There should be a requirement that administrators who censor email make full disclosure to their customers of what they're doing.
Censorship is based on contents. RBL blocking is based on blocking mail from servers that have forwarded a lot of unwanted e-mail and still do even after the RBL administrators have contacted the server operator to stop this.
Having said that, there are good ways to mark e-mail as being from a server that is in the RBL so users can use procmail to filter that out or move to a 'spam' folder. I think that is the better way to go for services like this so users can select whether to use certain filters or not.
I don't know the correct English term for it but it's known as "wet van de remmende voorsprong" in Dutch. If you are the first with a big (technological) innovation, you will be left behind in the second generation of that innovation. Minitel -> Internet (or in general Videotext -> Internet) is the big example for me. Analog cell phones never made it big in the Netherlands and died out by themselves when GSM became available and now they are gone and the frequencies available again (no more listening to those phone calls on the scanner).
In the Netherlands, Mojo is the biggest concert promotor, arranging the big tours of bands. So I don't know if MojoNations did a very thorough check of their name being in use or sounding like something known...
The bad thing for me is that a lot of the transit traffic from the Netherlands goes through transit routers in London, UK. I hope ISP's will pick this up and start to route around the UK.
This also reminds me of the fact that this kind of taps might be very interesting for Echelon.
I've written a filter for sendmail 8.11 with MAP_REGEX which can stop Date: lines longer then 60 chars. Since I don't think tabs survive/. entry fields, only the URL. Available from http://www.cetis.hvu.nl/~koos/out lookoverflow.txt.
I signed up March 2nd, I got a mail about the PIN letter to be mailed April 14th and I think I got it somewhere in the beginning of May (it's not dated).
So I hope they speeded up the process, otherwise they have a problem.
;; ANSWER SECTION: dot. 6D IN NS AARDVARK.WR.UMIST.AC.UK. dot. 6D IN NS NS1.OP.net. dot. 6D IN NS matterhorn.nielsen.net.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: AARDVARK.WR.UMIST.AC.UK. 1d23h46m40s IN A 130.88.146.3 NS1.OP.net. 1d23h46m40s IN A 209.152.193.4 matterhorn.nielsen.net. 1d23h46m40s IN A 207.179.43.2
tinc is an alternative dns system
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The Internet Namespace Cooperative offers an 'alternative' root that gives a number of extra TLD's (such as.dot and.irc) and access to the generic top level domains and country top level domains.
The Internet Namespace Cooperation is run on technical cooperation instead of commerce and addition of domains into the root is on the base of a set of technical rules (mainly to ensure reliability).
I think this is the right way to create change: cooperate and offer an alternative.
The time after which a domain should become available again was something that Icann was going to regulate, but at least has some set rules on in their REGISTRAR ACCREDITATION AGREEMENT, see this document where it says:
5. Registrar shall register SLDs to SLD holders only for fixed periods. At the conclusion of the registration period, failure by or on behalf of the SLD holder to pay a renewal fee within the time specified in a second notice or reminder shall, in the absence of extenuating circumstances, result in cancellation of the registration. In the event that ICANN adopts a policy concerning procedures for handling expiration of registrations, Registrar shall abide by that policy.
If I read this correctly, the reaction to Network Solutions should be 'If you have notified the original domain owner twice without any response, you should release the domain'. Maybe I should quote that when asking Network Solutions about releasing the expired domain that I am very interested in.
This document should exist in a version signed by the CEO of Network Solutions, so not following these rules could be considered 'breach of contract'....
Nice quicktime movies probably, but I can't view them in Linux. So I have send a nice comment to Apple on their website asking them to make quicktime players available for Linux. Maybe you should do that too if your favorite OS isn't listed in {MacOS, Windows}.
What he's saying is that telnet and ftp are insecure and that sysadmins are not doing anything to address that issue, which is fair enough.
