I am against spamming anyone. However if sending this mass volume of e-mail to china and other countries will slow down the quantity of e-mail coming into my inbox by flooding the connection I am all for it.
If we are doing it to tell them how to get around a firewall that will end up blocking all the proxy sites anyway we are simply waisting our time. I think it could be better spent doing something constructive, like reading slashdot.
Did I do the math wrong or does that add up to just over 200,000 a day give or take.
2 years = 365*2 = 730
158,000,000/730 = 216,438.36
wow thats a lot of data to be "compromised." I think some of these people should have had better measures in place to prevent this type of thing. Others just shouldn't piss off there staff to the point that they sell company information to the highest bidder. Especially when that information is mine.
I had this discussion with a co-worker the other day. He is (or was) a fiberoptic cable installer (now a manager). I am a network engineer. After he spelled out the exact topography that is being laid for the FiOS network I don't believe that network is being setup to be scalable. It is a sort of bus topography with a overlaid star topography. It is quite unique. The problem is the same as cable. You are still sharing that link with all of your neighbors. The only thing is that fiber can carry more data than copper so they can put more neighbors on less fiber. This is a win win for the telco and somewhat of a scam for the end user. I have been told that the bandwidth is more stable on the FiOS network during peek hours but that could change when they achieve max capacity on a link.
Anyway, I think we are far from having individual single mode drops to our doorstep. It cost a lot of money to get those in my office where the providers fiber dmarc is in our basement.
regardless of the working/living conditions of his staff the man is doing well. I would venture to guess that I could walk around my office (also our companies computer room) and would find that 80% of the devices in here have some part from one of his companies.
Its sad that people are forced to live that way but if they were not the cost of a sata cable would be 5X what it is now.
I am still confused as to how someone would "steel" a 6000lb rock without leaving some good evidence. Anyone hear about a missing 18 wheeler in the area. And then where do you take it and what do you do with it.
I have to agree... I think the aliens took it back.
Todays kids seem to have a bit of free time on there hands. Take a look at todays video. I guess when there not drinking they have to do something productive. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1OvgEXgSQo
The are clearly guilty. If you film any part of a movie for any reason you are guilty. I may not agree with this policy however it is the law and we must obey. I think that they aught to get something just for being that stupid in the first place. As stated prior to this most good "pirates" would have been more careful not to be seen. I could go on but whats the point.
What... There claiming they have a patent on parallel processing. I think they should have already gone after several other companies too... Don't most modern graphics cards use parallel processing backed by on board memory to achieve the frame rates they currently have. This also sounds a lot like "hyper threading" or "multi core" but what do I know.
I guess they have a case. Maybe I should sue Bill Gates because he wrote an os that makes my computer blue screen daily. I don't see my case making it but I can try none the less.
I guess there success may not be won in the court room but has already been achieved in the media spotlight. We will see how far it goes. I hope this doesn't turn into another SCO vs. IBM thing.
I can see both sides of this. On one hand you have the individuals who could consider this an invasion of privacy as the cable companies are making changes to the way your system operates. However I can also see where the cable companies come from. They are paying for bandwidth to send out junk from these botnet's that are running on your grandmothers machine and clearly grandma has no clue that the computer is doing anything wrong. I think a different approach could have been taken such as creating a list of potentially infected clients, contacting them via e-mail and informing them of what was going to happen days ahead and allowing them to remove themselves from this filtering. It would have been a pain for the cable company but could have been done.
Personally I am happy to see someone doing something to help ease the traffic of these botnets. I run a small mail server for our company with about 30 users and we receive over 2000 pieces of "spam" each day. We only usually receive 100+- real e-mails. Thus 95% of our e-mail is "spam" and I would guess that a vast majority of that is created by botnet's. I think that more people should take the time to look for these networks and try to slow there traffic. I would hope that every network administrator is taking some time out of his busy day to capture traffic from his network and see where potential security risk are within his domain.
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I am against spamming anyone. However if sending this mass volume of e-mail to china and other countries will slow down the quantity of e-mail coming into my inbox by flooding the connection I am all for it.
