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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
blitz
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 7:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: spamcop.net?
Anyone having trouble getting to/ know of any issues with spamcop.net
today?
They seemed to have dropped off the radar from me
The only disadvantage I see, is a single point of failure, and a point for
concentration of attacks.
Marc
At 13:14 3/4/03 -0600, you wrote:
Thus spake Martin Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Not for nothing, but there's so much time wasted with all these
diversified spam systems.
Many of these
Anyone having trouble getting to/ know of any issues with spamcop.net today?
They seemed to have dropped off the radar from me...
No pings
No traceroute
but they still show registered at 216.127.43.89
Tnx
Marc
macronet.net
SRI if this is OT, BUT, its a security related subject.
Since most of us deal with UPS this info may be helpful.
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FYI ...
Quick security alert: $32,000 worth of UPS uniforms have been purchased
over the last 30 days by
At a University I consult for, this is a common problem, their 34.5kv
lines, which incidentally travel the same hole as their fiber optics, blow
open about once a month, due to failing old power lines.
Get used to it, and make money off of it, is all I can say
At 20:59 2/21/03 -0500, you
Forwarded from: William Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-983384.html
By Declan McCullagh
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
February 5, 2003
WASHINGTON--In a move that raises questions about the security of
governmental domains, the Bush administration has pulled the plug
Check your UPS's
January 14, 2003, 7:48 PM EST
WASHINGTON -- A Rhode Island company is recalling about 900,000 backup
power supply devices that can overheat and cause a potential fire
hazard.
American Power Conversion Corp., of West Kingston, R.I., has received
six reports of
I find the same Kevin..I've done a lot of work in broadcast stations as
well, and ground loops are a constant problem. Hum is introduced into audio
lines, even in balanced pairs, and Cat5 is not much different.
In a high rise, I can see a neutral failing somewhere on a high floor, and
that
I believe your pushing the limits as to ethernet over Cat5.
I can suggest you use the very best cable (shielded of course) you can get,
and be meticulous in your connector installations and you might get away
with it. Avoid other wiring if possible (fat chance huh?) and anything
electrical
This was in my mailbox, might be old news to you, but a FYI
Coastal area silenced by cable break
01/04/03 Portland Oregonian
JEFFREY KOSSEFF
A fiber-optic line break cut off the southern Oregon coast from the
rest of the world for much of
Friday.
After a state cleanup crew
Just some musings...
Been watching this discussion for a couple loops now. I have to say you're
both right on certain things, and that each individual design has to be
done on the merits of the need for 100% uptime vs what's tolerable.
AC is always easier to run, as the conductors are smaller
was insignificant compared to the daily grief you folks deal with
and the bandwidths you manage.
I'm proud to associate with you, and extend my thanks.
Now you all go have a good, un-interrupted holiday.may the pagers and
C-phones be silent, and the emails be few.
Marc Blitz
Macronet.net
Does anyone here have a contact at Hotmail net?
Let me know direct, thanks.
BRAVO FRED You encapsulated this well...now its up to us.
The bureaucracy is bound to forge ahead in establishing the police-state,
we do NOT have to help them...
At 14:30 12/20/02 -0800, you wrote:
I have restrained from saying this so far but... I told you so.
When I attended the
Mail to yahoogroups for two days is giving some strange responses.
Mail is attempting to go to 172.16.3.10 when sent to a yahoogroup.
This looks real strangethat block is reserved I believe? Wondering why
theyre resolving to that address?
Router mismanagement? Poisoning?
I dont
Methinks they'll try the Russian SORM model. Since this country is hell
bent on establishing a police-state, this seems logical. Why not use the
one thats been developed?
http://www.libertarium.ru/eng/sorm/
:[This just jumped into the operational arena. Are you prepared
:with the router
no reply needed
As is the Secret Servicethey have an address for reporting as well:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 14:11 12/2/02 -0800, you wrote:
The FBI unit working these cases will be happy to confirm most do
originate in Africa even if the money ultimately ends up elsewhere.
Smells like it to me...sounds like they said, HALP to Cisco, and Cisco
said, Clean out the warehouse, we've got a live one!
At 16:08 11/28/02 -0600, you wrote:
I'm still failing to see why this required a $3M forklift of new equipment
to correct the problem. Was this just Cisco sales pouncing
This is a good example of an area where governments can intervene and do
some good.
