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ACK! EEK! I can't believe it! I feel like I am in the Twilight Zone. I have to apologize to everyone "I FORGOT TO SEND LAST WEEK'S SWAPNEWS!" Ack! I am still in shock. Let me go on records once again and state "I just freaking hate holidays". The markets shut down...you can't get a lick of work done....and I personally lose track of what damn day it is.

Before I forgoet
MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEARS!

I started to get hints that there was something wrong where the following 3 things occured.

1. Sexy Emma from Kitchener ICQ'd me and said "hey, did you send the Swapnews this week?". People ask me that all the time and usually they ask because their email may have fallen off the list and this is what I suspected happened with Emma.

2. Richard the engineer says "did you put the swapnews online this week" and I say "ya, I put it up every wednesday.

3. I get the YNOT newsletter and I laugh to myself...Ha Ha! I scooped these guys with that Addicted to CyberSex Story...I sent that a week ago. Then I see that it is in this letter today.

I pull up the letter I am about to send and I always pre date them. I read SexSwap 12.28.2001 no.225. What in the world is going on here? I am a week behind in my dating. What! My mind starts running a million miles a minute...I am in a full blown panic. I hate missing appointments or being late! I finally figure it out. I quickly get on the ICQ to Dan and Karl. The lads work out a solution that I think will be just fine. We hate to miss a week of SexSwap so I am sending 2 small issues today which would be like one mega issues since I melded 12-14 days of info into the one letter and forgot to shoot it out. What was last Wednesday anyway...I think it was just a late december day. I must of been sipping too much Nyquil on that afternoon!

Here is the first issue of two SexSwap newsletters that will arrive in your box today. Some of the news in this one is a little stale since it was recorded over a week ago. Please drop me an email if you have any stories, tips or trix you want to share with readers for next week! andy@lips.com

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BARON OF BANDWIDTH IS THE PRO-LEVEL HACKER ASS KICKER
dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011220/tc/tech_hack_dc_1.html
Last week the "Baron Of Bandwidth" warned sexswap readers to the CCbill security alert. Over a day later, CCbill sent out their formal email security alert. Way to work your magic Dayne!. This story has made it around the globe. Hacker's just can't get up early enough to beat Dayne and Gary of CompleteWeb. If you are looking for a new host that is PRO LEVEL, drop the Baron an email
djordan@completeweb.net

MORE ON THIS CCBILL STORY
www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5100990,00.html
www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2001dec/gee20011221009434.htm
www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23493.html
www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23482.html
www.cosmiverse.com/tech12210101.html
investor.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-8247925-0.html

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PLAYBOY HACKED
www.techtv.com/news/hackingandsecurity/story/0,24195,3361935,00.html

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FBI CONFIRMS 'MAGIC LATTERN' EXISTS
this scares the crap out of me.
www.techtv.com/news/hackingandsecurity/story/0,24195,3364792,00.html

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IBM CLAIMS HISTORIC TEST TUBE QUANTUM COMPUTER from Richard
www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/15442.html
this story says we may have quantum computers within 10 years. This will make encryption meaningless since these computers can solve the most complex mathematical challenges known to mankind.

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XP SECURITY HOLE PLUGGED from SignGuy
www.zdnet.com/feeds/cgi/framer/hud00025A0/www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5100941,00.html

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BAG OF SALT TABLE O' TRIX CONTENT
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VBUELLTIN IS THE KING from Al
PHPBB from SignGuy
MORE BRUTE FORCE IDEAS from Rebel Hawk
FRONT PAGE FTP QUESTION from K.C.
UPTIME AND BIND from Interstel
BRUTE FORCE AND DRAWBACK OF ERROR 403 from Interstel

MORE NEWS
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ADDICTED TO CYBERSEX?
what a load of bunk, but an interesting read. Whenever I hear the word "addiction", alarm bells go off in my head. Since I spend 12 hours a day at the computer...am I addicted to the compter? Since I eat Tomas English Muffins every day with penut butter...am I addicted to muffins and peanut butter? Since I watch way too much ultimate fighting...am I addicted to ultimate fighting? I think people just naturally do a lot of things they like and this does not necessary mean they are addicted to squat. take it with a bag of salt =)
www.msnbc.com/news/674836.asp

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ATT TO MERGE WITH COMCAST from SignGuy
www.msnbc.com/news/675812.asp

SHAMELESS PLUGS - CAVEAT EMPTOR
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DESCRAMBLERS - AFFILIATES WANTED!
This is a new program that pays $50 per sale selling descrambler boxes
www.descramblerman.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=1221
adultsonly@bigfoot.com

