RE: Password Security and Distribution

2006-01-24 Thread (nanog) Brian Battle
Our company is starting to grow rather quickly and we are starting to have growing pains. We are in the need for a better mechanism for sharing passwords between our engineers. I wish there was a system that let you do the following: * Store and encrypt logins/passwords and access logs in a

RE: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P 2P

2004-08-31 Thread Brian Battle
Akamai or not, microsoft is overwhelmed by the demand for SP2, and today is giving the message listed below on windowsupdate: Download and install it now - Currently not available We are currently experiencing a high level of demand for Windows XP Service Pack 2, so please check back later

RE: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net

2004-07-23 Thread Brian Battle
Petri Helenius wrote: What would be your suggestion to achieve the desired effect that many seek by lower TTL's, which is changing A records to point to available, lower load servers at different times? On a similar note (and not viewing the issue through the usual spam-colored glasses):

RE: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-13 Thread Brian Battle
Alexei Roudnev wrote: It is not a bug; it is specially designed IE feature. MS always was proud of their full automation - install on demand, update automatically, add new software to start at a startup without need to be system admin, etc etc... As a result, we have a field full of bugs,

RE: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-12 Thread Brian Battle
William Warren wrote: not all the variants are that easy..how about doing a google on coolwebsearch..scumware.com has a good writeup as well as spywareinfo.com...the newer variants are not that easy I second that. The version I saw required a third party registry editor and booting up

RE: Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall

2004-05-19 Thread Brian Battle
://www.blackholes.us/ Is anyone else out there using these blackholes? I wonder how often they get updated. Brian Battle Confluence