Having some asshat steal a computer full of data doesn't really happen that often to people who keep their computers locked in an office at their employer's campus.
Consider yourself lucky to have never experienced two floors (dozens of employees) of locked PC's and laptops removed overnight... more than once. In my experience it isn't someone but some group and they know what they are after and they have tools. Yes, most criminals are stupid, but many are organized and professional.
What's the bigger payoff?
a) single telecommuter setup in home where there is someone that is around most of the time
b) office space with dozens of systems guarded by the lowest price bid security firm/system
> sorry, but if his SMTP uses his proper name (the xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.dsl.lazyispdnsadmins.net one) in his HELO then there is nothing wrong with that!
Whoa. How did we get into a discussion of 'right' vs. 'wrong'. I was merely describing how a RBL might -not- be the case here.
Also, after later reflection, how would we know it's not a private label RBL like spamikaze, etc...
> this is exactly how it should be, according to the book
What book would that be exactly?
The point is that his IP reflects a regexp and it is highly likely that the far end MTA or edge MX handler will tell it to piss off, try back later, or limit incoming connections.
Hey, I used to run my mail servers on cable modems and dsl lines too... but it got to the point where using smarthosting was the only way to guarantee -anything- would ever be accepted by other MTAs that were run by people tired of dynamic and even static generic named hosts trying to pump UCE/etc.. into the network.
Again, the point is, with a name like that -- it's no wonder it would be blocked.
Yes really. This host would likely be sent packing since it has generic rDNS. RBL's typically include IP ranges. The generic rDNS technique relies upon regexp to determine the trust/reputation of never seen incoming connections. A typical regexp might be things like xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.dsl.lazyispdnsadmins.net. Then based on other factors later within the SMTP transaction, it may or may not be sent packing (or flagged as greymail).
No, it's not new news. Or even new news.;-)
I didn't do an exhaustive search but I found this article on/.
The links contained here point to the exact same copy that was on news.com by Declan that was later covered and published as
"Fahrenheit FBI"
This appears to be the text picked up as new news by the crack team of editors here at/. for this pointless blurb.
What a difference 5 whole days (several months ago) can make?
Who is approving these?
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VoIP Wiretapping
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· Score: 5, Informative
I've been notified by at least one poster (set to -1 reading) that the company was contacted --- if you take the time to go back to the PDF's origin website and find the press release that mentions the PDF linked on the homepage.
Maybe this is just a simple ommission?
Still, if this is indeed the case, why. not. include. this. information. in. the. PDF? It's not like PDF's are that hard to recreate with more text in them.
Actually, that possibility is removed from possibility if you take as fact/action what is contained in the PDF. Maybe they didn't know and would like to have known.
My point, which you missed, is that for all the effort this individual put into "calling around" -- there is no mention of attempting to contact the vendor.
Rather, the rush, appeared to be in publishing a PDF and linking it on this forum.
I don't know where the rest of your rant is centered, but the question I raised is pretty simple.
So, all that research... and it never occured to you to contact the vendor? Granted, maybe these are so plentiful some re-seller or VAR put in in there... but you didn't make mention of that line of thinking (or was this not the whole PDF?) so.... sorry, that's just sounding a little on the lame side.
Now, if they scoffed or blew you off at that point, okay maybe... but still. You knew the company from just looking at it. Did you try to contact them? I think that would be more telling than surfing through open Indexing on a web server like a kid curl'ing porn images.
Actually, it depends on what you view as "rural". The majority of the rural telephone companies I know of all offer video over DSL. To do this, many of them own and operate a video head end then take it to the subscribers via multiservice access platforms (so-called IP DSLAM's) from Allied Telesyn, Calix, Ciena, Occam, etc... vs. HFC solutions that most urban areas are used to having the cable guy come out and monkey around with coax....
So, you have the head end, the telephone (appearance) transport, a DSL modem, a set top box to decode the video stream... and bingo -- you've got lots and lots of channels. You can get what you would expect to see (if not better) from coax depending on your area.
Another method is to take fiber to the home via companies like Motorola's latest acquisitions then break out POTS, Ethernet, and Coax cable from there. It's just another way to transport really.
Where it gets really interesting is that you can build applications based on the subscriber preferences in a way most traditional cable companies cannot fathom or take to their markets very quickly. By the nature of the rural telephone companies (and I don't mean BellSouth in the wrong parts of NC) you get an incredibly capable service --- with the understanding it isn't designed to serve a market of many... it's just designed to serve the market well.
