ZFS Online (And gullible people)
Spent a night moving my data across to my new ZFS NAS. Before that I spent a bit of time trying to break it with some non important data. I eventually ended up pumping data to one of the three zraid drives from /dev/urandom. and at the same time pulled out the other two drives power supplies.
No surprises.. the filesystem died… But, thats understandable.. there are NO valid disks left plugged into the system.
Plugged the other two back in, restarted, system and filesystem back online. All data fully intact. Even though I had covered one drive in random data crap!
ZFS Rocks!
Anyway. The other thing was I signed up to try and get some tickets to Radio 1’s Big weekend. In the confirmation e-mail after i had registered, there was this at the bottom:
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“Listen to the silence, let it ring on”
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A little interested into what this meant, I googled, I was guessing at some kindof marketing. But apparently the BBC’s putting quite a lot of time and effort into making it sound like a ‘big secret’ has been leaked against their wishes.
for example, read the blurb on http://pauldenchfield.typepad.com/
Obviously a rigged website, check the date on the site, flickr photo’s… and the ‘recorded super secret uncovered voicemails’ Which considering they say they came off a phone, (GSM quality) are in perfect studio sound ;P
What amazed me even more… was that people actually lap it up and form conspiracy theories about the whole thing!
for example:
http://www.metafilter.com/60655/Frozen-Indigo-Angel
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/games/archives/2007/05/01/frozen_indigo_angel.html
Now it could be argued that the BBC have got what they intended, as it still got me to their site thing, and even to mention it on a blog… which is fair enough I suppose… But I spent less than 5 mins digging around, laughing at the expense of other peoples crazy theories, Compared to these other people who from the looks of it have spent hours digging the depths of the internet! I hope someone at the beeb got a bonus for this!
Ahh well, it’s times like this that always remind me to never underestimate social engineering as a useful toolkit!
//Matt
Ps…
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… ahh well, worth a try ;)