ESTABLISED WEBSITE FOR SALE
Well establised website is for sale. Please see URL for details.
cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1681040988
badbunnny@yahoo.com

SOFTWARE HARDWARE
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HOTTEST SELLING HARDWARE AT AMAZON FOR XMAS $99 DVD
Bezos said these were selling like hotcakes. Awesome
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005T3ND/

TRIX
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VBUELLTIN IS THE KING from Al
Al writes:
Couple of comments on board software. We run some large message boards and I
can tell you vbulletin blows everyone else away. We've tried and tested them
all and nothing else comes even close. Something your readers should always
look for in BB scripts are the hacks, check out
www.vbulletin.org/
for some vb stuff. The stability of VB along with the ease of creating
custom mods makes it the easy choice for us.

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PHPBB from SignGuy
here is another newer php based bulleting board from SignGuy
Signuy writes
www.phpbb.com/
ever try this one...

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MORE BRUTE FORCE IDEAS from Rebel Hawk
Rebel Hawk
In spite of the brute force attacks i can tell you: I DID IT!, I FINALLY DEFEATED THEM, how?, easy: lowered my IP/tries limit to 2 and raised my IP hold time to 60 mins and they are gone for ever. spread the word out, if your members are interested i can write an alogritmic scheme of the code, so anyone can write it in perl, php, sh or whatever, mine is in sh. Also, i'm still working on the 'frequent delinquent' IP database, some sort of RBL for the IPs, i would like to offer it for free to all the adult community.
service@comnet.com.ec

UPDATE -this just in from Rebel Hawk
Rebel Hawk writes
Andy i've tested the FDIP database setting up a shield and it works like
heaven!, the attacks stopped immediately!, now i have the assholes rigth
from the balls! Spread the word, let's kill those bastards now!
service@comnet.com.ec

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FRONT PAGE FTP QUESTION from K.C.
K.C. writes:
We have sites on 3 servers, with 2 hosts. We did have 1 site on 1 server, and 12 sites on 1 server, all NT. We had our host try to build us a UNIX machine that almost worked out, but ended up on deticated NT anyhow. We needed UNIX to run some scripts, and he moved 1 site to a UNIX server the shop runs on so that we could run the scripts. 3 servers, 13 sites now. We work live with FrontPage to publish and do changes, and we can no longer access the deticated server with FP since just before our up-grade to FP 2002, and currently cannot. We can access the other 2 servers with FP. Our host, Craig, swears the problem is not on his end, and must lie with Earthlink due to port blocking. I have spoken with Senior Tech Support and while they have admitted port 25 (e-mail) blocking, they swear that is the only port blocking they have in effect. This stands to reason, as we can connect to 2 out of 3 servers. We have removed and changed user names and passwords to the server, and this does not change anything, however, the server can be connected to from other backbones with our user and pass. It seems we're the only ones that can't connect to the server. What's your take on all of this?

Guru-Of-Gif writes:
I would try and use a process of elimination

1. do you have more than one box at home...can you connect with that other box...if yes, then it may just be something funny on the new box

2. when your friends connect to the third box...are they using FrontPage? or are they using Telnet or FTP?

3. Do you have another FTP program other than frontpage that you can try to connect to the 3 boxes with?

so try to determine
a) is it this box only
b) is if frontpage only
c) is it that server will not let anyone in (sounds like no)

I doubt it is earthlink. If you haev an msdos prompt or in windows I think it is called COmmand Prompt...click it and see if you can get to the server
for example...if your server is foo.com , at the command prompt type
ftp www.foo.com
it should then ask you
Username: (enter your name and then Return)
Password: (enter it and hit Return)

and see if you get in...if you do...the trouble may be Frontpage related. Or if you have another FTP client like CuteFTP or something, give it a try. If anyone has any other ideas or solution to this problem...please email it to me andy@lips.com

UPDATE - FTP MYSTERY SOLVED - FP2002 TIP
K.C. writes
It WAS on his end ! He up-graded the one dedicated server to FP 2002
extensions. All sites on a server running 2002 extensions CANNOT have the
same user and pass. Same user = OK. Same pass = OK. Not both. All he needed
was for me to eliminate all of the other options, and then he looked at his
servers.

