so, you're saying, in the 21st century, it's perfectly OK to discriminate, allow things like slavery, keep women down as second class (or worse) citizens, outright block people from your cities/towns/states based on religion, tax people based on their religion to eliminate them from society, purge people based on religion, and provide material support for those who would advance your cause in other countries?
this is a problem with which I'm familiar. Used to be isolated to the 41. specifically Nigeria, then Ghana, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso got into the act, then UAE, Egypt and Algeria. Lately the headache has been migrating to Malaysia and Jakarta. Throw in the random UK, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Russian IPs, occasionally some from China.
I just track the IPs, when they reach a magical threshold I loop through with iptables and block the whole damned network, and when enough subnets are blocked, move up to the whole class B. I'm almost to the point where 41. and 196 are dead to me.
western civilization is hardly the first civilization to cultivate this sort of attitude of genocidal disregard. nor, frankly, the most destructive or even most recent, as there are ongoing disputes of this nature currently raging.
these are all a far cry from daily bombings, shootings and other violence exhibited in the Islamic world for insulting Islam. Go ahead, burn a Koran if you don't believe me, draw a picture of their chief guy, or curse using their chief guy's name as a swear word, see what happens to you. When was the last time Bishop Paul Moore pulled the pin on a hand grenade and threw it at a group of tourists?
When was the last time a movie theater was burned for showing "The Last Temptation of Christ"?
When some of the main characters met at the top of Olympus Mons you could really feel their disgust and pain at the loss of pristine wilderness caused by the apparent invasion of the moss or lichens even in that remote and relatively airless place. They didn't just change Mars, it wasn't even the same planet anymore. Granted, IMO it was all for the better, by that point in the story IIRC you could walk on the surface naked.
Hell, they removed two moons. One impacted into the planet, the other slung away at high speed, they belted the planet with the space elevator cable, they introduced whales and big cats... It's an excellent vision of the future.
a data center sized power conditioning and isolation unit is useless for lightning induced power surges of sufficient size... Certainly not for direct strikes. around 2005, saw one strike take out a datacenter when the lightning took out a tree, entered the data center at the emergency exit door near the tree, and ground itself to the side of the power conditioner stationed right next to the door. The strike took out a brass bus bar and cooking the circuits in the box and placed the battery backup units into lockout mode, required a truck load of hardware just to get power restored to the datacenter.
The datacenter was offline the rest of the night, but even after power was restored, a good number of machines were cooked. Oddly enough, the worst damage was to the network gear with many ethernet cards burned out.
but you have to address the "why" of sputnik scare and the space race in general. Putting Sputnik in orbit meant the Soviets could drop a nuke anywhere on the planet. They might not get through with bombers, but there's no stopping it from dropping out of orbit onto your home town in Nebraska.
Every rocket used in the space race up-to but not including Saturn V was a nuclear missile adopted to accept a human crew.
definitely going for style points. nothing gives you the chills quite like the "sproing!click!" of the M1 running out of ammo. The plan was to have a limited number of spammers on the island, maybe at a 1:1 ratio kind of like "Running Man" (not smit running man either)
you are, of course, exactly right. There's nothing to be done but label them, put them on a list, and wait for them to step foot in a foreign land that has these controls in place.
Maybe we can declare a Fatwa against them, and any righteous sysadmin can achieve a greater score in mario brothers if they take the spammer out?
that's whitelist-only and works great, actually. In our service, you put * in your blacklist, then *@dom in your whitelist (or of course, individual email addresses).
they already use raw IPs, but the vast majority of MX servers reject email that doesn't resolve in reverse DNS, or doesn't have a resolvable HELO hostname, or the from address is phony.
And they already use compromised clients, see it every day.
This is the way our reputation provider works: If the IP hasn't been seen delivering email before (no matter it's age), it has a 0 reputation. The more email that is processed the higher the reputation and the reputation is, of course, modified down by complaints. The more complaints,the lower the reputation. Think feedback loop, or where your email goes when you click "mark as junk."
If someone else wanted to get into the game, services like spamcop could be used (who knows, maybe can already be used?) to determine domain name reputation by keeping an independent database of domain names and keeping the ratio of good to bad email handy for rapid lookups, maybe in something like dnsrbld type lookup table. It's the same as IP reputation engines, just with text domain names.
Maybe someone alread does. I know our antispam provider keeps a level of spaminess for domain names, but those are for domains that already exist. You would have to determine by policy what to do with domains that don't have a reputation.
That and implementing tighter SPF and DKIM will help eliminate this stuff.
really, there's no way around this that can't also be worked around by the spammers. Every single step is met by counter action and evasion. The only thing that works is jail time.
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so, you're saying, in the 21st century, it's perfectly OK to discriminate, allow things like slavery, keep women down as second class (or worse) citizens, outright block people from your cities/towns/states based on religion, tax people based on their religion to eliminate them from society, purge people based on religion, and provide material support for those who would advance your cause in other countries?
riiiight, this process has worked so well liberating the rest of the Islamic world.
this is a problem with which I'm familiar. Used to be isolated to the 41. specifically Nigeria, then Ghana, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso got into the act, then UAE, Egypt and Algeria. Lately the headache has been migrating to Malaysia and Jakarta. Throw in the random UK, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Russian IPs, occasionally some from China.
