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Internet Meltdown Predicted for Tomorrow
Kobalt writes "A few news services are reporting that Russian computer expert, Aleksandr Gostev from Kaspersky Labs, has predicted that a large chunk of the Internet will be shut down tomorrow by cyber terrorists."
as long as google dosen't go down we can live on the caches!!!!!
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You mean I might actually get to go outside and go to the beach and soak up a few rays??? Jeez what a horrid loss....
Could they be a bit clearer on which TZ they're basing the attack? For me, it's already "tomorrow" in Japan.
How can they know? unless they are somehow involved.....
Otherwise, what am I going to do all day tomorrow at work!
He just wants to sell you his anti-virus!
Would this have anything to do with the 2 Russian airliners that crashed yesterday?
Marvin knew: "Think of a number, any number..."
I smell the work of the GOP trying to get the geek vote.
Drill baby drill - on Mars
does that mean we all get the day off work ??
Can someone seriously tell me what a "cyber terrorist" is? Is it someone who makes threats using electronic media? Is it someone who defaces web sites? Is it someone who shuts down the Internet? Are the latter two here really forms of terrorism? I don't really know of anyone who is "terrorized" by defaced web sites and high lag times, but I could be wrong.
Why bother.
How will I be so productive at work ?
oh... wait..
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I predict that tomorrow this prediction will be useless and untrue. Signed, the not so AC nobody
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From Mosnews""Speaking at a conference hosted by Russian Information Agency Novosti, Aleksandr Gostev from Kaspersky Labs said information on this terrorist attack was published on special websites. He did not elaborate."
What kind of attack, what 'special websites', what equipment or service is being attacked, what vulnerabilities does it exploit, etc, ad nasuem.
Cripes, give us some sort of information, is the sky falling or isn't it?
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We're going to slashdot the entire internet?
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SANS internet storm center has a note on this. They have seen increased scriptkiddie activity possibly leading up to this. Started on Sunday. Also read the note on the "drag-n-drop" exploit that is now seen in the wild and only requires you to move the scrollbar for it to install....several scanners are not picking up some of the new binaries being installed.
Armed with this foreknowledge, what can we do besides wait and see what happens? One of TFAs stated that there's really nothing we can do to defend against the attack, so what's the point in worrying about it? Either it will happen, and folks in the US and Western Europe will be inconvenienced, or it won't happen, and we'll all have worried for nothing. At this point, it seems like this knowledge, while nice to have, is somewhat useless.
Also, why tomorrow? Wouldn't it send a more powerful message to wait a few weeks and do it on September 11th?
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What a load of 1t08vwnw8t NO CARRIER
NO! don't let them anywhere NEAR the internet's power switch!
Summary: nothing to see here. Move along.
The sun may or may not go nova this week.
I may or may not get myself a real girlfriend.
there may or may not be dupes posted on our beloved
Kevin Mitnick may or may not like chicken.
You may or may not get that raise (job, for those unemployed) this week.
It's easy to make
. . .seeing "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along." when I clicked on the story really was rather amusing.
.unless you're with the FBI or something. In that case I never said a word.
Oh, and I predict that terrorists will redirect an asteroid into Detroit (well, we can dream, can't we?) on the day after tomorrow. Remember, if it comes true you heard from me first. .
KFG
wget -m http://*
I'm real glad I still have all those MREs I stored up for Y2K.
Describing theinquirer.net as a 'news service.'
why?
After seeing this story I'm beginning to wonder if perhaps I've begun to feel the initial symptoms of this attack... or if my ISP is just shit. (Betting on the latter)
As of a day or so ago, my bandwidth went down the drain. 3Mbit cable line was throttled down to 500Kbit, with massive speed test fluctuations. Plus, playing anything on HL servers I get a choke of around 100, meaning my bandwidth is saturated.
Anyone else having similar issues?
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"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
-- George Orwell
Download everything you can so that if you can't use the internet for a few days you'll be ready!
Doesn't this just mean a day off for most of us? At my work, no internet, and the place is useless. I mean, if your servers and network are secure, but the rest of the net is down, there really isn't much left for you to do but wait until everyone else gets their act together.
Just a day off if you ask me.
Live forever, or die trying.
Fine. I will read slashdot day after tomorrow and pay bills over the weekend.
And my employer gets more productive time out of me. Now beat that you terrorists.
Has anyone else noticed a lot of automated (presumably) login attempts for the users 'root', 'test' and 'guest' over SSH?
I never used to get this, and now I seem to get dozens of them every day.
I wonder if this is related to the so called "dooms-day" tomorrow.
Productivity tomorrow is expected to rise to levels not seen since the 1980's.
They'll delete the "Internet" icon off their desktops! The bastards!
Gotta hold that server together somehow.
Department of Homeland Security says that we're at code yellow "Significant risk of terrorist attack". This confirms the story!
Service Pack 2 will be available via Windows Update.
But I can predict with 100% certainty that my eyes will meltdown in their sockets if they don't change the IT section color scheme soon.
Slashdot
ThinkGeek
Linux.com
Google.com
Hopefully these will still be up tomarrow... they're pretty much the only sites I go to.
OMG if the "internet goes away" that means no work tomorrow!
;-)
Please I hope this is true!
Kaspersky says his comments have been misrepresented.
A coordinated online strike against Internet servers by terrorists, dubbed "electronic jihad," may or may not strike this week, security experts said.
Well, I may or may not be concerned then.
Moo.
e-had - a purely electronic holy war
i-had - much like an e-had, but it's portable
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
A terrorist is someone who is not with me...
Because, if someone is not with me, he is against me.
And if someone is against me, it terrorize me.
I was supposed to do a major network re-configuration tomorrow, damn, now I'll get the blame for bringing down the whole internet!
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
I noticed a lot of my favourite overseas sites have been slow to load, while others, located in North America, load normally...
Just an impression though. I did not notice any more lag than usual in the online games I play
See also this VMyths posting to theFull Disclosure mailing list
the slashdoting to http://www.kaspersky.com/
Anyone else seen an unusual hit count for port 554 (rtsp)?
Planet10, RealSoOn
The end is near! Repent internet sinners, for tomorrow will be the second coming of eJesus and we will all be judged.
Is it just coincendence that 2 Russian airliners were downed yesterday and then this 'attackapalooza' is announced by a Russian agency?
Since there are elections in Russia upcoming for the Chechnya region (politician was assassinated there), if the attack is related to that it would make more sense for iNet attacks to hit Russian webistes.
Just a stupid script kiddie ssh attack which won't work on 99.9999999999999999% of systems, but makes the kiddies feel l33t.
Spoiler Alert: It starts off pretty cool, but really drags in the middle. The ending is horrible.
I guess I'll have to stay up extra late tonight then in order to finish downloading the entire Internet onto my laptop...
