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Internet Pet Peeves

Bad timing, Last.fm

Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 14:05:42 +0000
To: @bofh.priv.at
From: “Last.fm”
Subject: Your free trial to Last.fm Radio is over. Did you enjoy it?

Hi XYZ,

Your free trial to Last.fm Radio is about to end. If you’re enjoying it, why not
subscribe for only €3.00/month and continue listening to non-stop personalised
radio.

http://www.last.fm/subscribe

Best Regards,
The Last.fm Team

and

Deny This, Last.fm
by Michael Arrington on May 22, 2009

A couple of months ago Erick Schonfeld wrote a post titled “Did Last.fm Just Hand Over User Listening Data To the RIAA?” based on a source that has proved to be very reliable in the past. All hell broke loose shortly thereafter.

I was inclined to pay them the 3€, partly because I’ve listened a lot to a stream from them, but after this breach of their privacy agreement?

Sorry, no deal guys.

[Update: yes, I know that LastFM is disputing this story.]

Categories
Life

And then the first year was over …

It’s strange: this happened just a year ago, but sometimes it feels like it was ages ago. Maybe it just depends on the perspective: For Elena, this year made quite a difference: from 9 months to 21 months of existance, or from zero to one years of life. For me it was just the step from 38 to 39 years. No big deal.

Elena's first birthday

Categories
CERT

Otmar @ DNS-OARC in Amsterdam

I almost forgot: one of the reasons I was in Amsterdam was the DNS-OARC Workshop. I gave two presentations there:

An update on the post-Kaminsky patch statistics concerning the Austrian recursors.

Stephane asked me to be on a panel regarding what Registries should do about Conficker (and similar threats). I presented our point of view with these slides.

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Tracks

Tracks

track 2009-05-21

This one started with the crossing in the center.

Categories
Internet

A Picture from Amsterdam

The Internet Community thanks the RIPE staff for their dedicated work during the RIPE and OARC meeting:

Donating to RIPE

Categories
CERT

ORF features CERT.at on futurezone.orf.at

As a followup to Aaron’s talk at Linuxwochen Wien, Claudia Glechner from ORF visited the CERT.at offices to interview us.

The resulting article is now online at futurezone.orf.at.

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Tracks

Tracks

track 2009-05-01

For this one I used almost all of our tracks.

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IETF

It’s almost here!

One of the three authors has retired.

One has left the company.

One has a new assignment within the same company.

Three years after the “Dallas treaty“, when most of us have stopped believing that this will ever happen, we’re now finally in AUTH48: Combined User and Infrastructure ENUM in the e164.arpa Tree

[UPDATE, 2009/05/05]

It’s done. RFC5527 is now reality.

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Tracks

Tracks

track 2009-04-18

The starting point this time was a series of switches.

Categories
CERT Pet Peeves

Stupidity at Evanzo

Dear Evanzo,

the contact emails in the whois records for the domains you manage are there for a purpose: If there are troubles with these domains, the responsible people can be contacted in order to get the problems fixed.

And there is a good reason these whois data is not just a blob of Ascii, but structured data: Scripts can parse the records and e.g. automatically send email to the right address.

Getting back autoreplies stating basically “please use this web-form” is not going to cut it. We will not special-case our scripts to fill out web-forms just to accommodate your setup.

You, and your customers will simply not get our Mails regarding defaced Websites hosted by your service.

Your decision, your loss.