For what it's worth, the State of California, and probably just about every city budget is under the burning eye.. Spending money on consultants to clean up this mess would probably not go over well.
To be fair, this is not exactly true. RAM fragmentation does impact some applications that demand contiguous blocks of memory to be allocated. I think Sun's JVM has such requirements on certain platforms.
Announcing bogus routes was exactly what the presentation was about.. Someone didn't RTFA.
The nasty trick was, they could disguise themselves and make it appear like a seemless hijack to the end user.
If the Internet has seriously become a critical piece of government and commercial infrastructure, why doesn't it perform like one? Because it isn't one. It wasn't intended to be a critical infrastructure utility (ok, not intended in its CURRENT form).
Its a dangerous game trying to compare the Internet to the likes of the Telephone/Power/Water utilities. Look at how inefficient, inflexible, and bureaucratic they have become with all the regulation that has been introduced. Would you want that same garbage on the internet?
I'm sorry, but asking a government run entity to enforce the good nature of a free an open internet society is the WRONG way to go. If you are unhappy with Comcast service, or how they manage their network, you have the right, the capitalistic obligation as a consumer to vote with your wallet. Asking the G-man to step in and make the nasty corporation deliver you a different product is a bad precedent here.
Most will bicker and complain that "but there isn't any competition in my area", my response is: start your own ISP! That's the great thing about this country, if you dont like how someone else runs their business, you can always try to improve upon it. Hey, you might even succeed and make a few bucks -- that is if pencil pushers up in washington don't force a ton of regulation down on you, driving your costs up before you even roll out services.
Really? So if you built a commercial network, you would want the FCC to dictate how you police your traffic and what QoS measures you implement? Sorry, but the less the goverment tells me how to run my business/network/enterprise, the better. If customers don't like it, they need to make it known via their wallets.
Alternatively, for extra geek points, modify the message forum to allow squelching the user. They think their own posts are working fine, but nobody else can see them -- they just appear blank or censored. The cyber-bully has no idea the messages are ineffective, and nobody else is annoyed. Eventually the person gets bored and moves on..
This is surely be nothing more than a fairy tale. Logic would dictate that upon finding out that a past employee tampered with the system would clearly not hire them back, for fear of what they may take next.
For what it's worth, the guy is a network engineer, I'm assuming these are switches and routers. You don't boot them off a CD. Resetting the password on some of these devices is made possible only by resetting the config. If nobody kept proper config backups, you would have a hard time reconfiguring the device from scratch.
Agreed, first grouping is probably base-3, 2nd is key with the index being hex, and 3rd grouping is base-2.. and if I convert it out.. it ends up drawing an image of the goatse.cx guy... damnit!
I think I'd beg to differ. Consider the growth rate of deployed systems and data, and compare to the number of security incidents. I think someone could make a strong argument that it IS getting better, proportionately. The internet has such impressive growth, it's hard to notice the change. Check out any sites with historical trends of reported security incidents (dshield.org, cert.org, whomever). They all show very large growth rates up until 2006, where they tend to level off. The internet didn't stop growing during that period, we just managed to catch up.
Open multiple streams. That speed limitation is based on a single tcp session, which is almost entirely latency and MTU size induced (remember that formula? if not, google it). Hasn't anyone been paying attention? Why do you think you get such awesome bit torrent speeds? It's MANY tcp sessions, all streaming at once (rarely do you see a single stream over the net pushing more than 1-2Mbit/sec).
For what it's worth, Net Neutrality IS a political fight, p2p is not the cause, but just the straw that broke the camels back. Fixing the fairness problem of tcp flow control will not make Net Neutrality go away.
Nice fix though, too bad getting people to adopt it would be a nightmare. Where was this suggestion 15 years ago?
If the business model was completely viable, they would already be out there taking over the market, making money.
Google isn't interested because its a viable option they can immediately turn around and profit. They are interested because its a non-traditional approach to a common problem. That is what google is about -- thinking differently (sorry Apple!).
Another reason people put websites on "www.domain.tld" and not just "domain.tld" was the way mail is handled if there was a "domain.tld" A record in DNS. Some old-fashioned or misconfigured SMTP servers would attempt to deliver to the host at "domain.tld", instead of checking the MX record, which could end up with some misdirected email. Poor reasoning, but still that has been the answer I've received from a few older shops that still act in this manner.
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For what it's worth, the State of California, and probably just about every city budget is under the burning eye.. Spending money on consultants to clean up this mess would probably not go over well.
To be fair, this is not exactly true. RAM fragmentation does impact some applications that demand contiguous blocks of memory to be allocated. I think Sun's JVM has such requirements on certain platforms.
