“Signed in 1947 and known as the UKUSA Agreement, it brought together under a single umberlla the SIGINT organizations of the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Under the pact, the five nations carved up the earth into spheres of cryptologic influence, each country assigned specific targets according to its potential for maximum intercept coverage.
The UKUSA Agreement…has never been officialy acknowledged by any country even today…”
Page 391, Jame Bamford’s Puzzle Palace
I upgraded CUPS yesterday and apparently broke my printing. After some googling and searching on the Gentoo forums, I came up with the following:
1) Delete the printer from http://localhost:631/printers/
2) killall cupsd (perhaps using the PID and -9 switch if the bastard won’t die)
3) /etc/init.d/cupsd zap
4) /etc/init.d/cupsd start
5) Add the printer back into the web panel
It works now.
(Note that you could probably fix the problem with a reboot, but that’s just so Windows-like.)
‘Twas the year before Christmas, and all through the land
The disk drives were whirring with computer thefts grand.
Though the codes and the passwords were prepared with great care,
The embezzlers and felons popped up everywhere.
While bankers and executives were snug in their beds
And visions of profits danced in their heads,
Computers and terminals and DP machines
Were covertly used for criminal means.
Commercial Trust in New Jersey received such a clatter
When a keypunch mistake made a bank account fatter.
One-tenth of a million was lost in a flash
And a simple coin dealer had that much more cash.
In Flushing, a student who knew some DP
Awarded himself a Phi Beta key.
His grades were altered so lively and quick
That his peers were amazed and the faculty sick.
Two agents in Bridgeport for the U.S. DEA
Discovered that selling drug data would pay.
An IBM mainframe was used for the crime,
And they managed to profit for quite a long time.
In Toronto, an Amdahl was used for abuse
As students put CRT screens to misuse.
And Hawthorne, California, saw funds fade away
When a Honeywell system took part in foul play.
Even NASA had its share of computer-crime men,
Stolen DP directories and breached PDP-10’s.
And who can forget the Belmont affair,
When programmer and cash were suddenly not there.
In L.A., the UCB staff had a fright
When one million dollars was lost overnight.
And Security Pacific had its day to rue
When a clever programmer took ten million-two.
Now congressmen, now senators and banks of the nation,
All struggle to enact preventative legislation.
And Abraham Ribicoff is getting his licks.
While sponsoring Senate Bill Seventeen-Sixty-and-Six.
Today, for computers with data encryption,
Total security is nothing but fiction.
And computer criminals and crooks continue to jeer,
“If we didn’t get you this time, just wait ‘til next year!”
Thanks to the reader, who sent this to Richard Forno, who posted it to the Info Warrior list
Since the beginning of December I’ve been trying to get a job shadow setup with F5 Networks down in Seattle. It was finally confirmed today and it turns out I’ll be shadowing Brian Hatch. I didn’t even know he worked there.
We are the ELECTRONIC MINDS, a group of free-minded rebels. Cyberpunks.
We live in Cyberspace, we are everywhere, we know no boundaries.
This is our manifest. The Cyberpunks’ manifest.