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GamesFIX writes: Sony mustn't let Microsoft dominate the digital space with Xbox One, just as Sony did with the PS2 and its DVD playback.
Sony is going to come at Xbox One with guns blazing. I'm expecting very aggresive pricing, and some big surprises on the software front.
But the question is... Will it be enough to counter Microsoft and their one billion dollar advertising budget? MS seems content to buy their way to a cheap victory. (Maybe "cheap" isn't the right word...)
Wow..no shit. anyone out there that thinks they could charge 30k per system and still have a successful launch?
$400 for a basic model is perfect imo.. With a $450-$500 deluxe version that includes the camera, bigger HDD, & other goodies possibly a game & a yr of PS Plus
The prices are going to be pretty high, I'm thinking that Xboxone will be 499.99 and PS4 will be 549.99. I think the PS4 will Launch November 3rd and the Xboxone on November 29th. Both will have a Free month subscription for online and will most likely have two free Games of some sort.

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Video: Mushroom Farmers in the Ozarks Discuss the Drawbacks of 'Local'
When I stumbled upon Curly and Carole Anne, two banjo-playing mushroom farmers, I immediately fell in love. They run an all-organic farm way out in the Ozarks. Driving there took us down all types of dirt roads, over several streams and to a land where GPS and cell phones cease to exist.
Even though we had only spoke on the phone briefly, we were greeted like old friends, and what followed was three days of shiitake talking, cooking and eating. But what really struck me was less about their innovative style of growing mushrooms on logs year-round, and more about their take on what "local" means and how that can affect sustainable family farms.
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Updated 2:44 p.m. ET - President Barack Obama claimed a broad mandate for his vision on taxes at his first news conference since being re-elected, demanding that his negotiations with Congress yield a specific plan that results in a higher tax burden for the wealthiest Americans.
Speaking Wednesday at the White House, the president said that his recently-concluded campaign against Republican nominee Mitt Romney sent a "very clear message" as to which tax plan Americans prefer. Citing his decisive victory last Tuesday, Obama vowed to stand firm on asking the wealthy to shoulder a greater share of the tax burden.
"There is a package to be shaped, and I'm confident that parties -- folks of goodwill in both parties can make that happen," Obama said. "But what I'm not going to do is to extend Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 percent that we can't afford and, according to economists, will have the least positive impact on our economy."
Related - Obama: 'No evidence' of national security harm in Petraeus scandal
Republicans on Capitol Hill have said since the election that they are open to increased revenue by way of tax reform linked with entitlement reform. But Obama suggested that the GOP's version of tax reform -- cementing or lowering existing rates, combined with the elimination of certain loopholes -- would not be sufficient.
"It's very difficult to see how you make up that trillion dollars -- if we're serious about deficit reduction -- just by closing loopholes and deductions," the president said. "The math tends not to work."
He later added, in a snipe at Republican thinking on taxes: "What I will not do is to have a process that is vague, that says we're gonna sorta, kinda raise revenue through dynamic scoring or closing loopholes that have not been identified."
The expiring 2001 Bush tax cuts, which Obama extended for two years in 2010, are half of the looming "fiscal cliff," the combination of the end of those tax cuts with a series of automatic spending cuts set to begin in 2013, which economists warn could imperil the recovery. The simultaneous debates on taxes and spending are, generally speaking, a byproduct of congressional gridlock on those issues for the better part of the last two years.
In his first press conference since his re-election, President Barack Obama stresses the need for immediate bi-partisan action to save the economy from going over a "fiscal cliff."
The press conference, Obama's first formal meeting with the Washington press corps since the summer, marked his most direct assertion of a second term agenda since winning re-election. He spoke of the need to address taxes and spending, as well as immigration, and he forcefully defended his ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, from Capitol Hill Republicans who argue Rice erred in responding to the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.
Rice is thought to be a leading contender to succeed Hillary Clinton as leader of the State Department, though Obama said he had made no determination as to a nominee for that role. But he forcefully rebuffed a small chorus of Senate Republicans, lead by Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who have vowed to block Rice from that job should he win the nomination.
"If Senator McCain and Senator Graham, and others want to go after somebody? They should go after me," a blunt Obama said. "When they go after the U.N. ambassador, apparently because they think she's an easy target, then they've got a problem with me."
But the fiscal cliff is most likely to consume much of the political oxygen in Washington in the coming weeks and months, particularly as the specter of tax hikes loom on Jan. 1. He renewed his demand that Congress send him a bill extending existing tax rates for all but the top income bracket, something which Republicans have refused to do for the better part of this year for fear of losing a bargaining position.
The president claimed a broader mandate on other domestic issues, too. He said that his staff had already begun conversations with lawmakers in pursuit of comprehensive immigration reform, a priority that had eluded his administration -- to the consternation of Latino voters -- during his first term.
"My expectation is that we get a bill introduced and we begin the process in Congress very soon after my inauguration," Obama said.
In his first press conference since his re-election, President Obama says his one mandate is to help middle class families through these tough economic times.
At the same time, the president suggested some priorities from his first term -- such as legislation to address the impact of climate change -- would take a backseat to other issues at the outset of his second term.
"I don't know what either Democrats or Republicans are prepared to do at this point," he said, noting that regional differences between lawmakers have just as often scuttled a wide-ranging deal on climate legislation as partisan differences. He furthermore said that economic and jobs growth were his foremost priority, and that he wouldn't support a climate deal that inhibited either.


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The regime enforced an effective media blackout in March, banning international journalists from reporting or entering the country and detaining local journalists who tried to cover protests seeking an end to Bashar al-Assad's rule. In a widespread campaign to silence media coverage, the government detained and assaulted journalists, expelled foreign journalists, and disabled mobile phones, landlines, electricity, and the Internet in cities where the protests broke out. The regime also extracted passwords of social media sites from journalists by using violence, and defaced social networking pages, while the pro-government online group Syrian Electronic Army hacked social media sites and posted pro-regime comments. In April, Al-Jazeera suspended its Damascus bureau after several of its journalists were harassed and received threats. Three days after the brutal assault of famed cartoonist Ali Ferzat in August, the government passed a new media law that "banned" the imprisonment of journalists and allowed for greater freedom of expression. It then followed up by jailing several journalists. In November, cameraman Ferzat Jarban was the first journalist to be killed in Syria in connection with his work since CPJ began keeping detailed records in 1992.
