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Prime Minister of Canada: PM visits demilitarized zone in Korea - http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng...
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- Dave "Freedom 35"
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WFXL TV: Police say one person is dead and nine are injured in a mass shooting in Valdosta, Georgia.
crap.
- Dave "Freedom 35"
Re: Atlantis Space Shuttle Launch will be Twittered Live - http://mashable.com/2009...
"I would love to attend a shuttle launch."
- Dave "Freedom 35"
Annoyed at the Annoyed Librarian. All that platform space, so little of use said. Also unimpressed with LJ's choice to allow the AL space there. Meh.
It is seriously time for Library Journal to consider dumping that column. Along those lines, who would offer a nice contrarian POV but would do so in a way that wasn't utterly predictable, poorly argued, and just plain tedious? Surely there must be others who could do a better job, such as ???
- Stephen Francoeur
Well, except the AL's posts go on for-fucking-ever! It's like a bad SNL skit that starts out mildly funny & just gets less & less funny as it goes on, leaving you wondering when the hell it will actually end.
- josh neff, geek at large
Can someone just please out the AL and let us move on?
- Stephen Francoeur
Fer reals.
- Mary Carmen
I enjoy a good dose of snark every now and again to keep us semigrounded, but the one trick pony (nag?) is getting old. And predictable. And again, just tells me that LJ has nothing decent to spend its space on, which is sad.
- Archangel ωαřмaiden
Chris, let's just say that there's a lot of internalized bibliophobia goin' on. Just saying.
- DJF
The AL is a textbook self-loathing bibliosexual.
- josh neff, geek at large
The AL is not one person, but several disgruntled but literate librarians. I am certain!!
- Dave "Freedom 35"
Stephen F.: I'd volunteer, but so far LJ isn't biting--I'd like to think I'm rationally contrarian. (And I agree that whatever group, thing or person is "writing" AL has been phoning it in at greater & greater length since LJ started paying for it. Even if, once in a great while, I'm mildly sympathetic to a short form of what's being said.)
- Walt Crawford
Walt: You'd do a far, far better job of it, for sure. I'm off to picket the nearby LJ offices now with my "Dump the AL" sign in hand.
- Stephen Francoeur
The AL is now following me on twitter. Wonder what I did to deserve this.
- Joe
This dog is an idiot - http://meme.yahoo.com/sorrow...
Paul Buchheit, Hisateru Tanaka, Barış (beyn.org) and 23 other people liked this
Not funny.
- rowlikeagirl
i lold
- irfan ÖZTÜRK
lol
- Furkan Tunalı
:(
- AJ Batac
あぶないよ。日本では自転車のカゴとかでこういうことが起こりそうだ
- Keisuke Mutoh
I bet the jumping dog was fine - car couldn't have been going too fast as the running dog looks to be moving at a comfortable jog.
- Kurt Starnes
atlayan beyaz köpek, diğerinin dengesini bozup, takla atmasını sağlasaydı keşke, işte o zaman çok daha eğlenceli olurdu.
- absurdist
oh sad.
- Marissa
ouch!
- Dave "Freedom 35"
Re: Google Wave crashes on beach of overhype - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
"Thanks for the quick review, Robert. Still waiting on my invite ;-)"
- Dave "Freedom 35"
Twitter... down?
LonelyBob, Ryan, earl wallace and 8 other people liked this
Man, I'm a junky.
- Veronica
Yes, 503 error or blank page?
- Iñaki Rodriguez
Was it "Steve'd"?
- Kevan Emmott
i'm seeing all kinds of errors on my ops stats
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
It's the AT&T of social media. Given a big event it'll be down... :)
- Thomas
Sheesh; it was just down last night.
- Christopher A Carr
Yes, you are. I'm telling Ryan that you aren't giving your sole undivided attention to the gdgt live coverage.
- Paul Reynolds
lame.
- Veronica
Ya its down :( Throwing 503 error for me.
- Vikas SN
Actually, I have it auto-refreshing in the window next to this one
- Veronica
Can we attribute this to the Apple event chatter? Coincidence?
- Rolf Schewe
down
- Dave "Freedom 35"
I'm sure it's purely a coincidence, Rolf ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Indeed. Says: "HTTP Server Error 503 No available server to handle this request"
- Rolf Schewe
i'm seeing oauth verify and login errors in my system logs - twitter ops are not having a good morning it seems
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Definitely down.
