2718.us blog » comic http://2718.us/blog Miscellaneous Technological Geekery Tue, 18 May 2010 02:42:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Since I already Mentioned OpenBSD for Routers… http://2718.us/blog/2008/05/18/since-i-already-mentioned-openbsd-for-routers/ http://2718.us/blog/2008/05/18/since-i-already-mentioned-openbsd-for-routers/#comments Sun, 18 May 2008 16:12:48 +0000 2718.us http://2718.us/blog/?p=36 I subscribe to a few security-alert email lists, most of which I skim and delete (since I already know that there are new fixes for multiple vulnerabilities in MS Windows and/or Office without being told and since I don’t care about issues with multi-thousand-dollar Oracle/Cisco/Sun products).  It’s rare that an alert really catches my eye the way the Debian/OpenSSL thing did.  I think the key thing to point out is that it seems that somewhere along the way someone in the Debian realm broke OpenSSL–that’s why this is a Debian-specific issue.  I’d also like to point out that this is why I use OpenBSD for high-security machines (i.e. router/firewall machines): careful, detailed security auditing.

security holes comic from xkcd

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Behold, the Power of Cheese sudo! http://2718.us/blog/2008/04/27/behold-the-power-of-cheese-sudo/ http://2718.us/blog/2008/04/27/behold-the-power-of-cheese-sudo/#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:52:06 +0000 2718.us http://2718.us/blog/?p=28

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Behold: The Power of Lisp http://2718.us/blog/2008/04/21/behold-the-power-of-lisp/ http://2718.us/blog/2008/04/21/behold-the-power-of-lisp/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:37:50 +0000 2718.us http://2718.us/blog/?p=25 Lisp

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Beware the SQL Injection… http://2718.us/blog/2008/04/15/beware-the-sql-injection/ http://2718.us/blog/2008/04/15/beware-the-sql-injection/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:24:14 +0000 2718.us http://2718.us/blog/?p=18 Since I’ve already hit on SQL injection issues twice in the past two days (here directly and here indirectly through the non-issue with WP and SQL injection), why not add a cartoon to the mix…

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Real Programmers… http://2718.us/blog/2008/04/14/real-programmers/ http://2718.us/blog/2008/04/14/real-programmers/#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:01:38 +0000 2718.us http://2718.us/blog/?p=17

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Unfortunately, PHP and js are interpreted… http://2718.us/blog/2008/04/06/unfortunately-php-and-js-are-interpreted/ http://2718.us/blog/2008/04/06/unfortunately-php-and-js-are-interpreted/#comments Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:35:37 +0000 2718.us http://2718.us/blog/?p=6 comic

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