CNN.com - Poets die younger than writers, study finds - Apr 22, 2004

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Poets die young - U.S. study (Reuters)

Poets die young - U.S. study (Reuters) 04/21/2004 10:35 PM
Reuters - Poets die young -- younger than novelists, playwrights and other writers, a U.S. researcher says.

Study to Test Hormone Benefits in
Younger Women

Study to Test Hormone Benefits in
Younger Women 04/18/2004 06:59 PM
Reuters via Wired News Apr 18 2004 10:40PM GMT

Poets.org - The Academy of American
Poets

Poets.org - The Academy of American
Poets 04/06/2005 06:45 AM
Poets.org - The Academy of American Poets
http://www.poets.org/

Poets.org is one of the many programs sponsored by the Academy of American Poets. The Academy was founded in 1934 to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry. To fulfill this mission, the Academy administers a wide variety of programs, including National Poetry Month (April), the largest literary celebration in the world; the Online Poetry Classroom, an online resource providing free poetry lesson plans for high school teachers; the Poetry Audio Archive, a collection of nearly 500 recordings dating back to the 1960s; and Poets.org, our award-winning website which provides a wealth of content on contemporary American poetry and receives an average of 400,000 unique users each month. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

One Ear is Not Like The Other, Study
Finds

One Ear is Not Like The Other, Study
Finds 09/13/2004 01:03 AM

Liposuction Doesn't Help Health, Study
Finds

Liposuction Doesn't Help Health, Study
Finds 06/17/2004 10:07 AM
Having fat removed by liposuction provides none of the protection from heart disease and diabetes that would result from losing the same amount of weight through diet and exercise.

DNA Study Finds Chihuahuas Aren't Dogs

DNA Study Finds Chihuahuas Aren't Dogs 05/28/2004 01:50 AM
?As part of an ambitious effort to identify genes that cause disease in dogs and humans, scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle analyzed DNA collected from 414 dogs representing 85 breeds, including some of the most popular. The findings have sent reverberations though the ranks of dog fanciers, who primp and preen their beloved companions for shows and take great pride in their pedigrees?.Among other findings, the analysis determined that the Chihuahua is actually a type of large rodent, selectively bred for centuries to resemble a canine.? I?m waiting for the study on ferrets? ;-) Please read the disclaimer before quoting or complaining. Thanks, Erin!

Pollution Alters DNA in Mice, Study
Finds

Pollution Alters DNA in Mice, Study
Finds 05/17/2004 07:35 PM
Breathing soot from factories or highways may cause genetic damage that can be passed to offspring.

Study finds omega-3 can ward off
Alzheimer's

Study finds omega-3 can ward off
Alzheimer's 09/03/2004 08:25 AM
globetechnology.com Sep 3 2004 12:33PM GMT

Study Finds Paintball Injuries on Rise

Study Finds Paintball Injuries on Rise 01/05/2004 04:50 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 5 2004 3:33AM ET

UBS study finds offshoring not big hit
to U.S. jobs market

UBS study finds offshoring not big hit
to U.S. jobs market 09/17/2004 06:35 PM
SiliconValley.com Sep 17 2004 10:44PM GMT

Study finds too few women and minorities
in tech

Study finds too few women and minorities
in tech 06/24/2005 03:24 PM
ZDNet Jun 23 2005 2:02AM GMT

Study finds no cancer-cellphone link

Study finds no cancer-cellphone link 04/13/2005 06:48 AM
Electronic Times Apr 13 2005 10:53AM GMT

Collie or Pug? Study Finds the Genetic
Code

Collie or Pug? Study Finds the Genetic
Code 05/21/2004 12:59 AM
Scientists say they have found genetic variations that allow them to distinguish among 85 dog breeds and to identify an individual dog's breed with 99 percent accuracy.

Study Finds Windows More Reliable than
Linux

Study Finds Windows More Reliable than
Linux 04/06/2005 11:56 AM
A Microsoft-sponsored study finds Windows Server 2003 is more reliable and robust and allows IT administrators to execute various tasks more quickly than those using Red Advanced Server 3.0 running on the same hardware.