- Robert Scoble
yup
- Johnny
yeah, apple event I beat
- Jeffrey
ok
- RADAR-DZ
API access seems to be working for some.
- Steven Walling
down.
- niccolò vecchia
Ken: I guess it's just that I usually don't refreshing it this much and happen to notice it this time.
- Rolf Schewe
Still the apple event makes me miss twitter a bit less
- Jorge
Back up for me.
- Rolf Schewe
I know I'm more than a bit biased, but I love the autorefreshing on gdgt! I don't even have to be in that window to watch it go by.
- Veronica
Back up - but for how long... :)
- Thomas
error rate is down to the normal level - you should be seeing data now
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
I jumped to friendfeed to get my info.
- Sean Higgins
AGAIN!?
- Kevin Yanes
Dial M for Mobile: The Emerging World of Mobile Content at Content & Collaboration - http://blogs.mcgill.ca/ccs...
"The advances made in the power and sophistication of the latest smart phones and consumer mobile devices, such as the iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch, are creating a revolutionary change in the way people conceive, create, consume, and distribute content to a mobile platform. With the proliferation of smart phones and mobile devices around us, the case is clear: next generation content must support and take advantage of mobility."
- Dave "Freedom 35"
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Them Crooked Vultures are coming to town. Decisions, Decisions.
Kol Tregaskes, Nia, Carlos Ayala and 2 other people liked this
Band of the year? Who knows, but I cannot wait to see them
- Dave Hodson
Dave Grohl and who else?
- Dave "Freedom 35"
Dave Grohl, Josh Homme and John Paul Jones
- Dave Hodson
It is an indoor show, so it will only be it will be with 2,500 people at a General Admission venue; that has made it all the more tempting
- RAPatton
Because @jowyang didn't tell me where he's going and I learned it anyway I am very tempted to tell the world to mess up his launch. :-)
A Mitchell, Bert DuMars, Roger Jennings and 56 other people liked this
so a startup then..
- Zee.
But I won't, because he's my friend and so are the other people involved. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Thanks for the tease anyway. :)
- Steven Walling
Hmmmm...
- Simon Young
I hear he'll announce it "within days" and it's a pretty interesting gig.
- Robert Scoble
When will we find out Robert?
- Dave "Freedom 35"
friend = somebody reliable. keep it secret. keep it safe :)
- Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic
Are there cameras involved?
- Simon Young
Funny. He didn't tell me because he thought I would tell everyone. :-)
- Robert Scoble
so go ahead and tell us! : )
- Teri Gidwitz
Teri: believe me, I'm tempted, just to teach him a lesson! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Rob you're such a trouble maker hahaha
- Jeunelle Foster
What I want to know: Who will replace him at Forrester?
- Dave "Freedom 35"
BTW, I dig the new avatar, glad the green is gone ;)
- Keith - @tsudo
Will he be interviewed on Building43?
- Simon Young
Dave: not possible to replace him, sorry.
- Robert Scoble
Well, payback is always worse. They're recruiting for a replacement at Forrester. Go look at his "former" blog; HR guy posted.
- Teri Gidwitz
Same here. Green was getting a bit putrid.
- Dave "Freedom 35"
Simon: nah, it's not a building43 kind of thing.
- Robert Scoble
Big shoes indeed.
- Dave "Freedom 35"
Oh. Interesting!
- Simon Young
Robert - you post on the race for real time web is amazing - I really want to know where you see real time TV fitting into this?
- James Stewart
Don't pull an Arrington, man. Be cool.
- Daniel Fath
Nice going Robert, we all are looking forward to knowing when the time comes.
- courtney benson
Damn... I got excited for a second that I may be among the first to know what he's up to. I guess I'll wait to find out along with everyone else!
- Jodi Echakowitz
Daniel: it could be "JeremiahGate!" :-)
- Robert Scoble
I think you guys are already breaking the ground by using Kyte etc and I tune in, but as a business channel in NZ I believe we need to be out there every day interviewing amazing people, streaming it live, enabling real time chats via FF and the Ustream intergration with facebook - I see facebook as the new TV platform that most people spend their time hanging out on and if they see an...
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- James Stewart
FF is pretty cool for these kinds of flash news teasers. :)
- Dave "Freedom 35"
James: real time TV: http://friendfeed.com/search... Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
haha oops - didn't know about that!
