I had the same problem with RCN after Code Red brought down their network - so they shut off port 80 for all their customers. I asked why they didn't just shut it down for the people who were infected (since I was running Apache on Linux I knew I wouldn't be affected), but the tech on the other side of the phone said that was their new policy and that I shouldn't be running any services anyway, since it's a violation of my service agreement. This of course would mean I can't run the login service on my machine, which would pretty much make the service useless. Actually, they have a vague reference about offering services commercially, which I certainly don't do on that machine, but I digress.
The reason RCN shut down port 80 for everyone is simple - it took them 3 minutes (about a single dollar worth of labor) to restore their network performance. The behavior of @home is far more professional as they are holding individuals responsible and not decreasing the level of service for all their customers. If I had the chance, I'd switch over to @home in a heartbeat. Sure, it would probably be more responsible for them to host an ftp site with the fixes and to just shut down access to everything but outbound ftp requests from those customers who were infected. This would certainly reduce bandwidth consumption out of their network by all those responsible users who require the fix.
I believe all service providers should provide a hot fix site for their customers - in their own best interests to keep bandwidth consumption on their backbone down if nothing else.
We might be able to help even more by putting together a group to build a support site where organizations can request assistance and contributions from the American public. This site would capture the needs and locations and would also allow the contributors to 'bid' on making a contribution based on their ability to get the equipment/resources on site on time. We'd need a service provider with sufficient bandwidth to host the site, a decent database and a scalable web server. Does anyone have an active environment they could volunteer for this? Is this a project that would interest anyone here?
We could use this as a coordination point for transport vendors to provide assistance in moving any contributions to the rescue site and coordinate collection points.
Has anyone noticed any significant delays in the shipping industry?
The first plane in the World Trade Center attack was American flight 11 from Boston to LA. The selection of this flight seems somewhat arbitrary, as the flight would need to be diverted from its flight path for over a half hour to reach New York. This is in line with reports that the FBI had been tracking a terrorist takeover of a flight shortly before the crash.
Security at Logan is typical as compared against other US airports, with metal detectors between the terminals and the gate areas with all baggage going through an X-Ray device. A terrorist would be able to enter the gate area easily with a ceramic weapon as the current technology does not detect ceramics. It is, however, unlikely they got a bomb through the baggage area without inside assistance, nor would they need a bomb to affect this level of devastation.
As far as having a bomb on the plane, this is not a likely scenario. There would be enough fuel in the wings to cause the type of explosion we all saw on TV, furthermore they would want to crash a plane from another city to increase the amount of vapor in the wings to allow for greater combustibility and produce a more powerful explosion. This would be why they did not hijack a plane out of New York for the attack, as they would risk having the fuel tanks full which would have reduced the violence and effectiveness of the explosion.
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Made me leap back from the machine and wonder what orifice in the computer was the most dangerous...
I came across this while running through some final tests before shipping a product to a customer.
I had the same problem with RCN after Code Red brought down their network - so they shut off port 80 for all their customers. I asked why they didn't just shut it down for the people who were infected (since I was running Apache on Linux I knew I wouldn't be affected), but the tech on the other side of the phone said that was their new policy and that I shouldn't be running any services anyway, since it's a violation of my service agreement. This of course would mean I can't run the login service on my machine, which would pretty much make the service useless. Actually, they have a vague reference about offering services commercially, which I certainly don't do on that machine, but I digress.
The reason RCN shut down port 80 for everyone is simple - it took them 3 minutes (about a single dollar worth of labor) to restore their network performance. The behavior of @home is far more professional as they are holding individuals responsible and not decreasing the level of service for all their customers. If I had the chance, I'd switch over to @home in a heartbeat. Sure, it would probably be more responsible for them to host an ftp site with the fixes and to just shut down access to everything but outbound ftp requests from those customers who were infected. This would certainly reduce bandwidth consumption out of their network by all those responsible users who require the fix.
I believe all service providers should provide a hot fix site for their customers - in their own best interests to keep bandwidth consumption on their backbone down if nothing else.
We might be able to help even more by putting together a group to build a support site where organizations can request assistance and contributions from the American public. This site would capture the needs and locations and would also allow the contributors to 'bid' on making a contribution based on their ability to get the equipment/resources on site on time. We'd need a service provider with sufficient bandwidth to host the site, a decent database and a scalable web server. Does anyone have an active environment they could volunteer for this? Is this a project that would interest anyone here? We could use this as a coordination point for transport vendors to provide assistance in moving any contributions to the rescue site and coordinate collection points. Has anyone noticed any significant delays in the shipping industry?
The first plane in the World Trade Center attack was American flight 11 from Boston to LA. The selection of this flight seems somewhat arbitrary, as the flight would need to be diverted from its flight path for over a half hour to reach New York. This is in line with reports that the FBI had been tracking a terrorist takeover of a flight shortly before the crash.
Security at Logan is typical as compared against other US airports, with metal detectors between the terminals and the gate areas with all baggage going through an X-Ray device. A terrorist would be able to enter the gate area easily with a ceramic weapon as the current technology does not detect ceramics. It is, however, unlikely they got a bomb through the baggage area without inside assistance, nor would they need a bomb to affect this level of devastation.
As far as having a bomb on the plane, this is not a likely scenario. There would be enough fuel in the wings to cause the type of explosion we all saw on TV, furthermore they would want to crash a plane from another city to increase the amount of vapor in the wings to allow for greater combustibility and produce a more powerful explosion. This would be why they did not hijack a plane out of New York for the attack, as they would risk having the fuel tanks full which would have reduced the violence and effectiveness of the explosion.