October 2018 - luv-talk

Fwd: Intel's Management Technology is indeed vulnerable
by Douglas Ray 18 Oct '19

18 Oct '19

Firmware remote vulnerability in Intel business products -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Intel's Management Technology is indeed vulnerable Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 19:49:54 +0200 (CEST) From: I love OpenBSD <lampshade(a)poczta.fm> To: misc(a)openbsd.org INTEL-SA-00075 There is an escalation of privilege vulnerability in Intel® Active Management Technology (AMT), Intel® Standard Manageability (ISM), and Intel® Small Business Technology versions firmware versions 6.x, 7.x, 8.x 9.x, 10.x, 11.0, 11.5, and 11.6 that can allow an unprivileged attacker to gain control of the manageability features provided by these products. Can I preview a bitlink before clicking on it? https://support.bitly.com/hc/en-us/articles/230650447-Can-I-preview-a-bitli… Arstechnica: http://bit.ly/2qyHCQn Semiaccurate: http://bit.ly/2pB2MjO Intel's PDF: http://intel.ly/2qAK4G0

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Take action: Don’t send 267 people back to offshore detention
by Peter Ross 28 Oct '18

28 Oct '18

http://bit.ly/1R3MiYB Maybe Australians can avoid another "Sorry" fifty years later this time. Thanks Peter

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Re: [luv-talk] Keeping an old email address going...oops meant to go to luv-talk as well
by Rohan McLeod 28 Oct '18

28 Oct '18

Andrew McGlashan via luv-talk wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hi, > > On 01/10/18 16:38, Rohan McLeod via luv-talk wrote: >> Would be grateful for advice at the naive user level for help on >> how to proceed with following problem rhn(a)jeack.com.au is a >> functioning email address; > If you can get a transfer of the domain name to yourself BEFORE it > expires, then there are forms to fill in and a payment will be > required to be aid for the transfer. > > There are rules for .com.au domain names, you must fit in with those > rules; that generally means that you need a business that can own it > in most cases and hat business needs to have the right to own it. > > If it's registration expires, then you may or may not be able to scoop > it up; it is possible that once it expires, there will be someone else > trying to nab it, so you'll have competition. Therefore, if you > really want the email address, you will need to go through the > transfer process. > > Once you own the domain name, if you can get it, then you'll need to > think about DNS and appropriate MX records as well as hosting for both. > > if there is just one email address that is required and it isn't a > high volume one, then I might host it for you on my server, but that > would be only after you know that you can legally acquire ownership of > the domain name -- that hurdle needs to be overcome first. > > Without going through the process of acquiring the domain name, you > will likely be on borrowed time, however the current "owner" may > continue to renew it forever or a long period of time and it may just > keep working as it is now. When they fail to renew the domain name, > for whatever reason, then you will lose access to the email as it > won't route correctly to a server handling the domain name. Similarly > even if they keep the domain name active, they may remove the mx > functionality at any time. Andrew thanks for your practical advice; seems as Nic expressed in less detail : - the odds are not good and - even if possible, it may well be beyond my legal and financial abilities. Also thank you Trent for the aquisition history beyond iPrimus ; ie "..... following that indicate iPrimus was acquired by M2 in 2012, and M2 merged into Vocus in 2016." It seems as though the regulatory situation is that the succesive owners are continuing to keep "rhn(a)jeack.com.au" ; going, even though they have no actual legal obligation to do so. What I will do now is start to look around for a durable non-web email address ; that is obviously not tied to a particular ISP ...suggestions welcome! "Non-web" because: - I already have one with vfemail.net that is accessible with TOR (unlike gmail... etc) and; - I don't like the the browser interfaces to email for general communication, as they seem slow,clumsy and connection dependent regards Rohan McLeod

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by Russell Coker 16 Oct '18

16 Oct '18

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Humble Bundles: No Starch Press (4days) & O'Reilly Head Firsrt (11days)
by Rodney Brown 04 Oct '18

04 Oct '18

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October 2018 meeting
by Carlos Lopez 03 Oct '18

03 Oct '18

Hi all Thanks for everyone who made the October meeting possible and especially to Wen Lin and Shannon Pace for the very interesting presentations. Also, my apologies for ducking out on everyone after the meeting (I got little enough sleep as it is!). Are there any membership fees to LUV? Or is there some way to contribute to the costs of hosting these events? Carlos Lopez Proud penguinista since 2001.

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Keeping an old email address going
by Rohan McLeod 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

Would be grateful for advice at the naive user level for help on how to proceed with following problem rhn(a)jeack.com.au is a functioning email address; that is I can send (eg this one ) and recieve emails from it ; the history is that ownership seems to have been taken over by different companies following amalgamations : jeack pty. ltd was taken over by hotkey was taken over by iprimus....etc. Question: iprimus now seems to have disowned the domain name (conversation with iprimus support ) ; basicly even 2nd level support doesn't know or can't be bothered working out how the current arrangement can exist. My suspicion is that somehow "rhn(a)jeack.com.au" has become an alias for "rhn1(a)hotkey.net.au" (which is acknowledged to exist) I would like to keep the email address; but their technical support seems to be suggesting I host the domain somewhere else, is this possible ? Just off the top of my head even if the domain name is no longer registered; surely this would have consequences should there be any one else with a 'jeack.com.au' email address ?; BUT if it was possible what is the proceedure ? regards Rohan McLeod

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Fwd: Re: Keeping an old email address going
by Nic Baxter 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [luv-talk] Keeping an old email address going Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 17:24:33 +1000 From: Rohan McLeod <rhn(a)jeack.com.au> To: Nic Baxter <nic(a)nicbaxter.com.au> Nic Baxter via luv-talk wrote: > > Hi Rohan > > On 1/10/18 4:38 pm, Rohan McLeod via luv-talk wrote: > > No mention of Iprimus. However if you look at the mailserver: > > 5 vscan.hotkey.net.au > <https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=mx%3ajeack.com.au&run=toolpage#> > 202.138.0.13 > <https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=mx%3ajeack.com.au&run=toolpage#> > > Primus Telecommunications (AS9443) > 24 hrs > > It is one of the hotkey domains. So I don't think there is anything > you can do. If the email still works then good. If not you will need > to find a new one. > Thanks Nic ; so it (and I) are living on borrowed time !..........:-) Are domain names like company names in that they become available ; if and when someone ceases paying the registation fee ? regards Rohan McLeod When the domain expires then after a wait of 30 days anyone can register it but with .com.au domains only the registrar knows the expiry date.

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