Study Finds MRIs Better on Breast Cancer
(AP)

Study Finds MRIs Better on Breast Cancer
(AP) 07/28/2004 08:02 PM
AP - In women at high risk of breast cancer, new research suggests MRI scans find nearly twice as many tumors as mammograms do, but they cost a lot and trigger more unneeded biopsies.

Study Finds Flaws in PSA Cancer Tests
(AP)

Study Finds Flaws in PSA Cancer Tests
(AP) 05/26/2004 04:30 PM
AP - A disturbing new study has found that 15 percent of older men with supposedly normal readings on the widely used PSA test have prostate cancer anyway — and some even have aggressive tumors.

Many Parents Unaware of Teen Sex, Study
Finds

Many Parents Unaware of Teen Sex, Study
Finds 08/12/2004 12:55 PM
Reuters via Wired News Aug 12 2004 5:02PM GMT

Study Finds Seasons Affect Cholesterol
(AP)

Study Finds Seasons Affect Cholesterol
(AP) 04/26/2004 05:31 PM
AP - Cholesterol levels tend to rise in the winter and fall in the summer — variations that in some cases could affect treatment decisions, researchers say.

Liposuction Doesn't Offer Health
Benefit, Study Finds

Liposuction Doesn't Offer Health
Benefit, Study Finds 06/17/2004 12:15 AM
Having fat removed by liposuction provides none of the protection from heart disease and diabetes that would result from losing the same amount of weight through diet and exercise.

Farmed Salmon Have More Contaminants
Than Wild Ones, Study Finds

Farmed Salmon Have More Contaminants
Than Wild Ones, Study Finds 01/09/2004 09:58 PM
A new study of fillets from 700 salmon, wild and farmed, finds that the farmed fish consistently have more PCB's and other contaminants.

Study Finds Electronic Prescribing
Records of Limited Use

Study Finds Electronic Prescribing
Records of Limited Use 04/16/2004 11:39 AM
Tracking patient prescriptions alone is of little use in enhancing patient safety, according to a researcher at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Further study will determine if electronic medical records can make a dent in physician errors that lead to patient deaths and injuries.

Cellphones take up driver attention,
study finds (Reuters)

Cellphones take up driver attention,
study finds (Reuters) 06/22/2005 02:36 AM
Reuters - Using a cellphone -- even with a hands-free device -- may distract drivers because the brain cannot handle both tasks, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

On Fox News, No Shortage of Opinion,
Study Finds (washingtonpost.com)

On Fox News, No Shortage of Opinion,
Study Finds (washingtonpost.com) 03/17/2005 02:48 AM
Howard Kurtz watches the media watch itself .. opinions of the anchors and journalists

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Computer Use a Boost to Young Minds,
Study Finds

Computer Use a Boost to Young Minds,
Study Finds 06/07/2004 08:34 PM
Macon Area Online Jun 8 2004 0:31AM GMT

Pay Abuses Common for Day Laborers,
Study Finds (washingtonpost.com)

Pay Abuses Common for Day Laborers,
Study Finds (washingtonpost.com) 06/24/2005 03:17 PM
washingtonpost.com - More than half of day laborers in the Washington area have been cheated out of their wages and one in four has been harmed on the job, according to a study being released today that tries to sketch a portrait of the informal workers.

College Faculties A Most Liberal Lot,
Study Finds (washingtonpost.com)

College Faculties A Most Liberal Lot,
Study Finds (washingtonpost.com) 03/31/2005 06:59 AM
not only do college faculties lean to the left, they lean farther to the left than most of us thought

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Study Finds Equal Success in Treatments
for Cancer

Study Finds Equal Success in Treatments
for Cancer 05/13/2004 12:33 AM
A decade-long study comparing conventional colon cancer surgery with laparoscopic surgery found identical success rates.

Study finds gaps in digital divide
theory

Study finds gaps in digital divide
theory 10/29/2003 12:31 PM
The digital divide is not just a problem in poor countries--it's also widening in technologically advanced regions, says a study by a panel of experts set up by chipmaker AMD.