Syrian blogger Tal al-Mallohi was arrested in December 2009 at the age of 19. In February 2011, she was sentenced to five years in prison for violating Syria's state security laws. In a May 2011 report, CPJ named Syria one of the World's 10 Online Oppressors.
The victims were Ferzat Jarban and Basil al-Sayed, videographers who documented political unrest in highly restricted areas. Jarban was found dead in November, a day after being arrested in Al-Qasir. Al-Sayed was shot by security forces while filming in Homs in December.
The regime used detentions as a method to silence journalists' coverage of the revolution. CPJ identified at least eight journalists and bloggers imprisoned for their work. Due to the difficulty in obtaining information from Syria, the figure could be higher.
The United Nations estimated about 5,000 people were killed in Syria after protests began in March. The regime responded to the civil unrest in brutal fashion, including a crackdown on media.
Under a law adopted in August, journalists faced fines
of up to 1 million pounds (US$21,000) for vaguely defined violations such as coverage that harmed "national unity and
national security," according to CPJ research. Syria was one of at least three
governments that considered media laws in 2011 that
were portrayed as reforms but imposed punitive measures for critical reporting.
Other regional measures, passed and pending:
Saudi Arabia: With the May amendments to the media law, first-time violators could face fines of 500,000 Saudi riyals (US$135,000), while second-time offenders could draw a 1 million riyal (US$270,000) fine and a potential ban on working, according to CPJ research.
Jordan: Under a bill passed by the lower house of parliament, journalists could face fines of up to 60,000 Jordanian dinars (US $84,600) for publishing news about corruption "without solid facts." The upper house sent the bill to committee in late year.


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Almost whenever plans are made to build a mosque in Germany, there's a heated debate. But in the Bavarian town of Penzberg, a new mosque has had a positive influence on the way in which Muslims and Christians live together. Francisca Zecher reports
Almost whenever there' s a plan to build a mosque in Germany, it often leads to a heated debate, even before the project has got off the ground, as, for example, in the major cities of Munich and Cologne.
Opposition often arises from the fact that many non-Muslim citizens feel that their daily life will be affected by the construction of a large house of prayer in their vicinity. On the other hand, many people also consider the small backyard mosques, hidden from public view, to be objects of suspicion. They are concerned that they could encourage the development of "parallel societies" in Germany.
These are problems which the people in the Upper Bavarian town of Penzberg have not had to deal with. The Muslims there have succeeded in integrating into the wider community. And the town's Muslim leaders believe that the process of building the new mosque has contributed to that state of affairs.
Transparency and modernity
On a first approach, the large glass facade of the new mosque reflects the cars driving past on the main road. If one walks up closer to the glass, one can see the backs of some dozen men who are prostrating themselves towards the south-east, towards Mecca. Here, at the edge of the town, from which one can see the distant Alps, Muslims from Penzberg and the surrounding region have their meeting place. The community has some 600 members.
At first glance, the building is scarcely recognisable as a Muslim community centre. There is no muezzin's call to prayer to be heard either. There is just a tall column as one end of the square sand-coloured building which reminds one of a minaret – on the column there are words in Arabic which call the faithful to prayer visually.
Inside the building, which is flooded with light, there's a group of visitors gathered in front of the prayer hall.
Not a typical mosque
The young deputy director of the Islam Forum, Gönül Yerli, a woman, guides the guests on to the blue carpet in the hall. They are members of a local Munich branch of the Christian Social Union, the Bavarian sister-party of the national Christian Democrats.
You can see the cars going by the window through columned arches which are arranged one behind the other. In the middle of the room there's a second floor. This is a gallery which is reserved for the women, so that men and women cannot see each other. In other respects, however, the Muslim community of Penzberg strives for transparency.
Almost every day, Günül Yerli guides groups of visitors through the Islam Forum. Understanding between the religions is an explicit aim of her community.
"It's particularly important for us that this building doesn't immediately look like a mosque," she says, "but that it should be modern in design. And transparency is part of that modernity. That means that certain prejudices and many fears among the people should be laid to rest by the architecture itself. That's why it was a major issue for us that, for example, sixty percent of the building is covered in glass."
The mosque as a place for learning about Germany
One floor below, there's an integration course for women taking place, provided by a state adult education institute together with the Islam Forum. The children of the mostly young women are being looked after in a neighbouring room. Social worker Nermina Idriz finds it important that the two provisions are linked.
"It's above all a good preparation for kindergarten," she says, "since the children have already become used to quite a lot of things, like the rules, like the most important terms which are used, and so on. We said at the start that this provision for children is important, otherwise the mothers won't come. And if the children are here, we might as well use the opportunity to improve their language skills."
In the afternoons there is regular remedial teaching for children, and at the weekends, Gönül Yerli teaches Muslim religion in German, Turkish and Bosnian.
Opening up to non-Muslims
The Islam Forum, which has members from several countries, including Turkey, Bosnia and Albania, places particular emphasis on a European Islam. The imam, Benjamin Idriz, says this means separating themselves from the Islam as they knew it in their home countries, and opening themselves up to non-Muslims. But the young imam is aware that this policy is not always welcomed among his own members.
"What we are doing in Penzberg is new, at least for Bavaria," he says, "and so some of the communities and individual Muslims are sceptical about it. But we know that this is the only way for Europe. As time goes on, I am beginning to hear positive opinions from Muslims. What we are doing here is important and right, and it's the only alternative. In future, most Muslims will go in this direction."
The town's head of cultural activities, Thomas Sendl, confirms that the Muslim community's efforts at integration have been effective.
"From the point of view of the town, we view what the Muslim community is doing very positively," he says. "The dialogue with the catholic and protestant churches has led to the acceptance of the Muslim community, and it is now seen as well anchored in the local social structures."
Already, around a third of the 16,000 residents of Penzberg are said to have visited the Penzberg mosque at least once. But why does the relationship between the religions work so well here? Social worker Nermina Idriz thinks it is because the members of the community see Germany as their home. In addition, the fact that the members come from different countries has led them to adopt German as their common language, and that has made it much easier for the community to open itself to the wider world.
