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Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003)(pages.cs.wisc.edu)
109 points by walrus01 3d ago|15 comments
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by walrus01 3d ago
It doesn't solve everything but the 'full' desktop version of the ublock origin plugin runs just fine in Android on Firefox. I can't even imagine using any other mobile browser now. I don't know what the situation i
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by walrus01 3d ago
Yes, and I've also seen the absolute shitflood of horrible ads. Every time I see somebody else's system that isn't running ublock origin or similar... They clearly are prioritizing the ad revenue over any actual "don&#x
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by walrus01 3d ago
> 2) There are more ads going out then can be reviewed The "more than can be reviewed" might have been a logical conclusion in a purely human based workflow, even if you have the lowest cost per head click workers in like, an e
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by walrus01 3d ago
I don't disagree with you, I have tons of things that have public interfaces (as mundane as a fully patched wordpress where the wp-admin login is accessible to external blog writers), we get tens of thousands of random shit anything pe
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by walrus01 3d ago
Please read the article, it's not the volume of the NTP requests, they're actively sending exploit/attempt to compromise payloads. They're probing things in a way that you would ordinarily only do to your own internal in
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by walrus01 3d ago
Remember in 2003 when netgear hardcoded a university's NTP server into a ton of their products? Well.... https://www.google.com/search?&q=university+ntp+server+netge... https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~p
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by walrus01 3d ago
I would also say in general that the federal government's software contractors are likely building tons of complex HTML5 / WebRTC / webassembly software packages that will choke a cheaper desktop PC. Ever viewed 20 cameras si
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by walrus01 3d ago
And in the same era in Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Immigration_Act,_1923 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_head_tax
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by walrus01 3d ago
Reminds me of the kids in my high school who stole individual 4MB 72-pin SIMMs out of a bunch of computer lab desktop PCs to upgrade their approximately equivalent generation motherboard/CPU home systems to whatever was their max capac
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by walrus01 3d ago
I'm fairly sure you need to at least be a Permanent Resident to get hired, which makes you a US Person (it's a distinct legal definition). Permanent residents are also able to join the military and have been able to do so for a
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by walrus01 3d ago
If you've ever driven through the land crossing border in either direction at Calais, Maine (and St. Stephen, NB), they're both really tiny and sleepy places. It's astonishing to think that he wouldn't get caught. Like,
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by walrus01 3d ago
The jump from what we now retrospectively call "1G" or original analog cellular to 2G GSM was also similarly huge. We went from things like AMPS analog networks that people could listen to with a hacked Oki 900 phone, broadcasting
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by walrus01 4d ago
> wanton felony generator Today in new punk band names...
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by walrus01 4d ago
Tell that to the cellular industry marketing people who decided to put "4.5G" on things. Also not everything that is marketed "5G" is equal in capability, there's a myriad of different bands in different regulatory
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by walrus01 4d ago
Also if I had a dollar for every end user residential consumer (as a person who runs ISPs) that confuses "5G" with "5 GHz wifi". Like, when your install techs have to explain to a customer why they're getting shit p
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by walrus01 4d ago
Note that "G" generally is a marketing term for consumers, the actual tech is 3GPP rev-whatever https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3GPP Like 3GPP release 15 or 16 is what we currently know as a lot of in productio
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by walrus01 4d ago
You're absolutely right. I should note that what I wrote above wasn't trying to make excuses for them. Obviously they under-resourced and paid not enough attention to logging and monitoring thinking traces and tool calls/resu
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by walrus01 4d ago
Thankfully the maintainers of rspamd should find it trivially easy to write a matching pattern for these "agent" emails and send them to the spam queue where they belong. https://rspamd.com/
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by walrus01 4d ago
From 2009: https://archive.torproject.org/websites/lists.torproject.org...
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by walrus01 4d ago
One of the known bugs in skyrim that will likely never be patched is that you realistically can't fill a room with cheese wheels, cabbage, bottles of wine or any other static objects (in a cell that persists items, like in an owned h
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by walrus01 5d ago
You also get to run credit card fraud purchases through your home internet connection, such fun times we live in.
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by walrus01 5d ago
Or for $5/mo you could have a mullvad subscription and a vpn-aware bittorrent client that knows how to pause if the vpn drops.
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by walrus01 5d ago
The Boeing 747-400, at least, uses a 1987 state of the art 3.5" 1.44MB floppy drive.
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by walrus01 5d ago
I would think it's entirely plausible that they have so many R&D agents/LLMs in active use at any one time that it's far beyond the capacity of any human to review the log files of their activity. Even just to go through
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by walrus01 5d ago
My thoughts exactly. In the current environment you could slap "AI" on a potato and get $$$ for it.
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by walrus01 5d ago
I guess they should have kept those 8" floppy disks that implemented a completely air gapped crypto key system for the missile silos. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=nuclear+m...
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by walrus01 5d ago
I do wonder if something like the agents leaving obvious footprints like "oai" is intentional, or the relatively mundane nature of what the agents are ultimately trying to accomplish. Like someone has intentionally set these group
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by walrus01 5d ago
Imagine if you or I as a normal person in possession of "civilian class" amounts of GPUs turned loose self hosted "agents" running on the hardware we own to compromise something. We'd be facing criminal charges. How
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by walrus01 5d ago
Admitting in public how bad the bot and fraud problem would be, metaphorically speaking, shooting their primary revenue source in the dick.

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