Re: Any info on AT Wireless Outage?

2024-02-27 Thread Mark Seiden
aside from the official pablum that was released about an “incorrect process used” (which says exactly nothing) does anyone actually know anything accurate and more specific about the root cause? (and why it took 11 hours to recover?) > On Feb 22, 2024, at 11:15 AM, John Councilman wrote: >

Re: Google Abuse

2022-08-16 Thread Mark Seiden
well, that isn’t exactly true. ALL of the fraudsters, business email compromisers, spoofing accounts are now from gmail and as far as i can tell, there is no evidence that they do ANYTHING about them.i recently gave a talk on fraudulent restaurant reviews in google maps. easy for humans

Re: [CA Geeks] Vijay Gill

2022-08-03 Thread Mark Seiden
talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beuy9QbQ5lg (higher quality) slides at https://archive.nanog.org/meetings/nanog49/presentations/Monday/gill-keynote.pdf > On Aug 3, 2022, at 12:45 PM, Mel Beckman wrote: > > Besides his many contributions to Nanog, I knew Vij from Twilio. He was very

Re: Scanning the Internet for Vulnerabilities

2022-06-19 Thread Mark Seiden
btw, if you want to do this yourself, you might consider using something like https://github.com/opsdisk/scantron > On Jun 19, 2022, at 11:17 AM, Mark Seiden wrote: > > greetings. > > it should be mentioned that shadowserver also notifies those who register as > the owne

Re: Scanning the Internet for Vulnerabilities

2022-06-19 Thread Mark Seiden
greetings. it should be mentioned that shadowserver also notifies those who register as the owners of that address space. it’s very useful. (it would be more useful if they calculated diffs and notified about changes/additions.) my thinking about this sort of thing, in general, is: - it

Re: VPN-enabled advance fee fraud

2022-03-21 Thread Mark Seiden
of course, jay is right (in the US, anyway). vpn providers often keep the (verified) email address and ip addresses used for service establishment. expressVPN takes bitcoin and what look to me like several other anonymous payment schemes, and there are always prepaid debit cards. following the

Re: An update on the AfriNIC situation

2021-08-27 Thread Mark Seiden
i’ll save you some time. larus Foundation seems to be a shell in Hong Kong. with one employee named as the “Chair” since 1/2019. (She was previously executive assistant to the CEO of Larus Cloud Service Limited, and before that at University.). There is an org chart but nobody on Linkedin has

Re: Google Fiber abuse address does not exist

2021-02-18 Thread Mark Seiden
i forwarded this to a colleague who has just taken a job that looks like he’s running abuse and security at g fiber. (not sure that he’s started work yet, it’s that new.) > On Feb 18, 2021, at 2:24 PM, TJ Trout wrote: > > Did you try opening a ticket with arin? > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Mark Seiden
at the risk of providing more heat than light, trump violated the Presidential Records Act repeatedly by later taking down (aka destroying) his own unwise tweets. this repeated violation of law using twitter itself would have been enough for twitter to either restrict his using any mechanism for

Re: att or sonic "residential" fiber service at a "nontraditional" residence.

2020-11-01 Thread Mark Seiden
> On Nov 1, 2020, at 5:32 PM, Fletcher Kittredge wrote: > > > Sonic builds their own fiber; they are insurgents. This is a good thing and > society would be better off with more competition among infrastructure > providers. It needs to be funded somehow. > > You can cheat, but if you are a

Re: att or sonic "residential" fiber service at a "nontraditional" residence.

2020-11-01 Thread Mark Seiden
s hackers. > > > On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 8:23 PM Mark Seiden <mailto:m...@seiden.com>> wrote: > att 1Gb/sec symmetric fiber is about $70/month. > > their “business class” service costs >10x that price. > > if i don’t want an SLA, does anything keep a non-profi

att or sonic "residential" fiber service at a "nontraditional" residence.

2020-11-01 Thread Mark Seiden
att 1Gb/sec symmetric fiber is about $70/month. their “business class” service costs >10x that price. if i don’t want an SLA, does anything keep a non-profit organization from ordering (from att or sonic) residential service at what normally would be considered a business location? sonic seems

Re: curious spam...