I just track the IPs, when they reach a magical threshold I loop through with iptables and block the whole damned network, and when enough subnets are blocked, move up to the whole class B. I'm almost to the point where 41. and 196 are dead to me.
I hear you can just pay people to sit in front of a PC all day solving captchas, and it's cheaper than a bot.
western civilization is hardly the first civilization to cultivate this sort of attitude of genocidal disregard. nor, frankly, the most destructive or even most recent, as there are ongoing disputes of this nature currently raging.
citation? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gengis_khan, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_invasion_of_India, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_revolution
anxiously awaiting the first review from a slashdot user who was there and tasted it...
these are all a far cry from daily bombings, shootings and other violence exhibited in the Islamic world for insulting Islam. Go ahead, burn a Koran if you don't believe me, draw a picture of their chief guy, or curse using their chief guy's name as a swear word, see what happens to you. When was the last time Bishop Paul Moore pulled the pin on a hand grenade and threw it at a group of tourists?
When was the last time a movie theater was burned for showing "The Last Temptation of Christ"?
When some of the main characters met at the top of Olympus Mons you could really feel their disgust and pain at the loss of pristine wilderness caused by the apparent invasion of the moss or lichens even in that remote and relatively airless place. They didn't just change Mars, it wasn't even the same planet anymore. Granted, IMO it was all for the better, by that point in the story IIRC you could walk on the surface naked.
Hell, they removed two moons. One impacted into the planet, the other slung away at high speed, they belted the planet with the space elevator cable, they introduced whales and big cats... It's an excellent vision of the future.
a data center sized power conditioning and isolation unit is useless for lightning induced power surges of sufficient size... Certainly not for direct strikes. around 2005, saw one strike take out a datacenter when the lightning took out a tree, entered the data center at the emergency exit door near the tree, and ground itself to the side of the power conditioner stationed right next to the door. The strike took out a brass bus bar and cooking the circuits in the box and placed the battery backup units into lockout mode, required a truck load of hardware just to get power restored to the datacenter.
The datacenter was offline the rest of the night, but even after power was restored, a good number of machines were cooked. Oddly enough, the worst damage was to the network gear with many ethernet cards burned out.
Integral Trees for one. Made for a great book.
I rented that movie once, it was great until the donkey got involved
pride and prejudice and zombies?
yes. someone modified "Pride and Prejudice" and added the zombies.
tell us more about this "occupant frequently leaves her bedroom window open and sleeps in nothing but a lacy black thong."
it seems to me that our forefathers discovered ethanol just fine on their own, preindustrial or not. And corn to make ethanol is hardly a new idea.
but you have to address the "why" of sputnik scare and the space race in general. Putting Sputnik in orbit meant the Soviets could drop a nuke anywhere on the planet. They might not get through with bombers, but there's no stopping it from dropping out of orbit onto your home town in Nebraska.
Every rocket used in the space race up-to but not including Saturn V was a nuclear missile adopted to accept a human crew.
I email the entire company once a year, about a week before. Cron is yer friend.
deep fried, with some buffalo hot sauce on it... maybe.
Ah, Lake Ontario, where the ice forms on your toes all the way through to August... (at least when it flips, eh)
ah, gotcha, good point, looks like even more interesting times ahead for admins of all stripes.
definitely going for style points. nothing gives you the chills quite like the "sproing!click!" of the M1 running out of ammo. The plan was to have a limited number of spammers on the island, maybe at a 1:1 ratio kind of like "Running Man" (not smit running man either)
you are, of course, exactly right. There's nothing to be done but label them, put them on a list, and wait for them to step foot in a foreign land that has these controls in place.
Maybe we can declare a Fatwa against them, and any righteous sysadmin can achieve a greater score in mario brothers if they take the spammer out?
that's whitelist-only and works great, actually. In our service, you put * in your blacklist, then *@dom in your whitelist (or of course, individual email addresses).
they already use raw IPs, but the vast majority of MX servers reject email that doesn't resolve in reverse DNS, or doesn't have a resolvable HELO hostname, or the from address is phony.
And they already use compromised clients, see it every day.
This is the way our reputation provider works: If the IP hasn't been seen delivering email before (no matter it's age), it has a 0 reputation. The more email that is processed the higher the reputation and the reputation is, of course, modified down by complaints. The more complaints,the lower the reputation. Think feedback loop, or where your email goes when you click "mark as junk."
If someone else wanted to get into the game, services like spamcop could be used (who knows, maybe can already be used?) to determine domain name reputation by keeping an independent database of domain names and keeping the ratio of good to bad email handy for rapid lookups, maybe in something like dnsrbld type lookup table. It's the same as IP reputation engines, just with text domain names.
Maybe someone alread does. I know our antispam provider keeps a level of spaminess for domain names, but those are for domains that already exist. You would have to determine by policy what to do with domains that don't have a reputation.
That and implementing tighter SPF and DKIM will help eliminate this stuff.
to which they'll use mules
really, there's no way around this that can't also be worked around by the spammers. Every single step is met by counter action and evasion. The only thing that works is jail time.