so how much work are you NOT doing?

Peijen · Post by **Peijen** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 3:24 pm

I am about quarter way into the project, and i don't feel like doing it any more ... I am actually ahead of the schedule that IT doesn't believe I can meet the deadline.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 4:13 pm

I've done almost no work since publishing my paper. Programmed a 3D-ish version of me old 2D program, but have been doing a steady round of website visits, watching/playing CS, and playing AC2 every now and again on campus. Plus this is the last week my advisor is going to be here at CMU, and he's been skipping out lately anyways hehe

Post by **Jonathan** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 5:18 pm

So I've unloaded my old project that I was working on for the past six months onto the intern, so I've completely stopped working on that. That gives me time to work on Cedar Mill, though, which is fun. Cedar Mill is one of Intel's next desktop CPUs.

Peijen · Post by **Peijen** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 5:32 pm

Dwindlehop wrote:So I've unloaded my old project that I was working on for the past six months onto the intern, so I've completely stopped working on that. That gives me time to work on Cedar Mill, though, which is fun. Cedar Mill is one of Intel's next desktop CPUs.

Clearly the solution to my problem is that I need an intern.

Jason · Post by **Jason** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 8:58 pm

work? what's that?

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 9:02 pm

I need undergrads! cept Im not a TA

Post by **Jonathan** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 9:06 pm

so hire undergrads in a "research" position and make them do your grunt work.

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 1:27 am

Why does that sound so wrong...

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 2:20 am

I think the question vinny meant to ask is, "Why does that sound so familiar?"

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 8:44 pm

In other news, three of the computers in the sensor-based planning lab were compromised recently... (yes, the infamous rpc exploit which left ftp servers on port 48522. Refer to Dave for more info

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bob · Post by **bob** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 1:30 am

my box at the ETC got compromised by that rpc exploit. and i had just run security updates a week earlier too. so my admin has wiped the box clean.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 1:58 am

yep. damn rpc!

Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 7:30 pm

you know, exploit writers need to get their shit together and come up with a p2p message passing system for remote discovery of compromised boxes. that way you wouldn't have to leave a bloody ftp program on port 48522 every time you compromised a machine. static behavior makes it too easy to detect.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 11:06 pm

but then we'd have to work harder to find out that we've been hacked

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 4:05 am

Dwindlehop wrote:you know, exploit writers need to get their shit together and come up with a p2p message passing system for remote discovery of compromised boxes. that way you wouldn't have to leave a bloody ftp program on port 48522 every time you compromised a machine. static behavior makes it too easy to detect.

If I remember correctly, quite a few of the advanced DDoS tools (TFN, etc) connect to IRC channels, presumably on random ports, since it's your computer initiating and not theirs. IRC channels make controlling contagious zombie machines all the easier.

18-484 Info Warfare r0x0rs!

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 5:27 am

Yeah I remember lurking in those kinds of channels, where some bot would just continuously announce the IPs of computers that had been hax0rd.

bob · Post by **bob** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 7:09 am

you know, your mom also connects to IRC ports. umm... yeah.
mostly i just wanted to post something. anything.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 10:43 am

You should play puzzle pirates and join in on that thread

Mohtalim

so how much work are you NOT doing?

so how much work are you NOT doing?

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