Monthly Archives: August 2002

Security & Such

I was interviewed last week by a Chicago computer magazine about network and host security. Most of it revoled around correcting the general misconceptions about all to evil hackers who are exploiting esoteric code to gain access to systems — the fact, of course, is most security breaches occur because of misconfigured or unpatched systems [...]

‘See the Story A number of major record labels have decided to sue AT&T Broadband Corp., Cable & Wireless USA, Wireless, Sprint Corp ., Advanced Network Services and UUNET in an effort to get them stop routing traffic to a site in China offering free mp3s. I find this very disturbing, as suggests that [...]