Thread: ‘Open source is safer, and Linux is more secure than any other OS’

Originally Posted by Troy

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I can't believe you cunts give this dullard the time of day.

Message vs Messenger?

The thread interests me....I don't really give a gnats cock who starts it or contributes....

Well then, here is something you might find interesting because I do:

There is a version of linux which is designed by the intelligence community to be used in more critical environments when security is of importance.

The problem with using these more secure hardened versions is that they are difficult to use because so many services are closed off, or so the story goes.

What do you think, since you may know more than I.

222. ALSO what about the back doors that some say the NSA asks to be put in different systems like Windows, and ALSO Linux?

Here are two links to the NSA stuff:

Security-Enhanced Linux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

NSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux - Falkvinge on Infopolicy
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ON ANOTHER SUBJECT:

Who is this prikkk HarryB who goes around the forum asking reader to shun my SpamInCan postings?

Must be the sensitive type with a serious lack of curiosity about our world.
With prickks like this, who needs enemies?

Originally Posted by Troy

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I can't believe you cunts give this dullard the time of day.

Message vs Messenger?

The thread interests me....I don't really give a gnats cock who starts it or contributes....

Keep feeding the troll then.

Originally Posted by SpamInCan

The problem with using these more secure hardened versions is that they are difficult to use because so many services are closed off, or so the story goes.

The only truly secure systems are those with no direct access to the outside world at all.

Originally Posted by Troy

Originally Posted by SpamInCan

The problem with using these more secure hardened versions is that they are difficult to use because so many services are closed off, or so the story goes.

The only truly secure systems are those with no direct access to the outside world at all.

And also very difficult to achieve, as well as being relatively useless, since computers are basically used to communicate information with one another.

The computers used to control the Iranian centrifuges were hacked by a virus used to speed them up and destroy them, using a virus developed by the US and Israel.

Originally Posted by SpamInCan

The computers used to control the Iranian centrifuges were hacked by a virus used to speed them up and destroy them, using a virus developed by the US and Israel.

I suppose you are referring to stuxnet....
http://en.wikipe

Anyone who puts industrial control systems onto the net ... and uses Windows...deserves to be infected with every virus known to computer. Bloody idiots!

Originally Posted by SpamInCan

And also very difficult to achieve, as well as being relatively useless, since computers are basically used to communicate information with one another.

Nothing like lumping all computers into one category...the one you know about...and ignoring the rest.

Apologies to Harry for feeding the troll.......

Originally Posted by Troy

Originally Posted by SpamInCan

The computers used to control the Iranian centrifuges were hacked by a virus used to speed them up and destroy them, using a virus developed by the US and Israel.

I suppose you are referring to stuxnet....
http://en.wikipe

Anyone who puts industrial control systems onto the net ... and uses Windows...deserves to be infected with every virus known to computer. Bloody idiots!

Originally Posted by SpamInCan

And also very difficult to achieve, as well as being relatively useless, since computers are basically used to communicate information with one another.

Nothing like lumping all computers into one category...the one you know about...and ignoring the rest.

Apologies to Harry for feeding the troll.......

In this case, the Iranian computers were not connected to the net, I think.

Harry may be the troll for shouting troll in the first place.
His behavior is just too easy to repeat every time he feels uncomfortable, or out of his depth.

He probably also wears a baseball cap and long plaid shorts, having recently retired from Iowa where he grew a small field of corn.

The LAST place you would find him would be at the opera or at a repeat of the play Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe.

Originally Posted by Troy

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I can't believe you cunts give this dullard the time of day.

Message vs Messenger?

The thread interests me....I don't really give a gnats cock who starts it or contributes....

I was just wondering how secure you feel using your computers while you travel to various countries, including Thailand and China and those countries in East Asia?

Originally Posted by Troy

Originally Posted by SpamInCan

The problem with using these more secure hardened versions is that they are difficult to use because so many services are closed off, or so the story goes.

The only truly secure systems are those with no direct access to the outside world at all.

No wonder you're enjoying his threads.

If there is anything near to a truly secure system it's one that's powered off.

Originally Posted by SpamInCan

I was just wondering how secure you feel using your computers while you travel to various countries, including Thailand and China and those countries in East Asia?

The point I was trying to make was that i don't consider the machine I connect to the internet in any way secure. It won't fall over with a virus every second day or anything silly like that but it is not secure.

The use of USB sticks is probably the most common way of transmitting viruses on a network with no WAN. That's why I mentioned that they should be locked from use on a secure LAN. Sticking them in any old machine and then back into yours is a jolly good way to pick up something nasty...Treat them like you would your dick and if you have to stick them somewhere others wouldn't then make sure you wash it afterwards...

Originally Posted by SpamInCan

ON ANOTHER SUBJECT: Who is this prikkk HarryB who goes around the forum asking reader to shun my SpamInCan postings? Must be the sensitive type with a serious lack of curiosity about our world. With prickks like this, who needs enemies?

Very TROLL and a sure way to make yourself most unpopular.......

Originally Posted by Troy

Originally Posted by SpamInCan

I was just wondering how secure you feel using your computers while you travel to various countries, including Thailand and China and those countries in East Asia?

The point I was trying to make was that i don't consider the machine I connect to the internet in any way secure. It won't fall over with a virus every second day or anything silly like that but it is not secure.

