A secure democratic Net is a fundamental right

In Belgium we are paying a lot of money for  our telephones, mobiles and digital television and internet (even when they are packaged) when we compare that to france or the UK. The reason is that we have too few operators who are willing to diminue the price (and instead are just concentrating on services and products)  In France there is an operator who is concentrating primarily on price and spends as little as possible on marketing, management and  unnecessary infrastructure (he rents it when possible). The firm is called Free.

They already have changed the internet and telephone business definitively. You have an unlimited internet, VOIP telephone and digital television package ofr 30 Euiro’s. The firm will now become the fourth mobile operator in France and has presented its two main formulaes yesterday. For another 29 euro’s you can have unlimited texting and calling (even in Europe) and a few gigabytes of mobile internettraffic.

This is what I call a gamechanger. It makes mobile internetconnection not something you should worry about (except if you start to have all your internettraffic on your tablet ot phone)  and calling someone is something you can do without counting the credits you have left.
Bring Free to Belgium, to Europe to the world …… Set us FREE.

The most interesting fact in the is that telephone operators for the moment have 30% to 40%  margins. Free only cuts that in half and slashes costs. Maybe telephone companies and operators should do the same,  Telephone users shouldn’t be subsidizing management overhead, technology petprojects and marketing stupidities.
Oh and before I forget, you can get out whenever you want of your ‘contract’ and you don’t have to pay for that.
Fundamentally the other discussion is that one should open the Belgian cable industry to other operators and make a distinction between the network operators who rent their infrastructure to service operators. We have done this for the trains, electricity and gas, why not for telecommunication and television where this is even more pertinent. It will also be the solution to diminish the number of antennas of all the diffirent operators (leading to questions about the health effects) and diminishing the enormous overhead and start-up costs. It will make it easier for new and nich service operators to introduce themselves on the Belgian market at acceptable prices for the Belgian consumers.

It would also finish the discussions about all the different access rights between the networks of the operators, the roaming costs and so on.

Well, Vandelanotte, what you are waiting for, here is a French firm that won’t rip off the Belgian users.
Imagine that for around  50 euro a month we could call as much as we want, look digital tv as much as we want and use as much internet as we want wherever we want ? An enormous array of services would become affordable and could be developed that would otherwise have to wait years before reaching a point in which they could go to market.

so if this is true

and this really works

as it should work

because I am still looking for a catch

and there are not so many references on the web as it is quite new

and under the radar as one calls this

this app you can download on any smartphone or tablet would make it possible to send free txt over the world whatever your location

it is a bit like the online free sms services but migrated to the app world

something we will see even more in the future

if this really works, than txt will lose its value alltogether just as phonetime did (if you compare the costs over 10 years)

so maybe you should try it :

and it surely makes you wonder why not buy a tablet or smartphone for the end of the year, download that app and skype and some other free connection services (to your wifi that you have upgraded to unlimited) and not to 3G which is far too expensive

oh that is the catch, probably you connect online through the app (which makes it expensive)

so it is only free if you use it at home and you don't have to worry about wifi access

this sounds like a solution for families with teenagers who are texting as if they are chatting (and probably should be chatting instead)

and yes it seems that there are now all kinds of jobs on the web for programmers to develop exactly the same thing, because if he wants to try it (and he made hotmail, remember) than there could be something in it

www.jaxtrsms.com

security is a dynamic business

every time you think that you have found the solution and that you can protect your environment, the attacks are becoming so different and the way of infection has so changed, that you have to look at new solutions and limitations to keep the same level of security

so when rootkits TDL v* started infecting .sys files, the antivirus and protectionmechanisms weren't ready for it

"They infect a different .sys driver on the system at each infection, and when you try to recover the sys file, it will give you the clean file, and that (besides others) is a common characteristic between them"

this mechanism is now according to the Internet storm center becoming more widespread

the problem is that your antivirus is not necessarily uptodate for this

you will need for this reason to use one (or several if you are paranoid enough) of these free tools

TDSSKiller.exe - Kaspersky 

AntiZeroAccess - WebRoot 

RootkitRemover - McAfee

the fact that your normal antivirus doesn't show it doesn't necessarily mean that you aren't infected

(this is also a reminder that controlling and filtering your webtraffic is a necessary if you really want to find infections before they spread or cause havoc)

as a matter of security one has to have to last version of freeware

for this we follow freeware here

and add new ones each month

the list of updates for july can be found here

we have organised it so that they are categorised and grouped

and that you only see the latest version to date (according to download.com)

http://belsec.skynetblogs.be/updated-freeware-for-july-20...

We would like to call your attention for the following updates that you may have forgotten

winamp

yahoo messenger

real player

and some other freeware you may not already have thought about

We will not be publishing the postings with the listings anymore (too much clutter)

you can follow me reading books on scribd.com at twitter

https://twitter.com/#!/scribdbooks

and from time to time you can find here listings of a all kinds of books here

the first list (more than 300) of mostly english 100+ page documents and books

can be found here

you have to be a member of scribd to download their books - but hey enjoy

and if you want more books or follow just the scribd feed at scribd

you can find me here at scribd.com

there are also some 300 books and documents to download

some 30.000 links to book - click on the shelf of which many are grouped according to subject

and following a 6000 people in case they publish new books online that are interesting

so even if scribd is having less interesting stuff and books than before the strict copyright restrictions

there is still interesting stuff to read or download

you don't  have to be an expert to attack a website with sql injection

you just have to able to click on some tabs and put some numbers and links in a tool - and read the documentation that comes with it

but sql injection is all the rage and is increasing in its complexity (new methods being added and combined) and its coverage (number of sites attacked)

enough to make the Internet Storm Center publish an analysis

most of the new attack traffic is coming from a new free (and more expensive) attack tool that is flowing around

should I just remember that it is illegal to use it against other sites (and to be sure that the real owner of your site agrees to your 'testing'))

it is another reason why a website should go through a hard security testing before it leaves the garages and is published on the internet and why it should be monitored permanently to be sure that all patches and other stuff are installed in time (ex. qualisys)

there are other tools but this seems to be the one that is becoming the most popular around

the tool will for example show you which tables you can see and what data can be extracted from your database and if your administrator passwords can be discovered - all with a few clicks (no black and white line commands geeks love so much)