This was news about 2 weeks ago. Even the security focus article was posted on May 04, 2003. TechTV had stuff about it last weekend.
TechTV had an interview with one of the guys at one of the P2P companies and he said something like, "They are free to connect to our P2P network, but when they start using fradulant claims, flooding, and sending out unsolicited messages, they start to break user agreements."
It would be pretty easy to track down the networks they are using and then just have a little button in your P2P client that blocked their networks. There are programs to do this, but they seem to not work 100% of the time. If it also blocked known.gov,.mil, etc address it would be useful too.
isn't the whole job of a locksmith to counteract restrictions? it seems like picking a lock would be the same as breaking into any other device, be it software or hardware. why is it legal for locksmiths to pick locks, but it is illegal for this guy to run a "strings" on the N2H2 binary and pull out the urls? Seems like the DMCA should be fought using common everyday abuses of reverse engineering.
it's all fun and games until they come busting down your door and demand to see licensing information for the cd's in question. when you can't produce them, they hit you up with the lawsuit.
i know if i were a robber, and i saw a robot coming after me, i would flip out and find the quickest exit.
it wouldn't be that hard to develop either, just setup a keyword that would stop the robot, and only give that to people that are supposed to be in the house. you don't even have to teach the robot to attack, just to chase after, make noise, and flash some lights if it detects motion. all you need is a cheap camera, motion detection software, and some voice recognition software. I think most of that stuff is already developed.
That's a pretty one-sided statement. How do you think freedom of speech stays free? I'll tell you, by speaking your mind.
good things about freenet: 1. it allows people in other countries access to data that their government would not normally allow them access. a good example is china. China citizens would not necessarily be disallowed from viewing articles on freenet, even though their internet is firewalled. 2. anonymous posting in countries where displaying your opinion could get you executed. Any of the mideast countries disallow public dissent. 3. peer-to-peer file transfer without tracking ability. While this could foster illegal activity, it also allows creativity uninhibited by laws.
there are many other good things about freenet that i don't really wish to go into right now. From your statements, you are one of the "save the children" cronies that want everything in the world dumbed down so we don't allow our adult population make their own decisions.
I would have to agree with the SPEWS comment. I used their list for a few weeks. It was a good list, but the steps to get your server off of that list is quite impossible. Posting to a news group is bad to begin with, but to have to post to it begging to be removed from their spam list just opens you up to fodder from the people that frequent that list. From what i gathered from my brief experience with the SPEWS list, they seem like a bunch of guys that host single domains and want the world to know about it. It would be a good system if they became more mature about it and thought up some way to give you bonus points if you actually used their list or made some better/easier way to get yourself removed from their unrealistic list. I took my mail servers off of it and havn't looked back. we are probably still listed, but no admin in their right mind would use a deny list like SPEWS if they plan on getting all of their e-mail.
for the record, my mail server got listed because someone in a neighboring netblock sent out spam advertising their website. They didn't even send the spam from the netblock that was listed, they just advertised their website. Apparently, cancelling the customer isn't good enough for the SPEWS people to remove you from their list. SPEWS went ahead and listed a full/20 because their e-mails weren't responded to fast enough. They can list who they want on their own list, but i would not advise using that list.
1. what happens with Mr. DumbGuy sets up a proxy on his dialup account, and then doesn't take the necessary steps to secure it? That would technically not be the ISP's mail server, but much more spam comes from these types of instances that large mail servers being used for outgoing spam.
2. if you "legally" require software to contain certain settings, and that software is open source, it would be pretty easy to get around any settings that are "legally" put in place. This is called tarpitting, and is already used on many mail servers, but there is no reason to make it a law.
3. what happens when yahoo.com or aol.com get on that list. What, you think all spam comes from an end user?
