On my (cable) ISP, when a connection is first made, the cable modem checks the NIC address of the network card. If it's not registered by the ISP, I can't connect, so spoofing that would be pretty difficult (unless I happened to guess somebody else's).
So in theory, even spoofed packets could be traced back to my machine by my ISP (assuming the NIC address is slapped onto every packet sent by my machine).
Would it be possible to use some system like this to prevent spoofing (at least from always-on connections) - assuming the ISP's would agree to check ddos packets against NIC addresses ?
I was watching the BBC news earlier today, and they had live coverage of Tony Blair and his wife Cherie being shown around the Microsoft UK headquarters in Reading, surrounded by smarmy M$ sales drones.
When they started the demo of Office XP, I was sitting there waiting for a BSOD, but unfortunately they cut the broadcast after a couple of minutes.
Even the news presenter said "Well that just looks like an advertisement for Microsoft."
J.S. Wurzler Underwriting Managers, one of the first companies to offer hacker insurance, has begun charging its clients 5 percent to 15 percent more if they use Microsoft's Windows NT software in their Internet operations. Although several larger insurers said they won't increase their NT-related premiums, Wurzler's announcement indicates growing frustration with the ongoing discoveries of vulnerabilities in Microsoft's products.
Yeah, Wired covered this whole story about 6 months ago. One solution was to bury the things underground, with just the top access area poking out. That way if they do break, at least nobody gets hit.
WELL. I mean shit, why should we put our bags on the belt and walk through metal detectors at the airport because *some* people use bombs to blow up airplanes? They're stomping all over my right to privacy! Just because the FAA, the airlines, and the airports are losing money doesn't mean they can restrict MY rights in any way.
No reason at all. And if they want to close down all the airports, and ground all the planes too, as a precaution, presumably you would happily go along with that.
I doubt they will use ext2, I mean who wants a digital TV/web browser/games console which has to fsck when you switch it on. I'd imagine they will be using reiserfs as that is now considered stable in the 2.4 series kernels.
Maybe all their calculations were in feet and inches, and all their measurements are in centimeters.
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Exactly. And we should also never have sent all those ships over to the New World when there were starving peasants in Europe.
I think all you Americans ought to come back home right now !!
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I doubt very much that smoking is allowed on the ISS. The place is probably crawling with smoke alarms.
Mind you, it just reminded me of the Rastafarian space station in Neuromancer (you know, the one where hash smoke is piped through the air conditioning, and dub music is on all the speaker systems.)
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So in theory, even spoofed packets could be traced back to my machine by my ISP (assuming the NIC address is slapped onto every packet sent by my machine).
Would it be possible to use some system like this to prevent spoofing (at least from always-on connections) - assuming the ISP's would agree to check ddos packets against NIC addresses ?
When they started the demo of Office XP, I was sitting there waiting for a BSOD, but unfortunately they cut the broadcast after a couple of minutes.
Even the news presenter said "Well that just looks like an advertisement for Microsoft."
J.S. Wurzler Underwriting Managers, one of the first companies to offer hacker insurance, has begun charging its clients 5 percent to 15 percent more if they use Microsoft's Windows NT software in their Internet operations. Although several larger insurers said they won't increase their NT-related premiums, Wurzler's announcement indicates growing frustration with the ongoing discoveries of vulnerabilities in Microsoft's products.
How about this one ?
No reason at all. And if they want to close down all the airports, and ground all the planes too, as a precaution, presumably you would happily go along with that.
You could put it to use as a web server instead, there was an article recently about how Apache runs on Xbox.
I think all you Americans ought to come back home right now !!
Mind you, it just reminded me of the Rastafarian space station in Neuromancer (you know, the one where hash smoke is piped through the air conditioning, and dub music is on all the speaker systems.)
Don't forget another thing, Nokia is based in Finland, a country with an already large and growing installed Linux base.
It has to sound like a name for the joke to work !