icehawk

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Battle.net authentication misconceptions(skullsecurity.org)
60 points by icehawk 14y ago|36 comments
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The (very) uneven distribution of DNS root servers on the Internet(royal.pingdom.com)
43 points by icehawk 14y ago|18 comments
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by icehawk 15y ago
- The "depth of catalog" is actually incorrect -- Spotify has far far more songs than Napster did (you can see in that screenshot even, most logins/servers hit less than 1m songs totally available, and of course those are just total indexe
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Epic Epoch Fail(jwz.org)
4 points by icehawk 15y ago|0 comments
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Toronto & Western Break Ranks to Sign Access Copyright Deal(cautbulletin.ca)
1 points by icehawk 15y ago|0 comments
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Pricing and Trading Networks: Down is Up, Left is Right(fragmentationneeded.net)
2 points by icehawk 15y ago|0 comments
397.
by icehawk 15y ago
This case has everything to do with GoDaddy, and probably nothing to do with the US government.
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by icehawk 15y ago
If you look at the spam-and-abuse.com domain, all the records pointed to it are GoDaddty domains, the IP addresses it uses are GoDaddy's, and the domain itself is registered to GoDaddy: http://xml.ssdsandbox.net/dnslookup/ns1.suspended-for
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by icehawk 15y ago
Anycast in a DDoS situation would help, but if you throw enough traffic at it you end up with the original DDoS, plus a second DoS caused by cascade failure of the individual nodes going offline, causing BGP flap dampening. Not sure if Anon
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by icehawk 15y ago
The last major attack was in 2007, and only two servers were rendered unreachable: http://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/news/industry-deve... For anyone to actually notice, you have to take down all 13 for 48 hours, and it will be an
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by icehawk 15y ago
This is the original: http://pastebin.com/0gRzqBxq Edit: Formatting
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A textfiles approach to gathering the world's DNS(youtube.com)
3 points by icehawk 15y ago|0 comments
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by icehawk 15y ago
It doesn't. But it does mean you don't have to do it every time This is a nice overview on FSevents http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2007/10/mac-os-x-10-5.a...
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by icehawk 15y ago
Not just hostnames, you can plug in things like Autonomous System Numbers and get reports: http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=AS:15169 http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=AS:6327 http://www.google.com/saf
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by icehawk 15y ago
No, he was lucky, this sort of thing is definitely life-threatening: http://www.wlwt.com/r/29044524/detail.html
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by icehawk 15y ago
The first time I visited Hawaii, I think I might have gotten away with not renting a car. However, the more I visit, the more I find myself driving places. Visiting relatives while I am there also requires a car.
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by icehawk 15y ago
All of this. False positives are horrible for both antivirus companies and their customers, and great care is typically taken to avoid them. Not to mention that if you start alerting the user too much, they'd start tuning out the alerts; th
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by icehawk 15y ago
Oh, and all your EXE-files will also be marked as viruses by the way (since you're most likely using a "self-executing-unpacker-code + data" architecture, which is considered a risk-factor by most antiviruses, no idea why). Because most m
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by icehawk 15y ago
This isn't new. This sort of policy has been around for a long time, take a look at the Post Office Act which incorporated the United States Post Office Department into the United States Cabinet. §148 made it illegal to send any obscene or
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by icehawk 15y ago
I'd like to see this as well. I think a comparison against pre/post blackout trafic stats would be interesting examination of behavior during an outage.
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Inside the Great Firewall of China's Tor Blocking(blog.torproject.org)
1 points by icehawk 15y ago|0 comments
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by icehawk 15y ago
how freaking scary would it have been to explain to your great-great-grandfather that people would carry around computers and look at them while in the bathroom or driving - he would have been terrified of this future Given that my great-
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by icehawk 15y ago
That doesn't really follow. "The hackers behind the attack on StartCom failed to obtain any certificates that would allow them to spoof websites in a similar fashion, and they were also unsuccessful in generating an intermediate certificate
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by icehawk 15y ago
How sad. RIP, dmr.
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by icehawk 15y ago
15ms, one way, in a vacuum, going directly. When you start to factor in things like the fact that light travels 1/3 as fast in a glass fiber as it does in vacuum, routing overhead, and the fact that ping is a round-trip measurement, 60-100m
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by icehawk 15y ago
It would be interesting to compare accept() performance between different hypervisors to see what the performance hit is with KVM, VMware, etc.
417.
by icehawk 15y ago
Voyager is a beautiful example of reliable code and engineering. 30 years and 10 billion miles out, and still functioning.
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by icehawk 15y ago
So, Skynet isn't involved, but what about GLaDOS?