February 2016 - luv-talk

Take action: Don’t send 267 people back to offshore detention
by Peter Ross 28 Oct '18

28 Oct '18

http://bit.ly/1R3MiYB Maybe Australians can avoid another "Sorry" fifty years later this time. Thanks Peter

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Halt efforts that compel Apple and other device makers to create a "backdoor" for the Government to access citizens data | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government
by Andrew McGlashan 22 Feb '16

22 Feb '16

For anyone in America or your friends.... this petition needs to get plenty more sigs: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/apple-privacy-petition Cheers A.

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Malware, Microsoft and virtualization-based security
by Jason White 16 Feb '16

16 Feb '16

[Moving this to luv-talk as I'm taking it off-topic for luv-main] Craig Sanders via luv-main <luv-main(a)luv.asn.au> wrote: > many are still "happily" using XP (i.e. they don't know any better) - > as the recent virus fiasco at RMH shows. workstations across the entire > hospital, from pharmacy to the wards taken out by really ancient XP > viruses. I know, i've been stuck in here for much of it. some sections > (fortunately, the transplant clinic was one) had upgraded to win7 but > many were still running XP. Just wondering what is currently considered best practice for protecting a modern Microsoft Windows machine against malware and exploitation? I read an interesting article over the weekend: http://www.malwaretech.com/2015/09/device-guard-beginning-of-end-for.html according to which MS have implemented new security measures based on the virtualization instructions of the CPU. If I understand correctly, parts of the kernel responsible for verifying signed executables are compartmentalized using virtualization. Malware can compromise the remainder of the kernel without compromising the hardware-protected code. Only signed executables can be run, and UEFI "secure boot" is used. Thus they reduce the size of the Trusted Computing Base considerably. Apparently, under Microsoft NT-derived systems, the windowing and graphics code all runs in kernel mode - surely providing plenty of opportunity for attackers.

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Re: [luv-talk] torrent software
by Rohan McLeod 10 Feb '16

10 Feb '16

Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 8/04/2015 12:08 AM, Russell Coker wrote: >> At the meeting there was a mention of the fact that we now have a legal >> precedent for film companies to force ISPs to divulge the names of customers >> who might have torrented movies. > This was bound to catch up with iiNet [and other] users.... > >> Is there any good anonymous peer to peer software? Something that uses tor >> hidden services for all communications? > Much better to just keep to legal and proper downloads, don't you think? Well of course that goes without saying ! the very idea of owning movies which I haven't paid for; or even converting DVD's so they are playable outside of brain-dead DVD players, (which mostly also seem incapable of playing them); is abhorrent to my higher moral self.! I even believe there are some who have copies of that other OS what was it called .....; anyway they have not paid for it apparently. There seems to exist a whole category of software ..shareware ? where such behaviour is rife. This software philosophy, what's it called 'open-source' ?; why it's just encourages such an attitude ! Oh Andrew; how I concur with you regarding the wickedness of the world ! regards Rohan McLeod

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by rdbrown＠pacific.net.au 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/maker_3dprintinganddrones_bookbundle

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