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more hot gossip to distract you from your real work
by David Nicol 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marsee Henon <marsee(a)oreilly.com> Date: Jan 30, 2006 10:11 AM Subject: O'Reilly Podcast Includes NSA Wiretapping News Scoop To: kcpm-moderate(a)davidnicol.com Hello-- "Distributing the Future" this week features a scoop we thought was worth sharing: Wiretapping doesn't require someone lurking in the bushes with a directional antenna and headphones, or a pair of aligator clips and a tape recorder, or someone sneaking into your room while you're out to place a transmitter on your phone. In the U.S., if it's the government doing the wiretapping, it's technically simple. At the O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference Jack Herrington, author of "Podcasting Hacks" interviewed Electronic Frontier Foundation Chairman of the Board Brad Templeton about the technical, social, and political aspects of wiretapping. At the end there's a nice juicy hint about upcoming action from the EFF with regards to the recent NSA wiretapping case. http://www.oreillynet.com/future --Marsee ================================================================ O'Reilly 1005 Gravenstein Highway North Sebastopol, CA 95472 http://ug.oreilly.com/ http://www.oreilly.com ================================================================ -- David L Nicol "It is pointless to give advice and sometimes dangerous to take it." -- Gore Vidal

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Permissions for webadmin access on FC4
by Jon Moss 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

I know I'm probably going to get slammed for being an idiot, but oh well . . . I've finally got some help (volunteer) for the church webserver I host at home. It's an FC4 server with Apache 2.x installed. She's from the M$ world and asking me about ASP and DreamWeaver access, which I told her was a no go. Learn PHP! :) Anyway, I created a webadmin account that I want to have full access to the /var/www/html folder tree. I added that account to the apache group, but that didn't work. What is the proper process for accomplishing this? I don't want to give this person root access to the server. -- Thanks very much, Jon Moss jon.moss(a)cnonline.net

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OT: D&D video
by Jeremy Fowler 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

Funniest damn video I've seen in quite awhile... http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7521044027821122670

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RE: state of Missouri to archive cell phone location data?
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

Sorry, but none of those links said anything about Missouri, nor about specifically tracking us to check our speed. I'm telling you that right now, one specific cell provider that I know of, Sprint, is overwhelmed by the number of cell records requests of all forms. It is not fully automated, I'm assuming a human has to have security access and such to request and process each request. There is NO interface there for them to track speed, only general location during a selected period. As your Ledger article reveals, they only have resolution down to about 300 yards. And how do they know what car I'm in or if I'm on a bus, train, passenger in a car, jet or whatever? I still call BS. -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Fowler [mailto:JFowler@westrope.com] Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 10:27 AM > > Sorry to be a kill-joy, but I call hoax. > Maybe not... http://www.stallman.org/archives/2005-sep-dec.html#13%20December%202005% 20(Cell%20phone%20to%20track%20people) http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051210/ZNYT01/5121 00416/1001/BUSINESS http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/4534674.stm

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RE: state of Missouri to archive cell phone location data?
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

