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Re: Semi-anonymized moderation.
From: "Lance M. Havok" <lmh () info-pull com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:16:28 +0100
What the hell. I thought nothing would drag me out of hiding, I thought no one would ruin my well deserved get away from this sad community (heh!). But at some point, we have to follow the call of duty! On 1/28/08, Brian <bmc () snort org> wrote:
Again, small improvements are better than none. Anthrax via postal mail might not blow a whole in your house, but it has a good chance at killing most of the people inside. Then what would you do? Oh, install a gamma irradiation system at the postal service to proactively filter a newly used known attack at a common choke point.
Aight, Brain, let me introduce you to anthrax. It's a pretty old illness. My family ancestors (say, my grandpa, RIP) was a shepherd. He walked hills with a cane, a freaking insane dog and a whole load of sheeps in mating time. The Lord also walked with a cane and sheeps, through the valley of the shadow of death. And he is still alive (well, I'm aware that most pro-IDS people are atheists, so this line might not make sense to you). Let me save you from Wikipedia craving time, Anthrax was an illness that affected most normally sheeps and other hairy animals (back when my grandpa liked to mess with animals, I'm sure we didn't bury him with a sheep though), causing symptoms that normally showed up first on their skin. The animals, as clever as pro-IDS humans, chewed their legs to death. It was itchy as hell (now you can go to Wikipedia in a futile attempt to counter claim these statements, which I will likely ignore, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrax#Cutaneous_.28skin.29_anthrax). Then they died once their limbs started rotting or got severely infected (you guess, sheep saliva is serious scheise, although the urine does serve as a disinfectant if you stand the odor). In modern society, we have preventive measures to avoid dieing of stuff like cholera (that funny bacteria that causes great diarrhea and messes up your intestine fluids) and anthrax itself. Unless you are into bestiality and get your parts full of spores and what not. I guess you will die of something else before anthrax kills you. I don't know why you mentioned it, but I guess you are a gringo and you've never been in care of sheeps or had to sleep in the cold night out just to have them eating fresh grass. Great for you buddy. Still no freaking idea on what anthrax is besides what you've seen in FOX NEWS or the newspapers during the post 11-September events. Stop using nonsense examples in nonsense arguments. Please.
You can manually iron all of your inbound postal mail, since its mostly good enough [0], or you could have your postal service implement the filtering [1]. Yes, the postal service has known evasions to this attack. You can go on ironing your mail, I will continue to let the postal service filter out most of the attacks.
Buddy, cholera is still killing people in Africa. So what, stop chewing burgers, that will certainly help humanity better than ironing mail or filtering your spam. Claiming that IDS are necessary is like claiming obese people are necessary as well. They aren't, but shit happens. Live with it, find something else to waste your time on.
Again, small improvements are better than none.
Again, we are buying crap we don't need, just because some people want to make us believe we truly need it. IDS are the excuse to waste the security budget on something else that keeps our boss friends (that obviously have money interest on security companies) to get some company paid holidays in Disneyworld. That said, IDS give you an illusion of security. Now you can go watch American Idol.
By your exaggeration, you miss the point. Every household has an iron, ok you might not own one but most Americans probably do. I would much rather have the USPS use their known evaidable solution than to convince everyone in the US to iron their mail.
I'm not sure everyone in the US knows what an iron is. Might start better off teaching some grammar and geography. BTW, I'm not sure why most IDS defenders aren't even employed by Sourcefire. Defending a commercial product for no benefits is pretty sad. It's called fanboyism, and it makes you kinda stupid. _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunitysec com http://lists.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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