During the DDoS and Blackhole filtering it was only operational in Isreal. The rest of the world was cut off. There were also threatening emails sent to registered users. According to Blue Security their database was not comprimised and the spammer was actually using his own email list to send these email out. Since then I have been receiving 2-3 messages a day from the spammer which contains nothing but the DNS WHOIS record for bluesecurity.com. Here is a copy of the first message I recieved:
"Hey,You are recieving this email because you are a member of BlueSecurity (http://www.bluesecurity.com).
You signed up because you were expecting to recieve a lesser amount of spam, unfortunately, due to the tactics used by BlueSecurity, you will end up recieving this message, or other nonsensical spams 20-40 times more than you would normally.
How do you make it stop?
Simple, in 48 hours, and every 48 hours thereafter, we will run our current list of BlueSecurity subscribers through BlueSecurity's database, if you arent there.. you wont get this again.
We have devised a method to retrieve your address from their database, so by signing up and remaining a BlueSecurity user not only are you opening yourself up for this, you are also potentially verifying your email address through them to even more spammers, and will end up getting up even more spam as an end-result.
By signing up for bluesecurity, you are doing the exact opposite of what you want, so delete your account, and you will stop recieving this.
Why are we doing this?
Its simple, we dont want to, but BlueSecurity is forcing us. We would much rather not waste our resources and send you these useless mails, but do not believe for one second that we will stop this tirade of emails if you choose to stay with BlueSecurity. Just remember one thing when you read this, we didnt do this to you, BlueSecurity did.
If BlueSecurity decides to play fair, we will do the same.
We are quite sure you will think this will not continue, that we will not continue wasting our resources doing this, feel free to wait out the first 48, or the second, and see whether these stop, you will be quite suprised.
If you have another email under the protection of bluesecurity, and have not recieved this there, do not worry, you will soon enough.
We mightve had your email addresses before in our lists, but now, we are targetting YOU, because YOU are a bluesecurity user.
You might also notice, that the BlueSecurity site(http://www.bluesecurity.com) is down..
Just remove yourself from BlueSecurity, and make it easier on you.
I don't rent alot of movies, mostly because i'm usually too busy with other things to watch them. But I get "3 out" for 16.99, and will probably upgrade to the 6 out for ~$20 a month, because my kids rent and watch enough movies to make it worth while. I dumped the Unlimited Blockbuster brick and morter membership because I was tired of driving back and forth all of the time and because my Blockbuster had a limited Independant Film section. Another bonus is that your rentals can be any mix of Movies and Games. I'm not sure how other sites do this since i have not had a Netflix account since they first opened for business.
Ok, putting aside name conflicts and any other problems, doesn't this idea still suck in such large and obvious ways that only an idiot would pause to consider it for longer than 1/2 second?
I mean really, a seperate TLD just for contact information? Are the people at ICANN really that fucking stupid? Why don't they just draft a standard that says contact info should be located at tel.yourdomain.com or contact.yourdomain.net, and make use of existing subdomain system. Or how about this really stupid idea.....maybe we could just use the existing failure of a TLD,.info for this purpose.
Sounds to me like they are just trying to generate more useless TLDs in the hopes that businesses will snap them up out of fear.
For any mainstream application there are 5 applications of the same type to chose from in any given Linux distro. Most of the software available for Windows are "crap" utilities or program that don't live up to the hype printed on their boxes. If there is an application problem in Linux it is that their are too many applications to chose from...
I'm not knocking Windows though....i'm a Windows Developer. I'm also a avid and experienced Linux user...who always has his FUD radar on...
Hahah...responding to an automatically generated compliant-letter shows just how blindly you follow Bush. Heil Bush!!
Did you not see the link to the site that generates these right above them? Did you see the comment jokingly suggest using Bush's name to make one? No of course not, you didn't even read the thread before jumping on the oppotunity to spew anti Democratic Party garbage.
