Category Archives: Technology
Paypal API breaks security tokens?
A while ago I purchased the PayPal security token, and had really been liking it. The card is nice and small – about the size of a normal credit card, and it generates a key for you with each push … Continue reading
E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress – NYTimes.com
The National Security Agency is facing renewed scrutiny over the extent of its domestic surveillance program, with critics in Congress saying its recent intercepts of the private telephone calls and e-mail messages of Americans are broader than previously acknowledged, current … Continue reading
NANOG: NANOG46 Presentation Abstracts and Speaker Biographies
Much has been written about prefix hijacking but almost nothing has been presented and documented about best practices for preparing for a hijacking, detecting one, and responding when one happens. This presentation attempts a first pass to cover those areas … Continue reading
NANOG: NANOG46 Presentation Abstracts and Speaker Biographies
The internet has made many things easier in human society, especially including crime. For the last decade the good guys keep losing and the bad guys keep getting rich — why? Drawing from contemporary examples including the 2008/2009 “conficker worm”, … Continue reading
6 Surprising Facts about IPv6 — BreakingPoint
When you get an IPv4 address from your ISP, that’s all you get – an address. Maybe if you run a business, you get 3 or 4. With IPv6, your ISP gives you at least 264 addresses; that is 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 … Continue reading
MyiHome – Installing in Linux – NMTWiki
WARNING, WARNING: Under Ubuntu you’ll get a return something like; java version “1.5.0” gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.3.2 GIJ is not true Java and myiHome doesn’t seem to work with it! (GIJ is the GNU Interpreter for Java, a free … Continue reading
YouTube – Kung Fu Advert for Ubiquity
This is smart, because it’ s hard for people to understand what the Ubiquity plugin for firefox does. —————————- YouTube – Kung Fu Advert.
Inside the AT&T–NSA “Secret” Relationship—By Scott Horton (Harper’s Magazine)
AT&T and NSA entered into this agreement in flagrant violation of U.S. criminal law, with the assumption that the Bush Administration would not enforce the criminal law against itself or those who entered into criminal conspiracies with it. There is … Continue reading
Google uncloaks once-secret server | Business Tech – CNET News
A diagram of a Google modular data center via Google uncloaks once-secret server | Business Tech – CNET News.