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Comment Tech solution: Fuck with his Internet connection. (Score 0) 811

I can't believe all you get in the comments are psychobabble. It's good up to a point but if you're past that, the easiest way to save him from himself is to fuck the internet connection.
No internet, no game.

Get BackTrack 3, boot into a spare PC and try TCPKILL-ing his connection to the specific port. You can script it to kill all connections to port (blah) every 5/10/15/rand() minutes.

If he has a clue about networks, he could realise what you are doing, though, so even better would be:
Limiting the speed at which he can connect, start by setting a 50KB/s limit, then 25KB/s, then 12, then 5, 1, whatever.
He will not be enjoying his game if he is getting 2 FPS and is completely lagged and out of sync from the virtual world.
A way that comes to mind is Man-in-the-middle attack (focused on the port(s) used by the game) and after all game traffic is going through you, use one of Trickle, Level 7 Filter, ClarkConnect, Bandwidth Arbitrator, MasterShaper.

If you can't figure out how to throttle him properly, you can also try flooding the local network until it slows to a crawl.

Try it.

Comment the story smells (Score 0) 203

So, Apache, with a larger market share (66%, ?) has been the server serving the application which was hacked/defaced. That is news how? For example when facebook was broken into and the private images downloaded and put up on torrents, Apache was probably serving the files but not the vulnerable point!

Lets look at it this way, if there is such a wave of defacements, how come whitehouse.gov which runs linux/freebsd and Apache, how come they arent getting defaced? Because someone serious took the time to configure the damn server properly. How hard is that? google->hardening apache. then use common sense when handling input in your applications/scripts.

facebook@netcraft Apache/1.3.37.fb1
".fb1"? how customised do you suppose fb1 is? If it were defaced, would it be apache's fault, a 0day exploit perhaps, or due to the configuration (or "fb1" whatever that means, if anything)?

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