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Off Topic / Sendgrid ignores spam complaints - IPs to block
« Last post by netfreak on April 30, 2020, 10:20:06 am »
Sendgrid is an e-mail spam service and will not act on spam complaints to their abuse contact. You may have luck doing a full block of the following networks on your edge firewall:

149.72.0.0/16
168.245.0.0/17

Will continue to update if they spam from additional sources.
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Using the Cisco custom ESXi 6.7U2 image, it's missing certain security patches which we apparently already had on the 6.5U2 install and the host would no longer reconnect into the cluster. The error message provided indicated an EVC issue and that a processor feature was missing on the host or something along those lines. The actual solution was installing a few newer patches including cpu-microcode by uploading the vib to the host and installing via CLI. Host would reconnect to the vCenter after a reboot allowing you to proceed with additional patching (if needed).
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Seems a new annoyance under Debian 10 is by default the /sbin and /usr/sbin paths are not part of the shell environment when you su to root. Workaround is to edit the /etc/login.defs and add "ALWAYS_SET_PATH yes" so the config should look something like this:

Code: [Select]
#
# *REQUIRED*  The default PATH settings, for superuser and normal users.
#
# (they are minimal, add the rest in the shell startup files)
ENV_SUPATH      PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
ENV_PATH        PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
ALWAYS_SET_PATH yes

