A general problem in networks: tools that allow session hijacking make it possible to position themselves between connections. The key point is that the connections are routed transparently through this program: the user doesn't notice it. This also works across switches - the corresponding programs steal the connection via ARP spoofing and then insert themselves in between. The only solution here is a consistent migration to protocols that work with mutual certificates and encryption - where both server and client ensure that they are communicating with the correct partner. But even here, attack vectors are still possible. Absolute security in networks where you have no control over the infrastructure does not exist.
By the way, the technology behind the attack is quite interesting: first, ARP spoofing is used to steal the connection. Then all connections are routed through the intermediate computer. In doing so, the computer presents itself to the server as the client, and vice versa. Encryption is therefore only useful if the protocol regularly performs checks using a shared secret and if the two partners identify themselves to each other using asymmetric methods. Still, the man-in-the-middle can often impersonate the other by using data from a transparently passed-through connection to replay it later (this can crack some encryption setups).
Ultimately, the problem can only be solved at the lowest level - securing connections at the lowest protocol level. Only when appropriate security mechanisms are in place at the IP level can we even hope to get this problem under control.
In the meantime, admins can provide some protection by using ARP watchers and monitoring programs to detect when such attacks occur. But this too is only a very shaky and unreliable tool, since the admin theoretically has to regularly review all protocols - and the signs are often only very minimal (such as the brief appearance of an unknown MAC address in the network).
At RP-Online: Multimedia I found the original article.
The man is really not embarrassed by anything. As if he hadn't already made himself the class clown during the last fun election campaign
I found the original article at RP-Online: Politik.
Is Prozac the Cause of the Ozone Hole?
At Telepolis News you can find the original article.
Well, we could also introduce official registration for entering video rental stores and sex shops, which would be similar to the demanded stricter controls for internet sex offers.
Not that I particularly want to defend the porn industry - after all, it is one of the main causes of the spam problem (after all, this is an area where the click-through rate is significantly higher than in all other advertising sectors - men really do think more with their pants than with their brains), but the demands to tighten age controls are really absurd: who is going to go to their post office or T-Punkt and present their ID there for registration for an X-Check-ID? Sure, the postal workers don't know what that is anyway. Obviously.
The real problem behind this is something else entirely: the inability of authorities and similar institutions to understand that the internet is simply not a regional event. Stricter age control laws will be just as impossible to enforce across borders on the internet as the already planned opening hours for erotic content on the internet.
Youth protection is something that cannot be enforced through this type of prohibition - only through education and enlightenment. Because with the increasing interconnectedness of the world, there will always be content that is illegal in one country but available from other countries. Even absurd attempts like those of the Düsseldorf government president will change nothing about that.
Either we finally accept this content and its distribution as a social problem and address it at that level (through education and enlightenment already in schools), or we criminalize the entire internet and tinker around with pointless and ineffective filtering attempts, waste money on these absurd projects, hand the state far too powerful censorship tools and rights, and make ourselves look ridiculous internationally.
The latter is the path that politicians are currently taking in Banana Republic Germany - it's also much easier, besides you get the necessary censorship rights for free anyway. Then you can also use them right away for politically unpopular opinions.
At heise online news there's the original article.
It's certainly much easier to criminalize children right away than to actually deal with the causes of school truancy.
After all, performance pressure is being put on children much earlier these days. If you don't learn anything, you're nothing, you're just worthless. So what are children supposed to do when they have problems in school? Those who perhaps can't cope with all the pressure? Let's just throw every struggling student into a reform institution, because after all, they'll eventually skip school out of frustration and despair, and eventually they'll become criminals.
Our school system is as inhumane as our entire society. And in doing so, we're sacrificing children on the altar of our materialism. We'll probably only realize that our own future is being destroyed a few generations from now, when it's too late...
I found the original article at RP-Online: Science.
A nice demonstration of how absurd the DMCA is: a manufacturer of voting systems wants to hide behind it and cover up its errors and manipulation possibilities for the voting systems. In the long run, I'm sure society's higher interest in voting machines will prevail—I wouldn't even credit the USA with letting this slide. But it points to a general problem with all the copyright tightening, patent demands, and user restrictions that have been increasingly demanded recently: the end user not only receives fewer usage rights, they also receive fewer control options. And it's made far too easy for manufacturers to hide behind various laws and cover up shoddy work, deliberate manipulation, and misuse of market power. Another reason to preferably use open source systems for critical systems.
At Telepolis News you can find the original article.
|KK| An article about Mother Teresa and her role (or rather, lack thereof) in providing care for the needy and disaster victims in Calcutta and the great lie of her entire life.
In the end, only one conclusion remains here: the friendly smiling men and women of the church have only one interest: power. It's not about the welfare of people, it's not even about the welfare of their own followers, it's only about the power of the church. And Catholics will soon celebrate Mother Teresa's success in this field — the defense of the Catholic Church's power position — with her beatification.
That this constitutes idolatry according to their own teachings is apparently just as uninteresting as the fact that the public and their own people were lied to for decades.
At Telepolis News you can find the original article.