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Northwest Flight 253 and the “security” of it all
1 Comment Published by zen December 27th, 2009 in English, SecurityBy now I think everybody has heard of the unsuccessful [terrorist?] attack to Northwestern Flight 253, where Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab tried to mix bomb components about one hour before the plane landed.
We’re so used to the restrictions applied to passengers of flights, that we almost think of them as routine, while we should always [...]
So, who am I supposed to trust?
(it turns out that Husdawg LLC is a perfectly “legal” ActiveX provider, but Intel does not mention them anywhere — just hoping people will click through?)
Snow Leopard, ssh-agent and an everlasting memory
5 Comments Published by zen October 6th, 2009 in English, Geek, Security, appleIf you recently switched from an older (pre 10.6) version of OS X to the latest baby, and have the old habit of using ssh to connect around, you may have noticed a singular behaviour: while the older versions always asked you for a passphrase (you have a passphrase set on your private key, right?) [...]
Non per il tipo di lavoro, quanto per la curiosita` che mi suscita una job description come questa:
Title: Network Security Analyst
Category: INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Location: FORT BELVOIR, VA / USA | Sector: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Description:
***Must have an active Top Secret DoD Clearance***
Works as a member of the Army Computer Emergency [...]
Microsoft rulez, after all (MS08-001)
1 Comment Published by zen January 9th, 2008 in English, Geek, SecurityMore than two years ago, I was writing the first No Fills TCP RFC draft.
At that time, I wondered if one of the possible features of this new protocol could be a creative use of the RST flag (see section 4.1.1), which I mostly inteded for those Windows system administrators who had to work with [...]
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- Northwest Flight 253 and the “security” of it all
- Intel’s Activex
- Snow Leopard Trash, again
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