That grumpy BSD guy

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

Saturday, October 5, 2013

The Hail Mary Cloud And The Lessons Learned

Against ridiculous odds and even after gaining some media focus, the botnet dubbed The Hail Mary Cloud apparently succeeded in staying unde...

Saturday, May 11, 2013

DNSSEC Mastery, Or How To Make Your Name Service Verifiable And Trustworthy

A DNSSEC book for the working sysadmin, likely to put you ahead of the pack in securing an essential Internet service. I have a confessio...

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

The Term Hackathon Has Been Trademarked In Germany. Now Crawl Back Under That Rock, Please.

Trademarking somebody else's idea behind their back is both a bad idea and highly immoral. If it wasn't your idea, you don't tr...

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Keep smiling, waste spammers' time

When you're in the business of building the networks people need and the services they need to run on them, you may also be running a ma...

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Peter N. M. Hansteen: Bergen, Norway; Puffyist, daemon charmer, penguin wrangler. Wrote The Book of PF (3rd ed out now, see http://www.nostarch.com/pf3), rants on sanity in IT (lack of) at http://bsdly.blogspot.com/. Please read http://www.bsdly.net/~peter/rentageek.html before contacting.

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