Re: Kind of sad

2014-11-12 Thread Sholes, Joshua
On 11/11/14, 9:25 PM, "Larry Sheldon" wrote: >On 11/11/2014 15:37, Ricky Beam wrote: >> On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 22:43:09 -0500, Joe wrote: >>> Generally speaking its best you do what your good at and this is not >>>it. >>> >>> Exposing there is a window open to a gov agency is not hacking, trust >>

Re: Shipping bulk hardware via freight

2014-11-07 Thread Sholes, Joshua
Back a few jobs ago, I had a similar problem with a trucker refusing to do inside delivery on a 5kVa UPS unit that clocked in around 450lbs, and my town didn't have any similar moving company willing to schlep that thing up two flights of stairs on no notice. However, it turns out that you can dis

Re: QOS improvement suggestion for NANOG list members

2014-08-19 Thread Sholes, Joshua
Doesn't everyone do that? NANOG was the list that taught me, twelve years ago, that I would suffer terribly if I didn't pre-sort individual mailing lists into their own folders. =) -- Josh On 8/19/14, 1:44 PM, "Doug Barton" wrote: > > or, learn how to filter e-mail into folders like the b

Re: IPv6 at 50% for VZW (Re: NAT IP and Google)

2014-05-22 Thread Sholes, Joshua
Don't even joke about that, I can't handle another decade of NAT. -- Josh On 5/22/14, 8:55 AM, "Christopher Morrow" wrote: >On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Jared Mauch >wrote: >> I remind vendors when I talk to them, "IPv6 first, then IP >>classic(tm)". > >Coke Classic managed to outlast

Re: We hit half-million: The Cidr Report

2014-04-30 Thread Sholes, Joshua
>Anybody got recommendations on how to make sure the company you engage >for the audit ends up sending you critters that actually have a clue? (Not >necessarily PCI, but in general) In my previous jobs when I was doing FIPS/NIST/whatever compliance, it ended up being the case that having a highlig

Re: We hit half-million: The Cidr Report

2014-04-30 Thread Sholes, Joshua
On 4/30/14, 12:00 AM, "Jeff Kell" wrote: >Not to mention that PCI compliance requires you are RFC1918 (non-routed) >at your endpoints, but I digress... This is emphatically not true. All PCI compliance requires is that your private IP addresses are not disclosed to the public, which could be

Re: Cisco warranty

2014-04-03 Thread Sholes, Joshua
Back about ten years and three companies ago when I was a baby System Administrator, I made that mistake. Suffice it to say that I HIGHLY recommend looking for the "authorized reseller" (and getting SMARTNet up-front--if nothing else, that process will generally reliably inform you as to Cisco's o

Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Sholes, Joshua
>http://www.newnetworks.com/ShortSCANDALSummary.htm > >This boooklet is now maybe ~5-10 years old so it doesn't reflect more >recent developments. > >We *let* the monopolies (er, duopolies in some cases) get away with the >regulatory and legislative manipulation that led to the current outcome, Th

Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Sholes, Joshua
How do you get around the problem of natural monopolies, then? Or should we be moving to a world where, say, a dozen or more separate companies are all running fiber or coax on the poles on my street in an effort to get to my house? IMHO, the only way to get real competition on the last mile is

Re: How to catch a cracker in the US?

2014-03-17 Thread Sholes, Joshua
On 3/13/14, 7:35 PM, "Larry Sheldon" wrote: >Not sure I can agree with that. I have been in this game for a very >long time, but for most of it in places where the world's population >cleaved neatly into two parts: "Authorized Users" who could be >identified by the facts that they had ID cards,

Re: How to catch a cracker in the US?

2014-03-13 Thread Sholes, Joshua
On 3/13/14, 1:23 PM, "Barry Shein" wrote: >A lot of us vowed to try to keep the "hackers" vs "crackers" >distinction alive in the public's mind but I can't say it worked. Yeah, that battle had already been lost by the time I entered the field (even though I tried to fight it for a while anyway.)

Re: How to catch a cracker in the US?

2014-03-13 Thread Sholes, Joshua
On 3/13/14, 12:35 AM, "shawn wilson" wrote: >A note on terminology - whether you know what you're doing, actually break >into a system, or obtain a thumb drive with data that you weren't supposed >to have - it has the same end so I'd refer to it by the same term - >hacking. Trying to differentia

Re: How to catch a cracker in the US?

2014-03-12 Thread Sholes, Joshua
On 3/12/14, 2:05 PM, "Scott Morris" wrote: >Perhaps I need to drink moreŠ If you¹re on this list, that¹s practically a given regardless of circumstances. ‹Josh

Re: How to catch a cracker in the US?

2014-03-12 Thread Sholes, Joshua
Ha! ³Easy², in my personal experience (having once upon a time caught a hacker in .ro, but it took six months of work to seal the deal with handcuffs). -- Josh Sholes On 3/12/14, 12:37 PM, "Andrew D Kirch" wrote: >Hi, > >I found that finding them on IRC, or wherever it is that they >congreg

Re: [nznog] Web Servers: Dual-homing or DNAT/Port Forwarding?

2013-12-11 Thread Sholes, Joshua
Public ipv6 address : firewall :: public street address : locked door/fence/guard dog Just because something is public doesn¹t mean you have to accept ALL traffic, it just means you have to anticipate any potential problems based on Larry knowing your address rather than imagining him standing at

Re: The US government has betrayed the Internet. We need to take it back

2013-09-06 Thread Sholes, Joshua
>The answer is >not much because I will not and can not break the law, it's unethical >and wrong. I invite you to consider the concept of civil disobedience--where the law is unethical or wrong it can be argued that it's also unethical and wrong to FOLLOW the law. I haven't yet been placed in a

Re: ARIN WHOIS for leads

2013-07-26 Thread Sholes, Joshua
On 7/26/13 11:59 AM, "Otis L. Surratt, Jr." wrote: >What happen to the days when you could simply tell someone not >interested, don't call again and you wouldn't hear from them ever >again? >Or the days when everything wasn't treated as spam When the former days disappeared, the latter