bigbangtheory
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What is the world coming too.
bigbangtheory
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That's some good shit!! I think you and I were talking about a few months ago...
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X5 - Limited Edition Amplifier (100 Unit Limited Run)
5,000 Watts @ 1 ohm 14.4Vdc 1% THD
10,000 Watts @ 2 ohm 14.4Vdc 1% THD (Strapped)
Dual 1/0 Guage Inputs
Dual HUGE power supplies
30" Long by 11.2" Wide x 2.7" Height
35 Lbs.
$2500.00 US Retail
Available Mid-May
We will be performing SPL testing soon, (ie 16 volts @ 10% THD) for SPL burps. Looking like some crazy power...
taken from here,
http://www.soundbuggy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1946&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
5,000 Watts @ 1 ohm 14.4Vdc 1% THD
10,000 Watts @ 2 ohm 14.4Vdc 1% THD (Strapped)
Dual 1/0 Guage Inputs
Dual HUGE power supplies
30" Long by 11.2" Wide x 2.7" Height
35 Lbs.
$2500.00 US Retail
Available Mid-May
We will be performing SPL testing soon, (ie 16 volts @ 10% THD) for SPL burps. Looking like some crazy power...
taken from here,
http://www.soundbuggy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1946&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Can't tell....is that a plexi top, or was there just a panel removed to show the internals?
Anyways...I've always been pretty interested in those Exile amps.
Anyways...I've always been pretty interested in those Exile amps.
looks like ab vfl 400.1
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Mac_OS_X_hacked_in_less_than_30_minutes/0,2000061744,39241748,00.htm
update Gaining root access to a Mac is "easy pickings," according to an individual who won an OS X hacking challenge last month by gaining root control of a machine using an unpublished security vulnerability.
On February 22, a Sweden-based Mac enthusiast set his Mac Mini as a server and invited hackers to break through the computer's security and gain root control, which would allow the attacker to take charge of the computer and delete files and folders or install applications.
Within hours of going live, the "rm-my-mac" competition was over. The challenger posted this message on his Web site: "This sucks. Six hours later this poor little Mac was owned and this page got defaced".
The hacker that won the challenge, who asked ZDNet Australia to identify him only as "gwerdna", said he gained root control of the Mac in less than 30 minutes.
"It probably took about 20 or 30 minutes to get root on the box. Initially I tried looking around the box for certain mis-configurations and other obvious things but then I decided to use some unpublished exploits -- of which there are a lot for Mac OS X," gwerdna told ZDNet Australia .
According to gwerdna, the hacked Mac could have been better protected, but it would not have stopped him because he exploited a vulnerability that has not yet been made public or patched by Apple.
"The rm-my-mac challenge was setup similar to how you would have a Mac acting as a server -- with various remote services running and local access to users… There are various Mac OS X hardening guides out there that could have been used to harden the machine, however, it wouldn't have stopped the vulnerability I used to gain access.
"There are only limited things you can do with unknown and unpublished vulnerabilities. One is to use additional hardening patches -- good examples for Linux are the PaX patch and the grsecurity patches. They provide numerous hardening options on the system, and implement non-executable memory, which prevent memory based corruption exploits," said gwerdna.
Gwerdna concluded that OS X contains "easy pickings" when it comes to vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to break into Apple's operating system.
"Mac OS X is easy pickings for bug finders. That said, it doesn't have the market share to really interest most serious bug finders," added gwerdna.
Apple's OS X has come under fire in recent weeks with the appearance of two viruses and a number of serious security flaws, which have since been patched by the Mac maker.
In January, security researcher Neil Archibald, who has already been credited with finding numerous vulnerabilities in OS X, told ZDNet Australia that he knows of numerous security vulnerabilities in Apple's operating system that could be exploited by attackers.
"The only thing which has kept Mac OS X relatively safe up until now is the fact that the market share is significantly lower than that of Microsoft Windows or the more common UNIX platforms.… If this situation was to change, in my opinion, things could be a lot worse on Mac OS X than they currently are on other operating systems," said Archibald at the time.
An Apple Australia spokeswoman said today it was unable to comment at this stage.
I always hear people talking about mac's are invincible for hackers, spyware and virus. Looks like thats a big *** myth, and their braggin got them pwnt!!
update Gaining root access to a Mac is "easy pickings," according to an individual who won an OS X hacking challenge last month by gaining root control of a machine using an unpublished security vulnerability.