Study Finds Benefit in Keeping
Cholesterol Extra-Low

Study Finds Benefit in Keeping
Cholesterol Extra-Low 03/08/2004 11:12 PM
Lowering cholesterol beyond recommended levels can substantially reduce heart patients' risk of heart attack, a study has found.

Study Finds Aspirin Might Cut Risk of
Breast Cancer

Study Finds Aspirin Might Cut Risk of
Breast Cancer 05/25/2004 05:47 PM
Women who take aspirin regularly have a lower risk of breast cancer than those who do not, researchers are reporting.

Study Finds Flaws in Prostate Cancer
Test (AP)

Study Finds Flaws in Prostate Cancer
Test (AP) 05/27/2004 04:29 AM
AP - A new study shows that a test widely used to screen for prostate cancer misses 15 percent of the tumors — including some aggressive ones — in older men.

Mobile Phone Radiation Harms DNA, New
Study Finds

Mobile Phone Radiation Harms DNA, New
Study Finds 12/22/2004 01:23 AM
Radio waves from mobile phones harm body cells and damage DNA in laboratory conditions, according to a new study majority-funded by the European Union, researchers said on Monday. The so-called Reflex study, conducted by 12 research groups in seven European countries, did not prove that mobile phones are a risk to health but concluded that more research is needed to see if effects can also be found outside a lab.

The $100 billion a year mobile phone industry asserts that there is no conclusive evidence of harmful effects as a result of electromagnetic radiation. About 650 million mobile phones are expected to be sold to consumers this year, and over 1.5 billion people around the world use one. The research project, which took four years and which was coordinated by the German research group Verum, studied the effect of radiation on human and animal cells in a laboratory.

News source: Reuters

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Study Finds Pervasive Chinese Internet
Controls

Study Finds Pervasive Chinese Internet
Controls 04/14/2005 09:46 PM
Reuters Apr 15 2005 1:31AM GMT

Size Matters When It Comes to Nostrils,
Study Finds (Reuters)

Size Matters When It Comes to Nostrils,
Study Finds (Reuters) 09/15/2004 07:23 AM
Reuters - Large nostrils count more than a big nose when it come to smelling power, said German scientists Wednesday after completing a three-year-long study aimed at treating smelling disorders.

Iraq Study Finds Desire for Arms, but
Not Capacity

Iraq Study Finds Desire for Arms, but
Not Capacity 09/16/2004 10:41 PM
A new report is expected to conclude that Iraq had a clear intent to produce illicit weapons if U.N. sanctions were lifted.

Study finds Chinese Internet filters
sophisticated

Study finds Chinese Internet filters
sophisticated 04/14/2005 09:47 PM
Pravda Apr 15 2005 1:08AM GMT

Jupiter Research Study Finds Overture
Outscores Google

Jupiter Research Study Finds Overture
Outscores Google 10/31/2003 08:20 AM
Media Post Oct 31 2003 8:01AM ET

Teenage T. Rex's Appetite Explains Its
Bulk, Study Finds

Teenage T. Rex's Appetite Explains Its
Bulk, Study Finds 08/12/2004 02:14 AM
Paleontologists now think Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaurs may have experienced a teenage growth surge averaging 4.6 pounds a day over four years.

U.S. online holiday spending rose 25
percent, study finds

U.S. online holiday spending rose 25
percent, study finds 01/04/2005 09:02 AM
Tempted by lower prices and a wide selection of goods, U.S. shoppers clamored to the Web this holiday season, spending $23.2 billion, or 25 percent more than in the previous year, according to a survey released this week.
Grok Description matches for CNN.com - Poets die younger than writers, study finds - Apr 22, 2004
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Rowing the Pond Again

Rowing the Pond Again 06/08/2004 11:20 PM

Burningbird for Poets

Burningbird for Poets 01/04/2004 07:20 AM
TeledyN

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Linux for poets

Linux for poets 01/09/2004 09:58 PM
Valerie MacEwan is a fiction writer and poet who (her words) "...lives on the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp in North Carolina." She's also a Linux user and advocate. The following (lightly edited) IM transcript tells how and why she started using Linux, and how and why she believes other writers should start using Linux and open source software.

a subculture from across the pond

a subculture from across the pond 04/20/2004 12:39 PM
British television presentation, past and present. For the lover of Channel 5, DOGs, presenters, and mocking in all of us.