Your 3 point program has lots of holes. One of the biggest holes is the fact that most of the spam comes from sources outside the US. Brazil, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Russia,etc all send more spam than open proxies in the US. Your 3 point program would not address anything outside the US. When you have laws that force their ideas upon a part of the internet, all of the stuff you were trying to get rid of in the first place will just move outside of the US's jurisdiction.
i get about one complaint about blocked e-mail a week, which is not bad for delivering about 300k non-spam e-mails a day. one complaint a week about a blocked e-mail as opposed to about 20-30 complaints a day about spam with the dnsbl turned off.
it's a no-brainer.
if you get on a spam list, take the necessary steps to get yourself off of it. if you're on something like spamcop, you will automatically be removed from the list after a while when the spamming stops.
even after you take the necessary steps to prevent spam, it is inevitable that your mail server will end up on "joe bob's spam list" that just so happens to be used on your mom's isp, therefore preventing your mail getting to your mom. Problems like that are inevitable, but should be easily corrected.
it's much better to spend your time making sure you do not get on spam lists to begin with, than to spend your time dealing with your customers complaints about getting spam.
i run a small isp's mail server system (~30k accounts) and just our dnsbl blocks about 60% of all incoming e-mail. spamassassin and various other techniques pick out about 5-10% more of the overall.
Blocking spam before it gets to our main mail server has extended the life of our mail server indefinately. The less we have to spend on hardware, the more time and energy we can spend on building quality of service for our customers. That keeps the customers happy, and keeps the business people doubly happy, since they don't lose customers and don't have to buy new hardware every year for a mail system.
you're wrong on several accounts. bandwidth DOES cost money. several costs include, hardware to get you the bandwidth, cabling to your house, upstream provider costs, etc. If you think that part of the internet is free, you are severely mistaken.
The internet is not a public space all the time (irc and message boards would be public spaces), but if you allow yourself to be on the internet, you are allowing others to access your space. If you put a computer directly on the internet, it is not your ISPs job to secure that for you. It is YOUR job to maintain the integrity of your own machine. if someone hacks your machine because you failed to close a port, that is your fault. trying to blame the ISP is not going to get you anywhere.
My AT&T (now comcast) cable modem specifically has a clause in the terms of service that say something like, "your connection is your responsibility. if you allow others to use it and they do something illegal, since it is your connection, that means you did something illegal."
if the ISP gets in the job of filtering ports, it will become a management nightmare. what happens if the client DOES want that port open? what other ports do you think the ISP is supposed to filter. the MSSQL port is not the only insecure port on a windows machine.
what you need can be found here. The enhanced network block device allows you to share a block device, like a ram drive or hard drive, over the network and make it appear on the main machine as a normal hard drive plugged into it. i have created a raid0 over this before. I can't really comment on speed, as it was a 10Mbps network, but it did work. with fast machines and a fast network, i would imagine you would easily saturate gigabit networking.
sounds like microsoft is forseeing a large market in selling advertising to their customers.
here's the senario:
spammer wants to send mail to all hotmail or msn (or both) users. spammer gives microsoft money, and then is able to send them "legal" spam. the spam doesn't stop, microsoft just gets richer in the process, and probably pays off a few politicians.
I run a mail setup that actively scans for viruses and spam for about 30k users. about 60% of our incoming mail is blocked by using spamcop.net, spamhaus.org, and ordb.org.
I also do the abuse mail box, and we get about 40-50 complaints a day. most of these are clueless grandmas that have no idea what they are doing. some are automated messages about viruses on their corporate lan sent from our network. About once or twice a week, I get an actual problem that I can do something about.
I can imagine if i had 10x as much work, i would probably not respond to any of it.
WindowsNT 4.0 You get in the elevator on the first floor, trying to go to the 2nd floor, so you press 2. You end up on the roof staring up at the blue sky. You get back in the elevator only to have it fall the entire length of the building and crash into the grond.
..as if "cooler" meant better suited for a particular application. I guarantee you, numerous cheap ass x86 boxes running linux (and properly configured) will outperform anything by Sun with a comparable price.
don't run stuff because it looks cool, run stuff because it works, and is easy to support.
