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Ebbers sentenced to 25 years in prison
by Fergie (Paul Ferguson) 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8474930/ - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(a)netzero.net or fergdawg(a)sbcglobal.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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UN report indicates ICANN retains position in Internet governance
by Fergie (Paul Ferguson) 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

Update from Kieren over at The Register: [snip] A sneak preview of the UNs report into internet governance has revealed that ICANN will retain its position as the lead technical body for the Internet. However, the organisations dreams of becoming a quasi-governmental body overseeing the future of the internet have been dealt a heavy blow. Chairman of the UNs Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG), Nitin Desai, spoke at ICANNs bi-annual conference in Luxembourg this morning and said that 70 to 80 per cent of Internet governance did not concern ICANN at all. [snip] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/13/icann_conference/ - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(a)netzero.net or fergdawg(a)sbcglobal.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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Openbsd fixes icmp protocol bugs apparently ignored by the IETF
by Suresh Ramasubramanian 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

And the guy who did this says that someone at cisco called him a terrorist, and that the IETF ignored him .. but Theo deRaadt believes him, and puts his changes into the openbsd codebase. All for your basic ICMP source quench / hard ICMP error exploits, from a quick read through http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382 Oh well, makes interesting reading if nothing else. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists(a)gmail.com)

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Yahoo and Cisco to submit e-mail ID spec to IETF
by Fergie (Paul Ferguson) 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

More info: [snip] Yahoo and Cisco Monday plan to announce they will submit their e-mail authentication specification, DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), to the IETF to be considered as an industry standard. Discussions on DKIM will begin at the IETF meeting in Paris scheduled to run between July 31 and August 5, Yahoo and Cisco officials said. DKIM combines Yahoo's DomainKeys and Cisco's Internet Identified Mail, two e-mail authentication technologies developed separately, which the companies announced in June they would combine with the intention of licensing the resulting specification royalty-free throughout the industry. [snip] http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/071105-yahoo-cisco.html - ferg p.s. Of course, this development comes on the heels of two other methods for e-mail authentication already published by the IETF as "experimental" RFC's: "Sender Policy Framework (SPF) for Authorizing Use of Domains in E-Mail" and Microsoft's "Sender ID: Authenticating E-Mail". http://news.com.com/Antispam+proposals+advance/2100-1032_3-5768498.html -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(a)netzero.net or fergdawg(a)sbcglobal.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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"ICANN Blog" about their Luxembourg meeting
by william(at)elan.net 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

I think some of you may find the following "blog" (article) by Kieren McCarthy an interesting read: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/13/icann_blog_tues/ --- William Leibzon Elan Networks william(a)elan.net

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Google Said..... Was: RE: London incidents
by Hannigan, Martin 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-nanog(a)merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of > Steve Sobol > Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 10:25 PM > To: North American Networking & Offtopic Gripes > Subject: Re: London incidents > > > > Jim Popovitch wrote: > > > I think the world has shown that cellphones have been used > over and over > > to detonate explosive devices. Why wait for it to be proved again > > before doing something? AFAIK "Emergency Only" mode allows for 911 > > calls, > > And means nothing if power is cut to the cell sites and you > can't connect to > anything. Emergency mode only works where there is a signal. Good points. And thanks for not saying "Google said...". Independant sources are not listed in google. :-). [ObSecOp: FWIW, you can google how a cell phone can be used as a detonator and it does tend to demonstrate some thought on controlling cell signals as security policy...THAT is a good use for google.. -M< ] ObTechnoPoliButOffTopic: If the UK GOV makes a tacit denial of such an event that would hold more[1] credibility than them pointing at others saying they didn't do it. [1] Slightly more, depending upon how high up. -M<

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ICANN warns world of domain hijacking
by Fergie (Paul Ferguson) 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

Via the ICANN website: "The Domain Name Hijacking Report was commissioned in response to both highly publicized hijacking events and a number of lesser publicized events. The SSAC found that domain name hijacking incidents are commonly the result of flaws in registration and related processes, failure to comply with the transfer policy and poor administration of domain names. The report recommends ten key actions including implementation of improved auditing and compliance measures, and additional measures to protect registration information from misuse by would-be hijackers, as well as implementation of emergency procedures to assist in the urgent restoration of a domain name." http://www.icann.org/announcements/hijacking-report-12jul05.pdf - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(a)netzero.net or fergdawg(a)sbcglobal.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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RE: London incidents
by Hannigan, Martin 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: Sean Donelan [mailto:sean@donelan.com] > Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 8:50 PM > To: Hannigan, Martin > Cc: nanog(a)merit.edu > Subject: RE: London incidents > > > On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Hannigan, Martin wrote: > > > All this while I was trying unsuccessfully to use my > > > mobile to ring the office. > > > > Some cell relays were temporarily shut to prevent a remote > > detonation of additional explosives. Cellular remotes seem > > to be a favorite of Al Qaeda and others. > > UK Government officials deny they shutdown any cell phone service. And?

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Cable cutting suspect arrested
by Sean Donelan 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

Chelmsford suspect on the hook in cable-cutting case By Jessica Fargen Tuesday, July 12, 2005 A Chelmsford man allegedly tried to get rich in a snip by cutting Verizon and Comcast phone lines, then tried to get the companies to pay him to stop, prosecutors say. http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=93434

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Re: London incidents
by sthaug＠nethelp.no 12 Jul '05

12 Jul '05

> I think the world has shown that cellphones have been used over and over > to detonate explosive devices. Why wait for it to be proved again > before doing something? The logical conclusion to that line of thought would seem to be that all cell phone services should be turned off in all densely populated areas. Is this really what we want? (It's certainly not what *I* want.) Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug(a)nethelp.no

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