October 28, 2003
Here we go again
The
Instapundit has pointed out what looks to be another
DOS attack on Internet Haganah for Thursday. After using the handy dandy Arabic to English translator at
Ectaco I must say that I agree with him. Loosely translated, the message says that 7PM on Thursday, October 30 is a favorable time for anybody who is available. It then gives details for Internet Haganah and their IP on all of their mirror sites.
So expect all of the Hosting Matters sites to go down around 7PM (time zone would be helpful) on Thursday.
UPDATE: From the comments comes good news for many blogs from Aaron at Internet Haganah -
Haganah is no longer hosted at HostingMatters. Trust me, I know, I'm the Director of Internet Haganah. HostingMatters ' network is not on the target list.
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I think that is CMT...
Central Moron Time.
Posted by: Paul at October 28, 2003 05:22 PM (4wkqJ)
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Haganah is no longer hosted at HostingMatters. Trust me, I know, I'm the Director of Internet Haganah. HostingMatters ' network is not on the target list.
Posted by: aaron at October 28, 2003 06:41 PM (4mlWF)
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Good lucki Aaron. (Is there some kind of poison pill code you can insert that blows up in their faces when they contact your site?)
Posted by: Yehudit at October 28, 2003 07:51 PM (qTdRG)
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Not really. The DoS attacks they use to bring down his site are not sent to him, but rather to computers that don't check for forged source addresses and don't bother to trace anything back (and often don't even bother keeping activity logs). The DoS packets have HostingMatters servers as their source IP addresses, and were designed to make the "sucker" computers think they were receiving constant misshapen ping traffic from HostingMatters, to which they would respond with SYN packets... enough to clog the network and take HostingMatters offline.
The perpetrators could only be determined by convincing the "sucker" servers to share their system logs from during the attack, something they are loath to do... not only because most of the admins don't even know how to log their server traffic, but the few that do are too prideful to admit that their server was used to assist a DoS attack.
Posted by: Tatterdemalian at October 28, 2003 11:24 PM (QwOBf)
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Apparently you have to join the group to read the message. Any chance you might post the message here?
Posted by: serenity at October 29, 2003 07:05 PM (GChd/)
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Crap. Looks like they closed the group. It was open when I looked at it.
Posted by: Jim at October 29, 2003 07:27 PM (fkewd)
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well, now that he's at a new host, not sure if this is going to pan out today. but the mirrors might have a problem since they were named in the group, before it was closed.
Posted by: djspicerack at October 30, 2003 10:24 AM (vQ8Zv)
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"The DoS attacks they use to bring down his site are not sent to him, but rather to computers that don't check for forged source addresses and don't bother to trace anything back (and often don't even bother keeping activity logs). The DoS packets have HostingMatters servers as their source IP addresses, and were designed to make the "sucker" computers think they were receiving constant misshapen ping traffic from HostingMatters, to which they would respond with SYN packets... enough to clog the network and take HostingMatters offline."
This is an entirely incorrect assessment of the technical details behind not only the original DDoS attack, but the manner in which such attacks work. There was *no* ping traffic originating *from* our network to any destination - that would make us the attacker and not the host of the target. The linked message (prior to the group being closed) had no sites or IPs listed that were within our network, and quite clearly we suffered no issues related to the proposed attacks in that message.
Posted by: Annette at October 30, 2003 09:49 PM (B4cUS)
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Annette,
Tatterdemalian may not have been describing a classic DDOS attack or the type of attack that was implemented on HostingMatters. What he is describing is what is referred to as a Reflected Denial Of Service. You can forge an IP header and put the sender address as HostingMatters, then send the packet to Google or Yahoo or wherever. The server will respond to the sender (multiple times) with a SYN packet or even a NAK.
www.grc.com is a good place to learn about how this kind of thing works. I'm not an expert (by any stretch), but everythign I know I learned there!
Posted by: g at November 04, 2003 08:25 AM (IOwam)
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It's a bit chilly outside
Good time for a
Bonfire. Go take a peak as Kevin offers up a massive pile of inanity for your displeasure.
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October 27, 2003
What do you hate about men?
Found a nifty link over at
Ilyka's Place. It seems that
Dean Esmay is looking to find out just what women hate about men. Ilyka had a rough time but finally thought one up. I don't see how this could be difficult for a woman. There should be loads of things that all y'all curvy wenches have against us.