Also, you can do HDTV this way as well, but there is the understanding you would need to be served by a telephone company that has upgraded their plant recently to accomodate the increased bandwidth required.
Good point. No-credit option would allow you to retain hours (correct?) and possibly satisfy the full time status. I figured after full time students would pad with an extra class in the event they truly wanted to drop one or decide between the lesser of two evils/threats to either GPA and/or financial standing requirements.
Oh for pete's sake... the link to the course includes the course slides. While college was a while ago for me... I recall that the grading and expectations of the prof are clearly stated early in the course so that everyone knows the rules.
If you look at the first slide deck published:
http://cr.yp.to/2004-494/0823.pdf
You can see very clearly on page 7 that grading is very straight forward.
Simply put, you have 60% of your grade that is not related to formal tests.
Surely a 400 level course has adults capable of making an adult choice to drop the course if they cannot live with the grading terms outlined early in the course?
Last day to drop courses:
October 1, Friday
source: http://www.uic.edu/ucat/catalog/CA.html
That's six (6) weeks to realize that "Hey, this might not be an easy way to boost the ole GPA".
In my experience, if you had a group of 30 operations people 10 years ago, you can do well over three times the "load" of 10 years ago with 1/3 the people today.
That said, you need new people to do new things in addition to the things you were expected to be doing 10 year ago.
What the analysts cannot account for (name a model) is how many new services and applications will need to be cared for in the future.
Did anyone 10 years ago see instant messaging as something that might be a corporate requirement today? Blogs? Web services? NAS? VoIP? BGP? DR/BC? IDS? Firewalls? etc...
Eventually, these applications might make it to the point where you can treat them like an appliance you plug in, configure and forget. Yeah, right. If only...
What this analyst assumes for the future of losing all these IT workers to improvements in technology is that there won't be new applications and services that require painful hand holding... until the market forces (if large enough) warrant a new appliance approach.
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Consider yourself lucky to have never experienced two floors (dozens of employees) of locked PC's and laptops removed overnight... more than once. In my experience it isn't someone but some group and they know what they are after and they have tools. Yes, most criminals are stupid, but many are organized and professional.
What's the bigger payoff?
a) single telecommuter setup in home where there is someone that is around most of the time
b) office space with dozens of systems guarded by the lowest price bid security firm/system
It could be as simple as "the devil you know..."
Everyone can have a TV channel.
> sorry, but if his SMTP uses his proper name (the xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.dsl.lazyispdnsadmins.net one) in his HELO then there is nothing wrong with that!
Whoa. How did we get into a discussion of 'right' vs. 'wrong'. I was merely describing how a RBL might -not- be the case here.
Also, after later reflection, how would we know it's not a private label RBL like spamikaze, etc...
> this is exactly how it should be, according to the book
What book would that be exactly?
The point is that his IP reflects a regexp and it is highly likely that the far end MTA or edge MX handler will tell it to piss off, try back later, or limit incoming connections.
Hey, I used to run my mail servers on cable modems and dsl lines too... but it got to the point where using smarthosting was the only way to guarantee -anything- would ever be accepted by other MTAs that were run by people tired of dynamic and even static generic named hosts trying to pump UCE/etc.. into the network.
Again, the point is, with a name like that -- it's no wonder it would be blocked.
Yes really. This host would likely be sent packing since it has generic rDNS. RBL's typically include IP ranges. The generic rDNS technique relies upon regexp to determine the trust/reputation of never seen incoming connections. A typical regexp might be things like xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.dsl.lazyispdnsadmins.net. Then based on other factors later within the SMTP transaction, it may or may not be sent packing (or flagged as greymail).
There is a slide deck on this website
http://www.techpowerup.com/?3105
That was timely.
Nikons photo encryption reported broken
Heh. Doubtful. ;-)
I linked to the original (maybe) and the updated article by Declan at news.com that was picked up -again- as new. See comment below this one.
No, it's not new news. Or even new news. ;-)
I didn't do an exhaustive search but I found this article on /.
The links contained here point to the exact same copy that was on news.com by Declan that was later covered and published as
"Fahrenheit FBI"
This appears to be the text picked up as new news by the crack team of editors here at /. for this pointless blurb.
What a difference 5 whole days (several months ago) can make?
Date: August 9, 2004
Why is this "news"?
I've been notified by at least one poster (set to -1 reading) that the company was contacted --- if you take the time to go back to the PDF's origin website and find the press release that mentions the PDF linked on the homepage.
Maybe this is just a simple ommission?
