Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-09 Thread Barry Shein
out of IPv4 addresses on cisco's market dominance. It has a certain appeal to the ignorant, but anyone who knows anything about the actual causes and history knows there's not one grain of truth to it. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http

Re: ISP Responsibilities [WAS: Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers]

2010-06-09 Thread Barry Shein
, to ensure the honesty of all phone transactions? -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989

Re: Finland makes broadband access a legal right

2010-07-02 Thread Barry Shein
Around 1991 I offered (dial-up) internet to the school district offices in Boston for $1/month/office, 10 districts, $10/month, $120/year, shareable accounts. The person from the board of ed I was talking to said free would be a problem as it might be seen as some sort of graft etc. and might be

Re: I went so you don't have to -- ICANN Bruxelles pour les nuls

2010-07-02 Thread Barry Shein
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989

Re: IPv4 Exhaustion...

2010-07-24 Thread Barry Shein
the most obvious. I can't say they weren't receptive, it was a little bit of a WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE, TAKEDOWNS ARE VALUABLE CONSIDERATIONS! which they understood, and the potential liability aspects for an ISP. Anyhow my take is that takedowns are a growth industry. -- -Barry

Re: I slogged through it so you don't have to -- ICANN Vertical Integration WG for dummies

2010-07-26 Thread Barry Shein
; every unhappy name space is unhappy in its own way. -- !Tolstoy -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet

Re: DNSSEC and SSL

2010-08-23 Thread Barry Shein
it. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic?

2010-09-14 Thread Barry Shein
of like the old if my grandmother had wheels they'd call her a trolley car but I digress. As Jimmy Carter said: Life isn't fair. But that doesn't necessarily implore one to make it *more* unfair. * Never heard of a Vax 11/725? Then you are truly blessed. -- -Barry Shein The World

Re: Dutch Hotels Must Register As ISPs

2010-10-13 Thread Barry Shein
It really seems like a case of if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a trolley car. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-18 Thread Barry Shein
caused a 4bsd script to go into an infinite loop filling roots (/tmp) which back then crashed systems. Also, one-letter hostnames (a.bu.edu as an alias for bucsa.bu.edu, etc.) I know because basically it was my fault. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com

Re: IPv4 sunset date set for 2019-12-31

2010-10-21 Thread Barry Shein
that since both versions of the protocol can exist on the same wire. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet

Re: IPv4 sunset date set for 2019-12-31

2010-10-21 Thread Barry Shein
On October 21, 2010 at 20:13 jba...@brightok.net (Jack Bates) wrote: On 10/21/2010 7:53 PM, Niels Bakker wrote: * b...@world.std.com (Barry Shein) [Thu 21 Oct 2010, 22:59 CEST]: And, of course, the RIRs could just cancel all the IPv4 route announcements, whatever they do if someone

Re: IPv4 sunset date set for 2019-12-31

2010-10-22 Thread Barry Shein
On October 22, 2010 at 08:48 d...@dcrocker.net (Dave CROCKER) wrote: On 10/21/2010 1:56 PM, Barry Shein wrote: Well, if the DNS root servers ceased IPv4 service it'd be pretty much a fait accompli as far as the public internet is concerned. Given the reality of fragmenting

Re: IPv4 sunset date revised : 2009-02-05

2010-10-22 Thread Barry Shein
no doubt by new policies. So, this might be roughly our last chance to get some measurements on the management of an all IPv4 network, and monitor the transition as it happens. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors

Re: IPv4 sunset date revised : 2009-02-05

2010-10-23 Thread Barry Shein
...@vacation.karoshi.com) wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 01:28:24PM -0400, Barry Shein wrote: It occurs to me that there is some pressing need to investigate this all-IPv6 internet -- motivated by the cost of (not) maintaining IPv4 forever. Right now we can observe essentially an all-IPv4

Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

2011-02-06 Thread Barry Shein
, etc. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet

2011-03-27 Thread Barry Shein
then they lost, they'd get nothing. But this is all counter-factual. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet

Re: IPv4 address length technical design

2012-10-05 Thread Barry Shein
. John -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

RE: IPv4 address length technical design

2012-10-05 Thread Barry Shein
Fleming guffawing. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

news.google.com (and others)?