The truth is all parties and politicians suck. They are the blood sucking leeches on societies wallet. We don't need politicians in office we need citizens. It's time to think outside of the party system. It has been failing us for years and is just getting worse. For the last 20 years our government has been locked up by these two childish parties. And instead of putting our foot down and saying "Enough is enough, get to fucking work already!" We stand around and get caught up in the game they feed us. We let them walk all over us. It's time for change! It's time to get rid of this electoral voting system that ignores a large percentage of the voters views and reinstate the popular vote so our voices can be heard again. This county will continue to deteriorate until we are once again a country for the people, by the people. Give us our country back or we will take it back!
You must be kidding me. Linux runs just fine on my Zaurus CL-860, and that has the same specs (roughly) as the proposed MIT laptop. 400Mhz XScale, 128 NDRAM. I can run full Firefox, Abiword, Gnumeric, GIMP, XMMS, and many other apps. And the system i'm running is bloated compared to the original one because its intented to act more like a desktop than a PDA.
Negroponte should have a discussion with the people at Sharp, the folks over at Open Embedded and the Linux embedded community in general before spewing nonsense like this.
There are more than enough embedded Linux project around that show just how well suited Linux is for projects like this.
Technically yes, but the black pages idea assumes they have an actual fax machine on the other end, which i can guarantee they don't have. The fax bomb idea is the most plausable, but again you are assuming that they have a system on their end that will accept faxes.
More than likely these fax spammers have a few servers hooked up to 20 or 30 Voice Circuits and have the 450-700 lines configured as outbound only. Even if they were configured to allow inbound calls the phone system probably won't answer them or will simply use the caller id info to confirm they have a live number. It's just like dealing with email spam basically. You best option is to have a phone system that can accept faxes and email them to you in an image format.
Yes the MAC address can identify the manufacturer. That is might be how he discovered it was D-Link products that were causing the problem in the first place...
[butchered info from wikipedia.org] The first three octets identify the organization which issued the identifier, and are known as the Organizationally Unique Identifier (OUI). The following three octets are assigned by that organization in nearly any manner they please, subject to the constraint of uniqueness.
Your an idiot...truely an idiot...using root servers doesn't protect you from spoofs it only puts more strain on the root servers. People like you make the internet suck
I agree...just because you track them with a service like this doesn't mean your not "parenting".
Back in the days parents kept up with what their children were doing when they weren't around by word of mouth. If you did something, someone who knows you and your parents would have likely seen or heard about it...and it word of this would have made its way back to your parents.
In todays large towns, and age of "mind your own business" this just doesn't happen anymore. It no longer takes a village....it takes a mesh network of cellular towers and a server farm....
[Disclaimer: This post was both serious and silly, I leave it to you to figure out which parts are which]
You think that's scary wait until future version of Windows are released that will only run on DRM enabled hardware...you'll all be gasping in disbelief as the hardware vendors all change directions like a school of fish who have spotted a predator...but you won't be able to do a damn thing about it...
"You don't control the day...the man controls the day....but we will control the night!"
And wow...they subtract $60 from the price of the product!!! Most companies that offer to send you a Windows free system won't subtract anything from the price, or will take off an insignificant amount that is more of an insult than anything else.
I've bought several systems from them for myself, and about 30 for friends and family. They are my hands down favorite. You can configure just about all of their systems down to a bare bone if thats what you need....you don't pay for anything you don't want...
Or maybe Remote Installation Service. Its free tool thats come with Windows 2000 and above servers. I could understand them not wanting to buy a product from another company but to not use a free tool...that just stupid....but hey I guess that's why we are 8 Trillion in debt.
If you want to protect the rights of the artist then you should start by protecting them from the record labels who use them for profit and then toss them aside like old condoms.
Yea, right, we will just put economic sanctions China. That will really teach them!
Oh wait, what was our trade deficit with China again?
201,625,800,000 in 2005 161,938,000,000 in 2004 124,068,200,000 in 2004 103,064,000,000 in 2003/me swings wildly about the his post with a clue bat hitting everything in sight...
Are you guys still arguing about this? It's been at least 550 (possibly 1000+) plus years, shouldn't we have settled this by now?
