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Three Rivers helps drive community
From Meals on Wheels to WIN Job Centers, Three Rivers provides education possibilities, workforce training and services to the elderly on a regular basis. (April 25, 2011, Page 1A)
Man builds opry house for those who love music
A variety of musical guests perform on the second Saturday of each month at the Tula Opry which was a 30-year dream of Rusty Pinion. See the grand ol' opry in Tula in today's Oxford Living. (April 15, 2011, Page 1B)
Think before you burn
With warmer temperatures and light breezes, burning leaves and lawn debris can get out of hand quickly. However, the U.S. Forestry and Mississippi Forestry Commission have been burning hundreds of acres over the last week in an attempt to keep wildfires at bay. (March 22, 2011, Page 1)
Ready for severe weather?
Gov. Haley Barbour has declared this week as Severe Weather Awareness Week. The National Weather Service will issue a statewide tornado test warning on National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather radios at 9 a.m. Wednesday morning. Schools, government agencies and businesses are encouraged to participate in the drill. (February 22, 2011, Page 1)
Two killing, two guilty pleas
An Abbeville woman pleaded guilty in the death of her infant child and an Oxford man has pleaded guilty to killing his wife in two separate manslaughter cases. (January 25, 2011, Page 1)
MLK Jr. Day events planned
From the moment the sun rises on Monday until it sets in the evening, events in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. will offer area residents an opportunity to share a meal and prayers in the name of peace and community togetherness.
Kicking off at 7 a.m. will be the Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration in Abbeville that begins with a full breakfast buffet at the Abbeville School on County Road 115.
As the sun starts its descent on the LOU community, folks will gather in Oxford at 6 p.m. at Second Baptist Church, just west of the Square, for the annual candle light vigil hosted by Second Baptist, St. Peter's Episcopal Church and Eta Zeta Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Inc. (January 14, 2011, Page 1A)
Abbeville gets new town hall
Despite the fact the heat wasn't working yet, members of the Abbeville Board of Alderman and Mayor Betsy Aloway held their regular meeting in the town's newly built Town Hall for the first time Thursday night.
Construction began on the new building in early 2010 after the original building was torn down due to termite damage. Abbeville received a $100,000 grant in 2009 from the Mississippi Development Authority for the project. (January 7, 2011, Page 1A)
Decorating during the holidays a tradition for local woman
Santa will definitely make an appearance at the Adams' home in Abbeville this year. In fact, about 100 Santa's are already displayed in their living room. See Katherine Adams winter wonderland in today's Oxford Living on page 1. (December 23, 2010, Page 1B)
Tough times forces Yocona in Exile to close this weekend
After 15 years of serving eclectic, but always delicious dishes, the Yocona In Exile restaurant — previously Yocona River Inn — will close its doors this weekend.
Yocona in Exile was opened in Abbeville after a fire in the spring of 2009 destroyed the original restaurant, Yocona River Inn. Osborn relocated her restaurant and renamed it when she reopened it a year ago in Abbeville. The new restaurant gave the downtown area of the tiny town a spark of new life. (December 2, 2010, Page 2A)
Abbeville to get package store
Folks living in Abbeville who want to buy a bottle of wine to have with dinner, or some brandy to help keep them warm during the long, cold winter nights, will no longer have to drive 12 miles out of their way.
Lafayette County resident Will Matthews and New Albany resident Chandler Rogers have teamed up to open the Riverfront Wine and Spirits package store at 1040 Highway 7 North in Abbeville.
Matthews and Rogers said they chose the location because of its convenience for those citizens living in northern Lafayette County and southern Marshall County.
They received a permit from the Department of Revenue last week that allows them to open the package store in the city limits of Abbeville. (November 15, 2010, Page 1A)


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Juxtapoz // Monday, November 19, 2007
A new issue of French online photo mag purpose is ready for browsing on their site. If you've seen their other issues, you may recall that each has a score. When you start hearing the hum of insects and aeroplanes, it's the zine, not an aerial assault. It is especially sneaky if you happen to be listening to music with headphones at the same time. Photos by Brigitte Lustenberger, Carlo Mollino, Fulvio Rosso, Yves Klein, Angelo Mosca, Fran
"Decked Out" Photos by MWM
Juxtapoz // Monday, November 05, 2007
Shown: Burton UNinc Collabo Series.
MWM (of the renowned MWM Graphics) sent us a link to his pics from the recent snowboard art show, Decked Out, at Firehouse Gallery in Burlington, Vermont. The show was sponsored partly by The Warhol Foundation and juxtaposes the original work of eight artists with snowboards that feature their designs as well as new snowboards with artwork by Andy Warhol. Art and design by: Cristin Denight, Marin Horikawa, Michael Montanaro, Lance Violette, Andrei Molodkin, Cody Hudson, Scott Herskovitz, Noah Butkus, Scott Lenhardt, Geoff McFetridge, Andy Jenkins, Thomas Campbell, Doug Clark, and Matt W. Moore (who rocked the massive vinyl window mural). Full details and photos here, mwmgraphicsphoto.blogspot.com.
Get Exposed: Tonight!
Juxtapoz // Friday, November 02, 2007
Tonight's the night! Our penultimate Get Exposed party at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. Starting about 9pm, a certain web editor will be waiting at a table with a heap of Juxtapoz schwag to give away, a stiff drink. and a smiling face—bring your submissions to her, then go watch live painting by JUXTAPOZ #79 cover artist Alex Pardee.
In case you're out of the loop, Juxtapoz sponsors a monthly party where anyone can submit a CD with five images of their artwork for consideration as a Profile in Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine.
There are a few rules. CDs can only be submitted in person at the event. If you can't make it, a friend can drop off a CD for you. For those who've been wanting to get in on this thing, but haven't made it to any of the SF events, Get Exposed hits the road starting in January 2008. Full details will be online at the Get Exposed MySpace page as soon as they are confirmed.
See www.myspace.com/beinjux for all submission guidelines.
Photos: Chris Mars and Mark Dean Veca in NYC
Juxtapoz // Sunday, October 21, 2007
Photos from the October 20th opening of Chris Mars' New Salem and Mark Dean Veca's Imbroglio at Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York City. Both shows will run through November 17th.
