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Skriven 2006-08-01 11:24:46 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av BOB KLAHN
Ärende: Police state
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-> ->> Welcome to the George W. Bush Police State, formerly known as the United
-> ->> States of America.

-> ->> Bush submits new terror detainee bill By ANNE PLUMMER FLAHERTY, 
-> ->> Associated Press Writer

-> ->> Fri Jul 28, 6:53 PM ET
-> ->>  
-> ->> U.S. citizens suspected of terror ties might be detained indefinitely 
-> ->> and barred from access to civilian courts under legislation proposed by 
-> ->> the Bush administration, say legal experts reviewing an early version of

-> ->> the bill.

->  WC> This isn't even the extent of it, it's FAR worst.
->  WC> Other legislation already passed makes *heresay evidence*
->  WC> valid in terrorism cases.

->  WC> Thus one merely need accuse and you've no legal rights 
->  WC> whatever and can be extraordinarilly renditioned right 
->  WC> outta here with no-one the wiser for it.
->  WC> Don't piss off the boss, friend, familly, wife or girlfriend
->  WC> as a mere accusation can get you whisked off to Gitmo or 
->  WC> similar places. 

->  WC> Right now I've got my own personal paranoia as some malware 
->  WC> has hijacked my hard drive and fdisk won't even get rid of 
->  WC> it :-( Thus I am at risk for exactly the above and much 
->  WC> much more :-( 

->  Fdisk won't get rid of it? What exactly are you trying with
->  Fdisk?                    

It laughs and sneers at fdisk be it Linux, DOS 5.0, 6.22 or Windows
98.
Even a boot to a Linux live CD is no joy.
The hard drive remains unassailably clusterf'ed as one guy put it.

->  I've had it happen, on other family member's computers that
->  malware is hard to get rid of. I have used Fixit utilities, from
->  V-com, and set it back to before the maleware got installed.  

I'll look up V-com but if Linux's all powerful fdisk, fdisk -x (expert
mode) mess with drive geometry ( sectors, cylinders, heads) nor
rm -r -f / won't get rid of it I've little hope.
That drive is as useless to me now as if hit by lightning
and though it checks out fine it's not.

Someone was phishing my online banking account this morning.
Got an alert email suspiciously with file attachment.
Logo's were right right bank however...
After powering down and pulling IDE and power cables
then booting the live CD software, configuring it in RAM upon visiting
the bank's web and my online account there's no history or record of   
the alerting email being sent.

You couldn't just disable the hard drives in CMOS as Linux still sees
them.                
Had to physically disconnect them and boot to non-writtable CD

->  The last time I had to go back like that was after a microsoft
->  update killed access to my DVD drives.

I was big on Linux for a few years but none of it's high powered tools
will touch this bugger. 
As above, I reassigned the heads, cylinders and sectors to their correct
physical values.
As this isn't what their *translated* values are this _should_ have
destroyed the hard drive, it didn't.
Damned clever, devious and appearently invulnerable malware.

                                                          
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