Any good backup strategy will have multiple media types, so CD/DVD should not be your primary backup media type. If you prefer to have an medium for fast access, then it is still viable. As long as it is not your primary media type, which should be something with tried-and-true longevity.
Unless the.gov has the ability to black hole routes it seems like a complicated task. Let's presume the attacker has a Windows zombie network, which could easily be slowed to a crawl by simply using packet generators setting non-default IP options. Sending a few thousand per second is very doable on any moderately speedy machine, however someone having a bot army of tens of thousands present a problem, which simply is to large to quickly resolve.
One thing that would work is to have interfaces into all backbone providers (US maybe north America) that would allow blocking/shunning at the source of the attacks. It is much easier to code automatic shunning on events (with human oversight) versus acting on each source address manually.
Maybe the government should start funding MIT to determine a feasible way to connect the "tubes" into a fixed LEO. We could then get the tube people (i.e. Cisco Systems) to work on a flow reverser technology to suck all of this into the tubes, which would surely be caught by the spam hepa filter things.
Hopefully at some point traditional media catches up with modern technology and the iPod generation.
I for one am disappointed in Viacom's stance and hope the masses show their distaste. At least now I can throw Viacom into the same boat as Clear Channel (Shitty products with repetitive advertising) for alienating their consumers.
I say fuck 'em and I will now tune to something else when I DO have a chance to watch TV. Why would I want to catch-up on something I may have missed when I COULD impact their (Viacom) bottom line and the ever important advertisers (who force feed crappy products made in China down our throats via repetition).
I live in Texas where the summers are very hot and expensive. Before this last summer I replaced all 145 incandescent lights in my house to all compact fluorescent ones, which I bought on ebay for a song (Greenlite). The difference between the two years (with factoring the different cost per kwh between years) was roughly 35% in the dead of summer. Most people don't notice how many bulbs stay on at all times in most large homes.
They may be fragile and flicker when they come on, but ffs I save a fortune every month. I can deal with the minor inconveniences.:)
Hopefully it will be well written to spawn the imagination of scientists to be. Looking back a good number of the star trek technologies have come to be a reality simply by nudging the creative energies of young minds.
Providers have to provide an aggregation point or means of access. So it boils down to either a port on the provider side in promiscuous mode (outside of the secure channel) or an imperceptible channel in some form of monitoring mode.
In the case of these end-points it raises a very good question as to how providers would code an interception point into this technology. One would think that taking an uber-secure channel and programmatically coding in a "backdoor" for lawful intercept would be humorous by Orwellian standards.
We really should not view any improvement in the Borg IP stack as a bad thing. They have already assimilated the world, the least they could do is provide a quasi-robust core set of features w/ some improvement in stability.
There are large amounts of small companies that probably do not have campus grade layer 2/3 devices that can accomodate QoS or traffic shaping, so adding the functionality at an end-point is honestly a good idea. However I will be the first to admit that it is a little late in the game, but they can now check another box from the list when comparing their product to other offerings.
At some point or another even people who are in mp3 groups have take a trip to the record store and buy something to release. I personally spend about $200 a month on various music. Most of which I release to my friends and others who do not have the luxury of having a rather large disposable income. I know a few people such as me. Until the RIAA can get their heads out of their arses and admit they do not like not being in control of the distribution of music then to hell with them. Let them admit that there is a place for music to be distributed on the internet, even if it has to be them and not my neighbor.:) Saves me a trip to the record store.
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Hrmm,
DLT
reel-to-reel
Mini8mm
SAN
CD/DVD
etc...
Depends on how deep your pockets go and your calculation for the value of the data if lost. You are doing the math on loss of data, riggghhhhttt?
Any good backup strategy will have multiple media types, so CD/DVD should not be your primary backup media type. If you prefer to have an medium for fast access, then it is still viable. As long as it is not your primary media type, which should be something with tried-and-true longevity.
