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Tweets: 2010-01-31

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January 31, 2010 • Tags:  • Posted in: Life • No Comments

Life #in a cloud of elegant spaghetti

I am slowly but surely moving my life to the cloud. In recent months I’ve begun truly exploring Google, Facebook, and Wordpress. I see massive potential for this approach- after all I have 2 smartphones, 4 computers I use on a regular basis, and too much data to keep track of. As part of this effort, I have begun weaving a truly magical web of carefully managed and configured trust relationships with an eye to interoperability and usefulness. I’ll try to list some of the strands of my growing spiderweb here to give people an idea of what is possible.

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DNS Hijacking by ISPs (or: How I Learned to Stop Being RFC Compliant and Love the Paycheck)

Disclaimer: I work for a cable provider, but not one of the ones listed. I speak for myself alone here on this blog, from my own view of professional sysadmin ethics, now and always.

Sherman, set the wayback machine! The time? September 15th, 2003.  In 2003, Verisign(since monikered as Verislime I might add) decided they had a cash cow they hadn’t milked yet: control of the root DNS servers. So, like any good corporation, they lovingly wrapped their money-grubbing paws around the tender teats of the Internets underbelly and tugged hard. In less farmland-erotica terms, they hijacked all unowned and/or unprovisioned domain names and tossed them to an ad page that would have made Geocities blush. The result? Internet uproar, a stock dive, and a DNS authority breakup somewhat reminiscent of Ma Bell getting sliced-n-diced for her own reckless profiteering in the 70’s. Fast forward to 2010 and we find slimy ISPs doing the same thing, seemingly undaunted by the history involved.

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January 24, 2010 • Tags:  • Posted in: Life • No Comments