Re: More on caching and logging
- From: geefive <geefive@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 09:33:52 -0700
In article <f15q66$2pb$1@xxxxxxxx>, nospam <nospamatall@xxxxxx> wrote:
Excellent thing to turn of javascript. Its rare tha there is anything
sensible it is used for.
I have this theory. It first manifested itself in the form of the
"club cards" for grocery stores and such. I think it began with a
professor or maybe a TA at UCLA or Stanford. They had the club card
idea and began teaching it ti students, and then the students went out
into the business world and the club card became a reality all of a
sudden. Well, Javascript is the same thing. Something that was
invented where there are a lot of tekkies (you know where) so it became
the big next great thing. All of these IT types get the Javascript
course and then feel like they have to use it. But people can write
malicious scripts with it as well.
You can't really screw people up too much with HTML 3.2 or 4.whatever.
On my web page, you must turn Javascript off in order to get in. And
when I go to a site and can't follow a link they have because it's a
script, I type "screwjavascript" into the address bar and enter that
about ten times so the guy looking at stats will notice it. I would
say that I am javascript averse. I can't tell you how many product
pages I go to where I'm enticed to click to the actual product
description and it's hidden behind a script and won't work for me
because I have Javascript disabled -- goodbye, on to the next web page.
There are a few things you can do to
tighten up your security that aren't too hard, or time consuming, just
pick up what you need at leisure.
S'what I'm doing. I have been keeping a text file with some of the
tips and procedures in it that I'm getting here -- thanks, everyone.
One possible leak form this is the swap files (the virtual memory the
system pages out to disk when it needs more RAM)
2.5 GB of RAM probably takes care of it, eh?
I fly off the handle at the slightest thing sometimes, I'm not being
holier-than-thou or anything. The 3rd Mac I got was a 7200. The Internet
was not so old, I had a 28k modem and for the first time had to set up
an Internet connection from my phone line. I'd used other people's till
then. I think it was OS 7.1.1 it came with. The Internet connection
software was broken. I cursed and swore at everyone for about a week as
I slowly discovered that it was not only my ignorance that was making it
difficult, but also Apple's ineptitude. I needed an update which I could
only get online or by posting off (no chequebook, friday night) to get
some floppies sent. I read stuff, and more stuff, dabbled, got it
working for a minute or so, gradually got one piece of software, then it
stayed up longer, then got another and so on. I was seriously pissed. If
I was in cupertino there would have been broken windows for sure.
I think we all had our trials and tribulations with TCP/IP, early
modems, speeds, etc. My big battle was with the phone company and
their noisy lines. It killed me to see them continually upgrade some
while leaving others behind. In town they got successive upgrades to
14.4, then 28.8, then 56k while leaving the rest of us out in the cold.
My thought was they should upgrade when and where they want, but once
done they should upgrade everyone else before upgrading their choice
area again. The regulators didn't agree. I tried to make the point
that customers who get repeated upgrades are unfairly subsidized by
those who don't get any upgrades since we all pay the same.
But after 2 weeks I knew more about how the Internet works than I would
have learned in a 12 month course. There are good things even in the
bad. Not only had I got my connection working but I was able to keep it
working when there were problems later. And fix other people's too.
Since I have ever had only one friend in the beginning who used a Mac,
we could talk over our mutual concerns. Then his kid stated building
peecees and he went that route. Since then, I've had to do everything
myself since there are no Mac businesses in the county. Fortunately, I
have had good luck in the Mac groups, mainly mac.apps. Now here.
Definitely put that on an encrypted partition with a strong passphrase.
Don't write it down anywhere, make sure you can remember it. Keep a
backup off-site somewhere. Friend's house maybe.
I'm headed to the big city today to get a new hard drive to replace the
old horse in bay one, and buy a fresh copy of 10.4. This will let me
start over and build in some of the security tips I've picked up here
before getting fully involved with it.
Your machine is far more likely to get stolen completely
That's where my head is. Where I live, there's a lot of breakins, meth
use, and like that. But it's all on the other side of the freeway,
fortunately. But if the economy softens a little (or a lot, like I
think it will) then my situation could change in a hurry. I'm
beginning to see changes. Cars I've never seen before nosing around
the neighborhood. People coming in during the night to use our
dumpsters, more in the way of thumping music and harley davidsons. And
now an increase in apartment construction, which sometimes brings in a
different element... in this case, one complex is rent subsidized and a
lot of families with children moved over from the other side of the
freeway. I hope they're here to escape the other area and not to come
prey on us.
surprise you that people don't take you seriously?
I'm never surprised when people don't take me seriously.
But can you see why? I spose that's what I meant really.
Because I'm security conscious? Because I like Macs for not having to
worry about a lot of stuff people do who use the other platform, and
suddenly I sense that security is a bigger problem than I knew?
Because I don't resort to profanity and/or personal attack?
I for one never believed in the kind of security you seem to be allotting
to apple's systems. They have never claimed anything of the sort. In any
case, security is not a matter of trust, but one of knowledge, and that
is not something you get easily.
Makes sense. I appreciate your comments.
Glad this is getting somewhere,
I had trust, now I have (a little) knowledge. Looks like I have lots
to do. But first I need to find a way to get out of this thread so
everyone can go back to whatever they were doing before I came along.
But I might stay for a while, if only to irk the ones who thing I'm a
nutcase.
TTFN
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