Still, if this is indeed the case, why. not. include. this. information. in. the. PDF? It's not like PDF's are that hard to recreate with more text in them.
Nope. The PDF was what the article linked and it was the story -- not the framing of a PDF within a press release.
/. editors truncated the link the press release and just went straight for the PDF right?
Also, there is no mention of the "contact them and it's all better now" in the PDF. Why not include that?
Oh wait, there is the possibility that
And obviously, the guy didn't post a link to the press release and took folks directly to the PDF.
"Think notified the company responsible for the flaws, and they have since been fixed"
Good to know. Still, how did that not make it into the PDF?
[snip rant]
>> What are you going to do? Admit it?
Actually, that possibility is removed from possibility if you take as fact/action what is contained in the PDF. Maybe they didn't know and would like to have known.
My point, which you missed, is that for all the effort this individual put into "calling around" -- there is no mention of attempting to contact the vendor.
Rather, the rush, appeared to be in publishing a PDF and linking it on this forum.
I don't know where the rest of your rant is centered, but the question I raised is pretty simple.
heh
+1 mod
Well, you at least took that time to go down that line of reasoning --- something conspicuously absent from the PDF.
Exactly.
Well, this is the product:
guestBOX
And... this is the company:
Atlantis Technology Corporation
So, all that research... and it never occured to you to contact the vendor? Granted, maybe these are so plentiful some re-seller or VAR put in in there... but you didn't make mention of that line of thinking (or was this not the whole PDF?) so.... sorry, that's just sounding a little on the lame side.
Now, if they scoffed or blew you off at that point, okay maybe... but still. You knew the company from just looking at it. Did you try to contact them? I think that would be more telling than surfing through open Indexing on a web server like a kid curl'ing porn images.
Actually, it depends on what you view as "rural". The majority of the rural telephone companies I know of all offer video over DSL. To do this, many of them own and operate a video head end then take it to the subscribers via multiservice access platforms (so-called IP DSLAM's) from Allied Telesyn, Calix, Ciena, Occam, etc... vs. HFC solutions that most urban areas are used to having the cable guy come out and monkey around with coax....
So, you have the head end, the telephone (appearance) transport, a DSL modem, a set top box to decode the video stream... and bingo -- you've got lots and lots of channels. You can get what you would expect to see (if not better) from coax depending on your area.
Another method is to take fiber to the home via companies like Motorola's latest acquisitions then break out POTS, Ethernet, and Coax cable from there. It's just another way to transport really.
Where it gets really interesting is that you can build applications based on the subscriber preferences in a way most traditional cable companies cannot fathom or take to their markets very quickly. By the nature of the rural telephone companies (and I don't mean BellSouth in the wrong parts of NC) you get an incredibly capable service --- with the understanding it isn't designed to serve a market of many... it's just designed to serve the market well.
Also, you can do HDTV this way as well, but there is the understanding you would need to be served by a telephone company that has upgraded their plant recently to accomodate the increased bandwidth required.
Good point. No-credit option would allow you to retain hours (correct?) and possibly satisfy the full time status. I figured after full time students would pad with an extra class in the event they truly wanted to drop one or decide between the lesser of two evils/threats to either GPA and/or financial standing requirements.
Oh for pete's sake... the link to the course includes the course slides. While college was a while ago for me... I recall that the grading and expectations of the prof are clearly stated early in the course so that everyone knows the rules.
If you look at the first slide deck published:
http://cr.yp.to/2004-494/0823.pdf
You can see very clearly on page 7 that grading is very straight forward.
Simply put, you have 60% of your grade that is not related to formal tests.
Surely a 400 level course has adults capable of making an adult choice to drop the course if they cannot live with the grading terms outlined early in the course?
Last day to drop courses:
October 1, Friday
source: http://www.uic.edu/ucat/catalog/CA.html
That's six (6) weeks to realize that "Hey, this might not be an easy way to boost the ole GPA".
What am I missing?
That said, you need new people to do new things in addition to the things you were expected to be doing 10 year ago.
What the analysts cannot account for (name a model) is how many new services and applications will need to be cared for in the future.
Did anyone 10 years ago see instant messaging as something that might be a corporate requirement today? Blogs? Web services? NAS? VoIP? BGP? DR/BC? IDS? Firewalls? etc...
Eventually, these applications might make it to the point where you can treat them like an appliance you plug in, configure and forget. Yeah, right. If only...
What this analyst assumes for the future of losing all these IT workers to improvements in technology is that there won't be new applications and services that require painful hand holding... until the market forces (if large enough) warrant a new appliance approach.
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