Be a Big Fish in a Small Pond

Be a Big Fish in a Small Pond 06/23/2004 10:49 AM
Source: iMedia Connection - In addition to big search engines, marketers should consider small and specialty search sites....

Tech students can be poets too

Tech students can be poets too 08/15/2004 09:36 AM
Chicago Tribune Aug 15 2004 12:13PM GMT

Do Poets Die Young? (Reuters)

Do Poets Die Young? (Reuters) 04/22/2004 09:16 AM
Reuters - Poets die young -- younger than novelists, playwrights and other writers, a U.S. researcher says.

Flexible Copyrights Hop the Pond

Flexible Copyrights Hop the Pond 04/18/2005 04:53 AM
The BBC and other media groups unveil new Creative Commons-inspired licenses that will allow the public to use footage from the archives as raw material for new creative works. By Katie Dean.

Phishing in the Fund Pond

Phishing in the Fund Pond 07/02/2004 10:00 AM
Online scammers begin to target mutual fund investors.

Pond and a Puck Are Enough for Hockey
Purists

Pond and a Puck Are Enough for Hockey
Purists 02/12/2004 08:04 AM
In the World Pond Hockey Championships in New Brunswick, Canada, four-man teams compete outdoors in a sport that has almost no rules.

A Zen Pond Puts Wheels on Ideas

A Zen Pond Puts Wheels on Ideas 05/05/2004 09:28 PM
Meet the Personal Pond, a waist-high device that looks like the offspring of a Weber grill and the Starship Enterprise.

Toddler dead after duck pond fall

Toddler dead after duck pond fall 08/21/2004 11:00 AM
A two-year-old boy dies after falling into a duck pond at a caravan park in north Wales during a family holiday.

Korean poets deployed to "Tokto"
(Reuters)

Korean poets deployed to "Tokto"
(Reuters) 04/04/2005 10:17 AM
Reuters - Poets have read patriotic verses as a ferry rocks violently offshore islands that South Korea and Japan both claim in a bitter territorial dispute.

National Poetry Month - The Academy of
American Poets

National Poetry Month - The Academy of
American Poets 04/04/2005 04:23 AM
Happy National Poetry Month!

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On EBay, E-Mail Phishers Find a
Well-Stocked Pond

On EBay, E-Mail Phishers Find a
Well-Stocked Pond 03/14/2005 06:16 PM
EBay’s domination of the online auction business and its heavy dependence on e-mail communication make its users particularly vulnerable to online scams.

Eldred Told Not To Hand Out Walden At
Walden Pond

Eldred Told Not To Hand Out Walden At
Walden Pond 07/19/2004 04:54 PM
Eric Eldred (of Supreme Court fame) recently went to Walden Pond to hand out free copies of David Thoreau's "Walden," which is very much in the public domain these days. He was quickly told to stop because he did not have a permit to hand out free books. The park supervisor claims they told him to leave because handing out free books might interfere with the business prospects of the "Shop at Walden Pond" which sells copies of the book. The executive director of the Thoreau Society, which runs the shop, didn't seem to mind, and the whole thing is somewhat farcical given the nature of "Walden" anyway.

Poets make their central concerns
evident---and not so evident

Poets make their central concerns
evident---and not so evident 09/26/2004 09:16 AM
Chicago Tribune Sep 26 2004 12:19PM GMT

Building a Better Fry

Building a Better Fry 05/18/2004 02:49 PM
Privately held Simplot offers fries without unsaturated fats.

