[ Thanks to Jeff
Gerhardt for this link. ]
Tonight Live: SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM (bloody Vikings) on
The Linux Show!!
Tonight Live: On The Linux Show!!
Tuesday, October 7th, 2003 from Chicago IL
Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com.
At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et…. Kevin Hill, Arne
Flones, Doc Searls, Russ Pavlicek AND Jeff Gerhardt are all back
live tonight. We have a lively show lined up for tonight.
Segment One- The News. We will cover
THE HOT NEWS of the week including: Microsoft
lies, The Sun goes Down, Linux Games, Virus, spam, a clueless
pundit or two…….. and way more.
Story Links
- The News This Weeks
- Security Focus and Virus Bulletin battle over Viruses
in Linux: - Linux CD turns
Athlon 64 PC into “gaming console on steroids”–
Linuxdevices.com - Linux Cost
Savings Add Up– - SGI:
Letter to the Linux Community– Get bit SCO - Eric On
the possible fall of Sun-By Eric S. Raymond President, Open
Source Initiative - Open Source
Needs Long-Range Plans-By Brian Proffitt Linux Today Managing
Editor - Mass.
official: “Open source” reports overstated State secretary denies
existence of “Freeware Initiative” -By Paul Roberts, IDG News
Service - Microsoft
report prompts Forrester policy change– Robert McMillan, IDG
News Service, San Francisco Bureau About “F”ing time
huh??? - Why
Open Source May Be Doomed-By Megan McArdle Nominated for
clueless pundit
SuSE To Launch $449 Linux Server For SMB Market in November-By
Paula Rooney, CRN
- Security Focus and Virus Bulletin battle over Viruses
- Old SCO
- Halloween IX:
It Ain’t Necessarily SCO– - An
Open Letter to Darl-Newsforge good thoughts by ESR - ‘SCO’ code could
be written out of Linux–
Red Hat Files Complaint Over SCO’s Linux Claims –- CALDERA
Employess work on Kernel– Jeff:I told you so - Torvalds
Speaks Out on SCO, Linux– from e-week
SCO Owns Your Computer– Byte (how appropriate)- OSI Position
Paper on the SCO-vs.-IBM Complaint– - Eric Raymond’s
attempt to find holes in SCO’s claim–
SCO’s CEO says buyout could end Linux fight– by TODD R. WEISS
of Computer World This may be the defining story of the
entire SCO situation- SCO v.
IBM satire. A Defining Moment– by Ed Foster - Warning:
You may want to consider speaking a new language
- Halloween IX:
- The SCO/Microsoft Connection
The Linux and Main Summary– has to be good, quoted
jeff…..
Linux & Main editorial citing Microsoft– By Dennis
Powell- “SCO
ANNOUNCES UNIX LICENSING DEAL WITH MICROSOFT” – the official
press release - If it Look like
a duck, smells like a duck, walks like a duck? Its a duck HEY
DOJ WAKE UP!!!!!!! - OK, So Why
Did Microsoft Buy That SCO License?– by Maureen O’Gara of
LinuxGram
Segment Two- SPAM SUCKS– and what to do about
it
Tonight we had a guest cancel on us. So in light of that we are
going to address a topic that was high on the agenda of TLS this
past week, and that is dealing with the explosion of spam.
A couple days before our show last week, a SPAM program being
distributed on the Internet had our domain (thelinuxshow.com) in
its database of suggested outgoing domains to use with a bulk email
list. This file could also be used with a Trojan that can co-opt
other computers and convert them into SMTP relay boxes all with
spoofed outgoing domains. Within short order there were dozens of
(primarily newbies) of people out there on the Internet, that were
using our domain, and dozens more that were being used as a
relay.
During the course of last week we spent 16 man hours contacting
ISPs round the world using standard abuse methods and in some cases
a threat of retribution. In 10 cases we also contacted the FBI for
fraud. I want to thank all those ISPs around the world that helped
to plug up the holes in the dam.
So, tonight we thought we would relate the story to you, the
techniques we used to solve the issue, and an open discussion on
our favorite Spam tools.
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please contact us ASAP to be added to our play list.
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Chat (irc.thelinuxshow.com #linuxshow).
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