Photos: Dora Drimalas and Retna
Juxtapoz // Monday, October 08, 2007
It was a full house at Fifty24SF on Thursday, October 4th as people gathered for the openings of Dora Drimalas' show, Creature Comforts, and Retna's show, Dialect of the Scribes. Dora featured her sculptures, screen prints, and paintings set against a sunny, yellow landscape creating a warm environment for her "creature" characters. Retna featured several prints along with an amazing series of paintings done in his signature calligraphic style. If you can't swing by the gallery, be sure to visit the online store here.
David Stoupakis' Art Show Soundtracks
Juxtapoz // Monday, October 08, 2007
Fans of David Stoupakis' work can now treat their ears as well as their eyes thanks to the release of Masses. The music on the two-disc set was composed by Geoff Gersh for Stoupakis' shows Beyond the Rainbow (Disc 1) and Sheep Will Follow (Disc 2). Now you can delve deeper into the moods of David's work through the magic of audio, get that full sensory immersion into the darkness of each painting. Paint your nails black first, that will probably help even more. If you're going to do something, you might as well do it right. The CD is available for $15 from the merch section of David's site. It's a limited edition of 1000 so get yours before he runs out and you're back listening to Skinny Puppy, trying and failing to get the same effect. www.davidstoupakis.com
Photos: Albus Cavus at the B-Boy BBQ
Juxtapoz // Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Peter Krsko sent us a few photos from the B-Boy BBQ that happened last weekend in San Diego. Peter is one of the founding members of Albus Cavus, the art collective from New Brunswick, NJ that has championed the integration of graffiti and street art into community projects that encourage public art and participation rather than criminalizing genuine artistic expression. They're on the road, spreading the concept and having some fun.
Fawn Fruits (Daniel Hyun Lim)
Juxtapoz // Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Artist Fawn Fruits (aka Daniel Hyun Lim - Reader Art 23 Jan 06) has a new name, a new attitude and a new body of artwork. Available for the first time are many of the original pencil & charcoal drawings used as the basis for his most popular digitally colored prints. These original drawings show that he is someone who is talented on and OFF the computer. Fawn Fruits is part a new group of young artists who have grown up around both traditional and new media tools, making them that much more adaptable and resourceful when making their artwork.
With Fawn Fruits, there is an important idea or purpose behind everything being made. We will let him explain it to you, "My artwork is greatly (if not mostly) influenced by media. I grew up watching a LOT of television. Therefore, my work revolves around pop culture, fun, and excitement. However, when people see my work, they do not see "bubble gum hyper Japanese visuals". Although my work is filled with these sorts of images, I have never been able to let go of my darker, more depressed nature. It may be because of losing my mother to deep depression, or even suffering a mere simple crushed heart. Whatever lured me to my "dark side", there has always been a taste of that side of me within my work. Everyone has different ways of coping with tragedy. I've learned to cope through drawing
Photos: Deth P Sun/Joe Brook/111 Minna
Juxtapoz // Monday, September 17, 2007
Contributing Juxtapoz news writer Brad Martin made his way around San Francisco this past Saturday, September 15th, and brings us a photoblog of his stops at from Deth P. Sun's show The Sand and The Stars at Giant Robot, Joe Brook at Gamma Lab, and the IGNITE WHAT'S NEXT tour stop at 111 Minna, which was also the Juxtapoz Get Exposed event.
Art Openings September 14th and 15th
Juxtapoz // Friday, September 14, 2007
Hey remember last week when there were a million art shows? This weekend there are only about half that. After the jump, our short list.

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OK, I'll admit to it ..... I'm a sucker for anything general aviation related. Unfortunately there just isn't much selection out there in terms of scale general aviation birds. When I was crusing around the web, I ran across the scaleflying.com website and noticed they are currently developing a KingAir and had recently released a Beechcraft Baron G58. For those of you who don't know about it, the Baron G58 is a 5 seater twin engine prop plane. It's manufactured by the Beechcraft Corpration, and is considered by many to be at the top of its class in build quality and performance. I could go on and on about how cool of a plane it is, and how much I would love to own one, but I think you're getting that idea by now anyways.
I contacted RC Aerodyne in regards to the Baron, and in quick order had one headed my direction. The plane came in 3 large boxes, one with the fuselage, one with the canopy kit, and the other with the wings and nacelles. Cracking the boxes open it was clear the finish quality on this plane is very high. Each panel line, decal, and subtle curve of the real life plane is present, so it came as no surprise when I learned that the RC Aerodyne Baron is an officially licensed product from the Beechcraft Corporation. I'll be doing a full review on this plane here on RCG with much more detail on the plane and the other components required to get this bird in the air. More to come soon... Don |
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Topic: Self-described Christians will persecute real Christians and think they are serving God. Today Brannon looks at several passages of Scripture and discusses how a false church will persecute true Christians. Are well known evangelicals giving credibility to this false church and will that cause many to not speak up when this false church persecutes Christians? Will the persecution be justified under the false claim that real Christians are haters, intolerant, and divisive? Topic: The wife of a Baptist pastor in Alabama works at an abortion clinic, and an abortion doctor in Mississippi calls himself a Christian in a national interview. Topic: Hear the audio of David Jeremiah praising and promoting the upcoming television broadcast of Mark Burnett and Roma Downey and his participation with them. Why would David Jeremiah work with them when their productions do not represent the Jesus of the Bible or the Biblical gospel? Roma is an admitted New Age Catholic. Topic: We take your calls.