On February 22, a Sweden-based Mac enthusiast set his Mac Mini as a server and invited hackers to break through the computer's security and gain root control, which would allow the attacker to take charge of the computer and delete files and folders or install applications.
Within hours of going live, the "rm-my-mac" competition was over. The challenger posted this message on his Web site: "This sucks. Six hours later this poor little Mac was owned and this page got defaced".
The hacker that won the challenge, who asked ZDNet Australia to identify him only as "gwerdna", said he gained root control of the Mac in less than 30 minutes.
"It probably took about 20 or 30 minutes to get root on the box. Initially I tried looking around the box for certain mis-configurations and other obvious things but then I decided to use some unpublished exploits -- of which there are a lot for Mac OS X," gwerdna told ZDNet Australia .
According to gwerdna, the hacked Mac could have been better protected, but it would not have stopped him because he exploited a vulnerability that has not yet been made public or patched by Apple.
"The rm-my-mac challenge was setup similar to how you would have a Mac acting as a server -- with various remote services running and local access to users… There are various Mac OS X hardening guides out there that could have been used to harden the machine, however, it wouldn't have stopped the vulnerability I used to gain access.
"There are only limited things you can do with unknown and unpublished vulnerabilities. One is to use additional hardening patches -- good examples for Linux are the PaX patch and the grsecurity patches. They provide numerous hardening options on the system, and implement non-executable memory, which prevent memory based corruption exploits," said gwerdna.
Gwerdna concluded that OS X contains "easy pickings" when it comes to vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to break into Apple's operating system.
"Mac OS X is easy pickings for bug finders. That said, it doesn't have the market share to really interest most serious bug finders," added gwerdna.
Apple's OS X has come under fire in recent weeks with the appearance of two viruses and a number of serious security flaws, which have since been patched by the Mac maker.
In January, security researcher Neil Archibald, who has already been credited with finding numerous vulnerabilities in OS X, told ZDNet Australia that he knows of numerous security vulnerabilities in Apple's operating system that could be exploited by attackers.
"The only thing which has kept Mac OS X relatively safe up until now is the fact that the market share is significantly lower than that of Microsoft Windows or the more common UNIX platforms.… If this situation was to change, in my opinion, things could be a lot worse on Mac OS X than they currently are on other operating systems," said Archibald at the time.
An Apple Australia spokeswoman said today it was unable to comment at this stage.
I always hear people talking about mac's are invincible for hackers, spyware and virus. Looks like thats a big *** myth, and their braggin got them pwnt!!
theCybe
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You can hack most anything, it's really dependant on the services running.
I'm glad Apple doesn't have the majority market share, keeps assorted maladies away.
I'm glad Apple doesn't have the majority market share, keeps assorted maladies away.
theCybe
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sector three
Remember, the mac mini and os 10.4 are designed for consumers, not the secret service. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif
If you want a truly secure machine, run a minimal installation of unix. close the services, shadow the passwords, block the ports, set the privledges, and *remove* the superuser.
I'd bet dollars, doughnuts, and whatever else, that the exploit was through a non-essential service. (xwindows, rpc, etc.)
I'm still a mac advocate; Can't beat it.
If you want a truly secure machine, run a minimal installation of unix. close the services, shadow the passwords, block the ports, set the privledges, and *remove* the superuser.
I'd bet dollars, doughnuts, and whatever else, that the exploit was through a non-essential service. (xwindows, rpc, etc.)
I'm still a mac advocate; Can't beat it.
OMG! You are like the only Mac user that I don't have to explain that too. Even after explaining to some fanatics that being a majority makes you a prime target, they still don't get it. If Mac and Windows ever flipped roles in the market, all the security BS would be flipped as well. Not many people spend time writing virus and scripts or look for weakness to exploit a platform that only a handful use. Hey I think I'll go exploits some flaw in Beos and have fun weeeeeeeeeeeee! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif
If you shut down everything you don't need in Windows and keep up on updates, then it is just as secure as running a mac.
However I agrtee on a stripped barebones Unix for the win. If you really want to use something that only a handful even know where to begin tampering with, that would be it. Plus being stripped down, doesn't leave much to be tampered with. In this day and age though it's all about user friendliness. There aren't real administrators behind most servers today.
Pound for pound, even a popular Linux distro with all the bells and whistles is harder to hack than a Mac or Windows. Hackers have automated the process of exploiting Windows already. Just do a vanilla install and connect to the internet. 10 minutes tops your PC has a new friend.
It may be vulnerable to hackers, but Linux and Mac are still virtually virus free. It feels pretty good to visit any site I want without such worries.
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