New RFC Adds "Evil Bit" 160
Nashirak writes "This
is new RFC that introduces new security measures into IPv4 header. The measures include an "evil bit" that can be set an unset according to wether the packet is evil or not."
The moon is made of green cheese. -- John Heywood
Intentional? (Score:5, Funny)
Dupe. (Score:4, Funny)
Retarded. (Score:1, Funny)
New bit for Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
I just heard they have a new bit at Slashdot. It's called "DupeBit" and this is the first article which got it.
Yours, Martin
CmdrTaco adds new bit to story submissions (Score:4, Funny)
Same page duplicate for goodness sake (Score:3, Funny)
Cmdr. Xerox! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:First 1st April Joke Dupe! (Score:0, Funny)
Actual Implementation (Score:2, Funny)
Cool
Rus
This is a good thing (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I suppose this bit will be set on.... (Score:3, Funny)
I doubt that. After all, Microsoft Windows-based products have a bad habit of not following the Internet standards.
On another news, the Mozilla project has announced that it will introduce the EVIL bit on all HTTP requests originating from users clicking links on duplicate Slashdot news items. The announcement has received good response from the Internet community. An anonymous system administrator was heard stating: "I am very pleased of this late development. I wish more hardware could learn to drop all packets with EVIL bit before it consumes all the bandwidth of the victim."
Re:THREADJACK: Google IPO (Score:1, Funny)
Dude, you're posting on a site called "slashdot, news for nerds, stuff that matters". The decision to cut yourself from the real world (the thing that you see outside the window, where that bright annoying light that reflects on the monitor comes from) was taken a long time ago
Slashdot! The only place where . . . (Score:5, Funny)
2) New scientific discoveries sound familiar.
3) 10 questions turn into 20.
4) Last interviews turn into next to last.
5) Congress is considering the first ever digital cloning ban.
6) Duplicate replies to duplicate posts get duplicate moderation.
7) The only thing not duplicated is polls (not even sure about that).
8) 1000/1 = The ratio of time it takes for moderators to discover a dupe vs. the readers.
9) 0 = The number of dupes deleted.
10) The post (God forbid) announcing its closing will probably be posted twice.
AP: Bush seeks to root out "Evil Bit" (Score:0, Funny)
President George Bush is meeting this meeting with high-level Cabinet members, Pentagon advisors, and the corpse of Dick Cheney to develop a battle plan against the so-called "Evil Bit" developed by the nefarious organization known as "IETF", White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said today.
Fleischer said "We know this IETF has RFC's, and they plan to use the RFC's against the American people". When a reporter from the New York Times [newyorktimes.com] (free registration all day 4/1!!) stated that the IETF was the Internet Engineering Task Force, a standards body for the Internet, Fleischer gave a slideshow depicting the IETF's True Secret Agenda: a plot against Freedom and Democracy.
When the Times reporter asked CIA director George Tenet about the slideshow, Tenet exclaimed
The President will address the nation this evening at 8:00 p.m. on all major networks.
A bit of Opportunity (Score:2, Funny)
However, the only problem I've come across with setting the evil bit deals with products from a certain Redmond, Washington software development company. Apparently, when the evil bit is set, it negates all the security holes inherent in the OS from this company, and it becomes rock solid secure.
Go figure...
In other news (Score:0, Funny)
From the redundant duplicate depatrment.... (Score:2, Funny)
Since this article was posted twice, does it make it a sticky bit?
This dupe is okay.. (Score:3, Funny)
the RFC update already, you wouldn't even have seen it!
Re:Intentional? (Score:1, Funny)
When timothy posts it again tommorow, then it will be a dupe.
That's all fine and good, (Score:4, Funny)