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Register your own .mil Domain
JWSmythe writes " As reported in This Story at theregister.co.uk ,and on dailyrotten.com, it seems the US Department of Defense has dropped the ball. Not only can you register a .mil domain, but you can find "secret" domains that aren't publically known (the gov't uses security through obscurity?). I'm looking forward to hacker.mil, warez.mil, and porn.mil."
I work for the Air Force and I really find this hard to believe -they are very careful with their networks, almost to the point of making working there very difficult!
what was that about homeland security? I guess it's all a load...
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Doesn't (didn't) 2600 have a contest like this? The first person to manage to get a .mil domain gets a free subscription, or something like that?
IIRC a few years ago the Chinese were caught buying up surplus military equipment including replacement parts for Apache helicopters and hard drives containing sensitive nuclear data. Admittedly with such a huge organization carelessness is to be expected, especially since these guys are overworked and underpaid, but I do wish that the government would stop encouraging average americans to be paranoid when they constantly drop the ball themselves.
This implies that even if the DoD fixes the problem, the Google caches will still be available (until they expire or are replaced). Now, in the past, we've heard reports of people being upset that Google cached information. However, this time, the cache contains information pertaining to "national security" (that great new buzzword). I wonder, what will happen? Will these URLs be silently deleted from the cache? Will Google be told that cacheing links is now illegal because it could aid terrorists? Will they be prevented from cacheing .gov and .mil? Will Google be sued out of existence?
We've all found Google caches to be useful, when, say the documentation for an open source project is hosted via 56K modem line in the Czech Republic, for example, or even when a site is Slashdotted, but it'll be interesting to see what happens about this, and how the goverment may over-react.
(Note, if you're too stupid to understand this, I'm not talking about blame here - don't bother saying "Google rulez, the militery is dum asses for leeving these sitez open, u r an idiot...". I'm talking about reprocussions. Certainly Google doesn't "know" what information a link contains when they cache it. Certainly it's the government's fault for leaving open admin pages with default passwords listed on the page. But just because someone isn't at fault, doesn't mean they can't get screwed over.)
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That's the funniest shit so far today.
The peace.mil was also pretty good.
I'm wondering how with all the billions of dollars we spend on military shit, how the military can constanly screw things up... BTW, was .mil supposed to only be US mil or could any military anywhere get a .mil domain? And what kind of proof did you have to show to prove you were a military organization?
How is it that one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?
I also found this
Dunno but you can do it for him:
nic.mil/cgi-bin/domain
How long til the .mil and the .gov and the rest realise that spoofed sites like these could be a fantastic tool in capturing possible IPs of those stupid enough to actually try to use them. Even if you chained through a string of proxies to register the domain, it'd still be useless without somewhere to point it at.
;)
Editing *.mil* domains through a *logged* cgi form on a *.mil* server. Hello, no, I don't think so, thankyouverymuch. Might as well just a T-Shirt saying "got root?" or something...
And, no. I'm not going to be the one to try it.
Prime numbers are exactly what Alan Greenspan says they are -S. Minsky
And then from there, it does...
NOTHING.
It gives you a text template which you are intended to then mail in.
This is not a story.
Out of all the 'links' that have been posted in the comments of this article this one is the scariest.
.mil workstations or at least proxies...
Open access to a list of IP addresses of
well, I prefer Piece.mil, as I find well toned and armed women hot, but I digress (digression in an intorduction?)
.mil supposed to only be US mil or could any military anywhere get a .mil domain?
Anyway...
I'm wondering how with all the billions of dollars we spend on military shit, how the military can constanly screw things up...
Because it is run by humans, contrary to some theories on the Left.
BTW, was
US Military only.
And what kind of proof did you have to show to prove you were a military organization?
The command that handles the domain verifies the request. I am sure that there are ways to insert a fake request and have it approved (in addition to this new finding), the same way we inserted false reports about bad Chinese ammunition into the NVA system, etc.
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and what is _really_ scary is looking at the this list, it looks like plenty of admins have been accessing this system from home; the log dates back to 1-jan-2002. If you are a lazy cracker, grep for all the lines with "DSL" in them, and probably 80-90% of those hosts are home workstations of military sysadmins of one type or another. If they are dumb enough to leave logfiles of users accessing a server used for military network administration open to the public, imagine what their home computers are like...
What's even more depressing is that it looks like some of these guys use AOL...
tried, but all nameservers must be registered with THEIR whois, therefor the nameservers for slashdot NS1.VASOFTWARE.COM isn't valid and their whois client is offline, assuming this is their fix for the time being.
Mess with the best. Die like the rest!
Because we spend $$billions on toys, and virtually nothing on people.
Toys make defense companies rich. Servicemembers are paid less than fast-food workers.
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Ok, so the new way of doing things is that instead of adding a point to your comment's overall score when you post with your karma bonus, your comment is posted at 1 with a separate "karma_bonus=yes|no" variable. Thereafter, users can specify how much weight to assign to the karma bonus on their preferences page. This was 0 when the editors quietly rolled in the changes without telling anyone (why so sneaky?), but has since been changed to '+1' by default, to by default be the same as the old way.
So, your comment that got 3 good moderations is scored at 4/1. Users who have a '+1' modifier to karma bonus will see this comment at 5, whereas users with a '0' karma modifier will see it at 4, and users with (for whatever reason) a '-6' modifier will see it at -2. If such a thing were possible.
Unfortunately, I see this as making it unlikely that comments posted with a karma bonus will ever be modded up to 5, since most moderators will be viewing with a karma bonus and see that the comment is already scored at 5, and that it therefore cannot be modded up further.
I'm going to say that the way this was changed was disgraceful. There is no reason not to maintain a place on slashdot indicating how the code is being changed. I have relied on CmdrTaco's journal to inform me of changes, but in this case it was silent, and after thinking about it further, it's still a crappy way of running things.
It all goes back to the difference between slashdot as community and slashdot as business. As a business, sure, slashdot can do whatever the hell it wants, who am I to lecture, blah blah blah. But as a community, changing things in profound ways without approval, comment, or even notification is bastardly. And slashdot as a business would do well to perceive its dimensions as a community.