Clearly this should be on the agenda for the new "Cyber Reserves" of the department of Homeland Security. If Google can be taken down by accident in parts of the world, then it certainly can be taken down on purpose. Route filters are your friends!
What's the point of hacking NASA if you're not going to download their superTopSekreT UFO pictures? Anybody can modify an FTP login screenshot, but clear pictures of UFOs close up, now that's the money shot!
"It also runs about 75 per cent of the world's business applications"
Gee, I didn't know Windows Apps were coded in COBOL.
Come on, 75% is a HIGHLY dubious claim. Where's the source / proof / evidence? Where I work, we have nearly 200 business apps and I'm pretty sure less than 2% of business apps were made in COBOL - possibly even 0%.
10. Who the fcsk wants to ping 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 on a daily basis ?!? 9. As *some* organizations migrate to IPv6, their IPv4 addresses will be released for use by other organizations! 8. IPv6 is a waste of bandwidth with its huge headers. PPS (packets per second) router ratings go way down - so you shorten your network hardware life-cycle + pay much more bandwidth while payload throughput is the same is less - this is very wasteful. 7. Re-training your entire IT staff on IPv6 is going to be a huge pain in the *** and will drive costs up, not only in training but the extra downtime caused in the first couple of years due to human error. 6. Initially you'll likely have to increase your IT budget just to purchase IPv4 to IPv6 gateways, as few large organizations are going to attempt a big-bang flip. 5. The probability of errors in troubleshooting & configuration increases 4 fold as the addresses are 4 times as long, nevermind they are Hex to boot. 4. 95% of the features of IPv6 can and area already being done in IPv4 years ago. 3. There's tonnes of free $$ to be made in renting out IPv4 space in Asia. Just ask the Telcos! 2. Organizations running critical propriatary software (i.e. not off the shelf) (i.e. banks, hospitals, military, etc) are going to have to spend BILLIONS in software re-writes, QA & testing... for what visible gains. Where's the IPv6 ROI case ?!?? 1. And lastly, don;t forget KISS and If it ain't broke... DONT FIX IT!
Wake me up when * I * run out of IPv4 addresses. Adeptus
Have your managers watch "The Future of Food" (google it), and how thousands of North American farms are forced to grow genetically modified Soy crops instead of natural and varied food/plant species and they may realize that while it's greener, it's not necessarily the most moral or genetically diverse thing to be doing.
The timing is priceless!I can only see this as a heads I win, tails I win for the Pirate Bay....
1) If they win, they win. 2) If they lose and have to pay $150,000 in 2 years or god forbid $14.3 Million USD, it's ok, in 2 years the USD will be as worthless as Zimbabwae dollars, so really $14.3 Million USD will be less than pocket change.
Newsflash: Mumbai has 17 MILLION people. Granted at most 500,000 have computers.
But still the level of computer literacy in Mumbai in police force is complete joke. Hey, their government offices don't even have computers.
I think the most ridiculous thing is that there's countless MILLIONS starving on the streets and now they are going to equip police with laptops to chase after unprotected WiFi signals?
Didn't they get the memo a few months ago that even WPA2 was cracked with Nvidia CPU/GPUs?
What are they going to do, enforce people to implement breakable security? Where's the sense in that.
Indian stock market is down over 60%, I think the police should be focusing their efforts on preventing civil unrest. And government spending their money far more wisely. People are starving everywhere you look in Mumbai, not to say the same thing in just about every other Indian city.
If a large and potentially long lasting Hydro power outage occurs, and your Data Centre UPS switched over to using your generator, and you want to conserve Diesel / length of uptime your generator can keep the DC up for.
While as a teacher you can't obviously recommend your students pirate all the material, you should go to elbitz.net or learnbits.info (both require free registration), and download several of their IT training videos (they have *everything*).
Once you find a few titles that you think are great and affordable, make a business case and get the school to purchase them so that your students can watch them. It should be no different than other teachers playing videos in class for their students on other subjects.
For teaching Cisco Networking you can also get GNS3 (dynamips) and get your students to build virtual networks or use it to test their routing abilities.
They need to get more creative. Here's a few ideas:
1) Cause the NIC to drop random ammounts of packets at random times.
2) Change the wallpaper from Black Screen to one with a letter ending with "... The police are on their way".
3) Every 2 minutes all keys on your keyboard get randomly swapped around.
4) Swaps the mouse buttons. Or moving the mouse left, moves it right, up, down, etc.
5) All print jobs only result in large words in upper case saying "PIRATE ALERT!"
6) Boot sequence and shutdown sequence get 5 minutes added on to them. Hey MS, don't forget to make sure you cause the hard drive light LED to flicker a lot while the users wait around so they think it's something going on. While you're at it, randomly flicker that HD LED every few minutes for 20 seconds at a time.
7) Every 10th web page visited would be redirected to goatse (is that site still around?)
