Ha ha. A whiny anonymous coward that never read the project description or he'd know that it doesn't block web access. (Or my other replies of why a DoS would be unlikely.)
This seems to be attached to their virus scanner software. If it detects a virus in email, it creates a record for that IP address. Once the number detected passes the threshold, it gets added to the blocking zone--which then reduces the amount of email their servers and virus scanners have to handle.
I doubt such a right exists anywhere, but some spammers seem to feel they have such a right and that no one has the right to block them. No doubt they also feel that everyone must keep their mail servers on 24/7 to receive their turds.
With DoS attacks, you don't need to have a conversation/connection with the other end, you just drown the other end in packets. But to get a TCP connection, both sides have to exchange packets with a hard-to-spoof sequence number. If you spoof the IP address, you won't get the respose to your initial request because it was routed to the IP address that was spoofed. (I'll skip request and reflection attacks here.)
So, without establishing a two-way TCP connection, there's no way to pass the virus as part of an email.
MSBlaster was a direct worm that didn't go through email. This blocks email over a SMTP TCP/IP connection. If you could easily spoof the source of that connection, a paper on how you did it would earn you a footnote in Internet history.
It doesn't block web access. Direct email to servers using this system will return "550 You're a virus infected git!" (probably in Dutch). Email to anyone else or through the ISP's servers will be as usual.
No, just the people trying to send mail directly from DHCP addresses, which are frequently blocked anyway. Hopefully this would put more pressure on ISPs to find and disconnect their infected customer before they poison more addresses for a day or two.
This project only blocks incoming email from infected IP addresses. It doesn't block outgoing web access, so MS Update should still run. This is limited because it won't stop true worms that don't use email to spread, but it will reduce the load on email virus scanners: Rather than checking each email, they can do a quick lookup on the IP address after it's detected as a virus source.
The same people who complain when their ISP is blocked for sending spam will (no doubt) complain that this blocks their constitutional right to run an infested box on the Internet--complete with examples of how innocent people will be hurt by this. (Hmm, how about DHCP dynamic addresses?)
How's the weight of one of those RTGs compared to removing the solar panels and possibly reducing the amount of batteries? Even the thermal output would be useful. They have to put Spirit into deep sleep mode each night because of a heater that won't switch off otherwise. That thermal cycling can't be good for it.
Of course, with an RTG, they might find that a bunch of Martian gnorffl had curled up around it at night for warmth, but I guess that'd be an interesting discovery...
People being people, by that time we'd also have protests and demonstrations by the Free Mars Movement over the removing of historic artifacts of Mars' past from their native land.
Don't give Ken Brown any ideas. He's probably already writing a book on how the United States didn't actually build those probes, but stole them from someone else.
His spelling-checker tool is borken too. Count the number of times he uses noone in that article (instead of no one). Any bets that there's a loose instead of lose in there too?
He doesn't know copyright/trademark/patent law. He doesn't know the history of Unix. He probably doesn't program, and now he can't spell. What are the job requirements for a stooge?
I had to go and check the article to be sure. He actually uses "noone" quite a number of times. This person is suposed to be a writer and uses noone instead of no one, and then doesn't run it through a spelling checker before posting it? Wow...
As soon as they launched the protocol, some spamware writers reverse-engineered it. I haven't seen any of them charged yet. Very annoying--For years I'd been saying that no spam really comes from Hotmail because who would be idiot enough to spam with a web interface? Then MS desided to be helpful... (As usual not thinking about security and abuse.)
More likely they'd micro-change their protocol until your software broke. (Although it might be under one of those XML schema patents that they're trying for.)
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Ha ha. A whiny anonymous coward that never read the project description or he'd know that it doesn't block web access. (Or my other replies of why a DoS would be unlikely.)
This seems to be attached to their virus scanner software. If it detects a virus in email, it creates a record for that IP address. Once the number detected passes the threshold, it gets added to the blocking zone--which then reduces the amount of email their servers and virus scanners have to handle.
I doubt such a right exists anywhere, but some spammers seem to feel they have such a right and that no one has the right to block them. No doubt they also feel that everyone must keep their mail servers on 24/7 to receive their turds.
With DoS attacks, you don't need to have a conversation/connection with the other end, you just drown the other end in packets. But to get a TCP connection, both sides have to exchange packets with a hard-to-spoof sequence number. If you spoof the IP address, you won't get the respose to your initial request because it was routed to the IP address that was spoofed. (I'll skip request and reflection attacks here.)
So, without establishing a two-way TCP connection, there's no way to pass the virus as part of an email.
MSBlaster was a direct worm that didn't go through email. This blocks email over a SMTP TCP/IP connection. If you could easily spoof the source of that connection, a paper on how you did it would earn you a footnote in Internet history.
It doesn't block web access. Direct email to servers using this system will return "550 You're a virus infected git!" (probably in Dutch). Email to anyone else or through the ISP's servers will be as usual.
No, just the people trying to send mail directly from DHCP addresses, which are frequently blocked anyway. Hopefully this would put more pressure on ISPs to find and disconnect their infected customer before they poison more addresses for a day or two.
This project only blocks incoming email from infected IP addresses. It doesn't block outgoing web access, so MS Update should still run. This is limited because it won't stop true worms that don't use email to spread, but it will reduce the load on email virus scanners: Rather than checking each email, they can do a quick lookup on the IP address after it's detected as a virus source.
If you can IP spoof with a TCP/IP connection, you could do a lot more damage than a DoS attack.
The same people who complain when their ISP is blocked for sending spam will (no doubt) complain that this blocks their constitutional right to run an infested box on the Internet--complete with examples of how innocent people will be hurt by this. (Hmm, how about DHCP dynamic addresses?)
Ah, that would explain why he seems to know Richard All.
Too late, it'll be another 8-10 minutes before the rover hears you.
Of course, with an RTG, they might find that a bunch of Martian gnorffl had curled up around it at night for warmth, but I guess that'd be an interesting discovery...
And we've got High Score, Bonus Time! W00t!
People being people, by that time we'd also have protests and demonstrations by the Free Mars Movement over the removing of historic artifacts of Mars' past from their native land.
Don't give Ken Brown any ideas. He's probably already writing a book on how the United States didn't actually build those probes, but stole them from someone else.
He did run it though his spell-checker. It used to complain about words like noone until he added them to his local word list. ;)
I thought Khan's not-evil twin? Charles Noone Singh. I've always heard that Noone cares.
He doesn't know copyright/trademark/patent law. He doesn't know the history of Unix. He probably doesn't program, and now he can't spell. What are the job requirements for a stooge?
I had to go and check the article to be sure. He actually uses "noone" quite a number of times. This person is suposed to be a writer and uses noone instead of no one, and then doesn't run it through a spelling checker before posting it? Wow...
Yuuuck! Those seats are bad enough sometimes, but you want me to sit in the same butt-print as several other people have done for a couple hours each?
You mean the contact information in the About box is wrong? Damn, those haxors are tricky!
More likely they'd micro-change their protocol until your software broke. (Although it might be under one of those XML schema patents that they're trying for.)
That might explain the deposit of a 757 on 34R in my RBC account.
You can automate that a bit by using the Hudson's Bay Company's BayCard. (Also useful as proof of Canadian citizenship.)