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
Kaspersky labs says they were misquoted. Quoting from a mail from kaspersky labs themselves (as found in a repost on the NTBugtraq mailing list):
A handful of sites are stating that Eugene Kaspersky, founder of Kaspersky Labs, believes that tomorrow will bring a massive terrorist attack on the Internet. This is being quoted in a range of ways, ranging from factual reporting to citing the story as an example of cyber hysteria.
However, Kaspersky is not predicting the end of the Internet tomorrow - or even in the near future. The story stems from brief comments made yesterday at a press conference which was dedicated to cybercrime and the problems of spam.
At this press conference, Kaspersky commented that the possibility of terrorists using the Internet as a tool to attack certain countries as a reality. As an example, he cited the fact that a number of Arabic and Hebrew language websites contained an announcement of an 'electronic jihad' against Israel, to start on 26th August 2004.
In an interview today, Kaspersky stressed that such information was not necessarily trustworthy. 'We don't know who is behind these statements.' He went on to clarify: 'It's not the first time the term 'electronic jihad' has been used. We've seen this before, with the focus being on sending racist emails, and defacing and hacking Israeli web sites. But it is the first time I have seen sites encouraging the use of Internet attacks against one country as a form of terrorism.'
'As we've already stated many times in the past, it would be easy enough to use a network of infected computers to launch such an attack. We saw the impact that Sasser, Mydoom and Slammer had, on the Internet, businesses and organisations. Just imagine if such an attack was directed at one country or one critical point in the infrastructure of the Internet. Computers are a tool - and just like any tool, they can be used or misused.'
Kaspersky emphasised that the likelihood of a massive attack directed against Israeli institutions tomorrow is low. However, he believes that Pandora's box has now been opened. Hackers and virus writers can be motivated by a range of factors: money, curiosity, or political
conviction. But whatever their motivation, the insecure nature of the Internet and weak security precautions offer a wealth of opportunities. 'Maybe it won't be tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow - but sooner or later, terrorists will be using the Internet as another weapon in their arsenal.'
Why couldn't he have said this months ago? I could have gotten another cushy job protecting computers against doomsday. Much like i did during the whole y2k fiasco.
Mhhh... Employment by scaring the shit out of other people..... tasty
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While it could certainly cause serious damage to businesses who depend on the Internet, it in no way evokes terror in people's hearts and minds. The purpose of terrorism is to coerce through terror of random violence. I'm sorry, but the threat of having a portion of the Internet shut down does not fill my heart with terror.
It's a slap in the face to all those who have died on September 11 and all other victims of terrorism around the world.
Not to mention the extremely disturbing precedent being set here. The word "terrorist" is becoming similar to how the word "communist" was used during the Cold War. I.e., a term you apply to anybody you don't like in order to dehumanize them. I find it sickening.
"Now, if we can get a story up on Slashdot with _every_ single URL we can find...
Not sure how this relates to any jihad, though.
When's the Republican National Convention? Maybe this is somehow related to CrimethInc's talk?
Doesn't XP Service Pack 2 finally make its way onto Windows Auto-update tomorrow?
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Maybe you could just leave your computer off tommorow : )
Just make sure you have an ample supply of pr0n available offline.
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Someone has to say it...
In soviet Russia, the internet melts you down.
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Those who can't, teach
Those who don't know how, supervise
Well, i was (sort of) with you until you decided to sign off with the incredibly thoughtful and insightful "Fucking Lame...". After that, i just decided you were an idiot and flushed anything that might've been useful in your post from my brain.
As long as it means I dont have to look at this gawdawful light grey on white color scheme again...
Joe
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Hmm...Sensationalized Internet Doomsday plot. If democrats were fingered as the cause, I'd be sure it was a Fox News ploy to assist the Bush administration.
Citizens will be running in the streets in panic if they're pop-up ads stop working - Oh the humanity!!
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Remember people, this is Fox News. I'd trust this report slightly less than a report from Al Jazeera that the Internet was going to be shut down by imperialist Yankee swine...
Consider an attack that specificaly caused medical equipment to malfunction. This could cause people in hospitols around the world to die. That might count as terrorism. Hope the hospitols get WinXP SP2 installed soon!
Looks like those terrorists guys finaly invented something better than this
Now we all get a 'no slacking' day, whoopiee!
Out of all experts in all fields, I think the computer experts are the ones with the least knowledge, he's probebly just playing Nostradamus to get attention, and if there is no attack, he'll claim that his announcement made us aware of the attack to we would prevent it.
Or would that be Perl harbor? Seriously though, I am about sick of the Pearl Harbor references. I suspect that such a widespread attack will take place sooner or later but I doubt that it will be terrorists at fault... More likely some antisocial 17yr old script kiddie.
Don't know about tomorrow, but I'm on SBC, and it's been playing silly buggers all damned morning.
and prove that he's off by a day.
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At about 12:15pm on the US east coast, it should be "tomorrow" soon in the Eastern continents. I'll keep a watch on the stats and flip the switch if necessary :P
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
If the Internet survives, then you can use the freeze-dried strawberries for dacquiris and margaritas.
I better start downloading the internet!
OMG111 Some1's gonna break teh intarweb1?1
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The sky, she is falling! The sky, she is falling!
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
How many 'attacks'(defaced websites, DOS attacks, etc) are attempted daily, regardless of what day of the year it is? 100, 1000,10000, more? Gostev is just making a guess at the success of tomorrows attacks. Cyber terrorists indeed, the day i become afraid and terrorized because of a DOS attack or a webpage getting defaced is the day I deserve to be beaten to a bloody pulp.
How will I get to Netcraft to check if the internet is down?
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Those who can't, teach
Those who don't know how, supervise
im using tin cans and ducktape now, run for your lives !!
The russian continued to warn that "anyone who does not want their webserver annihilated tomorrow should accordingly shut down said server or disconnect it from the net..."
Do we get last post pissing contests now as well? :)
We now have added two new members to the axis of evil: known as '1' and '0'. These numbers, also known as 'bits' have caused a great tragedy in our nation, preventing myself and other fellow americans from accessing our favourite porn sites. The perpetrators will not go unpunished, and we will not stop until every last 'bit' has been brought to justice.
I can't wait! Someone tell whomever is involved to make sure that all EMAIL is knocked off-line! That way, I can go home and not have to listen to all of the fucking whining about SPAM. At least if email is down, I have someone to blame :-)
"Klaatu, verada, necktie!" -Ash
i see no reason why that's necessarily an either/or proposition, bladernr. after all, asking candidates 3 months before the election to opine on something is more or less begging for spin, isn't it?
ed
..or more accurately - the warning or the threat?
It strikes me that reporting the threat of a "Internet meltdown", especially in such sensationalist terms, would only ensure that it happens rather than mitigate the results (which, like DDoS attacks, are near impossible to prevent).
Especially as its being billed as a terrorist attack. Ordinarily the media are left to make all kinds of outlandish terrorist links after the event, but to suggest it in advance seems to me to be an ideal way for anyone anti-Government to orchestrate attacks on this day purely to get greater-than-normal coverage. Newsflash: Not all scriptkiddies are by definition terrorists.
