Comment Re:Not blackmail, but libel (Score 2) 279
True, but then they'd be hit with proof: The spam that hit the spamtrap from that IP address. They keep those things!
UCEProtect isn't the first one to get sued. It won't be the last.
Comment There is a reason you are listed. (Score 5, Insightful) 279
There is a reason you are listed:
* You have spam originating from your system for too long of a time.
* You are unresponsive to reports.
So, your entire network range is listed. Everyone is bouncing emails. Everyone is complaining to you, and you've noticed. You've been forwarded the site, and you're contemplating just paying them off... except that it just won't work. You'll be relisted again, and with reason -- someone on your network spammed and nobody's listening.
Thus:
* If you haven't done so, open up abuse@ and point it to somebody with the power to diagnose, disable, and close accounts.
* If the guy behind abuse@ doesn't have said above power, GIVE IT TO HIM.
* If the guy behind abuse@ does, but doesn't use it, FIRE HIM.
* If you haven't done so, disable outbound port 25 at your border router with the exception of an out-bound SMTP server.
* Put an outbound spam filter in place.
If you are unwilling to do the above, then there is one last thing you will eventually do: CLOSE SHOP.
Comment Around your car's engine (Score 1) 447
Simply put, do it Mythbusters/Alton Brown style. Their recent episode of Mythbusters did a full dinner that was cooked by the car's engine.
Comment Writing was on the wall (Score 5, Interesting) 307
Gentoo saw the license expiring, and did a proactive thing: flipped the "fetch restriction" flag back on, forcing users to pull it manually and slap it into the right place to install/upgrade.
Comment First CS, then.... (Score 1) 502
...soon, Team Fortress 2. This will be the next RedFort.
Comment Option/feature removal has been going on since v2 (Score 1) 797
First, half the features in Gnome 1.x go in Gnome 2. Then the steady removal of options and features. Now they're *)!@#( with the window features that are standard on all windowing systems in the major OS's?!?
I'm glad I already moved onto KDE. I couldn't hack Gnome Option/feature Removal Syndrome (GOFRS).
Linux Kernel Exploit Busily Rooting 64-Bit Machines 488
An anonymous reader writes "Running 64-bit Linux? Haven't updated yet? You're probably being rooted as I type this. CVE-2010-3081, this week's second high-profile local root exploit in the Linux kernel, is compromising machines left and right. Almost all 64-bit machines are affected, and 'Ac1db1tch3z' (classy) published code to let any local user get a root shell. Ac1db1tch3z's exploit is more malicious than usual because it leaves a backdoor behind for itself to exploit later even if the hole is patched. Luckily, there's a tool you can run to see if you've already been exploited, courtesy of security company Ksplice, which beat most of the Linux vendors with a 'rebootless' version of the patch."
Wolfenstein Gets Ray Traced 184
An anonymous reader writes "After showcasing Quake Wars: Ray Traced a few years ago, Intel is now showing their latest graphics research project using Wolfenstein game content. The new and cool special effects are actually displayed on a laptop using a cloud-based gaming approach with servers that have an Intel Knights Ferry card (many-core) inside. Their blog post has a video and screenshots."
Comment Now keep doing it. (Score 1) 363
The power of 4chan and Anonymous is tremendous. It must be held carefully. This is one good example of how to put this power for good instead of evil.
Comment Drobo. (Score 1) 609
Sounds like you need a Drobo (from http://www.drobo.com./ The various units are expensive, and you'll probably need the Drobo FS if I read your post correctly. The upshot is, though, it's expandable to 20 TB of space. Just shove a drive in.
(Note: Not a Drobo vendor, just a fan who wants one himself)
Comment Ban lifted, but limited to one per person. (Score 3, Informative) 180
At least they finally got it tested so it proved what it said. Isralies are picky to a fault.
But you can't ship 'em in yet. Limit's only one per person, so no gifting yet.
Submission + - Caltech makes flexible, 86% efficent solar arrays (caltech.edu) 1
strredwolf writes: Caltech has released a flexible solar array that converts 95% of single-wavelength incandescent light and 86% of all sunlight into electricity. Instead of being flat-panel, they stand thin silicon wires in a plastic substrate that scatters the light onto them. The total composition is 98% plastic, 2% wire — the amount of silicon used is 1/50th that of ordinary panels. So as soon as they can get these into market, solar will be very viable and cheap to produce.
Comment Reconnect. (Score -1) 307
Seriously, reconnect. The keys used for the encryption will change, and it's multiply keyed to boot. Check the discussion on SSL (which SSH uses) on Steve Gibson's Security Now podcast. http://twit.tv/sn
Comment Check the blog... (Score 4, Funny) 332
Looks like Microsoft's Bing managers are on it. They'll make it worse in no-time flat.
BTW, the difference between a DDOS and a Slashdotting? You know why your site went down -- you got linked!
Comment Yubikey and YubiPAM (Score 1) 539
Simple:
1. Require all passwords to be Yubikey OTP passwords on any login prompt.
2. Refuse access, and only give them the logs manually.
3. When they shut your server down and open it up to yank the drive, hit 'em with a breach of lawsuit.
4. ????
5. PROFIT!
