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 1RyizD-0006fS-BV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:01:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D734E09AE; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:01:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACEB1E0866 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:00:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yhjj72 with SMTP id j72so2620585yhj.40 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:00:03 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of rdalek1967@gmail.com designates 10.236.176.233 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.236.176.233; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of rdalek1967@gmail.com designates 10.236.176.233 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=rdalek1967@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=rdalek1967@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.236.176.233]) by 10.236.176.233 with SMTP id b69mr18303209yhm.122.1329566403199 (num_hops = 1); Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:00:03 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=XTHt3qAJ7njHdQ1QTTWqd9FllJ9t9lH5ZaExuFVLVBA=; b=oEqk0KX0ww/zg5k2GB4rhuOQxRUNCjGiUI0/WXbfuYIwwJsmwdAbFFUePPEfK8OLqb Zaz+FRMH0/Atb3OmLcKT7Jc2nCUTucVe4TgizYVJMPWF3MVR65FxJV6B8dzMhfk/v7AF q1PEX0XOc0INj2QPVyOz6ySEdnc6RKBCYMX78= Received: by 10.236.176.233 with SMTP id b69mr13971344yhm.122.1329566403121; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:00:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-147-47.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.147.47]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i2sm30154877yhf.16.2012.02.18.04.00.01 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:00:02 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F3F92C0.3060506@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 06:00:00 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20120204 Firefox/9.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.6.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess? References: <4F3F7CBA.9020600@gmail.com> <20120218124409.43286f16@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <20120218124409.43286f16@khamul.example.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7d76ffa5-3d0d-4cc7-bc6d-c911b9efb089 X-Archives-Hash: a9ae686cbaf849609e209c059eb82f06 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-March-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. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"