I didn't read the article, but i have read a few reviews of it. Basically, this sounds like something i saw on dilbert a few days ago. Dilbert's co-workers offered their boss two options to any thing they wanted done. The first option was horrible, and far reaching, and the second option was less of a problem than the first one, but still probably wasn't something the management wanted to approve. in that example, the backers of the bill are the workers, and the general populace are the managers. They are introducting something so outlandish, that when they comprimise on a stripped down version, it just ends up screwing everyone less (but we all still get screwed).
I'm not sure where the US is headed. The past 10 years we have seen quite a bit of degraded rights, high powered officials blatantly lying and getting caught, and other types of corruption. Makes me wonder when it will hit critical mass.
yeah, what a great idea. Lets fix humanity, and then just hope humanity doesn't self destruct.
*that was sarcasm*
no, really, the only way we are going to propogate ourselves as a species is to start moving to other planets. If we don't spread, any little jackass with a few nukes can ruin it for all of us.
most large corporations would probably rather you use disk for archiving, and tape for offsite storage. nothing beats the disk-to-disk copy speed when you're restoring a production server that just crashed. having to dig through tapes, and then seeking, and searching, and rewinding, and fast forwarding, and...., and...., and then not finding all of the data because some of the data was spanned to another tape can get frustrating.
The time taken to find the data should also be factored into the cost of a whole backup solution. The more expensive disk option will save in the long run, since less time is taken to backup and restore the data.
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Why use a closed source media such as PDF when the article is about using open source software?
wouldn't html be much easier and faster (less bandwidth) than using a PDF?
just doesn't make sense.
This was news about 2 weeks ago. Even the security focus article was posted on May 04, 2003. TechTV had stuff about it last weekend.
.gov, .mil, etc address it would be useful too.
TechTV had an interview with one of the guys at one of the P2P companies and he said something like, "They are free to connect to our P2P network, but when they start using fradulant claims, flooding, and sending out unsolicited messages, they start to break user agreements."
It would be pretty easy to track down the networks they are using and then just have a little button in your P2P client that blocked their networks. There are programs to do this, but they seem to not work 100% of the time. If it also blocked known
isn't the whole job of a locksmith to counteract restrictions? it seems like picking a lock would be the same as breaking into any other device, be it software or hardware. why is it legal for locksmiths to pick locks, but it is illegal for this guy to run a "strings" on the N2H2 binary and pull out the urls? Seems like the DMCA should be fought using common everyday abuses of reverse engineering.
maybe if you weren't typing that on an old DEC keyboard, slashdot would interpret your backspacing.
it's all fun and games until they come busting down your door and demand to see licensing information for the cd's in question. when you can't produce them, they hit you up with the lawsuit.
i know if i were a robber, and i saw a robot coming after me, i would flip out and find the quickest exit.
it wouldn't be that hard to develop either, just setup a keyword that would stop the robot, and only give that to people that are supposed to be in the house. you don't even have to teach the robot to attack, just to chase after, make noise, and flash some lights if it detects motion. all you need is a cheap camera, motion detection software, and some voice recognition software. I think most of that stuff is already developed.
That's a pretty one-sided statement. How do you think freedom of speech stays free? I'll tell you, by speaking your mind.
good things about freenet:
1. it allows people in other countries access to data that their government would not normally allow them access. a good example is china. China citizens would not necessarily be disallowed from viewing articles on freenet, even though their internet is firewalled.
2. anonymous posting in countries where displaying your opinion could get you executed. Any of the mideast countries disallow public dissent.
3. peer-to-peer file transfer without tracking ability. While this could foster illegal activity, it also allows creativity uninhibited by laws.
there are many other good things about freenet that i don't really wish to go into right now. From your statements, you are one of the "save the children" cronies that want everything in the world dumbed down so we don't allow our adult population make their own decisions.
