(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

15 minutes time limit
on being su

Yep that is about as long as I can stand being dictated to by Ubuntu . . .
If I want someone else to control my computer, I would be using the
life style choice of a Mac Smug Mug or the 'We have no choice' herd of Microsot drones . . .

I suggest you start a new thread, 'quaking behind the sofa for Noobs'
However how are you going to start a new thread - will you be safe
using your computer?

. . . and if you want a bit of terror for Halloween try the film 'Pulse'
all about what happens to those somewhere in the vicinity of a computer

You have been warned.

This has a few too many adverts, and focuses a lot on the impact on Micro$oft, but Steve Gibson gives the details on many security problems, particularly web/browser exploits

http://twit.tv/sn

Aitch

Aitch thanks for that link. Steve I have known about since
him started almost

What is this he talks about? I can not listen to spoken English
my brain too slow. I need to read things. Has he written about this?

Kindle Fire and the Silk browser

Kindle Fire is the ordinary pad from Amazon not an E-ink computer
just a surf pad with Android most likely.

the Silk browser I have not read about. Ah read this one and many like it!

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=308874

wow them are at it again

Quote Privacy experts "roast" Kindle Fire for "watching you" online – worse than Google OR Facebook/quote

That is bad behavior indeed.

"All web connections from your tablet will connect directly to Amazon, rather than the destination web page,’ wrote Wisniewski, ‘Hopefully you can start to see the problem here. All of your web surfing habits will transit Amazon’s cloud."

For those of you who have survived Windows, the Internet and your own viral imagination
DPUP5520 has a security/encrypt Pup that may allay some of your fears:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 506#569506

Probably works better than my technique of eating pickled garlic and breathing out into the computer case occasionally

and certainly cheaper than the Batman option
http://www.silentbat.com/

Here is a catalogue of what is out to get info on you etc
http://projects.wsj.com/surveillance-catalog/#/

Don't think you quivering paranoids have been neglected . . .

Just now I found a directory full of a mysterious collection of files with numbers and a hashtag at the front. Some of the files I know and moved to appropriate directories.
The rest I could not move and was denied the ability to change permissions (in order to delete)
Wot? My computer is rebelling against me? New hackers from dimension x or crackers from Puppy hacking school?
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PuppySchoolProgramming

or more likely it is residue from testing early slacko or racy when we had some problem with the filing system that was documented but was too geeky to go investigate . . .
I suppose I should try changing permission from the command line?
What would you do?

I recently had a WSOD (white screen of death) only had black so far in Puppy. About the same time, my computer slowed down (internet slowed) AND this happened with a Window connected laptop.
This was happened in Slacko but I have a feeling it was flash or javascript in the browser. How do I replicate and provide a similar experience for the confirmed paranoid?

Sadly I have updated to Beta Slacko 5.3.3, which has cured it . . .
Ah well - conspiracy theories welcome to the usual encoded address . . .

Just now I found a directory full of a mysterious collection of files with numbers and a hashtag at the front.

any name or description so I can find them too?
I have used Slacko so why should I not have the same?

So care for giving more details hopefully

Oh that nooby he sure does like to find problems . . .
he was on the case in seconds . . .
the files appeared in my home directory under lost and found

Enclosed pic

I was watching the excellent Click (you may need to pretend you are in the UK to watch)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... 4_02_2012/
and they mentioned the brilliant (in a twisted, evil, sith like way) malwarian Zeus (trojan horse)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus_%28trojan_horse%29
Sadly for the terminally paranoid it only work on Windows:

The botnet does not work on Mac OS X, Linux, or any other operating system.

. . . oh well . . . moving right along . . .
the German Govt endorses Chrome as most secure
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/ ... re_browser

Opera browser may have to franchise the bulo-bulo viral removal system to compete . . .
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16871785

Nobody found anything to scare themselves with lately?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware

Lobster wrote:...
the German Govt endorses Chrome as most secure
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/ ... re_browser

www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223957 wrote: ...
Chrome was the best browser
...

lost+found is a special directory used by fdisk when correcting errors on your hard disk, so need to worry about those files -Lobster should know this by now?

yep I should have known
or remembered . . . it was indeed fdisk

Info over paranoia - wins every time . . .

Look Who’s Following You on the Internet
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80bea ... more-35478

Firefox add-on Collusion cited in above post by Lobster

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/

Installed...interesting

ebay is a bit scary, but to be expected, doubleclick dominates other adclick sites as a hub - both puppy forums clean

sounds can be turned on to warn of trackers...

Aitch

I'll have to remember to add that whenever I get my lazy ass to update Puppy Crypt.

Lobster wrote:and certainly cheaper than the Batman option
http://www.silentbat.com/

What a cheek: selling Puppy Linux + Tor (both free) for 79 bucks !,
They can stick it where the sun don’t shine, (conveniently it's suppository-shaped)



BTW encryption is required when using tor ... http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/09/embassy_hacks

I love how they neglected to rename the SFS or remove a lot of the references to Puppy, At least l0wtech has the common decency (and perhaps legal foresight?) to thoroughly remove any Puppy references from Studio before selling it.

Perfect example of FUD - Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 170#620170

Your neighbours could also be rerouting your television broadcasts
and editing them to provide you with a false view of the world.
Adding extra flouride to your water.
Stealing your electricity
and cutting your lawn at night.

[yawn]
All possible for people who have nothing better to do.
All possible to imagine.

Sometimes we just get on with our Internet and computer life . . .
You are now returned to your usual mind state.

and then there was Gimbal . . .
https://www.gimbal.com/

Remember if wearing a tin hat or not using a mobile phone
you are particularly of interest to marketers and other agencies.
Tin hats you can sell anything to.

Aliens or governments stealing your brain juice?
New paranoia site from those nice people at anon now available
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/0 ... anonymous/

Lobster wrote:Aliens or governments stealing your brain juice?
New paranoia site from those nice people at anon now available :lol:

Maybe they are nice people. I've added a video showing some of the things they'd done in your neck of the woods.

My question is why they aren't being nice. I tend to think they might be good guys and not being nice is effective when dealing with some people.

Seven minute video, but you don't have to watch it all to get the feel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SraUpcJfqw