The cost of repoducing information has been dropping by leaps and bounds since 1440. The only difference between then and now is that it has finally reached the virtual zero mark. Everytime information repoduction makes a significant jump downward creators get nervous and try to stymy these new innovation. After years of fighting they eventually give up and focus their efforts on how they can use this system to their benifit. And each time they find themselves making even more money than before. Video tapes were going to be the end of the movie theather according the big movie executives. They fought tooth and nail to stop it. In the end they benifited from it immensely. It created an entirly new revenue stream that the big movie executive could have never imagined previously. An entire industry sprung up around it, a (as of 2000) 7.3 Biiiiiiillion dollar industry. *removes his pinky from the corner of his mouth*
bah!
P2P File Sharing = Printing Press
You can't stop this tidal wave, but you can surf it all the way to the bank...
Slashdot Mirror
Oh yea...you can read about it here...
http://www.codemonkeyx.org/?p=19
GameAndFlix.com
I don't rent alot of movies, mostly because i'm usually too busy with other things to watch them. But I get "3 out" for 16.99, and will probably upgrade to the 6 out for ~$20 a month, because my kids rent and watch enough movies to make it worth while. I dumped the Unlimited Blockbuster brick and morter membership because I was tired of driving back and forth all of the time and because my Blockbuster had a limited Independant Film section. Another bonus is that your rentals can be any mix of Movies and Games. I'm not sure how other sites do this since i have not had a Netflix account since they first opened for business.
Just some unorganized FYI....
Ok, putting aside name conflicts and any other problems, doesn't this idea still suck in such large and obvious ways that only an idiot would pause to consider it for longer than 1/2 second?
.info for this purpose.
I mean really, a seperate TLD just for contact information? Are the people at ICANN really that fucking stupid? Why don't they just draft a standard that says contact info should be located at tel.yourdomain.com or contact.yourdomain.net, and make use of existing subdomain system. Or how about this really stupid idea.....maybe we could just use the existing failure of a TLD,
Sounds to me like they are just trying to generate more useless TLDs in the hopes that businesses will snap them up out of fear.
FUD FUD FUD!
For any mainstream application there are 5 applications of the same type to chose from in any given Linux distro. Most of the software available for Windows are "crap" utilities or program that don't live up to the hype printed on their boxes. If there is an application problem in Linux it is that their are too many applications to chose from...
I'm not knocking Windows though....i'm a Windows Developer. I'm also a avid and experienced Linux user...who always has his FUD radar on...
Hahah...responding to an automatically generated compliant-letter shows just how blindly you follow Bush. Heil Bush!!
Did you not see the link to the site that generates these right above them? Did you see the comment jokingly suggest using Bush's name to make one? No of course not, you didn't even read the thread before jumping on the oppotunity to spew anti Democratic Party garbage.
The truth is all parties and politicians suck. They are the blood sucking leeches on societies wallet. We don't need politicians in office we need citizens. It's time to think outside of the party system. It has been failing us for years and is just getting worse. For the last 20 years our government has been locked up by these two childish parties. And instead of putting our foot down and saying "Enough is enough, get to fucking work already!" We stand around and get caught up in the game they feed us. We let them walk all over us. It's time for change! It's time to get rid of this electoral voting system that ignores a large percentage of the voters views and reinstate the popular vote so our voices can be heard again. This county will continue to deteriorate until we are once again a country for the people, by the people. Give us our country back or we will take it back!
(ahhh...that felt good!)
You must be kidding me. Linux runs just fine on my Zaurus CL-860, and that has the same specs (roughly) as the proposed MIT laptop. 400Mhz XScale, 128 NDRAM. I can run full Firefox, Abiword, Gnumeric, GIMP, XMMS, and many other apps. And the system i'm running is bloated compared to the original one because its intented to act more like a desktop than a PDA.
Negroponte should have a discussion with the people at Sharp, the folks over at Open Embedded and the Linux embedded community in general before spewing nonsense like this.
There are more than enough embedded Linux project around that show just how well suited Linux is for projects like this.
Technically yes, but the black pages idea assumes they have an actual fax machine on the other end, which i can guarantee they don't have. The fax bomb idea is the most plausable, but again you are assuming that they have a system on their end that will accept faxes.
