McFly69 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:overwritten once CAN be recovered (Score 1) 780

by McFly69 on Friday May 15, 2009 @10:03AM (#27965769) Attached to: Hacker Destroys Avsim.com, Along With Its Backups

Hoggoth, I have accidentally formatted a MacOS hard drive with NTFS but have not written anything to it. What would be the best tool to recover the data? Any open source or freeware? Thanks!

Comment Why not everyone share the internet connection? (Score 2, Interesting) 504

by McFly69 on Tuesday January 13, 2009 @01:14PM (#26435515) Attached to: Internet Communications While At Sea?

Why not share the internet connection with everyone. 100 minutes for 600 people is alot. Setup an intranet or even a wireless network. Combine the minutes and you will have close to 42 days of internet access for everyone. ((100 minutes * 600 people) / 60 minutes) / 24 hours = 41.666 days.

If you limit the internet conection to evenings, lets say to 12 hours, then you can double that to 83 days.

What We Know About the FBI's CIPAV Spyware 207

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @01:42PM from the i-always-feel-like-somebody's-watching-me dept.

StonyandCher writes "What is CIPAV? CIPAV stands for 'Computer and Internet Protocol Address Verifier'; a lengthy term for powerful spyware the Federal Bureau of Investigation can bring to bear on web-based crime. It was used last month in a case where someone was emailing bomb threats regularly to a Washington high school. An affidavit by an FBI agent revealed some of the workings of CIPAV. 'According to the court filing, this is [some of] what the CIPAV collects from the infected computer: IP address, Media Access Control address for the network card, List of open TCP and UDP ports, List of running programs ... Last visited URL. Once that initial inventory is conducted, the CIPAV slips into the background and silently monitors all outbound communication, logging every IP address to which the computer connects, and time and date stamping each.' In a Computerworld article, the author attempts to dissect CIPAV's purpose and raises a number of questions such as: What happens to the data the CIPAV collects? Does the CIPAV capture keystrokes? Can the CIPAV spread on its own to other computers, either purposefully or by accident? Does it erase itself after its job is done?"

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