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Re: [nznog] Net4u - Stealing bandwidth etc.
by rye a 24 Mar '03

24 Mar '03

a staff member from net4u was bragging on irc the other day about the jetstream bandwidth issue. what they are doing is authenticating jetstream starter users (fastip) as jetstream users (fastipdirect). I think this is most likely a screwup on telecom/net4u's behalf.. perhaps their account manager set it up this way for a reason? perhaps net4u ask for jetstream ports instead of jetstream starter? either way guys, word of advice.. if your ripping people off.. dont go bragging about it on irc. I believe the staff member in question was only 14 years old. What possible use could he have been? He was also in the news recently, related to the captain bob spam fiasco.. cheers __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com

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net4u staff spammer
by rye a 24 Mar '03

24 Mar '03

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?thesection=technology&thesubsect… The latter of the guys mentioned in the above story i believe works at net4u. He is the helpdesk manager. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com

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Net4u - Stealing bandwidth etc.
by Simon Lyall 24 Mar '03

24 Mar '03

Looks like the herald is breaking all the interesting stories lately: http://tinyurl.com/82j8 I can understand Callplus having problems since they have been struggling with inexperienced staff for a few months (although 6 months is before the most recent resignations) but I'm not sure how the Jetstream/Jetstart thing would have worked. I've yet to see Telecom lose money when people get Jetstream relms confused. -- Simon Lyall. | Newsmaster | Work: simon.lyall(a)ihug.co.nz Senior Network/System Admin | Postmaster | Home: simon(a)darkmere.gen.nz Ihug Ltd, Auckland, NZ | Asst Doorman | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz

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Re: [nznog] Net4u - Stealing bandwidth etc.
by rye a 24 Mar '03

24 Mar '03

Its still very shocking that ISP's in new zealand would do this to each other.. I understand its a very tight market.. but still.. Are other isp's doing similar things? ha, i doubt anyone would admit it.. but i'd assume so.. Lets have a nationwide net4u boycot! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Poole" <matt(a)p00le.net> To: "Craig Spiers" <craig(a)concept.net.nz> Cc: <nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 9:39 AM Subject: Re: [nznog] Net4u - Stealing bandwidth etc. > > > yea, you can imagine how many spammers would have found that proxy, and used > > it.. surely someone at attica/callplus got notification that it was open.. > > > Not while I was there. I've been gone three-and-a-half months now, > so it's quite possible they got told since then. > > > Spammers find open proxy's in a matter of hours these days.. perhaps staff > > recieved the notifications, but didnt give a dam? > > > Or they weren't able to figure out what the warning meant and ignored > it? > An open proxy would definitely have been brought to my attention as > all security issues came across my desk, and I never saw any such > notification. > > Not to mention that someone would've bitched if we'd been > blacklisted and while that did happen it was by a couple of companies > as a serious over-reaction to dodgy activity by customers. > -- > Matthew Poole > Auckland, NZ > > http://www.p00le.net > > "Three pills a day keeps the voices at bay" > Matthew Poole > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com

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Heads up for anyone using SpamCop
by Aaron Nielsen 24 Mar '03

24 Mar '03

One of InternetNZ's servers is currently listed in SpamCop. Looks like a server in the UK processed a couple of the DNC's emails sent out to registrants :0 Aaron

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RE: [nznog] "Captain Bob" and "^god"
by Stephen Andrew 22 Mar '03

22 Mar '03

----Original Message---- From: Juha Saarinen [mailto:juha(a)saarinen.org] Sent: Friday, 21 March 2003 10:36 AM To: Simon Lyall; nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] "Captain Bob" and "^god" [snip] > "The overheads are minimal. Captain Bob pays about $300 a month to > maintain his server. He runs a Jetstart account ($65) to connect to > his server which in turn connects to a high-capacity pipe out to the > web." > > Out to the Web? Not to mail servers? A lot of SPAM is now going through misconfigured proxy servers using the CONNECT method. Apparently open mail relays don't cut it any more. -- Andrew This email with any attachments is confidential and may be subject to legal privilege. If it is not intended for you please reply immediately, destroy it and do not copy, disclose or use it in any way.

