From Physics to Security

From Physics to Security
Federico Biancuzzi, 2008-09-16

Wietse Venema started out as a physicist, but became interested in the security of the programs he wrote to control his physics experiments. He went on to create several well-known network and security tools, including the Security Administrator's Tool for Analyzing Networks (SATAN) and The Coroner's Toolkit with Dan Farmer. He is also the creator of the popular MTA Postfix and TCP Wrapper.

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From Physics to Security 2008-09-19
Security Admin

Theres a couple of parts of a nice little article covering Postfix and TCPWrappers specifically over at 360is: http://www.360is.com/00-introduction.htm

If only all software were written and tested as carefully.......

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From Physics to Security 2008-09-19
Anonymous (2 replies)

Heh, title changed,I wonder why ? :)...

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Re: From Physics to Security 2008-09-22
Anonymous

The pope complained. It seems he is a Postfix user!

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Re: From Physics to Security 2008-09-24
Robert Lemos

The interviewee took issue with the tongue-in-cheek nature of the original title "SATAN's helper" and so it was changed to the current title.

-R...

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Authors Avatar 2008-09-22
Anonymous (1 replies)

Hmm, I didn't even like this one looking down on me the last time I read from him.
I try to ignore it everytime, but it really sucks!
Try this photo in a CV and you'll hardly get a job....

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Re: Authors Avatar 2008-09-23
Federico Biancuzzi

Thanks for the candid opinion :)

Do you have a suggestion on how to make and/or choose the right photo for this type of location?

Thanks.
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From Physics to Security 2008-09-22
Anonymous

I find it interesting that the opening sentence 'Wietse Venema' is situated right next to Federico Biancuzzi's picture. SecurityFocus you are in dire need of an upgrade to your website design. Really. Talk about a messy looking site. Blah....

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Public awareness is required as well 2008-09-22
flash tekkie

Quite rightly the importance of legal measures regarding the spam are most important. But that will not happen until public awareness steps the stage. Both legislation-wise and privacy-wise. By privacy I mean the fact that most people don't care about their private data being left on discussion boar...

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A Non-Stochastic Plan for SPAM 2008-09-26
Anonymous

Spam = unwanted write access to an emailbox.

So, how about using the same method we use to prevent unwanted read access to an emailbox: passwords.

This would require an infrastructure change to servers like postfix, mailing list software, and address books but would be a pretty simple RFC.

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