Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue

2014-09-29 Thread Nicolai
. Most likely reason: gmail is so common that someone mistypes johnsm...@example.com as johnsm...@gmail.com, not paying attention to what they're doing. It happens. Nicolai

Re: OpenNTPProject.org

2014-01-15 Thread Nicolai
future, I hope! For now I'd just like to mention that OpenNTPD, from the OpenBSD project, is immune to the kind of large NTP amplification attacks now being discussed. It's certainly a good fit for some organizations/setups. http://www.openntpd.org Nicolai

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

2013-09-06 Thread Nicolai
-compatable services, so that privacy-respecting services become known and commonplace. Nicolai

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

2013-09-06 Thread Nicolai
, and in the case of email we probably need a wholly new protocol. But many or most services can be sufficiently improved, and that's the goal: improvement. http://prism-break.org/ lists examples of this improvement. Nicolai

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

2013-09-06 Thread Nicolai
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 12:03:56PM -0700, Michael Thomas wrote: On 09/06/2013 11:19 AM, Nicolai wrote: That's true -- it is far easier to subvert email than most other services, and in the case of email we probably need a wholly new protocol. Uh, a first step might be to just turn

Re: This is a coordinated hacking. (Was Re: Need help in flushing DNS)

2013-06-21 Thread Nicolai
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 05:28:17PM -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: It's relatively small when you consider there's something like 140M .com's Just FWIW, the current size of .com is roughly 109M domains. Someday it will reach 140M but not today. Nicolai

Re: BGP hijack of Spamhaus?

2013-03-30 Thread Nicolai
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 07:14:52PM +0100, Job Snijders wrote: Hi Nicolai, It really happened, here are my notes. http://instituut.net/~job/cb3rob-spamhaus-hijack-21-mar-2013.txt Thanks again for this, Job. (Other response in private mail.) I just wanted to note for anyone

BGP hijack of Spamhaus?

2013-03-29 Thread Nicolai
* DNSBL queries, with the intent to undermine confidence in Spamhaus. Are there any confirmations of this claim? This needs to be investigated and proven/disproven. Nicolai 0. http://blogs.cisco.com/security/chronology-of-a-ddos-spamhaus/ 1. https://greenhost.nl/2013/03/21/spam-not-spam-tracking

Re: [SHAME] Spam Rats

2013-01-09 Thread Nicolai
this totally useless list. The humanity! Nicolai

Re: Please, talk me down.

2012-10-21 Thread Nicolai
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 10:09:24PM +1100, Jay Mitchell wrote: On 18/10/2012, at 7:44 AM, Nicolai nicolai-na...@chocolatine.org wrote: I assume you mean stock djbdns doesn't support ip6, because it does indeed support records. Actually, it doesn't, as you so kindly pointed out

Re: Please, talk me down.

2012-10-17 Thread Nicolai
experiencing, if there is one, is not related to either djbdns or ip6. Nicolai

Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth

2012-05-15 Thread Nicolai
me up! Nicolai

Re: Operation Ghost Click

2012-05-02 Thread Nicolai
of interest in what's going on under the hood, and this disinterest won't be gone in 10, 20, or 50 years. It's actually deepening as time goes on. Nicolai

Re: report botnet CC?

2012-02-08 Thread Nicolai
abuse.ch, which runs several public botnet CC trackers. http://www.abuse.ch Nicolai

Re: XSServer / Taking down a spam friendly provider

2011-10-26 Thread Nicolai
cgi program to work this out. Nicolai