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Microsoft Takes Down No-IP.com Domains
An anonymous reader writes For some reason that escapes me, a Judge has granted Microsoft permission to hijack NoIP's DNS. This is necessary according to Microsoft to thwart a "global cybercrime epidemic" being perpetrated by infected machines running Microsoft software.
No-IP is a provider of dynamic DNS services (among other things). Many legitimate users were affected by the takedown: "This morning, Microsoft served a federal court order and seized 22 of our most commonly used domains because they claimed that some of the subdomains have been abused by creators of malware. We were very surprised by this. We have a long history of proactively working with other companies when cases of alleged malicious activity have been reported to us. Unfortunately, Microsoft never contacted us or asked us to block any subdomains, even though we have an open line of communication with Microsoft corporate executives. ... We have been in contact with Microsoft today. They claim that their intent is to only filter out the known bad hostnames in each seized domain, while continuing to allow the good hostnames to resolve. However, this is not happening."
Its called Linux (Almost). No. Malware. For. Linux.
Except systemd or anything else written by Lennart Poettering. I suspect he's intentionally developing shitty critical parts of the OS specifically to cause a Linux downfall. When pulseaudio failed to destroy Linux on the desktop, he introduced his next piece of joy to kill Linux everywhere with a broken init replacement that incorporates udev, consolekit, system logging (in binary), acpid, cron, pm-utils, inetd, login and at.
Systemd basically meets the requirements for malware. It spread without permission; causes system instability; is poorly documented; infects other system software; hooks other processes, and best of fucking all is non-deterministic. Thanks to the joys of systemd, you CAN repeat the same action repeatedly and achieve different outcomes, all due to poorly documented race conditions with a super-wonderful parallel init. And better yet, you can now search for your ethernet devices with intuitive names like enp3s0, enp3s1, enp3s2, enp3s3; because eth0-3 was too fucking hard and fixing the MACs was too difficult.
You can thank Kelo v New London and our so called liberal Supreme Court justices Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer for this.
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The book Econned explains how people with a far right economic agenda have been stacking the US courts for years. The result is what you see, basically a feudal systems where corporations are treated like lords and everyone else is a serf.
Not only are they stacking the US Courts, they are also preventing any other party from filling open judgeships when they have a president in office...thus the only candidates to the Supreme Court will be their right wing, ultra conservative, cronies. Pathetic.
This has been in the planning for well over 40 years...thanks for suggesting the book, will check it out.
If a party can not legislate, they need to be removed from office and their presence in the Senate and House of Representatives reduced so that all Americans can be helped with economic activity, jobs and more. They have forgotten that if they are not part of the solution, they most certainly are part of the problem. In this case, they are the problem.
To insure they get elected, given demographics going against them, they put in BS legislation to limit voting. Hey if you can not sway people to vote for you, you do not deserve to be elected. Its simply un-American to not want everyone to vote. And they are on the record stating that they can't win if everyone votes.
Lastly its lame to use the label that the left wants to re-distribute wealth, when the right re-distribute's to their political backers. Or to say you want government out of your individual lives and bedrooms, when you use the Court to legislate morals which legislatively puts government into individual lives and American bedroom, in so many nanny state ways. Pathetic.
Full disclosure: While I am fisically conservative, I am not a conservative or liberal, in fact 70% of Americans are closer to my way of thinking then either political party.
Not on this website it isn't. The moderation decides what's important here, username or not. You just get karma bonus if you are registered and have been around for a little bit.
I blame the judge for making the right call. If you read Microsoft's position:
[quote]Our research revealed that out of all Dynamic DNS providers, No-IP domains are used 93 percent of the time for Bladabindi-Jenxcus infections, which are the most prevalent among the 245 different types of malware currently exploiting No-IP domains. [/quote]
If 93% of your domains are being used to host malware then you're clearly doing something very very wrong. No-IP claims they "responded to all takedown requests". I'm sorry but if you have a service that is predominantly malware and small minority (less than 10%) is actually a legitimate customer of your service then you have an obligation to at least try to improve your filter methodology to ensure someone isn't abusing your service.