Re: Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and before that Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...)

2013-01-24 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 01:20:07PM +0100, . wrote: CAPTCHAS are a defense in depth that reduce the number of spam incidents to a number manageable by humans. No, they do not. If you had actually bothered to read the links that I provided, or simply to pay attention over the last several

Re: Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and before that Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...)

2013-01-24 Thread George Herbert
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 5:48 AM, Rich Kulawiec r...@gsp.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 01:20:07PM +0100, . wrote: CAPTCHAS are a defense in depth that reduce the number of spam incidents to a number manageable by humans. No, they do not. If you had actually bothered to read the links

Re: Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and before that Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...)

2013-01-24 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
On 13-01-24 13:52, George Herbert wrote: It's true that relying on the laziness of attackers is statistically useful, but as soon as one becomes an interesting enough target that the professionals aim, then professional grade tools (which walz through captchas more effectively than normal

Re: Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and before that Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...)

2013-01-24 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 04:43:47PM -0500, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote: It is better to have a tent with holes in the screen door than no screen door. If the damaged screen door still prevents 90% of mosquitoes from getting in, it does let you chase down and kill those that do get in. I get this

Re: Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and before that Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...)

2013-01-24 Thread Scott Howard
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Rich Kulawiec r...@gsp.org wrote: (Yes, yes, I'm well aware that many people will claim that *their* captchas work. They're wrong, of course: their captchas are just as worthless as everyone else's. They simply haven't been competently attacked yet. And

Re: Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and before that Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...)

2013-01-24 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 1/23/13, Rich Kulawiec r...@gsp.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 02:23:53AM -0600, Jimmy Hess wrote: Once again: captchas have zero security value. They either defend (a) resources worth attacking or (b) resources not worth attacking. If it's (a) then they can and will be defeated as

Re: Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and before that Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...)

2013-01-23 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 02:23:53AM -0600, Jimmy Hess wrote: that sort of abuse is likely need to be protected against via a captcha challenge as well, Once again: captchas have zero security value. They either defend (a) resources worth attacking or (b) resources not worth attacking. If

Re: Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and before that Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...)

2013-01-23 Thread .
On 23 January 2013 09:45, Rich Kulawiec r...@gsp.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 02:23:53AM -0600, Jimmy Hess wrote: that sort of abuse is likely need to be protected against via a captcha challenge as well, Once again: captchas have zero security value. They either defend (a)

Re: Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and before that Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...)

2013-01-22 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 23:23:16 -0500, Jean-Francois Mezei said: This article may be of interest: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/01/canadian-student-expelled-for-playing-security-white-hat/ Basically, a Montreal student, developping mobile software to interface with schools system found

Re: Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and before that Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...)

2013-01-21 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 1/21/13, Matt Palmer mpal...@hezmatt.org wrote: Nonce on the server is a scalability hazard (as previously discussed). You It's not really a scalability hazard. Not if its purpose is to protect a data driven operation, or the sending of an e-mail; in reality, that sort of abuse is

Re: Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and before that Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...)

2013-01-21 Thread .
On 21 January 2013 07:19, Matt Palmer mpal...@hezmatt.org wrote: ... If the form is submitted without the correct POST value, if their IP address changed, or after too many seconds since the timestamp, then redisplay the form to the user, with a request for them to visually inspect and

Re: Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and before that Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...)

2013-01-21 Thread .
On 21 January 2013 09:26, . oscar.vi...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 January 2013 07:19, Matt Palmer mpal...@hezmatt.org wrote: ... If the form is submitted without the correct POST value, if their IP address changed, or after too many seconds since the timestamp, then redisplay the form to the

Re: Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and before that Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...)

2013-01-21 Thread Scott Weeks
--- jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca wrote: From: Jean-Francois Mezei jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca Either way, you still need to have either a cookie or a hidden form [...] But ONLY when needing to do a transaction. As I originally mentioned why

Re: Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and before that Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...)

2013-01-21 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
This article may be of interest: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/01/canadian-student-expelled-for-playing-security-white-hat/ Basically, a Montreal student, developping mobile software to interface with schools system found a bug. Reported it. And when he tested to see if the bug had been

Re: Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and before that Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...)

2013-01-20 Thread Matt Palmer
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 03:54:37PM -0800, George Herbert wrote: On Jan 18, 2013, at 7:52 PM, Matt Palmer mpal...@hezmatt.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 09:41:41AM +0100, . wrote: On 17 January 2013 23:38, Matt Palmer mpal...@hezmatt.org wrote: .. By the way, if anyone *does* know of

Re: Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and before that Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...)

2013-01-20 Thread George Herbert
On Jan 20, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Matt Palmer mpal...@hezmatt.org wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 03:54:37PM -0800, George Herbert wrote: On Jan 18, 2013, at 7:52 PM, Matt Palmer mpal...@hezmatt.org wrote: Storing any state server-side is a really bad idea for scalability and reliability. ?

