Shub-Internet

So, I'm sure you're wondering -- just what is Shub-Internet, anyway? Well, the Online Jargon File 4.0.0 file has this to say about Shub-Internet:

Shub-Internet /shuhb' in't*r-net/ /n./

[MUD: from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity Shub-Niggurath, the Black Goat with a Thousand Young] The harsh personification of the Internet, Beast of a Thousand Processes, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise, and Imp of Call Waiting; the hideous multi-tendriled entity formed of all the manifold connections of the net. A sect of MUDders worships Shub-Internet, sacrificing objects and praying for good connections. To no avail -- its purpose is malign and evil, and is the cause of all network slowdown. Often heard as in "Freela casts a tac nuke at Shub-Internet for slowing her down." (A forged response often follows along the lines of: "Shub-Internet gulps down the tac nuke and burps happily.") Also cursed by users of the Web, FTP and TELNET when the system slows down. The dread name of Shub-Internet is seldom spoken aloud, as it is said that repeating it three times will cause the being to wake, deep within its lair beneath the Pentagon.

[January 1996: It develops that one of the computer administrators in the basement of the Pentagon read this entry and fell over laughing. As a result, you too can now poke Shub-Internet by pinging shub-internet.ims.disa.mil. See also kremvax. -- ESR]

In case you're wondering, yes I was that administrator. The thought has remained with me ever since. When casting about for a personal domain to have registered (but which hadn't already been taken), this became self-evident.

So, there you have it, and welcome to the web pages of Shub-Internet.

Things that are here:

• My PGP 5 Tips page.
• My Top Ten Web Tips page.
• My personal home page (not cleaned up yet).

Helpful/Useful/Interesting Things:

• Other faces of Shub-Internet:
  • shub-internet.com (defunct?)
  • shub-internet.net (defunct?)
  • shub-inter.net (radical anti-junkmail/anti-relay fanatics)

• Internet mail related stuff:
  • Sendmail, the Internet de-facto standard Mail Transfer Agent (MTA):
    • The Sendmail Consortium web site, home of the "Open Source" version of sendmail
    • The web site for Sendmail, Inc., the folks who bring you the commercial version of sendmail
  • The web site for postfix (an alternative SMTP MTA written by Internet security expert Wietse Venema, who is also the author of TCP-Wrappers and co-author of SATAN).
  • The web site for Deadbolt, an anti-junkmail filtering agent that is easily configurable by users

• Organizations which I support and am a member of:
  • The dc.sage webspace.
  • The CPSR (Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility) web site.
  • The web site for the Electronic Freedom Frontier.

• WorldWide Web related stuff:
  • The WebSiteGarage helps you tune up your webspace for maximum speed and best performance

• Other stuff:
  • The Acronym Server
  • The Raving Toy Maniac

  
  

• Mirrors:
  • EU Parliament Report on ECHELON
    The real-deal PDFs are here, straight from http://www.europarl.eu.int/dg4/stoa/en/publi/pdf/. Get 'em while they're hot!
    • Presentation and Analysis 98-14-01-1en.pdf
    • State of the art in COMINT 98-14-01-2en.pdf
    • Encryption and cryptosystems in electronic surveillance 98-14-01-3en.pdf
    • The legality of the interception of electronic communications 98-14-01-4en.pdf
    • The perception of economic risks 981401-5en.pdf
  • The Breaking of Cyber Patrol® 4. Mirrored from http://hem.passagen.se/eddy1/reveng/cp4/cp4break.html

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  If you have any comments, please email me at
  Brad Knowles <brad@shub-internet.org>