- James Stewart
James: FriendFeed's real time search engine has a lot of cool features that never were explored. I really hope that's what they are going to do for Facebook.
- Robert Scoble
thx Robert ....thats super cool
- Johni Fisher
The problem is that most people that use the internet are still just getting on facebook, I am 25 and I only have a handful of people friends my age that twitter as they don't have a community on there they can identify with - I like what you said about Facebook Public - that is definitely where I see them going with some serious live streaming intergration. Facebook will win because...
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- James Stewart
Robert: True man, since I saw this partnership happen my head has been whizzing with ideas for the implications of it. >> Most of the people in my age group watch videos that have been shared on facebook by their friends and favourite groups. Definitely some new stuff with video on it's way - keep us posted! Thanks for the replies :)
- James Stewart
Amazon?
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: no and not Facebook either. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Either your going to be a big tease or a tattle tale either of which will get you beaten up on the playground, so stop it (:
- Kim Landwehr
from BuddyFeed
DBAD
- Josh Haley
Kim: heheh.
- Robert Scoble
Robert. You're a friend, but you've a habit of breaking news --sometimes when folks aren't ready. It's not personal, but I just know your traits. I'm going to brief you in detail on Wed. We can do a video if you'd like --I'll come to you. Hugs?
- Jeremiah Owyang
awww... ;-)
- Chris Heath
Robert - hug Jeremiah, do the video - but insist he brings that little dog with him. IT is cute :)
- Rob La Gesse
Will Robert put away his (fake) wounded pride and interview Jeremiah on Wednesday? Oh yes, he will - and now we have a deadline. Good work Robert!
- Kami Huyse
bring @goodboyrumba along for the video! :)
- Rachel Luxemburg
"Be excellent to each other."
- Steve Rubel
Jeremiah: :-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
OK, can we flashmob to celebrate Jeremiah's new gig right after the interview?
- Elliott Ng
Jeremiah: here is the deal. I am not under embargo but already know the news. So I think I will call Arrington because you didn't embargo me. Oh, and I +do+ keep embargoes. I am even keeping a secret about two things you will learn in the morning.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I still struggle with my 7 year old son to not steal his siblings' thunder in matters important to them. It's not easy for him.
- Josh Haley
I know those two things, Robert.
- Louis Gray
I know a lot of things, not even just two, but maybe not the two you are thinking of
- Jesse Stay
Kami, I saw Robert yesterday, and I asked him if I'd hurt his feelings, he said "yes". Robert and I go back, there was a time (ustream launch) where we well, didn't coordinate on news. He's truly a friend, and someone I respect as a media trailblazer --but I need to get everything coordinated. To be clear, he was on the list of folks I'd brief in detail --others just got cursory info.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Here's a long discussion on where Jeremiah Owyang will be going next. Interesting discussion developing on embargoes and 'bloggers'
- Drew B
Lets figure out where he is going. Who is in most need of Jeremiahs incredible intelligence on social media?
- Nisse
Drew, is it interesting that Robert is threatening me that I didn't tell him? Should bloggers assert themselves to get news? (it's a bit fun watching him get antsy)
- Jeremiah Owyang
Is he going to disneyland?
- Cliff Gerrish
Jeremiah: my feelings were hurt because you told pretty much everyone else in the industry other than me. Here's a hint: they can't keep their mouths shut either. But I will. You will know tomorrow that I actually do know the news. But the other deal is that you're wrong. I've kept hundreds of embargoes over the past year and haven't leaked them to anyone. If you weren't a friend and...
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- Robert Scoble
So they want the publicity you can bring but want to control the timing and message. I would be inclined to not agree as well. Sounds like you are being used.
- Brian Sullivan
I hear news all the time about people who aren't necessarily friends but would generally want the news quiet - does this mean I should start leaking those details? I'm not sure the right answer to that. The problem though is often the way I hear about that information is through other friends who were trusted to keep the info private. Is it worth betraying the trust of those friends as well?
- Jesse Stay
The problem comes maybe when you are "friends" with everybody but also are trying to be a legitimate reporter at the same time. We criticize television and newspaper reporters for this all the time but tech reportage seems to get a pass.
- Brian Sullivan
Jesse, yeah your situations seem tough because if you leak, you're a jackass because someone else can't keep their mouth shut.
