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Comment Re:Provider slowness. (Score 1) 158

Even for a couple of servers that do not have an external firewall filtering packets for my IPv6, there is basically zero packets besides those going to applications hosted on my servers, and they have published DNS records for web and DNS. Some basic PCs I have online see zero packets from random internet hosts on IPv6.

The IPv6 address space is literally too large to crawl within any useful amount of time. If you figure an average LAN will have 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses (a /64 block). Let's say you scanned 1000 IP addresses per second (very optimistic for a single PC) it would take you 584,942,417 years to complete scanning just a single LAN. Then are so many /64 LAN blocks that it is very likely you're scanning an network block that does not have any hosts to begin with.

There will have to be other means to gather active/in-use IP address such as looking at server logs that clients connect to, email headers, DNS records, soliciting traffic from the client machines via some application/trojan/virus, network traffic sniffing, etc. All of these means already exist for IPv4 so there is nothing new there.

Comment Re:I blame the ISPs (Score 1) 179

The public facing resources of the government agencies need to be IPv6 enabled, not the internal and external workings of the networks within the various organizations. This simply means in most cases, inbound email servers and web servers need to be hosted on machines somewhere in the world that have full IPv6 access, then the respective DNS records need to be in place for said services, which translates to add "AAAA" records. I bet Akamai is loving this mandate because they are a popular choice for government agencies to turn to for IPv6 enabled hosting but Akamai is not the only company that will do IPv6 hosting.

Comment Re:Methinks people don't appreciate the scales her (Score 1) 299

Don't be such a dick. Not everything in the various space programs is strictly for the various space programs.

"This important effort helps advance the knowledge and technologies required to explore space, all while generating the necessary tools that enhance our quality of life on earth."

You're falling into one of the pitfalls of religion/faith: it is not possible for us to comprehend/achieve such lofty goals, therefore don't attempt to. New technologies and science breakthroughs will not only enlighten our lives on Earth but also have potential to greatly expand our travel potential if ideas like quantum entanglement can prove fruitful.

But you're right... its snake oil... fuck all scientists and the human spirit of curiosity and breaking barriers... except Tang, that shit is good.

Privacy

Anonymous Leaks New Batch of Data 53

Orome1 writes "Anonymous has made available for download another batch of data, including those belonging to the Zimbabwean government, Mosman Municipal Council, Universal Music Group Partners (umusic.com's usernames/passwords and other data), Viacom (internal mapping of Viacom and its servers) and Brazilian Government (dumps and passwords)."

Comment Re:Hardware acceleration (Score 1) 129

You're going to be in for a rude surprise.

OpenGL drivers on Windows are awful, DirectX is where all of the development effort goes on driver teams. At work we wrote our app using OpenGL for a 3D overlay because we ship on Windows, Mac, and Linux, but on Windows we took the time to write a DirectX backend instead of OpenGL and the stability and performance shot up noticably. OpenGL is a forgotten "checkbox feature" on Windows today, not much more.

Security

LulzSec Announces That It Is Done 412

MaxBooger writes "LulzSec, the notorious hacker group that's been on a rampage, just announced that it's disbanding. This follows 50 days' chaos during which time it took down several websites (including CIA.gov at one point), exposed passwords, exposed documents of the Arizona penal system, and at one point threatened to hit Too Big To Fail banks. Obviously, it's possible that the group will not abide by its promise to quit. Nobody knows."
Security

StartSSL Suspends Services After Security Breach 54

An anonymous reader writes "StartSSL has suspended issuance of digital certificates and related services following a security breach on 15 June. A trademark of Eddy Nigg's StartCom, the StartSSL certificate authority is well known for offering free domain validated SSL certificates, but also sells organisation and extended validation certificates."
Security

Fired IT Worker Replaces CEO's Presentation With Porn 316

An anonymous reader writes "52-year-old Walter Powell wanted revenge when he was fired from his position as an IT manager at Baltimore Substance Abuse System Inc. So, he hacked into their systems — installing keyloggers to steal passwords. Then, when his CEO was giving a presentation to the board of directors he replaced the slides with pornographic images. Powell has now been given a 2 year suspended sentence, and 100 hours community service."
Security

WordPress.org Hacked, Plugin Repository Compromised 110

An anonymous reader writes "Back in April hackers gained access to the WordPress.com servers and exposed passwords/API keys for Twitter and Facebook accounts. Now, hackers gained access to Wordpress.org and the plugin repository. Malicious code was found in several commits including popular plugins such as AddThis, WPtouch, or W3 Total Cache. Matt Mullenweg decided to force-reset all passwords on WordPress.org. This is a great reminder for all users not use the same password for two different services."

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