Francisca Zecher
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Translated from the German by Michael Lawton
Bringing Mosques Out in the Open
Most Muslims in Germany pray in mosques that are hidden from view in old factory buildings and basements. The Muslim community would like that to change, but projects to build traditional mosques are often controversial. By Deanne Corbett
German Architect To Build Mosque
"Muslims Should Not Try to Hide"
In order to find an architect for their mosque, a Muslim community in Germany conducted an open tender process. Now the German non-Muslim Paul Böhm was awarded the first prize for his model. Thilo Guschas interviewed the architect
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Modern Houses of Worship: Mosques in the USA
In the United States there are over 200 mosques that combine traditional designs from Islamic countries with modern American architecture. A report by Abdul-Ahmad Rashid


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Apple has announced a public beta of an application they call Boot Camp that allows owners of their Intel Macs to easily install a copy of Windows XP. Previously the domain of hackery and jiggery-pokery, Apple has officially sanctioned the installation of Windows onto their hardware. The application is in public beta and allows users to install legitimate full copies of Windows XP Home or Professional (not MCE, multi-disc, or upgrade copies). While not the virtualization that some had been hoping for (running Windows apps on top of OS X), this, at least, uncomplicates the current process.
Last month a team of hackers known only by the names of Narf and Blanka successfully won a user-run contest that offered up US$13,000 for the first person who could sucessfully manipulate Windows XP and Apple's new Intel hardware so that users could install the former onto the later. While the contest was technically "won," the process was probably far too complicated for the average user, and even required that the user have access to a PC (kinda defeats some of the point, right?). Apple's new process seems to be as easy as you'd expect, complete with a nice "Boot Camp Assistant" to walk you through the entire process.
According to the information posted on the Boot Camp site, installing Windows XP onto your existing Intel Mac is as easy as having the disc available and adjusting a slider to non-destructively resize your current HFS+ partition to set aside room for Windows. The assistant also burns a CD for the user, full of Windows devices drivers for your Intel Mac so that you can use all the important parts of the machine (wireless, audio, Bluetooth, networking, brightness controls, and most importantly the eject key). Some of these features were previously unavailable on the hacked together installs of Windows XP. Even though, there are several features which will not currently work with a Boot Camp install of Windows XP:
Even after installling the Macintosh Drivers CD, the Apple Remote Control (IR), Apple Wireless (Bluetooth) keyboard or mouse, Apple USB Modem, MacBook Pro's sudden motion sensor, MacBook Pro's ambient light sensor, and built-in iSight camera will not function correctly when running Windows.
This is a nice surprise from Apple—considering the April Fools let down we all suffered through—and signals that Apple is very open to what users were obviously demanding (users raising a significant amount of money for something should always be a big, honking clue). The page is rife with warnings about running Windows on your Mac and plenty of disclaimers about Apple not having anything to do with Windows XP:
Word to the Wise: Windows running on a Mac is like Windows running on a PC. That means it?ll be subject to the same attacks that plague the Windows world. So be sure to keep it updated with the latest Microsoft Windows security fixes.
Macs use an ultra-modern industry standard technology called EFI to handle booting. Sadly, Windows XP, and even the upcoming Vista, are stuck in the 1980s with old-fashioned BIOS. But with Boot Camp, the Mac can operate smoothly in both centuries.
It looks like Apple may be willing to run with this new ability and fully leverage it as a selling point. BootCamp makes Apple the only hardware manufacturer that can boast that they support running just about every modern operating system on a single machine. Will Apple extend this program to letting users install any compatible operating system they want? I know several Arsians who'd be interested in triple booting their machines into OS X, Windows XP, and Ubuntu. Apple indicates on the product page that Boot Camp's technology will be integrated into the upcoming release of OS X, 10.5 or "Leopard," and I'm willing to bet that Apple markets this new advantage heavily when the time comes.


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Garden of the Gods named Great Public Space
Garden of the Gods Park has been designated one of 10 Great Public Spaces for 2011 by the American Planning Association.
The organization singled out Garden of the Gods for its 300 million years of geologic history and use of habitat by species as diverse as dinasaurs and honey ants.
The nine other Great Public Spaces are:
* Fairmount Park, Riverside, Calif.
* Monument Circle, Indianapolis, Ind.
* Gray's Lake Park, Des Moine, Iowa.
* Rice Park, St. Paul, Minn.
* Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, Nashville, Tenn.
* Fair Park, Dallas, Texas.
* Maymont, Richmond, Va.
* Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Wash.
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Rinko Kawauchi (born in Shiga, Japan, 1972) studied graphic design and photography at Seian Junior College of Art and Design. Among her awards are the 1997 Grand Prix Prize at the Guardian Garden's 9th Hitotsubo Exhibition, the 27th Ihei Kimura Photography Award in 2002, and the 2009 International Center of Photography Infinity Award in Art. She has had solo exhibitions at Fondation Cartier, Paris; Photographers' Gallery, London; Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan; Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, Sweden; and Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, among other international venues. Recently her work was included in the Brighton Biennial 2010, curated by Martin Parr. Kawauchi lives and works in Tokyo.
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Music in the park
Event chair Dean Prina, left, with headliner Gary Sinise, Chris Frampton, Elaine Asarch and Lindy Eichenbaum Lent. Photo by Steve Peterson, Special to The Denver Post
Who: Civic Center Conservancy
What: Free concert by the Lt. Dan Band and Opie Gone Bad in Civic Center Park
Why: To raise public awareness of park restoration and enhancement
When: Aug. 8, 2009
Attendance: 2,200
OK, so maybe there's no such thing as a free lunch. But a free concert? You betcha.
Actor Gary Sinise ("Forrest Gump," "CSI NY") brought his Lt. Dan Band to Denver on Saturday night to headline a concert in Civic Center Park. He shared the Greek Amphitheater stage with local favorite Opie Gone Bad, whose frontman, Jake Shroeder, invited 9News entertainment reporter Kirk Montgomery, no slouch in the vocals department, to reprise a couple of the numbers he had performed with the band at Red Rocks earlier this summer.
And, had it not been for Montgomery, "Saturday Night Alive" alum Victoria Jackson might have been escorted from the premises by the event's security detail. In town for a Comedy Works gig, Jackson was walking near the park with promoter Mel Gibson when Montgomery spotted her and said she should come on over for the concert. When he told her that her pal Sinise was headlining, she got so excited that she rushed into the pre-concert VIP party to look for him. Her enthusiasm, needless to say, caught security's attention, but Montgomery quickly vouched for her and all was well.
