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Comment Depends on which ISP (Score 1) 558

by jroc242 (#43538537) Attached to: Average latency to Slashdot.org?
Using our Bell circuit is 12ms. Using our Cogent circuit is 26ms. Using our Allstream circuit is unreachable. Using our Cogeco circuit is unreachable. Not sure what state slashdot.org [216.34.181.45] is hosted, but I am testing from Canada. Test routers are directly connected to the carriers demark (outside of our firewall stacks).
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DOJ Often Used Cell Tower Impersonating Devices Without Explicit Warrants 146

Posted by Unknown Lamer from the bending-the-rules dept.
Via the EFF comes news that, during a case involving the use of a Stingray device, the DOJ revealed that it was standard practice to use the devices without explicitly requesting permission in warrants. "When Rigmaiden filed a motion to suppress the Stingray evidence as a warrantless search in violation of the Fourth Amendment, the government responded that this order was a search warrant that authorized the government to use the Stingray. Together with the ACLU of Northern California and the ACLU, we filed an amicus brief in support of Rigmaiden, noting that this 'order' wasn't a search warrant because it was directed towards Verizon, made no mention of an IMSI catcher or Stingray and didn't authorize the government — rather than Verizon — to do anything. Plus to the extent it captured loads of information from other people not suspected of criminal activity it was a 'general warrant,' the precise evil the Fourth Amendment was designed to prevent. ... The emails make clear that U.S. Attorneys in the Northern California were using Stingrays but not informing magistrates of what exactly they were doing. And once the judges got wind of what was actually going on, they were none too pleased:"

Comment Sell it back to the Vendor (Score 1) 309

by jroc242 (#39979111) Attached to: What do you usually do with old hardware?
If it is to be replaced with new hardware we usually sell it back to the vender for 10% MSRP used as a rebate on the next gen hardware that takes its place. If is is to be de-comissioned, we sell it to a hardware recycling company that will dispose it for a small profit. Either way there is value in the old hardware.

Comment Missing Some (Score 1) 97

by jroc242 (#36768154) Attached to: Undersea Cable Map Shows Where The Data Pipes Are
Cool map but it is missing some. SEA-ME-WE-2, the Southern cross(listed on the side but not on the map) FIJI needs high speed internet too! The ADEN-DJI crossing the mouth of the gulf of Aden, I could go on. Point being that there is a LOT of undersea cables, this map shows some.

Comment Re:Barrier (Score 1) 62

by jroc242 (#35073880) Attached to: DDoS Attacks Exceed 100 Gbps For First Time
I disagree. Link speeds often go by 10's. 10Mb, 100Mb, 1Gb, 10Gb,100Gb. A large number of ISP's currently use 100Gb backbones.. Recently Veri*** offered us a DDOS solution where when a DDOS is detected, they offload the traffic onto their network which is 100GB and therefore can handle any DDOS attack.

Comment Re:Good luck with that (Score 1) 249

by jroc242 (#34654918) Attached to: Bank of America Buying Abusive Domain Names
They are just inviting people to create a domain name with one that they didn't register. The fact that this article exist and therefore brings attention to what they are doing shows that they are making things worse. (assuming that they are doing this because they had issue with this in the past)

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