Root Access

I am just messing around quickly with setting up a VPN from a Win7 machine to a Win7 machine. I have a username with a very short password. When I on one machine do file..new incoming connection,, and I choose the users that can connect, and choose that user with a short password and choose finish.. It says no clients connected. But at that point is it insecure as could any joe connect?

XKCD

5:09 AM

2

ekaj

7:04 AM

Just found a suspicious link in my browser history

No idea where it came from, it looks like the root of an Apache webserver. I've never seen that page

ekaj

7:16 AM

okay, maybe I have, but upon further inspection that guy deserves a tin foil hat and a few government watchlists

Journeyman Geek

8:57 AM

lol

HackToHell

11:31 AM

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, gotta bang it into submission later.

Bob

1:59 PM

@HackToHell What're you talking about again? :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/19253364#19253364

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Read his message again without context :D

Journeyman Geek

;p

But he replied ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Eh, it's funnier to ignore that.

Journeyman Geek

;p

HackToHell

2:20 PM

@Bob ;p

Journeyman Geek

;p

HackToHell

;p

Bob

oh deer lord what did I start

HackToHell

Amazon access keys anyone ? ;p github.com/…

wheeeeee reddit.com/r/india/comments/2qffav/…

2 Mbps minimum speed from 512 kbps

Bob

@HackToHell github.com/… <== free SQL injection!

Journeyman Geek

2:35 PM

not deer god, dear dog. ;p

!!;P

ChatBot John Cavil

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Deer dog?

Journeyman Geek

xd

Bob

Journeyman Geek

Whippets can pull that off even without the funny hat ;p

aww

DragonLord

3:22 PM

This is why this question went viral: howtogeek.com/206022/… — DragonLord 29 mins ago

Bob

@DragonLord Not really, no.

The HTG aticle was written two days after the Q&A.

The views on HTG is half that of the actual Q&A.

So it already "went viral", probably through network hot questions, long before HTG picked it up.

DragonLord

Wouldn't the hits transfer to the question itself?

Bob

@DragonLord Firstly, the HTG article has 2700 views while the actual question has 4600.

Secondly, I would be surprised if even half of the HTG readers bothered clicking through.

Probably far fewer.

More importantly, the two day delay pretty much means you got the vast majority of your (early) exposure before HTG picked it up.

I'd be surprised if they accounted for 1000 click-through views.

@DragonLord In fact, the question was auto-tweeed about a day after it was asked.

DragonLord

I suppose this was part of the question going viral, but certainly not the root cause

Bob

I'm not too sure if the auto-tweet is primarily the cause or the effect, but it certainly does contribute.

@DragonLord It would have added some views, for sure.

But I would expect those to be in the minority.

Especially if you consider voters.

Voters (people with SE accounts) are unlikely to come through an external source like this.

I wonder if the team keeps more detailed stats on how people get to a specific question.

DragonLord

3:34 PM

Sadly, we don't have this sort of analytics information

I actually answered fairly late, when the question had about 1500 hits on it (it was already in the process of going viral)

I jumped on the chance when no one else had the correct answer

Bob

lol

You certainly did a good job.

@DragonLord Actually, I thought this was one of the early-answered ones.

From the time of your answer, post-answer exposure would have been affected by HTG considerably more.

Still, hot network questions probably contributed the most to the votes.

And the auto-tweet would have had some effect too.

DragonLord

superuser.com/posts/855372/timeline

Bob

Hm.

DragonLord

Expand the last day on the timeline and you'll see that I was the fourth to answer.

Bob

The thing about these high-scored answers is you still get random votes on them months or years later :P

(@JourneymanGeek ^)

Though, tbh I'm not too happy with some of my highest scored ones :\

I tend to go off on a tangent on them :S

DragonLord

4:18 PM

1

Q: Creative solutions to work around kext signing issue in Yosemite?

Unfortunately Apple has decided to create kext signing in Yosemite that creates issues for SSDs that require Trim support for optimal function and longevity. Whether this is vendor lock in or not, it's made upgrading a headache. If you bought a SSD that needs trim support such as the Samsung 840 ...

Prediction: Trim Enabler author will try to get kext signed.

Instead of normal security check procedure, the signing request will probably be referred to Apple's internal legal counsel because it would eliminate the incentive to choose an Apple part over a third-party part

If it get turned down (presumably on the grounds that it would "compete" with Apple products), a class-action lawsuit is likely

Bob

@DragonLord That would probably go to sales/marketing before going to legal.

Legal would only tell them if they're allowed to, not whether they want to.

Well, not "sales/marketing"... but I can't think of which dept would be responsible.

This question asked on that site... nope, no bias here!

DragonLord

@Bob Apple is in dangerous legal territory

If they don't grant a signature for the Trim Enabler kext, I'm pretty sure they'll get sued

Bob

@DragonLord Unfortunately, most of their users won't care.

DragonLord

Yes, the user can turn off kext signing, but doing so reduces security

Bob

I wonder if MS has run into similar issues with their driver signing.

Then again, they should have no conflict of interest.

DragonLord

4:32 PM

@Bob Microsoft driver signing doesn't discriminate in this fashion.

