Great Geek Gifts, Is Google's Public DNS Safe?
7 Fabulous Gifts For Your Favorite Linux/FOSS Geek:
The best part about being a grownup is you can be your own favorite Linux/FOSS geek and buy yourself nice things. Here are some cool gift ideas for this holiday season. Or any time of year, because excellent adult toys know no seasons.
The best part about being a grownup is you can be your own favorite Linux/FOSS geek and buy yourself nice things. Here are some cool gift ideas for this holiday season. Or any time of year, because excellent adult toys know no seasons.
Is Google Public DNS safe? Look at the source ports:
So is Google's Public DNS random enough?
I got a comment from famed security researcher, H D Moore on that point. Moore knows what he's talking about when it comes to DNS exploits as his Metasploit tool was among the first to have a weaponized version of the Kaminsky DNS flaw.
Moore has now put together a mapping of Google's source port distribution on the Public DNS service. In his view, it looks like the source ports are sufficiently random...
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Anyway, the 7 Fabulous Gifts article was rather disappointing. The cigarette lighter was the absolute worst. And the "high end" keyboards were crap. I have a better suggestion:
A genuine IBM Model M keyboard. Available on Ebay for $20-30, anything made between 1985 and 1990 is best, and the Lexmark-made ones from the early 90s aren't bad either. This will be your last keyboard as they never break (unless hit by a nuclear bomb), and provides the very best tactile feel of any keyboard, certainly far better than any modern "mush" keyboard.
Also, while I'd really like one of these new SATA hard drive "docks", I really don't want yet another USB-connected device sitting on my desk, and wasting power with yet another wall-wart power adaptor. There's a reason that tower cases have all those extra 5.25" bays; why not use them? So why can't someone make a dock that just fits in one of your extra 5.25" bays, and uses one of your power supply's extra molex connectors? There is one on the market, but it only works with 3.5" drives, which seems like a silly limitation. I want one that can take either 3.5" or 2.5" SATA drives, and I don't care if the drive sticks out the front, as I only need to dock drives like this temporarily.