Advisories like these, coupled with the implied terrorist connections (which is FOTY now in media circles) and the fact that no one can practically do anything about things like this if they do in fact happen seems to be helping the terrorists by giving them ideas, than helping us, the citizens, who are constantly living in fear of Al Qaeda hacking our hard drives.
I wouldn't call downing political websites "Crippled"...
Sounds more like our russian friend is planning this DoS to get publicity...
A large chunk of the Internet will be shut down tomorrow by cyber terrorists
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... all he has done is run an alogrithm that predicts 3,000,000,000 WinXP machines are all due BSOD at the same time, as opposed to the normal 'out of sync' crashes.
I mean, like the Planets, they all have to line up sometime.
http://www.mosnews.com/feature/2004/08/23/bubbleba ba.shtml
I gather microsoft is releasing Windows XP Service Pack 2 tomorrow.
Bring it on.
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Oh no! I'd better turn off my company's internet infrastructure to protect it against malicious usage!
Misleading titles? Inflammatory blurbs? Keep in mind that Slashdot is a tabloid.
Doesn't SP2 become available for automatic download tomorrow? Half the world downloading 120MB simultaneously will more than account for an 'internet meltdown' in and of itself, no need for teh cyberterrorists.
Work is punishment for failing to procrastinate effectively.
Sounds like I should put in for a vacation day, before the boss sees this. ;)
"Sometimes a man's gotta do what a woman wouldn't consider." - Red Green
... will be the ones who either save the day, or let us all go down. Remember the similar recent incident? Akamai was in the center of it. If Akamai goes down, forget Google.
Simpy
Now The Internet is going to melt down today as tens of thousands of slashgeeks stock up on microwave burritos and net-pr0n and wait out the upcoming apocolypse.
How does the Slashdot Effect happen given that no slashdotters ever RTFA?
All it means is that there are going to be several good articles on Slashdot tomorrow that we are all going to read. Thus 'large portions of the internet will be down' tomorrow.
I'm surprised no one has made the connection!
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Maybe M$ releasing SP2 to Windows Update tomorrow.
Every time something like this happens, theres always the argument that the internet was built to survive attacks. If something does happen, it will be interesting to see what happens, and how things will/wont work.
. . . don't terrorists need the internet to communicate too?
"The executive director of Dr.Web antivirus lab, Mikhail Bychinsky, quoted by Lenta.ru web agency said he had not heard of such an attack. "I do not believe in mass internet attacks because the main servers are defended, and Kaspersky Labs has been foretelling doomsday for a long time.""
Sounds like Kaspersky Labs is doing a bit of guerilla marketing on their own. "Subscribe to our pay sites and see when this 'attack' will take place !"
I wonder if a 21st century chicken little would have sold newsletters instead of running around the barnyard.
...to do a badly needed internet cleanup.
If it's true, this will be a good opportunity for me to unplug. I'll Grab a nice book and catch up on some offline reading.
Slashdot is contributing to the sensationalism!
At worst someone will flood Disney.com and CNN.com off the net for a few hours. Big whoop.
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'The story first appeared on the Lenta.ru web agency and might be as valid as this this one, however we are hedging our bets and buying in extra cans of beans.'
Why beans, why not spam ?
it's like the whole internet is /.ed
Then how bad can it be?
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This is just another PNAC conspiracy. Every time Bush and/or Ashcroft scares people into thinking terrorists are about to wreak havoc, the good little sheeple promptly bend over and accept new legislation that further erodes civil liberties. Bill Gates being the "generous" GOP donor that he is, has now joined in. If they scare enough people into thinking that cyberterrorism is about to destroy the Internet, the good little sheeple will promptly bend over and accept Microsoft(tm) Patented(tm) DRM(tm) across everything.
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Donald Rumsfeld seems to fit into your progression.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
A *RUSSIAN* scientist spreading homeland security propaganda for an *AMERICAN* political party. You really put a lot of thought into that assertion, didn't you?
e, i, e, i... oh no!
Sorry, it was the first thing to pop into my head.
I mean.. if /. gets taken down by this... I can get more work done finally! ;)
Didn't the US just recently move all Fedral Reserves transactions over the Internet?
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Yes yes, it all seems to be falling into place now...
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=118058&cid
It's only common sense they would have a backup link, but WHO KNOW'S?
You could always lock yourself out.
From the eweek article: "A coordinated online strike against Internet servers by terrorists, dubbed "elec tronic jihad," may or may not strike this week, security experts said." In related news, the earth may or may not fall into the sun this week. Another quote from the eweek article: "For example, a DDoS attack in June against Akamai Technologies Inc. slowed traff ic across the Internet for several hours. And in July, DoubleClick Inc.'s DNS (d omain name system) was attacked and unable to serve ads for a similar time frame." OMFG! The internet might slow down!1!1! nice to see slashdot stories have sunk to the level of the National Enquirer and the Weekly World News.
.. its just lots of Windows machines trying to download SP2 updates.
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Just put an asterisk in your ie address bar and go to file -> work offline. This will just download everything (not recommended for NetZero subscribers)
i ain't see nothin'...
probably would've looked like what happened in the family guy episode when year 2000 came in with a bang and stewey grew tentacles...
The real question is, with this information will sysadmins try and protect their resources or just ignore it (think: September 11 commission)? No one seems to have specific details, so I suppose you can't specifically protect anything (like a known trojan attack), but maybe it's time to take some general steps like ensuring your firewall is keeping things secure. Any other ideas from fellow slashdotters?
Jihad Begins Thursday, Internet Predicted to Melt Down by Mid-day
You should probably starting backing up that gig of gmail to local storage. According to a Russian news site, Kaspersky Labs states that terrorists will launch attacks which will paralyze the Internet this Thursday. This tragically coincides with two weeks of script kiddie attacks (which were scheduled to begin this past Sunday) aimed at disrupting the Republican national convention. In addition, many college students are back on campus this week, which provides the e-terrorists and i-subversives with a veritable candyland of insecure boxes on big pipes. Faced with this triple threat, our beloved Internet will surely fall.
The ISC would like to go out on a limb and predict that the Internet will not vaporize into a cloud of nothingness this Thursday, but if it does, it's been our pleasure to help stave off its inevitable annihilation this long.
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Slashdot won't be targeted. Only a fool would target slashdot and cause all the geeks in the world to have time in which they can stop an attack. Instead they will ensure slashdot is up and running so that there can be many posts about how this site or that site is down so if they are about to come back up they will be feeling the slashdot effect. So seriously if anything any organized DoS attack will have slashdot as their allie not make a front end attack.
Long live the effects of slashdot.
Why is this a story? Seriously... This is pure BS. You KNOW tomorrow will come and go and nothing will happen.
Might as well report that the Apocalypse is supposed to happen sometime between 7 PM and 12 AM on Friday.
