Since the nodename database is in Datatrieve, I figured I could write a
couple of reports for fun.
So here they are: http://mim.update.uu.se/hecrep
Grouped both by owners and by architecture. Apart from the unknown
category, VAXen are the most numerous at 148, while MIPS the least
common, at 1. :-)
Johnny
Hi,
I'm doing some reconfiguration of routers and firewalls here, so
my hecnet tunnels may bounce a few times over the next several days.
Mark
--
Mark G. Thomas (Mark at Misty.com), KC3DRE
> > --Johnny (the other one)
>
> There's TWO OF YOU? This is going to get really confusing -
We are slowly taking over the world...
Regarding the spam msg itself, according to previous history with this,
there is no hijacking of accounts involved, just someone faking the
sender address. Checking the headers of this msg show it to be sent
from somewhere in Ukraine...
> sampsa
--Johnny
> I haven't even had to time to check yet, but faking the sender address
> should be good enough to get on the hecnet list, but it does require
> knowing the address of a subscribed member, as the hecnet list only
> allows posts from subscribers...
Given:
To: "hecnet" <hecnet at update.uu.se>,
"hellwig.geisse"
<hellwig.geisse at mni.fh-giessen.de>,
"helmkera" <helmkera at gmail.com>, "hobbyist" <hobbyist at montagar.com>,
"hoshina_minmi"
<hoshina_minmi at yahoo.co.jp>,
"hpb-ohio"
<wpd58nb6r69ccqy at marketplace.amazon.com>
its apparent that they got "lucky" with the hecnet list this time.
As I said, this has been around for some time, for example on the nanog
list.
> Johnny
--Johnny
> Err what- I'm not clicking on that..
This type of spam has been seen on other mailing lists for some time.
First time here, though.
Every msg with "Fw: new message" as subject that I get is spam, with a
fake sender.
> Sampsa.
--Johnny (the other one)
NOTA BENE: Feel free to ignore this message but I think some of you guys might find this rather amusing..Also, it?s Friday before Valborgsafton so, Johnny, I?m sure you?ll be cool about this (I guarantee very infrequent) totally off-topic post.
Right Johnny? Hyv?? Vappua and all that? (it?s like Christmas for alcoholics in Finland. Hell, it?s like our third most popular holiday)
Anyway,
Some background: Yesterday there was something of a revolution in the alt.2600 Facebook group (?The Hacker Quarterly?, I am a member purely out of professional interest) which led to the owner of the actual machine basically kicking out all the admins since facts emerged that the founder of the FB group, Adrian Lamo (same guy that basically handed Bradley/Chelsea Manning over to the Feds over the Wikileaks thing since he had some Very Serious Business federal charges hanging over him) had been data mining the alt.2600 IRC server for the NSA.
This did not go down too well, since he wasn?t actually coerced into this - it?s what he does for a living now, apparently (OSINT - open-source intelligence gathering).
So anyway, new admins were installed, including a buddy of mine [I?m fairly certain she?s not a Fed, if she is, she hides her money well] and as the group reopened a hilarious typhoon of bovine excrement started flying around including some 17 year old clearly on his 8th can of Monster Energy posting a hilariously poor attempt at high register English rhetoric about Adrian Lamo?s ?High Crimes against the Hacking Community?.
Of course, the guys being the sociopathic pranksters they are, immediately started question said script kiddy?s coding abilities.
At which point I (and APL, the programming language) entered the conversation, which you can see here:
http://sampsa.com/apl.png
From: <Paul_Koning at Dell.com>
>Neat. The same approach works in Python:
>"Hello world"
Z8 BASIC too, if I remember right. Well OK you need a line number.
John Wilson
D Bit
Does any have / know where to get an RSX-11 image which has DECNET and MAIL built in?
I?m a total RSX-11 noob but would like to get to know the system better..
Sampsa
FWIW,
d|i|g|i|t|a|l sold a device, part number 29-32549-01, which did exactly what
is being asked. Information is available in the OpenVMS FAQ, Ch.14, Sect.18
available here: http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/vmsfaq/vmsfaq_024.html#supp4 I,
myself, own one but I'm not parting with it.
--
VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG
I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.
