I have this book "The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca" by Anthony F.C.
Wallace if you need help with
the bulldog, Shaun.............
lol
On Friday, July 4, 2014 5:56 PM, Shaun O'Connor
<capricorn8159@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dougie !
Do I take that as a challenge to partake in some verbal jousting?
hmm,,,, I will give that some thought.
ATB
Shaun
On 04/07/2014 23:12, doug wrote:
Hi Shaun,
Normal is normal...and you shouldn't forget it...and if you do, it
will be at your own cost...Prime ministers and Presidents are normal,
bureaucrats and civil servants are normal, those who hold political
office and offices of state, are normal, they always tell the truth,
the way it is, and there is no dissenting from that.. Like George
Washington, one of their norms is that they don't tell lies. Is that
not something which is taught to each American child at school? Now,
I don't know whether George Washington told a lie or not, and I am
prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt, and I am prepared to be
proved wrong...but, to be honest, I have never come across one single
lie that George Washington ever told, so, on the basis of assumption,
and till I am proved wrong. George Washington never told a lie. The
whole of the US constitution is based on that fact...Are you...or
anyone else for that matter, really going to challenge it...Give me
proof...if you dare.
Like, saluting the flag. I remember, in my younger days, studying the
American Constitution and the law surrounding it. And, an important
and most famous case which went all the way to the Supreme Court, was
on the question of whether Jehovas Witnesses at their school should be
forced to salute the US Flag every morning. The Jehovas Witnesses
point of view, was that there was a higher authority than the United
States Constitution which defined how their religion carried out its
practices and theories, it was a person called God. The US Supreme
Court said, "No". And their reasoning was. " By saluting the flag
every morning, this was the symbol which re-inforced and protected the
freedoms for the likes of Jehovas Witnesses in conducting their
religion...
Discuss...?
ATB
Dougie.
P.S. Why don't I, as a citizen of the world, have the same rights as a
US citizen when it comes to having my bank account and my private
affairs and data compromised? Am I one of those lessers, who isn't
entitled to human rights from the US.
On 04/07/14 22:32, Shaun O'Connor wrote:
Normal?wtf is that when its about??lol
Each person, each organization, each government, each country has
their own idea of"normal" and what is considered "normal" today might
be considered abnormal tomorrow.
so , yeah normal is just a ward.a collection of symbols if you
like(when written down) which means different things to different
people and changes rather quickly ( a bit like the British weather)
On 04/07/2014 22:24, doug wrote:
HI Andrew,
Tx for taking the time to reply. I have a lot to learn on these
things being a newbie to security and computers and such like. I have
heard of Wireshark, but did wonder what it was all about, and I did
visit the website and I did think about downloading it...but then I
couldn't think of anyone with whom I could exchange information which
had to be so secure and secret...or even confidential;;but after
reading n Cryptome at url;
http://cryptome.org/2014/07/nsa-tor-de.htm
I thought the better of it. Apparently, according to the report...and
I don't know how "true" it is or how much credibility it has, amongst
those whom I respect in the security industry. I have looked at
"Tails" and at "TOR" and am most annoyed to find out that the NSA
considers me as an "extremist" because i am one of those people who
would like to protect their privacy. Now, I have never downloaded TOR
or Tails, because i have yet to find a need for it, but I don't see
why my curiosity should be rewarded by being considered to be
extreme. it makes me wonder about the NSA and its philosophy is all
about, in the sense that does it, as an organisation, and as a group
of individuals working in concert, consider itself as the "norm"...
And if it does, hopefully someone can explain to me what this norm
actually is. Norms and extremities are sociological and statistical
terms which refer to what kind of behaviour lies inside and outside
that of which is considered acceptable as the normal. Now, the problem
for me, is that I have never met a "normal" person in my life, and
would certainly accept that I do have extremes of behaviour, my little
obsessions, urges, drives, instincts and learned behaviour, dominate
my life, of that I have no doubt. And though I consider myself as
perfectly normal, i do understand that others can see me as perverse
and extreme...c'est la vie.
ATB
Dougie
On 04/07/14 17:02, Andrew Hornback wrote:
Doug,
Changing/adding a password and changing the name of the network is
more than 90+% of the population can be bothered to do these days
-which is what makes them so susceptible...
NAT and firewall are a good start - I'm somewhat on the paranoid side
(being a life-long IT type guy) and I'm aspiring to implement a
system similar to the DISA's HBSS (Host Based Security Solution) that
gets deployed to all ADP assets in the DoD...
The way that my setup works is that the hub (a relatively dumb
device, by networking standards) is inserted between the ISP and the
router - since the ISP delivers my broadband connection as a pure
Ethernet drop, I can use the hub to connect another machine in,
before the router level, and "sniff" all of the traffic going back
and forth. Using a product like Wireshark (free software, highly
recommended, been using it for years), I can look at all of the
traffic that's leaving my network as well as what's coming in from
the ISP. See where data is coming from, where it's going... full
transparency of all of the data going back and forth as well as the
content. By dumping all of this over to a second machine that acts
as a simple recording and analysis system, I can track hacking
attempts, attacks, etc. and report them as needed.
--- A
"InfoSec - it pays to be paranoid..."
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 7:38 AM, doug <douglasrankine2001@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:douglasrankine2001@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hi Andrew,
Tx for the information...I had a look at the url you provided> I
didn't really understand all this techy stuff and it is nice to
have it explained in a language I can understand. I have, on a
number of occasions looked at my router, but I must say, apart
from securing it with a password and changing the name of the
network, I am frightened to touch any of the settings in the
router in case I screw things up, so I leave it at the default
position.
I have a wireless router and a home network, and a number of
devices such as computers, tablets, mobile phones and a printer
and a back up disk which are connected to it on occasion. I
understand that the home network and the one connected to the ISP
are separated by a NAT or firewall which is supposed to protect
my home network from outside intrusion.
What would be the benefit of putting in traffic analysis software
and what kind of software would you recommend, and where would I
put it...in my computer or on the phone line...In this area we
have poor broadband width anyway so downloads and uploads are
very slow.
ATB
Dougie.
On 03/07/14 19:34, Andrew Hornback wrote:
Ryan,
Good points, but I think this might explain part of my tactic -
http://www.asante.com/support/routerguide/faqs/hardwared.html
Understanding the differences between hubs, switches and routers
is paramount to starting to understand TCP/IP...
--- A
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