Stuffis

Still "Brent's pile o' stuff" but at least now there are sections.

Internet

Broadband

Broadband Performance Testing - at home I'm getting 880Kbps on my 1.5Mbps DSL from VISI.com

• traceroute: EasyNews - to any IP
• performance: speedtest.net - Flash
• performance: SpeakEasy Chicago (7 hops to VISI.com) - Java
• performance: speedmatters.org - Flash, requires ZIP/email
• Image + Text test (primitive)

Oh, and if you're in the market for a hosting provider, RealMetrics provides some very useful statistics to help you sort the providers out. A friend of mine highly recommends 1&1 Internet which he uses to host a lot of his clients.

IPv6

• The IPv6 menace (PDF) (current state of IPv6 [in]security, August 25, 2004)
• IPv6 HOWTOs
• Pekka Savola's instructions for setting up an IPv6 router on RHL (sit, 3ffe: addresses)
• IPv6 on FC mini-HOWTO (tun6to4, 2002: addresses)
• How to configure 6to4 in Mac OS X and collected wisdom
• 2002:c058:6301:: is an anycast address for the closest relay router (see RFC 3068)
• Difference between AAAA and A6 DNS records

Wireless

• The state of wireless mesh networking — Meraki (startup including backing by Google) has developed routers designed specifically for the challenges of a mesh network (dynamic cluster formation, self-configuration, multi-radio 802.11n routers, etc.)
• The six dumbest ways to secure a wireless LAN: MAC filtering and SSID hiding are pointless due to sniffing/probing. Cisco LEAP is a bad idea.
• Twin Cities Wireless User Group
• NoCat FAQ
• Wireless Insecurities
• RFID Security (Dan Kaminsky @Doxpara)
• RFID Guardian: essentially a personal/portable "RFID firewall"
• RFDump: in combination with an RFID reader, displays data found on RFID tags
• WEP: Dead Again, Part 1 and Part 2
• Technique in which WEP can be dead 10x faster than before: read an interview with the authors to learn the cool way they did it
• And now even WPA/WPA2 are under attack with hardware accelerators, although as Schneier points out weak passwords are weak—we already knew that
• Note that WPA/WPA2 passphrase hash has the SSID as a component (and attackers have created rainbow tables with default SSIDs like "linksys"), so the moral of the story is: 1. change your SSID from the default, and 2. use a long passphrase (not a dictionary word).

Philosophy of the Internet

• It's a World of Ends
• Clay Shirky: Ontology is Overrated — however, note that semantic web can be done without controlled ontologies too

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