Sinise, in fact, was more than generous with his time that night. Before performing for an hour, he mixed and mingled with the 200 VIPs that had been invited to enjoy a cool beverage and bite to eat before the show.
Chairman Dean Prina, fresh from a vacation trip to China, joined Civic Center Conservancy executive director Lindy Eichenbaum Lent and board president Chris Frampton in welcoming a group that included the CCC's founding president, Elaine Asarch, and her husband, Dr. Richard Asarch; Mayor John Hickenlooper with son, Teddy; state Sen. Chris Romer and wife, Laurie; City Council president Jeanne Robb; city council members Peggy Lehmann and Doug Linkhart; City Auditor Dennis Gallagher with Dutchess Scheitler; City Librarian Shirley Amore and husband, John; and Elaine Mariner, executive director of Colorado Council on the Arts.
Frampton's wife, Yvette Pita Frampton, was there, too, along with such CCC board members as Sunny Brownstein, Ruth Falkenberg, Dennis Humphries, Brian Stein, Marcus Pachner and Susan Kirk, and ex officio board members Bridget Fisher and Mark Bernstein.
Kelly Brough, who is stepping down as Hickenlooper's chief of staff to head the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, was there, too, along with Children's Museum president Tom Downey and his wife, Lori Fox, a member of the Denver Commission of Cultural Affairs; lobbyist Maria Garcia Berry; Colorado Business Committee for the Arts head Deborah Jordy and her husband, University of Denver professor Jonathan Adelman; Cydney and Tom Marsico; Patricia Barela Rivera; Arlene and Barry Hirschfeld; J Madden and Linda Poletti; and Jose Mercado, an actor, drama professor (CU-Denver) and founder of the nonprofit Labyrinth Arts Academy that is having a benefit food and tequila tasting Aug. 19 at the historic D&F Clocktower.
Other familiar faces in the crowd: Susan and Howard Noble; Betsy Mordecai; Mickey Ackerman; Michelle and John Hanley; Cindy, Steve and Drennen Schulz; Hanna and Mark Shaner; Caz Matthews and Jeff Rouse; Susan and Steve Hagar; Maureen Brooks, whose Brooks, Intl. booked Sinise and his band; and CBS 4 medical editor Dr. Dave Hnida, who emceed the show.
The Civic Center Conservancy was formed in 2004 to restore and enhance one of Denver's neglected treasures, the 16-acre Civic Center Park. The transformation will take time, Asarch noted. "We're moving in baby steps," she said, "but that's good because everything is being well thought out. Look at Central Park, Battery Park in New York. Their transformations were spectacular, but they took 10 or 12 years to accomplish."
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At the dawn of the 21st century a new political regime has transformed Canada from global hero – once standing up for peace, people, and nature – to global criminal, plunging into war, eroding civil rights, and destroying environments.
What happened to Canada? Oil. And not just any oil, but the world's dirtiest, most destructive oil. Canada's betrayal at the Durban climate talks – abandoning its Kyoto Accord commitments – is the direct effect of becoming a petro-state.
By the late 20th century, oil companies knew that the world's conventional oil fields were in decline and oil production would soon peak, which it did in 2005. These companies, including sovereign oil powers such as PetroChina, turned their attention to low-grade hydrocarbon deposits in shale gas, deep offshore fields, and Canada's Alberta tar sands. Simultaneously, inside Canada, oil companies began promoting the political career of the son of an Alberta oil executive, the conservative ideologue Stephen Harper.
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In Durban, in December 2011, after mocking climate science and common decency, Canada's Environment Minister, Peter Kent announced that Canada would abandon the Kyoto deal, abrogating a legally binding international agreement, which Canada had signed seven years earlier.
The Canadian government has become the policy arm and public relations voice of the international oil industry, discarding its reputation as an ethical country. Millions of Canadians have expressed outrage at the government that abandoned them and shamed Canada on the world stage. These voices are rarely heard in Canada's corporate media. Meanwhile, Canadians witness an erosion of free press and civil rights within their own nation. They should not be surprised.
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"Oil and democracy do not generally mix," explains Terry Karl in The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States. Oil is a "resource curse" for local populations, as experienced by Nigeria, Indonesia, Venezuela, Iran, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, and other nations. Oil rich nations attract oil industry patrons, who tend to support dictators. Petro-states often lose local economic sovereignty, suffer human rights atrocities, and see their environments devastated.
In the 1970s, the UK and Dutch economies experienced the oil curse as the North Sea oil and gas boom gave the illusion of prosperity while eroding sovereign economic capacity. Britain's petro-state leader Margaret Thatcher used oil revenues to wage war, create banking empires, and subsidize elite society, while plundering the environment and leaving common citizens dispossessed of their own national heritage.
In 1977 The Economist magazine coined the term "Dutch disease" to describe the social and manufacturing decline caused by extreme resource exploitation. Oil revenues make a nation's currency appear stronger for a while, but this makes their exports more expensive and undermines manufacturing and local economy.
In 2011, the Montreal Macro Research Board warned that the "petrolization" of Canada had created "A severe case of Dutch Disease," weakening Canadian business sovereignty, "hollowing out manufactured goods exporters" and making Canada "increasingly reliant" on oil and coal exports.
Like Thatcher's England Canada launched a scheme to privatise profits and socialize the costs of oil development. In the last decade, Canada has handed out over $14 billion in tax subsidies to oil, coal, and gas companies, while losing over 340,000 industrial jobs. A University of Ottawa study shows that oil colony economics is the largest factor in these job losses.
"Petro-states," writes Terry Karl, become "unaccountable to the general population." To impose the oil company agenda on their citizens, petro-regimes tend to centralize power, avoid transparency, and create a politics of lies and deceit.
Politics as war
Twice, in 2008 and 2009, Harper shut down the Canadian Parliament to avoid inquiries into his international deals, finances, and scandals including abusive treatment of Afghanistan detainees. Canada now ranks last among industrial nations in honouring freedom of information requests.
Harper's perverse secrecy is typical of oil politics. "This is how petro states are made," writes Andrew Nikiforuk in one of Canada's best news sources, The Tyee; "with a quiet infection that eats away a nation's entire soul."