I would have to agree with the SPEWS comment. I used their list for a few weeks. It was a good list, but the steps to get your server off of that list is quite impossible. Posting to a news group is bad to begin with, but to have to post to it begging to be removed from their spam list just opens you up to fodder from the people that frequent that list. From what i gathered from my brief experience with the SPEWS list, they seem like a bunch of guys that host single domains and want the world to know about it. It would be a good system if they became more mature about it and thought up some way to give you bonus points if you actually used their list or made some better/easier way to get yourself removed from their unrealistic list. I took my mail servers off of it and havn't looked back. we are probably still listed, but no admin in their right mind would use a deny list like SPEWS if they plan on getting all of their e-mail.
/20 because their e-mails weren't responded to fast enough. They can list who they want on their own list, but i would not advise using that list.
for the record, my mail server got listed because someone in a neighboring netblock sent out spam advertising their website. They didn't even send the spam from the netblock that was listed, they just advertised their website. Apparently, cancelling the customer isn't good enough for the SPEWS people to remove you from their list. SPEWS went ahead and listed a full
1. what happens with Mr. DumbGuy sets up a proxy on his dialup account, and then doesn't take the necessary steps to secure it? That would technically not be the ISP's mail server, but much more spam comes from these types of instances that large mail servers being used for outgoing spam.
,etc all send more spam than open proxies in the US. Your 3 point program would not address anything outside the US. When you have laws that force their ideas upon a part of the internet, all of the stuff you were trying to get rid of in the first place will just move outside of the US's jurisdiction.
2. if you "legally" require software to contain certain settings, and that software is open source, it would be pretty easy to get around any settings that are "legally" put in place. This is called tarpitting, and is already used on many mail servers, but there is no reason to make it a law.
3. what happens when yahoo.com or aol.com get on that list. What, you think all spam comes from an end user?
Your 3 point program has lots of holes. One of the biggest holes is the fact that most of the spam comes from sources outside the US. Brazil, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Russia
i get about one complaint about blocked e-mail a week, which is not bad for delivering about 300k non-spam e-mails a day. one complaint a week about a blocked e-mail as opposed to about 20-30 complaints a day about spam with the dnsbl turned off.
it's a no-brainer.
if you get on a spam list, take the necessary steps to get yourself off of it. if you're on something like spamcop, you will automatically be removed from the list after a while when the spamming stops.
even after you take the necessary steps to prevent spam, it is inevitable that your mail server will end up on "joe bob's spam list" that just so happens to be used on your mom's isp, therefore preventing your mail getting to your mom. Problems like that are inevitable, but should be easily corrected.
it's much better to spend your time making sure you do not get on spam lists to begin with, than to spend your time dealing with your customers complaints about getting spam.
i run a small isp's mail server system (~30k accounts) and just our dnsbl blocks about 60% of all incoming e-mail. spamassassin and various other techniques pick out about 5-10% more of the overall.
Blocking spam before it gets to our main mail server has extended the life of our mail server indefinately. The less we have to spend on hardware, the more time and energy we can spend on building quality of service for our customers. That keeps the customers happy, and keeps the business people doubly happy, since they don't lose customers and don't have to buy new hardware every year for a mail system.
you're wrong on several accounts. bandwidth DOES cost money. several costs include, hardware to get you the bandwidth, cabling to your house, upstream provider costs, etc. If you think that part of the internet is free, you are severely mistaken.
The internet is not a public space all the time (irc and message boards would be public spaces), but if you allow yourself to be on the internet, you are allowing others to access your space. If you put a computer directly on the internet, it is not your ISPs job to secure that for you. It is YOUR job to maintain the integrity of your own machine. if someone hacks your machine because you failed to close a port, that is your fault. trying to blame the ISP is not going to get you anywhere.