Yes, that is what you and I read. What Joe Average Resnet admin reads is "Block telnet and ftp!". I had enough trouble giving a friend from a campus access to a Linux machine so she had reliable mail on a machine that did not crash daily. I ended up installing putty and running telnet on ports 2323 and 443. And, with any luck the student will just find telnet blocked without any explanation and a helpdesk that goes 'telnet ? on what website is that ?'.
The difference is that no Linux vendor makes a distribution where the email client executes arbitrary code embedded in attachments.
The day everything happened with the ILOVEYOU virus, I tried to replicate the behaviour with mutt, a unix mail client. I made a simple shell script 'test.sh' which did 'echo test'. When sending it with mutt, it was given mime-type application/x-sh. So at sending time, a shell script is recognized as such and given the correct type. When I received it, mutt gave the message '[-- application/x-sh is unsupported (use 'v' to view this part) --]'.
I can set up mutt to execute application/x-sh scripts as shell scripts. But the big difference is that I have to set it up to be dangerous before that happens! The mentality in (most) Unix programs is nowadays security first.
But do you want universal access by company PC ?
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Ok, first of all I like being net.connected all of the time. Forget dialin, go leased line.
But: getting universal access from your employer makes you dependend on that employer for access. And what if you use that access in a way your employer disagrees with. What if you post opinions (in your free time) that offend others who contact your ISP about it (your employer? Or an ISP who forwards this to your employer?). Or what if you want to post something about your own company (whistleblowing ?) that could get you fired. First case I can think of is the Northwest searching employees home computers because they were suspected of being involved in actions against Northwest.
I have been asked to remove stuff on a website totally not related to my job because a user could get there from the homepage of my employer with a number of clicks so the remarks I made there could be seen as being a negative comment on working at my current job (and this in.nl where people are expected to have a life outside work). One reason I am separating my 'being active on Internet' from my work address/webservers.
In the current domain system, NSI will never go bankrupt even if they lose their last "dotCom bizcard" (funny letting something as important as domain registration go to a company that doesn't even call it a domain).
NSI runs the master registry database. A version of the agreement can be found on the icann website but even further digging there will even show the exact amounts NSI gets from the Dept of Commerce and from the registrars for running the registry and which bank accounts to use for payments.
A very interesting conflict of interest could arise between the role of Network Solutions as database keeper and Network Solutions as competing registrar although the contracts try to close any holes.
I found this yesterday as I was digging for "when does an expired domain become available again" which isn't answered by NSI or ICANN at all.
Registration required at nytimes.com..
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Someone forgot to mention that nytimes.com needs a complete listing of your personal data er.. I mean registration before you can view articles on their site.
Have a look at the page of The Internet Namespace Consortium. An initiative in splitting the root zone from the.com and other large registries. They already have.dot so you can get a delegation overthere.
For HIP'97 (the big hackers meeting in August 1997 in the Netherlands) we've done something similar as shoutcast. Named HIP Radio, a radio station on the network.
We adapted mpg123 to transmit the mpeg frames in udp broadcast packets from an mp3 at the same rate as it fed them to the audio system.
The client was a quite simple UDP packet receiver that fed the data again to stdout which could then be played with mpg123 -.
The software (mpg123 patches and client) is still available, if someone wants to adopt this to Shoutcast format, be our guest. I'll ask Remco to put the patches for the 'transmitter' on the above HIPradio page.
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Censorship is based on contents. RBL blocking is based on blocking mail from servers that have forwarded a lot of unwanted e-mail and still do even after the RBL administrators have contacted the server operator to stop this.
Having said that, there are good ways to mark e-mail as being from a server that is in the RBL so users can use procmail to filter that out or move to a 'spam' folder. I think that is the better way to go for services like this so users can select whether to use certain filters or not.
I don't know the correct English term for it but it's known as "wet van de remmende voorsprong" in Dutch. If you are the first with a big (technological) innovation, you will be left behind in the second generation of that innovation. Minitel -> Internet (or in general Videotext -> Internet) is the big example for me. Analog cell phones never made it big in the Netherlands and died out by themselves when GSM became available and now they are gone and the frequencies available again (no more listening to those phone calls on the scanner).
