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Do you know how much information is being stored about you every time you use a public website?

If your answer is ” a lot or more”  then you need to know that Google is taking it to a new level of privacy invation.

They will store and keep a record of every single identifiable piece of information that about you that they can put their hands on, and based on it, will re-shape your perception of the  internet for you.

Imagine you doing a search for any keywords withiut having cookies enabled. You will received your search but the advertisments will be random and would make no sense because they don’t know what interests you.

Now do the same search with the cookies enabled and thwo things will happen: Fisrtly the adds now are 100% relating to your previous searches and interests, and two the search results might also be arranged in such a way that related advertisers with less relevant content will be displayed first.

Every time you use a regular search engine, your search data is recorded. Major search engines capture your IP address and use tracking cookies to make a record of your search terms, the time of your visit, and the links you choose – then they store that information in a giant database.

Those searches reveal a shocking amount of personal information about you, such as your interests, family circumstances, political leanings, medical conditions, and more. This information is modern-day gold for marketers, government officials, hackers and criminals – all of whom would love to get their hands on your private search data.

Luckily, there are alternatives out there.

The one I use is the StartPage.com a service from IXQuick.com. The new search engine basically strips down all your indetifiable info and then sends an anonymous request to Google and display back the result.

Would this alter your search, yes probably based on the fact that the requests are anonymous, but if milions of searches are anonymous Google’s search patter recognition add serving algorithm might have a hard time serving us stupid tracking adds.

So, I will take my chances.

Go check this out and let me

https://startpage.com/eng/

To test the AAA / RADIUS authentication using CLI please do the following:

Login to Cisco ASA 55XX command line interface and issue the following command:

test aaa-server authentication IAS-SERVER host x.x.x.x username johndoe password mypassword

Quick explanation:

IAS-SERVER – the server group as defined by your aaa-server IAS-SERVER protocol RADIUS command
host x.x.x.x – this is the IP address of your RADIUS server

username johndoe – this would be an internal user (Active Directory user)

password mypassword – now this would be the user’s passwod. It is in red because the password is not exncrypted and will show on the scree. As an option, do not use password in your command, and you will be asked for the password after you hit Enter:

test aaa-server authentication IAS-SERVER host x.x.x.x username johndoe

Good Luck, 

Mike

www.networkmanager.org

Who would have though that I would ever say these words : ” I need spam!” Not me or my peers for sure. But so it happens to be that I am working on a contract where I have to setup an antispam filtering system.

To be able to properly tune the spam filtering system, I NEED SPAM!

Please send your “best” at this labrat@kitco.cn

Please spam me!

If the budged allows, I recommend getting a secondary link – lower speeds will often times be cheaper – to have redundancy for SO/HO and even bigger setups.

This design will not load balance the traffic over the links, but rather fail-over.  This setup will not be suitable if you host publicly accessible services inside your network, but I will present solutions for that setup in a different document.

The scope of this config is to offer users continuous Internet access should one ISP fail.

Network Overview 

 Config:

!
!— Configure the interface attached to the Primary ISP.
!
interface Ethernet0
nameif outside1
security-level 0
ip address 10.200.159.2 255.255.255.248
!
!— Configure the interface attached to the Secondary ISP.
!— “outside2″ was chosen here, but any name can be assigned.
!
interface Ethernet1
nameif outside2
security-level 0
ip address 10.250.250.2 255.255.255.248
!
!— NAT/PATConfiguration for Outside1 and Outside2
!
global (outside1) 1 interface
global (outside2) 1 interface
nat (inside) 1 0 0
!
!— This command tracks the static route above that will.
!—  be installed in the routing table while the tracked object is reachable.
!— Where  “track” is a tracking ID we specify.
!
route outside1 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.200.159.1 1 track 1
!
!— Define the backup route to use when the tracked object is unavailable.
!— The administrative distance of the backup route must be greater than
!— the administrative distance of the tracked route -  in this case 10.
!— If the primary gateway is unreachable, that route is removed
!— and the backup route is installed in the routing table
!— instead of the tracked route.
!
route outside2 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.250.250.1 10
!
!— Configure a new monitoring process with the ID  100.  Specify the
!— monitoring protocol and the target network object whose availability the tracking
!— process monitors.  Specify the number of packets to be sent with each poll.
!— Specify the rate at which the monitor process repeats (in seconds).
!
sla monitor 100
type echo protocol ipIcmpEcho 10.0.0.1 interface outside1
num-packets 3
frequency 10
!
!— Schedule the monitoring process.  In this case the lifetime
!— of the process is specified to be forever.
!
sla monitor schedule 100 life forever start-time now
!
!— Associate a tracked static route with the SLA monitoring process.
!— The track ID corresponds to the track ID given to the static route to monitor:
!— route outside1 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.0.0.2 1 track 1
!— “rtr” = Response Time Reporter entry.  100 is the ID of the SLA process
!— defined above.
!
track 1 rtr 100 reachability

US Senators Tom Carper (D-Delaware) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Connecticut)
have introduced Senate bill 3474, the 2008 Federal Information Security
Management Act.  Among the bill’s provisions is a requirement that
federal agencies appoint chief information security officers; the CISOs
would have the authority to block network access if established security
policies are not being adhered to.  The bill would also require that the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) conduct annual tests to determine
if attackers could access sensitive government data.  Senator Carper
noted that the current Federal Information Security Management Act is
an exercise in paperwork rather than an effective means of determining
the security of federal computer networks.
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20080912_7543.php
http://www.fcw.com/online/news/153773-1.html?type=pf