A Hacker Is A Criminal
A Hacker is a bad guy—someone trying to break into computers with the intent of causing harm. Don’t argue with it, and stop fighting it.…
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What Mail Server Do The Fortune 100 Companies Use?
Ever wonder what mail servers the top U.S. companies run? I found myself wondering what the top universities used a while back, and I just…
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…
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…