That grumpy BSD guy

Field notes and occasional musings by Peter on stuff that happens, from a free software perspective, mainly OpenBSD, FreeBSD.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Oh yes, you signed up for this. You did. Honest.

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Honesty in marketing. You may have heard of it. It may come as a surprise to some, but I generally do not spend much time on spam related...
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Saturday, March 14, 2009

What have the black boxes wrought

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How compartmentalization turned into a security disaster. Greed, incompetence and dishonesty was involved.   IT security or the lack of any ...
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Thursday, January 22, 2009

The slow brutes, a final roundup

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The slow brutes stopped their churning. Their last call was for sophia . Over the last few columns, we have followed the progress of what...
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Sunday, December 21, 2008

Into a new year, slowly pounding the gates

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The distributed but clearly coordinated bruteforcers are still at it. How long until they reach the end of the alphabet? And why are they s...
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Saturday, December 6, 2008

A Small Update About The Slow Brutes

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Slow and steady might actually do it, eventually. The reactions to my December 2nd column hit me with a bit of surprise. The column was ...
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

A low intensity, distributed bruteforce attempt

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We have seen the future of botnets, and it is a distributed, low-key affair. Are sites running free software finally becoming malware targe...
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Monday, October 20, 2008

IETF failed to account for greylisting

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The potential for conflict between greylisting and sites with large pools of outgoing SMTP senders is well known and in need of resolution. ...
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Puffyist, daemon charmer, penguin wrangler. Wrote The Book of PF (4th ed out now, see https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4e), rants on sanity in IT (lack of) at https://bsdly.blogspot.com/. Please read https://www.bsdly.net/~peter/rentageek.html before contacting.
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