On 15/06/07, Scott Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thing with "hackers", in my own experience with them (and curse the media for disassociating the name "Hacker" from those it belonged to originally - programmers, the former should be called "crackers" or in most cases "script kiddies) is so many of them are full of bull dust.
Absolutely. A couple of years ago I did an arts residency, based on a group of so called "hackers" in Vienna. The project was based on a complete download of the NSA's email archive on Biometric Security - "Datamining the NSA" will still bring up a few hits :) This list will be pleased to know that I used Revolution extensively in this project - as a front end to WEKA and for visualisation of the datamining. Further - most of the "real"
hackers aren't into Joe Sixpack's computer - there are far more worthwhile targets wiating out there with surprisingly poor security.
Hey - are you calling me Joe Sixpack? I tell you what - I am going to get my hacker mate onto you... If I was really worried I might beef up my defences with a software firewall
(or beef up the one you already have if you are using OSX or *nix),
Thinking of putting the Nix based firewall back up Iits on an old PC) - but I would have thought the one in the NetGear router would be fine. encrypt
any stored passwords or credit card numbers,
Done luckily! consider getting a credit card
with a security code, consider (if you do online banking) getting a security widget. I have a little electronic number generator that voids previous numbers after they are entered into my banks web server - they are issued by some banks. Thus you can't get into my account using just my account number and pin/password. You need the little gizmo (fits on your keychain) to get in. Not 100% hack-proof as a brute force attack might yeild entry - but then *nothing* is truly 100% hack proof. ;-)
Didn't know about them - will check them out - but I guess it needs a bank to offer the backend? I'm going to have to wait until I get a clean machine / CD and then scan everything for malware - then Ill get up an extra nix firewall - and get some advice on how to set it up from a professional - well hacker that i trust. Lesson 3: real hackers are your friends. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
