Evil Bit Added to TCP/IP Packets

Absolut Ralts notes that " RFC 3514 is now available. It provides for an additional so called 'Evil Bit' that can be used to determine the nature of the TCP/IP packet. This should vastly simplify networking and internet security, and prevent the beepers of tired sysadmins from going off and interfering with Warcraft III!"

Comments

Clever

[_bug_]

Post a dupe and get away with it by posting another and chalk it up to April Fool's day.

Very clever.

And you would have gotten away with it too! Had it not been for those meddlesome kids.

Re:Clever

[Cpt_Kirks]

It's a poodle. Put it on delicate.

I'd prefer to put it on the grill. Maybe that new iGrill?

mmm, hot dog...

Hmmmm....

[reddeno]

It's going to be a long day...

Had me.

[dnoyeb]

I read the first one. Evil bit. I was thinking of legitimate usages and stuff. Then I saw the dupe and was thinking...idiots. Then I saw the 3rd one and I was thinking...idiot. :-D

I hope this slashdotting of slashdot is not a joke! Don't mess with my information drip!

April Fool's Day

[Nefrayu]

God I love April Fool's Day. Keep on posting dupes, it makes the page more fun to read.

Hoo Hah

[ackthpt]

This just in:

Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda, founder and editor on Slashdot.Org, an internet news site was found to be infected by a mysterious new virus. The infection had been long suspected, but its severity has increased recently by reducing his memory window. A posting on the news site "New RFC Adds "Evil Bit", posted on Tuesday April 01, @05:02AM was reposted less than three hours later, revealing the crippling effect and progression of the disease. In prior instances articles would be repeated several hours or over a day apart.

Experts have issued grave predictions for Mr. Malda. "It was that 534th viewing of Spirited Away, while popping blue penis pills that did it", CowboyNeal, an associate lamented.

In other news: Intel unveiled a previously unknown high priority development project for a 64 bit CPU aimed at the consumer and server markets. Codenamed "Upsidaisyium" it shows Intel did take the AMD Opteron threat seriously after all, further, upstaging Opteron with an earlier release. "We have no software whatsoever which can run on it," said an anonymous source, "because the engineers accidently based it on the 6502 8-bit core. It should make for great new versions of the Commodore 64 and Apple II, though."

Enough already - it's not funny any more!

[stevey]

Now even for April fools day this is a bit much, this story has now been posted three times today!

• The first time
• The second time
• This time - the last?

Aaarrrgggghhhh!!!

[TopShelf]

This is truly Evil!!! Make it stop!!!

Wrong day!

[mbbac]

It's April Fool's day, not Groundhog Day!

Get it right, Taco.

dupe the comments too... :)

[muffen]

I still find it amusing that people have comments the third time this article is posted :)

Re: RFC 3514

[MerBat]

As a member of the IETF*, I argued vociferously for a minimum of 3 bits (two to encode [good evil neutral], the third to encode [lawful chaotic]); but after much argument over the space limitations, and confusion over how to interpret the "extra" bit pattern, I was finally shouted down with cries of "you're either with us, or against us!" * Not.

Re:This story must be real...

[mindriot]

When it comes around the next time, should we call it Quad Damage?

New Slashdot RFC

[LinuxParanoid]

Hey, could someone help me finish up this RFC?

Slashdot Working Group
Request for Comments: 3514b
Category: Informational

The Duplicate Article Flag in the Posting Queue

Status of this Memo

This memo provides information for the Slashdot community. It does not specify an Slashdot standard of any kind- we don't have standards around here. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

1. Introduction

Slashdot authors [CBR03], lameness filters, troll detection systems, and the like often have difficulty distinguishing between articles that have are duplicates and those that are merely redundant or stale. The problem is that making such determinations is hard. To solve this problem, we define a duplicate flag, known as the "dupe" bit, in the Slashdot article posting [RFC T4C0] queue. Genuinely novel articles have this bit set to 0; those that are used for boring the reader with redundancy will have the bit set to 1.

....

Must... get... back... to... work...

--LP ;-)

I'm starting to detect a theme...

[Lindril]

Of course, if duplicate stories are an April Fool's prank, then the editors must believe that every day is April Fool's on Slashdot.

Slashdot appreciation day

[Codex The Sloth]

The annual april fools crapfest serves to remind us all, on this very special day, how much worse the whole mess of perl scripts and duct tape could be.

reminds me of the time when

[theLime]

OH ITS A DUPE OH MAN WHY CAN'T TACO READ HIS OWN POSTS YOU WOULD THINK THIS IMPORTANT SITE WOULD BE RUN BY PEOPLE WHO KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING PULL YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS /. AND *THINK* FOR A SECOND GOD THIS TOTALLY INVALIDATES SLASHDOT IN MY EYES OBVIOUSLY THEY ARE AMATEURS WHO HAVE NEVER HAD ANY REAL RESPONSIBILITY JEEZE AT LEAST LOOK DOWN 3 OR 4 POSTS BEFORE YOU CLICK SUBMIT AAAAAA BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH I LOVE TO HEAR MYSELF TALK IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT *BONK* OW JESUS WHAT WAS THAT

*sigh*. I was going to leave it at that, but the /. 'lameness filter' wont let it go through. Putting all of this normal text down here at the bottom really takes something away from the knee-jerk idiot image i was trying to portray, but oh well, I guess you all get the idea.

Re:First April Fool's day Triple Post??

[syle]

Rob was making fun of himself. Of course it was a joke.

CmdrTaco, I salute you :).

[powerlinekid]

Taco, you are friggin awesome :).

Hes doing it on purpose to get a rise out of you all. No matter how stupid Slashdotters in general think Taco is, hes not stupid enough to post the same story twice. Yeah he does dupes but come on... do you really think he'd post the same story twice unless it was on purpose?

The best part of this is that Taco is trolling the crap out of all of you and hes probably sitting at work reading the comments and laughing his ass off.

Now a real April fools joke would be Katz posting a story that didn't have the phrase "... in these post 9/11 times..." ;).

Already the third "evil bit"! Great work!

[tsvk]

OK, as I have understood from all the reports today, this is the third "evil bit" added to the Internet Protocol.

Using all these three bits together, it is now possible to express 2^3 = 8 different levels of evilness, ranging from 000 = "not an evil datagram at all" to 111 = "a more evil datagram than anything you can imagine". And yesterday we had no means of indicating the degree of evilness in a datagram at all! Talk about progress!

Firewall

[Fuzzums]

I'm prepared!!

it does require a patch, but it's integrated in the statefull module of ipchains.

example: iptables -A INPUT -m state --state EVIL -j DROP