More Gifts for a CTO who has everything ...

2003-03-29 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
This week's puzzle ... What is symmetry? The mail relay for a defunct ISP with some 20k users has between 100k and 200k instances of sendmail journaled per day. At any point in time, there are about 1k entries in the host's proctable, 80% are the MTA, and a few connections/sec to port 25, with

Re: is this true or... ?

2003-03-29 Thread Lars Erik Gullerud
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 02:24, David Schwartz wrote: The laws require an intent to conceal the origin or destination. NAT would not count, as the intent is to share a scarce resource, not to conceal the origin or destination -- the origin is only concealed to the extent necessary to

more sendmail fun.

2003-03-29 Thread Len Rose
Local root vulnerability in sendmail. See http://www.netsys.com/cgi-bin/displaynews?a=556 which contains links to: http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-March/008972.html http://www.netsys.com/library/alerts/sendmail-2003-03-29.txt

Typo's in DNS, Al Jazeera back online

2003-03-29 Thread Sean Donelan
In spite of typo's in their DNS records, Al Jazeera's web site has moved to France and back online. Be sure you get the current IP address for aljazeera.net (213.30.180.219). Al Jazeera's name server records are still a mess, and I don't think you can really blame the Pentagon for them

State Super-DMCA Too True

2003-03-29 Thread William Allen Simpson
Declan McCullagh sent out an email 7:56 am EST this morning, referencing his full report at: http://news.com.com/2100-1028-994667.html I was shocked to see that Michigan has *already* passed such a law! (Also Virginia, Delaware, and Illinois.) I've found the new law(s), and they basically

Re: State Super-DMCA Too True

2003-03-29 Thread E.B. Dreger
WAS Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 15:53:32 -0500 WAS From: William Allen Simpson [ snip ] IANAL, but VPNs look like trouble waiting to happen. And then there's promiscuous mode... Eddy -- Brotsman Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division Bandwidth, consulting, e-commerce, hosting, and network

Re: State Super-DMCA Too True

2003-03-29 Thread Jack Bates
William Allen Simpson wrote: It outlaws all encryption, and all remailers. I'm missing where it outlaws these? In fact, it outlaws others (say your ISP) from decryping your encrypted data. It outlaws connecting any device without the express authority of the telecommunications service

Re: State Super-DMCA Too True

2003-03-29 Thread E.B. Dreger
JB Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 23:22:11 -0600 JB From: Jack Bates [ snip ] JB One thing to note, a telecommunications service provider is defined in JB such a way that anyone running a network is included. This means that JB running a business or home network protects your network. If in the JB

Re: State Super-DMCA Too True

2003-03-29 Thread Kevin Loch
- Original Message - From: Jack Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, March 30, 2003 0:22 am Subject: Re: State Super-DMCA Too True (Some DSL/cable companies try to charge per machine, and record the machine address of the devices connected.) And to use NAT to circumvent

Re: State Super-DMCA Too True

2003-03-29 Thread Tony Rall
On Saturday, 2003-03-29 at 23:22 CST, Jack Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William Allen Simpson wrote: (Some DSL/cable companies try to charge per machine, and record the machine address of the devices connected.) And to use NAT to circumvent this should be illegal. It is theft of