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Comment Re:Article is garbage (Score 2) 179

by asc4 on Thursday March 28, 2013 @04:45PM (#43306609) Attached to: Misconfigured Open DNS Resolvers Key To Massive DDoS Attacks

This. Rate-limiting can help...I'm quite sure Google has rate-limiting in place on 8.8.8.8 for instance. But for those who don't have Google's budget, it's a challenge. There are not currently any sufficiently tested and stable DNS rate-limiting features in any of the top 3 resolvers out there. The problem here is networks letting spoofed packets out of their nets, not DNS servers performing correctly.

The Bridge Less Traveled 2

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 02, 2008 @01:14PM from the don't-slip dept.

It takes a village to train a ninja.

G8 Summit Aims To Kill International Piracy 340

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 03, 2008 @01:13PM from the this-can-only-end-well dept.

arcticstoat writes "Next week, the G8 summit will discuss proposals for new international piracy laws, which include border controls and cooperation from ISPs to identify pirates. The laws will also prevent ISPs from being liable for copyright infringement. If the G8 summit were to agree on these measures and enforce them through international cooperation, could they really cut down piracy, or would they be impractical to enforce?"

Netcraft Shows Smartech Running Ohio Election Servers 688

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday April 24, 2007 @02:02PM from the something-rotten-in-the-state-of-Ohio dept.

goombah99 writes "Netcraft is showing that an event happened in the Ohio 2004 election that is difficult to explain. The Secretary of State's website, which handles election reporting, normally is directed to an Ohio-based IP address hosted by the Ohio Supercomputer Center. On Nov. 3 2004, Netcraft shows the website pointing out of state to a server owned by Smartech Corp. According to the American Registry on Internet Numbers, Smartech's block of IP addresses 64.203.96.0 – 64.203.111.255 encompasses the entire range of addresses owned by the Republican National Committee. Smartech hosted the recently notorious gbw43.com domain used from the White House in apparent violation of the Presidential Records Act, from which thousands of White House emails vanished." Update: 04/25 01:24 GMT by KD : ePluribus Media published a piece called Ken Blackwell Outsources Ohio Election Results to GOP Internet Operatives, Again on election eve 2006, when a similar DNS switch to Smartech occurred. They have been investigating the larger story of IT on Capitol Hill and elsewhere for two years.

Comment SPF somewhat effective (Score 3, Informative) 119

by asc4 on Thursday January 11, 2007 @11:41AM (#17556904) Attached to: Proper Ways to Dispose of Spam?

SPF is only somewhat effective as unfortunately only some have adopted it. Still, it takes all of a few seconds to add an SPF record for your domain. It can't hurt. Also, try reporting the servers hitting you with backscatter to Spamcop. Again, it might not help much, but it can't hurt.

2006 Was the Warmest Year Ever 782

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday January 10, 2007 @05:29AM from the El-Nino-and-humankind-conspiring dept.

kpw10 writes "Dr. Jeff Masters from Wunderground has a great summary of this year's rather abnormal weather (his blog is the best source on the net for in-depth weather analysis). The post discusses some of the cyclical climate forces at work this year and compares this year's record temperatures to records from the past. There are some interesting differences, particularly in the extent of the northern hemisphere seeing record highs this year." From the article: "December's weather in the Northeast U.S. may have been a case of the weather dice coming up thirteen — weather not seen on the planet since before the Ice Age began, 118,000 years ago. The weather dice will start rolling an increasing number of thirteens in coming years, and an ice-free Arctic Ocean in summertime by 2040 is a very real possibility..." Here is the The National Climatic Data Center's report announcing the entry of 2006 into the record books.

ISPs Offer Faster Speeds, Why Don't We Get Them? 688

Posted by Cliff on Thursday June 01, 2006 @11:12PM from the where-did-the-extra-bits-go dept.

Ron Williams asks: "I'm infuriated every time I see that companies are raising their speeds when they can't maintain their current speeds. Here's my biggest issue: my grandmother signed up for the 3Mbps DSL plan through Verizon, however a speed test said she was only getting 750Kbps. Why pay for the extra bandwidth when she's not getting it? She downgraded to the 768K plan expecting to still have 750K. Wrong, instead her speed dropped to 300K. So, how about instead of companies constantly claiming to increase their speeds, they get their actual speeds correct. Comcast has done the same thing, I had their 6Mbps plan at one point, I got 2.5Mbps usually and sometimes 3Mbps, so they're all doing the same thing. In closing, with all these speed increases, why is my Internet not getting faster?" What practices and tools do you use to test your bandwidth speed and how have you approached your ISP when the performance repeatedly fell short of your expectations?

MPAA Being Sued For Allegedly Hacking Torrentspy 448

Posted by Zonk on Thursday May 25, 2006 @01:18PM from the shoe-is-on-the-other-camel's-foot dept.

goldaryn writes "Valence Media, the parent company of Torrentspy.com, one of the web's largest torrent search engines, has filed a lawsuit against the MPAA for allegedly hiring a hacker to steal e-mail correspondence and trade secrets. From the suit: 'The Motion Picture Association of America willfully and intentionally obtained without authority, conspired to obtain without authority, purchased, procured, used and disclosed private information that it knew was unlawfully obtained through unauthorized access to Plaintiffs' computer servers and private email accounts, in violation of United States and California privacy and computer security laws.'"

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