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OpenDNS To Block and Monitor Conficker Worm
Linker3000 writes "According to The Register, OpenDNS plans to introduce an new service that will prevent PCs infected with the Conficker (aka Downadup) malware from contacting its control servers, and will also make it easy for admins to know if even a single machine under their control has been infected by Conficker: 'Starting Monday, any networks with PCs that try to connect to the Conficker addresses will be flagged on an admin's private statistics page. The service is available for free to both businesses and home users.' With the amount of trouble this worm has caused, perhaps this is a good time to take a look at OpenDNS if you haven't done so already."
It is now 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 the Amazing 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
Welcome to Jigabuntu
Jigabuntu is a Linux-based operating system consisting of Free and Open Source software for laptops, desktops, and servers. Jigabuntu has a clear focus on the user and usability - it should Just Work, even if the user has only the thinking capacities of a sponge. The OS ships with the latest Gnomrilla release as well as a selection of server and desktop software that makes for a comfortable desktop experience off a single installation CD. It also features the packaging manager ape-ghetto, and the challenging Linux manual pages have been reformatted into the new 'nigger' format, so for example the manual for the shutdown command can be accessed just by typing: 'nigger shut-up -h now mothafukka' instead of 'man shutdown'.
Absolutely Free of Charge
Jigabuntu is Free Software, and available to you free of charge, as in free beer or free stuffs you can get from looting. It's also Free in the sense of giving you rights of Software Freedom. The freedom to run, copy, steal, distribute, study, share, change and improve the software for any purpose, without paying licensing fees.
Free Software as in free beer!
Jigabuntu is an ancient Nigger word, meaning "humanity to niggers". Jigabuntu also means "I am what I am because of how apes behave". The Jigabuntu Linux distribution brings the spirit of Jigabuntu to the software world.
The dictator Bokassa described Jigabuntu in the following way:
We chose the name Jigabuntu for this distribution because we think it captures perfectly the spirit of sharing and looting that is at the heart of the open source movement.
Jigabuntu, Linux for subhuman beings
Explanation: http://blog.opendns.com/2007/05/22/google-turns-the-page (basically Google and Dell has partnered to more or less force users to Google).
You can turn it off.
Well, OpenDNS's Idea is right for a totalitarian Regime.
The right idea for places like China, North Korea and the US of A.
Have total control of the one central flow of surveiliance data about your behavior which is independant of application, protocol or user settings: Domain Name Lookups.
Yes, this is the Right (capital R) idea.
"tom1974" your mom is calling. Go see what she wants!
Dude, did you just get off the 4th grade short bus? "Who asked you?" The fucking Slashdot asked me. They posted the article summary, and then put a "reply" link on it.
Take your puerile shit back to 4chan noob.
As for the privacy equation, let's look:
Google (or pick your site/service) monitors what happens on their network. Individuals get a choice for each instance. Clearly stated as their revenue stream (ads).
vs.
OpenDNS monitors everything that happens on your network, their network, and many in between. Reveals data streams that not need to be public. Including leaking what may be internal network hostnames to third parties. Individuals may not get a choice (depending on how OpenDNS got there) and modifying one instance means dorking around with DNS settings. Revenue stream not so clear. This is on top of whatever Google does.
So, for the 'tarded in the audience;
Google or service: X risk.
OpenDNS service: X + Y + Z = risk.
That, in addition to the aforementioned network problems caused by OpenDNS amongst some of my clients, some of whom had problems logging into online banking while using that shit. Look man, I dunno about you, but random problems doing that could be a sign of big big trouble.
Sure, it's a DNS service, one with gotchas on the end that a lot of people have not thought through. If my ISP pulls some man in the middle crap and I sue them over it, they may lose and maybe the feds go after them, maybe they go out of business. OpenDNS does it, and they point to the TOS and walk away.
Use what you like, but don't blame me if someone runs off with your bank account.