How do you all exactly describe spam? At my uni we are all on numerous majordomo lists. Example. I am a 1st year maths and physics student at a certain college. British here, so 12 colleges provide rooms/food for the students. We all learn together. My college begins with Tr, and so the lists I am subscribed to are as follows.
These are just the ones that I have recieved e-mail from. There are probably more. Core A maths, Single B maths and 10?? are all the modules I am taking. The guy responsible for tr-jcr-college will forward on anything that you ask him to, as will ma-ug and ph-ug-year1. Examples are adverts for concerts, plugging the student magazine. When I set up a brass band, all the colleges forwarded for me, so I effectively asked the entire uni in one e-mail for anyone who is interested in playing.
What is your opinion of these 'authorised' spams. I.e. the domo lists are created when you join, and you cannot leave, but all posts go from one or two people who arent that fussy with what they forward?
I like the idea with sendmail -bd, not delivering any mail, but surely spammers will simply assume that an "open" relay that takes 2 days to deliver their test message is being moderated as such by somebody running a honeypot. Unless you can identify, and forward spam tests as quickly as if the mailserver was running properly, then the spammers will soon catch on.
I am currently at durham university.
The IT Service, only have a few college rooms cabled up. I had one last term, but not this term. What you get is 10Mb/s but ALL web is forced through a proxy server. This is not transparant, but rather blocking outgoing ports. MSN works if you put in the address of the proxy server, and audiogalaxy will figure out the proxy settings. You can ssh out, and in from/to anywhere, and with port forwarding, this is very useful. The ITS NT machines in the computer rooms, are even worse. You get a VNC server running all the time as a service. I am expecting a visit from the director of ITS dressed in a black suit brandishing a gun.
Noooo. Dont sho..........
While this may only be relevant to a small number of people, anyone with Linux 2.4.0 upwards and ip-tables / netfilter can use the string match to DROP any packets with the signature of these worms.
will handle code red I/II.
For NIMDA adjust the string accordingly.
(This is copied from a post in comp.os.linux.security by Ian Jones. He deserves the credit. I am just copying and pasting)
How long before the MPAA members are issuing profits warnings due to this stuff?
There WILL be a backlash. In Europe DeCSS is common, and printed magazines even provide it on their cover-cds!
The MPAA makes money from the sales etc. They are not doing themselves any favours by alienating their customers.
If you keep 'protecting' your content, then when it is reaching the level that joe user, who thinks AOL is too technical goes and buys a DVD, and then cant play it because of this or that, then they will be outraged. They have been convinced to upgrade from VHS (which I still use) to this new technology, and the first thing it does is accuse them of a crime!
The MPAA has got to realise that very soon they will have lost control completely. In the UK, the largest supermarket, Tesco was selling region free DVD players only. The DCMA cannot reach us, and the MPAA has got to follow the will of the people
What is the current status on emulators?
While im sure that nobody minds C64 / spectrum emulators, allowing people to play the games illegally before its even released pushes it a bit too far in my judgement
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I know this is off topic, but incorrect physics galls me.
Jumping rings occur due to 'eddy currents'.
B - field induces e.m.f, Al conducts, so a current is produced.
Current produces second B - field, opposing initial B - field
Unbalanced forces so accelleration skyward
(greatly oversimplified)
IMHO the UK has done it better. You cannot register an educational domain (ac.uk / sch.uk) by yourself. They are automatically created by the local education authority for schools, and by JANET for universities. Your domain is provided when your establishment is founded, and most schools / unis are under state funding.
The only downside is the fact that some places have got the wrong order, a domain but not a website
What would be really interesting is if they could create a material with refractive index (n) less than 1. I do not mean negative, but |n| 1 ie 0.6
All you need is a transparent diamagnetic material with a relative permitivity of 1!
This would violate the laws of physics though, (which the actual discovery doesn't) becuase the light waves would be speeded up by the medium, rather than slowed down, so you break the light speed barrier, and the principle of conservation of energy all in one shot.