Le Building

Le Building 06/24/2005 04:49 PM
Le Building (quicktime) is a minute-and-a-half film that was used as an opening for the 2005 Annecy International Animated Film Festival. Made by students. Kids today. What can't they do? Making-of movie here. via cartoonbrew

Building Yourself A DMZ

Building Yourself A DMZ 06/22/2004 04:24 AM
By Daniel R. Miessler Eventually, if you get interested enough in information security or start hosting services on your network, you are going to wonder what a DMZ is and why you should or should not have one. DMZ is an acronym that stands for demilitarized zone, and in the ‘real’ world it is the location between two hostile entities such as North and South Korea. In the world of information security community, however, it’s a separate, untrusted network where any machines serving public services (web, email, gaming, etc) should be placed. It’s a buffer zone between a completely unsafe network (like the Internet) and a relatively trusted network (like your private LAN). The primary purpose for this separation is so that a compromise in your DMZ does not automatically result in a compromise of your private network as well. Design Considerations I’ll be discussing two main ways to implement a DMZ. The first is using three NICs in a single firewall machine as follows: NIC1 for the WAN : Your gateway to the Internet; everything comes and goes through this NIC NIC2 for the LAN : Behind this NIC is where you have all your private assets, i.e. file servers, domain controllers, questionable media collections, etc. NIC3 for the DMZ : This is where you put any machine that you want to allow people on the Internet to connect to, i.e. web servers, ftp servers, mail servers, game servers, etc. This is one method of creating a DMZ, but it is not the best way. This configuration allows the security of both your DMZ and your LAN to lie in one system. If your machine that has all three of those NICs in it is compromised, so is your DMZ and your private network as well. Basically, you are allowing the Internet to touch the very same machine that determines how secure your internal LAN is, and this is not ideal. The better way to do this is with three completely separate networks and two firewalls - one on the border of your WAN (which handles your connection usually) - and one on the border of your internal LAN. This design makes it so that two separate devices must be compromised in order to get to your internal LAN, and as you will see later - it’s no an easy thing to do. Implementation We’re going to proceed with the second and more secure configuration which is often referred to as a ‘sandwich DMZ’ due to the use of two firewalls (the servers in the DMZ are the meat). Let’s say you have two firewall devices available to you - a broadband router such as a Linksys, and a Linux-based firewall like an Astaro or SmoothWall box. You start by placing your Linksys on your border (right behind your modem), and connecting the LAN side of that router to a hub or switch. To that hub or switch (your DMZ hub/switch) you connect your bastion hosts/public server(s). These machines run the services that you want people to be able to connect to from the Internet. This may be a web site, an FTP server, a mail server, or a multiplayer game box like WCIII or Counterstrike. You want this machine to be hardened as much as possible, meaning that it is completely patched, not running any unnecessary services, and is tightened down as much as possible in terms of configuration. Now, to that same hub (the DMZ hub) you are going to attach another network cable that goes to the external interface of your internal firewall (your Linux firewall). It is important to note that you want your strongest firewall closest to your LAN; or, putting it another way, you want your least powerful firewall on your border. This may seem counterintuitive but it’s usually best. Basically, you want the most powerful and most configurable firewall protecting your LAN - not your DMZ. Then connect another cable from the internal interface of your Linux box to another hub (your internal hub). All of your LAN machines will connect to that. If that was confusing, think of it this way: Internet -> Modem Modem -> Router Router -> DMZ Hub DMZ Switch -> Web/Mail/FTP/Game Servers DMZ Switch -> Linux Firewall External NIC Linux Firewall Internal NIC -> LAN Hub LAN Hub -> LAN Systems Benefits Ok, so let’s take a look at the added security that is offered by this setup. First off, at the border you have NAT translation that passes only the ports that you need to in order for people on the Internet to access the servers in your DMZ. Let’s say, for example, that you’re running a web server, an FTP server, and a game server for a game called Foo. On your border router/firewall you pass ports 80, 21, and 10050 (the Foo server port). All attempted connections to your external, WAN IP address that aren’t on those ports drop dead at your router; only those three ports are allowed through because of NAT. The nature of NAT as implemented on most SOHO routers dictates that only two types of traffic can pass from the outside of the router to the inside: return traffic (traffic that’s part of a connection that originated from the inside of the NAT device, and any incoming traffic to ports that are defined as ‘passed’ in your NAT configuration. All packets traversing the device are compared to a table inside the device that is similar to a firewall policy, and if a given packet doesn’t fall into one of the two categories above, it gets put on the floor. This side effect of NAT, while not its original or main goal, is a fairly powerful security feature, and it makes up our first layer of defense on the border. Of course, if your device supports packet filtering of any sort in addition to NAT then you can further lockdown your perimeter by using that functionality as well. This first border layer, while being good, is just one layer of the shielding offered by this configuration. The real beauty of this setup lies in what happens if someone is able to compromise a machine in your DMZ. Imagine that you have the setup I laid out above, but unbeknownst to you there