2012-10-06 Thread Barry Shein
and verizon? It was passed to the engineer on duty at towerstream who will look into it and speak to google if necessary, not clear it's their problem though, not if Verizon is actually also having the same problem. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com

Re: IPv4 address length technical design

2012-10-06 Thread Barry Shein
It's occured to you that FQDNs contain some structured information, no? -b On October 5, 2012 at 21:47 b...@herrin.us (William Herrin) wrote: On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Barry Shein b...@world.std.com wrote: 5. Bits is bits. I don't know how to say that more clearly. Hi

Re: IPv4 address length technical design

2012-10-06 Thread Barry Shein
-user visible perhaps, but ultimately as important ), then you're just pissing around and not being serious about exploring future options. George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone On Oct 6, 2012, at 10:47 AM, Barry Shein b...@world.std.com wrote: It's occured

Re: IPv4 address length technical design

2012-10-07 Thread Barry Shein
for the purpose of stimulating discussion. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: names are not numbers, was IPv4 address length technical design

2012-10-07 Thread Barry Shein
there were other analogues? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_number_mapping But the idea has come up. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Barry Shein
accts and watch out I guess. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Barry Shein
On November 29, 2012 at 11:45 patr...@ianai.net (Patrick W. Gilmore) wrote: On Nov 29, 2012, at 11:17 , Barry Shein b...@world.std.com wrote: It's funny, it's all illusion like show business. It's not hard to set up anonymous service, crap, just drop in at any wi-fi hotspot, many

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Barry Shein
folly. Such as, say, an Internet Service Provider business? Or a wi-fi hotspot that only requires clicking Accept, no id involved? -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Barry Shein
that it is Mr Williams that is the bad guy. /J Sure, but I assume he told them that :-) -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool

Re: Legal Crap [was: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.]

2012-12-02 Thread Barry Shein
the kind of activity and earnestness we're seeing of late. * If you try to debate, confirm, etc that quote you're a loutish bore, it stand on its own :-) -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD

Re: Six Strike Rule (Was: William was raided...)

2012-12-05 Thread Barry Shein
their problems. * Agreement with LEOs is best, a unilateral document would at least open discussion one would hope and move towards that end. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD

Possibly a little OT, has spam in theme

2012-12-09 Thread Barry Shein
with that buckaroos! -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: [SHAME] Spam Rats

2013-01-10 Thread Barry Shein
away, tho I'd agree NANOG is probably not the right venue. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet

Re: De-funding the ITU

2013-01-13 Thread Barry Shein
you got rid of the ITU that's what you'd end up with because much of what they do would happen somehow, but without a real plan probably by even worse means like shadowy inter-PTT organizations arising without any accountability or transparency. -- -Barry Shein The World | b

Re: NYT covers China cyberthreat

2013-02-20 Thread Barry Shein
: intelreport.mandiant.com/Mandiant_APT1_Report.pdf I'm only part way through, but I find it hard to believe that only micro$loth computers are used as the attack OS. Maybe I haven't gotten far enough through report to find the part where they use the *nix boxes? scott -- -Barry

Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs

2013-02-22 Thread Barry Shein
http://domainincite.com/page/5?s=right+of+the+dot -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE

Re: Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight?

2013-03-21 Thread Barry Shein
Wasn't this problem solved by foursquare.com?! /joke -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet

RE: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Barry Shein
name or company name when interpreted as UTF-8?! Q00l! :-) -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Login: Nationwide Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989

Re: Dutch ISPs to collaborate and take responsibility for bottedclients

2009-10-05 Thread Barry Shein
not for smaller ISPs until the legal way is cleared by those with plenty of money for lawyering and lobbying. (I did say IN THE USA, right?) -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Login

Re: Dutch ISPs to collaborate and take responsibility for bottedclients

2009-10-06 Thread Barry Shein
Re: VOIP, 911, bots Shape their bandwidth down to the minimum required to make a 911 call, around 64Kbps, and capture their web accesses. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD

RE: Performance Issues - PTR Records

2011-11-02 Thread Barry Shein
, once you choose to block by resolved name, now that site has to do a dns lookup for every incoming request to see if it resolves to a name that should be blocked. Another practical problem with this approach is that .IN is India but hey, at least it blocks something :-) -- -Barry

Re: economic value of low AS numbers

2011-11-17 Thread Barry Shein
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation Assets acquired by Sun Microsystems do maybe Oracle today. -b Sent from my iPhone On Nov 17, 2011, at 14:30, Dave Hart daveh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 19:08, David Conrad d...@virtualized.org wrote: whois -h

Re: Sad IPv4 story?

