US sticks its nose where it doesn't belong
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Globalism Post 9/11
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The world doesn't hate the US because it has money, nor because of the new globalization of the economy.
They hate the US because Americans because they stick their noses everywhere it doesn't belong.
America is the only country in the world which prosecutes non-citizens for breaking American laws in countries outside their own. Two examples comes to mind: Dmitri Sklyarov with the DCMA (whom/. knows only too well), and James Sabzali for selling water purifiers in Canada to Cuba being prosecuted now in Philadelphia. (The funny bit is that there is a Canadian law (Canada's Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act) which prohibits Canadians from abiding by the American embargo -- meaning that while in Canada, James Sabzali was would be committing a crime if he abandoned Cuban sales due to the American embargo).
Wanna keep the world happy America? Consider your actions on the rest of the world. Stop the international policy of invading smaller countries because of US self interest (Nicaragua, Cuba, Vietnam... God does the list goes on and on). Abide by international treaties even the US has agreed to (UN fees, Kyoto protocol... hell, even NAFTA and WTO you disregard when it doesn't favor you). And by all means, rid the world of the idiot you put into power: Bush.
Let's do a quick calculation to see if this is feasible.
Let's assume you've got a slow connection on your average modem and you're running your dialup at 33Kps. This means that you're looking at having that blinking light going through on-off cycles every 1/33000 of a second if you can read the data accurately.
Considering the quality of your average LED inside the modem, I'd be amazed if they can blink on-off distinctly more than 100 times a second. Anything faster else would blur.
.... and what do you do with an invalid checksum on the IP packet? Phone the guy's house up and ask them to resend the packet?
This conspiracy theorist should concentrate on finding meaning in radio waves from space.
DCMA isn't valid outside the US. Host the server software and source outside the US. Find yourself a European or Russian ISP willing to do it.
The only legal recourse for Blizzard is to try to shut down individual game servers residing in the US (small potatoes), or to try and track down developpers individually should they also reside in the US.
If you're an american developer for this, just deny any involvement from this point on.
DMCA is an American law. It is unenforcable anywhere else in the world.
Unlike the Skylov/Adobe scenario, there is no company/entity for Blizzard to attack. The US authorities can't sieze assets that don't exist, nor can they threaten to limit business access to the American market since there isn't business conducted in the first place.
My suggestion to you is to thank your ISP for the time you've had together, and get your site hosted by one found outside US borders. Russian ISP would be a sweet revenge... their court system would have a field day when the US authorities asks them to enforce a local American law.
In fact, just for protection, all open source non-profit projects should have a base outside of the US because of this archane law.
Then the only recourse for companies like Blizzard would be to hunt down any active servers located inside the USA, and pray that evil foreign hands don't get their hands on a copy.:-)
Take the site, and have it hosted by a european country which doesn't like the DMCA. Heck, have it hosted by a Russian ISP. After the fiasco with Adobe, the Russian court system would likely laugh at the prospect of trying to enforce a local US law.
Since you don't have a company to go after, I'd like to see Blizzard try to filter out the net. You can't shut down a non-profit group such as this. There is no entity to attack.
Re:SNMP's a pretty damned scary protocol anyway
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Security Hole In SNMP
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Sure... but a frail minority of network devices support V3. SNMPv1 is still the norm for all but a few device providers (CISCO).
Face it... if you must use SNMPv1, make sure the router configuration port is on a private LAN and not accessible to the service ports you are providing. And pray someone doesn't break through.
SNMP v1 as defined in RFC 1213 and RFC 1215 has no security features built in to begin with. You have to go to SNMP v2 or v3.
This means that if you like to configure yoru routers using SNMPv1 and someone intercepts your UDP packet, they can read the community string (normally used as an ad-hock password) you use and have access to your NE (network element).
This is a common security failure with a LOT of telecom equipment. Normally, if you enable SNMP on your boxes, keep the conguration port (normally found outside of service ports) inside a private LAN and hope for the best!