Relevant details found at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=918754
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Politics & Religion / List of companies supporting China and human rights violations
« Last post by netfreak on October 12, 2019, 01:22:48 pm »
-Activision Blizzard: banned player for supporting Hong Kong democracy protest. Confiscated all his winnings. Fired his interviewers (https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/dexeva/blizzard_banned_and_took_player_off_air_after_his/)
-Apple: censors Taiwan flag emoji in iOS in Hong Kong (https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/dex1j0/apple_bows_to_china_by_censoring_taiwan_flag_emoji/)
-Apple (partial entry): censored Hong Kong protest map from App Store. Relented after backlash, now letting app into App Store. (https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/apple-hk-protest-map/)
-Vans: censors pro-HK democracy design in its shoe design competition (https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/dekxtu/vans_shoes_face_boycott_calls_after_company/)
-NBA (partial entry): rebuked Rockets manager for his pro-HK tweet, saying NBA was "extremely disappointed with Morey's inappropriate comment." Backpedalled after backlash, now saying they support Morey's freedom of speech. (https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/nba-statement-english-chinese-66104687)
-Disney / ESPN: forbids mention of Chinese politics when discussing Rockets manager's pro-HK tweet. ESPN hosts castigated Morey & speculated about his sincerity, but they will not talk about what caused the tweet: China's encroachment on HK (https://deadspin.com/internal-memo-espn-forbids-discussion-of-chinese-polit-1838881032)
-Viacom / Paramount: censors Taiwan flag from the jacket worn by Tom Cruise in the new "Top Gun" movie (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/19/tom-cruises-top-gun-jacket-shows-how-key-china-is-to-film-industry.html)
-Disney / Marvel: censored Tibetan monk from "Doctor Strange" and turned him into a white woman. Movie screenwriter: "if you acknowledge that Tibet is a place and that he’s Tibetan, you risk alienating one billion people who think that that’s bullshit". (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/tibet-supporters-protest-marvel-s-dr-strange-over-changed-character-n677706)
-ASICS, Calvin Klein, Coach, Fresh, Givenchy, Pocari Sweat, Valentino, Versace, Swarovski: details here (https://www.whatsonweibo.com/these-are-the-foreign-brands-apologizing-to-china-amid-hong-kong-tensions/)
-Marriott: apologized to China & changed "Taiwan" to "Taiwan, China" after China threw a hissy fit (https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2160030/taiwan-hotel-cuts-ties-marriott-protest-caving-beijing)
-Nike: removed all Houston Rockets products from their China webstore (https://fadeawayworld.net/2019/10/08/nike-removes-all-houston-rockets-related-products-from-their-china-webstore/)
-Activision Blizzard: cut livestream when American University team held up pro-HK sign. (https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/dfaz21/american_university_hearthstone_team_holds_up/)
-Apple: handed over iCloud data & encryption keys to China (https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17587304/apple-icloud-china-user-data-state-run-telecom-privacy-security)
-Riot Games: censors the words "Hong Kong", forcing casters to refer to team "Hong Kong Attitude" as "HKA". (https://www.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/dfcjqa/riot_games_owned_100_by_tencent_chinese/)
-Cathay Pacific: fired employees for FB posts supporting HK protests. (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/28/cathay-pacific-denounced-for-firing-hong-kong-staff-on-china-orders)
-Apple: minimized the seriousness of iOS exploits that enabled China to track Uyghurs, when 1M+ of them are rounded up by China in concentration camps (https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/6/20853393/apple-iphone-ios-exploits-statement-security-google-false-impressions)
-Google: censored pro-HK game "The Revolution of Our Times" from Google Play because it was about a "sensitive event". (https://lihkg.com/thread/1639291/page/1)
-Gap: apologized to China for selling T-shirts IN CANADA that didn't include Taiwan as part of China (https://money.cnn.com/2018/05/15/news/companies/gap-tshirt-map-of-china/index.html)
-Tiffany: removed tweet showing model covering 1 eye after China accused it of supporting HK (https://news.yahoo.com/tiffany-removes-advert-over-hong-kong-controversy-093418861.html)
-Marriott: fired employee who liked tweet from Tibetan group (https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2128124/marriott-sacks-employee-who-liked-twitter-post-tibet-independence)
-Mercedes: apologized for quoting Dalai Lama on Instagram (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/07/mercedes-apologises-china-quoting-dalai-lama/)
-American, Delta, United: deleted mention of Taiwan as a country from websites (https://www.businessinsider.com/which-companies-have-changed-taiwan-description-china-2018-7)
-Audi: apologized for using "incorrect map" of China that left off Taiwan (https://www.businessinsider.com/which-companies-have-changed-taiwan-description-china-2018-7#audi-1)
-Muji: destroyed store catalogs that contain "incorrect" map of China (https://www.businessinsider.com/which-companies-have-changed-taiwan-description-china-2018-7#muji-2)
-Zara: apologized for listing Taiwan as country (https://www.businessinsider.com/which-companies-have-changed-taiwan-description-china-2018-7#zara-4)
-Medtronic: apologized for publishing "illegal content" that listed "Republic of China (Taiwan)" as country (https://www.businessinsider.com/which-companies-have-changed-taiwan-description-china-2018-7#medtronic-5)
-Ray-Ban: changed "Taiwan" & "Hongkong" to "China Taiwan" & "China Hongkong" (https://www.businessinsider.com/which-companies-have-changed-taiwan-description-china-2018-7#ray-ban-7)
-Qantas, Air France, Air Canada, British Airways, Malaysia Airlines, Japan Airlines, ANA: changed "Taiwan" to "Taiwan China" on websites (https://www.businessinsider.com/which-companies-have-changed-taiwan-description-china-2018-7#international-airlines-8)
-TikTok: censor videos that mention Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, Falun Gong (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-how-tiktok-censors-videos-that-do-not-please-beijing)
-Sheraton: banned Taiwan National Day event. China called event "illegal & a crime against international law" (https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3791266)
-Disney: shrank/removed non-white characters from Chinese poster of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (https://variety.com/2015/film/news/star-wars-china-poster-controversy-john-boyega-1201653494/)
-Philadelphia Sixers: ejected fans for supporting HK (https://6abc.com/sports/sixers-fan-supporting-hong-kong-ejected-from-preseason-game/5604293/)
-Princeton: doesn't talk about the 3 Ts: Tibet, Tiananmen, Taiwan (https://quillette.com/2019/07/22/when-the-lion-wakes-the-global-threat-of-the-chinese-communist-party/)
-Leica: released ad on Tiananmen protest. Apologized & distanced itself from ad (https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3006817/leica-camera-backs-away-promotional-video-depicting-tiananmen)
-Reddit: took $150M from Tencent. Removed threads like this (https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/dfc6qi/disneyowned_espn_forbids_discussion_of_chinese/)
-Rockhampton, Queensland: censored Taiwan flag in student art project (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-09/childrens-cow-statue-design-altered-taiwan-flag-painted-over-qld/9739574)
-Cisco: helped build the Great Firewall including module to persecute Falun Gong (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/ciscos-latest-attempt-dodge-responsibility-facilitating-human-rights-abuses-export)
-MGM: changed Red Dawn's villain from China to N Korea to placate China (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2237717/amp/Red-Dawn-remake-swapped-Chinese-flags-insignia-North-Korean-ones-fear-losing-billion-dollar-box-office.html)
-Global Blue: fired staff for calling Taiwan a country (http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1161789.shtml)
-L'Oréal / Lancôme: canceled concert of HK artist Denise Ho for her pro-democracy activism (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-36457450)