Ugh..I contend they never improve a situation, only make it worse.
1. Local governments can prohibit fuel storage and generators at telecom
sites.
Telecom/Datacom sites would leave. period. You would be
Seeing a ton of them mostly from South America rite now.
Anyone hearing of yahoogroups probs these past few days?
I sent an email to a group im subscribed to there and it bounced, saying
the bounce was from: Reporting-MTA: dns; mail.gallyas.cl
Figure the esteemed group here might know if theres been a domain hijacking
or other problem.
Thanks
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2cid=575u=/nm/20021003/wr_nm/tech_worldcom_outage_dc_5printer=1
Made the news...
Fortunately, our founding fathers also gave us not only the right, but the
duty and the tools to take the treasonous out and dispose of them when they
became a threat to the republic. That time is once again here.
At 21:53 9/10/02 -0400, you wrote:
Ya know Vadim, with all due respect, some
Getting your entire corporate LAN dumped into the RBL mess could be
devastating, how much productivity lost? How much time wasted getting OFF
the RBL? How many contacts missed, correspondences missed?
You could be getting into a very rough ride for some days to some weeks, as
the block
And you think the terresterial sources are hard to shut down
Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs
By Graeme Wearden
Special to CNET News.com
September 6, 2002, 10:14 AM PT
http://news.com.com/2100-1033-956911.html
LONDON--The proliferation of insecure corporate wireless networks is
After literally YEARS of complaining, I think theres so one alive at bell
south abuse...they're typical bell-spawn...fat, lazy, and un-responsive.
At 07:13 8/29/02 +0100, you wrote:
Currently seeking an abuse contact for the above domain, or the party
responsible for netblock that
Here's Big brother...now we're all going to be spies on our fellow citizens.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,481112,00.asp
August 23, 2002
By Caron Carlson and Dennis Fisher
In an effort to bolster the nation's cyber-security, the Bush
administration has plans to create a centralized
Bruce Schneier seems to confirm the worst expected about Pd.
At 11:13 8/16/02 -0700, you wrote:
OK. This is a bit beyond the charter, but there was a long and
annoying thread on Microsoft Palladium last week and I just read an
interesting article that seems to minimize the FUD I have been
Might just be better to stand aside, and let them be Ddos'ed off the
air...for thats whats coming to them...
Might I suggest filtering the websites of the offending major labels as
an appropriate retort?
Its GOOD to hear one of these once in a whilea hearty attaboy to all
who did their jobs properly...
At 07:28 8/15/02 -0700, you wrote:
since this list bashes on people/orgs for NOT dealing with
security matters, I thought I'd be contrary..
Qwest.net, FNSI.net, online-mac
all sent swarms
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/vpnclient-multiple-vuln-pub.shtml.
Well, I contend open source is much better positioned to make these
changes, and in less time than M$ to the offending file formatI've seen
changes made available in hours as opposed to weeks in the M$ case. If M$
decides to do this, they risk pi$$ing off a whole cadre of corporate
This is hilarious.reminds me of a similar prob they had at FCC.
At 18:26 8/12/02 -0400, you wrote:
I guess the FBI/NIPC can't put out an alert about this one.
Notice the absence of any domain servers
whois -h whois.nic.gov fbi.gov
% DOTGOV WHOIS Server ready
Federal Bureau of
So read about Palladianism, and tell me the
different between Palladium and Server 2000
Windows Palladium, the end of privacy as
we know it.
This taken from various sources
encluding UHA and deviantart, the register and slashdot., Disturbing
news..
Earlier this week, Microsoft
We have given up on M$ when they started invading our hard drives with
XP...no reason to think their plans are anything less than nefarious,
judging from their past behavior.
At 16:10 8/11/02 -0700, you wrote:
While I find much to worry about in Palladium, the vast majority of
the
Well, I may be a wet blanket to the chip houses, but how much speed DO
you actually need? Any REAL reason to abandon the present working
architecture? I don't personally think so, a 2 gig box is plenty fast for
anything we have now, so why don't we just vote with our feet? DON'T buy
this crap,
I agree wholeheartedly, let 'em starve
At 18:17 8/11/02 -0700, you wrote:
Microsoft can have whatever vision of the future they want and
can use any
resources at their disposal to bring their vision to light. Everybody has
that right. If I don't like it, I won't buy it. If they
I just hope the anti-trust people are looking into thisi can't see a
bigger case for them to spring into action...