In March 2011, as Harper ran Canada from secret cabinet meetings, 156 members of the government found Harper and his minority regime in contempt of Parliament for its refusal to share legislative information with other elected members.
In April 2011, Canadians learned that Harper's liaison to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers had previously been convicted of defrauding two Canadian banks, a car dealer, and his own law clients, and had lobbied the Canadian government on behalf of his ex-hooker girlfriend.
The convicted felon, Bruce Carson, served as chief tar sands promoter, claiming "The economic and security value of oil sands expansion will likely outweigh the climate damage that oil sands create." Carson also opposed "clean energy efforts in the U.S." Canadian lobbyists undermined US low-carbon fuel standards by lobbying the US government.
In June 2011, on national television, another Harper henchman, Tom Flanagan, advocated assassinating WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange: "I think Assange should be assassinated," he told Canada's CBC. Flanagan has been one of the lead architects of Harper's war on his own people. Before the 2011 election, in Canada's Globe and Mail, Flanagan wrote, "An election is war by other means." He compared an election campaign to Rome's destruction of Carthage, whereby they "razed the city to the ground and sowed salt in the fields so nothing would grow there again."
Alan Whitehorn of the Royal Military College of Canada wrote, "This suggests a paradigm not of civil rivalry between fellow citizens, but all-out extended war to destroy and obliterate the opponent. This kind of malevolent vision and hostile tone seems antithetical to the democratic spirit." Harper's government is now constructing barricades around the Parliament buildings, erecting more jails, and passing tougher criminal codes. The Canadian people, who once felt proud of their democratic institutions, now feel like the "enemy" of their own government.
Canada against the world
Outside Canada, the Harper regime has dismissed the United Nations and international opinion. Canadian government officials called the UN a "corrupt organization." Former Canadian senior UN official Carolyn McAskie wrote in Canada and Multilateralism: Missing In Action that Canada, once respected as a UN leader, is now "spurning a whole system of organizations critical to world peace, security and development."
Economic analyst Jim Willie wrote that Canada has "followed the Goldman Sachs path to the fields of corruption and fealty… Canada followed the Bush Doctrine of fascism, embracing the war footing … and tightening the security vice. Next they will become a Chinese commercial colony."
When citizens around the world objected to the climate impact of the tar sands, Harper's government attempted to rebrand the notorious carbon bomb as "ethical oil," shamelessly ignoring the facts. The tar sands crimes against humanity and nature begin with obliterating boreal forests and soils, creating massive open-pit mines, and removing two tons of sand and soil for every barrel of oil. The thick bitumen is melted with natural gas, which requires one-third of the energy in tar sands oil to remove it. The project uses about 150-million gallons of water each day from the Athabasca river and aquifers, and the black waste turns boreal lakes into sludge pits, kills birds and other wild life, and contaminates the local ground water. Pollutants from tar sands smoke stacks have caused lung disease throughout the region and a 30% increase in cancers over the last decade. Mike Mercredi from the indigenous Fort Chipewyan Cree Nation calls the impact "slow industrial genocide."
The crime continues with pipeline oil spills and oil tankers that threaten the entire coast of North America. Meanwhile, the tar sands project emits more that 45-million tons of greenhouse gases each year. NASA climatologist James Hansen has warned that if the tar sands are fully exploited, "it is game over for the climate."
The French Foreign Ministry called Canada's decision to renege on its Kyoto climate commitments, "bad news for the fight against climate change."
Representative Ian Fry from the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu called Canada's reversal "an act of sabotage ... a reckless and totally irresponsible act."
The China news agency, Xinhua, called Canada's decision "preposterous," and China's Foreign Ministry urged Canada to "face up to its due responsibilities and duties... and take a positive, constructive attitude towards participating in international cooperation to respond to climate change."
UN climate chief Christiana Figueres warned that Canada "has a legal obligation under the convention to reduce its emissions, and a moral obligation to itself and future generations to lead in the global effort." UN Advisor on Water, Maude Barlow, called the tar sands "Canada's Mordor."
After Canada's shameful showing in Durban, a Canadian businessman wrote to national newspaper, The Globe & Mail: "The pride of wearing the maple leaf on the lapel or backpack is gone. It's best hidden now. .. not one person in any country I have visited has been complimentary. Harper and his sheep will deny or ignore such facts while people like me lose business."
Inside Canada, people are rising up, lead by The Wilderness Committee, Greenpeace, Council of Canadians, the Indigenous Environmental Network, the Yinka-Dene Alliance, and others. These groups need international support to halt the tar sands crime and help Canada recover its lost reputation.
-Rex Weyler, November 2011
Deep Green is Rex Weyler's monthly column, reflecting on the roots of activism, environmentalism, and Greenpeace's past, present, and future. The opinions here are his own.
Image: At dawn on the opening day of the UN climate summit in Durban, South Africa, Greenpeace take to Parliament Hill to brand the Harper government 'CLIMATE FAIL' of epic proportions. Credit: Eye in the sky/Greenpeace
Rex Weyler was a director of the original Greenpeace Foundation, the editor of the organisation's first newsletter, and a co-founder of Greenpeace International in 1979.
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I was very glad to see the recent polling indicating Canadians opposed both the keystone and gateway pipelines. It's big oil that gives the countr...
I was very glad to see the recent polling indicating Canadians opposed both the keystone and gateway pipelines. It's big oil that gives the country a bad name, not its people. Here's hoping for an entire continent making the transition to clean energy with real speed
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What are the ethics of killing a planet for human habitability? Our energy policy will produce 'planetcide.' I support the majority of Canadia...
What are the ethics of killing a planet for human habitability? Our energy policy will produce 'planetcide.' I support the majority of Canadians who oppose the keystone.
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(Unregistered) duart Maclean
He wasn't perfect (who is?), but the last prime minister of Canada who had significant intelligence as well as principled thinking and action was ...
He wasn't perfect (who is?), but the last prime minister of Canada who had significant intelligence as well as principled thinking and action was Pierre Eliot Trudeau.
Steven Harper....who is he, really?
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One last note on 'sustainable' solar energy in Ontario....
My hydro bill averages $300 a month, and steadily rising. (Thank yo...
