1. Re: Why We Must Fight UCITA
- Posted by LEVIATHAN <leviathan at USWEST.NET>
Feb 02, 2000
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Last edited Feb 03, 2000
Everett Williams wrote:
> Ah, do I have just the thing for you, and it is free. It is a beta and still a
> little flakey, but did I ever get a shock when I first enabled it and got to see
> the
> number of probes aimed my way in a single day. It is called Zone Alarm, and
> their web site is http://www.zonelabs.com/. The way I found out about it is
> thru Steve Gibson, the guy who wrote SpinRite...the only program that I
> know that can reformat just about any drive including IDE's at low level
> without damaging data or sending them back to the factory. If you are
> interested in things like that, he can be found at http://grc.com/default.htm
> His products are tiny and powerful and all in assembler. He also has a
> piece of freeware and a free service called Shields-Up that will probe your
> logon and tell you what appears to be open to attack on your site.
I heard of both Shields-Up and Zone Alarm during my short time using FireTalk,
and at the Computer Help/Hacking channel. I'm not all too... geez, I can't
think...
affirmed with Zone Alarm, as it seemed only to protect applications from
attack... and I let quite a few things go thru. If i'm wrong, please tell me, and
show me how
I can keep it monitoring ports :)
neksys wrote:
> I'm in Canada, but we're more or less one and the same now, huh?
Ehhh, we're considered the same... but I know we're not. :)
> That's the problem: if everyone has different homebrew encryption, we won't be
> able
> to actually exchange data. If we try to establish a public standard, we've
> suddenly
> given away our secrets (the walls have ears, you know =) ). It's not a very
> promising situation.
Decrypt it when sending it... but make sure you make it sneakernet, NOT over any
electronic means... and make sure you're armed.
Yes, i'm paranoid. Thats probably only one of a few reasons I want to be a
hacker+phreak. :)
See y'all on the flip side, all too soon, albeit :)
--"LEVIATHAN"