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A Holocaust saga: From the sewers to a gardenBy David Lee Preston, Special to CNNUpdated 1711 GMT (0011 HKT) April 19, 2012 5 photosCourage in the face of evil – Halina Wind with the Catholic sewer worker Leopold Socha on her birthday, March 1, 1946, in Gliwice, Poland, two months before he died.Hide Caption 1 of 5 5 photosCourage in the face of evil – Halina Wind Preston walks away after dedicating a tree in memory of the Polish Catholic sewer worker Leopold Socha in the Garden of the Righteous Gentiles, in front of the Jewish Community Center, Wilmington, Delaware, on November 16, 1981.Hide Caption 2 of 5 5 photosCourage in the face of evil – Official program from the ceremony dedicating the Garden of the Righteous Gentiles, Wilmington, Delaware, November 16, 1981. Hide Caption 3 of 5 5 photosCourage in the face of evil – "Scroll of Honor" inside program, listing trees dedicated at the Garden of the Righteous Gentiles, Wilmington, Delaware, on November 16, 1981. Hide Caption 4 of 5 5 photosCourage in the face of evil – An image from a circa-1950 flier advertising Halina Wind's appearances on behalf of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Hide Caption 5 of 5Story highlightsDavid Preston's mother and nine others survived the Holocaust hiding in sewers for 14 monthsPolish Catholic sewer workers saved their lives, and his mother wanted to keep faith with them Halina Wind Preston was the force behind a garden memorial to honor "Righteous Gentiles"Preston: Nazis wanted no Jew to survive, so every act of rescue and survival is sacredThe ceremony was held on a chilly November morning in 1981 on the front lawn of the Jewish Community Center in Wilmington, Delaware, and after three decades the plain cardboard program printed for the occasion still resonates:"Garden of the Righteous, Tree Planting Ceremony: In honor of the Righteous Gentiles who at the risk of their own lives and the lives of their families saved Jews during the Nazi Holocaust -- 1933-1945. ... This Tree Planting Ceremony by Holocaust survivors residing in Delaware is the first such tribute to the 'Righteous Among the Nations' outside of Jerusalem."Patterned after a memorial at Israel's Yad Vashem, the grassy clearing had saplings with wooden markers bearing names of European Christians who had rescued Jews who came to live in Delaware. One by one that morning, swelling with emotion, survivors came forward to unveil markers. Also in attendance and honored with a tree was a Dutch Christian couple who lived in the state.My mother, Halina Wind Preston, a Jewish educator who had survived 14 months hiding from the Nazis in the sewers of Lvov, Poland, conceived and planned the garden, and she unveiled markers bearing the names of two Polish Catholic sewer workers who had saved her: Leopold Socha and Stefan Wroblewski. She died a year later at age 60, but she had fulfilled a sacred duty. Soon a monument was added, bronze plaques replaced the wooden markers, and on December 11, 1983, more than 700 people packed the center's auditorium to hear the Methodist theologian and Holocaust scholar Franklin H. Littell formally dedicate the garden.David Lee PrestonThe story of the Wilmington garden, and the Lvov sewer-survival story -- dramatized in Agnieszka Holland's movie "In Darkness" -- are particularly timely because the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has designated "Choosing to Act: Stories of Rescue" as this year's theme for Yom Hashoah, the day of remembrance, Thursday, April 19.Because the Nazis intended that no Jews should survive, every survival story is sacred. Although my mother is not portrayed in the movie, she would have been gratified that it has given wide exposure to Socha's heroism. Still, Halina would have rejected the film's many fabrications concerning Wroblewski's equally valiant role. She would have been incredulous over invented characters having sex in the sewer for the sake of dramatic tension, or seeing a man who was instrumental in her rescue reduced to a caricature of a pious Jew. Just WatchedNetanyahu invokes Holocaust with Iran replayMore Videos ...Netanyahu invokes Holocaust with Iran 02:49PLAY VIDEOJust WatchedRestoring Holocaust victims' identitiesreplayMore Videos ...Restoring Holocaust victims' identities 02:33PLAY VIDEOJust WatchedHolocaust survivor celebrates milestonereplayMore Videos ...Holocaust survivor celebrates milestone 01:39PLAY VIDEOMy cover story about my mother in the Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine on Mother's Day 1983 -- five months after her death -- was the first full English-language presentation of the Lvov sewer rescue. Socha died in 1946, but Wroblewski read my account and then shared with me many crucial details yet to be revealed in a documentary planned by the Polish filmmaker Maciej Pawlicki. The daughter of a poor Hasidic watchmaker in the Carpathians, Halina was just 22 on July 27, 1944, when she emerged from a sewer manhole in Lvov (present-day Lviv, Ukraine). Hundreds of Jews had tried to escape into the sewers on the night of the liquidation of the Lvov ghetto and almost all died in the raging river that flowed through the sewer system. My mother found herself in a group of 21 Jews whom the sewer workers had agreed to hide. Originally for money, but later even after the money ran out, the sewer workers brought them food, washed their clothes, moved them when their safety was in danger and visited them every day except Sunday. Some decided to leave as the ordeal wore on and were killed above ground, and one older woman died of natural causes. A baby was born and had to be suffocated lest its cries give away the group. My mother was among 10 who survived the entire 14 months, and this experience guided her life.She was among the first of Hitler's survivors to speak publicly. Throughout the months in the filthy underground hideout, she remained focused on a place she had never seen, the New York address 3080 Broadway, where her older brother, Leon, was studying at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. The prospect of reuniting with him gave her something to live for, and when she arrived into the waiting arms of Rabbi Leon Wind and his wife and son at La Guardia Airport in 1947, it marked the beginning of a new life dedicated to honoring both her Jewish heritage and her Catholic rescuers. An American audience first heard a survivor speak of the Lvov sewer episode on October 25, 1949, when Halina Wind, now a 27-year-old senior in the seminary's teachers institute, addressed the annual conference of the National Women's League of the United Synagogue of America, meeting in New York City. She later went on a speaking tour on behalf of the seminary with at least 36 appearances in seven states. One woman who heard her in Camden, New Jersey, introduced her to a cousin who had survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald. After a short courtship, Halina married George Preston, the former Grisza Priszkulnik, and they moved to Wilmington. I was born there in 1955, my sister six years later.During three decades in Delaware, my mother inspired students and audiences of all faiths with the story of the Lvov sewer workers who saved her, establishing herself as the state's eloquent representative of the victims and survivors of the Nazis. Her message was uplifting, about how goodness transcends religion and ethnicity and national boundaries, continuing from one generation to the next, from one culture to another. "I had a mission," my mother said in 1978. "I wasn't just saving my life. ... And when you have a purpose and when you have a cause, then you are able to endure everything. ... I was living for my parents. I was living for my brother. I was living for my yet-unborn children. I was living for the past, and I was living for the future."My mother maintained contact with the Socha and Wroblewski families. (A third sewer worker, Jerzy Kowalow, disappeared after the war.)As a boy I watched her meticulously prepare parcels of clothing that she sent them throughout the difficult postwar years in Soviet-occupied Poland. She traveled to Jerusalem in 1977 to provide the sole testimony that led to Socha and Wroblewski and their wives being named "Righteous Among the Nations," enabling the two families to receive monthly stipends and establishing them among 23,788 heroic figures from 45 countries upon whom Yad Vashem had formally accorded the honor at last count.As for the Wilmington garden, it's now a verdant landmark, but three decades of exposure to the elements have taken a toll. This summer it will be rededicated with a new entrance, a new monument and new plaques. In the fall, new saplings will be planted to recognize more Righteous Gentiles who helped other Delawareans. My mother, who didn't see a tree for 14 months, kept faith with her rescuers. Now only those of us who remain can keep the garden of memory blooming. 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9/11 Museum Opens: 'Sacred Place of Healing and Hope'
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By Jonathan Lemire and Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) – President Barack Obama praised the new Sept. 11 museum on Thursday as "a sacred place of healing and of hope" that captures both the story and the spirit of heroism and helping others that followed the attacks.
