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"tag:security"
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Security Theatre, Part n
According to a BBC report on the latest security theatre, airline customers are now to be subject to the following indignities for in-flight entertainment: Customers to remain seated during final hour of flight; No access to hand luggage and a ban on ... |
31-Dec-2009 |
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OpenMoko and Android
A few people have asked me at various times for a comparison of the OpenMoko and Android cell phone projects. Given that I advocate for the former, and also for Java which is (and is not) the base language of the latter, I am expected to be able to ... |
21-Apr-2009 |
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JavaFX: Late to the gate, but sweet
JavaFX is Sun's new Rich Client strategy for Java. If you haven't seen it yet, check out the demos on the JavaFX home page. Unlike Adobe Flash and unlike M$ Silverlight, this technology actually works on "minority" OSes - my OpenBSD laptop wi... |
27-Dec-2008 |
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Protecting Your Castle
SANS.org has a nice white paper showing how to protect your home network using OpenBSD and other free software. According to the abstract: "It is possible to clean up the back yard with Free Open Source Software and a little design. Using off the... |
21-Dec-2008 |
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Less Is More: OpenBSD on the Acer Aspire One
My writeup of the new Acer Aspire One is up on www.undeadly.org. "We are certainly entering an era of "small is beautiful", at least when it comes to sub-notebooks. Numerous manufacturers are producing these now, as witness this compar... |
19-Oct-2008 |
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It's true what they say about airport security
"Airport security in America is a sham—“se... |
18-Oct-2008 |
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Linus Just Doesn't Get It
Linux founder Linus Torvalds makes an amazing claim about Linux security (or not) on gmane.kernel.org (I'm not even gonna help pagerank that article by linking to it; search the newsgroup name and the date 2008-07-08). Speaking about security fixes, he... |
16-Jul-2008 |
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KDE4 - First Impressions
As most readers know I use the UNIX operating system, particularly OpenBSD, on all my computers. On desktops I flit about between several "desktop environments" or user interface systems. OpenBSD's default is a simple window manager called fv... |
2-Feb-2008 |
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Thecus Back To Life
The Thecus N2100 whose untimely demise I blogged recently is now, I'm happy to report, back to life, thanks to some help from the folks at Thecus in Taiwan. I'm putting some finishing touches on the OpenBSD install notes that should be ready in a few d... |
26-Nov-2007 |
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IPv6 or Bust, and, Farewell IPv6 Samurai
In case you've been off-net for the last ten years, you should know that the Internet is running out of IP addresses - the telephone numbers of the Internet - at an alarming rate, and will reach the failure point within three or four years. IP is the I... |
31-Oct-2007 |
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Flying Thecus has hard landing...
The Thecus N2100 sits idle in a corner, because the vendor changed the software in a way that breaks the ability to install most open-source OSes. The OpenBSD install, like many others, depends on setting certain firmware commands to be saved in the ... |
14-Jun-2007 |
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Flying Thecus Eats Cereal, err, Gets Serial
The Thecus I wrote about previously is partly up and running. The OpenBSD install, unlike that for Debian, requires use of a serial console. The serial port was designed into these devices primarily for debugging, not what a consumer appliance needs. S... |
13-Jun-2007 |
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Monty Python's Flying Thecus
OK, it seemed like a good idea at the time. I was in San Francisco a few weeks ago now for JavaOne, and I bought a Thecus. If you don't know what these are, find out before you read on. I wrote this blog entry at the time, but am just now catching up; ... |
12-May-2007 |
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Nagios for monitoring everything (including virtual hosts)
For some time I've been using Nagios to monitor my own server and that of some clients. One of these machines has a batch of virtual web servers. Nagios' documentation doesn't say much about monitoring virtual hosts, and a web search only turned up peo... |
5-Apr-2007 |
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Sensible by Default
One of OpenBSD's mottos is "Secure by Default", but a more general form might be "Sensible by Default." I was astonished to find out the other day that some of the Linux distributions apparently produce CD-ROMs that will wipe out yo... |
6-Apr-2006 |
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Starving the Golden Goose
As you probably know I am involved with the OpenBSD project, which also creates OpenSSH, the world-leading secure network protocol. What's interesting about OpenSSH is that most operating system vendors bundle it with their systems, including Apple, H... |
25-Mar-2006 |
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Apple Mac OS 10.4 minor security glitch
When you move the mouse into the "hot corner" to activate Screen Lock, there is a brief interval (maybe only a second) during which if you move the mouse out of the hot corner, the screen is unlocked!!! This is idiotic. As I have said many ... |
11-May-2005 |
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Greylisting in action
I turned on OpenBSD's implementation of greylisting on the weekend, and have seen a noticable decline in SPAM received. Way to go OpenBSD team! |
31-Mar-2004 |
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OpenBSD SPAM filtering adds 'greylisting' feature
OpenBSD's SPAM filtering took another turn for the better with the addition of GreyListing. This is in -current and will be in 3.5, out on CD's soon. |
5-Mar-2004 |
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Editorial on DARPA dumping OpenBSD funding
Catch my editorial on DARPA cutting off OpenBSD funding on O'Reilly.net. |
18-Apr-2003 |