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MediaDefender, using illegal tactics. Took down Revision3 last weekend. Revision3 is a company founded by Kevin Rose (Digg Fame) that produces video for the web. Mediadefender did not like that they also had a Bit Tracker host running and launched an attack. These guys need to be taught a lesson that they can not break the law because they want to stop copyright violations. You don’t do a denial of service attack, you go to court.
I wonder home many small sites or users they have knocked off the web. I doubt this is the first.
Well I hope they go to court this time. As the defendant. What they did is illegal and they should face the penalties.
We got the T3 turned up last night. We have it via RCN and it is like night and day. THe internet is now enjoyable at work. Very cool.
I also got to play with an image stream Rebel router. The device is nice and packs in a lot of functionality but what is better is the support. They have always gotten back to me in one hour and were very helpful. THey even told me what I did wrong in the wan config file and sent the new one over to me via email. And it worked.
Very cool.
Where:
157 Broad Street, Suite 211
Red Bank, NJ 07701
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TIME:
Wednesday, May 21st @ 7pm
Give Away and Pizza/Drinks, and Meet the other Flex People!!!
This meeting will be very “introductory,” and is geared more towards a meeting the other members, rather than an educational discussion.
Next month we’ll start up the speakers.
Please RSVP on www.NJFlex.com to ensure we have enough food and chairs for everyone.
Thanks,
Jason
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I will try to be there, how about you?
The MadAdmin
CBS buys CNET
NEW YORK (AP) — CBS Corp. agreed to buy online technology news and entertainment company CNet Networks Inc. for about $1.75 billion, expanding its access to the burgeoning Internet advertising market.
I think this is a bad thing. Old world media never gets it right when they buy an internet property. They just have the wrong mindset.
But time will tell if I am right.
So as you know I got a new job. It follows that I need to get a new phone. I go to sprint for the $99 Simply Everything Plan (It does not include everything) and went to pick out a phone.
I find the HTC Mogul
It is a Winows Mobile 6 phone with a full sliding Keyboard and touch screen. Has all the toys, camera, gps, internet, email…Everything. It was pricey but I give in and buy it. It was fun to play with but the problem was it was not stable. In 5 days it hung 3 times. Twice I was expecting a call and never got it. Then found the phone was hung.
I know what your thinking “He installed something that screwed the phone.” or “He took so many pictures that the phone crashed.” Well I didn’t. Nothing on the phone and I was only keeping a days worth of email on the phone. It just would lock up.
Also I got used to the Blackberry being able to lock when holstered. This phone didn’t.
I killed the battery keeping the inside of the holster nice and bright when I was not using the phone.
Needless to say I returned the phone. I now have the Blackberry 8830 and guess what. It works.
I might switch next week to the 8330 Curve. Adds some features and saves me another $50.
Now I did do a little hacking to get functionality. I am using three services to get tasks and calender itmes in my BB.
I use Jott to take phone messages from my phone and send them to Remember The Milk or Google Calendar.
Remember The Milk is a task list organizer. Very cool and very useful.
Google calender is a calendar from Google.
Jott lets me send messages to both of these without logging into the service. I call 866-JOTT-123 and it asks who I want to Jott. I say Remember ot Google and then leave a message. Jott transcribes the message and enters it into my task list or calendar and is smart enough to get the date and time mentioned in the message to place it in the schedule.
Very cool.
Now I only have the I was too lazy and not that I forgot as an excuse.
TheMadAdmin
Dave and Busters lost credit card numbers. Hackers got them.
The story is the Hackers used sniffers to get the traffic from Dave and Busters restaurants that was heading to the main office in Dallas. The traffic contained credit card transactions. They did this for 5 months and sold the gathered information. The hackers were caught.
Great the hackers were caught. Now how about the company? I am thinking that Dave and Busters were routing their traffic through the internet and not encrypting it. If the traffic was encrypted, the hackers would not be able to sniff it. I think the greater crime is the company cutting corners and putting all it’s customers data at risk. This should be something companies can get in legal trouble for, setting up systems that are easily hacked.
Banks are not allowed to store the money in a card board box on the street because they have a fiduciary responsibility to keep the assets safe. But that is an obvious example and would be easily seen as a bad idea.
Companies that don’t keep the data safe are doing the exact same thing. They are putting all your information in a card board box on the street. The only difference is that you don’t know it. You can’t see the box but the people that would steel from this box do. So it is even worse than the bank example because they pretend that everything is in the safe and make you feel like it won’t be stollen but in the end they are doing nothing to stop it.
That is my rant for the day.
TheMadAdmin
Yesterday we had some internet connection issues. We first though Verizon.
Called them they would monitor the line but do nothing (we can’t have them take it down during the day)
Well after a few hours I start checking logs and I find that we are getting port scanned heavily. We call back Verizon and they tell me to email abuse. I do. We also call and get someonee on the line from abuse.
They confirm we were getting saturated. But it was clear by the time we got to them.
We confirm we are working and get the correct number to call if it happens again.
Then an hour later our Administrator gets an email saying there was an abuse complaint about us!!! It was an automated response from the email I sent to Abuse. You have to hate love Verizon.
TheMadAdmin
(Not Bad a DDOS on day 3.)
Lots to do.
Learn the system. Find places for improvement. Brain Drain the last IT guy that is leaving.
But the people are nice, and I am happy to be doing something new.
Back to work now…
TheMadAdmin
The Link
Very good rant. Not much else to say.