A dial-up-list (DUL) is simply a list of network ranges that is assigned to dial-up users. In a previous post I discussed building such a DUL purely from whois information. This turned out to be a horrific failure as there is no common, usable, standard with regards to the information in the information returned by whois.
Whilst browsing the mail logs looking for where the newest spam flood was coming from another idea presented itself …
Obtaining passwords just seems to be too easy. And the more I work in the industry the more I realize that people just don’t take security seriously. So how paranoid should you be? How serious should you take passwords? In a word: VERY.
I just couldn’t resist. An Outlook user sent an email to an automated system, and got this back:
! Decoding of application requests from Base64 is not supported as yet.
! Please resubmit your application in clear (or quoted) ascii. This is !
probably because you are sending from a Windows PC – and have possibly !
imported the form into a Word-Processor like Word. As this ! application
has to be scanned electronically – this makes it very ! unsuitable. Please
therefore save the application in ‘.txt’ format and ! resubmit in ascii.
I just couldn’t resist posting it here.
I’ve had my blacknight 600VA UPS for a while now, and was well aware of the fact that NUT makes use of the powercom driver to interface with it. I also knew that it was supposed to be able to do things like auto-shutdown and restore power on resume (unlike some of the considerably smarter UPSes it won’t wait until battery restored to a certain point). Well, I finally made it work the way I want it…
