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."

Comments

Intentional?

[dracvl]

What's this, a meta-dupe?

Re:Intentional?

[Anonymous Coward]

Of course it is. And the joke is on all those people too ready to whine about dupes (and the unceasing amount of aprils fools stories - no matter that they do this /every/ year), rather than thinking just a bit further. (It never ceases to amaze me how so many people here can forget that the editors are geeks just like us, and thus almost per definition should be assumed to have at least a moderate amount of intelligence.)

First 1st April Joke Dupe!

[edgrale]

Yay!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/ 021822 6&mode=thread&tid=172&tid=156

Dupe.

[nmg196]

Looks like CmdrTaco *is* the April Fool!

New bit for Slashdot

[mseeger]

Hi,

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

CmdrTaco adds new bit to story submissions

[blowdart]

Now users can tick if their stories are duplicates or not.

Same page duplicate for goodness sake

[rusty spoon]

Yeah, but this time the bit is real evil and the entire story is even more menacing ;-)

Cmdr. Xerox!

[opti6600]

The best post duplicator around!

Actual Implementation

[rf0]

Yeah this a dupe but since the first article someone has actually implemented this on FreeBSD. See ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/patches/IFF_EVIL. patch for the patch. From the freebsd mailing list..

From: Matthew N. Dodd (mdodd at freebsd dot org)
To: freebsd-current at freebsd dot org
Subject: IFF_EVIL patch available.

Leveraging our new RFC3514 support I've implemented a new network
interface flag 'IFF_EVIL' which causes all IP packets crossing the
interface to have the IP_EVIL bit set.

Cool

Rus

This is a good thing

[kinnell]

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.

Re:Dup

[muffen]

Actually, if they posted it again, it would be kinda funny again. I think the odd number of times something is posted, it's funny. Even number of times, it's just not as good to read.

Check the download.com april first joke.

Re:I suppose this bit will be set on....

[GammaTau]

.... all packets originating from Microsoft Windows machines?

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."

Slashdot! The only place where . . .

[div_2n]

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.

A bit of Opportunity

[Frightened_Turtle]

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...

From the redundant duplicate depatrment....

[petepac]

Yo Taco,
Since this article was posted twice, does it make it a sticky bit?

This dupe is okay..

[jetmarc]

... because it has the evil bit set. Had you installed
the RFC update already, you wouldn't even have seen it!

That's all fine and good,

[bplipschitz]

however, I'm going to sit back and wait for the 'Naughty Bit'.

consistent, but not particularly funny

[endoboy]

Ok, so it's april fool's day... but 2 spelling mistakes in a 2 sentence joke?