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Will Tor have Extrusion Detection?

Richard Bejtlich wonders in light of Tor being able to be used to anonymously attack other systems, will Tor add extrusion detection capabilities? I seriously doubt it. First, there are technical reasons for this, namely each exit node would need to have their own policy since some operators would want

SSL on the cheap

Well I finally got a real SSL certificate, signed by a trusted CA for www.synfin.net. For less then $20/yr no more annoying popups in webbrowsers, mail clients or my Treo. Anyways, overall I’ve got to say that GoDaddy made the process pretty painless and quick. So

Fair Use under attack (again)

Actually, there are a lot of reasons why I support the Electronic Frontier Foundation.Â One such reason, is that they’re one of the few organizations fighting for our Fair Use rights.Â Fair Use provides some basic rights allowing greater creativity and expression of ideas.Â It also

VP of Eng.

At Mu we’re looking to hire a VP of Engineering. Anyways, I figured I’d list some of my interview questions I plan to ask. 1. As a manger, what kind of environment makes you the most effective? The least? 2. Every manager seems to claim they have an

Don't be evil (unless you can make money!)

So we all know Google’s corporate motto is “Don’t be evil.” It’s not the most inspired thing in the world; since evil is a rather strong term and it leaves a lot of wiggle room compared to something like “Always be good.” Now recently, Google made a

RAID & Backups

So every IT person worth a penny knows that RAID isn’t a replacement for backups and that backups are worthless if you don’t test them. So why do so many of us find ourselves “too busy” to bother testing backups? So today I almost found myself burned. After

Wow, spammy

So lately, I’ve been really annoyed with the amount of spam I get. After various custom filters + SpamAssassin, I still get around 100 spams/day (of which about 20% finds it’s way into my inbox and the remaining 80% into my spambox which I have to check for

More news is good news

Two things of note recently… tcpreplay 3.0.beta6 was released which continues to fix bugs reported by all the beta testers out there. Many thanks to them for keeping me honest. On a more political note, SCOTUS recently ruled that eminent domain extends to allow the government to take