In Through The Out Door

    Diving Through The Information Barrage

    Browsing Posts published in July, 2005

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    Can anyone say Vista? 

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    Bet if it hadn’t been for Michael Lynn’s stand up act at Blackhat; we all would still be in the dark about this. Older versions of the Internetwork Operating System, or IOS, are flawed in the way they process IPv6 packets, Cisco said in its advisory. A specially crafted data packet could let a miscreant gain control over the router, but an attack is possible only from a local network segment and only on systems configured for IPv6, Cisco said.

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    I have written about full disclosure, and how disclosing security vulnerabilities is our best mechanism for improving security — especially in a free-market system. (That essay is also worth reading for a general discussion of the security trade-offs.) I've also written…  
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    A woman and her dog are riding the Seoul
    subways. The dog poops in the floor. The woman refuses to clean it up, despite
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    From The Register: A former CIA intelligence analyst and researchers from SAP plan to study how RFID tags might be used to profile and track individuals and consumer goods. "I believe that tags will be readily used for surveillance, given…  
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