Unless the .gov has the ability to black hole routes it seems like a complicated task. Let's presume the attacker has a Windows zombie network, which could easily be slowed to a crawl by simply using packet generators setting non-default IP options. Sending a few thousand per second is very doable on any moderately speedy machine, however someone having a bot army of tens of thousands present a problem, which simply is to large to quickly resolve.
One thing that would work is to have interfaces into all backbone providers (US maybe north America) that would allow blocking/shunning at the source of the attacks. It is much easier to code automatic shunning on events (with human oversight) versus acting on each source address manually.
Maybe the government should start funding MIT to determine a feasible way to connect the "tubes" into a fixed LEO. We could then get the tube people (i.e. Cisco Systems) to work on a flow reverser technology to suck all of this into the tubes, which would surely be caught by the spam hepa filter things.
Hopefully at some point traditional media catches up with modern technology and the iPod generation.
I for one am disappointed in Viacom's stance and hope the masses show their distaste. At least now I can throw Viacom into the same boat as Clear Channel (Shitty products with repetitive advertising) for alienating their consumers.
I say fuck 'em and I will now tune to something else when I DO have a chance to watch TV. Why would I want to catch-up on something I may have missed when I COULD impact their (Viacom) bottom line and the ever important advertisers (who force feed crappy products made in China down our throats via repetition).
We all know they have to come up with an interesting way to pay for all of the copyright lawsuits that are forthcoming.
I live in Texas where the summers are very hot and expensive. Before this last summer I replaced all 145 incandescent lights in my house to all compact fluorescent ones, which I bought on ebay for a song (Greenlite). The difference between the two years (with factoring the different cost per kwh between years) was roughly 35% in the dead of summer. Most people don't notice how many bulbs stay on at all times in most large homes.
:)
They may be fragile and flicker when they come on, but ffs I save a fortune every month. I can deal with the minor inconveniences.
Today must be a REAL slow news day....
Hopefully it will be well written to spawn the imagination of scientists to be. Looking back a good number of the star trek technologies have come to be a reality simply by nudging the creative energies of young minds.
...which brings together employees for intramural sports, picnics, movies and other types of social, cultural and recreational activities."
;)
So you mean I may have to hang out with all of the peeps in Accounting AND Bookkeeping!?!?
Sounds like a good chance for PFY and I to take care of those numerous denied expenses from my last expense report all in one swoop.
I can only imagine my son kicking the back of my chair for 6 years on the flight there....
Well,
Providers have to provide an aggregation point or means of access. So it boils down to either a port on the provider side in promiscuous mode (outside of the secure channel) or an imperceptible channel in some form of monitoring mode.
In the case of these end-points it raises a very good question as to how providers would code an interception point into this technology. One would think that taking an uber-secure channel and programmatically coding in a "backdoor" for lawful intercept would be humorous by Orwellian standards.
Well at least they are doing something proactive to catch kids wanting to see mom/dad at the gate.
I always thought they were strictly reactionary and look for things that have already happened?
Maybe we should let Earthlink handle the worlds' email, at least it would put a dent in the recent uptick in spam.
We really should not view any improvement in the Borg IP stack as a bad thing. They have already assimilated the world, the least they could do is provide a quasi-robust core set of features w/ some improvement in stability.
There are large amounts of small companies that probably do not have campus grade layer 2/3 devices that can accomodate QoS or traffic shaping, so adding the functionality at an end-point is honestly a good idea. However I will be the first to admit that it is a little late in the game, but they can now check another box from the list when comparing their product to other offerings.
Where will I be able to buy my weed from if they find out our BOFH has a cultivation of marijuana arrest twenty years ago?
I support faith based missile defense systems
At some point or another even people who are in mp3 groups have take a trip to the record store and buy something to release. I personally spend about $200 a month on various music. Most of which I release to my friends and others who do not have the luxury of having a rather large disposable income. I know a few people such as me. Until the RIAA can get their heads out of their arses and admit they do not like not being in control of the distribution of music then to hell with them. Let them admit that there is a place for music to be distributed on the internet, even if it has to be them and not my neighbor. :) Saves me a trip to the record store.