Slashdot Mirror


User: silas_moeckel

silas_moeckel's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
2,989
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 2,989

  1. Re:Hidden problems with proxies on Most Alarming: IETF Draft Proposes "Trusted Proxy" In HTTP/2.0 · · Score: 1

    Those applications are broken. If they fail to respect the OS proxy and CA settings they are the ones at fault.

    In a corp environment nothing should be calling home ever, that is what they made licences servers for.
    Updates should be gotten from an update server, ya know something that IT approves.
    Installers calling home again should never happen.
    Post SOX/HIPPA there is no secure file transfer your IT dept has a legal requirement to look and record things coming in and out the door.

  2. Re:"Lopsided"? on ISP Fights Causing Netflix Packet Drops · · Score: 1

    It's lopsided, Verizon is more and more and eyeball network where people "consume" bandwidth they got there by pricing themselves out of most of the transit market. That puts them in a somewhat unique position that there are a tier 1 peer but should not be. They are trying to leverage the you need access to the eyeballs more then we need access to your content. Regulating Tier 1's is not easy they never really have been anything but self regulated but as they expand/develop they have a conflict of interest. Remove the conflict require the entities to only sell transit without a discount to anybody.

  3. Re:Doubtful. on Is Google Making the Digital Divide Worse? · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's worse than that they could pay $25 a month for 12 months to cover the install cost, and get free internet from then on.

  4. Re:How does this benefit the delivery company? on Your Next Online Order Could Be Delivered To Your Car's Trunk · · Score: 1

    But it will get you within 30 ish feet and at that point flash the lights or open the trunk you might notice it.

  5. Re:Multicast on Killing Net Neutrality Could Be Good For You · · Score: 1

    I said could. Picture somebody putting a malicious piece of JS that joins a multicast group.and gets that shoved into an ad network.

    I've used multicast inside single large networks (AT&T and sprint) it works great when it works. Intelligent endpoints can pretty easily switch to unicast if there are issues.

    Multicast makes overlay networks for things like peer to peer scale extremely well. The routers themselves will choke it takes resources to track each multicast group going through a router. It's becomes fairly trivial to make endpoints join an excessive number of multicast groups witch each one taking up a multicast routing entry. We do not have the knobs generally deployed to say limited the number of multicast groups a given port or CPE can join. Pretty much it violates the internet's dumb core smart edge topology by requiring a lot of state to be held at the core.

    Multicast is baked into the IPv6 Standard it's not wildly implemented across tier 1 peers.

  6. Re:Multicast on Killing Net Neutrality Could Be Good For You · · Score: 1

    Multicast has HUGE issues, billing being one when somebody pays for one 1mbs pipe and can take up 1mbs on every non redundant link that is a big issue. It's got DDOS issues as well. How many people want to watch live stuff anymore? Sports seems to be the only driver.

    It does make sense in a more limited fashion but the issues need to be worked out before it scales to internet wide deployments.

  7. Re:Root issue is lack of URPF and similar on 200-400 Gbps DDoS Attacks Are Now Normal · · Score: 1

    RPF wont, ACL's will and it's trivial to take a BGP prefix list and turn it into an ACL. The more it's implemented the better it works, 100% penetration is not required for it to be effective though. As you push these attackers to use the undefended spaces more and more pressure is put on them to clean up there act. Most of the source points for this seem to be Hosting/Colo where the filters are pretty trivial to get in place even if it's just on your own edge outbound.

  8. Re:Root issue is lack of URPF and similar on 200-400 Gbps DDoS Attacks Are Now Normal · · Score: 2

    Is transit billing not a good enough one for you? Selling there own DDOS protection or transit bandwidth to others to do the same. Seems like good reasons for them to not want to.

    There are potentially serious issues with tier 1's putting this in place today with there peers etc. Anything that is not a BGP speaker should have his on today, BGP speaking clients should be given a timeline to be ready for this to be turned on (there is some broken bits out there). Tier 1 peers is another story but if everything else is done it does not matter much.

  9. Root issue is lack of URPF and similar on 200-400 Gbps DDoS Attacks Are Now Normal · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hosting/Colo/Transit providers are the real core issue. There is absolutely no reason that URPF or similar or at least ingress ACL's are not in place. Lets face it if your limiting the prefixes announced you should be filtering on them as well. Anything even close to core can do this in hardware, URPF and similar there is generally no config required more than turning it on. At Hosting/Colo levels do you still have something on the public side that can not do at least ACL's in hardware? Plenty of automation packages can do this stuff in an automated fashion. The root cause is lazy and broken providers that just do not care, DDOS traffic can make some of them piles of cash directly in transit billing or indirectly as the only people with a big enough pipe to do ddos protection.

