Month: February 2009
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Mono, Suse and Microsoft – problems all around
Microsoft’s recent patent suit against a prominent printer manufacturer ( that happens to use open source software in some of its products ) has raised more than a few eyebrows. This is the first execution of Microsoft’s threat against FOSS since its announcement over a year ago, when it indicated that FOSS was in violation…
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Czech ISP chaos
A Czech ISP made some changes this morning which cause routing updates to increase from a few thousand per second to around 25k per second at its peak. Newly-connected BGP routers typically provide information about themselves to each and every other BGP router on the internet. One of these pieces of information is AS (…
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Windows for War – scary stuff
A number of military organisations around the world have started using Windows 2000 as a platform for operational systems within navies, the army, air services and other war branches. But recently there has been quite a bit of consternation concerning the use Windows in UK naval vessels as well as French fighter planes. I’m the…
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Kaspersky issues? or something more?
In the light of recent Kaspersky security issues I thought it useful to approach the subject of security companies trumpeting their own horns and crying foul once too many times. To start with, I don’t think this issue really merits any more attention than usual. Kaspersky do anti-virus software, not intrusion prevention software, which is…