2020-09-14 Thread Mark Seiden
> On Sep 14, 2020, at 5:04 PM, John Levine wrote: > > In article > you > write: >> I moved to Seattle. Today I found my grmail box subscribed to a >> congressman's list from a nearby Washington jurisdiction. Not some >> random congressman. And not any of the addresses I give out; my gmail

Re: Prominent horse racing identities (was Re: Elad Cohen)

2020-01-27 Thread Mark Seiden
Wasn’t Hadron a Roman emperor who can somehow be blamed for the killing of Jesus? (or was that Jebus?) or was that Hadrian?  I forget…) (jest sayin’…) On Jan 27, 2020, 9:41 AM -0800, Valdis Klētnieks , wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 07:10:02 +, Large Hadron Collider said: > > As much as

Re: EXERCISE: 2019 IAA Planetary Defence Conference - Day 5 Scenario

2019-05-07 Thread Mark Seiden
manifestly untrue https://movie-tourist.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-day-earth-stood-still-1951.html On May 7, 2019, 1:33 PM -0700, Nick Hilliard , wrote: > Marshall Eubanks wrote on 07/05/2019 21:16: > > Yes, they kept moving the impact site around all week (both Denver and > > West Africa were

Re: EXERCISE: 2019 IAA Planetary Defence Conference - Day 5 Scenario

2019-05-07 Thread Mark Seiden
excellent!  (but i was hoping this would be a swamp-draining-by-vaporization exercise.) i particularly liked this animation.  https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/pd/cs/pdc19/Day5-MegaFire.mov On May 7, 2019, 11:21 AM -0700, Sean Donelan , wrote: > > EXERCISE Only > > The scenario was chosen to stress the

Re: Packetstream - how does this not violate just about every provider's ToS?

2019-04-25 Thread Mark Seiden
particularly "interesting" when someone downloads CP (or, as it now seems to be called, CSAM) using their ipaddr and causes them to become a Person of Interest. On Apr 25, 2019, 12:43 PM -0700, Tom Beecher , wrote: > It seems like just another example of liability shifting/shielding. I'll >

Re: Packetstream - how does this not violate just about every provider's ToS?

2019-04-25 Thread Mark Seiden
feeling cranky, are we, job?   (accusing an antispam expert of spamming on a mailing list by having too long a .sig?) but it’s true!  anne runs the internet, and the rest of us (except for ICANN GAC representatives) all accept that. to actually try to make a more substantial point, i am quite

Re: Special Counsel Office report web site

2019-04-17 Thread Mark Seiden
of course p2p is the way to distribute this but i doubt the justice department can admit there is any positive legitimate use for p2p. (i’ve been surprised that it hasn’t made it to wikileaks or bittorrent yet.   “russiar, are you listening?”) (i sure hope there’s a signed version or at least a

Re: Unsolicited LinkedIn requests

2018-12-11 Thread mark seiden
On 12/11/18 1:53 PM, Mark Foster wrote: Amazingly I had a sales-type engage with me via InMail just recently, defending his cold sales approach (spam, basically) when I tried to do the polite thing and explain why what he was doing was 'bad'. Mark. when on the third un-replied to email

Re: Should ISP block child pornography?

2018-12-06 Thread Mark Seiden
wrote: > > https://www.interpol.int/Crime-areas/Crimes-against-children/Access-blocking > > > > *From: *NANOG on behalf of Mark Seiden < > m...@seiden.com> > *Date: *Friday, 7 December 2018 at 11:54 AM > *To: *"Lotia, Pratik M" > *Cc: *"nanog@

Re: Should ISP block child pornography?

2018-12-06 Thread Mark Seiden
where is this list of dirty domains? On Thu, Dec 6, 2018, 10:08 PM Lotia, Pratik M wrote: > Hello all, was curious to know the community’s opinion on whether an ISP > should block domains hosting CPE (child pornography exploitation) content? > Interpol has a ‘worst-of’ list which contains such

Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test

2018-10-03 Thread mark seiden
my entire bus in san francisco got it.  the expressions were priceless. t-mobile sent it earlier than other carriers -- i got it at x:18 On 10/3/18 11:52 AM, Andy Ringsmuth wrote: > Did anyone on AT or an iPhone receive the test today? I believe it was > supposed to happen at 2:18 EDT,

Nanog attendees are invited to Friday Lunch at the Internet Archive (in,San Francisco) and a tour...

2017-09-26 Thread mark seiden
You've probably used the Wayback Machine, but have you ever wondered how it works? We think of Nanog folks as part of our natural community. So Nanog attendees who will be in the Bay Area before or after the upcoming San Jose Nanog meeting are particularly welcome to be our guests at community

need to talk with a comcast noc engineer rather urgently

2017-06-01 Thread mark seiden
at the internet archive we have a strange problem at the moment. a slightly upstream device looks like it's returning icmp administratively unreachable for our main load balancer's ip address (which serves archive.org). comcast has interpreted this to remove or (maybe blackhole) connections to

need help in london for approx a day of unracking and packing equipment to be shipped

