Internets of Interest:22^nd Nov 09

Collection of use­ful, rel­ev­ant or inane places on the the Internets for 22^nd Nov 09:

• Security Overview (The Chromium Projects) -
  

  The per­fect is the enemy of the good. No secur­ity solu­tion is ever per­fect. Mistakes will be made, there will be unfore­seen inter­ac­tions between mul­tiple com­plex sys­tems that cre­ate secur­ity holes, and there will be vul­ner­ab­il­it­ies that aren’t caught by pre-​​release test­ing. Thus, we must not allow our search for some myth­ical per­fect sys­tem to stop us from ship­ping some­thing that is still very good.

  Apt words to describe the Security Conundrum. I think I will steal this to use in future doc­u­ment­a­tion.

• TAC Security Show Podcasts [Security] — Cisco Systems – 

  Cisco TAC Security has a pod­cast every month. Started in June 2009. Haven’t listened to it yet, but is gotta be good enough for the price

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• What are you reporting? — Report abuse — CEOP – 

  Facebook and MySpace are refus­ing to par­ti­cip­ate in a pro­gram that pro­tects chil­dren from exploit­a­tion while online. They are being asked to add a ‘safety but­ton’ for chil­dren on their web­sites to allow chil­dren to ask ques­tions or report unac­cept­able beha­viour. My guess is that they want to con­trol the story to make sure that they don’t get any neg­at­ive pub­li­city, and pos­sibly be able to bury any news that doesn’t suit their purposes.Amoral cap­it­al­ism at it’s very finest indeed

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• Mellanox pushes InfiniBand to 120Gb/​s • The Register – 

  While Ethernet has just reached 10GB/​s, Infiniband is stable for four years at 40GB/​s and mov­ing to 120GB/​s. Which makes me ask the ques­tion, why are we using Ethernet to con­nect our serv­ers together in the data centre ?

• Scroll Clock – 

  Just go and look at this. A clock using Javascript and Scroll bars. Mesmerizing, in a weird way.

• Pingtest​.net — The Global Broadband Quality Test – 

  Yet another site to help test the per­form­ance of your inter­net con­nec­tion. This one is based in Europe so is actu­ally useful.Note that some ISP’s traffic shape to improve the per­form­ance of speedtest​.net so they “look better”.

• Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Facebook Photos Lead To Cancellation of Quebec Woman’s Insurance -
  

  Besides all the obvi­ous ques­tions, how did the insur­ance com­pany access her locked Facebook profile?”

  Which is why I don’t use Facebook for per­sonal data. I can’t bring myself to trust Facebook with any­thing ser­i­ous as I believe they are “evil corp”.

• SPDY: An exper­i­mental pro­tocol for a faster web (Chromium Developer Documentation) – 

  Google Whitepaper that provides a quick over­view of the SPDY (SPeeDY). Of par­tic­u­lar interest to net­work­ing people is the use of the SESSION layer of the OSI model — pos­sibly the first known use any­where.

• Did Cisco learn from its press mis­takes from the last Cisco Live event? | NetworkWorld​.com Community — <p>So sayeth a journ­al­ist from Network World : </​p>
  

  Cisco needs to start giv­ing the press the same info that they give part­ners for events, being able to sched­ule the events in advance helps the press with budgets. Since the price of hotels and air flights are so high they should cut the press some slack and start to think about them a little more.

  Look a journ­al­ist whin­ing about hav­ing to pay to attend Cisco Live and demand­ing spe­cial priv­ileges doesn’t cut it in my book. The days of journ­al­ists as gate­keep­ers is largely over, and they bring little value to the net­work­ing debate because they are com­pet­ency defi­cient ie. they aren’t net­work engin­eers, they are writers. Pay up or get out of the pool.

  Note also that this guy is the CEO of reseller. He is being tight with his cash.

• xkcd — A web­comic of romance, sar­casm, math, and lan­guage — By Randall Munroe – 

  Oh yes. It’s the truth.

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