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Center text. The mark of a man that has been pushed over the edge.
The center text certainly gives Time Cube vibes.
Also templeos.org
Why I quit this battle
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Re: Why I quit this battle
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Me too. Not sure why artifact_44's comment is dead so I vouched for it, I don't see what is gained by throwing around psychiatric terms, used pejoratively, for no good reason (could there be a good reason on HN? I doubt it but I don't see one here).
So I think it's wrong of the author to flame other people publicly. I really denounce that. I shouldn't have gone for the jugular, using a word for a real illness. I apologise for that. That was wrong. The reason I wrote that was to convey my feeling that the author is doing something bad, writing an unstructured misspelled text bullying people with allegations that are also not verifiable. I should have thought abou…
Fair enough
Re: Why I quit this battle
#83His experience is similar to one I had a long while back when trying to report to Comcast that I found one of their sysadmin's home directory on GitHub. It had ssh keys, passwords, configs, scripts, etc etc. When I reported it on their support forum, some random dude responded basically saying I found nothing, insulting me, etc. It's wild to me how quickly people will go to insult in these situations. I ended up maki…
> Long story short, their CISO told me on the phone that what I found wasn't a "bug", and that if they did a bug bounty program, they'd go bankrupt.
I have no sympathy for these companies. Fix your shit, secure your users. Don't? Well I guess I'm posting these non-bugs all over the net for criminals to enjoy.
Re: Why I quit this battle
#84Who is this Kevin from DSLReport?
Well from reading the thread on DSLreports he seems quite knowledgeable. The same frankly cannot be said for the badmodems site operator. This guy makes a self deprecating comment (he called himself a moron) and is offended when it is repeated back to him. The comment from kevinds about "grown-ups" was not the most polite comment ever - but really if that was all it took this xymox dude definitely needed a change of scenery - for whatever reason he has ended up with a few screws loose.
Re: Why I quit this battle
#85Looking through the site and the history around it, the level of obsession, the conspiratorial thinking, the grandiose claims of "defeating" Intel -- this guy probably needs help with some mental health issues.
Center text. The mark of a man that has been pushed over the edge.
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Re: Why I quit this battle
#86I agree with many other takes here: this person really is getting too worked up, and therefore should take a break.
On the other hand, it seems the issue that was the straw that broke the camel's back is saying that ICMP equals access, and access could mean just ICMP to some (I can access this thing via ICMP), or access could mean full takeover to others (now I know it's there, and therefore it's exploitable to anyone with time & energy).
It's really stupid to get upset about self-proclaimed security experts arguing about stuff where they haven't even clarified what they're arguing about.
Honestly, though, it's a non-issue. Some ISPs use RFC 1918 addresses, and some of those addresses are reachable (via ICMP) from consumer endpoints. So what? That's no less and no more secure that any other set of intermediate hops in ISPs' networks.
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Copper needs to die. The Australian NBN is a mess because of it. Sigh, what could've been...
FTTx systems make copper almost non-existent. All copper in my city is replaced by fiber, and only copper is from the FTTx box in front of my apartment to my flat. Eeerything (landline, internet, IPTV, etc.) runs from a single, dark fiber. With cabling already in place and VDSL can reliably provide 5 units of bandwidth (where 4 units is used for download and 1 unit is used for upload, e.g. 32/8 mbps), with a theoreti…
I thought "dark fiber" meant unused fiber. How can it be dark if you've got services running over it? Is there some other meaning in this context?
Re: Why I quit this battle
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Copper needs to die. The Australian NBN is a mess because of it. Sigh, what could've been...
Well, copper at least has the very nice property of only requiring electricity at the central phone node, and still have working communications. This makes it the best option by far for communication in hour-long blackouts when, for instance, cell phones and cellphone towers would have ran down their batteries.
This is true also for fiber. Depending on the ISP fiber setup, the fiber can run for many 10's of km without a power relay.
I can run 1 Gbps symmetric for ~48h without power by running my optical network terminal (ONT) and a teeny travel router on battery packs. (Used this set up through several long power outages.)
Re: Why I quit this battle
#89His experience is similar to one I had a long while back when trying to report to Comcast that I found one of their sysadmin's home directory on GitHub. It had ssh keys, passwords, configs, scripts, etc etc. When I reported it on their support forum, some random dude responded basically saying I found nothing, insulting me, etc. It's wild to me how quickly people will go to insult in these situations. I ended up maki…
Logically, if nobody reports any bugs, there must not be any!
Re: Why I quit this battle
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
FTTx systems make copper almost non-existent. All copper in my city is replaced by fiber, and only copper is from the FTTx box in front of my apartment to my flat. Eeerything (landline, internet, IPTV, etc.) runs from a single, dark fiber. With cabling already in place and VDSL can reliably provide 5 units of bandwidth (where 4 units is used for download and 1 unit is used for upload, e.g. 32/8 mbps), with a theoreti…
I thought "dark fiber" meant unused fiber. How can it be dark if you've got services running over it? Is there some other meaning in this context?
Usually, dark fiber means that you got that cable (with one or more hairs) completely for yourself, as a customer. It is not leased line, you are not sharing it, it is your fibre to communicate with. It is more expensive, for sure, since Carrier could make lot of $$ out of it (many many Internet Customers for example), but at the end of the day it is cost efficient actually since you have no other interference on your cabling. You do not share bandwith, you do not share services, you decide about your techonlogy at the endpoints (GBICs, etc.).