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Firewalls won't work…
Good notes from Ray Ozzie about the problem with firewalls. Folks in homes and in business are going to discover this soon. Basically, you have to armor every PC since if you have one infected one, then someone VPNs in and the whole network is poluuted. My buddy, Jon Lazarus, has a good explanation. The…
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Security Appliance Market Statistics
Sales of security server appliances grew 10 percent year-over-year, as companies turned to low-end appliance servers dedicated to firewalls and virtual private networks, IDC says. [CNet News.com]
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My goodness, a record label that gets it…
I’m just not sure that prosecuting your customers and telling them they are wrong are a good strategy. Never mind what the law says, its interesting to me to see that folks download songs yes, but iTunes is doing well and most folks are happy to pay $1-2 for a ring tone for goodness sakes.…
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VOIP Really Does Work
a little ludwig goes a long way: NATs and VOIP. I’m amazed. Ludwig found he could just use his VOIP phone from his phone without dinking with his firewall. I wonder how Vonage figured this out? I bet Gary Burd: NATs and Internet telephony is right that what they are doing is having an intermediary…
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DNS Lookup and other handy tools on a web page
“DNS Stuff”:http://www.dnsstuff.com/. An incredibly useful site. It is has reverse DNS, whois, tracert all on a single page. I’m always losing those little command line utilities. _BTW, checkout the new winamp3 plugin that sucks down the current song I’m listening to while doing this blog and then uses Zempf to stuff it into the blog…
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More router logging tools
Link Logger. This is another logger for common home network routers. Interesting to look at and see what folks are doing. I’m not sure the average home owner is going to use this, but if there were an automated service that would be great. “DShield Are You Cracked?”:http://www.dshield.org/warning_explanation.php. A great little script. It checks the…
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Port Attacks
Internet Storm Center. As part of understanding what is going on, the Internet Storm Center is a pretty amazing site. Tells you what folks are scanning and where the attacks are. Pretty frightening really. Tells you the top attacked ports and what applications use them. Amazing that most of these are Microsoft ports: Top Attacked…
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How was this blog created
_Markl asked me how I created this blog._ A good question, so heres the equivalent of the “About” box: “Movabletype.org”:http://movabletype.org. This is the blogging software. They actually have a hosted service called typepad which is supposed to be very good. Very elegant stuff written in perl, so it is not a speed demon, but very…
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Galileo to crash into Jupiter
NASA – Historic Galileo Mission Nears End. A spectacular thing. There will be a web cast as the Galileo enters atmosphere of Jupiter. Hat tip to Metafilter
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Blog Tools Update
While looking at RSS Feed Readers, I also found that the blog clients have gotten much better. Here’s my quick review and update: * :: w.bloggar ::. This was the original blog client that I used. He’s been buys working on it and it now supports a whole bunch of blog tools using a standard…