One last note on 'sustainable' solar energy in Ontario....
My hydro bill averages $300 a month, and steadily rising. (Thank you Dalton McQuinty....) If I were to buy all my electricity at Dalton's solar rate of $0.80 / kwh, that is 17.7x what Quebec will sell it to us for ($0.045 / kwh).
So my electric bill multiplied 17.7 times would be $5333 a month, using Dalton's solar energy plan.
Tell me, how sustainable is that? All though I guess that would result in province wide outcome that many here would think is desirable....
5 January, 2012 at 6:22
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(Unregistered) the Alchemist
People forget that Canadians elected this yahoo Harper, and keep electing him. It is the people who voted for Harper, with his clear "i-dont-give...
People forget that Canadians elected this yahoo Harper, and keep electing him. It is the people who voted for Harper, with his clear "i-dont-give-sweet-f-a for the environment," who are responsible for this. Whether they bough into his agenda or his lies, they still bought in.
There is no single country in the world that was more responsible for the creation of Kyoto and the Clean Development Mechanism than Canada. Canada made it happen. But Kyoto implementation in Canada got snagged in the alpha male tango between Chretien and Martin. That's where it died. Harper just buried it, deeper and deeper.
Until people who vote can visualize the extinction of their own grandchildren, and make decisions that lean towards the longer view, our species may be doomed (taking many other species with us). Life, however, will go on without us.
The benefits and costs of individual environmental action need to be on the decision making balance sheet of every citizen of every country -- while at home, while at work, and everywhere in between. Without that, how is collective action even possible? How do you lean that decision making? Make a new plan Stan; no need to be coy, Roy.
Current solar power supply has has zilch effect on the average power bill. By signalling an interest in solar power via government policy, you help create a market of supply and demand. The price falls as demand and supply shifts. Most of that supply now comes from nuclear, hydro and fossil. The current influence of 80 cent solar on your bill is trivial. How else do you propose to start that shift, so uptake increases, supply increases, and the longer term price of solar fals? Abandon it?
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(Unregistered) Jack
That Canada is being pushed to develop its tar sands, a dirty business, indicates that there are too many people dependent, willing to pay for those ...
That Canada is being pushed to develop its tar sands, a dirty business, indicates that there are too many people dependent, willing to pay for those resources.
Global rapid population decline (RPD) would do more to keep Canada clean and green than changing the government or any other behavior. It's time for those that are worried about the future our children will inherit to speak up on the "too many people issue," as loudly and clearly Rex.
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I find it terrifying that Canadians are only finding out about this project years into it's development as it threatens to literally destroy our p...
I find it terrifying that Canadians are only finding out about this project years into it's development as it threatens to literally destroy our planet. Its something that has absolutely NO benefits, currently it is:
*Destroying the Planet
*Replacing good jobs with dangerous, toxic, isolating jobs.
*A short term economy with NO true answers for a sustainable future for Canadians.
*Destroying the life and land of Canada's First Nations People's and eventually anyone downstream from the tailing ponds.
*Turning Canada into a Climate Criminal as Maldives sinks.
Let's stop this utter catastrophe before it gets even worse. The Tar Sands are actually the "anti-Canada" - destroying our natural spaces and taking a future away from the world's next generations.
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I was in Europe last year and someone (a nicely dressed man actually) spit on the maple leaf on my suitcase. I used to feel good about being a Canadia...
I was in Europe last year and someone (a nicely dressed man actually) spit on the maple leaf on my suitcase. I used to feel good about being a Canadian. It is heartbreaking to now feel shame...
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Thanks to the inevitable sea level rise that's one obvious consequence of setting fire to a billion years of sequestered carbon, the coasts of Can...
Thanks to the inevitable sea level rise that's one obvious consequence of setting fire to a billion years of sequestered carbon, the coasts of Canada are going to pay dearly for the enrichment of Oilberta and the oligarchs that control an increasingly fascist govt. This doesn't bode well for national unity, does it?
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We are living in another "Dark Ages" - all of the science at our fingertips, yet still stumbling down a path that will leave our grandchildr...
We are living in another "Dark Ages" - all of the science at our fingertips, yet still stumbling down a path that will leave our grandchildren wondering, "what the f- were they thinking?" Thank you Rex, for shedding light.
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This article explains how to share the internet connection from one machine to other(s).
- The machine acting as server should have an additional network device
- That network device should be connected to the machines that are going to receive internet access. They can be one or more machines. To be able to share internet to several machines a switch is required. If you are sharing to only one machine, a crossover cable is sufficient
Using Udev#Setting static device names, name the network device connected to the other computer(s) as net0 and the network device connected to the internet as internet0.
Static IP address
Assign an static IPv4 address to the interface connected to the other machines. The first 3 bytes of this address cannot be exactly the same as those of another interface.
# ip link set up dev net0 # ip addr add 126.96.36.199/24 dev net0 # arbitrary address
To have your static ip assigned at boot, you can use netcfg.
Enable packet forwarding
Enter this command to temporaly enable packet forwarding:
sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
/etc/sysctl.conf and add this line, which will make the previous change persistent after a reboot.
If you are using ipv6, use these lines:
net.ipv6.conf.default.forwarding=1 net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1
Enable NAT
Install the package iptables from the official repositories.
Use iptables to enable NAT:
# iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o internet0 -j MASQUERADE # iptables-save > /etc/iptables/iptables.rules # systemctl start iptables
You can set
iptables.service to auto start at boot.
Read the iptables article for more information.
Assigning ip addresses to the client pc(s)
If you are planning to regularly have several machines using the internet shared by this machine, then is a good idea to install a dhcp server.
You can read the dhcpd wiki article, to add a dhcp server. Then, install the dhcpcd client on every client pc.
If you are not planing to use this setup regularly, you can manually add an ip to each client instead.
Manually adding an ip
Instead of using dhcp, on each client pc, add an ip address and the default route:
ip addr add 126.96.36.199/24 dev eth0 ip link set up dev eth0 ip route add default via 220.127.116.11 dev eth0
Add a nameserver:
echo "nameserver <nameserver ip>" >> /etc/resolv.conf
You can figure out the address of the nameserver by looking into the
/etc/resolv.conf of the server, if its Internet connection is already established.