More than likely these fax spammers have a few servers hooked up to 20 or 30 Voice Circuits and have the 450-700 lines configured as outbound only. Even if they were configured to allow inbound calls the phone system probably won't answer them or will simply use the caller id info to confirm they have a live number. It's just like dealing with email spam basically. You best option is to have a phone system that can accept faxes and email them to you in an image format.
hehe...thats so cute...unpublished....lol
They get fax numbers by having a computer randomly or sequentially dial numbers and listen for fax tones. (I think sequential is illegal though)
Yes the MAC address can identify the manufacturer. That is might be how he discovered it was D-Link products that were causing the problem in the first place...
[butchered info from wikipedia.org]
The first three octets identify the organization which issued the identifier, and are known as the Organizationally Unique Identifier (OUI). The following three octets are assigned by that organization in nearly any manner they please, subject to the constraint of uniqueness.
Your an idiot...truely an idiot...using root servers doesn't protect you from spoofs it only puts more strain on the root servers. People like you make the internet suck
(oh yea! more +1 Flamebait)
Yes but these are not "client PCs" they are routers.
(yea i know +1 Flame Bait)
(and yes D-Link is evil, i'm just playing Devil's Advocate)
When you ask? Never...that's when. That's why they are users...as soon as they begin to care they stop being users...
I agree...just because you track them with a service like this doesn't mean your not "parenting".
Back in the days parents kept up with what their children were doing when they weren't around by word of mouth. If you did something, someone who knows you and your parents would have likely seen or heard about it...and it word of this would have made its way back to your parents.
In todays large towns, and age of "mind your own business" this just doesn't happen anymore. It no longer takes a village....it takes a mesh network of cellular towers and a server farm....
[Disclaimer: This post was both serious and silly, I leave it to you to figure out which parts are which]
You think that's scary wait until future version of Windows are released that will only run on DRM enabled hardware...you'll all be gasping in disbelief as the hardware vendors all change directions like a school of fish who have spotted a predator...but you won't be able to do a damn thing about it...
"You don't control the day...the man controls the day....but we will control the night!"
http://cyberpowerinc.com/
And wow...they subtract $60 from the price of the product!!! Most companies that offer to send you a Windows free system won't subtract anything from the price, or will take off an insignificant amount that is more of an insult than anything else.
I've bought several systems from them for myself, and about 30 for friends and family. They are my hands down favorite. You can configure just about all of their systems down to a bare bone if thats what you need....you don't pay for anything you don't want...
Or maybe Remote Installation Service. Its free tool thats come with Windows 2000 and above servers. I could understand them not wanting to buy a product from another company but to not use a free tool...that just stupid....but hey I guess that's why we are 8 Trillion in debt.
Fucking idiots!
Your WotC link isn't working.....you have a working link?
If you want to protect the rights of the artist then you should start by protecting them from the record labels who use them for profit and then toss them aside like old condoms.
But i'm lazy! Can't you just RTFM to me?
Most modern mail server already do this, but the sheer volume of files moving through business email each day is still insane.
ha! The we have quite the paradox on our hand don't we...?
priciples mean nothing when your country is so economically depressed that it can barely sustain itself...
Yea, right, we will just put economic sanctions China. That will really teach them!
/me swings wildly about the his post with a clue bat hitting everything in sight...
Oh wait, what was our trade deficit with China again?
201,625,800,000 in 2005
161,938,000,000 in 2004
124,068,200,000 in 2004
103,064,000,000 in 2003
Are you guys still arguing about this? It's been at least 550 (possibly 1000+) plus years, shouldn't we have settled this by now?
The cost of repoducing information has been dropping by leaps and bounds since 1440. The only difference between then and now is that it has finally reached the virtual zero mark. Everytime information repoduction makes a significant jump downward creators get nervous and try to stymy these new innovation. After years of fighting they eventually give up and focus their efforts on how they can use this system to their benifit. And each time they find themselves making even more money than before. Video tapes were going to be the end of the movie theather according the big movie executives. They fought tooth and nail to stop it. In the end they benifited from it immensely. It created an entirly new revenue stream that the big movie executive could have never imagined previously. An entire industry sprung up around it, a (as of 2000) 7.3 Biiiiiiillion dollar industry. *removes his pinky from the corner of his mouth*
bah!
P2P File Sharing = Printing Press
You can't stop this tidal wave, but you can surf it all the way to the bank...