Do we put this in the hoax category along with the emails that insist Bill Gates will give us all money or send us to DisneyLand if only we forward this message? I'm guessing that someone just wants to get a few speeders to hang up the bloody phone while driving. I imagine this would've made a far bigger splash in the news if real. If it is real, then how about a link to some real info? Which engineering firms? >From what I understand from Sprint employees who actually do this by Federal subpeona, it's a pain in the ass and not something they could do for everyone at the same time. It's not like you get a little Google Map of all users within a cell zone moving around. Real life is not as cool or technologically advanced as the movies make it out to be. Sorry to be a kill-joy, but I call hoax. Brian http://www.snopes.com/ http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/internet/a/current_netlore.htm http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/ -----Original Message----- From: On Behalf Of David Nicol enjoy ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Margaret Q <margaretq(a)gmail.com> Date: Jan 28, 2006 1:24 PM Subject: Re: MO's contract begins feb 1 in KC and St. Louis. REALLY briefly 'cuz I'm swamped. The state of MO has contracted with 2 engineering firms to track divers by cell phone. All cellphones have tracking chips. In modern phones - there is a setting that allows you to disable the tracking device for all but 911 centers (which allows them to track emergency calls in case of instances where you cannot communicate addresses). You cannot disable the 911 tracker. Starting Feb 1, the state of MO will use the SAME tracking channel/whatever its called to track ALL motorists. If you have a cell phone on - it is tracking you and entering your locations, times, speeds into a database. The database allows them to search for specific people's records of movement as well as general area traffic flows. The stated reason is to collect traffic flow information to build better roadways. And the state hopes to begin using it to issue traffic TICKETS by mail (hence all the personal info attached). You speed - they'll know. The deal also lets the state have access to your cell phone records. (Which is actually amazingly easy to do. I could get your cell phone records if I knew JUST your name and social security number and carrier) Missouri is the ONLY state to attempt this thus far. And it is not unlikely that this will end up in court quickly - but until then - the govt is tracking your movement. At this time Kansas has no such plans. The system is being tested in Kansas City and Missouri beginning feb 1. It will eventually be statewide. This was discussed at length on KCUR on Monday. It is also a story we are considering covering for our news show. Citizens of MO are STRONGLY encouraged to write Matt Blunt and the Dept of Transportation and let them know you are opposed to this use of technology and consider it invasive and an infringement on you right to privacy. how this story slipped under everyone's radars (pun half intended) until now is AMAZING. The point is that if your phone is ON - you are being tracked in these areas. Because the signal goes through cell towers - if the phone is turned OFF, the tracking device cannot transmit information. You cannot otherwise disable this. Vehicles with ONSTAR in service will be tracked regardless. You cannot disable that short of cancelling OnStar service. however - turnign off your phone also keeps emergency dispatchers from being able to track you in cases of emergency.

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Samba, PAM, LDAP and SASL
by Jack 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

Just doing some playing around. I want to use one of my PCs on my home LAN as a fileserveer. Mainly, the idea is to share the directory of family photos locally. I know all I really need here is samba. But I thought I mught as well use PAM to do authentication. Which led me to consider using LDAP and SASL. Why? I don't know. He's on third. Anyway after having installed Samba, and relevant PAM modules and SASL and LDAP and setting up an LDAP server, I'm left wondering what LDAP is really useful for? I've read the FAQ, quickstart guide, several HOWTOs and the Administrator's manual. I have a working LDAP daemon running, but am left wondering what to do with it. Does anyone use LDAP? How? Why? Now at some point I might like allowing some of my remote family members to access this content from outside. Which was one reason I thought I'd play around with some of these tools. So that I could add users without creating local accounts, and also to maintain a single password database for managing passwords. Thanks. Brian JD

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RE: state of Missouri to archive cell phone location data?
by Jeremy Fowler 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

> > Sorry to be a kill-joy, but I call hoax. > Maybe not... http://www.stallman.org/archives/2005-sep-dec.html#13%20December%202005%20(… http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051210/ZNYT01/5121004… http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/4534674.stm

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RE: getting to www servers from inside where they have an Internal IP
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

I'm still wondering why the webserver address seems to change all the time? Either it should have a static IP or a name which resolves via DNS. Internal PCs should hit the hosts file first, then local DNS, then external DNS to resolve. How many internal hosts (PCs)? You can update a hosts file with a login script and they can be set to search the local net first, before going to the internal DNS server. So, are you changing the hostname of the server all the time or adding new ones, e.g. webserver1, webserver2, etc., or adding new domains all the time? Considering that any of these involve adding a few lines to a text file for name resolution, I agree with Frank, that this is not hard. Again, it could be even scriptable to add a virtual host to a webserver and update DNS files and restart DNS if this is a frequent occurance. -----Original Message----- From: Behalf Of Frank Wiles On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:42:56 -0600 hanasaki <hanasaki(a)hanaden.com> wrote: > harder in the sense... > > wouldn't it be much easier to just add a new virtual host to the > webserver and be able to hit it w/o having to update internal DNS (ie: > only the external world dns). With something link BIND 9 which can do split DNS views of the outside world and inside world having "split DNS" literally means you have to change two lines of zone configs instead of one. So for example, if you're adding new-host.domain.com to both you have have to add it into db.domain.com-external and db.domain.com-internal and rndc reload the config. I'm still wondering why this is "hard". --------------------------------- Frank Wiles <frank(a)wiles.org> http://www.wiles.org ---------------------------------

