can be linking to a php script which generates n random email addresses in your site. For example this. The link doesn't even have to be visible, it'd take a fairly smart harvester to notice you've stuck it behind a <div> tag or made the font appear in the background colour.
Although it isn't cutting-edge (most of the domains would fail a dns lookup for starters) it should succeed in polluting lists generated by most dumb harvesters. Crude but effective since every spam sent to a non-existent address means one less sent to a real human.
and who decides which other people are "trustworthy enough" to posess knowledge? Doing this would make things even worse, taking science and biotech out of the hands of unapproved individuals (so even though you could easily die of ebola knowledge of it becomes forbidden?) completely would make the modern military-industrial complex even more invulnerable to its subjects
its a shame that certificates can't be reliably delegated in the same way as DNS - securing the internet would be a much less painful process if the owner of the domain could announce their chosen cert authority as part of their domain's DNS record, then bodies like thawte could be left out of the loop altogether.
[just my daft ruminations though, feel free to explain why this wouldn't work]
except this is entirely arbitary - HTTP is just a protocol, you can speak it over any connection (port 8080? yoghurt pots & string?). For example Gnutella uses a slightly modified version of HTTP on port 6346, try pointing your web browser at somegnutellahost:6346 and you'll see what i mean.
impressive stuff... from what the datasheet says this all looks to be implemented hardware on the card - but given the low-level facilities of the chipsets on consumer-grade 802.11 cards is there any reason why some bright coder can't do a similar thing in driverspace?
in response to all the people posting "so how do i stop evil k1dd135 using my bandwidth?" - why not just stick to secure (ssh, https) protocols and share it?
Granted this isn't suitable for a lot of business networks, but still - wouldn't it be cool if you could walk down the street and stay connected to icq without getting your ass kicked?
except mac addresses can be changed on wifi cards just like normal ethernet cards - so all it takes is sniffing long enough to find a legit mac then ifconfig eth0 hw ether de:ad:be:ef:00
Why can't Slashdot set up a cache of the interesting pages
in this case because most of the pages on waypath are dynamically generated - a lot of the sites/. links to are. It couldn't work unless someone grabbed a copy of the code (and data) and setup their own waypath machine in the osdn cage
This isn't necessarily the case - signals here are directional. Many tiny antennas are automatically configured to transmit in whatever pattern gives the best connectivity to the client with as little power wasted on other directions as possible. In fact this ought to help avert the tragedy of the commons we're seeing right now, not exacerbate it.
Nice idea but regex's have waaaay to high an overhead to filter the amount of traffic even a small DDoS produces - you'd need some kind of omnipotent distributed uberBeowulf cluster (or a million monkeys watching a zillion blinkenlights)
Sadly, it runs windows so no one will actually want to use one for real work
Exactly what planet are you living on? Last time i looked the majority of computer users do 100% of their computing in windows.
Comments like this in the front page of/. jsut serve ro make the linux/open source community look like a bunch of sulky children because *their* os doesn't come installed.
Configure your email server to block or remove email that contains file attachments that are commonly used to spread viruses, such as.vbs,.bat,.exe,.pif and.scr files.
phew, thanks symantec - now my webserver is safe from windows screensavers
certainly not true in my country - apart from matters of national security the UK has a very free press - witness the regular scandals, often with little hint of real evidence. The British press is one of the biggest reasons we still have a vaguely functioning democracy
splat, there goes another site that uses a mysql backend.
<preach> why don't people stick a line of code in their scripts that checks system load and disables databasey stuff while the system's getting hosed? </preach>
true, and i agree. But sticking one on here is an awfully effective way of getting hundreds of uk geeks to do/something/ when they normally wouldn't do anything at all, so it really does make a difference.
that said, the one i've got up there now isn't all that great. Anyone want to come up with something better?
This draft is already at quite a late stage: best bet is to fax or mail your MP directly. For the lazy there's a form letter here - and FaxYourMP.com is your friend.
Slashdot Mirror
...which is good but relies on SGI's FAM which itself relies on a heap of other stuff. Definitely not for the faint of heart.
but where email goes is controlled by a domain's MX record, not its A record. For example:
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;nonexistantdomain-sfasfjh.com. IN MX
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
;; Query time: 189 msec
;; SERVER: 195.40.0.250#53(195.40.0.250)
;; WHEN: Tue Sep 16 12:22:07 2003
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 120
mock@diversity ~$ dig MX nonexistantdomain-sfasfjh.com
; > DiG 9.2.2 > MX nonexistantdomain-sfasfjh.com
com. 172800 IN SOA a.gtld-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com. 2003091501 1800 900 604800 86400
so there's nowhere to deliver mails to.
"the operation timed out when connecting to www.terrawind.com"
"the operation timed out when connecting to www linkscape.net"
kickass, the slashdot effect scales!
can be linking to a php script which generates n random email addresses in your site. For example this. The link doesn't even have to be visible, it'd take a fairly smart harvester to notice you've stuck it behind a <div> tag or made the font appear in the background colour.