"It's an honor to join in your memories, to recall and to reflect, but above all to reaffirm the true spirit of 9/11 – love, compassion, sacrifice – and to enshrine it forever in the heart of our nation," he told an audience of victims' relatives, survivors, and rescuers at the ground zero museum's dedication ceremony.
"Like the great wall and bedrock that embrace us today, nothing can ever break us. Nothing can change who we are as Americans."
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After viewing some of the exhibits, including a mangled fire truck and a memorial wall with photos of victims, the president recounted the story of Welles Crowther, a 24-year-old World Trade Center worker and former volunteer firefighter who became known as "the man in the red bandanna" after he led other workers to safety from the trade center's stricken south tower. He died in the tower's collapse.
One of the red bandannas he made a habit of carrying is in the museum, and Crowther's mother, Alison, told the audience she hoped it would remind visitors "how people helped each other that day, and that they will be inspired to do the same in ways both big and small. This is the true legacy of Sept. 11."
By her side was Ling Young, one of the people Welles Crowther rescued.
"It was very hard for me to come here today, but I wanted to do so, so I could say thank you to his parents," she said.
Before the ceremony, Obama walked quietly through an expansive hall with former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. First lady Michelle Obama, former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton following behind them.
The museum, which commemorates the 2001 terrorist attack, as well as the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, opens to the public on May 21.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, current New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former New York Gov. George Pataki were among those attending, as was actor Robert De Niro, a museum board member.
By turns chilling and heartbreaking, the ground zero museum leads people on an unsettling journey through the terrorist attacks, with forays into their lead up and legacy.
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There are scenes of horror, including videos of the skyscrapers collapsing and people falling from them. But there also are symbols of heroism, ranging from damaged fire trucks to the wristwatch of one of the airline passengers who confronted the hijackers.
"Walking through this museum can be difficult at times, but it is impossible to leave without feeling inspired," Bloomberg said Thursday.
The museum and memorial plaza above, which opened in 2011, were built for $700 million in donations and tax dollars. Work on the museum was marked by construction problems, financial squabbles and disputes over its content and the appropriate way to honor the dead, but its leaders see it as a monument to unity and resilience.
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I would really like to get this to work. It opens so many things (hate having to use HxD and axmlprinter.jar, when I could just use this with plain xml). Anyway I can decompile the .apk just fine but can never get it to recompile. I get these errors below. Code: D:\>java -jar apktool.jar b twitter I: Checking whether sources has changed... I: Smaling... I: Checking whether resources has changed... I: Building resources... Exception in thread "main" brut.androlib.AndrolibException: brut.common.BrutException: could not exec command: [aapt, p, -F, D:\Users\THEBOW~1\AppData\Local\Temp\APKTOOL6666141519779796787.tmp, -I, D:\Users\THEBOW~1\AppData\Local\Temp\brut_util_Jar_7251183562717733225.tmp, -I, D:\Users\THEBOW~1\AppData\Local\Temp\brut_util_Jar_5111289146222151494.tmp, -S, D:\\twitter\res, -M, D:\\twitter\AndroidManifest.xml, D:\\twitter\9patch] at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.aaptPackage(Unknown Source) at brut.androlib.Androlib.buildResourcesFull(Unknown Source) at brut.androlib.Androlib.buildResources(Unknown Source) at brut.androlib.Androlib.build(Unknown Source) at brut.androlib.Androlib.build(Unknown Source) at brut.apktool.Main.cmdBuild(Unknown Source) at brut.apktool.Main.main(Unknown Source) Caused by: brut.common.BrutException: could not exec command: [aapt, p, -F, D:\Users\THEBOW~1\AppData\Local\Temp\APKTOOL6666141519779796787.tmp, -I, D:\Users\THEBOW~1\AppData\Local\Temp\brut_util_Jar_7251183562717733225.tmp, -I, D:\Users\THEBOW~1\AppData\Local\Temp\brut_util_Jar_5111289146222151494.tmp, -S, D:\\twitter\res, -M, D:\\twitter\AndroidManifest.xml, D:\\twitter\9patch] at brut.util.OS.exec(Unknown Source) ... 7 more Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "aapt": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Unknown Source) ... 8 more Caused by: java.io.IOException: CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified at java.lang.ProcessImpl.create(Native Method) at java.lang.ProcessImpl.<init>(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(Unknown Source) ... 11 more D:\> I get this even if I just simply decompile and recompile. So, anyone know what the errors mean and how to fix it. I am on Vista 32-bit. I have tried this on two different hard drives with the same result.
Don't know that I follow what you are saying. I only do two commands with apktool.jar java -jar apktool.jar d <whatever.apk> <whatever> java -jar apktool.jar b <whatever>
it relies on aapt.exe, put it in a dir in your PATH environment variable in windows. I prefer the batch file... android-apktool - Project Hosting on Google Code
Ok I got the apktool.bat and aapt.exe files what else do I need to do from here? Can you explain the process as if I don't know a clue...lol
if you have the android sdk installed (adb) then the android-sdk-windows\tools directory may already be in your path. if that is the case simply drop the apktool stuff and aapt into the android-sdk-windows\tools directory, overwriting the current aapt.exe that way you can run apktool globally.. I put all my android tools in that directory for simplicity's sake Code: c:\anywhere\apk> apktool d something.apk something_decompiled long story short, just put the jar, the bat, and aapt.exe in the sdk tools directory
I get that, can you tell me where you add PATH enviroment variables. I can't remember that process. Edit: I didn't have an aapt.exe in the tools directory before
start>right click computer>properties>advanced system settings>advanced>environment variables heres mine:
Just to make sure you full path would be to the aapt.exe file, correct? :%path%:\android\tools\aapt.exe would be my example.
