You Have Reached Icarus.com
Icarus is a 500MHz AlphaPC164 running RedHat
linux. Way cool. This particular machine was originally assembled and
shipped as a DCG Viper from DCG Computers, Inc.
If you are here looking for Icarus Verilog, you're close. You're at the
right site, go here: http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog.
The home page for my employer is http://www.picturel.com.
We do nifty image processing boards and chips.
This machine also sometimes runs seti@home calculations, and has for some
time. For more information about this interesting project, see the seti@home
web page at http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu.
Contacting Folks at Icarus.com
There are public keys for people at icarus.com, available at <ftp://ftp.icarus.com/pub/public_keys>.
Look here for gpg compatible keys that you can use to public-key
encrypt messages for local users, or to find the keys needed to check
electronic signatures.
Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail
Spam delivered to Icarus.com gets reported to spamcop.net, and this domain
uses the blacklist from spamcop and other sources to agressively filter spam. Such black lists
are normally used to tag potential spam to be set aside and checked for spamminess
later, but this domain gets way to much of it to do anything other the block
it outright. See http://www.spamcop.net
for information about spamcop.
Icarus.com also uses other black lists to filter spam. Due to huge volumes
of spam from China and Korea, and the large number of open proxies, relays,
or otherwise poorly configured systems in those regions, mail traffic from
them are blocked outright.
Other IP ranges are collected ad hoc to form a sendmail format access
list for rejecting known or likely sources of spam. This list is
collected (and edited) by hand. If your IP is on this list, then try to
contact someone at icarus.com to arrange for its removal. The list, as
it stands currently, is here: <ftp://ftp.icarus.com/pub/access.spam>
Also, this link (here)
takes you to a poison script that generates fake pages for the purpose
of polluting web crawlers used by spammers to collect email addresses.
Web crawlers that properly observe the robots.txt protocol will not
have a problem. Abusive crawlers and spammer scum be warned.
Code Red and Other IIS Nonsense
HTTP logs at icarus.com continuously collect the droppings of Code Red and
related internet worms. This should be a dead issue, but it really is amazing
how many vulnerable systems there are out there. Here is some CERT information:
http://www.cert.org/incident_notes/IN-2001-09.html.
Icarus.com is immune to this particular bit of nonsense (no Windows, no Microsoft,
no Pentiums) but hosts that are actively infected and probing are probably
security risks anyhow, so those hosts are filtered. Look here for the current
list of filtered hosts: ftp://ftp.icarus.com/pub/code_red_infected.txt.
These hosts are mostly within a specific IP region, because it is the nature
of these worms to probe IP addresses near their own address.