If we are doing it to tell them how to get around a firewall that will end up blocking all the proxy sites anyway we are simply waisting our time. I think it could be better spent doing something constructive, like reading slashdot.
Did I do the math wrong or does that add up to just over 200,000 a day give or take.
2 years = 365*2 = 730
158,000,000/730 = 216,438.36
wow thats a lot of data to be "compromised." I think some of these people should have had better measures in place to prevent this type of thing. Others just shouldn't piss off there staff to the point that they sell company information to the highest bidder. Especially when that information is mine.
I had this discussion with a co-worker the other day. He is (or was) a fiberoptic cable installer (now a manager). I am a network engineer. After he spelled out the exact topography that is being laid for the FiOS network I don't believe that network is being setup to be scalable. It is a sort of bus topography with a overlaid star topography. It is quite unique. The problem is the same as cable. You are still sharing that link with all of your neighbors. The only thing is that fiber can carry more data than copper so they can put more neighbors on less fiber. This is a win win for the telco and somewhat of a scam for the end user. I have been told that the bandwidth is more stable on the FiOS network during peek hours but that could change when they achieve max capacity on a link.
Anyway, I think we are far from having individual single mode drops to our doorstep. It cost a lot of money to get those in my office where the providers fiber dmarc is in our basement.
regardless of the working/living conditions of his staff the man is doing well. I would venture to guess that I could walk around my office (also our companies computer room) and would find that 80% of the devices in here have some part from one of his companies.
Its sad that people are forced to live that way but if they were not the cost of a sata cable would be 5X what it is now.
I am still confused as to how someone would "steel" a 6000lb rock without leaving some good evidence. Anyone hear about a missing 18 wheeler in the area. And then where do you take it and what do you do with it.
I have to agree... I think the aliens took it back.
Not to question his motives in this case but what the hell do you need the source code for a breathalizer for.
if ($input > $limit)
{
execute(arrest);
}
else
{
execute(warning);
}
I guess maybe there is more to it but does he really think he is going to get his case dismissed because he finds a unrelated flaw in the code.
Todays kids seem to have a bit of free time on there hands. Take a look at todays video. I guess when there not drinking they have to do something productive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1OvgEXgSQo
The are clearly guilty. If you film any part of a movie for any reason you are guilty. I may not agree with this policy however it is the law and we must obey. I think that they aught to get something just for being that stupid in the first place. As stated prior to this most good "pirates" would have been more careful not to be seen. I could go on but whats the point.
What... There claiming they have a patent on parallel processing. I think they should have already gone after several other companies too... Don't most modern graphics cards use parallel processing backed by on board memory to achieve the frame rates they currently have. This also sounds a lot like "hyper threading" or "multi core" but what do I know.
I guess they have a case. Maybe I should sue Bill Gates because he wrote an os that makes my computer blue screen daily. I don't see my case making it but I can try none the less.
I guess there success may not be won in the court room but has already been achieved in the media spotlight. We will see how far it goes. I hope this doesn't turn into another SCO vs. IBM thing.
I can see both sides of this. On one hand you have the individuals who could consider this an invasion of privacy as the cable companies are making changes to the way your system operates. However I can also see where the cable companies come from. They are paying for bandwidth to send out junk from these botnet's that are running on your grandmothers machine and clearly grandma has no clue that the computer is doing anything wrong. I think a different approach could have been taken such as creating a list of potentially infected clients, contacting them via e-mail and informing them of what was going to happen days ahead and allowing them to remove themselves from this filtering. It would have been a pain for the cable company but could have been done.
Personally I am happy to see someone doing something to help ease the traffic of these botnets. I run a small mail server for our company with about 30 users and we receive over 2000 pieces of "spam" each day. We only usually receive 100+- real e-mails. Thus 95% of our e-mail is "spam" and I would guess that a vast majority of that is created by botnet's. I think that more people should take the time to look for these networks and try to slow there traffic. I would hope that every network administrator is taking some time out of his busy day to capture traffic from his network and see where potential security risk are within his domain.