Personally, I hope it does happen. There hasn't really been any interesting attacks since Code Red. I'm always looking forward to what attackers will come up with next.
If they could actually cause a "meltdown", then that would be purely amazing.
We have secretly replaced these Slashdot mods' sense of humor with a rusty nail. Let's see if they notice!!
Since about midnight last night, Earthlink appears to be ahead of this "internet meltdown" curve. Their DSL service has been slow when it's working at all.
What a service provider!
You see, Apple is going to go out of business tomorrow and that will make the Interweb shut off. See? It was all so easy.
IF I get a subscription to slashdot, can I get a printed version. Maybe sent over mailbox email?
Maybe he is referring to the Windows Update release of XP SP2?
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Don't rag on the WWN. I for one love reading up on Osama hanging out at strip joints and "Batboy's" latest escapades...
If you lined up all of the economists in the world, you still wouldn't reach a conclusion.
and it need not be limited to five.
A goal is a dream with a deadline
I'm curious to see how much success they'll have. The internet was, after all, designed explicitly for the purpose of continued operation through attacks on the network.
In order to hinder any preventative measures, I predict that cyber-terrorists, in conjunction with conventional terrorists and the Russain mafia may or may not lunch a concerted campaign of assasination on security analysts.
This may or may not go un-noticed by the rest of us.
(actually the 80s', but it didn't sound quite as catchy;>
Screw the net! I spend all my time on teh intarweb!
The Article is about a Russian Computer expert and even after 291 Comments there still isn't an "In Soviet Russia" post.
Get the AKs loaded boys... There's going to be hell to pay if I can't play UT 2K4 tomorrow...
Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
Damn, quick someone set up old style dial up bbs :-)
Someone archive all the pr0n, credit card numbers, serial numbers, war3z, dvds, mp3s, AAC, Linux (SCO variant not to be included) on the net on it.
Someone set up a paypal account for donations to help keep it up. wait n/m PayPal will be gone too....
NO!!!!!
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My guess is that the real prediction has to with with Microshaft releasing SP2 officially through Windows Upadate.
That has to be cyber terrorism at it's finest...
of course, one has to imagine that this Kaspersky labs guy Gostev has to be behind the whole thing.. take a look at his mail logs and see how many russian hackers he mailed in the last month saying it would be impossible for them to bring the internet down on 8/26/2004 ... curiouser and curiouser...
I'v been reading conspiracy theorist nuts for years, and these guys are *less* substantiated than most of those nuts. Most nuts will attempt to make their stories sensationalistic in order to arrest your intellect and instill fear into you, since they have no hard data and are batshit fucking crazy. The one's I read/listen to continuously challenge their version of reality.
At least the most of those nuts will challenge their version of reality and come up with some proof. These guys are just plain freggin idiots; it's one antivirus lab's word against another. Who want's to bet someone's lieing to make a quick buck?
No better than the sign in the military surplus store saying "THERE WILL BE ANOTHER TERRORIST ATTACK; LEADERS HAVE SAID SO. ARE YOU PREPARED?" with a BIG picture of Rumsfield and an obscure quote from him.
I guess the news media got what it wanted though; their sites have been slashdotted, their ad's filtered or never clicked, and their bills ub0r high. Much praise to the taco.
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Hi. My ISP is NTL in the UK. Will someone please email me to tell me if the internet melts down.
Due to the continuous DNS server crashes, service disruptions, port blocking, mail server breakage and random slowdowns we get on NTL, I may not notice otherwise.
I was so very sad when that happened. It was rather tragic.
Isn't this just a self fulfilling prophecy? I mean, everybody will just be trying to download all the porn they can before the internet goes down which will intrinsically shutdown the internet.
"Tempers are wearing thin. Let's just hope some robot doesn't kill everybody." --Bender
Germans, Algerians, Vietnamese ....
Infuriate left and right
I mean, " the end of Usenet/ARPAnet/The Internet" stories have been going on for at least 20 years. This one isn't even original, there's been at least a couple like this since 9/11.
They're just /. readers going to a few interesting posted sites!
(You insensitive clods!)
A coordinated online strike against Internet servers by terrorists, dubbed "electronic jihad," may or may not strike this week...
Am I the only person deeply annoyed by this sort of non-statement? In addition to just being stupid ("this thing will either happen, or else it won't! don't you feel informed?"), the word may intrinsically contains the will-or-will-not option. That's what "may" means. Dammit.
It Is the Nature of Information to Transgress Artificial Boundaries
I was going to say it's only a day a way, but we're still working on writting up a /. article on the root nameservers. (that's right, we'll /. those, and everything else will follow...)
-Scott
More like Microsoft releasing the service pack for Windows XP Professional via Windows Update/Automatic Update
...the Internet will be taken down by those nasty cyberterrorists.
my eyes.
The internet may not be your livelyhood, but if you use ATM's or pay with credit cards often, you would probably notice a wholesale internet blackout.
Once in a while, one of the major banks in Canada has a hiccup related to its central servers, and you cannot pay by Interac / debit card. Since alot of people now use debit to buy shit like groceries, this can cause problems. I am sure the same sort of crap happens in the US or any other nation that uses Interac type transactions.
This means that 1 in 5 people or so cannot spend their money for a while, and that a similar number of stores cannot offer interac services. If that hit everyone at once, it would cause a huge problem. You could probably still go to a bank and obtain cash, but if everyone was doing this all at once, there would be pretty long lines.
As a rule of thumb, if something depends on getting info accessed over the internet, think of what not being able to access that information means.
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Isn't the whole idea with the internet that it's supposed to be a redundant network? Take one server down and it routes through the others.
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
through attacks on the network.
If one 'node' drops because of, say Ronald Reagan got an itchy trigger finger, then the others would still be able to talk to each other. It is not designed to stop a coordinated attack on the very infrastructure itself or to stop exploitation of the obvious (now) flaws in design.
Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
from article:
> And in July, DoubleClick Inc.'s DNS (domain name system) was attacked and unable to serve ads for a similar time frame.
Oh the horrors of that happening....
really that bad?
from eweek: here:
And in July, DoubleClick Inc.'s DNS (domain name system) was attacked and unable to serve ads for a similar time frame.
oh, boo-hoo people can't get their poor little ads...
Here we go again!
The lameness filter is off the CHARTS!
~insert tech sarcasm here~
http://www.vmyths.com/hoax.cfm?id=281&page=3
Slashdot anagrams to "Sad Sloth"
Are we looking at mass shut down of DNS Servers or what? and if that is so no one knows when and how big it will be if all because we all know how Dns propagations work. It can take up to 24 hours for anyone to see effects. Is it is just going be a slit change of user's internet DNS settings. If so what will they be set to? DNS stands for Domain Name System. This System translates a domain name such as rshweb.com into the Internet Protocol (IP) numbers (209.203.234.42) to find the correct web site - in this case the site for Domain Bank. The network of computers that constitute the Internet map domain names to their corresponding IP numbers. The data is then made available to all computers and users on the Internet. domain.rshweb.com/glossary.html
Chris Wulliams Help Dessk Agent Easter Seals UCP of NC
Oh no... I better start downloading all my pr0n now!!!
