A week ago, we reached the magic number of 2.7 billion IPv4 addresses used. With 3.7 billion possible addresses,¹ this means we now have less than a billion unused IPv4 addresses left. There are 39 blocks of 16.78 million addresses in the IANA global pool and another 339 million addresses that have been given out [...]

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As of tomorrow morning, VM’s running on all hosts with ESX 3.5U2 in enterprise configurations will not power on. Boom. Apparently, there is some bug in the vmware license management code. VMware is scrambling to figure out what happened and put out a patch.

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I think this entry should be titled “Mass Transit submits substantially more detailed vulnerability assessment of themselves as public record… Hilarity ensues.” But, to be fair, there’s a legitimate enough reason to halt the talk the students were going to give. The justification for malicious hacking is that it helps the security world fix it’s [...]

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Changing the port sshd listens on is a simple and necessary security process; it’s just a matter of updating your sshd_config file and then reloading the new configuration.
Use the procedure below to change the port that sshd is listening on to 6969:
Warning: Incorrectly following this procedure may render your server unreachable through SSH. Be careful [...]

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‘Landmark’ decision more of a moral victory.

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crazy California…
In one of the most significant legal rulings in the tech industry this year, a Superior Court judge in California has ruled that the practice of charging consumers a fee for ending their cell phone contract early is illegal and violates state law.
The preliminary, tentative judgment orders Sprint Nextel to pay customers $18.2 million [...]

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DEFCON 16: August 8-10, 2008
at the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas
Deviant and I were kicking this idea around a little bit after I’d taken apart my Asus to see its guts.
The eeePC is seeming to be the new ricecar of the laptop world.
Actually getting to see mods and stuff might be an inspiration [...]

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The MPAA is petitioning the FCC to lard cable television with “selectable output control,” a DRM system that allows broadcasters to specify which of your TV devices can decode which shows. With selectable output control, parts of your home theater would go dark as you flipped up and down the dial: this show won’t play [...]

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Terry Childs, the former IT administrator accused of kidnapping the city of San Francisco’s data network, is ready to give up the administrative passwords to the system, his attorney said yesterday.
Childs is accused of changing all of the city’s network passwords so that only he could access the network, which contains email, payroll, law enforcement, [...]

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Pretty good deal, and the first time I’ve seen Amazon offer this kind of Blu-ray special…
Now through July 27, the Amazon DVD team is offering a special Buy 2 Get 1 Free promotion on over 100 Blu-ray titles. This is a fantastic opportunity for your customers to start building their Blu-ray libraries with Amazon’s great [...]

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My mom has been struggling for months trying to figure out what to tell me regarding Britney’s sister. It’s vital to my development as a human being so she has to get it right. Ugh.

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The net could see its biggest transformation in decades if plans to open up the address system are passed.

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MySpace can collect $6 million from a notorious Internet marketer accused by the popular online hangout of spamming its users.
An arbitrator has ruled that Scott Richter and his Web marketing company, Media Breakaway LLC of Westminster, Colo., must pay MySpace $4.8 million in damages and $1.2 million in attorney’s fees for barraging MySpace members with [...]

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Gary McKinnon could become the first British hacker extradited to the U.S. for allegedly deleting data and accessing information on U.S. military and NASA computers.

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SURPRISE, Ariz. — A 97-year-old Surprise woman who has voted in the past 19 presidential elections said she finds herself a casualty in the voter ID battle.
Shirley Preiss cannot register in Arizona for the November elections without proof of citizenship.
“I’m a legal American,” Preiss said. “I’m born here. Born and raised in America.”
The Arizona law [...]

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