Archive for September, 2001

squeeze the lifeblood

Tuesday, September 25th, 2001

Squeeze the Lifeblood - The President said that money is the lifeblood of terrorist operations, and the coalation against terrorism are going to starve the terrorists by cutting off their cash supply. Controlling this flow of lifeblood will be far more difficult than controlling airport and stadium security here at home. The flow […]

blind lead

Monday, September 24th, 2001

Blind Lead - Paul Nakada reports on what the author of the original Internet Worm is now up to; apparently peer-to-peer storage ala Farsite. Miguel de Icaza reveals to Dare “Carnage4Life” Obasanjo why he chose C# instead of Java.

Tried Snappy Dragon for the first time today. It is pretty good, just like home […]

sunny day

Sunday, September 23rd, 2001

Sunny Day - we went out to the Olympic peninsula to watch the competitors in the “Big Hurt” race. Contestants travel nearly 70 miles on mountain bike, road bike, kayak, and foot. This year, Canadians took first and second place. The American who took first last year was third across the finish […]

the crufatin liveth

Saturday, September 22nd, 2001

The Crufatin Liveth - When reading the reports of how unified the world is in its opposition to terrorism, I wonder if people notice that the leaders of the world are united, but not necessarily the citizens? One of the more common sentiments voiced by people writing about the WTC destruction is “Why can’t […]

more worm

Friday, September 21st, 2001

More Worm - Reading through CERT’s analysis of the Nimda worm, it seems that this worm attacked only known holes, for which fixes have been available for some time. Both this and Code Red were fairly mild; it is not pleasant to imagine what could have been done if the authors had been just […]