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- Erich Remarque

Archive for June, 2006

Community Emergency Response

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

If you are interested in emergency preparedness, you should check out the Citizen Corps. As part of the Citizen Corps, the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program offers free online training through FEMA.
The main focus is to help out your community after a disaster, although “disaster” can refer to events all the way from a [...]

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Pandora and the Mountain Goats

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

On a recent trip, I had the opportunity to sample some of the stuff on Pandora. Pandora is a customizable internet jukebox/radio station; I’d heard about it on the Inside the Net podcast.
You build it based on your musical tastes; give it the seed of a song or a group, and it will roll [...]

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DNS Attacks

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

Interesting reading about the internet’s Achilles heel.
DNS Amplification Attacks (packetstorm)DNS Amplification Attacks (ripe)DNS Cache Poisoners - Lazy, Stupid, or Evil?
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