no, just :%path%:\android\tools the path is a list of locations that the system looks for when commands are given. By adding this location, windows knows where to look for the executables when it doesnt find then in the rest of its normal places (c:\windows, c:\windows\system32, etc) add directories to the path to put executables in them that you want to access from any location. if you wanted to be real unclean you could just put aapt, apktool.jar and apktool.bat in c:\windows\system32 but its better IMO to keep your apps in their own directory, just makes for a cleaner environment.
congrats! The latest version of apktool rocks. It decompiles .9's and xml correctly so that they can be edited directly and then it can recompile without issues
Hi, I'm new to android and linux, I downloaded a free android apk file and when I tried to load it in eclipse, I got an error saying the xml file cannot be parsed, a bit searching for this error on the net led me to the apktool, however when I run this tool, following all the instructions, I get the following error apktool d -f BlueFTP.apk_FILES Exception in thread "main" brut.androlib.AndrolibException: brut.directory.DirectoryException: java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file at brut.androlib.ApkDecoder.hasSources(Unknown Source) at brut.androlib.ApkDecoder.decode(Unknown Source) at brut.apktool.Main.cmdDecode(Unknown Source) at brut.apktool.Main.main(Unknown Source) Caused by: brut.directory.DirectoryException: java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file at brut.directory.ZipRODirectory.<init>(Unknown Source) at brut.directory.ZipRODirectory.<init>(Unknown Source) at brut.androlib.res.util.ExtFile.getDirectory(Unknown Source) ... 4 more Caused by: java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method) at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:131) at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:148) ... 7 more Could you please help me ?


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Msg#: 4640881 posted
12:13 am on Jan 29, 2014
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Whitelisting access to a web site is easier than blacklisting. One is who you let in, the other is endless whack-a-mole. To start:
.htaccess to allow all comers access to robots.txt
robots.tx allows a short list (b, g, y, examples) all others 403
UAs allowed, a slightly longer list, but still very limited. No match: 403
Getting grancular: Referer keywords (this is a blacklist, but still pretty short): 403
These are my basic tools. Are there others, or perhaps refinements? And, where does Whitelisting fail? And how to poke holes for desired? (I know HOW, but have yet to really find a need to do it).
These are concepts I've been using for a few years, but I suspect there are other methods, so this is a request for discussion on Whitelisting in general. I went down the blacklisting hole for a number of years--and the subsequent heartburn and agitation--until making that paradigm shift from takiing out the bad to allowinig the good. And, though I'm not unhappy with the rsults so far, I wonder if the Whitelist might be losing some potential traffic.
Your thoughts?
Msg#: 4640881 posted
1:52 am on Jan 29, 2014
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UAs allowed, a slightly longer list, but still very limited. No match: 403
Does the whitelisting have a way to keep up with all variety of mobile browsers that are in use? How can you discern unlabeled bots? There are far more only detected by their activities all the time. Lots of these use badly configured UAs, but they are catching on.
Don't get me wrong, I'd like to have enough faith in whitelisting to use it, but find so much (junk) in access logs. If I never found new tactics, UAs or camoflage attempts in the access logs, maybe then.
Msg#: 4640881 posted
2:33 am on Jan 29, 2014
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Does the whitelisting have a way to keep up with all variety of mobile browsers that are in use? How can you discern unlabeled bots? There are far more only detected by their activities all the time. Lots of these use badly configured UAs, but they are catching on.
Whitelisting does not mean ignoring logs or activity. That is regular serivce on the site and leads to adjustments on the whitelist... that said, even the unlabled won't be fit traffic most times. 403, for me, is "take a look and adjust" if need be.
I know it sounds crazy, but out of 16B hits per day I get 1M real, I'm not that disappointed. (exaggerated numbers, pick your traffic and go from there)
Msg#: 4640881 posted
6:10 pm on Jan 29, 2014
(gmt 0)
On my site, I use some algorithmic filters to separate the bots from the browsers and whitelist a handful of the bots and all browsers.
It's not 100% accurate but it appears to work pretty well.
In the last year I've had to add a couple of new keywords to catch new browser technologies - both mobile.
I don't manually collect any blacklists, and don't currently subscribe to any online services.
This is in PHP though: I'm not using robots.txt or .htaccess very much.
We also don't send 403s - we send Login prompts: as we're a forum we just look like we've turned off guest access if you're a bot - visitors we think are browsers get guest access. This seems like a gentler option, given that our filters can't always be right. It's also not so obviously challenging the bots.
Msg#: 4640881 posted
9:10 pm on Jan 29, 2014
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I'd like to have enough faith in whitelisting to use it, but find so much (junk) in access logs.
There's an underlying philosophical position that applies in many aspects of life, not just on your www site. It goes like this:
#1 Mistakes Will Be Made.
#2 Given that there will be mistakes, you've got an a priori choice: punish the innocent or let the guilty go unpunished?
Either way, your 403 page should be written for humans, because they are the ones who will look at it. That's why mine says, in effect, "I'm heartbroken to have to tell you that the server thinks you are a robot" even though in reality the server only "thinks" what I have told it to think.
Msg#: 4640881 posted
10:10 pm on Jan 29, 2014
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Tangor - UAs are not very reliable. They are very easy to forge - even the major browsers allow you to switch them. I would recommend examining all the HTTP headers. I won't say more about those here as I'm sure the forum is monitored by, er, blackhats? :(
The other point is: block all server farms. Those are the sources for many bots, good and bad. You can only block botnet access by serious attention to means. A common feature of botnet accesses is using "known" UAs to bull a way in: googlebot, of course, but I've seen endless variations on current and out-of-date browser UAs.
Msg#: 4640881 posted
11:51 pm on Jan 29, 2014
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I think about 10% of the bots I block are not who they say they are. I'm not blocking/blacklisting any server farms, but they don't figure prominently in the traffic that my filters let through. In fact at the moment, I've had 40 guests in the last 15mins. The unblocked ones are from comcast, sbcglobal, btinternet, googlebot.com, yahoo.net, etc. The blocked ones are from 163data.com.cn, vpn999.com, amazonaws.com, mail.ru, etc. There is rarely any overlap.
There are alternatives to blacklisting.