- Chris Heath
Brian: everyone uses me, I'm used to it, it's part of the role I play in life. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I was planning on telling you before the announcement --and the offer still stands. I'm sorry I hurt your feelings, that wasn't my intent.
- Jeremiah Owyang
What's the point here??
- Andru Edwards
nothing really andru, I say we just move along and let Robert and I handle this offline. Clearly, we need to work this out.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Talking to Scoble now, I apologized. I take back what I said above, he's not broken any embargos in a while and I take that charge back. I also briefed him, as a friend, and more. Sorry Robert, I crossed the line.
- Jeremiah Owyang
I'm going to guess Jeremiah will join Dave Armano and Peter Kim and work for Dachis.
- Ari Herzog
Ari - that's my guess too.
- Hutch Carpenter
Now watch Scoble jump to Streamy right now to tell what Jeremiah is doing next. Ha!
- Bryan R. Adams
This is funny! "JeremiahGate" got love it :)
- Susan Beebe
Scoble is very good at keeping secrets and creating Buzz! :)
- Susan Beebe
Thanks Jeremiah! Excited for you.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I want a "Gate" named after me :-)
- Jesse Stay
Robert, excellent start at creating the "buzz" for @jowyang 's launch LOL
- j damon brown
Link Baiting 101: Start a fight with Scoble.
- Jason Calacanis
Once again, calacanis ftw
- Chris Heath
from iPhone
Dude, why would you do that? I knew where you were going both times, and I kept it to myself. I coulda broken it, but why violate trust.
- Jeremy Pepper
Jeremy: who you talking to? No one has violated any trust. We're all cool now anyway.
- Robert Scoble
Jeremy: and when I left Microsoft someone DID violate my trust and leaked it within hours. So what? It all works out. Coordination is overrated.
- Robert Scoble
LOL Jason. But Robert is right, co-ordination can be overrated.
- Ian Betteridge
Group hug.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Jeremiah - your recognition and classifications/categorizations of trends and strategies is truly unique. Thank you for all you've done at Forrester. Whatever your new role is, I hope you'll continue to share your thoughts.
- A Mitchell
University researcher makes virtual environment of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside | CJAD - http://www.cjad.com/node...
"A researcher at Simon Fraser University has mapped Canada's poorest neighbourhood onto his Nintendo Wii and created a playable virtual environment, complete with darkened alleys and threatening characters. "We are using video game technologies to create a virtual environment that resembles Vancouver's Downtown Eastside for criminology research studies," Andrew Park said in an interview."
- Dave "Freedom 35"
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Officials have found that the wildfires raging in the Los Padres National Forest was caused by a cooking fire set by marijuana growers.
pinkpackrat, Dave "Freedom 35" and Luis Canau liked this
Those dope-heads. Snorting coke is more nature-friendly.
- Luis Canau
Stupid careless marijuana growers! Now they're in trouble!
- Dave "Freedom 35"
#cooperdog has an upset tummy, won't eat his breakfast, threw up 3 times. calling emergency vet
Oh no :(
- Dave "Freedom 35"
Issuu - You Publish - http://issuu.com/business#
"Publish and share your publications for free and embed on websites, blogs, and social networks."
- Dave "Freedom 35"
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Technology Review: Blogs: TR Editors' blog: What a "Facebook Browser" Means For the Web - http://www.technologyreview.com/blog...
"What a "Facebook Browser" Means For the Web RockMelt could be the realization of the company's efforts to create a more social Web."
- Dave "Freedom 35"
from Bookmarklet
Technology Review: Making Search Social - http://www.technologyreview.com/read_ar...
"Making Search Social A new engine can turn a difficult search into a communal quest."
- Dave "Freedom 35"
from Bookmarklet
Technology Review: An Operating System for the Cloud - http://www.technologyreview.com/web...
"Google is developing a new computing platform equal to the Internet era. Should Microsoft be worried?"
- Dave "Freedom 35"
from Bookmarklet
Office for Mac to get actual version of Outlook in 2010 - Ars Technica - http://arstechnica.com/apple...
"Hell has frozen over: Microsoft's Mac Business Unit says that the next version of Office for Mac will arrive in 2010 with a genuine Outlook client and better Exchange support."
- Dave "Freedom 35"
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US digital music sales to eclipse CDs by 2010 - Ars Technica - http://arstechnica.com/media...
