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Knock Safely With portknocking_v1.0

mrdeathgod writes "The Port Knocking project at SourceForge has just released portknocking_v1.0. Based on my undergrad thesis, this client/server package does not use pre-defined knock sequences, but rather utilizes Blowfish in order to encrypt the client data into a sequence of port numbers. This enables a client with the proper password to remotely manipulate firewall rules without fear of replay attacks. While currently designed for FreeBSD+ipfilter, expanded portability is in the works."

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  1. Preview button... by geschild · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Admonishing us for not using the preview button or a spell checker?! :D

    "Well. I guess I'll have to see your 'dupe on the same day' and I raise you... a glaring spelling mistake in a title."

    At least the editors can edit their entries. :P

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    Karma? What's that again?
  2. Kock Safely by I(rispee_I(reme · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Freudian slip, much?

  3. FreeBSD is Dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    It is official; Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

    FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

    Fact: *BSD is dying

    1. Re:FreeBSD is Dying by Tezkah · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      If *BSD is dying, why do you feel the need to post this in *every* BSD story? Shouldn't you just ignore it and let it go away?

  4. Re:Offtopic? by blackcoot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    we are not all one with the typo detection ;-)

  5. Michael Kocks Safely by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Hello. My name is Michael. You might know me as the censor at a Geek news site where we pretend to offer news that matters. Or perhaps you remember me as the guy who hijacked an anti-censorship website. Whatever.

    Now is your chance to really know me. I'm going to let you in on my personal life, and the secret of how Timothy, Rob, Jeff, and I all "came" together.

    I remember that autumn day so well. It was in our dorm room at Hope College, in Holland, Michigan. Timothy stood there by the bathroom sink, totally naked and shaving his face. He didn't recoil when I went into the bathroom which we also shared with Rob and Jeff--the guys next door.

    Timothy and I had been roommates for almost three months now and gotten used to seeing each other strip down, dress, and even "hard".

    "Hey, Michael" he said.

    I had gotten the chance to look Timothy over a few times. But for some reason that evening I just stood there looking at his scraggly unkempt hair, his bare back, his flabby back muscles flowing down into the lumpy mounds of cellulite which composed his saggy buttocks and thick thighs.

    Despite his flab, the sexy swastika tattoo on Timothy's right butt cheek gave him an air of hunky manliness.

    "Oh I'm sorry, Timothy" I said without him saying anything despite the fact I had been standing there looking at him.

    "I was just ..." he turned and smiled through the shaving cream. "it's OK ... I look at you too, Michael" he said.

    I didn't know what to say then. I just moved next to him at the sink and stripped off my shirt to wash.

    "Got a hot night tonight, Michael?" he asked.

    "Naw just thought I'd go for a swim and pizza later. How 'bout you, Timothy?"

    "You keep swimming, Michael, and that hot ass of yours will be the talk of the dorm" he said as he patted my butt. He left his hand there and stroked one ass-cheek a bit.

    "You keep doing that and you won't be going anywhere, Timothy" I said half joking. My cock had already began to turn my boxer shorts into a small tent.

    He didn't move his hand at all. In fact his fingers moved under the boxers and he stroked bare skin.

    Timothy said, "Shit, Michael, I'm getting you hard".

    "Yea you get it too hard and you'll have to find a way to get it down again" I said spreading the shaving cream on my face.

    His fingers moved between my ass-cheeks and stroked. It felt good ... and then he suddenly stopped.

    "Can't now ... maybe when I get back. Will you still be up then, Mikey?"

    His hand had moved to my tented crotch and he gently felt my boner when he asked.

    "Not if you keep doing that, Timothy"

    We joked around like that often of course. But that evening his attention was more then the usual goosing or ass grabbing.

    I swam hard laps so my effort and the water would make my cock shrink. But my head was full of the memories of his petting as well as his naked body.

    I knew that after my pizza and maybe a beer, I'd be in my bed jacking off as many times as I could before he got back to the room.

    I was mid-way through my second go round when the door opened. He looked at me and smiled.

    "I hoped you'd be waiting, Michael" he said as he stripped off his shirt and jeans. We didn't speak. Timothy moved to my bed and pulled my covers off.

    Timothy pushed my hands over my head and to the bed pipe. I held them as he lifted my legs and curled my body over so his fingers, lips and tongue could take total control of my body.

    I closed my eyes and swooned as the sensations I had only fantasized about made me shiver and shake. Timothy's fingers stroked the lips of my ass then moved inside to find my prostate and stroked that bringing me to the point of orgasm. The sperm splattered on my face, chest, and stomach.

    But he wasn't through and his cock moved into my ass before it could recover and close tight after the orgasm. It hurt and made me beg him to stop. "Shut up Michael. Y

  6. Re:GNAA Claims Responsibility for Killing 3000 Blo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i had fun modding down the rest of your comments. thanks troll.

  7. K is funny. by Ayanami+Rei · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Cake is funny. Muffin? Not funny.

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    THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
  8. kock by pizza_milkshake · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    when the ports are a-kockin....

  9. Bones said it best by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "It's dead, Jim."

  10. Port knocking is bad news. by rice_burners_suck · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't know about all this port knocking. The other day, my valves were knocking, and that concerned me quite a bit, as I just recently finished a head job, and the knocking tells me that I didn't adjust the valves correctly. The last thing I need now is my ports knocking too... that would totally ruin the engine. You can't find Stage-1 455's in this condition anymore.

  11. you said portknocker by specialRrider_Joe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Butthead: you portknocker! Beavis: he he hehehe Butthead: uhhh huh haha Beavis: he he.... you said knocker Butthead: uhhhh huh ha ha huh Beavis: he hehe he