My understanding was Sprint was coming close to bankrupt in their wireless division? I know personally here where I live in Williamsport, PA Sprint closed down their store, as well as stopped construction on a tower in the area because they said they ran out of funds.... how are they affording to purchase Nextel?
Among the alleged victims are Penn State University and the University of Pennsylvania, as well as numerous Internet service providers, businesses and technology companies. The attorney general's office said abuse of the victims' computer systems was costly and generated undeserved ill will by the recipients.
Ummm no.. sorry but Penn State and the others with open mailservers are not the vics in this case. If you are stupid enough to run an open relay mail server you deserve what you get... (which I would go so far as to say.. is having your computer degree revoked....)... running a secure mail server is basic networking 101...
Ok.. so I watched the video and as is usually the case.. he lies... he DID allow it to run.. He GOT an error about scripting being wrong on the site and said "yeah let's let scripting continue to run" rather then saying.. NO NO NO don't run any more... yeah sorry if you're that stupid you deserve what yo u get.
John Gilmore also tried to operate an open-relay for his friends convenience, and his ISP cut off his service!
The result of this is that you put your email reliability, and ISP service at risk if you run an open-relay even if you set it up securely.
WHAT THE??? Good! His ISP *should* have cut him off. And also there is no way to securely run an open-relay.. what in the blazes man?? are you insane?!?!?
I tried to do this for a relative so he could send mail via my server regardless of which ISP he used (he travels a lot). Within hours a spammer had found my open relay, and within a few more hours my server had been blacklisted. I setup the ESMTP password extension to keep the spammers out, and deleted all the queued spam as soon as I saw what happened, but I think my server is still on the blacklist. I made efforts to get off the blacklist, but did not receive any reply.
Explain to me what would possess someone who seems to possess a good deal of knowledge about e-mail and computer to setup an open relay? There just is no reason and he DESERVES to be on that blacklist. What was so hard about the ESMTP password extensions that he didn't set them up first? Good grief.. this guy is insane.
How's this a vulnerabiblity? So I go to a website, and then open another tab, meanwhile the other website I was at waits 8 seconds and then popsup a dialog box. Hrmm yeah.. that's a vulnerability. Because one website does something while I'm at another website doesn't make it a browser vulnerability.
I am not questioning an uptime of 30 days.. I've had that with my W2K machine. I *am* questioning an uptime of a year or even more than 100 days... is your machine up to date if you have that kind of uptime?
I'm not sure where you gather your information from but I'll have you know I sysadmin a large number of linux and window boxen, and we reboot the windows boxen much more often then the linux ones. Additionally I have linux machines that have been up for over a year.. and these are heavy used mail servers.. no need to reboot on a nightly basis!! good grief (charley brown)
BSD WaveStation, a nice program for on-air radio use, also does this. Well almost.. it takes it a step further and actually blows your drive up and makes your machine unbootable!
Cause.. I can't count how many times I have violently dropped my phone on congrete and other hard surfaces. A hard drive now? YIKES! I don't think it would survive my treatment, but my solid state phone is doing very healthy.
Interestingly my Samsong A310 doesn't quiet do this... but I have on several occassions gone to make a call only to be greeted with the phone going "BEEP" very loudly in my ear and when I look at the display it has returned to the regular "stand-by" screen. I'll tell you, that BEEP is extremely high pitched and loud an dI have yet to figure out why it does it.
You know..I can't recall all the exploits... but there have been several for cisco devices now and it seems that my access-list is growing rather large to avoid ciscosploits...
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We currently use it at work on the Tech Floor, and it runs great... I can't remember the last time I replaced a hard drive in a machine.. oh wait I haven't... cause they all run off the server =) BLAH! Nightmare when each machine ran seperately.. replace hard drives, format, etc.
Yes, yes... I understand that... I kinda like the whole aim: thing. It allows me to join chat rooms from websites, also lets me have websites that set rotating away messages.
I'm still not sure how this is an issue exactly. If you are clicking a link you should be checking where it goes before you click it(yes I do).
Yes, they should do length checking, but I wouldn't say this is entirely an AIM issue, as much as a user education issue.
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Yes indeed that is who it was.. horizon wireless...
My understanding was Sprint was coming close to bankrupt in their wireless division? I know personally here where I live in Williamsport, PA Sprint closed down their store, as well as stopped construction on a tower in the area because they said they ran out of funds.... how are they affording to purchase Nextel?
Among the alleged victims are Penn State University and the University of Pennsylvania, as well as numerous Internet service providers, businesses and technology companies. The attorney general's office said abuse of the victims' computer systems was costly and generated undeserved ill will by the recipients.