At 18:43 8/11/02 -0700, you wrote:
Microsoft already duped the software consumers into buying into fully
proprietary software. Given the prevalent time horizon of average
OOps..our looting figures have been revised upwards...
WorldCom Investor News: WorldCom Announces Additional Changes To Reported
Income For Prior Periods. CLINTON, Miss., August 8, 2002 - WorldCom, Inc.
today announced that its ongoing internal review of its financial
statements has
Absolutely..the corporate culture are whores, and not to be
trusted...protect yourselves, use a throw-away email addy..
At 17:16 8/9/02 -0400, you wrote:
Don't forget general kookery where you make a customer mad, a
usenet poster, or some other irrational personality and they
contact your
A guy on another list asked me about this, anyone else hear of it?
It was supposedly a switching station..not much more info...some 1-800
service affected...
Sounds like it might of been the POTS network, any outages noted here?
.
seriously I'm not sure if it was foundry or Juniper or who but
someone was trying to route packets or rather switch packets in a device
at high speed by using bubbles to reflect and switch the light instead
of converting to electrons.
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, blitz wrote:
Seriously, I don't see
interface under testing if I'm not
mistaken...
Signal received 0. Kurt Erik Lindqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
--On Monday, July 29, 2002 21:32:02 -0400 blitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seriously, I don't see OC768 coming online en masse until they get the
kinks worked out of optical
Seriously, I don't see OC768 coming online en masse until they get the
kinks worked out of optical switching. The transit times are so short thru
the innards, in the order of picoseconds, that electronics is way too slow
to perform such mundane tasks like determining where a packet is
If it starts happening, just unplug whoever's doing it and treat them like
a DDOSer...poof, you just lost your Internet connectivity.
Something Sony or MCA would love to have happen...huh?
Sorry, your'e causing malicious problems on the Internet, operational
procedure requires us to disable
Also check http://www.maj.com/sun/ for current solar info...nice site..
There are many places to get more information about sunspots. Being an
amateur radio operator who likes HF communications, I have a bit of an
interest in the topic.
The most succinct monitoring and information site I
And coming soon to the US!
BBC News Online: Sci/Tech
Wednesday, 17 July, 2002, 09:15 GMT 10:15 UK
Switch on for state snooping
Police forces want to plug in to lots of networks
From August net service providers in the UK will be obliged to carry out
surveillance of some customers' web
Add into the mix the government is desprately seeking ways to
make the Internet secure.
No, control the internet...security only applies to THEMand their
big brother' intents...
So many vendors are trying their darndest to
find a problem so they can sell a solution, even if that means
At 21:41 7/11/02 -0400, you wrote:
When it's high-tech /rioting/ it's then called sabotage right?
No hacking(grin)
That sounds like the path needed little more than cross-connects, and the
24 hr loopback test.
It also sounded like both companies worked well together to expedite
construction.
I can remember circuits I turned up that waited months for some vendor on
the end to do their work. The old Bell
Well, theres a matter of customer acceptance too then, Let the
billing begin!!
At 16:27 7/9/02 -0400, you wrote:
Maybe some of the telco's are finally learning that the quicker you can
install, the sooner you can bill. :)
K
Vincent
J.
At 11:37 7/6/02 -0400, you wrote:
Jeff Mcadams wrote:
Also sprach Dan Hollis
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Chris Beggy wrote:
Wcom's overbilling will be investigated:
Sure will be, the SEC is including that in its investigation.
See:
http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/tech/scottmoritz/10030377.html
Just a FYI folksfrom one of the hacker lists I'm on...
Speaking of taking down the internet
Extra points for only needing to affect one device and having that device
successfully spread the payload to every other device as a part of it's
routine network communications. Think you
This is at least the second purge of that many bodies, maybe third...they
just let 20k go a month or so ago..
These business practices will continue, as long as the benefits of doing
things this way outweigh the punishment for doing them. Ask Bill
Gates...for example.
I'd venture a guess:
For that and other reasons, Wcom will be bailed out, at taxpayer expense if
necessary, for national security reasons.
