Slashdot Mirror
Netgear Routers DoS UWisc Time Server
numatrix writes "For the last few months, hundreds of thousands of netgear routers being sold had hardcoded values in their firmware for ntp synchronization, causing a major denial of service to the University of Wisconsin's network before it was filtered and eventually tracked down. Highlights how not to code embedded devices." A really excellent write-up of the incident.
ha
Time to pour my self a nice, cool, tall, glass of FROSTY PIST!
Hello European Unioners
I'd like to take this moment to talk to the few of you out there. I understand you guys want to compete one-on-one with the United States. It takes no crystal ball to figure that out: there was no clearer omen than the development of a unified currency whose worth was initially inspired (you might say) by the value of one U.S. dollar. In creating a competing currency system, it is easy to suspect another one of your goals is to raise the ratio of cars, computers, and televisions per capita to a level on par with the U.S. For that reason, I believe you want to be just like the U.S., so I am offering you some suggestions how to set yourself, and your country, on the right track.
First of all, the most important way to elevate your country to the status of the U.S. is to implement intellectual property laws that essentially nullify the feasibility of implementing new ideas. If some company owns key patents necessary to implement new ideas, new jobs will be lost. That outcome seems bad at first, but it really is good as we will see below. Make sure companies have a monopoly on as many ideas as possible and make sure there are companies that monopolize an industry (or at least own a significant portion of one). Remember, large vertical companies result in efficiency by cutting down competition amongst industries. And competition is bad because it results in redundancy that wastes resources. Redundancy is not important in business and it's not important in the power distribution industry either. The blackouts that struck 7+ major U.S. and Canadian cities are a testament to that. One or two days downtime amongst years of decent service is more than good enough, don't you think? Once intellectual property rights are strengthened, your countries, too, will slide down into the latrine of recession as jobs divert elsewhere. Jobs going overseas is just one part of globalism, and globalism is good. So act like a good American would and help make it happen.
Next, you need to multiply the number violent crimes in your country. Although an abstract goal, it isn't difficult to increase the number of lawbreakers. For one, write new laws until everybody is a criminal for one reason or another. Then make sure enough of your citizens are peer-pressured into living the American Dream (or your country's equivalent)-- and failing-- that they end up falling into the welfare safety net that most first-world countries call prison. Once in prison, there's little hope of them not going downhill, thanks to credit and criminal records that last a lifetime and are difficult, if not impossible to repair. One out of 37 Americans has served jail time-- a testament to the success of America's strict police force. Next time you go to the store, look around you and estimate about how many of the people you see have spent time in the slammer. That's a lot of people! As an added bonus, high violent crime rate helps reduce life expectancy, which is another important factor in competing with the States. The U.S. is behind Germany and Japan, to name a couple of countries offhand whose citizens enjoy longer lifespans than the average American. Furthermore, Americans take pride in their life expectancy levels, owing them to a variety of geriatric and gluttony-related drugs such as Viagra, diet inhibiters, and cholesterol level limiters in addition to surgery. Americans enjoy spending their excessive salaries on expensive medical care instead of taking care of their bodies in the first place. Americans also enjoy plastic surgery to help them get jobs and friends, because looks are very important in the States. Case in point: Paula Jones. Before face lift surgery, she was nothing but an ugly nosy old hag. After surgery, she was still an old nosy hag but somehow more human. Sure there are casualties in plastic surgery, such as Michael Jackson, but that's not the norm. Our only major export industry is entertainment and actors' bodies must conform to strict standards of beauty. Every time
I had gotten permission to sync my Linux boxen at home from a particular NTP server. I have since moved, and have not yet configured a closer server, sepite once again being online 24/7. The poor admin of my time source is probably wondering about the strange IP address requesting time. Gotta fix that.
You could've hired me.
distribution system. just doing our part.
.asp for va lairIE's whoreabull pateNTdead PostBlock(tm) devise?, used against the truth/to protect robbIE's payper liesense stock markup bosses/corepirate nazi 'sponsors'. yuk.
that's right. all of the whoreabull payper liesense stock markup ?pr? ?firm? generated scriptdead bullshipping execrable will cease. that includes the terabytes of shilloneous stuff that doesn't matter at all, postdead buy va lairIE/robbIE et AL.
at least until the planet/population rescue program (formerly unknown as the oil for babies initiative) is lowered from crisis mode. pretending everything is duckey/a chance to peddle phonIE payper liesense garbage, doesn't help.
y'all can chortle/pretend more if you want to, but the dying/mutilated innocents aren't sharing your feigned ability to disregard unprecedented evile. any harm to the least of the innocents, is harm to all of you/us, & will require reparations by all of us.
that's right, after the walking dead finish exterminating themselves, & sadly enough, some of us, it won't take long to clean this cesspool of greed/fear execrable up.
the Godless wons are helping by continuing to show where their hearts lie.
fortunately, mr stallman et AL, etcetera, is now offering comparable/superior software, to the payper liesense spy/bug wear feechurned models, in almost every circumstance. there'll be few, if any more softwar billyonerrors, as if there's a need for even won. tell 'em robbIE. you are won of the last wons whois soul DOWt, right?
back on task.
what might happen to US if unprecedented evile/the felonious georgewellian southern baptist freemason fuddite rain of error, fails to be intervened on?
you already know that too. stop pretending. it doesn't help/makes things worse.
they could burn up the the main processor. that would be the rapidly heating planet/population, in case you're still pretending not to notice.
of course, having to badtoll va lairIE's whoreabully infactdead, pateNTdead PostBlock(tm) devise, robbIE's ego, the walking dead, etc..., doesn't slow us down a bit.
that's right. those foulcurrs best get ready to see the light. the WANing daze of the phonIE greed/fear/ego based, thieving/murdering payper liesense hostage taking stock markup FraUD georgewellian fuddite execrable are #ed. talk about a wormIE cesspool of deception? eradicating yOUR domestic corepirate nazi terrorist/gangsters will be the new national pastime.
communications will improve, using whatever power sources are available.
you gnu/software folks are to be commended. we'd be nearly doomed by now (instead, we're opening yet another isp service) without y'all. the check's in the mail again.
meanwhile... for those yet to see the light.
don't come crying to us when there's only won channel/os left.
nothing has changed since the last phonIE ?pr? ?firm? generated 'news' brIEf. lots of good folks/innocents are being killed/mutilated daily by the walking dead. if anything the situations are continuing to deteriorate. you already know that.
the posterboys for grand larcenIE/deception would include any & all of the walking dead who peddle phonIE stock markup payper to millions of hardworking conservative folks, & then, after stealing/spending/disappearing the real dough, pretend that nothing ever happened. sound familiar robbIE? these fauxking corepirate nazi larcens, want us to pretend along with them, whilst they continue to squander yOUR "investmeNTs", on their soul DOWt craving for excess/ego gratification. yuk
no matter their ceaseless efforts to block the truth from you, the tasks (planet/population rescue) will be completed.
the lights are coming up now.
you can pretend all you want. our advise is to be as far away from the walking dead contingent as possible, when the big flash occurs. you wouldn't want to get any of that evile on you.
as to the free unlimited energ
If you hadn't wasted time trying to be on-topic, you might have succeeded. But as it is, YOU FAIL IT.
So who got fired?
:)
The SCO rep.
No reason, they just didn't like him.
-B
I bet it would make for a super fast NTP server...
From excellent karma to terible karma with a single +5 funny post...