Why you should maintain old URLsWhy you should maintain old URLs
Below is a message from the thanks file on my SE Linux play machine [1]: Hello from San Juan, Puerto Rico! I just found out about this server by reading[...]
Category: Security
New Lamps for Old – Light Changing and BurglaryNew Lamps for Old – Light Changing and Burglary
A few weeks ago I had a guy from “enviro saver” visit my home to replace incandescent globes with CFLs. Â The original plan was to deliver a water-saver shower head[...]
DRM and Rogue EmployeesDRM and Rogue Employees
ZDNet has an interesting article about Amazon unselling books to Kindle owners [1]. Apparently the books Animal Farm and 1984 were added to the Kindle list by unauthorised people (Engaget[...]
Valgrind and OpenSSLValgrind and OpenSSL
I’ve just filed Debian bug report #534534 about Valgrind/Helgrind reporting “Possible data race during write” [1]. I included a patch that seems to fix that problem (by checking whether a[...]
The Millennium Seed BankThe Millennium Seed Bank
Jonathan Drori gave an interesting TED talk about the Millenium Seed Bank [1]. The potential for discovering new uses of plants for food, medicine, and construction is obvious, so it[...]
The Main Security ProblemThe Main Security Problem
All security problems are to some degree people problems. Code may be buggy, but it was written by people who could have been better trained, had more time to spend[...]
Email PasswordsEmail Passwords
I was doing some routine sysadmin work for a client when I had to read mail in the system administration mailbox. This mailbox is used for cron job email, communication[...]
Amusing Thanks.txt EntryAmusing Thanks.txt Entry
My SE Linux Play Machine [1] has a file named thanks.txt for users to send messages to me [2]. On a number of occasions people have offered to give me[...]
Question about a “Secure Filesystem”Question about a “Secure Filesystem”
I have just been asked for advice about “secure filesystem” and decided to blog my answers. The first issue is what is meant by “secure filesystem, that could either mean[...]
Case Sensitivity and Published PasswordsCase Sensitivity and Published Passwords
When I first started running a SE Linux Play Machine [1] I used passwords such as “123456“. Then for a while I had “selinux” but when I created a T-shirt[...]