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quote of the day

Originally written 05.08.2002.


How about this:

“Unsupervised Conversations With Complete Strangers: A Dangerous Proposition for Children”


or better yet:

“Tips and Techniques for Responsible Parenting: Supervising Your Child’s On and Off-line Activities To Ensure Appropriate Behavior”


or even better:

“The Off Button: The Ultimate Tool for Parental Control”


and finally:

“Responsible Parenting: Getting To Know Your Children and Their Friends”


All much more appropriate topics of discussion, IMHO.

– thomas leavitt on politech regarding an upcoming federal hearing entitled “Chatting On-Line: A Dangerous Proposition for Children.”

mark

Originally written 05.08.2002.

out of the blue, i got an im from my friend and ex-bandmate mark. seems that he’s looking into grad school and in a new band called lucifer pants. they play what i would label as central pa punk rock and they have mp3s. also mentioned on the website is another lancaster, pa band, >a href=”http://www.movieswithheroes.com/” target=_blank>movies with heroes who i remember seeing with erin in a little fireman’s hall in indiana when they opened up for dashboard confessional. i remember liking them a lot.

tim’s weblog

Originally written 05.08.2002.

tim ahas a blog now. he’s joined the dark side. it’s at http://shivx.tripod.com.

project – 05.08.2002

Originally written 05.08.2002.

  • broke my honeynet hardcore when I tested out the new version of my setup script. spent all morning fixing stuff, but it works now. still having problems with tun/tap working automagically.
  • tested out swatch and it works well. tried to be cheeky and portscan one of the honeypots. got 50+ emails in my box. better do something about that! uh oh. that was really dumb. did i take down the mailserver. actually, it looks like I just sent myself hundreds of emails which killed my mail client. stupid, stupid. swatch has a throttle directive that will help prevent this, but it seems kinda broken.
  • doesn’t look like my firewall rules log the outgoing connections. figured out why, need to set the LAN_IFACE variable to tap1 instead of tap0.
  • re-installed snort on harry. tried to run it. it output “Initializing Network Interface eth0” and then died a horrible death. The message on the screen on the tty said “Kernel panic: No physical or IO memory region for address 0x26400”. So, I need to either a) figure out why snort doesn’t work on the user-mode host, or b) figure out how to get snort to be able to see the local net traffic while running on the physical host (perhaps I can read the socket /tmp/uml.data created by uml_switch, or maybe I can use multicast networking instead of the uml_switch).
  • modified my setup script so it provides a umid on the command line to user mose linux. that way i can do stuff with the hosts from the management console.