So i call to the researchers to break down the barriers that physics imposes and create me such a material. All you need to do is make air diamagnetic
AFAIK this will not stand up in a court of law. MSN is too global for this. In Europe this is completly invalid
The issues surrounding this also only apply to hotmail/passport users. If i were to email off the entire linux kernel source to *@hotmail.com, then it is not magically owned by MS, because I have not agreed to the TOS, so cannot be bound by them. Unless it is required that the sender foo@bar-isp.net agrees to the TOS before newbie@hotmail.com recieves his mail, then this will not happen.
My personal opinion on this problem, is the control that the content providers have on this system is too much. Freenet seems to solve this by getting your data from the nearest source, just like mirrors are supposed to. If every home dial-up user contributes to the serving of files, then the problem is reduced. Obviously the encryption in Freenet slows it down, and this should be removed, a publisher should have to submit the content to this system, but would benefit us all if they do. For example i live in the UK, and im sure many other/. readers do. It would be so much less burden on the transatlantic links, and all the routers between me and/. if i could get the info from whoever has just read it in my town, or even street. You could solve all the bandwidth problems by sharing it out.
While it would be difficult on 95\98\Me, I feel that unpriviledged accounts for internet access is the way that ALL os's should work
How many linux \ unix users here run netscape or mozilla as root?
While the security bugs are bad, everyone should take steps towards boxing off the internet from our personal files. Under win95 and other single user OS's untrusted code can do anything such as wipe partition tables, email off those.pwl files, and destroy flash bioses. Linux is better, as unless you run as root, you can only lose your own files. NT should be able to follow a similar setup. I think that in order to limit the damage that could be done, internet apps should either sandbox themselves, or even better be forced into the sandbox by the OS.
If such a policy was followed, then IE would be able to run all those flash bits of code automatically, the os doesnt let the code touch the disks, and fences it in to a small bit of mem, so whatever is done by the code, the system is protected.
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Samba TNG is optimised as a PDC for your windows clients, and can run on a LDAP backend, as can PAM modules for Linux/Solaris.
How do you all exactly describe spam?
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At my uni we are all on numerous majordomo lists.
Example. I am a 1st year maths and physics student
at a certain college. British here, so 12 colleges provide rooms/food for the students. We all learn together.
My college begins with Tr, and so the lists I am subscribed to are as follows.
ug-year1
tr-jcr-college
tr-jcr-1h
tr-jcr-lin
ma-all
ma-ug
ma-corea
ma-singb
ph-ug-year1
ph-phys1091
These are just the ones that I have recieved e-mail from. There are probably more.
Core A maths, Single B maths and 10?? are all the modules I am taking.
The guy responsible for tr-jcr-college will forward on anything that you ask him to, as will ma-ug and ph-ug-year1.
Examples are adverts for concerts, plugging the student magazine.
When I set up a brass band, all the colleges forwarded for me, so I effectively asked the entire uni in one e-mail for anyone who is interested in playing.
What is your opinion of these 'authorised' spams. I.e. the domo lists are created when you join, and you cannot leave, but all posts go from one or two people who arent that fussy with what they forward?
I like the idea with sendmail -bd, not delivering any mail, but surely spammers will simply assume that an "open" relay that takes 2 days to deliver their test message is being moderated as such by somebody running a honeypot. Unless you can identify, and forward spam tests as quickly as if the mailserver was running properly, then the spammers will soon catch on.
I am currently at durham university.
The IT Service, only have a few college rooms cabled up. I had one last term, but not this term. What you get is 10Mb/s but ALL web is forced through a proxy server. This is not transparant, but rather blocking outgoing ports. MSN works if you put in the address of the proxy server, and audiogalaxy will figure out the proxy settings. You can ssh out, and in from/to anywhere, and with port forwarding, this is very useful. The ITS NT machines in the computer rooms, are even worse. You get a VNC server running all the time as a service. I am expecting a visit from the director of ITS dressed in a black suit brandishing a gun.
Noooo. Dont sho..........
While this may only be relevant to a small number of people, anyone with Linux 2.4.0 upwards and ip-tables / netfilter can use the string match to DROP any packets with the signature of these worms.
iptables -I INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --tcp-flags ACK,PSH ACK,PSH --dport 80 \
-m string --string '/default.ida?' -j REJECT
--reject-with tcp-reset
will handle code red I/II.
