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#76 Post by postfs1 »

To reedit up to date.
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Why is there a pug on their site are DSL practicing on Puppys?
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I noticed this search engine in someones signature
It allows you to search via proxy
and even creates its settings on an encoded URL
rather than a cookie
http://ixquick.com/

No one will ever know I have been searching for
free pron videos of naked squid and
illegal sardine netting techniques
Unless I am stupid enough to tell them

DUH! :oops:
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#79 Post by Lobster »

FireFound locates your computer if you lose it and protects your private data from identity theft.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/51329/

cyberwars
http://hewreck.com/malicious-computer-m ... computers/
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200MB of 2fs file hijacked

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http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 6&start=15

Any suggestions on recovering it most welcome. I don't have any other OS but Puppy 4.3.1 installed on this system. And my only malware scanner is xf-prot, but I do have a burner attached from which I could run other scanning programs.

Would search manually, but first blind attempts have turned up no suspicioulsy large files. Probably not looking in the right places...
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#82 Post by Lobster »

Image

There I was trying to save the world by helping out a Puppy
and previewing my post.

The post was invisible
It did not exist
If I posted the post would be empty.

This means
1. I have entered the paradox quantum realm along with Shroedingers cat and both exist and do not exist
2. My efforts are being thwarted by an echelon conspiracy to keep people unsafe
3. A glitch in the forum software not allowing long URLS can be solved by a URL shortener eg. http://l.pr/

The third option worked but where is the fun in knowing the truth :oops:

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#83 Post by Lobster »

Secure ISO created by the US mis-government
http://spi.dod.mil/lipose.htm

m m m . . . wonder who has been trying to
close down Wikileaks with a DDOS attack?

Not the US government surely?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11858637

I believe spook central, NSA offer an ISO too
Comedians?
http://www.nsa.gov/kids/index.htm

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#84 Post by cthisbear »

Secure ISO .

I saw this yesterday.

Someone said it looked like Puppy.
Hacked by hackers....surely not??

http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/49379

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/lin ... -security?

" Looks pretty much like Puppy Linux to me. "

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#85 Post by amigo »

From:
http://spi.dod.mil/CHANGES.html
"Based upon Thinstation 2.2.2"

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#86 Post by Lobster »

Meanwhile . . . those wishing to sell you junk have their illegal data storage/fingerprinting and collating agenda:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... technology

I have recently rejoined farcebook (the official not the ironic) simply because so many sites require it to use their facilities.

Are we cattle?

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#87 Post by nooby »

they love to keep a track on all of us. No escape.
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

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#88 Post by noryb009 »

The government linux would be secure - until someone forgets their card.

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#89 Post by Lobster »

I have been noticing in FireFox Beta a suspicious looking square that appears top left as the program loads.

Possible causes:

1. A Cubist art invasion from the other side
2. A dinosaur glitch from Mozilla
3. Part of the Mozilla surveying/monitoring that seems to be occurring in the beta

I tend to favour the last possibility. Anyone notice this effect and hiding beneath a foil cage and able to provide an explanation? :roll:
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#90 Post by Jasper »

Hi Lobster

Does the square show the underlying top corner of your desktop? If so, I don't think it is anything to worry about, but I have no idea as to the cause.

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#91 Post by Lobster »

Does the square show the underlying top corner of your desktop?
Yes. Nothing to worry about eh?
Is that just what 'they' want? :wink:

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#92 Post by Lobster »

More paranoia for the New Year . . .
Lately as well as the square top left (I turned off the surveying and it seems to have gone)
our router (which includes a firewall) was having to be reset. This usually means script kiddies and bots looking for open ports - keeps them busy over the holidays . . .
but then I remembered this email I sent to our local mosque (which never got through)

What if it is putting up interest to low level security probes on the look out for such messaging? I could not find the message on google at first. Pass the aluminium foil - I have headgear to make . . . :shock:
Aslam Alaikum
Peace Dear Friends,

I was reading some of the words of
your Islamic mystics
and was impressed with their exposition
of the spirit rather than the interpretation.

I am rather confused by words of peace
and actions of political and other divergences.

I have been reading of the Sunni, Shiite, Sufi, Wahhabi, Amidhiya
and even complete forks such as the Hindu/Islam Seikh religion.

Are these differences to be reconciled and offered peaceful expression
or is it better to avoid studying what seems unable
to provide an example worth emulating?

I hope you can offer some guidance at this time.

In Peace
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#93 Post by Stripe »

Hi all

Have been using slackpup 053 (standard and customised) on various boxes, and trying out different browsers.

I was concerned about the poor Internet performance, so started to remove browser add-ons, with no joy,

then I removed flash player and everything was good (including increased download speeds I have never seen before) (even with the other add-ons installed)

Is it just me or could it be that flash player is monitoring everything? pass the tin foil hat please

Paranoid and confused

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#94 Post by Pizzasgood »

Flash is closed and crappy, so I wouldn't be too surprised. You could try using Wireshark to monitor your computer's communications to compare what's going on between sessions with Flash enabled and sessions without, to see if there's a difference (comparing accesses to non-flash pages of course). But I kind of doubt that this is what's going on. I would think it would need to be sending a lot of data back to Adobe to have much of an impact. But I could certainly be wrong.
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#95 Post by Makoto »

As far as I know, it's mostly that the Linux versions of Flash (even at version ten) aren't anywhere near as optimized/polished/whatever as the Windows versions. Sad, but reportedly true.

I usually keep NoScript on, anyway (in Firefox and SM), to block Flash unless I allow it. :)
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