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"The beast" is slang for the UKUSA intelligence network, as you just mentioned.  It's been slang for the UKUSA intelligence network since the days of the cold war...

My MOTD is just the default one for whatever distribution is on the server...

You do realize they call the beast, the "five eyes" right?  You only mentioned two of them.

We care about IRC usage that may be problematic (children picking fights with other children).  The attitude portrayed in, "that.stupid.bitch.got.0wned.us" for example, does not reflect the attitude of our target audience.  You see: people with that attitude, tend to attract DDoS attacks by...

Yeah!  Alpine totally ships GNU software along with the Linux kern... oh wait, no it doesn't (at least, not by default).  :rolleyes:

Curve25519 + Salsa20/16 (as used by DNSCurve and DNSCrypt) is a pretty tough cryptographic stack to break, and it's not hardware accelerated, so would be reasonably difficult for the NSA to crack in realtime.  I'm pretty sure the NarusInsight boxes don't support it. That said, ECC cryptography...

The challenge is to find a way to resist a FISA court order while acting in the confines of the law. If you believe FISA court gag orders to be unconstitutional, and you're willing to fight for that viewpoint, then ignore them.  I certainly do and have lawyers which will back that view.  This...

The only way to stop this is to actively resist FISA orders.  That is a dangerous proposition, with the possibility that you will die, as you are challenging the world's largest intelligence apparatus.  For many people, that is too risky of a position to take. But, it is what is necessary. ...

Out of curiosity, out of the providers operating their own routers with XFPs, where are you getting your XFPs from?

We have significantly expanded our capacity in LA and London recently.

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On the contrary, rDNS requests are a good indicator of whether or not I want to do business with someone.  If you don't like that rDNS requests are processed by a human, then you're not required to do business with us.  And, frankly, someone requesting rDNS on multiple IPv4's just for IRC vanity...

Actually, this is not a huge deal.  It certainly isn't SSL "gone in 30 seconds", it is only a real-world attack against some specific types of headers and data sequences that are already somewhat predictable.

We have basic techs that basically sit around doing this sort of thing all day, and escalating anything suspicious to me.  It works fine.  The overhead is worth it.

I presently run CM 10.1 on my S3.  It works pretty well. The default Samsung firmware is awful.

I think the fact that WHMCS charges $1.50/month for a security feature that ultimately took them, at most, 15 minutes to integrate is deplorable. I can see charging extra for using, for example, Yubikeys.  It makes one question the priorities at WHMCS.

We have other things in place to stop them as well, obviously, such as using sFlow to monitor current network traffic.  Too many hits to port 25 outbound triggers an alarm for us to investigate.

Earlier today, we got a ticket from a customer requesting a reverse DNS being set. We checked the domain name associated with the RDNS and saw that it was registered with fake information. We then checked the forward record, and noticed an MX record pointing back to the same forward record...

Well, I do not have a security system, and this would be my approach living in, say, Norway, for example, as well.  While European countries do a better job at intervening prior to people choosing to participate in criminal behaviour, there is still a risk that you will have some crazy person...

Actually, if you are using a typical hardware RAID card, you should use 'noop', not deadline.  The RAID card does it's own request reordering.  VMs should always use noop.