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Security Focus on Cable Modem Uncapping
Anonymous Coward writes "Cable modem uncapping allows broadband customers to boost their bandwidth to 6 or 7 times what they're paying for, by spoofing their modem's TFTP client into downloading a hacked DOCSIS configuration file. Kevin Poulsen at SecurityFocus reports that a new underground program called OneStep makes the process easy and fun for the whole family. Broadband companies are cutting off the uncappers that they catch, but things could get out of control soon."
Mod it down, see if I care
anyone who's spent any time on slashdot has been exposed to the depraved writings of the hated troll writer trollaxor. but how many have ever had the chance to look beyond his harsh slashdot exterior and gotten to know the scarred man behind the troll? not many, hopefully, as my natalie portman poster tells me.
in a trance one night after coding with open sores tools 12 hours straight, the face of natalie came to life and began telling me things that i didn't want to hear about trollaxor. what you read now might scar your mind permanently so consider yourself warned. it's not pretty.
trollaxor was born in an alleyway in the filthy downtown Columbus Ohio sometime in the late 70s. his mother, an art student at OSU, was frightened by the pain in her bowels one night on the way to frat party, and feeling blood and prebirth oozing from her vagina, she told her friends she'd catch up with them later and darted into a nearby alley.
a few grunts and pushes later and a trollaxor's slimy body had been deposited into a discarded empty 4lb. tuna can. using some rags from a nearby dumpster, trollaxor's mother was cleaned up and on her way to the party minutes later, leaving her bloody, screaming bundle of joy behind forever...
not long after, a bum heard the cries echoing from the tuna can. thinking it was the usual mangled puppy left to die, he began urinating on the bloody mass in the dented tuna can. to his surprise, a small human hand darted up and grabbed his wagging member, and was soon followed by an eager young human mouth that sucked onto his penis.
after several joyous orgasms, the bum checked to make sure no one was watching and carefully wrapped the infant trollaxor in several days' worth of Columbus want-ads. darting out of the alley to an abandoned high-rise (one of many in the city), the bum vowed to raise this babe into a man.
trollaxor wouldn't be raised into just any man, however, as this bum was none other than Jeffrey Dahmer, who had been kicked out of OSU's towers when the dean had discovered him fellating several prominent janitors. and this young babe would be his way to get revenge on OSU and the rest of the world that shunned him.
over the years Jeffrey schooled the young trollaxor in the ways of the world and the special arts that would make him into a lethal weapon against society. climbing to the top of the high-rise every morning after the icy rainwater showers and morning spankings, Jeffrey and Trollaxor practiced tai-chi and karate for an hour. then, after scavenged dumpster breakfasts and sodomy, they would sneak into the OSU library and look for sleeping students. even though the young trollaxor couldn't yet ejaculate, he tried his best to copy his dad in covering dozing victims with tablespoons of semen.
one day, after the Columbus police had again beaten Jeffrey for whoring himself on 11th ave., something snapped in the dejected sex maniac. years of such torture had been too much and he knew he would have to leave trollaxor and Columbus behind.
calling trollaxor over to the fire in the corner of their abandoned high rise, Jeffrey told him everything: trollaxor was not his real son but had been found abandoned in a tuna can, and Jeffrey now had to leave Columbus in order to lure young gay Asian men into homosexual rape scenarios and into his cooking pot.
the brutal truth was too much for trollaxor and he too snapped. taking a brick from the wall he smashed Jeffrey in the head repeatedly until he could no longer recognize his false father. after lapping the blood off of Jeffrey's unconscious face, trollaxor made his break. today was the first day of the rest of his life, and he enrolled in the computer science program at OSU.
after years of constant college binge-drinking and mindless vandalism, trollaxor was introduced to open source software in an upper level UNIX course. intrigued by his bearded hippy classmates, trollaxor discovered slashdot soon after. and while his "father," Jeffrey Dahmer, was being arrested for eating the lungs and genitals of gay Asian rape victims, trollaxor was learning how to trick people into visiting web sites that hosted pictures of the crime scenes.
I prefer masturbating on the subway.
My local cable co has given me a Toshiba PCX1100U for access. The thing is a great and nice, it can even connect to the USB ports if you own a Windows machine, making the need for a NIC.. well un-needed.
;-(
So I got an idea one day. I plugged my USB cable into the modem and a second PC (I use the NIC on #1) since I don't have a router/hub. It worked great. Both computers worked at full speeds. While they could send data directly through the modem to each other I thought things would be fast (like having a hub) - of course not. [a trace showed that the traffic went to the hub only]
The upload speed of 40K was still the max.
My point is though that once my ISP noticed I was doing this (gnutella on one, misc servers on the other) and getting the max they turned it off (i guess - it won't work for shit now.)
Get your Unix fortune now!
His name is Kevin Poulsen.
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His name is Kevin Poulsen.
His name is Kevin Poulsen.
His name is Kevin Poulsen.
His name is Kevin Poulsen.
His name is Kevin Poulsen.
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I suspect that I'll be the only one to find this funny.
freudian? maybe. slip? naah.
Wow, you are the master of comedy. When do you do open mic sessions, I can't wait to come along?!
I'd like to thank you for again giving me the opportunity to suggest, nay, *demand* that you take a well and truly frozen aluminum baseball bat and ram it up your ass.
Oh, and don't forget to step off the curb just in time to be slammed down by a bus or some other suitably large vehicle...
Bye now!
If you can't legislate morality, what do you legislate? Take murder for example. A law that condemns murder and provides penalties for murderers is definately legislating morality. This sort of law is necessary for human existance. Without laws that legislate morality, all civilization and society would crumble into anarchy.
A few things:
It's "usage", not "useage".
The word "sociology", in this context, should not be capitalized.
It's "consensus", not "consences".
It's "physically", not "physicaly".
It's "eventually", not "eventualy".
It's "mudddy, barren" and not "muddy barran".
It's "over-grazing" or even "overgrazing", not "over grazing".
It's "actually" and not "actualy".
It's "It's the Internet" and not "Its the Internet".
It's "believe", not "belive".
It's "assuming" and not "asuming".
It's "equivalent", not "equivelent".
It's "forging" and not "forgeing".
Good post, but your spelling and grammar (and in the case of the latter, I did not really engage in correction), are somewhere on elementary school level. Sheesh. I can spell better than that even in French and Spanish, which are not my native languages.
Please check this out- not a troll- I am posting as my main account so people will see it.
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/09/235
It appears to be a copy of the story with (my) one AC first post on it!
graspee
The plural of "virus" isn't "virii." There is no such word. The plural of "virus" is "viruses."
Here's a good explanation from cdknow.com, quoted here in its entirety because the people who most need to read this won't click on a link.
More plural-of-virus resources:
perl.com, the canonical and exhaustive source
The alt.comp.virus FAQ
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard's Frequently Given Answer
Merriam-Webster's "Word for the Wise," January 20, 2000.