2015-05-22 Thread Mark Seiden
looking for a helper in London: a US-based client of mine is turning off a small London data center presence ASAP. they want to hire someone trustworthy to unrack, properly pack up and ship to the US a small number of 1u and 2u sized devices and hard drives. the person has to be capable of

Re: [[Infowarrior] - NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for Years]

2014-04-14 Thread Mark Seiden
On Apr 13, 2014, at 7:52 AM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: the point of open source is that the community is supposed to be doing this. we failed. Versus all of the closed source bugs that nobody can know of or do anything about? for those you can blame the vendor. this one is owned

Re: opensource tools for IP DNS management [was: Opensource tools for inventory and troubleticketing]

2014-01-25 Thread Mark Seiden
i am aware of http://www.stanford.edu/group/networking/netdb which is used widely at stanford and few other places. it’s going through some improvements, according to my reading of the list. tilburg university appears to be adopting it. not sure if it’s suitable mostly for an ISP. it

Re: Yahoo is now recycling handles

2013-09-03 Thread Mark Seiden
On Sep 3, 2013, at 9:12 PM, ML m...@kenweb.org wrote: On 9/3/2013 11:57 PM, Scott Howard wrote: Overall this is nothing new - Hotmail has been doing the same thing for years. Scott When I used to use Hotmail - Your account was dropped after 30-60 days of non-use. Whereas Yahoo

Re: One of our own in the Guardian.

2013-07-13 Thread Mark Seiden
and here i am in the icann-selected hotel for the icann conference, and they gave us a total of 500MB of metered usage. for our entire stay, not per day. (should be better on the conference net). maybe i should just check out and check in every day. On Jul 14, 2013, at 6:44 AM, Alex

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Mark Seiden
there are lots of other attack scenarios besides the simple one you suggest, as people who try to analyze malware payloads by their outbound network activity have figured out. an attack could be time-driven, or driven by some very hard to interpret network signalling (such as a response to

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Mark Seiden
paper is downloadable from http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/Silicon_scan_draft.pdf On Jun 13, 2013, at 3:52 PM, Scott Weeks sur...@mauigateway.com wrote: --- r...@gsp.org wrote: From: Rich Kulawiec r...@gsp.org On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 06:10:39PM +0200, Randy Bush wrote: we really should

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Mark Seiden
On Jun 13, 2013, at 5:39 PM, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote: On 06/13/2013 05:28 PM, Scott Helms wrote: Bill, Certainly everything you said is correct and at the same time is not useful for the kinds traffic interception that's been implied. 20 packets of random traffic capture is

Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

2013-06-07 Thread Mark Seiden
On Jun 6, 2013, at 10:25 PM, jamie rishaw j...@arpa.com wrote: tinfoilhat Just wait until we find out dark and lit private fiber is getting vampired. /tinfoilhat well, that's exactly and the only thing what would not surprise me, given the eff suit and mark klein's testimony about room

Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

2013-06-07 Thread Mark Seiden
, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:57:07 -0700, Mark Seiden said: and also, only $20m/year? in my experience, the govt cannot do anything like this addressing even a single provider for that little money. Convince me the *real* number doesn't have another zero. Remember

Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

2013-06-07 Thread Mark Seiden
...@vt.edumailto:valdis.kletni...@vt.edu On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:57:07 -0700, Mark Seiden said: and also, only $20m/year? in my experience, the govt cannot do anything like this addressing even a single provider for that little money. Convince me the *real* number doesn't have another zero

Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

2013-06-07 Thread Mark Seiden
what a piece of crap this article is. the guy doesn't understand what sniffing can and can't do. obviously he doesn't understand peering or routing, and he doesn't understand what cdns are for. he doesn't understand the EU safe harbor, saying it applies to govt entitites, when it's purely

Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

2013-06-06 Thread Mark Seiden
On Jun 6, 2013, at 6:28 PM, Leo Bicknell bickn...@ufp.org wrote: On Jun 6, 2013, at 8:06 PM, jim deleskie deles...@gmail.com wrote: Knowing its going on, knowing nothing online is secret != OK with it, it mealy understand the way things are. While there's a whole political aspect of

Re: Yahoo and their mail filters..

2009-02-25 Thread mark seiden-via mac
that could occur when a. student machines are botted (for institutions not blocking outbound port 25) b. student and alumni accounts are compromised by phishers (both of these just for the purposes of sending spam from well connected, reputable institutions.) and then consumers really do

Re: Linkedin Contacts

2008-07-10 Thread mark seiden-via mac
it probably has something to do with the large proportion of fraudsters using linked in and every personals site in the world for 419 and other confidence schemes, don't you think? of course, this only forces the fraudsters to use proxies, aol and satellite providers which are more difficult