turtleshadow - Slashdot User

Submission + - Almost '11 Whats the oldest file you can restore? 2

Submitted by turtleshadow on Sunday December 26, 2010 @02:24AM

turtleshadow writes: Now that Its almost '11 who kept backups since before the Y2K non-event: Have you personally/professionally had to recover something from 10+ years ago?

If so share the interesting "hows" especially if you had to do multiple media transfers and file formats to get it "usable file format" on a modern hardware platform of your choice?
Native solutions are rated higher than Emulation. Also whats your plans for recovering in 2021?

Street cred goes to the oldest, most technical and complex restores... that are of course successful.

I'm working the night shift Christmas/NewYears, I ask everybody still stirring and hardcore SysOPs

Submission + - Recovering the slums of the internet? (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by turtleshadow on Thursday November 12, 2009 @02:52PM

turtleshadow writes: Brian Krebs of Security Fix Blog analyzed the McColo Spamming one year later and asks an interesting question.
"How does one renovate and recoup the lost trust to the slums of the Internet and reclaim back all the domains and IP's that have been blacklisted?"

Indeed the economic benefits abound when a huge swath of illegal and annoying activity ceases but given the basic design of the internet what happens over the long run to IP space and DNS when hosting companies come and go and vary in their trustworthiness.

So too also now that Geocities is dead by economic means but does that still live in your filter list? It still appears in OpenDNS under several policy categories
How in a few years will I tell if some Hosting/Colo sold me Whitechapel Road/Ventura Avenue for Mayfair/Boardwalk prices and no one is going to accept my mail from a former slum?

I ask Slashdotters — when do you, if ever roll back the blacklists and filters for "dead" threats and spammers? Else is there a risk of garbage/crud lists all over the place interfering with routing and access to content?

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