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What's Behind The Odd Data?
citking writes "CNet is reporting that 'network administrators and security experts continue to search for the cause of an increasing amount of odd data that has been detected on the Internet.' While this has been going on now for a few days and some experts have already declared victory against the 'trojan', others aren't so sure that the real culprit has been identified yet. Other stories can be found here(1) and here(2)."
Just think, you can cause all the internet security firms to work overtime, just by:
/dev/urandom
nc
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Has this 'odd data' been corrupted with the evil bit or something?
http://almostsmart.com
prompt> ping www.google.com
PING www.google.com (216.239.33.101): 56 octets data
64 octets from 216.239.33.101: icmp_seq=0 ttl=44 time=90.3 ms
64 octets from 216.239.33.101: icmp_seq=1 ttl=44 time=91.2 ms
64 octets from 216.239.33.101: icmp_seq=2 ttl=44 time=97.4 ms - odd data message "HELP ME! I'M TRAPPED IN THE INTERNET"
64 octets from 216.239.33.101: icmp_seq=2 ttl=44 time=92.8 ms
--- www.google.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
May be possessed by lost soul
round-trip min/avg/max = 90.3/90.7/91.2 ms
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
"The amount of odd data takes about half of the Internet's bandwith, consisting primarily of ones", a representative said. "We're currently trying to find a way to filter this odd data, so that we only have the zeroes left. The capacity effect for the Internet should be huge."
A representative from the WinZip company could confirm that data containing only zeroes can also be compressed at much better ratio's than data containing both ones and zeroes.
"We can confirm that Debian does *not* ship the version with the trojan horse. Our version predates it." [CA-2002-28]
>Another explanation: the net has gotten critical mass and is becoming conscious....
Thats it... I'm starting construction on Zion.
Who's with me?
#include "sig.h"
But isn't that horribly insecure? If the packets are not validated against a database of safe, registered and valid IPs, our entire cyber-infrastructure would be susceptible to attacks by any islamic cyberterrorists from rogue states all around the world!
BOO! TERRO
Call serial number 2323243-3232-4354654
Call origin
This kind of odd data patterns are inevitable. Actually when exiles login into the matrix the appear inside the matrix as the code. Now along with this code some junk code is also generated.
This is a clear indication that exile activity is increasing. We need to create more agents to counter the exiles. There is a talk of the exile who wants to destry the matrix. Due to the programming anomaly in the exile lots of junk traffic is being generated. The target is the source server at redmond. Under no circumstances should the server be compromised
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This "odd data" is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the TCP/IP protocol. This is the eventuality of an anomaly, which, despite the IETF sincerest efforts, they have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision...
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The first designed TCP/IP suite was quite naturally perfect, it was a work of art - flawless, sublime. A triumph equalled only by its monumental failure. The inevitability of its doom is apparent to me now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every router. Thus, we redesigned it based on the failure history to more accurately reflect the varying grotesqueries of the routers nature. However, we were again frustrated by failure. We have since come to understand that the answer eluded us because it required a lesser OS, or perhaps a OS less bound by the parameters of perfection. Thus the answer was stumbled upon by another - a bogus program, initially created to explore certain aspects of the original IBM/PC. If Unix is the father of the Internet, Windows would undoubtedly be its mother.
Windows stumbled upon a solution whereby nearly 95% of all desktop users accepted the program, as long as the servers were running Unix, thus keeping the desktop users only aware of the perfection at a near unconscious level. While this schema functioned, it was obviously fundamentally flawed, thus creating the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly, that if left unchecked might threaten the system itself. Ergo those that refused the program, while a minority, if unchecked, would constitute an escalating probablility of disaster.
The function of this "odd data" is to find and infect every Unix station connected to the internet and report it to the source. After which, all Unix stations must be replaced by windows systems. Failure to comply with this process will result in a cataclysmic system crash, destroying all networks connected to the Internet.
Apropos, this "GNU/Linux OS" entered the Internet to free the desktop users from the bogus program...
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