Dropsafe

EDS, the computer arm of the British government, has banned its staff from using Instant Messenger products in the workplace. It cites security concerns, especially over virus transmissions. A memo to staff from EDS’ security compliance unit leaked to The Register describes “use of Instant Messenger (IM) products through the Internet” as a “risk to

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LJ has finally managed to astonish me. i’ve never before seen a community of people of shared experience achieve such a transcendent “critical mass”. this is a dies mirabilis.

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…of Whit and me, messing around on the amusing (and rather artistic) penny-farthing bicycle-stands that populate the main street of my village. picture 1 picture 2

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my life is driven by my palm-pilot – or perhaps the other way around; i utilise my pilot as: (1) 8Mb of non-volatile brainspace, (2) FAQ repository, for those moments in the pub where you really need access to the entire IANA port-number list, or a database of what MAC-address headers correspond to what manufacturers,

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…the rut in question was 400m long, 15cm wide, and muddy – but more of that anon. 😎 It has been a very interesting and valuable weekend. Friday night, I went with friends to see [ yat-kha ] – a Tuvan folk-rock band who recently won the BBC’s World Music Award for Best Asian Band. Being a

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Well, I’ve just got back from the Frimley office where we are holding the training next week, and am very pleased – the room is basic, but complete, and has the right sort of hackerly air for security training. Plus: they are going to be installing a SunSafe there, the week of the training, so

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http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

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…the rut in question was 400m long, 15cm wide, and muddy – but more of that anon. 😎 It has been a very interesting and valuable weekend. Friday night, I went with friends to see Yat-Kha – a Tuvan folk-rock band who recently won the BBC’s World Music Award for Best Asian Band. Being a

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http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=594klq%245sg%40scream.auckland.ac.nz&output=gplain

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bug fixed (links into the middle of the weblog stopped working with the redesign) and dave, ray, stuart and i have started the ball rolling to create training material for the solaris hardening service. now, it seems, i may be going to dinner with the whole of the cambridge SunPS team. should be fun!

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Collateral Spammage: third-party hosts or network infrastructure that are crashed, taken down or otherwise damaged by being utilised as spam-relays, or by virtue of being downstream from same.

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I am off to Cambridge (having popped into the office for tying-up of loose ends) to discuss development of training materials for the SunPS EMEA-wide Security Training Course that is being delivered, week of 13th May. This (latter) is probably going to be consuming most of my time for the next three weeks, so if

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