Author Archives: diademed
Security Review: The Switch from IPv4 to IPv6
The premise is, at some point in the future, it would be ideal for the internet to be using IPv6 as it’s main backbone, rather than the current IPv4. A discussion of the features and algorithms of IPv6 is beyond … Continue reading
Current Event: Physicists Successfully Store and Retrieve Nothing
Despite the satirical title, teams of Physicists from the U. of Calgary and the Tokyo Institute of Technology recently published papers (and here) detailing their feat of storing a ‘squeezed vacuum’ by apparently reducing the amplitude of a quantum-mechanically interpreted … Continue reading
Security Review: Wireless Classroom Question / Answer Systems
Summary In many of today’s college classrooms, especially introductory science classes, the large majority of students often makes it difficult to gauge classroom participation. A solution used in many of the lab science introductory sequences at the University of Washington … Continue reading
Comodo Launches Memory Firewall
Dark Reading reports that Comodo, an security interest group / company has developed and released a memory firewall, purported to block 90% of all buffer overflow attacks, as well as several other common attack vehicles. Comodo also markets several products, … Continue reading