DMZs: NATing vs. Using Public Addresses
Here’s a snip from a forum question that I’m getting ready to write a little piece on. My response is crude, but my next version…
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Gentoo vs. Debian | Daniel Miessler
[ August 2006 ] I’ve been playing with Linux since 1999 and using it steadily in one capacity or another since 2001. I’ve tinkered with…
Information Security: The End Of The Wild West
[ Aug 2, 2006 ] If you’re an information security administrator/analyst with average skills and little interest in the field, your days are numbered. Contrary…
xargs vs. exec {} | Daniel Miessler
There is a bit of a debate in some circles about using xargs vs. the -exec {} option that’s built into find itself. To me,…
My Gaming Idea | Daniel Miessler
[ July 27, 2006 ] A long time ago (a couple of years) I considered going to market with a gaming idea. The idea was…
Self-Control is The Key to Success
I’ve been thinking lately about how I can improve myself, or, more accurately, what the barriers are to my growing at a higher rate. Interestingly…
Concepts | Daniel Miessler
This is one of my most ambitious projects, as it aims to capture everything I learn through books, film, education, life experience, contemplation, etc. into…
China Illustrates How Not To Do Firewall Filtering
Someone’s noticed a very interesting fact about firewall filtering that relies on session sniping, i.e. killing connections with RST packets. Namely, it’s rather trivial to…
Liberals and Conservatives: Taking a Step Back
This is a very old post that I no longer agree with, but it’s still worth reading. One thing that interests me about politics is…
Studying Religion and Atheism From Different Perspectives
I read in a review of Christopher Hitchens’s book God Is Not Great that he approaches the argument for atheism differently than his predecessors and…
The Best Generations | Daniel Miessler
According to today’s regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, or even maybe the early 70’s probably shouldn’t…
Explaining The Monty Hall Math Puzzle
A few weeks ago a buddy of mine busted out the MHP on me. For those not familiar, it’s a now-famous mathematics puzzle named after…