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Im still waiting for [Petronius] to clarify why he brought diagnostic methods and DSM-IV into this discussion.
(to help us all track posts: RE: Maybe leaving CM.. A warning - 7/15/2007 6:50:10 PM, p. 14. post 278.)

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ORIGINAL: Petronius

But here's a more generic hint to Synergy: if I brought up the term "paranoid" and "paranoia" it is probably because I wanted to state in public that I thought those terms accurate in describing some thing, group, concept, or person.

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ORIGINAL: Petronius

Of course I could always weasel out of the thing by claiming "it was a joke." But I leave that form of dishonesty to others.

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ORIGINAL: Lothlauren

Hey Sinenergy

The Mac addresses still exist and are even more revelant on a wireless network where you can block all mac addresses except for permitted ones. Also some of the applications I have worked on seemed to encode identies and have security protocols tied to the mac address much to the corporate users dismay as a means of identification... imagine their dismay when the server app denies them access even though they provided the right credentials...of course thats another story lol


BTW to all others who are using wireless routers I also recommend turning the broadcast off (AS you already know your SSID and dont need to see it to capture it)

with mac filtering on and broadcasting off... you actually prevent alot of base attacks...
and defeat alot of the simpler sniffing routines

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ORIGINAL: Aileen68

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ORIGINAL: Petronius

Of course I could always weasel out of the thing by claiming "it was a joke." But I leave that form of dishonesty to others.

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ORIGINAL: farglebargle

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But since I thought my points important then I think them important now.

In essence, they were:

1) Generic messenger software doesn't have the holes in it Lockit claimed that let's anybody "into your computer."

Of course, the vulnerabilities present can permit the installation of a rootkit, and therefore be a possible vector towards total computer pwnership.

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2) Corporate security, the Colorado legal system, and the FBI do not have the lackadaisical attitude toward security that Lockit claimed;

I've seen some pretty dumb fucking shit from Corporate Security, the legal system, and the FBI? Don't make me laugh.

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3) Contrary to Lockit's suggestions, modern security software prevents or disproves the notion that "anything can be traced."

REALLY? Explain EFF v. AT&T.

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ORIGINAL: Sinergy

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ORIGINAL: Petronius

But here's a more generic hint to Synergy: if I brought up the term "paranoid" and "paranoia" it is probably because I wanted to state in public that I thought those terms accurate in describing some thing, group, concept, or person.

Then answer my other question; what qualifications, objectivity, body of study, and laying on of hands, do you have or have performed on Lockit which allow you to render a psychiatric evaluation of her.

On the other hand, if it is simply a lay opinion you are providing in a juvenile attempt to degrade and insult the character and mental state of another poster on the boards, I would point out that such peurile antics dont seem to have worked out all that well for you. 

Just me, etc.

Sinergy

p.s.  By the way, the name is spelled Sinergy, not Synergy.  Please make a note of this.

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ORIGINAL: Petronius

1) Unsubstantiated claims about technology don't really make it, especially with somebody who started posting against unsubstantiated claims about technology. Lord knows that an idiot can fuck up the most secure software system. But generic holes in messenger software that in themselves let rootkits be installed? How about a URL or two documenting this. I really mean generic holes; I'm not asking for some hack that, if somebody using Yahoo i.m. does something incredibly stupid that their security can be breached. The question is of any description of a hack that lets somebody using Yahoo i.m. really well that can get a rootkit under all circumstances.

2) I have no desire to make you laugh, particularly when you don't seem to have understood the discussion you just contributed to. Your claim to have seen some "dumb fucking shit" is irrelevant to the topic that's been discussed. It isn't that "dumb fucking shit" doesn't happen; it does. I've written about some of it. But it still isn't relevant. Yahoo security may do some "dumb fucking shit" but I maintain they don't look at some massive security hole in their software and do nothing about it because they don't care. The FBI and the Justice Department blew a couple of hundred million dollars on a new computer network that never worked. But in the age of the "war on terrorism" they don't get a reliable report of some huge security problem and simply yawn.

3) EFF v ATT is, again, really really irrelevant to the discussion thusfar and especially irrelevant to the point I raised. I'm all on the side of EFF, and the ACLU, and the CCR but it is a different matter from that being discussed. Every single thing I've read about the security matters I've written about leads to the conclusion that ATT didn't turn over a single clear message to any government when the sender used state-of-the-art security.

To put it another way, the fact that a burglar crawls in some homeowners open window doesn't prove Ft. Knox is insecure. The fact that somebody can put a Medico cylinder on their front door, and leave the lock unlocked and the door open doesn't prove Medico is shit security.

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ORIGINAL: Petronius

I was about to write that Sinergy had a "bug up her ass" about the DSM IV. But then I thought people would demand to know my credentials in entomology ("bug"), physics or geography ("up") and either physiology or zoology ("ass").

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ORIGINAL: Lothlauren

HAHAHA... I was wondering how long before you came along and pointed out that you were male to him... Guess he really doesnt know as much as he would like us all to think

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ORIGINAL: domiguy

Shit!  Now you tell me....I've been wanting to fuck that hot chick, Sinergy, for quite some time now.....Has anyone seen a picture of  The Heretic? Is she hot?