Re: Things are looking better all the time [TERROR ALERT: Cerenkov Blue]

2003-03-28 Thread Ken Brown
John Kelsey wrote: I wasn't thinking of Al Qaida. There are a *lot* of people who might like to have a last-ditch deterrent against a US invasion or other action. I can think of a few workable deterrents against US invasion: - ICBMS - an army with a reputation of fighting nastily when

Re: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-28 Thread Sarad AV
hi, That cannot possibly even happen-by mistake.Al-jazeera is qatar based.They might hit a chinese embassy but not AL-Jazeera. 1500 turkish troops moved into north iraq-US cannot immediately do any thing about it since flying over Turkish air space is important for them. Sarath. (Before Al

Re: Enraptured in Babylon

2003-03-28 Thread Neil Johnson
Tim, you must be psyhic ... Just saw this banner ad at wired.com (They must be real hard up for revenue). The text of the ad: SHOWDOWN: IRAQ - IS THIS THE SIGN OF END TIMES ? Find out from Tim LaHaye and other end time scholars ! Subscribe to the Left Behind Prophecy Club ! Clicking on

Re: aljazeera.net hacked again?

2003-03-28 Thread Ken Brown
AJ are being hammered at the moment - I'm getting timeouts to them the picture I'm trying to look at is loading at 91 bits a second Either they are very popular or else the DoSsers are onto them big-time.

Re: aljazeera.net hacked again?

2003-03-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Jamie Lawrence wrote: Any other images? any Photoshop-pro can handle that. So... what are you showing me and mine? Even no need for photoshoppery. These deeply embedded reporters have been producing fake fights (and badly faked at that so you could see it for yourself), as

Re: Enraptured in Babylon

2003-03-28 Thread Bill Stewart
At 10:04 PM 03/27/2003 -0600, Neil Johnson wrote: Tim, you must be psyhic ... Just saw this banner ad at wired.com (They must be real hard up for revenue). The text of the ad: SHOWDOWN: IRAQ - IS THIS THE SIGN OF END TIMES ? Find out from Tim LaHaye and other end time scholars ! Subscribe

RE: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-03-28 Thread Sarad AV
hi, All this happening on the worlds greatest demcoracy. may be you read this news. http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fccid=34in=techcat=hackers_and_crackers Unofficial reports are that 500 iraqi's died 2 days ago and day before yesterday another 1000 died.This is the word comming from Saudi-from

Re: Email traffic can reveal ringleaders (New Scientist)

2003-03-28 Thread Tim May
On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 06:29 PM, Thomas Shaddack wrote: ...or, the importance of foiling the traffic analysis. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns3550 By looking for patterns in email traffic, a new technique can quickly identify online

iraqi civilians

2003-03-28 Thread Sarad AV
hi, well here is the news on death of iraqi civilians in basra. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/ap/20030328/ap_on_re_mi_ea/war_basracid=716ncid=716 I think the reverse is true.After the 'desert rats' were forced out of basra-the iraqi's were using anti air craft guns on US

Re: aljazeera.net hacked again?

2003-03-28 Thread Ken Brown
Harmon Seaver wrote: Hmm, weird -- I just got 64.106.174.80 on a lookup for aljazeera.net, and the same for english.aljazeera.net, but now I'm getting nothing for both. So trying from another server in AL, I get the same IP and can also actually lynx to the site (which I couldn't do from

Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-03-28 Thread 'Gabriel Rocha'
it is around 1130, local time, Geneva, Switzerland and http://www.aljazeera.net/ is working just fine. (well, it might be a fake, but not having ever seen the original, I don't know)

Al-Jazeera website [was: Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV]

2003-03-28 Thread Ken Brown
'Gabriel Rocha' wrote: it is around 1130, local time, Geneva, Switzerland and http://www.aljazeera.net/ is working just fine. (well, it might be a fake, but not having ever seen the original, I don't know) It looks like over here in Europe we're getting DNS to aljazeera.net pointing to a

Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-03-28 Thread 'Gabriel Rocha'
On Thu, Mar 27, at 01:12PM, Sunder wrote: The site was defaced last I saw it, I would suspect that to still be the case, or it is down for other reasons (overloaded, etc...) For those of you who are getting a dotster page, try using a different dns server than what your isp is

Quote of the Day, Re: Usenet as solution to Al-Jazeera jamming problem

2003-03-28 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Sometimes when you're in government you have to do things for the people whether they like it or not. That's what governing is all about, said Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, R-Brunswick. http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20030327/1028333.asp Re: Usenet as solution to Al-Jazeera

