What we must remember, is that when an article says "People from this or that group", they don't mean ALL the group.
The BBC article doesn't say "ALL UK Hackers support McKinnon". They just say "UK Hackers", as in "SOME UK Hackers".
I read that BBC article, and I agree with them on everything. McKinnon isn't judged because he's a moron, he's judged because he exposed that the most powerful nation in the world has the weakest information security in the world - and the US wants to punish him for that.
Seriously; is anybody thinking that the US will consider any other aspect but "protectionism"?
Specially when they take advantage of other countries which DON'T have protectionism. I still wonder why Mexico (my country) has to import a fixed quantity of american corn, when we have our OWN corn that hasn't been sold yet?:-/
Wasn't it just a couple weeks ago we were lamenting "what could have been"?
See, the real problem with Vista is not whehter it has flaws or not. The real problem is that it keeps being Microsoft.
Remember how IE5 was the best internet browser "ever"? It was fast, it was stable! The old Netscape couldn't even compare to it! But when it dominated the market, well, you know what happened.
I really don't know if Vista will be the best OS ever. What I know is that people will be forced to use it, and that new Microsoft apps will require Vista features to work properly.
It's all about Microsoft. The name's just burnt out, it has nearly zero credibility right now.
I read their "what's new" and they're participating in Google's Summer of Code.
27 April 2006
The GNU Hurd project will participate in this year's Google Summer of Code, under the aegis of the GNU project.
The following is a list of items you might want to work on. If you want to modify or extend these tasks or have your own ideas what to work on, please feel invited to contact us on the bug-hurd mailing list or the #hurd IRC channel.
* Make GNU Mach use more up to date device drivers.
* Work on GNU Mach's IPC / VM system.
* Design and implement a sound system.
* Transition the Hurd libraries and servers from cthreads to pthreads.
* Find and implement a reasonable way to make the Hurd servers use syslog.
* Design and implement libchannel, a library for streams.
* Rewrite pfinet, our interface to the IPv4 world.
* Implement and make the Hurd properly use extended attributes.
* Design / implement / enhance support for the...
o Andrew File System (AFS);
o NFS client and NFSd;
o EXT3 file system;
o Logical Volume Manager (LVM).
Please see the page GNU guidelines for Summer of Code projects about how to make an application and Summer of Code project ideas list for a list of tasks for various GNU projects and information about about how to submit your own ideas for tasks.
This was truly lame and inexcusable - redirecting the attack from themselves to someone else.
Notice that the bluesecurity.com website was *NOT* being flooded with packets. On the countrary, it was routed to null for all the internet except Israel. In summary, there were 4 different DOS attacks:
* Packet flooding (lots of traffic) the operational servers (the ones doing the opt-outs) * Null routing blue's www (no traffic) * Packet flooding the redirected www at Six Apart (lots of traffic) * Packet flooding Tucow's DNS servers (lots of traffic)
So, technically, blue security didn't redirect the attack.
Maybe he is there already. There are about 10 famous spammers from Russia. I'm betting that the nickname "PharmaMaster" is only an alias for one of those guys.
Unfortunately, the only witness account of PharmaMaster comes from BlueSecurity themselves, I wonder if the feds could subpoena ICQ to give details of the conversation and see which IP it came from.
...and imagine the PR campaign that Blue Security is going to have to wage to get any credibility back.
Um, how about "no such thing as bad publicity"?
In my journal i commented that the attack on Six Apart was the web equivalent of Pearl Harbor. It not only (possibly) called the attention of the authorities towards PharmaMaster, it also became worldwide famous: I've been searching blogs for "blue security" and I've seen a lot of comments from people wanting to sign up when they're back online. One blogger in particular (forgot the url) said that "Blue Security" became the top technorati search during the attacks.
