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Guess you know what is DNS ?
If you don’t know what it is …
Its Domain Name System. All the servers will have some set of numbers to identify them (IP), to recognize them easily we give them a name (domain name) and for internet to work, DNS maps these names to numbers. (Duh, read wikipedia for more info)

For the techie folks who know whats DNS, you might have missed this news. There was a bug. It was just a bug when people din’t know. Few days before , its was a problem as bad people know that it exists. And couple of days before, it became a major problem as bad people got to know how to tame the bug and exploit it. And today, its frigging Pain in the A** as our dumb ISPs are not fixing their DNS servers.

Well, the bug is that bad people can manipulate DNS lookups. Which literally means, when you open Google.com, then can send you to Yahoo.com too. Search engines need not be a problem, but if they manipulate DNS of a bank … the answer is … somebody is gonna get hurt real badddddd

So, I request you to check (@Doxpara) whether your DNS server is vulnerable to such bug or not, and if it is, change it to OpenDNS (208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220) and stay secure. As of today, I’ve tested BSNL and Airtel DNS servers (Chennai) and both of them are vulnerable. Guess, we need to take a huge rod and shove it up into someone’s a** and make them fix their DNS servers so that we can stay secure.

For extra-super-terrestial technical folks, I need not tell you about this, but incase you missed it, check (@Securebits) the exploiter released.

BREAKING NEWS !!!

Sorry, couldn’t resist.

When ever I see Michael Moore movies, the most I like about them is their banner - “Dog Eat Dog Films”

Well, I’m not going to write about MM or his films or any dogs that eat dogs. I’m just writing about a forward I got from one of my teamies. <masala>It’s about two friends in a jungle</masala>

Two friends went to a jungle. They saw a hungry lion there (Don’t ask me how do I know that lion is hungry. It’s looking at them just the way I look at KFC ;) Come on, just concentrate on the story) As soon as they saw the lion, they understood that they are going to be history. One of those guys took a pair of brand new Nike shoes and started wearing them. His friend was surprised at his action and asked him “Do you think that you can run faster than lion with those shoes on ?” This guy replied him “Dude, I need not run faster than the lion. I just need to run faster than you ! ”

Ending is simple. The guy without running shoes has “Experienced Certainty” for having such a cool friend who carries a pair of Nike all the time

Are you thinking about the moral of the story ? It’s simple. It’s a Dog Eat Dog World. Competition is ruthless and you’ve to look out for yourself.

Well yeah. I know what you guys are thinking. I never end my posts so normal. Yeah, I’ve something else in my mind. It’s not about lion. It’s not about shoes. Not even about forest. It’s just about the friend. It’s about every friend you leave behind and run when you are chased by a lion.

<philosophy>Life has a very simple rule. Rule is to turn little hard some times and very hard some other times. When it turns very hard on you, only person who can help you is a friend. Even though this is a Dog Eat Dog world. Even though the competition is ruthless. Just, don’t make it a habit of running away leaving your friend behind when they need you. One day, when your another friend leaves you behind and runs faster, the guy whom you dint leave will certainly help you.</philosophy>

<utopia>Yes. I know that I shouldn’t be using the terms “friend” and “running away” together because a “true” friend will never run away leaving you behind. Friends are here to run with you, not run faster than you ;)</utopia>

This entry doesn’t make any meaning. Reader discretion is strongly recommended.

<sarcasm>I’ve so many friends in this world</sarcasm> This is what I tell myself once in a while. Whenever I tell this to myself, I end up in a weird situation. Actually end up with a question. Is friendship a mutual feeling or not. As per so many stupid philosophies I read, or the stupid movies I saw, I know that .. Love need not be mutual. It can be one-side feeling. Actually, more movies suggest that when you love someone you shouldn’t expect samething in return. Well, those guys missed the lower form. What about friendship ???

They missed it completely. So, friendship must be a mutual feeling. Ain’t it ? Come on … still not convinced ? There are sooooooo many guys who “love” film stars. They know that they can’t expect love in return. They are hardly any people (I’ve n’t seen a single person in 22 years of my life) who tell that they are “friends” of a star(when that star don’t even know them) Little confusing ? Must be, coz, I’m confused a lot right now. I’ve so many people around me .. whom I consider as friends and who really don’t care about me. There are few people in far distant places for whom I really matter and I don’t care about them.

If friendship is JUST giving … then why the hell those philosphers or authors of big books or simply idiots define friendship as mutual understanding (one definition). If friendship is mutualism, how can that “mutualism” be measured ? Okay, I know what you are thinking now. Why the hell this idiot wants to measure “feeling” ? I’ve an answer for this. Just because of that pseudo-mutualism so many people get hurt every day.

You are going on a road, you see so many people travelling with you, and you just dont care. You are travelling in a train, you see so many travellers travelling with you and you feel like talking to one. You are travelling the journey of ur life, you meet so many people and do you call people whom you often meet as friends ??? If your answer is “Yes”, you are lucky as you dont think much about life. So, you can hit the [x] button on the top. If your answer is “No”, lets continue.

Only few of them become your friends. You get close to them. Sometimes very close to them. And one fine day, you will understand that the importance you give them is just one way. They really dont care what you feel. They really dont think about what you want. To them .. you are just one traveller in this road of life. What should you call them ? A friend .. ? or just an acquaintance ? To me, this question arises quite often. This is so unfair.

What will you do if you best friend who was a very good guy turns out to be very evil? And there is only one choice left to you. Leave him. You can’t do anything more than that. Your friend is powerful. He won’t change for you. If there is something to change, it’s you.

Google was my best friend right from the day one I started to use it. “Don’t be evil” was Google’s motto and I loved it. But day by day, I can see that Google is getting weirder, power hungry and more or less a Big Brother day by day. It’s collecting every track of me (a user) and sometimes even without my knowledge. Once I saw a feature named “History” in Google. It was storing every query of mine under my account if I’m logged in while searching. That feature scared me a little bit and I immediately cleared my queries (hope it really removed them from its database rather than just NOT showing them to me) and stopped the service. I trusted Google that it will stop keeping a track of my queries. Later I came to know that Google is keeping track of LOT MORE than just queries. I immediately went to my services and deleted the service “History”. Later after a week, I saw a feature named bookmarks in Google where I can store bookmarks. As it’s not a serious thing I wanted to use that service. I logged into my accounts and I was shocked to see that my HISTORY IS STILL BEING RECORDED. Just can’t understand why an “opted-out” service was still there under my accounts still recording my queries. I disabled it again. Hope it won’t start recording my history again.

I was using Google from last 8 years and I know many things about it. When I was cheated by such a service, which was NOT just a service but a friend in my mind, I could do nothing more than being shocked and wonder “What’s happening to my best friend?”

Btw, just goto https://www.google.com/accounts/EditServices for stopping the services which might scare you.