In the Netherlands, Mojo is the biggest concert promotor, arranging the big tours of bands. So I don't know if MojoNations did a very thorough check of their name being in use or sounding like something known...
The bad thing for me is that a lot of the transit traffic from the Netherlands goes through transit routers in London, UK. I hope ISP's will pick this up and start to route around the UK.
This also reminds me of the fact that this kind of taps might be very interesting for Echelon.
I've written a filter for sendmail 8.11 with MAP_REGEX which can stop Date: lines longer then 60 chars. Since I don't think tabs survive /. entry fields, only the URL. Available from http://www.cetis.hvu.nl/~koos/out lookoverflow.txt.
So I hope they speeded up the process, otherwise they have a problem.
dot. 6D IN NS AARDVARK.WR.UMIST.AC.UK.
dot. 6D IN NS NS1.OP.net.
dot. 6D IN NS matterhorn.nielsen.net.
AARDVARK.WR.UMIST.AC.UK. 1d23h46m40s IN A 130.88.146.3
NS1.OP.net. 1d23h46m40s IN A 209.152.193.4
matterhorn.nielsen.net. 1d23h46m40s IN A 207.179.43.2
The Internet Namespace Cooperation is run on technical cooperation instead of commerce and addition of domains into the root is on the base of a set of technical rules (mainly to ensure reliability).
I think this is the right way to create change: cooperate and offer an alternative.
This document should exist in a version signed by the CEO of Network Solutions, so not following these rules could be considered 'breach of contract'....
Nice quicktime movies probably, but I can't view them in Linux. So I have send a nice comment to Apple on their website asking them to make quicktime players available for Linux. Maybe you should do that too if your favorite OS isn't listed in {MacOS, Windows}.
And, with any luck the student will just find telnet blocked without any explanation and a helpdesk that goes 'telnet ? on what website is that ?'.
I can set up mutt to execute application/x-sh scripts as shell scripts. But the big difference is that I have to set it up to be dangerous before that happens! The mentality in (most) Unix programs is nowadays security first.
But: getting universal access from your employer makes you dependend on that employer for access. And what if you use that access in a way your employer disagrees with. What if you post opinions (in your free time) that offend others who contact your ISP about it (your employer? Or an ISP who forwards this to your employer?). Or what if you want to post something about your own company (whistleblowing ?) that could get you fired. First case I can think of is the Northwest searching employees home computers because they were suspected of being involved in actions against Northwest.
I have been asked to remove stuff on a website totally not related to my job because a user could get there from the homepage of my employer with a number of clicks so the remarks I made there could be seen as being a negative comment on working at my current job (and this in .nl where people are expected to have a life outside work). One reason I am separating my 'being active on Internet' from my work address/webservers.
NSI runs the master registry database. A version of the agreement can be found on the icann website but even further digging there will even show the exact amounts NSI gets from the Dept of Commerce and from the registrars for running the registry and which bank accounts to use for payments.
A very interesting conflict of interest could arise between the role of Network Solutions as database keeper and Network Solutions as competing registrar although the contracts try to close any holes.
I found this yesterday as I was digging for "when does an expired domain become available again" which isn't answered by NSI or ICANN at all.
Someone forgot to mention that nytimes.com needs a complete listing of your personal data er.. I mean registration before you can view articles on their site.
Koos (running one of the tinc rootnameservers).
We adapted mpg123 to transmit the mpeg frames in udp broadcast packets from an mp3 at the same rate as it fed them to the audio system.
The client was a quite simple UDP packet receiver that fed the data again to stdout which could then be played with mpg123 -.
The software (mpg123 patches and client) is still available, if someone wants to adopt this to Shoutcast format, be our guest. I'll ask Remco to put the patches for the 'transmitter' on the above HIPradio page.