You get the idea... now hurry up so that people get fed up faster and switch to Linux.
If you think the Wii was hard to find and buy, wait till the pr0n games come out for their new console. Oh yeah, and the things that new controller will do... Ohhhhhhhhhh God!!!!
Ok, so that's not how they came up with the logo, but it sure highlights their horrendous human rights record and killing of 1 Million Tibetans in the past ~50 years.
From the title "2008 Lunar Lander Challenge Teams Announced", was I the only one who had to read that twice, because it sounded like in 2008, Teams were announced that were going to Challenge whether or not the Lunar Landing took place? heh
So are you saying that they haven't yet passed a series of tests that would prove their computer is working?
One would think that it should be possible to design tests which they could pass if they possessed the working technology, without them having to reveal how exactly they achieved the result.
Very high level example: For instance, perform X number of Z type calculations in Y seconds, where Z type calculations would normally take present-day computers Y * 10 months of time but through quantum computing can be done in mere seconds.
So long as they produce the desired results, they should have a right to keep their technology confidential for trade secret/monetary reasons. Although of course, for the sake of the advancement of humanity/technology, it would be nice to give out the info.
Ok, I'm taking bets on how many days before NASA slips up some contraversial picture that raises questions about UFOs. You know, like some of these interesting NASA pics.
Hmmm, I wonder if volunteering photos will make, hacking NASA a little less likely going forward.
I recently had to order 5 power cables from a Cisco reseller and 3 days later they showed up in HUGE box that was some 10 times the volume size of the cables and jam packed with packing material and paper as if power cables could break if the box was dropped.
What you said about the problem being latency, is a little bit hard to swallow given that the core of most ISPs runs multi-terabit routers.
The fact of the matter is that not only have router CPUs increased in power exponentially, but also core router technology, has advanced to implement caching such as CEF (Cisco Express Forwarding), and build into regular router blades additional CPUs such as DCEF (distributed CEF), etc.
Case in point, core routers these days have SO much spare processing power that most routing cores run VRF (virtual routing and forwarding), which allows a single physical router to VIRTUALLY pose as if it is 100 or even 1,000 different routers, all inside the same box.
And further, the total throughput capacity of these routing processors today is measured in the TERABITS. The latest Cisco router can process some 15 Terabits of traffic in a single box. Even if packet sizes were inneficient, you're still looking at 1+ Terabits of throughput... which is many many many OC192s (10Gigabit Sonet rings).
So don't tell me we're hitting router processing capacity, because that's a complete joke, and if that were the case, Bell Canada would have been smart and presented that info right up front to the courts (they're currently being asked to justify why they throttle their end-users).
I think what it actually may come down to is peering costs with other ISPs... which for the most part isn't a problem for the biggest players which are Tier 1 providers. Tier1 here is defined as a Telco/ISP that is so big (i.e. AT&T) that all other providers pay THEM for packets to traverse their network, and they in fact don't pay anyone or their peering costs are way lower than their peering income.
So Tier1's aside, yes I can see ISPs having to fork out significant $$ for bandwidth per month, and of course torrent freaks doing 200+ GigaBytes/month are costing them significant money.
You'd think those ISPs *cough* Shaw Cable *cough* would have learned the lesson by now. That lesson should have been wastin... I mean spending, MILLIONS and MILLIONS on products like Sandvine to try to throttle bittorrent only to find out a few months later people were bypassing it with encryption.
So now some Italians can identify prediction based on packet size etc... watch ISPs spend many more Millions implementing this, then the torrent client software guys simply change 10 lines of code, recompile and voila... Millions down the drain for ISPs!
So go ahead, make my day! Just don't try to pass off those costs in your monthly bills to me. Adeptus
Hey IANNA, why not free up some of the "LEGACY" Class-A allocations (see below) That would free some 650 MILLION addresses!!! Some 15% of the address space.
That'll do us for what? Another 10-15 years or so? Plus if the US gov wants to release a bunch too since they are going IPv6.
This whole "OMG! We're going to run out of addresses (and ponies)" scare is starting to be more pathetic and fake than Nostradamus predictions!
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... Network Admins who have no clue. Like when just 4 years ago, Pakistan took down Youtube...
http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/dns/285152-pakistan-takes-youtube-down
Clearly this should be on the agenda for the new "Cyber Reserves" of the department of Homeland Security. If Google can be taken down by accident in parts of the world, then it certainly can be taken down on purpose. Route filters are your friends!
CYBER RESERVES: http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/department-of-homeland-security-recruiting-for-cyber-reserve-1109906
[HILARIOUS] RAP NEWS 14: Higgs Boson Unbound (with Prof. Scott Ridley)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8xUd7Myeuk
"The U.S. military is developing its next generation bomber with Chinese anti-access strategy"
That can only be achieved if there's ZERO electronic components made in China in the aircraft....Good luck with that.
