Re: [Full-disclosure] is my ISP lying or stupid?

2012-03-18 Thread Peter Maxwell
Unlikely, usually these switches are quite large and when a user has OOB it usually means console access to the server, i.e. nothing to do with network topology. If they are like most ISPs/carriers, the only thing that will be on a separate switch is their management network(s). On 16 March 2012

Re: [Full-disclosure] is my ISP lying or stupid?

2012-03-17 Thread Peter Maxwell
What makes you think those services would be split onto separate switches (which would be rather odd actually)? On 16 March 2012 16:30, Jerry dePriest wrote: > They had a DoS of mail, www and shell. They state a switch went out. who > runs mail, www and shell on the same switch? > > (This migh

Re: [Full-disclosure] Why should the presence of shebang (#!) freak out ANY security conscious guy?

2011-02-24 Thread Peter Maxwell
RFC3986 marks both # and ! as reserved characters (sec 2.2); from a skim read, # is used for fragment identification (somewhere in sec 3) and there is a small note on ! ' and " at the end of the document. More a standards issue than a security issue. Also, what he'd quoted !# is not the "shebang"

Re: [Full-disclosure] encrypt the bash history

2011-02-06 Thread Peter Maxwell
To be honest, none of these methods will actually be effective: root can do what he/she likes, including monitoring *everything* you do. Worrying about shell history is not going to solve anything. Your only choices are to trust root, or setup your own host. Peter Maxwell On 6 February 2011

Re: [Full-disclosure] ESFS - The encrypted steganography filesystem

2011-01-13 Thread Peter Maxwell
its to determine whether it does what it says on the tin. You have not done that here. Regards, Peter Maxwell On 12 January 2011 19:08, Tomás Touceda wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I wanted to announce this little pet project that was born a couple of > weeks ago, and now it see