  10. Close ties to the FBI on Target's Internal Security Team Warned Management · · Score: 2

    There is there problem they are fairly computer illiterate, I've dealt with many FBI computer forensic specialists whatever's that are dumbfounded by a .tgz, unix line endings. Hire out of the Secret Service they understand computers.

  11. Re:or stop hiding... on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: 1

    The point of asylum is to piss on another nation state it's working as intended. Equador has decided that it's more likely a witch hunt to pin something on him and/or that they just like the political angle.

  12. Re:or stop hiding... on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: 1

    And that requires being inside there borders? At this point he has effectively sought and been granted political asylum by Ecuador, that intentionally trumps any other nations claim on him or there would be no point to political asylum.

  13. Re:Must be very small race cars on New 3D Printer Can Print With Carbon Fiber · · Score: 1

    Scaling the print volume is a fairly trivial but expensive thing. There are plenty of existing platforms to move a print head or just about anything around, they are expensive as they require a lot of precision and setup time.

  14. Re:When will it be able to print latex? on New 3D Printer Can Print With Carbon Fiber · · Score: 1

    People 3D print molds for latex all the time. Be it for your "science", latex appliances for makeup, or a host of other things. You can even make one time molds that you have to destroy to remove for really complex shapes.

  15. Re:The candlestick makers did the same thing... on Protesters Show Up At the Doorstep of Google Self-driving Car Engineer · · Score: 1

    Yes, constantly upgrading / learning new skills sets is important core part of life. I see plenty for 55+ people working at walmart that takes no skills at all just a pile of patience for stupid.

  16. Re:The problem with Google Bus on Protesters Show Up At the Doorstep of Google Self-driving Car Engineer · · Score: 1

    So the issue is that the corp buses as just as much jackasses as city bus drivers?

  17. Re:For a noted pragmatist, Linus is dead wrong... on Linus Torvalds: Any CLA Is Fundamentally Broken · · Score: 0

    Is that not the point of clause 14's or any later version. Yes your risking that the FSF does not go bad and publish GPL 9321 everything belongs to your corporate masters edition. The main issue with the CLA's is them allowing dual licencing without your consent it's just a for profit company getting free labor. We already have cases like this Bacula comes to mind.

  18. They should have buried conduit, pulling fiber/cable is cheep digging holes not so much.

  19. Re:NoScript on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 1

    Please for the love of think of the children. Modern web sites html/css are so ugly and convoluted your eye may bleed as a side effect.

  20. Re:Can we hope on SCOTUS To Weigh Smartphone Searches By Police · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We can hope for a proper decision of you can crack the encryption if you can after getting a warrant and the owner has no burden to help you nor can refusal be held against them.

  21. Re:Lets simplify on Driver Privacy Act Introduced In US Senate · · Score: 1

    And if were going to go through the time, expense, and effort to put in a new law why not fix that?

  22. Lets simplify on Driver Privacy Act Introduced In US Senate · · Score: 1

    Only the user has the right to there data. Be it the cars back box or there cell phone or whatever else somebody cooks up. In no case my a company use that data or share with others. Is it that hard? Hell force them to serve any warrants to the owners of the data aka the person the data is about.

  23. Re: FCC Shouldn't Ban It, But Airlines Should on Americans To FCC Chair: No Cell Calls On Planes, Please · · Score: 1

    Funny my local libraries have spaces for people to speak. Adhoc conference rooms where groups can get together. The childrens area has presenter space, and small rooms for children to young to be quiet. Yea if your disturbing the peace they will ask you to move it to somewhere appropriate and escalate from there if they refuse.

  24. Re:Why transmit the information? on Google Announces Smart Contact Lens Project For Diabetics · · Score: 1

    IDK maybe because they want to track levels via there smartphone vs to high or to low via a led. Combine it with other data to get a better picture of whats going on.

  25. Re:Private enterprise to the rescue on Thousands of Gas Leaks Discovered Under Streets of Washington DC · · Score: 1

    Problem is there will be a profit for somebody. Contractors regularly gouge the government primary as payback for jumping over the huge hurdles that replace responsible management. Even if it's all in house suppliers do about the same. I do not really blame them government jobs can take forever to actually get paid, sue you on general principle, and gouge you for political donations and rubber chicken dinners.

    Now I would love to see the local governments take over fiber to the home etc with open access policies. That could spawn another cycle of information revolution in the country. Instead were worrying about how to insure media companies continue to increase profit margins.