Stop Freaking Out When People Use “Hacker” To Mean Computer Criminal
People who use the word “hacker” when they’re referring to computer criminals are not wrong. One can argue that they...
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Getting Worried About Linux | Daniel Miessler
So I’m getting a little freaked out lately. I keep hearing that both the Gentoo and Debian projects are in...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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My Gaming Idea | Daniel Miessler
[ July 27, 2006 ] A long time ago (a couple of years) I considered going to market with a...
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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...
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Concepts | Daniel Miessler
This is one of my most ambitious projects, as it aims to capture everything I learn through books, film, education,...
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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....
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