Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season?

2009-10-11 Thread Dragos Ruiu
On 10-Oct-09, at 10:23 PM, Lorell Hathcock wrote: Could you point to the documentation? Well, a friend at one particular large internet exchange says he can predict semi-accurately the ambient temperature/ weather in the local city from the MRTG stats. :-) The stats he showed me backed

Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season?

2009-10-09 Thread Dragos Ruiu
On 7-Oct-09, at 11:22 AM, Scott Morris wrote: I may be having my wires a little crossed (I'm not an electrical engineer) but I was always under the impression that manipulation of the physical characteristics like that from heat/dampness didn't reduce the speed but the quality (like line

QR-Codes... was: Re: Dan Kaminsky

2009-08-07 Thread Dragos Ruiu
On 7-Aug-09, at 8:01 PM, Randy Bush wrote: Have you seen the iphone decoding bar code into urls ? doesn't the iphone has an app to decode qr-codes similar to the one built into almost all keitai here in japan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code There are multiple (5+ at last count)

Re: Dan Kaminsky

2009-08-04 Thread Dragos Ruiu
On 3-Aug-09, at 9:43 PM, andrew.wallace wrote: Hi, Read my post one more time and think though: Only zf0 are legally in the shit. The guy Dragos Ruiu has absolutely no case against me. Copy paste doesn't count as defamation, speak to Wired's legal team if you have an issue. Cheers

Re: Dan Kaminsky

2009-07-30 Thread Dragos Ruiu
On 29-Jul-09, at 9:23 PM, Randy Bush wrote: LAS VEGAS — Two noted security professionals were targeted this week by hackers who broke into their web pages, stole personal data and posted it online on the eve of the Black Hat security conference. boring. Two noted security professionals,

Re: Security team successfully cracks SSL using 200 PS3's and MD5

2009-01-02 Thread Dragos Ruiu
On 2-Jan-09, at 9:56 AM, Robert Mathews (OSIA) wrote: Joe Greco wrote: [ ] Either we take the potential for transparent MitM attacks seriously, or we do not. I'm sure the NSA would prefer not. :-) As for the points raised in your message, yes, there are additional problems with

Re: Security team successfully cracks SSL using 200 PS3's and MD5

2009-01-02 Thread Dragos Ruiu
On 2-Jan-09, at 6:53 PM, Gadi Evron wrote: Yes, this is a serious matter, but it hardly has any operational impact to speak of for users and none for NSPs. Dunno. Last I checked NSPs had web servers too. :-P cheers, --dr -- World Security Pros. Cutting Edge Training, Tools, and Techniques

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Dragos Ruiu
On 28-Nov-08, at 7:35 PM, Gadi Evron wrote: On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: It seems that all these cases are more under the bottom than over the top. Every couple of years there is a story about some anti virus company, data center, or whatever running out of an old

Re: [NANOG] IOS rootkits

2008-05-18 Thread Dragos Ruiu
On 17-May-08, at 3:12 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the way of running this isn't out in the wild and it's actually dangerous then a pox on anyone who releases it, especially to gain publicity at the

Re: [NANOG] IOS rootkits

2008-05-18 Thread Dragos Ruiu
On 18-May-08, at 7:11 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: 2. It can be prevented by what's widely regarded as BCP on router security, and has been covered at *nog, in cisco training material, etc etc for quite some time now. I am much less concerned about security conferences discussing this

Re: [Nanog] ATT VP: Internet to hit capacity by 2010

2008-04-18 Thread Dragos Ruiu
On 18-Apr-08, at 1:45 PM, David Coulson wrote: Stephen John Smoogen wrote: I think that is based off the all American TV going to HDD that is supposed to happen in 2009. ( I think I read that currently only 40% of Americans have HDD TV's and the 60% were not going to buy one until it