If you don't have a nameserver, you can use any of the free public DNS servers, which are relatively fast:
- Google Public DNS
- 22.214.171.124
- 126.96.36.199
- [2001:4860:4860::8888]
- [2001:4860:4860::8844]
- OpenDNS:
- 126.96.36.199
- 220.127.116.11
- [2620:0:ccc::2]
- [2620:0:ccd::2]
Bracket notation must be used for IPv6 addresses in resolv.conf.
That's it. The client PC should now have Internet.
If you are able to connect the two PCs but cannot send data (for example, if the client PC makes a DHCP request to the server PC, the server PC receives the request and offers an IP to the client, but the client does not accept it, timing out instead), check that you don't have other Iptables rules interfering.


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While companies have focused on securing their network perimeters, Web applications remain vulnerable to attack. Cybercriminals are growing more and more adept at exploiting their interactive nature to bypass traditional perimeter security defenses. By moving up the network protocol stack and communicating at layer 7, attackers can interface directly with an application's processes, and pass data designed to masquerade as legitimate application requests or commands through normal request channels such as scripts, URLs and form data. This can easily lead intruders to a wealth of valuable data without them having to break into any servers.
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Enterprises have a wide range of Web application attacks to worry about. Some of the more common ones include buffer overflows, SQL injection and denial of service (DoS) attacks, while a lesser-known type of threat is email injection. Intruders also use a technique called fingerprinting to zero in on their targets. The tactics are different, but the results can be equally devastating--from theft of confidential data and complete system compromise to business disruption.
By waking up to these threats and implementing methods and strategies to deflect them, enterprises can protect their most precious assets.
|Preventing SQL Injection
A simple way to check if your site is vulnerable to SQL injection is to use the single quote mark trick: Complete a form on your Web site but add a single quote mark to one of the input boxes.
For example, if the form requires a username, you would enter John Doe'. This will typically return either a site-specific error message saying something like
"Page Not Found," or a SQL or programming error that may include language like "unhandled exception." If the latter is returned, your application may well be susceptible to SQL injection because this error response shows that user input is not being validated and cleaned correctly.
You should validate all user-supplied input for type, length, format and range. You also need to clean it of any characters or strings that could possibly be used maliciously. The best way to filter data is with a default deny regular expression. The filter must be narrow and specific, allowing only the type of characters that your application requires and expects. If you are expecting an integer, check that it is an integer. If it is not an integer, reject it. As an example, in the logon form below, unless the application verifies that the PIN number only consists of integers, an attacker could possibly inject an OR criteria into the SQL query to make the WHERE clause always resolve to true.
Logon Form
Name: False Name
For example, SELECT * FROM users WHERE Name= 'False Name' AND PIN=1234 OR 1=1. This allows an attacker to log on without knowing a valid username and PIN.
Never write one validation script and use it throughout your site, as different data will require different validation. The validation process for a username and password, for instance, will be different from that of a product ID number. All data validation must be done on a trusted server or under control of your application. Your application should never rely on client-side data validation as it can be easily bypassed. Use it only to reduce round trips to the server and to improve the user experience.
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Poor Programming
Although many Web-based application security vulnerabilities are product-specific, many more are flaws in the design and use of an application, not necessarily in the underlying product itself. According to the Open Web Application Secu- rity Project (OWASP), Web application attacks are succeeding because of the following problems:
- Invalidated input
- Broken access control
- Broken authentication and session management
- Cross-site scripting flaws
- Buffer overflows
- Injection flaws
- Improper error-handling
- Insecure storage
- DoS attacks
- Insecure configuration management
Clearly, most of these problems are due to applications being poorly written or implemented, with only DoS attacks taking advantage of the way Internet protocols actually work.
Buffer Overflows and Path Traversal Attacks
One of the most common vulnerabilities caused by poor programming is a buffer overflow, which exists when a program process fails to limit the amount of user-supplied data, allowing an attacker to force the vulnerable process to store more data than it was intended to. The excess data overwrites other critical values stored in memory, and the attacker can then control the process and insert and execute malicious instructions.
With third-party products, the ways to protect against this type of attack are to apply the most recent security patches to your system, and to monitor security announcements and patch releases for all applications that run on your Web server.
Web servers generally are set up to restrict public access to a specific portion of the Web server's file system, typically called the "Web document root" directory. This directory contains the files intended for public access and the scripts necessary to provide Web application functionality. However, attackers can potentially access files such as password lists and other confidential data outside of this directory by launching a path traversal attack, which involves manipulating URL input parameters, cookies and HTTP request headers using special-character sequences.
To prevent path traversal attacks, you need to lock down and harden your Web servers and ensure that your access control lists are based on the least privilege methodology. The easiest way to tighten a Microsoft IIS Web server against this type of attack is to download and run the IIS Lockdown Tool free from www.microsoft.com/downloads.
SQL and Email Injection
Another attack method clearly on the rise--and that can cause severe damage--is the injection attack. SQL injection attacks represent a serious threat to any Web site with a database back end and require nothing more than port 80 to be open. The methods behind these attacks are easy to learn and can lead to a complete system compromise, even if a system's patches are up to date.
SQL injection occurs when attackers take advantage of sites that generate SQL queries from user-supplied data without first checking or pre-processing it to verify that it's valid. By modifying the expected Web application parameters, an attacker can submit SQL queries and pass commands directly to a database.
A less-publicized injection attack that also profits from weak user input validation is email injection. If you have an email form on your Web site--such as a feedback or contact form--it basically acts like an SMTP proxy. Spammers will try to hijack it, turning your Web form into a spam relay. This type of attack often goes unnoticed until antispam filters blacklist the offending server's IP address.
The email injection attack works with any code that builds the message's mail headers when processing a Web form. For example, the PHP mail function requires a target address, a subject line and some form of message content. An optional parameter allows you to specify other mail headers, such as From, Cc and Bcc. Many PHP mail scripts use this fourth parameter to insert the sender's email address into the From header. If the script accepts a name and email address and formats them into the From field, spammers can use these form fields to manipulate the mail headers and insert a subject line, content and extra email addresses.