For NIMDA adjust the string accordingly.
(This is copied from a post in comp.os.linux.security by Ian Jones. He deserves the credit. I am just copying and pasting)
How long before the MPAA members are issuing profits warnings due to this stuff? There WILL be a backlash. In Europe DeCSS is common, and printed magazines even provide it on their cover-cds! The MPAA makes money from the sales etc. They are not doing themselves any favours by alienating their customers. If you keep 'protecting' your content, then when it is reaching the level that joe user, who thinks AOL is too technical goes and buys a DVD, and then cant play it because of this or that, then they will be outraged. They have been convinced to upgrade from VHS (which I still use) to this new technology, and the first thing it does is accuse them of a crime! The MPAA has got to realise that very soon they will have lost control completely. In the UK, the largest supermarket, Tesco was selling region free DVD players only. The DCMA cannot reach us, and the MPAA has got to follow the will of the people
What is the current status on emulators? While im sure that nobody minds C64 / spectrum emulators, allowing people to play the games illegally before its even released pushes it a bit too far in my judgement
I know this is off topic, but incorrect physics galls me. Jumping rings occur due to 'eddy currents'. B - field induces e.m.f, Al conducts, so a current is produced. Current produces second B - field, opposing initial B - field Unbalanced forces so accelleration skyward (greatly oversimplified)
IMHO the UK has done it better. You cannot register an educational domain (ac.uk / sch.uk) by yourself. They are automatically created by the local education authority for schools, and by JANET for universities. Your domain is provided when your establishment is founded, and most schools / unis are under state funding. The only downside is the fact that some places have got the wrong order, a domain but not a website
What would be really interesting is if they could create a material with refractive index (n) less than 1. I do not mean negative, but |n| 1 ie 0.6 All you need is a transparent diamagnetic material with a relative permitivity of 1! This would violate the laws of physics though, (which the actual discovery doesn't) becuase the light waves would be speeded up by the medium, rather than slowed down, so you break the light speed barrier, and the principle of conservation of energy all in one shot. So i call to the researchers to break down the barriers that physics imposes and create me such a material. All you need to do is make air diamagnetic
AFAIK this will not stand up in a court of law. MSN is too global for this. In Europe this is completly invalid The issues surrounding this also only apply to hotmail/passport users. If i were to email off the entire linux kernel source to *@hotmail.com, then it is not magically owned by MS, because I have not agreed to the TOS, so cannot be bound by them. Unless it is required that the sender foo@bar-isp.net agrees to the TOS before newbie@hotmail.com recieves his mail, then this will not happen.
My personal opinion on this problem, is the control that the content providers have on this system is too much. Freenet seems to solve this by getting your data from the nearest source, just like mirrors are supposed to. If every home dial-up user contributes to the serving of files, then the problem is reduced. Obviously the encryption in Freenet slows it down, and this should be removed, a publisher should have to submit the content to this system, but would benefit us all if they do. For example i live in the UK, and im sure many other /. readers do. It would be so much less burden on the transatlantic links, and all the routers between me and /. if i could get the info from whoever has just read it in my town, or even street. You could solve all the bandwidth problems by sharing it out.
While it would be difficult on 95\98\Me, I feel that unpriviledged accounts for internet access is the way that ALL os's should work How many linux \ unix users here run netscape or mozilla as root? While the security bugs are bad, everyone should take steps towards boxing off the internet from our personal files. Under win95 and other single user OS's untrusted code can do anything such as wipe partition tables, email off those .pwl files, and destroy flash bioses. Linux is better, as unless you run as root, you can only lose your own files. NT should be able to follow a similar setup. I think that in order to limit the damage that could be done, internet apps should either sandbox themselves, or even better be forced into the sandbox by the OS.
If such a policy was followed, then IE would be able to run all those flash bits of code automatically, the os doesnt let the code touch the disks, and fences it in to a small bit of mem, so whatever is done by the code, the system is protected.