Also, the Internet hasn't exactly been built to specification; there are quite a few bottleneck backbones.
Vintage computer games and RPG books available. Email me if you're interested.
A story on /. that doesn't require you to RTFA! I think the headline on this site contained almost as much information as the linked stories did.
It's /.ed.
It is explained clearly by Russ Cooper in this bugtraq post.
Seems more like Microsoft releasing the service pack for Windows XP via Windows Update/Automatic Update.
SP2 has been available for a week or two (there was a link posted on Slashdot to the download page) to (I think) business and netadmins. My guess is that black hat hackers have found some holes and are perched to launch new exploits. That's the only meltdown I can conceive at the moment.
The world will end tomorrow, and you may die!
Terrorists also can cause a lot of damage, as most of the western world is now so reliant on networks/networking (Banking, ATM, news etc. etc.). I wondered a long time ago how soon it will be when the transatlantic cables are targets.
What exactly is eJihad? Boston term? "eJihad out!" or Terrorism Statement: "You must change your homepage to www.e.bin.laden.org or your computer will destroy you and all of your family!!!!! (alternately, you may install the latest edition of XP)
Happen on a Tuesday. That is when Apple makes the announcements of new products at the Expo in Paris....
It's either on the beat or off the beat, it's that easy.
I moderate therefore I rule!
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Probably not gonna happen folks... If I were a terrorist, I definitely wouldn't leak it out, I woulda just done it already...
If for some reason it does happen, well, nice to know everyone, I'll be on a beach somewhere enjoying my new found freedom!
"Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?" -Poe
Citizen, The Computer is your friend! Now turn yourself in for termination.
Angleyne: You can't bend that girder - it's unbendable! Bender: Well I don't know anything about lifting, so that ju
continued operation through attacks on the network
I never said it was designed to stop an attack. I said it was designed for continued operation through attacks on the network. See my quote above?
Tomorrow never comes.
.yad lla nees ev'I gniht tseinnuF .gnisuma etiuq saw tahT
please me, have no regrets.
Someone let me know when online boxcutters become avilable, maybe terroists will hijack and crash the internet with a couple of those?
Doesn't this happen every so many years, when they search for old, forgotten computers on the internet? I get an email about this fairly often telling me to disconnect for a day so I don't get zapped...
2^32* ip's and nothing to look at anyway.
* Don't berate me on the number. Call it comedic license. I did not look it up and I don't care. If it matters to you and you're not an engineer, you need a life.
j-had : the java implementation
py-had : " python
G - had : google's 1GB version
longhorn: micro$of....wait...nevermind
I like the Internet Storm Center's comment about this "news". From today's
diary:
"The ISC would like to go out on a limb and predict that the Internet will not vaporize into a cloud of nothingness this Thursday, but if it does, it's been our pleasure to help stave off its inevitable annihilation this long."
---- join dshield.org Distributed Intrusion Detec
But there is also a lot of redundancy, and you can create routes on-the-fly at any time. At best, terrorists could slow down segments of the internet, but you'd pretty much have to destroy the planet itself to take it all down.
That an attack on the servers hosted out on the Internet can be seen as taking the internet down?
Now if there were a large scale attack on the NAP's, and/or Routers, then yes you could take a large chunk of the Internet offline.
What amazes me is how pointless it all is, the traffic from the offending locations is easy to refuse (after it is tracked down) and causes a 1 or 2 day headache for some poor geek in a dark room.
Sure for business it may mean that their profit projections for the year are now off by a few dollars, but in whole, buisness is not hurt NEARLY as much as they would like you to think.
eWeek knows what this is all about. That evil Shah that's been cracked, that's what!
I'm sorry, I just had to unravel the mystery of the Shah.
Now I might make use of that Y2K shelter I built before the last advertised armageddon. I will remain sheltered and safe as our countries digital infrastructure is brought to its knees, causing widespread havoc and depriving returned college students of their Kazaa fix. I've been dying to break into the Tang and Deviled Ham stockpiles.
"Don't waste your time or time will waste you" -MUSE
It's just the stupid XP SP2 upgrade through Windows Auto Update. How somebody could confuse a Windows update with cyber terrorism is beyond me!
I may be off my rocker here, but...
I know what MD5 hashing is...What the hell is "Shah 0", discussed in the eWeek article? Does this mean that Iran is giving us encryption now? It must not be very good, if it's in danger of being cracked.
Thoroughly cracked myself...
Tim
Behold, the power of fleas...
Now watch for a dupe of this story TOMORROW!
Darn... First the terrorist attacks tomorrow and then the apocalypse on Friday! Do you know if it's before or after SG1?
Last one in jail is a fascist.
I have lots of pr0n to outlast any ./ reader, while most will be chasing brooms with skirts, goats and sheeps I'll be happy as a clam.
Putin and Bush are two peas in a pod. Welcome to the 21st century. I bet Bush has wet dreams wishing he was Putin or Bertolusconi (SIC?).
Actually, it is "Emerlgency, Emerlgency. Everybody to get from stleet!"
People who disagree with you are not automatically evil, greedy, or stupid.
WTF is CyberTerrorism, you guys like to make everything very dramatic, a couple of script kiddies fucking with you rednecks
Losers
Did they raise the e-alert level?
The internet will be turned off tomorrow for spring cleaning. (Please tell me I'm not the only one old enough to remember this old one?)
Burn KARMA! It was supposed to be a secret! Now you have slashdotted the story! You American Bastards! All Your Internet Are Belong To Us!
This is my sig. There are thousands more, but this one is mine.
...while we know from /. that their computers are insecure, I'm not certain that Crimethinc et al. could break into a wet paper bag, much less RNC servers.
On a side note, I love left-wing fascists (yes, I did mean that) masquerading as liberals and telling me how to think. I don't trust these guys to crack an egg, much less a server - why would I trust anyone of their ilk to run anything larger and more complex than a picnic?
Someone has found This....
No DON'T push that button...
LedgerSMB: Open source Accounting/ERP
If he's right, it's not like your comments will be modded up anyways.
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
Someone who downs the internet should be called something else like cyber hemorroids. After all they wouldn't generate terror. They would simply generate a major pain in the ass.
let's pretend we are terrorized, so they'll think they are being effective.
i prefer being virtualy terrorized than personaly.
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I know life isn't fair, but why can't it ever be un-fair in MY favor!?
...how much insider trading goes on, and how extensive the penetration into the super computer weilding spook agencies it gets.
Say you were a big property owner and also had some fingers into other pies, like insurance companies and airliners. Say you knew a big *something* was coming that would-say-destroy a few buildings, cause some airline stocks to drop, etc.