"US digital music sales to eclipse CDs by 2010 If current trends hold, US digital music downloads will rake in more money than physical formats next year. Worldwide, digital will overtake physical by 2016."
- Dave "Freedom 35"
from Bookmarklet
Flickr: Quan Nguyen's Photostream - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Someone was feeling daring today. A dress with ventilation.
- Dave "Freedom 35"
from Bookmarklet
Nice pictures, Dave. Why thank you, Dave. Your welcome, Dave.
- Dave "Freedom 35"
Is it okay to have a man-crush on Dave Grohl? The Foo Fighters never fail to kick ass.
Haggis (Sean Loyless) and Mitch liked this
I don't think it's a problem, Foo forever
- Mitch
He's playing Sunday night with John Paul Jones and Josh Homme: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music...
- LogEx
Best gift I ever got my wife - tickets to see the Foo Fighters.
- Art Witczak
Good. I'm ok. You're ok.
- Dave "Freedom 35"
There is no defense against Denial of Service (DOS) attacks. The bad guys can always throw more bandwidth at the attack than you can.
Kevin Brew, Andy Bold, Rui Pereira and 75 other people liked this
Can a DoS attack be traced?
- Dave "Freedom 35"
The datacenter really needs to handle this in their routers and packet filtering. Expecting web sites to deal DDOS attacks won't work.
- Todd Hoff
Just tuning in right now - is Twitter down from a DOS attack?
- Dean "Karnatos" Michaud
Twitter (web) is back up.
- Dave "Freedom 35"
A DOS is very hard to trace since it's typically done with a zombie network. And you can't route your way out of a DOS attack.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
There are ways to defend against DDOS attacks. Generally, you run out of CPU before you run out of bandwidth.
- Wirehead
No, there really isn't any way to defend against a DOS these days.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
A lot are accomplished with broadcast and other techniques that can be stopped at the router.
- Todd Hoff
I disagree, Alex.
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
That's crazy!
- Kelby
And as pointed out by Mashable - the trending topics on twitter were "Tweet Created" and "Twitter Zombies"
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
they are just shutdown their system to make us talk about them.
- abdellah
DoS attacks can be traced, but are rarely used, Distributed DoS attacks originate from so many different points there is no point in tracing the sources
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Well, you want to see how good your DOS defenses are? Put up a website saying "Our systems are able to withstand a DOS attack so do your best" and see what happens. :)
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Entities having large zombie nets are difficult to defeat in a DDoS attack. Unless you're the ISP, they have more than you do.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Google is probably very DDOS resistant because of how distributed their stuff is, but most places can't duplicate that defense. And it's possible for a zombie net to be able to chew up more bandwidth than an ISP has
- Alex Scoble
from IM
And I guarantee you that friendfeed is just as vulnerable to a DOS attack as Twitter is.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
And you'll notice that I'm not differentiating between DOS and DDOS, because a DDOS is a DOS and is now the most common type of DOS.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Alex - that worries me the most about FF. :)
- phil baumann
Depends on the class of DOS, but bandwidth exhaustion DDOS attacks are certainly one of the hardest to defend one's self from.
- ax0n
I suggest you all take the time to tour the rest of the Internet! Remember there's more than AOL...I mean Twitter out there!
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Yeah, ax0n, that's what I'm saying. :)
- Alex Scoble
from IM
I don't give two poos about Twitter being down - but broadly speaking, can't good IPSes doing packet inspection mitigate this shit (if the attack is not too high-octane in its own available bandwidth, that is.) Although as Wirehead said, you'll be melting CPUs before anything else, I'd think.
- Anthony Citrano
Here is some research. http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/papers... I'm not fond of words such as impossible, or technical discussion that lacks technical detail.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Well, let's just say it's a lot harder for a service provider to make it impossible to do a DDOS than it is for an attacker to make it impossible to use your service. :)
- Alex Scoble
from IM
I can't post a new thread on FF - ERROR!
- Liza
But yes, the title of this thread should be "For most of the world, there is no defense..." Large organizations like Google can do some things to defend against DOS attacks, like run behind distributed server farms...but 99.9% of the world is not Google.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Then again, this is probably why a lot of people are interested in cloud computing. If distributed systems are the best defense for a DOS, then cloud computing would be a great way to run public web based services.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
If these DDOSes are coming from zombie machines, those machines are probably prone to infection, which means you need your own botnet to attack the zombies and install your own botnet software on them. Whoever makes a botnet that uses DDOSes as a way to find more machines will eventually grow the biggest botnet out there. ;)
- Amit Patel
Heh yeah, and you are starting to see more sophisticated zombie attacks that harden the zombies that they take over to make it harder for other zombie attackers to take over their zombie nets.
