March 29 #3. i bet you people didn’t realize how many different
time i update this in a day. i’m going to start doing it like this cause that
way it’s easier for people to see what they’ve read and what they haven’t
cause it’s nothing for me to upload this page 4 or 5 times a day. so ok on
to what i wanted to babble about, the CS department here is so fucking stupid
here’s an e-mail they just sent to everyone: To those
residence hall students who are running FTP services or Unix /Linux machines
The dormitory network connection agreement signed by students includes a statement
precluding the installation or use of server software without prior permission
from Computing Services. This includes FTP services, MS server functions of
Windows, and Unix/Linux variants. We’ve not policed this requirement in the
past. However, these installations are now placing the entire DSU network
at risk. Some of these applications contain large security holes. Last week
someone from outside the University exploited the security lapses on a student’s
Linux machine to hack into and initiate a denial of service attack on a machine
in Rumania. These attacks typically send large packets to the site under attack,
preventing it from communicating to the Internet. Unfortunately, these types
of attacks also consume our router and internet bandwidth, so very little
can come into or leave campus while the attack is underway. Yesterday we received
notification from BIT that entities from outside the University are trying
a standard well known buffer overflow attack to break into FTP servers on
student machines in the dorms. These attacks work by overwhelming the FTP
application with garbage commands. If the FTP server crashes, the hacker can
compromise the computer, take it over and initiate another denial of service
attack, erase files or whatever. Anyone running Unix FTP servers using WU-FTP Daemon should upgrade immediately. At least four unique security holes have
been identified in this package in the last six months. Most systems have
converted to the PRO-FTP Daemons because it is more secure and does not need
to be patched every month. By default most UNIX systems enable FTP services.
Unless you take steps to protect your computer and the OS, you continue to
risk it and the DSU internet connection. If you are running Unix/Linux or
a windows FTP client we ask that you notify Computing Services at 5675. We also ask that you ensure you have downloaded and installed the appropriate
security patches. Since we cannot continue to risk the campus connection to
the internet, failure to protect student machines in the dorms may lead to
a discontinuation of network services in the dorms. yeah, stupid fucks.
so i guess i’m going to have to call and tell them that i’m running Win2k
Server. but i’ve disabled all my ftp and iis stuff so they can’t get to bitchy
at me about it. they are just a bunch of BOFH’s, if you go like 1K over the
disk quota they disable your account and you have to wait 5 working days before
they will reinstate it. fuckers. i’m glad i don’t have to use the damn thing,
and you know this is th #9
tech college for it’s size in the country, well they fucking lied on their
thingy, cause if you go and look it says they give th students 100+ megs of
space on the servers and another 100+ on the webside, well they only give
you a TOTAL of 10. dumbasses. and you know i really like that e-mail, cause
they just had a huge article in the Trojan Times about how they just got a
ton of new Sun systems and how they are going to start integrating them into
the teachings and stuff. well i think they should allow linux and server stuff
in their dorm rooms if they are going to teach it. and you know they would
also fix this problem if they installed a fucking FIREWALL. dumbshits. it
would cost them what $2000 to put in a fucking firewall, but do you think
they’ve done that NO, and you know they jsut got a fucking 1.6 million dollar
grant thingy from gateway to but computers and stuff, you think they could
use $2000 of that to buy a goddamn fucking firewall? they have a bunch of
dumbasses running this fucking network, i tell you they do, i coud run it
better.