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ASB Bank, compromised?

Since I got my domain name, back in 2000, I’ve been running an experiment on spam. Whenever asked for an email address, such as when signing up for a website, or making a paper application for bank account, I create and provide a unique alias for that website or company in question. It has been [...]

VLAN attacks in TRILL

Without a proper understanding of TRILL’s behaviour an engineer introducing TRILL to a network may make it vulnerable to VLAN attacks.
Background
In 802.1Q networks VLANs provide isolation between different sets of end stations. An end station on one VLAN is unable to transmit a frame to an end station on another VLAN. In a VLAN attack [...]

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    Everyone seems to be doing this microblog thing. (See The Daily Show for an explanation of "microblog".) So I thought I'd take it back a decade and do the macroblog thing. (Ha! Take that, Zeitgeist.)

    The intention is was to write one post each week over 50 weeks. The anticipated result is a lot of unoriginal thought.

    The other intention is to sort and tidy my projects for uploading.

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