- Alex Scoble
just boot your machine in safe mode with networking and run Spybot Search & Destroy, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, and your anti-virus scans - if it's not cleaned out by that then you might as well re-install windows (which is a good idea from the start since you never really know if you got rid of any rootkits) sometimes it's quicker to reinstall windows than to go through all that
- Chris Heath
Yeah, that doesn't defend you from a DDOS attack though. That just cleans out malware if your PC has become a zombie and is part of a DDOS attack. :)
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Actually there are companies that sell protection against DDoS. It works.
- Leo Laporte
Agree with @Jason here is another link to share for DDoS Attack/Defense Taxonomies http://www.lasr.cs.ucla.edu/ddos.... I think the key to remember is that the DDoS attacks evolve over time. I can see even clouds being vulnerable in that conceivably one can use linked clouds to launch large enough attacks to overwhelm a single vendors ability to scale. Has not happened yet but possible.
- Altan Khendup
There is tremendous vulnerability if they can take Twitter down.
- rob
Twitter just isn't that large, or that distributed. I'm impressed if they can take down Facebook, or Google. (it seems that Facebook was suffering at the same time, and my suspicion is from the same attack - but maybe not)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Does anyone know at this point who is responsible for the attack? This would require a huge bot-net and some serious bandwidth.
- Angus Burton
Great FF conversation here about outages, cause, impacts, etc. ----> http://ff.im/6fF0t
- Susan Beebe
Yeah, Alex... I was commenting in reference to the hardening of the zombies
- Chris Heath
There is a defense, employing a network element which can route around obstacles: carrier pigeons. http://crankypm.com/2009...
- DGentry
There's a denial of service attack that can be used against pigeons...requires a shotgun and someone who knows how to use it :)
- Alex Scoble
from IM
DGentry: There's a follow up to that IP over Carrier Pigeon, IP over Tanks. Paint the 0s and 1s on the side of a tank turret, and such. Helps to defeat Alex's DoS attack on the pigeons. At least to DoS it you need a bigger gun ;)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Chris Heath: more simple way of defeating rootkits: Run the machine as a Virtual Machine, and always roll back to a clean snapshot on reboot. I've employed that method for a long time. Defeats rootkits, viruses, stupid users, and all that. Works for any OS you can run in the VM.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Still not 100% effective. There are ways to take control of the host machine that is running a VM.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Nothing is 100% effective, short of sealing the machine 1 mile underground in a concrete-filled missle silo.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
And FWIW: I have not yet heard any significant news of bare-metal hypervisors (which replace the host OS and which I was referring to above) being compromised (but it will come, or is here already and quiet)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Which breaks rule #1 Must meet business needs
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Ahh, sorry, when you say VM I think of the more traditional VMs running on a traditional OS
- Alex Scoble
from IM
LOL. Yes - but it does make the point of what must be done to truly secure a machine. There is no such thing as 100% security with any remaining functionality
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I mostly meant things like VMWare ESXi (which doesn't even use a traditional OS for management purposes any more. (ESX is a bare-metal hyper visor, but uses a RH variant as a management box)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Yeah, that stuff is pretty sweet.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
And ESXi is free I believe. If the virtual hardware would just run a video game, I'd run everything like that ;)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Great point Rob (bringing up virtualization) -- and for anyone interested in this stuff, Hak.5 has done a lot of virtualization in season 5 http://www.hak5.org/categor... They get into ESX and ESXi in the later half of the season but virtualization is often a topic for one of their segments.
- Chris Heath
@guruvan (Rob Nelson): there is the alleged Blue Pill hypervisor root kit. http://bit.ly/JCmmP
- Nick Lothian
Not to mention the experimental (allegedly) work of installing viruses on things like graphics controllers
- Alex Scoble
from IM
I wouldn't doubt if it was completely real, Alex. You read about the Apple keyboard bit?
- Matthew Horton
No, I missed that one...got a link?