I agree, I found the exhibit completely overpriced, but the bar was pretty stylish.
Announcing bogus routes was exactly what the presentation was about.. Someone didn't RTFA. The nasty trick was, they could disguise themselves and make it appear like a seemless hijack to the end user.
If the Internet has seriously become a critical piece of government and commercial infrastructure, why doesn't it perform like one? Because it isn't one. It wasn't intended to be a critical infrastructure utility (ok, not intended in its CURRENT form). Its a dangerous game trying to compare the Internet to the likes of the Telephone/Power/Water utilities. Look at how inefficient, inflexible, and bureaucratic they have become with all the regulation that has been introduced. Would you want that same garbage on the internet?
I'm sorry, but asking a government run entity to enforce the good nature of a free an open internet society is the WRONG way to go. If you are unhappy with Comcast service, or how they manage their network, you have the right, the capitalistic obligation as a consumer to vote with your wallet. Asking the G-man to step in and make the nasty corporation deliver you a different product is a bad precedent here. Most will bicker and complain that "but there isn't any competition in my area", my response is: start your own ISP! That's the great thing about this country, if you dont like how someone else runs their business, you can always try to improve upon it. Hey, you might even succeed and make a few bucks -- that is if pencil pushers up in washington don't force a ton of regulation down on you, driving your costs up before you even roll out services.
Really? So if you built a commercial network, you would want the FCC to dictate how you police your traffic and what QoS measures you implement? Sorry, but the less the goverment tells me how to run my business/network/enterprise, the better. If customers don't like it, they need to make it known via their wallets.
True enough, just "borrow" someone elses leased IP while they are offline, and you instantly incriminate some other poor soul.
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Alternatively, for extra geek points, modify the message forum to allow squelching the user. They think their own posts are working fine, but nobody else can see them -- they just appear blank or censored. The cyber-bully has no idea the messages are ineffective, and nobody else is annoyed. Eventually the person gets bored and moves on..
Seconded -- I kept searching around for the second page..
I think TFA claims he was a resident of Pittsburg, not SF.
This is surely be nothing more than a fairy tale. Logic would dictate that upon finding out that a past employee tampered with the system would clearly not hire them back, for fear of what they may take next.
For what it's worth, the guy is a network engineer, I'm assuming these are switches and routers. You don't boot them off a CD. Resetting the password on some of these devices is made possible only by resetting the config. If nobody kept proper config backups, you would have a hard time reconfiguring the device from scratch.
I'm guessing it's more likely they would burn on the job, than in hell.
Mod parent up -- this is probably the best approach. Just be sure that VNC is only listening on localhost. No need to have it binding to other IP's.
Agreed, first grouping is probably base-3, 2nd is key with the index being hex, and 3rd grouping is base-2.. and if I convert it out.. it ends up drawing an image of the goatse.cx guy... damnit!
Perhaps Google is targeting Fermilab scientists for hiring.. Don't they have a history of using strange riddles and puzzles for hiring purposes?
I think I'd beg to differ. Consider the growth rate of deployed systems and data, and compare to the number of security incidents. I think someone could make a strong argument that it IS getting better, proportionately. The internet has such impressive growth, it's hard to notice the change. Check out any sites with historical trends of reported security incidents (dshield.org, cert.org, whomever). They all show very large growth rates up until 2006, where they tend to level off. The internet didn't stop growing during that period, we just managed to catch up.
Open multiple streams. That speed limitation is based on a single tcp session, which is almost entirely latency and MTU size induced (remember that formula? if not, google it). Hasn't anyone been paying attention? Why do you think you get such awesome bit torrent speeds? It's MANY tcp sessions, all streaming at once (rarely do you see a single stream over the net pushing more than 1-2Mbit/sec).
For what it's worth, Net Neutrality IS a political fight, p2p is not the cause, but just the straw that broke the camels back. Fixing the fairness problem of tcp flow control will not make Net Neutrality go away. Nice fix though, too bad getting people to adopt it would be a nightmare. Where was this suggestion 15 years ago?
If the business model was completely viable, they would already be out there taking over the market, making money. Google isn't interested because its a viable option they can immediately turn around and profit. They are interested because its a non-traditional approach to a common problem. That is what google is about -- thinking differently (sorry Apple!).
Another reason people put websites on "www.domain.tld" and not just "domain.tld" was the way mail is handled if there was a "domain.tld" A record in DNS. Some old-fashioned or misconfigured SMTP servers would attempt to deliver to the host at "domain.tld", instead of checking the MX record, which could end up with some misdirected email. Poor reasoning, but still that has been the answer I've received from a few older shops that still act in this manner.
And also, a link to the actual paper: http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0022-3727/40/19/052/