From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RyjMX-0000OZ-Q4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:26:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 11405E09A7; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:25:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3E43E086E for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:24:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eaak14 with SMTP id k14so1644748eaa.40 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:24:46 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of volkerarmin@googlemail.com designates 10.14.120.74 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.14.120.74; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of volkerarmin@googlemail.com designates 10.14.120.74 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=volkerarmin@googlemail.com; dkim=pass header.i=volkerarmin@googlemail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.14.120.74]) by 10.14.120.74 with SMTP id o50mr6739398eeh.18.1329567886837 (num_hops = 1); Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:24:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=B9VcU+MIVGgZCGqcAd09pX6CmpoDNT8JEH6b+hnEI8A=; b=sFqN/Dx/e+/ERA3wXMTKYH3maTI+VkWFX67LJWnUDiqltuIB4eNWB7261TiSCLOpvM T/gBO0PfeNKckC5NBdGNj4ScgKwegxmCCZ+qCqwVnlB91X8Q7Rh1AZF4vWqOC3UjlflD zAalwSZ+I/8osRwXWa8kiaiNHtKVbo3YHdcQo= Received: by 10.14.120.74 with SMTP id o50mr5452007eeh.18.1329567886745; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:24:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localnet (p4FC60A4B.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [79.198.10.75]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c16sm50975018eei.1.2012.02.18.04.24.45 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:24:45 -0800 (PST) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess? Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:24:38 +0100 Message-ID: <1971113.3a2zZ3o5ps@localhost> User-Agent: KMail/4.8.0 (Linux/3.0.21; KDE/4.8.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <4F3F92C0.3060506@gmail.com> References: <4F3F7CBA.9020600@gmail.com> <20120218124409.43286f16@khamul.example.com> <4F3F92C0.3060506@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: 10f6f9a0-08d1-4ac2-b797-0f43c72b8f1d X-Archives-Hash: 613cad53627ddc9b9ffcbea1dc127cd3 Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2012, 06:00:00 schrieb Dale: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:26:02 -0600 > > > > Dale wrote: > >> Howdy, > >> > >> I ran across this and though it was a joke. Did a news search and > >> sure enough, it is reported in lots of places. Random linky: > >> > >> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102856/Will-FBI-shut-Internet-Ma > >> rch-8-virus-concerns.html?ito=feeds-newsxml > >> > >> Is there any truth to this mess? My bigger and better question, how > >> is shutting down the internet going to fix this? When the net comes > >> back up, they are still going to be infected. Right? > >> > >> I'm glad I run a really nice Linux OS. > > > > Gawd, I hate it when morons write sensational articles that attempt to > > make sense to other morons. You get crap like that. > > > > So if this is legit, and I'm not saying it is, what happened is this: > > > > The malware changes the DNS cache settings on infected machines, > > sending the user to rogue caches. The FBI captured some (or all) of > > these rogue caches and (possibly) tried to fix them. A court has now > > said those rogue caches must now be shut down. > > > > So if the morons reading the article do nothing, on March 8 the DNS > > caches they use will be down. The user's DNS will not work. > > > > OMFG!!!!!!! Da intartubes is broken!!!!! > > > > > > > > Instead, why not just set the DNS caches to something NOT owned by Ivan > > The Russian Spammer? > > > > And no, the intartubes will NOT be switched off. > > I don't really think they can unless they just cut power to all the > computers. After all, the internet is supposed to be redundant right? > If there is a few computers still running that have a connection, it is > still working. Sort of anyway. > > Does make one wonder tho. They have been talking about having a > internet "off switch" but I'm not sure it would be that easy. basically, yes. Take down the core routers and backbones and everything falls apart. -- #163933