[148179] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Trouble accessing www.nanog.org
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Thu Jan 5 10:30:43 2012
In-Reply-To: <0034f79f5f0a0f4dab52881760e8fba3@mail.dessus.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 10:29:46 -0500
From: Marshall Eubanks <marshall.eubanks@gmail.com>
To: Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf@dessus.com>
Cc: "bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com" <bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com>, "Wessels,
Duane" <dwessels@verisign.com>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf@dessus.com> wrote:
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> There is video hosting web sites on the intertubes?
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> Now where would those be found, I wonder. =A0All I have ever seen is macr=
o-streaming that is fraudulently labeled and advertised as video -- the wor=
st being something called FlashVirus, which was written by a company called=
MacroVirus Media or something like that, and currently owned and flogged b=
y Adobe along with their "Proprietary Document Format" (the latest versions=
of which boast UVTD technology -- Unstoppable Virus Transport and Distribu=
tion).
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> If the so-called video contains arbitrary executable code (or can run arb=
itrary executable code), or requires the use of a specific application to "=
play" (or infect the target), then it should not be described as "video". =
=A0It is a streaming-macro.
>
Is H.264 Turing-complete ? Is Ogg-Vorbis ? (It seems like those are
the two reasonable open standard choices.))
Regards
Marshall
> Microsoft was the first OS vendor to add the "Execute Payload" header to =
IP which saved much time and effort in the distribution of malicious code v=
ia the internet. =A0Unfortunatly, Adobe and several other vendors have pate=
nts on what is called the method of "Executable Data" and made Microsoft re=
move their wonderous invention under pain of patent lawsuits.
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> Of course, maybe whats meant is File hosting, where the File being hosted=
just happens to contain video data in standard data format (preferably a p=
ure-data format that does not embed execution macros of any type).
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> ;)
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christopher Morrow [mailto:morrowc.lists@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, 04 January, 2012 20:47
>> To: Michael K. Smith - Adhost
>> Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com; Wessels, Duane; nanog@nanog.org
>> Subject: Re: Trouble accessing www.nanog.org
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Michael K. Smith - Adhost
>> <mksmith@adhost.com> wrote:
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>> >> Err, while we're talking about video files and nanog, why is the vide=
o
>> >> content still served off (stored content I mean) nanog.org servers?
>> >> Why not use one of the many video serving services? some of which are
>> >> free even :)
>> >> (that part's not a troll, a real question, even!)
>> >> -chris
>> >
>> >
>> > The website work hasn't yet begun, so that is certainly still on the
>> table. =A0If you would like to volunteer some of your time...
>>
>> I'm sure we could arrange some process to ingest videos to some form
>> of video-hosting-website... a videotubes site let's say.
>>
>> who should I chat with?
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