Although it isn't cutting-edge (most of the domains would fail a dns lookup for starters) it should succeed in polluting lists generated by most dumb harvesters. Crude but effective since every spam sent to a non-existent address means one less sent to a real human.
and who decides which other people are "trustworthy enough" to posess knowledge? Doing this would make things even worse, taking science and biotech out of the hands of unapproved individuals (so even though you could easily die of ebola knowledge of it becomes forbidden?) completely would make the modern military-industrial complex even more invulnerable to its subjects
its a shame that certificates can't be reliably delegated in the same way as DNS - securing the internet would be a much less painful process if the owner of the domain could announce their chosen cert authority as part of their domain's DNS record, then bodies like thawte could be left out of the loop altogether.
[just my daft ruminations though, feel free to explain why this wouldn't work]
which incidentally uses port 80
except this is entirely arbitary - HTTP is just a protocol, you can speak it over any connection (port 8080? yoghurt pots & string?). For example Gnutella uses a slightly modified version of HTTP on port 6346, try pointing your web browser at somegnutellahost:6346 and you'll see what i mean.
5 miles from the nearest excahnge
you shouldn't need 2' parabolic dishes for this - it ought to be possible with a well-aimed pair of yagi style antenna. (cringely article)
impressive stuff... from what the datasheet says this all looks to be implemented hardware on the card - but given the low-level facilities of the chipsets on consumer-grade 802.11 cards is there any reason why some bright coder can't do a similar thing in driverspace?
in response to all the people posting "so how do i stop evil k1dd135 using my bandwidth?" - why not just stick to secure (ssh, https) protocols and share it?
Granted this isn't suitable for a lot of business networks, but still - wouldn't it be cool if you could walk down the street and stay connected to icq without getting your ass kicked?
except mac addresses can be changed on wifi cards just like normal ethernet cards - so all it takes is sniffing long enough to find a legit mac then ifconfig eth0 hw ether de:ad:be:ef:00
useful link: kismet
unless her backdoor is protected - in that case you'll need to spend days hanging around it sniffing for weak packets
I didnt notice the original link asked for a reg?
it does:
Welcome to The New York Times on the Web!
For full access to our site, please complete this simple registration form.
maybe you've already got the NYT reg cookie set on your browser?
Why can't Slashdot set up a cache of the interesting pages
/. links to are. It couldn't work unless someone grabbed a copy of the code (and data) and setup their own waypath machine in the osdn cage
in this case because most of the pages on waypath are dynamically generated - a lot of the sites
This isn't necessarily the case - signals here are directional. Many tiny antennas are automatically configured to transmit in whatever pattern gives the best connectivity to the client with as little power wasted on other directions as possible. In fact this ought to help avert the tragedy of the commons we're seeing right now, not exacerbate it.
Nice idea but regex's have waaaay to high an overhead to filter the amount of traffic even a small DDoS produces - you'd need some kind of omnipotent distributed uberBeowulf cluster (or a million monkeys watching a zillion blinkenlights)
not that i'm particularly pro-ms, but...
/. jsut serve ro make the linux/open source community look like a bunch of sulky children because *their* os doesn't come installed.
Sadly, it runs windows so no one will actually want to use one for real work
Exactly what planet are you living on? Last time i looked the majority of computer users do 100% of their computing in windows.
Comments like this in the front page of
recommendations
.vbs, .bat, .exe, .pif and .scr files.
Configure your email server to block or remove email that contains file attachments that are commonly used to spread viruses, such as
phew, thanks symantec - now my webserver is safe from windows screensavers
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s ! 127.0.0.1 -j DROP
or possibly
echo "please upgrade my connection to an OC3 immediately and bill to uberadmin@slashdot.org" | mail -s "SOS!" admin@$isp
certainly not true in my country - apart from matters of national security the UK has a very free press - witness the regular scandals, often with little hint of real evidence. The British press is one of the biggest reasons we still have a vaguely functioning democracy
That was offtopic, but...
splat, there goes another site that uses a mysql backend.
<preach>
why don't people stick a line of code in their scripts that checks system load and disables databasey stuff while the system's getting hosed?
</preach>
> By all means use mocktor's excellent letter
nah, it was crap anyway... point taken, and i've stuck that explanation at the top.
You should throw xcom's every year, this one's been quite a catalyst
true, and i agree. But sticking one on here is an awfully effective way of getting hundreds of uk geeks to do /something/ when they normally wouldn't do anything at all, so it really does make a difference.
that said, the one i've got up there now isn't all that great. Anyone want to come up with something better?
This draft is already at quite a late stage: best bet is to fax or mail your MP directly. For the lazy there's a form letter here - and FaxYourMP.com is your friend.
much respect, there are a lot of good people near where i work with nowhere to sleep. One question: which supermarket?