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Comcast puts Broadband Cap into Play |
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Written by truestory
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Thursday, 04 September 2008 04:47 |
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UPDATE: Want to know how to monitor your own bandwidth usage? Click here for tutorial. Comcast has recently approved a 250gb per Month cap on their subcribed users. This is the first broadband Cap to be seen of its kind and will likely not be the last - all other ISPs are slated to follow suite soon. What this means for general Comcast users…Nothing. What this means for folks that are particuarily “IT-Savvy”…potentially A LOT… To put it into numbers: 250 GB of monthly usage in perspective, a customer would have to do any one of the following: * Send 50 million emails (at 0.05 KB/email)
* Download 62,500 songs (at 4 MB/song)
* Download 125 standard-definition movies (at 2 GB/movie)
* Upload 25,000 hi-resolution digital photos (at 10 MB/photo) Only time will tell if high-end users will feel the devastating effects (and extra charges) of this, but for now, my issue is that Comcast is providing absolutely NO way for their users to monitor the traffic they are utilizing. Say a common user streams all of their music from a legal radio source, gets their movies over stream from hulu, and watches streamed TV episodes from the major network websites…that would be essentially the same amount of “broadband” as if you were downloading all of those files for ‘re-use/distrobution’. For the time being - I am okay with the passing of this broadband cap, but I am one of the select few IT folks that actually monitors their bandwidth usage internally via my own designed usage server, but other’s will be stunned when Comcast comes to them at the end of each month and says, “you’re being charged plus $70, due to over-usage and you didn’t realize it”. Comcast must create some vehicle that allows users to see where they stand and stop their traffic if they are nearing the Cap, if they so choose… http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9837 |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 12 September 2008 05:01 )
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Hacking and the Security Professional |
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Written by truestory
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 19:46 |
I’ve been maliciously hacked a few times (that I know of). Being hit by a criminal hacker (cracker) may not be desirable, but one can learn from it (and even get the cracker back with some determination). The best way to learn is to put hacking into practice.
Unfortunately, a lot of “information security professionals” don’t know anything about what hacking is or what hackers are all about. The term “hacker” is not always a criminal activity. Information Security professionals should have exposure to hacking like cops have exposure to drugs and knowledge of physical security weaknesses. Of course, some information security professionals don’t have anything to do with hacking or anything technical (as Martin McKeay has pointed out to me). Hacking is about knowing a system well enough to enhance or bypass certain features.
Furthermore, even if you are absolutely convinced that all “hackers” are bad (in accordance with Big Media’s use of the word) one should still be knowledgeable of hacking because all Security Professionals (including cops, investigators, even Infantry) should know their enemies and their enemies tactics. Like a detective knowing the criminal mind.
It was Sun Tzu, ancient Chinese warrior, author of The Art of War, that said that you must “know your enemy” before going into battle. If “you know your enemy and know yourself,” he wrote, “you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” Sun Tzu went on to say, “If you know yourself but not the enemy, every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. “ |
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REPOSITIONING MY BLOGOSPHERE |
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Written by truestory
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Thursday, 13 March 2008 00:00 |
Okay, so in an attempt to define how I am going to use the two blogs that I currently have registered to my name, I have come up with a schema to use them both simultaneously, but with different intriguing purposes. http:// thetruestory.tumblr.com will be used as a place to rant about current issues revolving around (cyber)security, technology, crime, politics, gadgets, and the like... While http://riledup.tumblr.com (TheLifeofRiley) will become the central location for my daily thoughts, activities, pictures, clips, and any other comical/insightful rhetoric I come up with during the day.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 14 March 2008 04:44 )
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Written by truestory
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Monday, 24 March 2008 00:00 |
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SlySoft announced last week that their guys broke the BD+ copy protection scheme that was suppose to be one of the superior aspects of the Blu-ray vs. HD DVD battleground. Here’s my take: Strong copy (or copyright) protection will never stop determined criminals from large-scale counterfeiting. All it really does is discourage legitimate consumers from using the discs they purchased for the actual reasons they purchased them; i.e. stopping Blu-ray disc owners from legally giving a disc copy to a ‘rough-house’ child who will inevitably scratch the original or ripping their bought discs to a flash drive for a long trip. And in turn, it makes hacked products, like SlySofts, much more appealing to Blu-ray consumers. Robin Harris of ZDnet said it best with, “Onerous copy protection hurts Hollywood more than it helps, because it makes other, unprotected, digital media products more attractive: easier to watch; easier to share; and easier to create new content with. The democratization of digital media raises the bar for Hollywood productions.”
Click Here for the SlySoft Press Release
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:52 )
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Marine One now costs more than Air Force One (**Helicopter vs. Jet Liner**) |
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 18 March 2008 00:00 |
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You know something is wrong when the President’s helicopter starts costing more than the President’s jet. Cost estimates have jumped from $6 billion to more than $11 billion for the 28-ship fleet. That makes each helicopter more expensive than Air Force One. It’s time for a do-over. Fire the acquisition manager, re-look at the requirements, and consider an option that isn’t necessarily designed to have every Washingtonian Big-Wig in 28 US helicopters protected from nuclear war.
Largely because if a hostile nation-state (or nation) is going to attempt to do that ‘black-flag thing I can’t type’, then they are going to be slightly more conspicuous than a nuclear bomb on a helicopter (stop watching so much 24), maybe we should not have the on-board military systems designed by diebold (the same guys as the MD e-voting machine debacle), and then we can worry about an over-rated nuclear threat and work toward a true-sense of Security instead of the current false-sense of security country we live in (Don’t even get me started about airport security-but on that note, the guy next to me can do more damage with his laptop and a RJ45 jack-in than anyone could do with 5 ounces of dandruff shampoo). Okay I’m done :) |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 18 March 2008 20:19 )
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