While we worry about Vyatta and Bras.....
..in other news (that seems to have attracted little attention)... http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2010/07/73000-blogs-shu.html 73000 Internet "sites" where shutdown by somebody, for something. -- Somebody should have said: A democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote. Requiescas in pace o email Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Eppure si rinfresca ICBM Targeting Information: http://tinyurl.com/4sqczs http://tinyurl.com/7tp8ml
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net> wrote:
..in other news (that seems to have attracted little attention)...
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2010/07/73000-blogs-shu.html
73000 Internet "sites" where shutdown by somebody, for something.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/07/19/2052202/Blogetery-Shutdown-Due-To-al-... The single host/box had bomb making info and hit lists. Yeah, I'd shut it down too if it was on my network. Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474
On 7/19/2010 17:21, Joe Hamelin wrote:
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net> wrote:
..in other news (that seems to have attracted little attention)...
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2010/07/73000-blogs-shu.html
73000 Internet "sites" where shutdown by somebody, for something.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/07/19/2052202/Blogetery-Shutdown-Due-To-al-...
The single host/box had bomb making info and hit lists. Yeah, I'd shut it down too if it was on my network.
Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474
Seems like somebody would know who ordered it. And were all 73000 "sites" about making bombs? -- Somebody should have said: A democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote. Requiescas in pace o email Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Eppure si rinfresca ICBM Targeting Information: http://tinyurl.com/4sqczs http://tinyurl.com/7tp8ml
On Jul 19, 2010, at 6:25 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
On 7/19/2010 17:21, Joe Hamelin wrote:
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net> wrote:
..in other news (that seems to have attracted little attention)...
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2010/07/73000-blogs-shu.html
73000 Internet "sites" where shutdown by somebody, for something.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/07/19/2052202/Blogetery-Shutdown-Due-To-al-...
The single host/box had bomb making info and hit lists. Yeah, I'd shut it down too if it was on my network.
Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474
Seems like somebody would know who ordered it. And were all 73000 "sites" about making bombs?
Nobody ordered it from what I can tell; it was requested and the Burst site CEO decided to terminate the service. That is a rather different matter. http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20010923-261.html None of this is going to help configure any routers. Regards Marshall
-- Somebody should have said: A democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner.
Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.
Requiescas in pace o email Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Eppure si rinfresca
ICBM Targeting Information: http://tinyurl.com/4sqczs http://tinyurl.com/7tp8ml
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:36:57 EDT, Marshall Eubanks said:
None of this is going to help configure any routers.
Most people call a network of routers run in isolation, without any care or consideration of the outside world and its potential impact on operations, a "test lab". The occasional injection of external reality is useful. And I dunno - some of us may indeed configure our routers differently after being reminded that we could get a letter from the FBI similar to the one that Burstnet got. When was the last time you checked your routers to ensure that they implemented the action your corporate policy dictates for receipt of such a letter?
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net> wrote:
Seems like somebody would know who ordered it. And were all 73000 "sites" about making bombs?
From TFA it was the FBI and it was one box with no back-ups. The hosting company decided to do the adult thing and pull the plug. 73k 'sites' may be a bit of a stretch IMHO.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20010923-261.html "Sources close to the investigation say that included in those materials were the names of American citizens targeted for assassination by al-Qaeda. Messages from Osama bin Laden and other leaders of the terrorist organization, as well as bomb-making tips, were also allegedly found on the server. But Marr said a Burst.net employee erred in telling Blogetery's operator and members of the media that the FBI had ordered it to terminate Blogetery's service. He said Burst.net did that on its own. " Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474
Larry Sheldon wrote:
..in other news (that seems to have attracted little attention)...
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2010/07/73000-blogs-shu.html
73000 Internet "sites" where shutdown by somebody, for something.
"BurstNet, the Web-hosting company, informed Blogetery's operator that service was terminated at the request of some law enforcement agency but wouldn't say which one. As for the reason, BurstNet hasn't made that clear either. In an e-mail to Blogetery's operator, BurstNet managers did say that they had little choice but to terminate service." Burstnet huh? Somehow I am not surprised. Currently I have the below in my blocklists. Since this company facilitates spammers and other dubious activity and doesn't look like it hosts much legitimate content. Maybe the shutdown was an attempt to combat spam? (yeah right!). I suggest everyone adds these to their blocklists: # Hostnoc/Burstnet - 31032010 64.120.128.0/17 64.191.0.0/17 66.96.192.0/18 66.197.128.0/17 96.9.128.0/18 173.212.192.0/18 184.82.0.0/16 I should add that I have personally found proof of brute force break in attempts to a company's systems coming from at least one of those IP ranges. -- http://goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/ http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 05:21:31PM -0700, Jeroen van Aart wrote:
Burstnet huh? Somehow I am not surprised. Currently I have the below in my blocklists. Since this company facilitates spammers and other dubious activity and doesn't look like it hosts much legitimate content.
They've been doing a lot of both for a decade. Others have noticed as well: http://groups.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.email/msg/fba14415f70e08... I strongly recommend blacklisting/null-routing anything they touch. ---Rsk
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