The use of USB sticks is probably the most common way of transmitting viruses on a network with no WAN. That's why I mentioned that they should be locked from use on a secure LAN. Sticking them in any old machine and then back into yours is a jolly good way to pick up something nasty...Treat them like you would your dick and if you have to stick them somewhere others wouldn't then make sure you wash it afterwards...

Originally Posted by SpamInCan

ON ANOTHER SUBJECT: Who is this prikkk HarryB who goes around the forum asking reader to shun my SpamInCan postings? Must be the sensitive type with a serious lack of curiosity about our world. With prickks like this, who needs enemies?

Very TROLL and a sure way to make yourself most unpopular.......

I thought you were about to say very DROLL.

^ Thought lay in bed and shat himself thinking he was up......

Back to viruses...what about the US drone control centres?
Exclusive: Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet | Danger Room | Wired.com

You would think they'd learn to clean their own doorstep before shitting on others.....

BTW when I said "outside world" I meant the public internet....Still can't understand the mentality of those who deliberately create malicious tools to hack into the average joe's machine.

Originally Posted by baldrick

Originally Posted by Troy

Anyone who puts industrial control systems onto the net ... and uses Windows

SIEMENS system 7 ( that'll be german ) is a distributed PLC system interfaced with a Windows based HMI

I have to deal with the sad piece of sh1t at the plant I am at now - what sort of idiot thought that a 200 millisecond sample time for analogue inputs was a good idea - ( I bet it was an electrician / fcuking lightbulb mechanic )

in this analogue world of ours 5 resets per second is very fcukin slow

You should thank your lucky stars you are not in there changing vacuum tubes, 5 a minute, just as they used to do when computing was a man's game.

Probably you thought the transistor has been around since the very beginning of computers?

Hogwash.

Just check out the one at my former school in Philly, if you can find a picture of it on this internet.

Oh he's a fucking seppo, that explains it.

Originally Posted by SpamInCan

Probably you thought the transistor has been around since the very beginning of computers?

my dear boy - you have no idea how far back my relationship with analogue electronics and pneumatics goes

Originally Posted by SpamInCan

You should thank your lucky stars you are not in there changing vacuum tubes, 5 a minute, just as they used to do when computing was a man's game.

Jeez, are we going to drop into the "Four Yorkshiremen Sketch" next...

Originally Posted by SpamInCan

Just check out the one at my former school in Philly, if you can find a picture of it on this internet.

Are you going to name any that are currently running at the moment? Come to think of it are there still any running with transistor technology?....

Originally Posted by baldrick

I have to deal with the sad piece of sh1t at the plant I am at now - what sort of idiot thought that a 200 millisecond sample time for analogue inputs was a good idea - ( I bet it was an electrician / fcuking lightbulb mechanic ) in this analogue world of ours 5 resets per second is very fcukin slow

Agreed...that's slow....although it depends what you're sampling. Most of the real-time stuff I use is 60Hz with some critical stuff running at 400 up to 1000 Hz....

Originally Posted by Troy

Originally Posted by SpamInCan

You should thank your lucky stars you are not in there changing vacuum tubes, 5 a minute, just as they used to do when computing was a man's game.

Jeez, are we going to drop into the "Four Yorkshiremen Sketch" next...

Originally Posted by SpamInCan

Just check out the one at my former school in Philly, if you can find a picture of it on this internet.

Are you going to name any that are currently running at the moment? Come to think of it are there still any running with transistor technology?....

Originally Posted by baldrick

I have to deal with the sad piece of sh1t at the plant I am at now - what sort of idiot thought that a 200 millisecond sample time for analogue inputs was a good idea - ( I bet it was an electrician / fcuking lightbulb mechanic ) in this analogue world of ours 5 resets per second is very fcukin slow

Agreed...that's slow....although it depends what you're sampling. Most of the real-time stuff I use is 60Hz with some critical stuff running at 400 up to 1000 Hz....

If not transistor technology, then what is your computer running on?

Or did you forget what transistor technology is?

Probably.

Originally Posted by SpamInCan

If not transistor technology, then what is your computer running on?

Semiconductor technology is the name, transistor is a product which is using that technology.

Originally Posted by SpamInCan

Or did you forget what transistor technology is?

what doping do you prefer ?

Who was Josephson?

^ Relevance...or trolling again?

Originally Posted by SpamInCan

Or did you forget what transistor technology is?

It would appear the limit of your knowledge was reached a while ago....Argie Bargie...

Originally Posted by SpamInCan

Who was Josephson?

Erland? He was a famous Swedish actor and author!

Name-dropping has never impressed me and is mostly used by those who lacks knowledge. I think there are as many holes in your knowledge as there are in a transistor..

Originally Posted by lom

Originally Posted by SpamInCan

Who was Josephson?

Erland? He was a famous Swedish actor and author!

Name-dropping has never impressed me and is mostly used by those who lacks knowledge. I think there are as many holes in your knowledge as there are in a transistor..

IF IT IS THE PHYSICS OF MATERIALS SCIENCE THAT YOU WISH TO TALK, or the nanoscience of materials, then ye have contacted the right source.

Please just ask away, provided you can come up with an original question that I cannot answer.

Please try for a bit of originality here.

OK?

Energy conversion questions would not be turned aside.

Porki?
Argie?

What did you call me?

Originally Posted by lom

Originally Posted by SpamInCan

If not transistor technology, then what is your computer running on?

Semiconductor technology is the name, transistor is a product which is using that technology.

Transistor technology is the name that refers to the technology that is used to run computers.

Somebody needs to tweak spaminacanbot's algorithms, it seems it's now trolling its own threads.