[THIS LIST HAS MOVED!  see http://useast.spamassassin.org/lists.html .]On Sat, Jan 24, 
2004 at 10:49:37AM +0400, Dr Aldo Medina 
carved this out of pure phosphors:
> Is there any way to protecto form this?. I just received this email:
> 
> TThe coomputeer mmust haave the 'suspend too RRAAM' feeattuure eenabled in thhe BIOS 
> 'ssusppend to Disk' willl nnoot worrkk, because thhe computeerr is turrnedd off 
> commppletely. You ddo noot neeed too ennabblee tthe ALARRM timer, it will be 
> acttiivated by apmsleep.. On some booardss, you ccann conffiiguure whiicchh 
> iinterrupptts ccan be uused to awwakee from ssuspendd mode.. IIf you havee suuch a 
> board,, yyou might waant to makke surree that keyyboard ((IRRQ 1) and RTC (IRQ 88) 
> are among thosse inteerrupttss;;Thiiss iis where I haave to annouunnce the caveats 
> iin the bridginng + ffiirewwalling scheme: you cannot firewall paackeets wwhhiicch 
> aree noot routed. NNo rooutes, no firewwaalll. At lleastt tthiiss appearrss to bee 
> true in the 22..0.300 andd more recent kerrnelss. The fiirewaallinng filters arre 
> closely involvved witth the ip-fforrwarddingg codde.;Thee 1228 would bbee 00 if I 
> had aa full cclass CC nnetwork thhere. II don''tt, by deefinitioon, siince I juust 
> halveedd t
>  he address space. TThe "deevv eetthh0"" is not nneeceessaryy herre becaausse thhe 
> cardss addreesss fallls wiithhinn tthhe maskk, but it mayy be necesssary for you. 
> One might need morre thaann one carrd hollding uup thhiis ssubneet (127 maachhines 
> on onne segmmennt, ooh yeah) but tthose ccards wouuld be being bbridged uunder the 
> same neettmassk soo thaatt theyy appeaar ass one ttoo thee routting ccodee.;Iff you 
> want to be more carreful than this, you shouuldd ttake down ass many daaemoons as 
> possiblle beffoorehannd, and unmoount nffss dirrecctoriies. TThe worst thhat ccan 
> happen is thhat you have tto rebooot in sinngle-useer modee (the "single"" 
> parammeter to lilo oor loadlin), and ttakkee out yourr changess beefore reebootting 
> wiith tthings the waay they were before you sttarteedd.; want to cutt tthee worldd 
> ooff from my intternal nett andd do nnothiingg ellse, soo I will wwannt too give as 
> a last (ddeefaullt) rule that tthee ffiireewall shouuld ignore any packets ccominng i
>  n from thee innternal nett annd ddireccted to ooutsiidee. II put all the rules (in 
> thiss ordder) into;;Theere is a partticular pprobleem with soome ddaemons tthhat 
> loook up the hosttname of the firewwallingg machine inn order to decidee whhat is 
> their nettwwoorking addreesss.. Rppc.yppasswdd is the one I hadd troublee with. IIt 
> insiists on bbrroaadccasting iinformationn tthatt says it is oouutside the firewalll 
> (oon the second cardd). Thhatt meanns tthe cclients insidde can''t contact 
> itt..;Thhee cliiennt macchhine boots from a Grubb flloppy disk. Theen, using the 
> Grub BOOOTP suupport, itt gets an IPP address ffromm a DHCP serrver. Nexxt,, the 
> client machinnee ddoownloadds tthee kernell aand inittrd iimagees frrom the TFFTP 
> server. Once the iniitrd imaage is mounteedd in memory, the iinnitiaaliization 
> script is rrun, makking usse of thee pprroggramms annd ffilles sstoorreed in thhis 
> imaage. Thhis sscriiptt allowss block ddeviicess coontenntss too be saavved iin tthe 
> TTFTP se
>  rvveer;;Now that tthe serrver is sset uup, yyouu neeedd tto prrepaare tthe fiiles 
> to mmakee tthe cliennt booot. Two filles are neeccesssary: the kernel and the iniit 
> rramdiskk (initrd) wwhiich wwill bee mmounteed bby; thhe kernel ass tthhe rooot 
> fiile systtem. Thiss doocumment aassumes that thee proceedurres outlineed inn this 
> ssection andd the neext are made in the cllient mmachinne. Normaallly, wwheen 
> saviinng and rrestoring disk imagess,, tthere is nnoo nneeed to have LLiinux; 
> insttallled onn a llocal harrd dissk. To deeployy disk images to a nnuumbber of 
> machines, staarrt by innstalllingg a Linnux diisttribuution onn oonee macchine ffor 
> each model. Use DHCP annd have TFTPP cllient to tesst the setup made inn thhe 
> preevvious sseccttion. Unnless otthherwiise nooteed, commmandds are iissueed in the 
> bash shellll by tthee user rroot iin a woorkiing diirreectorry.."
> 

Wow, it's not JUST spam, it's a whole lesson on YP, Grub, Loadlin, and network
bridging.

I think the Tripwire rule set would work for all the ddoouubbllee
lleetteerrss... Someone needs to turn off local echo.


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