Timeline (all times in GMT) [May 2nd 13:42 GMT] PharmaMaster Works to Block Traffic to Blue's Corporate Web Site
One of the world's largest spammer's, 'PharmaMaster', sends Blue Security an ICQ message stating that he will block traffic to Blue's corporate website, www.bluesecurity.com
* ICQ Message: "Support [tier-1 ISP name withheld] says: Yes wont be a problem, i'll make sure to block all traffic to this domain very soon just get me reports mate"
* "[tier-1 ISP name withheld] will block traffic to your websites god i love this war:)"
[May 2nd 14:47 GMT] BlueSecurity.com Can't be Accessed Outside of Israel
Blue Security receives another ICQ message from PharmaMaster stating that Blue's corporate Web site cannot be accessed from outside of Israel.
* ICQ Message: "bluesecurity.com cant be open from outside of israel oh i feel sorry for the company really:)"
[May 2nd 15:30 GMT] Blue Security's Dedicated Servers - NOT Corporate Website - Under Attack
Blue Security's operational servers - NOT www.bluesecurity.com - suffers from DDoS attacks. [ May 2nd 16:30 GMT] Corporate Website Receives 2 Hits/Min
Blue employees notice that there is no load on the corporate website, www.bluesecurity.com (2 hits per minute) and that most visitors originate from Israel. [May 2nd 17:07 GMT] PharmaMaster Sends Message: Website Can't be Accessed Around World
Blue receives another ICQ message from PharmaMaster stating the company's corporate Web site can not be accessed around the world. [May 2nd 20:17 GMT] Blue Performs Technical Analysis: Confirms Website Cannot be Accessed Abroad
Blue's technical analysis team determines that its corporate website can still be accessed from Israel, but cannot be accessed abroad. [May 2nd 21:17 GMT] Blue Reports More Symptoms: "Blackhole filtering" Confirmed
Blue's operational team reports on more symptoms supporting PharmaMaster's claims that the backbone of the Internet was compromised (blackhole filtering at the backbone level). Still, there is no sign that there was a DDoS attack on Blue's website. [May 2nd 22:45 GMT] Blue Security Decides to Update Blue Community
Blue Security decides to update the Blue community about the situation by reverting to Blue's pre-launch "Blue Zone" Blog, hosted on Typepad. [May 2nd 23:20 GMT] BlueSecurity.com Redirected to TypePad
www.bluesecurity.com is redirected to Blue Security's blog. Many community members can receive real time information about the attack. [May 2nd 23:27 GMT] First Comment Posted on the Blue Blog
Blog site at TypePad functional. The first comment is posted on the Blue blog by a user. [May 2nd 23:57 GMT] Last comment Posted on the Blue Blog Before DDoS Begins
TypePad blog site still functional. The last comment is posted thirty minutes later on the Blue blog just before the new DDoS attack occurs. (If there had been an initial DDoS attack on Blue's corporate site, the blog site would have been hit) [May 3rd 00:00 GMT] PharmaMaster Starts Attacking Typepad
A fierce and ruthless DDoS on Typepad begins. Blue is not aware of the DDoS due to the late hour in Israel (2 AM local time). Typepad continues to carry Blue Security's blog and help Blue keep our community aware of the situation. [May 3rd 16:43 GMT] PharmaMaster Strikes Again, Takes Down Tucows
PharmaMaster starts another attack and takes down Tucows's DNS servers which were serving thousands of sites, including Blue Security's. Tucows terminates Blue Security's account in an attempt to stop the attack. [May 3rd 23:23 GMT] PharmaMaster Boasts Success
Almost 24 hours later, PharmaMaster boasts success in another ICQ message
* ICQ Message: "pharma master: you know i feel sorry for you a
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Instead of complaining this group should get involved!
Sure, why not! Do you have a programming suite that a blind man can use?
Didn't a Taiwanese gamer die on a 3-day gaming WoW session?
Let's go for the Garbage File! I'm gonna hack the gibson!
What happened was that he had a blood clot on his leg and it moved towards his lungs. Then he collapsed.
Here's some stuff I'd need to know:
How much did he weight?
What were his eating habits?
What's his cholesterol?
Did he do exercise often?
Did he walk AT ALL?
It seems to me that this wasn't a symptom of "coding" but of the inactivity caused by the "american way of life".