Msg#: 4640881 posted
1:28 am on Jan 30, 2014
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The other point is: block all server farms. Those are the sources for many bots, good and bad. You can only block botnet access by serious attention to means.
Conversely, you whitelist acceptable IPs and disregard the rest. Depends on your intended audience.
I'm looking for whitelisting methods, not blacklisting... though both are useful, and some times necessary. Whitelisting is who I include/allow, blacklisting is not. A fine point, I know, but that's the approach I'm taking, and looking to make that work better.
Msg#: 4640881 posted
5:24 am on Jan 30, 2014
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Another opinion - The difference between whitelisting & blacklisting can be compared in this perspective:
When developing a whitelist strategy, many legit users will be blocked until you determine these to be in fact legit users. They may never come back.
When developing a blacklist strategy, many bad agents will get through until you determine these to be in fact bad agents. When they come back, they'll be blocked.
Ergo, it is prudent to use a combination of blacklisting & whitelisting along with header checks, UA filters and server-side scripting in developing an effective defense.
Msg#: 4640881 posted
11:04 am on Jan 30, 2014
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I dry ran my filters for several weeks and monitored who was getting flagged, so by the time I threw the switch to actually start blocking, I was pretty confident that the right visitors were getting blocked.
Msg#: 4640881 posted
8:09 pm on Jan 30, 2014
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> Conversely, you whitelist acceptable IPs and disregard the rest.
If I did that I would need to whitelist more IPs than I currently blacklist. But then, some people block the whole of Europe, Asia and South America. Our web server gets valid as well as invalid hits from all over the world. Many of these are transients, a small number become regulars.
I have reached the state where my server blocks most bad hits, whether or not I've seen the IPs before, and blocks only a very few goodies.
Msg#: 4640881 posted
3:39 pm on Feb 3, 2014
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I'm still interested to talk more about this.
Whitelisting is only part of the non-blacklisting story for me.
My approach is:
1. separate the bots from the browsers using several standalone software filters
2. allow the browsers through
3. stop all bots except those on a short whitelist
I think you can do a certain amount of separating and whitelisting using just .htaccess pattern matching, but I don't think it's enough in general to be satisfactory unless your audience is unusually easily identifiable. .htaccess may be more expressive than I'm aware of, but I don't really use it all, so I'm no expert.
Is there a thread somewhere here about bot-blocking software? I rolled my own, but I realise that many people are not in a position to do that.
Msg#: 4640881 posted
5:35 pm on Feb 3, 2014
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I'm still interested to talk more about this.
If your referring to white-listing?
Good luck with that.
Users are willing to explain "I do this or I do that", however any examples (except for two-brief-fundamental examples) of syntax are non-existent in the open-forum.
Whitelisting is only part of the non-blacklisting story for me.
My approach is:
1. separate the bots from the browsers using several standalone software filters
Why reinvent the wheel?
There are some log analysis software's that work both online (if you have your won server) and offline.
One example is "
2. allow the browsers through
A list of browser UA's (along with the many variations of each (i. e., the recent Yahoo thread)) would takes years to accumulate.
3. stop all bots except those on a short whitelist
any examples (except for two-brief-fundamental examples) of syntax are non-existent in the open-forum.
I think you can do a certain amount of separating and whitelisting using just .htaccess pattern matching, but I don't think it's enough in general to be satisfactory unless your audience is unusually easily identifiable.
You only believe that because you've not either used or implemented htaccess extensively.
RegEx is very powerful, either for the simplest of techniques, or the most complicated of techniques.
.htaccess may be more expressive than I'm aware of, but I don't really use it all, so I'm no expert.
lucy is an example of a person with RegEx skills that are leaps and bounds above the rest of us.
Just roll up your sleeves and get to work!
Is there a thread somewhere here about bot-blocking software?
There are a couple of old Perl or PHP methods (scripts) of which links were supplied to recently (in another recent thread) that people are still using.
Bill (others also use some similar methods) uses extensive PHP methods for indexing, identifying and tracking bots, however despite his repeated mention of their existence (and their results), the syntax has never been provided in the open-forum.
I rolled my own, but I realise that many people are not in a position to do that.
IMO, nothing beats going through logs manually, however if your website (s) traffic is very-high-daily, than manual viewing is impossible.
Msg#: 4640881 posted
11:35 pm on Feb 3, 2014
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leaps and bounds above the rest of us.
Aargh, don't talk to me about Regular Expressions. I just discovered that one of my sites was down for 12 hours because when I edited out a no-longer-needed |\.pdf from a pattern, I inadvertently deleted the following close-parenthesis as well.
In theory, anything can be done in htaccess. But beyond a certain point it's safer to detour to a php script.
Whitelisting is much simpler if none of your visitors use cell phones ;)
Msg#: 4640881 posted
12:06 am on Feb 4, 2014
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1. separate the bots from the browsers using several standalone software filters
What standalone software?
I use a combination of whitelisting and blacklisting, and all i need for that is .htaccess :)
A) Some simple pre-filtering (see examples below) weeds out the bulk of the unsavory access
B) Bots are managed via a combination of white listing and access control: approved bots get access to information rich "main pages" but not to images, not to information poor pages like forms, not to pages that only interested humans would need, such as price lists or contact information, and not to incidental information like SSI
C) A "fool the scammers" site design: most unsavory access (including screenshot and thumbnail scrapers) is to a domain's index page, so I have decided to make those pages irrelevant, meaning, my index pages contain only minimal information (and bots are told they are "noindex"), and human users quickly click through to the information rich second page. The bots that are welcome on my sites "understand" what's going on and scammers get what they deserve: nothing of value...
D) Certain information only of use to serious visitors (sich as price lists or certain videos) can only be accessd from within the site in question
An illustration of the pre-filtering i employ:
1) Everybody has access to robots.txt and error messages (403, etc.)
2) Bots are tightly managed. Those that have "Googlebot" or "Googlebot-Mobile" in the UA are allowed in IF they come from a Google domain; otherwise they are served a zero byte file. Bots (or other users) that come from a Google domain WITHOUT an acceptable UA also get the zero byte file. Bots that have "msnbot" or "bingbot" in the UA are allowed IF they come from a msn.com domain; otherwise zero bytes. Bots (or other users) that come from a msn.com domain and in the UA neither show "msnbot" nor "bingbot" get the same, as well. And so on, for a dozen other bots whose visits I appreciate... This also means that bots coming in from hosts where reverse name lookup does not work get no access. The settings in robots.txt (which is based on whitelisting) match those in .htaccess, and there are many bots that are well-behaved but unwanted on my sites and that therefore get "User-agent: * Disallow: /" and never look for more than "robots.txt". Then there are a few bots that have shown to not play by the rules (example: Baidu), and they are managed more strictly: anything from a related IP block gets a zero byte file.