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state of Missouri to archive cell phone location data?
by David Nicol 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

enjoy ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Margaret Q <margaretq(a)gmail.com> Date: Jan 28, 2006 1:24 PM Subject: Re: MO's contract begins feb 1 in KC and St. Louis. To: David Nicol <davidnicol(a)gmail.com> REALLY briefly 'cuz I'm swamped. The state of MO has contracted with 2 engineering firms to track divers by cell phone. All cellphones have tracking chips. In modern phones - there is a setting that allows you to disable the tracking device for all but 911 centers (which allows them to track emergency calls in case of instances where you cannot communicate addresses). You cannot disable the 911 tracker. Starting Feb 1, the state of MO will use the SAME tracking channel/whatever its called to track ALL motorists. If you have a cell phone on - it is tracking you and entering your locations, times, speeds into a database. The database allows them to search for specific people's records of movement as well as general area traffic flows. The stated reason is to collect traffic flow information to build better roadways. And the state hopes to begin using it to issue traffic TICKETS by mail (hence all the personal info attached). You speed - they'll know. The deal also lets the state have access to your cell phone records. (Which is actually amazingly easy to do. I could get your cell phone records if I knew JUST your name and social security number and carrier) Missouri is the ONLY state to attempt this thus far. And it is not unlikely that this will end up in court quickly - but until then - the govt is tracking your movement. At this time Kansas has no such plans. The system is being tested in Kansas City and Missouri beginning feb 1. It will eventually be statewide. This was discussed at length on KCUR on Monday. It is also a story we are considering covering for our news show. Citizens of MO are STRONGLY encouraged to write Matt Blunt and the Dept of Transportation and let them know you are opposed to this use of technology and consider it invasive and an infringement on you right to privacy. how this story slipped under everyone's radars (pun half intended) until now is AMAZING. The point is that if your phone is ON - you are being tracked in these areas. Because the signal goes through cell towers - if the phone is turned OFF, the tracking device cannot transmit information. You cannot otherwise disable this. Vehicles with ONSTAR in service will be tracked regardless. You cannot disable that short of cancelling OnStar service. however - turnign off your phone also keeps emergency dispatchers from being able to track you in cases of emergency. On 1/27/06, David Nicol <davidnicol(a)gmail.com> wrote: > why? > > On 1/26/06, Margaret Q <margaretq(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Turn your cell phone off while driving through KCMO beginning Feb 1. > > Please > > be sure to remind your friends. > > > > > > > -- > David L Nicol > Joining Mensa means embracing the reality > that at least 98 out of every hundred people > are as stupid as you are. > -- David L Nicol "It is pointless to give advice and sometimes dangerous to take it." -- Gore Vidal

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Problems with Gentoo stage 1 install
by Rick 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

First time using Gentoo. I am trying to get Internet connectivity to download source code and install Gentoo Gentoo 2005.1 minimal install > Hardware: > Athlon 1900XP > 512 megabyte of ram > > SBC DSL > Linksys WRT54G router > > The Linksys is setup with static IP for port forwarding to support an application on a > Windows XP box. > I can boot to a Knoppix CD and access the Internet just fine but cannot access using the Gentoo install CD. > > I use adsl-setup and enter all required information but when I attempt adsl-start it times out. I have the correct DNS information from SBC. Thanks for any help Rick

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