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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Public awareness is required as well 2008-09-22
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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 boards, lists, etc. One simple step to prevent spam is to handle your data carefully and in cases in which you need to display your data, at least obfuscate it. There are many tools to do it, e.g. obfuscatr, a Dashboard widget for Mac OS X users or loads of online tools that perform similarly.

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