Old Warnings Go Unheeded Today

[sunshine51]

Back in 1998 a grey hat group named L0pht had a meeting

with lawmakers on Capitol Hill in the US. They discussed

many things...including how to disable the entire internet

in 30 minutes. What has changed since that meeting?

Read the two article links below to find out.

Spoiler...Nothing has changed....but read the articles anyway

for deeper nfo.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/06/22/net-of-insecurity-part-3/?hpid=z1&ncid=newsltushpmg00000003

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/05/31/net-of-insecurity-part-2/

[elgordo38]

I guess we all know where the government priorities lie. Getting re-elected is number one. Wars are number two. Self enrichment is number three. Sorry number three should be in second spot. We are on our own folks when it comes to our internet security. The only thing that the government worries about today is how to make money from the internet not how to protect it.

[55Jay]

Good read. Thanks, Sunshine.

[sunshine51]

You're all welcome folks. Threats abound & are getting worse each passing day.

Gotta protect oneself as best you can.

[Chicog]

If they actually gave a toss they would have done something infrastructure-wise about Spam by now.

[IMHO]

If they actually gave a toss they would have done something infrastructure-wise about Spam by now.

If by that you mean/include email SPAM, something was done - DKIM and SPF. Unfortunately, the uptake has been so low, even after all of these years, that you still can't reject emails missing the headers / domains missing the DNS entries

Admittedly, it doesn't stop someone actually sending SPAM, but it does work around the issue of email header and IP spoofing, so if someone does send SPAM, they are easily and reliably blacklisted.

If only all the small time corp. email admins / postmasters would implement it, it could become the rule rather than the exception, and SPAM would be reasonably easy and fast to weed out..

[Chicog]

If they actually gave a toss they would have done something infrastructure-wise about Spam by now.

If by that you mean/include email SPAM, something was done - DKIM and SPF. Unfortunately, the uptake has been so low, even after all of these years, that you still can't reject emails missing the headers / domains missing the DNS entries

Admittedly, it doesn't stop someone actually sending SPAM, but it does work around the issue of email header and IP spoofing, so if someone does send SPAM, they are easily and reliably blacklisted.

If only all the small time corp. email admins / postmasters would implement it, it could become the rule rather than the exception, and SPAM would be reasonably easy and fast to weed out..

I mean by binning SMTP.

SPF and the like are ineffective because it's easy for the spammers just keep reinventing themselves as a trusted sender. Let's face it, you only need a day to send millions of emails.

What it needs is automatic death penalty for all spammers, preferably by red hot poker up their anal cavity.

Edited June 25, 2015 by Chicog

[IMHO]

If they actually gave a toss they would have done something infrastructure-wise about Spam by now.

If by that you mean/include email SPAM, something was done - DKIM and SPF. Unfortunately, the uptake has been so low, even after all of these years, that you still can't reject emails missing the headers / domains missing the DNS entries

Admittedly, it doesn't stop someone actually sending SPAM, but it does work around the issue of email header and IP spoofing, so if someone does send SPAM, they are easily and reliably blacklisted.

If only all the small time corp. email admins / postmasters would implement it, it could become the rule rather than the exception, and SPAM would be reasonably easy and fast to weed out..

I mean by binning SMTP.

SPF and the like are ineffective because it's easy for the spammers just keep reinventing themselves as a trusted sender. Let's face it, you only need a day to send millions of emails.

What it needs is automatic death penalty for all spammers, preferably by red hot poker up their anal cavity.

Hehehe, yeah that

OTOH, for most regular users, Email is so quickly being displaced by a million variants of IM it doesn't really bother them anymore.

From an administrative perspective, something that makes SPAM die would be lovely though - around 75% of server and network resource needed (and therefore, cost) to host email is wasted on SPAM

Edited June 25, 2015 by IMHO