3) KNOWN malicious or otherwise unwanted access results in a zero byte file being sent (examples: looking for filenames like "admin" or "config"; using methods like "put" or "trace", having in the user agent terms like "harvest" or "image").
E) HTTP/1.0 gets denied with a (human) user friendly explanation
F) In some cases site access is restricted to a specific country - the wanted bots are allowed in regardless of that restriction, the known junk is pre-filtered, and everybody else who happens to not get in sees a user friendly explanation with a feedback button and an invitation to use it if they think they should have access (this helps me fix errors in the access whitelist for the country in question).
Looking at the log files I fine tune the settings from time to time...
Msg#: 4640881 posted
12:17 am on Feb 4, 2014
(gmt 0)
Aargh, don't talk to me about Regular Expressions. I just discovered that one of my sites was down for 12 hours because when I edited out a no-longer-needed |\.pdf from a pattern, I inadvertently deleted the following close-parenthesis as well.
Been there... done that... therefore, after an .htaccess file edit, I ALWAYS check to confirm there is no error 500. ;)
Msg#: 4640881 posted
4:28 pm on Feb 5, 2014
(gmt 0)
Separating bots from browsers can be simplified somewhat using browscap.ini, see [
...] for details and keep that updated on a cron job.
Basically, use crowd sources user agent identification.
Why there isn't more stuff like this out there, considering the sheer volume of people chasing down user agents and identifying them, in a format everyone can use has continuously baffled me since the beginning.
Sure, I could volunteer to build a list but I too have a day job and Gary did a great job with browscap so why reinvent the wheel?
Msg#: 4640881 posted
1:30 pm on Feb 6, 2014
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Thanks, there are some useful-looking ideas there.
1. separate the bots from the browsers using several standalone software filters
What standalone software?
I only meant standalone in the sense of standalone filters - those requiring no external black-lists that need ongoing manual updates. The filters I use are not separated from the rest of my website code.
The filters are implemented using PHP and MySQL:
1. separate bots from browsers based on matching a fixed list of keywords: a short list of words like 'Mozilla' or 'Opera' indicate browser, words like 'bot', 'spider', 'crawl' indicate bot. UAs without either are also assumed to be bots. This catches 90% of the bots we identify with a few lines of PHP - the ones that aren't pretending to be a browser. A handful of bots are whitelisted explicitly, the browsers are not.
2. keep a list of recent requests and watch for bursts of requests that are too fast to be possible for a human with a browser.
3. watch for requests for pages which are not followed up with requests for icons.
4. watch for requests for links on a page that are not visible to humans.
5. watch for visitors who take an unreasonable number of pages in a short period.
There are other possibilities, but this is most of what I'm using so far.
These filters can afford to be conservative because they don't issue 403s - just a means to recover access for humans.
The thing I like about this approach is that it does not require ongoing attention as part of its normal operation: most new bots are blocked automatically; most new browsers are not.
It's not 100% accurate, but nothing is, and with 'soft blocking' the consequences of being wrong are not bad. As it is the entire public content of my site is in google's cache anyway, so it's not like this is really going to prevent content theft very much, unless google are really good at stopping bots from scraping their cache.
Blocking the bots has removed 2/3 of the traffic on our site, and most of the older bots that are still trying are asking only for the pages that were present before I put in the bot blocker, and are not actually hitting us very often now. At this point, about 15% of our traffic is identifiable bots (mostly being refused access), 20% is known registered users, and most of the other 65% resembles human behaviour (it might be largely bot nets for all we know - archive.is certainly got in under the wire - but it doesn't appear to be coming from server farms).
What I've built is a working prototype. There are actual available tools out there that do bot blocking to some degree. I'm aware of a couple (ZBblock and Bad Behavior) and I would assume there are many more. There are doubtless better tools than I have built.
I think it would be good to find out more about them.
I definitely agree with iBill - it seems mad to have everyone building their own lists.
I think it's still better to use methods that don't depend on indefinite lists at all if you can.
Msg#: 4640881 posted
2:05 pm on Feb 6, 2014
(gmt 0)
I definitely agree with iBill - it seems mad to have everyone building their own lists.
When it comes to UA's and IP's there's not a one-size fits all for all websites and all webmasters.
Each person must determine what is beneficial or detrimental to their own site (s).
If the task was standard, than hosting servers would have a universal implementation in CP available for all their customers, and that is simply not so. Most CP options don't even create error free syntax.
Msg#: 4640881 posted
3:43 pm on Feb 6, 2014
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Indeed, one size does not fit all. Let's explore that a little bit.
I think there are two stages to deciding what we do with our visitors:
1. mechanism: putting them into categories (e.g. bot or not)
2. policy: deciding what to do with each category (e.g. block or not)
With regard to categories:
1. You can make your own lists of visitors from each category
2. You can use someone else's list (either by dynamic lookup, or by download)
3. You can use a software filter
With regard to what you do with them:
1. You can let them through
2. You can send them a 403
3. You can send them a message
4. You can allow them to change their category by correcting your guess
5. You can just treat them differently on an ongoing basis
For the most part we're all picking one or more points in this 2D space.
There are also many possible categories:
1. Browser
2. Good Bot
3. Badly behaved bot (according to various criteria)
4. Known Spammer
5. Known Hacker
6. Known Content thief
7. Member of server farm, or other distinguished ASN
8. IP from a given country
9. Old Browser
10. Download tool
The list is potentially long but not as long as the list of Us. What categories a visitor can be placed in is not generally a judgement call: you can use on evidence of behaviour or identity. This is mechanism. The judgement (policy) is in what you do with them.
* BrowsCap is a list that distinguishes user agents as bot or browser (among other things).
* NirSoft have a database of IP blocks by country that you can download (google "nirsoft country"). Probably there are others.
* domaintools knows the ASNs and CIDRs associated with each IP address. If it were possible to use an API to get this for free, that would be great, but I think it's monetised. I don't know if there's a legal free source of this information.
