That grumpy BSD guy

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

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Domain Name Scams Are Alive And Well, Thank You

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Is somebody actually trying to register your company name as a .cn or .asia domain? Not likely. And don't pay them. It has been a whil...
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Friday, July 24, 2015

The OpenSSH Bug That Wasn't

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Much has been written about a purported OpenSSH vulnerability. On closer inspection, the reports actually got most of their facts wrong. Rea...
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Sunday, April 12, 2015

Solaris Admins: For A Glimpse Of Your Networking Future, Install OpenBSD

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Yet another proprietary tech titan turns to the free OpenBSD operating system as their source of innovation in the networking and security ...
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Thursday, December 11, 2014

The Password? You Changed It, Right?

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Right at this moment, there's a swarm of little password guessing robots trying for your router's admin accounts. Do yourself a favo...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

The Book of PF, 3rd Edition is Here, First Signed Copy Can Be Yours

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Continuing the tradition started by Michael Lucas with the Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd edition auction , I will be auctioning off the first signed...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Password Gropers Take the Spamtrap Bait

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We have just seen a new level of password gropers' imbecility. Or, Peak Stupid. Regular readers of this column know that I pay attenti...
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Monday, May 12, 2014

Have you changed your password lately? Does it even matter?

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Does enforced password change at set intervals actually enhance security? I want to hear your opinion and your reasoning. All sites are bo...
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Peter N. M. Hansteen
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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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