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Re: About Gilmore's letter on IBM&Intel push copy protection into ordinary disk drives
by Steven M. Bellovin 26 Dec '00

26 Dec '00

In message <20001224150321.A24733(a)die.com>, Dave Emery writes: > > > A note on this note - I was told back in that era by Sun field >service people that the standard thing to do when a motherboard failed >was to swap the ID prom from the old motherboard onto the new one, thus >avoiding the whole license conversion problem in the first place (but of >course also doing wonders for the ability to track specific pieces of >hardware and document ECO levels and the like, since a significant number >of motherboards had swapped ID proms in which all the other information >in the prom didn't match the actual board). "Standard"? It was more than that; it was the *right* thing to do. On a diskless workstation, there was no other identity to the machine; if you didn't swap the ID prom -- which was used for the low-order 24 bits of the Ethernet address -- your machine wouldn't receive the proper boot image, etc. Add to that the number of machines in the mid-to-late 80's that didn't have ARP, and it was utterly necessary. --Steve Bellovin

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Fwd: Martin Minow died
by Bill Stewart 26 Dec '00

26 Dec '00

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U.S. Draws Attention to Information Warfare Threat
by Nomen Nescio 26 Dec '00

26 Dec '00

By REUTERS Filed at 0:56 a.m. ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A year after the Y2K bug, U.S. officials are once again warning about perceived dangers to a United States increasingly stitched together by bits and bytes of computer code. This time, a key stated fear is information warfare, or sneak electronic assaults that could crash power grids, financial networks, transportation systems and telecommunications, among other vital services. National security aides trace the threat to hostile or potentially hostile governments as well as drug lords, criminal cartels and increasingly computer savvy guerrilla groups. Some of these organizations ``are doing reconnaissance today on our networks, mapping them, looking for vulnerabilities,'' Richard Clarke, President Clinton's top aide for infrastructure protection and counterterrorism, told a Microsoft Corp. digital security conference in Redmond, Washington, on Dec. 8. Cyberblitzes like those that briefly knocked out major Web sites in February -- including Yahoo! Inc.'s Internet gateway, eBay Inc.'s auction service and Amazon.com Inc.'s retail site -- could easily be copied on a larger scale, said Clarke, a staff member of the White House National Security Council. ``Criminals, crackers, foreign governments -- when the new president reads that intelligence briefing, he had better move pretty fast,'' he added. Such warnings are not new from Clarke, who has frequently conjured up a ``digital Pearl Harbor,'' a reference to the Japanese surprise attack that threw the United States into the Second World War. But Clarke and other U.S. officials seem to be stepping up a public awareness campaign, spurred by the spread of information technology, growing knowledge of malicious computer code and ever greater U.S. reliance on networked systems. CYBERINICIDENT GROUP MEETS On Dec. 18, the National Security Council held the first meeting of the recently formed Cyberincident Steering Group, aimed at fostering cooperation between the private sector and government to secure systems from domestic and international cyberattack. ``This meeting was an important first step in building computer security programs for the nation,'' said Peter Tippett, chief technologist for TruSecure Corp., a leading computer security company. Among topics discussed were the creation of a rapid response system and communications between industry and government, said David Perry, the public education director for Trend Micro Inc., a maker of anti-virus products, and the co-chairman of the steering group. The U.S. intelligence community voiced its concerns last week with the release of ``Global Trends 2015,'' a wide-ranging analysis by the CIA, its sister U.S. spy shops and outside experts. The report said foes of a militarily dominant United States, rather than challenging it head-on, would seek to target an Achilles' heel in cyberspace or threaten the use of the deadliest chemical, nuclear or biological weapons. ``Such asymmetric approaches -- whether undertaken by states or nonstate actors -- will become the dominant characteristic of most threats to the U.S. homeland,'' the report, released by the National Intelligence Council, said. Over time, attacks are increasingly likely to be fired off through computer networks rather than conventional arms, as ``the skill of U.S. adversaries in employing them'' evolves, the assessment said. FBI FINGERS CHINA It said many unnamed countries were developing such technologies to complicate what the U.S. military refers to as ''power projection'' and to undermine morale at home. The interagency, FBI-led National Infrastructure Protection Center uses a slide depicting China's Great Wall in its standard presentation on cyberthreats, along with a quote from Sun Zi, author of a treatise on war in about 350 B.C. ``Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence,'' the FBI's slide quotes the ancient Chinese strategist as saying. In a telltale update, the slide includes a 1999 quote from a Chinese newspaper referring to information warfare as a means of achieving strategic victory over a militarily superior enemy.

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26 Dec '00

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Fwd: Martin Minow
by Jon Callas 26 Dec '00

26 Dec '00

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Fwd: Martin Minow
by Jon Callas 26 Dec '00

26 Dec '00

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Feasibility -- anti copy prot.
by no1special 25 Dec '00

25 Dec '00

Any data coming into a drive has to pass through the device drivers of the operating system running the computer. It should therefore be quite possible to construct a driver shim which reports any answers desired to the higher software layers. Since the documentation of the system is public (the T.13 group I believe), this is not anywhere near as complex as some pieces of software. Ex: programs like VMWare virtualize all the hardware - virtualizing only part of the hardware shouldn't be too bad.... no1special ****** Free web-based/POP3 mail from turbosport.com, turbomail.tv, mailplanet.net, and webmailcity.com ****** To report SPAM mail please send an e-mail to spam(a)turbosport.com.

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Antigen found W32/Hybris@m virus
by ANTIGEN_EXCHANGE 25 Dec '00

25 Dec '00

Antigen for Exchange found joke.exe infected with W32/Hybris@m virus. The file is currently Deleted. The message, "Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story!", was sent from Hahaha and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at ITC/Corporate/EXCHANGE.

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Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story!
by Hahaha 25 Dec '00

25 Dec '00

Today, Snowhite was turning 18. The 7 Dwarfs always where very educated and polite with Snowhite. When they go out work at mornign, they promissed a *huge* surprise. Snowhite was anxious. Suddlently, the door open, and the Seven Dwarfs enter...

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