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Granted it's not done remotely yet - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
- Matthew Horton
@Alex Scoble: most DDOS attacks aren't designed to use up your bandwidth - they generally hit others limits a long time before that. The most common type of attack opens up lots and lots of connections to your website at once. That makes your webservers fall over. For added variety some hold the connections open, so they appear just like a slow web browser, making it harder to detect.
- Nick Lothian
Yep, but if an attacker so chooses, they may rent out a botnet from various individuals and jam your internet connections as well.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
And Matthew, that keyboard hack is crazy awesome.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
The biggest mistake that any designer, engineer or programmer can make is to forget about layer zero in the OSI model...the user layer.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
My bad...I meant layer eight.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
If you ever hear a designer/developer/programmer/engineer say "a user would never do that", fire them on the spot.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Alex, why is it that CERT website dont get DoS'ed ?
- Peter Dawson
Alex - if the virus that's designed to hit the graphics controller doesn't have access to the correct host OS, it's going to write to the VMs graphics controller. Which just won't do much.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Nick: The Blue Pill is an attack on a Windows machine that has virtualization in the processor - it converts the running Windows into a VM and becomes the bare-metal hypervisor on the fly. Using an actual hypervisor defeats that. (though it is a pretty impressive attack)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
@guruvan (Rob Nelson): I'm not sure. http://www.zdnetasia.com/news... says "The researchers claimed Xen hypervisors could be subverted by compromising flaws in Xen software to gain access to Domain 0, Xen's privileged administrative domain. Once that administrative domain is compromised, the virtual system controlled by the hypervisor is compromised."
- Nick Lothian
At least now we're getting a better idea of what happened Thursday. Though it's intriguing how it was aimed at just one person who had different services each of which were affected.
- George Hall (Australia)
i'm not following george... did I miss something?
- Chris Heath
Yep, Chris...the fact there's a pro-Georgian blogger who wrote on all the affected services. Seems all his pages were targetted. A bit more of the Russian/Georgian cyberwar. There's at least a few articles/posts about that across the net. Though, I summarized it at http://geehall1.posterous.com
- George Hall (Australia)
Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, YouTube, Google attack was not a botnet, just tons of people manually clicking spam ... related to pro-Abkhazia activist blogger Cyxymu. This is the theory of Bill Woodcock, research director of Packet Clearing House, a nonprofit that helps network operators when they come under attack. CNET (4:32 pm PDT) seems to be the main source of this story, which...
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- Mitchell Tsai
erro not so you can block the suspisious ip addresses / country
- Maurice Walshe
Alex, I when I said CERT I meant this site http://www.us-cert.gov
- Peter Dawson
You _can_protect your site against DoS attacks. Tier 1 ISPs offer DDoS protection using CiscoGuard appliances (see http://www.cisco.com/en...) + BGP + GRE tunnels. They deflect extortion attempts every week for banks and other sites.
- Paul Lindner
Very interesting stuff, Paul. Thanks for the link. I wonder how long it will be before the bad guys find a way to shut those Cisco boxes down and make them cry to mama. It's like a grand game of cat and mouse.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
eh Paul, some of em systems are also vectors for DNS posioning and route hijacking.. ant that a DoS too ?
- Peter Dawson
Peter: Yes, DNS poisoning can be a DoS attack, as well as route hijacking. Typically those are done to deny users access to a given site or service. Occasionally those are used to hijack a service, which has the effect of DoS, but not the primary intention (the primary intention is often to change the message that web site visitors would see, or perhaps to collect sensitive data such as passwords or financial information )
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
@GuruVan, " change the message " is more like "man-in-the-middle", thats a totally different vector !!
- Peter Dawson
Not quite Peter. MiTM is usually executed differently than a straight hijacking. (though the data collection I mentioned is usually a MiTM attack)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
off course, MiTM is executed differently !! Hey, anyway feel free to jump onto my FF bandwagon.. http://friendfeed.com/cloud-d... f:)-
- Peter Dawson
I may be simplistic but couldn't these hackers just doing something worthwhile with their talent?
- Kevin J Hatton
They are often affilliated with elements of organized crime in various countries
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Or affiliated with seedy people who don't like ketchup on burgers
- Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)
yeah but remember, in some countries they (hackers) have to protect their young sisters from being sold - so they (hackerS) use their talents to keep the family together. Its an't always what you think it is !
- Peter Dawson
Okay, but are those guys 'hackers' or 'crackers'? AFAIK they're crackers.. no?