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UPTIME AND BIND from Interstel
Interstel writes:
Yeah NetCraft has been pinging our servers forever. Interestingly enough I
find that no server I operate on FreeBSD can go under load more than 90
days. I've got boxes out there that are extremely low volume that I have
had up for over 300 days at a time. But with constant DNS traffic and the
various types of DNS BIND exploits out there I find that while no one can
kill a box of mine or overload it. What they can do is jam DNS up so that
that only a warm reboot clears the all the buffers out which even killing
BIND can't do. I would be interested in whether some of the these 200+ day
operations run BIND on their machines because you can get really weird
results with BIND running for more than 90 days.
The longest I've ever gotten a BIND 8.2.x DNS run to stay up is 87 days.
The BIND memory cache was 57 megabytes in size. But it was acting REAL
funky. I find a BIND purge about once every 45 days is good for the
system. Course since I'm always tinkering with hardware I think the
longest a webserver has been up is 60 days. harh harh.

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BRUTE FORCE AND DRAWBACK OF ERROR 403 from Interstel
Interstel writes
We stopped using this method awhile back because the
reply packets eat up more bandwidth than the hack attempts do! Unless you
dump the hackers into oblivion without reply to their packets after the 5
failure in 2 minute window you're wasting bandwidth. And the amount of
bandwidth even a 403 generates is about 5-10 times what the request header
alone sucked up.

Course, <grin> I can convince all my hosted customers to buy this kind of
protections which is why lots of them have high bandwidth bills. They just
never get the point.

By the way. We do forcibly redirect those first attempt our of 5 into a
theftjoin page. I figure once in a great while you'll actually sell them
something.

INTERESTING SITES
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AFFIRM IT! from SignGuy
www.rsisoft.com/Products/aphirmit.html

GURU OF GIF
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GINGER BANTER from Eric
Eric writes:
Thoughts on the two wheeled yuppie auto target.
Great for disabled, warehouse workers or people with
too much cash. BUT... Americans LUST cars and gasoline
powered (keyword POWER) engines. We go so far as to
kill others in order to keep the price down (uh oh
damn unpatriotic of me). I mean this thing isn't even
much of a toy, you can have WAY more fun on a
snowboard or a skateboard if you are remotely
coordinated! Now that rich yuppies will be riding
these are they going to remove all the no
skateboarding laws? Hey i just got a great idea for a
new urban death based video game involving bill gates,
steve jobs, bezos (insert tech tycoon name here). Put
them on "ginger" and try to run them down with your
new MONSTER truck! (or swell customized Cobra of
course). hi ho hi ho,

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GINGER BANTER from Bruce
Bruce writes:
Like Melody, I too "speak from a place of knowing" in that I'm a mechanical engineer and I am disabled, although I don't really think of myself that way. I would love to have something that could get me around quickly so I want to see something like Segway work, but I know it won't. Being an engineer, I know that similar products already exist and none have taken over the world. Part of it has to do with point #5, "It takes up less space than cars". That's why it will never be street legal. The Segway is too slow and too small to safely share the road with other vehicles. Point # 6 "Ecological Impact" is not as clear as it seems. I know a bit about this, too, given my current occupation working for a large electrical power utility. With electric vehicles, there is an element of "not in my back yard" in that the power is produced elsewhere, sometimes by coal or oil burning power plants. Given California's electrical problems last summer, can you imagine what it would be like if hundreds of thousands of Segways were charging every day ?

I thought about the design of an effective scooter type vehicle, and yes, Richard and I could come up with something. We know the engineering aspects, and Andy Dunn could be enlisted, because he knows people, what they want, and how to turn it into money. A lot of designs end up looking like motorized wheel chairs. People don't want this. Andy, with his Butcher of Baghdad cap on would say, give them more power, make it tough as nails, not some tippy fragile little cart. Forget two wheels, Forget three wheels, give me four ! It has to go over curbs, I'll even make it climb stairs and plough through snow. Oh wait ... they already have these.
english.honda.ca/motorcycles/models/2001/TRX450ES_mo.asp

Too rugged for your tastes ? Not planning on climbing stairs or going through snow ?
How about this little number, and its even street legal.
english.honda.ca/motorcycles/models/2000/SK50M_mo.asp

My point is that people could be using vehicles like this right now, but generally they don't. When I look at the parking lot at work, I see a parking lot full of SUVs and minivans. I like Kamen's wheel chair design, and hope to see more products that will help disabled people, but this is a long way from redefining how society gets from A to B.

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those are my stories (although a little late) =) man, what a Rod Sterling Twiligh zone. A week of my life disappeared!

chow mein wayne

Andy
andy@lips.com