Re: Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and before that Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...)

2013-01-20 Thread Matt Palmer
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 06:33:33PM -0600, Jimmy Hess wrote: On 1/18/13, Matt Palmer mpal...@hezmatt.org wrote: Primarily abuse prevention. If I can get a few thousand people to do something resource-heavy (or otherwise abusive, such as send an e-mail somewhere) within a short period of

Re: Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and before that Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...)

2013-01-20 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
On 13-01-21 01:19, Matt Palmer wrote: Things that require me to worry (more) about scalability are out, as are things that annoy a larger percentage of my userbase than cookies (at least with cookies, I can say you're not accepting cookies, please turn them on, whereas with randomly

Re: Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and before that Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...)

2013-01-19 Thread Matt Palmer
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 02:55:59PM -0800, Scott Weeks wrote: --- mpal...@hezmatt.org wrote: --- From: Matt Palmer mpal...@hezmatt.org [Cookies on stat.ripe.net] On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:36:25AM -0800, Shrdlu wrote: The cookie stays around for a YEAR (if I let it), and has the

Re: Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and before that Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...)

2013-01-19 Thread Matt Palmer
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 09:41:41AM +0100, . wrote: On 17 January 2013 23:38, Matt Palmer mpal...@hezmatt.org wrote: .. By the way, if anyone *does* know of a good and reliable way to prevent CSRF without the need for any cookies or persistent server-side session state, I'd love to know

Re: Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and before that Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...)

2013-01-19 Thread George Herbert
On Jan 18, 2013, at 7:52 PM, Matt Palmer mpal...@hezmatt.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 09:41:41AM +0100, . wrote: On 17 January 2013 23:38, Matt Palmer mpal...@hezmatt.org wrote: .. By the way, if anyone *does* know of a good and reliable way to prevent CSRF without the need for

Re: Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and before that Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...)

2013-01-19 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 1/18/13, Matt Palmer mpal...@hezmatt.org wrote: Primarily abuse prevention. If I can get a few thousand people to do something resource-heavy (or otherwise abusive, such as send an e-mail somewhere) within a short period of time, I can conscript a whole army of unwitting accomplices into

Re: Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and before that Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...)

2013-01-18 Thread .
On 17 January 2013 23:38, Matt Palmer mpal...@hezmatt.org wrote: .. By the way, if anyone *does* know of a good and reliable way to prevent CSRF without the need for any cookies or persistent server-side session state, I'd love to know how. Ten minutes with Google hasn't provided any useful

Re: Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and before that Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...)

2013-01-17 Thread john
On 1/16/13 8:36 PM, Shrdlu wrote: On 1/16/2013 9:40 AM, john wrote: I took a look at this site and unfortunately the use of cookies is very ingrained into the code. Removing the requirement breaks all functionality of www.ris.ripe.net and changing the functionality would require a rewrite

Re: Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and before that Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...)

2013-01-17 Thread Matt Palmer
[Cookies on stat.ripe.net] On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:36:25AM -0800, Shrdlu wrote: The cookie stays around for a YEAR (if I let it), and has the following stuff: Name: stat-csrftoken Content: 7f12a95b8e274ab940287407a14fc348 [...] To your credit, you only ask once, but you ought to ask

Re: Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and before that Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...)

2013-01-17 Thread Scott Weeks
--- mpal...@hezmatt.org wrote: --- From: Matt Palmer mpal...@hezmatt.org [Cookies on stat.ripe.net] On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:36:25AM -0800, Shrdlu wrote: The cookie stays around for a YEAR (if I let it), and has the following stuff: CSRF protection is one of the few valid uses of a

Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...

2013-01-16 Thread john
On 1/11/13 8:28 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: --- andree+na...@toonk.nl wrote: From: Andree Toonk andree+na...@toonk.nl Here's some more data showing an announcement for 150.182.208.0/20 originated by 26347

Re: RIPE cookies [was]: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...

2013-01-16 Thread Scott Weeks
--- jb...@ripe.net wrote: From: john jb...@ripe.net - On 1/11/13 8:28 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: - RIPE needs to fix on their web site: Please turn on the cookies on your browser to view this site. It doesn't have to be this way... - I took a look at

Suggestions for the future on your web site: (was cookies, and before that Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...)

2013-01-16 Thread Shrdlu
On 1/16/2013 9:40 AM, john wrote: I took a look at this site and unfortunately the use of cookies is very ingrained into the code. Removing the requirement breaks all functionality of www.ris.ripe.net and changing the functionality would require a rewrite of the site. Sooner or later, you'll

Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...

2013-01-11 Thread Jeff Kell
Not sure how widespread their leakage may be, but Dreamhost just hijacked one of my prefixes... Possible Prefix Hijack (Code: 10) Your prefix:

Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...