Disgusting companies bending over for that Chinese money.

This list originally posted at https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/dgpvls/host_on_chineselanguage_station_in_toronto_says/f3fl63m/ but is at risk of deletion by Reddit moderators as they are influenced by Chinese money (see above list).
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Computing, Internet & Technology / Vintage Computing Wiki
« Last post by netfreak on June 27, 2019, 03:46:27 pm »
The preterhuman.net wiki (https://wiki.preterhuman.net) is now working at acting primarily as a source for vintage and retro computing topics. We've also created a single wiki article linking to a number of outside resources:

https://wiki.preterhuman.net/Vintage_Computing_Resources
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Computing, Internet & Technology / Re: Our 68K Mac software page
« Last post by netfreak on June 27, 2019, 03:43:05 pm »
We also obtained the domain themacarchive.net pointing to our software page. This domain had some historical use for this purpose and it was abandoned by the original owner.
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Off Topic / Nathan Kunkel - airsoft49.com scammer
« Last post by netfreak on May 13, 2019, 04:53:42 pm »
Almost forgot about this one. Ripped me off to the tune of $300 and I suspect there were others. Operation was based out of Kelowna, BC, Canada.
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Here's an interesting problem... If you have a VM behind a Sophos UTM (or other firewall such as ASA) on a VMware ESXi 6.x host using be2net Emulex driver but you get an error 400 (bad request) when trying to browse external sites, the be2net driver itself might be somehow stripping the HTTP headers. We logged this invalid request:

xx.xx.xx.xx - - [31/Dec/2018:16:49:49 -0800] "\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00" 400 166 "-" "-"

This was the case with the following driver configuration:

driver: be2net
version: 10.2.254.0
firmware-version: 10.2.261.36

A solution was to revert back to the elxnet driver. We ran into issues on this driver in the past which led us to enabling be2net originally (ESXi 5.5 and IBM OEM image). So if you're running into this issue under ESXi 6.x with the IBM/Lenovo OEM image on an HS23 blade, do this:

esxcli system module set --enabled=false --module=be2net
esxcli system module set --enabled=true --module=elxnet

Reboot your host and re-test.
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Off Topic / Re: VerticalResponse Inc spammer activity
« Last post by netfreak on July 16, 2018, 12:33:57 pm »
They also spam you out of this range too:

NetRange:       216.55.172.0 - 216.55.175.255
CIDR:           216.55.172.0/22
NetName:        MEGA-9
NetHandle:      NET-216-55-172-0-1
Parent:         NET216 (NET-216-0-0-0-0)
NetType:        Direct Allocation
OriginAS:       AS30447
Organization:   InternetNamesForBusiness.com (INFB)

NetRange:       209.235.128.0 - 209.235.159.255
CIDR:           209.235.128.0/19
NetName:        MEGA-6
NetHandle:      NET-209-235-128-0-1
Parent:         NET209 (NET-209-0-0-0-0)
NetType:        Direct Allocation
OriginAS:
Organization:   InternetNamesForBusiness.com (INFB)
RegDate:        2006-09-28
Updated:        2012-02-24
Ref:            https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-209-235-128-0-1


So nullroute 216.55.172.0/22 and 209.235.128.0/19

Also if you forward the spam they send you to their abuse system, it rejects it because it has "spam like characteristics"

  [email protected]
    SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data:
    host mx1.megamailservers.com [209.235.142.11]:
    550 5.7.1 w6GJWVT5024637 This message has been blocked for containing SPAM-like characteristics.

The irony...
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