Takedowns run amok? The strange Secret Service/GoDaddy assault on JotForm

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The shutdown of his entire domain, without notice, for something a user had done even after protections were in place against it, seemed hugely unfair to Tank; he made his public case in terms that would also apply to other user-generated sites like YouTube. “We have 2 millions user generated forms,” he wrote. “It is not possible for us to manually review all forms. This can happen to any Web site that allows user-generated content.”

via Takedowns run amok? The strange Secret Service/GoDaddy assault on JotForm (updated).

Jotform.com is back up and it seems like an interesting idea.  Creating a form on that site is very easy but creating one locally in WordPress is easy too.  They seem to have a lot of users however.  It will also be interesting to see what happens with dns should the government abuse its authority (or lack thereof) in taking down sites capriciously and without due process.  The Internet was designed to route around damage.  Also this …

JotForm today moved its domains away from GoDaddy to registrars NameCheap and Hover. Tank still doesn’t know why his domain was suspended or when it might be returned; however, a WHOIS search this afternoon revealed that GoDaddy has at last removed the domain from its penalty box.

MegaBust’s MegaQuestions Cloud the Net’s Future

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It is however the viewpoint of this article that the Megaupload indictment will likely be seen in the long run as having a more significant impact on Internet business models and innovation than the withdrawal of PIPA and SOPA — and this would be the case even if those bills had been enacted in some combined form.

That is because those bills, problematic as they were, created new forms of civil copyright enforcement — blocking of infringing foreign websites by both search engines and ISPs, and termination of third party payment and ad services for both foreign and domestic infringing websites. Such remedies might of course curtail a website’s income and even lead to its demise, as well as to executive and worker unemployment and investor monetary losses. But they would not threaten executives and investors with involuntary, decades-long incarceration in Club Fed.

via MegaBust’s MegaQuestions Cloud the Net’s Future.

This opinion piece makes some important points but it’s clearly biased in favour of megaupload.

Online Certificate Status Protocol

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Online Certificate Status Protocol – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) is an Internet protocol used for obtaining the revocation status of an X.509 digital certificate. It is described in RFC 2560 and is on the Internet standards track. It was created as an alternative to certificate revocation lists (CRL), specifically addressing certain problems associated with using CRLs in a public key infrastructure (PKI). Messages communicated via OCSP are encoded in ASN.1 and are usually communicated over HTTP. The “request/response” nature of these messages leads to OCSP servers being termed OCSP responders.

MySQL :: MySQL Cluster 7.2 GA Released, Delivers 1 BILLION Queries per Minute

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MySQL :: MySQL Cluster 7.2 GA Released, Delivers 1 BILLION Queries per Minute.

70x Higher JOIN Performance, NoSQL Key-Value API & Cross Data Center Sharding with Replication

Oracle is delighted to announce the immediate availability of the production-ready, GA release of MySQL Cluster 7.2, available for download under the GPL, and as part of the commercial MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition, including management tools, product certifications and 24×7 global support.

SSDs have a ‘bleak’ future, researchers say

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“This makes the future of SSDs cloudy: While the growing capacity of SSDs and high IOP rates will make them attractive for many applications, the reduction in performance that is necessary to increase capacity while keeping costs in check may make it difficult for SSDs to scale as a viable technology for some applications,” Grupp, lead author of the study, wrote in a research paper.

via SSDs have a ‘bleak’ future, researchers say – Computerworld.

Because SSDs have no moving parts, the time needed to write and read data is more than 100 times faster than that of hard disk drives that use read-write heads on actuator arms to find data on a spinning platter. But as NAND flash circuitry continues to shrink in size, the performance gap with hard disk drives will become more narrow, Grupp said.

New research: There’s no need to panic over factorable keys–just mind your Ps and Qs

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We have been able to remotely compromise about 0.4% of all the public keys used for SSL web site security. The keys we were able to compromise were generated incorrectly–using predictable “random” numbers that were sometimes repeated. There were two kinds of problems: keys that were generated with predictable randomness, and a subset of these, where the lack of randomness allows a remote attacker to efficiently factor the public key and obtain the private key. With the private key, an attacker can impersonate a web site or possibly decrypt encrypted traffic to that web site. We’ve developed a tool that can factor these keys and give us the private keys to all the hosts vulnerable to this attack on the Internet in only a few hours.

via New research: There’s no need to panic over factorable keys–just mind your Ps and Qs | Freedom to Tinker.

The last time I was at this blog was many years ago when he showed how to hack electronic voting machines.