EtherealMind

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by EtherealMind 3y ago
My 0.02p, it cost about £6000/yr to do it cheap. Goes up to £10k/yr with a full time mooring in a marina and outsourced services. Boat pricing comes in a spectrum that very roughly looks like this: 3. £20-£40K Narrowboats are thir
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by EtherealMind 3y ago
I spend 8 months a year on my narrowboat moving around the canals as I hunt for pubs, relaxation and peace. In winter I hibernate in my house, pining for the canals and freedom. Also, I work full-time from the boat.
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by EtherealMind 11y ago
maybe you should pay to go to conferences ?
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by EtherealMind 11y ago
Delivering this function is very costly, because of stateful inspection you must implement flow sticking which require buffering which then impacts performance ..... and so on and so on. no, doesn't work.
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by EtherealMind 11y ago
A firewall doesn't prevent compromise. An attacker can always reach your Internet connected system, and attack through the firewall. Firewall is useful for protecting servers that don't have well managed IPTables or similar.
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by EtherealMind 11y ago
EAL criteria are so operationally restrictive that useful work is effectively prevented from happening. No one needs worse security, we need better security.
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by EtherealMind 11y ago
Yep, all IT disciplines have their language. I get the same problem when listening to developers & DevOps spout their lingo.
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by EtherealMind 11y ago
Heartbleed is far more common on closed crypto software than often. One word: wrong.
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by EtherealMind 11y ago
Two things: 1. the number is more than 800. 2. NSX is being deployed primarily as a security tool for micro-segmentation. It is displacing firewalls in the data centre is substantly way. 3. Change in the data centre is slow. Infrastructur
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by EtherealMind 11y ago
Here is my explanation of the East/West & North/South int terms of Data Centre network architecture http://etherealmind.com/layer-2-multipath-east-west-bandwidt...
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by EtherealMind 11y ago
There are some non-obvious issues: 1. Why not firewall in the operating system and distribute/scale the load evenly ? Centralising the firewall was done when OS provisioning was bad, now we have Puppet/Chef/Ansible, firewalls
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by EtherealMind 12y ago
Certain corporate companies formed a consortium to prevent encryption to ensure that monetisation of personal information would continue. At the very last stage, the IETF appeared to be hijacked by very large telcos (e.g. ATT, Verizon, Eric