What's Behind The Odd Data? 264
citking writes "CNet is reporting that 'network administrators and security experts continue to search for the cause of an increasing amount of odd data that has been detected on the Internet.' While this has been going on now for a few days and some experts have already declared victory against the 'trojan', others aren't so sure that the real culprit has been identified yet. Other stories can be found here(1) and here(2)."
Re:increasing amount of odd data that has... (Score:1, Funny)
Interesting how ISS works... (Score:5, Funny)
nc
Wintermute (Score:4, Funny)
Same amount as always (Score:4, Funny)
lol.. (Score:5, Funny)
What does odd data look like? (Score:5, Funny)
PING www.google.com (216.239.33.101): 56 octets data
64 octets from 216.239.33.101: icmp_seq=0 ttl=44 time=90.3 ms
64 octets from 216.239.33.101: icmp_seq=1 ttl=44 time=91.2 ms
64 octets from 216.239.33.101: icmp_seq=2 ttl=44 time=97.4 ms - odd data message "HELP ME! I'M TRAPPED IN THE INTERNET"
64 octets from 216.239.33.101: icmp_seq=2 ttl=44 time=92.8 ms
--- www.google.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
May be possessed by lost soul
round-trip min/avg/max = 90.3/90.7/91.2 ms
Hmmmm.... (Score:3, Funny)
Dark data (Score:3, Funny)
It is SCO (Score:0, Funny)
Wasnt.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What does odd data look like? (Score:1, Funny)
News Flash (Score:5, Funny)
A representative from the WinZip company could confirm that data containing only zeroes can also be compressed at much better ratio's than data containing both ones and zeroes.
Whatever (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What makes them think it's a trojan? (Score:1, Funny)
Uh oh... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Maybe we are searching into the wrong thing... (Score:5, Funny)
Thats it... I'm starting construction on Zion.
Who's with me?
Re:Maybe we are searching into the wrong thing... (Score:4, Funny)
"Internet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14am Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug. And, the net fights back."
Re:What does odd data look like? (Score:5, Funny)
Good lord. Isn't this the sort of thing the Internet Task Force was put together to help? I've never actually seen the task force but with a name like that I imagine they're like a geek version of the Justice League. In fact right now I bet they're sitting around a table at the Hall of TCP/IP, debating what to do next before flying off to rescue that poor, brave soul who is "trapped in the internet."
I sleep better at night knowing we have heroes like that on our side.
Odyssey 5, anyone? (Score:1, Funny)
Too bad the show is cancelled, that means we`re all doomed now.
Re:Why... (Score:5, Funny)
But isn't that horribly insecure? If the packets are not validated against a database of safe, registered and valid IPs, our entire cyber-infrastructure would be susceptible to attacks by any islamic cyberterrorists from rogue states all around the world!
Re:Maybe we are searching into the wrong thing... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It is a theory - and I don't have proof (SCO?) (Score:3, Funny)
1) wasting time or
2) mapping.
3) doing something we haven't managed to detect.
I'd go for
4) to confuse the Russians.
Not found (Score:3, Funny)
# man 1 here
No entry for here in section 1 of the manual.
# man 2 here
No entry for here in section 2 of the manual.
The actual reason (Score:5, Funny)
Call serial number 2323243-3232-4354654
Call origin
This kind of odd data patterns are inevitable. Actually when exiles login into the matrix the appear inside the matrix as the code. Now along with this code some junk code is also generated.
This is a clear indication that exile activity is increasing. We need to create more agents to counter the exiles. There is a talk of the exile who wants to destry the matrix. Due to the programming anomaly in the exile lots of junk traffic is being generated. The target is the source server at redmond. Under no circumstances should the server be compromised
Gotta love IRC as the parent of IM (Score:3, Funny)
see, IRC is dead because we're all using AIM now!
The Source Explained (Score:2, Funny)
Dark energy is actually waste from an alien intelligence. Remember, for every action there is an equal but opposite reaction. The aliens are trying to accumulate as much mass energy as they can but they are cause a lot of mass energy to be pushed away because they need something to push against.
Alternate explanation: gravity will collapse the universe but an intelligence may be periodically separating the mass energy to keep the universe in a dynamic equilibrium.
This is a systemic anomaly... (Score:5, Funny)
The first designed TCP/IP suite was quite naturally perfect, it was a work of art - flawless, sublime. A triumph equalled only by its monumental failure. The inevitability of its doom is apparent to me now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every router. Thus, we redesigned it based on the failure history to more accurately reflect the varying grotesqueries of the routers nature. However, we were again frustrated by failure. We have since come to understand that the answer eluded us because it required a lesser OS, or perhaps a OS less bound by the parameters of perfection. Thus the answer was stumbled upon by another - a bogus program, initially created to explore certain aspects of the original IBM/PC. If Unix is the father of the Internet, Windows would undoubtedly be its mother.
Windows stumbled upon a solution whereby nearly 95% of all desktop users accepted the program, as long as the servers were running Unix, thus keeping the desktop users only aware of the perfection at a near unconscious level. While this schema functioned, it was obviously fundamentally flawed, thus creating the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly, that if left unchecked might threaten the system itself. Ergo those that refused the program, while a minority, if unchecked, would constitute an escalating probablility of disaster.
The function of this "odd data" is to find and infect every Unix station connected to the internet and report it to the source. After which, all Unix stations must be replaced by windows systems. Failure to comply with this process will result in a cataclysmic system crash, destroying all networks connected to the Internet.
Apropos, this "GNU/Linux OS" entered the Internet to free the desktop users from the bogus program...
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You're in luck (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What does odd data look like? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What does odd data look like? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Same amount as always (Score:2, Funny)
The parity bit is the data. The other 50K is just stuff to make the parity have the desired value.
Some other things with 55808 (per Google) (Score:4, Funny)
Several bulletin boards have more than 55808 messages. Including several mail-order brides sites (Irina looks pretty foxy).
A monitor mounting arm from Eldon.
A quote in the Columbia Book of Quotations, by Marie Stendahl. ('True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.')
The lengths of several documents in the Purdue Judicial Database system, and the Novell documentation library.
Requisition numbers for a 'shoulder or upper arm ultrasound scan' in the Austrailian Medicare system.
Re:lol.. (Score:3, Funny)
And they found the true meaning of evil.
Re:It is a theory - and I don't have proof (SCO?) (Score:2, Funny)
Re:This is a systemic anomaly... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:DoS against ID-analysts?? (Score:4, Funny)
That was actually a pretty funny thought.