RE: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-03-28 Thread Peter Gutmann
Steve Schear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 01:46 AM 3/28/2003 +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: John Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Whether either of these work as bragged or are psyop mirages is worth betting an WMD Indian nickle on. It's a cool toy, but I can't see someone using a $1M e-bomb when a

RE: Quote of the Day, Re: Usenet as solution to Al-Jazeera jammin g problem

2003-03-28 Thread Vincent Penquerc'h
Kazaa Inc should encourage this, since it is a Valenti-free Can you say substantial non-infringing use ? :) Some P2P companies would (should) love that... -- Vincent Penquerc'h

Re: Al-Jazeera website [was: Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV]

2003-03-28 Thread Thomas Shaddack
Maybe someone should tell them about Spam Assassin. In this case, SpamAssassin would most likely bring the machine further down by eating all the RAM and CPU. It's likely that separation of mail and web services would be a wise move here; DNS MX records allow a comfortable way to achieve this.

Re: aljazeera.net hacked again?

2003-03-28 Thread Mike Rosing
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Ken Brown wrote: It looks like they were blocked in the USA (or else suffered reallly badly from hacking) and have maybe re-established the service in the Land of Freedom. aljazeera.net, www.aljazeera.net, and english.aljazeera.net all give me 213.30.180.219 All of

Trials for those undermining the war effort?

2003-03-28 Thread Tim May
On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 09:45 AM, 'Gabriel Rocha' wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, at 10:27AM, Sunder wrote: | Um, watch your attributions, I didn't write that paragraph. :) My apologies, I wrote the paragraph below. Must have missed your attribution while deleting stuff. --Gabe We

COWed news networks not showing Baghdad market dead

2003-03-28 Thread Tim May
I'm scanning all four COWed networks--CNN, Fox, MSNBC, CNBC--for images from the downtown Baghdad market and housing area strike. Supposedly Al Jazeera is showing the images of dismembered children, frantic searches under rubble, body parts blown against walls. Estimates are of 50 dead, though

Re: aljazeera.net hacked again?

2003-03-28 Thread Ken Brown
Nslookup www.aljazeera.net now fails. As does ping 213.30.180.219 Looks like they got them again Mike Rosing wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Ken Brown wrote: It looks like they were blocked in the USA (or else suffered reallly badly from hacking) and have maybe re-established the service

Re: aljazeera.net hacked again?

2003-03-28 Thread Steve Schear
At 07:51 AM 3/28/2003 -0800, Mike Rosing wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Ken Brown wrote: It looks like they were blocked in the USA (or else suffered reallly badly from hacking) and have maybe re-established the service in the Land of Freedom. aljazeera.net, www.aljazeera.net, and

Al-Jazeera tells the truth about war

2003-03-28 Thread Sunder
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4635417,00.html and for the crap filled regular web version: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,924494,00.html My station is a threat to American media control - and they know it Faisal Bodi Friday March 28, 2003 The Guardian Last month, when

Re: Quote of the Day, Re: Usenet as solution to Al-Jazeera jamming problem

2003-03-28 Thread Steve Furlong
On Friday 28 March 2003 00:10, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Sometimes when you're in government you have to do things for the people whether they like it or not. That's what governing is all about, said Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, R-Brunswick. Hitlary, Chucklehead Schumer, the

Use firewall or a remailer, go to jail?

2003-03-28 Thread Thomas Shaddack
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000336.html According to this source, there are state-level law proposals which could make firewalls, anonymizers, FreeNet servers, steganography software, and distributed proxies illegal, despite of being originally intended against cable and sat

Re: aljazeera.net hacked again?

2003-03-28 Thread Thomas Shaddack
Nslookup www.aljazeera.net now fails. As does ping 213.30.180.219 Looks like they got them again Be aware of one gotcha: in case of flood attack, ISPs often filter ICMP and UDP (ports 1023) packets. So ping and traceroute won't work to the last hop there. More reliable is a telnet attempt to

Real Patriots Defend the Constitution

2003-03-28 Thread Sunder
http://www.guerrillanews.com/war_on_terrorism/doc1034.html Real Patriots Defend The Constitution Assessing the Impact of Post-9/11 Anti-Terror Legislation GNN: Hey Riva. Why don.t we start by asking you what your name is, where we are right now. and what organization you.re from. Riva Enteen:

RE: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-03-28 Thread Mike Rosing
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Sarad AV wrote: All this happening on the worlds greatest demcoracy. may be you read this news. The worlds greatest democracy is India. Over 500 million people vote in one election. In any case US military pow's are going to have a hard time and since U.S didnot give