Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...

2007-08-13 Thread John C. A. Bambenek
That's exactly the problem the goal of tasting is to collect pay per click ad revenue... Ten years ago the internet was for porn, now it's for MLM/Affiliate/PPC scams. As long as we put up with companies abusing the Internet as long as they are making a buck, they'll keep doing it. The

Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's?

2007-07-25 Thread John C. A. Bambenek
Funny story about that and the EPO we have here... We have chilled water cooling in our server rooms. A couple of years ago we told the facilities guys there was sand in the lines. They didn't believe us. This went back and forth for a few months until the lines finally ground to a halt.

Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox

2007-07-22 Thread John C. A. Bambenek
Is there any indication that they've done anything other than make themselves authoritative for those DNS names and simply sent you to their IRC server instead? If so, what they have done is pretty much legal (mostly because I'm quite sure there is something in their ToS which you implicitly

Re: Boing Boing: Michael Lynn's controversial Cisco security presentat ion

2005-07-29 Thread John C. A. Bambenek
Remind me why I bother with information security when industry and the government seems to want to ensure things can be pwn3d as easily as possible... On 7/29/05, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now the FBI is investigating Lynn for criminal wrongdoing? Kim Zetter writes