Well put. These DDOS’s on MasterCard are the work of bored teenagers. For every 4′channer with a DDOS script there are a dozen real, competent security professionals who have a really good understanding of how the internet works, because guess what, we are the ones who built it and keep it running. I’m not about to risk my job or prison to jump on the internet hate machine bandwagon over something like this. But come the day when the people in power try to take the internet away from us and pervert the original intent of free information exchange people like me are going to come out of the wood work. We are going to take off our white hats and put on black ones. And yes, there will be hell to pay. – Dax420

FUCK YOU AMERICA GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY INTERNETS!!!

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has starting seizing domain names directly from fucking ICANN!!! WTF ICANN!? Who decided to leave DNS root servers in the states anyway FFS? I knew that was a bad idea and it was only a matter of time before those corrupt mother fuckers did something doge.

So far they’ve rerouted the DNS entries for about 70 domains which include sites linking to intellectual property (read: torrents/p2p) and counterfeit products sites. But keep in mind this is without any warnings to the site operators, no DCMA or takedown requests. The DCMA was put in place to provide a means to request the site owners to take down the infringing stuff before you take their shit. The US Govt skipped straight to taking their shit. And the US Govt can do this to any domain in the world. Fuck off you bastards!

News stories:

• http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-seizes-bittorrent-search-engine-domain-and-more-101126/
• http://www.osnews.com/story/24074/US_Government_Censors_70_Websites
• http://fseek.me/2010/11/u-s-gov-seizes-bittorrent-search-site-torrent-finder-technical-details/

The DHS must be involved just to spread fear, looks like they are catering their rich business lobbyists who are unable/unwilling to evolve to the current media distribution formats. ZOMG people taking pirated software on planes are putting your kids at danger!

So the MAFIAA wanna hax our internets by crying to the US Govt instead of being innovative. It looks like they have bought the politicians who allowed this shit to happen. The were already trying to get this through with the secret ACTA treaty and the COICA bill. This legislation protects no one but the copyright holders in MAFIAA who have the law makers in their pockets.

Time to get off the root servers. Your ISP will be getting its updates from the root servers. But the websites who had their domain names seized will still be online, but only accessible via the IP (provided they haven’t any virtual hosts). So I would recommend you change your DNS settings to get your DNS from some open dns servers. These ones are unhackable by the govt so you can access stuff they blacklist (unless they break into datacenters and steal some servers – which I wouldn’t put past them).

• http://dns.telecomix.org/
• http://www.opennicproject.org/
• http://www.unifiedroot.com/en/How-it-Works/Overview-How-it-Works

Of course you could say, well I don’t run a counterfeit/pirate site so it doesn’t matter to me. Well this is where it starts people. Like the No fly blacklist in the states (seriously wtf is wrong with these dickbags), there’s going to be false positives and they probably won’t take you off the blacklist. And of course there’s the “first they came for the christians but I was not a christian so I said nothing” et al thing.

Looks like the UK want to do this as well:

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11845961
• http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/11/25/police-get-major-new-powers-seize-domains/

Some other info (pulled from the torrentfreak comments):

• Vermont Senator gets a letter from the RIAA:
  • http://www.riaa.com/…Chorus-of-Support-For-Rogue-Sites-Bill
  • http://image.exct.net/…/101021_MultiIndustry_S3804_CombatingOnlineInfringementandCounterfeitsAct_Leahy.pdf
• http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10133425-38.html#ixzz16Q6wmEHx

This could be the end of the internet as we know it folks. I remember a very wise uni lecturer telling us that we are very lucky to live in the age of the unrestricted internet for governments are surely scared of it, businesses can be threatened by it, so they would naturally move to shut it down.

So blog about this. Tell your friends. Spread the word.

ICANN is now a fascist organization.

KGO!!

So, the company I work at uses Trend Micro software to monitor the computers for viruses right? Well they must use it to monitor/proxy the internet use as well because I found some strange things going on in the server logs on one of my servers.

I login to various password protected parts of one of my webservers using the work internet. Then some what I assume to be script kiddies started trying to find where I kept various admin tools by going to obvious and not so obvious addresses this webserver. So I got all paranoid and started going through the logs. It didn’t appear as though the script kiddies were getting in or had even found the correct address to the password protected parts of the server.

However I did find some IPs that did and I didn’t recognize them. They USA and Japan assigned IP addresses too. The script kiddies had been using proxies from the USA, France and Japan. However when I did an IP lookup these addresses came back as registered to Trend Micro.

All of the requests to my server gave those IPs 401 Unauthorized errors. So I did a test by navigating to a non existant page on my site with an address that I would notice in the server logs from the work internet. I found an IP from each IP range went to that page as well.

After some googling of the IP addresses I found other people had seen these IP ranges accessing pages that the public couldn’t and shouldn’t know about.

The IP ranges concerned where:

• 216.104.15.0/24
• 150.70.0.0/16

Most of these addresses don’t resolve to a hostname however I did find one that did: 150.70.66.183 resolved to sjdc-wtp-gs-maya6.sdi.trendnet.org but is registered to the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre. It also says that 150.0.0.0/8 is registered to APNIC too, however I’m not sure if it says that even though they have assigned/sold that address to Trend Micro.

