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Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Re: Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Post by Waterluvian »

luckydata wrote: post #68
Waterluvian wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is how I feel climate change will be tackled (whether too late or not). It will just become cheaper to go green and being green is just a side effect.

Hopefully we don't all die in wildfires, food and clean water shortages before then.

Millions of people are displaced yearly by war. It'll just be by climate change too. It's not new for us. It's just more of the same awfulness.

Humanity will be fine. We just will have to learn to live without all the cool stuff we like, like polar bears and butterflies and Amsterdam.

Re: Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Post by dennisgorelik »

gscott wrote: post #60

I once applied for a position at what I found out to be a spam marketing company. In order to send their spam they worked with a local hosting company that would take unused legacy ip addresses and put them in their router so the spam could be sent over them. They would just burn the ip's and move on to the next set. My job would be to update their firewall with the new ips, update their mailing software with the cur…

Today if you try to send a lot of emails from new IP address - most of these emails will go to spam folders (even if emails are legitimate).

In order to send large numbers of emails from an IP address -- you need to gradually ramp up number of emails sent (and have low complaint rate and low bounce rate).

Re: Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Post by userbinator »

alexpotato wrote: post #29
spydum wrote: post #2

I always wondered if someone had created a biz for the purpose of hoarding IPv4 with intent to “sell them”. We talked about this kind of abuse back in the 90s when I worked for a hosting company. Part of my job was filling out ARIN templates and SWIP and all that nonsense. Justification was easy, but it occurred to me how easy it would be to fake requests and just pay the trivial fees. There were already some busines…

This reminds me of a conversation I had with the AC repairman last year. Backstory: we have an old AC unit that uses freon. The repairman mentioned that freon is no longer available for new AC units. I asked if you could still buy freon and he said yes, existing supplies were grandfathered in. I then commented that the price of freon must have sky-rocketed and he said: "yes, it did for a while but then it became chea…

I find the CFC situation to be rather interesting because it not only made it illegal to intentionally release them into the atmosphere (which would, if anything, just cause people to release them from things like old fridges and ACs even more frequently so as not to be caught with the "prohibited substance"), but by stopping production and keeping it legal to continue to use, created a market for recovering/reselling/reusing that helps to keep them out of the atmosphere.

It's the difference between saying "it's bad for the environment so don't release it", and "it's rare and valuable so don't let it escape, but recover, resell, and reuse" --- not everyone believes in global warming or cares as much about the former, but the latter is a powerful motivation.

Re: Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Post by outworlder »

Waterluvian wrote: post #71
luckydata wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hopefully we don't all die in wildfires, food and clean water shortages before then.

Millions of people are displaced yearly by war. It'll just be by climate change too. It's not new for us. It's just more of the same awfulness. Humanity will be fine. We just will have to learn to live without all the cool stuff we like, like polar bears and butterflies and Amsterdam.

> We just will have to learn to live without all the cool stuff we like

Like arable land.

Re: Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Post by userbinator »

natermer wrote: post #43
freedomben wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had an 88 Chevy Pickup Truck that used the old style freon (R12). Man that stuff worked so good. In 100 degree heat that truck would stay nice and cold. It took over 20 years before the alternatives were competitive.

Propane makes a good substitute for R12 with very little modifications. I wouldn't use it inside a home or anything like that, but I have used it to make older vehicles blow cold. It's extremely good refrigerant. The biggest problem people have is that it ends up too cold and icing up the system. It sounds dangerous, but it's really not. Propane is only flammable with the correct mixture of air. Otherwise you couldn'…

R152A, also known as "canned air", is actually very usable in an R12 system without any modification: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wkBnhcyO3Y

(That guy restores old refrigerators, so he probably knows a thing or two about refrigerant substitution...)

Re: Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Post by zaroth »

outworlder wrote: post #74
Waterluvian wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Millions of people are displaced yearly by war. It'll just be by climate change too. It's not new for us. It's just more of the same awfulness. Humanity will be fine. We just will have to learn to live without all the cool stuff we like, like polar bears and butterflies and Amsterdam.

