Tuesday, May 06, 2003

Public Network Vulnerabilities. Sean Gorman is with the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. He's speaking of vulnerabilities in the physical layer of networks used by the Federal government. They map logical networks onto physical networks and then perform statistical analyses of which cuts where do the most damage. The results are interesting for anyone planning on using the Internet for public safety and homeland security related efforts. Technological and market forces have reduced the number of redundant paths available on the Internet rather than increased them. This is yet one more reason for local and state governments to promote regional and local peering. [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog] 9:31:24 AM

Idaho Police Department Installs WLAN Gear. The Post Falls, Idaho, police department has deployed a Wi-Fi-based network, providing 11Mbit/sec. data rates to cruisers that patrol a 60-square-mile area. [Computerworld News] 9:30:46 AM

High Availability Linux with Software RAID. Turn your machine into an HA server after you test it out on a VMware setup. [Linux Journal] 9:19:08 AM

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