OK, here's a question.
Let's suppose I order a cool Rubik Cube from eBay and they send it to me thru UPS.
Me = Client
ebay = Server
Rubik cube = data packet
Highway = Internet lines.
Of course, I'm asked for the money to pay the shipping and handling, right?
Right.
So why TF should ebay (or actually the original owner) have to pay for shipping and handling, TOO?
SOME humans, of course.
What we must remember, is that when an article says "People from this or that group", they don't mean ALL the group.
The BBC article doesn't say "ALL UK Hackers support McKinnon". They just say "UK Hackers", as in "SOME UK Hackers".
I read that BBC article, and I agree with them on everything. McKinnon isn't judged because he's a moron, he's judged because he exposed that the most powerful nation in the world has the weakest information security in the world - and the US wants to punish him for that.
Seriously; is anybody thinking that the US will consider any other aspect but "protectionism"?
:-/
Specially when they take advantage of other countries which DON'T have protectionism. I still wonder why Mexico (my country) has to import a fixed quantity of american corn, when we have our OWN corn that hasn't been sold yet?
Wasn't it just a couple weeks ago we were lamenting "what could have been"?
See, the real problem with Vista is not whehter it has flaws or not. The real problem is that it keeps being Microsoft.
Remember how IE5 was the best internet browser "ever"? It was fast, it was stable! The old Netscape couldn't even compare to it! But when it dominated the market, well, you know what happened.
I really don't know if Vista will be the best OS ever. What I know is that people will be forced to use it, and that new Microsoft apps will require Vista features to work properly.
It's all about Microsoft. The name's just burnt out, it has nearly zero credibility right now.
Excuse me, but isn't "microsoft problem" a redundant phrase?
Yeah, quite hidden, indeed! :P
WTF... I thought HURD switched over to the L4 microkernel. What gives?
No, it's a separate project, and it's not released yet.
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd-l4.html
Jack Thompson: the Dvorak of the gaming world.
Please, you're insuting Dvorak.
This was truly lame and inexcusable - redirecting the attack from themselves to someone else.
Notice that the bluesecurity.com website was *NOT* being flooded with packets. On the countrary, it was routed to null for all the internet except Israel. In summary, there were 4 different DOS attacks:
* Packet flooding (lots of traffic) the operational servers (the ones doing the opt-outs)
* Null routing blue's www (no traffic)
* Packet flooding the redirected www at Six Apart (lots of traffic)
* Packet flooding Tucow's DNS servers (lots of traffic)
So, technically, blue security didn't redirect the attack.
Maybe he is there already. There are about 10 famous spammers from Russia. I'm betting that the nickname "PharmaMaster" is only an alias for one of those guys.
Unfortunately, the only witness account of PharmaMaster comes from BlueSecurity themselves, I wonder if the feds could subpoena ICQ to give details of the conversation and see which IP it came from.
...and imagine the PR campaign that Blue Security is going to have to wage to get any credibility back.
Um, how about "no such thing as bad publicity"?
In my journal i commented that the attack on Six Apart was the web equivalent of Pearl Harbor. It not only (possibly) called the attention of the authorities towards PharmaMaster, it also became worldwide famous: I've been searching blogs for "blue security" and I've seen a lot of comments from people wanting to sign up when they're back online. One blogger in particular (forgot the url) said that "Blue Security" became the top technorati search during the attacks.
Don't forget the redvsblue episodes available on the net.
It's called QWERTY.
I got an AMD ASUS motherboard and it had overheating problems, until I applied a good thermal paste to the CPU.
that the reason IE failed miserably is because the authors eventually STOPPED fixing bugs. We don't want Linux to take the same road, do we?
That's the UNIVERSAL symbol of death. And engraved depictions of people and bones, and stuff.
is for XULRunner to be released so we won't have to deal with the ugly HTML mess anymore.
Hey, if you're going to summarize from Toastyfrog,
I didn't.
What some people won't do to avoid the Slashdot Lameness Filter.
:-/
Ironically, this is what spammers do