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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:26:02 -0600 |
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> Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Howdy, |
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>> I ran across this and though it was a joke. Did a news search and |
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>> sure enough, it is reported in lots of places. Random linky: |
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>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102856/Will-FBI-shut-Internet-March-8-virus-concerns.html?ito=feeds-newsxml |
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>> Is there any truth to this mess? My bigger and better question, how |
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>> is shutting down the internet going to fix this? When the net comes |
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>> back up, they are still going to be infected. Right? |
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>> I'm glad I run a really nice Linux OS. |
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> Gawd, I hate it when morons write sensational articles that attempt to |
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> make sense to other morons. You get crap like that. |
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> So if this is legit, and I'm not saying it is, what happened is this: |
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> The malware changes the DNS cache settings on infected machines, |
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> sending the user to rogue caches. The FBI captured some (or all) of |
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> these rogue caches and (possibly) tried to fix them. A court has now |
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> said those rogue caches must now be shut down. |
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> So if the morons reading the article do nothing, on March 8 the DNS |
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> caches they use will be down. The user's DNS will not work. |
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> OMFG!!!!!!! Da intartubes is broken!!!!! |
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> <sigh> |
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> Instead, why not just set the DNS caches to something NOT owned by Ivan |
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> The Russian Spammer? |
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> And no, the intartubes will NOT be switched off. |
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I don't really think they can unless they just cut power to all the |
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computers. After all, the internet is supposed to be redundant right? |
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If there is a few computers still running that have a connection, it is |
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still working. Sort of anyway. |
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Does make one wonder tho. They have been talking about having a |
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internet "off switch" but I'm not sure it would be that easy. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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-- |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or |
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how you interpreted my words! |
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Miss the compile output? Hint: |
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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" |
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