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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Powerhouses and mainstream poll Post 303001001 by bakunin on Tuesday 25th of July 2017 03:39:02 AM

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First off: we haven't replaced the "content industry" by "the community" at all: we have replaced the former content industry by some criminals able to program chat-bots. The internet information highway left truth as roadkill, so to say. To think that these criminals aren't an "industry" in themselves is an illusion. Or do you think the likes of Steve Bannon would be able to spew their hatred without a lot of money behind them?

Second: in general we lack to resources to prove what we are told. If someone tells me that somewhere in Africa X is the case i am in no position to find out if he is telling me the truth or not, because i am far from Africa and have no oportunity to find out for myself.

This is the reason why most of us in most cases have to ultimately believe what we are told. Research no shows that whatever is told is believed more easily the more simplistic it is. Example: the crisis of 1929 and the subsequent depression which is said to have been instrumental in the rise of the Nazis in Germany. Of course their "explanation" of what happened was utter nonsense - "the jews are to blame" - but this "explanation" was 5 words long, whereas any serious explanation of why and how cyclic crises plagued modern capitalism takes a lot more time and effort to explain.

We face basically the same situation now when we try to explain refugees, immigrants, the current crisis, etc.. The "explanations" are believed the more easily the more simplistic they are, regardless of their truth.

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tigexp

TIGEXP(8)						      Administrator Commands							 TIGEXP(8)

NAME

       tigexp - UNIX Security Checker Explanation Generator

SYNOPSIS

       tigexp msgid [msgid[msgid...]]

       tigexp [-f|-F] [security_report]

DESCRIPTION

       Tigexp is used to generate explanations of the output from the Tiger security checking package.	In the first form, tigexp will generate an
       explanation of each of the message ids listed.  In the second form, the security report specified will be scanned and  explanations  gener-
       ated.  The -f option will generate one explanation for each unique message id in the security report, whereas the -F option will output the
       security report with explanations inserted after each entry in the report.

       There are five different message levels produced by Tiger. Each of the message levels is the last letter of the message id. The levels are:

       ALERT  A message of this level indicates that Tiger has detected a possible intrusion attempt or  troublesome  misconfiguration	which  can
	      expose the whole system to attacks.

       FAIL   Messages of this level indicate a violation of a generic security policy or a possible intrusion. Appropriate action should be taken
	      to fix this security issue.

       WARN   Messages of this level indicate a security issue which should be checked further and might  indicate  a  probable  vulnerability	or
	      exposure. Most Tiger messages appear in this category.

       INFO   These  includes  information messages which are not necessarily a security violation but might be useful for the administrator. Note
	      that the tigerrc configuration file through the Tiger_Show_INFO_Msgs option determines whether or not Tiger shows these  items.  The
	      default behaviour is to not show them.

       ERROR  These  messages are errors in the execution of Tiger (or any of its scripts), this is probably due to a misconfiguration in the pro-
	      gram, because of a problem in the installation or because a file needed for the test is missing. The script who outputs  this  error
	      should be investigated further.

       CONFIG Messages with this level inform of stages in the configuration process of Tiger. They are not errors (otherwise ERROR would be used)
	      but notices for the user running the program explaining, for example, which configuration might be used.

   OPTIONS
       -f     Scan the indicated security report and generate explanations of it.  One explanation will be generated for each unique message id in
	      the security report.  If the name of a security report is not given, then the report is read from stdin.

       -F     Output the indicated security report with explanations inserted after each entry in the report.  If the name of a security report is
	      not given, then the report is read from stdin.

FILES

       $TIGERHOMEDIR/doc/explain.idx

SEE ALSO

       tiger(8)

BUGS

       If the explanation index is out of date, it doesn't recognize it and generates junk.

Security							  12 August 2003							 TIGEXP(8)