is a major, undiscovered vulnerability in your Apache or IIS server. While you’re out and about thinking all is well, someone launches the zero-day exploit at your box and takes it over. Now what? Now nothing. Your second and more powerful firewall (the one that they are still outside of) - does not pass ANY traffic from the DMZ to the LAN. In fact, you should have your internal firewall configured in such a way that it won’t even reply at all to any DMZ machines - no ICMP, no port scans, nothing. And now, rather than being able to bounce around on your juicy internal LAN like they planned, they are stuck in the middle of a completely untrusted, isolated network that doesn’t have anything on it other than what you intended for public viewing anyway. This is a DMZ. Even if they did know the IP of the internal firewall, it wouldn’t even consider passing connection attempts from the DMZ. This internal layer of protection is NAT’d just like your first layer, only there are no ports being passed inside like from the Internet to the DMZ. Due to the NAT table, and your lack of ports being passed, your second firewall actually has no idea what to do with packets that are designed to initiate new connections with it, so it just drops them. The only traffic that is going to make it through that firewall is traffic initiated from the inside, i.e. when you go to /., it will allow the web content to come back to you so you can view the page, but if someone tries to initiate a new connection to you, they get dropped. Both NAT and stateful packet inspection (an advanced firewall technology that’s built into modern Linux firewalls) afford this protection to you - each in different ways. Example Scenario So, to sum it all up, imagine you have your network setup the way we have talked about above, and someone with a zero-day exploit is scanning around looking for web daemons to tear up and they find yours. So, they connect to it, check the version you are running to confirm that you’re vulnerable, and then scurry to fire up their new exploit tool that someone else wrote. What they probably don’t know is that they are actually connecting to a ‘non-routable’ IP in your DMZ. It has no ‘real’ IP address as far as the Internet is concerned, and if you hadn’t passed that port on your router they wouldn’t have seen anything at all with their scan. But let’s say they do see your web daemon because you are passing port 80 through to your web server, and it turns out it’s vulnerable. They run their exploit and get complete control of your box. This, of course, causes them tremendous joy, and they hurry to tell all their buddies because they think they’re starring in Hackers now. The thing is, they have little to celebrate. All they have is a barebones server with nothing of value on it - no vital info, no browsing history, no personal information, nothing. In fact, all the attacker has access to is content that you wanted the public to see in the first place! (which is also safely backed up, of course). They proceed to poke around in your DMZ only to find that there isn’t anything there that they couldn’t have seen from the other side of the planet with a web browser. The odds are that at this point they’ll either load some trash onto your system in order to use it as a server or an attack zombie, or they’ll just deface and/or destroy it. Either way it doesn’t matter. The moment you detect what has happened (see Snort, Tripwire, etc) you simply pull the plug, reinstall the box, and restore the backup. Within a few minutes you have a brand spanking new system ready to go back online, and at no point during the process was your private LAN in danger. This is the benefit of running a true DMZ. Things To Keep In Mind There are a couple of things worth mentioning about DMZs that I’d like to cover. First of all, there are many SOHO appliances on the market that advertise themselves as having a DMZ. Be weary of these. Some do actually have a true DMZ interface that can be used in the triple-homed configuration and combined with packet filtering, but many just have a port that all traffic gets forwarded to when you enable the ‘DMZ’. This is a horrible perversion of the word, and it offers very little, if any, security. What that basically does is pass all ports from the external interface to the box that you connect to the DMZ port. If security is a priority, don’t do that. This is nothing but another example of manufacturers catching onto buzzwords and inserting them into their marketing. Rule of thumb: it’s not a true DMZ interface unless the product gives you full control of what gets passed back (via NAT) to machines connected to it. There is also some debate on whether to use hubs or switches for connectivity within your DMZ and LAN, due to security concerns associated with hubs. I used the word ‘hub’ in the paragraphs above for the sake of simplicity, but it’s important to consider the performance and security implications of using each. On the security side, many people say not to use a hub because it would be possible for someone with access to a compromised machine (and the right tools) to run a sniffer and watch all of the traffic going between the Internet and DMZ to the private LAN. This is potentially a concern, but anyone who is going to sniff your internal traffic in order to launch a sophisticated attack later is going to know how to sniff across most switches as well. It is trivial enough to do this that it’s arguably permissible to use a hub in the DMZ if you have a good reason to. I do so in order to allow my IDS machine in the DMZ to be able to see all traffic on that network. Switches with mirror ports are still a bit too pricey (but I’m watching ebay for 2950s) Last but not least, a DMZ is not an impenetrable defense vs. attacks. It’ll stop the vast majority of people that the average person running services would come upon, but if a highly skilled cracker wanted spend a whole lot of time and effort, he/she could still be successful. Nothing is worse for your security than thinking you are completely secure. For questions and/or feedback, I can be reached at daniel@dmiessler.com. ‘cat knowledge | grep understanding’

