I'm shutting down my Tor node.

I'm shutting down my Tor node. I'm doing this because my ISP (Axtel) for some unknown reason (for them) can't fix an issue with the Zhone gateway device.

This is affecting the way the Tor node works and if I can't offer a stable connection the best I can do is to shutdown the node. This does not make me happy but at least I could share some bandwith and I want to believe that people who really needed was able to use it.

For the history, this is the graph:

What's next?  Test the MinnowBoard MAX with Android / OpenBSD / FreeBSD / NetBSD / etc.  If you wonder what the issue is with the Zhone device, it keeps the dhcp address for all the connected devices but there's no connection to the Internet. Why? Axtel support does not have idea. Until now, all the answers that I get from them are lies.

Once, they told me that they applied a patch, that a firmware-update was needed another timethey  just did a reboot and asked me to check the connection. I was taking note of every excuse the told me so the last time that I reported the issue for every lie that they told me in the past I said that "it's done, what else are you going to try?".

So they came up again with the "firmware upgrade is needed".  I verified the version already installed and took note of everything that I could check. The lied again and just performed a reboot. And that's why I can't keep a stable Tor node online. Sad but true.

¡Lotería!

Formula 1 - Australia 2015.

I've been waiting for the start of the season and I feel very disappointed, instead of having 20 cars starting the race, only 15 started and 11 finished the race. 

 

I read everywhere the declarations from different teams, personalities, fans, ex-pilots, "we need a change". If Ferrari/Williams/Red Bull can't offer a real fight, the team Mercedes is going to dominate the season just like they did the last year.

This isn't what I wanna see, in the years when Ferrari won everything year after year (sorry Ferrari fans, no offence intended) I stopped watching F1. I started to see other races, Indy/CART were the option those years.  I re-started to watch F1 races "recentrly" and it was refreshing seeing other teams/pilots winning. With the recent changes the F1 is loosing (more) audience.

Bernie is not interested on getting the attention of new generations 'cause they don't have the money to buy the watch that we see in the commercial announcments. So who's going to be present at the races in the next years?

I'll leave you with a video "Ted's race notebook", he does a fast review of every team/pilot after each race. Btw, if you know of another guy that does better, please let me know.

UPDATE: Here used to be a YouTube video that was removed because of "multiple third-party notifications of copyright infrigement". Not mine, uploaded by someone else.

FIA World Rally Championship - Rally México

 FIA World Rally Championship

Review Clip Rally México

Who you gonna call ?

No, I'm not refering the theme song of that famous 80's movie. It's about the previous entry in my blog, let's say that you're not a company, you're just a person who are a victim of a cyber attack, now what?

Who you gonna call?  In the first years when there was an increased interest to access the Internet in Mexico a solid option was to call the UNAM-CERT, around 2002 the  government created a "Cybernetic Police" (http://www.ssp.gob.mx/portalWebApp/wlp.c?__c=f7124), people were struggling trying to reach them, it wasn't easy to create a report, you had to deal exactly the same you did with every other agency.

(Image linked from Forbes)

Around two years ago, the police of Mexicy City (SSPDF) created their own division, here's a note of  the announcement, they even have a twitter account: https://twitter.com/CiberneticaCDMX  which retweets more political notes that real info about network security or preventive actions.

And just few months ago, TELMEX ( the preponderant, monopolist ISP in MX) announced the "first cybersecurity center for Mexico and LatinAmerica" (no kidding!): "With these actions, TELMEX reiterates the commitment to make available to our customers, our infrastructure, technology and world class services to prevent and treat cyber attacks. Actions that complement the services that already have such as information technology, hosting, application development and systems, cloud platforms, unified communications, virtualization, among others.".

It would be interesting to know how many reports they get from end users, how many are resolved for real. So... Who you gonna call?.

Are you prepared for a cyber attack?

"In less than 300 seconds you can experience the speed and intensity of a cyber attack. Today companies can defend themselves, taking control of the situation - effectively fighting back. Are you prepared?"

That's the text that describes the following video:

It's a very good dramatization of what could happen to your company or to you but, it's not that simple as calling a "company" and install/configure monitoring systems, firewalls, ids, honeypots, etc; in a very short amount of time.

This is only an example of attacks of the outside, the video assumes that you can trust your employees 100%.  I know by first hand that this is not entirely truth.

In a previous job, there was a guy who started to modify the established configurations and "helped" his friends to get some advantages that were not covered according to the contract that they signed.

His boss found the discrepancies on the configurations, they started to monitor what was going on and got him. I knew later that they fired him, his name and other details were provided to similar companies assuming he wants to try something similar at other places.

Obviously, not all the people work this way or do illegal activities at work, you can trust people. The difficult part is to know who.

UPDATE: The owner of the video I posted first requires you to start your session on YouTube, so I searched for a new video which I had to say it's more a commercial but shows a similar situation as the first video.

Los auténticos Malditos Bastardos

Parte de la historia poco conocida, el de los comandos judíos que lucharon contra los nazis durante la segunda guerra mundial.