> We just will have to learn to live without all the cool stuff we like Like arable land.

You lose arable land at the equator and gain it closer to the poles. Studies don’t generally see a large net decrease in arable land due to climate change.

Erosion is the bigger problem, 1/3rd of all arable land lost over the last 40 years. [1]

[1] - https://www.businessinsider.com/earth-has-lost-a-third-of-ar...

Re: Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Post by VectorLock »

closetohome wrote: post #67

I love that they desperately tried to file for a restraining order the day before Christmas. Why do grifters like this always get so defensive? If he'd just played it cool he would absolutely have had time to wind down his operation and move the money somewhere safe. Now he's just going to go to jail.

They're greedy enough to be defrauding people they're greedy enough to want to try to keep their shady business rolling.

Re: Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Post by Johnny555 »

glenneroo wrote: post #57
natermer wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Propane makes a good substitute for R12 with very little modifications. I wouldn't use it inside a home or anything like that, but I have used it to make older vehicles blow cold. It's extremely good refrigerant. The biggest problem people have is that it ends up too cold and icing up the system. It sounds dangerous, but it's really not. Propane is only flammable with the correct mixture of air. Otherwise you couldn'…

Would a propane tank pose any danger to occupants during/after an accident?

Proponents of propane as refrigerant claim that it's not more dangerous than the 10 gallons of gasoline in the gas tank. I'm not sure I agree. Since propane is heavier than air, it doesn't dissipate as quickly as, say, natural gas would.

And while its true that you need the right mixture of propane and air for it to ignite, with the right-mixture, you've got a fuel-air explosive formed right next to an ignition source (the car's engine and battery).

Re: Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Post by joering2 »

dennisgorelik wrote: post #72
gscott wrote: post #60

I once applied for a position at what I found out to be a spam marketing company. In order to send their spam they worked with a local hosting company that would take unused legacy ip addresses and put them in their router so the spam could be sent over them. They would just burn the ip's and move on to the next set. My job would be to update their firewall with the new ips, update their mailing software with the cur…

Today if you try to send a lot of emails from new IP address - most of these emails will go to spam folders (even if emails are legitimate). In order to send large numbers of emails from an IP address -- you need to gradually ramp up number of emails sent (and have low complaint rate and low bounce rate).

> In order to send large numbers of emails from an IP address -- you need to gradually ramp up number of emails sent

As a spammer you would not go for dedicated IP; you would rather want to use a shared pool as pissing in a big pool plenty of people who hold their liquids to themselves will help your pee to be less visible and detectable.

Here are samples of my spam box from this week so far, courtesy of Sparkpost (their complaint/spam/abuse mailbox is probably going into null, as I have never received a single response and majority of spam I see these days comes from them)

cristo.cumplirmideseo.com mta609d.sparkpostmail.com

diana.unavidaprospera.com mta678b.sparkpostmail.com

michele.felicidadyprosperidad.com mta717d.sparkpostmail.com

alexa.umavidaprospera.com mta678b.sparkpostmail.com

to.believeinmyfuture.com outbound40.sparkpostmail.com

These are shared pools and finding abusers is harder when you stay in large pool.

Re: Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

#80

Post by paulmd »

codedokode wrote: post #58

20 years seems a little too much for the crime that doesn't involve violence. 2 or 3 years and a solid fine should be fair punishment in my opinion.

US prison sentences are ridiculously long in general.

In principle the key word is supposed to be "up to", the judge is supposed to use their discretion.

In practice, it's used as a lever to force plea deals. If you waste the government's time and money with a trial, you probably still won't win, but now you will be doing up to 20 years. Sign here and spare us the trial and you'll get 5 years.

Of course then you have the people who are truly innocent but are forced to plea out anyway at threat of spending a significant chunk of their lives in jail...

There is also the view that extreme prison sentences are supposed to be a deterrent and thus are unfair by nature. If know you are at risk of spending 20 years in jail, you won't do the crime. Of course in many cases criminals do not really consider the risk of getting caught, and likely wouldn't know the exact penalties for a given crime anyway...

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