My new Mac Mini

Yesterday, my need to replace the desktop machine who's processor lost its black smoke due to a malfunctioning air conditioning came to a head. After several hours of research on the innarweb, I realised that the component industry had re-invented itself again, and I would need to replace everything other than my case and hard drives. So, at 2pm on a Saturday afternoon, I scratched my geek itch with the purchase of a Mac mini.

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Saturday, May 26. 2007
Posted by Dominic White in Geek
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Last modified on 2007-06-01 02:15

How do you measure the criticality of an interconnected system?

I've had several discussions of late where people have wrestled with the problem of how best to secure their applications to a reasonable level of security, given that applications are increasingly integrated. Here's my take.

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Wednesday, May 23. 2007
Posted by Dominic White in Security
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Security as a positive architectural investment

While dealing with security decisions on a daily basis, I realised that the large majority of my decision making is based on compliance to a good architecture. Quite often, if the architecture has been well designed, the security work in minimal and related to specialist knowledge. On the flip side, when architecture is one of those copy-paste hacks from a vendor's white paper, the security work mostly revolves around the basics.

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Tuesday, May 22. 2007
Posted by Dominic White in Security
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Last modified on 2007-06-07 21:20

ACSA puts on bigger pants

The airports company of South Africa (ACSA) has decided to follow a cover your ass (CYA) security model by implementing the 'liquid ban' first implemented by the demented TSA.

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Sunday, May 20. 2007
Posted by Dominic White in Security
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Microsoft Security Dev Tools

One of the easiest ways to overcome security vulnerabilities, is to prevent them from being written into the code. Microsoft is doing a good (not great, but good) job stepping up to that challenge. The advances in FxCop/Code Analyzer look promising. Also, the anti-XSS library is looking good, and has benefited from some interaction with RSnake. Get your developers to start playing with these.

Monday, May 14. 2007
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Last modified on 2007-05-14 21:17

Local User Bandwidth Accounting in Linux

I need a way to pull a report of the amount of bandwidth used by local users on Linux boxes. I know this isn't natively supported and requires some sort of kernel patch. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Monday, May 14. 2007
Posted by Dominic White in Geek
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Bloggers overblowing "Bullardgate"

Satire: Blending criticism and humor to expose a fault or problem; often used ironically.

David Bullard, a noted South African columnist specialising in satire, had a dig at bloggers. There has been a major sense of humour failure [1], and there is a full on multi-blog, distributed flame war going on against the guy. I guess this is why satirists aim for the holy cows: the response is so much fun.

[1] Personally, I rarely find Bullard's satire funny.

Monday, May 7. 2007
Posted by Dominic White in Politics
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Last modified on 2007-05-08 09:00

Four Years

Daniela and I are now a four-year-old. This means we can read, have matched presidential terms of office, and received an honours degree (in love [sic]).

So here's to our B.Luv (Hons) and the awesome woman who made it all possible, Daniela: You rock and I love you.

Wednesday, May 2. 2007
Posted by Dominic White in Life
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