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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: sockmonkey supreme on April 29, 2013, 03:44 am
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So, first thing's first: I am not a new member. I started a sockmonkey account so as to not associate my usual account with this question in case I do in fact have a security problem.
Leading me to the second thing: shitfuckjesus, I've never experienced noob purgatory and it sucks. I got tired of answering real questions and hit the spam posts, but does anybody ever consider that it means a lot more "error - you posted 0 seconds ago" for real posts and traffic for the site generally?
Third: this is why I posted. It is not a joke. It is certainly not a troll - I didn't spend the last... ugh, hour? going through noob purgatory just to troll the forums. Here's what happened to the best of my recollection:
I'm on both SR and the forums but the connection is bad. Really bad. I use the vidalia control panel to switch identities. Nothing works. It was also... a little unusual, somehow. Can't recall if it was the nature of the error screens or the timing or what (I was high at the time and not at my most aware).
Well, I hit the instant reboot function on TAILS so I can try a total reconnect. I zone out and vape a little of the green stuff. When I look at my screen again - in 20 seconds or so? I see that it hasn't completed the reboot cycle and instead has something up that I've never seen before. It's 2 or 3 lines of text, starting with "call trace" (or maybe it was "trace call" - wish I'd been more aware) followed by pairs of characters with a space between each pair, running the rest of the couple/few lines.
So the basic look was this (rubbish text for example):
call trace P3 7Y NB 1F 3G I9 PL 15 ZY IU 1O A2 (and so on)
There may have been more to note but I went from zoned out to panicked in the blink of an eye and shut my computer down (and didn't get back on). Tried to tell myself that it was nothing, but... it was definitely something.
Has anybody else seen this? Explanations?
I repeat: this is not a joke. And yeah, I'm aware that if the telecons/ISP were tracking me, spending an hour on here posting to a noob account maybe isn't wise, but I wanted to put the question out there (and at the same time, not say "Hey LE, you were on to regular user Z in case you didn't narrow it down).
Thanks in advance.
sockmonkey supreme
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Sounds like a kernel panic
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Yeah tails doesn't always shut down clean.
That's just a memory address reference I believe.
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LOL yeah, it's probably call(ing) a (memory) trace. Nothing to worry about.
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I can imagine why this would cause you to shit yourself if you didn't know it was talking about tracing a "function call"
Hundreds of thousands of functions are called every second on your computer, an important one went wrong while your machine was shutting down and a "trace" was shown for diagnostic purposes.
So chill man. Nobody is tracing your calls, or at least if they are they wouldn't announce it on your computer screen.