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"Captain Bob" and "^god"
by Juha Saarinen 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

http://tinyurl.com/7ut8 So that's what kids use their Jetstart connections for... ? -- Juha Saarinen

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"Captain Bob" and "^god"
by Liz Quilty 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

Do something like mac addresses? so you can identify a computer rather than the person? make them log into a wan or something even? Liz Sure, that'd be a great method - wouldn't stop them completely though as they could always establish a new account under a false or someone elses name. Edward ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert McDonald" <rob(a)nzpages.net> To: "Eon" <Eon(a)sli.net.nz>; "Stephen Judd" <nznog(a)vital.org.nz> Cc: <nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 7:51 PM Subject: Re: [nznog] "Captain Bob" and "^god" IANAL (uses new catch phrase) Why not supply ALL the customers details (or as much as known) in a (forced to lower case) MD5SUM. Generaly they would not use the same username. If the telcos suplying DSL/other would take advice from the ISPs that the particular user was troublesome or breached a commonly agreed to T&C they would get their delivery method (what ever it may be) terminated. Having for instance your DSL line choped of, even for a month or two, would have a huge impact. IMHO, Rob On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 19:38, Eon wrote: > Why not MD5SUM the name of the user? Provide that to a list and any users > with the same MD5 > are not given service? Protects the privacy of people and sticks it to > those that Spam. I may not be the > best of internet users but even I agreee that spamers need to be stopped. > > Eon. -- -------------- Robert McDonald NZPages.Net Web Services Ph: 021 1770061 ICQ: 86984875 http://www.nzpages.net _______________________________________________ Nznog mailing list Nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog _______________________________________________ Nznog mailing list Nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog

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key signing party at Uniforum
by Joe Abley 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

If I was to organise a PGP key signing party at the NZNOG/Uniforum meeting in July, would anybody here show up? Private replies welcome. Just trying to decide whether or not to bother trying :) [this is the kind of thing I am talking about: http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0110/pgp.html http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg18089.html http://www.upenn.edu/computing/security/keyparty.html http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane98/keysigning-party.html in case the concept is not familiar]

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Heads up - LOTR STreaming Event
by Richard Naylor 17 Mar '03

17 Mar '03

CityLink is assisting with the streaming of a Video Conference between Richard Taylor (Weta FX) and a number of schools on Wednesday. The event co-ordinators (TKI) have emailed a number of schools and hence this heads up. There is the potential for a large number of unicast streams from WIX on Wednesday morning 12 March between 10am and 11am. Here is the publicity material from TKI for those interested. Kia ora koutou TKI invites you to join us for the live video conference featuring Richard Taylor - the Oscar-winning special effects expert from the Lord of the Rings. This Wednesday between 10 and 11am, selected KAWM and Otago Net schools will be participating in a video-conference based conversation with Richard. To watch the live simulcast, click on the link below: http://www.tki.org.nz/r/school_improvement/climate/intro_taylor_e.php -------------- ABOUT THE VIDEO CONFERENCE The schools involved in the Richard Taylor video conference are: Turakina Maori Girls' College (Marton) Rotorua Lakes High (Rotorua) John Paul College (Rotorua) Rotorua Girls High (Rotorua) Mount Aspiring College (Wanaka) Te Waha o Rerekohu Area School (Gisborne) Te Wharekura o Rakaumanga (Huntly) Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Mana Tamariki (Palmerston North) Each of the schools will make a presentation to Richard on the theme "special effects". The students were guided by activities suggested in a teaching resource developed by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa to complement The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy - The Exhibition. ------------ ABOUT RICHARD TAYLOR Richard Taylor is the co-founder and director of Weta Workshop Ltd, the special effects company best known for its work on The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. Weta designed and produced all the weapons, armour, creatures, makeup, and miniature models for the film production.

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