August 31, 2004 – 4:59 pm
Article
I guess this is part of what the president meant by “catastrophic success”…
August 29, 2004 – 12:58 pm
August 24, 2004 – 11:21 pm
Article from WordSoup
Excerpt: “Well it’s been fun, but I’m not sure blogs can withstand capitalism.”
August 23, 2004 – 10:11 am
If you manage a site running on the Apache web server, you may want to check out this article and be sure that you are not inadvertently allowing mail to be sent through your server.
Here is a quick way to tell if your site is vulnerable:
telnet www.yoursite.com 80 Press Enter
GET http://www.google.com/ Press Enter
If you see the HTML for your site’s home page (not the google home page), then your Apache is correctly serving your site instead of forwarding the request. If you see the HTML for Google’s homepage, your server is an open forwarding proxy, and it needs to be fixed.
Note: if you are using a hosting service (as opposed to running your own servers) then they should have already been on top of this. If you find out they were not, then you should dump them and go with someone else.
August 20, 2004 – 4:36 pm
August 20, 2004 – 1:17 pm
SecurityFocus News: Wardriving guilty plea in Lowe’s wi-fi case
I’m curious to know what people think of this. The official violation is “unauthorized access to a protected computer”, but can an open wireless network (in other words not sufficiently protected) be considered a “protected” system?
He hasn’t been sentenced yet, but he could get anything from probation to 12 months jail time. What (if anything) do you think is a fair punishment?
August 19, 2004 – 10:27 pm
I did just post that last not-so-interesting story so that my posting streak will remain uninterrupted (at least 1 per day since day 1). I know it’s cheesy.
August 19, 2004 – 10:24 pm
At least not the M675 model. My friend and I both ordered them for the current contract programming project we’re doing, and he just received his third shipment after sending the other two back since they had major hardware problems right out of the box. Yes, you heard me right: the first replacement they sent was also broken (different problem, but still…) I was actually lucky enough to only have to send back the malfunctioning DVD/CDRW combo on mine, but I still don’t like the odds. That is why I picked a Dell for Martha, and I probably will continue to go with them for laptops until I hear otherwise.