Musings on Computer Security

Date February 23, 2009

This is another from my LiveJournal, written October 14th, 2006:

While reading my new “Netscreen Firewalls” book for work, I chanced upon the following sentence (paraphrased):
“ScreenOS is more secure than open source operating systems, because it’s source is unable to be searched for vulnerabilities”
Normally I would ignore such tripe as the rantings of demented [...]

How to ask questions on the internet

Date February 22, 2009

This was originally written on October 23rd, 2007 and post in my livejournal. It ends short, but the idea isn’t too bad, and the content isn’t yet out of date.

As the internet has become ubiquitous over the past decade, it has become our primary research tool. Seemingly endless in the knowledge it contains, we [...]

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