Again, the problem here is a failure to check user input properly and highlights the fact that Web developers need to fully understand the server-side language functions they use. To ensure your email forms are not open to abuse, your script should filter all user input using regular expressions or string functions to remove any line feeds or carriage returns.
|Resources & Tools
Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
Web Application Security Consortium (WASC)
IIS Lockdown Tool
Google Webmasters FAQ
SANS Top 20 Vulnerabilities
Cross-Site Scripting
Unlike many application layer attacks, cross-site scripting attacks target an application's users, often with the aim of stealing personal data. They affect all Web applications that make use of scripting and aim to indirectly compromise an application's infrastructure.
Most Web sites have numerous possible injection points, making them vulnerable to this attack method. And although client-side scripts are not able to directly affect server-side information, they can still compromise a site's security by altering form values or switching the form action to post the submitted data to the attacker's site. The most common purpose of XSS attacks, however, is to gather cookie data. Cookies are commonly--and often incorrectly--used to store information intended to be persistent during a browser session, or from session to session, such as session IDs, user preferences and login information. If input to your dynamically generated Web pages is not validated either before being processed or published, you could fall prey to an XSS attack.
DDoS Attacks
Unlike XSS, SQL injection and other attacks that steal information, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks aim to "deny" everyone from using the application by overwhelming servers and network devices, such as routers and firewalls, with bogus traffic. DDoS is the attack of choice for extortion and electronic protests against companies or organizations; the tools for launching DDoS attacks are widely available on the Internet. A recent survey of ISPs from around the world revealed that more than 90 percent believes simple DDoS floods are their biggest day-to-day hassle. By some estimates, DDoS attacks account for more than half the traffic across Internet backbones.
Unfortunately, DDoS attacks are a symptom of shortcomings in the Internet infrastructure, as they work by taking advantage of Internet protocols and consequently are among the most difficult attacks to defend against. There are several types of DDoS attacks, but their methods are similar in that they rely on a large group of compromised systems to direct a coordinated attack against a particular target.
The two most basic types of DDoS attacks are bandwidth and application attacks. Bandwidth attacks consume resources such as network bandwidth and equipment by overwhelming them with a high volume of packets. Application attacks, on the other hand, exploit the expected behavior of protocols such as TCP and HTTP by tying up computational resources and preventing them from processing genuine transactions or requests. HTTP half-open and HTTP error attacks are a couple of examples of application attacks.
It is important to evaluate your firewall rules and filters to ensure their effectiveness against these exploits. For example, egress filtering will prevent your network from being the source of spoofed packets, and will make it easier for you to uncover the source of any internal agents.
Before hackers can launch a successful attack against a Web application, they need to gather as much information as possible about the application and the infrastructure on which it resides.
Identifying the applications running on a remote Web server is known as fingerprinting. One of the simplest ways is to send a request to the server and review the information sent in the response banner, which generally contains the exact version of the Web server software running on the server. This information leakage can be addressed by configuring the server not to display the banner at all, or by changing it to make the server look like something else. There are a number of tools that help fake the banner, such as URLScan for IIS Web servers and mod_security for Apache Web servers.
Unfortunately, there are tools that fingerprint Web servers without relying on banners, and hackers are now even using search engines such as Google to help find and fingerprint vulnerable machines. This is commonly known as Google hacking. By using Google's advanced search operators, hackers can retrieve fingerprint information from Google's cache without ever connecting to their intended target. (See the March 2006 Information Security feature "Google Hacking" for more information.)
To find out what hackers can discover about your site, you can also use the Gooscan tool (with expressed permission in advance from Google) from http://johnny.ihack stuff.com, which also hosts the Google Hacking Database. Or, you can check the Google Webmasters FAQ at www.google.com/webmasters--this provides information about how to properly protect and expose your site to Google.
Holistic Protection
To effectively combat Web application attacks, you need a holistic approach; tackling one vulnerability will often strengthen your defenses against another. At the core of your application security strategy should be a policy that enforces secure coding practices, ensuring that vulnerability detection and assessments are performed during any application development or deployment.
Start by identifying the places where data enters or exits the application, and ensure that validation occurs for every part of the HTTP request before letting it anywhere near your scripts, data access routines and SQL queries. Next, you need to review the trust levels assigned to application entry and exit points and define the privileges that external users and processes are granted to access the system. A useful exercise is to create a data flow diagram that tracks how data flows through the application. If there is system or application failure, make sure your application doesn't return specific details about the error as this can provide useful information to an attacker.
The Web application itself needs to run under the least amount of privileges necessary for it to function correctly. Certainly, never use the default account, such as SQL Server's "sa" account. Ensure that any connection to a database or other resource is made using a least-privileged account, and you must lock down your database and Web servers. Remove non-required features such as example databases and test pages; disable unneeded stored procedures; and monitor and back up your database server in the same way as your Web server.
This process should involve running a vulnerability scanner on a regular basis. Many scanners are now automated, and many can scan for XSS vulnerabilities and Google hacks. SANS has a list of tools and services that find and fix the top 20 vulnerabilities at www.sans.org/top20/ 2005/tools.pdf.
If you use third-party packages, you should always check for known vulnerabilities with the vendor before installation, and then keep up to date on patches and advisories. Even if your Web applications are relatively secure when first deployed, changes to the system's infrastructure or configuration and new threats mean that your applications won't remain secure for long. Therefore, it is essential that your security policies are regularly reviewed for relevance and effectiveness.
You should also review the effectiveness of your firewall--packet-filtering firewalls can no longer provide the level of protection a Web application requires. Although routers and stateful packet-filtering network firewalls can be deployed to ensure that only approved transmission ports and protocols are open or allowed, attacks at the application layer require an examination of the application layer commands and data. Only at the application level is it possible to accurately determine what the real behavior will be with regard to a specific context.
It is important to develop an incident response plan; having a detailed and well-rehearsed plan will help you handle attacks in an orderly, effective manner and minimize their impact on your network.
Improvement Ahead
Because so many applications and services are delivered over the Internet, application security must be built into your organization's security policy. Fortunately, the Web community is also looking at ways to help improve the overall security of Web-based applications.
The Web security threat classification and security statistics projects by the Web Application Security Consortium will certainly help application developers and security professionals to focus their efforts, which will, in turn, improve application development processes and speed up response times to vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, vulnerability classification will enable better automated assessments of threats posed by Web application flaws.
Until these efforts pay off, though, Web applications will likely remain a favorite target of attackers. Companies must remain alert and vigilant or risk becoming the next victim.
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