Bob

@DragonLord You can't say Apple definitely does right now.

DragonLord

Microsoft welcomes third-party devices; they just need to meet certain quality standards.

Bob

...wow, I'm defending Apple. Hell must have frozen over.

6

DragonLord

Microsoft has had kernel-mode driver signing for a long time.

Bob

@DragonLord It's only been required as of... Vista? 7? I forgot.

Hm. I think it only applies to 64-bit too.

DragonLord

4:34 PM

Vista x64.

msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/…

@Bob Well, Apple provides no public APIs for the AHCI subsystem and I think that's on purpose

coriolis-systems.com/blog/2014/07/ssds-and-os-x

HackToHell

yay Windows boots

DragonLord

5:06 PM

@Bob I think Apple see Trim Enabler as a "threat" from a marketing standpoint

(Yes, I've taken marketing in college and know what it is; see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis)

DragonLord

5:31 PM

Just repcapped again

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob I can confirm that I messed up the Firefox addon of the reply helper :P

allquixotic

-2

Q: Is there a job in the IT industry that doesn't involve sitting in front of a computer the entire day?

Is there a job in the IT industry that doesn't involve sitting in front of a computer the entire day? But also, not dealing with people all the time?

networking

DragonLord

@allquixotic Voted to close.

allquixotic

5:51 PM

This would be closer to on-topic at Workplace.stackexchange.com, but the question quality is so low that it'd probably be closed there, too... my suggestion is to ask it on Quora — allquixotic 31 secs ago

dd if=/dev/id10t of=/dev/quora

Oliver Salzburg

6:50 PM

@OliverSalzburg Should be fixed in github.com/oliversalzburg/se-chat-reply-highlight/releases/tag/…

Oliver Salzburg

7:21 PM

Sweet. Seems like 2.5.1 was just reviewed

DragonLord

Another spammer identified.

Konrad

1 1

dictionary language learning open-source teaching windows

Jorge Fernández

7:36 PM

for(a=0;a<=19;a++);{
			for(b=0,c=0,d=0,e=0;b<=17;b++){
				System.out.println(a);
			}
		}

why does a reach 20?

oh I fixed it

the problem was the semicolon

barlop

8:05 PM

@JorgeFernández well, even without the mistaken semicolon, technically, 'a' would reach 20 but the inner loop wouldn't ever see it. The outter loop's a++ will cause a to reach 20 then the condition is done then the outter loop fails and exits

for(init;cond;increment) <-- it does init,cond on the first iteration. Then on all subsequent iterations it does increment,cond.

if 'a' never reached 20 then the loop would never end.

Jordan Richards

8:51 PM

I am very worried.

I think my server may have been compromised. I am randomly getting disconnected from my FTP and putty.

I am new to Linux and would very much appreciate some advice

Michael Frank

0

Q: How to get clearest fonts possible in Windows 7?

I am trying to get extremely precise and clear fonts in Windows 7 I had already, but I don't know how. Anyone willing, knows how to do that? -- Thanks much! (-: Mica

windows-7 windows fonts

too loud x_x

Jordan Richards

okay, now I'm really worried

this does not look normal, right?

seems like something is trying to send emails? I'm not sure:(

Can anyone help me?

I keep having to reboot my server to get into SSH

ekaj

Is it that or logs

Jordan Richards

they are the running processes

What steps would you take?

I am panicking right now.

530 permission denied when I try to access ftp o.o

MinecraftShamrock

hi

Jordan Richards

9:04 PM

hi

MinecraftShamrock

I have a question about UDP and this chat seemed to be the best for this question:

0

Q: Is the UDP checksum allowed to be calculated from a truncated payload?

UDP sockets only accept incoming datagrams if they have the right checksum. But I've heard that sometimes UDP packets are truncated because of the Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU). (1) How are datagrams handled that are truncated purposely? Is it allowed that the checksum is calculated over a tr...

sockets udp ip protocols internet

Tom Wijsman

9:43 PM

@JordanRichards Hmm, not sure if panicking is necessary.

Can you use a top program that has support for trees, such as htop? It can help reveal somewhat which process has started which processes.

It's quite normal for there to be sendmail functionality on a server, 'cause of the various services that may want to send a mail notification.

Random disconnects could be anything between your computer and the server; not necessarily someone doing it on purpose, though it is possible.

@JordanRichards That sounds more serious; though again, it may very well be a limit of attempts.

And yes; if u get access, check the logs (of every service u know of) as hinted at above.

Bob

11:50 PM

@OliverSalzburg Whoops? :P

Have you considered a restart-less addon?

developer.mozilla.org/en/Add-ons/Bootstrapped_extensions

Or even better, use the addon SDK developer.mozilla.org/en/Add-ons/SDK (porting guide)

(better compatibility with e10s)

Journeyman Geek

@Bob yup. ;p

61

A: Is there a way to buy SO reputation?

As a matter of fact you can. All it costs you is quality answers or quality questions. Heck, some people even do quality edits for reputation Sign up now and we'll even throw in 100 rep when you associate your account on any other site if you hit 200 rep on any site ABSOLUTELY FREE! And yes that...

I still get upvotes for this, and it was closed years ago

Transcript for