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New RFC Adds "Evil Bit"
Nashirak writes "This
is new RFC that introduces new security measures into IPv4 header. The measures include an "evil bit" that can be set an unset according to wether the packet is evil or not."
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What's this, a meta-dupe?
Looks like CmdrTaco *is* the April Fool!
God, I fucking hate April first.
I just heard they have a new bit at Slashdot. It's called "DupeBit" and this is the first article which got it.
Yours, Martin
Now users can tick if their stories are duplicates or not.
Yeah, but this time the bit is real evil and the entire story is even more menacing ;-)
The best post duplicator around!
Incase it gets /.'ed, here's another link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/133217 &mode=thread&tid=95
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The latest version of IPv6 incorporates an evil bit, and adding one to IPv4 will allow existing IPv4 networks to become forward compatible with the new IPv6 networks. Without this, the mere existence of an "evil" bit in IPv6 may suggest to the poular imagination that IPv6 is more evil than IPv4. This would be catastrophic, as it would stall the uptake of IPv6, possibly forcing us to use IPv4 forever and preventing us from giving every molecule on the planet it's own IP address. This is a good day for mankind.
If I seem short sighted, it is because I stand on the shoulders of midgets
I doubt that. After all, Microsoft Windows-based products have a bad habit of not following the Internet standards.
On another news, the Mozilla project has announced that it will introduce the EVIL bit on all HTTP requests originating from users clicking links on duplicate Slashdot news items. The announcement has received good response from the Internet community. An anonymous system administrator was heard stating: "I am very pleased of this late development. I wish more hardware could learn to drop all packets with EVIL bit before it consumes all the bandwidth of the victim."
...i'm gonna have to cut myself off from society
;)
Dude, you're posting on a site called "slashdot, news for nerds, stuff that matters". The decision to cut yourself from the real world (the thing that you see outside the window, where that bright annoying light that reflects on the monitor comes from) was taken a long time ago
1) A first exclusive interview gets posted twice.
2) New scientific discoveries sound familiar.
3) 10 questions turn into 20.
4) Last interviews turn into next to last.
5) Congress is considering the first ever digital cloning ban.
6) Duplicate replies to duplicate posts get duplicate moderation.
7) The only thing not duplicated is polls (not even sure about that).
8) 1000/1 = The ratio of time it takes for moderators to discover a dupe vs. the readers.
9) 0 = The number of dupes deleted.
10) The post (God forbid) announcing its closing will probably be posted twice.
President George Bush is meeting this meeting with high-level Cabinet members, Pentagon advisors, and the corpse of Dick Cheney to develop a battle plan against the so-called "Evil Bit" developed by the nefarious organization known as "IETF", White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said today.
Fleischer said "We know this IETF has RFC's, and they plan to use the RFC's against the American people". When a reporter from the New York Times (free registration all day 4/1!!) stated that the IETF was the Internet Engineering Task Force, a standards body for the Internet, Fleischer gave a slideshow depicting the IETF's True Secret Agenda: a plot against Freedom and Democracy.
When the Times reporter asked CIA director George Tenet about the slideshow, Tenet exclaimed
The President will address the nation this evening at 8:00 p.m. on all major networks.
"I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq"
-- Paul Wolfowitz, 7/21/2003
What people need to realize is the sheer opportunity presented by the evil bit! Particularly when used in conjunction with the new Whitespace Programming Language ! Sending an html-based email to your boss laced with WPL and the evil bit set will cause his computer to download all your pr0n for you, as well as send the memo to the finance office to process your raise with haste.
However, the only problem I've come across with setting the evil bit deals with products from a certain Redmond, Washington software development company. Apparently, when the evil bit is set, it negates all the security holes inherent in the OS from this company, and it becomes rock solid secure.
Go figure...
Whew! This water sure is cold!
Cisco plans to introduce their new "evil router". This new fiber channel router will give special priority to packets known to be truely evil. Special discounts for those installing new networks for thier "death star" or "hollowed out volcanos".
Today is a gift. Save the receipt.
Yo Taco,
Since this article was posted twice, does it make it a sticky bit?
>> Practice Safe Hex
... because it has the evil bit set. Had you installed
the RFC update already, you wouldn't even have seen it!
however, I'm going to sit back and wait for the 'Naughty Bit'.