Just for an example, there's the way we mark our territory over at your place. You know, the couple dribbles of pee on the rim of the toilet or the way we take the toilet paper roll off and put it back on so it rolls the right way (over the top!). Or the way we go through your cosmetics and beauty products and wipe our penises across your facial beauty bars. Or the way we'll put a couple of teaspoons of salt in your fish tank so the fishes all die and you'll sell the damn aquarium because you're so upset and that way we don't have to move the bloody thing for you when you get your next apartment.
You know, stuff like that.
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Jim - I know a guy that probably does that thing with his pecker - he's one sick mofo. LOL!
Posted by: The Bartender at October 27, 2003 05:54 PM (GW5+2)
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Thanks, Jim, for giving away all our secrets. If I don't get laid this weekend, I'm blaming you. Then again, I usually blame you for that anyway. It's just my way.
Posted by: Don at October 27, 2003 06:51 PM (7qyfb)
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the way we take the toilet paper roll off and put it back on so it rolls the right way (over the top!)
Ah, yes--forgot that one. It's taken three years, but I may have finally won that battle.
UNDER. The paper rolls from UNDER the roll. Tears easier that way.
Death to the OVERs!
Posted by: ilyka at October 28, 2003 04:32 AM (rf8h7)
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Never! The roll must go over the top. That way you can give it a massive spin for proper paper dispensing. Or just for the hell of it.
Posted by: Jim at October 28, 2003 06:05 AM (IOwam)
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Snark, Snark, Snark
The
Snark Hunt is up and active over at Kate's place. Don't know what the Snark Hunt is? Well, it's simply the best posts of the blogosphere with all of the touchy-feely crap culled away.
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October 24, 2003
A bit of excitement is good for the system
As long as you don't have a heart attack, of course. Seems
Chuck had a bit of a scare today.
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The New Weblog Showcase
Time to vote in the
best weekly contest for new bloggers. Today I'm taking my cue from
Susie and voting for
Defending the Blogosphere Front in the War on Terrorism from Irreconcilable Musings.
Unfortunately politics seems to be rearing its head in the Showcase itself as a block of liberal blogs attempt to promote their agenda at the expense of a fair contest. Not that such an action couldn't have been taken by righty blogs, of course. Except it wasn't. And never seems to be. Peculiar, that.
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I noticed the little coup attempt myself. Frankly, I figure let 'em have it. They can win it and then go right back to jacking each other off in celebration of their "victory" over the right-wing death beasts (most of whom are actually centrists anyhow). You know--whatever.
Posted by: ilyka at October 25, 2003 04:13 AM (mXYlc)
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"B" is for "Buffoon"
The
Letter of the Day is was
"B".
"B" is for Buffoon. Chuck's take on the recent anti-spam legislation sure makes the Senate look like buffoons.
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October 23, 2003
Don't forget Chuck
Lots of good stuff over at
Writer's Noose. Chuck's having a bad day (boat trouble) and has some snarky type posts. Go visit and say hi.
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October 21, 2003
October 20, 2003
Colon encounters of the third kind.
Read Dong's
very moving story about his battle with a high tech crapper.
*Bah-whooooosh!*
Whu-?
Why are the ones in the other stalls flushing? I'm the only human in here. They can't communicate, can they?
*Bah-whooooosh!*
*Bah-whooooosh!*
*Bah-whooooosh!*
Jesus. Hyenas do this... one hangs out near a watering hole, waits for a weak prey to show up and then it calls out to the pack.
And no, I haven't the slightest clue what I was trying to do with that title.
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October 17, 2003
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October 15, 2003
That Big Street Carnival
The Carnival of the Vanities (#56 if you're counting) is up and at 'em over at
Priorities & Frivolities. It's a long one (as if there were ever short ones!) but laid out nice so you can cherry pick the stuff you like.
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Posted by: ilyka at October 15, 2003 10:30 AM (b0Boo)
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Yeah, looks like spanking is the theme over there. Hmmm....
Posted by: Jim at October 15, 2003 01:09 PM (IOwam)
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October 14, 2003
October 10, 2003
It's Snarkerific!
The
Snark Hunt is on! Get your weekly dose of invective and sarcasm (snarkasm?) to get you through the weekend.
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Post, dammit, post! Helen is bored and seeks quality entertainment!
