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CERT Finds Routers Increasingly Being Cracked
alteran writes "CERT has released a paper (PDF) analyzing changes in DOS attack methods. The new twist-- crackers are increasing getting into routers rather then servers and home PCs. The volume of noise a router could generate absolutely dwarfs what a computer could do. And unlike compromised servers, compromised routers could actually screw up the infrastructure of the Internet, not just blast people with packets. Worst of all, router administators appear to be even sloppier than their server counterparts in securing their machines."
Screw formkeys or something.
RO318 is pretty damn good for a home broadband router.
Why do you say that? We've had a lot of good experiences with netgear hardware, both nics and hubs and switches and internet routers.
Slashdot is collapsing in complete disarray.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict slashdot's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Slashdot faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for slashdot because slashdot is dying. Things are looking very bad for slashdot. As many of us are already aware, slashdot continues to lose market share. Red ink posts flow like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Adequacy.org leader elby states that there are 7000 users of adequacy. How many users of kuro5hin.org are there? Let's see. The number of adequacy versus kuro5hin posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 kuro5hin users. Poliglut posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of kuro5hin posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of poliglut. A recent article put slashdot at about 80 percent of the crappy weblog market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 slashdot users. This is consistent with the number of slashdot Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of andover.net, abysmal sales and so on, slashdot declared bankruptcy and was bought out by goatse.cx in a hostile takeover who merged their own troubled crappy weblog with slashdot. (And a hostile takeover from goatse.cx would not go over well with anyone except Cmdr Taco, Hemos, and the rest. No one else but them would want to end up like the goatse.cx guy.) As a result slashdot was flooded with goatse.cx trolls causing slashdot to lose even more marketshare. Now goatse.cx is also dead, its corpse turned over to another charnel house. (Who else besides a charnel house like the now dead andover.net would want the corpse of the goatse.cx guy?)
All major surveys show that slashdot has steadily declined in market share. Slashdot is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If slashdot is to survive at all it will be among crappy weblog hobbyist dabblers. Slashdot continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, slashdot is dead.
Digital Divide? The only divide Linux can bridge is the crack of my ass, when I use it to wipe my ass clean.
I am starting to believe that this is not the REAL Internet I'm seeing. I belive the FBI is routing all traffic to and from my computer into a large mainframe that has a virtual hosts comprising a virtual Internet. This is not really slashdot. I am reading the FBI's perverted slashdot. They just want me to think it's slashdot.
It's really clever... they set up "stories" on this "supposed" slashdot and the links lead recursively to virtual domains hosted within the big mainframe. They are trying to get me to respond. They are trying to get me to admit to something... BUT I WON'T!!! THEY CANNOT BREAK ME!!!
Netgear hubs & switches are just fine. Their routers, however, leave quite a bit to be desired in my opinion. While easy to configure and whatnot, they are painfully limited in what they can do, and the fact that Netgear markets NAT as a security solution doesn't help their position.
They would work like the Microsoft Car.:-)
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SS Chief Herr Ashcroft declared the US Consitution unconstitutional today. Gestapo Commander Herr Ridge agreed. "It leaves too many loopholes for terrorists to impede government actions." (note - many suspect the term "government" means the executive branch only. After all, Herr Dubya stated a few weeks ago the "if members of Congress can't keep our secret stuff secret, they won't get any more classified documents from the government." Ashcroft also declared all copies of the US Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, and other documents classified. Anyone caught with any of these in their possession would be prosecuted as a terrorist. "We wouldn't want these papers to fall into the wrong hands, would we? After all, the founding fathers would probably be arrested as terrorists today."
fucka open up and say AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!
Troll? How can the parent be modded "troll"?
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