BIND's max-ncache-ttl setting defaults to 3 hours for a good reason. Negative caching TTLs are capped to avoid everlasting NXDOMAIN records sitting in recursive caches.
A bit of self-publicity... my
"nothing to hide" t-shirt was inspired by this sort of argument. Drop me an email (phr at doc.ic.ac.uk) if you want one. I might do a print run if there's enough interest.
I'm guessing it's the "compact disc" logo that wields the power here. If it's not a kosher "red book" CD, the owner of that logo has a good case for withholding the logo and/or prosecuting its abuse.
You might also find that the mark "compact disc" is protected, so parading "compact disc"-alikes, but calling them "compact disc"s damages the mark, and could be prosecuted.
I think the next thing we need a word for, after "benchcrafting", is "hacksationalism" (or maybe "cracksationalism" before people flame me) to cover all these media stories trying to spread panic about cracks amounting to nothing.
I can't be bothered to look it up now, but I'm almost convinced that The Times has featured a number of stories like this before, all of which indeed did lead to end of civilisation as we knew it (or maybe not...)
This particular journalist has a penchant for these type of stories. You get the general idea by searching for "ungoed" from NTK.
Some members of a mailing list I subscribe to (ukcrypto) have suggested that this is simply a scare story whipped up by GCHQ (think British NSA) to try to get big companies to use their consulting services.
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Mike Tarantino and Karen Sandler made and sent a paper record and player, with a song they'd recorded.
http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/04/15/133206/Couple-Sends-Record-Player-Wedding-Invitations
BIND's max-ncache-ttl setting defaults to 3 hours for a good reason. Negative caching TTLs are capped to avoid everlasting NXDOMAIN records sitting in recursive caches.
A bit of self-publicity... my "nothing to hide" t-shirt was inspired by this sort of argument. Drop me an email (phr at doc.ic.ac.uk) if you want one. I might do a print run if there's enough interest.
I'm guessing it's the "compact disc" logo that wields the power here. If it's not a kosher "red book" CD, the owner of that logo has a good case for withholding the logo and/or prosecuting its abuse.
You might also find that the mark "compact disc" is protected, so parading "compact disc"-alikes, but calling them "compact disc"s damages the mark, and could be prosecuted.
IANAL, BTW.
So, download the file from http://www.ioccc.org/2000.2000.tgz
Some members of a mailing list I subscribe to (ukcrypto) have suggested that this is simply a scare story whipped up by GCHQ (think British NSA) to try to get big companies to use their consulting services.
See this archive.