Bloodhound - Today I learned that “Bone” as used in Network Monitor, means “Bloodhound Oriented Network Entity”, and it is used to alert the rest of the network to of a copy of Netmon sniffing the network in promiscuous mode (so that hackers can’t use Netmon as a hacking tool without being discovered). Luckily, […]
Worms Among Us - Why do we still have computer worms? And why does it take so long to get rid of them? It’s not my job, so I’ve been assuming that someone would take care of the problem. But that seems to be wishful thinking.
Why wouldn’t the following work:
Write a netmon […]
Assembly Hell - Chris asked about the “Assembly Hell” mention the other day. I don’t know for certain, but I assume that the author of the e-mail was making a reference to “DLL Hell”. This is the affectionate name that has been given to the problems people have with conflicting versions of DLLs. […]
Speculating - One potential scenario: The Taliban refuse to hand over Bin Laden. At the last possible moment, they announce that they have tried Bin Laden under sharia (without any outside observers). They announce that they have found him guilty of violating Islamic law and execute him. Since Bin Laden’s ability […]
Unsavory - Continuing to read Taliban. The hisory of Afghanistan and Central Asia over the last few thousand years makes the Balkans look like a church. The Taliban rose to power with bribery, backstabbing, smuggling, opium traficking; and they look like saints compared to the people they defeated. It is shocking that […]