tcpreplay Replay through NAT Recently I was asked how to take a pcap and replay it through a firewall doing NAT. This is actually quite complicated since you’ve got to keep in your head about 4 different variables as well as a complicated test bed configuration. First go read the NAT usage example
Cool Easy as 1 2 3... Another day, another WordPress upgrade. Once again, for the most part pretty painless. The database schema change broke some custom code I wrote in my template, but turns out here’s a nice API call which does exactly the same thing. I’ve also taken the opportunity to make a
Code PHP & Rails I just made a number of small tweaks to the site layout and format which I think cleans things up a bit. The biggest change is the new Archives widget which makes organization a lot cleaner. On a side note, I’ve switched gears a little and put tcpreplay on
Politics Good old-fashioned police work Recently, the US and German authorities stopped a potential attack on an American military base in Germany. The Bush administration’s top spymaster, Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell testified before Congress that the newly approved “Protect America Act” was in large part why they were able to stop the
Geek Law Chads, touchscreens and lies Dan Rather’s excellent investigative report on electronic voting asks questions which haven’t gotten a lot of press lately. Ignoring the continued problems with the software running on these voting machines, Dan Rather looks at the hardware itself. The results are pretty staggering. Dan discovered serious problems in quality
News I feel like I'm in Alice and Wonderland Today was a pretty important day in San Francisco. After reading Wired’s coverage of the 9th Circuit hearing on the NSA’s spying, and AT&T’s alleged complicity, I’m left hopeful that the three judges will do the right thing and let both cases move forward.
It's Funny NBC: Not Bright Correspondent “A LOT OF MAKEUP can make you prettier, but it won’t make you smarter. Michelle Madigan, Associate Producer for Dateline NBC found this out the hard way at Defcon.” What I don’t get is that Madigan knew going into DefCon that her secret was blown. The conference administrators
Photography LGA: Security Theater So I was flying out of LaGuardia, NY (LGA) this morning on my way home to San Jose, Ca (SJC). After checking in, I was directed by the nice woman at American Airlines to take my checkin bags to the x-ray machine. There were a lot of bags piling up
Politics Safety without Freedom is worthless After reading Mortimer Zuckerman’s editorial, Putting Safety First I’m both saddened and angered. You would think that someone of Mortimer’s position would be more well versed in both the facts and history. Considering that your chances of dying from a terrorist attack is far less then being
News No more 5th Amendment You didn’t really need it anyways right? And here I thought you needed to go through Congress to alter the Constitution. Apparently, I didn’t pay enough attention in my US Gov’t class, because apparently the President can just declare it null and void.
tcpreplay 3.1 released Just released tcpreplay 3.1. Mostly a bug fix release, but there are some minor enhancements including support for 802.11 and Radiotap DLT types. As always, check out the changelog for a specific list of changes. Update: 3.1.1 was just released which fixes a serious compile issue
Cool To Remember So I bought some wine at BevMo. One of the bottles was a Yulumba Viognier from Australia. While this was neither the best or worst Viogner I’ve ever had, what made this bottle memorable was this “To Remember” pull tab on the back label. Basically, there’s a perforated
Geek Law Alberto Gonzales: Disgusting How many ways do I hate thee? Let me count the ways: 1. Lying to Congress under oath 2. Lying to the American people 3. Failing to uphold your promise and legal duty to uphold the Constitution of the United States 4. Failure to do you job 5. Coming up
tcpreplay Gah, I hate python Not sure what’s up with python, but it’s not able to find all the libraries anymore, hence the tcpreplay website is down until I get things back together… [Update] Well DarwinPorts completely screwed things up and had two different versions of python installed with mod_python built against
It's Funny Trying to buy a home So my wife and I found a nice home up in the Santa Cruz Mountains which we really liked. Since Murphy’s Law is in effect, the owners had to be TCHOFH (The Crazy Home Owners From Hell). Anyways, rather then trying to explain the long and drawn out process,
Cool Radiant Vista == Photo Happiness So I’m probably way behind everyone else, but I just found The Radiant Vista a few weeks ago. This is a very cool photography website for both experts and beginners. Every day there’s a new video critique of a photograph and they go over all sorts of photography
Life Realtors: More useful then I thought Ok, I’ll admit, up until now, I really didn’t buy the idea that realtors (no, I’m not going to put it in all caps, you don’t see any other profession doing that) were really worth what they’re paid. I always just sorta figured if you
Geek Law Stop with the armchair lawyering already... So there’s an on-going argument about Stillsecure’s use of Snort. As I look back, a few things become crystal clear to me: 1. Coders should code and lawyers should write licenses. 2. Coders shouldn’t try to write “clarifications” aka how they interpret a license. 3. If you
Life Smokey! So my wife is always looking for new cooking related toys. I like playing with fire. Hence, when she asked me if it was ok to purchase a smoker, I was all for it. $200+ shipping later, we’re the proud owner of a Weber Smokey Mountain Cooker, aka the
Code Reinventing the wheel... So I’ve been working on the bits and bytes of SSL a lot lately which has required me to look at the OpenSSL code. Long story short, it’s not the prettiest code I’ve ever seen (by a long shot). But it does have a few gems. This
Rant Siig quality sucks I needed some fast disk space for working on my photos and after some research settled on a pair of Western Digital My Book Premium ES 500GB drives and a Siig eSATA ExpressCard/34 card to connect them to my Mac Book Pro. So far it’s been pretty much
/dev/random Joe Louis Arena: Please sit down! Attention Detroit Red Wing fans: SIT DOWN! Look, it’s great your excited about your team. I’m a Shark season ticket holder and I understand that hockey is exciting and you want to cheer your team on. But if you ever have watched a game played at “the Joe”
Photography Lightroom in, CaptureOne out I’ve been using CaptureOne Pro (C1) for a number of years now. It’s been considered one of the best, if not the best RAW processing tools on the market for professionals and serious amateurs. While I’ve grown to love it’s workflow, there’s always been a
Security mytreo.net hacked or selling email addresses? So just about every website/company I do business with that requires an email address, I use a unique email address. The email address takes a very simple form: <company name>@synfin.net. The most important rules is that these email address are never used anywhere. So when
Cool 0x09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0 Wow. I must say, I’m impressed. It’s not every day you see someone listen to their users. Seriously, major props to Kevin and everyone at Digg.
