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Winners Of The 'Oldest Software' Contest |
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11:34 pm EDT, May 4, 2003 |
] Earlier this month, I described a friend of mine who was
] responsible for a corporate network notable for its aging
] applications infrastructure. At the end of the column
] I proposed a contest and asked you all to send in your
] own entries to qualify for the "oldest living software"
] application. Needless to say, I got some great entries. classic. Winners Of The 'Oldest Software' Contest |
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BBC NEWS | Health | Boy 'pregnant' with twin brother |
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10:30 am EDT, May 1, 2003 |
] A seven-year-old boy who was admitted to hospital with
] stomach pains was actually "pregnant" with his twin
] brother.
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] Doctors at Chimkent Children's Hospital in Kazakhstan
] originally believed Mourat Zhanaidarov was suffering from
] a cyst.
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] But during surgery, they discovered he was in fact
] carrying the dead foetus of his twin brother.
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] The foetus had developed into a tumour but was found to
] have hair, nails and bones. Freaky. BBC NEWS | Health | Boy 'pregnant' with twin brother |
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Movie Review | Two Towers is Homo Slang For Erect Hobbit Penises! |
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4:05 pm EDT, Apr 26, 2003 |
] Pastor Deacon Fred went on to note that although the
] violence in The Two Towers film is some of the best he's
] ever seen outside of the Holy Bible, that the hidden
] sexual agenda in the movie makes it unwatchable to anyone
] other than a qualified minister of God. Movie Review | Two Towers is Homo Slang For Erect Hobbit Penises! |
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Japan building an arcology in Tokyo bay?! |
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4:22 pm EDT, Apr 24, 2003 |
] The 2004 meters high Mega-City-Pyramid TRY 2004, is a
] partial answer to two important problems : with cities
] becoming more and more crowded and the environment
] suffering progressive damage, the time has come for the
] development of a megacity that functions in harmony with
] nature. So, the city proposed by the Shimizu Corp.'s
] engineers represents the ideal form of living for man in
] harmony with the earth Saw something about this on the Discovery channel last night. This isn't a great link but gives the basic idea. Japan building an arcology in Tokyo bay?! |
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PhreakNIC 7 :: Nashville, TN |
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| Topic: Technology |
4:13 pm EDT, Apr 24, 2003 |
] PhreakNIC 7 dates have been set for October 24-26, 2003! PhreakNIC 7 :: Nashville, TN |
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11:41 am EDT, Apr 21, 2003 |
The statement put up by blackboard about Interz0ne The "careful and measured" language is used again. My ass... BlackBoard Inc. |
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11:40 am EDT, Apr 21, 2003 |
] Technological savvy could turn 600 million tons of turkey
] guts and other waste into 4 billion barrels of light
] Texas crude each year
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] Gory refuse, from a Butterball Turkey plant in Carthage,
] Missouri, will no longer go to waste. Each day 200 tons
] of turkey offal will be carted to the first
] industrial-scale thermal depolymerization plant, recently
] completed in an adjacent lot, and be transformed into
] various useful products, including 600 barrels of light
] oil.
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] In an industrial park in Philadelphia sits a new machine
] that can change almost anything into oil.
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] Really.
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] "This is a solution to three of the biggest problems
] facing mankind," says Brian Appel, chairman and CEO of
] Changing World Technologies, the company that built this
] pilot plant and has just completed its first
] industrial-size installation in Missouri. "This process
] can deal with the world's waste. It can supplement our
] dwindling supplies of oil. And it can slow down global
] warming." Anything into Oil |
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Harvard Crimson | Swipe Card Hack Prompts Complaint |
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11:40 am EDT, Apr 21, 2003 |
From: Joe Klein [jsklein@x]
To: SE2600 List [root at don't-you-dare se2600.org]
Subject: RE: [se2600] RE: Swipe Card Hack Prompts Complaint
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 13:42:46 -0400 Response send to author: Ms. Kicenuik,
Thank you for the article, but I think you have been misinformed.
Fact 1: Banks and other financial institutes are required by law to secure financial transactions between and over networks. Even on the Internet, financial transactions are secured using ssl encryption. Blackboard, now acting like a financial network, is not using secure communications.
Fact 2: BlackBoard has other products which have had vulnerabilities over the last 4 years. Apparently, they have a history of slow response to security problems.
Fact 3: Harvard signed a contract, releasing BlackBoard of all liability, in the used of their product. Any financial loss because of the lack of security in the BlackBoard systems, will be absorbed by Harvard.
Fact 4: This problem was reported to the BlackBoard company 6 months ago. This delay of addressing the security vulnerability only exposes blackboard customers and not Blackboard company.
Fact 5: The majority of hackers are not caught, so focusing on prosecution of the crime and not securing the system, would be considered a lack of due diligence. There for holding the Blackboard customers again, liable for all loss.
Here is the backup information which substantiates the above facts.
Fact 1:
http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/g01-111.htm
http://www.federalreserve.gov//boarddocs/rptcongress/annual98/ann98.pdf
Fact 2:
http://www.avet.com.pl/pipermail/bugdev/2003-January/001972.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/ADHR-5KCKAQ
http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5FP0P0K8UC.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2003/Jan/1005961.html
http://icat.nist.gov/icat.cfm?cvename=CAN-2002-1007
http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5EP0B2A7QO.html
http://www.safermag.com/html/safer27/alerts/21.html
2003-01-25: Blackboard Learning System search.pl SQL Injection
Variant Vulnerability
2003-01-21: Blackboard Learning System search.pl SQL Injection
Vulnerability
2002-07-01: Blackboard Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
2000-07-18: Blackboard CourseInfo 4.0 Database Modification
Vulnerability
2000-07-10: Blackboard CourseInfo 4.0 Plaintext Administrator
Password Vulnerability Fact 3:
http://www.uky.edu/Purchasing/uk-0215-2pct.pdf
http://www.rsc-sw-scotland.ac.uk/mleresponses/blackboard.htm Fact 4:
http://www.edifyingfellowship.org/~overcode/bb-faq.html Fact 5:
http://news.com.com/2009-1017-912708.html
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/microsoft_hacked001031.htm
l Now here is the challenge to you, how about writing an article which
addresses the facts. Snagged from the SE2600 mailing list. Harvard Crimson | Swipe Card Hack Prompts Complaint |
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