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Hackers Aprils fools day threat......Maybe!

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  • Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    There are ~253 Root DNS Server not 13!!!
    Also they are completely forgetting about Anycast Servers.

    THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN.

    Well.. they know now.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Getting your security news from MSNBC ?

    Goodtimes all over again :P


    Even if someone took out all the root servers completely, your ISP will still have the addresses of the vast majority of sites you could look at cached. It would only affect you if you wanted to visit a site that no one else connected to your ISP has looked at recently.

    DNS cache poisoning would be a slightly different story, but that is usually targeted at hijacking a specific site address stored on a particular DNS server.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Subject: "Very dangerous" computer virus

    Goodtimes will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but
    it will scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It
    will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice
    cream goes melty. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit
    cards, screw up the tracking on your television and use subspace field
    harmonics to scratch any CD's you try to play.

    It will give your ex-girlfriend your new phone number. It
    will mix Kool-aid into your fishtank. It will drink all your beer and
    leave its socks out on the coffee table when there's company coming
    over. It will put a dead kitten in the back pocket of your good suit
    pants and hide your car keys when you are late for work.

    Goodtimes will make you fall in love with a penguin. It will
    give you nightmares about circus midgets. It will pour sugar in your
    gas tank and shave off both your eyebrows while dating your
    girlfriend behind your back and billing the dinner and hotel room to
    your Discover card.

    It will seduce your grandmother. It does not matter if she
    is dead, such is the power of Goodtimes, it reaches out beyond the
    grave to sully those things we hold most dear.

    It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you can't
    find it. It will kick your dog. It will leave libidinous messages on
    your boss's voice mail in your voice! It is insidious and subtle. It
    is dangerous and terrifying to behold. It is also a rather
    interesting shade of mauve.

    Goodtimes will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the
    toilet seat up. It will make a batch of Methanphedime in your bathtub
    and then leave bacon cooking on the stove while it goes out to chase
    gradeschoolers with your new snowblower.


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