Archive 3. September 2004

Perversion, this time public-service broadcasting

Just as the special report on the storming of the school in the North Caucasus is ending, they run an ad break. One advertiser offers CD collections of church hymns with a note about these terrible times to calm Christian souls, another advertiser offers the folk plays of the Theaterstadl on video cassettes.

Does nobody at ARD have even a shred of sense left in their head? Right after images of dead children, the injured, and terror footage, while the question still hangs in the air about how many children may have been killed there, and while the numbers of injured are climbing, an ad block airs? Could it be in worse taste?

Sorry, but I'm normally only used to this kind of tasteless stuff from the private broadcasters—and I find it extremely tasteless there too. But for the publicly-funded ARD, which is also financed by my GEZ contributions, I consider this outrageous.

Of course, you can't put the entire television program at half-mast all the time. But the greed for advertising revenue should surely take a back seat to common sense at ARD...

Dispute over Microsoft's patent claims shakes anti-spam standard

I hope this Microsoft proposal will be firmly rejected. This is absolute nonsense, what Microsoft is imagining here - an anti-spam technology that is patented by Microsoft (or any other company - only Microsoft is particularly suspicious due to its embrace-and-extend practices) simply must not be accepted as an IETF standard.

At heise online news there's the original article.

What kind of crap you can find on eBay

Taken from an auction description via copy-and-paste. I suspect that despite his disclaimers, he's operating well outside legal boundaries here, especially since it's going to be hard to sell a 5-pin network cable and similar nonsense.

3Com Network and "Hacker Card" for Sale

The unique opportunity here on eBay!

A 3Com 905B – TX Rev. 03-0172 410

The revision with the "error" known in the hacker scene

Which consists of the card having an incorrectly built encoder (H1012).

With this encoder you can make all data stored on the Internet visible

• Break SSL encryptions up to 2000 times over
• Open and close http protocols undetected
• Program and delete htts, httm
• Inject Java programs into network ports undetected
• Online access to servers and computers
• Access to private computers
• Ghost logs on networks

And much more!

For legal reasons, I'm selling the card as a network card

Which is basically what it's intended for anyway.

Without illegal hacker software!

But you can find it on the Internet!

The Netscape cable is inserted into the card on an EEPROM basis.

The cable is 90cm long and has a Netscape 5-pin connector.

Sale as network card with 10/100m/bits

And RJ45 connection.

PCI card!

So dear eBay security team, this is an auction that doesn't violate the guidelines!

I got this card from San Jose (California, USA) and I paid $429 (USD) for it in early March 2004!

I assume no liability for damages caused by the card or its misuse with various programs from the Internet!

!!! Sale as a completely normal network card !!!

Shipping costs are €5.90 with DPD as an insured package!

Since I don't want trouble with the police or the public prosecutor's office, I'm selling the card here as a network card!

If you have any questions, just send an email!

Best regards

The depressing part is the two bids. Okay, it might still be a cheap network card, but honestly, throwing money at such a brazen lunatic is really stupid. But the bidders probably actually believe this garbage...