Re: New Zealand Spy Agency To Vet Network Builds, Provider Staff
On May 13, 2014, at 4:52 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > > - Warning the world about Chinese surveillance could have been one of > the motives behind the US government's claims that Chinese devices > cannot be trusted. But an equally important motive seems to have been > preventing Chinese devices from supplanting American-made ones, which > would have limited the NSA's own reach. In other words, Chinese > routers and servers represent not only economic competition but also > surveillance competition. Case in point on Sprint/Softbank merger http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/28/4155714/us-wants-sprint-softbank-deal-to-avoid-chinese-network-equipment/in/3252625 Should we as a community look at Open Hardware when we start to lose trust in vendors and governments? Can we make boards/ASIC/FPGA commodity enough to scale? Zaid signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Need help in flushing DNS
Reaching out to DNS operators around the globe. Linkedin.com has had some issues with DNS and would like DNS operators to flush their DNS. If you see www.linkedin.com resolving NS to ns1617.ztomy.com or ns2617.ztomy.com then please flush your DNS. Any other info please reach out to me off-list. Zaid
Re: Fiber cut in SF Bay Area?
Level3 is also impacted. This cut seems to be vandalism but only heard this from one source. Zaid Sent from my iPhone On Apr 16, 2013, at 12:51 PM, Ravi Pina wrote: > Our Zayo provided ETR is 11:00 - 11:30 PDT. > > XO is one of the impacted providers as well. > > -r > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 08:55:56AM -0700, Raul Rodriguez wrote: >> Lost a Zayo circuit from Palo Alto to Los Angeles. ETR was given as 11AM PDT. >> >> -RR >
Re: NYT covers China cyberthreat
We have done our part to China as well along with other countries in state sponsored "hacking". This is more of news amusement rather than news worthy. Question here should be how much of this is another effort to get a "kill switch" type bill back. Zaid On Feb 19, 2013, at 10:10 PM, Kyle Creyts wrote: > quite a bit of coverage lately from the media. > > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323764804578313101135258708.html > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-21505803 > http://www.npr.org/2013/02/19/172373133/report-links-cyber-attacks-on-u-s-to-chinas-military > http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-14/a-chinese-hackers-identity-unmasked > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: >> >> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/technology/chinas-army-is-seen-as-tied-to-hacking-against-us.html?pagewanted=all >> -- >> Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > > > > > -- > Kyle Creyts > > Information Assurance Professional > BSidesDetroit Organizer >