At 18:19 6/26/02 -0400, you wrote:
Anyone have any ideas, speculation, or info on how adverse future of WCOM
would play out for ISPs and such? Among other things, WCOM is the
The guy cleaning up Chinanet should be given a medal, ..no better yet, we
should ask everyone in the US who's ever been spammed from them to send in
a US dollar to be forwarded to this guysomething tells me he's
overworked and his job doesn't pay muchhe needs to be supported in his
We have this wonderful invention called two-way radio. (grin) Our repeater
has an autopatch, so you can hold a conversation from any landline to the
mobile unit in the field or vice versa. Its been real helpful, like when
aligning microwave dishes.
At 18:04 6/21/02 -0400, you wrote:
We
At 12:46 6/18/02 -0400, you wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Martin Hannigan wrote:
The difference is XO will be fine, Adelphia will be bought by EVIL, or
potentially liquidated.
They're talking about selling out to Charter.
The deal with Charter fell through a week ago.Adelphia's so
The Spanish ministry of science and technology has asked
telecommunications companies to activate a backup plan in the
case of such emergencies in future.
Spare fibers in the same duct ;-?
Doesn't sound like it would be much protection from backhoe fade...heh
case, is
some contractor digs up the place where your fiber enters your building and
severs everythingnot much you can do about that kind of outage.
At 20:41 6/16/02 +0200, you wrote:
Hi blitz,
I think that you talk about multiple outage in the Telefonica
Network in Spain cause by sabotage
Don't hold your breath for Adelphia, theyr'e toast...
Adelphia update: Bankrupcy looms.
Insider report follows:
THIS IS ONE OF
THOSE DAYS WHERE THE LATEST NEWS IS A LITTLE OLDER. BY NOW I'M
PRETTY SURE ALL OF YOU SAW THAT THEIR STOCK CAN'T BE TRADED
ANYMORETHE WALL STREET JOURNAL SAYS - AND
'SQLsnake' Worm Blamed For Spike In Port 1433 Scans
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176701.html
By Brian McWilliams, Newsbytes
SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A.,
21 May 2002, 11:04 AM CST
A mounting trail of evidence has security experts warning that a new
Internet worm targeting Microsoft
We can hope cant we? Forward from another list:
Spammers could face fines
Reuters
May 17, 2002, 12:20 PM PT
A bill aimed at limiting unwanted junk e-mail was approved and sent
to the floor by the Senate Commerce Committee on Friday with
unanimous support from Democrats and Republicans. It
AHH, MTBF date from vendorswell, there goes the idea of THAT project.
You'll find that data, IF you can find it, will be calculated by sales
cretins, not engineers.
Check out this book:
High-Availability Network Fundamentals
Cisco Press
ISBN 1-58713-017-3
Despite its Cisco
FYI:
- - - - - - - -
Verizon Communications, Inc. v. Fed. Communications Comm'n
Decided: 05/13/02
No. 00-511
Full text: http://laws.findlaw.com/us/000/00-511.html
TELECOMMUNICATIONS (Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Rules Under
Telecommunications Act of 1996 Valid)
The United
From a forward to me on the DDos stuff...this might shed some light on the
DDos problem, if not sorry for the bandwidth.
begin forward
[Note: I just noticed last night, after giving a talk on this incident, that
several threads on the SANS Unisog list going back as far as February
Picture it as a fellow stopping by every night and filling your home
mailbox with horse manure...I'm sure you'll get a feeling for how most of
us regard it.
A) it wastes bandwidth
B) It wastes our time
C) It's the litter of an otherwise clean Internet.
D) It's a method of placing the costs
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/020502/telecoms_worldcom_1.html
Bernie was dragged kicking and screaming out of Wcom today according to
news I readperhaps they chained him to his multi-milliondollar sailboat
and pushed it twords the Bermuda triangle.
John Sidgmore is now CEO. Yawn...
Of course,
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/nm/20020430/wr_nm/crime_slatkin_dc_1printer=1
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Reed Slatkin, the investment advisor who provided
start-up
funds for Internet service provider EarthLink Inc. , pleaded guilty on
Monday to 15 charges
of fraud and
.
Bruce Williams
A healthy paranoia is the beginning of sound operations policy
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blitz
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 3:33 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber
Has anyone noticed how the stories about insiders trading and selling
airline and insurance company stocks short just before 9.11 disappeared
real quick. Someone had plenty notice it seems.
If true, these are not script kiddie type threats. I hate to say it, but 911
is an example that the
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