My AT&T (now comcast) cable modem specifically has a clause in the terms of service that say something like, "your connection is your responsibility. if you allow others to use it and they do something illegal, since it is your connection, that means you did something illegal."
if the ISP gets in the job of filtering ports, it will become a management nightmare. what happens if the client DOES want that port open? what other ports do you think the ISP is supposed to filter. the MSSQL port is not the only insecure port on a windows machine.
fuckem.sh
null routes the top 10 abusers of our mail system.
I remember seeing a still image of an american putting an american flag on the moon. doesn't that make the moon an american colony?
all we have to do now is protect it.
what you need can be found here. The enhanced network block device allows you to share a block device, like a ram drive or hard drive, over the network and make it appear on the main machine as a normal hard drive plugged into it. i have created a raid0 over this before. I can't really comment on speed, as it was a 10Mbps network, but it did work. with fast machines and a fast network, i would imagine you would easily saturate gigabit networking.
sounds like microsoft is forseeing a large market in selling advertising to their customers.
here's the senario:
spammer wants to send mail to all hotmail or msn (or both) users. spammer gives microsoft money, and then is able to send them "legal" spam. the spam doesn't stop, microsoft just gets richer in the process, and probably pays off a few politicians.
vote the bastards out.
Intel (or AMD) should buy transmeta.
i hope something like that is in the works.
intel should turn transmeta into their server line of CPU's, and specifically design them around linux.
come one guys, if you play together, great yields ye shall receive.
i don't see a side bar, but then, i took the time to disable it.
just proof that someone will always bitch about something, even if it's free.
I run a mail setup that actively scans for viruses and spam for about 30k users. about 60% of our incoming mail is blocked by using spamcop.net, spamhaus.org, and ordb.org.
I also do the abuse mail box, and we get about 40-50 complaints a day. most of these are clueless grandmas that have no idea what they are doing. some are automated messages about viruses on their corporate lan sent from our network. About once or twice a week, I get an actual problem that I can do something about.
I can imagine if i had 10x as much work, i would probably not respond to any of it.
WindowsNT 4.0
You get in the elevator on the first floor, trying to go to the 2nd floor, so you press 2. You end up on the roof staring up at the blue sky. You get back in the elevator only to have it fall the entire length of the building and crash into the grond.
..as if "cooler" meant better suited for a particular application. I guarantee you, numerous cheap ass x86 boxes running linux (and properly configured) will outperform anything by Sun with a comparable price.
don't run stuff because it looks cool, run stuff because it works, and is easy to support.
I didn't read the article, but i have read a few reviews of it. Basically, this sounds like something i saw on dilbert a few days ago. Dilbert's co-workers offered their boss two options to any thing they wanted done. The first option was horrible, and far reaching, and the second option was less of a problem than the first one, but still probably wasn't something the management wanted to approve. in that example, the backers of the bill are the workers, and the general populace are the managers. They are introducting something so outlandish, that when they comprimise on a stripped down version, it just ends up screwing everyone less (but we all still get screwed).
I'm not sure where the US is headed. The past 10 years we have seen quite a bit of degraded rights, high powered officials blatantly lying and getting caught, and other types of corruption. Makes me wonder when it will hit critical mass.
yeah, what a great idea. Lets fix humanity, and then just hope humanity doesn't self destruct.
*that was sarcasm*
no, really, the only way we are going to propogate ourselves as a species is to start moving to other planets. If we don't spread, any little jackass with a few nukes can ruin it for all of us.
most large corporations would probably rather you use disk for archiving, and tape for offsite storage. nothing beats the disk-to-disk copy speed when you're restoring a production server that just crashed. having to dig through tapes, and then seeking, and searching, and rewinding, and fast forwarding, and...., and...., and then not finding all of the data because some of the data was spanned to another tape can get frustrating.
The time taken to find the data should also be factored into the cost of a whole backup solution. The more expensive disk option will save in the long run, since less time is taken to backup and restore the data.