2011-12-10 Thread Barry Shein
elicit solutions such as partnerships, etc. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Barry Shein
that as a signficiant guide that would seem to say that mere speech is not enough, the right to disseminate that speech to others is also necessary. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up

Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US

2012-03-30 Thread Barry Shein
Hicksville, New York 1-800-AEGIS-00 (800-234-4700) -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-07 Thread Barry Shein
. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: Dear Linkedin,

2012-06-09 Thread Barry Shein
the system. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: CVV numbers

2012-06-09 Thread Barry Shein
backpressure. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: CVV numbers

2012-06-10 Thread Barry Shein
of code making the router cost $100K. I think this all may be more operationally relevant than some might protest, some here seem to have funny ideas about cost-benefits and security which maybe can at least be shaken loose a bit. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com

Re: Dear Linkedin,

2012-06-10 Thread Barry Shein
father buying a car and pulling out a credit card asking if they accepted them? The dealer said sure no problem so he said fine then take another 3% (whatever) off I'll pay cash/check. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors

Re: CVV numbers

2012-06-10 Thread Barry Shein
) it was illegal by state law to take credit cards at supermarkets in Massachusetts for example tho checks w/ id were ok, pain the neck, I remember it well. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD

Re: OT: Credit card policies (was Re: Dear Linkedin,)

2012-06-10 Thread Barry Shein
of some sort of commercial laws or grounds for a civil suit if an injured party has standing. Or maybe some gas companies had the leverage to get exceptions written into their contracts, etc. They're just contracts, they can say anything as long as it's legal. -- -Barry Shein The World

Re: Dear Linkedin,

2012-06-10 Thread Barry Shein
was clearing this up with. * I sort of regretted that because they managed to burn up quite a few hours of my time when it all went bad. They've got you at that point, show up here, show up now, fill out all these affidavits, etc or we won't cover the fraud. -- -Barry Shein The World

Re: Dear Linkedin,

2012-06-10 Thread Barry Shein
, money is fungible! Which means, money doesn't care! You'd have to make up the cost of all that fraud-prevention in the same way. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR

Re: Dear Linkedin,

2012-06-10 Thread Barry Shein
or nefarious deed, I dunno, spamming from someone's cracked acct is a good example, and Linkedin's staff has to deal with each and every one. Maybe they lack imagination as to what they might be getting themselves into. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com

Re: EBAY and AMAZON

2012-06-13 Thread Barry Shein
with improvements in newer Windows systems there are probably on the order of a billion systems out there, attached to the net, and still running these deeply flawed OS's which can be taken over by just clicking on the wrong mail message. -- -Barry Shein The World | b

Re: EBAY and AMAZON

2012-06-13 Thread Barry Shein
On June 13, 2012 at 18:20 daveh...@gmail.com (Dave Hart) wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Barry Shein b...@world.std.com wrote:   On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:44:44AM +, Jamie Bowden wrote:   While MS may be a favorite whipping boy, let's not pretend that if the dominant OS

Re: Color vision for network techs

2012-09-02 Thread Barry Shein
(um, NO!) So one day, I am not making this up, I asked him what he was studying at college and he said graphic design. I guess the right comment is no comment, or perhaps overcompensation much? But the example at hand is a much more narrow domain. -- -Barry Shein The World

Re: IPv4 address length technical design

2012-10-03 Thread Barry Shein
On October 3, 2012 at 17:09 j...@baylink.com (Jay Ashworth) wrote: So the address space for IPv8 will be... /troll Variable. -b

Re: IPv4 address length technical design

2012-10-04 Thread Barry Shein
overhead payload you need, not unthinkable. OTOH, it just does away with DNS entirely which is some sort of savings. There are obviously some more details required, this email is not a replacement for a set of RFCs! -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com

Re: IPv4 address length technical design

2012-10-05 Thread Barry Shein
it, by the tuple (address,route). Well, geographically? Since when, except at the very end of the routing sequence? First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win -- Mahatma Gandhi -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com

Re: Yahoo and their mail filters..

