Good thing they have all that disk space. I wonder how much spam will be sent to geek@gmail.com. If they deliver ads based on email content, maybe they can have sponsored penis enlargement and 419 ads to match. Perhaps the poetry and quotes added to the bottom of spam to give it a unique signature will also yield some interesting sponsored ads.
I am sort of suprised at the 250 million IPO though. Obviousy the IPO is not the value of the entire company, but the little company I work for that I bet almost nobody here has heard of, is actually worth nearly 80 times Google's IPO. Amazing how such a small company can have such a large impact.
1990, the year someone said it was a bad idea to have default services in listening state.
1999, the year MS forgot was was said back in 90.
2003, the year of Microsofts new security initiative.
2004, the year of the Windows worms.
XP SP2, the patch for mentioned "listening state" error.
They should intentionally use different distros, configure them differently, run different DBs, etc.
And hire different admins and DBA for all of the different systems? As well as some good project teams when they need one DB to tie in seamlessly with another DB?
Our systems are different enough as we use different technologies over the years, I can't even imagine the nightmare if we went out of our way to use different software and configs for all the boxes, not to mention having to seperately test all patches in a _massive_ lab environment.
past the development process though, what part of using the network to trade pirated music and software is research? I thought thought the point he made was pretty clear.
Cisco is rewriting IOS, in June, they are going to demo the new IOS with its new backbone router HFR (Huge fast router). From the Zdnet article it has 16, 40 Gig slots (or 640 gig total throughput). The new version of IOS will be modular.
I probably had about 20 of them I never cashed in. I was not till part way through the promotion that I found out you can download the iTunessoftwar to windows for free. I sort of figured it was an iPod thing.
That would force everyone to use an email address of which ever ISP they happen to be using bandwidth from. The hashing would add overhead to mail platforms. The answer though, is actually very simple.
It would take me about 40 seconds to add these records to my DNS servers and make all 20 of my SMTP servers compatible.
SMTP will probably never die, and SMTP does need a rebust authentication. All this filtering and rate limiting on SMTP does jack becasue spammers can just bypass having to usee a valid SMTP server and offload everyone@blah.com right at mx.blah.com with almost no limitations.
The answer to this is so simple it frustrates me, just add a DNS record for SMTP servers and the problem is solved! It stops spammers from sending mail from unauthorized hosts and hijacked PC's and lets SMTP filtering and rate limiting do its job.
I am sure it will strip out DRM, I heard it comes with DeCSS, is open source, and comes with a free 1000 song membership to iTunes and./ subscription also.
To be honest though, you can get a honda civic to go about 135 mp/h for a little over $1000 in parts. Many station wagos these days will hit 120 mp/h if you pull the governer.
I don't know where I could hit 250 mp/h anyway, but I can pick up a light turbocharged 2.5 liter for $30,000 (wrx sti) that will go as fast as I would need it to.
More and more spam these days is being sent by hijacked PC's. The solution is simply not to allow something that is not a valid SMTP server (from DNS records) from connecting directly to your mail exchangers. This is actually a very simple solution to the technical problem of spam.
It is probably different with Slashdot reading geeks but during peak hours, a max of only about 10% of the total users are transferring files at any given time.
I just got off the phone w/ my GF, I called her to reboot my PC into Fedora. I am currently sending a 1 gig zip file over sftp through SSH. I am currently holding about a 2.4 meg xfer rate wich is all my home connection supports anyway. I can't complain.
As a side note, all the major sites with several BGP peering points have recently started using MD5 authentication. We have been updating all of our peering sessions over the last week or so.
BTW, I pasted this here mostly as damage control. I know how some people (and yahoo apparently) like to fly off the handle and claim the world is ending without bothering to even RTFA. You wonder why some people are Afraid to use a computer. If I wrote for the auto industry and intentionally tried to scare the shit out of people Detroit would sue me off the map.
There is a new vulnerability that will cause every GM vehicle and cause your children to cry. Vandals can place 1 domestic house cat into the fan and cause the fan to stop and under some cases, cause the vehicle to overheat. This was previously written off as house cats are usually soft ans squishy and have little effect on the powerful fan but Joe Shmoe PHD realised that many house cats have colars that are pretty tough for the fan to digest. Car experts say this is a serious problem and will be dealt with in a serious manner. Suggested work around is to keep your cat tied in the house, and to drive a bicycle instead.
The issue described in this advisory is the practicability of resetting an established TCP connection by sending suitable TCP packets with the RST (Reset) or SYN (Synchronise) flags set.
The packets need to have source and destination IP addresses that match the established connection as well as the same source and destination TCP ports.
The fact that TCP sessions can be reset by sending suitable RST and SYN packets is a design feature of TCP according to RFC 793, but a reset attack is only possible at all because the source IP address and TCP port can be forged or "spoofed".
Although denial of service using crafted TCP packets is a well known weakness of TCP, until recently it was believed that a successful denial of service attack was not achievable in practice. The reason for this is that the receiving TCP implementation checks the sequence number of the RST or SYN packet, which is a 32 bit number, giving a probability of 1/232 of guessing the sequence number correctly (assuming a random distribution).
The discoverer of the practicability of the RST attack was Paul A. Watson, who describes his research in his paper "Slipping In The Window: TCP Reset Attacks", presented at the CanSecWest 2004 conference. He noticed that the probability of guessing an acceptable sequence number is much higher than 1/232 because the receiving TCP implementation will accept any sequence number in a certain range (or "window") of the expected sequence number. The window makes TCP reset attacks practicable.
