Lulzsec, Ranum and I Told You So! June 20, 2011 -- Lulzsec has featured prominently in security discussions after their hacks of PBS, Sony, Nintendo and a raft of gaming companies in the past month.
There were even more discussions when they took aim at the CIA and went on to proclaim victory. Patrick wrote an interesting piece which went viral titled: Why we secretly love LulzSec. His argument was simple: So why do we like LulzSec? The article clearly struck a chord with many who added cries of "hell yeah! " There's a part of me that wants to agree, and scream "we've been telling 'em since 2000... Among those who've been "telling 'em since 2000" is industry stalwart Marcus Ranum. Ranum says a lot of things. But at BlackHat 2000 he gave a keynote titled "Script Kiddiez Suck" that has turned out to be remarkably prophetic. The audio is still available online, and the talk is worth hearing if only for the final line: "The Huns didn’t know how to build a Rome -- they only knew how to sack it".
Quoting from his talk: 1. @haroonmeer. Live Traffic. Codebox Software - BitMeter OS. Published: 21 Jan 2009 BitMeter OS is a free, open-source, bandwidth monitor that works on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX.
BitMeter OS keeps track of how much you use your internet/network connection, and allows you to view this information either via a web browser, or by using the command line tools. The Web Interface displays various graphs and charts that show how your internet/network connection has been used over time, why not try out the online demo right now? The Monitor pane displays a graph that updates once each second, showing you what's happening with your connection right now: The Query pane gives you detailed information about your bandwidth usage on any date/s that you specify, and lets you export the results to a spreadsheet The History pane illustrates how your connection usage has changed over the last few hours, days, and months BitMeter OS also lets you define Alerts to notify you when your internet usage exceeds some limit that you specify.
Send Feedback. Free our roads of tyranny » Human Action. This article was authored by Justin T.P. Quinn and was published on the Mises Institute today. Send it to your friends who would also like to enjoy safer and more efficient roads in South Africa. The Praxeology and Ethics of Traffic Lights It’s over. There can be no hope for the state now. How often do you hear the minarchist say, “Well, I don’t like government, but we at least need things like traffic laws. Martin Cassini, a photographer and advocate for road deregulation, has produced a marvelous series of videos documenting the results of the Cabstand Junction Trial that started in September of 2009 in North Somerset, in Great Britain. Without traffic lights regulating intersections, congestion has disappeared and accidents are virtually nonexistent. This may come as a shock to those who believe in the state, but not to Austrians. In order for any rational person to act, one must accept the principle of first user.
There is no exception in the case of traffic regulations. Justin T.P. Terrorism Fear Could Create Psychosomatic Epidemic, Feds Warn. Americans’ fear of a terrorism could create a mass outbreak of a psychosomatic illness — even in the absence of any real attack — – creating a fake epidemic that could overwhelm hospitals attempting to treat real victims.
Adding to the confusion, the symptoms of a mass pyschogenic illness look much like symptoms of an anthrax attack, avian flu outbreak or chemical attack. At least that’s what the feds warned hospitals in a nonpublic 2006 communique recently published by the government sunshine site Wikileaks. Call it a contagious psychosomatic illness — though the feds preferred to label the phenomenon "psychogenic illness," defining that as: A phenomenon in which social trauma or anxiety combines with a suspicious event to produce psychosomatic symptoms, such as nausea, difficulty breathing, and paralysis.
If many individuals come to believe that the psychosomatic outbreak is connected to the cause of the trauma or anxiety, these symptoms can spread rapidly throughout a population.