2009-02-25 Thread Barry Shein
one unrelated report (fire box, phone) in the same general location. Then your heartbeat increased. That is, one call, who knows, two or more unrelated? Must be something. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade

Re: Yahoo and their mail filters..

2009-02-25 Thread Barry Shein
On February 26, 2009 at 06:55 ops.li...@gmail.com (Suresh Ramasubramanian) wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Barry Shein b...@world.std.com wrote: I realize this is easier in theory than practice but I wonder how much better the whole AOL (et al) spam button would get

Re: Yahoo and their mail filters..

2009-02-25 Thread Barry Shein
suggested that probably 99% of the false positives I see could be avoided by just waiting until there are two or more complaints from the same source before firing it back as spam. I'm sorry if you don't feel you got your money's worth. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com

Re: UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking)

2007-06-11 Thread Barry Shein
out loud this note is US-centric) -- -Barry Shein The World | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Login: Nationwide Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...

2007-08-13 Thread Barry Shein
often used in crimes...) So ya'd picks yer policy and ya'd takes yer chances. -- -Barry Shein The World | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Login: Nationwide Software Tool Die| Public Access

Re: [NANOG] Never seen before! Gucci Prada Chanel, Bally, Dsquared, Sold for less than costWOW

2008-04-24 Thread Barry Shein
If we could arrange to see some samples in person I'm sure I could rustle up some other list members to meet you with our, um, checkbooks... -- -Barry Shein The World | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD

Re: amazonaws.com?

2008-05-24 Thread Barry Shein
capacity, etc etc etc. -- -Barry Shein The World | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Login: Nationwide Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: amazonaws.com?

2008-05-25 Thread Barry Shein
mean I'm not being damaged. I have to keep up with their bandwidth and firewall computron usage, and managing usage of the blacklists. That's damages. -- -Barry Shein The World | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD

Re: amazonaws.com?

2008-05-29 Thread Barry Shein
??? -- -Barry Shein The World | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Login: Nationwide Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: amazonaws.com?

2008-05-29 Thread Barry Shein
On May 29, 2008 at 09:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Al Iverson) wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Barry Shein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a big, big fan of assessing charges for AUP abuse and making some realistic attempt to try to make sure it's collectible, and otherwise make

Re: amazonaws.com?

2008-05-29 Thread Barry Shein
is that from the million+ strong zombie botnets? Who owns (not pwns) those zombie'd systems and what were their intentions? -- -Barry Shein The World | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Login: Nationwide

Re: amazonaws.com?

2008-05-29 Thread Barry Shein
] (Joel Jaeggli) wrote: Barry Shein wrote: On May 29, 2008 at 06:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joel Jaeggli) wrote: Dorn Hetzel wrote: Yeah, there was a day when anyone could buy a pickup truck full of ammonium nitrate fertilizer from a random feed store and not attract any

Re: Article on spammers and their infrastructure

2009-12-31 Thread Barry Shein
involved. ICANN is certainly building a model just like this with the UDRP etc. so perhaps that's something to follow. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada

Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment

2010-01-13 Thread Barry Shein
in it. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment

2010-01-13 Thread Barry Shein
/VE7TFX)) wrote: Barry's right, for at least some scenarios. If I have an unauthorized somebody walking down the row with a wand in their pocket, the fact they have a wand in their pocket is the least of my problems. Encrypt the data? -- -Barry Shein The World

Re: dns interceptors [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-02-13 Thread Barry Shein
measurable way. Now, how could you follow up on a complaint without some notion that those original words were at some point owned by you? Etc. IANAL, but it doesn't strike me as half as preposterous as you say. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com

Re: Cyber Shockwave on CNN

2010-02-20 Thread Barry Shein
in in the recent past) is the skill to get one of these top-level cabinet positions, join the right clubs, play golf, be born or marry well, etc. These are not the product of a meritocracy, they're the product of incest. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com

Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

2010-02-22 Thread Barry Shein
create a loophole for some miscreant to harass the provider. As a general rule miscreants often have no shame. I suppose the whole forwarding / spamblocking issue arises but that's not any different than any service which allows forwarding. -- -Barry Shein The World | b

Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

2010-02-22 Thread Barry Shein
, it doesn't generally represent the public's view of the ATT mark. I don't think the law would be workable in the US. I'd be surprised if the law doesn't run into similar problems in Israel. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com

Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

2010-02-23 Thread Barry Shein
? -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: Network Naming Conventions

2010-03-13 Thread Barry Shein
On March 13, 2010 at 18:24 aa...@wholesaleinternet.net (aa...@wholesaleinternet.net) wrote: STD's hmm, since we actually are STD.COM that could be a useful idea... -b

Re: Network Naming Conventions

2010-03-13 Thread Barry Shein
a write-up by me in an old RISKS digest from the time and it was quite a flap on the TCP-IP list (BU Joins The Internet!) Completely inadvertent but it was probably as disruptive, relatively, as the Morris worm. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Barry Shein
realising we might run out. Aha! Someone else who believes the internet should model a justice system. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die

Re: What is The Internet TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ?

2010-04-04 Thread Barry Shein
were after. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: what about 48 bits?

2010-04-05 Thread Barry Shein
On April 5, 2010 at 13:51 s...@cs.columbia.edu (Steven Bellovin) wrote: Yup. 10 years earlier, a 3Com Ethernet card for a Vax cost about $1500, if memory serves. Early-mid 80s? I'd say at least twice that, I don't think there were too many cards for Vaxes and similar for less than $5K.

Re: 365x24x7

2011-04-17 Thread Barry Shein
, our little secret please don't hang up please don't hang up really please!, you need policies and training if that's a possibility. Gak, I could tell stories... -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice

RE: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Barry Shein
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=142997624312set=a.131293284312.94985.507204312type=1theater -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software

Re: Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's possible with today's technology.

2011-05-18 Thread Barry Shein
to recite the entire text of a book to find it unambiguously! See: Transfinite Number Systems. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-12 Thread Barry Shein
love to see some sort of switched last-mile services again, introduce some competition into the system, tho most likely it'd be (more) virtual over some low-level broadband service. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors

Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-28 Thread Barry Shein
He's the most interesting man in the world...SORBS is on HIS list and can't get off. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die

Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network

2011-09-20 Thread Barry Shein
On September 20, 2011 at 02:00 he...@aegisinfosys.com (Henry Yen) wrote: A few (dozen) years ago, I was treated to a interesting demonstration where a coworker poured an oily fluid containing tiny metallic flakes on a patch of tape. The bits on the tape could be clearly seen by the

Re: Geoip lookup

2013-05-24 Thread Barry Shein
You're thinking like an engineer. Think like a marketer. They expect less than 1% response on paper mail advertising. Now, compare and contrast your idea of a reasonable confidence level and theirs. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http

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

2013-06-21 Thread Barry Shein
I think we need a better measure than number of domains (in this case .COM), particularly vs total domains. If it was 100 domains it might seem small, unless that list began with facebook.com, amazon.com, google.com and g*d forbid theworld.com. -- -Barry Shein The World

Re: .nyc - here we go...

2013-07-04 Thread Barry Shein
. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

RE: Office 365..? how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages

2013-07-12 Thread Barry Shein
=HOMETEMPLATE=DEFAULTCTIME=2013-07-10-06-07-53 or http://tinyurl.com/kj2pelb -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet

Re: ARIN WHOIS for leads

2013-07-26 Thread Barry Shein
billboards? They'll just blast ads onto your game or fb screen as the car zips itself along the road. Maybe that's the real motivation of autonomous vehicles, to free your eyeballs up for ads. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com

Re: ARIN WHOIS for leads

2013-07-31 Thread Barry Shein
-- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-20 Thread Barry Shein
renounced his Canadian (dual w/ US) citizenship. I'm just saying. My take on Canada? Quiet...too quiet... -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software

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

2013-09-06 Thread Barry Shein
the govt as the evil here is entirely constructive. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989

Re: comcast ipv6 PTR

2013-10-09 Thread Barry Shein
. It's very useful for blocking spammers and other miscreants -- no reason at all to accept SMTP connections from troublesome *.rev.domain.net at all, no matter what the preceding NNN-NNN-NNN-NNN is. Perhaps not their problem, but it is useful! -- -Barry Shein The World | b

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