Any application protocol which relies on long term TCP connections and for which the source and destination IP addresses and TCP ports are known or can be easily guessed will be vulnerable to at least denial of service attacks
I have also heard people make claims that the Arch was an attempt by aliens to show humans electricity before they were ready to understand it. How do you really know that many early supernatural claims and prophets were not really communicating with alien life?
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Do me a favor and STFU. If you get clocked for speeding are you "innocent" till a Jury "proves" your guilt?
Good thing they have all that disk space. I wonder how much spam will be sent to geek@gmail.com. If they deliver ads based on email content, maybe they can have sponsored penis enlargement and 419 ads to match. Perhaps the poetry and quotes added to the bottom of spam to give it a unique signature will also yield some interesting sponsored ads.
I am sort of suprised at the 250 million IPO though. Obviousy the IPO is not the value of the entire company, but the little company I work for that I bet almost nobody here has heard of, is actually worth nearly 80 times Google's IPO. Amazing how such a small company can have such a large impact.
1990, the year someone said it was a bad idea to have default services in listening state.
1999, the year MS forgot was was said back in 90.
2003, the year of Microsofts new security initiative.
2004, the year of the Windows worms.
XP SP2, the patch for mentioned "listening state" error.
And hire different admins and DBA for all of the different systems? As well as some good project teams when they need one DB to tie in seamlessly with another DB?
Our systems are different enough as we use different technologies over the years, I can't even imagine the nightmare if we went out of our way to use different software and configs for all the boxes, not to mention having to seperately test all patches in a _massive_ lab environment.
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past the development process though, what part of using the network to trade pirated music and software is research? I thought thought the point he made was pretty clear.
Cisco is rewriting IOS, in June, they are going to demo the new IOS with its new backbone router HFR (Huge fast router). From the Zdnet article it has 16, 40 Gig slots (or 640 gig total throughput). The new version of IOS will be modular.
Out local Staples and Best Buy used to carry copies of linux distros and quit doing it. I don't even thing Walmart here keeps boxed sets any more.
I probably had about 20 of them I never cashed in. I was not till part way through the promotion that I found out you can download the iTunessoftwar to windows for free. I sort of figured it was an iPod thing.
It would take me about 40 seconds to add these records to my DNS servers and make all 20 of my SMTP servers compatible.
The answer to this is so simple it frustrates me, just add a DNS record for SMTP servers and the problem is solved! It stops spammers from sending mail from unauthorized hosts and hijacked PC's and lets SMTP filtering and rate limiting do its job.
I am sure it will strip out DRM, I heard it comes with DeCSS, is open source, and comes with a free 1000 song membership to iTunes and ./ subscription also.
I don't know where I could hit 250 mp/h anyway, but I can pick up a light turbocharged 2.5 liter for $30,000 (wrx sti) that will go as fast as I would need it to.
Just google for wood chipper.
More and more spam these days is being sent by hijacked PC's. The solution is simply not to allow something that is not a valid SMTP server (from DNS records) from connecting directly to your mail exchangers. This is actually a very simple solution to the technical problem of spam.
It is probably different with Slashdot reading geeks but during peak hours, a max of only about 10% of the total users are transferring files at any given time.
I just got off the phone w/ my GF, I called her to reboot my PC into Fedora. I am currently sending a 1 gig zip file over sftp through SSH. I am currently holding about a 2.4 meg xfer rate wich is all my home connection supports anyway. I can't complain.
How is Munich doing with the migration these days anyway?
As a side note, all the major sites with several BGP peering points have recently started using MD5 authentication. We have been updating all of our peering sessions over the last week or so.
There is a new vulnerability that will cause every GM vehicle and cause your children to cry. Vandals can place 1 domestic house cat into the fan and cause the fan to stop and under some cases, cause the vehicle to overheat. This was previously written off as house cats are usually soft ans squishy and have little effect on the powerful fan but Joe Shmoe PHD realised that many house cats have colars that are pretty tough for the fan to digest. Car experts say this is a serious problem and will be dealt with in a serious manner. Suggested work around is to keep your cat tied in the house, and to drive a bicycle instead.
The issue described in this advisory is the practicability of resetting an established TCP connection by sending suitable TCP packets with the RST (Reset) or SYN (Synchronise) flags set.
The packets need to have source and destination IP addresses that match the established connection as well as the same source and destination TCP ports.
The fact that TCP sessions can be reset by sending suitable RST and SYN packets is a design feature of TCP according to RFC 793, but a reset attack is only possible at all because the source IP address and TCP port can be forged or "spoofed".
Although denial of service using crafted TCP packets is a well known weakness of TCP, until recently it was believed that a successful denial of service attack was not achievable in practice. The reason for this is that the receiving TCP implementation checks the sequence number of the RST or SYN packet, which is a 32 bit number, giving a probability of 1/232 of guessing the sequence number correctly (assuming a random distribution).
The discoverer of the practicability of the RST attack was Paul A. Watson, who describes his research in his paper "Slipping In The Window: TCP Reset Attacks", presented at the CanSecWest 2004 conference. He noticed that the probability of guessing an acceptable sequence number is much higher than 1/232 because the receiving TCP implementation will accept any sequence number in a certain range (or "window") of the expected sequence number. The window makes TCP reset attacks practicable.
Any application protocol which relies on long term TCP connections and for which the source and destination IP addresses and TCP ports are known or can be easily guessed will be vulnerable to at least denial of service attacks
In all honestly though I do actually buy some distros and contribute.
I don't want to spend $50 a month just so hackers can set my computer on fire, impregnate my wife, and steal my inner child.
That and,
I don't know what I would need the extra speed for, all I use is AIM and email.
I have also heard people make claims that the Arch was an attempt by aliens to show humans electricity before they were ready to understand it. How do you really know that many early supernatural claims and prophets were not really communicating with alien life?