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Cisco IOS Hints and Tricks: Interesting links (2011-01-09) : Jedi Mind Tricks: HTTP Request Smuggling – an intriguing HTTP vulnerability and the countermeasure using ... what else ... F5. Flailing IPv6 – up to 13% of IPv6 connections fail, mostly due to broken tunnels. Stop tunneling! Cisco UCS criticism and FUD: Answered – another great article by @bradhedlund. Assuming he’s not making it up, some competitors must be really desperate. Understanding Inter-Area Loop Prevention Caveats in OSPF Protocol – a masterpiece by @plapukhov. I thought I knew almost everything there is to know about OSPF. Boy was I wrong. 2011 Cloud, PaaS, NoSQL Predictions . Let’s hope he’s right and people will actually move toward PaaS. That would solve so many stupidities we have to deal with today. Radius Auth-Type attribute . Kurt Bates describes how you can remove password check on a PPP account without exposing your network devices. Andrew vonNagy is describing a weird QoS problem . A great example of ...

Kettling Wikileaks | DefectiveByDesign.org : "Kettling Wikileaks POSTED ON: FRI, 2010-12-17 09:09 BY PETERB This article provides an important back story to our DRM campaign. Here at DefectiveByDesign we try to give our readers the bigger picture of how DRM is a threat to society's freedom: it's more than just about access to music and movies. ('Kettling' refers to the police tactic of surrounding a large group of protestors in the middle of a protest and keeping them under siege for hours.) This is a longer version than the version published by the Guardian ."