Could you make money with that information? I think "yes"
On a smaller scale, say you knew a major corporate website would be suffering an attack like a DDoS or defacement, and you had a buhzillion shares in that company, perhaps through some daisy chained front companies.
Could you make money from that information and action? I think "yes"
Nope, I'm not cynical....
I agree that they couldn't break into the RNC servers. But what do script kiddies do when they can't hack something? They pout -- and then they launch a DoS attack.
We all know how trustworthy the Inquirer is. It must be true, the sky is going to fall tomorrow.
Reminds me of a sig I first saw many years back:
"The bus station is where the bus stops. The train station is where the train stops. On my desk, I have a workstation..."
Just getting a jump on the competition....
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Fashion designer Paco Rabanne claimed that Mir would crash into Paris on August 11 1999. It didn't. Others said that a monstrous asteroid or comet, previously unseen, would become visible during the eclipse and strike the Earth thereafter. Nothing happened.
So that's what the Big Button does!
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.
Guess l0pht got bored. Businiess at @stake must have been down last week.
-William
God is everything science has yet to explain.
and the dismal federal response show that homeland security is a joke
We just had an old geezer shopkeeper shot and killed here (nearesty small town) for a few dollars, right in front of his wife.
Illegal immigrants, they caught them already
Guarding borders way over in whoknowswhereistan does nothing when you let in THIRTY MILLION undocumented illegals. Just ask any cop on any of the various gang activity strike forces how bad it is. We got maybe a couple hundred hardcore al queda (something like that) inside the US-maybe, just maybe-but we got around a quarter million illegal immigrant gang members who kill/steal/hijack/rape/pick any violent ctime daily. But, that's not "terrorism" that's not "an invasion" according to our glorius leaders, it's just people seeking employment.
A page from the book of Rumsfeld.
Oh boy...even *more* 503s from /.
OhNo, the attack will be worse than I thought!
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
Sounds to me like someone's had a bit too much vodka. Put the bottle down, Boris!
Must-not-watch TV!
As forseen by the bible code and notradamus and bob dole, this is the the ninth sign of the apocalypse!
REPENT, I SAY!
A morning without coffee is like something without something else.
From: news@kaspersky.com [mailto:news@kaspersky.com]
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1. 25th August 2004: Who knows what tomorrow will bring?
A handful of sites are stating that Eugene Kaspersky, founder of Kaspersky Labs, believes that tomorrow will bring a massive terrorist attack on the Internet. This is being quoted in a range of ways, ranging from factual reporting to citing the story as an example of cyber hysteria.
However, Kaspersky is not predicting the end of the Internet tomorrow - or even in the near future. The story stems from brief comments made yesterday at a press conference which was dedicated to cybercrime and the problems of spam.
At this press conference, Kaspersky commented that the possibility of terrorists using the Internet as a tool to attack certain countries was a reality. As an example, he cited the fact that a number of Arabic and Hebrew language websites contained an announcement of an 'electronic jihad' against Israel, to start on 26th August 2004.
In an interview today, Kaspersky stressed that such information was not necessarily trustworthy. 'We don't know who is behind these statements.' He went on to clarify: 'It's not the first time the term 'electronic jihad' has been used. We've seen this before, with the focus being on sending racist emails, and defacing and hacking Israeli web sites. But it is the first time I have seen sites encouraging the use of Internet attacks against one country as a form of terrorism.'
'As we've already stated many times in the past, it would be easy enough to use a network of infected computers to launch such an attack. We saw the impact that Sasser, Mydoom and Slammer had, on the Internet, businesses and organisations. Just imagine if such an attack was directed at one country or one critical point in the infrastructure of the Internet. Computers are a tool - and just like any tool, they can be used or misused.'
Kaspersky emphasised that the likelihood of a massive attack directed against Israeli institutions tomorrow is low. However, he believes that Pandora's box has now been opened. Hackers and virus writers can be motivated by a range of factors: money, curiosity, or political conviction. But whatever their motivation, the insecure nature of the Internet and weak security precautions offer a wealth of opportunities. 'Maybe it won't be tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow - but sooner or later, terrorists will be using the Internet as another weapon in their arsenal.'
See http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/today/0006
Senior NCO in the fight against entropy. I've seen things, man. Things no one should have to see.....
Like many people I run not only SSH but also a web server with VirtualHosts. I've been thinking of simply shutting down SSH by default- if no service is running on port 22, it can't be hacked.
If I'd want SSH access, I could connect to a certain virtual host on the server, via an SSL link, with the correct username and password.
After all ssh sessions have terminated, sshd could then be shut down again. Without doubt this should be possible, but I don't feel like re-inventing the wheel. Perhaps someone has already done something like this?
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With any luck, they'll nuke it.slashdot.org first.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
On its FAQ:
1.12. Did people in China really use the Google Mirror after China blocked Google?
Yes. We received numerous emails from web surfers in China thanking us for this service.
1.13. I heard that China also blocked other websites that used Google. Why didn't China block elgooG too?
We believe that elgooG survived the Great Firewall of China because the firewall operators thought that elgooG was a joke and not a fully functional version of Google.
http://alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/info/
!@#$!@ modern politics... I'm voting for FDR.
This is serious. Orange will not suffice. We are now up to Baboon's Ass Red.
FTA: "DNS (domain name system) was attacked and unable to serve ads for a similar time frame."
Are they referring to Sitefinder ?
a recent e-mail i got asking me to change our router passwords all to admin/admin. It may have been a mistake for me to do that now that I think about it :(
BRING IT ON BITCHES!!! Lets see what my win95 box can handle
Internet meltdown will happen, but not because of attack...
Microsoft is releasing SP2 (download size from 100 MB to 260 MB) via Automatic Update to 300 million computers running Windows XP. Tommorow Windows users will start to download this huge service pack and internet will be slow - that's all.
Geez! You'll do anything to get out of actually doing some work!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Apparently the terrorists found this website, and will be visiting it tomorrow:
what will happen to my #idlerpg stats? it'll set me back days!
Who bought the can of expired Vienna sausage ?
Alert to all Russian hackers: Bring down the internet at once to confuse the stupid Americans and stop the information about the two plane crashes. Do not allow embarassment to the motherland!
From the eWeek article:
Sounds like someone with less than half a clue got hold of a certain Slashdot article and is blowing it way out of proportion. Also from that same article:
I can imagine a few guys with AK-47s, sitting either in bombed out buildings or caves in the middle of a desert hacking away at encryption algorithms and figuring out ways to trounce "Internet servers". Sheesh, what do we need all of our mathematicians and security researchers for if these guys can just brush these mechanisms out of the way like theyre nothing?
Why bother.
It's just internet cleaning tine, you all are probably familiar with it.
Our net connection at work today was totally choked with a huge DoS attack.
:)
Considering i've not seen this happen for the 5 years i've been using that connection (previous job used my job as their ISP), and considering the fact we have multiple lines including 155mbit ATM's, it seems to be very very unusual timing for this article to come up.
