.... If I encrypted a profile, a new one would pop up etc... It kept morphing files, disguising executable's and then they would check in once or twice a day etc... Wireshark and other scanners caught most of it... crazy to watch a netstat -a -o go from listening to all of a sudden running regex strings cause you changed things to mess with them and then the ultimate yu.pwn.xxx.xxx Chinese my guess but who know's.... looking through the files... definitely foreign as per english was weak, not that mines any better lol ;) I was chasing a bad person and walked into the wrong building lol... He was a pedophile and conning people out of there money as a financial guru/mentor though so it was worth it, and I backup my machines daily and image them weekly... He was caught if that's any consolation. I just decided that if I'm going to do this kind of work I needed to harden my systems and your distro magically popped up so would like to get it on all machines as the first distro do to it's ability to do other then pentesting... guess I could of chose a non pentesting distro but hey if you got blackbuntu and then BT... still waiting for new release and then one other on each machine that is different so as to be more fluent gnu/linux wise... or just linux wise, maybe a totally linux on one... If I can't pull this off then the new Debian 6 will be my main as everything is built off from it, just not as convenient to set up. My next purchase will probably be a hardware firewall and then a bubble to surround myself ;) Linux in general and then with built in defense isolating different groups of components etc... Just seemed where I needed to be... windoze too full of holes that get fixed too slowly. Sincerely Bill Baker ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bill Baker <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:24 AM Subject: sorta of a bug "ramzswap" To: [email protected] Help, running out of time to get this network up... On trying to install on a Toshiba with less than 500 MG Ram I get a fatal error... It has to do with restrictions that you put in place and i can't find them so guess they are in kernel or lib some where like " if ram is <=500 then term ramzswap" which then totally disengages my install. Please remove this requirement or lower it or maybe another work around. Thought about checking newest kernels 3.0.1 OR 3.0.1 rc1 as they look like they address this or compcache. In my mind it would just be simpler to lower the ram requirement and I'll add swap and just tell me where to teleport it from lol ;) Sincerely Bill Baker
