Mohtalim

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.

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

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.

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.

work? what's that?

I need undergrads! cept Im not a TA

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

Why does that sound so wrong...

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

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 )

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.

yep. damn rpc!

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.

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

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!

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

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

You should play puzzle pirates and join in on that thread