2013-01-11 Thread Kenneth McRae
Jeff, We are not announcing the prefix in question nor do we peer with AS42861. -- Best Regards, Kenneth McRae *Director, Network Operations* kenneth.mc...@dreamhost.com Ph: 818-447-2589 www.dreamhost.com On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Jeff Kell jeff-k...@utc.edu wrote: Not sure how

Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...

2013-01-11 Thread Jeff Kell
Robtex would beg to differ... you show peered with AS42861, perhaps someone (else) is looping their advertisements? _R_egistered _O_ther side _B_GP visible Peer OB AS174 COGENT /PSI B AS4323 TWTC Autonomous system for tw telecom . B AS4826 VOCUS-BACKBONE-AS Vocus Connect

Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...

2013-01-11 Thread Jon Lewis
Sounds like someone in Russia is having some fun with as-path prepending and prefix hijacking. On Fri, 11 Jan 2013, Kenneth McRae wrote: Jeff, We are not announcing the prefix in question nor do we peer with AS42861. -- Best Regards, Kenneth McRae *Director, Network Operations*

Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...

2013-01-11 Thread Kenneth McRae
Just checked all BGP speakers again and I show no peering with AS42861. On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Jeff Kell jeff-k...@utc.edu wrote: Robtex would beg to differ... you show peered with AS42861, perhaps someone (else) is looping their advertisements? *R*egistered *O*ther side *B*GP

Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...

2013-01-11 Thread Kenneth McRae
That would be my guess. We have had some issues with this in the past with operators from China and Russia. On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Jon Lewis jle...@lewis.org wrote: Sounds like someone in Russia is having some fun with as-path prepending and prefix hijacking. On Fri, 11 Jan 2013,

Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...

2013-01-11 Thread Jeroen Wunnink | Atrato IP Networks
Here at/as AS5580 I no longer see it announced as a /20, only your own /18: #sh ip bgp routes 150.182.192.0 255.255.192.0 longer-prefixes Number of BGP Routes matching display condition : 4 Searching for matching routes, use ^C to quit... Status A:AGGREGATE B:BEST b:NOT-INSTALLED-BEST

Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...

2013-01-11 Thread Andree Toonk
Hi, Here's a quick summary of what we saw at BGPMon.net. At 2013-01-11 14:14:13 we saw announcements (seemingly) originated by 26347, for prefixes normally announced by other ASn's (origin change / hijack). This seems to have affected 112 prefixes for 110 ASn's [1], including Rogers, Tata,

Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...

2013-01-11 Thread Tony McCrory
Jeff: 150.182.208.0/20 is not visible from AS702 in Germany. 150.182.192.0/18 path is 702 701 209 26827 14209 Tony On 11 January 2013 15:23, Jeff Kell jeff-k...@utc.edu wrote: Not sure how widespread their leakage may be, but Dreamhost just hijacked one of my prefixes...

Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...

2013-01-11 Thread Kenneth McRae
Thanks for that info Andree. The only valid peer I see on the list would be HE. We do not peer with any of the others listed. Kenneth On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Andree Toonk andree+na...@toonk.nl wrote: Hi, Here's a quick summary of what we saw at BGPMon.net. At 2013-01-11 14:14:13

Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...

2013-01-11 Thread Andree Toonk
Hi Kenneth, .-- My secret spy satellite informs me that at 2013-01-11 8:54 AM Kenneth McRae wrote: Thanks for that info Andree. The only valid peer I see on the list would be HE. We do not peer with any of the others listed. Could it be these ASns receive your routes via an IX route-server?

Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...

2013-01-11 Thread Job Snijders
Hi all, Atrato / 5580 here. We don't have direct peering with AS26347, although we learn the AS26347 prefixes through the 206.223.143.253 (AS 19996) routeserver in LAX. So in a sense we are peering :-) Kind regards, Job On Jan 11, 2013, at 7:31 PM, Andree Toonk andree+na...@toonk.nl

Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...

2013-01-11 Thread Kenneth McRae
Yes, now that is possible (just no direct peering). So that takes me back to my original statement about not announcing the 150.182.208.0/20 prefix to begin with. Kenneth On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Andree Toonk andree+na...@toonk.nlwrote: Hi Kenneth, .-- My secret spy satellite

Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...

2013-01-11 Thread Andree Toonk
.-- My secret spy satellite informs me that at 2013-01-11 10:44 AM Kenneth McRae wrote: Yes, now that is possible (just no direct peering). So that takes me back to my original statement about not announcing the 150.182.208.0/20 http://150.182.208.0/20 prefix to begin with. Here's some more

Re: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...

2013-01-11 Thread Scott Weeks
--- andree+na...@toonk.nl wrote: From: Andree Toonk andree+na...@toonk.nl Here's some more data showing an announcement for 150.182.208.0/20 originated by 26347