As for why this happens I am not sure. Maybe it is a bot to find what customers employees are looking at, keyword grabber or something. I am pretty sure it wouldn’t my employer tracking my net usage as they surely would record that as my HTTP request went out the proxy in my building. However I haven’t checked if the work proxy is actually in the building…..

So we can’t get broadband at this new place because all the ADSL ports in the exchange are taken up. Satellite is a rip off and we aren’t in the area for wireless or 3G either. It’s 2009 and we can’t get broadband. Telecom and every other ISP go on and on about ‘great new services’ and ‘world class technology’ but we haven’t seen it so far.

So a mate of a mate suggested that I lease some land beside a Telecom cabinet, lease a fibre line and some copper lines (our one has fibre between the exchange and the roadside cabinet), put in some demarcs and be my own ISP. Well no one in NZ can really provide FTTH (fibre to the household) so that is out of the picture.

Then I thought about renting some rackspace in the exchange and putting a DSLAM in there. Would be a bit cheaper surely. Last time I talked to a Chorus contractor (the Telecom field engineers) he said that the upgrade plan was next year! And they were putting in ADSL2.

Well that’s all fine and dandy but I want broadband now. A DSLAM is only about $NZD2000, not sure of the data costs though. So I rang all around the place this morning trying to find out how to lease exchange space and no one seems to know. So I went to telecomwholesale.co.nz tried ringing everyone in the list – all went to voicemail, typical Telecom customer service lol (well its a bit better than it was TBH). So I just sent them this email.

Hi There,

I was wanting to enquire about renting some space in an exchange in which to run a private DSLAM. The exchange in question is the Kaukapakapa exchange.

The reason being, currently all of the ADSL ports in that exchange are taken so no one can get broadband in the area I live. I was wanting to rent some rack space and install my own DSLAM to provide to residents in my area.

Upon talking to a Chorus engineer they informed me that Telecom’s upgrade plan for this exchange was to install ADSL2+ in the middle of next year. This is not acceptable, I need broadband as soon as possible and may as well do it myself.

Could you please let me know the cost of renting the rack space and associated data/connection costs of uplinking the DSLAM to the Telecom network.

Kind Regards,
xxx xxx

Yeah, we’ll see what happens.

Just a few pics of the new place. Would post more but, fucking dialup.

Here’s a photo from the front:

And here’s a photo of my computer setup. Dual screens for the win, soon to be triple:

I am so sick of dialup…

Well, finally moved out. Been in the new place for about 4 weeks now, just got the internet going however we can get broadband yet. My insides are eviscerated. Apparently there are not enough broadband ports in our exchange, but at least there is fibre from our roadside cabinet to the exchange.

Also the plan we got is the cheapest I could find at $90/m for 10gigs on 8M/192K with a phone. We’re supposed to have naked dsl in this country now but we still have to get a phone line which is $45 of the $90/m. Absolute bullshit.

Anyway the house is pretty sweet, two bedrooms a laundry and a double garage on the bottom floor, lounge, dining, deck, kitchen (1 room) and bathroom upstairs. We’re on top of a hill so we got an OK view of farmland and bush and stuff, plus all day sun so the place heats itself. I’m part way through networking the place, got a little 12 port cisco switch in the garage which all the rooms will plug into.

We got the garage kitted out with almost every tool you could think of as well as some man benches. Nicks 1948 bonus is sitting in one side waiting to be put together, and my bike sits on the other side.

I still however have a lack of employment – I’m working on that.

So living at home is going OK. I try not to be there as much as possible so I don’t piss off my parents. Plus I’m kinda nocturnal so if I am there I am quietly playing games in my room, or watching movies.

Unfortunately, Telecom (the bastards) won’t hook up broadband to my house. The say its too far from the exchange to get any signal, however the neighbour has broadband! But the cabling guy told us one more connection on our roadside box will knock everyone off.

So it would seem the box needs upgrading. Every telephone box around our area has been upgraded except ours. So not fair. I can’t even be bothered to put a modem in my PC and run a phone line to my room cos I know 56k will drive me up the wall.

So I just use the net at work when I can. It works, but I really really really wanna play some COD4 online dammit.

So I been playing Race Driver: GRID and Colin Mcrae DiRT (which use the same engine). Amazing, amazing games. Honestly, if you haven’t played them yet, get them. The damage engine is awesome, your car never breaks the same way twice. I rolled my rally car 4 times, ripped all the doors off and landed back on my wheels and kept going. Was mean! And you can actually feel the speed, especially in GRID when you’re racing GT1 and GT2 cars. The drift in grid is also full of awesomeness.

Also, poor Lilley has had a myriad of problems in the UK, from her bank fucking her round to her laptop hard drive dying. Don’t buy Dell and don’t use HSBC for your bank. Hopefully everything has worked out for her now.

Just finishing work now… goodbye broadband