Dan Geer, an occasional poster here, apparently gave a talk at Blackhat
recently, which was covered on This Week in Enterprise Tech episode #105:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpagev=YkIFOzAcJI4#t=1530
(His segment begins at offset 25:30.)
A point of his talk is that small
Did the talk mention whether the iGuardian supports IPv6?
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 2:01 AM, Tom Metro tmetro+...@gmail.com wrote:
Dan Geer, an occasional poster here, apparently gave a talk at Blackhat
recently, which was covered on This Week in Enterprise Tech episode #105:
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Rich Braun
But upon reflection, I'm not quite sure which one is the terrorist, which one
is the defender of liberty, and which one is the neutral bystander: sysV
init, upstart,
There are some points made that I don't agree with.
Comparing his $150 box to a Juniper IPS that costs ten times as much (or
more) is disingenuous. At the very least, his iGuardian isn't an HA
solution like the SRX series. His box doesn't include a role-based
firewall or central management. I
Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com writes:
I found one blog that seems to have a history of level-headed advocacy
for systemd without insulting people or SysV Init (says it isn't badly
broken). It's not by a SystemD DEV but by a working sysadmin.
On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 12:07:29 -0400, Mike Small wrote:
Some of the points in the latter seem only to apply when comparing with
upstart. Comparing to rc or sysvinit scripts, the points that seem relevant
are these:
systemd handles a lot of annoying infrastructure for you; for example,
you do
On 9/12/2014 12:07 PM, Mike Small wrote:
I don't understand this at all. Aren't daemons written as daemons
(giving up controlling terminal and whatever else within their own
code).
Daemonizing in this context is the support around starting, stopping,
and querying the status of daemon programs.
On 9/11/14 11:46 AM, Bill Ricker wrote:
I wonder which makers of grep added -r ?
While my opinion isn't worth the electrons it uses, all through out my
time behind the keyboard, I've learned that the KISS principle is the
best way to survive.
I had a set of scripts that were written for use on
On 9/11/14 11:57 AM, Mike Small wrote:
I guess it can't lazy load dbus since it's intertwined with that (so much
it so that it wants it in the kernel -- as my son says... what the?)
I've always been irked by the overly complex interdependencies that have
been getting more and more introduced
Richard Pieri wrote:
Comparing his $150 box to a Juniper IPS that costs ten times as much (or
more) is disingenuous.
I just want to clarify (for other BLU readers) that the his above
doesn't refer to Dan Geer. His interview and the iGuardian product are
unconnected, and only were mentioned in
On 9/12/2014 6:44 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
You'll have to clarify what embedded means to you, and how that would
differ from pfSense running on appliance hardware.
How do you go about updating the OS?
With an embedded OS you back up your settings, restart the device in a
special run mode, write
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 12:07:29PM -0400, Mike Small wrote:
systemd handles a lot of annoying infrastructure for you; for example,
you do not have to arrange to daemonize programs you run.
I don't understand this at all. Aren't daemons written as daemons
(giving up controlling terminal and
Dan Geer, an occasional poster here, apparently gave a talk at Blackhat
see
Cybersecurity as Realpolitik, 6 August 2014
http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt
--dan
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