PdaNet for the iPhone (needs to be jailbroken) is available and I finally got around to using it. It's pretty cool.

I've always been surprised by the lack of people using GPG, PGP or even S/MIME. Perhaps now that the Sixth Circuit US Court of Appeals has stated that e-mail is not protected under the Forth Amendment of the Constitution and that "users have no expectation of privacy," people may think again.

I'm in Kuwait at the moment and the camp where I am has pre-paid wireless hotspots that use MAC filtering to block unauthenticated users and redirect them to a login page. After, successful authentication the MAC is white listed. It's pretty weak security that can be bypassed by:

1. Running Kismet or Airsnort to capture some packets
2. Running Wireshark to find traffic other than people getting stuck at a login page (i.e., authenticated users)
3. Changing the MAC of your NIC to that of an authenticated user
4. Connecting happily

I lately had an issue where I had a Web service running on a port other than 80 and obviously I couldn't have 2 daemons listening on port 80. So, I came up with a nice little alternative: Create a subdomain and configure lighttpd to proxy the traffic. An extra perk to it is that since the domain has a wildcard SSL certificate installed, the subproxy can share in the SSL goodness without any extra configuraion.

Circumventing firewalls with SSH tunneled SOCKS proxies a la ssh -D localport user@sshproxyhost

It was reported on Slashdot that there's a transition plan to have IPv6 fully deployed by 2011. I've been very interested in IPv6 and have followed news about IPv6 development and deployment rather closely for a few years now, and I honestly don't see the full deployment by 2011 happening. I think the probability of Duke Nukem Forever being finally released is higher.

A 75 year old woman has a 40Gbps broadband connection. I envy her. Greatly.

Although, the idea of an anyone who is not computer/network security minded having a connection with that much bandwidth scares me. Who needs a bot net when all you need to do is pwn granny with the 40Gbps link?

Apparently, I had ownership of the domain Ethernet.TK since 2002. It expired in June 2006, but due to a glitch in dot.tk's system they left me with ownership of it. Now, in June 2007, they discovered and fixed the system glitch and asked me to renew or lose it. Kind of funny, though, I got a whole year of free registration. ;)

Very few things (with respect to computers, technology and the Internet) make me as angry as the idea of Internet taxes.

I'm amazed about the fact that the new Street View feature of Google Maps is causing people to suddenly worry about their privacy.