Nov 2011 Article: US weapons 'full of fake Chinese parts'
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8876656/US-weapons-full-of-fake-Chinese-parts.html
What's the point of hacking NASA if you're not going to download their superTopSekreT UFO pictures? Anybody can modify an FTP login screenshot, but clear pictures of UFOs close up, now that's the money shot!
Where's the "You are Here" arrow? I 'm totally lost.
Adeptus
"It also runs about 75 per cent of the world's business applications"
Gee, I didn't know Windows Apps were coded in COBOL.
Come on, 75% is a HIGHLY dubious claim. Where's the source / proof / evidence? Where I work, we have nearly 200 business apps and I'm pretty sure less than 2% of business apps were made in COBOL - possibly even 0%.
Adeptus
10. Who the fcsk wants to ping 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 on a daily basis ?!?
9. As *some* organizations migrate to IPv6, their IPv4 addresses will be released for use by other organizations!
8. IPv6 is a waste of bandwidth with its huge headers. PPS (packets per second) router ratings go way down - so you shorten your network hardware life-cycle + pay much more bandwidth while payload throughput is the same is less - this is very wasteful.
7. Re-training your entire IT staff on IPv6 is going to be a huge pain in the *** and will drive costs up, not only in training but the extra downtime caused in the first couple of years due to human error.
6. Initially you'll likely have to increase your IT budget just to purchase IPv4 to IPv6 gateways, as few large organizations are going to attempt a big-bang flip.
5. The probability of errors in troubleshooting & configuration increases 4 fold as the addresses are 4 times as long, nevermind they are Hex to boot.
4. 95% of the features of IPv6 can and area already being done in IPv4 years ago.
3. There's tonnes of free $$ to be made in renting out IPv4 space in Asia. Just ask the Telcos!
2. Organizations running critical propriatary software (i.e. not off the shelf) (i.e. banks, hospitals, military, etc) are going to have to spend BILLIONS in software re-writes, QA & testing... for what visible gains. Where's the IPv6 ROI case ?!??
1. And lastly, don;t forget KISS and If it ain't broke... DONT FIX IT!
Wake me up when * I * run out of IPv4 addresses.
Adeptus
Have your managers watch "The Future of Food" (google it), and how thousands of North American farms are forced to grow genetically modified Soy crops instead of natural and varied food/plant species and they may realize that while it's greener, it's not necessarily the most moral or genetically diverse thing to be doing.
Have google turn off the search engine to the UK for 1 business day and then let's see if they still want to tax google.
I'll start voting when governments stop getting in the way.
The timing is priceless!I can only see this as a heads I win, tails I win for the Pirate Bay....
1) If they win, they win.
2) If they lose and have to pay $150,000 in 2 years or god forbid $14.3 Million USD, it's ok, in 2 years the USD will be as worthless as Zimbabwae dollars, so really $14.3 Million USD will be less than pocket change.
GO PIRATE BAY!
Newsflash: Mumbai has 17 MILLION people. Granted at most 500,000 have computers.
But still the level of computer literacy in Mumbai in police force is complete joke. Hey, their government offices don't even have computers.
I think the most ridiculous thing is that there's countless MILLIONS starving on the streets and now they are going to equip police with laptops to chase after unprotected WiFi signals?
Didn't they get the memo a few months ago that even WPA2 was cracked with Nvidia CPU/GPUs?
What are they going to do, enforce people to implement breakable security? Where's the sense in that.
Indian stock market is down over 60%, I think the police should be focusing their efforts on preventing civil unrest. And government spending their money far more wisely. People are starving everywhere you look in Mumbai, not to say the same thing in just about every other Indian city.
But that's just my 2 cents.
Powering down non-critical servers make sense:
If a large and potentially long lasting Hydro power outage occurs, and your Data Centre UPS switched over to using your generator, and you want to conserve Diesel / length of uptime your generator can keep the DC up for.
Adeptus
+10 Hilarious! I nearly spit out my breakfast when I read that.
While as a teacher you can't obviously recommend your students pirate all the material, you should go to elbitz.net or learnbits.info (both require free registration), and download several of their IT training videos (they have *everything*).
Once you find a few titles that you think are great and affordable, make a business case and get the school to purchase them so that your students can watch them. It should be no different than other teachers playing videos in class for their students on other subjects.
For teaching Cisco Networking you can also get GNS3 (dynamips) and get your students to build virtual networks or use it to test their routing abilities.
Good luck!
They need to get more creative. Here's a few ideas:
1) Cause the NIC to drop random ammounts of packets at random times.
2) Change the wallpaper from Black Screen to one with a letter ending with "... The police are on their way".
3) Every 2 minutes all keys on your keyboard get randomly swapped around.
4) Swaps the mouse buttons. Or moving the mouse left, moves it right, up, down, etc.
