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Air Force To Rewrite the Rules of the Internet
meridiangod writes "The Air Force is fed up with a seemingly endless barrage of attacks on its computer networks from stealthy adversaries whose motives and even locations are unclear. So now the service is looking to restore its advantage on the virtual battlefield by doing nothing less than the rewriting the 'laws of cyberspace.'" I'm sure that'll work out really well for them.
I hope they don't overlook Rule 34.
Remember that the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion declared Twitter a terrorist weapon. God forbid they discover pen and paper. Or modulated farting, for that matter.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit
As usual, Penny Arcade predicted the future. (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/07/16/)
Technician: Our webs are down, sir. We can't log in!
Agent: Which webs?
Technician: All of them.
Technician: They've penetrated our code walls. They're stealing the Internet!
Agent: We'll need to hack all IPs simultaneously.
Check out my sci-fi book "Lacuna" at http://goo.gl/MVxX8
After reading the article, e.g. quoting
Enabling Air Force servers to evade or dodge electronic attacks, somehow.
Its funny how they think so much in materials entering materials when talking about a electronic/information tech issue. Like the server could jump to the side when it sees a malicious packet coming ...
NB: The message above might reflect my opinion right now, but not necessarily tomorrow or next year.
"Hey its just a series of tubes, how hard can it be?!"
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
Actually, I liked the previous version... it better illustrated the obviousness of the solution.
Hey, look! It's Bono's brother.
Someone, someday will carry lost a USB thumbdrive carrying the sensitive information.
Perhaps we need a new RFC, similar to this one [RFC1149], for USB thumbdrive.
First Rule: Don't talk about Internet
Second Rule: Don't talk about Internet
Third Rule: ???
Fourth Rule: Profit
Because the Air Force can't catch people over the internet, that must mean that they are also vulnerable to vans with tinted windows in the car park of the armed forces branch head quarters with a 20" dish antenna mounted on top.
I hate printers.
That's called 'Somebody makes a call' and 'Guys with automatic weapons show up to ask questions'.
I don't read AC A human right
If they were smart they would post their problem on Slashdot and let all the nerds figure out a solution for them for free......
@de_machina
Newton, sick of all those apples falling on his head, is planning to rewrite the laws of physics to make gravitation a repulsive force.
Empires grow and crumble, and the Turtle Moves. Gods come and go, and still the Turtle Moves. The Turtle Moves.
of course, what if the van had no doors to open for the question to be asked?!? would they go down a chim chiminey chim chim charoo? i grow wheatgrass on my van roof, and no passenger doors and no cargo doors were made. Only have the front cab window and a Sun roof with a grill/cremation furnace underneath. do your worst, USAIRSDMCFFRIFAAFBCIABATFECES!
Why, no one has ever thought of that before..
That sounds like a noble cause. It surely beats watching Sally Struthers blather on about how we have to help feed them.
lameness filter forced me to munge the layout
RFC1149a - Standard for the transmission of flash memory on avia
Network Working Group_____________ TubeSteak
Request for Comments: 1149a__________LOL WTF
3 November 2008
A Standard for the Transmission of Flash Memory on Avian Carriers
Status of this Memo
This memo describes an experimental method for the encapsulation of
flash memory in avian carriers. This specification is primarily
useful in Metropolitan Area Networks. This is an experimental, not
recommended standard. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Overview and Rational
Avian carriers can provide high delay, low throughput, and low
altitude service. The connection topology is limited to a single
point-to-point path for each carrier, used with standard carriers,
but many carriers can be used without significant interference with
each other, outside of early spring. This is because of the 3D ether
space available to the carriers, in contrast to the 1D ether used by
IEEE802.3. The carriers have an intrinsic collision avoidance
system, which increases availability. Unlike some network
technologies, such as packet radio, communication is not limited to
line-of-sight distance. Connection oriented service is available in
some cities, usually based upon a central hub topology.
Frame Format
The flash memory is packaged, inside a small waterproof container,
and formatted to FAT32. The waterproof container is attached to the
back of the avian, between the wings, as a backpack. The bandwidth
is variable and limited by the carrying capacity of the avian.
Upon receipt, the backpack is removed, the flash memory extracted
and checked for physical and liquid damage.
Discussion
Multiple types of service can be provided with a prioritized pecking
order. An additional property is built-in worm detection and
eradication. With time, the carriers are self-regenerating. While
broadcasting is not specified, storms can cause data loss. There is
persistent delivery retry, until the carrier drops. Audit trails
are automatically generated, and can often be found on logs and
cable trays.
Security Considerations
Security is a problem during normal operation, as flash memory
has a non-trivial and intrinsic value. Special measures must be
taken (such as data encryption) when avian carriers are used in
a tactical environment.
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
The Air Force is a very old organization
What? The US Air Force is one of the youngest Air Forces that exist, introduced as recent as 1947.
Nowhere near enough time for sodomy to become a tradition.
A googol is a one with a hundred zeros.
I internet all the time.
You Americans still have much to learn from us. The Czech Police is still using hacker-proof typewriters and I have not heard about a single hack of their...ehm...information systems. (This way they are at least spared the embarrassment, unlike the National Security Office of the Slovak Republic which had to introduce "Internet business hours" (sic!) to protect their servers after their whole infrastructure of servers and Cisco equipment was compromised by some ingenious outside guy who had the idea to try nbusr/nbusr123 as the user/pass combo only to discover that they are indeed using it all over the place. ;-))
Ezekiel 23:20
TCP\IP?
Persian Project Management Software as a Service
I would mod it to +32,768.
Aah, change is good. -- Rafiki
Yeah, but it ain't easy. -- Simba
whitehouse.gov is the real official website of the executive branch, while whitehouse.org and whitehouse.com are not (though this example is a bit dated).
How so? Hasn't the White House been a commercial operation for the past 8 years, for sale to anyone for the right price?
Of course, the more cynical among us will claim that it has always been so. Others would suggest that at least whitehouse.org is inappropriate, though it might have been better to suggest that during the Clinton administration.
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
You check the news by using machines connected to the internet.
The machines that decide which hell hole to send you into with what gear and such are physically separate.
Also - as a Marine, you should already know the news, but in case you missed it: Yesterday, the Marines kicked ass. Today the Marines will kick ass. Tomorrow's forecast calls for the Marines to kick ass.
As opposed to turn-based?
Don't put advice in your sig.
Signed integer limit is +32767. 32768 is only possible in the - domain!
He went long.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.