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Google Declines To Turn Over Harvested Wi-Fi Data 201

An anonymous reader writes "Google declined to submit data collected as part of the 'Spy-Fi' flap, and Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is now promising further action: '"I certainly will be pressing for continued involvement at the federal level in coordination with the states," Blumenthal told Politico Monday, just days after promising to explore "additional enforcement actions" if Google does not share the data soon. Asked to describe what those federal efforts might include, the outgoing attorney general said, "There's a range of potential opportunities for oversight and scrutiny by a member of the US Congress – including letters, meetings, hearings, and potentially even legislation." For its part, Google has tried to defuse the issue by offering to delete the data. The company reaffirmed that position in a Friday statement, promising to work with Blumenthal in the coming weeks, but declined to comment further on Monday.'"

Comment lighttpd and nginx (Score -1) 203

I have tested this DoS attack against lighttpd and nginx. Out of the box both servers are vulnerable (despite the note in the announcement that lighttpd is not vulnerable, just use enough number of connections). Nginx could be configured to not be affected by this type of attacks:

Put in "http" section:

client_body_timeout 10;
client_header_timeout 10;
keepalive_timeout 10;
send_timeout 10;
limit_zone limit_per_ip $binary_remote_addr 1m;

and put in "server" section :

limit_conn limit_per 16;

The last 2 configuration lines are for limiting connections per client IP. This fist lines are same sane connection timeouts.

May be lighttpd could be configured in a similar manner but I am not a spec in it.

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