Monthly Archives: June 2004

In mourning

By sindy | Published: June 23, 2004
Early yesterday, my mother pre-emptively mourned the death of South Korean hostage Kim Sun-il and my father stated simply that the terrorists were painfully misguided if they believed this hostage scenario would make South Korea do anything. He knew that South Korean leaders would, following the American model, refuse to negotiate with terrorists and that, [...]
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The Burden of ResNets

By sindy | Published: June 22, 2004
Well, another year, another ResNet. I’m always amazed whenever I leave a ResNet conference at the sheer variety in attitudes, policies, practices and resources available at ResNet organizations throughout the country. A vital part of each ResNet conference is chatting with people from other schools at BOFs, during meals, and on the always-long-ass bus ride [...]
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Big Brother is not welcome!

By sindy | Published: June 20, 2004
I really have to congratulate Texas A&M for delivering a network security solution that still protects privacy (thanks to the direction of their administration that encourages non-invasive security practices). The Security Team there has built an open-source solution that effectively monitors for network instrusion and dynamically blocks (through a firewall) compromised or vulnerable computers before [...]
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