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
from email
They are both. :) A cracker is a black hat hacker.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Or h4XX0r$ ;) ( or god forbid, the evil and feared script kiddies )
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Interesting analysis of Twitter's network: http://www.blyon.com/blog...
- Todd Hoff
What's happening? Twitter's DOA; FF is slowing down.
It's an attack?
- Dave "Freedom 35"
Weird... now FriendFeed seems a little wonky. Has the entire world of social networking come to a crashing halt?
You don't see how addicted you are until it is taken away! I have the shakes! ;)
- Dave Drager
I have no voice. I can't tweet!
- Dave "Freedom 35"
Murdoch signals end of free news - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
"News Corp is set to start charging online customers for news content across all its websites."
- Dave "Freedom 35"
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Jobless graduate sues her college - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
"A New York woman who says she cannot find a job is suing the college where she obtained a bachelor's degree, the New York Post reports."
- Dave "Freedom 35"
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My new red lips. Not too orange, not too blue. Just right! In case you're curious, I went shopping for warpaint last night (aka "stage makeup" aka "my derby face").
Baard @ Pixum, Sascha Silberholz Wasek, Alex Scrivener and 97 other people liked this
hawt!
- Terry O'Fee
I like you without the lipstick. But since you're going to war, I mean, the derby, this is perfect.
- vijay
You look really, Cute Tina. They're no need for that straight face. Have a smile silly :)
- Matt Ruiz
As it's been years since I've actually worn red lipstick, I've remembered that it's darn near impossible to put on properly straight from the tube (need a brush or start off with lip liner). That won't matter much for derby, though: one hit and it'll be smeared all over the place and I'll look like an escapee from the asylum =D
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
the serious face makes it look even better, IMO ;)
- Terry O'Fee
What, you've never heard it called warpaint Earl? Maybe it's just me, but that's always how I've thought of makeup (especially when going on job interviews!).
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
looking good tina!
- (jeff)isageek
love it, believe me I love it so buy it.
- abdellah
nice either way, but this is also a good look. :)
- Joe Silence disconnected
I think the Marines recently adopted that shade for the Afghanistan campaign.
- Steve C
*sagenod* Warpaint is either camouflage or distraction: depending on the circumstances this color should serve either purpose well in battle.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
War paint on the derby floor, you got to be tough!
- orionstarr
What about a green or olive lipstick? To go w/ your name?
- Joe
PS: I wish you would not have shaved your beard today.
- Joe
You look great! Like you are on a special SWAT team - And I volunteer to be 'SWAT-ted' first! :-)
- Morgan Haley
Sorry Morgan, I'm pretty sure Dave gets first swatting privileges.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
o_0
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
Definitely Hawt
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Smokin Hawt
- johnpiercy
Brand and name of color?
- Cheryl Jones
Wow.
- Bren -- Making Contact
from iPhone
Cheryl, that's Revelon Matte "In The Red" (color 007, which makes me chuckle). If I put it on lightly it's a bit too pink, but another coat brings it back to brick red. Same thing when it starts to wear off... Feels great for a matte, and no sunscreen so I'm not allergic to it.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
lovely
- Mattb4rd
Nice color!
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
Nice! :)
- Cheryl Jones
Does anyone remember the Cathy comic when red lipstick was popular in the 90s? She felt like a giant pair of red lips walking around all day? That's how I feel when this floats back up my feed!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Ah, it's, er, getting hot in here...
- Dave "Freedom 35"
AWEsome, Tina! :-D
- Ladybug Heather
Hey Tina in all your pics you never appear to smile, what's up with that?
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
I like the serious look. Everybody always feels obliged to smile.
- Kevin J Hatton
I suspect giant fangs
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
Always better without makeup, IMHO.
- Jordi Soler
AP: TX woman who decapitated and stabbed her 3.5-week old son used a knife and two swords before eating parts of body, including the brain.
C'mon? Seriously?
- Vinny
And yet, some insist there's no such thing as good and evil, truth and perversion...
- Gus
Oh man that is disturbing beyond belief.
- Craig Eddy
How does someone do that? Too many horrible stories involving children in the news today.
- Gina Backes
Unstable, insane, mentally ill, or possessed by evil. Take your pick. You're probably correct.
- Dave "Freedom 35"
Asking a girl to get married on TV is sick.
It's getting sicker and sicker out there, folks.
- Dave "Freedom 35"
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