Ummm no.. sorry but Penn State and the others with open mailservers are not the vics in this case. If you are stupid enough to run an open relay mail server you deserve what you get... (which I would go so far as to say.. is having your computer degree revoked....)... running a secure mail server is basic networking 101...
Ok.. so I watched the video and as is usually the case.. he lies... he DID allow it to run.. He GOT an error about scripting being wrong on the site and said "yeah let's let scripting continue to run" rather then saying.. NO NO NO don't run any more... yeah sorry if you're that stupid you deserve what yo u get.
Additionally.. I just noticed he goes on to say:
John Gilmore also tried to operate an open-relay for his friends convenience, and his ISP cut off his service!
The result of this is that you put your email reliability, and ISP service at risk if you run an open-relay even if you set it up securely.
WHAT THE??? Good! His ISP *should* have cut him off. And also there is no way to securely run an open-relay.. what in the blazes man?? are you insane?!?!?
From the hascash.org/faq website:
I tried to do this for a relative so he could send mail via my server regardless of which ISP he used (he travels a lot). Within hours a spammer had found my open relay, and within a few more hours my server had been blacklisted. I setup the ESMTP password extension to keep the spammers out, and deleted all the queued spam as soon as I saw what happened, but I think my server is still on the blacklist. I made efforts to get off the blacklist, but did not receive any reply.
Explain to me what would possess someone who seems to possess a good deal of knowledge about e-mail and computer to setup an open relay? There just is no reason and he DESERVES to be on that blacklist. What was so hard about the ESMTP password extensions that he didn't set them up first? Good grief.. this guy is insane.
Yeah.. I've made several calls on it now to friends.. both trying it out and showing them.
Didn't work? Really.. worked great for me.. I just made about 4 calls testing.
Interesting as I've noticed several popup windows in Mozilla lately even though I have it blocked.
How's this a vulnerabiblity? So I go to a website, and then open another tab, meanwhile the other website I was at waits 8 seconds and then popsup a dialog box. Hrmm yeah.. that's a vulnerability. Because one website does something while I'm at another website doesn't make it a browser vulnerability.
Interesting problem... kinda like a paradox... you can't post the story with the links to mirrordot because the story hasn't been posted yet! :-D
Surely you are joking about this comment?
Besdies this.. if you turn the key all the way off you lock your wheel usually hehehe
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I am not questioning an uptime of 30 days.. I've had that with my W2K machine. I *am* questioning an uptime of a year or even more than 100 days... is your machine up to date if you have that kind of uptime?
Give me the IP please, so that I may hack it. You clearly have not installed any service packs or critical updates on your XP Pro box or your servers.
I'm not sure where you gather your information from but I'll have you know I sysadmin a large number of linux and window boxen, and we reboot the windows boxen much more often then the linux ones. Additionally I have linux machines that have been up for over a year.. and these are heavy used mail servers.. no need to reboot on a nightly basis!! good grief (charley brown)
BSD WaveStation, a nice program for on-air radio use, also does this. Well almost.. it takes it a step further and actually blows your drive up and makes your machine unbootable!
Cause.. I can't count how many times I have violently dropped my phone on congrete and other hard surfaces. A hard drive now? YIKES! I don't think it would survive my treatment, but my solid state phone is doing very healthy.
I for one enjoyed using the wireless card config of my manufacturer!
Interestingly my Samsong A310 doesn't quiet do this... but I have on several occassions gone to make a call only to be greeted with the phone going "BEEP" very loudly in my ear and when I look at the display it has returned to the regular "stand-by" screen. I'll tell you, that BEEP is extremely high pitched and loud an dI have yet to figure out why it does it.
You know..I can't recall all the exploits ... but there have been several for cisco devices now and it seems that my access-list is growing rather large to avoid ciscosploits...
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While not specifically for libraries check out
http://www.k12ltsp.org
We currently use it at work on the Tech Floor, and it runs great... I can't remember the last time I replaced a hard drive in a machine.. oh wait I haven't... cause they all run off the server =) BLAH! Nightmare when each machine ran seperately.. replace hard drives, format, etc.
Yes, yes... I understand that... I kinda like the whole aim: thing. It allows me to join chat rooms from websites, also lets me have websites that set rotating away messages.
I'm still not sure how this is an issue exactly. If you are clicking a link you should be checking where it goes before you click it(yes I do).
Yes, they should do length checking, but I wouldn't say this is entirely an AIM issue, as much as a user education issue.