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Internet Providers Band Together to Fight Evil
toadlife writes "A group of prominent Internet providers are teaming up with a security vendor Arbor Networks to form the Fingerprint Sharing Alliance. Through the use of Arbor Networks Peakflow SP internet appliance (which is an OpenBSD box with some secret sauce mixed in), members of the alliance can share internet threat information with each other in real time. It sounds a bit like Razor, doesn't it?"
How about: "It sounds a bit like SkyNet, doesn't it?"
Will they all be wearing spandex bodysuits and flowing capes to work?
IP packet with Evil Bit set?
Looks great and all, but according to one of those screenshots, alot of the ICMP packets are coming from 172.x.x.x addresses. I asked my ISP if they could dish me out a few of these once awhile back, but they kept on declining everytime I asked. What gives?
Also, they say this bad boy runs on OpenBSD. Where can I download my copy?
A group of prominent Internet providers :\
Not after we slashdotted them
Shouldn't these so called "Internet providers" cope with a small increase in traffic?
RIAA and MPAA Team Together to Create Kryptonite would be my guess.
This could be the greatest comic book. Ever.
"Internet Providers Band Together to Fight Evil"
I wonder what their special powers will be. I know BT's agreement with ET will enable it to fly bicycles and heal sick things with a glowing finger, but what about the others?
(Sorry American people etc. You probably haven't seen the adverts.)
Philip
Signatures are broken
But does the traffic ABOUT evil traffic have the evil bit set, since its contents are evil?
IF there's somethign strange , in your network group Who You Gonna Call .. DDOS butsters
If your packets are strange , and your email slow
Who You Gonna Call .. DDOS busters
When I read "Internet Providers Band Together to Fight Evil" for some reason I had the mental image of a bunch of kids with the names of major ISPs written on their T-shirts running around with rings containing the power of broadband, low latency etc.
Whenever the evil Doctor Congestion and Señor Spam try to take over the 'Net they come together to summon Captain Internet who saves the day and educates us about how to use up less bandwidth.
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
(goofy tech looking at LAN Monitor) What's that on the LAN ?
Is it a torrent packet ?
Is it a ping ?
No... it's ISP man !!!!
I just hope they wear good tights. Superheros need good tights.
Sky subscribers are morons. They pay to be advertised at !
Will they all be wearing spandex bodysuits and flowing capes to work?
Oh god, please... NO. I have this delicate image of a 300 pound sysadmin with greasy hair and beard wearing what you described. For some reason, I have now completely lost my appetite...