[nycbug-talk] Happy Halloween, here is some wacky Horror story

[Edward Capriolo]

Really interesting article.

I'm sorry Mark you trolled me now. But you CAN solve your web server
problems with java.

I remember this one problem where a certain organization had me for months
trying to build the abandoned oracle driver on 64 bit hardware, from ports,
unwilling to admit defeat and switch to linux.

Had they been using, java, tomcat they could have just used this:
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/databases/jdbc-oracle10g/

Because when my java web servers need a database driver, I just copy the
platform independent driver to my tomcat/lib directory, and then it works.
I don't spend hours/days hopelessly and trying to build an abandoned port.

Eventually that company did find a solution to the 64 bit driver, they just
downgraded all there servers to a 32 bit Operating system!

That was smart!!! pause not!





On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Jesse Callaway <bonsaime at gmail.com> wrote:

> Heh... li-fi
> On Oct 31, 2013 5:48 PM, "Mark Saad" <mark.saad at ymail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 1:15 PM PDT Isaac (.ike) Levy wrote:
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>> >On October 31, 2013 03:26:01 PM EDT, Charles Sprickman <spork at bway.net>
>> wrote:
>> >> On Oct 31, 2013, at 3:13 PM, Mark Saad wrote:
>> >> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Brian Coca <
>> briancoca+nycbug at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Does this mean that I MUST blast death metal at max volume over the
>> whole office for security reasons?
>> >
>> >Here's a different horror story, which a russian developer in our office
>> showed us:
>> >
>> >http://www.vz.ru/news/2013/10/26/656816.html
>> >
>> >(I'd love for someone here who speaks/knows Russian, to validate this
>> source isn't some sort of Russian version of The Onion or something...)
>> >
>> >--
>> >Rough Translation (using Google translate):
>> >
>> >"Media: China has put in irons Russian spy-spammers"
>> >
>> >Petersburg sellers of electronics in a hurry terminated contracts with
>> Chinese suppliers after the discovery of the party "spyware" - irons,
>> kettles and phones that can send out viruses and spam Wi-Fi.
>> >
>> >All electronics have been equipped with a small chip, which, when you
>> turn the device into the grid could easily be connected by over Wi-Fi to
>> any unprotected computers within a radius of 200 meters.
>> >
>> >According to the director of the importing company Innocent Fedorov such
>> a surprise from his colleagues from China, he did not expect, "This place
>> is already proven, and it is strange that such a thing happened. This
>> happened recently, something has to happen suddenly, and we began to
>> understand, to find out what it was. "
>> >
>> >Discover the "spy" fake entrepreneurs helped the brokerage firm,
>> transfer "Vesti.Ru" .
>> >
>> >Prior to sending equipment from China Russian experts confused weight of
>> packages, which a few grams differ materially from those in the documents.
>> Party stopped at the border, experts engaged in the study of electronics.
>> >
>> >It turned out that the embedded chips designed to send unwanted spam and
>> computer viruses.
>> >
>> >CTO and Customs broker Gleb Pavlov explains: "You do not even notice
>> that it sends something. Neither the system administrator will not notice
>> the attack, because it did not occur outside of the enterprise, and not
>> through the Web, but from within. "
>> >
>> >About 30 irons, kettles, phones and video recorders from a trial lot
>> still had time to go back to their chain stores of St. Petersburg, and the
>> question of how many of these electronics products to spyware chip, it is
>> difficult to answer.
>> >
>> >It is also unknown whether the leak could multifunction machines in
>> other regions of Russia.
>> >--
>> >
>> >
>> >Rocket-
>> >.ike
>> >
>>
>> Unreal but way more believable then the click bait I sent out ." Do I
>> have to prepare for the Ultrasonic layer 3 transport for ipv6 on  OpenBSD
>> or will it just work?l  ,  that sounds like bad science fiction , that
>> Steven seigal , says to Tyra banks in "invasion of  mutant  puffy "!
>>
>> To me It's like Someone telling you "we can solve your web server
>> problems with java " sure maybe you could , and maybe my electric teapot
>> has a hidden netbsd box spamming the world about cijalis , penus engirgemen
>> and African riches .
>>
>>  See neither sounds real and I say both are amusing works of  fiction and
>> it's not even April .
>>
>> So who is going to present "pf carp and ultrasonic Ethernet " at
>> nycbsdcon ?
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
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