OH NOES! TEH APPOCALYPES!!11
"Hey! Unless this is a nude love-in, get the hell off my property!!"
Here's the plan, we all agree on a set time to blast Slashdot.org with wget in mirroring mode, and make it clear that it won't stop until the color scheme changes.
You'd think the DNS root servers, Akamai, and the like would be filtering them, too.
Sleep is just a poor substitute for caffeine, anyway. -Bob Lehmann
Here is the cache of the google cache of google:
: 64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:zhool8dxBV4J:www.goo gle.com/+google&hl=en/+google&hl=en
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:zhool8dxBV4J
Uhm, that was really meant to be funny. It isnt insightful or interesting... it's humorous. Sheesh moderators.
Why bother.
I was expecting for this to begin on the 22nd
>August 22nd - Day of online direct action a week before the convention >begins. All are encouraged to attack as many right-wing, corporate, >government or military sites as possible. Web defacements, email attacks, >financial disruption, anything and everything. These attacks will be used >to stir discussion of the RNC, encourage people to participate in the >protests in NYC itself, and to build for the mainstream electronic sit-in >on the >29th.
[I can picture a world without war, without hate. I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it]
1. When did the Inquirer start reporting real news?
2. When did Slashdot start thinking anything reported by the Inquirer was worthy of mention??
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
--** And in July, DoubleClick Inc.'s DNS (domain name system) was attacked and unable to serve ads for a similar time frame[several hours].**--
I know thats bad for them but we all HATE banner adverts. (and we all know our favourite sites NEED the money)
If you have nothing useful to say post as AC.
Corporate-Welfare-Business [Anti-Capitalist] Good - Terrorist Bad - Therefor, all Anti-Corporate-Welfare people are Terrorist. This includes many OSS Geeks/Freaks. Serve Corporate-Welfare Aristocracy, or Serve Human Capitalism to build a democratic meritocracy, but you cannot have two masters. Most US UN EU leaders serve the Corporate-Welfare-Business [Anti-Capitalist] to oppress humanity.
.... This is the mental/ethical functional ability of plutocrat servants [AKA: political and religious leaders not serving the people].
That is why spam and spyware are business tools, not terrorist tools.
If it is good for business, then it must be good, then it can't be bad; Therefor, it cannot be terrorist related. ID theft (whoops, I mean outsourcing) by spyware, is good for US UN EU. Spam is just junk-email for business, if it is okay for junk-snail-mail, then spam is good
OldHawk777
Unaccountable leaders are masters, and unrepresented people are slaves. How do US and EU fare?
It mentions that it is to coincides with the RNC.
It's Al Gore's internet. Did anyone ask him if this was a planned outage?
Chip H.
With more then a million infected computers and installed trojans out there, caused by the zillions of clueless sex starved couch potatoes out in Bozo land, it's no WONDER these things are possible.
As long as clueless people open up attachments or fail to apply security patches to their WinBlows systems, we are going to have these problems.
Huzzah!
n s.html
http://www.gelighting.com/na/contactus/prodconcer
States that the average bulb lifetime is the median time to failure in their lab. Thus, the extremely long lasting bulbs and the extremely short lasting bulbs both have little effect on the "average lifetime" a bulb has and most people can expect to experience a bulb's "average lifetime" to be approximately as stated on the package. =-)
Half the world installing SP2 will meltdown the Internet - probably sporadically at the leaf level where a lot of clients just crash.
ISPs should cache SP2 so that the backbone doesn't have to send the same redundant copies all over the place.
Know your pads. One time pad: good for cryptography. Two timing pad: where to take your mistress.
But if it has anything to do with terrorism, won't the Pentagon have to fake an attack on their servers first?
757 my arse.
No network? Cool! Tomorrow's a sick day.
I subscribe to the Kaspersky mailing list and they sent a message that sounded like this (well i think i have it right at least the gist of it i deleted the letter before i found this) some one from kaspersky labs mentioned a e-jihad in his speech and while not new one site dedicated to e-jihad said it planned an attack starting thursday. Now there have been many failied e-jihad (or as they may prefer 3-j1h4d) attempts and most likely to include this one (or they do as little damage as a lone script kiddie). The guy was talking about how now the internet has now become an angle of attack for terrorists and web site defacings, dos attacks and possibly even viruses are not being written for just the fun of some lame script kiddie out to make a name for him self or the business incented viruses that allow spammers to make massive proxy networks but now terrorist or terrorist funded persons. This warning of doom brought on by terrorists is and hsould not be anymore frightening than hearing the govt announce they have heard an increase in chatter.
I predict long lines and high attendance at fast food restaurants, game rooms and movie theaters.
It's a shame the studios aren't releasing Meet the Fockers or Star Trek 5678 tomorrow.
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Whoa. The article says MD5 encryption was cracked. Is this true? I had only heard a rumour that a single collision had been found. And as for SHA-0... that's hardly making up the backbone of the Internet, is it?
Wait a minute... is MD5 even encryption at all? I thought it was a "message digest"...
How many times have we heard a story/threat like this.
*yawn*
Groan! Oh for a few mod points...
if you're worried, SSH/telnet onto your webserver and tar -cfr * then get the file via FTP or HTTP... Mine was only 10MB :-O
Amen.
Did anyone think to make a hardcopy?
Celebrate the finer things in life
It's a rare thing that a Soviet Russia meme is on-topic. This is perfect too, because the following is true:
A Russian computer expert, Aleksandr Gostev from Kaspersky Labs, has predicted that a large chunk of the Internet will be shut down tomorrow by cyber terrorists.
Chernobyl is well-known for a famous meltdown.
Too much Internet usage possibly could melt your brain.
In light of the evidence, I say the parent post is quite funny. Besides, it's an AC, you can't karma-whore as an AC (not that funny mods count towards karma anyway).
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DRM is like antifreeze, to the MPAA/RIAA it's sweet, to the consumers it's poison.
Hey, wait a minute -- isn't the original Checkpoint FW code of Israeli origin? hmmmmm. Checkpoint exploits, anyone? Seriously, one of the reasons we were always told that defense companies avoided CPFW for so long was because it was from Israel. I don't know whether that's crap or not... it certainly sounds like it, though. Anyone know?
maybe one day i'll be smart enough to come up with a cool sig, too.
The article I read said disaster may or may not strike next week. Well, heck, that was difficult to predict, wasn't it? Here are my forecasts for next week:
1. An asteroid may or may not strike central Washington DC and wipe out all the pigeons, but leave everything else untouched;
2. Microsoft may or may not open source Windows and produce a new version of Windows with a Linux core, much like Apple did with OS-X;
3. Al Quaeda may or may not simultaneously knock down all buildings over twenty feet high in America at exactly 1:37pm on Thursday.
So, now that I'm obviously a highly skilled journalist, can I have my million dollars now please?
the only problem - the subject is not funny at all .. slashdot works in misterious ways
"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
REN: Now, listen, Cadet. I've got a JOB for you. See this button? (Stimpy reaches for the button) DON'T TOUCH IT! It's the HISTORY ERASER button, you FOOL!