And the kicker is, I work for a telecom company implementing SNMP solutions on OOSes and EMSes. Even after 5 years or SNMPv2 being out (SNMPv3 has also come out in the last few years), most NE's being produced on the market (save for the big boys -- Nortel, Cisco, etc) come with standard SNMPv1 managment and configuration capabilities. Safe surfing.
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They hate the US because Americans because they stick their noses everywhere it doesn't belong.
America is the only country in the world which prosecutes non-citizens for breaking American laws in countries outside their own. Two examples comes to mind: Dmitri Sklyarov with the DCMA (whom /. knows only too well), and James Sabzali for selling water purifiers in Canada to Cuba being prosecuted now in Philadelphia. (The funny bit is that there is a Canadian law (Canada's Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act) which prohibits Canadians from abiding by the American embargo -- meaning that while in Canada, James Sabzali was would be committing a crime if he abandoned Cuban sales due to the American embargo).
Wanna keep the world happy America? Consider your actions on the rest of the world. Stop the international policy of invading smaller countries because of US self interest (Nicaragua, Cuba, Vietnam... God does the list goes on and on). Abide by international treaties even the US has agreed to (UN fees, Kyoto protocol... hell, even NAFTA and WTO you disregard when it doesn't favor you). And by all means, rid the world of the idiot you put into power: Bush.
Yeah, troll me cause I'm unamerican.
Let's assume you've got a slow connection on your average modem and you're running your dialup at 33Kps. This means that you're looking at having that blinking light going through on-off cycles every 1/33000 of a second if you can read the data accurately.
Considering the quality of your average LED inside the modem, I'd be amazed if they can blink on-off distinctly more than 100 times a second. Anything faster else would blur.
This conspiracy theorist should concentrate on finding meaning in radio waves from space.
The only legal recourse for Blizzard is to try to shut down individual game servers residing in the US (small potatoes), or to try and track down developpers individually should they also reside in the US.
If you're an american developer for this, just deny any involvement from this point on.
Anyhow, imagine how much you're paying in software licensing for a large cluster? For a univeristy project, this just doesn't seem to make sense.
Unlike the Skylov/Adobe scenario, there is no company/entity for Blizzard to attack. The US authorities can't sieze assets that don't exist, nor can they threaten to limit business access to the American market since there isn't business conducted in the first place.
My suggestion to you is to thank your ISP for the time you've had together, and get your site hosted by one found outside US borders. Russian ISP would be a sweet revenge... their court system would have a field day when the US authorities asks them to enforce a local American law.
In fact, just for protection, all open source non-profit projects should have a base outside of the US because of this archane law.
Then the only recourse for companies like Blizzard would be to hunt down any active servers located inside the USA, and pray that evil foreign hands don't get their hands on a copy. :-)
Take the site, and have it hosted by a european country which doesn't like the DMCA. Heck, have it hosted by a Russian ISP. After the fiasco with Adobe, the Russian court system would likely laugh at the prospect of trying to enforce a local US law.
Since you don't have a company to go after, I'd like to see Blizzard try to filter out the net. You can't shut down a non-profit group such as this. There is no entity to attack.
Face it... if you must use SNMPv1, make sure the router configuration port is on a private LAN and not accessible to the service ports you are providing. And pray someone doesn't break through.
This means that if you like to configure yoru routers using SNMPv1 and someone intercepts your UDP packet, they can read the community string (normally used as an ad-hock password) you use and have access to your NE (network element).
This is a common security failure with a LOT of telecom equipment. Normally, if you enable SNMP on your boxes, keep the conguration port (normally found outside of service ports) inside a private LAN and hope for the best!
And the kicker is, I work for a telecom company implementing SNMP solutions on OOSes and EMSes. Even after 5 years or SNMPv2 being out (SNMPv3 has also come out in the last few years), most NE's being produced on the market (save for the big boys -- Nortel, Cisco, etc) come with standard SNMPv1 managment and configuration capabilities. Safe surfing.