At DefCon 19, F-Secure Chief Technical Officer Mikko Hypponen shows off a 5 1/4-inch floppy that has on it the first PC virus. LAS VEGAS--The hacker conference DefCon kicked off this morning with the rare public sighting of a now-archaic piece of technology: the 5 1/4-inch floppy disk. Skype Не Удается Открыть Раздел there. Hypponen was talking about a guest of honor housed on the disk: the original computer virus. Hypponen found the disk last year in a lockbox in F-Secure's headquarters in Helsinki, and he dove in, cracked the virus code, and found in it the names and address of the virus' writers, two brothers from a town near Lahore, Pakistan. Инструкция Для Электро Стекло Подъемников Ваз 2108 read more. And--believe it or went to the address and found the same brothers there not--he, now running an Internet service agency called Brain Communications. One of the important things he learned from them is that they said they had no malicious intent when they created the virus. There was no real motive," said Hypponen. It was a proof-of-concept, created just to prove that it could be done. New Norton CyberCrime Index rates your risk there. This was to inform computer virus development until the first years of the new century, as viruses grew more malicious and complicated, but were pranks essentially. Just because they were pranks doesn't mean they weren't harmful, though. Hypponen demonstrated a number of early computer viruses from which he had removed the infectors, including one called Disk Destroyer. This particular piece of nastiness would copy the contents of your hard disk into the RAM, then wipe your drive. It then loaded a rudimentary slot machine-style game, and gave you five chances to win. Индийские Фильмы Адские Узы there. If you won, it would reload your data back onto your hard drive. If you lost, your data was wiped out permanently. Though viruses continued to get more and more complex, it wasn't until 2003 that things started out to change. First, Microsoft began to take computer viruses seriously, he said, because worm infections were leading to serious Internet traffic packet loss and creating real-world damage. Доброе Утро Моя Любимая. Trains in 2003 were stopped around Washington, D.C., as the Windows computers controlling the signals and routing systems had crashed. This is the basic reason why serious problems like these were finally taken seriously," Hypponen noted. Инструкция По Выставлению Претензий Поставщикам here. Here, Hypponen highlights the part of the Brain code that shows the names and address of its authors. The other major change in 2003 was the Fizzer infection. Fizzer, which nobody here remembers, is one of the most crucial viruses in history. It was the first virus written with one purpose only: making money." Fizzer spread e-mail spam in an effort to rake in the dough. Hypponen said that when other virus writers realized they too could earn some bucks from writing malicious code, it was game on. This started to have even more serious real-world implications, as some virus writers were found to have used their money to buy equipment for fighters in Iraq. resursloco. We also started out to see a geographical shift [in] where viruses were written," he said. From 1986 to 2003, it was mostly Western countries, the U.S., Western Europe, Japan. However, Hypponen said the nagging problem was not only limited to criminals. He called out the president of Sony BMG, Thomas Hesse, to calls of derision from the audience. Hesse was instrumental in approving a DRM system that surreptitiously installed a rootkit on your computer when you played a CD from that computer. Sony gets a lot of hate, and they deserve it. Of course, some would claim that if you listen to Celine Dion, you get what you deserve," Hypponen quipped. Hypponen shows a text file in modern ransomware, which refuses to free your computer unless you pay the virus writers. Hypponen talked about the technical complexity of the 2008 virus Mebroot, a trojan that infects the master boot record of computers and is exceptionally difficult to remove as a result of it, and ransomware like GPCode, which holds your computer hostage until you wire money to the virus writers. Stuxnet, though, was an embarrassment for the security industry, Hypponen said. All this work did not prepare us for what we found next. It was embarrassing. We missed Stuxnet for a freaking year," he said, shaking his head. Инструкция По Мерам Пожарной Безопасности В Библиотеках read more. Today when you get infected by viruses, you will not know," Hypponen said. It's running silently in the background. It has been a pretty wild ride over the past 25 years, from Brain to Stuxnet. Many things have changed, many things haven't changed. Brain didn't spread on the Internet, it didn't exist," Hypponen said, alluding to the spread by floppy disk. In the turbulent, choppy waters where P2P networks and copyright law chomp at each other's fins for dominance, there's at least one beast that thinks it has a solution to keep everybody happy. Its name: Grooveshark. As content distribution has mutated from analog to digital, the companies that came into existence to control the distribution have panicked and floundered. Decentralized peer-to-peer sharing made this all possible, but it's also thrown practically a century of copyright law beyond the deep end and into rough waters. Grooveshark's solution is to secure distribution rights from the copyright holders, but then to also reimburse those who upload content. Throw in free streaming and DRM-free downloads for 99 cents a song, garnish with community forums and outreach to independent musicians, serve with a relative side of cross-platform use that includes the Big Three of Windows, Mac, and multiple flavors of Linux, and we may be looking at the future of file sharing. Grooveshark\'s Web interface combines music discovery, music purchase, and social networking. The latest element in the equation is where the uploader gets paid. Nathan Thompson of Grooveshark explained in the comments section of a Boing Boing post about his company that of all the money coming in for song purchasing, the music labels get a standard cut for working with online distributors, whether it's iTunes, Rhapsody, or Grooveshark. statyaway on this page. Of the money that stays with the online service, Grooveshark splits their profit, "50/50, with the users. So, in case this is music to your ears just, but you need to hear it again: Free streaming. Social networking. Music discovery. Oh, and reimbursement for sharing when somebody buys a song that you've uploaded to the collective. Bit rates are displayed, so if there are 20 versions of "Yellow Submarine" available, the quality can be chosen by you that suits your player best. Even though uploads are restricted to those recorded at 128 kbps or higher, there's no extra charge for the higher-quality track. If you care about sound quality, you'll naturally pick the better rip--or so the theory goes. To ensure that all this is legal, Grooveshark appears to have either retained the services of the world's feistiest team of lawyers, or it has entered into agreements with all the major music copyright holders. Or possibly, both. Keyshot 5 64 Torrent'>Keyshot 5 64 Torrent. First-class file recovery. Either real way, all indications are that this above-board and designed to take benefit of modern tech while not ignoring the right to reimbursement for the musician. Although it's hard not to wonder how much big-label musicians actually make off digital downloads when the cash first goes through their corporate label, that's a post for a different blog. Sharkbyte is Grooveshark\'s proprietary program for managing your music transfers. As you can tell from its Web site, Grooveshark includes all the major music discovery tools. There's a player in the upper-right corner, a centralized search bar, uncluttered tabs for keeping your tunes and friends organized, recommendations, tags, private messaging, rumored forthcoming applications for MySpace and Facebook, and the all-important account for watching your funds dwindle as you blow beaucoup de bucks on digital music, with nary a DRM corruption in sight. Since the project is in beta still, registration requires sending a request for an invite and waiting a day or two for a response then. Once in, you download the file managing application called Sharkbyte, point it toward your music directory, upload your tunes, and you're good to go. 7Z Архиватор Который Не Блокирует Файл on this page. There are other glitches, as befits a beta version, so don't go in expecting perfection and hosannas, but none of them seemed to affect playback, discovery, or purchase. Since against the law and free downloading has been around for practically a decade now, services like Grooveshark appear to be cropping not to shove that fish back in the barrel up, but instead to create a legal alternative where previously there had only been murky waters at best and legal Krakens at worst. How do you share music? What's your view on DRM'd files? Tell us below in TalkBack! Кот Который Умел Петь. |
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