Maybe there are other lists available out there.
One common feature of all lists of this kind is that they are all in constant churn, so if you use them you have to keep up to date, either by doing your own research, or by signing up for some update process.
I'm presenting the above just as a way of thinking about the issues. I make no claims of authority about this.
Msg#: 4640881 posted
7:26 pm on Feb 6, 2014
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7. Member of server farm, or other distinguished ASN
I don't think this is a separate category. People don't block server farms
on those grounds alone
; they block them because it's a simple means of excluding robots.
Msg#: 4640881 posted
8:00 pm on Feb 6, 2014
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It's not possible to rely soley on browscap, even if server farms are excluded.
Botnets include many DSL IPs and are often used with a user-Agent du jour (firefox, opera, chrome, whatever) that are accurate (or at least reasonable facsimiles of) true browser User-Agents, though usually (but not always) around a year out of date. Also, the browscap UAs are woefully outdated in many cases - Firefox/1.n anyone?
It may be useful to accept browscap's list of bots but if those few are whitelisted anyway there is little point.
There are other tell-tales that have to be investigated before accepting browscap UAs, both browser and bot. Once browscap gets involved one has to then filter out unlikely UAs and IPs so it's probably down to manually-maintained lists anyway.
Msg#: 4640881 posted
8:36 pm on Feb 6, 2014
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It's not possible to rely soley on browscap, even if server farms are excluded.
It's not possible to rely exclusively on any one technology, that was not the recommendation whatsoever, but browscap is a good UA validator, nothing more.
Bot blocking is like peeling layers of skin off an onion starting with robots.txt for the nice bots, .htaccess for the not so nice bots, filtering bot names from browser names, validating browser user agents, validating browser headers, validating the source of the IP address as residential, business or hosting, so on and so forth.
You use all of the methodologies organized to perform various checks along the way and if anyone of them fire off a warning shot then the IP is blocked from further access.
Worrying about which technology does this or that, or how effective it is, is kind of meaningless as each one is just a single voice in the chorus of the bot blocking choir.
Msg#: 4640881 posted
8:37 pm on Feb 6, 2014
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I agree. Many tout "I whitelist" like this alone is some higher ascended conscience capable of curing all woes. In reality, it's a combination of blacklisting & whitelisting along with header checks, UA filters, behavior filters and server-side scripting that builds an effective defense (in proper linear server-response order.)
Msg#: 4640881 posted
9:29 pm on Feb 6, 2014
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7. Member of server farm, or other distinguished ASN
I don't think this is a separate category. People don't block server farms on those grounds alone; they block them because it's a simple means of excluding robots.
There have been a couple of replies since I started writing this and possibly they overlap with this. But here it is anyway:
The idea with the list of categories is that these are 'mechanism'. Membership of these categories is mechanically verifiable, either by some authority (such as ARIN), or by behaviour.
Separately, there's the policy of what you do with members of those categories: your choice whether to use membership of a server farm as grounds for blocking, or not: some people may choose to block some or all server farms, some may not. But before you block them, you identify them.
I think most of us will use multiple mechanisms to implement our policies.
A useragent can tell you a visitor is a bot, but it can't tell you it isn't.
On my site I have no manually maintained or subscriptions to lists of UAs or IPs. If a visitor shows up with Firefox/1.n or some other improbable old browser UA, my User Agent filter will not stop them, and I haven't looked far into finding a way to fix that. I'm certainly not going to list them all by hand.
Having said that, visitors with unusually old browser UAs rarely get in, but generally because they get caught in other ways.
Following up iBill and Keyplyr,
I agree. I think I'm saying much the same thing.
I guess the one sentence summary of what I'm saying (which may be surprising) is that with a reasonable suite of software checks, you can avoid having any manually maintained open-ended lists at all, and still keep out the guys you don't want to see on your site.
Msg#: 4640881 posted
12:10 am on Feb 7, 2014
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allow the browsers through
first of all, it is useless to check for ua string, as it is being faked, period. we want a solution that is hassle-free, low-maintenance and nearly perfect. i have other things to do than professionally maintaining a htaccess blacklist for the spammers and scrapers.
task: detect humans, weed out all other traffic except desired bots
my solution (deliberately vague):
1. client-side script that executes a server-side script that logs ip + reverse dns.
2. server-side script that logs ip + reverse dns.
3. match those against each other.
4. except for the few desirable bots: send 403 if mismatch
works flawlessly since day one.
two problems:
1. javascript (which is essential for my sites anyway)
2. headless browsers (which i have under control yet)
Msg#: 4640881 posted
8:55 am on Feb 7, 2014
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All thanks to folks who participated. I've been heading in some of the same directions for my "whitelist quest".
As we all know, it all evolves, over time, and will continue to do so.
Again, thanks!
Msg#: 4640881 posted
10:33 am on Feb 7, 2014
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@moTi - 2. headless browsers (which i have under control yet)
mouseMove + mouseOver or css/media query content overlay style & and touch(ontouchstart or onmsgesturechange) for Mobile UAs, think like a Human... triggered by unusual request not from.... (say you know where your overage visitor is from).
Msg#: 4640881 posted
3:04 pm on Feb 7, 2014
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A useful thread.
"...hosting servers would have a universal implementation in CP available for all their customers..."
I suggested (privately) to my site hosting service that it'd surely be attractive to their customers to offer the +option+ of being hosted on a server running a config file that bans problem nations such as the BRICs.
Volunteering to be on that server would be at volunteers' own risk, naturally.
The idea was promptly scorned. Locked in 90's www thinking, despite seeing their server CPUs glowing with over %60 bot-traffic, and most of that undesirable if not malicious.
Wake-up hosting providers, there's a niche-market awaiting you.
Msg#: 4640881 posted
5:32 pm on Feb 7, 2014
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Getting the client to execute some javascript and verifying it happened is a good idea. I've used this for spam prevention, but hadn't thought of applying it to more general bot blocking. I'll think seriously about doing that.
There's something of an arms race here, much as there is with spam: when a defensive measure becomes popular enough to be a nuisance to the offenders, they'll figure out what they have to do to work around it. In this case building better and better human-simulators.
When building more and more elaborate human-detectors, it's worth bearing in mind that regardless of what the human has to do, the only clue the server gets is a stream of bytes that the client sends back based on the stream of bytes it sent. The reply doesn't have to be generated the way you expected.
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