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Old 12-11-2006   #11 (permalink)
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Oh, "Jeanson James"... For a minute there I thought the topic was "Jenna Jameson".. Moving on.
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Are you referring to Jenna Marie Massoli who was born on April 9, 1974 and is therefore a number seven April Tiger female? April Tigers are said to be always ready to eat.

If that is not who you are referring to thanks for mentioning her name as I had never heard of her before now.
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He's talking about some bimbo porn star.

Anyways, I knew about this years ago. This is the same technique used to take down websites with denial of service attacks and variants. It's a pathetic activity. They are just vermin at the end all they accomplished is raising the price of server space and bandwidth to accommodate protection against this practice. No surprise that it gets used for other things. Little losers.
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He's talking about some bimbo porn star.
Yep. Hazards of a misspent youth.
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He he ... Does your wife know?
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The growth of these botnets, and the lack of a coherent response to them is just a symptom of the web still being in the "wild west" stage of development. Roaming bandits out to do harm (crackers, script kiddies, etc.) being countered by an incoherent, and sometimes immoral, law enforcement policy (ranging from personal firewalls & AV programs, to screensavers that send DOS attacks to known spammers). So far, no one has come up with a problem that solves the problem at it's core.

I like the idea of a test to see if a computer is fit to be online, kinda like a MOT or smog test for a car. If the computer doesn't reach certain benchmarks for security, then the ISP kicks them off til they sort themselves out. I admit that this idea has flaws (such as who has the authority to set the benchmarks, or how the "bad" computers can sort themselves out without being able to download security instructions), but perhaps these issues can be sorted out.
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I like the idea of a test to see if a computer is fit to be online, kinda like a MOT or smog test for a car. If the computer doesn't reach certain benchmarks for security, then the ISP kicks them off til they sort themselves out. I admit that this idea has flaws (such as who has the authority to set the benchmarks, or how the "bad" computers can sort themselves out without being able to download security instructions), but perhaps these issues can be sorted out.
Wow, will there be anybody left then ? I did work at a major ISP myself for some time. I can testify most people don't do anything worthy to secure their computer.

Personally I like this test :
https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
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I like the idea of a test to see if a computer is fit to be online, kinda like a MOT or smog test for a car. If the computer doesn't reach certain benchmarks for security, then the ISP kicks them off til they sort themselves out.
My ISP does this. If your computer is found to be infected with something that's detrimental to the network they block your access and make you call customer service to get it reactivated. The idea is (I guess) that the rep will make you run antivirus and remove the threat. I've not had any problems with the policy so far.
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