STIMPY: So what'll happen?
REN: That's just IT! We don't KNOW! Maayyybeee something bad?...Mayyybeee something good! I guess we'll never know! 'Cause you're going to guard it! You won't TOUCH it, will you?
(Stimpy salutes. Ren leaves.)
REN: Hehhh...hehhhh...hehhhh...hehhhh...
(Stimpy marches back and forth, starting at the button.)
ANNOUNCER: Oh, how long can trusty Cadet Stimpy hold out? How can he possibly resist the diabolical urge to push the button that could erase his very existence? Will his tortured mind give in to its uncontrollable desires? (Announcer grabs Stimpy, forces him closer to the button.) Can he resist the temptation to push the button that, even now, beckons him even closer? Will he succumb to the maddening urge to eradicate history? At the MERE...PUSH...of a SINGLE...BUTTON! The beeyootiful SHINY button! The jolly CANDY-LIKE button! Will he hold out, folks? CAN he hold out?
STIMPY: NO I CAN'T!!!EEEEEYAAAHHHH! (pushes button)
I don't want to fit in, I just don't want to stand out
Well I don't know about you guys, but should I really trust a medium with news like this?
The reason passwords are stored as a hash is so that people can't perform the inverse relation of the hash and type that in as a password. Cracking a hash means you have found a way to perform that inversion.
Seastead this.
CNet Story Here tells a different side.
Yep, have gotten them all over. From my home ADSL line and on friends ADSL lines as well, to the server at work (where the firewall redirect them to our fake server).
The graph at dshield, reflects very well when I started seeing it.(in the middle of July)
how do they know that i was going to do this, i didnt tell anyone.
Let's speculate on the speculation and ultimately conclude it's Microsoft's fault for absolutely no reason and with no evidence. And +5 we go!
Yes, indeed. They may not be denser than average, but they're pretty dense nonetheless.
What is the robbing of a bank, compared to the founding of a bank? -- Bertolt Brecht
They've already struck. Their insidious plan is to blind people with horrible web page colors. Ah my eyes! I'm hit! Man down, man down!
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on lunch.
4ll4h h4s sp0ken.
Film at 11!
You are lost in a twisty maze of little standards, all different.
Terrorists have already won this round. When the media spreads fear, that's terrorism in action. When people do things, fear of which the media spreads, they're terrorists - the people doing the things, and the media spreading their fear. In this case, the eWeek story spreads the fear of the attack mentioned as possible by the Russian "security expert" as an excuse to spread slightly more plausible fear of "recent encryption cracks", then cranking up to the fear of "political hacktivism". In this story, the media hasn't even needed people to do something to spread fear - it's pure terrorism, without even the sabotage that ordinarily precedes it.
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make install -not war
I used to get e-mail messages like this a few years ago -- something about shutting down the Internet so they could clean up old files!
Homer no function beer well without.
Kaspersky Labs has discovered the way to get lots of free PR.
Bid now for anything ending tomorrow that still has a low price today, the last-minute squad won't be able to grab it tomorrow :P
this has been on the public radar (PBS: Frontline: Cyberwar) for a while now
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I refuse to have a sig... dammit!
Vymths has an article with some reasearch on this "story".
meh
...would your daughter happen to be 18 and single?
If not, I expect to receive a notice when one or the other becomes true (I'm not picky).
END TRANSMISSION
How did it get from this to "First of all, the United States and Western Europe will suffer from the attack, Gostev was quoted by the agency as saying."?
.sig: Open Source, Open Mind
"The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world!"
The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know.[Harry Truman]
In Soviet Russia, the internet hacks you!
wooo big surprise!
... the dumbass should be the first one arrected.
some dumbass who sells anti-virus and security software claims there will be an crippling attack.
who cares! big deal! it just shows that more than just George W Bush knows how to manipulate the average idiot by scaring and 'protecting' them from the imaginary threat.
If there is an attack tomorrow
George Bush + Linux = "I will not let information get in the way of the fight against Windows"
Well, that leaves me approximately 2 hours to stock up with as much porn & warez as humanly possible!
OH NOES!
ND
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other cyber experts predict that this meltdown may come close to the large-scale meltdown which that occurred around the world at 0:01, 1/1/99.
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Before the invention of eruptions, lava had to be carried down the mountain by hand and thrown on sleeping villagers.
Today we had a major outage on our ADSL network. It turns out that our friendly neighbourhood Telco had a problem on one of their VLANs.
I'm sure our customers will be pleased if this pans out.
"No problem. I have the capacity to do infinite work so long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero."-Dilbert
Don't be taken in by this idiot--he has accounts under the names bonch and Overly Critical Guy. He has a history of astroturfing for Microsoft, bashing anything Open Source, using lies and half-truths to get modded up, karma whoring, and the usual trolling (under his bonch account, he got a troll posted to the front page of Slashdot).
All you have to do to check the veracity of this is to look at the posting history of his two old personnae (linked above) and his current one to figure it out.
Please do not mod this jerk up--every time you do the Slashdot S/N ratio goes down while bonch/Overly Critical Guy/rd_syringe just laughs at you.
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Gostev said that the information on the attack could be found on "specialist web sites" although at the time of going to press the INQ couldn't find them.
I think the terrorists attacked their own sites - that's why they were down. So they were correct, part of the internet was taken down by them. Website no higeki!
Sure enough, the cow costume was hanging up next to the superhero outfit and sailors uniform. (S,Spud)
i could really need a shut down. would stop me from permidling on irc, and perfirstpostoring on slash.
damn. these russians used to be much better in the past. wonder what happened to them ever since the cold war stopped. nuclear threats and communism suited them better than fake and fud attax on my precious inet.
in soviet russia, the inet shuts down YOU
Is there some kind of auto-moderation on Slashdot? The parent post started out with +2 because of my karma. Suddenly (perhaps because it met some pattern?) it gets modded down? My post was actually on topic, considering that it was about the internet going down. Trying to get the last post may not have been the most hilarious attempt, but it wasn't offtopic. I have noticed some other things as well, in other posts. It seems like keywords trigger them to be auto-moderated. Hmm. Could the tinfoil hats be right? Now I wonder if replying to a zero-modded post will cause me to lose even more karma. Slashdot, the supposed bastion of the Freedom, is found out to be just the opposite. Maybe the end of the internet is here...
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That's hilarious!
But I gotta ask.. what happens when a someone breaks into your house, you hide in the bed, and then the invader simply unplugs it and nails the lid shut?
The first thing that struck me when seeing that site is that they're missing the line "makes a great coffin, too!"
Had to be said
I'm a consultant - I convert gibberish into cash-flow.
Check the timestamp on me.
Proof the internet is up.
would be a nice change that sort of thing doesnt happen very often. of course it would suck not to have the internet
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