Author Archives: diademed

Security Review: The Switch from IPv4 to IPv6

Posted on March 16, 2008 by diademed

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 →

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Current Event: Physicists Successfully Store and Retrieve Nothing

Posted on March 9, 2008 by diademed

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 →

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Security Review: Wireless Classroom Question / Answer Systems

Posted on February 10, 2008 by diademed

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 →

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Comodo Launches Memory Firewall

Posted on January 21, 2008 by diademed

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 →

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