However, she will settle for your blog
Posted by: H at October 13, 2003 07:26 AM (tdh2z)
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Sorry, Helen. I am having
SUCH a Monday!
There is one in the works though, so stay tuned.
Posted by: Jim at October 13, 2003 07:30 AM (IOwam)
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"F" is for lots of stuff, and this article has most of them.
The
Letter of the Day is was
"F".
"F" is for Furtive. Installing malware on people's computers as part of your anti-piracy effort is bad enough. When you do it without their permission you are being furtive.
the SunnComm technique relies on installing antipiracy software directly from the protected CD itself.
"F" is for Fool. When your anti-piracy technique can be completely circumvented with a basic Windows function you are quite a fool.
However, this can be prevented by stopping Microsoft Windows' "auto-run" feature. That can be done simply by pushing the Shift key as the CD loads.
"F" is also for Farcical. When you sue a guy for showing people how to use a basic Windows function to defeat your malware the entire thing has a farcical air.
"This is completely outrageous," said Fred von Lohmann, an attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group that has previously represented computer academics concerned that copyright law would impair their ability to publish. "This is not black hat (hackers') exploits he's revealing. This is Windows 101...It is relatively hard to imagine any better example of how the DMCA has been misused since it was passed five years ago."
"F" is for Fair. When exposure of your easily defeated anti-piracy malware results in severe repercussions to your company, that's fair.
The damage to SunnComm's reputation, while not necessarily permanent, was quickly seen in a drop in its market value, totaling close to $10 million over several days, Jacobs said. No final decisions about legal action have been made, he added.
Lastly, "F" is for Freedom. Here in the USA we have certain protected freedoms. One of them is about speech.
Halderman said he's not overly worried about the legal threat. The EFF represented his advisor, Princeton professor Edward Felten, in a lawsuit dealing with academic freedom to publish computer security information, and Princeton University supported Felten in that case.
"I expect I will be well-represented in the case of a lawsuit," Halderman said. "If pressing the Shift key is a violation of the DMCA, then the law needs to be changed."
(Hat tip to G)
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October 09, 2003
Get out the vote!
Now that all of the craziness in California is taken care of we can get back to the important stuff like voting in the
New Weblog Showcase. This week I'm going for one each of Funny, Serious and Southern. I was going to have a "Moonbat" category 'cause there's a couple of real lu-lus this week but I can't bring myself to give them traffic.
Funny: The Cult of Random - When Good Tacos Go Bad
Serious: Wired Opinion - Abolition of the Death Penalty
Southern: Ain't Done It! - I Love This State
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Am I the Anti-Helen?
Here's me:
| The Big Five Personality Test |
| Extroverted | |||||||||||||| | 54% |
| Introverted | |||||||||||| | 46% |
| Friendly | |||||||||||||| | 58% |
| Aggressive | |||||||||||| | 42% |
| Orderly | |||||||||||||| | 56% |
| Disorderly | |||||||||||| | 44% |
| Relaxed | |||||||||||||||| | 66% |
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| Intellectual | |||||||||||||| | 58% |
| Practical | |||||||||||| | 42% |
Take Free Big 5 Personality Test
Here's she.
Did you check out my emotional stability? 66% bay-bee! Oh, yeah! Rock on with my well adjusted self.
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Well, we're both friendly and orderly!
Am annoyed that you got 2% higher than me on the intellectual level. It must be since you haven't had an orgasm for a while.
Or it's all that milk.
Posted by: H at October 09, 2003 08:21 AM (ADrg6)
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Can't be the orgasms, I have those constantly. Hold on a sec...yep, there's another one.
Friendly I am but orderly? Problem with this test is it's asking what you do instead of what you
want to do. In my fantasy world I'm the biggest slob you could ever imagine, it's just not practical in the real world.
Also, in my fantasy world I have mad money and a really big penis. Why don't these tests ever ask about that?!
Posted by: Jim at October 09, 2003 08:31 AM (IOwam)
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2 Things I Love About SBD:
1) Jim is funny
2) Jim is up early and posts earlier than most
Helen is satisfied.
Posted by: H at October 09, 2003 08:59 AM (ADrg6)
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Yeah, I do get up pretty early. Usually around 4 AM my time. What's that in Sweden? Like 47 meters or something? Or should it be in grams?
Damn metrics.
Posted by: Jim at October 09, 2003 09:38 AM (IOwam)
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