5) All print jobs only result in large words in upper case saying "PIRATE ALERT!"
6) Boot sequence and shutdown sequence get 5 minutes added on to them. Hey MS, don't forget to make sure you cause the hard drive light LED to flicker a lot while the users wait around so they think it's something going on. While you're at it, randomly flicker that HD LED every few minutes for 20 seconds at a time.
7) Every 10th web page visited would be redirected to goatse (is that site still around?)
You get the idea... now hurry up so that people get fed up faster and switch to Linux.
If you think the Wii was hard to find and buy, wait till the pr0n games come out for their new console. Oh yeah, and the things that new controller will do... Ohhhhhhhhhh God!!!!
Just see how China came up with the logo...
http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/7229/isnichwahrdepekingolympao6.jpg
Ok, so that's not how they came up with the logo, but it sure highlights their horrendous human rights record and killing of 1 Million Tibetans in the past ~50 years.
From the title "2008 Lunar Lander Challenge Teams Announced", was I the only one who had to read that twice, because it sounded like in 2008, Teams were announced that were going to Challenge whether or not the Lunar Landing took place? heh
So are you saying that they haven't yet passed a series of tests that would prove their computer is working?
One would think that it should be possible to design tests which they could pass if they possessed the working technology, without them having to reveal how exactly they achieved the result.
Very high level example: For instance, perform X number of Z type calculations in Y seconds, where Z type calculations would normally take present-day computers Y * 10 months of time but through quantum computing can be done in mere seconds.
So long as they produce the desired results, they should have a right to keep their technology confidential for trade secret/monetary reasons. Although of course, for the sake of the advancement of humanity/technology, it would be nice to give out the info.
Adeptus
Ok, I'm taking bets on how many days before NASA slips up some contraversial picture that raises questions about UFOs. You know, like some of these interesting NASA pics.
Hmmm, I wonder if volunteering photos will make, hacking NASA a little less likely going forward.
I recently had to order 5 power cables from a Cisco reseller and 3 days later they showed up in HUGE box that was some 10 times the volume size of the cables and jam packed with packing material and paper as if power cables could break if the box was dropped.
What a waste!
"God"???
Hey that's my password!
#^@%!!
Now I'm going to have to change it... Se
What you said about the problem being latency, is a little bit hard to swallow given that the core of most ISPs runs multi-terabit routers.
The fact of the matter is that not only have router CPUs increased in power exponentially, but also core router technology, has advanced to implement caching such as CEF (Cisco Express Forwarding), and build into regular router blades additional CPUs such as DCEF (distributed CEF), etc.
Case in point, core routers these days have SO much spare processing power that most routing cores run VRF (virtual routing and forwarding), which allows a single physical router to VIRTUALLY pose as if it is 100 or even 1,000 different routers, all inside the same box.
And further, the total throughput capacity of these routing processors today is measured in the TERABITS. The latest Cisco router can process some 15 Terabits of traffic in a single box. Even if packet sizes were inneficient, you're still looking at 1+ Terabits of throughput... which is many many many OC192s (10Gigabit Sonet rings).
So don't tell me we're hitting router processing capacity, because that's a complete joke, and if that were the case, Bell Canada would have been smart and presented that info right up front to the courts (they're currently being asked to justify why they throttle their end-users).
I think what it actually may come down to is peering costs with other ISPs... which for the most part isn't a problem for the biggest players which are Tier 1 providers. Tier1 here is defined as a Telco/ISP that is so big (i.e. AT&T) that all other providers pay THEM for packets to traverse their network, and they in fact don't pay anyone or their peering costs are way lower than their peering income.
So Tier1's aside, yes I can see ISPs having to fork out significant $$ for bandwidth per month, and of course torrent freaks doing 200+ GigaBytes/month are costing them significant money.
just my $2.22 cents,
Adeptus
You'd think those ISPs *cough* Shaw Cable *cough* would have learned the lesson by now. That lesson should have been wastin... I mean spending, MILLIONS and MILLIONS on products like Sandvine to try to throttle bittorrent only to find out a few months later people were bypassing it with encryption.
So now some Italians can identify prediction based on packet size etc... watch ISPs spend many more Millions implementing this, then the torrent client software guys simply change 10 lines of code, recompile and voila... Millions down the drain for ISPs!
So go ahead, make my day! Just don't try to pass off those costs in your monthly bills to me.
Adeptus
Hey IANNA, why not free up some of the "LEGACY" Class-A allocations (see below) That would free some 650 MILLION addresses!!! Some 15% of the address space.
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space [iana.org].
That'll do us for what? Another 10-15 years or so?
Plus if the US gov wants to release a bunch too since they are going IPv6.
This whole "OMG! We're going to run out of addresses (and ponies)" scare is starting to be more pathetic and fake than Nostradamus predictions!
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Adeptus