Building a Better Office

Building a Better Office 06/22/2004 06:40 PM

"wrong building"

"wrong building" 03/20/2003 08:32 AM

Building a better Bush

Building a better Bush 02/10/2004 06:47 AM
How an Andover-Yale preppy, scion of one of our nation's most powerful families, was reinvented as a straight-shootin' Texan with "regular guy" values. An excerpt from "Fraud: The Strategy Behind the Bush Lies and Why the Media Didn't Tell You."

Photographing Every Building Everywhere

Photographing Every Building Everywhere 05/25/2004 08:49 PM
If you thought that Barbara Streisand got bent out of shape over someone photographing her house from public airspace as part of an effort to document the entire coastline, just imagine how lots of people will feel about some random van, covered in digital cameras, roaming through their neighborhood, snapping pictures of everything, to create a giant photographic database of every building in the US, connected via GPS location info to satellite photos for the view from the sky. The idea is to then offer this database to insurance companies and police to use in appraisals, investigations or... well... to spy on what your property looks like, I guess. There have been similar projects, though on a smaller scale. There was one such project a few years ago where you could tour Manhattan in pictures. Photographers had literally taken thousands of photos at street level in Manhattan and connected them to let you take something of a virtual tour of the city. In the meantime, the folks working on this "photograph every building" project should team up with those researchers in the UK who wanted to create a building recognition system that would let you snap a photo of a building with your camera phone, and have the phone immediately tell you where you are. Of course, you could also see the technology being useful for services like online mapping applications, where they could give you not only turn by turn directions, but also photos of specific buildings or landmarks where you should turn. Whether you think this is cool or creepy (or possibly, both), it sounds like the company is still a long way from actually bringing this to market.

Building Your Own LazyWeb

Building Your Own LazyWeb 07/24/2004 06:17 PM
I should have got this off my to-do list ages ago, but anyway. I've tidied up the complete code and instructions (not exactly long or complicated I grant you) to the LazyWeb. Want a LazyWeb of your very own? Have...

Building Blood

Building Blood 11/03/2003 05:29 AM
Boston Globe Nov 3 2003 5:03AM ET

Building Applications with POE

Building Applications with POE 07/23/2004 06:32 PM
In Matt Cashner's second article on POE, he describes how to fit together POE's components into event-driven applications.

CNN.com - Poets die younger than writers, study finds - Apr 22, 2004

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